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Hermione's Keeper	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 17549 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Rita Skeeters dark green kitten heeled pumps pounded the cobblestones of Diagon Alley as she ran to the apparition point. Once there she apparated on the spot to the gates of Malfoy Manor, she pushed her way through them and ran up the walkway. Without stopping to knock she burst through the front door and in the sitting room where Hermione, Olivia and Andromeda Tonks were sitting there talking quietly. They all looked at her like she had a second head attached to her body, which hadn’t happened since her third year when she’d been playing with some new charms that backfired. She was out of breath from all the running she’d done, Rita used to keep in shape when she was chasing the ‘big’ gossip for the paper but since she was kept on retainer for Height she’d let herself go a bit. The job with Height had been kind of fun at first, get dirt on Hermione Granger and run her in to the ground as much as possible. She was the one that alerted the world to Miss Grangers divorce and her inability to have children but then she found out about what Height was doing and she instantly became scared. She had tried to leave his employ but he used her parentage against her threatening to throw her in a cage and sell her to some big spender that would do horrible things to her.

“Where’s Darren?” Rita asked as she entered the sitting room and looked around at the occupants.

“I’m right here” Darren spoke from behind her “I was just getting ready to leave to go meet Height”

“You can’t go” She said “Luna will not be there, he is going to have some goons that will meet you there and attack you and then…they’ll get rid of you”

“But” He started, Olivia stood and walked over to him “How did he know?”

“Corrine” Rita answered “You underestimated a Slytherin, that’s worse than assuming that she’d have an issue with her boss thinking she’s stupid or just a sexual being instead of a human being”

“What do you mean?” He asked, hating himself for screwing up everything that Draco and Hermione had worked so hard for.

“She knows what Heights doing” Rita said “And he knows that she knows, that makes her powerful and dangerous and that’s a spot that all Slytherins love to be in” She frowned “Corrine told Height that you were planning something, that she didn’t know what it was but that it likely had something to do with you guys meeting today and Height called in some thugs…then I was kicked out”

“Shit” Darren ran his hand over his face and looked at Hermione “I’m so sorry, I thought that another person in his office that knew his secrets would be a good idea…I was told that Slytherins were opportunists and saw my chance…” He rubbed his forehead roughly “Is there any hope of getting Luna now?” He looked at Hermione “I am so sorry, I got cocky and your friend…he wants her for himself and I fear, I am so sorry”

“That little cunt” Hermione snarled “I’ll find her now and…rip her apart!” Though her words were strong Hermione dropped her head in to her hands and started sobbing.

“Can’t we ambush him now, then?” Rita asked in desperation.

“No” Olivia said softly as she comforted her husband “Draco’s…not in the best of shape right now”

“What happened?” Rita asked.

