Chapter 23

Dami and Ron walked quietly to Dami's room, holding hands. Ron couldn't help but feel so close to her, even though they had only known each other for a week. Dami spoke the password, and they walked in.

"Dami?"

"What is it Ron?"

Ron tilted her chin up, and kissed her softly. She responded slightly, and then slowly ran her hands up to his fire hair. She moaned slightly was he deepened their kiss. Then Ron let go, breathing hard. "I'm in love with you, Dami. I don't think I could ever live with out you."

Dami gulped slightly. "Ron, I don't know you enough to love you, but I know what I want right now, and that is you and only you."

Ron's eyes swelled slightly. Dami wiped away the forthcoming tears. "Please tell me you feeling something, Dami."

"Well, of course I feel something. I feel your heart and thoughts. But Ron, I don't really remember what love is like in relationships. The only person I have ever loved is Athos, and he's a strictly Uncle-niece love."

"Let me show you."

Dami grabbed his face gently and pulled his lips to hers. "I would like that a lot."

Ron kissed her again, and he lost this mind to his Ezil Wis, picking her up and carrying her to her room.

Hermione and Draco laughed all the way back to their dorm. They talked about Ron's dancing, which looked like a wounded frog; and the expression on the Slytherins' faces when they saw Draco and Hermione holding hands and giving each other pecks on the cheeks. Pansy actually tried to pry Draco away, and Draco told her that he loved Hermione, and she was all he wanted. Pansy then threw a fit about him sleeping with her two weeks ago, to which Hermione said that if Pansy was so concerned about her Chastity, she wouldn't be over her flaunting her well exposed cleavage. The rest left them alone to swirl around the dance floor in each other's arms. They said good night to Athos, who was the chaperone, and left.

Once outside their dorm, Draco made Hermione close her eyes. He helped her through the door, and walked to into the center of the room.

"Open your eyes, Kitten." Draco whispered. Hermione gasped. The room had thousands of candles, all lit, and roses everywhere. Draco smiled slightly, like he was nervous. Hermione flung her arms around his neck and kissed him hard.

"DRACO! You are the most amazing man I have ever known." She kissed him again, letting him decided what happened next. His hands wrapped around her waist, pulling her close against him, almost like he was trying to pull her into him. She parted his mouth slightly, running her the tip of her tongue across his lips. Draco groaned.

"You're torturing me."

Hermione giggled, and Draco swept her up into his arms and carried her into the bathroom. The bathroom was also filled with candles, and their Jacuzzi pub, more like a small pool, had bubbles, floating candles, and rose petals in it. The room smelled like roses and Jasmine. "Oh Draco..."

"Mi, I love you so much." He said as she sat her down. "If you don't want company, then tell me. If you want to be in swimsuits, then fine. What ever you want, you can have."

Hermione took a breath, and looked into Draco's eyes, "I want you, Draco Malfoy, to help me bathe my wings, and then, I want you sleep beside you for the rest of my life."

"Wish granted Kitten."

Ron laid Dami on her bed, and she giggled. "What?"

"Hermione told me something today, about Ezil Wis and their companions."

"And what was that?" Ron raised an Eye brow.

"Every Ezil Wis gives her companion a name, only for them to know, the first time he graces her sheets." She looked up to Ron's eyes. "I read a book on the language of the Ezil Wis, and I give you the name of Lainev. Sand fire." She said and pulled him on top of her, kissing him with every once of love she had never expressed until that moment.

"Are you sure Dami?"

"Never more sure about anything in my life. The thought of sharing every part of myself with you does not scare me. It makes me smile, because it feels so... so right! Like everything is connecting in my soul."
Ron kissed Dami's cheek. "Like nothing matters as long as we are together." He kissed her neck, and slowly undid her top from the back of her neck. "Like the world has stopped." He said as he slowly moved her shirt. Dami smiled as she lifted Ron's old-fashioned blouse over his head tossed it aside. As he looked at her, she slowly whispered. "Like no one else would feel right."
"Kiss me Ron. Get lost in me while I get lost in you."

Draco watched as Hermione undressed herself slipped into the water, letting her wings expand. 'She looks like a Michelangelo angel.' He thought as he watched her.

"Draco, you can't help me unless you get in," she said after turning around and facing him.

"Are you sure you want this?"

"Yes, Draco, I want this. So, don't ask me again, and get in here and wash my wings for me. I can't do it myself." Draco did as told, slowly, until he reached his black boxer briefs. He climbed in with them on, and Hermione hid a smile. 'The great Draco Malfoy nervous?' She thought as he moved toward her. She held a hand out to him, and he breathed in quickly when they touched. It was as if some one had sent boiling liquid through his body and into hers. They stared at each other, and then Hermione pulled Draco against her chest, she he could feel her bare chest against his own.

"There is an Ezil Wis tradition to name our Companion and lover with a nick name on our first night. And I have yours."

