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The longest Day Part 4
"Sir, I tried that early and it didn't work. I will be alert." Axiom pulled out a wand, not a wand more like a metallic cylinder; Hermione observed, a dangerous one; it seemed heavy.
"Princess, could you please read the letter aloud? Axiom please raise the partition, L'roy, we are closing the windows, stay concealed." Draco was worried. He needed to ask L'Roy why he saw Sari. He suspected why, his father must have sent Sari to get Henri. He better not have. Draco smiled, he knew why L'Roy disliked Sari.
Draco and Hermione both pulled out their wands, and Draco placed mirrors all around, to have visual of the periphery while she read.
"My dears, I sent L'roy and the best dog in the world to watch over you and keep you out of trouble. The portal is sentient and according to what I just read, is going to make all kind of ill events happen today, to prevent our access, this includes desperate lust. That is one of the reasons to have the trio stay together with chaperones. The chaperone must be strong willed and be ready to incur our wrath to keep us apart until the ceremony.
The other aspect is even more problematic; it will unearth old enemies, so we must be prepared to face from small to big incidents intended to prevent the ceremony from happening.
Draco, I hate to tell you something bad, and not in person, but you might need the knowledge. Your mother was lost to us during the battle, must have been upon Bellatrix's death using forbidden Dark magic, Bellatrix took over your mother's body upon her soul leaving hers, and this caused your mother's soul to leave this world.
She, your mother's body, came today to see me. The medallion" your mother" gave to L'roy was in effect a window into this home. She has learned all we have said and done around L'roy.
She came to stop the ritual from happening, I will tell you in more detail when we are together. Suffice to say when she was uncovered she tried to kill me, had it not been for the valiant, fur ball, I would be gone. Between her and L'roy they terminated Bella, who was the soul inside your mother's body. Poor Narcissa, poor love, blamed for things she didn't do," Hermione's tears rolled down her cheeks. Draco wasn't crying but he was frozen, shell shocked.
"I am so sorry," She went to him and was going to hug him.
"Please finish reading, we are in luck we can get mother later, they were divorced anyway. I will explain later, please read." His mien was sad and somber, however a lot of the past years made sense. His mother avoidance to visit with him, he had seen her maybe twice, and always secretive and strange. His mother needed saving, maybe Henri wasn't such a bad idea, maybe, a big maybe. Hermione read more.
"I have opted for not calling the Aurors, not sure if our heroes' magic was recorded by the Ministry, but thus far is not the case. There isn't a body, L'roy incinerated it."
Both were petting Camellia who wasn't in a happy frienher sadness made sense to both Draco and Hermione, who continued reading.
"There is a danger, Rodolphus and Rabastan, they have never been caught. I always thought they were under her power and maybe her dying has freed them, but we don't know that. Please stay away from each other and come home safe. We need to discuss how to contact the families. Nothing has changed; we go with the original plans."
Draco couldn't keep his control, he wiped the tears, "Fucking demented witch, even when dead I hate her. She hurt and harmed everyone along the way. Who knows what was wrong with her, mother said terrible things happened to her growing up; but dad says she was demented all along. She killed her own cousin and her niece, enslaved her husband and his brother; and she did other unspeakable horrors. She even hurt you my love, but to have ended my poor mother's life, the sister that always took care of her, that is too horrendous to consider. Let's don't talk about it now."
Axiom had rolled the screen, "Sir we need to move, there is a group of several individuals coming our way, I dare say they are wizards, I can see their magic. There, the girl sees them as well." Axiom pointed at Camellia who had jumped up to the rear window and was all fluffed and growling.
"Camellia, only one head," Hermione reminded her. In public she could only show one head; the Ministry didn't know about her, and heaven forbid if they found out about her other abilities.
Draco and Hermione cast at the same time,' Nebula caligonis quan maxime,'which created a thick, dark fog, yet it started dissolving right away. A group of five wizards were after them, but Axiom was quick, and in seconds they were up in the air, flying very fast. Hermione looked out the window; she saw L'roy right by their side.
