Chapter 12

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Truly madly deeply

I'll be your dream

I'll be your wish

I'll be your fantasy

I'll be your hope

I'll be your love

Be everything that you need

I love you more with every breath

Truly madly deeply do……..

I will be strong I will be faithful

Cause I'm counting on a new beginning

A reason for living

A deeper meaning

I want to stand with you on a mountain

I want to bathe with you in the sea

I want to lay like this forever

Until the sky falls down on me…………..

And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky

I'll make a wish send it to heaven

Then make you want to cry……..

The tears of joy for all the pleasure and the certainty

That we're surrounded by the comfort and protection of…..

The highest power in the lonely hours the tears devour you



Draco woke up the next morning when someone knocked on their hotel door. He looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was only 7 in the morning. He hadn't planned to get up till at least 10 o'clock. He looked down to see Hermione sound asleep still. He grinned as he got up because he knew that he had worn her out last night.

He pulled on his boxers and went to open the door. It was Hermione's cousin.

"Is Hermione here?" Nathan asked.

"Yeah, she is asleep but I can wake her for you. Come on in. I'm Draco by the way." Draco said as he led him inside.

Draco was being nice only to the fact that it was Hermione's cousin. He went back into the room and went to the bed. He lightly shook her awake.

"Hermione, love wake up; your cousin is here."

She opened her eyes, stretched and smiled at him.

"Good morning." She said sitting up, letting the sheet fall and showing off her breast. She stood up and stretched again and proceeded to kiss Draco almost making him forget that Nathan was sitting in the living room of their hotel room.

"Hermione, your cousin is here waiting for you in the other room." He told her against her lips.

"What is he doing here?" She asked as she started putting on some clothes.



"How would I know, I'm not physic. He asked for you so I am assuming that he wants to talk to you." He told her as laid back down on the bed.

"It was just a question love. Go back to sleep, I know it is early for you to get up on your day off." She said giving him a kiss then walking out of the room.

Hermione walked out and found Nathan watching TV. She walked over to him and gave him a quick hug and a kiss on the cheek.

"So what brings you here so early in the morning?" She asked him.

"Well after what happened yesterday I wanted to make sure you were ok. Are you?" Nathan asked.

"Yeah, I am fine now. Just had an argument. He thought I was flirting with you, he got jealous and acted out." She told him.

"Why do so many people think that every time we hang out?" He laughed.

"I don't know."

"So is he a good guy? Because if he isn't and ends up being like that old boyfriend of yours I am going to have to kill him."

"No he is a wonderful man. He is the one that saved me from Lucas. He actually saved me a few times. So have you talked to my parents recently?"



"Yeah, they still don't believe you about Lucas. They have this sick little fantasy that you two will get back together. Landen was just thrilled that you had finally broke up with him and he has taken a liking to Draco it seems." He told her.

"Landen would take a liking to him; he used to be just like Landen. Having many girlfriends at once."

"That's my brother for you. So when are you heading back to England?"

"Tomorrow, I want to spend one more day here to go see the sites. Why don't you come with us? Then you can get to know Draco and tell my parents that he is the right guy for me. They're going to have to get use to him and get Lucas off their minds since he is in jail and Draco and I are going to get married." Hermione told him showing her ring to him.

"When did this happen?"

"Last night, he took me out to dinner on a yacht and asked me to."

"That great Hermione I am so happy for you. I will take you up on that offer to come; I have to go take care of a few things first though. What time should I come by?"

"Around noon would be good. Its Draco's first day off for the week so I want him to sleep in. Call my cell when you're on your way here." She told him giving him a hug and showing him out.

Hermione turned off the TV on her way back to the bedroom. She walked in and saw that Draco had fallen back asleep. He was lying on his stomach with his face towards the window.



Hermione decided that she was going to wake him up for some fun. She started stripping off her clothes as she walked to the bed. She crawled into the bed and made her way up to him laying her naked body on top of his. She started kissing his neck when she felt him stir.

