Hermione sat there in shock when she heard what her son had just said. How long had they been conversing or was this just the first time? She slumped down on the bed because her head was swimming so much she could hardly stand still. After a few minutes she picked herself up and straighten her robe and headed downstairs to the kitchen. It felt almost like a dream as she walked downstairs, but she took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

As she entered the kitchen she was greeted by her son's and the maid's smile. She never wanted a house elf. She had decided on a maid because they actually wanted to be paid for their services.

"Mother," Xavier asked "What took so long?"

"Oh nothing," she said with a false smile "I was just had to wash my face."

"Miss, what would you like for breakfast?" the maid asked as she pulled a chair up for Hermione.

"Oh just some pumpkin juice and some toast, please."

Hermione spread some butter on her toast as she was still going over what her soon had said. 'Maybe, he just thinks that it's for his father, Draco may not have even replied back. Or what if he flooed him!' Hermione had dropped her knife at the moment at the thought. She quickly covered her mouth as she breathed deeply trying to calm down and not have a panic attack.

"Mother!" Xavier said with alarm "is everything alright!"

"Yes," she said meekly "Ummm... Holly can you leave us for a second? I need to speak with my son."

"Yes ma'am," the maid said as she scurried out of the room.

"Mother, what's wrong?"

"Xavier, I have a very serious question to ask you ,and don't dare lie to me."

"Yes ma'am," Xavier thinking he had been in trouble for the prank he had played on the girl next door.

" Have you been in contact with your father?" She said as she tried to be as calm as possible.

"Yes," he said quietly, not sure if that was what he should have told her.

"How did he contact you?"

"I wrote him a letter."

"Xavier, what did you talk about?"

"Not much, mother. Honestly, I only told him how much I hated Potter and that I missed him and that was all."

Hermione looked at him in disbelief for a second "What did you call Harry?" she asked curiously.

"Potter."

"Xavier, I know you don't think of him as a father but you could at least call him Harry, Potter is so disrespectful."

"Sorry," Xavier said, even though she could tell he didn't mean it.

"Well, I don't want you talking to him anymore." She said firmly.

"Who Potter?" Xavier said slightly confused.

She gave him a stern look and then stated "No your father. Xavier there is a reason you don't see him. And I want you to respect my wishes on that subject, please."

He gave her a look of hatred she knew he must have been angry. She surely would have been upset if her mother had kept her away from her father, but Draco was different then the her father.

"I only do this because I love you," she said as she gave him a look of sympathy.

"If you loved me you would leave Potter and go back to father!" Xavier burst with anger and she could see Draco in his eyes. Some days she had wished that he did get Draco's looks and her personality. Though no matter what she still loved the child.

"That's enough of the subject," Hermione said not wanting to talk about 'him' anymore "Eat your breakfast."

"I'm not hungry," Xavier said as he stood up and stormed out of the room.

Hermione sighed as she started to eat her toast. Holly, the maid , walked in quietly and started clearing off Xavier's plate and washing the dishes in the sink.

"Holly," Hermione asked exasperated.

"Yes, ma'am," she asked politely.

"Would you let your son see his father, if he was a murderous Death Eater, who forced you to marry him just so he could have a child that would ensure that evil would win in the end?"

"No," she said which made Hermione lighten up "but he is your husband."

"And!" Hermione said becoming angry by this "it's only on paper there is no love for him in my heart. There never has been and never will be!"

"Yes, ma'am" Holly said as she went back to cleaning.

Hermione sighed heavily again. She didn't mean to go off on Holly, but this morning was shocking and when ever someone mentioned Draco it always got her started. She guessed it was because she was ashamed because while her and Draco were together she actually did fall for him.

'How could I have trusted, even loved, that horrible man? He never showed kindness to me unless he wanted something in return.'

She walked up stairs to her room to change into her clothes for the day. She left her hair down today. It had looked quiet pretty for once, there wasn't much frizz and the curls were very lovely.

Xavier and her had planned to work in the garden that day but the weather wasn't very appeasing.

Most of the day she stayed in her room and read her latest book Harry had sent her from London, 'World of Magic 1400's-1500's' . It was quite interesting. She hadn't realized how many spells and charms that had been made since then , only two hundred years later.

She jumped in her seat as there was a tapping against the window. She looked over and noticed it was Harry's owl. She smiled, she loved getting letters from him. Maybe it was telling her when he was going to be back home.

She ran over to the window and let Hedwig in and quickly took the letter off of the owl.

Hermione,

Hope you haven't missed me too much. I'm not going to be coming home for some time. There has been and incident at the Ministry and needs to be settled immediately and it may take some time. I've written Ron and he's coming up to London too. Don't worry though there has been no word of Malfoy in months and I highly doubt he'll try anything . Send Xavier my love. I love you too. I shall be home as soon as possible. Take care.

Yours,

Harry

Hermione left her room and went over to Ron and Padma's room. They had been living with Hermione and Harry for about 7 years now and it was positively lovely. When she was younger she couldn't stand Padma but in time she seemed to grow on Hermione and they had become close friends.

"Ron," Hermione said as she knocked on the door.

Though Ron did not answer Padma came to the door. Hermione smiled and Padma invited her in.

