CHAPTER 14

TIED UP

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

A/N: Some song lyrics are in this chapter. I don't own them…hehe; see if you can guess the artist! …I hope you enjoy them, I do…

Hermione smelled lovely. She turned around to smile at me in the bed, and I breathed in her heavenly scent. She smelt like berries. I touched the side of her face and she smiled.

"Harry, we need to get up and go to class," she whispered.

"Why? Let's sleep in, it will be a day to us, to this," I said, kissing her wholly on the mouth. She sighed.

"Harry J. Potter, you're one naughty boy, but I think class sounds more interesting," she grinned at my hurt expression. I wrapped my arms around her tighter.

"I hate Mondays, you know that,"

"Yes, I do, but we need to get up, it's six thirty Harry. Breakfast is starting, and I'm famished," Hermione swung her legs over the edge of the bed to get up. She slipped on a robe and headed to the loo. Soon I could hear the shower running. I wanted to get up and join her, but I could practically hear the protesting against it. Harry! I need to shower! Alone…thank you love…

I buried my head under my pillow. The weekend has been hectic…Ginny almost died, Malfoy almost committed murder, Ron and Lavender were having problems, and Colin was no where to be seen, thankfully.

"Harry?" Hermione called from the shower. "HARRY!" Hermione began to scream. I flew from the bed and into the loo. Hermione was standing in the shower, the door wide open and a towel wrapped tightly around her body. Shaking, she pointed to the mirror.

"What happened?"

"Someone…someone was staring at me in the mirror…" Hermione walked out of the shower, standing beside me. I walked over to the bathroom closet and threw open the door. No one was there.

"Hermione, no one is here," I said, moving over towels to check it completely. "Maybe you were seeing things?" I suggested from the closet. I turned to look at her.

"Yes…yes…I was seeing things…" She said quietly. I walked over to her and hugged her. She rested her head on my shoulder.

"Harry…am I going crazy?"

"No love, you're not, you're just a little spooked, and it's okay. I'm here for you," I kissed the top of her head.

***

I tossed my book bag next to me and stuffed my face with food. It was a relief that Molly agreed to take care of Faith for a few months. But I felt as if I disowned my child. Ron tried to comfort me. But, he also felt it too. I cried myself to sleep the night we argued. It was our first real argument. I wanted to kill myself. I felt as if I had let him down, I was a bad mother and wife. I stuffed my fist in my mouth when he left the room. And when I heard him walk down the stairs, that's when I screamed. He was leaving me. He was gone.

I took out a scroll and quill. I began to write:

Playground school bell rings again
rain clouds come to play again
has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to
hello…

I rolled up the scroll and placed it in the pocket of my robe. Ron came to sit across from me. He had bags under his eyes. He slipped me a piece of paper. I took it and unfolded it.

Lavender,

Please, I've tried my hardest not to upset you…but you've taken your accusations too far.

I love you, and always will

I married you, because I love you

I don't want anything to come between us.

I believe in you, I'll give up everything just to be with you, can't you understand that?

I never want to separate myself from you, but…sometimes you push away from me

And it hurts…

I want you to know I want you, and I always will…Lavender, please, don't push me away

I love you…

My Wife, the mother of my child…my soul…

Without you, I'm incomplete…

Dried tear stains blurred some of the ink, he was crying when he wrote it…

Now, fresh tear stains…

They flowed down my face. One after another

Ron was now next to me. He wrapped his arms around me. He cried into my hair.

"I love you Lavender…"

"Oh Ron, how foolish of me…"

"It's not important, Lavender, I love you…" Ron rested his forehead onto mine. I broke into a trembling smile.

"Oh Ron…"

***

Harry piled eggs onto his plate. He smiled at me.

"Harry…who are you going to ask to stand up with you?"

"Hmm?" He said.

"Harry…" I said warningly. He chewed and swallowed. He smiled again.

"Well…I haven't thought about that yet. Er, I guess Ron."

"But…that's only one person, you need four Harry!"

"Okay, who's standing up for you?"

"Well…um…Ginny, Lavender…Parvati…and, well, I don't know who else."

"Well, definitely Ron, maybe Neville, Dean, and Seamus…" Harry said returning to his food.