"Mmmmmmm……………..what a nice way to wake up; I take it that your cousin left?" He asked enjoying her attention.

"Yeah he left, which I am glad because now I can give you some well deserved attention. Now roll over."

Draco did as she said with a grin on his face. Hermione continued her exploration with her mouth. As she was kissing his chest she pulled off his boxers. She started kissing her way down till she was kissed the tip of his erection. Then she put him in her mouth fully and started sucking.

"Hermione while I love what you are doing to me I won't be able hold on much longer."

She released him then slowing crawled up his body to give him a kiss, before she was able to reach his mouth fully he had already flipped her over.

"What has gotten into you this morning?"

"Just thinking of us and how we are going to spend the rest of our lives together." She said giving him a kiss.

Draco smiled at her words and kissed her with hunger. He really never would tire of having Hermione in his life or bed.



They proceeded to make love for the next hour. Hermione started to get up but Draco wouldn't let go of her. He pulled her up against his chest.

"Where do you think you are going?"

"I am going to go take a shower so we can go and get some breakfast. Then we are going to meet up with Nathan and go see the sites." She told him as she wiggled free.

"Why are we meeting up with your cousin?" He asked her trying to pull her back into bed.

"I want him to get to know you so that someone in my family will like you, besides I haven't spent a lot of time with him in a while."

"Alright, let's go shower." He said as he got up, grabbed her and headed for the bathroom.

After a long shower they headed out to get some breakfast. They went to a little bistro that was on the corner near their hotel.

"So what do you want to go see today?" Draco asked Hermione.

"I was hoping that we could go to the Museum of Natural History mostly anywhere else you can choose." Hermione told him while looking over the menu.

"Alright, we will start there and go the Statue of Liberty then just go from there."

"So what time are we leaving going to leave tomorrow?" Hermione asked Draco just as the waiter came over to take their orders.

Draco was going to answer when he noticed the way that the waiter was staring at Hermione. Even though he knew that she was his, it still bothered him when other men looked at her like that, with that raw hunger. He was just about to say something to the waiter when he felt Hermione foot on his leg telling him to be nice.

After the waiter had walked away to put their orders in Hermione looked at Draco with a smile on her face.

"What's that smile for?" He asked her.

"You acting all jealous it's cute but you do know that you don't have to be, I am not going to leave you for anyone else."

"I know but that doesn't mean that I still like when other guys look at you." He said taking her hand and kissing it.

"So when do you think the wedding should be?" Hermione asked.

"Whenever you want it to be, we can have a long engagement or short doesn't matter to me as long as we get married."

"I was thinking that this summer would be good. July actually."

"Sounds wonderful it will give everyone time to get used to the idea of us getting married."



They ate their food making small talk about the wedding. She said she wanted the wedding to be outside. Draco really didn't care if the wedding was inside or outside just as long as she was the one he was going to be marrying.

As they walked out of the restaurant Draco was pondering whether or not she was going to invite her parents or not. He knew that even if she was mad at them she would regret not having her father walk her down the aisles.

"Are you going to tell your parents?"

"I want to but I don't know if I can stand them saying that Lucas is the best one for me. They still haven't accepted what I told them about him. Nathan told me that they still believe him and I will get back together. I don't see why they just won't believe me." She said leaning into him as they walked.

"I just don't want you to regret not inviting them to our wedding." He told her kissing the top of her head.

"I know we will go sit down and talk to them once we get back home."

Just then her phone rang. It was Nathan saying he was on his way to the hotel, but since they were she told him to meet them in Central Park. They waited for 20 minutes before he showed up. Hermione greeted him with a hug then went to introduce Draco to him.

"Nathan I would like you to meet my fiancé Draco."

They shook hands and a quit conversation passed between them.

"So where are we off to first?"

"The Museum then Draco said something about going to the Statue of Liberty."

