Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any affiliated characters. I just happened to come up with the plot for this ship. All credit to J.K for her amazing universe that she allows us to play in.
Warning: Rated M. Cursing, sexual innuendos, lemons and fluff ahead.
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This chapters song: Everything Has Changed, Taylor Swift ft Ed Sheeran
Lyric of choice: I just want to know you better, know you better, know you better now.
Aftermath
Chapter Nine
Draco
Theo stomped down the stairs to find Draco in the dining room sipping wine looking out the window at the enchanted garden. "How did you even get in you bastard?" Theo asked as he went over to the wet bar in the corner and poured himself a fire whiskey.
Draco snorted. "Floo in your office you prat. You shouldn't have left me in there."
Theo grunted and then said. "Fair enough."
"So how long has this been going on?"
Theo raised an eyebrow. "How long has what been going on?"
Draco gave him one of his famous bored looks. "Is that how we are going to play it? Play dense?"
Theo smirked and leaned back against the bar lifting his glass to his lips. "Yep."
They both turned as Hermione breezed in and Theo about swallowed his damn tongue. She was a vision in pink with her hair falling about her shoulders in loose soft curls and, damn she looked lush in that dress. Why the fuck had he handed that to her?
She smiled at him and walked over leaning up against him. "I got Tuily a new dress, she is changing."
Theo nodded and worked on swallowing, and when he looked over at Draco the man looked like he had been hit with a jinx. He was staring at Hermione with his mouth open and making a stupid gasping noise. Hermione just ignored him and walked over to pour herself a glass of wine before she walked over and grabbed Theo's wand out of his pocket and conjured up another place setting.
That seemed to snap Draco out of his trance because he said loudly. "You let her use your fucking wand?"
Hermione gave him a bored stare and handed Theo back his wand saying sweetly. "Dear, your friend really has no manners. Yelling in a dining room, honestly. Was he raised by wolves?"
Theo smiled at her and leaned down to brush her hair off her shoulder. "Dragon's I think."
He saw her lips twitch but she managed not to laugh instead she turned around to head back into the kitchen, probably to help Tuily with dinner.
"She used your bloody wand," Draco said, although in a lower tone.
Theo shrugged twirling his wand in his hand and sipping his fire whiskey. "You are ever observant, Malfoy."
Draco threw himself down in a chair in irritation. "What the hell is going on? Did I step into an alternate universe? How do you even know Hermione Granger? I mean we've been friends since infancy and you've never mentioned her. Not once!"
Theo smirked crossing his legs and taking another sip of his whiskey. "I didn't meet her until we were eleven, Draco."
Draco waved his hands and said. "You know what the hell I mean, Nott!'
Theo chuckled into his glass. "We don't share everything about each other, Malfoy."
Draco glared at him. "We don't? Since when?"
Theo paused and then shrugged, okay he had a point they had pretty much spent their whole lives sharing everything with each other. Theo sighed and then said. "Kitten, we have to fill him in or he is going to make our lives miserable."
Draco raised an eyebrow at the 'kitten' just as Hermione said. "Go ahead."
Theo sat down and glared at his best mate. "You don't repeat a fucking thing we tell you tonight."
Draco shrugged unconcernedly. "Who would believe me?"
Theo sighed as the door opened and Hermione stepped in with a casserole dish. "Tuily isn't eating with us; she said she wants to watch her program on the tele."
Draco looked at her in confusion. "The tele?"
Theo sighed. "It's a muggle thing Hermione introduced Tuily too."
Hermione grinned and sat down the dish. "Cottage pie."
Theo walked over to hold out her chair and glared at Draco who stood up hastily looking a bit embarrassed. "Right, sorry."
Theo shook his head as Hermione sat down and smiled at him. "I forgot the bread."
He nodded and waved his wand, when the bread floated in he set it down on the table and sat down nodding at Draco who was sitting again and looking at them curiously.
"So? When did this happen?" Draco asked gesturing between the two of them.
Hermione sighed. "We met again a little over three months ago. The day before the morning you walked in on me, actually."
Draco frowned at them as Theo platted him up a portion of the cottage pie. "And what are you two? Dating?"
Hermione frowned. "Theo doesn't date." She said simply giving Draco an innocent look.
Theo chuckled and then said. "And either does Hermione, apparently." Hermione nodded and smiled at him.
"So then what the hell are you two doing?" Draco said in confusion.
Hermione paused thinking for a moment and then said sweetly. "Sleeping."
Draco went a little red. "So you're just shagging?"
Theo shook his head, greatly enjoying his mates confusion. "There is more than one definition for sleeping mate."
Draco snorted pointing his fork at Hermione. "Oh no, I refuse to believe you can sleep next to a witch that hot and not shag her."
Theo rolled his eyes as Hermione let out a small snort of a laugh and then shrugged. "Well, he can, because we have not shagged."
Draco shook his head. "You're gay. I always knew it."
Theo looked at the ceiling praying for patience. "Malfoy, it is possible for two people to have a relationship without shagging each other."
Draco snorted while Hermione smiled. "I managed it for seven years at school you know."
