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Chapter 10

His hands slide down to her waist to keep her close to him. Hermione has forgotten everything and can only concentration on how good everything feels. Draco deepens the kiss, causing Hermione to let out a moan. He kisses her with more passionate, more need. Sliding his hands under her sweater, He caresses the soft skin of her stomach and lower back.

Hermione breaks the kiss and opens her eyes. Her blue eyes are wide and look slightly panicked. Draco ignores it and bows his head down to kiss her again, idly wondering why she still is fighting him.

"What are you doing?" Her voice trembles a little as she pushes him back with one hand.

"Isn't it obvious?" She has finally annoyed him. The Veela in himself is pushing to get a move on it. There aren't many hours left until midnight. Then there will be only one more day before it will be the fifth of June, and his birthday. It will be better if they bond before that. The sooner they do it, the stronger the bond will be. And how less apparent the downsides of the bond will become.

Should he use more of his pheromones on her? He is just considering this when she speaks again, calming him and his inner Veela.

"I'm afraid." No more than a whisper, but loud enough for him to hear. "I have no idea what's going to happen and you seem to know everything."

This almost breaks Draco's heart. She isn't fighting against the bonding anymore, she isn't fighting against him anymore. This alone fills him with joy.

Quietly and softly, he kisses her cheek, her neck and then the sensitive spot behind her ear. There he whispers, "I'll take care of you. Just like I always should have done." Then he kisses her on the lips, enjoying how soft and how compliantshe is now. What has made her change her mind he might never know, but he will always be very grateful for it. Of course, her head is full with pheromones and she can't think straight, but at the moment she seems rather sober and Draco really wants to believe that she's doing this out of her own free will.

Bending down, he slides an arm behind her knees and picks her up in the air, carrying her over to the bed without breaking the kiss.

Hermione is shocked and realization hits her again when her head is gently laid down on the green silken pillow. Draco won't have any of this and when he sees her scared blue eyes looking up at him, he overpowers her senses with another wave of pheromones. Seeing her bright blue eyes glaze over, he bends down and kisses her again. Slowly, he pulls her sweater over her head. Marveling again at how beautiful she really is, he bends down to kiss his way down her body, taking off her shoes, socks and then sliding her jeans off her legs. When she is down to her underwear he leans back and takes his own clothing off.

He kisses her again, tangling one hand in her hair and leaning most of his weight on the other.

Hermione feels so many different sensations. Her head is fuzzy and every touch the beautiful grey-eyed man gives her makes her want him even more. But there is something else, some voice in the back of her mind. It's screaming but it sounds so far away that it seems her own conscience is trying to tell her something. But then the man, her mate, bows down again and gives her a deep kiss, immediately silencing the voice. Awareness shocks her once more when she feels two fingers enter her. Opening her eyes, she looks right into Draco's silver shining ones. She is immediately mesmerized by them. They don't flash silver anymore, it seems instead like they have stayed that way.

It seems she is completely naked now. How he had he taken off all her clothes she doesn't know, nor does she know how he creates the mist in her head which is now gradually fading again.

"You're so beautiful," he whispers in her ear, meanwhile stroking her and making her gasp when he touches a sensitive spot.

Just when she thinks she can't take it anymore, he removes his fingers and leaned back a bit. Looking down at her with a smirk on his face, he brings his two fingers to his mouth and sucks them off, closing his eyes as if he is tasting something delicious. She gasps at this and looks at him, shocked. The mist in her head has fully lifted and only now does she begin to feel how aroused she is. And only now does she notice how her arms are thrown around his neck. Somehow she knows she isn't far from the so called 'bonding ritual'. Draco opens his eyes again and they are still shining silver instead of his usual grey. She mustn't forget to ask him someday what that means. He stares down at her and seems to study her eyes, noticing how they aren't glazed over anymore. Leaning on his arm, so he is even closer to her but not crushing her with his weight, he strokes some lost hairs from her face, saying, "I'm sorry for using my powers on you, knowing it would make you forget everything except me. But, of course-" Here a smirk appears on his face. It makes Hermione want to die because now she even finds his smirk sexy! "I am, after all, a Slytherin."

Draco bows down again to kiss her neck before moving up to her cheek. He pushes her legs wider with his knee, settling between them. She only realizes what he's doing when he kisses her on the mouth and she feels him slowly push inside of her. Coming at her little banner of virginity, he pauses a bit, deepening the kiss and distracting her before he pushes in with one thrust. Hermione gasps and breaks away from the kiss when a flash of pain shoots through her. She immediately feels his hands stroking her face, hears him whispering soothing sounds. He holds still from the moment she breaks away from the kiss. Somehow he knows she would be very sensitive.

"It will be ok, love. Shh, I know it hurts." He strokes away tears she doesn't even know she is shedding.

Draco watches her face closely and when she visibly calms down, he bends down and kisses her again, moving very slowly inside of her. When Hermione doesn't show any signs of distress he lets go of his caution.

She feels something build inside of her and it makes her distressed. This shouldn't be happening. Or at least, this shouldn't be happening with him. She can't shake the feeling of cheating off of her.

"Open your eyes, love. Look at me with those beautiful ocean blue eyes." His voice sounds strained and against her will her eyes open at his simple command. It reminds her again of who he is to her.

She gasps when she feels her orgasm building but he won't let her come yet, holding her just on the edge of it.

His eyes are now shining an even brighter silver. "Mine," he growls in an unnaturally deep voice. Hermione gasps again when she feels a chill run down her body as he says it. It is so unnatural to what she feels. It seems like her mind and body had two different wills.

He goes down and kisses the sensitive spot behind her ear. Hermione clutches Draco even tighter to her.

"Now come," he whispers in her ear.