"Sounds good to me but somehow I don't think that we will make it to the Statue of Liberty, knowing you we will be at the museum all day." Nathan teased.

"That is true, I bet we will have to pry her away and bind her or something of the sort." Draco said joining in with Nathans teasing.

"Ha ha very funny, if you want to go see the statue so much then leave me at the museum." Hermione said walking ahead of them.

Draco and Nathan laughed then caught up to Hermione. Draco grabbed her from behind and pulled her to him kissing her on the neck.

"We were just playing with you love." He whispered in her ear then bit her.

They spent the next three hours at the museum. While Hermione went into her own world of history with all the exhibits they went through Draco and Nathan were getting to know each other better.

"So Hermione never mentioned that she had a cousin that was a wizard, were both your parents' muggles?"

"No my mom is a witch and my dad is a muggle. I am just the only one that is a wizard out of my brothers and sisters."

"How many siblings do you have?"

"Two brothers and two sisters, you've met my brother Landen."

"Ahh yes Landen, he seems to be somewhat of a player. I've been there before until I got to know her." Draco said looking at Hermione with an adoring look.

"You know I didn't think I was going to like you very much after yesterday but now that I can see how much you love her I am glad to welcome you to the family." Nathan told him.

"Thanks you're not so bad yourself. At least I know one person in her family doesn't hate me."

They spent a few more minutes in the museum then headed out to go get lunch. While Nathan got a cab for them to take them up town Hermione pulled Draco into a hug and kissed him with so much emotion behind it.

"What was that for?" He asked resting his forehead against hers.

"I was watching you and Nathan talk earlier. I just wanted to thank you for being nice to him."

"I had no reason to be rude to him and he is an alright guy besides he is the only one of your family that likes me."

"He isn't the only one in my family that likes you. Landen has taken a liking to you; maybe you can get him out of his man whore days faster than you did."

Draco just laughed and steered her towards the cab that Nathan had gotten. They took the cab to up town and went to have lunch. After lunch they spent went to the Statue of Liberty. After they 

spent some time there Nathan split up from them saying he had a date. Draco and Hermione headed back to their hotel room to just relax and watch the rest of the 10th Kingdom.

They woke up the next morning and packed up their clothes and other belonging and check out to head home. As they made their way to the floo point they started talking.

"So when are you going to move in for good. Do you want to wait to move in till after the wedding or do you want to move in now. I mean we already spend every night together as it is. Living together in one place would make it easier."

"Well since I don't like being apart from you for long periods of time then I would say I want to move in as soon as possible. How about we start packing my things up when we get back, spend one more night there and put it up for sale. What do you think?"

"I think that is a great idea honey." He said pulling her in for a kiss.

They arrived back at her place around noon. They walked in and were greeted by Artemis and Astraios. She bent over and picked both of them up and gave them a little attention. Draco dropped the bags then went over and took Artemis out of her arms.

"I knew they would grow on you."

"Yeah well they are cute little boogers. Shall we start packing your stuff?"

"Yeah, I want to be done with it I always hated packing."

"Yes but remember we do have magic and we can just use it to put everything away, then we can spend more time on other meaningful things." He said with a raise of his eyebrows.

"Alright let's get packing." She told him.

As Draco turned around and put Artemis down Hermione took a moment to admire his butt and then decided she would swat it as she walked by on her way to the kitchen.

He stood there in shock for a minute then heard her laugh making him chase after her. He caught her around the waste and spun her around pinning her to the counter.

"Now you know you can't start something with me and expect me to stop." He said as he started kissing her neck and slowing massaging her breasts.

Hermione gasped when he started to suck on her neck. She slowly worked her hand down to grope him. He slowly started stripping off her clothes just like she was doing to him once he had her fully naked he pushed her on top of the counter top. He finished undressing while she was stroking his chest making it hard for him to concentrate. He grabbed her and positioned himself at her entrance. Before he entered he looked into her eyes and saw the love and passion in them. He set a fast pass making not take long for either of them to finish.

