A/N: I'm glad that everyone enjoyed it, and now onto a new adventure. I'm sorry this has taken so long, I've rewritten one scene about 10 times, and I'm still not super happy with it.
Disclaimer: as per always I do not, nor will I ever, own anything from the world of Harry Potter, I do however own those characters you do not recognize.
Chapter 10: The Reveal
Hermione woke up Sunday morning, showered, dressed and made her way down to the common room she shared with Draco Malfoy. Sitting on a chair she picked up a textbook lying on the coffee table and flipping it open, began to read the chapters assigned for Transfiguration for the following week. She was so deeply entrenched in her studies that she didn't hear her suitemate come down the stairs.
"Morning Princess" he muttered as he threw himself onto the couch opposite Hermione.
"Right back at you Malfoy" she sighed.
He looked over at her, and after staring at her for a minute, she pulled out his wand, pointed it at his own desk and acciod his own Transfiguration text. He flipped it open, and began to read as well.
The morning passed quickly as the two of them read in tandem only feet from each other. Hermione was the first to put down her textbook and stand to stretch. She knew it was lunchtime, not from the time on the clock sitting on the mantle above the fireplace, but by the rumbling of her stomach. She walked past her suitemate, and made for the portrait in the wall. She opened it and slipped silently from the room. She made her way stealthily through the school and finally into the Great Hall.
"Hermione-" she heard someone yell from the Gryffindor table;
"I mean Gabrielle," the voice shouted again.
"Hi Harry, Ginny. How are you?" Hermione smiled and sat across from her two friends.
"Where's Ron?" she asked.
"Oh, he's out on the grounds with his arm fluff of the week" Ginny explained
Hermione laughed along with her friends and then began to fill her plate with the delicious food the elves in the kitchen had made the students.
After lunch, Harry, Hermione and Ginny left the Great Hall and decided to walk around the lake. They strolled and chatted about their summers, Hermione told them about Falin, and what she had done in Russia, what she had learned about herself. They made their way back into the school, and Hermione finally branched from her friends and made her way back to her common room.
Upon entering the portrait, she almost doubled over in laughter; standing at the window was Draco Malfoy attempting to beat off the advances of a gorgeous barn owl who had around its' leg a letter. Hermione continued to laugh as she watched Draco attempting to take the letter from the owl and being bitten quite ceremoniously on his index finger. Swearing Draco leapt away from the creature and glared at Hermione as she approached, and with little caution took the letter from the owl and summoning an owl treat from her bedroom, gave it to the annoyed animal.
"Thank you," she said to the bird before turning towards the couch and dropping onto it. Looking up she saw Draco attempting to staunch the bleeding,
"Oh for Merlin sakes, come here" she said and held her hand out for him to place his in it. He stood and begrudgingly put his hand in hers. She pulled out her wand and with a few words and flicks of her wrist, his finger had stopped bleeding and the skin was knitting back together.
"Thanks" Draco said as he slumped himself back onto the couch and sighed. She slipped her wand back into its holster and laid back into the chair. She flipped open the letter, and began to read,
Hello Lovely,
I hope your trip home was uneventful, and that you had an amazing birthday. I am sorry for missing it, but I hope that I can make up for it. I have vacation time coming up, and I was hoping that you would have a weekend to spend with me, to tour the castle you told me about, and spend some time in our favourite place. I miss your skin, and your lips, especially when I get to touch them both.
Please let me know about the holiday.
Falin.
Smiling to herself, she folded the letter back into the envelope before standing up, and walking towards her desk and pulling out a muggle ball point pen, and a sheet of stationary. She returned to the couch, and wrote out a reply to Falin. She told him that whichever weekend he was free, he was welcome to come to her. To visit her in a small village called Hogsmeade, at a pub called The Hog's Head, where she stayed while she was in town. Sealing the envelope, she put it into her pocket and waving at Draco, turned and left the common room. She walked through the school and finally into the Owlery. She called to her a school owl, and tied her letter around its leg. She directed it to take the letter to the owl to post transfer office in London, so that her letter would find its' way into the muggle world.
Moving back down the tower, Hermione made her way back to her common room, and flopped back into the chair opposite Draco.
"How' the hand?" she asked,
"Good, thanks for fixing it" he said holding up his healed hand.
"No problem, I would say anytime, but you might not want to get into another bitch fight with a Post Owl" she quipped.
He smiled, and then went back to reading his book. Hermione pulled her wand out of her holster, and summoned a magazine from her room. She flipped through it as the fire blazed not far from where she sat.
The next morning, Hermione woke up and dressed for class. She crammed her things into her school bag, shoved her feet into a pair of heels, and made her way to the Great Hall for breakfast.
Classes that day were slow, being the beginning of school, and Hermione sat at the front of the class ignoring the fact that the entire school was staring at her. They stared at her in the Great Hall, in the corridors, in class, and everywhere in between. It was beginning to get on her nerves. The only people who weren't staring at her, were her old friends, and Draco Malfoy, he didn't seem to give a shit that she was someone different. He went about his own business, reading his textbook, listening to lectures, and stirring his potion. In fact, he completely ignored her.
The rest of the day Hermione spent attempting to ignore the stares, the whispers and the gossip. After dinner she finally escaped to her room, bypassing the common room, and the group of Slytherins who happened to be spending time there. She undressed, slipped a towel around herself, and made for the shower. After she was finished, she crawled into bed naked, and fell asleep.
The following week she received another letter from Falin, who was planning on visiting her the weekend before Halloween. She made plans with the Headmistress to be in Hogsmeade for the weekend, and told her friends that she would be gone. Of course it wouldn't be for several more weeks, but once things were planned, she wouldn't need to worry about it once the time came.
