Disclaimer: See Chapter One.
Lucius sat in front of Tilly the head house of Malfoy manor. She stood dressed in robes and an apron. She had slightly long ears and bright big blue eyes. She pulled on her ears slightly. She heard the news her master that had married Hermione Granger, but the news that had her distraught was that she was very sick and needed help or taken care of if she was unable.
"Of course, Master. I will make sure manors stays really clean. The temperature stays low and not too highs to grows bad things. I will get Mistress's belongings packed and brought right overs." Tilly said. "Do yous need anything to eat before I leaves?"
"A light breakfast of toast and fresh fruit with tea, please." Lucius said and rose from the chair he was sitting on and made his way back up the stairs to the large master bedroom.
LM/HG
Hermione sat down at the nice deep brown vanity wrapped in a warm green bathrobe. She looked up at the large circled mirror. She picked up the hair brush and ran it through her wet curls. She suddenly stopped.
"Hermione are you all right dear?" asked Lucius as he entered the large master bedroom.
"I'm just wondering if I will lose my hair." whispered Hermione.
Lucius stood behind his wife and took the brush from her hand, and gently ran it through her wet brown curls. "Why would you lose your hair?"
"Healer Hellen told me that the healers have been working with a squirb doctor to develop magical treatment for cancer. It's still in the experiential stages." She told him as he gently braided her curls down her back.
"Are you thinking about trying it?" asked Lucius.
"I don't know. I mean it's better then having no treatment at all and just letting the cancer eat away at me." She looked at her husband in the mirror. "I want to fight Lucius. I'm not just going to let cancer win."
"There's my brave lioness." He said and lean forward and kiss her cheek just as Tilly popped into the room and sat their breakfast down on the bedside table. She was gone with a pop. "Let's enjoy breakfast. The office is closed today and tomorrow. We can discuss this more when you have thought on it some more."
Hermione nodded her head and walked over to the bed just Lucius sat the tray down carefully on the bed and joined on the mattress. He smiled and picked up a strawberry and held it out for her to take a bite. She raised a brow at him before smiling and taking a bite of the fruit.
"We will have to plan a honeymoon. I will inform the employees that we'll will be gone for a week. How does the villa in Tuscany sound?" asked Lucius as he picked up his cup of tea. "We can sit on the balcony and drink wine."
Hermione picked up her tea and slowly took a sip of the hot liquid and lowered her cup slightly from her lips and answered, "Sounds perfect. I know the Prophet will get wind of our shot gun marriage by then. We get back all this mess should blow over."
He leaned forward and tucked a loose curl behind her ear. "My thoughts exactually. Tilly should be at your flat packing your belongings. Do you want to keep the flat or sale it?"
She picked up the jam and spread it onto her slightly brown toast and sat the butter knife down on the tray. "You can sale it. it's nothing special. Just a one room flat." He nodded his head and they finished their breakfast in comfortable silence both wrapped up in their thoughts.
LM/HG
Healer Grace Hellen sat her desk reading over the latest test on the experiential treatments. She smiled slightly at the newest results. They were somewhat promising. She looked up at the head Potions Master Severus Snape, ex spy and Potions Master of Hogwarts.
"Master Snape, these findings are wonderful. You have worked hard, but we still have a long way to go until we find a cure." She told the dark hair wizard.
Severus crossed his arms over his chest. "Yes Grace, but these tests are running on those that cancer that have been caught early stages and hasn't really taken hold on the body." He ran a long finger along his jaw. "We need someone's cancer that has been attacking the body for several years."
Grace turned and pulled a file from her desk and handed it over to Severus. He leaned forward and took the file and flipped it open his gold wedding band hit the light and felt his heart jump into his throat.
"Hermione has leukemia?" whispered Severus and he read her file. "Two years. She's been sick for two years, and she's just now coming here." He looked away from the file. "What's her life span?"
"A year or two at the most." Grace told the him. "Do you know Miss Granger?"
