"You're the worst!" Maia snickered as she wiped the pineapple spread from her cheek, Draco lay on his side next to her with smug smirk. It was a beautiful summer afternoon and the couple was lounging lazily in the gardens.
"No, darling wife. I'm the best, obviously." Draco said dismissively with a cocky grin as he roughly pulled her on top of him and sat up. Her bright silver eyes widened comically as he swiftly adjusted her legs so she straddled him.
"Draco!" Maia scolded him and slapped him shoulder as he pulled her closer, burying his nose in her neck.
"Yes, love?" Draco chuckled as she squirmed in his lap, he loved how shy she could still be, even after being married to him for nearly three years.
"Anyone could come by at anytime! Your father or your mother...any of your friends or-" Maia lectured a bit shrilly as she looked around wildly before he captured her mouth with his own. Draco's hand was skillfully running up her thigh, using her distracted state to hook his fingers into her silk knickers.
"Why do you think I always buy you these dresses?" Draco groaned into her ear as he ground against her eliciting a small gasp from the curly haired witch above him.
"Cause you think they're pretty?" Maia said absently as she continued her squirming and frantic search for anyone coming down the usually busy garden path.
"No, it's because it's so easy to do this." Draco hissed as he used his free hand to pull down the top of her dress, exposing her breast. Before she could react he covered her mound with his mouth, making her close her eyes and let her head fall back as her hands twisted into his soft blonde locks.
"Draco." A silky voice made them both jump apart, Draco in annoyance and Maia was mortified as she hurriedly covered herself up just as the regal figure of the Dark Lord rounded the corner.
"My Lord." Draco quickly stood, pulling his stunned wife along with him before bowing his head respectfully.
"Mrs. Maia Malfoy, I've longed to meet Draco's bride." The Dark Lord gave her a charming smile as he took her hand in his own and kissed her fingertips, keeping his eyes on the blonde standing stiffly at her side.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, My Lord." Maia curtsied, blushing as he turned his blue eyes on her.
"Oh, no. The pleasure is all mine." Voldemort purred, stepping forward so that he directly in front of the couple. Draco wrapped a possessive arm around his wife's waist and fought to keep a cool neutral expression in his face.
"What brings you here today, My Lord?" Draco asked cordially, drawing the man's attention back to him.
"I wasn't aware I needed a reason to visit some of my closest...friends." The Dark Lord frowned as he eyed one of his favorite followers critically.
"Ofcourse not! We would love to have you any time!" Maia said quickly, a bright smile on her face. "I've just been so excited to meet you, my family speaks so highly of you and from what I've read.." She trailed off sheepishly as Draco's hold on her waist tightened.
"Oh, what have you read?" The Dark Lord stuffed his hands in his pockets and rocked back on his heels casually, a small smile on his face.
"That you're a revolutionary! One of the brightest minds since the founders!" Maia gushed, her silver eyes bright as she leaned her head on her husband's shoulder.
"I don't think I've read those publication...most of what is printed about me is rather out of date, you know." Voldemort shrugged dismissively.
"Oh? Well, I've read a few books on your first rise to power, there's a lot of conflicting views but in all of them, you're only working for a better world for us." Maia nodded solemnly, making the Dark Lord's lips twitch in amusement as he watched the bubbly girl.
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"You ready, 'Mione?" Harry ran his fingers through his hair nervously. The original plan was that when they finally had to use the island it would mean defeat, the remaining order members would try and create some kind of life as outcasts. However, he couldn't do that. Couldn't leave one of his oldest friends in the clutches of the darkest wizard in recent history.
"Yes, Harry." Maia sighed irritably as she once again double checked all of their supplies and twirled a spare wand in her fingers. After another two days of not fighting the curse, Harry went out on a limb and gave her one of the many spares he kept stowed away in his bag. Hers was currently in Grimmauld where Tonks left it, or with the death eaters. He let his gaze linger on her, she seemed peaceful, coherent, and once again wearing his quidditch jersey.
"So, then...what's the plan?" Harry taunted with a small smile as he reached out to hold her hand, warmth filled his chest as she laced their fingers together.
