Hogwarts Reunion
Chapter 7 - Nighttime Flying and Proposals
Hermione met Draco just inside the large doors that led to the Hogwarts grounds. It was 9:00 p.m. and all of the kids were fast asleep, Hermione had placed a special charm on the room that would let her know if any of the children were out of bed or needed her. Hermione had to admit to herself that she was curious, she wanted to know what the preposition that he had for her was. He couldn't possible need anything from her, she didn't have any money and besides he was rich, and it wasn't like he had any children that he wanted her to look after. Or maybe that was it, he had a child and he wanted Hermione to look after it! Well, Hermione thought, she would just have to wait and see, and of course he was her best friend, she would do anything for him.
Draco walked down the staircase to find Hermione already waiting for him.
"Did the kids go to sleep alright?" He asked.
"As soon as their heads hit the pillows! I forgot how tiring going to Hogwarts really is!" Draco led Hermione outside and over the grounds to the Quidditch pitch.
"Draco, what was it you wanted to talk to me about?" Hermione could not stand the curiosity any longer, even though she was sure that he wanted to ask her to look after a child of his. Not that he had told her that he had any children, but then what could it be?
"It can wait until after your flying lesson!" Draco would have told her straight away but there was a small, ok large, part of him that was sure that she would reject his offer. The longer he could put it off the better!
Draco and Hermione flew for over an hour, with Draco playing chaser and throwing the quaffle at her. Though he was a seeker and not a chaser, he wasn't bad at the position and Hermione caught every throw, once she had gained enough confidence in herself and her flying ability. After they touched down Draco led Hermione up to the stands where they could sit in comfort and discuss Draco's plans.
"Hermione, there is something that I need to tell you, and I would appreciate it if you just listened to all that I have to say before you answer me, and you don't have to answer me straight away, you can have until the end of the reunion to think about it." Draco looked at her and she nodded her consent and Draco took a deep breath and began to talk. "Hermione you know that my mother died and when she did she left a will. In her will she made some stipulations. In order for me to receive my inheritance and the Manor I must marry. I will have to remain married for a period of no shorter than ten years and in those ten years I must not live away from my wife. I must also produce a legal heir during those ten years."
"Your mother is forcing you to get married?" Hermione was incredulous.
"Yes, my mother sometimes had a warped sense of humor, it seems that she believed that I would never marry and as a result thought that she would force my hand and make me marry."
"Oh Draco, that is terrible, I know your feelings towards marriage, it was something that you said that you would never do! I can see why she did it! So I am guessing that you want me to help you find someone to marry?" Hermione now understood what he wanted and instantly was going through the names of the girls that she remembered from Hogwarts. "You could always marry Pansy, I'm sure that she would love to marry you! In fact if looks could kill last night and tonight for a fact, I would have been dead where I stood!"
"No, no Hermione you have it all wrong!" Draco could not follow Hermione's logic. Didn't she realise that she was a woman?
"What do you mean I have it all wrong? Though even I have to admit it would be no cup of tea being married to Pansy, actually you are quite right, no I don't think that you should marry Pansy, she would make your life a living hell!"
"Hermione, wait, when I was telling you that I need to be married now I wasn't meaning for you to help me find a wife, in fact I have already found the woman that I want to marry."
"Oh, ok then, well who is she?" for some unfathomable reason Hermione felt a stab of something akin to jealousy, and she couldn't work out why! It must be because they were such good friends, she reasoned, yes that was it she didn't want to loose him as a friend.
"Well Hermione I was wondering if. well I was wondering," Draco cleared his throat, "I wanted to know if you would agree to be my wife and have my child? I mean that way we could adopt your children together, and it would be a win win situation!" Draco looked over at Hermione and her mouth was hanging open in an unattractive way that made her look much like a goldfish!
Hermione closed and opened her mouth a couple of time unable to form words.
"Look Hermione, I can understand if you want some time to think it over, but I will tell you this if we get married it will be for all purposes a real marriage, I care for you deeply as a friend which I am sure is the way that you feel for me, and because we are such good friends I am sure that we will be able to make our marriage work. I was thinking that at the end of the ten years we could sit down and re evaluate our marriage and see if we want to end it or stay married." Draco looked at her, Hermione had finally closed her mouth and a look of deep though was on her face. "Well I will get going now, that way you will have time to think about it. Good night Hermione." Draco got up from his chair, turned and walked down the isle and towards the stairs.