"Ron's already left," Padma left "I guess you've gotten Harry's note already."

"Yeah," Hermione said with a smile " So what was the incident? Or did Ron not tell you."

"He said it was confidential when I asked and assured me that you didn't know either."

"I hate it when they keep things such as this from us." Hermione said a little hurt that they would not tell them.

"It's not their fault, Hermione," Padma said as she got up and went to get her tea.

"I know, it's orders but still. We are their wives it's not like we're going to tell anyone of this information."

Padma did not reply to this. She too was just as upset because she was just as curious as to what dangers her husband might be facing for however long he would be gone.

"Well I was just coming to check," Hermione said "I'll leave you to do what you were doing... Ahhh, I hate this weather."

"I know what you mean, well I'll see you at dinner," Padma said as Hermione left her room.

That evening Hermione was still reading her book. She had gotten to the part about the most dangerous love potion at the time. She found it very interesting though it was not near as powerful as some of the love potions now.

She stopped for a few minutes thinking of how it must have been during those times. Probably much simpler than it was now. Her heart suddenly skipped a beat as she heard footsteps down stairs. She quickly but quietly stepped out of her room and looked over the edge of the railing to see who it was.

She gasped loudly getting much attention now. There downstairs of her home was not one but many Death Eaters in their black cloaks and white masks on.

She ran as fast she could to Padma's room.

"Padma, quickly in there," Hermione pointing to the wall. She got up curious as to what h Hermione was doing but when she heard the chandelier in the main hall crash she understood.

Once inside Hermione sealed the secret entrance way and broke the window outside with a simple charm. She had hoped they would think it was a means of escape for the two girls.

Hermione left Padma there and told her to stay quite as she crawled through the passage way to Xavier's room. When she reached it she stepped out and screamed as she saw one of them had already gotten Xavier. Hermione knew which one it was too. Because instead of Xavier being hurt or taken captive, he was talking to the man.

When she had entered both of them had looked at her. She was shaking as if she had just fallen into a frozen lake.

"Xavier," she said shakily "come over here."

"..but mother," he said almost whining.

"Xavier," she said a bit more stern as she locked the door. She didn't need more Death Eaters right now, Draco was too much for her at the moment.

"Hello, Hermione," he said as he still had his mask on.

She just glared at him though as she had grasped hold of her son. "Hold onto me," she whispered into his ear as she stepped away fro Draco as he came closer.

Hermione could only see his eyes which had been glazed over with happiness.

"It's been almost 11 years , Hermione," he said as he stepped closer "Oh, how I have missed you."

There was a hint of spite in his voice as he spoke to her. Their eyes never left each other. "I'd say it wasn't long enough," Hermione spat at him.

"You can't keep me away from my son forever!" He yelled at her with rage. She didn't show any fear though as she stepped closer to the window.

"No, but I can try," she retorted.

"Where are you going Hermione?" Draco asked as he noticed her eager steps toward the window "Even if you do escape through that window , you won't get away fast enough when you land."

Hermione just glared at him, she didn't need him telling her the obvious.

"I'll make this easy for you," he said "Either go quietly or we'll take you with force," he said with and evil smile on his face as he lifted his mask to show his face.

No doubt he was still as handsome as ever but she knew the real Draco.

"Draco," she said simply "have I ever gone quietly?"

With that Draco raised his wand to shout a curse but she blocked it and with her wand broken the window open.

"Mother!" Xavier screamed afraid for his life now.

"Hold onto me," She screamed as they jumped out of the window. Draco ran to the window to stop them from hitting the ground but before he could they had disappeared with a loud 'CRACK'.

"Dammit!" He yelled as he threw the nearest thing at the wall.

With anger he forced Padma out of the secret passage way.

"Where did they go!" he screamed with rage as he hit her. She whimpered in fear, she knew Hermione didn't mean for this to happen to her.

"I don't know," she lied . Draco slapped her hard across the face again making her spit blood out of her mouth. She cried more and more and he grabbed her face painfully. "I'll ask you once more you filthy woman! Where did the go?"

"London," she cried as tried to not look him in the eyes.

"Where at in London?" Draco said a little happy that they were getting somewhere.

"I don't know, I guess the Ministry!"

"Blaise," Draco yelled and Padma became frightened with fear she had heard of Blaise killings. They were brutal and gruesome, she did not want that to happen to her.

"Yes, sir," he said as he reported in the room.

"Clean her up and make her forget everything that has just happen, tell her Hermione went to London for shopping. She can't tell Hermione that we know of her whereabouts'."

Padma sighed happy that she would still be living but felt a pang of guilt for telling Malfoy that information. Before she could think anything more about the subject her memory was erased of the whole ordeal.

A/N: Hay! Okay I know it's been almost two weeks since I've updated and I'm So SORRY! Thank you all for the reviews! There is no excuse for me not updatingI can make except for the fact thatI have been lazy and the fact that Dennis (the hurricane) hit here. Though we only lost power for about a day, Thank God! I hope you like this chapter! I read through it and spell checked hoping to get most of the errors. Oh and I found a new song which if you live in the Uk you've probably already heard and some other may have too but it's called Dry Your Eyes by The Streets and I absolutley love it! Anyways I'm gonna go, and please review! I love you all!

Patty!