Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any affiliated characters. I just happened to come up with the plot for this ship. All credit to J.K for her amazing universe that she allows us to play in.

Not beta'd yet. Ihrin is still catching up! So please excuse any blatant errors and feel free to PM me so I can fix them.

Warning: Rated M. Cursing, sexual innuendos, lemons and fluff ahead. Basically what you would expect from a romance novel nowadays.

Music is my muse:
Song for this chapter: Fresh Eyes
Lyric: I got these fresh eyes, never seen you before, ….my God you're beautiful…

Accidental Proposal
Chapter 26
Fresh Eyes

A few weeks after her return from Paris Hermione sat on her bed giggling silently as she watched Pansy being poked and prodded by a group of girls getting her ready for a blind date that Ginny had set up.

It had been an hour and no one had yet to decide on an outfit for her to wear. Currently, they were still arguing over dress robes or one of the new chic dresses they had picked up in France which was becoming rather popular among the upper set of wizarding society since the fall of Voldy pants as the girls had taken to calling him, probably due to Ginny's influence.

Hermione sat back as she watched Pansy stomp her foot in irritation as she was undressed for the tenth time. She knew she had been unsuccessful in hiding her smirk when Pansy shot her a death glare. Hermione just winked and Pansy growled.

When they moved into the bathroom for makeup Hermione decided to forgo watching that party and laughing rushed out to the common room where she found Draco with a book in his lap looking up at her curiously from the notes spread out around him.

"Why are you in such a good mood?" He said tucking his revision notes aside so she could sit down.

Hermione kissed his cheek and wandlessly whisked her own notes and books to her to study with him. "Oh, Pansy has a blind date and they have her cornered in the bathroom now and I think if she had her wand she would be throwing Avada's around."

Draco snorted and went back to his notes before he looked up his eyes going wide. "A blind date?"

Hermione nodded. "Yes, Ginny set it up."

Draco laughed and then shook his head. "Say nothing about Pansy's plans tonight when your brother comes out then."

Hermione looked up curiously but nodded and went back to her notes.

Half an hour later Theo walked out in a wizarding suit that was cut to resemble a muggle one looking very smart with a new haircut and freshly shaved. She whistled and watched him flush.

"Where are you off to brother dear?" She said with a smirk having a good idea now as to why Draco wanted her to say nothing about Pansy's plans.

"A date, Blaise has pawned it off on me. A daughter of one of his mother's friends." He cleared his throat and looked down at himself. "Will I do?"

Hermione stood up and went over to brush imaginary lent off his shoulders and kissed his cheek before she hugged him. "You look fab, have fun."

Theo nodded and straightened his back checking his pocket watch. "Right, my portkey leaves in fifteen minutes. I expect to be back by ten."

Hermione nodded biting her lip so as not to smile. She could see Blaise behind her brother smirking deviously. Once Theo was gone she raised an eyebrow at the Slytherin who shrugged and said just one word.

"Ginny."

Hermione rolled her eyes and sat back down tapping her quill on her book waiting for Pansy. Ten minutes later the witch was rushed out looking stunning in her teal dress with beautiful silver heels and her hair done in soft waves, her makeup absolute perfection. Ginny was snapping a beautiful soft pink cashmere cloak around the flustered woman's shoulders.

"Now your portkey leaves in five minutes! Dinner and drinks and we will be waiting for all the details when you get back at ten." Ginny said pushing Pansy out the door.

Hermione had to cover her mouth as she heard Pansy tell the lot of them off before thanking them and rushing off. When the portrait closed and Ginny turned around to look at Blaise who nodded at her she let out a loud whoop and then sank down in a chair.

"Where exactly is the portkey taking them?" Draco asked going back to his notes looking completely uninterested.

Hermione snorted at him and glared at Ginny. "That's my brother, does she have her wand? What if she kills him because she thinks he did this?"

Ginny smirked and held up Pansy's wand while Blaise cleared his throat and held up Theo's.

Hermione closed her eyes and rubbed her temple shaking her head. "Where did you send them?"

"Shrieking Shack," Ginny said with a laugh.

Hermione's eyes flew open as Tracey and Daphne laughed heartily. "But we redecorated!" Tracey said through her laughter.

"And there really is dinner and wine," Daphne added smirking and sitting down.

Hermione sighed looking at her fiancé who was smiling as he crossed out something in his notes.

Blaise was sitting Ginny on his lap looking rather smug. "I helped her set up the wards, without their wands they are not going anywhere until we let them out."

