Cupid's Arrows
Hi! I hope everyone is okay and not getting too bored in this latest lockdown. Thank you all so much for the kudos, reviews and comments on this funny little story, every single one makes me smile and jump around like a loon!
Here is the next chapter, but this one does come with a serious smut warning….! Sometimes I write stuff and read it back and wonder where on earth it all came from. This is one of those chapters! Please, please, pretty please, if smut is not your thing, stop reading this chapter once they get inside the domes! lol!
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Chapter 7
"What did you choose from Theo's table of goodies on Sunday then?" Ginny asked during a shared free period on Tuesday morning, "I saw Malfoy pick out the blindfold. What else did you lot get?"
Hermione blushed as she pictured the items currently tucked away in one of the boy's bedrooms. "A silk scarf, a scented candle, a cd, and something in a bottle that changes color."
"Oh my!" Ginny grinned. "Tell me, have you ever been tied up and blind- actually don't answer that!" she suddenly held up a hand, looking horrified, "because that would be an experience that you shared with my brother, and I don't need that image in my head."
"No," Hermione giggled, "you can relax, Gin. I never did anything like that with Ron." They both looked up as Cho Chang walked over and hovered awkwardly beside them. "Hi Cho, are you alright?" Hermione asked, concerned by the other girls' obvious agitation. Cho nodded as Ginny patted the sofa beside her, and Cho perched on the edge and stared at her knees.
"I just wanted to tell you that I'm pulling out of the game," Cho said in a rush, and Hermione looked at her in surprise. "I wasn't sure about playing it in the first place, you see, and I agreed to take part because Luna asked me to, but it's just not for me. I'm really sorry, and I wish you all the best of luck with the rest of it. I've told Seamus, and it's nothing to do with him either. He's been the perfect gentleman, but it all just feels a bit wrong to me. Anyway, here's my pin. Can you pass it back to Theo for me, please? I don't really want to see.… anyway thank you, and I'll see you around I suppose." With that, she practically fled from the sofa leaving Hermione to stare at the pin in confusion and Ginny to roll her eyes.
"What was all that about?" Hermione asked.
"I think there are a few people who still think badly of the Slytherins," Ginny confided in a whisper. "I heard her telling some friends that she wasn't comfortable being around them too much, and there were a surprising number of people in the group who agreed with her."
Hermione narrowed her eyes in Cho's direction. "Hmmm." She tucked that nugget of information away for later and forced her mind back to the present. "Never mind that for now. Tell me what you know about the items that Draco picked out, Gin. I'm curious. I want to know what I might be in for."
It seemed that Hermione was destined to find out what the two boys had in mind the very next day. Wednesday evening saw Hermione sitting with Pansy, Hannah, Millicent, and Luna, finishing off a particularly challenging transfiguration essay and chatting about the game.
"Have you kissed Greg yet, Hannah?" Pansy asked out of the blue, and Hannah looked up with a shy smile and a blush as she fiddled with her quill. "Oooo! Tell me all about it!" Pansy scooted forwards in her chair and grinned as Hannah smiled even more broadly. "Did he kiss you, or did you kiss him first?"
"We sort of kissed each other at the same time," Hannah confessed as everyone put their quills down, all thoughts of the troublesome essay temporarily forgotten.
"And?!" Pansy exclaimed when Hannah failed to say any more, "How was it?"
"It was really lovely," Hannah confirmed, pushing her sandy blonde hair out of her eyes. "You were right, by the way, he wasn't sure if I wanted to kiss him, and so he was waiting for me to make the first move."
Pansy nodded, "Greg's totally clueless when it comes to girls I'm afraid. And what about you, Granger? What's this I heard about you in Theo's bed last weekend?"
It seemed that their study session was going no further. There was a chorus of oooh's and ahhh's as Hermione gave them the abridged details of her afternoon in the Slytherin dorms. She was smiling when she finished telling the story. As unexpected as it was, she was definitely growing to like being part of a group of girlfriends. However, it was currently proving to be a massive distraction from her usually diligent studying.
She was finally finishing her essay when Draco and the others stomped their way in from Quidditch training later that evening. With the extra seventh and eighth years being kept out of the usual school teams and therefore being unable to compete for the quidditch cup, they had unofficially formed their own house teams. All students who just wanted to play for fun attended official skills training with Madam Hooch one evening each week, and those who were on the teams attended further training sessions run by their team's captain. Judging by the sudden influx of multicolored robes now filling the common room, tonight had been a skills night.
