The Marriage Contract | By : SweetHoney Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 18442 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2 |
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"Why are you avoiding me?" demanded Hermione once she was finally able to corner Draco.
"I'm not avoiding you." stated Draco.
"Don't you dare deny it."
After Hermione was cured of that awful curse she noticed that Draco had been ignoring her. He only exchanged a word or two with her and left the room as quickly as he could. At first she thought he was busy with other important matters and let it go but it's been weeks. His behavior had not changed.
"What's been going on, Draco? Please tell me."
"It...It's nothing." he said and turned his back on her, but Hermione refuse to be dismissed so easily. She grabbed his arm to prevent him from walking away from her. When Draco spun around to face her, he clutch his head and groaned in pain.
"Draco! What's wrong?" Hermione released his arm forced him to look at her.
"Nothing, I'm fine." he said, closing his eyes and opened them. "Just a headache."
He took a step back but Hermione was not about to let him close himself off. She needed answers and she wanted them now. "Draco, please I...I – did we..." She took a deep breath and continued. "While I was under that curse I...did we sleep together?" she paused and then decided she needed to used more specific words, "Did we have sex?"
The look on Draco's face told her enough. Shame and embarrassment hit Hermione full force in the face.
"It was my fault." said Draco.
Hermione shook her head, not meeting his gaze. "No it wasn't. I-I remember what happened. W-What I...I did." It happened four weeks ago, but she remembered. She remembered that while she was under the curse, she behaved wantonly and practically force herself on him. Draco wasn't at fault. He was merely reacting to her stimulations. Oh...what he must think of her?
"No, I could have prevented it." Draco confessed, "It happened because I...I wanted to it."
Hermione's head snapped up. She stared at Draco in shock. "W-What d-do you mean?" She asked, not certain if she wanted to hear what he was about to say.
"Hermione, I..." He sighed and turned away from her.
"You what, Draco?" asked Hermione.
"I love you." He said there words so low Hermione she had imagined it. "You don't have to say anything." Draco told her. "I just...I just wanted you to know."
Hermione was speechless. She didn't know what to say, what to do. She closed her eyes are tears fell down her face. "I-I – love you too." When she opened her eyes Draco was laying on the floor, unconscious. "Draco!" She took out her wand and used a spell to carry him to his room.
When she lay him on his bed Hermione knelt beside the bed, stroking his face. She loved him, have been in love with him. That was the reason she was having so many dreams about him. She realized it that night when they'd made love. She had never felt like that with any of her previous lovers before. It was indescribable with Draco. They connected physically and spiritually. He loved her and she loved him.
Hermione pulled up a chair and waited for Draco to wake up. It was only a few minutes but for her it felt like hours. When his hand began to twitch and he come too she practically screamed with joy. He groaned and squeezed his eyes shut. Hermione remained patient, allowing him to collect himself before she confessed her feelings to him. As he opened his eyes, he glanced left and right. When his eyes met hers, she could see the fear of rejection in them. She was not going to reject him. She was going to accept him. She opened her mouth but quickly shut it when she heard Narcissa's screams.
Draco and Hermione rushed to Narcissa's bedroom. Seeing it empty, Hermione ran to the bathroom, followed by Draco, and opened the door. Narcissa was laying naked on the marble floor, a pool of blood surrounding her head.
"MUM!" Draco exclaimed, running to her, but Hermione stopped him before he could pick her up.
"No, Draco don't!" Hermione ordered him, "We don't what kind of injuries she has! Let me examine her first!"
The sight of tears in Draco's face nearly killed Hermione, but she knew that she had to maintain a level head. Narcissa needed her to. The older woman's life depended on it. While Hermione used a spell to carry Narcissa to her bed to be examined, Draco went to investigate how she fell. He had to do something to distract himself from worrying. He was glad to see that Hermione had gotten ride of the blood from the floor. There was a large empty bottle of bath oil next to the tub. He touched the floor of the tub where a large amount of oil was still there. He concluded that she had poured too many in the tub and slipped when she stood up, knocking her head on the floor.
When Draco went into the bedroom, he inhaled in and out preparing himself. Draco went to his mother, kneeling beside her. A bandage was wrapped her head, a plaster on her left arm.
"She broke it. Must've tried to catch herself." said Hermione.
When she looked at him, she spotted blood on the back of his hands. She gently pulled them up and see his knuckles were blood, skin torn. "What happened?"
"Punched the wall."
Hermione took out her wand and cleaned up the blood. She wanted to scold him for hurting himself but bit her tongue. He didn't need a lecture right now and she wasn't going to give him one.
Narcissa was in a week long coma. When she came too, her condition was much worse than Hermione had thought. Narcissa didn't recognized Hermione or Draco. She appeared lost and frightened of both of them. She coward in her bed, screaming at them to leave her alone. Hermione and Draco left her alone in her room, but carefully monitored her without her knowledge. They were worried she might hurt herself again.
During this time, Hermione wondered if Draco had heard her confession. She had considered the chance that he might have passed out before he did. It was unfortunate. She really wanted to let him know how she truly felt about him but knew that at this time he needed to focus his attention on his mother. His health seemed to be suffering as well. For now, she decided to swallow up her feelings and wait for a better time to tell him.
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This chapter is a little short. It's because I have plot twists up my sleeve. Just wait and see how things heat up in the next chapter!
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