Hermione looked at the couple in front of her and then laughed. "Fine, and when are you two letting them out?"

Ginny pondered that for a moment and then shrugged. "Next week maybe?"

Hermione raised an eyebrow but Ginny just mimicked her so she sighed and nudged Draco who sighed and put down his quill and looked up.

"Blaise." He said his tone mild.

Blaise raised an eyebrow but grinned and put an arm around Ginny's waist before he said in a placating voice. "We really can't have them missing that much class, dear."

Ginny sighed dramatically and tapped her chin with her finger before she leaned back into Blaise and said in an annoyed tone. "Fine, the weekend then. If they haven't worked this out by the weekend I will let them out. And don't give me that look Hermione Jean Granger Nott, the food basket refills, they have a toilet and shower, and separate bedrooms if they wish!"

Hermione let out a small sigh and nodded before she took a leaf out of Draco's book and shrugged and went back to her revision letting it drop. Daphne and Tracey were still giggling; Ginny and Blaise who were very much an item now had started to whisper softly to each other.

Draco leaned over and whispered in her ear softly. "Blaise is staying with Ginny tonight."

Hermione shivered as she realized that they would have the dorm to themselves and turned into him kissing his jaw softly.

"So that's why you are not worried about what happens to my brother?"

Draco smirked as he kissed down her neck and back up to her ear nibbling on it. "Pansy won't kill him, and Theo would never harm a witch. But also, we have the dorm to ourselves."

Hermione sucked in her breath as he bit harder on her ear and then turned so that she could whisper into his sensitive ear. "Then why are we still here?"

Draco sucked in a breath and vanished their books to the dorm with a wave of his wand and grabbed her hand dragging her to his bed ignoring the hoots from the three witches left in the common room, Blaise gave him a calculating look and silenced one of the witches by deciding to follow his mates example, picking up his witch and throwing her over his shoulder to carry her out of the common room to hoots from the two witches left.

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Hermione rolled over lazily bleary eyed as morning light pierced her eyes and she realized that someone was trying to break through the wards on the door. She frowned knowing that it couldn't be Blaise and it must be her brother.

Quickly she waved a wand over herself and Draco cleaning them and clothing them and then changed the bedsheets under a still sleeping Draco and cleared the room of the smell of their lovemaking from the previous few nights. Then she set about clearing the wards so that Theo could get in, chewing on her lip as she did.

It was rather an unspoken rule that she and Draco were never caught by Theo and this would be the first time he would have found them behind a warded door. Granted he probably assumed it was Blaise in here but he was about to discover differently. She cast a silencing charm around a sleeping Draco and stepped forward to meet what she assumed would be her very angry brother.

Theo stepped in looking like he had just rolled out of a bed with a few noticeable hickeys and went bright red when he saw her standing in a pair of Draco's pajamas.

"Oh, um, figured you'd be Blaise."

Hermione raised an eyebrow and gestured at her brother. "What happened to you?"

He looked down at his rumpled suit and shrugged going a bit pale. "Well, um, you see-"

Hermione waited and when he seemed unable to come up with a response she couldn't help it she giggled. "Pansy shagged you stupid?"

Theo's head snapped up and for a moment he looked like she had stupefied him and then his eyes narrowed. "Don't talk like that, she's not, we didn't, I wouldn't-"

Hermione rolled her eyes. "Oh stop, I sure hope you did or I will have to listen to her bitch that you didn't but as you are my brother I hope I hear none of it. I am going to go snuggle with Draco while she tells the girls all the details and then you can tell your mates all about it when I have left, deal?"

She watched Theo's mouth drop in shock and his face go blotchy and she couldn't help giggling again at his utter stupidity. "Oh honestly, you think only boys talk about such things? Go shower Theo, you reek of sex."

Blaise who was standing in the door now threw back his head laughing causing Theo to jump and turn around just in time to catch his wand.

"Here you go mate, hard to hide what you were up to without spells. And she is right, you do reek of it. Cheers."

Hermione snorted and shut the curtains crawling back into bed next to Draco who she noticed was now awake and silently laughing. He pulled her into him and threw a leg around her.

"So you told a group of gossiping witches about how great I am in bed did you?"

Hermione smirked. "More like they got me pissed and got me to talk, but yes." She pinched his side at his evil smirk. "And they don't gossip except with each other. It's our rule, what we say in the room stays in the room."

Draco grinned and rolled her under him throwing up a stronger silencing charm. "I have not told Blaise or your brother a thing, little witch."

Hermione flushed and kissed him gently. "Thank you."

