Hi Everyone,

glad you're enjoying this one, I am really happy with this one so far. It's going to be very raunchy and lots of head butting between our two favourite characters. Just be advised Hermione is out of character, (smiles an evil smile).

Sirius xoxo

Chapter 2

Harry couldn't believe he was standing in the same room as Alexie Riddle. The story goes that Voldemort took her mother, a muggle, and wanted a child. It was his way of destroying both worlds and making them his own. He was never satisfied with just conquering the Wizarding world, he needed it all. Alexie's Mum, Elizabeth was randomly chosen as far as anyone knew. It had proven to be extremely hard to prove Alexie's existence as she had never been seen, her identity was a closely guarded secret while she was growing up but as an adult, her reputation proceeded her.

Harry realised he still had her bent over the desk and his wand pointed threateningly at her throat.

"Are you finished Potter, finished proving your male dominance?" Alexie stated and Harry pushed her hard one more time before he backed off.

"Harry I understand this is extremely difficult but you can understand the sensitivity of this case, can't you son?" Arthur had now sat down since Harry had stood down. Harry looked at him and was completely shocked, "Minister, hell Arthur, how can you trust her, how can you bring her in here? SHE IS ALEXIE RIDDLE! Our number 2 wanted madman of all time." Hermione sat back down and couldn't help the smile that graced her lips and Harry seriously wanted to smack it off her face and he told her so.

"You listen to me Riddle, I have no problem in using this wand on you, armed or not armed and don't think for one minute that I won't curse that damn smile off your face either." Hermione looked at him and then slowly stood up and she stepped in closer to him and when she was very close she looked down his body, like a woman looking over her merchandise, and she then got up into his face.

"Try it Potter, I could kill you with my hands, I don't need a wand." In the space of a split second Harry retaliated and the fight was on. Harry went to raise his wand to her face again but she grabbed his arm and tried to throw him over her shoulder but as Harry was trained in all forms of martial arts he stopped the throw. Once he did this though, she had another attack ready and waiting. Each punch was stopped by the other and each strike was diverted professionally. Hermione tackled him to the ground knowing she would have the upper hand in agility but Harry turned and pinned her down to the ground instead. She wasn't going to let him win so she flipped him over her head and grabbed his arms as he went and pulled herself around to now being on top of him with her legs around his throat. They were certainly matched in physical combat and as much as Arthur was mesmerised, he thought he had better stop it.

"STOP you two. We have a war to fight and surprisingly enough you two are on the same side so start acting like it." He pulled Harry off before Hermione kicked him in the back to start it all again.

"Now if this is going to work, you two need to work together and I mean it, work TO-GETH-ER." Arthur emphasised each syllable with a strong hit to the table as well.

"So as much as I would love to solve this case as quickly as possible, you two obviously need some time to learn to work together as a team so Harry say hi to your new flat mate..."

Harry's eyes bulged out of his head and truth be told so did Hermione's, she thought she could travel back and forwards to work not live with him.

They both started throwing their own arguments at Arthur but he wasn't listening. He knew this was going to be hard but it was imperative to the case that these two worked as one. He let them continue on until they ran out of steam and it was Harry who got in the last word.

"...I will never live with Alexie Riddle Arthur, never..." Hermione stopped and looked at Harry and she didn't really care what he said, she was used to being alone anyway, having a partner would be a hindrance to the way she worked.

"I'm not so keen on living away from my father's home either..." Harry turned and looked at her and then yelled at Arthur, "Did you hear what she said, she just said her father, Voldemort, Arthur she said her father who is VOLDEMORT!" Hermione rolled her eyes and then spoke to Arthur choosing to ignore the idiot standing next to her.

"As I was saying, I am not too keen on being away from my father's home for too long, I have to still show my face or he will get suspicious Minister, I need to be there for meetings otherwise I am no help to you at all." Arthur nodded and then looked at Harry who's face was showing that he was looking at two aliens, not two people.

