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The Ghost Of Malfoy Manor COMPLETE	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Lucius/Hermione Views: 17335 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Hermione watched Remus in the doorway of Scorpius’s playroom. Hermione remembered the difficulty that she and Remus had explaining the importance of a playroom as well as a bedroom to Lucius. Remus had been raised by a wizard father and muggle mother and had been raised with the separate rooms just like she had. It was also a great way to learn to keep both rooms clean, that was what Lucius had the most trouble understanding because his answer was always ‘but that’s why we have house-elves’. Finally, it was because she wanted it so badly that he relented and allowed a room to be made for the playroom. What she hadn’t told him was that she was already teaching him to clean up after himself and to not depend on the house-elves.
“Why are you staring at me?” Remus asked looking at her curiously “Am I really so handsome that you just can’t help yourself?”
“Caught me” She forced a smile and then frowned slightly “Come on, Mimsy is watching them. Let’s go to the sitting room and go over the pictures of potential school buildings”
“Alright” He answered and followed her to the sitting room on the first floor and sat on the nearest couch.
They leafed through one picture after another and made a pile for a ‘second looks’ and a pile for the ‘never look at again’. There were about a hundred different files so they had split it up evenly about an hour in Hermione realized that Remus kept raising his eyes and looking around. She didn’t say anything about it but every once in a while she would scan the room for a certain dark haired ghost but as she didn’t know what he was experiencing she didn’t know where to look. Once the first weeding through was done Hermione excused herself to check on the boys and get Sleek to deliver some tea and snacks while he relaxed. It took her about ten minutes to get the boys settled down with their own snack with Mimsy and then to get tea and snacks for Remus and herself to be delivered by Sleek. When she came she found Remus with his head tipped forward slightly and his eyes closed with a look of pure relaxation on his face.
“Hmm” He moaned “Hermione…” He chuckled “For this back rub alone, I would leave Tonks” He laughed at the end in hopes that she wouldn’t believe him and tell his wife.
“I’m not giving you a back rub…” Hermione said from the other side of the room, his eyes snapped open and locked on hers.
“Then…what?” He looked around but the room was empty other than them “You had to have been”
“Remus…” She said slowly as she walked forward with her hands up “My house is haunted…”
“By Severus and Draco” He answered “Why would either of them be rubbing my shoulders?”
“Haunted” Hermione said slightly louder “By Bellatrix LeStrange”
“Oh” He said, he sounded nonchalant but his eyes flicked about the room but not with fear…it looked like sadness.
“Will you tell me about your relationship with Bellatrix?” Hermione asked sitting down.
“What relationship?” He said “There wasn’t one”
“She was in love with you” Hermione whispered as if she was able to keep the ghost from hearing her “Didn’t you know that?”
“I…” He looked around.
“And you were friends” She continued “You were in detention together when she was a seventh year and you were a second year”
“Stop” He snapped and it made her jump “Just stop…here” He pushed the files towards her “You and Lucius pick one, I’m leaving”
“No, Remus…please” Hermione went after him while he stormed out of the room and up the stairs to Scorpius’s playroom “Remus, please… I’ll Floo back to Grimmauld Place with Teddy, let them play”
“No” He growled while he turned to look at her “We’ll come back, that I will promise you because if for no other reason than the fact that my son has no friends but right now I don’t want him in this house”
“Then take Scorpius and I will come get him in a few hours” Hermione suggested while she practically ran to keep up with him.
“No!” He shouted at her which startled her so badly it brought her back a few steps with shock and more than a little fear coloring her expression, he looked over her shoulder and took a deep breath. From the cold that was touching her spine she knew that Severus was now close behind her, warning the werewolf to keep his anger in check “I don’t want to see you for a few days”
“But I haven’t done anything…” Hermione wiped the tears from her face as he glared down at her.
“You are questioning things that should be left alone” He snapped at her.
~~~//~~~
Three days later Lucius was ready to kill the werewolf, Hermione spent all the time that she wasn’t upset at angering Lupin she was studying for her finals that were coming up. Remus wouldn’t tell him what happened to make them fight and Hermione said that Remus would tell him when he was ready but she wouldn’t anger him any further. Lucius kissed her on the forehead before he headed out of the house for the day. He had wanted to stay home with her but she told him that she had a few things she had to do and then she, Luna and Ginny would be heading out to the spa. He was happy to hear that she would be doing something normal for once instead of spending all her time with Snape’s ghost. Severus was just as happy as Lucius, with no need to stay home and entertain Hermione he was going to the ministry to scare some unsuspecting people.
