i should have another update out soon, and school is almost over so i should have updates cranking out soon enough.

chapter seventeen:

draco woke up, the sound of his alarm blaring through the peaceful silence. taking one arm from the waist of a still asleep hermione, a flop of his hand shutting off the alarm abruptly.

hermiones back was against his chest, her dark hair pooled in between them. he brushed her hair back in a way so that her hair fell closer to her back instead of tickling his chest.

he moved so that one of his arms was underneath her and the other was placed back around her waist. her arms cuddled his forearms, their fingers interlaced on one hand.

"good morning, beautiful girl." draco said as his hand came up to gently brush her cheek.

"mm." hermione groaned as she turned slightly so her face was smushed into the pillow but her hold on him remained the same.

"baby, you gotta wake up." draco said.

he moved his arms, wiggling her around. she flicked their intertwined hands with her free hand, missing entirely with her overly exhausted morning limbs.

"five more minutes." hermione whined in a muffled voice, her voice muffled by the pillow.

"is that a question or a statement?"

"none of your business." hermione said angrily, smooshing her head further into the pillow.

"babe." draco said while laughing. "it is my business, you're on my arm."

"fuck off." hermione whined while hugging his arms even closer to her.

draco used his strength advantage and held onto her, pulling her over so that she was on top of his chest. she breathed out in exasperation and rolled off his chest.

"so," draco said while propping himself up on his elbow. "five more minutes, a request or statement?"

"statement." hermione said while rolling over to place a hard kiss on his lips.

draco accepted the kiss, pushing his tongue into her mouth and wrapping his hands around her waist. her hands came up to tangle in his hair, like usual.

"gotta get these off." hermione mumbled against his lips while taking her hands out of his hair and trying to get his boxers off.

he pushed away from her and rolled out of bed, quickly flinging his boxers off and then hopping back into bed, putting his arms on either side of her.

he kissed her passionately and then peeled her shirt off her body, exposing her fully naked body.

his hard member was against her bare legs and her boobs were against his bare chest. draco took his lips off of hers and nipped at her neck, biting down on different patches of skin.

hermione moaned when he bit down on her pressure point. he only bit down slightly harder in response, making her moan louder.

his head came up and his lips pressed a hard kiss to her lips before one of his fingers slipped into her wetness, massaging away at her hardened pearl.

their lips parted as her head tilted back. loud moans came from her mouth, her back arching as he added a second finger.

her hands frantically reached for something to grab, landing on tightly gripping the bed sheets.

he eased his fingers in and out, his fingers slickly coated in her wetness. his fingers went in and out of her, his thumb massaging her clit.

taking his fingers out, he pushed up and sat, angling himself so that he could slide into her easily. he pushed in, both of them moaning in sync.

"you feel so good." draco moaned out, his hands gripping at her thighs.

"ahh" was all hermione could say as he pulled out and slammed back in.

her hips began to match his rough rhythm as he sped up. her fingers tightened their grip on the bed sheets.

"stop!" hermione breathed quietly but urgently.

he stopped immediately, panting. "what?"

"go get a condom."

draco hopped off the bed, ran to the bathroom and grabbed a condom. he ran back into the bedroom and ripped it open, putting it on quickly and then hopping back onto the bed.

"ready?" draco said as he lined up once more.

"of cour- ahh!" hermione started but was interrupted by a moan as he slammed into her and resumed his rough rhythm.

her hips once more matched his thrusts, her back arching when he hit her good spot.