"That's good…but I need one more person…I really don't have a lot of female friends…" I said, thinking hard.

"This is a nightmare…Maybe we should just have Ron and Lavender stand up with us. Two witnesses.

"That's a lovely idea. Limit it to two, and have a huge bachelorette party!"

"Yes…I can see this happening…"

"Exactly!"

The bell rang. We ran to our class. Hermione and I had to split. She was going to Astronomy and I was going to Divination.  

***

"Mr. Potter. I feel that what lies ahead of you…shall indeed be grave…" Professor Trelawney stated in class. Lavender and Parvati gasped.

"Um…ok?" I said puzzled. Ron sniggered. "Just because you say my future is grave doesn't mean anything. For six years you've been telling me the same thing. And I'm still alive and kicking!"

I said grinning. Ron busted into crazed laughter.

"Mr. Potter, if you are done embarrassing yourself in this class, I will like to continue," Professor Trelawney said sternly.

When class was over, Professor Trelawney told me to stay after class.

"Mr. Potter, I am very disappointed in the behavior you displayed today in class, may it be the last time," She said fixing this and that on her desk. "And, Mr. Potter, I am not a sleaze that happens to work at Hogwarts," She said. I could feel my jaw drop. She just read my mind! I turned to leave when I turned back to ask her something. I was just about to formulate the words when she said:

"No Mr. Potter, I will not deduct points from your house,"

Shocked, I left the room, quietly closing the trap door and walking down the ladder to meet Ron, who was waiting for him.

***

She squirmed under me, muttering my name. What a shag…what a shag…

She was moaning now, a little too loud, I know she was almost there. I covered my mouth with hers to muffle her scream.

When she was, done, I also let go, but only in a quiet moan.  I rolled off of her and slipped my boxers and pants back on.

She sat up, the sheets pooling around her waist.

"Get up and get to class," I said, putting my tie back on.

"But, I thought you were going to stay, so we can cuddle," she said.

"What in the hell gave you that idea,"

"I don't know…I'm sorry," she whispered.

"You better be sorry," She scowled and I leaned over to grab her hair and pull her head back. She cried out in pain.

"I don't ever want to see that look on your face again, do you hear me?" she nodded, her pretty freckled face was red, almost as red as her hair.

"Get dress!" I ordered, letting go of her hair. She moaned in relief.

"Colin…I love you," She said. I turned to look at her.

"You don't love me…" I said.

"But you want me to," She said, edging towards me on the bed. She rested her hand on my chest, rubbing it.

"You don't love me…you…you don't understand…" I said removing her hand from my chest. She laughed and hopped from off of the bed.

I opened the door and left, my robe in hand.

***

I hurried up the stairs, towards the common room where Draco was to meet me before lunch. He sat next to the portrait against the wall. He smiled up at me when I reached him. He stood and gathered me in his arms. I've waited all day to have him in my arms. My books slipped onto the floor. He lightly pushed me up against the wall. He started to kiss my neck, my head resting against the wall. He started to work his way down to the nape of my neck. He lifted me up onto his waist. His mouth was on my lips now. I hungrily attacked his mouth and tongue. I jumped from off of him.

"What? What's wrong Ginny?"

"Draco…as much as I enjoy what we were just doing, I think we shouldn't have a quickie outside my common room," Draco grinned and took my hand.

"We'll go here then," he led me to a secluded room. It was right next to my common room.

"Draco! Where did this place come from?" I asked, puzzled.

"You just think it up, and it appears," He explained, opening the door to a furnished bedroom.

Draco led me to the bed. He pulled his clothing off within seconds, mine including. He roamed my body with his lips. I lifted his face to mine, and kissed him passionately.

When he was in me, my eyes widen, we were one, and we're complete. Draco moved slowly, taking his time, making the experience engrave itself in our hearts. He was making me feel amazing. He was making me feel…as if I was going to explode. Draco kissed my jaw. He rested his forehead onto mine as he slowly worked into me. I looked up at him, our eyes connected. The feeling he was giving me, swirled inside my heart. I moved under him. Words began to come into my head.