Hermione ate her breakfast in silence while reading the paper. Then she looked out the window to make sure that Lucius had indeed gone before she went to her room and got dressed. She was sick of not knowing what had happened and she was also running out of time. Lucius was laying off her about the whole moving thing for the time being but sooner rather than later he would be asking again and she couldn’t keep brushing the subject off. It was time to figure out what sets Bellatrix apart from Voldemort and what she had to work with. She hadn’t been lying about going to the spa with the girls but she still had two hours before she had to meet them. She walked in to the sitting room that was normally closed off, it was where she knew that Bellatrix would be.
“Bellatrix!” Hermione called “Bellatrix…talk to me, please”
‘What do you want, Mudblood?’ Bellatrix appeared across the room ‘Do you want to fight, hmm?”
“We both know that you’re not strong enough to fight” Hermione said “Please, tell me about Remus”
‘The half-breed’ She sneered ‘Interested in him now…want to bare him some puppies?’
“You were in love with him” Hermione snapped and the dark ghosts eyes narrowed angrily “I know that, I made Luna tell me…what happened?”
‘Nothing happened’ She answered ‘I was a good pureblooded wife and I stayed by my husbands side...’
“I know that you were a good wife” She reasoned and Bellatrix laughed meanly.
‘You have no idea all the shit I put up with because of what my husband wanted!’ She snarled “The disgusting sex, the torture he liked to inflict…Azkaban…’
“What do you mean, Azkaban?” Hermione asked “You were there because you tortured the Longbottom’s to the point of insanity”
‘Yes, I did’ She answered slowly and started to disappear ‘Have a nice day, mudblood’
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“And then she said that her husband got her placed in Azkaban and got all mouthy when I asked her about it” Hermione finished as they sat in the magical steam room.
“Well her husband was a complete jerk” Ginny said “At least she knew that”
“What do you think…or know, Luna?” Hermione asked and the other girl shrugged.
“We never spoke about that” Luna answered.
“Well there is one thing” Ginny said quite suddenly “We know that she was in love with Remus and he started to act strangely when you brought up a relationship between the two…well if she happened to be having an affair with someone considered ‘lower’ than her pureblooded status…well some pureblooded women would do or say anything to keep from letting others find out”
“But why would LeStrange lie for his wife?” Hermione asked “If he knew surely he would be pissed!”
“And, if this is what happened, he probably was” Ginny answered “But he would be a laughing stock if someone knew that he not only wasn’t able to keep his wife in his bed but that she chose a half-breeds bed instead…he, as any man pureblood or not would do, came up with another story. One that made them both be in the same spot at the same time”
“And the lover wouldn’t say anything because he had a lot to lose as well” Luna finished “Remus would have lost favor with Dumbledore, lost Sirius and everyone else’s trust, he would have become the monster that everyone assumes he is”
“So” Hermione said working through everything that had been said “You guys think that Remus and Bellatrix were sleeping together and that she went along with her husbands story with saying that she was there torturing the Longbottom’s”
When they were done with the steam room each girl had their own massage to go to and once that was over they wore facial masks and sat by the indoor pool with the magical sunlight evenly tanning their skin. By the time the day was over Hermione felt better about everything that had been previously bothering her. She walked in to the manor and kissed Lucius when he walked down the stairs to greet her, he smiled and let out a sigh of relief at her new and improved attitude. Severus was floating around happily and told her that he had frightened no less than ten ministry workers and eavesdropped on loads of interesting conversations. She snorted, only Severus Snape would find scaring people as a ghost amusing while most men would be lurking around in the women’s room, he didn’t even think about it. Hermione went to the bedroom and changed in to some comfortable yoga pants and a lightweight t-shirt before going to Lucius’s study.
“I need to ask you a few things” She said as she walked in to the room and sat down on the couch next to where he was sitting.
“Anything, my dear” He said lowering his newspaper.
“What are the rules for pureblooded men cheating on their wives?” She asked and he nearly choked on his whiskey.
“Why would you need to know that?” He sputtered.
“Just curious” She said by way of explaining herself “Can you tell me?” She trailed her hand over his and then up his arm so she was gently rubbing his bicep.
