AN: I love all of ya I really do, enjoy this chapter. Yah! Tom Felton won best villain at the MTV movie awards. I want to watch the last movie quickly and get it over with.

Chapter 4

Hermione couldn't manage to keep her eyes open for more then a couple seconds so Draco had to wait till the next day to answer her question. She had to recover even more before she could sit up and drink more of the potion that Snape was forcing on her. She was surprised that Draco actually listened to her and got Snape to come. Now both of them stood next to her while she sat up in bed with all the pillows that Draco could force on her helping her do so.

"Alright, now tell me," she said looking back and forth between them.

"Wait though," Draco said before turning to Snape, "This didn't happen the first time we had sex why now?"

"She was doing a preventative spell every day before you took her wand obviously, and I don't believe you can do a contraceptive spell wandlessly Hermione," Snape said looking at Hermione alone.

"Yes, I haven't done any since I arrived and he's always in too much of a hurry to think of one," she said blushing slightly discussing this with her now former lover because she had no doubts that Draco would tear apart Snape if he touched her. "But what does this have to do about yesterday?"

"Explain Draco," Snape said moving away from Hermione and towards a chair at the end of the bed.

"You remember what we did yesterday, well since neither of us thought of a preventative charm and because I haven't claimed you yet your body wasn't prepared for trying to get pregnant by me," Draco said keeping his eyes on her face and tried to stay calm as she turned her head away and pulled her knees up to her chest.

Hermione didn't respond though she understood what he was telling her. It made all of her decision with him stupid to rush into it without thinking about it. Thank merlin that Snape got here and helped. She was starting to wonder if she really was Malfoy's mate at all when he grabbed her shoulders and made her look at him.

"I told you the truth," he said quietly and she looked in his eyes before nodding.

"I don't think I should stay here," she said quietly she said watching the hurt flash through his eyes before they turned angry.

"You want to leave me for him," he snarled not looking at Snape.

"Where would you get that idea?" she asked resisting the urge to growl back at him.

"You don't want me," he said almost sounding like a whiny child being denied his favorite toy.

"Severus, could you leave for a moment?" Hermione asked keeping eye contact with Draco, when she heard the door close and the distant sound of his study closing as well she grabbed his shoulders and pulled him close before she started in on him. "Listen to me, I may not want you exactly the way you want me but I do like having sex with you. If we continue having crazy sex where we don't use prevention I'll keep getting like this and eventually I'll get sick and tired of it."

"Then just let me claim you and it'll never have to be like this again," he said still sounding whiny.

"I'm not sure I can do that now or ever for that matter," she said and he looked like he was going to start yelling she stopped him, "But that doesn't mean I want to go be with anyone else."

"Hermione, please stay with me," he begged getting on the bed with her and holding her close to him, "I can't stand it if you left me now."

"What do you think Snape is just going to tell everyone when he gets back to the order? That he has no damn idea where I am, that'll happen when hell freezes over," she said pulling back in his hold. "Besides you picked a very inappropriate time to kidnap me, I was just on the brink of discovering the last thing we needed to destroy Voldemort. If I promised to come back when the war was over would you let me go back with him?"

"How do I know I can trust you?" he asked.

"How very Slytherin of you, but I'm a Gryffindor so I keep my promises even if it's to kick you derriere when I get back for not taking the time to prevent this mess," she said stroking his face gently and he relaxed his hold.

"I trust you against my better nature, but just so you can end this war and then come straight back to me," he said pulling her close again and making her kiss him back gently.

"Let's go, the faster I leave the faster this ends," she said starting to climb out of bed and staggering on her legs a little from them being slightly sore and achy. He pulled one of her arms over his shoulder and gave her a piggy back ride though she protested saying it looked silly. Ignoring her he carried her into his study and put her down gently into a chair next to the fire.

"Severus, I'm going back to the Order with you put I don't want it known I was with Draco," she said watching Draco's back stiffen as he walked away and went for the bottle of firewhiskey on his desk.