“Nothing you need to concern yourself with” Andromeda sighed “We need to figure out a plan”

~~~//~~~

Olivia had been sitting in her bed reading a good romance novel. Darren was sleeping next to her, it was late but she’d always preferred the night to any other time of day and she knew that it was because of her vampire DNA. She was just turning the page when a wonderful scent hit her nostrils, it ran through her veins, sizzled in her very bones and made her mouth water. Olivia looked around the bedroom and wondered where the smell was coming from, she knew what it was, it was blood. But who was bleeding? Blood had a different smell each time it came out of a person, all depending on the persons mood. Menstrual blood usually smelled unpleasant to female vampires but delicious to male ones. Blood given freely had a muted smell, it was a good smell but there was always something missing from it that other blood usually held. Blood taken from a terrified victim smelled amazingly sweet and tempting but blood taken from a junkie would get a vampire extremely high and usually tasted and smelled polluted. The blood that she was smelling now was something different altogether and something she’d only smelled once in her life. This was blood from self-inflicted wounds, it smelled amazing and tempting but there was a deep longing and sadness to it as well.

Standing from the bed, Olivia looked at Darren and considered waking him but then shook her head. She walked from the bedroom, sniffing the air and following the delicious scent down two hallways and to the door at the end of another corridor. Draco’s bedroom. She knocked, waited and then pushed the door open, the scent of the blood was strongest in there. She looked at the closet and screamed, Draco was slumped against the doorframe, his arms and wrists were bleeding from cuts that were too deep. He was getting paler and paler, her screaming awoke Hermione who came running in and Darren who entered seconds afterwards. Hermione’s tear-stained face paled and she ran to the blonde, calling to him and then slapping him until his eyes opened. Not knowing what to do, Olivia had to scream at Hermione to get her to listen and then go and call Andromeda Tonks for help.

It had been touch and go for several hours with the Healer sitting on Draco’s bed administering the right amounts of Blood Replenishing potions at the correct times. Hermione was brewing and brewing the potions as fast as she could to make sure that it could be administered every fifteen minutes, then every twenty minutes, then thirty, then one hour and finally he was only getting one every few hours. His cuts had been very deep and using a potion or charm to close the ruined veins all at once is very dangerous, they had to keep replenishing and closing the veins an inch at a time. When the veins were finally closed Andromeda awoke him and then yelled at him for being such an asshole before he passed out again. He’d been in and out of consciousness all day and Hermione varied between sobbing uncontrollably and pacing angrily, stomping her feet and muttering angrily about how stupid he was and what an asshole he was to do this to her. She went on about how she was in love with him and should have told him that last night, it was confusing and a bit annoying but Olivia felt bad for her and angry with him. And now this new problem.

“Rita” Olivia said “Is there any way to get Luna back?”

“I have a lead” Rita answered, she sat down on the couch next to Hermione and absentmindedly rubbed her back “This person said that a man was witnessed carrying his “drunk date” on to the Knight Bus and got off at some town about three towns away from Ottery St. Catchpole”

“So, that could be anyone” Darren said.

“My lead said that she was a young woman with blonde hair” She went on “Large blue eyes, dreamy sort of voice, kept talking about Nargles”

“That’s Luna” Hermione breathed “Who is the lead?”

“Remains secret” Rita answered “But I bet that the Knight Bus staff will remember her, if you can talk to them that would probably be helpful”

“Okay” Hermione said, she stood up “I’m friends with the conductor…Olivia?”

“Let’s go” Olivia stood up and together they started to make their way to the front door. A patronus entered the room a Hyena and Hermione stopped walking looking in curious horror at it.

“That’s Fred Weasleys patronus” Hermione gasped then shook her head, getting her mind back to her normal way of thinking “Must be George”

‘It is anarchy’ The Hyena spoke in Georges voice ‘I saw Height all but running through Diagon Alley, he is trying to look normal but he looks tense…like he lost something that was very important to him’ There was laughter in his tone but Hermione could tell that he honestly had no clue what was going on ‘I’ve closed my shop, locked it up and am in my apartment watching him. I worry that he’ll come to my house and considered leaving to go to mums house or Bills but if I leave I won’t know what’s happening and it’ll look suspicious…it looks suspicious that my stores closed anyway but I can pretend to be sick’