"Wait, Draco wait!" Draco turned and walked back to where Hermione was sitting and sat down in his seat once again. "Before I give you my answer, I have one question for you, why me?" Hermione looked at him with her wise eyes slightly clouded with confusion.
"Mione, you are my best friend in the world, my only friend apart from Blaise, you know me better than anyone in the world, and I have the feeling that I know you better than any other person in the world. You know that I can't love anyone and I know that you're not ready to love anyone. I think that we can be married and that we could make a marriage work for us, we are great friends, and marriages that have been based on less have succeeded and I think that ours could."
"Draco I.(Hermione took a deep breath) I will marry you." She closed her eyes and screwed up her face. "But I have a few conditions of my own," Draco looked surprised but nodded for her to continue. "If we get married and adopt my children then you must treat them as if they are your own. I will not jeopardise their futures for anything! If we have a child of our own then I must insist that we remain married until they are at Hogwarts, I can't have his or her lives disrupted because we divorce. That is all that I can think of at the moment. How many people know that you are being forced to marry?"
"Just you, my lawyer and myself, no one else needs to know, in fact I would prefer if they did not."
"If that is the case then I think that people should believe that we married for love, all my friends know that you and I write to each other and I can just tell them that over time our feelings have deepened towards each other and I hadn't told them until now because I was worried about their reactions because they don't like you and of course because of Ron." Hermione took a deep breath and before she could continue Draco cut in.
"You Ms Granger have a very devious mind, has anyone ever told you that you would have been perfect in Slytherin?" Hermione just laughed at him. "I must say though I agree, I wouldn't want others to know that this is not for love. I will promise you Hermione that we would be a real family, I have no desire to raise children in the manner in which I was raised. I promise you that I will be the best father that I can be, provided you help me, my own father did not set the best of examples and I am sure that your childhood was a much happier one."
"Of course I will help you Draco, but never think that I am an expert in the mater! I was completely lost when I first took in the children and it is only through much practice that I have managed as well as I have so far!" The smiled at each other and with out a word they mutually decided that it was time to head back to the castle, besides Hermione wanted to check in on the children. Draco held out his hand to Hermione who accepted it and they walked the rest of the way hand in hand going over the details of their upcoming nuptials. One deciding factor in the whole marriage would be the reactions of the children, they both agreed that if the children did not like him as a father figure then they would not get married and Draco would have to find someone else.
When they got to the portrait that led the Hermione's rooms they stopped and faced each other.
"Hermione we are going to get married and we have never kissed." Draco said seriously, looking deep into her eyes.
"Yes we have, I distinctly remember kissing you on the cheek after the war had finished." Hermione said cheekily.
"That was not what I meant and you know it," Draco drawled and still looking deep into her eyes lent down closer and close, inch by inch and let his lips hover mere millimeters (sorry if you don't have those where your from!) a teasing glint in his eyes. Hermione couldn't stand it, she knew deep down that at some level she had always been attracted to Draco, who could not be with his devastatingly handsome good looks and his devil may care attitude, and he was inflicting torture on her by making her wait to see what he was going to do. In fact Hermione decided that she couldn't wait and with an evil glint in her eyes she closed the gap between them and took his lower lip between hers and sucked gently before letting it go and kissing him deeply. Surprise flared in Draco's eyes before he groaned deep in his throat closed his eyes and deepened the kiss even further, his hands snaked their way around her waist just as hers crept over his shoulders and Draco pressed their bodies close together and she could feel the effect that the kiss was having on him. They broke away gasping for breath, both more than a little surprised at the feelings that the kiss evoked in both of them. "Um. good night Draco," Hermione said breathlessly and Draco nodded and turned to walk away to his rooms. Before he had managed more than two steps away from her he turned abruptly and swept her in his arms once again and kissed her, Hermione let herself go and put as much feeling as possible into the kiss. Draco broke away and kissed butterfly kisses all over her face and Hermione couldn't help the smile that came to her face. Deep down she was pleased that she was able to evoke suck deep and almost desperate feelings in Draco, who was notorious for not feeling anything. Finally Draco broke away from her fully, his face flushed red with both embarrassment and desire.
