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Blinded	By : ssdawn Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 26887 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Blinded Chapter 12

Uncomfortable was a good word to use the next morning when Hermione came out of her room. Draco was sitting at the table starting to eat the breakfast that service had just brought up to their suite. Hermione sat on the chair opposite Draco.
"Good morning," she managed to squeak out.
Draco looked up like he hadn't seen her, "Um, oh yes, good morning." Then he bent his head down opening up the paper, and continued eating his croissant and drinking his café au lait. Hermione decided to eat a soft-boiled egg, yogurt, and fresh fruit. The silence during the meal was almost painful.
Draco finished eating and folded his paper. "What are the plans for today?" he asked. Hermione stared at him like she was talking to a stranger, and not the man who had been snogging her face off the night before.
"We're going to meet back up with the team and scour through files from the past investigations. I think you'll be amazed at what they will come up with in a short time." Hermione was truly excited about working with this group of people again.
She stood up and pushed her chair back, "If you'll excuse me, I need to attend to my teeth, and then we'll be leaving shortly." Hermione left the room not waiting for a response from Draco and happy to leave the awkwardness of last night behind.

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Draco gave a huge sigh when Hermione left the room to brush her teeth. He stood up to stretch his arms and massage his neck. He hadn't slept well, even after taking his cold shower. He had berated himself until the wee hours of the morning about his behavior last night. He hadn't meant at all to lead Hermione on, but he wasn't sure what he wanted to happen now. They were here to hopefully find information that would lead to the kidnappers, not for him to get laid.
His fingers went up to massage his aching head. Not that the thought of sex was a bad thing, God knows he hadn't had a proper shag in a very long time. He and Astoria had quit their marital relations as soon as she had become pregnant with Scorpius. The Malfoy heir had been conceived, so he didn't need to dip his wand in valleys that made him ill. In the ensuing years, he had met with a few women on his out of country travels that he'd have a romp here and there, but nothing serious. Scorpius had become the most important thing in his life, even more than his own pleasures. He wasn't sure if that had been the reason why he'd stopped what was going on between him and Hermione last night. Guilt always had a way of making him stop and think of his actions, though some wouldn't agree with him. It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she was a Muggleborn or that he didn't think she was fit. What he had told her last night was the truth; he truly felt she was beautiful and desirable.
Draco's preoccupation with his sex life, or lack of one, was broken when Hermione came rushing out of her room. She came to a halt when their eyes and met, giving him a shy smile.
"Ready?" she asked.
"Quite. Let's go and get this mystery figured out." Draco put on his suit jacket, dark blue robes, and opened the door. He motioned with his arm, "Shall we? You first Hermione," his impeccable, Malfoy manners never failing. With a quick thank you Hermione swiftly left the room with a smirking Draco right behind.