“What is happening?” Hermione whispered. Her words were interrupted by a small flighty thing that is often used as a post owl. It flew straight to Darren, holding a red envelope. A howler. He opened it.

“WHERE IS SHE?” Height’s voice filled the entire manor “I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS, I THOUGHT THAT WE UNDERSTOOD ONE ANOTHER BUT WHILE I WAS WAITING FOR YOU SOMEONE SNATCHED HER” Everyone looked at one another, shocked because that was brilliant but it wasn’t their plan “GIVE HER BACK AND I WILL ALLOW THAT LITTLE VAMPIRE BITCH WIFE OF YOURS TO LIVE” His voice softened and his tone sounded mocking “Oh yes, I know about her. I remember you buying her, I was so proud that a pureblooded man would buy such a creature. I thought it was all sex, but you wanted a wife, are you sick of that vampire freak and that’s why you wanted the half-Fey?” There was another pause “I’m going to be kind, I am giving you a week, seven days to give me back my half-Fey or I will come for your wife and I will kill her in front of you” The letter ripped itself apart.

“We didn’t take her” Hermione breathed, she turned and looked out the window, her hands running up and down her arms “Who did?”

“I’m calling Harry” Andromeda said, standing and walking away “Then George, Bill, his wife…everyone. We need to know who blasted their own way through our carefully laid plans and why”

“I’m going to check in on Draco” Hermione said, Rita’s eyes followed her up the stairs and she wondered where their fearless leader was.

“I don’t think you should leave the house at all at any point in the day” Rita said “Height is sneaky and slimy, he says that he’s giving you seven days but he will take her at any moment that he thinks he’s got” She looked around again and then at Darren “You mind if I use the Floo?” He shook his head and with a flash of green flames she had left the manor.

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At the top of the stairs and around the corner away from prying eyes, Hermione leaned against the wall and scrubbed her hands over her face. She hadn’t wanted to show Darren how upset she was that he’d messed up their plans. They told him repeatedly that he was to go in, make the sale and then leave not try to get another spy inside his office. Now Luna was missing and that had nothing to do with them but its not like Height was actually going to believe them. Finally regaining her composure, Hermione walked to Draco’s bedroom and quietly opened the door, peeking around it to where he was laying. His eyes were open and staring at the ceiling, if it was one creepy thing that she’d learned about him it was that when he was overly stressed he tended to sleep with his eye open.

“You’re staring” He surprised her with his words because she thought he was asleep.

“Sorry” Hermione said, she walked in to the room and closed the door, she looked back at him and sighed as she made her way over to where he was laying “We’ve got a problem”

“Yeah” He let out a breath “And what is that?” Before she could answer he continued “Is it that we both know how much we love one another and can’t seem to accept it?” He snorted “Is it that we keep taking on the worlds problems instead of our own fucked up ones?” Hermione opened her mouth “Or maybe that we don’t really want to say what’s on our minds, on our hearts or what everyone else has seen since we were children…that we just don’t belong together”

“If that’s how you feel” Hermione whispered to him, she looked at her hands before sitting down on the side of the bed “Then maybe I should leave, I’m sure that Professor McGonagall could find a position for me at the school” She looked at him and he looked away for a moment so she stood up and started walking towards the door.

“I still love you” His words made her stop, her heart beat wildly, it stuttered, stopped and then started to beat madly again. This was how it always was with Draco and how it always had been, even when they were enemies and fighting. Her heart would pound, she would want nothing more than to stop the fighting, grab him and kiss him with all the passion that she felt and another part of her wanted to yell at him for screwing with her yet again.

“For years” Hermione said, looking at the door and not at him. Speaking to Draco about her emotions was always easier when she wasn’t looking at him because she wouldn’t get lost “I looked at you, saw you and wanted to tell you how I felt. That you make my heart pound, you make my hands shake, make me nervous, make me want to challenge myself to prove that I am good enough for you…but I still question if I really am”