"Honestly, we port key back to Grimmauld, we check to see if the floo is operational. If it is, we floo to the shack then floo to Remus's and I hold your hand the whole time because it makes you happy. If not then we rush to the street where I hold your hand and we apparate to three hopefully secure locations before we get to Remus's. If there are death eaters, I hold your hand and stay behind you because it will make you happy." Maia droned monotonously, rolling her eyes.
"Very good, 'Mione." Harry grinned cheekily before he leaned over to plant a lingering kiss on her warm cheek. He pulled her body close to his while using his free hand to clutch at the charm hanging around his neck.
"It will be fine, Harry. We can get everyone out and come back...then we can just stay here, Harry. Grow old." Maia said softly as she leaned her body into his, Harry's heart skipped a beat as he looked into her vacant muddy brown eyes.
"Toujours pur!" Harry exclaimed, keeping a tight hold on the woman beside him. After a brief nauseating ride they landed in a heap on the floor of the drawing room in Grimmauld Place.
"So, nothing that blocks port keys?" Maia asked hesitantly as she stumbled onto her feet, holding her stomach.
"Not this port key." Harry said absently as he held his wand aloft, looking around for any signs of danger. Maia was already at the fireplace, throwing the floo powder in, her shoulders slumped when nothing happened. Harry grabbed her hand, roughly pulling her along towards the exit.
"Harry, I still feel sick." Maia breathed out uncomfortably but Harry didn't falter in his stride, surprised that no one showed up when they arrived.
"Almost there." Harry breathed out a sigh of relief as they entered the foyer, his heart stopped when he looked behind him to see Maia deathly pale and her eyes drooping. Pausing for just moment, he wrapped an arm around her waist to pull her along, half carrying her out of the townhouse. Out in the setting sun, his heart beat picked up at the sound of multiple people apparating in the street. After casting one glance at the nearly unconscious woman in his arms, he knew they wouldn't make multiple jumps so he closed his eyes and thought of Remus's den.
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"You shouldn't have done that, Harry!" Tonks screamed after they laid Maia down to rest in the spare room. Harry paced in front of her door, running his hands through his hair anxiously.
"What was I to do, Tonks?" Harry demanded loudly, stopping in front of her.
"She's pregnant! You can't be port keying her all over the world and casting spells on her! She could lose the baby!" Tonks barked, her hair turning a bright red as she put her hands on her hips.
"She fought me constantly and I couldn't just leave her on the island! Alone!" Harry snapped and resumed his pacing, Tonks crossed her arms over her chest and leaned back on the wall, raising a skeptical brow.
"And making her look like Hermione?" Tonks hissed, the raven haired man's steps faltered as he looked at the ground guiltily.
"It was easier." Harry mumbled quietly after a tense moment of silence.
"Easier?" Tonks demanded, eying him critically. Harry took a deep breath before sliding to the floor with his head resting on his knees.
"She smells like her, talks like her, moves like her...Merlin, it was like having her back but it was so hard. I barely lasted a day before I snapped." Harry groaned, pounding his forehead to knees miserably.
"Snapped?" Tonks asked curiously as she moved to sit beside him.
"I can't explain it, Tonks...I just...Merlin, I missed her so much and here was this woman who was so much like her. We were alone and I just needed someone there for me." Harry whispered, staring blankly at the hardwood floor as he rolled the lace from his trainers in his fingers.
"So, you used an unforgivable on her and altered her appearance to look like your best friend that died-" Harry made a strangled sound in his throat as he turned to glare furiously at her and she took a deep breath. "- sorry, disappeared years ago...so that you wouldn't be lonely on a deserted island. Did you do anything else to her?"
"No!" Harry yelled quickly, jerking his head to look at her in horror, Tonks let out a relieved breath and nodded sympathetically.
"It's just...you know she's not Hermione, right?" Tonks asked hesitantly, chewing her lip.
"She could be." Harry whispered to his knees so softly Tonks almost didn't hear him.
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"Are you sure you're feeling alright, 'Mione?" Harry whispered nervously as he sat beside her on the sofa. Maia snorted as she continued playing with Teddy in her lap, not even sparing him a glance.
