Draco stood there, shock springing through his body.
" You're sure?" He said, looking at her in amazement.
She jerked her head yes so fast, you'd think it was to come off. Draco said nothing, just turned back towards the cottage. Harry and Hermione looked at each other with great sadness, knowing this may have been a bit much for him to handle right now. Draco began to walk to the cottage, Harry following him and Hermione headed back to her rocks, leaving him some space. Watching him, Harry saw Draco lower his head, and laugh a little.
With pure inquisition, Harry spat out, " What could be so funny?"
Draco came to a sudden stop. Without turning around he said, " When we were 5, we found a baby animal. Raising it until it was able to live on its own on the land."
With a quick glance to the left he added, " It was a falcon"
Around late afternoon the sudden smell of someone cooking fish filled the area.
" Must be that restaurant we saw headed back up to the cottage the other day" Said Ginny, giggling at Ron's apparent over exaggerated recognition of the delicious odor.
" Why didn't you stop and bring some of that back with you?" He asked, basking in the glory of a fish fry Friday special wafting through the air.
Ginny gave a crazy looking shrug, as if to call her brother an idiot while she was at it.
" Hey, I'll walk to the market and get some. I had to make it one night at the Dursley's. It was pretty good so Aunt Petunia claimed she's labored all day over it. Horrible bitch" Harry said, sniggering a little.
"Sounds like a plan. I'll go too. " Draco said, grabbing a shirt to throw on.
And just like that the boys were out the door, yelling up to Hermione's rock they would return shortly. Once they reached this nice little market, which was close, but far enough away that no one would come to bother them where they were, Draco quickly noticed a little shop next to it.
" Hey Harry, Go on a head, I wanna duck into here for a moment" He said, gone in a flash of blonde.
Harry had only been in the market long enough to walk to the back counter, calculate how much to purchase and order it with the butcher, before Draco joined him. When he did, Harry noticed a small bag in his arm.
" What's that?" He asked, pointing to the parcel.
"Oh!" Draco said, opening it up to show Harry, " It's a book about, well, I am not too sure. It says it's a great mystery though. The other night Hermione let it slip that she likes to read novels sometimes. Mostly mystery ones, tries to figure out what it going to happen. Usually she's right. She said that only two have stumped her. I figured she might like this, take her mind off of things ya know?" He said, flipping over the book to view the back of the jacket.
"Bloody hell" Said Harry rolling his eyes, " Didn't know you guys were THAT serious."
Draco lowered the book, peering at Harry slightly sideways.
" What do you mean?" He asked. " You bought her a book Draco." Harry said.
" A book she doesn't need but we both know she'll equally enjoy. That's like giving Ron food. You might as well ask the poor girl to marry you at this point" He laughed while saying this, smiling at back to Draco.
After the boys had gotten everything they needed to cook that evening, they turn down a side street and found this odd little store. The sign on the front said " Temple Place" with a great blue moon on it, mixed with a golden sun. From the looks through the window, they could see that the store was small, and quite packed with things. Harry motioned to Draco, and they both entered. Upon entering they were greeted with the familiar smell of sandalwood. As they strolled through the tiny isles, Harry was reminded of something McGonagall once said. She had told the class one day that even though there were wizards and witches all over the world, in America, there was a large number of muggles who fantasized about the wizard world. They presumed too much, and for the most part, got things wrong.
They used it for a means of trying to make themselves feel apart of something in this world. Making themselves feel not so alone. Mostly he remembered her mentioning that there were shops which always smelled like rotten sandalwood and they sold ridiculous objects in them. Harry admired a few of the strange things on the shelves. A shrunken head, a love potion the said, "Made in China" on the side of it, and a box labeled " Tiger nails, for protection against evil spirits". Upon inspection Harry took notice that the little black things looked less like nails, and more like painted nuts shells. Harry laughed a little, and moved on. Draco however was up by the front counter admiring the silver necklaces in the case. He was very preoccupied on the days occurrences, he didn't even noticed he was being watched.
" Good morning" Said a sweet voice, " Can I , um, help you?"
Draco lifted his head to see a beautiful blonde girl looking at him from behind the register.
" Oh sorry, no. I'm fine thank you." He said, smiling.
The girl took extreme notice of it and began to blush like mad.
