CAGED

and here we are at the close of our story, the final curtain. I cried when I finished writing this... I am such a softie anyways... sorry I laxed on the updates everyone, three of my friends turned 21 this weekend and I've been on a three day drunk *lol* I hope you enjoy this! I hope I didn't disappoint anyone... and if your like me and need new characters to love after you've finished a story go read PANDORA for a pick me up :)
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"Pappy! Pappy! come on your going to miss the fire buggies!!" the tiny brunette squealed as she gripped Lucius's hand. Lucius allowed himself to be guided out into their vast backyard in the countryside. The  lightning bugs were just about to poke out of the navy skies. His granddaughter Ara was running wildy about the soft grass in their large garden. She had the same thick honey brown curls that her grandmother once had, and the same voracious appetite for knowledge. Hermione strolled out on to the veranda with Ara's jar to collect the bugs.

""Ara!" she called to her from the veranda. Ara had not seen her grandparents in a months time for they had been vacationing in the french riviera. Ara bound up the steps and clung to her grandmother. "Grammy! I misssed you! Pappy and I are catching fire buggies!" Hermione picked her grandaughter up and set her on her hip as she walked down to meet Lucius.

"I see she found you in your study? Everyone just arrived... the kids are making dinner tonight" she said as she placed a sweet kiss on Lucius's ips.

Their granddaughter giggled uncontrollably "grammy and pappy k-i-s-s-i-n-g!". Lucius gave Ara a peck on her cheek "your grammy is more beautiful now than she was when I first laid eyes on her"

Hermione and Lucius made a very handsome older couple, Lucius still had his platinum main that had grown a little whiter over the years, and his eyes took on a wise and gently twinkle. The lines of his face only lined his eyes, giving him the appearance of always smiling.  Very different from the face he wore during his youth.

Hermione had the same thick curls, but now had silver hair with hightlights that shone white like her husbands hair.Lucius and Hermione watched as their grandchildren played in the creeping dusk light.  They sat on their veranda in the warm summer night holding hands and rocking gently on their swinging chair.

Hermione watched as her daughters and sons cleaned up the dinner plates and were filling them away with a flick of their wands.Cassiopeia had four children already and was pregnant with the 5th.  Lucius and Hermione exchanged a knowing glance as they watched Cassie's husband kneel down and talk to her very pregnant stomach.

They were thinking the same thoughts, but Hermione spoke for both of them "Didn't it feel like it was only yesterday that
we had been pregnant with Cassie?". The couple had thought back to their baby making days fondly...

------ The Day Cassiopeia entered the world ----------------
Hermione was at home picking out baby clothes in the drawing room while Lucius was in their bedroom  stuffing more things into the luggage that he had packed for when Hermione would go to St. Mungo's. 

He managed to pack an entire additional suitcase before she caught him at it. "Lucius Malfoy...what are you doing?"
He quickly shut the lid on the suit case and gaver her a guilty smile. "We already have two full suitcases packed! Im big enough as it is, we wont be able to fit through the flu!" she groused.

Lucius rested his hands on her shoulders "Well I was thinking about that " he said as he cut her off from further tirades. "We should forget the flu, we wont be able to go together, so I've set you up a private room that we can apparate to and the doctor will be notified immediately" She crossed her arms over her chest, they rested over her protruding and very round stomach.

"your beautiful when your mad... and pregnant with my baby" he said as he gave her a dazzling smile. "I dont want special treatment.. I just want this to  as normal as possible" she huffed. He began to kiss her neck and her jaw "but you are special... and deserve to be treated like a queen". "Oh queen my foot...I can't be be bothered with you right now, your incouraglable" she said as she toddled out of the room. Her mood swings could be extreme but the for the most part they were just moods of grouchiness. Minutes later she screamed his name with panic and he bound off the room, he found her in the living room holding her stomach, a small pool of water at her feet that spread out on the dark cherry floor. He ran to her, swooped her up in his arms and apparated to the hospital. She didnt know what hit her until he gently lowered her to the lush hospital bed. Instantly a nurse came bustling into the room. "Oh Mrs. Malfoy today is the big day then!" said Erma, the same witch who admited her to St. Mungo's years prrior.