"Harry I understand this is hard but please try and look at the bigger picture. We have never been able to get this close to Voldemort not even in his outer circle but now we have this opportunity and we can't pass it up. That's why you need to do this, it has to be you." Arthur was pleading with him and even as much as Harry had a bad feeling about this he knew he was right.

"Just one thing, this is my case, no one else's, I call the shots Arthur, is that clear?" Arthur nodded and then Harry turned around to Hermione and addressed her, "Is that clear Riddle?"

"Yes BUT when we bring him down, its my way or the highway Potter. I know him, I have lived with him all my life. I know what he is capable of and what I am capable of so don't push me." Hermione waited until he nodded and then she continued,

"Next, stop calling me Alexie, it will be heard by someone and this whole case will be over before it starts. My name is Hermione so use it." Harry glared at her then did a half nod and then turned to look at Arthur.

Arthur, Hermione and Harry continued talking about the details of the case for another hour. Hermione and Harry left the office and he walked her down to his office to go over any information she may have for any upcoming raids.

They walked in silence and Hermione was easily keeping up with his fast stride. She received many admiring glances from the men in the Ministry but Harry didn't even notice. He had a million things running around his head, the most important one being how was he going to work with Voldemort's daughter? He could take out this woman standing next to him and it wouldn't be a problem, he would be seen as a hero but Harry knew he had to look at the bigger picture. Arthur was right, this was the first time they had ever had this big a break, he just had to bite the bullet and keep her close to him.

They arrived at his office and Penny looked up with bright shocked eyes.

"Umm hello miss, hello Sir, can I get anything for you and your guest?" Penny sounded nervous, Harry rarely had new people at his office, everyone he brought Penny knew from work. Harry smiled at her and said they would be fine till later this afternoon. They walked into the office and Hermione turned around and glanced back at the girl.

"Man she looks like Minister Weasley." Harry stopped and stared at her and answered quickly, "Don't be stupid, she is my friend Neville's daughter and her name is Penny, if you need anything just ask her and …. BE NICE she's a good kid." Hermione laughed and then walked around his office looking at all his personal possessions.

"What are you doing?" Harry asked impatiently.

"You can really tell a lot about a person by the personal possessions he has Potter." Hermione kept walking around picking up books that weren't about work and then she noticed the two photos he had on his mantel piece. One was of him, Neville, Ron, Luna and Penny taken at the work Christmas party and the other was a copy of the Weasley family photo that was in Arthur's office. She glanced over the family photo but picked up the Christmas photo and studied it.

"Is that the dad?" she said pointing to Neville and Harry nodded, "..yeah I see the family resemblance. You look happy in this photo, not so much that one, but this one definitely." Harry didn't quite know what to say especially since she was spot on. His only come back was vague.

"Well you know what Christmas parties and alcohol do to a person." and he strangled out a laugh and when he realised she wasn't laughing he looked at her to see a perplexed look on her face.

"Christmas, what is that? It somehow rings a bell but I can't place it." Harry was dumb struck was she kidding? no it didn't look like it she seemed genuine.

"Sorry Alexi... umm Hermione, what do you mean, don't you know what Christmas is?" Harry was still shocked. Hermione looked at him and said no but then she put up that guard again and brushed it off.

"Probably some stupid muggle celebration that is a waste of time and money." Harry watched her and realised she was a very complicated woman, well who wouldn't be, being Voldemort's daughter. Hermione put the photo down and went to sit in the chair in front of Harry's desk, she put her feet up and crossed them on top of his desk and he raised an eyebrow.

"Can you at least try to be polite?"

"What do you mean, how is this rude? I'm comfortable!" Harry rolled his eyes and pushed her feet off the table and then started talking about missions.