"It's just exhaustion, Harry. I barely got any sleep on the island, we need to focus on finding out how to save the Weasleys." Maia said softly before she bent down to blow wetly on Teddy's bare stomach, making the toddler erupt in giggles. Harry frowned, knowing that was a lie. She slept like the dead on the island, in his arms. It was because of him that she was so pale and sluggish but they couldn't tell her that.
"Minee!" Teddy laughed happily, his hair turning the same shade of dull brown as her own.
"Such a talented boy you are!" Maia exclaimed with a wide smile, pointedly ignoring Harry's concerned stare. She let him grasp her hand in his own, knowing that it comforted him, the quiet voice in her head telling her make him happy.
"I'm just worried." Harry grumbled as he leaned closer to her to use his free hand to ruffle the boys hair.
"I love you, Harry." Maia said softly as she leaned her head on his shoulder for a moment. She shivered, feeling the action was wrong but seeing his blinding smile made her head feel lighter, the demanding little voice was quiet, at least for a moment.
"Moody will be here shortly and we can discuss getting the artifact to break through the wards on headquarters so we can get the Weasleys out." Harry nodded absently, his eyes focused on the woman beside him, his heart constricting painfully. Tonks words from the night before playing over in his head but he forcefully pushed them aside, she could be his 'Mione.
"What are you doing?" Tonks called in a sing song voice as she entered the room, a bubble of apprehension in her stomach as she watched the glamoured and imperioed Mrs. Malfoy play with her son.
"Harry was just telling me about how we are going to get the artifact so we can save his best mate. It will make him happy." Maia chirped brightly before returning her focus to the child on her lap.
"Oh, Harry said you're going to assist?" Tonks asked with an arched brow, her arms folded across her chest. Harry looked down at their joined hands guiltily before turning to face the brunette at his side.
"Yes, it will make him happy." Maia sang in a high pitched voice, making Teddy giggle. Tonks glared angrily at Harry over Maia's head and was about to open her mouth when the front door was thrown open.
"Dora!" Remus exclaimed loudly, slightly out of breath as he pulled a disheveled red head behind him. Ron had a grim smile on his face as he looked around the crowded den, seeing the curly haired woman beside Harry nearly made his heart stop.
"'Mione?" Ron croaked, his throat suddenly dried as she lifted her face to look at him with a bland smile.
"Ron-" Tonks called out warning lay but the redhead could not be stopped. Ron crossed the room in three quick strides and roughly pulled the bewildered girl to her feet, one arm supporting Teddy, her other hand still held tightly by Harry who rose with her.
"'Mione!" Ron exclaimed as he pulled her to his chest, wrapping her in his arms tightly. Teddy squirmed and started to scream, forcing Tonks to rush forward and take her crying son from the awkward embrace.
"Uh.." Maia faltered, looking at Harry in confusion as she was lifted from the ground.
"Ron-" Harry said sharply, trying to get his friend to let go of the confused woman who was silent and stiff.
"Merlin, I love you." Ron breathed before he covered her mouth with his own in a harsh kiss. Maia immediately started to fight against his hold, smacking his arms and chest as hard as she could from the awkward angle. The usual floating feeling she endured for her the last few days on the island was stifling as the small voice screamed even louder than her own thoughts of how disgusted she was.
You love Harry!...
Never let him kiss you again...
He makes Harry sad...
Make Harry happy...
"Ron!" Harry shouted, forcefully pushing the redhead off the startled woman, Maia fell heavily back on the sofa. She touched her swollen, abused lips with wide eyes, Harry gripped her chin and forced her to look up at him.
"I love Harry?" Maia muttered quietly, turning her unfocused eyes Harry in confusion. Ron's eyes widened momentarily before he turned on his oldest friend to glare at him angrily.
"Ron, let me-" Harry put up his hands in surrender and tried to explain in a calm voice but Ron pulled back his arm and punched the raven haired man as hard as he could in the jaw. Harry fell on his back side in shock, holding his mouth.