Two flashes of emerald green caught Hermione's eye, and she looked up to see Draco and Theo, both staring down at her. Something about the mischievous looks in their eyes made her suck in her breath and bite down on her bottom lip. "Hey," Theo said, giving her a thoroughly predatory smirk that only served to ramp her heart rate up even further.
"Oh my God's Granger!" Pansy squealed, looking at them both in amusement. "Harry better look at me like that tonight, or I'll be seriously put out!"
"Uh, hi!" Hermione put down her quill and looked at Draco, who was regarding her with much the same expression as Theo.
"How's the studying going?" Draco's hair was mussed and windswept, and his cheeks were flushed red from the cold November wind.
"Good, thank you, I've just finished as it happens. How was training?"
"Perfect. I bested Potter for the snitch. He's vowed that it'll be the one and only time but, we'll see. Oh look, here he is now." Draco pulled the still struggling snitch out of his pocket and grinned as he examined it against the light to goad Harry.
"We all get lucky once in a while, Malfoy." Harry leaned down to kiss Pansy, his red robes falling open across the table as he moved, "don't expect to get used to it."
"Well done, Draco." Hermione fought a laugh. Draco and Harry's identical, highly competitive natures never seemed to change.
"So," Theo smirked, "Training's over, but it's a beautiful night. Fancy coming for a flight with us?"
"Ummmm…." She looked at Harry in horror for a moment but all he did was grin and lean down to kiss Pansy."
"Let me rephrase that." Theo grinned, "you're coming with us. Ron's already told us you don't like flying, but I think we can possibly change your mind on that score."
"I...I am?" the looks they both gave her caused her mouth to go suddenly dry.
"You are. Yes." Theo rolled up her finished essay and tucked it into her bag while Draco gathered up her quill and ink bottle. "Unless you really object, of course. But everyone else who is still part of the game is doing it, and there's a very nice surprise waiting at the end of the flight."
"In that case, I don't object." She said quietly as Harry gave her a surprised smile.
"Good girl." The heat in Theo's gaze made her shiver. "Go and get some warm clothes, it's chilly up there."
And indeed it was. Hermione shivered as she stood on the quidditch pitch, surrounded by the rest of the game's players, and stared at the two boys. "Who do you want to fly with?" Draco asked as Ginny stepped over Blaise's firebolt. He sat down behind her and then kicked off into the sky like a rocket.
"Who is the steadier flyer?"
"Steadier or better?"
"Who is going to scare me less up there?"
"Probably me." Theo shrugged. "Oh, come on, Draco, we all know you fly like the bloody wind. I'm slower and steadier!"
Draco smirked as he gestured to Theo's broom. "On you get then, beautiful."
Theo guided her into position and settled himself behind her. He was still wearing his quidditch cloak and she was surprised when it magically stretched to wrap around her as well. "This has got an anti-wind charm built in. You won't feel the cold if you keep it wrapped around you." She nodded gratefully, gripping the broom handle until her knuckles went white. "Relax, baby, I've got you," he murmured by her ear and she pressed back into him slightly, reassured by the strength and security of his arms.
She closed her eyes as they took off, and the wind whistled through her ears as the ground fell away alarmingly fast underneath them. "You don't like to fly then?" Theo asked as he banked around, laughing at Draco who streaked past them, looped the loop and then passed them again in the opposite direction. She heard Ginny squeal as Blaise did the same thing and Hermione stared at them all as Blaise levelled out beside them.
"I've just had a few bad experiences, that's all," she said, thinking of the doomed Thestral ride she had shared with Kingsley Shacklebolt, and her, Harry and Ron's terrifying flight to freedom on the back of a dragon.
Theo nodded, flying smoothly despite the acrobatics going on around them. Draco, Blaise, and Ginny seemed to be trying to outdo each other with daring maneuvers and it made Hermione's stomach clench uncomfortably just watching them. She noted with satisfaction that although Millie looked almost as uncomfortable on a broom as she felt, Ron seemed to be doing a very good job of looking after her. Parvati looked less comfortable, every time Luna caught sight of something that interested her she leaned alarmingly off of the side of the broom causing a look of terror to cross Parvarti's face as she adjusted their balance. Dean seemed to have noticed what was happening, he and Lavender were tracking Parvarti's broom, as were Greg and Hannah, they were all clearly in position to catch Luna should the need arise.
