The Lord The Lady and The Land

This chapter is mostly beta-ed but I had to add more details in .. sorry if it doesn't read well in some parts.

Chapter 14 A Sign of Hope


There was an owl at her window when they arrived at the apartment. It was addressed to Harry.

The meeting was changed to 8:00 that night. It was 8:20.
“Damn they started the meeting early. I’ve got to go I’m late.” he told Hermione, he kissed her and then apparating
.

Hermione kept busy doing her homework. Around 10:00 Harry apparating back to the apartment. Hermione was on the balcony looking at the stars.
Harry came up behind her. He kissed her neck and asked in a husky voice,
“ Wishing for something?”

“Aha, you” she moaned. He kissed her neck to her cheek and then turn her to him kissing her lips his mouth slightly opened hinting for entrance.

Hermione answered with parting of her lips to him.
He kissed her eagerly and pulled her from the balcony breaking the kiss to say, “ I don’t have a lot of time we’re on a break and only three people have spoken. It’s going to be a long night and I couldn’t stand not being with you for a little while when I had the chance.”

Harry pulled her nightgown off of her. He caressed her breasts and licked her nipples and pushed her on to the bed. Harry just let his pants fall to the floor and then he was on top of her. He moaned loudly as he pushed him self inside her. Hermione groan as an owl flow to the window.

She looked at Harry. He sighed and started to thrust like a mad man, banging Hermione at top speed. The climax they both had a fast and hard. The lovers moan loud and then Harry said some curse words under his breath as he made his way to the owl.

He smiled when he saw it was for Hermione,
“It’s for you.”

“Who is it from?” Hermione got up and walked over to Harry.
He shook his head extending his hand out to her.

Hermione open it.

Dear Miss Granger.

We are sorry that you didn’t make it to our meeting tonight. We hope to see you Monday evening. Have a lovely weekend.
Madame Rosmerta

“Oh right, I forget to tell them I wasn’t going tonight.” Hermione said aloud.

“Well I have to get back,” Harry said, “ We’ll be at this all night I’m afraid. I’ll be back to…. most likely for a few quick ones,” he said regretfully.

All night long Harry was in and out of the apartment while the committee was on a break. Four times Hermione was woken from her sleep as Harry made love to her.

At dawn Harry appariateed to the apartment and pulled off his clothes and spooned with Hermione falling asleep soon after.

Hermione had to go to school exhausted. She nearly falling asleep in Mrs. Sprouts class during a test and then again in Madame Pomfrey’s class.

The teacher kept her after class.
“Hermione? Are you alright?”
“My Lord had meetings that ran late, until this morning.” Hermione said trying to keep her eyes open.

Madame Pomfrey must have pitied her,
“ Go home child and sleep. And tell his lordship to keep his meeting at a normal hour.”

Hermione got to the apartment. Harry wasn’t there but he left a note.

My Love
Gone to meetings. I will be back as soon as possible but do not know when that will be.
H.

She dragged herself to the bedroom and stripped off all her clothes and crawled in to bed.

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Harry fingers caressed Hermione bareback sending shivers up and down her spine.

His lips then followed his fingers. His lips were warm and soft his teeth playfully bite her shoulder and then her bottom. Harry discarded his clothes and slid into bed with her pulling her on top of him.

“I’ve been thinking about you all day,” Harry said.
“ Have you?” she laughed out.
“Yeah. And how to tell you I have to go to Spain and Portugal for shipping business for two weeks.”
“No Harry! Can’t you send someone else?”
“Who else could I send?” Harry asked.
“When do you leave?”
“Tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow?”
“I’ll be here tonight,” Harry said a he caressed her cheek down to her neck.
He gave her a small smile and pulled her face to his and kissed her saying,
“ You can come with me.”
“Maybe next time, just a few more weeks of class and then tests.”

Harry was hard and Hermione was impaling herself on him.
She started to move up and down on him, but he propels her in to the air as he tried to drive himself deep inside her. She nearly falls off of him.

