Lunar Love Chapter 21.
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Previously:
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"Jacob has forgotten about his imprint." said Billy sagely, "His memory didn't even jog when I said her name." he clarified for the older man whose eyes widened ever so slightly at the news.
"Hermione. Bella." the chief of police nodded politely towards his niece and daughter moving to grab himself a bowl. As he finally managed to reach one he turned around suddenly and said clear as day, "Hermione's magical little friends." before continuing towards the chowder Hermione had prepared for everyone. When he had enough, he started walking out of the room stopping only once to stop in front of the red headed wizard.
"Ronald Weasley?" he asked quietly looking directly at the boy. Only the empathic look the man displays for interrogation was on his face at the moment. Ron barely managed a quivering 'Yes sir.' before Charlie removed one of his hands from his bowl and lovingly patted his pistol three times before leaving with a deadly whisper, "I don't like you." followed shortly by a quick, "I'm gonna be eating in my room girls; lots of paperwork!"
"The girl erased his memories apparently." whispered a grave voice a little too loudly for comfort.
"Shut up you moron!" spoke the other voice just as loudly, quickly lowering his volume as he continued, "Don't want anyone overhearing. I don't know what the bloody hell is so important about that. If the brat doesn't remember her anymore he's no use to us anymore."
"Still it's curious isn't it?" asked the first man, "She has never bothered with any of her kind since entering our world …"
"It still doesn't matter obviously he isn't-"
"Don't you idiots have something better to do then speak of the little tart currently attempting to ruin my plans?"
"No sir!" they both yelled, startled and rushing to attention,
"Then perhaps you should do as you are told and continue with your work." the cloaked figure merely glared at them when they didn't take the hint, "Well I don't have all day to babysit you imbeciles, I have a lovely red-haired vampire I need to be meeting."
"I can manage for a few more hours." the pixie replied nodding her head sagely, "I have to call Edward there's something he should know." she whispered the last part quietly to herself before a flash went off in her eyes and she began calling for Rosalie."Edward?"
"I don't understand what you are saying, Rosalie." A long pause, the length of a few human heartbeats.
"Alice stayed away from Bella and Charlie. At least from a distance. She's still gotten visions about her Edward and Alice has seen her. She's moved on. With someone else."
A longer pause.
"I'm...sorry. You have a right to know, though, I think. Bella seems to be happy with this boy. Alice saw it, but … It's too late to do anything. Alice says she isn't going to change her mind if she's on this path much longer."
The phone went dead. It took me a few seconds to realize that I'd shut the power off.
"Who was that?" asked Bella as she helped herself to another bloodpop before landing gracelessly onto the couch.
"A vampire." spoke Draco spitting out the word as if it was poisoned
"What?" coughed out Bella as she tried sitting up straight.
Bleach.
Bleach and rotten cotton candy.
The familiar sickeningly sweet smell wafted into their noses. And their senses kicked into overdrive.
Run.
Faster. Run. Run.
Rip. Kill. Destroy.
The drive to destroy his natural enemy, controlled Jake for all of five seconds before a second smell underneath their decaying odor drifted to his wolf. Calling him like a beacon home.
His scent only slightly different. More feminine. Honeysuckle, lilies, and chamomile.
Hermione.
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Now:
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"I think I know why you're reacting to Bella the way you are."
Draco's voice was the one thing that always seemed to bring her out of one of her thinking stupors, this time was no different.
"Hmmm."
"Apparently, when Bella was dating that vegetarian leech, they ran across a few nomads. One of which drank from Bella. With Greyback attacking you during the Final Battle he gave you a few gifts, my guess is that this is one of them."
"So, you're saying I can never touch Bella again without being in pain." Hermione had yet to look up from her desk to even look at Draco as he told her all of this.
"As it stands, yes." he spoke bluntly, choosing to ignore the flinch Hermione performed when he confirmed her theories, "There are a few purifying spell I could perform on her, though I do not recommend them at the current time."
This time Hermione did look at him, and Draco felt the need to smile sadly at his small accomplishment.
"What? Why?" Hermione demanded
"As it were, Bella is pregnant for a hybrid child. So very rare because such couplings are almost unheard of due to the death rate of mothers during the birthing process."
"But Bella-"
Draco stopped the studious witch before she even formed her statement, "Physically speaking Bella is slightly stronger, her eyesight and reflexes noticeably better, not to mention the tan she once had in older pictures is now completely gone, giving her an almost translucent appearance. The little venom which remained in her bloodstream is making her stronger, not enough to fully change her, but enough to where she actually has the means to survive this pregnancy. Take the venom away …"
"You take away her chances of surviving the birth." finished Hermione as she realized where Draco was heading with this conversation.