Draco smiled slightly. "What is it then?"

"TirDevri, my lord of light. You are the light that will keep me straight."

Their hearts beat quickly, and Hermione kissed Draco as he tried to comprehend everything. His mind went blank when his lips touched hers; his only thought was how much he had waited for the one moment to be with the one he knew he would live with for the rest of his life. That moment was now. He would make Hermione his final love, his only love. He forgot the world to her, and gave her the only thing he had left to give.

Harry and Ginny smiled while they sat in the Room of Requirement, Harry connected to Ron's feelings at the moment, and Ginny to Hermione's. Finally, their friends had the love Harry and Ginny had known for so long it seemed like. Ginny wrapped her arms around Harry, breaking their connections.

"Everything's worked out like we hoped. They are in love." Ginny said as Harry rubbed her back. "What's next?"

"Malfoy's family first, I suppose. Then probably the Cri and Aleva."

"And the sister?"

"She's torn between her bloodline and the world she has known. Kind of like how Malfoy was. He only knew hate. Hermione showed him love. It's a hard lesson to learn." Harry Kissed Ginny then. "Come on Gins. I want to show you how much I love you."

"Harry!" Ginny squealed, squirming from him. He caught her up against his chest.

"Virginia Weasley, will you marry me?"

"Of course, Harry. No one else would put up with you." She said and then kissed him as he slipped a small but elegant ring on her left finger. "I love you, Harry Potter."

"I love you, Ginny Potter."

Serenity sat in her tower at the Aleva compound, looking at her owl, who was Scolding. "What now, Meig?"

The owl glared.

"I can't go back against everything I have been taught my entire life. As much as I hate it, I can't. It's all I have ever had. A part of me wants them here because I am selfish, but I don't want them to end up like me, my entire life planed before me. That's why I always yelled at the granger woman for trying to tell Hermione to marry a banker. That's why I was glad when she came to Hogwarts, that's why I agreed to save Draco Malfoy and Plan his and Hermione's making. but now that I have to make them here, actually have to force them, I can't go through with it."

The owl hooted.

"I know, I should trust my heart, but even it's confused! Meig, what should I do?"

The owl shrugged almost, turning it's head sideways like she was saying, ' you expect me to answer?'

"I know, I am talking to you, and you can't talk back. My family is Aleva, right? My sisters are the Ezil Wis, and my mother is the Cri. No one else." She said, trying to convince herself, but it didn't work.

Serenity's door swung open, and the Cri walked in. Serenity stood and bowed, and the Cri motioned for her to sit back down. "My child."

"Cri."

"I have sensed you are troubled this night."

"The twins have confused me."

"Leave them to me. All will be well and they will return to you as Aleva. And those companions will join the ranks."

"They carry something more powerful than any of us, Cri."

"Nothing is more powerful than loyalty and Family." The Cri looked over Serenity, which made serenity irritated. She always talked over her, like serenity was still ten in beginners lessons.

"A family without love is useless."

"Are you speaking of the squabble that wizard tried to teach you?"

"That wizard was your companion. And no, I am speaking on the lesson my mother taught me. My mother, your daughter by an Ezil Jast you never saw."

"I chose my path."

"And now you choose mine?"

"You are crossing lines, young Aleva-Reia." The calm exterior that hardly ever left the Cri wavered. She was practiced at showing her anger with out outburst.

Serenity looked down. "I apologize. I meant nothing disloyal."

"Your curiosity is normal, you are but thirty. Wait until you are sixty, when the middle of your life has come, and then you will see why it is better that these are made for you. You have already begun to help others younger than you in decisions. Look, you made Draco your Hermione's companion."

"I don't think I should push them now. They are newly made."

The Cri threw her hands in the air. "You do not get it! They are not established, they do not know the rules of our culture. They must be brought immediately before others get ideas to tear away. Only two have ever left our sanctions, three if you include Gwynth, that ungrateful brat! I will not have an upraising."

"She's your daughter!"

"No longer. She is disloyal."

"How can you forget some one who..."

"Has never existed, and we will speak no more of it."

Serenity looked away. "Yes, TirCri."

"I am your Cri, and as such, you will do as I command, yes?"

"Yes."

"You will not contact Gwynth ever. Tomorrow, I will begin my plan. Meet me in my chamber at the rise of dawn. Do not be late." The Cri looked out to the moon, which held two rings around it. "DAMN! We might be too late to get them."

"What? Why?"

"Look to the moon, girl, tell me what you see."

"Shit. Those are love rings. And Ezil and a wizard are..."

"fucking." The Cri said, and Serenity stifled a giggle. The Cri shot her a glance. "This has gone on long enough. Tomorrow, we will begin to gain them." With that, the old woman hustled out of Serenity's room, and serenity laid her head on her desk, praying that for once, the Cri would lose.