While You Were Sleeping

I had no idea where the hell I was going. I seemed to have located the stairs by sheer dumb luck. “SNAPE!”

I could hear Harry running along behind me. Probably wringing his hands all the while. I was flying down the stairs two at a time, paying no attention in my mounting anger, when just as I neared the final step I tripped over my own feet. Snape had always been fast moving, albeit in that sneaky spy of Slytherin sort of way. Never the less, I thanked the Gods for quick snakes with impressive reflexes.

I hit a hard chest and was immediately enveloped by a sturdy pair of arms. My hair was in wild disarray and I had to brush it away to fully see him. Our faces were but a few inches apart. Those bottomless black eyes seemed even more intense than they did during my earlier encounter with them. It was distracting. And freaking me out.

I pushed off of him and his arms dropped away. “There you are! I hear you have something to tell me, hmmmm?” Harry had finally caught up to me. Snape narrowed his eyes at him and actually hissed. Out of the corner of my eye I caught Harry mouthing the word ‘sorry’. Oh, the coward! It seemed Snape didn’t quite possess the balls required to tell me himself and had enlisted poor Harry to do his dirty work.

“Miss Granger,” again with those damn eyes that felt like they were looking right through me, “I believe the answer you seek would be to the question of how I managed to secure custody of your person.”

“Yes Sir, that would indeed be the matter at hand.” I was becoming inpatient again. I just wanted a damn answer so I could proceed to the Ministry and have it undone.

So in his next breath, just as calmly as could be, he gave me my answer.

“Why I married you of course.”

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With the sound of Granger screeching through the flat, Blaise had moved back to the door way. I crept up beside him, sure I was about to bear witness to the end of days. There was a very good chance that this could be worse than the final battle. I felt tense and skittish with anticipation of what was about to transpire.

“Draco I don’t think it’s safe for you out here. Merlin knows that if she happens to notice you, given her current state of mind and your rocky past with each other, she is more than likely to vent more than a little wandless fury your way.” At this my eyes grew wide. Blaise’s twinkled back at me in amusement, the bastard!

“Your on your own Blaise. Just remember to duck and run. She’ll have a lot harder time hitting a moving target.“ With that said, I turned back into the study and floo’d the hell out of there.

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Married? I was dumbstruck. This was not the answer I had been expecting. I was thinking more along the lines of some sort of guardianship. I could only imagine the expression on my face at that moment. I was utterly perplexed. How could this be possible?

I pursed my lips a few times, in an attempt to push out some sort of a response. What the words would be, I had no idea.

“That’s not possible.” It was all I had.

“Normally you would be right. But the Minister made a special concession because of the unique situation that we found ourselves in. So yes Miss Granger, we are in fact married.” He was still the blank mask of calm. I, on the other hand, was rapidly losing my composure. Perhaps it was his mentioning of the Minister, thus confirming the reality of MY situation. Or, in turn, it might have been his use of the terms ‘we‘ and ‘ourselves‘, which caused my blood to quickly rise in temperature. Surely the flash of heat that hit me and the sudden tilt of the room were the beginnings of the impending rage I was about to unleash. Either way, what happened next was definitely NOT expected.

I collapsed in a dead faint.

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I woke up a short time later, safely tucked back into bed. My head was hurting and it was causing my eyeballs to throb. I groaned in pain. Suddenly a pair of large hands was helping me into a sitting position and another hand was holding a vial to my lips.

“Miss Granger, please drink this. It will help with the headache.” I obliged, too weak to argue. “You need to give your body time to regain it’s strength Miss Granger. It will do you no good to over exert yourself. We need to get some nutrients into you. You will start on a diet of soft foods and liquids giving your stomach a chance to adjust before adding more solid food.”

“Where is Harry?” I didn’t give a crap about his Molly Weasley - like mantra.

“That coward fled the first chance he got.” I looked over Snape’s shoulder into the grinning face of the one and only Blaise Zabini. I narrowed my eyes.

“What the hell are you doing here?”

“Now Granger, is that anyway to greet an old friend?”, replied the insane clown with the Cheshire cat grin.

Snape wasn’t amused. “Get out Zabini. Where has Draco wandered off to? Perhaps the two of you should run along and ‘play’ ?” If I thought it was impossible for Zambini’s grin to widen any further, I was sadly mistaken.

“Why of course Sir. I’m sure Draco would be more than willing to oblige me in a little game of ‘hide the wand’ .” And with that he strode from the room laughing like a hyena. Snape's scowl only deepened.

I had surely woken up in some alternate universe. It was the only explanation for a marriage to my former potions professor and the terrible sexual innuendo I had just witnessed. Concerning the blonde ferret no less. Gross! Blaise and Draco? It was all too much for my tired brain to sort through. With a final glance at Snape, who had sat down next to the bed to resume his expressionless staring, I mumbled a quick ‘thanks’ and drifted off to sleep.

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Note:
Thanks to all of you who have reviewed so far. I have finally gotten some hold over the bunnies and have come up with a very basic outline, so I finally have some sense of where this is going and how I want to get there. I have decided that I will only give you two POV's (I hope that works out for the best), Draco's and Hermione's. Why I'm giving you Draco's will start to make more sense as the story progresses.