A big, black cloud was behind them; whoever was following was firing at the car. Axiom opened the window, and with the rod, he shot a large ball of flame at them, with no apparent casting. At the same time, L'roy sent a stream of fire, which created a circle of hot flames around the pursuers.
"That should do it. They will be trapped for a couple of minutes; our magic has no effect on L'roy's fires, since it isn't from this world." Draco smirked and made a gesture as if saying, "What can I say?" Hermione had to keep her mouth closed, since she was just as guilty, she also had an illegal creature, Camellia.
In a few minutes, they were inside the Manor's property coming over their forest.
"Who were they?" Hermione asked, "I couldn't see their faces, I thought they were blurry."
"Yes, not sure why, maybe a concealment charm, I have never seen such a thing. You could see only the shape of a face, like they were see through."
Back at the Manor- Amorous Wizards
Lucius was outside of the Manor, Dexel and his brother Braxar were waiting outside. Axiom descended upon the road right before the driveway.
Lucius ran to them, and Draco hugged his father and let his tears flow. Lucius was also crying, which made Camellia feel bad; even though, she knew the body she had killed was not the woman they cried for.
The woman they cried for stood by them right that minute. She was with a tall, skinny human; and yes, it was Mr. Severus from the portrait at Hogwarts. Camellia ran to him, and Severus crouched to pet her. Camellia had seen the woman before at the office; she often stood next to Draco, her nice wizard. She always looked sad; too bad Draco couldn't see her.
Lucius, Draco, Hermione, and the brothers, all stood seeing half of Camellia, the half with the wagging tail. The other half wasn't there. She had simply gone into the nether world, the one she travelled inside the portraits. Camellia also kissed the Lady who was with Mr. Severus, and she related the story of the incident in the morning. The lady didn't look mad at her, kissed Camellia, and told her it wasn't her fault.
Hermione had seen her vanish entirely, but never just a portion. Then Severus realized something was a midst and straightened out. Camellia and L'roy were the only ones that could see the Lady; they were happier but both had to keep silent if they wanted to stay in this reality.
"What was that?" Draco asked.
"No idea, she also enters through one portrait and leaves by another. Some times she goes to Hogwarts to visit with her mother and sister, and Minerva has to let me know so I don't worry." Hermione laughed, along with everyone else. Lucius bent to pick up Camellia, that graciously accepted.
"But that cannot be done." Lucius argued and looked at Camellia wondering. He asked L'roy who was silent. Finally L'roy said, Your guess is as good as mine; moreover, don't ask because either I don't know, or I don't want to tell you. So you know, Draco knows I went to see Sari; I forgot not to say anything. You know I dislike the treacherous, lying piece. I would rather never see her again.
Lucius cringed, knowing Draco would blow up when Henri arrived.
"Tell her, we all know it cannot be done, but she does it," was Hermione's response as she shrugged her shoulders.
At listening Hermione laughing and talking, Lucius' insides heated to a melting point. Desire made his tongue thick and only one thing was on his mind, the young witch. Unfortunately, what Draco had been doing with the witch, he had felt some of it, the Malfoy magic at work.
He was aroused to the point he wanted to have her right there, his aroused sex was contracting and wet. He wanted her badly. He placed Camellia on the ground, and was by Hermione's side in one stride, and before she could say anything, he had her inside his tight embrace. His lips closed on hers, and their mouths opened into a passionate kiss. Lucius was figuring out how to take her inside?
The feel of her body was like nothing he expected; he remembered the day at Hogwarts, but this was better. He was thinking of Apparating them to his room and lifting the wards. She was there as well, on her imaginary way to his room.
Draco was looking at them in shock, but instead of being jealous, he was called to them like a moth to the flame. He was feeling their embrace. When L'roy saw this, he flew by Lucius and pulled his hair fast, Camellia had understood L'roy's message, no mating right now; and she went for Draco trousers, but got a bit of his flesh.