" Hi" she said, after a moment of giggling to herself, " I'm Sarah, my father owns this store"
She placed her hand out for Draco to shake it, but first he looked at it a little odd. Finally coming to his senses, he shook it.
" Hi I'm.."
Harry quickly interrupted, " Dave" Harry said, giving Draco a heavy look.
Draco turned back to the girl, feeling silly, and said, " Yeah, I'm Dave. This is um,.."
" Henry" Harry said, putting his hand out to shake with the girl.
" Oh" she said, " Nice to meet you both. Are you vacationing here?"
Harry seemed uneager to answer this girls questions but he did anyways, out of the sake of being nice.
" Yeah. we're up on the beach front. Us and a couple of our friends. We rented a cottage up there." Harry said, pointing in the general direction of the cottage with the white fence.
" Oh that's like, nice" Sarah said, twirling her hair and staring dreamingly at Draco.
She turned for a moment to help an elderly man out back,calling to her, who Harry and Draco directly related to being her father most likely. The moment she was around the corner of the back room, Draco turned to Harry
" Let's get out of here!" Harry smiled at Draco.
It was obvious this Sarah girl was hitting on Draco, and even more obvious that Draco was uncomfortable by it.
" okay we will, in just a minute. I wanna get these couple of things." Harry said, showing Draco what was in his hand.
He had beautiful silver thing chained necklace with a little lightning bolt on it.
Draco chuckled a little, " Oh my god" He laughed, " That's too funny"
Harry smiled, " I know right. I couldn't help myself. and look I found these. "
He showed Draco the other object he had.
" It's a little box of Hair clips with bugs on them. I figured if you were bringing something for Hermione. Then I should definitely get something for Ginny. and well, if I don't get these for Luna, I'll be mad later."
Soon enough Sarah reentered the room, which made Draco quickly dash for the door. Shortly after exiting the shop, Draco was joined by Harry, who was laughing hysterically.
" What?" He asked, as Harry grabbed his arm, shoving him down the street in the direction of the cottage.
Through laughter Harry said, " Oh man that girl was completely nuts over you."
Draco laughed, looking down, " Jeez,YA think?" He said.
Once the boys reached the cottage again, they were happy to see the other four having fun. Hermione, Ron and Ginny had taken up to playing in the surf. While Luna sat on the sand, building quite the extraordinary castle. The boys made a bee line for the cottage. Once inside, Draco started to put some of the stuff away, Harry went back to the door and called everyone back inside for a moment. They all took a seat around the table, curious as to what was up.
Harry first walked to Luna, kissing the top of her head, " This is with much love to you, and your brain!"
Luna opened the box and squeaked with joy.
" Oh Thank you, the both of you. Oh look at how beautiful this beetle clip is. Oh just beautiful!"
She was blushing with delight. Next Harry walked to Ginny, who was already smiling at him because of the gift for Luna. Kneeling next to her and giving her a small box as well, he put his lips to her ear, brushing her hair out of the way.
" You are the love of my life. One day I hope to show you that. But for now, I hope this does a bit."
Harry's whisper gave Ginny chills down her spine. When she opened the box and saw the beautiful glistening lightning bolt necklace, she gushed. Almost choking back tears, she hugged Harry tightly. While Ginny showed everyone her new present, Draco sat with Hermione for a moment.
" Here" He said, handing her the book, " It was my idea to begin with"
He was very unsure how to present a gift, and sort of felt Harry had taken the spot light. Hermione glanced and him, then down to the book. Reading the summary on the back she smiled.
Kissing him on the forehead she said, " You are wonderful!"
Shortly there after, Ron jumped up saying, " Okay, I'm gonna go start the fire outside to cook us some fish!"
And just like that, he was outside, screwing with the sticks in the fire pit.Ginny stood, peeking out the window at the awkward things her brother was doing.
Without a look back she said, " I'm helping him before he burns his eyebrows off...again"
A few minutes later, Ron managed ( with some severe help from Ginny) to get a good fire going, and threw the fish and potatoes on to start cooking. Harry and Draco were bringing out a few drinks for everyone, the last to exit the house.
" So. You really think she liked the book" Draco said, a sincere expression across his eyes.
" Of course!" Said Harry, validating Draco's gift.
" Aside from possibly a second brain to store all of the crap she knows, I'm sure books are second on her list!"
