The Elph General's Mate

Author\'s Note: Yay! a long one! wow it\'s 2:48 am mst and i am pooped! this just hit me so strongly! enjoy!





Chapter Three Hermione\'s Story







Hermione, Pansy, and Luna arrived shortly after Harry spoke their names and he was surprised to find them being escorted into the Tent of the Elders.



“How did you guys get here so soon?” he asked them quitly, but his attention was soon drawn to Elder Berry.



Like most females of the elph race she was short, but she was not to be ignored. Her hair was to the middle of her back. It was Midnight black with purple highlights. Her eyes were as black as her hair but no less expressive for it. She was curvaceous in all the right places and had a tan the gods would be jealous of. She was also looking at a dreamy looking Luna hungrily, and Harry knew, just knew that she’d found her chosen mate. Harry cleared his throat surreptitiously.



“Can we get started?”He asked.



“Umm yeah, sorry.” She turned to all of the people assembled. “Submissives you have been brought here with the purpose of helping the young prince to seduce his mate. You all know the rules of mating, but know also that there are rules to seduction as well. The young prince will help you to learn them. Understood?” at their nods she said, “Good, you are dismissed.”



When they arrived at Harry’s tent they all collapsed onto the big pillows and things that littered his tent and started laughing. These were his friends and family. These were the people he was most comfortable with. And one of them was in an abusive relationship. He trusted Ronald Weasley with his life, but he didn’t trust him with his own mate. This man had a lot of anger issues and he was known for blowing up on the younger recruits. What wasn’t as widely known was that Hermione got the brunt of his anger. Often she would show up on his door step with dark, painful bruises all over her body.



Pansy was the only slytherine he knew of to be an elph. Her mate treated her like the world and she loved him right back. Luna was not in fact an elph, but a witch with the uncanny ability to read people like a book.

He had drawn each of them to him in a different way, but each meant the world to him. Hermione had always been his closest friend and the only true one of the Gryffindor trio. Ron was only his friend because he was told he had to. Ron was his protector. That was his job and the only reason they had ever talked. Hermione was his friend by choice. Luna came to him his fifth year and stayed even after the Dumbledore’s Army broke up. She knew him better than he knew himself. Pansy was a different story altogether. She had come to him one night after she had a run in with Ron. She was bloody and bruised and scared. Harry healed her and took her to the kitchen for some hot chocolate.



As they were settling down and starting to talk about the rules of seduction, Ron came in asking to speak with Hermione.

As harry hugged her he whispered to her, “Don’t do it Herm. He’s only going to hurt you!”



“I have no choice.” She whispered back sadly. He let her go with a sad look and promised with his eyes that they would speak later.



While she was gone Luna, Pansy, and himself talked about the rest of the rules and started to discuss how he would go about following the first rule. When she stumbled in looking sick and broken Harry called for a proper healer. They all waited anxiously to know what the prognosis was.



“She will be fine, but did any of you know about this abuse?” all tree hands went up.



“We’ve tried to talk her into getting out of this many times but she is sure she can fix him.” Harry said as calmly as possible.



“Did any of you know she was pregnant?”



Three choruses of gasps followed this news as well as a human sized thump outside of the tent. Harry slowly and murderously walked towards the entrance to his tent. There on the ground was one of the other elphs that were on his guard. Harry turned and walked back inside.



“Is the baby alright? Has that bastard hurt the baby? I’ll kill him!”



“The baby is fine. She needs rest and when she wakes up make sure she takes it easy. And whatever you do DON’T EVER leave her in a place where he can get near her.” With solemn nods from each of them the doctor left.



“I’m… I’m pregnant? How is that possible? It’s been months. Oh God! I can’t go back to him! I can’t bring a child into this!” Hermione wailed.



“Calm down! I’ll send one of the guards to inform the council that we require them in this tent.” With that Pansy stuck her head out of the tent, enervated the still unconscious guard and sent him with an urgent request for all of the Elders to assemble in the tent of the prince.



Meanwhile as Harry consoled a distraught Hermione, Luna was doing her reading thing.



“You know you will have to tell the Elders exactly what has happened right? Though it is in the rules that you can end this mating, it will not be easy to appeal to them.” Luna said this in her most serious dreamy voice. “It will not be easy.”



“I am aware.”



As the Elders slowly started to arrive and be seated comfortably, Harry, Hermione, and Luna planned. They planned exactly what would be said and how. This appeal had to be perfect.



“Respected Elders, I asked you here to make an appeal. One of the submissives that were brought here today is and has been repeatedly beaten to the point of hospitalization. This is evidenced by the fact that she cannot even stand here right now. She is bed ridden till further notice from the doctor.” Harry finished his speech and tuned to Pansy. Somehow she always knew what was needed of her even if she was not let in on the plans.



“Over a year ago a smiling and happy Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley appealed to you to start the mating process. Two weeks later she came to my dorm room bruised and bloody and broken. Her spirit had been broken by the man who would one day father a child of hers. She was raped and beaten and left to fend for herself. This pattern has continued over and over again.” With this she turned to Luna.



“The young woman I met and bonded with has never truly left her. She is still strong willed and smart. She is only blind in that she thinks she can change this monster, tame him maybe. She is wrong. For over a year now she has been repeatedly beaten and raped and left to die. For over a year now we as her friends and family have tried to convince her to leave him, but have been able to do nothing more than heal her and offer her asylum.” Luna said all of this with no hint of dreaminess in her voice. She turned back to Harry.



“Ladies and Gentlemen, Respected Elders tonight was different. Tonight we ask as her friends and family that this mating be dissolved and that Ron Weasley be removed from my guard. We ask this because we have been informed by the doctor that Miss Hermione Granger is not fit for anything more than resting and taking care of the child that now grows in her womb. Hermione has requested that she be allowed to speak a few words as well.” They all turned and Luna slowly removed the curtain that was hiding a very pale and shaking Hermione. Harry moved so that he was leaning against the wall and supporting her so she could sit up. Pansy and Luna sat on either side of her and each held a hand.



“I am not as strong as Luna made me seem, the abuse had been going on longer than the year or so tht they know about. I only asked to be mated with him because I was afraid and I thought things would get better. The truth is things only got worse. The rapes started and it got increasingly hard to hide the abuse. Since our mating I’ve had three miscarriages and many other symptoms, and yet through it all I am pregnant. This time I will not let him kill my baby. I am going to do everything in my power to take care of it. Please, I want nothing more than to leave this monster and move on with my life.”



The Elders deliberated for all of two seconds. When they came back they had reached a decision and smiled at her and her family warmly.



“Miss Granger we will allow this sham of a mating to be dissolved as well as Ron Weasley is no longer a guard or a soldier in this army. But we will allow you to stay here as well. You and the other submissives may be allowed to stay even after your task is over. A guard will be placed on this tent even when the young prince is no longer in the tent.” Elder Berry smiled at the relieved looks on their faces and turned to leave.



“Thank you Elder Berry, you are a kind woman and I look forward to this seduction that you have planned.” Luna smiled as Elder Berry tripped and looked at her in shock.





* man doesn\'t Luna just seem like the type to know something like that? i will be posting the rule of seduction that applies at the beginning of each chapter. thank you to my reviewers for making my day! french fries for everyone!*