He shook his head. "I told you. I don't gossip. Now, you owe me a boon for gossiping about me I think."

Hermione's eyes went wide at him and her breathing went a bit erratic as she felt his hardness pressed into her. "Draco, my brother is in the room!"

"He will be taking a shower I think. That gives us about ten minutes little one."

Hermione closed her eyes. "Oh, you are evil."

A soft chuckle and a sharp nip at her shoulder as her clothes her vanished and then his lips slamming down on hers was his only response. And just like that she felt herself getting wet and her legs tangled with his and her hands wrapped around his neck, her back arching up to meet his chest.

She climaxed thirty seconds before her brother walked back in from the showers and just after Draco had spilled himself inside of her. He rolled her over on top of him and covered them with a sheet rubbing her back to calm down her breathing and kissing her neck sweetly. One of his hands covering her left breast with the infinity rune as it usually did when they slept together. Her hand usually found its way to his left hip and his rune too.

"Draco?"

"Hmm?"

"You might have to carry me to breakfast, I am knackered."

His laughter shook her before he kissed her and snuggled her into his side. "Sleep for a bit, I will have some breakfast sent to the common room whenever you wake up."

Hermione yawned and snuggled into him falling asleep almost immediately.

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Word that there was a new couple in the Castle had made the rounds by mid-week. Pansy had only mildly hexed Ginny before she had hugged her and started crying. Hermione thankfully had indeed managed to miss all the gory details of how great her brother was in bed. Theo had also managed to remove the visible evidence of his weekend in the shack with Pansy by the time Hermione had seen him again that day, and he had not said a word about her being in Draco's bed. Although she was careful not to press her luck for the rest of the week just in case, much to Draco's annoyance. Pansy in an act of goodwill offered up the girls dormitory to the pair with a wink and threw a party in Ginny's room when Draco looked about ready to murder someone by the end of the week.

A few weeks later found Hermione watching her brother with his new love, he was still a bit shy with Pansy but Hermione and thankfully Pansy found it rather endearing. Pansy for her part was also rather cute with Theo. She was gentler with him, softer around him, he brought out a side in her that Hermione had never seen before. He complimented her and she brought out a protective side of her brother that she had only ever seen him have with her. She decided by the third week that it was indeed a good match and as much as she was pained to admit it as it just sounded so strange, it would appear that Pansy Parkinson was to be her sister in law.

Ginny had a right good laugh over that. "If someone had told you that our fourth year you would have hexed them!"

Hermione rolled her eyes. "I would have sent them to the hospital wing to be checked over." Hermione said in exasperation watching her brother and Pansy talking together looking utterly in love two weeks after their 'date'. "After all, I was an only child my fourth year."

Ginny snorted and then sighed. "He sent a contract to her family."

Hermione nodded. "I know, he told me. It's the proper thing to do apparently."

Ginny nodded and then flushed. "Blaise sent one to my parents last week."

Hermione looked over at her shocked. "And?"

Ginny grinned. "Dad accepted after talking to me. We haven't told anyone else in the family though. The last thing we need is Ron showing up again."

Hermione went still. "So, you're engaged?"

Ginny tilted her head. "I forget sometimes you know nothing of our world. The contract is not an engagement it's really a pre-engagement. It simply means that Blaise is formerly courting me with permission of my family. A contract like Blaise sent is nothing like what happened with you and Draco, it's not a permanent binding spell."

Hermione frowned. "But, doesn't the contract talk about all kinds of things like your wedding and what happens after?"

Ginny frowned but nodded. "Of course all of that is spelled out if we disagree on those things shouldn't we know now? Why court someone if you know you don't have similar goals in life?"

Hermione paused for a moment and then shrugged. "I guess I never thought of it that way."

Ginny gave her a funny look and then sighed. "Muggles leave me scratching my head sometimes. You mean when you court a bloke you don't talk about this kind of stuff up front?"

Hermione shook her head. "No, of course not. I mean that's heavy stuff. And we don't really court we date, it's more just hanging out and having fun."

Ginny frowned. "Like what we do as children?"

Hermione paused and looked around the main common room noticing the younger witches and wizards. "I suppose so, yes."

Ginny laughed. "Well, when we become of age in our world that advances to courting and is no longer allowed. That is why we have contracts so that there are no misunderstandings."

Hermione nodded thoughtfully. "But why do younger witches have contracts then?"

Ginny shrugged. "Older families do that. You can simply decide not to do that with your children Hermione."

Hermione sighed and leaned back pinching her nose. "There is still so much I don't understand Ginny."