"draco!" hermione moaned out. "i'm gonna come!"

draco kept thrusting until he could feel the warmth of her cum on his condom.

she moaned his name over and over as she climaxed. her body going through the highs as she felt she was floating on clouds high above the bed.

his body collapsed on top of hers when he reached his climax at almost the same time. both of them breathing heavily, their bodies shifting to a comfortable position.

hermione brought shaky hands up to wrap around his neck, her entire body exauhsted. draco kissed her chest, placing small kisses everywhere his tired lips could.

his lips wrapped around a nipple and he began sucking, eliciting a small moan out of hermione. he licked the nipple, then began sucking again.

the other nipple got the same treatment before her lips were passionately enveloped in a kiss that sent shivers down both spines.

draco pushed himself up after their lips parted and he sat at the edge of the bed, hearing hermione shift in the bed so that she was by his lap.

her head landed in his lap, green eyes looking up at him and begging him not to leave the bed.

"babe, its time to wake up." draco said as he stared down at her, laughing as he saw the pout plastered on her face.

"no." she simply stated, as she shuffled to get up.

when she was sitting up, she slid off the bed and straddled his lap. her arms locked around his neck and her forehead leaned against his.

"babe we have to wake up and get ready. should we explore again today?" draco said in between kisses.

"yes." hermione breathed out after a passionate, hard given kiss.

suddenly, there was a loud chiming noise, the noise that they had come to know as the phone.

sliding off of his lap, hermione stood and exited the bedroom. walking down the hallway, she went to the ringing phone and picked it up.

"hello? this is hermione granger speaking." hermione said hesitantly.

nat came out from underneath the coffee table and rubbed against hermiones leg, purring quietly. hermione bent down so she could pet the cat.

"hermione, hi!" an excited voice chimed from the speaker of the phone. the voice, hermione recognized, was marcus.

"marcus?"

"yes, it's me."

"why are you calling so early?"

hermione heard the sudden padding of hurried footsteps as draco hurried out of the room at the mention of marcus' name. he came out of the room and down the hallway, coming to immediately press the button to put the call on speaker phone.

"you have a package addressed to you waiting for you in the lobby." marcus' voice chimed from the speaker.

"i haven't ordered anything." hermione said, a puzzled expression on her face.

"well, there's a package here labeled with your name."

"uh," hermione glanced at draco who had a scowl plastered on his face. "can you hold please?"

"yes."

hermione pressed the button that allowed her to put the call on hold so he couldn't hear their conversation in the room.

"i didn't order a package." hermione said quietly, her heartbeat spiking.

"i bloody well know that." draco said, his voice hitching. "you can't go get it."

"i know, what do you suggest i do?"

"you won't be doing anything, i'll go. he won't do anything if it's me going."

"exactly, we won't know what he's planning if he never does anything."

"er, you're not going. period."

"i don't propose to go."

draco paused, thinking of what she could possibly be planning. then it hit him. "do you have any left? i thought harry used the last of it."

"no, that was a spell."

"ah. do you still have it?"

"yes."

hermione ran to the bedroom, searching through each drawer and cabinet. she finally found what she was looking for and ran back to draco.

"here," she said as she handed him a vial containing a putrid smelling, chunky, green-brown liquid. "you'll need one of these," she said as she pulled out one of her hairs with a wince, dropping it into the liquid.

draco donned the liquid, gagging when it was all down.

"ready?"

"ready as ever."

"marcus i'll be down in a minute." hermione said before hanging up.

"hermione!" marcus said excitedly as he saw hermione walking from the elevator hallway.

"marcus, you said i have a package?" hermione said as she saw him.

"yes, yes, this way." marcus said while he beckoned to hermione.

as she stood before the desk, he walked into an office behind the desk. his head popped out and he beckoned to her once more.

she stepped out from the desk and walked into the room with him.

there was a banging at the door, and hermione ran to answer it.

swinging the door open, she saw draco standing there, his chest heaving up and down heavily. his wand was at his side, and he had a few cuts on his arms and face.

"draco!" hermione cried, "what happened?!"

"marcus." draco breathed.

"marcus?!" hermione said as she ushered him inside. "why is your wand out?!"

"he's a death eater."

"what?!"

ten minutes earlier:

"right here, hermione." marcus said as he pointed to something she couldn't see.

"where?" hermione questioned quietly.

right after she heard the sound of rustling clothes, her body burned and felt like it was falling apart.