He rolled Hermione over on to her back and thrusting wildly.
“I’m going to keep you up all night. I got to have you as many times as possible, two weeks worth It seems I can never to close enough to you or deep enough inside you.”

And he did five times he made love to Hermione each time wanting more from her. She was exhausted and sore by morning, but she still didn’t want him to leave. It was still dark when he left the bed and got dress.

“Harry? Please be careful.” Hermione said softly.
He looked puzzled and walked over to her and kissed her forehead,
“Careful? Do you think some one ….” he didn’t finish the sentence,
“Yeah I’ll be careful.” No one knew where Lucius Malfoy was.

Hermione got out of the bed sheets wrapped around her.
She looked in to Harry’s eyes. He looked tired and a little sad.
“Get some sleep on the ship,” and she walked him to the door. They kissed passionate not wanting to let go.
“Write me.” Hermione requested.
“I will, when I can.” Harry replied.
The door closed behind him.

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Hermione keep busy with homework and research. Madame Pomfrey had Hermione take the entire spell book off the shelf piling them so high the tipped over smashing Hermione’s teacup with a full cup of tea that Madame Pomfrey made for her on the next table. Hermione dried off the books quickly and saw that very little damage was done to the books even with the pieces of teacup in the books. Some were over two hundred years old. Hermione wished she could find the right spell in one of the books thumbing threw them most of the night drinking pumpkin juice.
The broken teacup was old and was in so many little pieces Hermione through it away.


She hung out at Susanna’s apartment and took instructions from Madame Rosmerta.

She was taught how to plan and have a party, from food music and what guests to invite. What dress to where at certain events, when to dress sexy, conservative and when to dress down.. nice.

Hermione looked at the box on the table with all her sexual aids.
‘A fantasy for every man’ box.

“What in here?” Hermione asked the teacher.

Madame Rosmerta looked at Hermione,
“It’s a whole fantasy in a box. This one is .. The fisherman’s wife.
I’m not sure your lord would like that one… he’s turned in to an octopus and attacks you ..sexually.. and it can leave little round sores on between you’re legs.” she paused tilting her head,
“Do you like dancing?”

“Yes!” Hermione said with enthusiasm.

Madame Rosmerta smiled,
“Then you may like the Seven Veil dance fantasy. You’ll need lessons in dancing and how to take off the veils but I’m sure your lord will enjoy it.”

So for a week Madame Rosmerta showed Hermione how to dance taking off veils slowly seductively and how to play the zils. The silk veils kept catching on her skin so she made an appointment to go to the Bath House again.


Hermione got a few letters from Harry saying how much he missed her.
Hermione got a note from her aunt saying she wanted to visit her.

Hermione met Marie at her carriage. They walked to Hermione’s apartment to have rest and have some tea. Hermione looked at her aunt eyes raised,
“Well. Are you with child?” she asked.

“No” Marie said shaking her head with an odd smile on her face,
“ But got some more land, Avery died and left me his farm. I told him I didn’t want. I just wanted child. We now own quarter the village, quarter of the village. I can’t handle all that land.”

“I’ll help when I’m done with school if I can. I’m sure you can higher some worker it not our cursed land after all.” Hermione commented.

Marie looked nervous,
“I’m afraid it might became our land. The old man was frisky took me in the barn. It was our first time.”

“ Is there a way to break this curse?” Hermione asked sipping her tea.

“ There was.” Marie said with her head in her hands.
“WAS? What happen? Why didn’t any say something before! What is it?”
“Not sure. There was a stone with a poem on it explaining what to do, how to break the charm. BUT one of the your great great grandfathers or great great uncles got anger for not getting any sons or able to sell the land he destroyed the rock that could whole the key to end the curse. MEN! SELFISH BASTARDS.” gulping down her drink.

