CHAPTER 4

When Hermione woke up, she had her arms curled around Draco's neck. She smiled into the sheets. Her Draco was back. They were together again.

The happy feeling, however, was erased by one of sudden alarm.

What was the time?

She grabbed Draco's arm, and twisted it so she could see the face of his watch. She gasped.

'Draco! Wake up! Quick!'

He stirred in bed. 'Just two more minutes mom…' he groaned.

Hermione stifled a chuckle, and shook him hard. 'Draco, get up NOW.' She said.

Draco groaned again, and propped himself up on his elbows. When he saw her, a smile lit his face.

'Hey gorgeous,' he said, still smiling.

'Hey back to you. Now hurry and get up! We need to get dressed!'

Immediately, he adopted a puppy-dog face. 'Is that anyway to greet the man you love after five months and a night of passionate love making?'

Hermione paused and considered. 'It isn't,' she admitted, 'it's the way to greet a man who can't get his lazy ass out of bed so that the Weasleys won't be damn worried about his wife's disappearance.'

A look of acknowledgement spread across Draco's face. 'Ah. That explains it.'

He scooted out of bed, and quickly began throwing his clothes on. He stole another glance at Hermione, who was just pulling her sweater over her head. As the material passed over her white throat, he caught a glance of a deep red mark on it. Smiling, he continued buttoning up his shirt.

'It'll take us about fifteen minutes to walk back.' Hermione said, now shimmying into her jeans. 'We better hurry.'

'There's no need for that,' Draco replied. 'I have my broom with me.'

Hermione stole an uneasy glance at him, which he caught.

'Oh, come on, Mya!' he said, exasperated. 'You sit in front, and I'll hold on to you! It's perfectly safe!'

'It's a narrow piece of wood and a few bristles about fifty feet in the air,' Hermione retorted, but didn't make any further complaint.

When she was done dressing and smoothing down her hair (and when Draco was done dressing and casting a loving glance at his hair) he dragged her across the room, and picked up a broom from the corner. He threw the window open, and glanced back down at the broom.

'Up!' he commanded. The broom leapt into position. Draco quickly jumped over it, and gave Hermione an expectant look.

Giving a deep sigh, Hermione swung her leg over the broom, and sat down. Her hands went down to the wood, and held on so tight her knuckles went white.

'We're not even in the air yet and you're already shaking,' Draco remarked, mildly.

Hermione turned and gave him a dirty look.

Draco smiled at her, and kicked off. Immediately, she turned around again, presumably to concentrate on not falling off. Skillfully, Draco maneuvered the broom out of the window, and into the night sky, ignoring the little remarks like "We're gonna die,' coming from Hermione in the front.

He rolled his eyes, and guided the broom down the path Hermione has followed to get to the inn. In less than three minutes, they were circling over the Burrow, Hermione clutching Draco's shirt tightly, preparing for what she was sure would be a bone crunching landing.

She was, therefore, quite surprised when Draco gently touched the ground, without as much as a hitch. He slid of the broom, and helped her off too.

'We're on the ground!' Hermione gasped. 'Oh, thank you god.'

'It couldn't have been all that bad,' Draco said, with an amused smile.

'It was,' Hermione replied, dryly.

They walked up to the door of the burrow, and knocked. Hermione bit her lip, worried about how everyone's reactions would be.

The door was thrown open by Ginny. She was still dressed in her purple and white pajamas. She gaped for a moment at both of them, and then suddenly threw herself on Hermione, and hugged her tightly.

'Oh thank god!' she cried. 'You're all right. You're not going to believe how worried we've been. We found the letter Carla sent you, and Mom and Dad headed to the Haggard Bear. They asked for you at the desk, and the man took them upto the Carla's room, but she told them the whole story so they decided to leave you and Draco alone. But we've still been worried!'

Hermione hugged her back. 'Sorry I didn't tell you,' she said, 'I was kind of occupied.'

'Why am I not surprised!' Ginny exclaimed, stepping back and surveying Draco. 'It looks like someone's decided to make an appearance. Malfoy, I'd kill you if I could. You don't know how sad Hermione's been all this time.'

Draco looked uncomfortable, and glanced at his shoes, mumbling something. Ginny shut him up, by throwing herself on him to, and hugging him fiercely.

'Oh, stop being so formal. You're family now!'

She stepped back, and whacked him over the head. 'Don't ever vanish like that again,' she said, curtly, 'Do not ever!'

Draco grinned at her. 'Don't worry Weaslette. I won't.'

After her somewhat affectionate greeting, Ginny decided to go back to bed.

'I'm really tired waiting up for you two,' she said, 'and I think mom and dad are too. I'm going back to bed. Dad'll probably wake up in an hour or so to go to office, but mom might want to sleep in. Don't wake her, will you?'

'Don't worry,' Hermione promised. 'We won't. Draco, you can stay in my room for now.'