"i knew it." marcus said under his breath. "hello, draco."

"so you're one of us." draco said as he turned around to face marcus. both of their wands were drawn.

"no," marcus said with a scowl, "i'm not."

"oh?"

"i'm a death eater."

"oh."

"when i fled from the battle of hogwarts, i knew i had to get away so i came here. my dad owns this place, he's a death eater too. he gave me a job."

"so you still use magic? at a place full of muggles?"

marcus shrugged, his voice seeming hysterical when he finally spoke. "what muggles do you see? they all spend their days stuffed up in their rooms. they're never here."

"but you risk it. it goes against every magic law."

"oh, and what are you going to do about it? you hold no rank in the ministry, and last i checked you're a death eater." marcus paused to tilt his head, looking at draco incredulously, his jaw dropping. "oh my god. you're actually with her."

"what did you think i was doing?"

"i thought you were going to kill her."

"kill her? kill my girlfriend?!"

"your girlfriend?!" marcus spluttered out. "what happened to serving the dark lord?"

"voldemort is dead."

"how dare you." marcus cried as he raised his wand and started furiously casting spells.

draco blocked as many as he could, but he was already off balance and got hit with more than he wished. he landed a few on marcus, both covered in small cuts from spells.

each cried out spells, casting as many as they could. they could only hope that they were able to win, and soon enough marcus was lying unconscious on the ground.

draco grunted as he kicked at the limp body.

"petrificus totalus." he said as he aimed his wand at the wizard.

he left the room, closing and locking the door behind him. slowly, his left foot throbbing, he limped to the elevators. he would have apparated, but he didn't have the energy to.

"marcus is a death eater?" hermione said quietly, her features contorted in full shock.

"yes."

draco sat on one of the barstools, shouldering his shirt off. bruises dotted his chest from where spells hit him. hermione gasped and ran to his side after closing the door and locking it.

"babe, what happened?!"

"we fought."

"where is he?"

"unconscious in the back room."

"oh my gosh. and you just left him there?"

"he activated the dark mark, i couldn't stay."

"what about the polyjuice potion?"

"he saw through it."

"oh."

"he knew i wouldn't send you to him."

"i'm sorry baby."

"it's not your fault, it's his if anyone's."

"but you went and did it under a polyjuice potion that i gave you."

"i wasn't going to let you go no matter what."

"i know, but still. let me see your wounds."

draco watched as she examined each wound. her fingers probed the skin around some of them, the skin red and puffy. she had studied under madam pomfry for a time, knowing that she would need the healing capabilities.

"tergeo." hermione said quietly, holding her hands out around the wounds, watching as all of the blood cleared from the areas.

"episky." she said again, healing the all of the cuts. there wasn't much she could do for the bruises so she left them.

"you don't need your wand?" draco asked, gaping at the witch.

"no. professor mcgonagall taught me non-verbal and wandless magic."

"why did you say the incantation if you can do non-verbal magic?"

"it's comforting to hear the incantation."

"thank you." draco said as he rolled his shoulders back, feeling the stiffness and pain leave them as the cuts healed themselves.

he rose from the stool and snaked his arms around the witch. her hands rose to tangle into his hair as she breathed in his scent. he could smell her arousal, but he knew she was already wet from the darkened look in her eyes.

"you're wet." draco said, his voice raspy.