Hermione was clutching Lucius's hand "you know how much I hate this place! MerlinI want this over quickly"
For Hermione she had got her wish, within a few hours later she was going into contractions and they were becoming more regular. They gave her a slight pain reducing spell but she didnt want it to effect the baby so they gave her a very low powered charm. The nurse offered a barage of Potions that she politely declined.

Lucius gave her a worried look before returning to inspect the potions "I want to be able to SEE the face of my child  after I have her, or him .. or her". She looked suddenly down at her hand and had realized she still held the catalogue of baby clothes. She looked over to Lucius who was playing with the Potions on the racks. She chucked it at his glorious platinum head. "Ive got nothing but this bloody catalogue here, and what if they keep me over? order baby clothes?!" she started to quietly sob and the tears brimmed in her eyes. He turned around  to face her when she grabbed him by the collar of his shirt "you've got me into this mess.. get me out of this!" Her contractions were getting more intense and beads of sweat were running down her face. The healers and nurses were bustling in and out of the room. Her legs were put up in the stirrups as Lucius watched guard over her. He never left her side, while Narcissa insisted he not be present at Draco's birth. He had stayed at the manor in fact, pacing the halls.

How different this felt to him. He flet like his whole world was just beginning or could possibly end at the same time.
She gripped his hand painfully and then would grip his collar again "I'm never letting you near me again...OH MERLIN!" Lucius pushed the strays curls from her face as he tried to calm her "calm down love.. breath... keep breathing". She grabbed his hand again, he could see he knuckles were white against his hand , but he had lost most of the feeling in his hand hours ago.

About an hour later Lucius set eyes on his child for the first time, the doctors pulled her from Hermione, and Lucius cut the umbilical cord. He watched in silent fascination as he watched the Healers and nurses clean the baby up.
The day she entered the world was the day he felt like a different person. He didn't know he was capable of such  joy or love, he knew he didn't deserve this after all the dark things he had done. He stroked Hermione's hair "Thank you" fell from his lips, her head was tilted back and her eyes half closed. Her body completely exhausted.

He felt so grateful to the witch that saved his life, saved him in all ways possible. The head nurse, Erma carried the little bundle up to Hermione, Hermione sat up slowly and the rested the baby on her chest. Lucius gazed down at the platinum hair and big brown eyes of his daughter. "It's a girl" Erma said as she shook Lucius's hand. Hermione looked down at the new love of her life, with the other half of her life, both gazing down on their child.

He whispered into Hermione's ear "Cassiopeia". She looked up at him with recognition and amazement in her eyes. The baby cooed at the name "she likes her name already" Lucius said as his voice got choked up. She had thought the dreams were just dreams, and hadn't had any since she became pregnant. She thought she had just been dreaming, and knew that many mother's dreamed of their children when they were pregnant. She knew better, she knew those dreams were omens to keep hope, they were sings that led her to Lucius, they were dreams that would be destinies to come true. She kissed the top of her daughter's downy head. "Hello Cassiopeia, were your mummy and daddy... do you remember me? I remember you from my dreams little love..."

------- Present Day----------
Hermione smiled at her beautiful daughter "Cassie... before you were born I dreamed of you... almost every day, you were my hope when everything was so dark". Cassiopeia sat near her mother and stroked her very pregnant stomach "Before you even married Daddy right? Oh! tell us again how you met daddy" she said dreamily, she had always loved their story, how love prevailed she mused.

Hermione told her children and her grandchildren that night, how she had met and married the man of her dreams, it was like a fairy tale to tell her grandchildren. Of how their grandfather defeated the dark lord, and had rescued her from him, and how "uncle Harry" had helped rescue her from the warewolf and how the world change so much because of their love for one another. She would always end the story the same way, "we came from different worlds, but it was our love that brought both of those words together, and changed the course our our history, and always remember that love can move mountains if you only let it in"

Her daughters would wipe their eyes and their sons would puff out their chests at the pride of their family.
She thought back to that day, the day it all began, when the darkness made way for the light.

----They day Lucius was freed from Azkaban-----

It was a brilliant clear morning when the clouds opened up. There was a brisk chill to the air and along with the stringent sunshine peeking through the patchy clouds, it made everything seem brand new and clean. Today was "the" day, the day she was going to see him after two years apart, as a free man.