“You…good enough for me?” Draco repeated, the bed shifted as he pulled himself in to a sitting position and leaned against the headboard “You’re talking to a death eater, a bully, a scared, weak, little…ferret that got lucky enough to be kept out of Azkaban though he deserved to be there” Hermione sat down on the end of the bed, Draco scooted down towards her and he ran his hand down her back “A man like me should never even fantasize about a woman as good and pure as you are, but I did it anyway and for some reason…here you are”

“What a pair we make” Hermione stated.

“You get upset very easily and I’m a wrist cutter” He snorted but there was no amusement in his tone “Least you aren’t hurting yourself”

“You cut” Hermione said “And I starve myself”

“If I see you not eating I’ll force you to” He answered.

“And if I find cuts I’ll…hide the sharp, pointy objects” She answered “And possibly spank you”

“Really?” Draco said, she turned and looked at him, laughing when she saw the big grin on his face and the wiggling brows “Hermione, I do really want you to be my wife, please…marry me?”

“Holy merlin, Draco” Hermione sighed “Marriage?” She laughed “Could you picture us, a married couple…we’d kill each other. Have sex and then fight afterwards for three days…our children would be scarred for life”

“No they won’t be!” He spoke so fiercely that she turned her whole body towards him “I love you, I’ve loved you since I was eleven”

“Eleven?” She looked surprised “I thought that you hated me”

“I did” Draco answered “I loved you, I hated you, I was terrified of you, I was jealous of you and now…I want to see you waiting so we can make our vows and I want to see you pregnant with my children…please, marry me” He hated himself for begging but his new plan was to be the exact opposite of his father and maybe she’d want to be with him.

“Okay” She whispered, the silence that followed her statement could have been sliced with a dull butter knife and she look at him. His expression was lost, it was as if he was seeing something else in his mind, something that hadn’t happened but he was seeing none the less “Did you hear me?”

“I don’t know” He whispered “Did you say okay?”

“Yes” Hermione answered with a laugh.

“Is that a yes to marrying me?” He asked, moving closer to her.

“Yes” She answered with a smile “I’ll marry you” There was a small frown on her face “I just have a feeling that we’re going to alienate one another to death and I’ll face another divorce”

“That won’t happen” He promised, his hand sliding in to her hair “We may fight but the fights never last long and on top of that…we’re really good at fucking, we’ll just get angry and then have sex”

“And who is going to take care of the children when we’re fucking so much?” Hermione asked him, kneeling on the bed and crawling towards him “Are we going to let them come in and see how mommy and daddy work out their problems?”

“A house-elf can watch them while we work out our problems” He answered, pulling her face towards his and kissing her deeply “However, at this particular moment, Potter could be in the bloody room and I’d still fuck you with him watching”

“You’re kinky” Hermione moaned against his lips before his tongue slid in to her mouth and she sucked on it. The door suddenly slammed open and Olivia walked in talking to them before seeing what was going on.

“Hermione” She said “Did you tell him about Luna?” She stopped eyes wide “Oh…sorry…I see you guys are, making up, I’ll leave you”

“Is Luna here?” Draco asked “Did Darren get her?”

“No” Hermione answered.

She then launched in to the whole story about how Darren tried to convince Corrine to help them and how it went south and now Height somehow lost Luna. No one knew what the hell to do and everything was falling apart and she felt like she was drowning. While explaining it all Draco stood and walked around the room dressing in some comfortable clothes.

“I have to talk to Darren” He said to her “We need to discuss this”

“Don’t be angry with him” Hermione said quickly “He was trying to help, he underestimated her as a Slytherin…it’s easy to do”

“I’m not angry” He said then nodded a little “Okay, I’m angry, pissed off and a little…nervous about my cousins fate but that’s not why I need to talk to him” He opened a drawer in his closet and pulled something out “I think I need to go visit Corrine Crestel myself”

“How do you know her last name, not even Darren knew that” Hermione asked, a little sliver of jealousy flaring within her for some unknown reason.

“She was a fourth year my seventh year” Draco answered “She used to follow me around trying to get me to notice her, I keep tabs on the people that are particularly fierce in what they want and she’s one of them” He grimaced “She tried to drug me with a love potion so that I’d be hers. I knew that she was working for Height I just never considered how far in to this she was”

“Okay…but how…” Hermione started.

