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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*Draco was sitting with his back against the cold bricks of the dungeons at Hogwarts. He was waiting for his godfather to come back from the meeting that had taken place that night at his own manor home, he wasn’t a death eater yet so he didn’t have to go to it but sooner rather than later he would have to. Sometimes, he wished that he was strong enough to go to Potter and tell him that he didn’t want to join the dark lord and fight with him but he knew that the boy wonder wouldn’t believe him. While there was a part of him that wanted to be brave and fight the dark lord there was a stronger part of him that just wanted to disappear completely until the war was over.
“Malfoy” Snape greeted “What are you doing here at this hour?”
“Couldn’t sleep” Draco answered “Needed someone to talk to”
“Why not talk to one of your dim-witted friends?” Snape asked, he unlocked the door and held it open for the younger male.
“Dim-witted” Draco answered with a grin as the door shut, Severus let out a small sigh as they made their way in to his private sitting room “So, anything that I need to know?”
“A war is coming” Severus spoke sarcastically, as usual and Draco rolled his eyes.
“No shit” Draco responded “Did he say anything that I need to be worried about?”
“No” Snape said, handing his student a tumbler filled with fire whiskey “I can’t wait for this war to be over” He didn’t add in ‘and I’m dead’ he didn’t want to bother his godson with his dark thoughts. He looked at the boy he’d all but helped raise “What is it that you want, after the war?”
“To be alive” Draco muttered, Snape raised a brow at him “I guess, to get married, have a child or maybe even two, to be a good father and to run the family business”
“Wow” Severus looked impressed “Interesting”
“What about you?” Draco said, Severus could have mirrored his earlier answer and simply say to be alive because with his duplicity, he didn’t expect to live through the war.
“Honestly?” Severus asked with a small laugh “To disappear” Draco looked confused “To move in to a cabin in the woods, as a hermit, never seeing any children, making potions and tending a magical garden, hunting for my own food and growing my own vegetables…to just forget about the world and let it forget me”
“Talk about being absolutely different” Draco laughed “Better not tell anyone what I said about what I wanted” Severus snorted and returned the sentiment.*
Draco looked around his bedroom and let out a shaky breath and then squeezed his eyes shut. He angrily wiped his eyes, he hated crying and that was why he was hiding in his bedroom that and because he was sick of everyone asking him what he was going to do and what course of action would be best. He had no bloody clue what he was going to do, if he knew then he’d have already fucking done it! Hermione was pregnant, did she even know yet or was that all just a charm that he put on her…if she did know, did she beg him not to harm their child? Did she promise to do whatever he wanted as long as he didn’t harm the baby? He dropped his face in to his hands and let out a pitiful sounding sob, it had to have been the first time they had sex, it had to have been which meant that she was, at most, about three weeks along if that.
“I’m sure that she’s okay” Luna whispered to him, laying her head against his shoulder and not saying anything further to him. He was hurting and she knew that but she also knew that he didn’t need her chatting at him about stuff that weren’t important or things that were.
“What am I going to do?” Draco whispered to her “He’s going to kill my baby and likely the woman I love”
“Harry’s here” Luna told him “With Ron and they are figuring out where they have to start searching”
“Is that all?” He scoffed “So basically nothing is being done…I only have four days, Luna”
“Maybe Height will take a trade” Luna offered “I will take her place, he wanted me before maybe he’ll want me again and enough to give Hermione back”
“Thank you” Draco whispered to her “But I need you too” He smiled at her “And I think that Potter loves you”
“He does” Luna smiled, she leaned against Draco and tried to keep her own tears at bay, Luna Lovegood wasn’t used to not having a solution or plan and she felt useless and scared.
“What if I can’t come up with a plan?” Draco whispered to her “My father would know what to do, Snape would have had a plan, why don’t I have one?”
“You’re not alone” Luna reminded him “We’re all here and we’re all working on a plan”
~~~//~~~
*George opened his eyes and looked around, he was at Hogwarts, he got up from the grass and walked around. There was a white mist gathered around his ankles and clinging to him as he walked, his eyes swept the area and there was a bemused expression on his face. Why was he back at the school? Who had brought him there and why? He walked to a big rock that was sitting on the edge of the black lake and sat down on it looking out over the water, seeing a mermaid pop up before looking around and swimming off deeper in to the water.
“Why” Came a voice from behind him “The bloody hell are you here?”
“What?” George asked, turning around his mouth dropped open and emotion started to clog his throat as he saw Fred walking towards him with a smile but a sadness in his eyes “Fred?”
“George” Fred said “What are you doing here?” He walked closer and hugged him “You shouldn’t be here yet”
“Where is here?” George asked.
