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"Well Diary I guess there could be worse ways of waking up than a handsome man's arm draped across one's body, especially when that man is gloriously naked. I can't help but smile, it has been six incredible months and everything has been just magnificent, beautifully simple. I lay in bed and just revel in the good life and just smile to myself. Luna and Blaise dropped the news on me a couple days back and they were going to start looking for a place together and wanted to know if I wanted to keep our place or if I wanted to make other plans. While I was ecstatic for them the idea of finding a new place it was a bit daunting to say the least. Now that I think about it, I've never truly lived on my own...well except for the short time I lived with Ronald during our disastrous "relationship". My god what a bloody waste of time that relationship was.. hold on you know what- no, I'm glad that I was with him I don't regret every being with anyone. You learn something from every relationship that you're in, I learned what I was willing to put up with and what I wasn't. The best thing that has ever happened to me is finding Lavender riding him in our bedroom. I remember coming home tired after long day and finding a pair of tacky heels and knowing that when I walked into my bedroom I was going to see my boyfriend, whom I had gone on so many great adventures, my boyfriend who had been one of my best friends for so many years cheating on me. And just cheating on me, but with one of the people that I despised the most in this world. That moment finally gave me the excuse I needed to get the fuck out of dodge and split.
I wish I could say that we mended fences, I wish that I could say that the over a decade of friendship and near death experiences that we went through together was enough to override the colossal piece of crap that was our relationship, but that would make me a the reality is that after we split Ronald seemed to have lost it for a time, it got so insane that at one point he was sending me anonymous letters as if from a fan of the three of us, all of them going on and on about how destined he and I were. It wasn't until Harry found the letters that he contacted Ronald and told him to put a stop to it and realize that the only reason we were at this place was because of his desire to keep retelling the fucking tales of our take down of Voldemort to anyone who would listen.I know that he wasn't the only one sending those letters as much as it pains me I know that Molly was involved as well, it was always her dream that Ron and I get married and have six or seven red headed Weasley's. She hated the fact that I wasn't the stay at home type, she was incredibly critical of the fact that I ran two business and I think what bothered her most is that I did it successfully. Nothing happened the way she wanted it too,
Ginny ended up in the captain of the Holyhead Harpies and is in a wonderful relationship with a muggle nurse Adam, whom I am happy to say I introduced her too. Harry and Ginny just couldn't work, it's what happened to a lot of us after the war, being with each other brought up all of those memories. Harry I am happy to say is well enough as well. Shocking to us all he was able to rekindle his romance with Cho and now is the proud father of 3 little girls. Out of all of us Harry was the one I was most worried about, but with Cho everything just lit up and for the first time I can see my best friend relax and it's the best I hoped for him. Unfortunately back to Ronald, I kind of went off track, but I get asked a lot about the status of everyone so I thought putting it down would do me some good, but back to Ronald again, after Harry confronted him about his psycho behavior he attacked me for moving past the painful deaths of my parents, as if he didn't know the therapy I had to go through to reach some form of closure on such a devastating event in my life, and how he did truly love Fred because he would never pretend it didn't happen. He ran off to Romania to work with Charlie last I heard.
In so many ways I'm thankful to Ronald because had it not been for his fuck up I wouldn't have started writing this journal and I wouldn't have this incredible man sleeping next to me. On a somewhat lighter note I haven't heard from Theodore which I am only too thankful for, last I heard he was on assignment somewhere in New Zealand so for the time being I'm safe from that altercation. God to think of Draco finding out about Theo would could only cause the worst possible catastrophe imaginable, but Blaise told me that Draco was too engulfed with his family drama and his involvement with the Death Eaters that as far as he knew Draco never found out about the situation with Nott. So for now my dear diary I leave you and until later, I have some matters to deal with."
I close my laptop and place it back on my desk when I hear a rustling of sheets and turn around to see Draco plopped up on the comforter looking effortlessly handsome as usual.
"When are you going to let me read what you are writing?"
"Never, that something when , now come on Draco we have to get dressed you know Harry and Cho wanted to have dinner later today and we still have to help Luna and Blaise pack up their stuff."
"I haven't asked you, how are you dealing with that, it's a giant step, I know you all are inseparable, until I came along and took you away" Draco smirked at me looking like quite the devilish scoundrel.
