Grangers Apprentice *COMPLETE* | By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 11070 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Hermione stood in the little hut she'd called home for the last two and a half months. The rustic little building had been off putting when they'd first arrived and now she knew that she would miss the comfort she found there. Everyone had told her that she would come to love the Fair Lands but she thought they'd been overly sensitive but now, even with the Fair Ones trying everything in their power to trick her in to staying, she knew that she would never be as comfortable anywhere else in the world as she was there. She pulled on the jeans that she'd entered the land wearing and pulled on her tank top. She trailed her hand over the soft material that she'd become so accustomed to and let out a sigh, in a way she was angry to have to be leaving sooner than she planned but as she said to Draco it was starting to get a little dangerous now.
“You could take that dress if you like” Careen, a pink-haired Fairy that loved to pick on Draco, said “We wouldn't stop you...”
“No thank you” Hermione said, accepting a gift from one of the Fair Ones could always be dangerous no matter the gift “The dresses are lovely but I can make one for myself”
“But this material” She held it up so Hermione could better see it “You will never find it in the magical world, it's Fairy made and spelled with Fairy magic to flow the way it does...how will you make replica if it truly isn't a replica?”
“I guess I won't be able to” Hermione said with a respectful smile “But my mother always told me that all good things must come to an end no matter how much you try to hold on to it. I know that even though I love it here and the dresses are beautiful, my world needs me to come back and I will not disappoint them”
“You could invite them here” Calis said from the doorway, Hermione could see Draco outside waiting for her “We would love to have some new visitors” There was a chill that ran throughout her at the double meaning in his words and she rubbed her arms “We would treat them right”
“I know that you would, Calis” Hermione smiled as she made her way towards the door and past Careen “And maybe soon I can bring some visitors back with me”
“Or you could stay” Calis said as she neared the door and he reached out and trailed his index finger down her jawline “I would make sure that you were treated correctly...” His eyes locked with Hermione's and she stopped moving, a part of her brain told her to just keep moving but she couldn't seem to make her body listen to her. Her ears felt like there was cotton shoved in there, her head was swimming and her eyes took on a glassy stare as he stared deeply in to them “You want to stay with me, don't you?”
“I do” Hermione said, her tongue felt swollen and her throat was a little numb. One part of her brain was telling her to look away, to close her eyes and break the trance he had her in but another part, a part that was becoming stronger and stronger by the second told her to listen to him and trust him. The side still fighting the compulsion he was using was reminding her that if she said the words 'I want to stay with you' then he had possession of her and she was his slave.
“I need you to say it, Hermione...my pet” Calis said to her in that same soothing tone it had held before “I need you to speak those words to me, tell me you want to stay with me”
“Yes” She muttered as her eyes closed in a long blink before she forced them open again, she felt like she was fighting sleep and wanted nothing more than to agree with him to speak those words and allow him to take care of her.
“Say the words!” Calis hissed at her and she closed her eyes in another impossibly long blink but this time she could barely get them to reopen. It was an inhuman snarl that made her eyes open again but she couldn't really make sense of what she was seeing, it was Draco but he didn't look like himself. His skin was almost gray and a little scaly, his face looked sharper and even his fingers looked sharp as he rushed towards Calis. Then the world in front of Hermione's eyes went black as she passed out.
~~~//~~~One Week Later~~~//~~~
Luna stood in front of the full-length mirror in her house smoothing out her knee-length black dress. She pushed the long braided rope of her hair behind her and then added a little more black eyeliner to her large light blue eyes and then red lipstick to her mouth. She walked over to her couch and did up the ankle straps on her small high-heeled dress shoes and then looked around her living room. A small smile appeared on her lips a second before there was a knock on her front door and she waved her wand towards the door to open it. Severus Snape stood there playing with the cuff of his shirt and looking nervous, he was dressed a nice, freshly pressed black cotton button down shirt and pressed black pants with shiny black shoes. His long dark hair was pulled back in to a pony tail at the nape of his neck and his nearly black eyes were darting from one object in her living room to another but never stopped to rest on her.
