Touched By An Angel

Diagon Alley

\"So where are we going again,\" asked Allan, as they drove along the M25 heading for London.

A wicked smile filled the young witches mouth as she deliberately didn\'t answer him.

\"You do realise you\'re going to make me crash if you keep doing that,\" he said in a soft purring tone. He watched as a shiver run down her spine at the seductive drone his voice had taken.

Doing what?\" She asked looking at him curiously.

\"That sexy smug I\'ve got secret I\'m not going to tell grin, that was on your face a minute ago,\" he said looking at her for a second.

Her cheeks turned bright red, and she was totally flabbergasted for a minute, \"I didn\'t have a sexy grin on my face, did I?\"

He nodded a look of passion in his eyes, \"almost caused me to crash the car.\"

\"Do I really effect you that much?\" She asked staring at him intently.

He nodded again making sure he kept his eyes on the road, after all he had only been driving for a week. \"It takes all my self-control just to keep my hands of you.\"

\"Why wouldn\'t you want to touch me?\" She asked indignantly.

\"Because I\'ve only known you for fourteen hours and twenty five minute, I hardly know you.\" He turned and looked at her as the motorway took on its usual role as London\'s largest carpark, second in Britain to the M6 around Birmingham. \"Hermione the difference between having sex with somebody and making love is intimacy.\" He brushed a stray lock of hair behind her ear sending a tingling sensation running through both their bodies as the back of his hand touched her face. \"To make love you need to know everything about the other person, their hopes, dreams and aspirations. I want to get to know you Hermione Granger, what makes you deliriously happy and what makes you sad, what makes your blood run cold with fear and what makes it steam with passion.\"

A broad smile filled her lips and her eyes shone with passion, \"how come a handsome romantic like you is still unattached?\"

\"I thought that was obvious,\" he said smiling broadly, \"I\'ve been waiting for you.\" Suddenly the motorway sprang to life, they moved forward two car lengths then stopped again.

She reached over and kissed him on the cheek, \"you are the sweetest man that\'s ever lived.\" She purred into his ear.

\"I think we should take the tube from here,\" he said smiling at her, \" the jams are only going to get worse the closer we get to London.\"

\"What\'s the matter not enjoying sitting in a car with me,\" she asked in a seductive purr.

\"I\'m quite happy to spend the next ten weeks stuck here with you,\" he said running his hand down her face, \"but I think your parents might worry if were not back by August.\"

\"OK Mr Impatient, we can take the tube if you insist.\" She smiled at him wickedly, \"anyway it gives me more time to practice my feminine charms without the risk of you crashing.\"

He smiled back at her, \"believe me dear you don\'t have to practise.\"

\"A dingy old pup,\" scoffed Allan, \"you dragged me all the way to London to go to a dingy old pub that hasn\'t been painted since world war two. I bet we\'ll find an old Japanese pilot who doesn\'t realise the war\'s over yet.\"

\"I don\'t know how you had the front to be annoyed when I called you a drama queen,\" she laughed, smiling up at him brightly, \"yeah it might be old and dingy, but a Japanese pilot is a bit melodramatic.\"

\"You know the punishment for calling me a drams queen,\" said looking at her with evil intent in his eyes.

\"Erm how about I just surrender and we go straight to the forfeit,\" she said wrapping her arms around his neck.

\"Sounds like a plan,\" he said kissing her gently on the lips, sending a an electric plus flowing through their bodies.


\"So no pilots then?\" He asked, when they finally came up for air.

\"No pilots, the odd wizard and witch maybe,\" she said smiling at him wickedly, \"but definitely no pilots.\"

\"Right that deserves a tickle,\" he said looking at her with the eye of a predator.

\"No, no,\" she laughed pulling away from him to avoid those evil fingers, \"I wasn\'t making fun of you, I was being serious.\"

\"Wizards and witches?\" he looked at her with suspicion.

She smiled up at him brightly, nodding her head, \"come on I want to show you,\" and she led him through the door of The Leaky Cauldron, watching his eyes for their reaction.

Allan made himself see the pub like he was seeing it for the first time, his jaw dropped and his eyes went as wide as saucers. \"When you said witches and wizards I didn\'t think you meant full stereotypical robes and pointy hat,\" he whispered into her ear, \"look that one\'s even got a pointy nose and a wart.\"

\"Shh,\" she giggled warningly, \"she\'ll turn you into a toad.\"

\"Yeah but surely you would turn me back,\" he said pulling her to him.

She shook her head bitterly, \"can\'t do magic outside school until I turn seventeen.\"

\"perhaps a kiss would work,\" said pulling her in and kissing her tenderly on the lips.

She shuck her head, \"no I\'d have to be a princess,\" she said matter-of-factly.