“This is after…” Fred said mysteriously, George frowned trying to figure out what he was saying but of course his twin already knew what he was thinking “Afterlife”
“Heaven?” George snorted a little “I thought there was going to be angels and clouds and, according to some of the muggles, possibly loads of virgins” He grinned when Fred laughed.
“That’s what I said” Fred agreed shaking his head “But we make our own heavens, this is mine” He looked back at the school and the grounds “This was where...”
“You were happy” George closed his eyes tightly “And I came here…”
“Because this is where I am” Fred finished for him “Your happiness wasn’t a place…”
“It was a person” George whispered “But I’m here, let’s do something fun…”
“No” Fred shook his head sadly “You can’t stay, it’s not your time yet and there is so much that you’re going to do still”
“No” George begged, dropping to his knees “I don’t want to do anything, I don’t…I can’t, please just let me stay”
“We all begged to leave” Tonks said, walking towards George who was looking at her with a fresh wave of tears falling down his cheeks “And you beg to stay”
“Please, Fred…let me stay” George whispered, Fred sat down in front of his twin and smiled sadly.
“I wish that you were with me again” Fred said, choosing his words carefully “But I am with you all the time. All the jokes that you think of at random times are from me, the plans for the store that pop up in your mind are from me…I haven’t left you just can’t see me”
“No” George said “That’s the problem…I do see you, everywhere and if you aren’t with me then I don’t want to see you anymore” His words came out harsher than he’d intended but he refused to apologize for them “I want you gone”
“No” Fred shook his head “You don’t”
“George” Remus said “It’s time to go back but I have some words of advice for you to pass on” He looked confused but the gentle speaking man smiled at him “Remember that more often than not creatures will ban together to take care of a problem if they feel that there’s been a threat made to either them or their offspring”
“What do you mean?” George asked but everything started to get hazy again. *
~~~//~~~
Hermione’s eyes opened in the tiny muggle tent that she’d been thrown in to by Height. She laid there and took stock of what was happening with her body, were there injuries, was she hurt, had she been raped? From what her search told her those answers were all negative, Hermione was hungry and a little nauseas and her back hurt from laying on the ground but other than that she was perfectly okay. She listened closely to the sounds of the woods but heard nothing, slowly Hermione crawled to the mouth of the tent and pulled the zipper down peeking out.
“Going to make a run for it?” Height asked “I wouldn’t suggest it, we’re in the middle of nowhere and you will never find your way out of here and when I find you, I will kill you”
“Just let me go, Height” Hermione snarled “I’ve done…”
“Nothing to me?” He laughed “What a crock of shit, you’ve been screwing with me since you got hired at the Ministry…just think, had you spoken out against the Malfoy family all of what’s happened wouldn’t have actually happened”
“Oh, so Ronald would never have divorced me?” Hermione asked “I wouldn’t have been kicked to the streets?”
“No” Height said “You’d have been divorced but he would have looked like the fool, you’d have kept the house, your job and would never had to have lived in a whorehouse and had your morals questioned, never been looked down upon…but no, you had to go and be the good guy”
“I was just” Hermione snapped back at him “Not a piece of shit like you” He walked up to her and smacked her across the face hard, she tasted the metallic taste of blood in her mouth.
“Your fiancée has three more days to save you” Height told her, his face painfully close to hers “You don’t want to know what I’m going to do to you when he doesn’t” His face broke in to a nasty smile “But I do have some fun that I want to bring to that tent tonight…you’re going to love it”
“I’ll cut your fucking dick off!” Hermione snarled, shoving him back and he laughed.
“I am going to love breaking you” Height hissed in her ear, he tapped her wrists and they were bound together “I may keep you alive…for a while, I have a feeling that you’re going to be a great ride” Hermione spat in his face, he smirked and wiped his face clean and then backhanded her, effectively knocking her out.
~~~//~~~
Georges eyes opened and let out a small groan when the pain hit him, it wasn’t as bad as one would assume being stabbed would be. There was a sound of scuffling and then a pair of wide bright, crystal blue eyes were staring in to his eyes looking in surprise before they teared up. Suddenly, hands were touching his face, running over his arms, checking his pulse at his wrist, and then gently lifting his shirt and gasping. The eyes were back, staring in to his and it finally dawned on him who it was that was staring at him and fussing over him while he lay in what he’d been so sure would have been his ‘deathbed’, it was Rita Skeeter. For the first time she wasn’t wearing any make-up, he could see her eyes that had no liner on them, her face was pale, her surprisingly long blonde hair was uncurled and hanging over one shoulder, she wasn’t wearing her glasses and her lips were, surprisingly, still bright red.
“You’re awake” She breathed “Oh my gods, I thought…never mind”
“You thought I was dead” George finished for her “I think I was for a little while”
“Gods” Rita said again “I was…so worried”
“Why?” George asked “You hardly know me”
“I don’t know” She shrugged a little “Are you hungry, I can get you something”
“Yes, please” He whispered “Wait” He grabbed her hand and she smiled down at him “Is something going on?”