“You're here” Luna pointed out uselessly “I thought you said you didn't care about Harry's aunts passing”
“I don't” He answered as he shut the door “But I know that Lily would have gone to it and would have likely nagged me to go too...” He trailed off looking uncomfortable.
“You're going for her” Luna surmised “I think she'd be very appreciative”
“Yeah well...” He shrugged “I hated Petunia, she was a bitch. But life is life and the loss of it, no matter how shitty the person, shouldn't be forgotten”
“Is that why you visit your fathers grave every Saturday evening?” She asked gingerly and his eyes snapped to her, she saw the usual wall he always had up and a slight fear that always followed him around whenever someone brought up his past.
“Partially” He answered “But I go there to tell him how good I am doing, how much better my life is without him in it and how I'm happy that he's dead”
“That's important, I guess” Luna said as she stood up but he looked angry.
“What about you?” Snape hissed at her, suddenly not liking being on the other side of the microscope “What do you tell your mothers grave?” He glared “That your helping the ministry train people, that you miss her...what?”
“I tell her that I miss her” Luna informed “I tell her about you and the problems that you present for me and I ask her to help me with my problems...but then again I was closer to my mother than you were to your father”
“Are we leaving?” He asked angrily “Or are we going to stand here and discuss pointless shit from our pasts?”
Luna didn't answer him just walked by him and out the door, she could hear him following behind her and that brought a smile to her face. Once they were out of the building and at the designated apparition spot they both apparated to the cemetery that Harry had told her about and she in turn told Severus about. They walked around the garden shed and joined to others that were walking towards the freshly dug grave. Harry had invited Luna to the Wake they'd had before the burial but she felt that it was a personal thing that only family should be apart of. She saw him stand between Gabrielle Delacour and Hermione Granger, on the other side of Hermione was Draco Malfoy. Dudley Dursley was standing with a tiny woman that was his wife on the other side of the casket and occasionally he would catch Harry's eye and lower his gaze sadly. When the service was over everyone broke up to talk and share stories, Luna went over and hugged Harry offering him kind words and asking if he needed anything.
“Thank you for coming, Luna” Harry whispered “Your presence has always made me feel calmer”
“I'm happy to hear that” Luna said, squeezing his hands.
“This has been...harder than I thought it would be” Harry admitted “I mean...” His eyes looked off over her shoulder and then narrowed angrily as he took in the sight of his uncle watching the grave being lowered in to the ground. Hanging on to one of his fat arms was a woman of probably twenty-five, bleach blonde hair, that was mostly extensions, Luna was unable to see her actual face under all the make-up she wore and she was wearing expensive tight jeans and a tight shirt. She was staring at an extremely expensive phone texting and rolling her eyes occasionally, it was sickening.
“What are you doing here?” Dudley snapped at his father “I don't want you here, mum didn't want you here and Harry doesn't want you here...just leave!”
“Dudley” Vernon said “I know that you've been through a lot...”
“You didn't let her go to the doctors” Harry said slowly “It's your fault”
“Shut it, Boy!” Vernon snarled.
“Harry” Hermione put her hand on the green-eyed man's wrist and shook her head “Let's just say a final goodbye and then Dudley said that there will be a little get-together at the house, his wife invited Draco and I”
“You're right” He said and turned away from his uncle focusing on his aunts white casket that had black flowers painted on it.
“That's right, Boy” Vernon goaded “Listen to your little freak-whore”
“Shut your mouth you disgusting waste of space!” Harry snapped at him. Draco had moved to Hermione's side and took her hand gently, his eyes narrowing while she watched him waiting to see if what had happened before she passed out in Tir Na Nog would happen again.
