Disclaimer:I own nothing but the plot and that is the truth; sadly the rest belongs to J.K Rowling.
Summary:"I want some grand babies soon and Lucius and I think that you're the perfect candidate." Hermione didn't wait to hear the rest before she hightailed it out of there.
Nekoearlover: I couldn't do...LOL I tried but mi hermana was breathing down my neck for the lap top...maybe next chapter. XD
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Pocket full of Sunshine
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The sky usually orange and pink sky that is always seen during sunset was absent that day, in it's place was ominous as the grey clouds rumbled along in the sky, casting a dark shadow upon the grounds of Hogwarts and the areas surrounding it. No student stayed out longer than necessary in order to prevent being caught in the rain storm that they all knew was coming; whispering to themselves, better to be safe than sorry. Inside of the castle walls, the students fluttered around moving from one class to the next, talking, shoving and playing; their everyday routine. Hermione was amongst the few seventh year students who had chosen Care of magical creatures as an elective that year and as always, the class would be kept outside. Seeing that the sky promised rain-and lots of it- said class was cancelled for the day, as they were told during breakfast earlier on in the day. The other seventh years who chose not to take that class again, groaned at their stupidity, wishing that they could take a break from the ever increasing mass of work load and home work that they were collecting from their classes.
Per usual, Hermione chose to spend her free period wisely, instead of hanging around the rather gloomy castle and chatting up a storm. No, the ever assiduous girl was currently sitting in the library pouring over some tome doing her potions home work; which wasn't due till the following Friday. Those who came into the dusty old library and saw her there was not surprised by her presence, but the person sitting right next to her looking like the ever protective guard dog that he had sort of became.
Hermione sighed in frustration as a third year boy almost walked into a bookshelf after watching over to the area she sat. Surely it was amusing gauging their reaction to her current situation, but a girl can only stay entertained for so long before taking pity on the poor students. A husky laughter to her left caused her to glare at her 'mate'. Over the weekend, they had taken the time to talk about their situation and how they were going to deal with it. It had been amusing when Snape had barged into their room, vial in hand and proceeded to pour it down Malfoy's throat; claiming that he wasn't going to have them spawning arrogant bookish Malfoys while he had a chance to stop it. Soon after he was done with his proclamation, he had stormed out of their common room to Merlin knows where; leaving the two behind in a confused daze.
"Stop it Malfoy it's not funny!" Hermione swatted at his arm in an attempt to scold him. Draco gave her the sweetest smile he could muster before bursting out in laughter when another student did the exact same thing once again. Hermione ran her nimble fingers through her hair in frustration at the boy sitting next to her. She was sure that in any second, the old librarian, Pince, would appear and kick them out and Hermione couldn't allow that to happen till her homework was finished.
"Can't help if those bloody idiots can't act like they've never seen two people sitting together before." He broke off into another peal of laughter as the same student took a peek at them again as if to confirm that his eyes were not deceiving him.
Frustrated that she was not going to get any work done, Hermione began packing up her tomes, parchment and quills, and made her way out of the library to her Heads dorm to finish it in peace and quiet; well as much as peace as Malfoy was going to give her. The sound of foot steps behind her caused her to turn around to see who it wasthat was walking behind her, hoping that it was Draco. Seeing no one, she quickly turned around, her pace quickening. Ever since she'd became Head Girl, she hated coming from the library late at night because the path in which she had to take to get to the library from her new dorm was quiet and eerie. There a hand full of people who knew that she was scared to walk in the dark by herself, but knowing how people cannever keep their traps shut a lot more probably knew by now. Though, she was never teased about it because every one knew that, that fear had been resurrected during the Great war.
