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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 stood on a small balcony that was just off of George’s bedroom, her eyes were locked on the trees in the distance. Occasionally, she would look behind her in to the room at the sleeping man in the bed and heave a long-suffering sigh before looking outside again. She was confused about his interest in her, Rita was in her forties and she most definitely wasn’t a virgin but she’d had her fair share of terrible partners. There was only one time in her life that she’d been close to settling down and getting married but when the man learned who her father was he’d changed, he never treated her poorly but he went from loving and sweet to nearly terrified of her. Rita was the one who ended it and was crushed by how relieved he had looked when she called it quits. It was shortly after that, that she’d learned that she was going to have a baby and she’d thought that her life was finally going to be right for once but it ended horribly. Rita had been so calm and collected when she’d told Hermione about James but even now she felt her heart breaking again, but then had it ever really healed? She’d been so sure that she was done with love and then here came George frigging Weasley and he was messing everything up, all the loneliness that she’d taught herself to be okay with and he was making her feel things that she never wanted to feel again. There was a soft moan from the bedroom and when she looked back and saw him looking around the room, as if he were looking for her. Rita pulled back away from the opened door and watched through one of the little squares of glass where she was able to see him but he couldn’t see her.

He pulled himself in to a sitting position and looked around the room with a frown on his face. When he’d fallen asleep she’d been sitting right next to him, running her hand through his bright red hair and humming some tune he’d never heard before. It was nice to have someone there for him, it had been a long time so since there was someone that understood him in a different or intimate way. Not sexual, he wouldn’t lie he found Rita sexy as hell but it was the way she cared for him maybe even loved him, if she’d admit that which she wasn’t ready for. He looked around the room again, worried that he’d moved too far and too fast, that he’d scared her away with his want, his need and his lust, the thought made him scrunch up his face in pain and he lowered his face to stare at the sheets.

Rita’s heart wrenched in her chest, tears stung the back of her eyelids and her throat clenched. She saw something amazing that she hadn’t expected to see when she hid and watched those few stolen minutes after he woke up from his healing nap. Once he thought that she was no longer in the room he looked hurt, scared and worried, she thought that he’d be relieved or happy but he didn’t and that made her happy but also terrified. He was starting to look ready to just curl up and die alone in the bed, she knew that she couldn’t leave him to wallow in the hurt.

“Are you okay?” She asked, walking in from the balcony “Are you hurt?”

“I thought you were gone” George said, sitting up quickly “I thought I scared you away”

“Not yet” Rita whispered “But I am a bit scared”

“Of me?” He asked, reaching out for her hand.

“Yes” She answered “Of how quickly you seem to have fallen, I am not used to people…liking me”

“You shouldn’t be” George said, he brought her hand to his mouth and brushed a kiss to her knuckles before gently biting one of her fingers, smirking when her mouth dropped open slightly “What I feel is real”

“Sure” Rita said, her breath coming out as small pants while he nipped her fingers one by one “That’s what they all say and then they really get to know me and that changes” She was about to tell him that she was sure that once he found out who her father was he’d push her away when the door opened up, making them both look at the intruder. Rita with a look of relief with a touch of annoyance and George with a look of pure annoyance, he looked ready to tell whoever was there to fuck off.

