Hate That I Love You

*Chapter Three*

Dreams and The Meeting

-The clouds over ahead were turning into a dull grey, Hermione sat on the bench reminiscing the old times, she heard the ramble of thunder, and realised the atmosphere had changes. She was suddenly sitting on a chair in the Malfoy Manor; Draco was there, with Lucius former Death Eater and his wife Narcissa. They looked up at her and started to give her glares. She turned her attention to Malfoy, he threw her an angry look at her, she was absolutely terrified, not because where she was but because who she was around. They started to move forward and forward, the light that was shining on her face went, she just saw black robes and nothing else.
"Would you like to do the honours, son?" Asked a very cold blooded and older Malfoy.
"I would be honoured to!" He smirked at Hermione, she shuddered and she saw him take out his wand and point in to her face. The family started to crackle; Draco shouted one of the unforgivable curses. She shouted.
"Noooooo!"-

And with that a bright light flashed, she could only see that and started to hear soft murmurs around her. She gasped and held her throat.

"Hermione, you alright?" Ginny asked anxiously, as she helped Hermione up from the floor to her bed and laid her down.

"I-I don't know." She faintly whispered she got herself out of the cosy, soft pink bed. She started to tell Ginny about the dream, well nightmare. Ginny knew that she couldn't do anything to take that dreadful thought out of her mind.

Hermione sighed deeply. "What day is it?" She was so taken by that dream that she couldn't focus on what was going on around her.

Ginny got up off the bed and looked up at her calendar, "Tuesday 16th." She muttered she knew Hermione could hear. Hermione gasped, she shot up of the bed and started to search through her suitcase, Ginny tried avoiding the clothing that was thrown behind Hermione's shoulder.

"What is it?" Ginny huffed, she knew that her friend would be sad and scared but Ginny was quite annoyed that she was woken up at 6:30 on a Tuesday.

"I have to go to Malfoy Manor today to pick out my wedding dress, and the dream I just had I don't think I want to go now." She blurted out what she had in her mind.

Ginny sighed, "Hermione as your friend, I think the best thing to do is just talk to them to get to know them. Wow never thought I will ever going to say this but," She gulped. "They might be nice people and people just judged them!"

Hermione just looked at Ginny, with her eyebrow raised. Ginny looked at her,

"In my defence it is nearly seven in the morning and I am bloody tired! And I am only saying this so you can shut up and stop bothering me! But I still feel for you." She growled she was not a morning person.

Hermione nodded, as she knew she couldn't talk about it any longer, not if Ginny was like this. Hermione left the room and went to the bathroom to clean up. She came back and pulled out a short, sleeveless brown dress that came down to her knees which she wore with brown boots, she ate breakfast with the Weasley clan. They joked around with her to get some of worries on her mind off and it worked. She said bye to everyone, as she put on her jacket, Mrs. Weasley came hurried to her and kissed her on both cheeks and whispered soothing words to her. She got her wand out and apparated outside the gates of Malfoy Manor.

There she was giving a warm welcome from their house elf Tillie, she lead her through the rose gardens, which were near by a large river bank. Hermione knew where she was coming when she couldn't be bothered with Draco. Overall Hermione liked the outside of the house, it was differently to what she thought it would be like; dead bare trees scattered everywhere, crows perched on them looking at everyone that entered through the big, black gate. Well it did not look like that at all.

Hermione walked by the side of the house elf, they both attempted to make conversation but it was useless, Hermione couldn't talk about anything expect her job around the house and all she asked her was,

"So how was Hogwarts?" Tillie asked timidly, she never had the courage to speak to visitors that came to the Manor.

Hermione told her about the adventures Harry, her and Ron went on during their time there. Tillie was intrigued by the stories she told and how she told them. She cut her off when they arrived near the front door; she held the door open for her and left her there when she went to tell the Lady of Manor her guest had arrived.

As she was left standing there, she examined the hallway, it was huge and spacious, trophies in glass cases hung on the wall here and there, she tried to ignore the portraits that had their eyes on her and whispering about her. They realised that she was mudblood and gossiped about her. Overall it was actually nice place; the walls were painted in calm and warm colours, odd for the Malfoys.

She walked towards the certificates hung on the wall, most likely done by magic or the house elf; she started to read some of them. They were mostly for Draco, awarded by Professor Snape, figures. He was awarded best in 'Potions', 'Quidditch' and many more, she never realised that Draco was praised allot throughout Hogwarts.