Severus closed the file and nodded his head. "Yes. She's a friend of mine. She works for Lucius Malfoy. I hope he finally admits to the woman that he loves her before it's too late." He rose from the chair and walked out of the healer's office with a heavy sigh silently vowing he would find Hermione a cure.
LM/HG
Tilly appeared in the master bed room and magically put away her new mistress's belongings. She smiled as she looked at the womanly dress robes that hung next to her master's masculine dress robes in closet. She stripped the bed sheets off the bed and put clean one's the mattress. She magically sterilized the room and bathroom. She was happy for her master and new mistress. She prayed that things would end happily for the couple who clearly truly loved each other.
LM/HG
Hermione sat on the couch in the large library curled up with a warm large blanket and a book. She groaned out in pain in her bones. She took several deep breaths in hope it would pass. It normally did die away after a while. She hated taking potions she hated the way they made her felt. She slowly shifted her body rubbed her right leg in hope to ease the pain.
Lucius entered the large room with his son Draco behind him. He quickly got down on his knees next to his wife. "What do you need?"
"The pain in my bones. It normally goes away." Hermione hissed through her teeth.
"Did Healer Hellen give you a pain potion?" asked the long blonde.
She nodded her head. "I hate taking potions Lucius."
He sighed heavily. He moved to the couch and slightly shifted Hermione's feet into his lap as Draco sat down in the wing chair near the roaring fireplace. He watched his father summon a jar from the other side of the manor.
Lucius opened the lid and scooped out the thick paste after he pushed up Hermione's pant's leg to her knee. He slowly worked the paste into her long leg. He heard her sigh as the pain slowly subsided.
"Father, I haven't seen a wedding band on your hand in five years. I see Hermione is wearing a matching one. What did you to do yesterday?" asked Draco with a slightly raised brow.
Lucius put the lid on the jar and sat it down on the table in front of him. He continued to rub his wife's feet. He watched her lay back with a smile at the gentle touch.
"We got married yesterday." He told his son.
Draco's blue eyes widen in shock. He opened his mouth but nothing came out. He shook his head clearing his fogged brain. "What? You and Hermione got married. Father, look I know your fawned of Hermione, and she great and great friend." She smiled at her best friend. "But you went and had a wedding," his brow frowned, "what's wrong?"
Hermione looked down and began to twist the corner of her blanket with her hands. She looked up at the short haired blonde with tears in her eyes. "I have muggle cancer called leukemia. You know I haven't been feeling well." She closed her eyes and tears fell down her cheeks. "For several years actually. I pushed it aside thinking it was stress from the papers and just my life over all."
Lucius turned his head quickly at his wife. "What? You haven't told me you haven't been feeling well Hermione, and the cancer could have been caught sooner."
She sniffed, "I know. I was stupid ok! Oh, gods I'm going to die." She broke down into tears.
Lucius quickly and gently pulled Hermione into his arms and held her close as her body shook with sobs. Draco shook his head not truly believing what he was hearing. His best friend was sick and would die. He closed his eyes willing the tears not to fall. He got up and moved to the couch and wrapped his arms around her small frame as the Malfoy men comforted the shattered woman. The marriage shocked him but nothing prepared him to learn that Hermione Granger-Malfoy was dying of cancer.
Draco turned Hermione's head gently and cupped her face with his hands. "You listen to me Hermione, get your cry in, punch the feathers out of the pillows and then you fight this." He smirked, "You are a Malfoy. We fight like hell." He kissed her forehead. He whispered in her ear, "Shag him senseless." He rose from the couch. "I better be off. I have lunch with the in laws today." He stepped into fire place after throwing some floo power into the flames was gone in a swirl of green flames.
Hermione turned her head faced her husband and gently ran her finger down his fare jaw. She lowered her head and kissed his neck and moved to ear lobe and tugged it slightly with her teeth. She smiled when she heard him moan inside his throat. She whispered in his ear, "I want you." She rolled her hips over his clothed manhood.
"I'm all yours Mrs. Malfoy." He whispered and gently captured her lips with his own. He rose from the couch and Hermione wrapped her legs around his waist and made their way down the hall to the master bedroom.