“A man can cheat on his wife, just like muggle marriages” He answered, watching her beautiful little fingers move up to his shoulder.
“But are they publicly shamed for cheating?” She asked as she massaged his shoulder.
“No” He answered letting out a quiet moan at the massage “It’s natural”
“What about a pureblooded woman cheating on her husband?” She asked as her other hand started to undo the buttons on his work shirt.
“She is publicly shamed” He answered “If others find out. Narcissa was a whore, though I did love her but she was a whore through most of our marriage. No one knew about it until the end of her life though, she kept it under wraps had it come to light before it did it would have been terrible”
“And if she were having an affair with…say…a werewolf?” Hermione asked as she scraped her nails against his nipple which usually caused him to raise his hips invitingly, however this time…it didn’t.
“Why?” He asked suddenly “…Are you…are you…cheating on me already…and with Remus!” He pushed her hands away and stood up “What about Tonks…how could you do that to her or me!”
“We are not married” Hermione reminded him “And anyway I am not sleeping with Remus, why would you think that?”
“Why the bloody hell wouldn’t I?!” He questioned “You’re sitting here asking me all these bloody questions about cheating with a werewolf…how many werewolves do you know?” He frowned “Who else am I expected to think your cheating on me with?!”
“Okay, okay” Hermione sat back on the couch “Apparently no sexy time tonight…”
“Really?” His eyes narrowed “You were trying to initiate ‘sexy time’ while talking about Remus…that makes me feel better” He turned around.
“Where are you going?” She asked, standing as well.
“I’m going to my office downstairs” He snapped “I have work to do, I’ll be up later”
“But…” She started but he was already at the door “…Goodnight, I guess”
It was around one in the morning when Hermione opened her eyes. The tears that had accompanied her to bed had long since dried but her face was sticky and her eyes didn’t seem to want to open at first. She didn’t move to wipe them or to scrub her face, she just stared ahead at Bellatrix who was lying next to her in the bed staring at the ceiling with an unblinking stare. Hermione wondered how long the ghost had been there and she cursed herself for not putting up a charm to keep her out and yet, she couldn’t help but notice that she hadn’t tried to harm her. She also noticed, with a shudder of fear, that she had ample time to kill or seriously injure her while she was sleeping. And yet, here she lay right next to Hermione on the side of the bed that Lucius usually occupied and she did nothing but stare up at the ceiling. Hermione looked around the room to find herself truly alone and knew that at this late time Lucius must still be in his office on the second floor.
‘He used to do the same thing to Cissy’ Bellatrix informed her ‘In fact, if I’m not mistaken…and I rarely am, he was doing this very thing the night she and Draco were murdered”
“He was at work” Hermione answered.
‘So late’ Bella pointed out ‘He should have been home with his wife but he was overworking himself because they had a fight, I’m sure and now look’ She raised her hands and dropped them back to the bed ‘He’s doing it again this time to you and you, Hermione Granger still have enemies, live ones. How long until they break in here and murder you just like they did Narcissa?’
“I don’t know” Hermione whispered “I guess I thought that he loved me and wouldn’t do this”
‘Remus loved me’ Bellatrix said with a vague smile ‘He loved me since his second year, I was the first to know about his lycanthropy, I thought I should be terrified but I knew him and he was gentle not a savage like the werewolves my family had told me about’
“Were you cheat…” Hermione’s words were cut short when she blinked out of existence and Lucius walked in to the room.
“Who were you talking to?” He asked walking towards the bed undoing the top button of his shirt.
“Remus” She snapped “I have him hidden under the bed after we just spent the whole night making love”
“Hermione please…” He started but she laid back down and turned her back to him “I’m sorry” He whispered climbing on to the bed behind of her “I’m sorry, please forgive me”
“Fine” She said “Forgiven. If you don’t mind I would like to fall asleep” Lucius leaned back against his pillow and pulled his outstretched hand back to his side of the bed, his hand dragged across her soaked pillow and realized that just like Narcissa when they had first married and they had still been attempting to fall in love with one another, he had been the cause of her crying herself to sleep. He closed his eyes and turned on his side away from her and curled in on himself.
A/N: Drama!! Now Hermione didn’t really go about the conversation the best way, she should have told him why she was asking those kinds of questions but in her own way she’s really trying to keep Bellatrix’s secret. Tell me what you think of this chapter. Please Review!!!!
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