She could still hear the foot steps behind her, speeding up but staying far enough so that she would nothave been able to see who ever it was, Merlin knows that she wasn't going to chance it and go after them because the person already had the advantage of being able to see her, while she could not see them. Stopping to take a quick look behind her once again, she caught a glimpse of a shadow not too far off and she mentally berated herself for not waiting for Draco to walk back to their dorms together. Hermione knew that the person was following her to get the location of the Heads dorm-because if they were going to attack her, they would have done so before- and there was no way would she lead them there. Turning around to continue her trek to throw off her pursuer, Hermione screamed out loud when a pair of arms wrapped around her waist.
"Hey, love calm down it's me, shh, it's just me." Draco attempted to soothe her. He wrapped his arm around her waist, then gently tugged her towards his chest as he buried his nose in her hair.
He had seen her when she'd left the library, he wasted no time in following her, but got side tracked by Pince who decided to scold him on his behavior. Mid way into her tedious lecture, Draco some how felt distress, but as irritating as it was listening to Pince, he knew that it would never cause him distress. His veela was restless and he some how knew it was Hermione. Ignoring the old librarian and her squawks of "come back I'm not done yet you little brat," Draco wasted no time in following Hermione, opting to forgo the direction that she went, to going another, it wasn't long before he saw her. He watched as shestopped and look behind her, her fear radiating off of her in waves. The Malfoy heir wanted to cause harm to whom ever had worked up the courage to grow balls and come after his mate. He went up to her, and wrapped his arm around her only for her to scream.
With his chin now resting on the top of her head, he glared in the direction that he knew Hermione's stalker stood, waiting and watching and most definitely angry that what ever sick plan they had was now spoiled. Sniffing the air, Draco got a whiff of the person's scent and burned it into his memory. There would be hell to pay, when he matched the scent with a face.
Definite hell.
He had expected for there to be people against his newly discovered relationship with Hermione, but not once had he foreseen an attack to be made on either of them. Not once had he gone after someone who's relationship he'd thought was despicable and threatened them; no he left them to do what ever they'd desire, but it was obvious that they couldn't show the same respect to him; and if anything Malfoys demanded respect. Draco knew that it will be a frozen day in hell before he let some one harm his mate, obviously the attacker had not anticipated that.
Leaning down, he let his lips drop to her ear, "we're not going to our common room, I don't want whom ever it is to be able to find it. Let's go to the Gryffindor commons, I need to have a talk with Potty." Pulling back, he saw that she had her lips pursed, no doubt angry at the little nic-name Draco had given to her friend.
"Glad to see at least one of us is in a chipper mood," Hermione tried her hardest to control the relieved smile that was bubbling up inside of her, she was sure it was his Veela tendencies which was to thank for him getting to her on time. Walking ahead of him, she turned around to find him still glaring in the direction of her stalker. "Well, are you coming or not?" She watched his blond head nod in affirmation and he was soon walking with her, arms around her waist.
He was going to give that pot head an ear full for not being on the alert.
The Gryffindor common room was partially empty, with only a few students loitering around the red and gold room; amongst the few sat Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley. It should have been no surprise to anyone at seeing Hermione walking into her old commons room, but the person behind her caused a few that were having a sip of what ever they had in their cups (by the looks of their near nirvana state, Hermione could only guess what it was) to either choke on said drink, or end up snorting it out their nose. Hermione turned her head away disgusted at the scene in front of her; then proceeded to walk towards Harry and Ginny's secluded corner.
"Well, well, well, look what our little cat has dragged in. Hermione, never knew you were one, to feast on snakes." Harry said smirking, Ginny, Hermione and Malfoy just gave him a look that said, 'please do shut up'. "Alright, I'll just be quiet right about now."
"Potter, you keep on surprising me at how lame you can be." Malfoy drawled earning an 'play nice' look from Hermione, all the while sitting directly in front of the couple. Harry opened his mouth to reply, only to have Malfoy cut him off once again, "anyways, lets get down to business, yea?"
"Lets, Malfoy" Harry rolled his eyes at the young man, earning a rather playful glare from Hermione.
