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's eyes snapped open the next morning and she took stock of where she was along with how she felt. She moved her hand and gasped lightly to herself when she realized that her hand was pressed against a naked chest. Moving her other hand to explore herself, Hermione was happy to see that she still had her clothes on and squeezing her legs together there was no hint that she'd had sex at all. She wanted to smother herself with her pillow, had she really flirted with Draco Malfoy of all people? What else had she done, she was worried because even though she was confident that she hadn't had sex there were other things they could have done and that would give him the wrong idea. Then again sex was just sex and as long as both parties knew that it was nothing more than just physical release where was the harm in that? But she was pretty sure that he had feelings for her and she wasn't entirely sure how she felt about him anymore...
“Morning, kitten” Draco said sleepily from near her “Is it safe to get up or are you going to tackle me to the floor and steal my innocence?” Hermione made a noise that was a mixture of a snarl, a laugh and an exasperated gasp as she sat up and then painfully pinched his nipple before storming in to the bathroom with her purse leaving a laughing Draco still in bed “Hey!” He called “That hurt...and turned me on a little...come back!”
Hermione stepped in to a cold shower and stood there shaking for a minute or so before she turned on the hot water. She didn't need another shower but when she was unsure what to do, she took a shower and thought it out for a few minutes. When she was clean she got out, wrung out her hair and then tapped it with her wand so it twisted itself in to a tight braid, she pulled on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt but didn't put make-up on. Hermione then stared at the door, a few times throughout her shower she heard Draco knocking on the door to come in and use the loo but she hadn't answered him and now she felt bad. When she opened the door he nearly ran through shoving her out and slamming the door behind him, she went in to the kitchen and made them breakfast, sitting at the table she watched him walk over and sit down before digging in to his own breakfast with a muttered 'thank you'. She looked at him and watched as he ate and kept his eyes downcast and Hermione felt even worse about what happened the night before and how she'd treated him that morning.
“I'm sorry” Hermione said to him, causing him to look up at her “I'm sorry about my behavior last night and this morning...I shouldn't have done any of that”
“It's okay” Draco said, he was looking at his plate again “Its how the Veela affect humans, they lower their inhibitions and make them act how they wouldn't normally act” He looked thoughtful and added “Kind of like Firewhiskey”
“Thank you” Hermione placed a hand on his “For not taking advantage of me”
There wasn't much more conversation after that and when they met up with the Veela Hermione felt what Draco had been talking about. Knowing what they did to humans didn't help her fight against it, she instantly felt the need to touch someone of the opposite sex. When she reached out and ran her hand up the arm of one of the men, Apolline, who had met her outside their sleeping quarters, would reach out and pull her hand away. Finally, after Hermione tried to touch yet another man, Draco moved back so he was the only one that she could touch and touch him she did. Running her hands over arms, down his back, pinching his butt numerous times and finally settling for holding his hand as they walked. They came to an area that had a door covered in vines and then Apolline slipped her hand in to Hermione's. She wanted to know exactly what was going to happen, how long it was going to go on for and when/where she'd wake up and she turned to voice these concerns to Apolline when she was all of a sudden overtaken by deep sleepiness that made her sway and her vision to become blurry before slowly the darkness overtook her.
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Hermione came to lying flat on her back in the dark green mossy forest floor, she shot up swearing and looked for a Veela so she could punch him. Then she realized that she no longer felt the need to touch anyone, no longer had that tingling between her thighs and no longer had that slightly drunk feeling. Her honey-colored eyes darted around the setting taking in everything but the one thing she was searching for, Draco and she was getting scared. She grabbed her purse and stood up, wiped sleep from her eyes and looked towards a brook that was near where she was standing and walked over to it. She was about to touch it when she felt like someone was watching her, looking over her shoulder Hermione was greeted by the sight of a tall shapely woman wearing a nearly see-through golden dress that moved like water around her with matching eyes and white hair. Like the first Veela man Hermione had met back at the habitat this woman was ageless and could be anywhere between nineteen to one hundred. She watched the witch with great interest before starting to walk towards her with small, careful steps with one foot literally in front of the other one as she came closer.
“You're worrying about your lover” She said in a voice that was deep and melodic “But he is fine, he's talking with Calis about why he is here”
“He's not my lover” Hermione said “How long have I been here?”
“I've been watching you for at least two hours” Was the answer “My name is Fey” Hermione nodded “And I know he isn't your lover, but he will be”
Hermione followed Fey to the village that she was told Draco was in, the place was much like she'd expected the Veela habitat to be with huts and horses and farms. The Fair Folk were all so different from everyone else she'd seen as well as from each other, they had different colored hair ranging from regular blonde and brown to the crazy bright pinks, blue, red and sometimes even rainbow colors. Their clothing was very plain and yet elegant and the material moved around them like water making them look like they were floating through the air and none of the clothing was dark or black but light colors such as white, gold, off-white and even greens, blues and pinks but never darker. There was a damn good reason as to why Hermione didn't notice Draco off at once, he was wearing tan pants and a light green tunic type a shirt that was oddly fitting for him. He looked horribly uncomfortable though Hermione was sure that his outfit was likely the most comfortable thing anyone had ever worn. The only thing that set him apart from the Fair Folk around him was the lack of vines, leaves and flowers in his hair which didn't surprise her at all.