" Haha, It is but it's just as big as ours I mean Draco, I practically live here and we've only been together six months while those two, they've been together for an eternity it's about time. I just don't know what we'll do with the house, it's been my home and I have such fond memories of it, but I don't want to have a big house all alone."
"I'm insulted Granger are you telling me you wouldn't even consider asking me to move in." Draco gasped feigning shock and hurt." He walked over to me a goofy grin on his face and held me at arms length. We'd talked about moving in together, but really ever in passing sort of in a joking manner, the relationship was still too fresh for that large of a move.
"Haha Draco, are you telling me you would up your glorious bachelor pad and move in with me?" I cocked my eyebrow at him in a sort of questioning, unbelieving manner. His place was nice, I loved being there, but it was so evident that he lived by himself.
"Hey, Granger haven't you figured it out by now, wherever you are that's where I want to be."
I felt my breath halt and looked into the eyes of a man that I never in a million years would have thought would have such a great impact on my life. It's like I was in the dark and for the first time I could see the stars. I shock myself out of my trance and patted his cheek as I planted a sweet kiss on his face.
"Stalker, alright then...wow..so you're moving in….that's big..you know that's big right?..alrighty then.. we have so much to do then.."
"Granger breath, in and out, that's it love, I'll call a realtor, I know that Theo bought his place with Millicent, you know the one in Glasgow, we'll get this sorted out quickly, by this time three days from now I'll be moved and you can go on unnecessarily worrying about something else. Now let's get going Potter isn't going to wait forever."
I spent the majority of our dinner lost in the conversation of earlier, reeling over the idea of living with Draco, I love him I do...wait, have we said I love you? Oh my god have we? Are we really going to move in together and I don't even know. Shut up Hermione of course he loves you, he was the one who wanted to move in in the first place you lunatic. I snapped out of my reverie when a gorgeous little ball of pitch black hair and stunning green eyes jumped on my lap.
"Auntie Hermione, what are you doing? Uncle Draco said you've lost your marbles, but I told him that's not true because we have a whole box of them." I looked over at Draco who was smirking at me from across the living room discussing the possible expansion of Malfoy Inc. into quidditch technology.
"No Autumn sweety I haven't lost my marbles, uncle Draco is just trying to be funny."
I stroked her hair a little while I glanced across the room and took in the sweet simplicity of the scene, no one would have ever thought it would be Harry out of us all that would be living the blissful life of suburbia, yet here he was, no impending doom, no evil villains or cruel relatives, just his gorgeous school sweetheart and his beautiful little girls, everything I wanted for my best friend and more. We locked eyes from across the room and he motioned to the kitchen. I looked down at the now sleeping child on my lap, moved her to plush loveseat and made my way into the kitchen, Draco looked over at Harry, but Cho shook her head and began to show him the pictures of their recent trip to Uganda with the children,
"Hermione I wanted to talk"
"I figured as much, what's going? You looked perplexed Harry." He ran his fingers through his hair and rubbed the bridge of his nose, which instantly sent me into nerves, what could have happened now? Oh god was it Ronald? Ugh that is the last thing I need.
"Hermione why didn't you tell me that you had met with Theodore?" I felt my stomach drop and instantly a chill ran down my spine.
"What? How did you find out about that? It was months ago and there was nothing to tell, he stopped by the club, he said and that was the end of it, nothing happened?"
"Really, nothing happened? Than why are you so nervous? Hermione does Draco know about Theo?"
"No and he doesn't have to, look at me harry," I take his face in my hands and look into the piercing green eyes of my best friend. "What happened with Theo was a very long time ago and I have moved on, I'm with a man I can finally see a future with, a real future and I will not mess this up by bringing back a horrible moment in my life."
"Hermione, I know and believe me when I first heard about the two of you, I didn't know what to think, but if our lives have taught me anything it's that we can't judge the actions of scared individuals, the war took from us and forced us into situations we should never have had to deal with, but it changed some of us for the better. I understand your reluctance to tell him Hermione I do, but he deserves to know, if you see a real future with him deserves that from you. Theo was one of his best friends, don't you think he deserves to know?"
"What about Theo?"
Every molecule in my body turned ice cold, I turned around and saw the confused look on Draco's face.
"Potter what is going on? Hermione, look at me….what about Theodore?"