Draco set her back on her feet and leaned into her and the counter.

"No matter what every time feels like the first with you."

"I know what you mean." She responded breathing hard.

They took a few minutes to compose themselves then they collected their clothes and started packing up her belongings. Around 8 o'clock they decided to get some food delivered to them. While they ate they watched Pirates of the Caribbean.



When the movie was over Hermione turned to Draco to see if he was ready to go to bed but it seems that he had already fallen asleep. He was lying on the couch behind her with both cats propped on his chest.

She smiled and conjured up a camera just so she would always have this picture. Draco woke up with the flash of the camera.

"Oh sorry I didn't mean to wake you. You just looked so adorable asleep with the cats."

"Its fine, the movie over?" He asked stretching.

"Yeah, I was just going to clean up then head to bed." She told him as she started to clean up the mess from their dinner.

Draco helped her start cleaning up then steered her towards the bedroom. Hermione went and changed into her pajamas, when she came out of the bathroom she found Draco already in bed almost asleep.

"Why are you so tired tonight?" She asked him as she crawled in and snuggled up to him.

"You wore me out today, first this morning then the afternoon." He said kissing her on her head.

About 3 in the morning there was a knock at the front door. It woke both of them up.

"Who would be knocking on your door this late? It better be important or I am going to be pissed." Draco said getting out of bed.



Hermione chose to follow him to the door and see who it was so she could stop Draco from attacking them for waking him up at this hour of the night. He opened the door to see Harry standing there with a solemn look on his face.

"Harry what's wrong?" Hermione asked him grabbing his arm and pulling him into the house.

"It better be good Potter you woke me up from a good dream." Draco told him.

"I received this by owl an hour ago. I thought you would want to see it considering what it is." Harry said handing Hermione a letter.

While Hermione started reading Draco looked at Harry to see try and figure out what it was. When Hermione gasped Draco knew it had to be something bad.

"Babe, what is it? What does the letter say?"

"It's from Hagrid; it says that Dumbledore is sick and dying, that we need to come see him as soon as possible before it's too late." Hermione told him with tears in her eyes.

"Where going to go see him tomorrow, at least Gin and I are, she made the point that you would probably want to come to." Harry said quietly.

She looked at Draco to see what she should do. He could see that she wanted him to make the decision. He knew how close she was to the old bat he would tell her she should go and he would go with her for support.

"We will go with you guys just let us know when you are going to be leaving." Draco told him.



"We plan to go in the early morning so then we can visit everyone afterwards."

"Alright we will meet you there in the morning." Draco said putting and arm around Hermione.

After Harry left Draco took Hermione back to bed. She hadn't said so much as a word since telling him what the letter said.

"Hey, you ok love?" He asked putting his arms around her.

"No, it is hard to believe that he is dying. I can only imagine what Harry is feeling. Dumbledore is like a grandfather to him." Hermione told him pushing her face into his neck.

"We don't know that he is dying sweetie."

"Yeah we do because that wouldn't contact us if he wasn't. Thank you for saying you will go with me I don't think I could handle this alone."

"It's no big deal; I would do anything for you. Now let's try to get some more sleep, night love."

The next morning Draco woke up and rolled over but found that Hermione was already gone. He got up to go find her when he smelt bacon cooking. He walked into the kitchen to find Hermione standing at the stove cooking breakfast. It was an amazing site, seeing her wearing tiny shorts and one of his shirts that she had taken from him when they were at the hotel. He walked up behind her and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"That smells good what is all on the menu?"



"Well bacon as you can see, French toast and eggs. Can you please get the juice out of the fridge?" She asked with a smile on her face.

"Sure, so what time do you want to leave here?"

"Once we get done with eating and take a shower. Harry said they wouldn't be there till 8 so we have time to enjoy our breakfast and a quick shower. We won't have time to take my things to the manor so we will have to come back from them." Hermione rambled on.