"Where are we going?" Hermione looked down. It was dark but there was just enough moonlight to make out the Forbidden Forest far below.
"There's a little spot we know. It's not far now. We thought it would be a nice place to look at the stars for a bit. The sky's beautifully clear tonight."
Hermione looked up and saw that he was right. Thousands and thousands of tiny sparkling stars lit the heavens. Hermione was so enthralled with the display that she forgot her nerves. She tipped her face up to look into the eternal nothingness and felt Theo's cheek brush gently against hers. He turned slightly and pressed a kiss against her cold skin and the intimacy of his gesture made her shiver.
They were flying a long way. Hermione felt the distant tingle of the Hogwarts boundary as they flew over the wards. A few minutes later, they approached a hill and Theo started to descend. The change of broom angle was unsettling and Theo tightened his arms protectively around her as she tensed. "I've got you," he whispered and she relaxed against him once more, only to feel her jaw drop when they landed.
"Oh my goodness, has this always been here?" she asked, stepping off the broom and rubbing life back into her stiffened limbs.
"Nope. Draco and I might have accidentally missed most of training to set this up."
"Not only did we set this up, but we also confounded Madam Hooch so she didn't notice we were missing. And, I still beat Potter to the snitch!" Draco looked inordinately pleased with himself as Hermione walked closer to investigate. Five see-through domes stood on an area of flat ground. There was a heavy blanket laid out on the floor of each, snowy white bedding on top of the blankets, and as Draco waved his arm, an array of magical fairy lights lit the darkness. It was beautiful and romantic, and Hermione was totally blown away by their creativity. "What do you think?" Theo asked and she grinned,
"I think it's incredible!" she answered truthfully as Ginny threw her arms around Theo, hugged him briefly in thanks, and then followed Blaise into one of the domes.
"There's a privacy charm on these and they're fully soundproof as well. Just saying." Draco smirked in Blaise and Ginny's direction.
"Good thinking." Theo chuckled as he took Draco's broom and followed him to the nearest unclaimed dome. "This way then, my lady, after you."
Hermione stepped inside and smiled as yet another surprise washed pleasantly over her. The domes were heated. The flight had been lovely, but it was November in the Scottish Highlands and therefore the weather was freezing. The gentle warmth of the dome was a very welcome change. She watched with a smile as the lower panels of the enclosure gradually turned opaque. "This is amazing magic from both of you!" Theo grinned at her praise, kicked his boots off, then settled down on the soft duvet gesturing for her to join him.
She leaned back into the fluffy bedding and gasped. While the walls had given them privacy, the roof had stayed clear and the view of the moon and the stars was stunning. "How's your astronomy?" Theo asked, leaning back beside her.
"I can hold my own," she said and both boys grinned.
"Top of the class then," Theo stated and she didn't argue. "Help us lesser mortals out will you please? What are we looking at up there?"
She lay back, wriggling her toes into the warmth of the fleece blanket at the bottom of the bed as she pointed out various constellations and planets. After a moment she noticed that while Theo was following her pointed directions, Draco was just watching her. She turned to face him, regarding him curiously. "I'm second in that class, Granger," he smiled, "I know what's up there. So right now I prefer to look at you two." She shivered and moved fractionally closer to him. "Theo would be at the top of the class with us if he applied himself to his studies a little more, you know?"
"Oh?" Hermione turned to Theo as he raised an eyebrow and brushed the back of his hand down Hermione's side making her shiver, "and why don't you?"
He gave her a dazzling smile, "It depends what the subject is. You won't best me in Potions or Herbology, for example. I'm pretty good at Transfiguration and Care of Magical Creatures too. And then there are certain extracurricular activities," he stared at her from under heavily lidded eyes, "I particularly pride myself on my talents in those areas."
Hermione's breath was a little shaky as she thought about how best to respond. "I didn't know you liked Care of Magical Creatures or Herbology for that matter." She said, settling for avoiding the obvious.