The ride home was complete silence, I stared out my window at the dark road, feeling the tension in the car. For fucks sake why hadn't Cho waited a moment longer, or for that matter why did Harry have to bring this up. Who was he to bring up the subject as if he was any help when it initially happened. It was Blaise and Luna who had helped me piece myself back together after the ordeal I faced, they were there for me whenever he was near, blocking his every possible encounter, but they were not fast enough for the worst. The second incident and by far the worst was when Theo had snuck his way into my dormitory a couple of weeks before end of term. I shivered just remembering that night. I had just finished studying with Susan Bones for a transfiguration exam and had come into my dorm exhausted, everyone was at some party that the Ravenclaws were throwing; they had figured out how to expand the room of requirements to the size of an entire floor and were turning all the pumpkin juice barrels into wine. I kicked of my shoes and changed into my shorts and my fathers oversize Cambridge jumper and snuggled myself into my warm covers. As I was drifting to sleep when I felt warm hands wrap themselves around my waist and pull me close to a warm body. I was seconds away from screaming when a hand covered my face, that was when Theo whispered into my ear, "Quiet Peach, there's no one here, but we wouldn't want to call attention to ourselves." he breathed into my hair and pulled himself closer to me. I could feel his arousal as he bit my neck, sending a wave of panic through my system. I started to whimper, realizing that my wand was in my coat pocket discarded on the floor.
"Shhh Peach it's ok, we're just going to have some fun, we wouldn't have been interrupted if it hadn't been for Zabini and Loony." He moved his hand across my abdomen and caressed my hip bones, I took advantage of his roaming hands and screamed for help as I tried to jump out of his grasp. He pulled me down onto him and covered my mouth as he tried to force my shorts down, but I bit down onto his hand and grabbed my coat of the ground pointing my wand at him. Crying I pointed my shaking wand at him, "Why are you doing this Theo?"
"Why am I doing this? Why are you all of a sudden so cold? We were having fun and all of a sudden you're acting as if I repulse you, do you know how that feels? What happened did Weasel say something? If it's about what happened the other night, you were just as into it as I was and then you had fucking Zabini stun me and dump me at Pomfrey's, do you have any idea how embarrassing that was! I got a howler from my mum and was threatened to be cut off!"
with tears in my eyes I looked at him wand shaking, "I never meant for anything to happen that way, you..you forced yourself on-"
"Forced myself! I didn't force anything!", he used his wandless magic and send my wand flying across the room as he crashed his body into mine, pinning me against the door. He covered my mouth with his own and and shoved his fingers into body, "this...this is mine, I feel how much you want me and peach I want you too." My cries and struggles reverberated throughout the room, suddenly the door came crashing down and in walked Blaise with Luna behind him both wands ready. Before Theodore could do a thing Blaise stunned him sending him crashing down unconscious. I cried as I feel to the floor trying to cover myself, he knelt on the ground, horror etched on his face, "Hermione are you ok? Oh my god, I'm so sorry I saw he wasn't in the common room and ran here as fast I could." I crashed my body into his as he wrapped his arms around and all I could was cry into the arms of my friend. I looked over his shoulder and saw Luna knelt over the still body of Theo. She looked at me sadness in her face, "He's alive just knocked out, I have to let Dumbledore Hermione, I'm sorry." I just cried harder into Blaise's chest as he rubbed my back. He looked at her and nodded, she levitated his body out of the room and into Dumbledore's office. Theo was expelled from Hogwarts, but since his father was a high ranking pureblood he was able to have him enrolled in Durmstrang where he finished the remainder of his education and I hadn't heard a word from him...until recently.
The closing of Draco's car door shook me awake as I realized that we were back at his home. I walked quietly into his place and closed the door cautiously, he dropped his keys on the table and ran his fingers through his hair frustration all over his face. "Hermione, what is going on? And please for the sake of my sanity don't say it's nothing or I will walk out of this place."
"Draco this is your place how are you going to walk out."
"My place? Hermione we are in this together haven't I made that clear, haven't I shown you that I love you, that you are it for me? How much more do you need from me, asking me and I'll give it to you, but you have to let me in. I know you have a past, and you know mine. So what is so horrible that you can't tell me, and what does Knott have to do with it."
At the mention of his name I feel myself shiver, trying to control myself I sit on the couch my legs tucked under my lap and place the blanket around myself. "Hermione, I see how your reaction at the mention of his name, how am I supposed to take that." He comes over and sits across from me, I look into his eyes, "Ok, but please promise me that after I tell you this that it won't change us."
"I promise."