What I've become

Chapter two

Hermione Granger took a deep breath as she stood in her apartment doorway.

It had been one of the worst days of her life, work was hell and her boyfriend had just broken up with her. She wasn’t upset about “what’s his face” breaking up with her she didn’t really care for him anyway, but that’s what was making her upset, she could never settle with anyone.

Harry and Ron were both doing really well in their relationships; Ron had just got engaged to Luna Lovegood and Harry was due to get married to Ginny in two weeks time…And she…well the job she was in was unfulfilling and dull, she was working for the Misuse of Magic department in the ministry even though she knew she could do better.

Rubbing her face she went and sat on her sofa feeling depressed and alone.

“What have I become?” Hermione sighed as she looked down at herself, she had filled out since school but she had also put on weight, she never wore makeup and even though she was only twenty, she looked thirty and ragged.

Sighing again she got to her feet, deciding an early night would do her some good, her bedroom was the second smallest in the apartment unless the bathroom didn’t count.
Pulling out her wand she flicked it towards the CD player and classical music began to fill the room as she dressed for bed.

Across from her bedroom window was another apartment were a Muggle bachelor lived…but now the man was lying dead on the floor with the same inquisitive look on his face that he had when he had opened the door to a hooded figure, who had then raised his wand and killed him.

Lucius lowered his hood and looked around in disgust, the bachelor’s apartment was filthy; beer cans littered the floor and there was a rank smell coming from the bathroom.

“Animals,” Lucius growled as he made his way though the sea of cans towards the window.
Pulling the curtain aside he peered into the Mudbloods apartment, Lucius was expecting to have to wait before he saw her, but there she was in the window across from his, Lucius sank back into the shadow so he could not be seen and he could do all the seeing.

He had not seen her since the night in the ministry and he had to admit for a Mudblood she was attractive.

Hermione removed her shirt as she got ready for bed and Lucius used all his strength to look away until she was fully dressed for bed, when the light went out Lucius stayed at the window were he stared at the blacked out window.
Turning on the spot he disappeared and reappeared outside Hermione’s apartment door and unlocked it with magic.

“For a smart girl she is stupid not to protect her apartment with magic,” his head chuckled as he entered the apartment. At least this one was clean.

Walking quietly he entered the girls bedroom and loomed over Hermione, she was not yet asleep but her eyes was closed, her head was nodding in time to the music that still filled the room from the CD player.

He studied her face, she didn’t looked any different accept her face looked pained and her stomach was not as flat, Lucius walked around the bed and came to stand by her side, he could sense her power just by standing close, but why had he not sensed that before.?

Hermione must have heard something as she flicked her wand and the music stopped, her eyes remained closed as she listened to the silence of her apartment.

Lucius panicked and Disapparated out of the room the loud pop making Hermione nearly jump out of her skin as she bolted upright in bed, her eyes scanned the bedroom but nothing was there. A musky smell reached her nose a smell she recognized but could not place to a particular person.

Thinking quickly she placed an alarm around her apartment before she returned to bed, unknowing that across from her room Lucius Malfoy was watching her with mounting interest.