"You!" Ron snarled, pointing an accusing finger at Harry but words failed him so he turned to the silent woman on the couch and fell to his knees in front of her. "'Mione...I love you. It killed me when they took you but I never gave up. Not like him, he didn't even look. I swore to myself that the next time I saw you I would tell you exactly how I felt, we were me-"
"Ron?" Maia asked cautiously, Ron snapped his head up to stare at the curly haired woman, the same woman who haunted his dreams for years, only to see she wasn't even looking at him but at Harry on the floor. She turned back to look at Ron as if she wasn't sure who he was, like she didn't know him. He froze as he really looked at her for the first time, there was so many things wrong with the woman in front of him. Her eyes were too wide and dull, she was too pale, her nose too straight, lips too plump and pouty, and the adorable grouping of freckles across the bridge of her nose were gone.
"Ron, I need to explain." Harry said urgently as he sat up on his knees beside his friend. Ron looked between them with a confused frown.
"I think we should take this to the other room." Remus spoke for the first time as he watched the trio critically. Harry reached out and grabbed onto Maia's hand tightly, afraid they would make him lift the curse, undo the glamours. She may not be his 'Mione but she was close enough for him, he needed someone who was always on his side. Didn't they see that?
"No!" Ron breathed harshly as he watched Harry take the woman's hand in his own, he looked up to her eyes and saw they were unfocused as if she wasn't completely there. "'Mione..."
"Ron." Maia's brown eyes snapped to his but the vacancy didn't recede. His breath hitched as he studied her closely, leaning into her. She had the same delicate heart shaped face and her smell was so achingly familiar but she didn't look at him with fondness or love like the Hermione in his dreams. She wasn't storming into the room with a book in her hand, prefect badge on her chest to scold him for playing chess for hours on end, she just stared right through him. With eyes that were too dull, too brown to belong to the girl he loved through most of his school years.
"Are you Hermione?" Ron asked bluntly, ignoring Harry and Tonks as they tried to shake their heads, ignored Remus's hand on his shoulder to stop.
"I'm..I.." Maia faltered, her face pinched with confusion and the redhead stared as he watched the conflicting emotions in her eyes. She closed her eyes taking a deep steadying breath.
Harry love you...
Harry wants Hermione...
You could be Hermione...
For him, you could be anyone...
"I think we should take this to the other room." Tonks exclaimed sternly, shoving her son into Maia's arms as Remus and Harry attempted to pull Ron away from the woman. Maia shook silently, her arms automatically wrapped themselves securely around the babbling toddler as she steadied herself.
"No! What did you do to 'Mione?!" Ron shouted angrily as he stood, pointing an accusing finger in Harry's face.
"I-Ron! We should talk about this in the other room. I'm sure you're hungry and I would like to know what happened. We came back to rescue you." Harry sighed, rubbing the scar on his forehead with the heel of his hand.
"No! I just survived torture at Malfoy Manor! I watched Draco Sodding Malfoy cut my mother into ribbons and Bellatrix Fucking Lestrange use me as a pincushion!" Ron shouted hysterically, Harry put up his hands to try and silence the man but it was no use. Even with Teddy whimpering in Maia's arms, the three order members fought futilely to calm him. "If that wasn't enough Narcissa Cunt-Bollocking Malfoy had to join in, feeding me potions to stay awake so Lord Bloody Vol-"
"No!" Tonks shrieked, jumping on Ron's back to cover his mouth with both hands to stop the taboo word from falling from his lips. They fell to the ground in a heap, Ron pinning the petite ex-auror under his body. Remus growled deep in his throat before he reached down and ripped the man off his wife by the back of his robes. Maia sat back watching everything through a foggy haze, her lips moving silently.
Malfoy
"Are you insane?!" Remus spat, holding Ron by the scruff of his neck. Harry tried to push his body between them but Remus easily threw him to the floor with his free hand.
Malfoy
"Remus..." Tonks said cautiously as she got to her feet, holding up her hands to show she was unarmed. The voice was losing strength as it shrieked in Maia's head, her lips kept mouthing the familiar names.