"She's starting to show." Draco said instead of continuing with the depressing monologue
"I plan on flooing Poppy in a few weeks. This pregnancy is advancing in a much bigger time frame than we originally anticipated."
Draco stared at his friend for a few more moments before leaving to go and check on the recently discussed Bella.
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"She's alone. Now's the perfect time to strike." Peter's normally shivering voice held a bit of anticipation and glee to it as the looked into the back window of the Swan residence where Bella was currently alone eating away at one of those blood pops, blissfully unaware of the wizards outside her home.
"Not yet. I'm waiting for-" just as those words left the cloaked man's mouth, an audible pop could be heard from upstairs in the house.
"Now."
Peter and the vampires he was left in charge of wasted no time and quickly descended upon the house.
"Remember no killing the little muggle girl."
"I know my orders." Peter said looking at the man in contempt.
Lucius always did no how to ruin the mood when it came to these things. It was no wonder he got bested by a bunch of 15 year olds all those years ago.
Peter intended not to do the same.
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Draco had left about fifteen minutes ago and Bella was officially bored. Charlie was at work, Harry and Ginny left a while ago to there manor, Hermione not far behind them claiming she needed to search for something, and Ron had been ordered once more by Draco and Harry to scout the remaining areas of the forest.
There was absolutely nothing to do. She even attempted to call Jake, but Billy had claimed some lame story about how he was feeling under the weather and that it was probably mono.
Bella for one didn't buy that bullshit, but figured if Billy is lying for Jake it's got to be pretty important stuff they were dealing with at the moment. But upon realizing what time of the year it was contributed it to the both of them mourning once more the loss of Sarah Black.
Running out of people to talk to, seeing as how everyone else she knew was currently at school right now, Bella did the only thing she could think of. With a handful of blood pops she grabbed all of her school books and began studying.
Hermione was definitely a bad influence on her.
Just as she was getting to one of the harder trigonometry equations, she heard a familiar pop from upstairs and she stood wanting to go up the stairs and greet whoever it was who would potentially make her day a little less sucky, though before she could just as she stood up, a loud bang signaled behind her and she barely had time to move before seeing her back door had been kicked in and then a red light hit her squarely in the chest before she felt she could no longer move any of her limbs.
Before her motionless body fell forward though, she was caught by cold strong arms, and she couldn't help the chill that crawled up her spine at the once familiar feeling.
She heard Draco's hurried footsteps and then his quite notorious curses before all was black.
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"Damn it." Draco muttered as he saw the vampire along with three others run off with Bella, leaving him alone in the room with Petigrew. Though just as he lifted his wand to curse the despicable man he waved at him before disapparating away.
The blonde quickly sent out a patronus to Hermione, who was hopefully still at Ginny and Harry's before sending another to Weasley, then followed after the vampires and Bella.
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The little red-tailed hawk landed gracefully in front of Hermione and used Draco's voice to utter the words she never hoped she'd hear.
"Death Eaters and vampires attacked. They attained Bella. Come quickly."
Hermione had already moved before Death Eaters had left the patronus's mouth, gathering her wand she went downstairs quickly and with a rushed explanation left Ginny at the manor, while she and Harry apparatted straight into the forest behind her uncle's house.
It didn't take them long to find where Draco was and pursue the vampires which were now hiding in the forest.
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Rip. Kill. Destroy.
The drive to destroy his natural enemy, controlled Jake for all of five seconds before a second smell underneath their decaying odor drifted to his wolf. Calling him like a beacon home.
His scent only slightly different. More feminine. Honeysuckle, lilies, and chamomile.
Hermione. Hermione. Hermione. Hermione.
That's all that was passing through Jacob's mind at the moment. Every thought, every memory every action he performed at the moment was for his imprint and was a way for him to get closer to her.
Other scents now mingled in with hers but he paid as much mind to them as he did his pack brothers. The only thing he was concerned about was her. Though that changed quickly when he entered the clearing and registered that vampires were within several feet of his mate.
His running slowed, as did his thoughts of Hermione. They were still there, just currently backed into a corner as the stench of vampires drove his natural desires and his instincts completely took over.
Kill. Destroy. Not one of those bloodsuckers should be left alive.
Jacob was so caught up in the moment, he failed to realize his voice took on an empowered timbre, his form grew five times its original size. All he cared about was that his imprint was in danger. He was so far lost in his basic nature the teenager didn't even realize he slipped into the position of Alpha.
Their new leader's emotions filled all of their heads, and the same desire to rip apart the vampire while protecting one of their tribe was overwhelming them.
Jacob was the first to reveal himself, his brothers following closely behind them all beginning to growl as soon as Jacob did so.