He was escorted through the bus terminal from Azkaban to London, From there he was free. The guards took off the figurative and literal chains that bound his limbs and his magic. He rubbed his wrists where the calluses grew from the constant chaif of the shackles. He was worried he would be spotted by wizard or witch, but was surprised that even with his platinum hair and tall and intimidating stature he blended with the crowd.

She was wearing a long red trench coat that kept out the London rain and chill, leaning against the railing of the Millenium bridge that crossed the Thames. The Warden told her he would release him in London where he would be allowed to apparate to the bus terminal in private. The Warden advised that he would get off at the first stop before the bridge. She stationed herself on the bridge and kept a sharp lookout. London was filled with the huge leviathan like red rovers. She felt her heart beat faster everytime she caught sight of one. Thinking it could be the one that brought him to her. She paced back and forth of the large bridge, anxious for his arrival.

He felt like he was being swallowed whole as he walked among the muggles of London on their daily commute about the city. His eyes searching the crowds for her honey brown ringlets. The warden told him she would probably be waiting for him by the Millenium bridge by the Thames. "How precise" he thought with sneer. He was fighting back the painful fears and anxieties that she wouldn't wait for him. That she had freed him for another reason other than love.

He knew it wasn't true in his heart but the thought still lingered on his conscious ebbing away at his resolve to ask her to finally marry him. He had no proper ring but the large silver ring with the Malfoy family insignia on it, it had been in his family for centuries and would hopefully serve as a replacement ring for her.

He boarded one of the vast red rover buses headed for the Thames, and chose a seat near the back, he was surrounded by muggles. His eyes examined their strange clothes and the general way they crowded toegether on the bus. He was sitting across the aisle from a young punk with a vivid blue mohawk. Lucius tried to stretch out his long legs into the aisle, he could plainly hear the ear splitting music through the ear buds of the punks ipod. Lucius stared openly at him and the punk nodded in greeting at him. His eyes travelled over to the muggle in front of him, she was shrunk with age and her hair looked like cotton candy. To lucius it looked like the the aged woman was the size of professor Filius Flitwick, he gazed between the two seeminly two different worlds and a a light grin spread across his face.

The two were aware of each others presence but managed to coincide, the passengers on the bus were like a rainbow of patchworks that seemed to clash and blend and compliment each other. After everything he had been through he realized how futile it was to struggle against change. The wizard world is not as it once was and it needed new blood to revive it. Change came and could erase years of hate and destruction it also could come in and ruin what safety you thought you once had. Time the great Healer he smirked.

He had hoped and dreamed and thought a great deal about this day for the past two years. Now he was uncertain as to how she would think of him. Change was a wild card, two years time, she could be a different person now.. she could have a new lover.. not that he could have really been considered a true lover to her, they had so little time together he thought. They had been more like survivors together, he had treated her more like another child of his, a care taker who took care.. of a number of her needs.

He feared she may not love him the way he loved her, he hoped she still burned for him, he hoped they could be together for the rest of their lives.. he hoped. He had his regrets, of keeping her in that cage, knowing her feathers were too bright to be caged, part of him loathed to free her, the other side was elated at setting her free.

So many thoughts flooded his mind, he couldn't sit still or hold on to a thought in his head.. He knew it was the feeling only a free man can feel, a free man who once thought his journey was over, only to find it had just begun... and the destination was still very uncertain.

She had butterflies in her stomach as she studied the faces around her, hoping to find him. Hoping no more time would pass without him near her. She wondered how much had he changed... prison could make a man insane and Azkaban was terribly efficient with driving wizards out of their minds. Sirius never truly recoverd, and had always behaved like a caged animal who fears its master. Her eyes raced over the oncoming red rover, how many people could be riding on that double decker giant?
She searched for white blonde hair , her face calm but her eyes were frenzied.


Lucius had his world strapped against his back, he was given a rough burlap satchel that contained his release papers, his wand and the few items he had on his person the time he was taken in. He searched for her as his eyes took in the large muggle built structures, how they had made the world bend to their will was amazing to him.

She had waited several months before the warden could release him, it had taken her Harry and Ron more time than she had liked to prove the truth to the Ministry. Now his name had been cleared, and had gained a certain celebrity now, his story was legend. He had requested a quiet release into muggle London to avoid a scene of the reporters hounding him.