Dual, "Get away, get off, ouch," were heard. Two of the brothers, Braxtar and Drexel, were horrified at the animals attacking the owners, and Axiom laughed, a strange deep chuckle.
Hermione thought it was a sinister sound, and was glad these strange beings liked her. They reminded her a little of what people used to think demons looked liked, mostly their teeth and their broad appearance, ah, and also the nails and the goat legs. Yeah, but not ugly, not by a long shot. The younger, Braxtar, was, hmm, kind of sexy, very hot, not bad.
Lucius woke up as from a dream. Draco was fighting with Camellia whose ears were down. Hermione was just coming back, still checking the brothers, mostly checking the youngest one, hmm. What was wrong with her, she already had two; though she had read about enchantresses who had several husbands, their magic made it possible.
Camellia decided it was unfair, and she woofed back, angrily. That was when Lucius noticed the three heads out once again, "Good girl, you know your job." He praised her, and Camellia ran to him.
"You see what I mean. Wait there, Axiom, Drexel, as of right now, we are not allowed to touch each other until the ceremony this evening, separate us, petrify us, tie us, do whatever it takes to prevent us from further closeness." As he repeated the words, Lucius thought he was going mad. Why was he telling them to stop him, and separate him from his witch, and then he remembered.
"Understood, L'roy, princess?" He said looking at the two heroes and the goat men, a hoot, a bark, and two grumpy and reluctant, "Yes, sir," were heard. The brothers weren't sure they could stop their Lord. He was their liege; it was the law to respect him; he was asking too much.
"Use your judgment if I tell you to let us be close," Lucius added as a wave of desire struck him again, and was already trying to go back on his recent mandate.
Plans.
"So we must assure the wizards following you, were the Lestrange brothers and others associated with them. She must have left a strong compulsion; and I am sure when the compulsion is gone, they will stop. Meanwhile we cannot go out the Manor, it is too dangerous." Lucius was worried.
"Yes father, understood, and how do you propose we contact the families? We are running out of time." Draco was starting to think this wasn't doable.
"I have an idea, " Hermione interjected, she sat in her own couch away from the wizards, the all sat apart with one brother between them, L'roy on the perch, and Camellia on Hermione's lap.
Every five to ten minutes, the wizards would make an excuse to come closer to Hermione, only to be taken by the arm and back to their sitting. Lucius was angry with them, and Draco was just as mad.
Lucius had gone over Bellatrix's demise, and Draco had cried again.
"So it appears we will be able to bring three more people, we need to make a formal list and bring some extra items. Let's see. Hermione, darling, your names first," Lucius' voice was melted sugar which spilled right over the witch's groin, and she had to stop herself, from running to kiss him. Camellia growled reading her mommy's naughty thoughts. What a day.
"So how many will we be able to bring all together?" Draco asked.
"I hadn't finish, there is a stipulation, and I am sorry to have to talk about. The extra people are only possible if the witch or one of us has real love for the witch, but it is works better and will call the chosen one harder if the witch loves one of us. Sorry darling for having to ask you, to disclose your feelings to us." Both Lucius and Draco stood in attention.
"I , I , " Hermione started, and Draco jumped before anyone could grab him and fell on his knees.
"Granger, before you say anything, I will repeat what I say earlier and will expand further, I love you, and have since May 2, 1998. Please be my wife, for real, ceremony or not. And, I am moving back by my father before I am not able to." And he went back his place where Lucius stood. He was waiting with his heart about to explode. Did she care for him as well?
"I love you Draco, it has been coming for a while, since the day at Hogwarts I felt connected to you two. Then along the years, my feelings have grown. Do remember we fought during our time at Hogwarts, and you used to consider me scum?"
Draco and Lucius both blushed at her remark, Hermione's voice broke, and she had to take a deep breath.