" Okay sure" Draco said laughing, " If that's what you..."
" Who did you say you were looking for?" " Dave...and Henry..I followed them from my store, they forgot something"
Draco and Harry stopped, facing each other in the doorway of the cottage. A familiar yet scary voice was now intermingled with the others. Harry, almost dropping the drinks he himself was caring, ran for Ginny, who was standing by Sarah.
" Oh hi Sarah! Hi" He said nervously, looking at Ginny, hoping beyond everything she would catch on quickly.
" Oh hello Henry." Sarah said, trying to look around to see where the gorgeous blonde boy was she had met earlier.
" Henry?" Ginny mouthed at him, looking very confused.
Obviously she wasn't catching on! Sarah turned back to Harry and Ginny, and learned forward a little, noticing the necklace on Ginny that she had sold to the boys before.
Seeing this Harry said, " Oh yes this is my girlfriend...Jenny"
He was giving Ginny a very strange expression, " Jenny love, this is Sarah, her father owns the store where I got the necklace and Lun...Lara's hair clips."
He swallowed heavy. Ginny's strained looked, quickly turned into a look of understanding, " Great to meet you Sarah."
Putting her hand out to shake hers, " You too Jenny. So um, is Dave around?" She asked, looking around again.
Ron, Luna, Hermione and Draco, taking up the rear, walked over to join the others. Draco with his head down.
" Sarah, this is Lara, Rick, and Hailey..?!" Everyone could hear the confusion and questioning in Harry's voice, except for Sarah, who was now focused in on Draco, walking up next to Hermione.
" So you said we forgot something?" Harry asked, trying to get her attention back to himself.
As Draco approached Hermione, she sensed him, taking his hand in her own. Very quickly the look on Sarah's face changed. She had seemed so sweet and kind, now she was wearing a wicked smile, and seemed to have raised her chin and cocked a hip.
" Oh hi Dave!" She said, walking a little closer to Draco, making him feel very uncomfortable.
" You know, I just wanted to let you know, I just couldn't get those sweet things you said to me back in the shop out of my mind." She said, in a dreamy, yet evil voice.
Her eyes pointed at Draco deeply, but flicking over to Hermione. A sudden feeling flowed over Hermione. This girl was beautiful and thin and dressed well. Her hair was a gorgeous shade of sunlight and her skin nicely tanned. And then here stood Hermione, the girl in the extra long t-shirt with boys shorts on. And her hair, well a mixture of wind and ocean water had made it bigger than ever. Before Hermione could even size up the difference in their boobs, Sarah's were WAY bigger she though, Ginny cut the tension.
" Oh is that right?" She said, stepping closer to Draco, giving him a chance to back up. " And what exactly did he say?"
Harry was impressed in the toughness of his girlfriend. But one must end up tough with so many brothers.
With an angry quick look to Ginny, which she quickly recovered with a smile,Sarah answered, " Oh well...that's between us"
Then she giggled and waved a little at Draco. At that Hermione turned on the spot and flew for the house, Luna on her tail. That was it. This is the point where Draco couldn't stay quiet.
" What the fuck are you talking about?" He was angry, his fists clenched, " I barely said 5 words to you, you daffy bitch!"
He would have continued, if it hadn't been for Ginny stepping between them.
" I think you should go." She said, as nicely as possible.
Putting her hands on her hips, Sarah flung her hair around her shoulders and snapped, " Who the hell are you to tell me what to do?"
Harry knew what was going to happen, but it couldn't if they were to remain invisible here. Jumping forwards towards Ginny, he aimed for her arm, but she just shrugged him off.
" Wait!" she mouthed at him.
" Who the hell am I?" She said, snapping her head back in Sarah's direction." It does not matter who the hell I am. Now you are going to turn around,go and leave us alone!"
Suddenly Ginny had, like a shock wave, images pass through her mind. Sarah was in her bathroom, very close to a mirror. Ginny could see perfectly what the girl was doing. She had a few hairs on her upper lip, and she was trying to clip them, but it wasn't working very good.
Without worrying too much about what just happened she blurted out, " Go,...or everyone will find out about your mustache.." Ginny ended with a whisper.
Sarah went stone white, turned on her heels and pretty much took off. At that Draco quickly ran in to the house, trying to find Hermione.
" Hermione?" He called, coming through the front door.