"Good night Hermione," he said just as breathless as she had been earlier, he turned and this time managed to walk away with out turning back.
Both had been so engrossed in the kisses that they failed to notice the couple staring at them opened mouthed shock evident on their faces. Hermione and Draco had been so distracted by their kisses that Peeves could have done a naked belly dance around them screaming at the top of his lungs and they would have failed to notice. Ginny grabbed Harry's arm and dragged him away from Hermione who was leaning against the portrait trying to remember the password. Ginny needed to take Harry away before he said something that he would regret in the morning.
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A/N: Sorry guys for stopping there, I fully intended to put in the next day's activities but it was getting so long! As a result I am going to post the next chapter sooner than this one was (hopefully!). Anyway I hope all of the fluff that I put in more than makes up for the slowness of the story, so how are you guys liking it? Anything you want changed or added? Let me know!
This Chapter is dedicated to all the wonderful people who reviewed! You guys are the best!!!!!!!!!! I personally think that I have the best reviewers in the whole world! Thank you so much to the people who review constantly, and also a big thanks to those who have reviewed me for the first time! I have never got as many reviews for a story as I have for this one and if it wasn't for you wonderful people I probably wouldn't continue writing it!
Oh and by the way, sorry for leaving you with a sort of cliffie, but that looked like the best place to stop, otherwise it would have been pages and pages too long! But I hope that you like it anyway!
Dedicated to.
Meg - Ta, for the team names!
Islandgirl4 - Are you from Australia?
Mysticalfairy-05
Free2rhyme
Malferz
Hermione182
Laura
Gamegirl3 - Thank you so much for ideas for the names of the teams, I think that you will see some familiar ones!
Cookie-Fr3ako
DanceChic0869
Sweet-77-thang
Jenny - Thank you also for names for teams! You will also be seeing some familiar ones too!
Danika - I'm so glad that you found my story again!
Smmergurl
Stormy Phoenix - Well I guess if you want to know what happens your just gonna have to keep reading! Sorry for being mean!
Chapter 7 - Nighttime Flying and Proposals
Hermione met Draco just inside the large doors that led to the Hogwarts grounds. It was 9:00 p.m. and all of the kids were fast asleep, Hermione had placed a special charm on the room that would let her know if any of the children were out of bed or needed her. Hermione had to admit to herself that she was curious, she wanted to know what the preposition that he had for her was. He couldn't possible need anything from her, she didn't have any money and besides he was rich, and it wasn't like he had any children that he wanted her to look after. Or maybe that was it, he had a child and he wanted Hermione to look after it! Well, Hermione thought, she would just have to wait and see, and of course he was her best friend, she would do anything for him.
Draco walked down the staircase to find Hermione already waiting for him.
"Did the kids go to sleep alright?" He asked.
"As soon as their heads hit the pillows! I forgot how tiring going to Hogwarts really is!" Draco led Hermione outside and over the grounds to the Quidditch pitch.
"Draco, what was it you wanted to talk to me about?" Hermione could not stand the curiosity any longer, even though she was sure that he wanted to ask her to look after a child of his. Not that he had told her that he had any children, but then what could it be?
"It can wait until after your flying lesson!" Draco would have told her straight away but there was a small, ok large, part of him that was sure that she would reject his offer. The longer he could put it off the better!
Draco and Hermione flew for over an hour, with Draco playing chaser and throwing the quaffle at her. Though he was a seeker and not a chaser, he wasn't bad at the position and Hermione caught every throw, once she had gained enough confidence in herself and her flying ability. After they touched down Draco led Hermione up to the stands where they could sit in comfort and discuss Draco's plans.
"Hermione, there is something that I need to tell you, and I would appreciate it if you just listened to all that I have to say before you answer me, and you don't have to answer me straight away, you can have until the end of the reunion to think about it." Draco looked at her and she nodded her consent and Draco took a deep breath and began to talk. "Hermione you know that my mother died and when she did she left a will. In her will she made some stipulations. In order for me to receive my inheritance and the Manor I must marry. I will have to remain married for a period of no shorter than ten years and in those ten years I must not live away from my wife. I must also produce a legal heir during those ten years."