"you're hard." hermione said, looking down.

draco smashed his lips into hers, both of them fully accepting the passion of the kiss. draco lifted her up and set her on the counter, kicking the stools out of the way.

hermoines hands rushed to lift her shirt over her head, their lips parting momentarily so her shirt could vacate her body. her bra came off next, their lips never parting.

his hands unzipped his pants, and he stepped out of them along with his underwear. his hard stuck out as his hands fumbled with the hem of hermiones pants. eventually he managed to pull her pants down, taking them off her legs along with her underwear.

hermione leaned back, her bare butt on the cold counter. draco lined up with her entrance, hearing a moan escape her as he pushed in slowly.

he was fully inside of her when he lifted her back off the counter, her legs straddling his waist in an effort to keep him inside her.

laying her on the ground with her legs straddling him, draco started at a slow rhythm, her hips moving to match his.

when they found a steady rhythm, draco leaned down to place kisses wherever he could on her bare skin.

hermiones nails clawed at his bare back, leaving red scratch marks across his back. their lips connected and pressed together in a heated kiss.

hermione was the first to come, her lips parting from dracos as she arched her back and moaned out her release.

draco stopped his rhythm and pulled out, and instead of pushing back in he began massaging her hardened pearl with his forefinger and thumb. her moans and the sound of his fingers moving back and forth were the only sounds that filled the room.

her legs stopped straddling him, falling down onto the ground only to arch back up as two fingers slid into her and sped up.

her back arched as he added a third finger, feeling her cooch clasp around his fingers as she came again. she moaned out his name as she came on his fingers, his rhythm staying consistent as she finished coming on him.

his head leaned down to nip at the skin of her neck as she came down from her high, her hands trailing through his slicked back hair.

as he bit down on her pressure point, her fingers clasped around a tuft of hair and pulled, making his head arch back and his teeth let go of her skin.

her body flipped his over, her being on top now.

she smirked down at him and lowered her cooch onto his hard cock. she raised back up, his hips beginning to pump along with her rhythm.

draco came soon after their rhythm sped up a bit, his cum erupting into her coochie, filling her with his cum.

both moaned as he released, his cum streaming down his cock as it leaked from her full vagina.

"fuck." hermione moaned out as he finally finished, lowering herself onto him once more and feeling his entire cock in her.

her entire body folded over as neither had the energy to start a rhythm once more. draco was halfway inside her, not fully anymore because of the odd angle she was laying at.

his arms wrapped around her, toying with her hair as her hands wrapped around him.

"shall i draw us a bath?" draco croaked out, his voice hoarse.

"yes, that would be lovely." hermione said in between pants.

draco squirmed out from underneath her and pulled his cock out of her entrance, his cock cold from the sudden lack of warmth.

nat followed quickly behind him, meowing at his heels.

hermione pushed herself up off the ground, sitting up and feeling the full effects of just being fucked. she stood, walking naked to the couch and grabbed a blanket to wrap around herself.

she went to the kitchen and grabbed a glass platter and set it on the counter. she opened the fridge, grabbed cheddar cheese and grabbed a bag of crackers from the pantry.

she lined crackers on the platter, then sliced cheese and placed it on the platter too.

grabbing two glasses she filled them with fire whisky. draco had apparated to diagon alley and bought them some last weekend.

she heard the sound of the bath faucet turning on. she took the platter and set the cups onto it too and then walked to the bathroom.

"hey babe." draco said.

"hi." hermione set the platter on the ground and hugged her boyfriend.

"cheese and crackers?" draco said while craning his neck to see the platter. he was standing by the toilet room door.

"fire whiskey too."

"oh, yum."

"is the bath drawn?"

"yes. want to hop in?"

"yes."

hermione dropped the blanket and shivered as the breeze from the bathroom fan hit her.

hermione draped a leg into the bath and then slid the rest of her body in. she sighed contently and slid into the water up to her chin, brushing her hair back so that it wouldn't get wet.

"warm enough for you?" draco asked, coming up behind her and sliding his fingers through locks of her hair.

"mm." hermione mumbled.

"mind if i slide in?"

"not at all."

draco came around to the other side of the tub and stepped into the warm water. he slid in, his legs folding so that he could fit without disturbing hermione.

her legs stretched out and her feet bent so that they were around his waist.

"this is nice." draco said while reaching to grab a cracker and a slice of cheese.

"where's nat? i thought she followed me into the bathroom." hermione said.