Ginny patted her on the back. "Well, now you have Pansy as a sister and you have Bop to help you along the way. Don't fret about it. Go and find your Drake, he looked miserable at dinner. Are you two arguing?"

Hermione shook her head biting her lip. "No, it's just that he got accepted for an apprenticeship for his mastery and it's in Egypt with a renowned Potion master."

Ginny sat up excitedly. "That's wonderful!" Then she saw Hermione's expression which was stormy. "Okay, why is that not wonderful?"

Hermione's sighed heavily. "I got accepted to a Charms apprenticeship for my mastery and it's in America."

Ginny's eyes went wide. "Oh that's a rather far commute, isn't it? What about our clothing shop in Diagon Alley? We just found a building!"

Hermione nodded and dropped her head in her hands. "It's a two-year separation Ginny and I can run the books from anywhere. This is a mastery opportunity. I just can't pass that up!"

Ginny rubbed her friends back and worried her lip. "Um, can you be separated from Draco for that long? Will the spell allow it?"

Hermione shook her head. "We don't actually know. It could be that one of us has to wait for our mastery."

Ginny gasped and her hand froze on Hermione's back. "Is there not a charm master in Egypt?"

Hermione snorted in disdain. "Not one currently accepting students."

"Blast and damn," Ginny exclaimed softly.

Hermione nodded and then stood up. "I am going to bed."

Ginny watched her leave her eyes sad.

Theo walked over with Pansy holding his hand both of them looking after Hermione with worried eyes.

"What's up with Hermione?"

"She got accepted to a charms apprenticeship in America."

"So why does it look like someone stole her favorite book?" Pansy asked her eyes narrowed.

"Because Draco got accepted to a potions apprenticeship in Egypt," Ginny said shaking her head sadly.

"Fuck," Theo said before apologizing to Pansy who waved him off.

"That pretty much sums it up, dear." She said glaring after her friend.

"She isn't sure the spell will let them separate," Ginny whispered worriedly.

Pansy snorted. "They are bonded with the infinity rune, of course it will not."

Theo went rigid. "I beg your-"

Pansy patted his arm. "Soul mates, your sister, and best friend are soul mates. Concentrate on that and don't make me hex you by saying something you will regret."

Ginny smirked but then frowned. "So what do we do?"

Pansy was tapping her foot her eyes wide as she worked out the problem in her head. "We need to find charms and potions masters in the same place. That's going to be tricky."

Theo was red in the face with anger but he let out a long sigh and pinched his nose. "I will start looking into it. As much as it pains me to suggest, Lucius Malfoy and his contacts might be our best bet."

Ginny went pale. "You can't honestly think he will help.

Pansy waved her hand her eyes narrowed again as she considered Theo and then turned to Ginny. "When the alternative is madness or death for his only son and heir? Yes, I think he will. Because he knows good and well that Hermione will not sacrifice her education. Theo, you should probably send the letter."

Theo gave a short nod and then a sigh. "Hermione will be difficult if she finds out I am doing this."

"If?" Ginny said scoffing. "Try when."

Pansy sighed and then nodded. "We will handle Hermione. Drake can calm her down, he does it best."

Theo blanched and then shook his head holding up his hand. "I do not ever want to know." He said his tone hard.

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The girls waited until he had left the common room before they burst into laughter. When Draco entered they caught him and told him the plan. He sank down into one of the many green velvet chairs in relief.

"I was going to write him but I knew if I did she would never forgive me."

Pansy patted his back. "Well now Theo can be in trouble and as he is her brother she has to forgive him, brilliant isn't it?"

Draco nodded wearily and rubbed his forehead. "Better be ready to shield him when she discovers all this Pansy."

Ginny snorted out a laugh. "True enough, Hermione on the war path is never pretty."

Pansy sighed. "Yes well, I think I can survive."

Ginny tilted her head and then shrugged. "You might."

Draco grinned. "I think I can say that life with the two of them will never be dull."

Ginny nodded in agreement laughing heartily. "Oh, that is certainly true."

Pansy huffed and stomped off as Draco let out a small laugh. "Tell my fiancé I love her and will see her at breakfast."

Pansy just waved as she disappeared through their portrait hole.

Notes:
I am back!

See I promised I would never abandon you or a story. I am so sorry it has taken me so long to update. The kids and I decided to get the flu and share and share again. Sadly for me coughing with a healing open heart surgery wound was not so much fun!

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Please let me know what you think of the chapter? Two new couples! Will Lucius help do you think?

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