Dragon's Nest

Chapter 9

Hermione POV

Waking up feels like a dream. A warm, cozy, slightly sore, but blissful dream. Slowly blinking my eyes awake I find a shock of dark brown hair nestled into my naked chest and a lean and muscled arm wrapped around my torso.

Looking down at it I see a faint shimmer of scar tissue on the inner forearm. Slowly trailing my fingers over the area of skin that I know used to hold the image of the dark mark let out a small gasp as Draco brought the hand that was just wrapped around my waist up to hold my hand in his, cutting off my contact with his arm.

"How did you ever get the mark off? I heard that some people were resorting to cutting their forearms off completely just to be rid of it" I whisper out, not wanting to disturb Theo.

"Luckily, I know a guy who deals with dragon fire on a regular basis. We experimented with everything trying to get the mark off until one night I drunkenly brought up just burning it off and, here we are." Draco huffed quietly. "It hurt like a bitch and I still feel a twinge every now and then but I would gladly deal with a little discomfort than have to see it every day."

Draco rubs patterns onto the top of my hand and I find myself drifting back to sleep when I feel his lips move to my neck as he places soft kisses down my shoulder. I let out a soft sigh as I bring my other hand up to play with the soft curls in Theo's hair, who shifts slightly at the contact.

"How are you feeling this morning? Charlie is downstairs helping Libby with the breakfast spread. Do you fancy a bath?" Draco asks, his lips still close to my skin and sending goosebumps all throughout my body and a delicious shiver down my back.

"Hmm I would love nothing more than a warm and soapy Golden Girl in the morning" Theo murmurs, his face pressed against my chest.

I let out a laugh before turning my head to finally face Draco.

"I would love nothing more, my Dragon"

I feel Draco's hand squeeze mine as I see his eyes dilate and feel his chest expand with the breath he takes in.

"Careful there, Sweet Girl, pet names like that will get you in more trouble than you know what to do with" He says huskily as he slides out from behind me and walks to the bathroom where everything started last night.

My eyes follow his naked form until the black dragon tattoo disappears from sight and I hear a soft chuckle from my right. Looking down at Theo I see that he has a mischievous glint to his eyes that both scares me and has me feeling excited.

"What?"

"I'm not sure you have any idea what you're doing to any of us, but I love it all the more." He says, brushing some of my curls out of my face.

We hear the bath start to fill and Theo dramatically rolls out of bed before turning back to me and holding his hand out to me.

"Mi'lady," he says, while bowing at the waist. It's then that I notice that, like Draco, Theo also went without clothes last night when we fell asleep.

"Theo, you absolute idiot" I laugh while reaching for his hand to steady my wobbly legs.

"Oh, well fuck being chivalrous then," Theo says seconds before tackling me and lifting me over his shoulder and giving my ass a loud slap that has me shrieking.

"No! No, I was kidding! Theo put me DOWN!" I laugh as I try to push myself up with my hands on his lower back as I see the bathroom tile come into view and hear Draco's chuckle over the water filling the tub.

Suddenly, the world tilts and I find myself in Theo's arms with my hands resting around his neck and on his chest, completely out of breath.

"Well if I knew being tossed around was an option I would have requested that last night" I giggle.