Chapter Two: Wedding Day, But Still Sorrow Comes Part I
It was Hermione Granger's wedding day, the day she would become Mrs. Hermione Malfoy. She would start a new life with Draco, her child Bethany, and she without the looming memory of what once had been. She stood in front of the full length mirror Narsissa's master bedroom and admired herself tears threatening to fall.
'I see you! You can't hide forever Hermione!' came a whispering voice as a breeze came drifting through the open window. The door opened and she whirled around to see her mum, Ginny, Mrs. Weasley, and Narsissa come through the door with big smiles on their faces.
"Oh my dear daughter, I'm so happy for you! I've always dreamed of this day when I would see you wed! And now it's finally happening!" Mrs. Granger cried flinging her arms around Hermione's neck enclosing her into a tight hug.
"Oh Emily, you don't want to kill her on her wedding day because then who would my son marry?" Narcissa asked smiling broadly. Hermione's eyes widened slightly with the word 'kill' she never liked that word and after all she's been through she never wanted to hear it again.
"Speaking of Draco how is he?" Hermione asked finally breaking free of her mothers grasp.
"A nervous wreck, nothing seems to calm him. I tired, little Bethany tired, and now Lucius is trying to calm him. One would think that Bethany would calm him because she is his daughter but he just told her to go see Aunt Ginny and Uncle Harry. Hermione laughed at this. Draco was getting more and more nervous as this day approached she could imagine what it must feel like for him.
********** (IN DRACO'S ROOM)
"I'm bloody getting married and you're telling me calm down?!?!" Draco shouted at his father running his hands for the thousandth time through his already messy hair.
"Draco listen, I know you're nervous it's only natural for you to be but I believe you are over reacting." Lucius said calmly with a cold stare.
"I don't see you getting married to Hermione Granger, who happens to be one of my worst enemy's best friends! AND the girl with the most foggy and difficult past that any master wizard or witch would have a life time of uncovering!" Draco retorted glaring at his father.
"Bringing up enemies the dark lord is growing very impatience with you; he wants to get the mark soon." His father said in an airy tone waving a dismissive hand.
"How DARE you bloody bring that up on my wedding day! I've told you once and I'll tell you again tell Voldermort that he can shove the bloody mark up his ass because I happening to be marrying a MUDBLOOD and oh doesn't he hate them? And guess what? I really don't care! I love her and I'm not going to join him whether my life depended on it! Now get out of my room!" Draco shouted shaking with anger. Lucius looked at him with horror written all over his face.
"Fine, I'll just tell him that. Let's see what he says and does for that matter." Lucius answered coolly running a hand through his hair.
"I said out." Draco replied venom in every word. Lucius moved to the door.
"I'd keep a close watch on your soon to be wife from now on." He said and left. **She's been through worse then some dark lord out to get her** Draco thought collapsing on his bed. The door opened again and closed quietly.
"I thought I told you to get out." Draco said with annoyance sitting up but saw Bethany standing by the door and his expression softened. "Oh it's just you. Come, come sit with me love." Bethany ran across the room and jumped up onto the bed and crawled into Draco's lap.
"You and grandpa have a fight?" she asked
"Yeah, he just doesn't understand how much I love you mum." Draco replied taking the little girls hand and rubbing his thumb on the back of it.
"But if you love her it shouldn't matter what he thinks right?" Bethany asked. She always did sound older then she really was.
"You know sometimes I forget that you're just a child. You really do take after your mum." She smiled and leaned against him. "And you're right, I don't care what he thinks because I love Hermione and I love you."
"Mum's really nervous. When I was walking past her room I heard her talking to herself about something that happened long ago. She kept repeating something but her voice was too muffled for me to hear it." She said after a few moments of silence.
"Really?" He asked raising his eye brows at her. 'You will never take her from me. She is mine and mine alone.' A voice whispered in the wind that passed through the windows. Draco shivered and stood placing Bethany down next to him.
"I'm going to talk to Hermione." He said starting for the door but was held back when small hands grabbed onto his pant leg.
"NO! Grandma Emily said that it's bad luck if you see each other on your wedding day!" She said pulling him back but not succeeding.
"No, don't worry sweetie, I'm not going to see her I'm just going to talk to her." And with that she let go and Draco left with her close behind but Bethany went all the way down stairs instead of following him to Hermione's room.
"Hermione?" Draco called knocking on the door. The door opened a crack and Draco could seem her cinnamon eyes peering at him.
"Oh good it's you. Come in, come in." She said opening the door up more so her face was showing.
"But isn't it bad luck for the groom to see his bride on their wedding day?" Draco asked pulling the door closed abit. Hermione gave him a look that said 'I really don't give a rat's ass about superstition.'