“Height kidnapped Hermione” Rita answered after a moment of hesitation “He gave Draco four days to get him out of the country. He only has three days left now”
“I need to see him” George said “I think…” He laughed a little to himself, ignoring the sharp pain that ripped through him “I think I have an idea”
“But you just woke up” Rita looked shocked and he nodded.
“Yeah” He agreed “Just got back, more like”
Rita made a trip to the kitchen first, she told him that she wanted him to eat first. She didn’t know what was going on in his head but the way he’d been looking at her made her feel…sexy, he hadn’t been looking at her body, he hadn’t said anything naughty but his light brown eyes seemed to look at her face but truly see her soul. It made her feel a little uncomfortable but she also really wanted him to look at her that way again, maybe when he wasn’t just waking up from a near-death experience and probably just happy to see life again. She went back to his room with a sandwich and some crisps along with some iced tea, she put it on a table that was charmed to stay in front of George as he sat up (with the assistance of magic) in bed to eat.
“What if I get tired after I eat?” George asked her “I need to talk to Draco”
“I will make sure that you talk to him” Rita promised, she leaned forward in her chair and showed him a pepper-up potion.
“How old are you, Rita?” George asked, suddenly. Her eyes snapped up to find him looking at her the way he had when he’d woken up which made her feel a little strange.
“48” She answered nervously “How old are you?”
“30” He smiled “You’re…like, really beautiful”
“You’ve had a near-death experience” Rita laughed “When you’re in your right mind you will rethink what you just said”
“No…” He started but the door to the room opened and Draco walked in.
“I was told that you wanted to see me” He said by way of greeting, his eyes were red as was his nose from crying but he hoped that no one would notice “Potter and Weasel are with me”
“Fuck off, Malfoy” Ron said, which made George laugh a little and then gasp a little in pain. They all witnessed Rita fluttering around him, asking if he was okay which he smiled at her and nodded that he was okay before he looked at the blonde man.
“We’re trying to get Hermione back from Height, right?” George asked and they nodded “I think we need creatures. They are all over protective of their offspring and he has taken so many half-breeds and many have died because of it so…”
“The creatures are going to want to make him pay” Draco whispered while Harry got a little smirk on his face.
“Like with Umbridge and the Centaurs” Harry grinned “Sounds fun but how, it’s not like they would invite us in”
“Darren’s wife” Draco said “Her mother is a vampire, that’s a place to start” He smiled at George “Thank you, I don’t know how you knew what was going on but thank you” He went out the door to get his friend and his wife.
~~~//~~~
Hermione’s hands were still bound at the wrist but she was running as fast as she was able to. It was hours since she’d woken up and Height had momentarily lowered the wards keeping her a prisoner and she took that small moment to take off. She was younger than him, she was faster than him and she had more at stake than he did, but he had the use of a wand and both of his arms that he could use. He was close behind her, screaming at her and making promises of the type of torture that was awaiting her once they went back to the campsite, that made her run faster. Hermione’s lungs were burning and her legs hurt, there were cuts and bruises all over her from the many falls that she’d suffered already.
“How the hell do I get out of here?” She wept to herself, trying in vain not to cry because that would mess with her vision and she didn’t need anymore issues than she already had. She wanted to scream for help but knew that would only make Height happy so she kept her mouth shut but her eyes searched the woods around her. Keeping her eyes ahead was a good idea however she missed the little pond that had been in front of her and ran right off a little rock ledge and right in the water. She kicked and kicked but without the help of her arms Hermione was sinking like a boulder, she watched the little bubbles float past her face, her feet hit the bottom and she kicked off of it, kicking her legs with all her might finally reaching the surface only to let herself fall back under the water when she heard Height moving close by. Her lungs burned and her body started to seize up a bit, she kicked her legs off the bottom of the pond to propel herself to the surface again. She kicked but was too weak and started to fall to the bottom once again, her eyes closed and she tried to inhale getting only a mouthful of water.
Hermione became a little aware of something strong grabbing her arms, she vaguely felt the water rushing past her face and body then her head broke the surface. There was a squeezing feeling of apparition, then lips pressed against hers and air was pushed in to her lungs, pressure on her chest that made her ribs hurt and then she was coughing. Hermione gasped in some much needed air, her eyes were closed and she was greedily sucking in air, thanking all the deities that led to her being pulled from the water. It took several seconds before she thought about who had saved her, if it was Height she was sure to get raped, beaten and possibly murdered. Her eyes finally snapped open, ready to fight the bastard but were locked on an impossibly familiar pair of black eyes.
A/N: I hope you liked this, sorry it took so long I hurt my shoulder and typing is not so easily done. PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
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