Ultimatum

Chapter 10
Fair Enough

“You slept with her!?” Hermione exclaimed again when Draco said nothing.

“Hermione, let me explain,” Draco said in a strained voice.

“What the hell is there to explain? You had sex with another woman!”

“Hermione,” Nicole started. “There is more to this, and I take the blame as it is completely my fault.”

“Obviously there was something that he had to say about it, otherwise he would not have done it,” Hermione said in a broken voice.

“Hermione, there is more to this than you know,” Draco said.

“You shut up! I don’t even want to listen to you talk right now,” Hermione nearly screamed at Draco, who in the course of an hour had broken her heart. “If anyone is going to explain, it’s her.”

Nicole started explaining immediately. “When Draco first arrived, I thought that he was very cute, so I made him a deal that if he slept with me then I would give him the information that he needed. I thought that it would be a done deal, most guys want to shag me when they see me anyway,” Nicole said, gesticulating to her body which was a skinny frame, very large breasts and a nice ass. “But he said no. He said that he was with someone and he didn’t want to cheat on her. And I see now why. But I was stubborn. I had already made the deal and I didn’t want to be beaten down to accepting something less. That’s why it took so long, Draco was procrastinating. He didn’t want to do it because of you, but finally today he did, to get back to you.”

“But he still did it,” Hermione said. “He still slept with you…he still cheated on me.” Hermione let out a sob, turned, and left.

Draco turned to Nicole with contempt in his eyes. “I hate you, you know, probably more than anyone in my life.”

Nicole looked at the girl walking away down the hall with her shoulders slumped. She looked back up at Draco. “Fair enough.”

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Draco had to look for Hermione again. He decided that he should have just kissed her, then everything would have been better. He had just felt so dirty after being with Nicole that he needed to shower and brush his teeth and try to erase the memory of that woman from his mind.

He had spent nearly every hour of the last two months planning ways to beat Nicole and get the information that he needed. He tried changing her mind, he tried using a variety of spells, but she would either see through them or he wouldn’t be able to do them because of some magical restriction that she had in her house for him. He was not allowed to use certain kinds of magic and most of those were dark spells.

Finally he had given in, but it had been short and when it was over she had given him the information as promised and then got the hell out of there to get back to his Hermione. He hated that Hermione was perturbed by him being so distant, but he didn’t want to think about what had happened with Nicole and he had still felt so horrible about it that he couldn’t bring himself to be happy about seeing Hermione. He felt guilty deep inside and that shut out any happy feelings.

He still felt guilty. She hated him now and all he wanted to do was be with her and talk to her, get everything straightened out so that they could be together again. He had been without her for too long and he needed to have her back.

When he had searched the entire wing of the house, he decided to go back to his room, maybe he would lay down and see if Hermione came back sometime that night. He would sit awake and talk to her when she got back.

Instead he found Hermione already in the room. She was sitting on the cushions by the bay window, her legs bent and up against her chest, her head resting in the crevasse made by the joining of her knees. She was looking out the window and still had tears streaming down her face.

“Hermione,” he said softly as he made his way into the dark room. He looked at the clock and saw that it was nearly two in the morning and yet he didn’t seem the least bit tired.

She looked in his direction, scoffed, and looked back out the window.

“Hermione, please hear me out,” he said. He needed her to understand.

“I’m listening,” she said in a sob-broken voice.

“The whole thing was a fucking catch-22,” he said. “There was nothing that I could do. I had to have sex with her to get back to you, but I knew that you would be mad at me for having sex with her. But if I didn’t then I would never get back to you, and I missed you more than anything.”

“You could have found a way.”

“I tried Hermione, why do you think it took me two months to finally give in, I tried everything I possibly could.”

There was silence for a long time after that. Hermione had closed her eyes and for a minute Draco thought that she had fallen asleep.

“I understand why you did it,” she said finally. “I get it, but that still doesn’t make it hurt less.”

Draco sat down in front of her and pulled her whole body towards him. “I know, Hermione. The whole time I was doing it I was thinking of you and how I could get back to you when it was over.”

“I just don’t like to think about you kissing her the way you kiss me.”

Draco looked at her beautiful face, glowing in the moonlight. “Hermione, I would never kiss anyone the way I kiss you.”

Hermione looked up at him and smiled just slightly. “Promise?” she asked.