Every roommate kept awake
By every sigh and scream we make
All the feelings that I get
But I still don't miss you yet

Only when I stop to think about it

I hate everything about you
Why do I love you
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you

I was crying now. Draco was making me feel so raw and emotional…I almost hated him for it. I don't miss him yet, I have him with me now, but I know that when we are separated out hearts begin to break slowly. I'm in love with him…I screamed, along with Draco's. The walls should have been falling, our screams were so loud. Draco sighed and rested his head on my bare shoulder, he kissed it. His voice was hoarse.

"Ginny, I love you…"

"I love you too," I said kissing his cheek.

***

Hermione took out belladonna from her sack and sprinkled it in the cauldron. Professor Snape stood behind her, making her sweat. Hermione was brewing a complex potion. It was called the Shrewd Solution. Snape designed it himself, and challenged the classroom. Hermione, as usual, raised her hand to take on the Potion Master. He gave Hermione the ingredients, and now, the whole class watched her.

"Miss. Granger, one drop of sweat in the cauldron, and you fail…" Professor Snape whispered in her ear.

"I'm aware of that Professor." She said in a trembling voice.

Hermione dropped in two spider legs and the cauldron turned a violent purple. Snape frowned.

"100 points to Gryffindor," Snape said disgustingly. The class applauded and Hermione sank into her chair. I wrapped my arms around her shoulder and kissed her cheek.

"My genius," I said smiling. She sighed.

"Harry that was the hardest thing I've ever had to do…" She said resting her head against my chest.

"I know, I'm very proud of you," I said.

Hermione glanced at the class. They were beaming. When the bell rang, Professor Snape told Hermione to stay after class. She told me to go up to the common room, she'd meet me there.

***

 "Yes Professor?" I stood in front of his desk, waiting.

"Hermione, I've been watching you turn this class into a mockery."

"Pardon me?" I asked bewildered. Professor Snape got up from his desk and moved towards me. I took a step backwards, my eyebrows rose. He sat on his desk in front of me.

"Hermione…" he started. He's never called any of his students by their first names.

"It's Miss. Granger Professor," I said firmly.

"Yes, I'm sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable. Miss. Granger, this class, is a hard class, and I have tried to make it as hard as possible, yet, every challenge I throw up, you take it and make me look like a fool," he said folding his hands.

"Professor, I don't understand."

"Miss. Granger," Professor Snape began, he smiled, and this was scaring me. "I will like for you, to give your fellow peers a chance to answer the questions." My eyes widen with shock.

"Are you trying to say that…that…I'm a "know-it-all" and preventing my classmates from a proper education?" Snape nodded his head.

"Professor Snape…I am appalled by your immense judgment of me. And the lack of judgment of your students," I said, tuning to leave the class. Everything happened at once. He tugged at my hand to stop me from leaving, leaping from off the desk and pushed me up against his wall. Our noses were almost touching. I stared angrily up at him.

"Professor Snape…what are you doing?" I asked.

"What I should have done the first time I met you…" Professor Snape pressed his lips against mine.

***

"Miss Granger! Miss Granger!" I shook myself.

"Sir?" I asked.

"Please, step into my office," Professor Snape said sitting behind his desk.

What the hell was that? I asked myself. How long was I day dreaming…

"Miss. Granger, I just wanted to say good job today in class. That potion was by far the most complex potion I have ever made,"

"Thank you Professor,"

"You may leave now," Professor Snape said.

I left the dungeons and ran to the common room. Harry was standing near the portrait waiting for me.

"Hey, that was quick! I could have just waited for you!"

"It felt like an eternity," I said dropping my book bag and wrapping my arms around his neck to kiss him. He returned the kiss and looked down at me puzzled.

"Wow…what was that for?"

"Nothing, I just missed you," Harry smiled and passionately kissed me.

"C'mon, let's go inside,"

***

The Master slowly emerged from her dormitory. She slowly walked over to an armchair near a green lit fire. The common room was always cold and vacant. Yes, The Master was a Slytherin, and an invisible one at that. No one paid attention to the beautiful fourteen year old girl, mostly because there was no one to notice her.

She was definitely giving Hermione hell to pay. The Master was messing with her head, introducing her to a world of insanity. Suddenly, someone came through the portrait wall.

