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Grangers Apprentice COMPLETE	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 11073 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Harry Potter and I make no money off this it is only fanfiction.

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Luna walked in to the classroom that held Draco and Hermione at the table with their notebooks open and their quills waiting to be used. Hermione felt that usual thrill of education and from the small look of excitement on Draco's face he felt the same thrill. That was a huge difference between Draco and Harry during the lessons they'd had before he usually fell asleep and once again she'd be the one who had to explain everything to him later. Luna walked to the front of the room, put her stuff down then walked over and gave the former Gryffindor a hug and even gave Draco a one-armed hug that surprised him. She walked back to the desk and pulled out a few things, read something and made a few notes before raising her eyes to them again.

“First thing I can tell you about Tir Na Nog” She started “Is that you are dealing with the Fair Folk there. They do not lie and can tell when you are lying. If they say 'I think you two are in love' and you say 'no we're not' they will merely laugh but if it is a bigger lie, something like a death or murder they will not stop at getting the truth out of you no matter how”

“Excuse me, Lovegood” Draco said “But what makes you an expert on Tir Na Nog?”

“Don't be rude!” Hermione hissed at him but Luna only smiled.

“My grandmother, my mothers mother, was a Fair Folk” Luna informed “I have been to Tir Na Nog many times, especially after my mothers death when I was little”

“I thought you were just part Veela, like me” Draco said in wonder.

“No” Luna smiled. Now that she pointed it out Hermione could see that yes, she was like the Fair Folk. Almost ruthlessly honest, kind, fair, smart and with an otherworldly glow and pull towards her “You only have two weeks to get ready”

“What do we need to know?” Hermione asked.

“Upon entering this classroom” Luna informed “A spell was placed on you and it is currently collecting and writing down any questions and interests you secretly or not-so-secretly wanted to know about your partner” They both looked worried “I will be asking all of these questions and you will answer them honestly”

“And if we don't?” Draco sneered as Hermione asked: “Why do we need to do that?”

“First” Luna said “You need to know all the truths and secrets about one another so you'll be comfortable and know what's going on because the Fair Folk will try to use secrets against you and Draco, I will know if you're speaking truth because I can tell and the answers will be written down the minute you think them”

“Oh” Hermione looked around uncomfortably.

“Let's get started” Luna smiled brightly at them “First questions for you, Draco. Hermione wants to know why you were so horrible to her in school”

“Oh, well...er” He blushed a little “First and second year I was sick of you beating me at everything and in third year you were just in my line of fire. Fourth year, especially after the Yule Ball I picked on you so you'd pay attention to me and then around sixth year everything became so difficult and real...”

“She thought of another question” Luna said “I won't always read the questions that pop up after an answer, we could be here for years working on just one question that way” She grinned “Hermione wants to know why you never asked her out during your eighth year?”

“Did you want me to?” Draco asked Hermione pointedly.

“No!” She snapped, twirling her hair in to a knot “Never”

“Answer the question” Luna said sternly.

“I was trying to study” He answered with a huff “Trying to go to my parents court appearances, my own for that fact and trying to dust off the soot left on the Malfoy name and you were busy with your own things...I didn't think that you'd want to sully your reputation with me stuck to your side”

“Hermione” Luna said, ignoring the fifty other questions that had popped up “Draco's thoughts claim that you've already told him one of your fears is 'love' his question is a simple 'can you explain it more thoroughly?' to him”

“Lord Voldemort's mother was in love with a muggle man named Tom Riddle” Hermione explained “Because of that love she used a love potion to trick him in to loving her which resulted in the birth of Voldemort and his inability to love due to the use of the love potion being the reason for his conception” Luna smiled to herself at Hermione's cold but informative answering “Fast forward to Snape and his love for Lily Evans and his hate for James Potter. He was convinced that if he told Voldemort about the baby, Harry, then the dark lord would kill James and likely the baby and give Lily to Snape and somewhere in his love-warped mind Lily would be completely in-love with him after that but it led to the death of both Lily and James and the story we know about Harry and the dark lord”

“That's two cases” Draco said “Not everything turns in to...that”

“What about your aunt?” Hermione shot back at him “Bellatrix was so in-love with Voldemort that she went insane. Molly Weasley is so in love she lived a poor life with too many kids and not enough money to take care of them even Harry's muggle aunt and uncle...they fed off of each others common hatred and meanness and raised him with that!”

“Okay” Luna put her hand up to stop their bickering “Draco, Hermione wants to know why you didn't sell Harry out immediately in the war when they'd been brought to Malfoy Manor by the Snatchers?”

“Because I knew they'd summon the dark lord and he'd be killed” Draco answered “At that point I'd have lived alongside trolls and giants as long as it wasn't Voldemort”

“Hermione” Luna went on “Draco wants to know, in all honesty now, why and how the hell you put up with Ronald Weasley?”

“I didn't like him at all in my first year” Hermione answered “In my second year we found common ground and that was our friendship with Harry, third and fourth years I had a crush on him after that it was survival” She squeezed her hands together “During the war he showed his true colors when he left Harry and I...I cried, I remember that but it wasn't because it was him and I was in love it was because he wasn't just leaving me he was leaving Harry and in the long run he was leaving the wizarding world...I don't know how to explain it” She smiled a little “After the war I tried to be friends with him but all I saw was his betrayal and then he came to me one day and said that his mother thought we should get married and have a family so...what do you think?”

“That was his proposal?” Draco asked looking disgusted “No class”

“I told him I would never marry” Hermione said lifting her chin “Not even him and that I never wanted a family...he started to date Lavender Brown and now they're married”

“You don't ever want to get married?” Draco asked.

“No” She answered “You have to be in love to be married...”

