The Love Lagoon: A Dramione Lovestory

Eighteen

Hermione

I was sipping champagne, and letting the jets of the Jacuzzi work out the tension in my neck when I saw Draco come in to the bathroom.

"I was wondering where you wandered off to," Draco said, apropos to nothing.

I turned to face him. "Well, you could always join me in here, you know? We haven't just spent time together alone in so long, it would be nice."

Draco nodded. "It sure would. Where are the kids?"

"In bed. Or they damn sure better be," I answered. "I instructed the house elves to tell me if they get it in their heads to sneak out. I doubt it with them being ten, but you never know. Maybe I'm just preparing for the teen years."

Draco laughed. "Uh oh. Yeah, that will be a whirlwind, if they are anything like us."

"Hey, Harry and Ron were the ones getting in trouble," I defended. "I was just there to put the fires out as much as I could. I'm the good girl, remember?"

Draco undressed, and my eyes raked up and down his body. Draco winked slyly. "Not such a good girl now, though," He said, entering the tub, and sitting down beside me. "My, my, whatever will your friends think with you sharing your tub in the nude like this?"

I giggled, "Shut up, and massage my shoulders, git. Last I looked, we had four kids, and I still find you just as sexy as I did on that damn island."

Draco wrapped his arms around my waist from behind. "Oh, not so damned as all of that. Didn't we make the twins both times there?"

I kissed him lightly. "Yes, you're right, of course. It will always be our little sanctuary for us alone."

Draco pressed his lips to mine and deepened it. Our tongues met, and we broke the kiss for air.

"Yes, I agree," I said breathlessly. "But I have loved you long before that. But I needed the island to show me that."

"I agree. I love you too, Hermione. Always and forever," Draco agreed.

We made love then, a slow, langorious expression of our love for one another. We finished up in our bed, our limbs intertwined under the covers. We did not speak, because there was no need. We had our family, our love. What more could any of us wanted, honestly? The answer was nothing, nothing at all. So it is that my tale ends, and I am ready to live for the future, and all of the past to stay in the past where it belongs...always and forever...

The End