"Your mother is forcing you to get married?" Hermione was incredulous.
"Yes, my mother sometimes had a warped sense of humor, it seems that she believed that I would never marry and as a result thought that she would force my hand and make me marry."
"Oh Draco, that is terrible, I know your feelings towards marriage, it was something that you said that you would never do! I can see why she did it! So I am guessing that you want me to help you find someone to marry?" Hermione now understood what he wanted and instantly was going through the names of the girls that she remembered from Hogwarts. "You could always marry Pansy, I'm sure that she would love to marry you! In fact if looks could kill last night and tonight for a fact, I would have been dead where I stood!"
"No, no Hermione you have it all wrong!" Draco could not follow Hermione's logic. Didn't she realise that she was a woman?
"What do you mean I have it all wrong? Though even I have to admit it would be no cup of tea being married to Pansy, actually you are quite right, no I don't think that you should marry Pansy, she would make your life a living hell!"
"Hermione, wait, when I was telling you that I need to be married now I wasn't meaning for you to help me find a wife, in fact I have already found the woman that I want to marry."
"Oh, ok then, well who is she?" for some unfathomable reason Hermione felt a stab of something akin to jealousy, and she couldn't work out why! It must be because they were such good friends, she reasoned, yes that was it she didn't want to loose him as a friend.
"Well Hermione I was wondering if. well I was wondering," Draco cleared his throat, "I wanted to know if you would agree to be my wife and have my child? I mean that way we could adopt your children together, and it would be a win win situation!" Draco looked over at Hermione and her mouth was hanging open in an unattractive way that made her look much like a goldfish!
Hermione closed and opened her mouth a couple of time unable to form words.
"Look Hermione, I can understand if you want some time to think it over, but I will tell you this if we get married it will be for all purposes a real marriage, I care for you deeply as a friend which I am sure is the way that you feel for me, and because we are such good friends I am sure that we will be able to make our marriage work. I was thinking that at the end of the ten years we could sit down and re evaluate our marriage and see if we want to end it or stay married." Draco looked at her, Hermione had finally closed her mouth and a look of deep though was on her face. "Well I will get going now, that way you will have time to think about it. Good night Hermione." Draco got up from his chair, turned and walked down the isle and towards the stairs.
"Wait, Draco wait!" Draco turned and walked back to where Hermione was sitting and sat down in his seat once again. "Before I give you my answer, I have one question for you, why me?" Hermione looked at him with her wise eyes slightly clouded with confusion.
"Mione, you are my best friend in the world, my only friend apart from Blaise, you know me better than anyone in the world, and I have the feeling that I know you better than any other person in the world. You know that I can't love anyone and I know that you're not ready to love anyone. I think that we can be married and that we could make a marriage work for us, we are great friends, and marriages that have been based on less have succeeded and I think that ours could."
"Draco I.(Hermione took a deep breath) I will marry you." She closed her eyes and screwed up her face. "But I have a few conditions of my own," Draco looked surprised but nodded for her to continue. "If we get married and adopt my children then you must treat them as if they are your own. I will not jeopardise their futures for anything! If we have a child of our own then I must insist that we remain married until they are at Hogwarts, I can't have his or her lives disrupted because we divorce. That is all that I can think of at the moment. How many people know that you are being forced to marry?"
"Just you, my lawyer and myself, no one else needs to know, in fact I would prefer if they did not."
"If that is the case then I think that people should believe that we married for love, all my friends know that you and I write to each other and I can just tell them that over time our feelings have deepened towards each other and I hadn't told them until now because I was worried about their reactions because they don't like you and of course because of Ron." Hermione took a deep breath and before she could continue Draco cut in.
"You Ms Granger have a very devious mind, has anyone ever told you that you would have been perfect in Slytherin?" Hermione just laughed at him. "I must say though I agree, I wouldn't want others to know that this is not for love. I will promise you Hermione that we would be a real family, I have no desire to raise children in the manner in which I was raised. I promise you that I will be the best father that I can be, provided you help me, my own father did not set the best of examples and I am sure that your childhood was a much happier one."