Now she had it in writing and there was no going back. She wondered if he had anything left after all the death eaters tried to erase his name from history seemingly, though the rest of the world was celebrating him as a hero.

She had set up a modest apartment in muggle london after she got his papers. She was planning on taking him back to live with her if he would be comfortable being around so many muggles all the time. Now that he was free, his fate was his own. She felt like she was in control of his fate and hadn't thought that he might not want to start a life with her.. maybe she was his savior and lover.. but not the woman he would keep and call his wife. Had she wanted that life anyways? to be a housewife? She knew the answer to that..

She was about to lose hope as she scanned the faces on the bridge, until she had spotted the platinum blonde hair, he stopped dead in his tracks as he spotted her at exactly the same time.
It seemed to her that nobody else was there , the crowd around them had dissapeared. They locked eyes immediately and she saw the sun break through the clouds and pour over the bridge and glistening water. Everything seemed to come alive and bright. The grey din cast off. She shifted her weight, too afraid to move, both scared to lose eye contact for fear of losing each other in the crowd. The sun shone in his golden hair and lit up his face.To Hermione it looked all light emanated from him, They didnt move for several seconds, just staring in disbelief at each other until she broke into a run towards him.

They were standing at a fair distance apart on the bridge and many people were blocking their paths to each other. In a miracle not a soul had blocked their path, as they ran towards each other filling in the great gap beteen them. Her hair flying around her face as she lept into his arms. The gap of time and change was getting smaller and smaller with each hurried foot fall.

The years could have melted from them, all the isolation pain and frustration dissipating into the brilliant sunshine surrounding them. He was faster than her and filled the gap between their aching hearts and elated bodies. He swung his arms  around her and swept her up in his arms, she jumped to meet him and they met with a crash of force. Her feet left the ground as he lifted her up, she wrapped her arms around his neck and began pelting his face with kisses. "I love you" she gasped as her lips muffled his "I love you more".


"I've missed you" "Oh Gods, I thought you forgot about me" "never" they gasped their whispered confessions into each others mouths as they gripped onto each others bodies. Lucius pulled her so close to him she thought she was giong to break. There mouths fused together in a depserate and needy kiss. For them it wasn't about pleauser but more for contact.

She crushed her lips back on to his "I want you" she said as she trailed kissed over his cheeks and eyes. He gripped her to him and tangled a hand in her hair as he guided her lips to his. He moaned into her mouth as he grabbed her ass.  "I need you" she slid down his body and he lowered her feet to the ground. Suddenly, Lucius took hold of both her hands and got down on one knee, he looked up into her eyes "Hermione, will you marry me?" all of his fears, hopes and dreams were all resting on what she would say and do next . He saw the tears brimming in her eyes and he wasn't sure if it was joy or pain untill she shrieked "Yes!" Yes!" she cupped his face in her hands, the tears spilling down her cheeks. 

"I have no proper ring, or the fortune or name I once had to give you... but I promise" she pressed her fingers against his lips "it doesn't matter, I dont need anything, I just need you..and now that I have you I"m never letting go". She peppered his face with kisses again. causing quite the scene in the middle of the crowded bridge. He continued through her rain of kisses "I promise you my soul and my heart, your my everything" he said as he slid his silver family ring on her finger, it was incredibly loose but she held it to her heart, slipped her silver necklace off her neck and looped the ring onto her necklace.

After she clasped the necklace in place she pulled on his hands and he stood up, both still attached to each other "come with me". They ran with a kind of energy only children seem to possess, they could easily been playing hide and seek as they ran across the length of the bridge. When they got to the other side she led him to large red phone booth that was hidden out of sight, they both crammed inside as she grabbed him around his shoulders while he wrapped his arms around her waste. She apparated them back to her flat.

When she had him in her hallway she pushed him against the wall and ran her hands all over his muscled chest. He was surprised at her aggresssive lips and hands. She wasted no time and ripped his jacket off of him and unbuckled his belt.

"Hermione.." he gasped as she bit his ear gently. He groped over her jacket and reached for her manny buttons but she slapped his hand away playfully. He kicked off the rest of his pants and slid his shirt off and reached his hand out to her, she she sneaked out of his reach and started unbuttoning her coat . Her nimble fingers loosening the buttons and she ripped the rest of the coat off and threw it on the floor.