"What do you plan on telling them? That you don't remember what happened to you for almost sixteen days," Snape said sneering.

"No, you're going to tell them that. Draco, where's my wand?" she asked. Draco narrowed his eyes looking suspicious he couldn't hear her thoughts clearly.

"What are you going to do with it?" he asked.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to castrate you. Give it to me," she said holding her hand out patiently. He opened a bottom drawer in his desk and gave it to her slowly watching the sparks fly out the end as she wrapped her fingers around it. Immediately she pinned him to the wall behind himself and he couldn't get free.

"What I'm about to do is drastic but I want neither of you interfering, do I have to tie you down Severus?" she asked standing up.

"Go on Hermione, I'm sure it will be dramatic and over the top, should you hit something critical however I will interfere," he said crossing his legs and looking like he was observing an interesting show.

"Who do you think I am?" she smiled.

Draco's eyes went wide as he realized Hermione was going to harm herself. She raised her arm and closed her eyes and gritting her teeth before starting to cut herself using magic. Draco screamed at her to stop and she only winced at his voice before lifting her shirt and making the cuts across her chest and back. He almost got free but she reinforced it before moving to her legs and making dark bruises on her legs and in random places all over her body. Her eyes dulled a bit and she shook it before summoning a vial from thin air.

"I'm putting my memories in here, give them back to me after everyone is convinced that I can't remember anything. Make sure I get these back," she said firmly to Snape who nodded curtly before she reached up to her temple and then stopped. "Also knock me unconscious and say you found me in a dungeon somewhere far away from here."

"Hermione, I changed my mind. Don't do this," Draco begged against the wall. She took her memories anyway as one giant strand and put them in the vial and then oblivated herself. While she was still confused Snape stunned her and caught her before she hit the floor. Draco was growling at Snape to take his hands off of her but Snape picked her up and carried her to the floo.

"Don't worry Draco, I wouldn't let anything happen to her either," Snape said before he went through. Once they were gone the hold on his loosened but he fell to his knees and felt that horrible hollow feeling in his chest and it paralyzed him to think of anything except she left him. He didn't have any idea how long he was there before Bubbly came and dragged him to bed leaving him on the bed in his clothes unmoving trying to get it through his head she said she would come back.

Hermione woke up in her room in Grimmuald place confused for a second. Harry and Ron were next to her bed immediately asking how she felt.

"I just feel sore, why am I here? I just remember heading to the front stoop for a breather and then nothing," she said sitting up and feeling muscles protest as Harry and Ron pushed her gently to lie back again.

"You were kidnapped over two weeks ago, Snape found you at a Death Eater rally and managed to smuggle you out. Don't you remember anything?" Ron asked. She rubbed her eyes and shook her head and started crying.

"What did they do to me?" she asked, watching both of them watch her worriedly. "Bring me Severus."

They got up leaving her room and she stared at the ceiling moving different parts of her body under the blanket and tried to feel what they did but whatever they did was making her recover quickly, her wounds felt like they were cut cleanly. She was not crying when Snape walked in and sat on the bed next to her. Sitting up she rested her head on his shoulder and looked up at him.

"You found me, thank you," she said.

"Nonsense, which of these idiots were going to figure out your notes and start working out the clues you gathered?" he said teasing her slightly. "You should go to sleep again, you haven't healed yet.

"Stay with me," she said pulling on him to lay next to her. "Tell me what happened, you won't sugar coat it for me."

"I won't tell you till your healed and things have calmed down," he said removing her hands and putting them at her sides. He thought for one second before he leaned down and kissed her feeling her old eagerness behind it. "Go back to sleep, I'll be right here."

She healed fully over the nest three days but demanded they give her the notes that they had taken. "I'm going to figure this out even if I have to stay in bed," she told them and they brought it to her figuring that if she didn't move then they would know where she was. Books were constantly flying back and forth into her room and she was getting frustrated, there weren't enough historical artifacts known to have survived for Voldemort to make seven Horcruxes and she had already counted Nagina as one.