"Of course I will help you Draco, but never think that I am an expert in the mater! I was completely lost when I first took in the children and it is only through much practice that I have managed as well as I have so far!" The smiled at each other and with out a word they mutually decided that it was time to head back to the castle, besides Hermione wanted to check in on the children. Draco held out his hand to Hermione who accepted it and they walked the rest of the way hand in hand going over the details of their upcoming nuptials. One deciding factor in the whole marriage would be the reactions of the children, they both agreed that if the children did not like him as a father figure then they would not get married and Draco would have to find someone else.
When they got to the portrait that led the Hermione's rooms they stopped and faced each other.
"Hermione we are going to get married and we have never kissed." Draco said seriously, looking deep into her eyes.
"Yes we have, I distinctly remember kissing you on the cheek after the war had finished." Hermione said cheekily.
"That was not what I meant and you know it," Draco drawled and still looking deep into her eyes lent down closer and close, inch by inch and let his lips hover mere millimeters (sorry if you don't have those where your from!) a teasing glint in his eyes. Hermione couldn't stand it, she knew deep down that at some level she had always been attracted to Draco, who could not be with his devastatingly handsome good looks and his devil may care attitude, and he was inflicting torture on her by making her wait to see what he was going to do. In fact Hermione decided that she couldn't wait and with an evil glint in her eyes she closed the gap between them and took his lower lip between hers and sucked gently before letting it go and kissing him deeply. Surprise flared in Draco's eyes before he groaned deep in his throat closed his eyes and deepened the kiss even further, his hands snaked their way around her waist just as hers crept over his shoulders and Draco pressed their bodies close together and she could feel the effect that the kiss was having on him. They broke away gasping for breath, both more than a little surprised at the feelings that the kiss evoked in both of them. "Um. good night Draco," Hermione said breathlessly and Draco nodded and turned to walk away to his rooms. Before he had managed more than two steps away from her he turned abruptly and swept her in his arms once again and kissed her, Hermione let herself go and put as much feeling as possible into the kiss. Draco broke away and kissed butterfly kisses all over her face and Hermione couldn't help the smile that came to her face. Deep down she was pleased that she was able to evoke suck deep and almost desperate feelings in Draco, who was notorious for not feeling anything. Finally Draco broke away from her fully, his face flushed red with both embarrassment and desire.
"Good night Hermione," he said just as breathless as she had been earlier, he turned and this time managed to walk away with out turning back.
Both had been so engrossed in the kisses that they failed to notice the couple staring at them opened mouthed shock evident on their faces. Hermione and Draco had been so distracted by their kisses that Peeves could have done a naked belly dance around them screaming at the top of his lungs and they would have failed to notice. Ginny grabbed Harry's arm and dragged him away from Hermione who was leaning against the portrait trying to remember the password. Ginny needed to take Harry away before he said something that he would regret in the morning.
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A/N: Sorry guys for stopping there, I fully intended to put in the next day's activities but it was getting so long! As a result I am going to post the next chapter sooner than this one was (hopefully!). Anyway I hope all of the fluff that I put in more than makes up for the slowness of the story, so how are you guys liking it? Anything you want changed or added? Let me know!
This Chapter is dedicated to all the wonderful people who reviewed! You guys are the best!!!!!!!!!! I personally think that I have the best reviewers in the whole world! Thank you so much to the people who review constantly, and also a big thanks to those who have reviewed me for the first time! I have never got as many reviews for a story as I have for this one and if it wasn't for you wonderful people I probably wouldn't continue writing it!
Oh and by the way, sorry for leaving you with a sort of cliffie, but that looked like the best place to stop, otherwise it would have been pages and pages too long! But I hope that you like it anyway!
Dedicated to.
Meg - Ta, for the team names!
Islandgirl4 - Are you from Australia?
Mysticalfairy-05
Free2rhyme
Malferz
Hermione182
Laura
Gamegirl3 - Thank you so much for ideas for the names of the teams, I think that you will see some familiar ones!
Cookie-Fr3ako
DanceChic0869
Sweet-77-thang
Jenny - Thank you also for names for teams! You will also be seeing some familiar ones too!
Danika - I'm so glad that you found my story again!
Smmergurl
Stormy Phoenix - Well I guess if you want to know what happens your just gonna have to keep reading! Sorry for being mean!