And with that simple command she feels herself shatter. Breaking in a thousand pieces, in her in an orgasm so strong it feels as though a thunderbolt has gone straight through her She is only vaguely aware of Draco bowing down to her neck and biting her. The pain is only slight in contrast to her pleasure. And, as if she is somebody else, she is vaguely aware of bringing Draco's neck to her mouth and biting him in the same way.

Of course it is only later that she will find out that this is the bonding ritual between male Veela and his mate.

When awareness comes back to her, she feels Draco still laying on her, but somehow keeping his weight from crushing her. His hot breath brushes the sensitive skin of her neck, where his face is still laying.

Slowly she removes her arms from around his neck and places them besides her, staring at the ceiling above them. Her bright blue eyes are unreadable.

For Hermione it seems like an eternity before Draco sighs and pushes himself up again. Hanging his face right above hers, she has no choice but to look at him. He eyes have returned to their natural color of grey and somehow he looks a lot better than he had a few minutes ago. Hermione is shocked that she notices these little differences in Draco. But Draco's eyes are as unreadable as Hermione's so she has no idea what he is thinking. He's looking at her but seems to be concentrating on something else.

Stroking her hair away from her face, he gives a tender kiss on her forehead. He rolls off her but still lays close beside her, one arm around her waist and his other sunder his head.

"Are you alright?" he asks, concern very obvious in his voice.

Her eyes are still fixated on the ceiling. When he speaks they wander to him and then back to the ceiling. Her blue eyes looked glazed, like her thoughts are far away. "A bit overwhelmed," she confesses with a small voice, afraid. Both of them seem afraid to break the peace and quiet. "And a bit woozy."

Draco can't help but to smile again. After placing a kiss on her cheek, he explains, "That's very normal, love. It's the venom spreading in you. You should sleep. Tomorrow everything will be normal again."

"I doubt that," she says with a sour expression on her face. He ignores her and she closes her eyes, drifting off to sleep immediately.

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Hermione blinks her eyes a few times, quite offended by the bright ray of sunlight shines on her face. Still drifting between sleep and wake, she is also quite confused. Her room in Grimmauld Place doesn't have a window with a view on the east, so the sun never peeks into the room in the morning. And with that confused thought she cracks one eye open only to immediately notice that she isn't in her room. She is definitely aware of her surroundings now and with that she also notices -much to her dismay- that the arm around her, pressing her against a man's chest, isn't Ron's arm. She's also not wearing any clothes. With that, Hermione is completely awake and very aware about what happened the previous night. Fighting down the urge to scream and push him away, she tries to place her other feelings. There is contentment coursing through her veins and she feels a strange surge of love for Draco. Somehow she feels safe in Draco's arms.

It is all so very conflicting and confusing and she doesn't want to dwell to long on the subject. By the time she has come to that point, Draco suddenly takes a deep breath and pulls her even closer to him, awakening himself.

"Good morning, love." His voice is still rough from sleep.

Hermione doesn't answer. She has no idea what she can answer to something so common and everyday, when she feels like nothing is normal at all. After a few more silent minutes, Draco suddenly pushes himself upright. "I hate to leave you but the Dark Lord summons me," he explains as he pushes himself away from her. Hermione turns away from the window when she feels Draco push himself away.

She watches him get up and put his clothes on. Everything is so strange and bizarre. Not only has she just found out that she is, in fact, a pureblood and who her family really is, but she is also his mate.

And there is nothing she can do about it, because everything has already happened.

Biting her lip, she pulls the blankets high and tries everything in her power not to look at him, which is very difficult because it is like his whole being has a pull on her. She finds it hard to fight against it, so she allows herself one moment to look.

At that moment he stands there, looking at her. When she casts her eyes up she looks in his eyes. It may be weird but at that moment everything feels right and she forgets all of her worries. She can't even remember that she is worried nor that there is something wrong.

But then he opens his mouth and starts to speak. And the world come crashing down on her.

"Of course, my love, I'm no idiot and I can't leave before making some arrangements." This gets Hermione's attention and she looks at him with suspicion in her eyes. "What kind of 'arrangements'?" She says the final word with the same tone he had said it in.

Draco laughs at that and crawls back into the bed next to her. "Some precautions."

Hermione goes to sit up straight when he lays his head next to hers, making sure the blanket is raised with her.

"We don't want anything to happen like yesterday? Do we?" Draco is still laying his head on a pillow, looking up at her sitting with her back against the bed board. Hermione can't help but shake her head 'no', although she really wants to get out of here. Doesn't she? She is beginning to start to doubt herself.

"Well then," he says, tugging on her arm so she slides down next to him.

Hermione realizes there sure are to be an awful lot of things she still doesn't know about the male Veela. She is very much afraid that Draco does and will use this to his advantage.

He is now hovering above her, his face close with hers but not touching. Hermione only has view of his grey eyes piercing into her bright blue ones.

"You will not leave the house, except with me or with Blaise. You will not try to make contact with any one of your Order friends. You can, of course, try to contact Pansy, Blaise or me without any problem." His eyes flash silver and Hermione gasps for breath. She feels with the flash of silver how his commands take effect on her. A smirk forms on Draco's features as he sees how surprised Hermione is.

"And, Sophia, you are, of cours,e free to use the books in the library to learn more about male Veela." That last one isn't really a command, but more a suggestion. After that he bows down and gives her one deep passionate kiss. "And even with how much I hate it, I have to go know." He gives her one more quick kiss and then pushes himself out of bed. "Be a good girl, Sophia," is the last thing he says before closing the door behind him.

AN: I'm so sorry for a bit of holdup. But I was distracted by real life as was my beta… Sometimes it's really annoying when real life takes a big deal out of your day, when all you want to do is write! =p

Again great thanks to Sarah Liz B, which helped making this chapter work and with who I had lots of fun making this chapter. =)

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