"Could a piece of soul attach to a living being?" she asked Severus when he was in her room one afternoon to give her another potion. She barely noticed that he was avoiding touching her, she was focused right now.

"Yes," he said sounding like he was hiding something.

"What's in that head of yours you've been hiding?" she asked.

"Nothing you have to worry about," he said handing her potion and then leaving quickly seeing that she started worrying anyway.

The next day Harry left without a word and no matter how hard she beat on Snape he didn't tell her what was happening. She finally gave up and hoped Harry would come back.

Draco was there when Potter showed up willing to die amidst all the jeers and catcalls of the Death Eaters surrounding him. Potter stood in the middle of the room facing Voldemort wandless and alone. Draco had to hold himself still not to yell at the idiot for hurting his friends like this. In seconds Harry was on the floor dead and Voldemort was knocked back on his feet like something had hit him. Almost immediately Harry got back and everyone was too stunned to stop him as he cast his only killing curse at Voldemort up before he left quickly while everyone else was still stumbling over Voldemort saying he couldn't be dead. Draco left as well and went home feeling estatic, Hermione would come back to him now.

The Ministry was under the control of the order the second that Harry got back and told them what happened. Hermione was monitoring former status hunters like Umbridge for Kingsley. Snape had been trying to get her alone while Draco was constantly sending him howlers at his home yelling at him to make sure Hermione got her memories back. Draco had started threatening to kidnap her again. Finally though Snape managed to get her alone at his house.

"What's all this about Severus?" she asked coming in looking tired from all the work she was doing.

"You need these immediately," Snape said pulling out her memories.

"Are these my memories of when I went missing?" she asked and he nodded. She uncorked them and put them in her back. She realized what happened and groaned.

"Looking back at your own actions sometimes makes you look like a dumbass," she said to herself.

"Are you going to keep your promise to him?" Snape asked.

"I need to, I have to. Do you still have access to the mansion? I know he managed to wiggle his way out of Azkaban somehow and he's still there," she said.

"He comes through constantly to yell at me for not doing it sooner," Snape said looking at her a little wistfully.

"Can I have a kiss before I go? Just so I have something to remember you by," she asked stepping a little closer.

"He'll kill me later if I did," Snape said looking away so as not to be tempted.

"Alright, goodbye Severus. I'll make sure you continue to torment students from other houses over the years," she said.

"Make sure you give birth to geniuses and not spoiled brats like Malfoy, will you," he said and she giggled.

"That'll be hard if he's trying to make them just like him, they all might come out monstrous little geniuses spoiled by their father," she laughed.

"You better go before he comes through and gets you himself," Snape said.

"Okay, I get, I'll go," she said going to the fire and preparing to go, "Malfoy manor."

When she stepped through into Draco's study he was no where in sight. She called Bubbly.

"Miss is back, master will be so happy. While you were gone he was total sack of unhappy unless he was yelling at somebody, but not Bubbly," Bubbly said smiling the whole time.

"Where is he?" Hermione asked.

"In the library sniffing books and then reading them," Bubbly said and Hermione smiled as she followed her to the library. She went in quietly but he smelled her before she opened the door and was there to grab her. He held her close and just took in her scent not caring that a little of other peoples was mixed in with hers.

"You can let go now," she said pushing at him a little but his grip tightened.

"No," he growled.

"Malfoy, I can't stay all the time like I did when you kidnapped me. I have a job and if I go missing for too long Harry and Ron will come looking for me and then throw your werewolf arse into prison with no trouble," she said into his ear slowly. His grip just tightened and she had to tug her hands away from his chest to have more room.

"I'll let you go in a couple of hours to go back to work, but I need you to at least spend the night with me if your still not going to let me claim you," he said sneakily moving his hands down her back.