"Hey, you sure you want to do this? We don't have to." He said putting the juice down and taking her into his arms.

"I owe it to him; he never gave up on any of us. He is family to me to, plus I want him to know what a good man you've turned out to be and tell him that we are getting married. Having his blessing is just as important to me as my dad's would be." She told him giving him a kiss.

"Now let's eat before it gets cold."

They took a shower together then got dressed and flooed to Hogwarts. They met Harry and Ginny in Dumbledore's office.

"Oh Hermione can you believe this, we all thought that he would out live us all." Ginny said giving her a big hug then moving on to Draco to do the same.

The look on Draco's face was priceless. He didn't know quite how to react to being hugged by Ginny. Just then McGonagall walked in looking grim as ever.

"It's good to see you all again I just wish it were under better circumstances. Do all of you want to go in together or have turns saying your goodbyes to him?"



"We can all go in together. We have no secrets from each other." Harry said.

As they all got up to go into the headmasters chambers Hermione went over and hugged her old teacher.

"It is good to see you again Minerva." Hermione said.

"It's good to see you again too dear, it has been too long."

They walked in together and became solemn. Dumbledore was lying on his bed pale as a ghost and skinny as a stick. He saw them come and they all could still see that twinkle in his eyes.

"Hello everyone so good to see you all" Dumbledore greeted them.

Hermione, Ginny and Harry all went and gave the headmaster a hug while Draco just gave him a polite handshake.

"All of you need not look so sad." He told them.

"How can we not be sir your sick, sicker than any of us have ever seen you. We all know that it is serious since Hagrid called us." Hermione said.

"Yes, I may be dying but you all have to remember that I have been alive for a very long time. I had Hagrid contact you because I wanted to talk to you all and tell you a few things." He told them.

"Well since I just came along for support for Hermione I will just go wait in the study for all of you to finish." Draco said as he started to make his was out of the room.

"There are a few things I want to tell you to Mr. Malfoy." Dumbledore told him.

Dumbledore spent the next hour telling old stories of when he was younger. He was making them laugh and have a good time trying to make them understand that it was his time to die.

"Harry, there was something I have been meaning to ask you for a while."

"What is it sir?"

"Would you ever consider becoming a teacher for Defense against the dark arts?"

"I actually have sir; I just didn't think that I was qualified just quit yet considering I haven't worked in the field very long. Why do you ask, I thought Remus was doing pretty well?"

"Oh he has been doing well, it's just that he has wanted to retire but hasn't found the best replacement and didn't want to have to ask you."

"I would be happy to take over for him. I have wanted to teach that class since I graduated. When would I be starting just so I know so I can give notice at work?"

"Well I am not sure about that just yet you can talk it over with Remus later on today. Now on to my next order of business Ginny I was wondering if you would be willing to take over as teacher of Transfigurtations since McGonagall will be taking over as headmistress once I am gone."

"I would love to professor it will make it to where Harry and I are going to be able to be with each other all year long. Just have her tell me when she needs me to start."



"Well now that we have all that settled I have something for the two of you."

Dumbledore reached over and grabbed something off of his nightstand. He handed it to Harry who wasn't sure what it meant. It was a scroll of sorts.

"What is this professor?" Harry asked while Ginny looked it over.

"It's the deed to the school, I talked it over with Minerva and we came to the same conclusion that although you will not become headmaster after I am gone Hogwarts is more yours than anyone else's around here, after all Hogwarts is your home Harry."

Harry stood there in shock for a few minutes before he went and gave him a huge hug telling him how much it meant to him.

Hermione couldn't believe it; Harry was finally getting to come back to his home for good. She was so happy for him; she had tears in her eyes from the gesture of giving him Hogwarts. Draco was shocked at the events but pleased to see that the school wouldn't be going into the wrong hands.