\"But you\'re my princess,\" said smiling at her wantonly.

\"I thought I was your angel,\" she asked with a confused look on her exquisite features, he nearly melted into a puddle at her feet.

\"Can\'t you be both?\" He asked, his voice husky with the way she was making him feel.

She looked lost in thought for a moment, \"I think I would rather be your angel.\"

\"Than my angel you shall remain,\" she said stroking a stray hair from her face, \"nothings too good for the lady of my heart.\"

\"I like that one as well,\" she said smiling up at them brightly.

\"Well its true, as I said my heart lays captive in your hands,\" he reached down and kissed the back each hand.

\"It\'s tucked away in here next to mine,\" she said placing her hand on her chest, she looked around the room consciously, they had gather quite a crowd with their public display of affection.

\"Miss Granger is Harry aware that your attentions have moved to this muggle older man,\" drowned a middle-aged blond woman with blond curls that looked like they were welded into place.

Hermione dropped her head into Allan\'s shoulder while she gathered her thoughts, \"Ms Skeeter, as I have told you on countless occasions my relationship with Harry and Ron is purely platonic, they have been my best friends since I was eleven, I think of them like brothers.\"

\"Miss Granger is it true you have an obsession with older men,\" said the gutter journalist smiling brightly, \"first you had a thing with Viktor Krum, the seeker for The Bulgarian Quidditch Team, when you were fifteen and he was eighteen, and now you see to have taken up with a man several years your senior.\"

\"Like I said about Harry and Ron, Viktor has only ever been a friend to me, Allan is the first man I have ever had a romantic inclination towards, yes he is several years my senior but when two people truly click the age gap is irrelevant,\" with that she grabbed Allan\'s hand and walked to the back entrance of the pub.
\"Do you think that was wise,\" asked Allan, when they were finally alone.

Hermione pulled out her wand and opened the archway, \"probably not, but that woman winds me up the wrong way,\"

\"I thought you couldn\'t use magic out of school?\"

\"It\'s not really magic, I\'ve just opened the door,\" she turned and looked him in the eye with all the excitement of a five year old waiting for Christmas, \"if you thought The Leaky Cauldron was impressive wait until you see Diagon Alley.\"

\"The pub caught me of guard,\" he said smugly, \"Now that... Wow,\" his eyes roamed the street rapidly trying to take everything in.

\"Now that wow, is that actually a sentence?\" She asked the English teacher a look of triumph on her face.

\"Yes I\'ll admit it, it is rather awe-inspiring,\" he said still searching the street.

\"I thought you might like it,\" she smiled sweetly.

\"You\'ll have to talk me through all the shops,\" he said getting caught up in her excitement, \"this is a large part of your life I want to know everything about it.

Half an hour later they came walking out of Gringotts with a bag full of money, \"So let me get this straight, the gold one called a Galleon and is worth a fiver, the silver one\'s called I Sickle and there are about three and a half of those to a pound, and the bronze one\'s called a Gnut and is worth about one pence.\"

Hermione stared at him with her mouth wide open, \"How, what, when.\"

\"\"How, what, when, doesn\'t exactly seem like a sentence.\"

\"But the money\'s not that simple,\" she said confused.

\"No not really, but it\'s a close enough approximation to make sure you\'re not been ripped off.\"

A sappy smile filled her face, \"Did anyone ever tell you you\'re a genius?\"

He nodded off nonchalantly, \"it\'s written on my diploma from Cambridge.\"

She swatted him on the arm, \"smug git,\" she said still smiling broadly.

He nodded brightly, with a wicked glint in his eye, \"and proud of it.\"

\"Come on,\" she said, linking her fingers in his, \"I\'m gonna show you off.\"

They walked down the street passing Flourish and Boltts, Madam Malkins and various other shops until they came to a joke shop. Allan closed his eyes in disbelief and sighed inwardly. He had wanted to be told about the Wesley\'s involvement in Dumbledore\'s plans, but he didn\'t actually want to meet any of them, let alone the two brain dead pranksters. He steadied himself and let her pull him into the shop.

They had to squeeze through the door the place was packed with ankle biters from the age five to one hundred and fifty. He was really impressed, the shop was really well organised, with sperate layout for all the different jokes. They even had wizarding pictures on display showing what the jokes did. There was a line of five checkouts all had a long line of prospective customers lining up to pay for their goods.

he had known the twins had gone into business, but had thought they would fall flat on the faces. Weasleys weren\'t known for their ability to handle money, but these two seemed to be making a fortune.

\"Fred, George I\'ve got someone I\'d like you to meet,\" she said wrapping her arm around his waist and putting her hand in his back pocket.

