Living in Darkness

AN/ Hermione looks like Hermione now!

Chapter 13: Enemies in the Shadows

"Harry, watch out!" Ron bellowed as he cast a severing charm at the nearest inferius. Harry ducked just in time as it reached out with it's diseased claws at Harry.

Harry looked around, there were so many of them...it was like Voldemort damned all the souls in the necropolis to never rest...

This is ridiculous, Harry thought. He had to do something. He thought hard and it paid off. He shouted a difficult charm.

A bright light white shot out from the tip of his wand all around them causing the inferi to flee from it. It didn't last long, but it was enough to get them to where they needed to go.

"Couldn't have thought of that earlier could you?" Ron said, very harassed.

"Come on, Ron, we have to find the horcrux before they get back over here." They left down one of the walks looking for a specific crypt. Harry looked ahead.

"I see it," Harry said, but as the words left his mouth he felt his skin grow cold.

Ahead of them, surrounding the crypt was a small army of inferi... but that wasn't it. There were dementors too... circling, as if waiting for someone to near it...

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Draco stood watching, waiting for Hermione to come to. He had drugged her, just enough so that he could get her here without waking. They were in Amsterdam, in a small hostel where they would not be found.

She slowly started to stir. Her eyes fluttered and soon they were dragged open. She seemed very disoriented, as was expected. She sat up on the bed and blinked several times, trying to adjust her eyes to see in the dark. She put her hand to her forehead like she had a terrible headache.

After a few more moments she saw Draco's silhouette in the darkness. She could barely make it out, but she knew he was there. She breathed in slowly, realizing it was him who had grabbed and drugged her.

A cold draft came through the open window making her shiver.

Draco watched as she hugged herself from the cold.

Good, he thought. He looked at her. She looked the same, except now she looked like Granger. It was like the girl he had spent the last several days with didn't even exist. Granger had killed her. Draco's lip curled in disgust.

How could he have been so stupid. So naïve to not realize who she was... And believe that a girl he was holding hostage and was meant to torture had fallen in love with him. Draco slammed his fist down on the table causing her to jump.

Dammit! How could he have been so stupid! So bloody ignorant of his own stupidity! He looked at her, she seemed fully awake now.

"Are you coherent yet?" he asked bitterly. She looked up at him nervously.

"Malfoy, I didn't - " Draco had thrown his wrist up in anger silencing her with a silent charm.

"Do not tell me lies!" he shouted, his calm demeanor gone.

"Fucking Granger," he muttered, looking at her from different angles as he walked around the room. He stopped close to the bed and pulled her up from it and pushed her away from him.

"You know, I really would have never believed you had it in you to do what you did," he growled. Hermione shook her head frantically, mouthing words, but nothing came out.

Draco looked up, trying to make sense of it all, his expression in deep concentration

"After all the years of me tormenting you and you expect me to still believe that you actually fell in love with me. YOU, Gryffindor fucking princess, golden trio bitch, fell in love with ME. Please Granger, I may have been thick before, but I don't make the same mistake twice. I know what you were doing. You knew Potter and Weasley would show up, you betrayed me to them..." Draco walked up to her stealthily. His face was mere inches from hers.

"I trusted you... You fucked me up... I knew what I had to do before, and I could deal with it... but now, now I am just FUCKED!" he shouted, turning and walking away from her.

He turned around, "And you know what makes this so bloody unbearable, I fucking believed you, I believed you wanted to help me, I wanted it to be true... I wanted you...

I'm supposed to hate you and want you dead and you wander into my fucking pathetic excuse for a life and are so bloody proud. So determined to not let me break you... that's when it happened Granger, that night... the first night you were there... that's when I fell for you. When the only thing I could do to get through to you was to sexually intimidate you. Maybe if you weren't so damn perfect and weren't a bloody virgin this may not have happened." Draco looked her in the eyes. She was scared... scared he was going to hurt her...

"You were so innocent," he whispered, "but that was a filthy lie, wasn't it? You probably pretended, just like the Weasley whore did... and I wanted to protect you..." Draco finished incredulously.

Hermione was staring at him in horror. She had never seen him like this. So worked up, every emotion spilling out of him like poison to her ears. She was afraid he was going to kill her by the time he was through. Her eyes reflected only that of sadness and pain. She wanted desperately to tell him to shut up, that he was all wrong, but she couldn't...

"I wanted to keep you safe, because somewhere in my fucking head, I thought I could have you..." he laughed hollowly, "yeah, my mistake. And now here I am, ranting about my own stupidity. I defied the Dark Lord to save you," he shouted. Draco approached her slowly.

"Do you know what it feels like to ignore the Dark Mark?"

He showed her his blackening skin...it was bruising and the mark burned black as night.

"All for you... all for nothing," he said, gripping her wrists tightly. He felt the pain alleviate slightly as he watched her face tighten in pain.

