Dark Fire

Chapter 3- The Sands of Time



“That’s really stupid Daisy. Is that all you wanted? I think my Mum is calling me.” Scorpius looked over Daisy’s head at Lily Potter who was walking with Isis into Ollivander’s to buy a new wand. He smirked at her and she blushed and Scorpius smiled to himself as he noticed Ginny Potter and his mother staring at him. He turned away and started off away from Daisy Zabini.



“Wait Scorpie, wait up I wanted to ask you something.” Daisy had that irritating voice that her mother Pansy had always thought was so endearingly sexy. Daisy, like her mother expected all the boys to be as smitten with her as she herself was with all the Slytherin boys in her year at Hogwart’s.



“Seriously Daisy piss off alright?” Hermione heard him and gave him a look of disdain and Scorpius waved to Hermione as if to say okay.



Hermione was starting into Ollivander’s when she felt a tap on her shoulder. Hermione turned.



“Well hello Miss Granger. I wondered if I could have a word with you.” Pansy had cornered Hermione.



“Pansy for the hundredth time my last name is Malfoy, and you know that. Now if you will excuse me I’m trying to buy my daughter her first wand.” Hermione started into Ollivander’s once again to join Isis.



“How is Draco? I’ve been meaning to owl him for lunch.” Pansy had just crossed the line.



“Why? Why would you owl my husband Pansy? He doesn’t like you in the least and you also know that. After the last incident at the Leaky Cauldron after last year’s Quidditch World Cup, when you threw yourself at him and he eventually had to physically throw you off of him. Do you remember that? You caused a lot of embarrassment for your family then, so why go there again?” Hermione loathed Pansy more then anybody else she could think of.



“Oh well that. You are making too much of that. I was just happy to see him. Anyways I wanted to invite young Scorpius to a party Daisy is throwing right before school. It starts at eight o’clock sharp Saturday night. You will bring him then?” Pansy assumed as she always did and Hermione shook her head.



“If Scorpius wants to go, then of course he will be there, but it’s his choice, I do not speak for him. Now I really must go.” Hermione motioned for Scorpius to follow and he gladly entered Ollivander’s with Hermione.



“Interesting, that you should have the same wand as your father Isis. This is the identical wand your father had when he was a child.” Mr. Ollivander packaged the girl’s new wand as Isis watched Lily Potter be fitted for her new wand.



Meanwhile…….



Where am I?



I know this place…I’ve been here before



It’s so cold and that sound



What IS that sound?



Draco was running through the darkness, his legs carried him over the sandy dirt and then there were torches up ahead and voices.



Come and meet your master...



Yes…come…



Suddenly Draco was in something cold and wet. His body shook uncontrollably and his lungs filled with water. He was dieing and his arm burned hot in the frigid temperatures. He opened his eyes and could see the dark water surrounding him, enveloping him in a stagnant tide of murky depths. He flailed his arms above his head to grab onto something tangible, but found only the emptiness of his watery grave. I’m dieing. One more minute and my breath will be gone and I will die, he thought to himself and then in another instant he was looking at his lake house in the distance.



“What the hell?” Draco swam to the shore of his lake and pulled himself onto the damp muddy shore where he sputtered and coughed the water from his lungs.



“Lumos.” Hermione lit her wand as she crept through the night to the shore of the lake where she heard something.



“Draco is that you darling?” Hermione squinted to see the pale figure lying on the ground next to their dock his body lying face first next to a small dingy they used to fish in during the summer time.



“Hermione?” Draco was never so happy to see her in all of his life.



“Draco, we were worried about you! You’ve been gone for two days.” Hermione pulled Draco up to his feet where he stood stark naked before her.



She used a conjuring spell and fluffy towels were suddenly in her hands and she wrapped her cold pale husband in them and started back towards the house. She had to get him out of the cold night.



“Where did I go? Hermione please what happened to me?” Draco was visibly upset and Hermione hugged his body tightly against her side as they walked arm and arm into the kitchen where he sat down shivering at the table.



“Draco, here, we need to warm you up. That lake must be fifty five degrees and your body is turning blue Draco.” Hermione raced around the kitchen preparing him a cup of a tea to warm his frigid body.



“I am going to run you a bath, wrap up in the towels and drink the tea it will help.” Hermione started out the kitchen towards the bathroom.



“Wait Hermione, I’ve been gone for two days?” Draco looked shocked at this and a bit frightened.



“I’ve had Harry and the Ministry looking for you Draco. We will talk after we’ve thawed you out. Your practically an ice cube my love.” Hermione hurried from the room and Draco sat there is shock and disbelief. The last thing he remembered was the voice and waking up and then a light and he grabbed his wand and then poof, he was running naked through the darkness with the torches ahead and then he was drowning and Hermione was pulling him up by the lake. It was all a blur.



He was still emitting a blueish hue to his already pale skin when Hermione came back down after drawing him a bath. She helped him up the stairs and into the bathroom and then she peeled her own clothes off as she helped him into the tub.



“What are you doing?” Draco was clueless as to why she was standing naked next to him.



“Odd time to make love don’t you think?” Draco looked at her with a serious look on his face as his teeth chattered, his hair dripping down his beautiful face.



“Well at least I know you are gong to be okay. You’re talking about sex again. “ Hermione smiled as she stepped into the tub pulling him with her. She sat behind him and tenderly placed Draco between her legs in the warm water and then she held him tightly as she squeezed the warm wash cloth over his trembling frozen body. Her body heat with the bath water began to warm his icy body up.



His color was coming back and Hermione breathed a sigh of relief as she leaned around to look into his face.



“I love you Draco, never scare me like that again.” Hermione kissed his cheek and his neck and Draco turned his body sideways in the tub to face her.



“I love you too Hermione. I don’t know what happened.” Draco had never been so happy to see his beautiful wife as he was now and he hugged her tightly in his arms, their bodies wrapped up together in the bath.



“When you disappeared I cried for two days thinking something terrible had happened. Maybe a fan of a rival quidditch team had done something to you before the World Cup. Harry had all his aurors tracking down leads but nothing…It was like you disappeared off the face of this earth.” The bath water started cooling off and Hermione reached for her wand and the hot water turned back on.



Draco took this moment to look at the Dark Mark on his arm. It seemed normal.



“Why are you looking at your arm Draco?” Hermione stared at him intently.



“I don’t know, I guess it’s nothing.” Draco kissed Hermione again and wrapped his arms and legs around her in the tub, his body warm again, he held Hermione’s nude body lovingly and kissed her neck and chest.



“I love you so much Hermione. I thought I was never going to see you again.” He hugged her again and again and Hermione comforted her husband kissing him deeply.



“We will figure it out but for now it’s just wonderful to have you back.” Hermione smiled and Draco felt his worry disappear, if only temporarily.



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