The next few weeks were spent studying, writing papers, and during her free time, trying to find the perfect outfit for her reunion with Falin, and failing.
Finally the weekend arrived, and Hermione left the school on the Friday night, on the way into town she stopped at Gladrags Wizard Wear and soon found the perfect piece to meet Falin in. She slipped into the outfit after paying for it, and slipped her cloak over it. She left the shop and slipped into The Hog's Head.
Sitting at the bar, was her lover, her Russian sex god, sipping whiskey, and chatting with Tom. She slipped her arms around him and took his earlobe between her teeth.
"здравствулте! Любовник" [Hello Lover]
"Hello Gabbi" he purred at her, while he turned towards her. He took her into his arms, and attacked her lips with his own. He released her several minutes later, and with a wave towards Tom, they made their way through the tavern and up into the rooms for rent above it. Once they entered, he attacked her again, tearing off her cloak and tossing her onto the bed. He kissed down her neck, to her collarbone, and finally across her half naked breasts to the valley between them. He then began to slowly lick up the lace of her black bra, slowly, tortuously made love to her breasts. His hands traced up and down her arms, and finally to the valley, and with a flick of his well-trained finger, unlatched her bra and spread it before him, revealing her gorgeous mounds of flesh. He nipped his way to her left nipple, and licked around it, taking it into his mouth and sucking. She moaned and urged him on by arching her back, and running her fingers through his hair. He smiled into her flesh and moved his hands to her hips, gripping them as if his life depended on it. He felt the lace of her thong under his hands, and gripped it as his lips moved back to her own, and kissed her fiercely.
"Falin-" she moaned as she exerted her strength and flipped him onto his back, and straddled him. She flung her bra across the room and began to undo his shirt buttons one by one. Once she finished with his shirt, she undid the one button holding up his jeans with a flick of her wrist. The zipper soon was undone and the jeans joined her bra on the floor, and then his shirt was pulled from under his body.
"I need you inside me, now Falin- NOW" Hermione whispered into his ear.
"не пока красивейше, Я планирую на пытать вас сперва" [Not yet beautiful, I plan on torturing you first] he whispered back to her.
Hermione giggled as he teased her into oblivion.
The next morning Hermione woke up in Falin's arms, and sighed. She had missed that; in the months she had last seen him. Shifting, she looked up at him and watched as he slept beside her. When she moved to shift again, he woke up and looked down at her.
"доброе утро моя красотка" [good morning my beauty]
"Morning" Hermione replied, "What would you like to do today?"
"You told about the castle around here, I'd love to see it," he answered.
"Ok, that sounds like a plan" she said, as she crawled up towards him and began to kiss him. She ran her hands down his body and moaned as he did the same.
An hour later they were showered and dressed, and Hermione was leading him down the road towards the ruins he would see at her school. As they walked down the road, hand in hand, Hermione pointed out the other interesting bits of history from the town of Hogsmeade. She pointed out the Shrieking Shack, the Post Office, and finally The Three Broomsticks. They crossed the tracks near the station and walked towards the gates of the school. As they approached them, Hermione turned her thoughts to the large iron gates, and with a thought opened them. They walked through them and beside her Falin gasped and swore.
"Никакой путь, это нет Hogwarts, вы видите это?" [No way, this is Hogwarts, do you see this]
"Excuse me?" Hermione said staring at him.
"Hogwarts- you know the school for Witchcraft and Wizardry- one of the greatest schools for our kind!"
"Our kind?" Hermione said practically chocking.
"Yes, our kind- wizards, witches, you know. I know you know" he said.
"What are you taking about?" she tried to brush him off.
"Gabrielle, I know you're a witch"
"A witch?"
"Gabrielle! Seriously, I'm a wizard, I know that you're a witch"
"But how?"
"Little things, when you need something, you move to look for you wand, and then realize that it's not there"
"You hide it so much more better than me" Hermione said.
"You hide it well to Muggles" he said.
Hermione laughed, and then pointed them towards the castle.
"So, this is Hogwarts"
From the distance she heard her name being called. She looked up and Harry was running towards her.
"Hey Gabrielle, I thought you were gone this week- oh who is this?" he said.
"Harry, umm… this is Falin" Hermione explained
"Falin, hi I'm Harry"
"Harry Potter- I know" Falin said, shaking his hand.
"So… what are you two up to?" Harry asked, looking from one to the other
"We were just taking a walk around the village and I decided that we'd check out Hogwarts"
"Sounds like a fun day" Harry commented.
"It is" Falin said.
"Falin, while we're here, would you like a tour?" Hermione said, smiling up at him.
"Really, we can go in, are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure, I go to school here. Let's go," she said.
Falin followed Hermione and Harry over the grounds and into the Entrance Hall. Falin absorbed the sights around him, taking in the architecture, the statues, and the paintings. The little group wandered around the castle, and finally came to the Great Hall. Inside the large hall the entire school sat eating their lunch. Hermione pulled Falin into the room, and over to the Gryffindor table.
"Hello everyone. Falin, this is Ginny, Ron, Lavender, Dean, and Seamus. Guys, this is Falin. A friend from Russia"
There were greetings all around and the couple sat down, and dug into the lunch laid out on the long plank tables. After lunch, the whole gang made their way out to the lake, conjured up blankets, and sat watching the Giant Squid playing in the autumn chilled lake.
As the sun set, Hermione and Falin made their way back to their room at The Leaky Cauldron, walking through the leaves laying on the ground, through the village and finally up to their room.
While the air was cooling outside, the air inside the room to the left of the stairs at the worn down little tavern in the small village where magic ran rampant, was warming up.