Their presence actually caused the vampires to back up slightly. The dark-haired vampire whom had grabbed Bella in the first place, put her down gently and moved into an offensive position, ready to take out either the wizards or wolves, whoever decided to attack first.
"Confringo!" Hermione's voice broke through the tense silence, causing the other vampires to lunge at her.
Her spell was true however and cleanly blew off the one who kidnapped Bella, left arm. He sunk down to his knees howling in pain while clutching at where his arm once was.
The other two vampires, who lunged at Hermione were intercepted by Jacob as he quickly tore apart the two at the same time, tossing their bodies in the general direction the first vampire fell at and let his brothers do the rest.
He decided to turn to Hermione instead, though instead of finding her behind him where he left her, she was instead at Bella's side. Waving the familiar stick around he recognized from one of his memories of him and her at the beach and her uttering the words, 'Obliviate'. That was the last memory he had of them together which led him shake in rage. He calmed himself just enough to transform into his human form, and walk towards where the two women were.
"Hermione." his voice was raspy, indicating his wolf still had some control in the situation right now.
The witch ignored him and instead chose to complete muttering in Latin while waving her stick around intently.
"Hermione." his voice was louder this time, earning him the thoughtful expressions of both Draco and Harry who had moved to help the other wolves who still hadn't transformed back into their other forms, Jacob's rage still too clear in their heads to phase back.
Again she chose to ignore him, though he did see her shoulders tense at her name this time. She obviously recognized his voice.
"Damn it, Hermione!" this time Jacob snatched the damned stick right from out of her hand, careful not to break it in his angered state.
Hermione finally turned around the glare she had prepared for him lost as she looked into his eyes, the bond she once felt for him which lessened considerably when she erased his memories of her came back full force and with a vengeance. All the fight left her at the look on his face. His emotions shining in his eyes all too clear for her to see: hope, fear, anger, lust, relief and sadness. The last two were the ones showing most and Hermione felt her heart break just a little for the fact he was wearing those emotions because of her. It was her fault.
She tried to stop the tears from exiting her eyes but she found that it was an impossible task so instead she let them fall freely, giving them free reign to do as they will. When Jacob saw this all of the anger directed towards her left him, and Hermione seeing this merely cried harder.
"Jacob." the way she whispered his name was too much for him and he found himself crushing her to his body, neither of them realizing nor caring that he was completely naked.
"I'm sorry. So sorry."
The shifter merely sighed quietly and held her closer to him as she gripped onto him for everything she was worth. They never noticed Draco come behind them to retrieve Bella nor when he left with her, Harry or the other wolves.
The two stayed in that position for a little over an hour while Hermione cried in the arms of Jacob Black.
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When Bella woke up again it was to the sight of a very worried Draco hovering over her. Though when she asked for water, he gave out a relieved sigh and went to retrieve her what she asked for. When he returned he helped her sit up and drink from the glass, then when she was done asked her exactly what had happened.
Bella noticed that her living room seemed smaller than usual and it took her mind a few moments to realize it was because of the overly large Quileutes she had met at the bonfire.
"I don't remember much, I was bored and there was nothing to do cause everyone left, so I decided to practice my Trig. I was about to finish up the last problem and start on my Chemistry work when I heard you," at this she nodded towards Draco, "Apparate upstairs. When I stood up to greet you so we could do something, some little fat man with three of them kicked the back door open, next thing I know I'm hit with this red thing, right in my chest and the last thing I hear are your footsteps rushing downstairs then you cursing, before everything goes black and I wake up with you hovering over me."
Draco and Harry both wore very contemplative expressions as they took in everything Bella said about the attack. Harry looking towards the older girl speculatively, "And that was all you saw? Nothing else?"
"Yeah why? You don't think I'm-"
"Lying?" laughed Harry, "Absolutely not, I'm just wondering where the Dementors have gone to if they weren't with Wormtail like they were last time."
"Wormtail?" asked Bella
"I believe you called him 'some little fat man'." supplied Draco helpfully with a smirk on his face, causing Bella to blush.
"So until Hermione and what I'm assuming is Jacob get here … who's up for tea?" asked Harry as he already made his way into the kitchen fully intent on sending Ginny a quick Patronus letting her know everything. Including the fact Bella's stomach got bigger and her eyes were now the most shocking shade of red he ever saw.
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Summary: Hermione could not believe how she got conned into going to visit her relatives in the states after the war. There were only three things she knew for sure. First she was a very tired and exhausted warrior from war not yet ready to move on like her parents were forcing her to do. Second she was not allowed to use any of her magic. And third Hermione knew irrevocably and without a doubt that if nothing interesting would happen in Forks, Washington something or someone is going to get blown up.
Pairings: Hermione Granger x Jacob Black
Rated: M+
Edited: 07/09/12
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