Chap 12: Cousins, ex-lovers and spells
Chap 12 summary: Hermione relives the after shocks of meeting her new family. Draco makes a promise to a sleeping Hermione. While later, she have an unexpected visitor, and much to Draco's disappiontment, Naricissa invites an unwelcomed family member to the wedding. Hermione goes to see someone...while that meeting might have disasterious results.
Hermione laid back on her bed, looking at the ceilings. Finally everyone went home. And she couldn't be any happier. What the hell am I getting myself into? She sighed and closed her eyes. Weddings and in-laws suck. Hermione continued to look at the ceiling in till her eyes slowly closed and she went into deep sleep.
A couple of hours Draco came home. He took off his robes and settled down on the bed, he felt something besides him and looked to see Hermione curled up sleeping. She had a sad look on her face."Why wouldn't she? She's marrying into my family." Hermione then moved closer to Draco. He then laid down with her. Looking into her face. She yawned. He then grabbed her hand and wrapped his and hers together.
"I'll make it up to you, I promise." He whispered before he kissed the top of her nose. And together, they fell alseep in each other's arms.
Hermione, felt something tickling her, she opened her eyes slowly. The sun wasbothering her. She turned to her side and looked to see there was a rose and a trail of lilacs leading somewhere. She smiled. She grabbed the rose and followed the trail; she then was lead downstairs to the library. There she opened the door and found a breakfast near the fire. She nearly fainted at the smell, she was so hungry.
"Thank you Draco."
"You invited who!"
"I invited your cousin, Cesar, Draco. What's wrong with that?" Draco angrily stood up.
"EVERYTHING is wrong with that!" Narcissa shook her head lightly. "Wheezy!" Suddenly a house elf appeared.
"Yes, Miss?"
"Get some tea, 1 sugar, light with the cream." Narcissa barked at the house elf. Draco did miss having a house elf to boss around; it's been harder without one making the dinner, and having to endure Hermione's cooking.
"Do you want anything?" Narcissa asked.
"No. Mother how can you! You know what happened between us!" Narcissa looked at her nails.
"Draco, that's in the past. Why can't you forget it?" Narcissa told her son as he went to the window, looking out of it at the sky.
"Because….I just can't." He had a pained looked on his face.
"Your going to have to. I just can't leave him off the list. He's your cousin, and that's finial."
"No, it's not. I'm going." Draco grabbed his robes, but turned to his mother before exiting. "We'll talk about this later."
Hermione dried her hair with a smile on her face. A long hot bath in months without interupption...truly heaven.
"Ahhh…." Just then she heard a noise downstairs. Fuck! I forgot to disconnect the floo connection.
"Hermione?" She heard a voice call out.It was a male voice. Thank Gods. She couldn't deal with Narcissa.
"Yes?" She called out from behind her bedroom door.
"It's me Cesar. Can we talk?" Hermione couldn't help but feel a jolt of excitement go through her body. She bit her lower lip to keep from smiling.
"Umm….sure let me get dress. Make yourself comfortable, you can get something to eat in the kitchen if you like."
"Sure." Hermione smiled, looking as all possible clothes in her closet.
Hermione found herself in the mirror with a light maroon sweater and nice jeans that brought out her assets.
She found herself going downstairs to see Cesar. And there he was. All 6 feet of him. He turned around and smiled. He wore his traditional robes, and he stood up once he saw her. Such a gentleman too.
"Hi Hermione."
"Hi Cesar."
"Hermione, you look nice." Hermione gave a bashful smile.
"Thank you. So what brings you here?"
Cesar sat back down. "Nothing much, I just wanted to see how my future family member is doing. I hope our family didn't causetoo much trouble yesterday. I know how they can be." Even though Hermione wanted to scream it was horrible and say the most vile things she could, she grinned.
"It wasn't that bad, I've dealt with worst."
