Chapter one
1981 a dark and terrible night
It was true… all those terrible warnings her husbands distant behaviour and his late night meetings.
Voldermort had began his attack and it had started with the Potters, rocking her own son Narcissia Malfoy chewed her thin and brightly painted lips. War was here and she feared would come of herself and her precious son.
Draco's stormy grey eyes peered up at his mother with confusion and fear and Narcissia turned to the nursery windows. Some where out there Voldermort was fighting against the Potters while Lucis lead an attack with fellow death eaters.
"Oh my son" Narcissia sighed before pressing a kiss against Draco's forehead before blinking the tears back she looked at the raging storm and swallowed enough courage to do what was needed of her to save her son.
The war would be lost to Voldermort of that she had no doubt but she could not know the outcome for her husband and if he did not fall too then he would make sure his son followed in his footsteps.
It didn't matter where Narcissia hid Draco Lucis would find him within the magical world and both she and Draco would suffer for her actions. There was one place she could ensure Draco never came to any harm and that would be in a place Lucis knew nothing about.
"I wish the Goblin would take this child… and keep him safe" Narcissia held Draco closer to her and breathed in his scent before she spoke the last words.
"Right now" Narcissia whispered before all the lights within the mansion flickered out the windows leading to the nursery burst open. When Narcissia opened her eyes she saw a tall figure standing before her, a cruel smile playing across his thin lips.
Gasping she never truly understood how beautiful and fearful the goblin king could truly be until he was stood before her in the flesh.
"You are the goblin King" Narcissia questioned as Jareth nodded his mismatched eyes darting to a squirming Draco.
"You understand that you will never see your son again" Jareth wasn't offering her a chance to change her mind he was simply pointing out the cruel fate she was sealing herself to.
"I understand… he would… he will be safer away from here" Narcissia declared as Jareth flashed his eyes at her before nodding. Holding his arms out Narcissia swallowed hard and moved forward blinking back the tears as she readied her self to hand her only beloved son to the goblin king.
With quick movement no human nor wizard could hold Narcissia stumbled back when Draco rested comfortable in Jareth's arms .
"He will become a goblin" Jareth told her as Narcissia balled her fists and forced herself to look away knowing that the urge to pull her wand free and use it upon the goblin king was building up in her.
When Jareth spoke no more Narcissia looked up to see she was alone in the nursery tending only to her broken heart and wishes to the night and a goblin king.
A hundred years was an unlikely age for any human to reach… unlikely not impossible… it was rare but never unheard of for a witch to reach that age.
However she was not just a witch nor a human but a goblin princess thrown in as well… Hermione understood from an early age that she would never truly age like a witch or human after her change to a Fae.
It was her father's will and she couldn't understand nor hold the power to defy him. But of course that would be as long as she wanted to and for a hundred years Hermione had no indication to do any such thing.
Hermione the Goblin Princess barely looked twenty five she sure didn't look a hundred years old nor did she look like any mere mortal. Her golden brown hair laid in rivers of rings against her back, her soft peach colour face seemed to glow and her cinnamon eyes were afire with flames none could ever understand.
Though there was many things Hermione loved about her world and her life there was one thing she hated and that was her father's duty to take away children and for the most part they were better off in the underground but there was some that were wished away by a sibling who didn't understand what they were truly doing.
She hadn't dared to speak out against her father but over the past few years as her magic grew she questioned him.
She felt her father's anger every time she did this but for as cruel as he may be he was still her father and he still loved her.
"Mione" a gruff voice called through the green bushes that surrounded the Goblin castle, the young princess spun to find her self beaming as the small dwarf hobbled his way through the undergrowth and peer up at her under bushy eyebrows.
"Hoggle" Hermione exclaimed as she moved her way forward grumbling in the back of her mind once more at the dress she was made to wear.
For somewhere deep in the castle her father's voice echoed through her mind, laughing and reminding her a princess should always wear beautiful dresses.
"Come quick Mione… he's taken another… your father" Hoggle exclaimed darting his dark eyes around him in fear that the king would appear then and there to dunk him into the bog. Hermione laughed, a cruel and cold sound but the complete opposite, though she sounded like a Goblin she was much more kind hearted and more generous then any goblin.
"Who has he taken Hoggle" Hermione demanded standing before the dwarf who shuddered, then glanced around him once more.
"A child… he's taken a child… and he's be like you this child" Hoggle admitted as Hermione furrowed her brow and bent down to face level with the dwarf.
"What a goblin" Hermione asked as Hoggle rolled his eyes and gave Hermione a firm look.
"No… why would it matters if he was a goblin… no the child he's a wizard" Hoggle stated as Hermione furrowed her brow before sighing.
"What does it matter… my father takes children away after they are wished away… it is not my place to question that" Hermione stated causing Hoggle to raise his eyebrows at her.
"You don't know about the war going on in the wizarding world" Hoggle questioned as Hermione flashed her eyes at him.
"War… what war" Hermione demanded as Hoggle flinched back and lowered his eyes seeing the true Goblin in Hermione.
"Yeah… a war some dark wizard has risen to power and now is going after some poor kid" Hoggle stated as Hermione chewed her lip and looked to the castle, patting Hoggle's shoulder Hermione made her way back to the castle intent on seeing the child her father had taken.