Lucius eyes raked over her body, She wore only a matching pair of white knickers and bra that were gauzy and white, with pearls weaved into them in delicate and exquisite patterns. Lucius let out a low growl as she taunted him with her body. He grabbed her up and she threw her legs around his hips He craddled her ass in his hands as she clung to his broad shoulders.

"you look amazing, you have no idea how long I've waitied for this" She slid her hand down his chest and over his stomach "actually I think I do" she said as she nipped as his shoulers. He bounced her onto his hips as he looked into her eyes pleadingly without saying anything she knew what he was going to ask. "third door on the right" she said brealthessly.

He carried her to her bedroom, and gently laid her on the bed, followed by his own body covering hers.
They exchanged few words within the first 10 minutes of reuniting with each other, but he had managed to propose to her and had her giving herself to him. It must be some sort of record somewhere he mused.

"take me Lucius.. I've never wanted anyone as much as I want you". He crashed his mouth onto hers as he teased her nipples through the light gauze of her bra. He cupped her breasts roughly as she wrapped her legs around him and pressed her soaking mound into the silk of his boxers.


She slid her fingers underneath the top of his black boxers and slid them down his hips. She had never seen naked before, shirtless but she had never gazed at his naked arms and thighs and he never exposed his forearms to her. He was all lean muscle and sinews. His alabaster skin peppered with little scars here and there. Battles fought over the years. He unclasped her bra and brought her nipples into this mouth. He nipped and sucked at her skin greedily, unbable to get enough of her taste.

She was soaking wet when he gently tugged her knickers down her thighs. He saw her glistening honey brown curls on her nether lips, wet with her arousal. He growled as he trailed kissed down her stomach and slid his fingers into her folds. He trailed his finger along her labia and brushed her clit before sinking a digit into her hot opening. "you feel so good, your so wet love" She reached between this thighs and slid her hands around his thick long shaft. She moaned as she imagined him filling her. His fingers delved deeper when he felt her resistance. He was mildly shocked at what he found... her virginity was intact He hesitated as he explored her pure untouched folds. "Hermione.."he breathed out with a question in his tone.. she had agreed to marry him, but this was huge as well.. he was amazed at this gift she was giong to give him.
She bucked her hips against his hand "It's yours! it's always been yours!"


She was soaking his fingers she was so eager for him. Two years devoid of soft female flesh had rendered him as hungry as an animal for her soft skin. "I cant believe I finally have you" he whispered. "Let me look at you" she whispered into his ear.  He leaned onto his side for her as she slid along side him. She kissed his chest as her fingers explored the aching cock between his thighs. She kissed down his stomach and without warming wrapped her lips around his cock.

He gasped and fell back on his back as she explored him with her tongue. She loved how hard his cock felt against her tongue and the way his tip was so smooth and taut. She rolled her toungue around his tip and he felt her soft breasts on his thighs. Just the sight of her made  his insides churn with desire.

She began to take him into her mouth with a slow matching rhythm of her hips on the bed she needed him so bad.
He couldn't take what she was doing to him, or the sight of the fall and rise of her ass on the bed, he wanted to be inside her.

He grasped her arms and pulled her up his body and ravaged her mouth."let me inside you love" He rolled her onto her back and pinned her hips into the bed. She could feel how big he was against her thighs. She spread her legs and he nestled between her legs, he was resting on his elbows so as not to crush her. She let her hands travel down his stomach and she grasped his cock. "make love to me Lucius.. please".

He slid two digits inside her and pumped them into her to get her loosened up for him. She bucked her hips against his fingers "Please!" she moaned out with desperation in her voice, throwing her head agaisnt the pilow.

Lucius gazed over her body, she was young enough to be his daughter, her soft skin and velvet pussy waiting to be filled. He cupped her face as he positioned himself at her pussy and she guided him into her. He cupped her face in his hands and they locked their gazes on each other as he pushed slowly into her.  Noticing her tense around him, trying to avoid her pain he stopped to let her adjust to his size. He held her tight and he felt her resistance. He thrust into her hard and fast, he tore through her like a bullet. Her breath hitched and she dug her nails into his back as her insides burned with pain.