Theo looked up and said. "Yeah but you shagged the Weasel eventually."
Draco grunted. "Well, then seven years from now you might have hope, Nott. Until then, Granger, I will shag you right now, just say the word."
Hermione looked to be the one praying for patience now, while Theo contemplating hexing his best mate.
"You are not shagging her," Theo said angrily.
Hermione raised an eyebrow at him in a challenge so Theo glared at her now. "Don't even go there Hermione, if I scare you in bed this prat will terrify you. He likes it rough."
Hermione flushed and looked over at a grinning Malfoy. "I do actually. Ever wanted to be tied up, Granger?"
She sputtered on her wine and then said primly. "Not by you, Malfoy."
Draco rubbed his hands in glee looking at Theo. "Now this has promise, she didn't say she didn't like it, just that she wouldn't do it with me. Cheers, Nott."
Theo groaned and closed his eyes knowing exactly what Malfoy was up to, and fuck him it was working too. An image of Hermione tied to his bed naked was now dancing behind his eyes and he was very close to embarrassing himself.
He threw his napkin over his lap and said in a deadly voice. "Malfoy, shut up."
Draco chortled as Hermione seemed a bit taken aback, her face thoughtful. "Hmm, he has a point though. It's not that I would be against that, I just wouldn't bloody do it with him."
Draco looked intrigued. "What would you do with me, Granger?"
She shrugged and looked him straight in the eyes. "Right now the list is speak to you civilly in Theo's home and share dinner with you, but you're pushing even that from happening."
Theo smirked and then raised his glass at her. "No need to be civil on my count, kitten. I didn't invite him over tonight so he is interrupting our time, tell him off."
Draco continued to eat his face incredulous. "You two sure as hell act like a couple. What am I missing?"
Hermione said sweetly. "The ability to form a lasting relationship with the opposite sex and not have it based on lust?"
Theo saluted her. "I do lust for you though so that's hardly fair."
Hermione considered that and then said. "True enough, you're very shaggable."
Draco shook his head. "So you both wish to shag each other?"
Theo paused looking at Hermione who tilted her head and then in her madenly direct way said. "Well, of course, he's bloody gorgeous and I've seen him naked. Who wouldn't' wish to shag him."
Draco nodded his face expressionless. "And you are not shagging him because?"
Theo waited, curious to hear this answer himself.
Hermione flushed and then said softly. "He hasn't offered, I like sleeping with him and that would complicate things, and well, I don't just shag people without there being a commitment of some kind."
Theo let out his breath and then frowned picking his fork back up.
Draco was studying Hermione before he said. "Well, he doesn't do commitment."
Hermione nodded. "Yes, I realize that hence no shagging."
Draco looked over at Theo. "Sorry mate. We can go trolling for pussy this weekend."
Hermione went a bit red and then said. "Actually Theo, Draco is right, you don't need to be not, well dating how you feel comfortable just because we are in this friendship."
Theo gave her a long look and then said. "I know. When you date, I will."
Hermione frowned at him. "But I don't want to date."
He grinned. "Either do I?"
Draco interrupted. "Shagging is not dating."
Theo grunted. "Shut up, Malfoy."
Hermione just ate her food.
Draco, however, wasn't silent for long. "Okay, I can understand why she isn't shagging you. But, why the hell are you not shagging her, Nott?"
Hermione looked up to see Theo glowering at his dinner growling. "Malfoy, I swear…"
But Draco didn't shut his mouth, instead, he said sternly leaning back. "No, no, this has to be discussed because I am deeply concerned about your state of mind. She's bloody gorgeous, legs for days, nice tits, what the hell is going on with you?"
Hermione set down her fork and leaned her head on her hand smirking at Theo. "Actually, Theo. I am curious about this too. You haven't touched me sexually since that morning we kissed three months ago."
Theo tossed down his fork looking annoyed. "You mean the morning you told me that you don't shag for kicks and that you also don't do relationships?"
Hermione felt her heart hitch a little and then sat up nodding. "Well, yes."
Theo gave her a long look and then crossed his arms. "Kitten, I would lock you in my room and shag you for a week if you gave me any indication you might be willing. You have not, however, so I don't."
Draco huffed. "Pussy."
Hermione glared at him. "Actually, Malfoy, it's called being a gentleman."
Draco rolled his eyes continuing to eat his supper. "Like I said, Nott's a pussy and you're apparently frigid."
Hermione flinched as Theo looked over at Draco his face scary to behold.
"Malfoy, you-"
Draco waved him off. "Oh calm down it was a compliment. She could use her charms against you but she's not."
Hermione gasped at him. "Who needs insults with compliments like yours?"
Theo grunted and then said. "You're not frigid Hermione."
She shrugged going a bit pale. "I am pretty sure I am actually." But she said it under her breath.
Theo's raised eyebrows told her that he had heard her but Draco was busy mumbling something about how much he disrespected Theo for not jumping her bones.
"Honestly Malfoy is everything about sex with you?" Hermione asked.
Theo and Draco both said at the same time. "Yes."
Notes:
Yep, it's all about sex... Oh, Draco.