"I'd guess that there's a few things you don't know about me, and a few that I don't know about you too. How about we learn a few things tonight?"
Draco edged closer on Hermione's other side. "Do you know what this does?" He held the bottle containing the color-changing liquid between his thumb and index finger and she shook her head. "It's a potion that lets you see someone else's fantasies. I chose it because it seemed a little unfair that we can both see your desires if you let us, of course, but you would struggle to see ours." Hermione frowned in confusion as she took the bottle and examined it. The potion inside changed from turquoise to a shimmering purple as she looked at it.
"What's in it and how does it work?" she asked suspiciously, knowing that she would never take anything that she didn't fully understand.
"Haven't the vaguest," Theo admitted, looking supremely unconcerned. Seeing her frown of disapproval, he quickly backtracked. "I can find out if you like. Unless you happen to know Draco?"
Draco merely shook his head with a smile. "Not a clue I'm afraid. But you're right. We can find out. Anyway, she's not refused it outright." His smile turned into a grin as he watched Theo, "she just wants more information and I can work with that. I think in the meantime, we could tell her about one of our fantasies instead. What do you think?"
"I think I like that idea a lot." Theo's grin was broad as Hermione turned to smile shyly at him, "Do you like dirty talk, Hermione?" with an audible swallow, she nodded slowly. "Good. Who's fantasy would you like to hear?" She looked at both of them, unable to make up her mind. "You go first then Draco. We all know what direction mine will take."
"I don't!" Hermione said, sounding very slightly alarmed. It was never too far from her mind just who she was currently dating, and her lack of experience in the whole area did nothing to reassure her. Cho's abrupt departure from the game due to her unease about Slytherin house was still fresh in her mind as well. "What direction will it take?"
Draco just laughed, "Theo likes to be in charge in the bedroom. You've probably worked that out already, but his fantasies are a little on the spicier side. Me, I can go either way. In charge, not in charge, in the middle, it doesn't bother me."
Hermione nodded in relief. "Okay, I still want to hear one from both of you, but let's go with yours first then Draco."
He nodded and turned towards her, rolling onto his side and placing a hand on her stomach. "May I?" he asked, and when she nodded, he lifted her jumper and started to trace delicate circles over her sensitive skin. "So, imagine you're lying here all on your own, looking up at the stars, tracing the constellations with a finger, like you were doing a minute ago, and I'm outside watching you. You're beautiful, all wild corkscrew curls and smooth olive skin…. Did I mention you're naked, by the way?"
His words caused her to shiver and he took advantage of her movement, tracing his fingers slightly lower. "You're listening to a cd, the very one we picked out on Sunday in fact. I'll explain what's on that another time. For now, all you need to know is that it's turning you on. You start to squirm and touch yourself. You pinch your nipples and it makes you moan. One of your hands slips lower, across here," he drew a gentle line down her stomach, "may I?" she nodded again as he flicked the button of her jeans open, and Theo helped him to slide them down her legs and off.
"Your fingers slip down here, and you start to touch yourself." He brushed his hand across the gusset of her panties, "you're wet, so very wet, and as your fingers dip inside you, you groan and call out my name. I watch you for a moment, surprised and thinking I'd misheard. But I hadn't. You call out to me again, and this time I answer you. You're shocked and embarrassed to be caught, but I slip into your dome and kiss you and you take my hand and guide it down to where you want it. It doesn't take long for me to bring you off, and you come all over my fingers. When you're done, I ask you what you want and you tell me to take my trousers off. You tell me that you want me. You want me to fuck you, and so I do, and it's perfect because you somehow know that I've wanted you for a very long time. You come looking into my eyes and it's real and, oh..." he broke off with a cough as Theo chuckled, "I'm getting a bit emotional now!"
"Mate, you're such a softie." Theo smiled, and there was such obvious affection in his gaze that Hermione's eyes widened. She'd known that they were close, but the look Theo was giving him now was more than mere closeness. It was almost a look of love.
"Tell anyone that, either or you, and I'll have to kill you both." Draco sniffed.
