Hermione and Xavier apparated into the Leaky Cauldron. With a thud they hit the ground. Hermione looked over to the bar and the place was deserted. Tom wasn't there and there were no customers to be seen.
"Mother , where are we?" Xavier asked as he took his mother's hand to stand up.
"We're in the Leaky Cauldron, but this isn't right," Hermione said cautiously as she scanned the dark and dreary bar.
"What's not right?"
"The pub it's completely empty, it's normally has a good bit of people in here."
Hermione took her son's hand and walked to the very back of the pub and were met by a brick wall. Hermione tapped with rhythm on a brick and they magically moved to make a doorway. Hermione kept an iron grip on her son's hand as the stepped out into Diagon Alley.
"Bloody hell," Hermione whispered in disbelief.
"What?" Xavier asked still confused about everything.
"Shhh..." Hermione said as she quickly walked down the street. 'It's completely empty! How can that be it's Diagon Alley the busiest wizarding street in London!'
Hermione became quiet frantic when she found none of the stores were open. She prayed that Malfoy and his 'friends' wouldn't show up. If they did there would be no escaping for Hermione and Xavier.
"Miss, are you lost," Hermione was shocked but she would not stop walking. She wanted to scream, she hated that they had already found out where she was. 'Oh God, I wish I could apparate out of here!' Though she knew she couldn't because the Ministry had recently just stopped the apparating and diapparating in Diagon Alley because of all the attacks.
"Hermione ," the man said and Hermione knew she had lost. She stopped but didn't turn around.
"How long will it be till Draco gets here , Lucius?" Hermione said with tears about to spill from her eyes. She had tried so long to keep Draco away from her son. She wanted to kill him for putting her in so much stress and pain.
"Not long," Lucius said Hermione could sense he had a smile on his face. He never liked her, she guessed it was because the one night she met Voldemort and he gave her orders she just threw it in his face. Even if he had given her orders now she still wouldn't follow them.
"Mother," Xavier whispered to Hermione but the streets were so quiet Lucius could hear him "Who is he?"
"I'm your Grandfather," Lucius said proudly "I'm Draco's father."
Before Hermione could say any snide remark to Lucius there were footsteps off in the distance. Hermione turned around and saw Draco striding up to where her a Lucius stood. Hermione couldn't take it she grabbed holt of her son's hand and ran as fast as she could down the alley. She heard Draco's steps get faster and she panicked she knew she couldn't out run him and before she knew it she heard "Petrificus Totalus!"
Hermione and Xavier both without warning came to a sudden halt. Draco stopped running and slowly walked up behind her and breathed into her ear.
"Why do you always have to make things so difficult?" she wanted to slap him and let that be her answer but since she couldn't move at all, there was no chance of that happening.
"Draco, we might want to get them home as soon as possible," Lucius said "You can finish your rendezvous there."
"Yes, sir," Draco said as he removed the charm and grabbed Hermione by the forearm and Xavier by the hand brought them back to the Leaky Cauldron where Lucius took Xavier home and Draco took Hermione.
They landed outside of Malfoy Manor. Hermione was still enchanted by this house, it was beautiful too bad it was owned by Death Eaters. Draco pushed Hermione forcefully into the house ,it wasn't hard to guess he was still angry with her.
"Father, take Xavier to his room," Draco said to Lucius.
"..but" Xavier whined "I wanted to talk to you!"
"Ahh, Xavier," Draco said kneeling down to him "We'll talk in the morning. It's much too late. Mipsy the house elf will bring you dinner then you must go straight to bed."
"Yes, sir," Xavier said, which stunned Hermione. He had never been so respectful to someone before know except to her.
Lucius took Xavier by the hand and took him to his room, wherever that was. Draco turned and gave her an awful glare as he grabbed her hand a took her up stairs. She knew where they were going. It had been a while but she still remembered where the room was, that they had stayed in for those few days.
When the reached the room she walked over to the chair next to the window she used to always look out. She heard him mumble a few charms and enchantments under his breath. Locking the door so know one would interrupt or hear the argument that was about to erupt.
He turned around and glared at her for a few moments so she decided to break the ice. "What did you do to Padma?"
"Oh, so you do care about her? Because it seemed like you had forgotten about her. No matter anyways she much help to us."
"What do you mean?" Hermione said worried. She truly felt horrible for leaving Padma with a house full of Death Eaters.
"Oh don't worry she's fine. She only told us where you were probably headed." Draco said with a smirk "Helped us a lot."
"What do you want with us," Hermione said wanting to get to the point.
"Don't play stupid with me, you know why you're here!" Draco yelled. "How could you just walk out on me? I Loved you! Not only that your were pregnant ,with my son! But No you ran back to your precious Potter!"
"I never wanted to be with you! Besides did you honestly think that I would let you corrupt my son! Why the hell do think I've been trying to keep him away from you!"
"Corrupt him! Is that what you think I was going to do!"
"Well the main reason we were forced to be married was because of that Stupid Prophecy! I know you were going to have him fight for the Dark side! That's why I left you, my son will not lead this world into Darkness!"
"Well you very well don't expect him to fight with Potter! He hates the man!"
" I would have loved you and him with all my heart if you had stayed!" Draco yelled anger welling up inside of him " I still will! Why do you think I've been trying to hard to win this war! It's all to get you back!"
"Do you think killing off my friends and destroying the world I have been fighting for, will bring me back to you!"
" Your mine Hermione!" Draco said fiercely "No one else's!"
"I am no one's," she shot back at him.
"You loved me at one time, I know you did," he said with the ferocity "Why can't you do it again!"
She didn't answer she just turned away from him. "Please, Hermione," he said with calmness in his voice "be my escape."