 He stilled deep inside her, he could feel herself contract around him and her legs trembled underneath his. She felt an intense pressure inside her as he filled her, the pain sent stars in her eyes and made her toes curl at the same time. She could feel all his muscle in that one thrust, she loved that feeling of having that much power between her thighs, inside her, pumping into her like a piston.

After the pain ebbed slightly she felt a tingle all over her body, starting from her core where he had torn her virginity from her. She lifted her lips to meet his and slowly thrust her hips into his. He hovereed above her as she slowly slid him in and out of her, letting her stretch herself around him till he couldnt take it any longer. He thrust into her with wild abandon. He sttretched her to the brink, pumping into her like a piston. She bit her lip to keep from screaming from the intense pleasure laced with pain. She felt his chest pounding above her and her nipples bounced with every thrust, rubbing against his smooth chest.

He sank himself into her full hilt and bit into her neck gently, grazing his teeth along her collar bone. She tried to steady herself , he was thrusting into her so hard she was being pushed into the headboard. He sank himself inside her over and over as she reached back and grabbed onto the headboard to steady herself as Lucius ravaged her body. "Merlin I love you, I cant stop fucking you" She had wanted this for so long she almost didn't believe he was real.. until he thrust into her wildly and she felt that wonderful ache between her thighs.

"I love you, I want you so much... fill me Lucius" she was moaning out his name loudly , his eyes locked onto hers. She thought he was going to bore right through her, the intense gaze of his face filled with lust and hunger. The small bed shuddered and creaked under Lucius's violent thrusts and Hermione felt her legs go weak, she felt like she was turning to jelly in his hands, her walls becoming more slick and all her muscles began to relax around him.

"Your so tight for me love" he said as he pushed harder into her. She was coming undone before his eyes, grinding her hips into his, she chanted into his ear over and over "I"m yours! I'm yours Lucius!" over and over. "LUCIUS FILL ME!!!" she screamed and gripped his shoulders. He was losing his control, he felt like he was spiraling out of control from fucking her so hard. She thought he looked almost possessed when he gripped her thighs and titled her legs onto his shoulders, leaving him better access to her pussy.

"I'm going to come love" he said as he gazed into her eyes. "mmmm flood me". He rammed into he harder and harder, and within a few more strokes he came like a geyser inside of her, filling her, she felt his hot seed shoot deep into her as he hit that sweet spot deep deep inside of her. "LUCIUS! OH GODS YES!" she came so so hard she was crying. He wiped the tears from her face away as one slipped down his own face. They stared into each others eyes for the longest time before he collapsed on top of her, nestling his face into her breasts. She stroked his hair, admiring the silkiness of it "I love you so much Lucius". He tilted his head up from her breasts and looked into her eyes "I think I've been in love with you my whole life, but now I know love's name is Hermione"


------Present day, the *new* Malfoy mansion-----

After all the grandchildren were tucked in and everything had been put neatly away, Hermione and Lucius retired to their room.
Hermione stroked his silken hair, more white than platinum blonde, and his hair had become a little thinner with age, but still held it's brilliance. His delicate features shone in the moonlight of their bedroom. She touched the ring he gave her all those years ago, still on a silver chain around her neck, though she had a stunning diamond on her hand, the ring he gave her meant to world to her, "Penny for your thoughts?" she asked with humor in her voice. Lucius ran the backs of his fingers over her cheek "Cassie is due any day now... soon to have our tenth grandchild". "And to think she's our eldest, I remember the look on your face when Draco told you you were a grandfather for the first time". "He was trying to age me too quickly" Lucius said as he played with one of her silver curls.

"I've stopped counting a long time ago love" she said with a smirk. He placed a gentle kiss on her lips and gazed lovingly at her "How is it that after all these years I find I grow more and more in love with you?". She kissed him back with more force."Our love was once a tiny flicker in the wind, over the years it has grown into a blazing inferno that could never be extinguished... and when we can't remember who we are or anything else... we will still remember we love each other... and that our love once changed the world". Lucius and Hermione Malfoy curled up in each other's arms like they had done a million times before and let the waves of peaceful slumber wash over them.

*The End*