Summary: "Your loyalties begin and end with me now, Granger, or have you forgotten?" he spat bitterly. At the request of the Order, Hermione Granger marries Draco Malfoy, a man she'd only ever known as her enemy. This decision leads her on a winding path of tumultuous consequences that even she could not have predicted. Dramione War AU. Rating: E -- "I'll do it," she whispered. The room was dead silent following her words, an eerie stillness in the air as her words cemented the life-altering agreement. Eventually, Dumbledore broke the silence. "You may, in time, be able to pursue a relationship outside of what you will have with Mr. Malfoy-" "I won't," she said tonelessly. "I'll be bound to him, and unable to truly be intimate with anyone but him. You do not have to sugarcoat it for me."

Adreanna didn't know it then, but both her and Draco Malfoy were not so different from one another; willing to sacrifice one life to save another's.