“Does any one know why the land was curse?”
“No. Not really,” her aunt said shaking her head, “One story says we helped a gypsy she helped up to keep the land being taken away from us another said we made her mad and she cursed us. Some said a royal wanted the land and when our family didn’t sell he curse up to stay here forever.” Marie said.

“What about the first spill?”

“I guess that’s so your husband can work the land.”

“What about the children?”
‘Most of us had our babies there my water broke while I was out in the field so did our mothers’. Never thought about it much.” Marie said.

Hermione was puzzled somewhere someplace there’s got to be the answers.

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They went out to an early dinner and then Hermione treated Marie to the Bath House where they both out scrubbed soothed smooth and polished.

They both were so tired when they got back to the apartment they both fall asleep. They got up late. Too late to catch Marie’s carriage home so Hermione let her use the broom his borrowed from Harry.

That evening Hermione felt ill so he went to bed early.
Hermione woke up feeling a pain in abdomen. She was rolling over to stretch and the pain not got worse. She couldn't move for a few moments.
Then she felt some sliding out of her between her legs.

She walked to the bathroom bent over.
Hermione raised her nightgown to find a small rusty brown stain on her knickers. She remembered the color a few months back after the miscarriage and infection she had.

She grabbed a rag and put it between her legs.
Hermione then wrote a note to Madame Pomfrey saying she was ill and needed to see her. She threw a floo podwer with the note into the fireplace.

It only took the nurse ten minutes to appear in the fireplace bag in hand.

“Hermione what's wrong?” the nurse asked walking toward Hermione.

“I'm not sure I think the infection is back.”

The nurse examined Hermione. She probed her inside and out.

“How long have you been bleeding?”
“It started this morning”
“ Well stay in bed for now” and the nurse hand her three thick crotched knickers which more like a big diaper then knickers,
“Wear these.. I need to see what is in the blood. It maybe nothing or ..” she paused for a moment forcing a smile on her lips,
“ well we will see what is going on in a day or two... or when the bleeding stops.”

The woman pull out a large pot of tea out of her bag and set it down on Hermione night table. “Drink this for the pain. I'll be back this evening.”

Hermione stayed in bed all day.
She did her homework and did some research on herbs that stimulate different parts of the body. A lot of herbs you have to drink or rub on yourself to get the full affect. When she couldn‘t think any more she read the news paper. There on the front page was Harry next to a very pretty young women Lady Mary. In big letter ‘Engagement in the near future’. ‘Stupid gossip, ‘ Hermione thought to herself.

Hermione felt a little better the next day so her went to her class including Professor Snape's class .
When she walked in and sat down the teacher snapped his fingers and pointed to the cauldron of giggle juice.
“ I'm not feeling well.” Hermione inform him.

The teacher walked over to her and said,?“ Have you caught a cold? A Fever? The plague?” he asked.
“No!” she huffed out, “ I'm having internal problems.”

“Do you feel sick to your stomach?”
“No sir.”
“Then drink it.”
“I'd like to know why we have to drink this.”

“Miss Puckle, say you walk in to a hospital ward and there are twenty patients yelling in pain in agony at the top of their lungs like this.” He pointed his wand to a chunk of crystal in the cabinet and suddenly the room was filled with screams and calls of pain.

The class covered their ears trying to shut out the noise. Hermione could feel herself wanting to run from the noise. The noise made her skin crawl and stomach churn. It was the sound of people died rotting away or growing disfigured.

A very long moment later the noise stopped.
The whole class was trembling and had turned pale with fright.

“ If you can concentrate to stop your self from laughing with the giggle juice it's a step in you mastering the able not to run from the noise you just heard. And hear it you will. There are plagues still about us. There are fires and accidents that you are going to see and there are your illness and wounded patients and of course mid-wiving with all of its screams. You have to master self control other wise you are not helping any one.”

Hermione drank down the juice and felt the tickling sensations in stomach going into her abdomen with she had the pain. Which seem to worse at the very moment but Hermione was staring at her professor and he stared back.

She didn't laugh, this was not game any more it was what she wanted to do
with her life. Heal the sick and hurt people in her village, to help them.