Narcissa
"No! I risked my life and blew my cover to save him from the work shops. My alpha and maker had to die!" Remus snarled, pressing his face harshly into Ron's so their noses were touching. It was a strange attachment wolves developed for their alpha, even if they hated and resented the wolf they could never feel that way towards their alpha. "Then you want to bring them down on my house?! Where my son sleeps?!"
Bellatrix
"Fuck! Rem-" Ron tried to push the werewolf away but he wasn't strong enough, a small voice made them all freeze.
Draco
"I'm...Voldemort." Maia said in a pained whisper. Remus and Tonks pulled their wands while Ron dove to the side just as the front door was blasted open. The married couple opened with a round of stunners while the redhead scrambled to find something to defend himself with just as snatchers flooded the house. Harry looked between the door and Maia before diving for her, grabbing her face roughly with both hands to force her to look at him.
"You're MY 'Mione." Harry whispered harshly, her shoulder relaxed instantly letting him know she may be fighting but she had not broken the curse yet. He quickly ripped the silver chain from his neck and shoved it into her hand. "You love me and want to make me happy. You will protect Teddy, above all else, protect him. You love me, do-"
"Ooh, what do we have here?" Scarbior cried out victoriously as he stepped into the room. Four of his snatchers surrounded Remus, Tonks laid unconscious at his feet, two men lay stunned and bleeding nearby. Three had Ron backed into a corner as he brandished a chair to defend himself while two others snatched Harry up by the back of his shirt. No one approached the quiet woman sitting on the couch holding the screaming child.
"Don't fucking touch her!" Harry snarled as Scabior crossed the room to look at the woman closely, her plain brown eyes staring at the opposite wall, unseeing.
"We've got Potty, shiny new stud, a dead werewolf, a wanted ministry runaway, and you." Scabior smirked as he roughly pulled the silent woman to her feet, she instinctively cradled Teddy close. "Who are you?"
"I'm...I" Maia faltered blinking sluggishly as she looked around the room, Remus and Tonks lay unconscious together, Ron was magically bound in the corner and Harry was fighting furiously with his captors. Two more snatchers came forward to bind his hands behind his back as another started to search him. The unconscious snatchers were being revived and scolded by a short man who slapped them repeatedly in the head.
"Don't know, sweet?" Scabior taunted with a mocking smile. "You look familiar...but Bellatrix killed you, innit?"
"I.." Maia tried again, her face scrunched up with effort to clear her mind, make the voice telling her to somehow grab Harry and run to shut up for just a moment. She turned to see Harry staring at her with such intensity as if silently willing her to do his bidding. "I love Harry?"
"Bet you do, sweet. Bet the Malfoys will pay big for Potter's dead mudblood girlfriend." Scabior chuckled as he waved his wand to bind her.
"Stupefy!" Maia pulled Harry's wand from its place behind her on the couch so fast it took the snatcher off guard and he fell back, unconscious. The other snatchers lunged forward to grab her but Maia threw herself into the couch and waved her wand in a high arch, bringing it down to point at the floor. "Beneficio!"
"Wha-?" The closest snatcher was thrown back as his world seemed to tilt off access. The floor beneath them pulled away from the foundation, knocking them all on their backs. Maia quickly scrambled to her feet, rushing for the door without a backwards glance. The small child in her arms wailed in her ear, his chubby fists pulling anxiously at her curls. The soft voice was furious, screaming at her to get Teddy to safety. She only got as far as the street before her world went black.
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Kalik: Traduzido usando o google tão desculpe por quaisquer erros. Você terá que esperar e ver como maia será resgatado! Obrigado por tomar o tempo para ler! Apenas mais alguns capítulos. Como para maia regaing suas memórias, eu quero que seja uma surpresa, mas faria o final mais trágico, você não acha
Chester99 gets it! Yes, she's completely trapped and tied down to Draco no matter what. Bellatrix and Narcissa went to a lot of trouble to make Maia into their image of the perfect Black witch. BTW I love option two :)
DianneBaquiran: yes, Harry has been controlling her with the imperio curse. I wasn't really sure how to show Maia's internal struggle and her own thoughts...