Blood Ties

A/N: Thanks for all the lovely reviews. I've been extending this story a little. So far I've written one extra chapter and half of the epilogue, but I'm torn. I don't know if I should finish everything in the epilogue, or continue writing short chapters to finish this story. There just seems like there is so much more left to say than I can fit into the epilogue. If I choose to continue with chapters, updates will most likely not continue to be everyday. Decisions, decisions... Oh well, on with the story!

Hermione blinked in confusion as she felt herself pressed against the bed. He'd moved them so fast, away from the door and onto the bed, it left her breathless. She winced as he released his hold on her neck. She could feel the points of his teeth as he pulled away from her abused flesh.

She choked as he forced his bleeding wrist to her lips once more and the coppery tang of his blood filled her mouth.

"Now do you see where you belong, Granger?" he asked as he held his arm against her lips. Her eyes were wide as she watched the shadows on his face. She was frightened by how quickly his mood shifted. She couldn't keep up. It was giving her emotional whiplash. She didn't answer his question, as he continued to ply her with his blood.

"You belong to me, under me," he murmured as he pulled his arm away and rolled his hips against her. Hermione moaned softly as his arousal rubbed against her aching center. She hated him, despised him for making her feel like this.. The power of his blood dulled her natural instincts and made her a slave to his every whim.

Anyone who knew Hermione Granger, knew that she was very driven and also very independent. She loathed not being in control. With Malfoy, she was totally out of control. She didn't even control when she'd be able to leave or get breakfast or maybe he would even police when she was allowed to use the loo.

She clutched his shoulders as he pulled her jeans and knickers off once more. She hissed in unwelcome pleasure as he breached her opening for a second time. She was sore but it didn't hurt as much as the first time.

She held onto him as he stroked into her, his thrusts strong and deep touching the back of her channel with every plunge of his hips. "Say it," he hissed. "Say you're mine, Granger. Say you belong to me."

She looked up into his fearsome eyes as he pistoned in and out of her. She knew his statement was true. She was his, she did belong to him thanks to the ridiculous deal that she'd struck with him. She'd made a deal with the devil. She wouldn't say it though. She wouldn't inflate his ego any further; it was large enough as it was.

"No," she gasped out as he hit a particularly tender spot. "I belong to nobody but myself. My will is my own."

He leered at her as he increased the strength behind his thrust, his thighs slapping heavily against her own. "Say, it, Granger. Say it, or I'll make you."

Her eyes rolled back into her head as he pulled her pelvis up and changed the angle of his penetration. Her thighs shook madly as she surged toward her impending climax.

N-No," she grit between her teeth. "You may have my body, Malfoy, but you'll never have my soul. You're going to regret ever doing this to me."

He grunted in response and with one more thrust came hard in great spurts, coating the inside of her womb with his seed and dragging her own orgasm out of her. She panted and trembled beneath him as he sagged on top of her, obviously exhausted from his efforts.

But she counted it as a victory. He hadn't made her say the dreaded words. She'd not voiced what she knew to be the truth. It gave her some modicum of comfort.

She shifted as he licked her throat once more. Surely he wasn't hungry again? She couldn't be sustained on blood replenishing potions indefinitely.

"Did you know," he asked quietly, his breath cool in her ear. " That you've had so much of my blood now that if you were to die, you would become like me?"

End Note: I know, I'm a cliffie whore. Do drop me a line, give me your opinion on what would be a more satisfying conclusion to this story: additional chapters or an epilogue. I'm still on vacation from work. I have one other piece to write and finish and then I can write as many chapters as I can before the week is out and I have to return to my real life. Also, what do you think of the little bombshell that Draco just dropped? See you tomorrow...