In fear of anyone bold enough to eavesdrop on their conversation, Draco leaned closer to Ginny and Harry, pulling Hermione on to his lap. " Potter I think that there are some people who, are trying to either scare Hermione or hurt her." Feeling satisfied when all playfulness left Harry's face, Malfoy continued, relaying what had occurred a few minutes ago in the hallway. When he was done, Harry looked like he was ready to kill at moments notice making Draco's veela even more pleased that it's mate had protective friends. 'Just in case I can't be there' he thought to himself.
"Do you know who it is? Bloody wanker should know better than to mess with her. Malfoy, keep you eyes on her, and Hermione trust no one, and I mean no one." Harry was up on his feet pacing, and practically breathing fire.
"Listen Potter, I know my job, lets hope that you know yours," from his peripheral vision,Draco saw a couple of people enter the commons room, one in particular caused Draco to bring up his guard. "Tell no one of this Potter, and I mean no one, even people you think have a right to know, don't because I think who ever came after her tonight knew about her fear and tried to pin it against her."
Understanding washed over him and Harry nodded his head, as did Ginny. They knew he was right, and based on what they knew, anybody could be the suspect, and they'd be none the wiser if they went around talking about it and not knowing whom ever it was, they could end up giving info to said person. A question popped into Ginny's head at the thought.
"What about you? You can't tell either, you can never trust some of those Slytherins y'know." It was directed to Malfoy, obviously.
"There's only one Slytherin that I can tell, and that's Blaise," raising his hand to stop their protest he continued, "Blaise knew about her even before we came to school and he actually likes her as a friend so I know it would neverbe him. Besides, he himself told me that he preferred her to one of those door knobs that this school has, and the social climbers." Came Draco's response before he sat back, pulling Hermione further back onto his lap in a comfortable position as another couple approached their little corner.
"Oh my god, Hermione! I haven't seen you in forever, you never come around here anymore. Always cooped up into that Head Commons room doing Merlin knows what; and with Malfoy no less." Came Lavender's high pitched voice, the subtle jab at Hermione, wasn't as subtle as the stupid bint Lavender had made it seem, or attempt to.
Draco opened his mouth to reply to her, but Hermione beat him to it. "Well, what ever we do, is really none of your business really. At least my darling Veela knows that his mate isn't the school bicycle y'know."Hermione replied nonchalantly then proceeded to kiss Draco on the lips, and she could feel him smile at her response.
'Well said my dear.'
Lavender's calm and collected look melted as quickly as it was put up, "Well at least MY man hasn't slept with half of the female population," she snarled and Hermione saw the wasted students cease their drunken laughter and the sober ones, cease their talking and what not. The room was quiet as everyone listened in on the show down.
"Oh please Lavender, he couldn't do it he tried." Hermione waved her away as if she was an annoying mosquito."Look at it this way if you please, there'll be no use of me getting an abortion if he does get me pregnant now is there." Hermione's response was met with laughter and shocked faces as she pulled a smirking Malfoy out of the Gryffindor common room.Hermione and Draco could hear the laughter till the portrait slammed shut behind their retreating figures. Hermione could have only guessed the look on poor Lav-Lav's face, but any sympathy or guilt she would have felt for the girl flew out the tower when she had the nerve to insult Draco.
"Fucking slag," the words came tumbling out of her mouth before she could even stop them, earning a rather hearty laugh from Draco.
"Never in my life would I have guessed what a potty mouth you'd have love, and by the way, great show you put on back there, great show indeed. Weasel's face was as red as a tomato." Hermione's cheeks tinted pink, happy at the compliment as they continued walking.
"Well, what can I say?" She shrugged, "as the old muggle saying goes, you are the company you keep,or the food you eat; something of the sorts. Seeing that my current company is a foul mouthed person, you can only expect the same from me once in a while." Laughing at his shocked expression, she took off running.
