Taking Over Me

AN: Just a reminder I do not own any of the Harry Potter Characters or any of the ideas, plots and or storylines that came from the books

Chapter One: When Disaster Strikes

It was the summer after Severus Snape had murdered Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hermione Granger, Ron and Ginny Weasley, and Harry Potter were now standing on a Muggle commercial fishing boat, in the tropics of Hawaii.

Arthur and Molly Weasley had decided that it was best if the children spent the summer away from the wizarding world, and as far away from London as possible. Hermione sighed as she leaned against the railing of the large fishing boat. The weather was nice, not to hot, not to cold, it was just right for her. She saw lots of colored fish that people were trying to lure with their fishing rods, and there were a couple of harmless reef sharks closely following the vessel hoping to scrap up a free meal. She let out a sigh as she peered into the crisp blue water. 'This changes everything. Harry's never going to be the same…none of us are, I don't think anyway…' She pondered to herself. She had been troubled since they left Hogwarts. Her worry had worn her down, she wasn't nearly as curvaceous as she used to be, nor was her hair as frizzy, and she was finding it hard to concentrate as well as she had been able to do before.

"OH MY GOD! Hermione, you are never going to believe who I saw on the other end of the boat!" Ginny cried pulling Hermione to the bow of the ship.

"Who on Earth could be so bloody fascinating…holy fucking shit! Harry doesn't know about this does he?" Hermione gasped recognizing the head of platinum blonde hair, it was Draco Malfoy.

"No." Ginny answered.

"Good. He doesn't need to know either. Just keep him occupied and stationary until we get back to port." Hermione instructed.

"What about you?"

"I'm going to do some snooping, you know, find out more about what he's doing here?" She confided.

Ginny set off to find Harry and Ron and do as Hermione had directed. Hermione had moved to the railing that Draco Malfoy was leaning against. Hoping to catch his attention and try to strike up a half way civil conversation to find out what the hell Malfoy was doing in Hawaii.

She had to admit though, she did love the smell of the salty sea air, but her mood had been slightly put out by a rather large spray of nasty sea water from a wave braking against the bow. Not to mention the discovery of Malfoy showing his face in Muggle Hawaii. 'Maybe he's come here to tan that ghastly pale complexion of his. Not that much can truly be done to help him.' She giggled slightly at the thought. She snapped out of her humorous day dream when someone grabbed her shoulder.

"Granger, fancy meeting you here?" Malfoy sneered.

"Ah, well if it isn't the cowardly snake himself. It's been too long Malfoy." Hermione hissed as she spun around to face him. "You're despicable; I can't believe that you could bear to show your face in public, especially in Muggle public."

"This is the last place I thought I'd find your frizzy haired face. I'll wager that Potter and Weasley are right behind you some where. God I can't wait to get off of this bloody boat!" He stamped away from her, returning to his original spot on the bow of the ship.

'Hmmm, that wasn't exactly what I had in mind, but I don't think he's here on business for Voldemort…I have been wrong in the past though…' she sighed again and went back to gazing in the water.

Their fishing expedition was coming to a close when Hermione finally noticed the sea had been churning as if enraged at them, for quite some time, the waters were no longer blue and calmly placid. The sea was grey as the waves crashed against the ship with more force. 'I must have been spacing out again…it was a mistake for us to come on this trip.' She looked into the sky, immediately recognizing the storm clouds over head. The wind picked up and a couple rogue waves washed across the deck.

The vessel had begun to pass an almost crescent shaped island when it began to rain, pelting all of the passengers, the captain came over the loud speaker for the second time announcing that all passengers needed to report to the galley until the storm had passed and the sea had calmed. Hermione and Draco were the last two people left on the deck when a large swelling wave swept over the deck, knocking Hermione off her feet and over the starboard side of the ship.

Draco saw this, and for a second he turned his back on her and began to walk away. "Some one HELP ME!" Hermione shouted in a blood curdling scream. The sound of her helpless voice pulled at his heart, and he found himself nearly involuntarily diving over the side of the boat to try to save Hermione.

They now faced two problems with both of them in the water; one no one else aboard would realize they were missing until they came to port, and two they now had to swim for the crescent shaped island if they didn't want to die a horrible death by drowning, or worse shark attack.