Convincing Stark *COMPLETE* | By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter Crossovers > Het - Male/Female Views: 4836 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Hermione watched Tony as he sat across the kitchen table from her. She wanted to smack herself, there he was looking absolutely amazing in his designer jeans and perfectly fitting t-shirt and she was wearing a ratty old pair of pajama shorts and an old tank top. She was painfully aware that her hair was simply in a ponytail and not some elaborate knot, it made her think about the way he’d told her that he didn’t want her. He was probably more in to women that wore the most expensive clothes known to man and only wore diamonds. She had never been and would never be like that, that was why she chose to leave Malfoy, Inc. Lucius wanted her to marry Draco and become the type of woman that she’d always disliked.
“Mr. Stark…” Molly started.
“Please, call me Tony” He insisted.
“Well, Tony” Molly grinned “Why have you come all this way?”
“Well” He was picking his words very carefully “I missed Ginny’s spunky attitude and Hermione’s presence…I missed her…I missed them both”
“You hear that Hermione?” Molly grinned happily “He missed you”
“He missed both of us” Hermione said “Not just me”
Tony looked like he wanted to say something, maybe tell her that she was wrong and he really only missed just her and maybe she wanted to hear that but he closed his mouth instead. Ron looked from Hermione to Tony and back again, even though he was engaged to Lavender Brown he was still jealous that the billionaire liked her and that he obviously met enough to her that she was upset with him. Ron couldn’t understand how she’d attracted a billionaire and he could only attract an airheaded twit, he should be with someone with money and influence. Ron looked over and found Ginny glaring at him so he lowered his eyes to his plate and continued scarfing down his food. Harry, who was on the other side of Ron, looked up in interest at Tony and then over at Ginny and frowned. He knew that he’d messed up with the beautiful red-haired woman, she now loved another man and there was no way he’d mess that up for her.
Hermione finished her plate and left the kitchen as soon as she could. She ran to the bedroom she shared with Ginny and started to redress in a cute summer dress that the red-head had bought herself in New York. Since the war Molly kept that the whole property surrounding the uneven house in a constant state of Spring. That time when its cool in the evenings and mornings but warm throughout the whole day, when the flowers were all bloomed and the grass was a dark green. Hermione had asked Arthur why she’d chosen that atmosphere and he told her that this type of day was the type that Fred had always loved and so she kept their home surrounded by it so no one would forget him.
“Hermione” Tony called from the other side of the door and she sighed. She had hoped that he wouldn’t bother her for at least a few hours but fate was against her, she tugged her hair out of the ponytail and ran a brush through the knots, she told him to wait a moment then ran in to the bathroom that connected to Ginny’s bedroom to brush her teeth.
“Hey” She greeted too brightly once her teeth were cleaned and she had some light make-up on. She hated herself a little for wanting to look good for him but she’d be damned if she let him catch her off-guard again “What do you want?”
“Can I come in to talk to you?” He asked, his eyes slid to the stairs that led to Ron and Harry’s bedroom and she heard a squeak which meant they were eavesdropping “Please?”
“Sure” She answered moving aside to let him pass “I charmed the door, no one can hear us…what do you want?”
“I heard about what happened” Tony answered “With Malfoy, Inc. that is...” She lowered her gaze “I want…”
“I don’t need anything” Hermione said, turning away from him and looking out the window “I’m doing okay”
“I know” He smiled “But I still want you to work with me, work for Stark Industries…the magical branch”
“Tony, I don’t need…” She turned back to him.
“I want to break in to the magical world” He said fiercely “And I am going to need someone who can navigate that world, who has its best interests at heart and won’t use what I give them to harm anyone or lord over them…that person is you, Hermione…please”
“But…” Hermione looked at him “Okay. Yes, I’ll work with you. Where do we start?”
“Tomorrow” He answered “I will need your help finding a building that we can purchase, decorate and fill with some of my inventions”
“Where will you be staying?” She asked, not really understanding why she wanted to know.
“A hotel I suppose” He answered “Then I’ll get an apartment in London or possibly live in the building we purchase”
“Will the others be moving in with you?” She asked “Like in New York?”
“Banner and JARVIS will” He answered “The others will come and go…don’t tell Ginny but, I have serious doubts that Steve will ever come back to me fully”
“What happened?” She asked him but he shook his head “Tell me, we’ve only been apart for a month…if that, what happened?”
“It’s simple” Tony answered in a huff “His friend is a criminal and he is choosing to help him instead of doing what’s right”
“What’s right” She repeated, turning back to Ginny’s bed and sitting down with a sigh “What is right?” Tony turned to look at her “To me doing the right thing is helping those I love dearly, making sure that Ron and Lavender have the best wedding they can, making sure that Ginny finds love and has the life that she has always wanted, making sure that Molly and Arthur are happy and feel loved”
“But what about you?” Tony asked “You’re worrying too much about everyone else…but what about you?”
“But what if ‘what’s right’ to Steve is taking care of his friend?” Hermione asked “Just like ‘what’s right’ for me is putting others before me” She heard a sigh from behind her and turned back to him with a smile “I won’t say anything to her, tomorrow we will find a building but Tony…”
“Yes?” He smiled.
