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Moonlight Sonata	By : TerraBloodstar Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 24744 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Though Draco felt Hermione�s hand clench on his arm, she straightened, looking her future father-in-law directly in the eyes, her own narrowing in response to his rather harsh accusation. �Mr. Malfoy, I am more than British now. I gained dual citizenship when the Satoshi clan took me in as their own. This right was granted me by the Emperor himself. This is who I am now - if you do not like it, you may deal with it however you please. I will not change for you.�
��I see the kitten has remembered how to use her claws�� To the shock of all within range of sight, Lucius smiled and extended his arm. �Come. Draco was to enter with you, but as the head of the family, I must present you. It helps soothe ruffled feathers and conniving witches if Society knows I back this union.�
��Thank you, Lucius�� Though she still sounded rather unsure, she moved to his side, as Narcissa and Draco followed behind them, with the Satoshi twins at the rear - without their husbands, which was a rarity. And one that obviously annoyed the Weasley twins, who stood looking agitated near the dais to which the small group was headed.
�Ladies and gentlemen�� Lucius began, as they finally reached the dais, and he left Hermione to be joined by the Satoshi women, while Draco and Narcissa stood on the other side. �This evening, we have thrown this ball in honor of our future daughter-in-law, Hermione Granger. Here to present her is her current family, the Satoshi, and her future family - my own.�
The man stepped back, watching with a very carefully concealed pride - he was stone to all who had not come to know him - as Hermione and Draco walked towards each other to meet in the center of the dais. That pride only intensified as the two turned, and with a smile and shift of her arm, Hermione spoke.
�Please, dance. Enjoy yourselves.� With that said, Draco helped Hermione off the dais, the others leaving it as well. Though music began to play, the couple remained standing at the head of the room - the Satoshi twins and their husbands heading down one side of the room while Narcissa and Lucius made their way along the other, cementing the announcement and spreading gossip that would further stabilize Hermione�s place in Society.
When the others had progressed far enough along, Draco and Hermione began to slip among the room. To his surprise, his betrothed was careful to stop among the elderly who sat along the walls - the ones Narcissa and the twins had not yet come to speak to. The first group they reached contained a woman who held great sway among Society, one who had met Hermione at her first ball, and had veritably taken her under her wing.
�Hermione�what a pleasure to see you in such good spirits!� The woman chuckled, before glancing around at her companions and nodding delightedly. �I am so glad to see you with young Malfoy at last�The two of you are perfect together.�
�Oh, thank you, Lady Douglas�� A slight blush and bow to the woman, before the entire group - excluding Draco, who had no notion what the women were on about - burst into laughter.
�My dear�I was so hoping you would curtsey�� Lady Douglas managed, wiping tears of laughter from her eyes. This merely set the entire group in laughter once more.
�I know you were - but I already told you it�s quite impossible. Leave it to you to hope I would try�� Hermione was almost glowing with joy, before she bowed once again to the group. �But please excuse me. There are so many here I would like to meet this evening.�
�Ah, dear.� The elderly woman smiled, subtly gesturing her over - under the guise of a kiss to each other�s cheeks, she whispered softly. �Fear not, I will make sure your work here is done. By tomorrow morning, all of London will adore you. �well, the ones that matter, at any rate. Now go on�I�d tell you to dance, but I think that would end worse than a curtsey.�
The two chuckled again, Hermione still smiling as they moved on to the next group. And the next - Draco was startled by how well she took to the situation, and still more by how easily she won over even the most cantankerous of dowagers. All of whom were gratified by the visit from the couple, as opposed to relatives or even just Hermione herself.
Even when they had finished with the elderly, Draco realized Hermione was intent upon paying a visit to as many people as she could this evening, in order to gain or solidify connections - leaving him to annoyance at the realization that he could not simply whisk her away to forge a more stable connection between the two of them. He sighed, pasted on his best thoroughly-content-to-be-dragged-all-over-the-ballroom-through-hundreds-of-people look, and attempted to avoid destroying what they had built by seeming bored out of his mind. It was ridiculously difficult.
�Is there any particular reason why you weren�t with me down there?� Hermione questioned, glowering at him from across her book. The two had settled in the library after the ball, neither able to sleep, and he was waiting for that exact opening. Sliding over to sit beside her on the sofa, he took the book from her hands, noted the page, and closed it with a smirk. ��what are you plotting, you conniving little ferret?�
�You know, that�s beginning to sound like an endearment, Hermione�� Dressed - well, underdressed - as he was in shirtsleeves and a very loosened tie, as he began to crawl up the sofa from his end to hers, she felt herself beginning to blush. �Do you really want to know why I was so distant this evening�?�
Hermione couldn�t help but pause, swallowing, as his nose came almost a centimeter from hers. Did she really want to answer that, even? It took only a second for the decision to come. �Yes, I do, Ferret.�
Instead of the normal, smart aleck reply she had expected, she found herself wide-eyed as he -dare she even think it! - kissed her. Draco Malfoy. Kissed her. Her brain malfunctioned, going into a mixture of panic mode and meltdown all at once, then, in her mind at any rate, ceasing to function entirely as her eyes slid shut and she kissed him back.
For a few minutes, it was� Well, her brain - broken as it surely had to be - could only describe it as heaven. Warm, safe, comforting, and�well, she wasn�t ready to finish that description - by the time she got to that �and� she had shoved her palm against his chest, slid out from under him, and fled the room.

No! I am not ready for this! I am not ready to actually, truly, deeply care about the ferret that is Draco Malfoy! I can�t! I won�t! �I�m not�right? �Oh shit.

Author�s Note:

Please don�t be upset. ;-; I had horrible, deadly writer�s block and only just fought it off. (Happy thoughts and not wanting to kill people are the best murderer of writer�s block for me.) Fortunately, with a little relaxation and rest (and running, from my family, back to a happy little hell of a college dorm�no, really. A dorm with someone I do NOT know - anyone here a UIUC student? :P - is much less stressful than dealing with my family) I should be back on track. �Oh yeah, and my boyfriend has a phone we can use for internet on my laptop. I go back to my dorm on the 18^th or 19^th of this month, and back to free net (free is a relative term in this instance) of course, but until then, I�ll have to wait until he�s off work, or comes home (midnight or one CST) to even post what I write. Hopefully, I�ll be able to get another chapter out within the week. If not the week, then hopefully two. I�m trying, but I can�t risk trying too hard.

I don�t want to disappoint anyone. <3
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