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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
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Hermione was sitting at the vanity on a dainty little bench that was pink with flowers and embroidery. She looked at her reflection in the oval mirror that sat against the wall, the wood was a dark color with three small drawers on either side with tiny marble handles that had flowers on them that matched the bench she was sitting on. There were many little silver dishes that held lotions and powders, there were blush brushes and eye-shadow brushes of all shapes and sizes. There was a shiny silver hairbrush with the bristles that hadn't been used in brushes since the 1800's, there was a matching silver hand mirror and on either side of the brush and mirror were two dainty silver hair combs that had emerald roses on them. Everything was so small and girly that Hermione was almost afraid to touch any of it, it also didn't help that everything was likely hundreds of years old.

She sighed and turned to look at her room again. She had expected the rooms to be overly large and gaudy but the room she was given was, to her, a perfect size. The first thing she saw upon entering the room was a large fireplace with two comfortable armchairs sitting in front of it with a table between them and there were built-in bookcases on either side of the fireplace. She looked at the books already and lost interest right away as she saw they were outdated books on how to be the perfect wife and mother and a lot of romance novels. There was the vanity next and across from it was a tall dresser with eight drawers in it and then the big canopy bed with white hangings. The closet was within the bathroom and could have been a whole other bedroom as it was so large and filled with up-to-date ball gowns and party dresses plus shoes. The bathroom was the most extravagant part of the bedroom with a deep built-in to the ground stone bathtub, a shower stall in the corner of the room with six shower heads a regular toilet and a sink with a huge mirror. There was a deck off of the bedroom across from the bed that looked out of the beautiful and expansive gardens behind the house.

“Do you like your room?” Narcissa Malfoy asked from the doorway and Hermione looked over at the older woman and forced a smile on to her face but she was still uncomfortable around her.

“Yes, very much” Hermione answered “It's very lovely”

“I always wanted a daughter so she could have this room” Narcissa said looking around with love in her eyes “I am happy that it is finally getting a proper guest”

“No one else has stayed in here?” Hermione asked, she was curious because she knew that during the war loads of death eaters, male and female, stayed in the manor.

“No” She smiled “My mother-in-law told me that this room was specifically made for a daughter and no one else”

“Then why am I in here?” Hermione asked and the beautiful woman laughed.

“Because you are as close to a daughter as I will get” Narcissa smiled “No reason to play coy now, Miss Granger” She ran her hand under Hermione's chin in a loving manner “Draco asked for the Malfoy engagement ring for you”

“He...what?!” Hermione looked around and started to hyperventilate a little “No...why would he do that?”

“He loves you” Narcissa said with a small smile “Didn't you know that?”

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Hermione avoided Draco like he had the plague the rest of the first night and all the next morning. She apparated alone to the school ten minutes earlier than him and all but ran to the building to ensure that she wouldn't see him until she was ready. He entered the room five minutes after her and sat down near her, if she'd been able to she would have gotten a seat by herself but it wasn't possible in that classroom so she'd have to put up with his close proximity during the lesson. She had a lot of questions for him today and she was eager to get those answers, she wasn't as upset with him as she was with Harry (which she was sure was because she hated Draco) and Harry was her best friend. Luna walked in to the classroom with a smile on her face and a bright green skirt and blouse on, she looked at the papers on her desk and let out a small laugh to herself and then raised her eyes to the pair before her.

“Hermione” She greeted “You appear to have a lot of questions”

“I do” Hermione said “Can we start?”

“Of course...” Luna said but Hermione interrupted her.

“Draco” Hermione snapped “Did you tell your mother that we're engaged?”

“Sort of but...” He started.

“Sort of?!” Hermione screeched “Sort of?!” She blew out a long breath “When the hell were you going to tell me?!”

“Well I...” He started again.

“I just got done telling you about what happened with Harry” She yelled pulling herself on to her knees in her seat “Did you think I was fucking saving myself for you...that maybe I was sending you some hidden messages that I wanted to be Mrs. Draco Fucking Malfoy?!”