"Always were nosy, Granger." A cold, deep voice behind her said Hermione jumped at the sudden sound. She turned towards him and replied,

"Just looking Malfoy!" She said in a tone to match his, he glared at her and shouted the opposite way.

"Mother she's here!" Now Hermione was implied 'she'. Guess it was better than mudblood.

They heard a faint calling from a far replying back to Draco. Draco looked at Hermione, he never knew she could style out other clothing's apart from her robes she wore numerous amount of times at Hogwarts, and come to think of it he never thought that he would meet Hermione again. He shrugged at the thought and looked at his mother. That was standing in front of him and Hermione.

Narcissa was dressed in her everyday black robes; her blonde hair was down on her shoulders and her wand tucked into the belt that showed all her curves and showed people how slim she was, she smiled at Hermione, Hermione kindly returned it back.

"It is nice to finally meet you Hermione Granger; I have heard much wonder-." She spoke softly to Hermione and was interrupted by Draco.

"Mother, you saw Granger, Potter and Red-head, when they were captured and brought here!" He exclaimed, Hermione looked at him replied.

"Weasley. Is name is Ronald Weasley." She corrected Draco.

Draco huffed and threw his hands up in the air. "See what I am going to marry Mom! A filthy know-it -all mudblood." He looked up his mother. "She is going to correct me until the day I die. Which I wished happened soon." He had stopped with his problems and glanced at a pissed off Hermione.

"You know Malfoy, this wasn't my idea, from all the wizards they paired me up with you! Do I look happy? No, I don't." She breathed in. "But for the sake of the Ministry of Magic, we just have to make do with what we got." She yelled at Draco.

Narcissa looked at the two, and smiled. She thought of her and Lucius, and how they first met each other, they hated each other's guts. But after all the fights and issues they realised that they were destined for each other. They would spend nights talking to each other and getting to know each other better and the problems between them disappeared, as they finally fell in love. Even if it had taken them three years to figure it out and now they have a beautiful son and soon to be daughter-in-law by her side. She knew they were destined the minute she had seen the pair bickering.

Narcissa didn't realise that she was smiling away, until she heard Hermione speaking to her,

"Mrs Malfoy, shall we go shopping now?" Hermione asked her and Draco's eyes were glued to the smiling lady.

Draco hasn't seen his mom smile in years, she was gloomy when his dad used to come home fed up, they would have stupid fights over work and then calm down and act like nothing had happened. His mother had never told a story about herself and his father and how they met. But really Draco wasn't really bothered.

"Can we wait a while for Blaise to come? I invited him so I could have some male company." He directly spoke to his mother.

Hermione fidgeted with her fingers, it wasn't two Slytherins but three, and only one Gryffindor.

Narcissa nodded, they sat down on the sofas and started to speak and then soon after Blaise had shown up, he greeted both the Malfoys and then Hermione.

"Hi Hermione, long time no see." He said, while kissing Hermione's hand, Hermione tried not to blush, but that failed.

"Likewise Blaise. How have you been?" She pulled back her hand and shoved it in her pocket.

"Great! I just brought a house near the Malfoys, so I guess when you get married you will be seeing a lot of me around. Can't let my best mate be alone with all the females." He chuckled along with Narcissa and Hermione. Draco was the only one that didn't join in.

Hermione noticed and cleared her throat before anything could start.

"Should we go now as we have everybody that we need." She said to Narcissa.

"Course dear. Let's go." And with that they all apparated to the shopping centre.

Hermione walked with Narcissa, well tried to keep up with her. Draco and Blaise were far behind speaking.

"So Granger, eh?" He smirked.

"Yeah I know, never thought I would marry a mudblood." He replied, as they both stepped into the shop that had suits for weddings.

"Drake but at least it is someone you know right? I mean you wouldn't want to get married to someone you barely know." Blaise asked Draco as he went around looking at suits for him to wear as he was 'Best Man'.

"I guess, but I know my dad is pissed, he would never allowed this to happen. And can you imagine his face when I have a son or daughter; he would hate them, because there not full purebloods." He spoke.

"You think about having a son or daughter with Granger?" He laughed.

"Shut up Blaise! I mean I gonna have to aren't I?" He said annoyed. "Like I don't want to do it with Granger, I would never even if she was the last one on this earth. But I think my mom expects has to have at least two or three children. And beside she really wants the title Grandma."