“You need to come downstairs now” Ginny said, momentarily looking from George to Rita and back again “Height is here”

~~~//~~~

Severus walked to the guest room that he’d had his house-elf fix up for Hermione. She hadn’t seen the house-elf yet and while it seemed like a small thing to most people he wanted her gone before the elf was seen, the reasoning behind that? Well, Severus had bought his house-elf but he freed it, employed and paid it like an actual employee and he knew that Hermione would…well, being pregnant with irate emotions she would likely cry at his ‘kindness’ but he had to admit that while she was annoying about her whole SPEW thing while at Hogwarts she did have a point. After groveling in Voldemort presence, Severus knew how horrible it felt to be a slave and he didn’t want to enslave anything, even a house-elf, that didn’t mean that he wanted Granger to see that. He looked at the girl lying in the bed, she was starting to wake up, lifting and bending her legs, moving her head side to side and stretching her arms up and down. Finally, she looked over at the door, smiled and muttered something about him being such a creeper and hanging around in doorways watching people sleep.

“How are you feeling this morning?” He asked, walking in to the room and holding out a morning sickness potion which she took gratefully.

“This is much needed” She answered “I feel better since I actually got a full nights sleep with no nightmares” Hermione drank the potion down and handed back the phial which he took with a tight smile. He wasn’t going to lie, even to himself, it had been a long time since he’d had a woman near him much less one lying in a bed in front of him, it made him think about things and people that he never wanted to think about again.

“You’ve been here for two days” Severus pointed out “Don’t you think that your fiancée would like to see you?”

“I could send a letter to him” Hermione nodded and he sighed “Unless you want me to leave” Her large, light brown eyes locked with his and he sighed, running his hand over his face.

“I don’t really care” Severus answered “But why would you want to stay here with me when you’ve got a beautiful manor home and a fiancée awaiting you”

“I should go home” Hermione said, while she said it with conviction she looked less than ready to go. Severus walked over to the bed that she was still sitting on and joined her, looking over at her and reminding himself that she was engaged because…well, she was beautiful and he was a rather lonely man.

“Then why aren’t you leaving?” He asked, she shook her head and then lowered it slightly looking at her lap.

“It has just been run, run, run since the end of the war” Hermione answered him “There were the trials, then planning my wedding, getting married, trying to be the perfect wife while being a great ministry employee and then just having such a shitty marriage and getting divorced and living with people looking down at me” She wiped the back of her hand over her nose sniffling “If I had even entertained the idea that things would get easier after Draco started helping me I was wrong” Hermione lowered her face in to her hands “I’m tired, Severus…I am so tired of having to run, having to think ahead and plan, scheme and having to protect myself”

“I know” He whispered and Merlin did he know what she was talking about. It was the worse feeling in the entire world, a feeling that he would never wish upon anyone.

“When I’m here there’s no one to bother me” Hermione went on “I’m sorry, I’m using your home as my own personal vacation home but…”

“I understand” Severus put his arm around her and pulled her against his side “Why do you think I’ve been living out here?”

“So, you don’t mind me being here?” Hermione asked him, looking at him through his lashes.

“No, I don’t mind” He answered “But” He held a finger up “You need to send a letter to Draco, you don’t have to tell him where you are or with whom…in fact, just leave me out of it because I feel like shit for turning my back on him, I didn’t realize he would need me” He sighed “However, he needs to know that you’re alive or he will go on the war-path to find you and I fear what he will do to find out where you are or what happened to you”

“I will” Hermione promised, smiling at him “Okay, enough sad and boring…entertain me!”

“Ballsy, aren’t we?” He snorted “Okay, I’ll play this game…entertainment” Hermione laughed, right after the words left her mouth she worried he would yell at her or kick her out but he surprised her, he truly must be lonely “Let’s weed the gardens”

“Really?!” Hermione bounced up “Magical or muggle?”

“Magical first” He answered with a small chuckle “Only you would be excited to weed a damn garden”

~~~//~~~

“YOU LOST HER?!” Draco screamed in the older mans face “HOW COULD YOU LOSE HER?!”

“She ran off” Height gasped, his whole form shaking. Going to Azkaban was one thing but being at the “tender” mercies of Draco Malfoy and all the creatures that he’d wronged…he knew that he wouldn’t live “I looked for her, I tried but…”

“Shut up” Draco growled, punching him in the face he raised his face to the werewolf standing before him “Bring him to a cell in the basement” The creatures all laughed “In case you forgot, Height” Draco said, walking closer to him “Tonight is the full moon, there are werewolves about…maybe I let you go tonight and let them hunt you”

“There’s also the vampires” Darren reminded the blonde “It’s pitch black down there and they are very stealthy…”

“You know” Draco said, looking at Darren thoughtfully “I do believe that I felt something crossing over my wards last night…Vampires only make a small blip when they go over wards” Height started to shake “There’s the possibility that you’ll be killed in the night and I won’t even stop it, have a good nights rest!”

“Draco” Luna whispered as she walked closer to him, after Height was dragged way “Just because you’re angry doesn’t mean you have to be hateful”

“I know” He sighed “And I lied there are no vampires down there, but he doesn’t need to know that”

“What are you going to do with him?” She asked.

“I don’t know yet” He shrugged “I need Hermione back and I’m willing to do anything to get her”

“That’s what I fear” Luna whispered as he walked away from her and in to his study.

Draco sat down in the chair before his desk, it used to be his fathers desk, this is where he sat to make all of his important decisions. And his bad choices. Draco Malfoy did not want to be like his father, he didn’t want to make the same mistakes but when it came to Hermione, she was his heart and soul and he loved her too much to accept that she could possibly be lost in the woods…or worse. He wanted to kill Height, he wanted to make him suffer, to beg and to know how it felt to be scared and helpless because surely that was how all of his victims felt. Another part, however, wanted him to face justice and show everyone else in the world that may have nefarious plans just what happens when you screw with the wrong person. But in the wizarding world there was a long history of people deserving to go to prison that walk free and he didn’t want that to happen. An owl tapped at his window and he opened it, letting the creature in, giving it a treat and then watching as it flew away without waiting for a response.

Draco,

I am okay. I hope that you haven’t been too worried, I got away from Height and while running I was helped by someone I trust with my life. I am helping with the gardening and anything else he needs but I won’t be coming home right away. I just need a little time to myself and I hope that you understand that, I am safe, I still love you and I still want to marry you but I just need some…time away. Please, don’t be angry.

Love, Hermione.

“So, she’s taking some time” Luna said, as she read it aloud to everyone in the room after Draco brought it in “There is nothing wrong with that”

“She is with a man” Draco pointed out “A man…what the fu…why is she with another man?!”

“It’s not like she’s having sex with him” George said, pulling a surprised Rita down next to him and put his arm around her with a soft smile.

