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Music notes: Hermione ( beginning) Ready, Aim, Fire- Imagine Dragons.
Narcissa ( beginning ) Hero- Chad Cruger- Spider-man sound track
Chapter 3.
Getting to know you, the first night.
A few hours later, Hermione and Narcissa were eating dinner in a privet dinning room, Hermione was still a little shocked at everything that had happened in the last few hours. She had managed to avoid dying at the hands of Lord Voldimort, she had killed one of his personal Knights, and she now had a title, a wife, and a step-son her own age.
Now her and the new ' Lady ' Granger sat in a privet dinning room, eating simple dinner. " I'm sorry, Hermione, if this isn't exactly to your liking. I wasn't sure if we would be alive at this point." they had in the last couple of hours dropped formal titles and were now using first names.
" Don't worry about it" Hermione said " Trust me, after nearly a year of camp food, this is a feast." Narcissa smiled and said " Lucius would have been furious." Hermione snorted and said " You've also got to remember, I'm Common Born. Trust me, this is a feast."
They were eating a simple stew and a few small loaves of bread and some in season fruits. As Hermione said, this was a feast, since the stew was actually pretty rich, much better then most Commoners ever hoped to have. Even in Hogwarts.
Narcissa smiled slightly and nodded and said " I guess that's true enough Hermione." after a moment Hermione asked her " So, I take it then that I've just been married?" Narcissa nodded and said " Yes, very true." she paused a moment to ask " Are you displeased?" Hermione, to her credit, gave the matter a little bit of thought before she spoke again " No, I honestly can't say I am. Quite surprised, yes, but not displeased at all."
She then looked at the older woman and asked " So, tell me about yourself then Narcissa." Narcissa smiled slightly and nodded " I grew up in Magritan, I was the youngest daughter of the Black family. I was married to Lucius before I even finished training as a noble lady at Hogwarts Castle. I've done my best to raise my son, Draco, as far from his father as possible. Hoping his fathers Slytherin taint wouldn't affect him as much."
Hermione nodded as several things that hadn't made sense about the younger Malfoy started to click in her mind: Draco warshipping at the Temple of Slytherin, yet not looking like he was comfortable among the others. Draco running interfearance for her to get to her Temple before she was able to prove to the Slytherin's that she was not a good target ( funny how people get when you leave three of their own dead at their feet ). Draco kneeling at the Alter in the Temple of Gryffindor in secret when he thought no one was looking. Draco surrounded in Scarlet light in the midst of combat, able to stand against odds that should have killed him, Blessed of Gryffindor.
" Draco's a secret Gryffindor worshiper isn't he?" she asked to which Draco's mother merely smiled and sipped her tea. That was when Hermione noticed that Narcissa had put on a necklace, and hanging from it was a small lion. The symbol of Gryffindor. " Your a lioness." she said, to which Narcissa nodded. The Lionesses were the priestesses of Gryffindor, they were often warriors as well, which meant that Narcissa could, in fact, use her dagger if she had too. " I was two weeks from taking my final vow's when my father married me to Lucius. I had to leave the Castle, and leave my order."
Without thinking about what she was doing, Hermione got up and circled around the table and wrapped her arms around the older woman. As she did so, she heard a strangled sob rise from the other woman, and knew in her heart that she had been repessing this for a long time. They stayed like that for a long, long time...
Later that night, Hermione walked into the main bedchambers and found a sight that surprised her greatly, Narcissa standing next to the bed wearing a simple long night shirt and holding a candle. Her long black hair with its pale blonde streaks was pulled back into a loose pony tail and she looked kind of weary.
" I hope you don't mind, Hermione, but..I'm not used to sleeping in bed alone." the older woman said. Hermione paused only a second before saying " No, I don't mind." she smiled slightly and added " But you might be a little over dressed, I sleep nude when I can." Narcissa looked at her with raised eyebrows, then smiled slightly and said " I..I don't mind, but..um..are..are you sure you want me..naked, in your bed?"
Hermione smiled and said " Sure, I don't mind at all." she shrugged and started to pull off her boots. Narcissa looked at Hermione as she was undressing and found herself smiling a little as she saw the skin of Hermione's thigh ( surprisingly pale in compare with her arms and hands ) as she pulled off her pants, and a little more as she saw Hermione pull off her shirt.
Hermione looked at her, and noticed that she hadn't taken off her night shirt, but shook her head and smiled slightly, after all, his was their first night together after all. " You can stay dressed if you'd like, Narcissa, I don't mind."
Narcissa blushed a little then nodded at this, but contined to look at Hermione in a manor that made the latter feel a slight rush of desire, it also had much the same effect on the other woman as well as she looked the Knightrix over. From her modest breasts, with pale nipples, across her flat, toned stomache, to the light dusting of pubic hair over her mound.
" Why do you sleep naked?" Narcissa asked as she down in the bed, setting the candle on the night table. " Simple," Hermione said as she set her sword next to the bed before sitting next to her new wife " I can't exactly sleep in my day clothes, and if the camp is attacked I can't fight in a night shirt. So the obvious thing to do is to sleep naked."
After she pulled back the blankets and climbed into it, Narcissa smiled as she watched Hermione do the same before pulling the blankets up to her chin and smiled up at Narcissa and said " If..if it would make anything better, I'm sorry..for.." Narcissa smiled and said " Don't be, I'm glad that you got rid of that slimy bastard."
As Hermione smiled and closed her eyes, Narcissa blew out the candle, feeling happy for the first time in a long, long time.
A/N: Thank you all for being patent with me for this chapter, and I hope that you will all forgive me for not having a lemon here, but don't worry, they will be coming. Don't forget the review button.