“He was very worried about you” Fey commented as they watched him standing among a large group talking “Told us that you'd become very emerged in the Veela's natural magics and that they gave you no warning before they put you in the magical slumber”
“That's right!” Hermione exclaimed as it all came back to her “It was so sudden, they didn't do anything to me did they?”
“I checked you at his request” Fey told her “Your body remains untouched by Veela or those with Veela blood in their veins. Your mind needs work though, you are very sad and guarded and different than how you once were, I can tell”
“Why aren't we getting any closer to the camp?” Hermione asked 'And Draco' her mind supplied that question though it never passed her lips the smile on Fey's face made her feel like she knew what she'd been thinking.
“Well” She smiled “You have to prove your want to enter the camp”
“How?” Hermione asked.
“You have to tell the Tree of Secrets your deepest desire” Fey said “Then the spell that keeps you out will lift and you will be allowed entry” Hermione looked in the camp again and saw Draco turn his head, watching her as she watched him.
“What was his desire?” She wondered.
“That I cannot say” Fey told her “Only Calis knows that answer because he was with him when he told the tree, like I'm with you now and no one will ever learn what your desire is, if you choose to tell the tree that is”
“Where is this tree?” Hermione asked.
“Find it” Fey answered “I will follow you but I will not see what you see and you see what you truly desire around the tree”
“If I see what I desire around the tree” Hermione said “Then why do I need to tell it what I desire?”
“Because by telling it what you desire” Fey answered patiently “You are recognizing the want and therefor you are better able to work on yourself to make it possible to have what it is that you desire”
Hermione watched her for a moment before she turned and started to look at the surrounding trees. They all looked the same to her, she walked aimlessly through the trees trailing her hands over each trunk as she went until she stopped altogether and wiped her face with her hands. When she looked up she smiled and saw a little girl with curly blonde hair and tanned skin about seven years old giggling as she ran around with a little boy who was probably two years older than she was with straight light brown hair and gray eyes. They laughed and ran to a tree that had a blanket with a picnic basket with different foods set out and a bottle of wine there was a three year old boy with chubby cheeks that had honey-colored eyes, blonde curls that were straightening out and contagious laughter. Draco Malfoy was holding him in his lap making little fireworks come out of the end of his wand and making him laugh.
'You know that my father is going to have a heart attack when he and mother come to visit for Christmas' Draco called out 'I was surprised when he was okay with two, amused at the horror on his face when you were pregnant a third time but four?' He let out a low whistle 'It may be his undoing'
“That's why we didn't tell him we were trying for another baby” Hermione said as she walked out from behind the tree her belly already rounded with the promise of a new life “I like seeing the shock on his face...anyway, I think it's good for his heart”
“Oh my...” Hermione breathed as she watched the scene before her, it made her shake, her heart pound and tears prick her eyes “Are you seeing this?”
“I cannot, Hermione” Fey whispered with a smile as she watched the wonder and longing on Hermione's face “But I can tell it's beautiful” Hermione burst in to tears.
“It can't be” She sobbed “I can never have that”
“If you desire it, then you can have it” Fey answered her.
“A Hippogriff may desire to be a unicorn but that doesn't mean that's what it is” Hermione hissed at her clutching her chest as if her heart was going to just jump out of there while she cried.
“A Hippogriff is someones unicorn” Fey told her “And someday it would learn that” She put her hand on the witches shoulder “Now go tell the tree your desire”
Hermione walked slowly towards the tree where her family was sitting now eating the food she was certain she hadn't cooked because that was one skill she had never mastered. She laid her hand gently against the hard bark and leaned her cheek against the scraping surface listening to the strangest noise. It was a heartbeat that seemed to be coming right from the tree itself, in fact there was a pulsing under her head, the sound of breathing lulled her in to complete comfort and had her closing her eyes.
“I desire the happiness of love” Hermione whispered in to the trees trunk “I desire the happiness of my own family” She opened her eyes and looked at the village as the spell that kept her out shattered and fell to the ground allowing her entrance.
A/N: I hope this chapter is going good. I'm glad to see that I have readers and I will say that I did realize at the wrong time that I spelled Fluer's name wrong but I thought 'hey too late now, just go with it!' LOL. Please continue to review the story and I will continue to attempt to figure out who should be with whom. I like this Snape/Harry angle but I may play with the whole Snape/Apolline or Snape/Luna....or Harry/Luna...OH so many possibilities! I'm looooost now LOL. PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
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