"nat?" draco called.

they were alerted of her presence as they heard the sound of her claws pattering on the flooring.

the small cat puttered into the room and meowed at her bathing owners. nat came up to the platter of food and started sniffing, but was stopped by hermiones hand.

"should we bathe the cat?" hermione asked draco with a sly smile.

"we should." draco stuttered out, struck by the look in his girlfriends eyes.

hermione scooped up the kitten and set her on dracos raised knees. the kitten meowed in alarm at the fact that she was slipping off, but when nat was pushed back upright she was alright.

as the three sat in the tub, the two humans got lost in their own thoughts.

hermione was caught in a trap that her mind created.

marcus was a death eater, that he proved. why did he only now try to get hermione to come to him? he's had almost two months and yet this is the first time he'd made an offensive move. it didn't add up.

to make matters worse, he had known that draco wouldn't let hermione go, so which was he expecting? was he expecting hermione to come? draco? both of them?

nothing added up, and there were even more factors that went into it.

who was his father? and the shocking part of marcus' story was that the death eaters were still out there. voldemort was gone.

then again, he had risen from the dead once before, so who's to say he wouldn't rise again?

hermione knew that someone should in high authority at the ministry should be consulted but no one would believe her. they would have to bring in marcus and without aurors it was almost impossible to capture a death eater and bring them in.

it still didn't make any sense. why did marcus want her to come down? did they have a trap for her, or were they testing whether or not draco was really one of them?

draco, on the other hand, was focusing entirely on the witch before him.

he noticed how she was biting her lip as she fed herself cheese and the occasional cracker. she was deep in thought, he knew that for sure.

she was staring at nothing in particular, her eyes unfocused and hazed over. her limbs moved sluggishly, her hands reaching her mouth slowly and then pulling away. her hands groped at the platter to grab another slice of cheese.

her legs were fully immersed in the water, his hands massaging her thighs slowly.

her lips were slightly parted, her breath coming out of her mouth slowly.

her hand grasped around one of the wine glasses, firewhisky sliding down her throat and coating every muscle in her throat in a burning sensation. she coughed slightly, the feeling subsiding as she took another gulp of the liquid.

his hands kept massaging her legs, her skin feeling strangely soft submersed in water.

"penny for your thoughts?" draco whispered quietly, not wanting to startle the witch out of her thoughts.

"couldn't he come back?" hermione said softly after a moments silence.

"who?"

"voldemort."

there was an erie silence that filled the bathroom.

"yes, he could." draco stuttered out, his words tumbling over one another.

"the death eaters seem sure that he'll come back."

"they're bloody mad, they are."

"are they?" hermione cocked her head at him, the water swishing somewhat as she moved.

"yes, well, maybe."

"there isn't anything to stop them from bringing him back, is there."

"you already know there isn't."

"we need to warn someone."

"they won't believe us."

"we need to bring marcus in."

"to the ministry?!"

"yes."

"you're mad. they won't let me into the ministry, i'm a death eater to them."

"i could vouch for you."

"no. they would think i have you under imperio."

"you'd never."

"they don't know that."

"then i'll tell them."

"hermione, they'd be bloody mad to believe you."

"i know. they need to be warned, voldemort is coming back."

"they didn't believe harry when he told them that voldemort was back the first time, what makes you think they would believe us now. i'm a death eater to them, nothing more then a pure blood malfoy. they won't believe me anyways. you, they might believe. you're a part of the golden trio, they'll believe you if you tell them. they can't know that i'm a part of this, they'll put me in azkaban."

"i would't let them."

"would you be able to stop the aurors?"

"yes."

"how?"

"i'd find a way."

"hermione, i can be in the background of this opperation but i can't be in the forefront of it."

"and they'll believe that i took down a death eater by myself?"

"no, you'll tell them that harry and ron were involved, but they had pressing matters to attend to and couldn't make it to the ministry."

"alright."

"leave me out of this, you are enough."

"alright."