“You want the belt again, Boy?” Vernon asked, grabbing his belt and stepping threateningly towards him, Harry was glaring but Hermione saw him take a small step back and the whale of a man saw it too and smiled meanly “You may be in your twenties but you have a healthy fear of the belt, don't you Boy?” He snapped the now freed belt against his open palm with a snap that made Hermione flinch “I see the whore does too, your daddy teach you to....” His eyes turned glassy and his face went slack, then his eyes searched the open area for something until they stopped searching and locked on Gabrielle Delacour.
“Gabby” Draco breathed “What are you doing?”
“Teaching him” She answered. Hermione followed the muggle mans stare to where the young Veela woman stood. Only she wasn't standing still, her hips were moving, making a figure '8' in the air hypnotizing every male in the vicinity, except Draco of course. She walked closer to him, all the while dancing in place until she was standing in front of Vernon Dursley “I could make you dance with me...” She smiled and he started to move and sway with her while his new wife hissed like an angry cat “I could make you make a fool of yourself...” She laughed as Vernon attempted to break dance and nearly rolled down the hill like a giant meatball “I could make you kill yourself” He looked at her and appeared to be unsure of what to do next, Gabrielle bent her knees down and trailed her hands over her stomach. He grabbed a pair of gardening shears that had been left out and held them up, placing the sharp tip against his stomach and looking at her again “It would impress me so much if you stabbed yourself...”
“Gabrielle!” Draco hissed as the muggle pushed down just enough to draw a little bit of blood and then she stopped dancing and his senses came back.
“What the hell just happened?!” He roared, his dimwitted wife ran to him and pointed at the blood “Why am I bleeding?”
“I don't know” Luna said “Truly a mystery” When Hermione looked at her she saw that she'd been physically holding Severus back from something but he wasn't watching the Veela woman but staring intently at the belt that Vernon picked up again. While they were all leaving Severus walked over and said something to him that made the man watch him as he walked away and quake in fear.
Draco and Hermione sat across from Luna and Severus at Number Four Privet Drive. Harry and Dudley were discussing the letter that Petunia had given him and the contents of the box that she'd left for him. Turns out that Petunia had been taking pictures of Harry as he'd grown up and while as he got older the less happy he looked it did look like she'd been trying. As he got closer eight Hermione had realized that she'd been hiding around corners or in closets to get pictures without he or Vernon seeing her. There had been pictures of Lily as she grew up including pictures of her and Petunia as teenagers, neither looking particularly happy to be near the other. The thing that made Hermione tear up was what had been at the bottom of the box, it had been Lily's wand, Hermione always assumed that the ministry had it but apparently Dumbledore sent it to Petunia and she was supposed to give it to Harry. There was nothing telling him the fate of James's wand.
“Hermione” Luna said “What's wrong?”
“Nothing” She answered “Other than the fact that I've just been to a funeral”
“Its something more” She pressed “Something about Draco”
“What happened?” Hermione asked Draco “What happened before I passed out in Tir Na Nog, I only remember a little” She frowned at her hands “I remember Calis trying to get me to say that I wanted to stay with him but then...you changed”
“Its nothing” Draco answered “Just forget it”
“I can't!” She snapped at him “Luna...please?”
“What was it, Draco?” Luna asked, soothingly “What happened?”
“He was trying to force her in to staying and being a slave” Draco answered “I...I didn't even know that I could do that...I thought that most of the Veela had been bred out of our line and that all we had were the looks and maybe their charming personalities”
“But you changed, didn't you?” Luna asked “When you saw that Hermione was in danger of being made in to a slave you became threatening as only Veela can be...as monsters”
“I did” He answered “I'm sorry Hermione, I didn't mean to scare you...”
“You didn't” She said, surprised that what she'd spoken had been the truth “I felt safe with you and I still do”
A/N: Hope you like this chapter. I know that Petunia was OOC but people that are dying really change and she was one of them, I hope you continue to read this but it is coming to an end!! SOOON, so please review and tell me what you want to see!
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