"As for you Miss Granger I wanted to give you a few books of mine that you could only appreciate. They are in a trunk in my study; there is a certain journal in there that I know you will just love so much." He told her as he handed her the key that would open the trunk.

"Thank you sir, it means a lot to me." Hermione said with appreciation.

"And for Mr. Malfoy I had hoped that you would have come along with them for I have something for you as well." Dumbledore said as he lifted a box off his dresser.



Draco took it gently afraid that something fragile was in it. The box had holes all over it indicating that there was something alive in the box. He was a little afraid to open but did so anyways and inside was the most magnificent gift he could have hoped for. It was a phoenix, the phoenix that had once been his godfathers but had disappeared when he did years ago.

"Sir where ever did you find him?" Draco asked

"He found me Mr. Malfoy, I remember you talking about him on one of meetings. I figured that he would best be with you."

"Thank you sir, I have been missing him for years."

"Professor there was something I; well we wanted to tell you." Hermione said grabbing Draco's hand.

"Yes Miss Granger what is it?"

"Draco and I are getting married, I was hoping for your blessing since you were like a father figure to me." Hermione told him while she heard Ginny squeal in the background.

"I was wondering if you two were ever going to tell each other your feelings it seems that it's finally happened. Well I congratulate you both and give you my blessing." He told them with that twinkle in his eyes.

They said their goodbyes and started to head out when Harry stopped them in the study.

"So you're engaged? When did this happen?" He asked them wrapping his arm around Ginny.



"When we were in New York on a business trip, I wanted to tell you sooner but with the letter last night I thought it would wait then I wanted to tell him." Hermione told them.

"I'm happy for you Mione you deserve to be happy and we have our own news to tell you. Do you want to do the honors Gin?" Harry asked.

"We are having a baby!!" Ginny said enthusiastically.

Hermione squealed in delight and grabbed Ginny to touch her stomach and give her a big hug.

"Congrats Potter." Draco said offering his hand.

"Thanks, what do you all say we go out to get some lunch? We can eat here or go to Hogsmead." Harry suggested.

"Sounds like a plan." Draco said swinging his arm around Hermione as they headed out.

After they spent the day with Harry and Ginny talking about everything they headed back to the cottage to pick up all of Hermione's things so that they could head home. Once they got back to the manor Draco helped Hermione unpack all of her stuff making room in his closet and draws for her stuff then he went to take a shower.

While Draco was showering Hermione was in the library going through the trunk that Dumbledore had given her. It was full of books on the history of the magical world and muggle world things that most people wouldn't know. She then found the journal that he had been talking about. It was a journal about his explorations and adventures of when he was young. She got so enthralled that she didn't hear Draco come down. He walked in sat down next to her bringing her out of her own world.



"What do you have there?" He asked her.

"Dumbledore's journal off all his adventures and such, it is really interesting." She told him as she put it down and scooted over to him so that she could snuggle up to him.

"So I was thinking that I want to have the wedding on the Hogwarts grounds. I think it would be a beautiful place to have it plus there is tons of room and school will be out in the month of July. What do you think?"

"Sounds wonderful to me, do you want a big wedding or small wedding?"

"I am thinking small just close friends and family."

"So have you made up your mind about whether or not you want your parents involved?" He asked her.

"Yes, I at least want them at the wedding but I don't want my dad walking me down the aisle if he doesn't want me to really marry you. If they haven't accepted you by that point then I will have Harry walk me down the aisle."

"Well we need to get it all settled. We should set up a lunch with your parents for sometime this week so we can sit down and talk to them."

"Ok, I'll call them tomorrow but for now I think we should go upstairs I am getting tired." She said as she started kissing his neck.

"What a brilliant idea. That way I can show you how much I actually love you." He said picking her up and heading upstairs.

Ok so I know it took me forever to post this chapter first I had writers block then I started MA school but now that I don't have a job I am able to write before I go to class at night. This chapter may not be as good as my other ones but I did my best. Enjoy the chapter and I will try to update sooner.

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