“How do I know that?” Draco asked “Maybe she is…she said that she was helping him with stuff maybe that’s what she’s helping him with”

“What the fuck, Malfoy?” Harry said “Don’t you trust her?”

“Yes” He said without hesitation “But I don’t trust him!”

“Draco” Luna’s soft, sweet voice broke through his anger a bit “You don’t know who it is that she’s with”

“Luna, I know that you’re trying to make me feel better” He said, turning tortured eyes to look at her “But Hermione is beautiful, she’s smart and strong and sexy…any man would want to be with her, even if just for a night”

“Well, then you have to trust her” Luna whispered.

“What if he…” Draco shook his head “She doesn’t have her wand, what if he forces her?”

“Then we kill him” Luna answered “He’ll deserve it”

~~~Three Days Later~~~

Severus was having a small problem. He needed it fixed, soon. Severus Snape had never been the type of man to fantasize about anything, well other than when he was a teenager and thought about nothing but sex for an entire year. But the type of fantasy he found himself thinking about was the fantasy of a family, a wife that adored him, took care of him and someone he was able to have an intelligent conversation with. He never would have thought those thoughts would even dare to enter his brain and he blamed Hermione for them, she was just perfect though. She was smart, funny, caring and was just the best representation of what his wife should be and she cared about him, honestly not just something that she said but proved time and time again. He hated himself for these thoughts which he had each morning since she got there.

“Are you giving any thought about going home?” He asked her and she snorted.

“Are you kidding?” She asked “You just started teaching me to make the morning sickness potion…I may never leave!”

“Is that all it would take to make you stay?” He asked her, trying to hide the honest interest in his voice “To steal you away from Draco?”

“Sometimes” Hermione answered with a laugh “Teach me the Wolfsbane potion and I may hop in to bed with you” She was still laughing but a primitive part of Severus’s soul wanted to grab her hand and drag her to the potions lab to teach her said potion to see if she’d keep up her end of the bargain.

“Promise, promise” He muttered, Hermione looked at him in surprise before going back to her breakfast, it was interrupted though when a large eagle-owl flew in and dropped a letter in front of her before flying back out and leaving them alone.

“It’s from Draco” Hermione said “He must have just told the owl to find me”

Hermione-

I’m glad that you’re alive, I’m happy that you’re with someone that you trust but why all the secrecy? Why can’t I come to you, hold you and kiss you? Why can’t I visit you and show you just how much I missed you? A part of me is curious if you still want to kiss my lips, if you want to be in my arms and if you missed me as much as I have missed you. I hate to worry but that’s what I’m doing, who is this man you’re with, what are you doing with or for him. Does he get to touch you like you let me, is he going to keep you as I have and if so…what about my child? Please contact me with a letter longer than a few lines.

Love, Draco.

“Keep me?” Hermione repeated “Keep me…as he has?” Severus looked at her with raised brows, right in front of him he was witnessing the return of that fire that had once dominated her eyes. He saw her anger, her passion and her need to be right or possibly prove a point that she had previously tried to prove true to another.

“Is everything okay?” Severus asked when she was silent for so long. She handed over the letter and he read it slowly raising his brows at the mans shocking vulnerability in the letter as well as his mistake, it was obvious to anyone who knew how to read the Gryffindor that Draco had said the most hurtful thing ever. He made a comment about her being a ‘kept woman’ and that had done it, she was pissed now and Severus wasn’t entirely sure what to do about these new emotions.

“Severus” She whispered, as if speaking louder would somehow change his mind as to whatever answer she was expecting to get.

“Yes?” He answered.

“Do you mind if I stay longer?” Hermione was trying to be strong but ended up bursting in to tears before the end of the sentence. He grimaced a little, making a face at her tears, they bothered him but only a little because he hated them and more because he had no clue how to deal with them.

“Stay as long as you want” He answered.

“What if that turns in to forever” Hermione muttered under her breath, he knew that she didn’t mean it but felt that he should answer anyway because maybe she needed to hear a kindness.

“Then I daresay I’m going to have to buy some new books” He answered, when she looked confused he smirked at her “Well, I’ll have to learn how to change a nappy, feed a baby and be a father-figure” With that she burst in to tears again.

A/N: This may seem a little out there and not to worry she still is madly in-love with Draco but this chapter is more for Snape’s sake than anyone else’s. Snape has been alone for over ten years, he hasn’t had a woman, friends even news about the magical world because he didn’t want to be dragged back in to their problems. He never once gave a thought to being something other than a hermit and now he’s got a pregnant woman in his house and he’s seeing what having a wife would be like and how the thought of being a father would feel like and its…interesting him. What will happen?

Thank you for the reviews, if you like stories with love, angst, drama…check out some of my other stories such as: The Ghosts of Malfoy Manor, Temptation (that ones a bit odd but awesome if I do say so myself), Snape’s Girls or Stuck By Law. I have many more including crossovers with HG/Avenger (usually Vision) .

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