Hermione sat down in her seat and the class began some girls were still giggling other had tears in their eyes closing their books and leaving.

Hermione took out a piece of parchment and quill and ink and waited for the professor to start his lecture.

The rest of the day went a lot easier compared to her first class.
At the end of the day Hermione got a visit from Madame Pomfrey.
The nurse took the enchanted knickers and handed Hermione new one to wear for the night and another for the next day.

By the fifth day the bleeding had stopped and the pain subsided.

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Madame Pomfrey asked Hermione to come to office that afternoon.
Hermione came as soon as she could.
She knocked at the nurse's door and it opened.

Madame Pomfrey had a puzzled look on her face,
“Come in my dear.”

“You wanted to see? Is there anything wrong Madame Pomfrey.”
Hermione asked.

“ Have a seat.” and she had a seat set at the table.
On the table we ten jars each had a piece of white rags in it.

Hermione sat down.
The nurse poured a potion in to each jar and a ring of red flame flashed in the each jar except one ,the sixth that flashed red and a yellow ball of smoke rose from the jar.

Madame Pomfrey seat down and said ,
“ In these jar are the knickers you wore for the last few days. The red flame indicate it's blood .... just blood.”

Hermione started to feel nervous and asked,
“ What about the yellow ball of smoke?”

“ Do you have an ideas?” the nurse quizzed her.

“ Infection?”

“No that would have been green or gray.”

“ If it's not infection then what?”

“ What is normally in your blood?”
Hermione had no idea what the nurse was talking about.

'I don't know.” Hermione shook her head.

“What is in your blood and most every normal girl's blood?... or rather .. her menstrual blood?”

“Menstrual blood? .....An egg.”

Madame Pomfrey raised and eyebrow and half a smile.

Hermione was stunned.
“ You mean I'm ...having my time.. I'm?”

“ Yes. There's a very very good chance you can have children. Everything seems normal. Tho I was very worried that you didn't have it for a while.”

“I can have children now.” tears welled up in her eyes.
But how?”

“What have you been drinking nearly everyday since you got here?”
“Tea?”

Madam Pomfrey shook her head,
“No. Giggle juice! Well I believe it was the Giggle juice.I’m just thankful something worked.”

“Giggle juice why giggle juice?” Hermione posed

“ You tell me. What does it do?”

“ It tickles your insides.. it stimulates your organs.”

Professor Snape had to strengthen the potion over the weeks and .. it worked.”
“ I thought he was just punish us.”

“ He made sure you drank yours.”

Hermione sat there stunned.

The nurse came up to her and gave her a hug,
“This is such wonderful news. Are you going to see his lordship this weekend?”

“I don't know he has business at home.”

“He needs to hear this from you and not some letter. It's too late to get a coach tonight but tomorrow afternoon.”

“Oh my Harry and I have been together I'm surprised I haven't gotten pregnant.” Hermione realized.

“ No you wouldn't have. I wanted to make sure couldn't get pregnant to fast. I put a potion in your tea all those night researching that lasts about a week. Last thing I want is to have you get pregnant to soon, have an other miscarriage and never be able to have children.”

“When would be the right time to have children? For me?” Hermione wondered out loud.

“After your schooling is done, you can be a healer and a mother you know?” said Madame Pomfrey with a big smile on her face but her eyes had a concern expression in them.

“What is it? You look happy but?”

“Just remember .. school first .. his lordship will bed as soon as he can, no doubt about that. I've never seen a more energetic young man in my life.
We have winter break and then school starts again in January and goes to April. You'll have time to plan nice a wedding in April for June.

“ Actually Harry said he'd wait until the wedding night to attempt to start a family, but that was months ago.” Hermione commented out loud.

She stood up and hugged the nurse and ran down the stairs to out the door and stop until she reached her apartment. Hermione made herself some dinner and went to back to her studies but found her mind wandered on how she was going to tell Harry the great news.