"Stop that I know where your hands are going," she said making him groan as he did, "Claiming me is like getting married, permanent. I know you want it, but I'm not sure I do."

"Hermione, you know I want you? You know I love you? What do you need me to do to convince you to just be with me?" he asked.

"I have no idea why I'm holding back," she said surprising herself more then him. "I just have no reason not to; maybe it's just that we were enemies for so long before this happened."

"Then give me that time to make it up to you, I promise I'll never cause an unhappy day in your life from now on," he said looking her in the eye.

"Let me sleep on it for a while then," she said. "I'll tell you in two days if I will or not. And I'm going to tell Harry and Ron."

"Why so they can come and shot me with silver? Hell no, leave them out of this," he begged.

"I have to, they'll get a little curious don't you think when they find out I'm living with you and you have some sort of strange dependency on me," she said loosening his grip on her. He was scowling at her un-approving of what she wanted to do now.

"They don't know anything, but once I tell them I'll make sure they don't hurt you," she said reaching up and stroking his face slowly.

"Alright, but I want you now," he said reaching for the buttons on her clothes.

"What do you think your doing?" she asked moving his hands away.

"Oh your not leaving until I get a little of that crazy ass sex we had last time, without the fainting after part," he said pushing her hands to the side.

"I'm not agreeing to that right now, I just got my memories back today I don't want to have sex," she said putting her hands right back up in front of her forgetting he was a wizard and she was a witch, something he remembered. Her clothes were suddenly gone and so were his. She suddenly found herself on a couch with him looming over her with his wand pointed at her stomach. The warming sensation continued after though that was probably because Draco was laying on top of her and kissing her senseless while trying to pry apart her legs. She fought to keep her senses and not letting his burning touch make her change her mind about not being with him today. When he did manage to open her legs he thrust into her before she could protest and she fell apart at the seams arching into him to take him deeper. Wrapping her legs around his waist she gave in without a word and he kissed her again softly almost smiling in satisfaction. He moved in and out of her quickly holding her legs at his side and panting in her ear while she moaned back in his. She came with a muffled moan and he joined her groaning loudly against her throat.

"I'm going to hit you when this orgasms over," she said laying back on the couch exhausted.

"I'll take that," he said looking at her with his hair hanging in his eyes somewhat making him look sexier to her. Her hair was probably a mess but he ran his fingers through it and wrapping strands around his fingers every once in a while. After a while she moved to sit up and he got off of her watching her look at her nakedness uncomfortably.

"Where are my clothes?" she asked.

"In my bathroom, come on no one is going to see you naked in here besides me," he said taking her hand and pulling her behind him to his bedroom. She walked into the bathroom and indeed saw her clothes sitting in a neat pile on a decorative chair. She made sure her wand was there and got in the shower planning on taking a quick one and leaving in a hurry. He got in with her and delayed that plan for about twenty minutes.

After she dried off and told Draco no firmly she got dressed and ready to leave. He sat in a chair watching her in nothing but a towel.

"Can I apparate out of here or do I have to use the floo?" she asked using her wand to fix her hair.

"I'll key you to the wards so you can come and go when you want too, but where are you living right now?" he asked.

"With a few order members at Grimmuald place still though I'm looking for an apartment," she said starting to put on her shoes. He got up and went to a dresser and started searching in it before he pulled out a set of keys.

"Here, this is to an apartment about five blocks from the ministry," he said trying to give it to her but she refused.

"You'll just come in every night when I'm exhausted and tire me out more you twit. I'm not falling for it," she said putting her hands on her hips and he smiled seeing fire run through her eyes.

"Come on, I won't bother you and besides you promised to give me an answer in a couple of days. I'll be lonely but I'll live, and you can have it and put up any wards you want against me," he said still holding them out to her. She took it and put them in her pocket.

"I'm going to look at it and if I like it I'll move in, otherwise I stay at Grimmauld," she said she turned on the spot and left him.

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