"Fine, then I'll turn myself invisible." She said pulling out her wand and mumbling a few spells and opened the door fully but no one was there. "Well, get in here!" Came her worried voice even though he couldn't see her. He walked into the room and the door closed.
"He's alive, and he's out." She blurted out.
"Who?" Draco asked sitting on the bed but was then pushed off the bed for he was sitting on Hermione.
"You know perfectly well who," Came her annoyed answer. "And you know that if I told you he would kill you."
"Oh, him."
"I'm afraid Draco." She said Draco looked to the spot she was supposedly sitting because on the bed there was a little indentation on the blankets. "I gave up my life for him. He's expecting me to be there for him, not to fall in love and get married to someone else."
"I know it's hard but we can get through this." Draco said reassuringly "Remember when you first put him away how you would never go anywhere by your self? Well, now go everywhere you can go by yourself no matter what time it is!" A sigh came from Hermione's general direction.
"I know, it's just hard you know?" She told him sighing again. "But you're right I'm not going to let anything ruin this day this is my special day that I dreamed of since I was a little girl! Now go and get ready you look like a tornado hit your hair." She continued laughing standing or what Draco thought was standing because her little indentation was gone. He felt her press her self against him in a hug and he hugged her beck or what he thought was her beck. He kissed her head and let go.
"I'll see you at the alter." He said as he reached the door and left. She pulled her wand out again and reversed the spell she again walked over to her mirror and looked at her reflection. Her dress was the normal white but at the bottom it was hand painted a nice shade of green (her favorite color). The top was a strapless bodes that tied in the back for the authentic look, and the bottom fanned out nicely. 'I look pretty,' she thought but her eyes wondered to her right arm. 'If only I didn't have this scare. I can't believe even magic won't cover it!' She sighed and rubbed the scare, every time she did this she could feel his warm presence that she used to feel before it all happened. There was a knock on the door but Hermione didn't here it until it came again this time a bit louder.
"Come in!" She called turning her head towards the door. It was her father. He had a smile on his face that just made her smile as well.
"Ready to come down and become Draco's wife?" He asked in a cheerful voice walking into the room to stand in front of her. She nodded her head smiling joyously remembering how special today was going to be. Her father smiled down at her as well and linked his arm with hers leading her to the top of the stairs and slowly making their way down them. Hermione frowned at nothing in particular when they neared the bottom steps. She had her head bowed as she thought but there was a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach and after a few minutes more of thinking her head shot up eyes full of fear.
"He's here!!"
It was Hermione Granger's wedding day, the day she would become Mrs. Hermione Malfoy. She would start a new life with Draco, her child Bethany, and she without the looming memory of what once had been. She stood in front of the full length mirror Narsissa's master bedroom and admired herself tears threatening to fall.
'I see you! You can't hide forever Hermione!' came a whispering voice as a breeze came drifting through the open window. The door opened and she whirled around to see her mum, Ginny, Mrs. Weasley, and Narsissa come through the door with big smiles on their faces.
"Oh my dear daughter, I'm so happy for you! I've always dreamed of this day when I would see you wed! And now it's finally happening!" Mrs. Granger cried flinging her arms around Hermione's neck enclosing her into a tight hug.
"Oh Emily, you don't want to kill her on her wedding day because then who would my son marry?" Narcissa asked smiling broadly. Hermione's eyes widened slightly with the word 'kill' she never liked that word and after all she's been through she never wanted to hear it again.
"Speaking of Draco how is he?" Hermione asked finally breaking free of her mothers grasp.
"A nervous wreck, nothing seems to calm him. I tired, little Bethany tired, and now Lucius is trying to calm him. One would think that Bethany would calm him because she is his daughter but he just told her to go see Aunt Ginny and Uncle Harry. Hermione laughed at this. Draco was getting more and more nervous as this day approached she could imagine what it must feel like for him.
********** (IN DRACO'S ROOM)
"I'm bloody getting married and you're telling me calm down?!?!" Draco shouted at his father running his hands for the thousandth time through his already messy hair.
"Draco listen, I know you're nervous it's only natural for you to be but I believe you are over reacting." Lucius said calmly with a cold stare.
"I don't see you getting married to Hermione Granger, who happens to be one of my worst enemy's best friends! AND the girl with the most foggy and difficult past that any master wizard or witch would have a life time of uncovering!" Draco retorted glaring at his father.
"Bringing up enemies the dark lord is growing very impatience with you; he wants to get the mark soon." His father said in an airy tone waving a dismissive hand.
"How DARE you bloody bring that up on my wedding day! I've told you once and I'll tell you again tell Voldermort that he can shove the bloody mark up his ass because I happening to be marrying a MUDBLOOD and oh doesn't he hate them? And guess what? I really don't care! I love her and I'm not going to join him whether my life depended on it! Now get out of my room!" Draco shouted shaking with anger. Lucius looked at him with horror written all over his face.