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When Hermione had said this team of people was amazing, she hadn't been kidding. The layout of their "war room" was one of the most impressive things he'd ever seen. Each person had their desk and table devoted to one of the major kidnapping cases they had solved. The walls were covered with pictures, names, dates, motives, and conclusions that had solved the case. Some of the pictures were more gruesome than others, and Draco realized how lucky they'd been up to this point. None of the children had been sent back to the parents in tiny pieces like the case he had just been looking at. He'd only stayed there for about a minute before he had to move away. The children in the pictures had morphed into pictures of Scorpius, his mind playing tricks on him with his stomach-churning.
"Draco, would you mind coming over to my table and helping me look through this batch of files."
Hermione's voice tore him away from the terrifying thoughts that had been running through his mind. She steered him across the room away from the horrific pictures. Draco collapsed into a chair that was facing away from the mind-numbing things he'd just seen. His head slowly came up and he saw the understanding in Hermione's eyes.
"Are you Ok? Do you need something to drink or eat?" she asked. He needed something all right. He needed to have his son back in his arms away from the beasts that had kidnapped and terrorized him.
"Maybe, a cup of tea," was all he managed to say which got a nod from her and an intern ran off to do Hermione's bidding.
Hermione stood and walked to the middle of the room. "Today our goal is to locate every person who had anything to do with the disappearance of the children in all of these cases."
She walked around, pacing back and forth as she talked. This seemed to be a comfort thing that she did quite frequently. Draco noticed the silver high heels she wore today making the clicking sounds echoing in the room.
"Most of these men and women should still be in prison, but since some of them were not incarcerated here in France, they were shipped back to their home countries." All eyes were focused on Hermione as she circled around the room, while she made eye contact with each individual holding their undivided attention.
"Here is where we can narrow down our lists considerably. Any that may have had an early release, though I don't know how in Merlin's name that could or should have happened, we need to locate their whereabouts immediately."
Draco couldn't help but be impressed with Hermione's take-charge attitude. Years ago this would have bothered him greatly, but today, she was doing this for him, Scorpius, and all of the other children and their parents.
"I have been granted the service of a group of highly trained Hit-Wizards from England, France, Germany, America, and Spain. These are the countries where all of these cases were eventually solved by our team, along with the help of the Hit-Wizards." Hermione walked up to the world map that was on display at the front of the room.
"Each of you will be meeting with a team assigned to your case. They'll be going out and locating each imprisoned criminal and reporting back to us. In the case that they can't be located, they will once again be using their knowledge of stealth and tracking to hopefully trace them and possibly the missing children." Hermione stood quietly now with a somber face.
"I know that the next 24-48 hours will be intense and we'll most likely not be leaving this room. But, I thank you for your help; your unpaid help in solving this case." Hermione said.
Draco stood and cleared his throat, "All of you will be paid for every hour that you work this case, no matter how long it takes to solve." Hermione tried to hide her smile but nodded her head at him. "I have an obscene amount of money and it means nothing to me while my son is still out there. Thank you." His trembling form sunk into his seat, while he tried to gain control over his emotions. He felt Hermione's hand lightly squeeze his shoulder as she walked back to the table, his erratic heartbeat finally calming down.
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Ten hours later, the large map now had lit-up red X marks located in various parts around the world. The Hit-Wizards had been doing their part of locating many of the former kidnappers as soon as the team members had a list of names to give to them. The process was working as smoothly as Hermione had made it sound, but sadly the children hadn't been found. She knew in all likelihood that it could take the full two days that she had outlined. Worst-case scenario, all of their leads running into dead ends.
Hermione had kicked off her high heels hours ago, and still her feet ached from running back and forth between the teams who were working tirelessly. She was impressed with all of them, even with Draco. His emotions had been running high, but he had insisted staying there throughout the process. He now was cornered off with a small group of Hit-Wizards sharing details specifically about the current case involving his son. She noticed that he had shrugged off his dark blue robes, loosened his tie and rolled up his sleeves. Though his Dark Mark had faded, not one soul gave it a second glance keeping their attention on what was important now, and not what had happened in the past.
After watching him today, she could see that he was as intense as she was while working. Most of them had only left the room to visit the loo, as food and drinks were brought in as the day progressed. It looked like no one was ready to stop and call it a day either.
Hermione went and sat on the edge of the table next to where Draco was reading over a case file.
"How are you holding up?" she asked him as her hand rested on his shoulder. His tired, and bloodshot eyes looked up at her as if it took all of his energy to even lift up his head.
"I guess I'm fine," Draco said, though not too convincingly. "I was just hoping that we would have been farther ahead towards finding them." His hand reached up to cling onto hers, his thumb brushing back and forth sending all sorts of chills down Hermione's spine.
"Don't give up hope. We've made more progress in one day here than we'd made in the months before this." Hermione hated admitting that not much had been accomplished after she had first taken over the case.
"Hope is the only thing I have left, and I'm not letting that go anytime soon." Draco tried to smile at her, but it just didn't happen.
"Would you like to go back to the hotel and sleep for a while?" she asked him.
Draco hesitated, but soon answered, "You don't mind me leaving? I know that you need as much manpower as you can get right now."
"Draco, I know that this has been hard on you. I insist that you head back and sleep, at least for a few hours. Then, if you feel rested enough come on back." Hermione lifted up from the table and reached for her coffee cup. The caffeine was the only thing keeping her going right now, along with the Wideye Potion she'd secretly taken, hoping that it would prevent her from falling asleep. She had to be there and couldn't leave as she was the one in charge of the investigation.
Draco stood up; swaying a bit as if he was tipsy, though Hermione knew he hadn't drunk any alcohol.
"Here, let me walk you to the floo," she grabbed onto his arm and walked him towards the double doors of the large room that was now the headquarters of the investigation. Draco leaned onto her like he was ready to pass out.
They stood at the floo, face to face, with Hermione slipping her arms around Draco's middle. "There is some Dreamless Sleep Potion in my large, green bag. Please promise to take some when you get back?"
Draco actually gave her a smile back, "I promise I will." His hand came up to cup her cheek. "You've been amazing today and I'm grateful for everything you are doing to find the children."
Hermione leaned into his hand closing her eyes for a moment, "You're welcome." Before she could finish her words, she felt the firm press of Draco's lips on hers. They both leaned in to deepen the kiss that was part one of gratitude, the other of remembered passion from the night before. Neither one hesitated this time to fully invest in giving of themselves to each other.
Pulling away, Draco looked at Hermione, "Thank you for everything." Giving her one more quick kiss, he turned and flooed away back to the hotel.
Hermione stood thinking about the most current kiss and grinned. Biting down on her lip, she remembered how good it was to kiss that man. Rolling her shoulders and cracking her neck she stretched her body and turned to head back into the "war room," even more determined now to get this case solved and Scorpius back into Draco's arms where he belonged.
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This chapter wrote itself and jumped in line before my other current WIP. I usually take turns on writing chapters for all of my stories, but this chapter was written in one day and once I started writing I couldn't stop. Thanks again for all of my reviewers and those following this story. If you know someone who might like to read this, please share the link. Also, follow me on tumblr. You can find me there under ssdawning. Please leave a review if you have a second, because that's all the time it takes to leave one! See you soon.
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