Chapter 6 - Pansy Sightings
Hermione stared down at the Prophet in front of her, ashen faced a week later. "Parkinson sighted in Hogsmeade! Is she going after her ex-lover and his wife?", was in big, bold letters on the front page.
Draco was equally as pale, staring at his wife with worried eyes and waving his wand to cast his potronus, which was ironically a ferret, much to Hermione's amusement when she found out, whispering it a message to find Harry. Nodding it took off through the door behind the teacher's table to find him.
It was only a minute later when Harry ran in to the Hall, noticing Hermione's face as well as Draco's, "What happened?", he demanded. Silently Draco plucked the paper from Hermione's limp fingers and shoved it at Harry who looked it over quickly, his face draining of color rapidly as he read the headline, "Shit.", he croaked out. He took a few minutes to regain control of himself before finally stating, "I'll gather a few arours and search the entirety of Hogsmeade and a few miles in every direction of it, as well as the Hogwarts grounds. We'll find her if she's here.", confidence colored his tone, but Draco only had a quick glance at his face to see that Harry was worried. That was never a good sign.
He sighed, "Harry, please help me bring Hermione back to me and her's room? I don't want the students to see her like this. Might undermine her authority."
Harry nodded and the two carried her back to the room, the fact she wasn't talking or moving besides to blink scaring them to death. Suddenly Draco got an idea as they lowered her onto the couch in her and Draco's room, "Harry, I got an idea to try and get Hermione back, but you'll probably want to turn away."
Harry's eyebrow rose, "And that idea is...?", he asked.
"Kissing her", Draco stated plainly before turning his back to Harry and pressing his lips against his wife's.
Harry turned with a small, "Ickk", and stared at the wall.
A few seconds later and she wasn't responding and Draco got more worried, pressing his lips against her's harder, and finally she responded, causing Draco to smirk slightly at his victory. A few minutes later they pulled apart and Draco breathed, "Welcome back to the world of the living, love."
Hermione's pale face blushed and she looked over at Harry, confusion in her eyes when she looked back at Draco.
"Oh right. Harry, we're done. Hermione's back.", Draco said, looking sheepish that he forgot Harry after kissing Hermione.
Harry turned back around and sat on the couch with Hermione and Draco, "Alright. Hermione are you ok?"
Hermione gave a small shrug, "I don't think I'll really be ok until she's caught, but I'm not.. out of it anymore."
Harry nodded, "Well, did you hear what I told Draco?"
Hermione nodded as well, "Yeah, you'll find her. Search everywhere, and everything. But, why is she here? Why isn't she breaking Lucius out?"
Draco piped up, "Maybe she thinks she's strong enough to take you down herself. Or maybe she doesn't want me dead, which will happen if he gets out.", Draco shuttered at the thought.
Hermione raised a brow, "Do you think she'll think if she kills me, you'll go back to her?"
Draco nodded, "She probably thinks you put me under a love potion, or spell of some kind. She'd never guess the truth. She's.. blind, for lack of a better word, to any thought that I don't like her. She's always been that way, which was why it was so easy to.. play with her back then.", he looked embarrassed as he said this.
Harry spoke up again, "I'll got call the arours and start the search.. it's probably best if you guys stay in the Room of Requirement till I get back."
Hermione nodded, standing, "Will do Harry, are you going to send us your potronus when you get back?"
Harry nodded, "Yeah, now I'll go call them, you go hide."
Hermione nodded and pulled Draco out of the room and towards the Room. "What shall we make the room, love?", Draco asked as they reached the hall outside the room.
Hermione grinned at started to pace three times in front of the door, "You'll see.", she said as she pulled him through the door when it appeared.
The Room was empty besides the large, comfy looking bed sitting in it and a fire. Draco rose as eyebrow as he pulled her to that bed and they waited for Harry to finish, doing what they did every night.