Draco smirked down at her. 'We are married, you know,' he remarked. 'I think the "for now" calls for an omission.'

'Good point,' Hermione said, with a bit of a frown, as they climbed up the stairs. When they reached the landing, she turned and faced Draco.

'You know, it doesn't feel like we're properly married yet.'

Draco chuckled. 'Could that be because we somewhat hated each other during marriage?'

Hermione nodded. 'I suppose so. It's so unromantic.'

'Well, my dear Hermione,' Draco said, grinning, 'If that's the case-.'

He broke off, and got down on his knee, sweeping a small primrose from a nearby vase.

'My dear Hermione,' he said, in a solemn voice, 'You are but my heart's desire, the blood that pumps in my veins, and the elixir of my very life. Please, will you give me the honor of being my bride again?'

Hermione looked down at him, an amused smile playing about her lips. 'I'll think about it,' she said, pensively, and then turning around walked off.

Draco caught up with her at the bedroom door, an indignant look on his face. 'What do you mean you'll think about it?' he asked, resentfully.

Hermione chuckled. 'Sorry. Couldn't resist.' She reached up, and gave him a long hug. 'Of course I will.' She whispered, in his ear.

The next morning, it was raining again. Draco and Hermione, who had marginally got the most sleep the previous night were up by about seven, and down in the kitchen. Mr. Weasley trotted in about half an hour later.

'Good morning Hermione,' he said, habitually. He snuck a glance at Draco. 'You too, I suppose, Draco.'

'Good morning Mr. Weasley,' Hermione said, while Draco merely nodded at him. 'I hope we didn't- um- keep you awake for too long last night?'

Mr. Weasley chuckled. 'Of course not,' he said, 'I'm fine.' Then, his voice turned grave. 'But before I leave I must talk to the both of you.'

Taking the hint, Hermione sat down at the table. Draco drew a chair and sat down beside her, but Mr. Weasley remained standing, coffee mug in hand.

'I must ask you two,' he began. 'What exactly you intend to do. I know Fudge has given you a long vacation, but for how long exactly? And do you really plan to go back to your original jobs? You, Draco, I doubt you might even get your job back. You work at the Quidditch department, don't you?'

Draco nodded.

Hermione glanced at Mr. Weasley.

'We were talking about this just last night,' she said, gesturing towards Draco. 'We- we plan to have a re-marriage.'

She went red as she said this, but Mr. Weasley merely nodded.

'Quite understandable. Do go on.'

'Well, after that we don't plan to go back to our jobs. You see, we know that we can't exactly join Harry and Ron at the Resistance, but we want to help.'

Mr. Weasley looked thoughtful. 'That's exactly the answer I was looking for,' he said. 'I'll tell you what. I have to leave for work now, but I'll do some asking around, and see if we can find something for you to do. Until then- I suppose I should say goodbye. Give Molly a hug from me, and don't disturb her too much, would you. She has a splitting headache.'

Hermione nodded. 'Of course, Mr. Weasley. Have a good day at work.'

Mr. Weasley quickly finished his coffee and left. When he was gone, Hermione came back into the kitchen.

'Are you hungry?' she asked Draco.

'Not really. I had a full meal at the inn last night.'

'Excellent. Neither am I. I'm going to take something up for Ginny, and then we can talk everything out.'

Draco simply nodded. Hermione quickly slathered some marmalade on toast, made more coffee and took it up to Ginny's room. She found Ginny sound asleep with her knees bent up. Smiling, she left it on the bedside table and quietly left. She knew Ginny had been up almost all of last night due to her little truant, and didn't want to disturb her.

She crept downstairs again, and found Draco sitting on the Weasley's sofa, lolling his head back, his eyes shut.

'Hi sleepy,' she said, sitting down beside him. he quickly jerked back up and smiled at her.

'You know, I've really missed you all this while,' he said.

She smiled. 'Me too. Promise me you will never, ever do that again.'

He looked her straight in the eye. 'I promise.'

AN- Aw, he promised. That's so sweet. Anyway, next chapter up, and I've nicely made it somewhat longer than the others! Review people! I wasn't sure what you'd think about the concept of a remarriage, so I was feed back!

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FinnishGirl- Oops, were there a lot of mistakes in POTC? Sorry, I'll try to type slower now. But do not worry- I definitely will update fast!

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CherryBloosomAngel-225- of course I'm bringing them back! They're Harry and Ron! But then again, maybe Harry'll die…muahahaha, I'll leave you in suspense…

Lilly- Thanks for the update! And the reason Molly went into hysterics is because, firstly, it's Molly Weasley, you must have noticed her slight tendency to go into hysterics every now and then. And secondly, because the era that they're in right now isn't exactly safe, what with Voldemort and all, and a disappearance in the middle of the night is quite scary, don't you think?

dracosgirl2515- Lol, who said all they did was kissed? And you can't update R.Change II? That is just sad…I love that story!

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