Hermione told him about the meetings that were monthly at a venue that was decided at the last second before they apparated. They were usually notified through their dark mark and at that mention Harry stood up quickly and grabbed her arm. He pulled up her shirt and checked both arms and then turned her around and reefed her shirt up her body and he checked her back for any markings. She was standing there in her lacy black bra and she made no attempt to cover herself. When Harry stepped back she reached up to her neck and slowly pulled her red shirt down over her black bra and white milky skin and as much as Harry didn't want to watch, he couldn't help himself.

"You could've asked you know?" Hermione sat back down in her chair and went to put her feet back up on the desk but thought twice of it.

"As if you would've told me Riddle! How does he contact you anyway?" Hermione showed him a ring she wore that was very small and looked insignificant, it was better that it avoided detection. Harry looked down at the papers pretending to look through the notes he had made but it was to hide the blush that graced his face as he realised what he had just done to a woman, Alexie or not Alexie, it wasn't right. He just slipped into Auror mode and had no regard for her personal well being but he had to keep his wits about him, this was Voldemorts daughter and he wasn't 100% sure if she was there for the reasons she said.

Hermione watched him intently and even though her treatment just then didn't particularly worry her, she had been through considerably worse, she was extremely curious about his reaction. She stood up and very slowly leaned across the table and then put a finger under his chin, Harry pulled back instantly and looked into her golden brown eyes.

"Yes I would have told you, we need trust Harry and I know I have to earn it but you also have to let me try." Harry watched her and he was trying hard to not look at her breasts that were standing out right in front of his face.

"Well you have to forgive me Hermione if I am cautious about trusting you of all people," Harry sat back on his chair giving himself some space. She was certainly a confident woman and she had no problems with accepting and using her own body. She sat back and then waited until Harry continued. There was an awkward silence and Hermione broke it, "Why don't you just say what's on your mind Harry then we can get past this and move on?"

Harry looked at her and decided it would be a sign of weakness if he said what was really on his mind.

"I want to get through this as quickly as possible Hermione I'm still not convinced you are here for the reasons you have said so we have work to do, is there anything else you would like to add to this." Harry pointed at the last lot of notes they had written and Hermione smiled and then continued telling Harry details of her fathers tightly run organisation. Quite a while later there was a knock at the door and Harry called out for Penny to come in.

"Sorry Sir, is it OK if I leave now, Dad is having family friends for dinner and he is waiting on me?" Penny asked sheepishly.

"Sure Penny, what time is it anyway?"

"Its after 8pm sir," Harry nearly had a heart attack, "OH Penny sweetie your dad will kill me, sorry its so over time take tomorrow off on me so you can have a rest."

"No no Sir its ok, I caught up on lots of paperwork." After discussing it for a few more minutes, Penny agreed to take the day off and Harry let her apparate from his office so she wouldn't have to go all the way down stairs and wait at the designated apparating area as that could take another half an hour.

"OK Hermione I think we could probably call it a day, so what are you going to do now?" Hermione stood up and told him she would go home for a couple of days and make sure there hasn't been any changes or any suspicions as to where she had been. From then on she would bring clothing so she could stay at his house and Harry agreed. He was just a little bit glad he had a couple of nights to himself and also realised his spare room needed a clean.

"OK Hermione I'll walk you down to where you can apparate.."

"Umm NO Harry, I could easily be seen by any of my fathers Death Eaters down there, everyone comes in and out of the Ministry through that front door, even prisoners." Even though he didn't want to, he had to agree with her and she certainly knew her stuff. He supposed she wouldn't have gotten this far in her life if she didn't. Harry then spent the next ten minutes adjusting his wards so she could apparate straight into his office. He told her the wards would only be open to his office and his office only, if she tried to go somewhere else he would know, if she tried to tweak the wards, he would know, if she did anything that he would find suspicious, he would know. She rolled her eyes slightly bored and then apparated out.

Harry went over the wards one more time, just to be sure and then he apparated home to a sleepless, long, drawn out night.

Let me know what you think,

Sirius xoxo