Draco's eyes were dark and heavy with a glint there that told her to worry. His grip was tightening until her wrists were beginning to bruise, just like his. She looked at him closely. Despite her situation, she couldn't help but notice how attractive he was. He had a deathly look to him as he glared at her, but the way the light shadowed parts of his face created an eerily dark, erotic look. She wished he would just listen to her...

Draco suddenly thrust her hands into the wall over her head.

"Of all people... you had to be you. It had to be bullshit, the only thing decent that has happened to me in my life... you made me fall in love with you... and you took it all away..." he said, looking incredibly pained. Hermione would have sworn she saw his eyes glaze over before he roughly let go of her wrists and slammed her back into the wall. He violently pulled off her shirt and released the charm on her.

"I want you to be able to scream," he said darkly, pulling off her jeans. Hermione was breathing deeply because before she could only take short breaths. When she could finally speak, Draco had her clothes scattered on the floor and he had turned her around and pressed her against the wall even harder. She used all her strength to push away enough to speak, he was holding her so tightly...

"Malfoy," she breathed, "I swear -" she started but suddenly felt him pressing into her back.

"What?" he said, leaning into her ear, his erection growing madly.

Hermione felt wet tears escape her eyes, "I didn't trick you... I didn't know they were going to be there... You have to believe me," she cried.

Draco scowled at her, "And what would make me believe you?"
Hermione thought as she still struggled to get away from the wall. Suddenly, she realized what he was doing and her arms fell limp to her side. In shock at her lack of struggle, Draco released her and took a step back.

She slowly turned around, "Go ahead, do your worst, but it won't be rape... and I will still love you and then you will see that I am not a liar," she said, an insane look appearing on her face.

"Then why," he shouted, staring at her hard, "Why didn't you say something?"

"If you didn't notice, I sort of jumped in front of a curse for you!" she shouted, not believing how thick he was. Draco stared at her. He seemed to be thinking, thinking about whether or not to believe her...

"Malfoy... I promise you it was real... all of it..." she said quietly.

The next thing she knew, his lips were pressed to hers harshly, his hands pulling her barely clothed hips to his body.

"I wanted it to be real," he whispered, his dark eyes melting, "I wanted it to all be real..." a lone tear fell down his cheek. Hermione felt her heart crush as she watched him...

He had truly been scared to death... scared that it had all been false, that none of it was real.

"Draco," she whispered, causing him to look at her sharply, it was the first time she had ever used his name... "I won't ever leave you, all you have to do is trust me... I would never hurt you like that." She felt him embrace her and kiss her with more passion than she thought one person could exert. There was no caution in either of their actions, just pure passion.

Draco's hands entangled in her dark soft curls, loving the way it felt. He loved everything about her... he lifted her onto his waist and easily slid himself inside her, carefully letting her lean against the wall. He kissed him way down her chest while he removed her bra and felt her delicate hands unbutton his shirt.

His muscles were toned and strong, holding her weight and thrusting into her over and over again. She moaned loudly with each one and wrapped her hands around his head and pulled him in for an exotic kiss.

She had never felt so good as Draco felt her warm insides leave him until he quickly pushed back into her. He no longer cared about blood, nothing that felt this good could be dirty. The harsh wind blew in through the window blowing stray locks of curls in her face. She had never looked so beautiful before.

Draco felt his climax and gripped her tightly leaning his head into the crook of her shoulder.

Hermione held him tightly as if she would never let go, her breathing erratic. Draco looked up at her, his eyes full of emotion.

"I love you," he whispered, still breathing deeply. Hermione felt a rush of emotions flood through her as he looked at her desperately.

"You're the only thing I have now," he said, his voice unsteady.

"You'll always have me," she said, the tears falling swiftly, "Always."

Hermione's gaze held Draco's only briefly before something in the background caught her attention. Her eyes widened in horror as she saw two cloaked Death Eater's come out from the shadows. Her body stiffened and she looked at Draco, trying to warn him, but he knew they were there. He could feel them.

"I never knew you to be a hopeless romantic, Draco," drawled a cold, sarcastic voice.

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AN/Please Review!!! I live on them! I really really do!!! Tell me if Draco was to your liking. He can be super dark about everything, but I think with him, when it comes to Hermione, she is his weakness. Fatal flaw kinda thing... oooooh, now do I have you wondering if he is going to die???

And simply because NO one has mentioned, did anybody pick up on the thing that happened in chapter 3 with Draco??? (If you go back to look, imagine me chuckling happily :)

Hehe, I love cliffhangers!!!! But I update fast so you guys can't be too upset. What do you think?!?

I think the look with Draco's pants only slightly down and his shirt unbuttoned, but still on and her naked body wrapped around him is so freaking HOT!!! It gives the feel that they couldn't wait to get to each other!