She stood for a second as the anger inside her was fighting to come out. She didn't turn to look at him because if she did she would become even angrier. "Please tell me, Draco," she asked clenching her fists "What the hell do you need escape from!"
She turned to face him he could see anger written all over her face and in her eyes "You have nothing to escape from! I on the hand am a different story! For the past ,what, 11 years I have been trying to keep away from you! I can barely sleep at night some days I can't even eat because I'm so afraid that you're going to coming storming into my home and take Xavier from me!"
She breathed for a second feeling as if steam was coming from her ears "So please enlighten me what you need escape from?"
"What is it ,Draco?" Hermione said impatiently.
"I need escape from this feeling of incompletion!" he yelled at her " God, Hermione! I lost more than you that day you left me! I bloody loved you! I don't think that's ever happened to me before!"
"Well now you know how I felt when you took me from Harry!"
"Dammit, Hermione," Draco said "Why is it every time I try to get something through to you or talk to you , you bring him up!"
"It only bothers you because you know I love him more than I love you!"
"So you do love me," Draco said.
"I never said that!"
"Of course you did ,you said you just loved him more than you loved me! So you do love me!"
"Oh get over yourself. Even if I did love you, I wouldn't be stupid enough to stay with you!" Draco smirked though. Which made her extremely uneasy. "What's so great that's making you smirk?" Hermione asked her curiosity getting the better of her.
"Because even if you were smart enough to stay away from me, you can't. There's no way for you to get back to your precious Potter!"
"You said that last time," Hermione remarked "And I seemed to get away then."
Draco's smirk had fallen from his face and had stepped closer to Hermione. She was not afraid of him though. 'The only difference,' Hermione thought and she hope Draco didn't know Occulemency 'I have my wand this time.'
"One minor problem, " he whispered into her ear. She was severely pissed at herself now. He had found out her one secret. Hermione pushed him away from her as she went to go sit in the chair. She no longer wanted to continue this conversation, she just wanted to rest.
He grabbed her arm though and brought her closer to him. "Hermione, why do you always have to fight me?" he whispered across her lips before they crashed onto her's. 'Still a great kisser.' She felt him smirk against her lips, she had completely forgotten he could read her mind. His hand drifted to her pocket in her cloak and grasped hold of her wand. He pulled away and smirked at her.
"I knew you still wanted me," he said breathlessly.
She could have slapped him and became even angrier when he showed that he had her wand .
"I'll be back in a few minutes to go to sleep, so I advise you to change now...Unless you want me to see," he said with a smirk as he was in the doorway. She grabbed on of the books off the table and threw it at the door.
Though she decided to take his advice. She went to the closet and picked out a night gown which she changed into as fast as she could. She grabbed a book laid in the bed. 'Just because we're sleeping the same bed, doesn't mean I still care for him. Besides if he knows what's good for him he'll keep his hands off.'
She figured there was no use in sleeping in the chair that night. She would only be uncomfortable, besides she thought 'He still probably has bad insomnia, I highly doubt he'll stay in bed all night.' It had only been their first night in the same room that she had figured out that he had insomnia. He had woken her from walking around the room. It was hard to believe that she was only 16 at the time.
She had just picked a random book from the shelf.
The door clicked open and Draco walked in. He saw her and a huge smirk came across his face. "Ready for me?" he asked cheekily as he picked up the book that she had thrown at the door earlier.
"No." she replied as she went back to reading.
"Well I'm glad to see you've already gotten back into the habit of our old routine."
"I would hardly call it a routine. I didn't even stay here a whole month." She snapped the book shut as she slide onto her side. She blew out her candle and tried to go to sleep.
Draco quickly changed and climbed not the bed next to her laying his back. "You know," he said knowing she was still awake "I haven't stayed in here since you left."
"How touching ," she spat "Now can I please go to sleep. Besides, Draco, don't think you can win me over by being sweet.."
"I know," he said truthfully .
Hermione woke up that morning to the sun shining in her face. She turned over and to her delight Draco was no longer there. She laid in bed not knowing what she felt. It was a strong mix of hate and worry. She laid in bed for a few minutes thinking over a plan. Though it's not like she had too many options she no longer had her wand and she had no clue where the manor was located.
She stepped out of bed and grabbed a robe from the closet. She recognized it as the same one she wore when she was first here. She went to open the door but it was still locked.
"Draco," she said exasperated and before she knew it he entered the room.
"Yes," Draco said with a smile on his face.
"The door was locked," she stated simply "and besides I want to see my son."
"That's not possible at the moment." He said as he looked at her strictly.
"Not possible? And how is that?" Hermione said crossing her arms and getting frustrated.
"We are both having a very important conversation about his future," Draco said. A wide smile spread across his face when he saw her shock.
"What! Let me see my son!" she screamed at him.
"Calm down," Draco said forcefully " You will not see Xavier at the moment. You will get to see him around lunch time. " Hermione was about to interrupt but he stopped her. "Don't," he said " We'll see you at lunch. In the mean time why don't you go see mother, she's dying to talk to you."
A/N: So how was it? I hope y'all like it!Yeah, I know Draco is a little OOC from the book. But in my story he is in love with Hermione. It's an akward sort of love, which you already know if you read Fortune? but yeah anyways!But don't expect this story to be updated this often, I normally update once a week. But I figured since last time it was about two weeks that I'd be nice. That and I had already figured out what it was going to be about and didn't want to lose the thought. Well please Review! I love to read them!
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TannyMieC.M.- I'm really glad you like my story! I must say you've given me my oddest review ever. But I am flattered in an odd way that my story reminded you of a movie and then you thought of Jerry Springer.I hope you keep reading!