"Somehow, Malfoy, you don't scare me." Theo leaned over and kissed him deeply. When they pulled apart, Draco rested his forehead against Theo's, and they smiled tenderly at each other, once more shocking Hermione with the obvious depth of their feelings. "You know I like that side of your personality, and if anyone ever made fun of it, then it would be me doing the killing. And if I make a promise like that, I will see it through." Hermione shivered. Somehow Theo's threat seemed a lot more menacing than anything she had ever heard Draco say. "That same level of protection goes for you too, Miss G. I seem to be getting inordinately fond of you very quickly as well."
Hermione giggled as he diffused the intensity of the last few moments by pulling a goofy face. "I think I can keep your secret, Draco," she said, "but I like that you have a softer side too, and I honestly think that you should let it out more often." She smiled and turned rather shyly to Theo. "And I also rather like this protective streak you seem to have as well. May I hear one of your fantasies now please?"
Theo smiled, stroking her face gently. "I think I'll start mine in the same place that Draco did, that is with you being here in this dome. We'd have agreed on everything beforehand mind, and you would have given your full consent. You need to understand that there's no way that any of this would happen if you didn't actively want it to. Are you with me so far, sweetheart?"
She nodded, curiosity and apprehension mixing with a very obvious swirl of pure lust as she looked into his liquid blue eyes. "So, you're lying here, bringing yourself off, thinking you're all alone. But you're not. I'd be outside watching you, and just so we're clear, we'd be pretending to not know each other well. In this fantasy, you'd know me from school, but that's it. So, just when you were about to come, I'd try the door and find that you'd left it unlocked. I'd let myself in and you'd look up at me with frightened, lust drunk eyes. I'd tell you to carry on but not to come because your orgasm now belongs to me. I'd begin to tell you what to do, and you'd whimper, and you'd squirm as I did so. Pinch harder. Softer. Faster. Slower, that kind of thing." He paused to brush a kiss over her lips and to check her reaction.
"You'd be begging me with your eyes to let you come, and you'd be about to defy me when I told you to wait because, well because you're feisty, and I like that about you. You'd want to know how far you could push me. So to show you that you couldn't dominate me I'd take your hands in mine and put them up on the pillow. I'd use a sticking charm to keep them there, and then I'd bend your knees and stick your feet to the bed as well. You'd groan, partly in frustration and partly because I made you just a little bit nervous. You'd still be on the edge of an orgasm but you wouldn't be able to do anything about it now. You'd be completely at my mercy, and we'd both know it." Theo paused to check in with her, "How are you dealing with this one so far, beautiful?"
Her breath was shaky, and her words wouldn't come. The image he was painting was so vivid. She wanted to experience it for real. It was edgy, slightly dangerous, and it was making her more turned on than she had ever been in her life. "Very well." she gasped as he moved down the bed and licked a line around her belly button, right where Draco had been circling his fingers earlier. He blew on it gently, and she shivered as he moved back to his original position, taking that as her answer..
"Next, I'd get myself undressed, slowly mind, and you'd watch me do it. My eyes would be full of desire as I looked at you, and it would frustrate you still further when I didn't touch you. I'd get down on my hands and knees and lick your hot, sweet cunt, and every time I did so you'd cry out. Then I'd back away and kiss your mouth instead and you'd taste your juices on my tongue and it would drive you crazy. I'd tell you to beg me and you'd refuse, so I'd carry on slowly teasing and tormenting you. You'd get to the point where you couldn't stand it any more, you'd look at me and you'd finally beg. Please, Theo, and as soon as you did that, I'd slide slowly inside you. You'd clench around me almost instantly, one thrust, two, and you'd come so hard you'd scream my name to the heavens. I'd fuck you through it and even as you came down, I'd carry on, and I'd take you right back up there again, harder and higher this time until you shattered into a million pieces all over my cock."
She whimpered, wondering if it was possible to have an orgasm just by listening to someone talk. "As we both settled, I'd unstick your hands and feet and you'd roll over, and you'd want to be cross with me for tying you down and for withholding your orgasm, but you'd be so exhausted that you wouldn't really have the energy to tell me off. So instead, we'd accept that we really did know each other and that it had all been preplanned, and we'd fall asleep right here, under the stars you'd been so diligently studying half an hour before." He finally stopped, and she audible sighed, "what do you think of that one baby girl?"
She couldn't speak. Theo had been observing her reactions carefully, as had Draco. They both knew the effect their spoken fantasies had had. "I….I think," she was almost incoherent with need, "I think one of you needs to make good on your promises right now."