Ron and Luna were sitting at the table, without a word, Ron pointed to his and Luna's room. Draco walked over rather fast, rapping on the door.
" Hermione? Can I come in?" Even though he asked, he wasn't ready to wait, so he just opened the door.
Before he had gotten it even open an inch, it slammed in his face. Together Ron and Luna stood, each mumbling something about checking on the food,walked to the door, then sprinted out of it. Watching them leave, Draco rested his head on the door. Thinking of touching her, he ran his hand up and down on the door, tracing the grain of the wood.
" 'Mione, come on! Please. Hey, I can't fix it until you tell me the problem!" He spoke quietly to her through the door.
" Problem?" Her voice erupted as the door flung open.
Flames nearly emitting from her eyes now.
" My problem is that you go into town and meet this..this...SKANK...who has the nerve to show up here shoving her perfect body in my face. With her fake blonde hair and humongous boobs!! Ughh..and here I stand with poodle hair and a ginormous black scar all over half my body.." she trailed off..looking at her shoulder, on the verge of tears.
She turned herself and walked to the window, watching the waves and the smoke coming off the fire. With a lowered head, he went to her. Bringing his hands to her waist, he brought her in close to him. With a moan, she relaxed into it.
" You know I think you're beautiful, first off. And you must know, that girl wasn't all she was crack up to be. When she started flirting with me in the shop, I told Harry I wanted to get out of there. And we would have right then, but we had to wait a minute so Harry could buy the things he was getting. Hermione.."
He turned her body to face him.
" I barely said a sentence to her. I had no interest in her at all. Trust me, I've tried that route. Girls like that are awful."
" Girls like that don't have this huge thing all over there shoulders do they?" she cut him off.
With a yank he plopped her to the bed. " Listen to me. With or without it, nothing will change the way I feel about you! I did try to remove the scar. I was lucky and my father found someone to remove my scar from Harry a few years ago. I tried the same spell on yours but,...it didn't work.." Draco lowered his head again, sighing.
" After you fell asleep..well hell, you passed out cold. I was talking with Ginny and Harry and well...we came up with an idea. There is this spell, and well, I can make it look less like a scar..."
She shook her head, " Anything is better than this, do whatever you want to it."
Lifting her arms, she took her tank top off and revealed her beautiful form to him. Her cute little pink polka dotted bra made him smile. She turned on the bed, turning her back to him, where the bulk of the scar was.
Gently he brushed her hair to one side,and leaning down, kissed her shoulder. Raising his wand, He tapped her shoulder and whispered "pannosa" . From the tip of the wand came a deep purple light. It trailed out, tracing the vine like scar on her body. Once the light died out, the scar looked more like a vine even more than before except now little purple and pink passion flowers appeared all over it. It was amazing looking. During the process, Hermione could feel a warm tingling all over the scar, when it was over, and he had finished, she rose and walked to the mirror on the back of the door. Instead of a horrible black vine scar there was now a beautiful vine with magnificent purple flowers all over. It looked like a tattoo instead of a terrible dark magic mark.
At this, Hermione started to cry.
a/n got several things to add into it. I knew from the start that I wanted to give Hermione a disfiguring scar, giving Draco an opportunity to prove himself to her in the most fierce of manners. I brought in Sarah just for validation on the subject, don't worry, she's gone forever! Besides you don't really see to many of the heartless two faced bitches in HP. I see them everyday and if you want proof the HP is a fantasy world..well the number of soul sucking skanks in this world is so large, you would be sure to see some at hogwartz. anywho...
Another thing I want to note on is the spell Draco did on Hermione is something I wanted from the start too. I'm a huge lover of tattoos, having several myself, and i thought it was time for it in HP. If you google passion flower, i found it to be unique in design, simple yet complicated, and well, if that ain't our 'Mione...
Also noted is that thing with Ginny. The vision she had. I wanted to give foresight/ mind reading thingy to someone. Thought of Luna but that poor girl does so much already. and well, Hermione's got her own issues right now. And we all know Ron's Teaspoon couldn't handle something like this...so my obvious choice was Ginny. She's my fav anyways :) Don't worry, you haven't seen the last of this. you will soon realize everything i have done is for a purpose and these 6 were meant for this!!
loves to all and please, review me for goodness sakes :) - Dazen