“No you don't” He corrected, Luna was watching their conversation with a dreamy smile and with her head going from one to the other as if watching a rousing tennis match “What if I asked you to marry me right now?”

“Are you?” She asked “And why would you?”

“Okay” He cupped his chin for a moment then said “Um...say I want to take the last of the tarnish from my family name, I want to marry Hermione Granger to do that and you want...I don't know, financial stability so you can continue to hunt down potions ingredients and treasures, would you marry me then?”

“A marriage of convenience?” Hermione said “For both of us?” He nodded “Then yes, I'll marry you...I mean, I would marry you in that...situation”

“Draco the next question” Luna said, distracting them both “Hermione wondered was...do you find her attractive still?” Hermione's face turned nearly purple.

“Yes” He answered without hesitation “Very”

“What about you, Hermione?” Luna asked “Draco wonders if you're attracted to him at all and why?”

“Yes” She muttered, she wanted to climb under the table and hide away “Your intelligence is very attractive but you're not exactly a house-elf and you've got a decent body” He shot her a flirty smile.

“Draco” Luna said, she was holding a piece of paper and looking at it with great interest “Hermione knows that you were crying in the girls lavatory in sixth year when Harry found you and used Snape's homemade curse on you” His face turned slightly pink and Hermione looked apologetically at him “Harry told her...”

“Fucking Potter...” Draco muttered.

“She wants to know that if it had been her that found you” Luna continued “Would you have let her comfort you?”

“Yes” He whispered “And you I would have tried to get in your pants...just to forget what was going on in my life but I would have hurt you in the end. I would have called you horrible names and ignored you the next day because I would have felt weak”

“Would you have told everyone, if I slept with you?” Hermione asked.

“No” He answered, looking her in the eye “I would never have told anyone”

“Last question for the day” Luna announced as the clock neared noon “Then I want you all to go home and try to study Tir Na Nog. Hermione, Draco's thoughts claim that you have changed since Friday and he wants to know what happened?”

“Oh” Hermione looked away and wiped away a few tears “I talked to Harry on Saturday and learned that he's taken your spot in the Ministry, he told me that he wants to have a family and he treated me like I was mental for wanting to stay in the field. He told me that it was fine after our last year at Hogwarts but now the fame has died down and he wants to get married and have a family”

“Has the met someone?” Draco asked.

“That's what's upset me so” Hermione whispered “He wants me to stay here too...he wanted me to be his wife...” She stood up and fled the classroom and the two behind.

“Go after her, Draco” Luna said “You want to and you know it” He looked at her for a moment “Be back here tomorrow same time”

Draco found Hermione walking by the Black Lake with her arms wrapped tightly around herself as if she was cold though it was very hot and humid out. He walked next to her and kept his mouth shut, he had a feeling that when the time came she'd open up to him but he hated the sound of silence when he stood on the school grounds. It made him think about those moments after the first battle before Potter gave himself up in the woods. It was a moment of fear, hope and the unknown where no one knew who was still alive, who was dead and that horrible sinking feeling of the possibility that one of your friends or family members could be a spy or turncoat. In those moments he'd walked past the bodies of his enemies, of perfect strangers, of a girl he dated once, a boy he'd tutored, friends he'd known since he was a child and people he didn't even know. The worse ones were the professors that he had had for five years and their glassy stares still haunted him whenever he closed his eyes. He didn't realize that his hands had been shaking until Hermione's closed around one of them, he looked at her and she looked concerned as she stared back at him.

“You're shaking” She pointed out “And you look like you're about to cry, are you okay?”

“I haven't been here since the end of January in our eighth year” Draco said “The memories...they're still there”

“They are the reason you're afraid of the dark” Hermione guessed “What did you see?”

“The dead” He answered “Isn't that enough?”

“Yeah” Hermione said “Sorry...”

“Do you want me to bring you to wherever you're staying?” Draco offered and Hermione burst in to tears “Or not...okay, tell me what happened and I mean everything”

“I helped Harry put his aunt to bed and then I told him where we were headed for a our mission” Hermione started “He smiled and told me that it would be nice for me to have such a “soft-hearted” mission to help me get over the past and I told him that it would be fun and I couldn't wait for him to come back to the team, sorry” She gave him an apologetic look “He told me that he wouldn't be coming back to the field, that he was taking an office job...yours to be exact. I thought he meant that they told him he couldn't come back and got angry but he explained that he'd asked for the switch back in February but hadn't had the guts to tell me” She took a deep breath and sat down on a rock slipping her bare feet in to the cool water “As I said before he told me that he wanted to buy a decent sized house, get married and have a family. Then he told me that he'd hoped that after this mission I would consider taking an office job as well and that he was hoping I would...become his wife or something, I don't know that was around the time my head started to spin and I made my way back to my room...he's going to want to talk tonight, I just know it”

“Then don't go back” He offered.

“There's no where I can hide that he doesn't already know” Hermione sighed “I just...I'm not ready for that conversation yet and maybe never will be”

“Stay at the Manor with me” Draco offered “My parents are home but father is always working and mother is dying for another female to talk to...plus I think having you around would be good for both my parents”

“Well...” Hermione looked torn between saying yes and being scared.

“The study that you were...held in is closed up and locked at all times” Draco assured “Come on” He put his arm around her and started to lead her away from the lake.

“Thank you” She whispered.

“I'll have a house-elf pop over and get your stuff” Draco told her as they walked to the gates “So, did we get engaged earlier?”

“What?” Hermione laughed.

“The marriage of convenience” He reminded “Did we get engaged?” He smiled “Because if so...then I need to get my mothers engagement ring, I think you'll like it, its a huge diamond”

A/N: I hope you enjoy this. Tell me what you think about comfortable Draco. PLEASE REVIEW. I hope I was better at explaining Hermione's irrational fear of love.
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