Theo laughed as he sat back on his haunches and gestured for Draco to take over. "Fucking hell!" Draco muttered as he brushed his fingers against her core, and she moaned, "I think she liked the ideas we've given her."
Theo just smirked, "that's good to know. Next time I'll give you a fantasy that involves Draco as well. I've got a lot of those tucked away."
Hermione bucked and writhed against Draco's hand with a moan as he caressed her then slid his hand inside her panties, "What do you want beautiful, how far do you want me to go?"
"I don't want to wait any longer. This is perfect tonight. You are both so perfect. I want to do everything tonight." Draco nodded as Theo moaned softly beside them. Draco kissed her, slowly, sweetly and moved his body to the side. She felt Theo move to bring her panties down her legs and off, then crawl back up her body to sweep his tongue through her folds making her gasp. He brought her closer and closer to release, his tongue dipping deeply inside and then back out again as Draco continued to kiss her mouth. "Oh Gods!" she breathed as Draco pulled back and vanished their remaining clothes. She could feel him, hard and unyielding against her, and she stiffened as Theo moved away, and Draco took his place.
"Relax, beautiful. I'll never hurt you," Draco said, and she gazed up into his almost entirely black eyes. The tip of his hard length nudged against her, and she felt Theo's fingers brush her nipple as his breath ghosted across her cheek. She turned to him, and he kissed her as Draco slid gently inside. She gasped and winced at the sudden, sharp sting. Theo pulled away and whispered a spell, and the pain instantly vanished. Draco moved back to kiss her as her body adjusted to his unfamiliar presence. "Tell me when you're ready and I'll start to move a little bit."
"I'm ready." He pressed slowly up into her and her eyes widened in surprise. There was no pain now, just the somewhat strange sensation of being really, really full. He was careful and gentle, and as he pulled out, she whimpered, only to gasp as he pressed back into her. His rhythm was slow and unhurried, and he waited until she was completely comfortable before starting to pick up the pace a little.
Draco grunted and closed his eyes as he tried to hold himself back, but she was ready. She tilted her hips, instinctively drawing him further in, and she cried out as he thrust more deeply into her a few times and tipped her over the edge of oblivion. Two more hard thrusts and he joined her, finally collapsing down on top of her when he was totally spent. It took a few moments for her to calm and to realize what had happened, and when she opened her eyes, it was to find Theo smiling softly at her as he stroked Draco's back. "You alright?" he asked, and she nodded, smiling back.
"Yes, I'm very alright, thank you," she said, feeling utterly boneless as she laid back against the soft bedding.
Draco smiled too as he carefully withdrew himself. "You were amazing." He said, stroking her mussed hair out of her face. "That was every bit as perfect as I always knew it would be." He kissed her again, and she sighed, moving carefully onto her side as he laid the duvet over her, then beckoned Theo closer. One spell vanished Theo's jeans and boxers and made him quirk an amused eyebrow. He said nothing, just gasped as Draco took him into his mouth and started to suck him off.
Theo locked eyes with Hermione and she couldn't look away. She gazed at Draco's blonde head as he bobbed up and down, Theo's long thick cock sliding deeply into his mouth and then all the way back out again. She looked back up into Theo's eyes and saw the exact moment he was going to lose control. He tapped Draco gently on the shoulder to warn him that he was close, and Draco nodded. "Fuck it Malfoy, you're so fucking good at this-" then he grunted and pushed Draco's head down as he came.
Hermione's eyes bulged wide at the erotic sight and when Theo released Draco, he swallowed and gulped in a couple of hurried breaths before turning to Hermione and grinning. "Kiss me?" he asked, with a smirk and a wink, and curiosity overrode her exhaustion, making her lean forwards and press her lips to his. Draco chuckled as he pulled her closer and pushed for entry to her mouth. She yielded and let him in, tasting Theo's release on his tongue.
Theo groaned again at the sight and collapsed backward onto the bed. "You two are now officially my favorite people in the entire fucking world. You know that?" he tugged Hermione towards him and she settled down with him on one side and Draco pressed up against her other side. Snuggled together like that, all three of them fell asleep before they remembered where they were and that they really should get back to Hogwarts before the castle started to wake up.
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