LM/HG
Severus Snape swept in his private lab his white lab coat blew behind him with each step. He slammed the door behind him with a slam causing the healers to jump at the sudden force of the door causing several bottles to shake on the shelves.
"Get back to work! Cancer won't find a cure on its own!" snapped the wizard.
The red headed witch's brow frowned at the man when she saw worry in his deep brown eyes. She turned to the other healers and said gently, "Get back to work everyone." Ginny told them.
"Yes Madame Snape." They said together and quietly got back to work.
Ginny Snape nee Weasely slowly walked into her husband's office and closed the door behind her with soft click. They had been married for only a year. She had cut ties with her family after years of fighting. They had been fine with her becoming healer but when she informed them that she was in a relationship with Severus Snape they flipped their lid and cut her off from the Weasely family it had hurt for a while but she found herself not caring. She didn't fight in a war for bigotry to hold of her life.
"Not here." Ginny said taking the whiskey bottle from her husband's hand.
Severus snatched it from his young wife. "Yes, here." He turned the bottle up and took a big swig and put it back down on shelf and shoulder sank down and his head bowed. He felt Ginny's arms wrap around his waist. "Hermione has cancer."
"What?" gasped Ginny in shock and Severus turned around with her arms still around him. "How bad?"
"A year or two at the most. It's progressed. She didn't seek out a doctor before it has nearly taken over her whole body." He told her.
Ginny took a deep breathe willing the tears not to fall down her fare freckled cheeks. "Ok. We are progressing in treatments. She can start the first round. It's a long shot but it's better than no treatment." He nodded his head in agreement. "Are you ok love?" She shook her head and locked and silenced the room. "Of course, you're not." She walked over to the desk and leaned over it shifting her hips slightly as she removed her underwear and hiked up her dress and coat.
Severus walked over his wife and ran his hand across her freckled butt and slapped hit hard. Ginny hissed and gripped the side of the desk and slapped the right cheek as he did the left. She knew he was upset and needed to feel in control at the moment to get his mind back on track. He grabbed her long red hair and yanked her head back and kissed her hard on her lips as he undid his pants with his free hand lowering them down freeing his hard member. He released her head and slid into her already dripping womanhood.
"Yes witch, your tight! So wet for me." hissed Severus as he slammed hard into her body as he let several tears down his cheeks. He drove home letting out his frustration and hurt about Hermione's illness.
Ginny moaned and met his hard thrusts skin slapped painfully against each other tears running down her face at the news of it all hit home. She threw her head back cried out his name as her body shook with release. He whispered her name as he emptied deep inside her womb. He wrapped his arms around her waist buried his face into her red hair as body shook with silent sobs. He took several deep breaths and slowly pulled out of his wife warm body and they straighten their clothes.
"Right let's find a cure." He said and Ginny nodded her head and they left the office to find a cure for their friend.
LM/HG
Lucius gently fingered Hermione's slender waist as she rocked her hips moaning in pleasure that he was giving her he lowered her slightly and took her left breast into his mouth a sucked it gently. He knew he had to be gentle with his wife fear of causing her already delicate body to bruise. He wrapped his arms around her waist and rolled her over onto the mattress. He slowly slid into her body loving every inch he could find. Hermione closed her eyes and several tears rolled down her face at the pleasure and love he was showing her body. He wanted to show that he loved her he feared in saying words.
"I've got you love." Lucius whispered and held her close as he moved in and out of her body.
Hermione wrapped her arms around his waist and met his slow loving thrusts as tears rolled down her face and she arched her back and her body shook with release. He moved faster seeking his own release whispering her name as he emptied his seed deep inside her womb. He rolled over onto the mattress pulling his wife with him their bodies still joined as they both slowly fell sleep in a loving embrace.
LM/HG
I hope you enjoyed the new chapter, and you see Draco's true reaction of his best friend's illness in the next chapter. Severus and Ginny a shocker too. What you think about these two together. Little hot and heavy there.