Jareth watched only half amused as the goblins peered and studied the child screaming in the circle seating area. Draco was not a happy child but he was powerful as was proven when he seemed to will a goblin away from him with such force. He would make the prefect Goblin prince… but something was stopping Jareth from turning the child, it was only a matter of minutes upon returning that Jareth turned Hermione but the fact that Draco's mother had been willing to give up her happiness for the sake of her son made Jareth pause in further action.
"Father" Hermione gentle but determined voice called as she arrived in the throne room scanning the sea of goblins before resting her cinnamon eyes on the screaming infant. Jareth watched with interest as his daughter made her way straight to the child pushing and kicking Goblins out of the way.
"What are you gremlins doing to this poor child" Hermione snapped causing Goblins to flinch back before Hermione sat beside the boy who began to ease up on his crying and simple watched the princess through a haze of unshed tears.
"We're not gremlins… thems smell bad" a goblin declared before flinching back when Hermione snapped her eyes towards it and glowered. Jareth smirked as he watched his daughter extract only half of her power over the small creature, he was proud of her but he also worried that no matter what he did she would never be truly like him.
"How about I dip you head first into the bog… then you shall smell just like a gremlin" Hermione threatened causing the goblin to shriek and scurry away before Hermione turned to the child with a gentle air surrounding her.
Draco seemed to be enrapture with her, his grey eyes never leaving her fact and his mouth pulled in to a dreamy smile. The child Jareth could see was mesmerised by his daughter as so many other children had been before but there was more… despite the child's age Jareth could see a bond forming and a love growing inside of the child.
"Hermione… would you like a little brother" Jareth questioned as Hermione snapped her eyes to him for the first time and Jareth saw an unknown emotion pass her face. It was unknown to many of the creatures in the underground because it was human but Jareth had seen it many times before.
"He is a wizard father… a powerful one and you took him" Hermione stated coolly as Jareth rose from his throne and walked to his daughter bemusement and warning dancing in his eyes.
"His mother wished him away" Jareth stated as Hermione looked back to Draco who had moved closer to her and began to pick at her dress.
"Why" Hermione demanded as Jareth flashed his eyes at her, his strong echoing through her mind not to test him. But Hermione simply lifted her eyes and met her father's stare straight on.
"Because she feared for his safety" Jareth admitted as Hermione snorted before gathering the child in her arms and placed him comfortable in her lap.
"Safety… Underground two words I'm assured I never heard together before… why did you take him father" Hermione demanded as Jareth narrowed his eyes.
"Because I am the Goblin king and he was wished away, what more reason would I need beyond that Hermione" Jareth demanded as Hermione lowered her eyes for a moment understanding her father was still the Goblin king. But for what ever power this child had it was simply his grey eyes that encouraged Hermione to look back at her father and stare firmly at him.
"He doesn't belong here" Hermione told her father as the goblins all stared at the two amazed anyone would dare to speak back to the king, but they were not surprised it would be Hermione who did such a thing as she was just as stubborn as her father.
"Neither do you then by that reasoning" Jareth stated as Hermione glowered at her father flinching back at the memories. Though they were a lifetime ago they still hurt deep.
"I was wished away by a spoilt brat father" Hermione stated before she closed her eyes and focused on the wish that brought Draco to the underground. After few seconds her eyes flittered open and she snapped her eyes to the small child in her arms blinking back the tears.
"He was wished away for his safety… he doesn't belong here, he needs protection" Hermione stated staring at her father who set his jaw.
"And whom will protect him Hermione" Jareth demanded trying his best to make his daughter understand that the child held no future in the wizarding world and he would not protect the child if he left.
"I will… I will protect him in the wizarding world if you are unwilling" Hermione stated as Jareth raised his eyebrows and quickly swooped before the pair studying the child.
"Would you waste your powers on a life that is merely a blink for us" Jareth demanded as Hermione narrowed her eyes at him smirking.
"And why are you so willing to make him prince of the underground if he is so unimportant" Hermione retorted as Jareth sprang to his feet and glared at her.
"Do not test me Hermione… the child will become a Goblin" Jareth ordered as Hermione stood careful not to jolt Draco as he calmly played with her hair.
"Test you… I have never tested you father, I only ask one favour… that you send the child back and allow me to look over him" "grant his wishes perhaps" Jareth questioned with a smirk as Hermione glowered at him.
"You gave me the power to do so if I wish too… I never asked for that power father but you still gave it to me, I am asking that you send him back and allow him to fulfil the destiny he has set out before him" Hermione pleaded as Jareth snapped his eyes away from hers.
For all of his stubborn nature the pleading face of his daughter was one power he could not fight against.
"Destiny… what destiny could he have as the son of a wizard so eager to destroy the light" Jareth asked as he kicked a goblin from his path. Hermione smiled gently and placed a hand against her father's arm making him look back to her with his mismatched eyes.
"trust in me father… I will make sure he doesn't live that life" Hermione pleaded as Jareth studied her face before looking to Draco who was watching him with intense grey eyes.
Jareth felt something tugging at his subconscious that this child was more important in both the wizarding world and the underground then Jareth could understand but despite this he still nodded and hid the small smile as his daughter beamed at him.
"But you may not blame me when his future turns out less prefect then you have envisioned" Jareth ordered as Hermione nodded before jumping up and kissing her father gently on the cheek.
Jareth wondered only briefly what would happen to the young wizard now a goblin princess was watching over him but he couldn't ideal on the idea for long as he had a child to return and goblins to threaten.
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