“I promise,” he said, leaning forward over her knees to touch his lips to hers. It was slow at first, building up to a crescendo and then slowly waned off with a couple of lingering kisses. “So does this mean you forgive me?” he asked, looking frightened as if he was expecting rejection.

Hermione looked away for a moment but then looked back at him. “Yes, I forgive you, but I still don’t like it.”

“Hermione,” Draco said with a smile, moving her legs away from her body. “I will never touch anyone like I touch you,” he said, smoothing his hands down her legs and spreading them around his waist. He smiled as he thought about how willing she was, but slightly reluctant, still wanting to pout. “No one will ever have me the way that you do, Nicole took my body for a few minutes, but you’ll have it forever.”

“Yeah I will,” Hermione said with a smile. Draco dragged his hands up her body, slowly removing her nightgown, revealing knickers.

“What happened to you always sleeping naked?” Draco asked. It seemed as though a pain shot across Hermione’s face, but it was immediately replaced by a different emotion.

“I did for a while, but then I decided that I didn’t like sleeping naked without you there,” she said.

“I like you better naked,” he said, pulling the night shirt over her head. “You’re so much better naked.” He pulled her knickers slowly down her legs until they wouldn’t move any further because her legs were spread so wide and he ripped them from her juicy thighs. “You can not believe how often I thought of this body while I was gone.”

Hermione moaned softly as Draco lay her back against the pillows on the windowsill. His hands roamed her body. When his hands felt her slightly more firm stomach, he looked down at it. He quickly met his eyes with hers and smiled. “You’re pregnant,” he said, not a question.

“Yes,” she said in a soft voice. His lips dragged themselves down her neck and collarbone until they dove into the soft valley between her breasts and descended to the firm mound of her stomach.

“I was hoping you would be,” he said with a smile, kissing her stomach reverently. Then he looked up at her. “I’ve been away from you for two months, Hermione, I can’t wait any longer.” He slid up her body quickly, vanishing his clothes where they landed in a heap next to them, and hovering over her only a moment before he thrust into her. Hermione’s hands went straight to his hair in surprise, grabbing it as Draco made love to her. It was passionate, needy, yet soft and romantic. His thrusts were a bit rough but slow. He was making love to her like it was the last time that they would, making it last as long as it could while he looked into her eyes, worshipped every inch of her skin with his lips and rubbed one hand on her swollen stomach while the other held him up.

Hermione had been hoping for Draco to come back for so long and now it had happened, he was here. She looked up into his eyes, shivering at looking at those dark grey lust-driven eyes again for the first time in two months. She moaned as the hand on her stomach moved south and found her clit and he started thrusting a bit faster.

Hermione was drowning in his eyes, her body shaking as he pressed all the right buttons in and on her body. She was freefalling in the heaven that only he could give her and she never wanted to stop—the pleasure, the feel of him inside of her after so long, the rough pad of his thumb against her hard nub. There must be no other feeling like this, she decided.

With one last thrust and a rough pinch of her clit, Hermione came followed almost simultaneously by Draco, both of them panting, shaking, and touching each other as much as they could, then finally letting their bodies rest. Draco’s head fell against Hermione’s shoulder and he breathed against it in short puffs. “I love you, Hermione Granger,” he said softly. “And I will never love anyone like I love you.”

“Oh gods, Draco, I love you, too. I’m so glad you’re back.”

Draco reached down to his clothes, and pulled something out of the pocket. “Hermione, would you…I mean, will you marry me?” he asked, showing her the ring in the soft velvet box.

Hermione’s smile very nearly lit up the dark room. She kissed him passionately again and again. Draco was laughing by the time she pulled away for air. “So that’s a yes?” he asked.

“Yes, Draco, I would love to marry you!”

Neither noticed a girl outside of the room, watching through a crack in the doorway with rapt fascination at the loving couple. So that’s what it was like to have sex with Draco Malfoy. What she had had, had been nothing compared to what he gave to the one he loved. Nicole was rushed with an almost overwhelming guilt for keeping these two apart for so long, and yet she could not think of a single thing to do to help them.

Well, there might be one thing…

A/N: I just wanted everyone to know that I have the entire ending of this story completely planned out and have for a while, so as soon as I get it all typed down (in the non-existent spare time that I have) I will be updating chapters. I will try once a week or so, but never will it be three months again. Thank you everyone for reading and reviewing, it means so much to me!

Temptress~