Well if this is what I get for meeting the tedious twins, I wouldn\'t mind if the whole family walked out. Me and my big mouth he thought as not only did Fred and George walk out of the storeroom but Ron and Ginny as well.

\"Ron, Ginny what are you two doing here,\" asked Hermione shear pleasure written across her face.

\"Earning some pocket money over the holidays,\" replied Ron, \"but how are you here? I thought that you were in Ramsgate?\"

\"I\'m only up for the day, I wanted to show my boyfriend the wizarding world,\" she said, wrapping her other arm around him, and staring up like an escapee from St Mungo\'s.

\"Boyfriend,\" said Ginny smiling wickedly, \"don\'t you mean man friend?\"

\"Well yeah, he is slightly older,\" she replied looking like the cat that was sitting in an endless supply of cream.

\"Slightly older,\" snapped Ron indignantly, \"he\'s a bloody grown up.\"

\"Are you implying that I\'m only a child Ronald Weasley,\" she warned, the look of death covering her elegant features.

\"I well, em, no Hermione, it\'s just that he\'s older than you.\"

\"Is he,\" she said sarcastically, staring him in the face, \"you know what Ron you\'re right, I\'m surprised I never noticed.\"

Merlin but she looked edible when she was angry, he reached down and placed a kiss on her tender lips. \"Be gentle with him Angel, he\'s only looking out for your best interests.\"
\"Angel?\" Said Ginny staring at them with a bright smile on her face.

\"Yeah,\" said Hermione her voice full of emotion, \"it\'s his pet name for me, that and Lady of My Heart.\"

\"Does all that soppy talk work then?\" Asked Ron staring at them his face turning green with nausea at the sight of their passion.

\"Only if you mean it Ron,\" replied Allen, \"it\'s no good saying you my angel if there\'s no hunger in the eyes or passion in your voice. You have to say it with warmth and love, opening yourself up so they can see into your very soul, and know that every word is true.\"

A large sigh went around all the women in the shop, \"you\'re so lucky,\" said Alicia Spinnet walking over from one of the tills, \"are all muggle men that romantic.\"

\"No,\" Hermione said looking up into his big brown eyes, with love and affection, \"I just happened to drop lucky.\"

\"Am I the only one who thinks he\'s too old for her,\" asked Ron looking for support.

\"Yes,\" said Ginny indignantly, \"once again you can\'t see past your protective big brother act to see how much they mean to each other.\"

\"I\'d give up on this one,\" Fred whispered into his ear, \"You\'re only digging the hole deeper with no sign of someone coming along to pull you out.\"

\"So whose for lunch, said Allan releasing his hold on Hermione and taking her hand instead, \"my treat.\" With those six simple words Ron\'s view of the man changed completely.

\"So that went well,\" said Allan, as they walked back to the tube station, with a cage containing a barn owl in one hand and a mountain of books in another.

\"Yeah if you forget about Rita Skeeter and the attitude of Ron,\" said Hermione in a glass is half empty kind of mood.

\"I told you this morning we would have to deal with interfering old busy bodies like that Skeeter woman. The sooner we get them out of the way the better in my opinion,\" he said smiling down at her, \"and as for Ron he was only looking out for his friend. I find it reassuring that their is someone to look out for you when you are up in Scotland and I\'m stuck down here. It might make me worry a little less knowing that there is someone there to care for you.\"

\"So your not jealous?\" She asked scrutinising his face, for any sign of doubt.

\"I trust you Hermione,\" he said, \"I\'m happy that you\'ve got friends that care for you, I\'m not going to let my petty insecurities jeopardise that.\"

Hermione smiled up at him and they walked to the tube station in silence, comfortable in each others presence.

Everybody thanks for your comments they are most appreciated

Pinky I\'m glad you like it I really enjoy writing sneaky underhanded bad guys, who use romance as a weapon. Lucius is the perfect candidate for this type of role.

Avanell I love reading Hermione with partners who are supposedly bad for her, and I must admit there are not enough HG/LM fics out there that\'s one of the reasons I started writing them. Allan will have to spend some time trying to figure who is more important to him HG, the DL, or lest face it this is a Malfoy himself. He will struggle long and hard on his feelings for HG, trying to figure out what they mean to him as a death eater and how much is he prepared to sacrifice for the one emotion he never thought he had.

Dragon34 Yeah I can see your point the idea of a teacher moving in next door no longer seems as safe as it once did, just remember he is really a death eater pretending to be a teacher. Lucius (Allan) is gaining feelings for Hermione that he never expected he could posses, will she mean enough to him for him to turn his back on the DL only time will tell.

GX-Silver I couldn\'t agree more, people please write more HG/LM they make a excellent couple if your looking for some angst.

Happy Christmas and enjoy the holidays