Harry and Ginny couldn't hold back their laughter after watching their Hermione snap back at Lavender, then all but drag her Veela behind her and out the door. Ron, just stood there flabbergasted at what he'd just heard, and from the looks of it Harry could tell his friend was going to blow his gasket and he just waited to hear what stupidity his friend was going to spew.
"How dare she! How dare that bitch bring that fucking Slytherin in here? And why couldn't you say something back at her? Why did you let her walk all over you like that Lavender!" Ron was seething, Harry and Ginny merely raised an eyebrow at their so called friend, in Ginny's case idiotic brother.
Lavender just stood there looking as if she wished the Earth would have swallowed her up right then and there, to escape the mocking glances, the pointing fingers and worst of all, she knew that by tomorrow, the entire school was going to know. She hadn't expected Hermione to say that out loud, but then again she knew that Hermione wouldn't have, never done that if she hadn't been attacked. Looking over to her ranting boy friend, she felt a little bit pleased that, he wasn't confronting her about her abortion that she'd had and who the father was at the time. She could hear the stomping of feet as more students came from their beds to inquire about all the commotion.
Yes, she was royally screwed now.
Seeing that Lavender was ignoring him, Ron turned to Harry to use him as an out let for all his anger. "So now, you're all buddy, buddy with Malfoy huh? Harry I thought you were my friend!" Ron ranted but having a little bit of common sense to stay a little bit away from Harry just in case he decided to test his sharpness of his wand on him, like that sleaze Hermione did. Yes, he was definitely mad at her for even coming close to the damn ferret and even bring the disgusting animal in their commons.
Standing up, Harry turned to Ron, "You need to calm down because right now you're only making a fool of yourself in front of every body. Goodnight." And with that, he took Ginny's hand and the two of them departed the commons in favor of getting sleep and getting away from the raging Ron.
A/N:I know there isn't much to laugh about in this chapter, but I'm feeling kind of sick so, the happy, happy moment were not coming to mind as I wrote this. I know I took long before I updated but it really wasn't my fault, I tried yesterday and the stupid document was acting up, so I was sick and in a pissy mood yesterday...Thank God there are different ways to approach things and write fudging documents.
Any who, we learn another thing about our dear Lavender and her new beau Ron. Also a STALKER comes into play, who knows what's going to happen to Hermione or our dearest Draco... I don't even know. lol...
For every body who was worrying about Snape, I hope you find what he did as interesting as it was for me to write it...It never really occurred to me to write it that way, it just happened. I swear...
Thanks to: wasu, Mistress of DarkShadow, Lady-Crymsyn, iluvharryandron, Heidi191976allycat1186, El Neneo, LilyFlower121, heavenleehime, GoddessOfLove-War-Light-Dark, amrawo, beautifulluckuaura, Readerforlife, Wudelfin.
SlytherinFrost: For some reason, I love the idea of the amazingly stupid weasel, lol now all I need to do is pick whom will have the privilege to do it...thanks for the idea XD
TheresNothingInside: I know the last part was kind of like wow, I had to put it in there I couldn't help myself...though I hope you keep it in mind when you continue to read...
Irene0222: I'm glad you liked the story and I hope it gets a lot less confusing for you...
Ginnylovesharry07: Oh don't worry, the villain will pay, but maybe you can give me a little hint, hint for what you'd want to see would be help ful.
Polegara: Yea, Snape is going to be a rather, odd one in this one, but don't get me wrong, he'll still be that greasy haired, person that we all know and love.
Eva1983: Yea I do have a beta but she's currently unavailable but I'll try to read through it more often so I can make it flow, and hopefully this chapter didn't jump around...thanks for the comment.
Rachel9493:Thank you so much...I'm glad that you liked it. I've always wanted to write a veela fanfic, so I try to make it enjoyable at least.
Evil Tobi: Tension is good... hopefully this has enough tension for you...
ginsensu: It seems nobody wants them to be together, jealous fiends, but fear not, they'll be together...I think XD