"Fine, I'll just tell him that. Let's see what he says and does for that matter." Lucius answered coolly running a hand through his hair.
"I said out." Draco replied venom in every word. Lucius moved to the door.
"I'd keep a close watch on your soon to be wife from now on." He said and left. **She's been through worse then some dark lord out to get her** Draco thought collapsing on his bed. The door opened again and closed quietly.
"I thought I told you to get out." Draco said with annoyance sitting up but saw Bethany standing by the door and his expression softened. "Oh it's just you. Come, come sit with me love." Bethany ran across the room and jumped up onto the bed and crawled into Draco's lap.
"You and grandpa have a fight?" she asked
"Yeah, he just doesn't understand how much I love you mum." Draco replied taking the little girls hand and rubbing his thumb on the back of it.
"But if you love her it shouldn't matter what he thinks right?" Bethany asked. She always did sound older then she really was.
"You know sometimes I forget that you're just a child. You really do take after your mum." She smiled and leaned against him. "And you're right, I don't care what he thinks because I love Hermione and I love you."
"Mum's really nervous. When I was walking past her room I heard her talking to herself about something that happened long ago. She kept repeating something but her voice was too muffled for me to hear it." She said after a few moments of silence.
"Really?" He asked raising his eye brows at her. 'You will never take her from me. She is mine and mine alone.' A voice whispered in the wind that passed through the windows. Draco shivered and stood placing Bethany down next to him.
"I'm going to talk to Hermione." He said starting for the door but was held back when small hands grabbed onto his pant leg.
"NO! Grandma Emily said that it's bad luck if you see each other on your wedding day!" She said pulling him back but not succeeding.
"No, don't worry sweetie, I'm not going to see her I'm just going to talk to her." And with that she let go and Draco left with her close behind but Bethany went all the way down stairs instead of following him to Hermione's room.
"Hermione?" Draco called knocking on the door. The door opened a crack and Draco could seem her cinnamon eyes peering at him.
"Oh good it's you. Come in, come in." She said opening the door up more so her face was showing.
"But isn't it bad luck for the groom to see his bride on their wedding day?" Draco asked pulling the door closed abit. Hermione gave him a look that said 'I really don't give a rat's ass about superstition.'
"Fine, then I'll turn myself invisible." She said pulling out her wand and mumbling a few spells and opened the door fully but no one was there. "Well, get in here!" Came her worried voice even though he couldn't see her. He walked into the room and the door closed.
"He's alive, and he's out." She blurted out.
"Who?" Draco asked sitting on the bed but was then pushed off the bed for he was sitting on Hermione.
"You know perfectly well who," Came her annoyed answer. "And you know that if I told you he would kill you."
"Oh, him."
"I'm afraid Draco." She said Draco looked to the spot she was supposedly sitting because on the bed there was a little indentation on the blankets. "I gave up my life for him. He's expecting me to be there for him, not to fall in love and get married to someone else."
"I know it's hard but we can get through this." Draco said reassuringly "Remember when you first put him away how you would never go anywhere by your self? Well, now go everywhere you can go by yourself no matter what time it is!" A sigh came from Hermione's general direction.
"I know, it's just hard you know?" She told him sighing again. "But you're right I'm not going to let anything ruin this day this is my special day that I dreamed of since I was a little girl! Now go and get ready you look like a tornado hit your hair." She continued laughing standing or what Draco thought was standing because her little indentation was gone. He felt her press her self against him in a hug and he hugged her beck or what he thought was her beck. He kissed her head and let go.
"I'll see you at the alter." He said as he reached the door and left. She pulled her wand out again and reversed the spell she again walked over to her mirror and looked at her reflection. Her dress was the normal white but at the bottom it was hand painted a nice shade of green (her favorite color). The top was a strapless bodes that tied in the back for the authentic look, and the bottom fanned out nicely. 'I look pretty,' she thought but her eyes wondered to her right arm. 'If only I didn't have this scare. I can't believe even magic won't cover it!' She sighed and rubbed the scare, every time she did this she could feel his warm presence that she used to feel before it all happened. There was a knock on the door but Hermione didn't here it until it came again this time a bit louder.
"Come in!" She called turning her head towards the door. It was her father. He had a smile on his face that just made her smile as well.
"Ready to come down and become Draco's wife?" He asked in a cheerful voice walking into the room to stand in front of her. She nodded her head smiling joyously remembering how special today was going to be. Her father smiled down at her as well and linked his arm with hers leading her to the top of the stairs and slowly making their way down them. Hermione frowned at nothing in particular when they neared the bottom steps. She had her head bowed as she thought but there was a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach and after a few minutes more of thinking her head shot up eyes full of fear.
"He's here!!"