"I'll get down to business. I wanted to tell you Hermione, me and Draco haven't really gotten along lately. Something happened between us, and he hasn't gotten over it. Even though he's the one who hurt me the most." Hermione gasped. Who hasn't Draco hurt?
"What?" Hermione was anxious to know.
Cesar took her hand in his. "Draco slept with my girlfriend, I found him and my girlfriend in bed, I was going to purpose to her that night." Cesar said sadly as he looked down at the floor. Hermione hugged him and he responded back.
"I tried so hard to forgive, that's why I think you could help. At least try to convince him to talk to me."
Hermione opened her mouth but nothing came out, finally she thought of the right words. "I'll try." Then came a crack sound.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?" Both Cesar and Hermione broke away. There stood a furious Draco.
Hermione tried to explain. "Draco, Cesar came over to-"
"Stay the fuck out of this, Hermione." Hermione then looked at Draco then Cesar, her eyes filled up with tears, but she couldn't stand to let either of them see her cry. She soon found herself running upstairs leaving Draco and Cesar downstairs.
"Look at what you did Draco! Doesn't this all seem familiar?" Draco's eyes filled with anger as he pushed his cousin into the wall.
"You have no fucking right. Get out of my house right now! If you attend the wedding, I swear to the Gods, I'll kill you." Cesar laughed.
"You said that last time."
Hermione found herself in her room….reading the little letter she received a few seconds earlier. She threw the letter under the bed, once Draco came into the bedroom slamming the door behind him.
"I don't want you talking to him, contacting him, letting him into our house, and he won't go the wedding!" Hermione looked confused.
"Why are you saying this? Aren't you the one who hurt him?" Hermione questioned.
Draco looked at Hermione as though she was transparent. "Are you a sodding idiot? He's the one who hurt me! Pray tell me, what lie did he tell you?"
"Why should I remind you? You should already know what you did!" Hermione then grabbed her robe from her bed and got up.
"Where are you going?" Draco asked, blocking her from leaving the room.
"Out." She simply said, looking up at him. Her voice, firm, not breaking contact with him. He first looked away, and moved out her way when she walked down the stairs, and went straight to the fireplace. She grabbed some powder and said clearly.
"Diagon Alley!" Draco came rushing downstairs.
"Hermione wait!"
Hermione found herself in Diagon Alley. She looked around attentively, looking for Viktor or any sign of him.
"Herm-own-ninny?" Hermione smiled spite herself. She bit her lower lip and turned around to see Viktor Krum.
"Hi Viktor." She went up to him and hugged him tightly. "It's so good to see you."
"It'z zo good to zee you to Herm-own-ninny." He then held out his hand, which contained a small blue box.
"Oh? Is this for me?" He nodded and she grabbed the box. She opened it and found a pair of green earrings in it. They had specks on blue crystals in it, and it dangled. She closed the box and looked at Viktor.
"Thank you, Viktor. But, um what is it that you want to talk about with me?" Hermione got straight to the point. It's not everyday that you get a letter from your ex-boyfriend, who happens to be engaged, who just wants to "chat."
"I waz thinking that maybe would could go to the pub, four broomsticks?"
"You mean three….you know, never mind Viktor, close enough."
Draco paced around the room, why the fuck did I let her go by? He paced faster around the room, maybe she went to the garden? Maybe she went to her mother's….wait her mother doesn't have a floo connection. Just then Draco stubbed his town on the side of his bed.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" He grabbed his toe and fell to the ground. "Fuck!" His eyes welled up in tears and he bit his lower lip from crying out. Just then he turned and looked under the bed and saw a letter. He grabbed the letter.
His eye's widen once he realized who it was from. Certain words seem to pop out.
Meet me….Diagon Alley….Love to see you…….Love Viktor……
"FUCK!" Draco ran,limpingout of the room, not caring to do a healing charm on his toe.
"DIAGON ALLEY!"