“On top of lusting after me” Draco told her as he knelt down and pulled something out of a secret compartment in his closet “I have something of hers that she will be willing to do anything to get back” He held up a little jar with holes poked in the top, Hermione tried to make out what was moving around in there but couldn’t.

“What is it?” She asked.

“Her little brother” Draco answered, looking at the tiny human “Little bastard was trying to break in a couple of months ago”

“You’ve had him for months?!” Hermione was horrified, outraged even “Draco, that’s sick that’s…that’s exactly what Height is doing!”

“He’s not a half-breed and I’m not planning on selling him” Draco answered “He’s got a whole village to himself in here” He showed her a manmade village that would have taken a kid that was so small years to explore “There’s food, toys animals…he wants for nothing. I just needed to teach the little bastard a lesson and now I’ll teach Corrine one”

“Are you…” Hermione started, she could hardly form words she was so horrified, so angry with him “Are you…fucking insane?!”

“You found me bleeding to death from self-inflicted wounds in my closet” Draco pointed out with a sarcastic smirk “I’d think that answer was pretty cut and dry”

“You need to let him go” Hermione insisted, he put the jar down carefully and pulled her front against his kissing her neck, she hated herself for exposing more of her neck for him to kiss but she was a little turned on by his insanity which reminded her that she needed her own mental help.

“I’m going to” He promised, squeezing her breast with his left hand while turning her head so that was she was looking at him with his right “If his sister gives me the answers I want”

“Draco” She started.

“Shh” He whispered, his hand gently slid something on to her finger and he kissed her deeply once again before he collected the jar and walked out of the room. Hermione lifted her hand and looked at her finger, there sat a rather large ring. It was white gold, with two snake mouths opened around a green diamond, it was beautiful and it took her breath away. The ring probably cost ten times the amount that Ron paid for her engagement and wedding rings and three times they paid for their tiny little house. The extravagance of it all made her want to run and hide somewhere where Draco would never find her and just fade away but there was another part of her that wanted to be pampered, to see how the other side lives.

“Are you okay?” A voice startled her, she turned and found Andromeda leaning against the doorframe and small, strained smile on her face.

“Yeah” Hermione put her hand down, noting that her hand didn’t feel as heavy as it had when she wore Ron’s ring all those years ago “Did you learn anything new about Luna or her disappearance?”

“Sadly no” The older woman answered “No one knows what happened to her, who took her, if they’re on our side, Heights or someone else altogether”

“That’s terrible” Hermione said, she looked at the floor ashamed that while god only knows what is happening to Luna she’s getting engaged…she was terrible person.

“What’s wrong?” Andromeda asked wisely, she walked in and sat down on the chest at the end of Draco’s bed and patted the spot next to her.

“I shouldn’t blab about myself” Hermione said “I need to think about Luna and how to save her from whatever’s happening”

“You are still going through a bunch of shit” The Healer pointed out “You need to talk too, now talk to me”

“Draco asked me to marry him” Hermione said and the woman smiled knowingly “I said yes” She held the ring out to her.

“I knew about it” Andromeda said “I had to give him his mothers engagement ring” She nodded to it, using her nose to point at it “His mother gave it and her wedding ring to me when she realized that she was sick, she asked me to hold on to it for him for when he found the woman that he loved enough to give it to her”

“I’m scared” Hermione whispered, looking at her feet “My first marriage was a mess, it was horrible and because of it I am just…terrified of the thought of being someone’s wife again”

“Do you want to be a mother?” Andy asked “To be with your best friend, your worse enemy, your challenger, your cheer squad…all of that rolled in to one, I think that’s what you’ll get with Draco”

“I want to be a mother and a wife, I think” Hermione said “I’m scared and I just…I need to stop focusing on me and think about Luna and all those kids and taking down Height”

“Luna would want you to be happy” Andromeda said “But I agree we need to find out what happened to her quickly then we can plan your wedding!”

A/N: This chapter shows a bit more on the whole Draco and Hermione always being pulled back to one another by feelings and fate but I think it may work for them. What happened to Luna? Who has her? And what is Draco going to do with Corrine…and what the hell was he thinking holding someone hostage?! PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
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