Enchantress

Chapter Eight - Everyone Loves a Bit of Harmless Flirting

Chapter Eight Synopses: As Hermione continues to read what her Mother left her, she gets more involved with the life her Mother used to have and more curious as to how it will end and what it will reveal. She promised she’d meet the other Lords and with Draco by her side she can’t really object, but what happens when Hermione catches Draco in a hot situation?

Chapter Eight – Everyone Loves a bit of Harmless Flirting

After such an eventful day Hermione was thankful for the peaceful evening she had to herself, though admittedly she was slightly upset that Draco was away on business – sorting out the latest dispute with the Sothern Atlantic Mermen. No matter, she’d be able to tell him when he was back but even then the information wouldn’t be fresh in her mind. Her Mother’s letters were becoming more interesting, the latest letter was from her Mother’s mystery man.

Brown eyes,

     Count the days. One, two, three, four, five. Then I’ll be there to take you away. Don’t fret, don’t worry, and don’t fear. I’ll be there to take you away. I found the perfect little home for you. Somewhere where you will be safe and no one will be able to hurt you.

My Birthday was a quiet mind numbing affair. My Mother threw a party. It was filled with all the cream of Pureblood society. All the well bred gentlemen and simpering annoying girls. I fear she wants me to choose one as a bride but how can I think of those monstrosities when my heart belongs only to you. Yours is the face I want to wake up next to and the smile I want to see every day. Your heart is the one mine beats loudly for. It will always be you. I belong to you, I always will.

Forever yours,

     The Dark Stranger.

After reading the latest installment Hermione found herself wishing for a love like the one her Mother had. They’d had but one meeting and were already declaring love for one another. It was like the world’s best love story, like all the classics rolled into one. What Hermione wouldn’t give for a love like that, she sighed dreaming achieved nothing but disappointment. If she wanted a love like that she’d have to actively go out and find it. Besides she didn’t even know what happened with the love between her Mother and this strange man.

Urgh! Thought Draco as he pulled yet more seaweed off his wet body, why were all the Mermen disturbances over Mermaids? This time a Mermaid from one prominent family had been pledged in marriage to the son of another. The problem was she was in love with someone else and refused to marry the Merman she was pledged to. This had caused a riot within the Mere Clans and thus Draco had been sent to sort it out.

He wished he was at home thought; he had a strong suspicion that Hermione needed him for something. He hadn’t seen her since before she went to dinner with his Father and Severus. He missed her, she’d become a permanent fixture in his life and not one he was willing to give up.

In all his years growing up he’d been searching for that special someone. He knew love matches were rare within Pureblood families but he continued to hope against all hope that he found a love match that suited him before his Father decided it was time for him to be married via an arranged marriage. He still hoped his Father had changed passed those ideas.

No, the sooner he was back home and away from this water the better. All this seaweed really was enough to put you off swimming.

Hermione proposed not to meet the remaining Lords until Draco was back. She told Lucius and Sirius that Draco made her comfortable and had the ability to make her forget everything else. She said she’d need him to walk into the lion’s den with her. Lucius asked her why Sirius and he weren’t enough to soothe her concerns. But she replied saying that they were more than adequate but that Hermione didn’t want the formality or the pressure that would come from meeting the other Lords with two Lords present. After all she countered, she’d be perfectly safe with Draco as he would be the next Lord Malfoy and had already taken his vows. At which point Lucius and Sirius realized they didn’t have a leg to stand on and couldn’t argue with Hermione anymore. They left with a bow to Hermione declaring they had business to addend to leaving a tired Hermione to wait for Draco.