"What about your dad?" He said as he put one of the suits on.

"What don't you get Blaise; my father would be ashamed and would never let them call him Granddad ever." He said sadly.

"Sorry Drake." He spoke calmly. "Let's just pick out a fucking suit and let's get out of here."

Draco nodded, after a while they both picked out a suit. Draco was traditional black, silk suit; he had already picked out a tie, a green one that represents his house colour at Hogwarts.

Blaise picked out a similar one to Draco but instead of wearing the blazer he was going to wear a waistcoat instead with also a green tie.

They both walked out of the shop and walked back to Narcissa and Hermione.

Narcissa was in awe when she when she saw Hermione come out of the changing room.

Hermione was dressed in a long crème dress, which was sleeveless and came down to her ankles. The top bit of the dress had white embroidery all over it. Narcissa came to Hermione and tied a white bow around her waist.

"This was the bow that I wore when got married and I want you to wear it." She said softly to Hermione, she turned Hermione to face the mirror.

Hermione gasped and twirled around, Narcissa laughed and so did Hermione. "I would love to wear it Mrs Malfoy."

Narcissa nodded and praised her beauty and complimented the dress. Hermione changed out of it, she was pleased with it.

"Even if I hate the person I am getting married to, at least I have something to look forward to on the day." She whispered to herself as she changed out of the dress. Narcissa paid for the dress, then her and Hermione went to meet Draco and Blaise near the bookstore.

"So did you find your suit then Draco?" Asked Narcissa.

"Yes and so did Blaise. I will show you when we get back to the Manor." He replied softly.

"Did you find what you were looking for Hermione?" Asked a friendly Blaise, by now they had made their way to a posh restaurant and were shown to table right away. They sat down around the circle table; Draco opposite Hermione and Narcissa next to Hermione and Blaise of course next to Draco.

"Yes I did, it is extremely beautiful!" She squealed, as she imagined herself wearing it in front of hundreds of guest next to Malfoy, but she wasn't happy about the Malfoy part.

"I hope that the colours match, it would be little odd wearing different colours that would not match." Spoke a cold Draco, as he drank some of the firewhisky from the glass.

"All I can I tell you is that the dress is crème." Said Hermione as she looked over at the meals that were on the menu.

"But that won't work, Drake me and you are wearing green." Spoke Blaise to Draco, he didn't mean to say it out loud for the other two to hear.

"Green!" Hermione blurted, "You're going to wear green!"

"Relax Granger, the ties are green not the suit. I do have a sense of fashion." He said suddenly before his mother would start at him.

Hermione noticed that he did have sense in fashion, heck throughout Hogwarts he would purchased the latest robes and have boys envy him as the girls fell on the knees when they saw him pass them.

"Excuse me I am going to the restroom." A polite Mrs Malfoy announced before she left.

Draco glared at Hermione, along with Blaise.

"Can I help you?" Her voice dripping in sarcasm

Draco didn't get a chance to reply as the waiter came up to them. "Have you decided what you are going to order?" Waiter said in bored tone.

"I'll just have water." Hermione replied as she handed the menu to the waiter.

"I'll have a pasta and in a separate plate salad. And also refill my glass." Draco said quite rudely, he let go off the menu and let the waiter pick it up instead.

Blaise had ordered fish and chips, by the time they had all ordered Mrs Malfoy had came back, she quickly choose something on the menu and handed it back, the waiter had left.

Narcissa looked around the table; it was a little awkward no one spoke but only stared at another.

Hermione cleared her throat, Draco's head shot up and he smirked.

"Need of some attention Granger." He spat the word Granger as if it was a swear word.

"Shut it Draco." Said Hermione back to him.

They glared at each other for a long time and stopped as their food had arrived, they dug into it their meals. Hermione was avoiding any conversation with any of them expect a few words here and there to Narcissa. After a while of eating and drinking they had decided to leave. Narcissa insisted Draco to drop her back to the Burrow but it was a simple no which everyone expected. Hermione just flooed herself there.

After she had got to the Burrow, Molly came rushing to her pulling her into a hug and asking her how her day had gone. Then one by one they all asked, Hermione answer was,

"You know it's been quite a long day I going to sleep." With that she made her way to the bedroom and fell into a deep slumber.