“Don’t allow the press any information about what we are doing” She told him “I want this to be the kind of surprise that bites Lucius in the ass”
“Please allow me to say that it turns me on immensely when you get all evil like this” Tony groaned, she walked slowly over to him and look him in the eye.
“I’m not evil, Tony” She whispered “I’m just pissed off”
“Good” He smirked at her “Let that anger drive you so that you can drive us deep in to the heart of the magical world and from there we can drag Malfoy Inc. down in to the mud, where they belong”
The sincerity, force and dominance in Tony’s eyes and tone made Hermione’s heart, womb and vagina throb with a deeper need and lust than just your regular run of the mill arousal. She, of course, had read about different forms of arousal and need once in a book in a muggle library and remembered that some women, and she was very surprised to see that she was one of those women, that had an attraction to the ‘hunter’ type of man. In her own terms that meant a ‘cave-man’ type of man, a man that protected, fought for, took care of and maybe even dominated the woman he cared for. Hermione had always assumed that she was the ‘I’ll take care of myself’ type of woman, but seeing the look he’d had when he talked about ‘taking down Malfoy, Inc.’ just because they had hurt her made her realize how few men had ever wanted to fight for her like that and how much she liked that feeling. His eyes danced from her eyes, to her nose and then to her lips which he watched for a second or two looking like he wanted nothing more than to press his own lips against them but he held himself back.
“I’ll head to the hotel…” He started, his eyes still locked on her lips.
“No” Hermione said “Molly will be offended if you leave. It’s not much” She turned and looked around the bedroom “But this house is a wonderful home and a very comforting place to be, there’s an open bedroom down the hallway and I’m sure you can stay there”
“Are you sure that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley won’t mind?” He asked, still in a little bit of a daze from her lips “I shouldn’t be just inviting myself to stay here”
“You’re not just inviting yourself” Hermione said “I’m inviting you”
After making sure that Molly was okay with him staying there (which offended her that Hermione would even think that she’d have to ask) Hermione showed Tony to Percy’s old bedroom which now consisted of a new double bed, a moderately sized closet and three windows on three of the walls. Even though the bedroom was obviously very sparsely furnished Tony still smiled and looked at it as if it were a bedroom fit for royalty. It was in those moments when he showed that he was a decent human being that Hermione felt her heart start to figuratively reach for him but she couldn’t let that happen. She offered him a small smile and made her way back to the bedroom that Ginny was sitting in, looking at herself in the mirror with a soft smile on her face while she brushed her long red hair.
“Tony in the house” Hermione said after she closed the door and looked at her friend through the mirror “Why do I feel like you had something to do with this?”
“He was worried about you” Ginny offered “As was I”
“Was?” Hermione said as she walked further in to the bedroom and pulled out her pajama’s as “Not anymore?”
“I know that you guys have a plan” Ginny said “He came here with the plan to help you up off the ground and to probably help you get revenge against those blonde bastards. You guys are on better terms, talking and even laughing so I imagine that you have a plan, therefore I am not worried about you any longer”
Hermione walked in to the bathroom, it was still at least two hours until supper time. Tony was taking a much needed nap from his long travel and probably making a few phone calls, Ginny was off in her own little world probably thinking about Steve. Hermione briefly wondered if maybe she should have shared the information that Tony had shared with her about Steve with Ginny but she couldn’t make herself. She thought about the plans that were laying out before her as she showered, they needed to find a building that they could (Tony could) purchase, they needed to write up a business plan, they needed to make magical connections preferably with foreign contacts but they needed to know what they were selling before then and they needed to set up the building to offer up a visually pleasing atmosphere where the clients could check out what they were offering.
“Ginny?” Hermione said as she walked back in to the bedroom, the other woman looked up from the book she was reading on her bed “What’s going on between you and Steve?”
“What do you mean?” Ginny asked, as usual when she was lying her face turned red “Nothing”
“Liar” Hermione smirked “Come on, tell me”
“It wasn’t anything sexual” Ginny said after a moment “We just talked…and talked, I shared the horrors of the war you never told him about. I told him about Tom and the diary and he offered help in a way no one else had…I can’t even explain it, it was different just…better” She offered a small smile “That kind of conversation, it just makes a special kind of intimacy and then suddenly we’re talking about children, marriage, the kinds of things that we want in life…it was getting personal and I think it was getting real”
“So if he comes back to you…?” Hermione started.
“When he comes back to me” Ginny’s eyes flashed almost angrily but Hermione could see a flare of hurt deep within their depth “I’m going to tell him what it is that I want and I will see if he wants the same thing”
“What do you want?” Hermione asked.
“Marriage” Ginny said “Love and children” Before Hermione could even begin to tell her that she was pretty sure Steve having children was impossible Molly called them both down. A part of her knew that Ginny knew that it was never going to happen but still she worried. So, as if she didn’t have enough on her plate, Hermione had to help build a business big enough to take down Malfoy, Inc., she had to make sure that her heart didn’t get her in to trouble and she had to make sure that Ginny didn’t get hurt by anyone. With a sigh Hermione walked down the stairs to help the mother-daughter team cook supper in the kitchen, for now she would have to focus on one thing at a time.
A/N: So this is the last chapter in Convincing Stark. There will be a second story, I hope someone is still reading this and if you are please show me a little love with some reviews…I’m begging here. Tell me what you think.
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