“Hermione!” Luna shouted causing the Gryffindor to look at her while breathing heavily “You need to give Draco a chance to answer”

“I'm sorry” Draco said “But you aren't the only one with problems, you know” He glared at her “My father is constantly telling me that I need to make a decent marriage that will pull our name out of the mud for good. My mother is going insane with her want for a grandchild as well as for a 'daughter' to talk to and relate to and you know what...I...” He raised his head looking at the ceiling for a moment “You don't want love and I don't want to be a disappointment for my family...I could think of a million worse things that could happen to the both of us”

“This is interesting” Luna said, holding her hand up to stop Hermione's attack “Hermione, we are going to go on to a new question as I don't want to keep harping on this one but I think Draco has a point” She offered a smile “Hermione, Draco wants to know what your worse memory is?”

“There are so many” Hermione answered, then she offered a humorless laugh “Take your pick being tortured, watching friends die...no, I know it. A bad memory that happened before the war” She looked straight ahead but Draco could see unshed tears in her eyes “And call me vain all you like. It was fourth year and I was hit in the face with a curse by a little Slytherin prick that made my teeth grow to my chest and Professor Snape looked at them and said that he saw no difference in my appearance” Draco watched a tear roll down her cheek and she scrubbed her face harshly “That's when I realized I really was ugly and it never left my memory”

“You're not ugly” Draco said, turning to look at her and forcing her to look at him “You are beautiful”

“You're just trying to make me forgive you” Hermione said around a watery smile “It's not going to work”

“I'm going to give Severus a piece of my mind to make you forgive me” Draco said “I tell you that you're beautiful because we were told to tell the truth in this classroom, so I am”

Hermione looked at him for a moment before Luna called their attention back to the task at hand. The lesson went on, some questions were stupid while others were cringe worthy (like her having to answer if she was a virgin or not) but all in all none of the questions had the anger or passion as the first ones did that morning. At noon Luna said goodbye to them both and Draco told Hermione that he had to talk to someone so he left rather quickly. Hermione looked up at Luna who was humming to herself and picking up her papers one by one, she seemed oblivious to the other woman's presence but as usual with Luna Lovegood, all wasn't as it appeared.

“You have a question for me” Luna spoke clearly but seemed amused “What is it?”

“Its the engagement ring thing...” Hermione answered.

“Yes” Luna led, she locked eyes with the brunette for a moment then sat down in her the chair behind her “Are you actually considering his offer?”

“Offer” Hermione repeated with a snort “You make it sound like he asked”

“Did he?” Luna asked and Hermione shook her head “And if he does?”

“I don't know” She whispered.

“Hermione” Luna got up and then sat right next to the other girl “When you go in to Tir Na Nog you won't even realize until after that you were a complete stranger to yourself. When you are there you will visit the darkest parts of your mind, your dreams, your nightmares and your fantasies and what's more is that Draco will see them as well...by the end of this trip you will know each others souls better than any married couple” She took the older girls hand “And you will know and understand yourself better”

“I'm scared” Hermione whispered with tears in her eyes.

“Of what?” Luna asked, though she knew the answer.

“Him” She said “What if he falls in love with me or worse...what if I fall for him?”

“You pointed out all very good examples of love gone wrong” Luna said “But what about when love is good and right?” The blonde smiled dreamily “My grandmother left Tir Na Nog to marry a wizard and they lived a long happy with together...”

“What about your mother?” Hermione asked, she felt a little mean bringing it up.

“My mother almost married a Fair Folk she had known her whole life” Luna explained “But then she met my father and they married. Their life together may have not been as long as it should have been but it was filled with love every single day. Molly and Arthur may be poor but they are happy with one another and their family, Bill married Fluer Delacour even though most of his family told him not to...what about Remus and Tonks?”

“They are dead” Hermione whispered.

“We don't know if Remus is dead” Luna corrected “They never found his body. But Tonks was so completely in love with Remus that when he told her that he couldn't be with her due to his illness it actually changed her whole Patronis, do you know how hard that is to do?” She smiled “They finally got together and created a life out of their union no matter how short it was she made him a better man and he made her a whole new person” Luna squeezed her hand “Love can be good it can be bad and it is always terrifying but when did you start walking away from things that scared you?”

“I don't know” Hermione whispered “Recently, apparently”

A/N: Next chapter is going to to speed through the rest of the lessons and hopefully at the end (if my muse cooperates with me...yeah right) it will end with the them heading out to Tir Na Nog.
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