"Your not going to marry Fluer anymore?" Viktor sighed and looked into her eyes. He nodded, which to Hermione felt somewhat happy. Wouldn't you be happy? Now I'm the one happy.
"No, Herm-own-ninny. We 're different people. She….ran off with Bill Weasley. She said, I waz too boring for her taste."
Hermione grabbed his hand. "It's okay Viktor. You're not boring." Alright, so maybe I'm lying. But he's hurt.
"Thank you Herm-own-ninny. You do always zay the right thingz." Hermione then noticed that Viktor put his other hand on top of hers. She grew anxious.
"Yes, well you're my friend. Even though we're been through a lot, you can always count on me." Viktor then leaned in for a hug, while Hermione hugged him, she felt his hold tighten.
"Viktor-your kind of-AHHHHH!" Hermione screamed, as she noticed Viktor's robes were on fire.
"What is wrong Herm-own-ninny? AH!" Viktor quickly turned around to see his robes on fire. He quickly took his robes off and threw it on the floor.
Hermione took her wand out. Suddenly her mind went blank. Water spell. Water spell. Water spell. Water spell! Shit, what's wrong with me? Finally the spell came to her.
"Aquita." Soon Viktor was splashed with water. But before Viktor could gracefully thank Hermione for her spell, he was met with a punch from Draco.
"Bloody bastard!" Draco then whipped out his wand and pointed straight at Viktor. But before Viktor could grab his wand and defend himself, Draco yelled a spell.
"Zaypota!" There blue light shot out of the end of his wand and hit Viktor in his chest. Serval gasps and roars of screams broke out through the three broomsticks.
"Hey! No magic!" The owner yelled.
Hermione ran to Viktor. She realized that Viktor's nose was growing bigger and bigger and bigger…
"Oh shit…" Hermione quickly closed her mouth and helped Viktor up, who was grabbing his nose and moaning. It was becoming harder and harder for him to talk as his nose increased in size and his voice became louder pitched. Both her and Viktor were rushing to the door when Draco appeared in front of them with his hand intact.
"Move away from the door, Draco." Hermione threatened anger raging through her body.
"No." Was all he said with a self assured smile.
"Draco…" Hermione said with her teeth tightly together. "Move the hell out of the way." She said barely above a whisper. When Draco didn't budge one bit, Hermione lost her patience.
"What the hell is your problem? You think you could just curse any bloke?" She let go of Viktor who staggered to the floor.
"Well, I saw you two in the window!"
"What?" Hermione asked dazed.
"I saw you two in the window hugging and holding hands…and let me tell you, it was disgusting!" Hermione let out something that sounded like a grunt.
"No, you don't understand Draco. Viktor wanted to talk with me and nothing more. So don't worry, he wasn't trying to get into my knickers!"
Draco laughed. "Oh yes, well judging from the way you two were close together I find that very hard to believe." Hermione moved past him. He blocked her exit.
"This isn't over."
"Oh, yes it is."
"No, it isn't."
"Yes, in bloody hell it is!" Draco grabbed her arm.
"Now you listen here, Hermione. I know what I saw. He was trying to….shagged you. It was obvious. And guess what? I don't give a fuck that I hurt him, he deserved it, the bloody bastard." Hermione's face was blank, Draco thought he finally got through to her when.
"Tayopola!" Draco found himself across the room, with Hermione having her wand pointing at him.
"What the fuck was that for?" He asked not expecting any of this.
"Everything." Hermione said blankly and coldly. "I can't go through this…."
Draco's pain disappeared for a moment when he took time to take in Hermione's words.
"What do you mean…?"
Hermione's eyes started to well up in tears. "This…….the wedding's off!"
A/N: Another chapter another day. It's June! It feels as though yesterday I was just finishing "When Romeo met Juliet," and now I'm at chap. 12 of it's sequel. I bet everyone's happy that school is about to finish (and no more exams thank god!). Anywhere, do the usual, read and review.