Draco Malfoy came through the portrait. He looked pleased with himself. The Master felt something big coming on. She stood up to head over to him.

"Draco! Draco!" She called in her girlish voice.

"Yes?" he replied boomingly.   

"I…I just wanted to know how Ginny was…I heard she was almost murdered…" Draco looked at her suspiciously.

"She's fine, thank you," he continued to run up the stairs when she yelled:

"Thank you for helping me find a nice quill last year…I especially liked the part when you took me to the back alley," she said sweetly. Draco turned around to stare at her.

"You…you're the girl…April…" Draco said, walking back down the stairs to stand in front of me. I nodded.

"You took away what was mine…" she said quietly. Draco flinched and closed his eyes, as if trying to erase the memory.

"YOU TOOK AWAY WHAT WAS MINE!" She screamed. The little amount of people that were in the common room looked up to see what was happening.

"I'm sorry…I'm not like that anymore…" Draco whispered. The little girl huffed.

"Please…do you not think I can see inside you?" The Master took her index finger and pointed to Draco's forehead.

"I can see, hear, taste and feel everything you do...just by a mere thought Draco,"

"What? What do you want?" Draco asked angrily.

"I want to see you feel the pain I felt, when you attacked me. The ripping sensation, the bleeding afterwards for months, the therapy for almost a year, and the cuts that I endured," she showed him her wrist. Thin, light brown lines ran up and down her arms. Draco stepped back, shocked.

"I want you dead," she whispered.

"I…I…" he started. He shook his head and continued up the stairs, ignoring her.

"I want you to feel…" The Master said loudly.

***

I closed the Dorm door behind me and leaned against the door. My head was spinning. I ran to the loo and threw up. She was a little girl…a tiny little girl…I'm a monster. The only thing I could think of was Ginny.

holding my last breath
safe inside myself
are all my thoughts of you
sweet ruptured light it ends here tonight

I must think of a plan…

***

Colin returned to the common room, avoiding Ginny, for now. He did not carry out the Masters plans the day he almost murdered Ginny. Colin sat in the corner Ginny once approached him at, wanting him to turn his little obsession into a job for her. She was a little devil, now turned about angel…I want her back.

But for now, things are easier; things will go smoothly for her. No interruption in her sweet life…not until Master says so…

***

"Hello Hermione, my name is Anne Roberts. I'm here to make your experience, easier!" a pretty petite blonde woman sat framed in my fireplace.

"Oh, hello," I said, leaning over into the fire to shake Anne's hand.

"Well, Mrs. Potter, I was wondering how many people will be attending the wedding," I smiled. It's the first time someone referred to her as Mrs. Potter.

Harry came to sit on the floor next to me. We were in the Head Boy and Girl quarters. (A/N: Harry and Hermione have their own dorm because they're head boy and girl. Sorry if I wasn't explicit about that earlier)

"Um…about three hundred and sixty seven people, but, it might be close to 400, we want everyone from Gryffindor to be there, families, professors, and you get the picture, right?" I said.

"Yes, I do. Mr. and Mrs. Potter, I have a brilliant idea. We shall create the finest wizarding wedding there has ever been," Anne said sweetly.

"For how much?" I asked nervously. I didn't want Harry throwing away all of his inheritance over a silly wedding.

"Hmmm…everything included…I would say, about, 4,000 galleons," she said sadly. I gasped and Harry smiled.

"Done," Harry said. I looked up at him. He must be insane.

"Harry! You don't have that much! We can go for something a little smaller," I said.

"Hermione, I have over five billion GALLEONS in my account, Hermione, don't worry about anything love. I want you to have whatever you want," Harry whispered in my ear.

"We'll take it Anne, along with some of those fancy special effects that happens during weddings,"

"Fabulous, just fabulous, I'm arranging a meeting with you guys this Saturday. We'll meet up at Hogsmead for lunch, I'll talk to you soon," Anne's body disappeared from our fireplace.

Harry lifted me from the floor, and led me to our bed, turning off the lights.

***

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. The next chapter should be out soon. Please read and review. Thank you.

Much love, Patty