Champagne Dreams

Lucius's eyes fluttered open at the sound of a heavy pounding on his office door, realizing he has a naked Head girl in his bed, and being the paranoid he was thought it was Dumbledore coming to haul his ass of to Azkaban for corruption of a minor. A scowling professor Snape stood outside banging on Lucius's door "This is urgent Lucius! open the door!" Lucius threw his covers over Hermione as if Snape could probe through the door and look at his very vulnerable pet. "Shit" he swore silently, Lucius ran through all the things that were at stake if anyone should find out about their little affair, yes he called it a full fledged affair instead of "lessons" now. But of all the things he held dear, he was most concerned at how this would effect Hermione, possible expulsion... her future, reputation, even safety were on the line. He had to think fast. Hermione was slowly waking, the horror and silent satisfaction all mixed into one of waking up in Lucius Malfoy's bed. "I can't believe we slept together" she thought silently, amazed at how intimate she and Lucius were actually getting. She heard the pounding on the door, rolled over and reached for him... she squinted into the bright morning sunlight and before she knew what hit her Lucius muttered a spell and he transfigured her into a long haired honey brown cat with big green eyes. She sat there stunned and having no idea what to do, she decided to pretend she was sleeping.

Lucius quickly spelled his pin stripe robes onto him, smoothed his hair, kicked Hermione's clothes under the bed as best he could and opened the door to find a an even more foul tempered Snape and a shaken looking Draco.

Draco came to me... he said Miss Granger did not make it back to her dormitory last night, I've just alerted Dumbledore and all the other professors are on rounds searching for her. Draco stepped forward, "what's up with your office dad?". Hermione in cat form had to makes sure she wasn't hearing things... Draco was in the room she had just fucked his father in! "Did you sleep here last night? and since when did you have a cat?" Draco threw questions at Lucius in rapid fire succession. "It's my new familiar, and I found her in Hogsmeade the other day, and the crazy little thing attached herself to me". Hermione in cat form felt Draco's big grey eye's scrutinizing her and decided she must put on a more convincing show in order to pull this off, imitating her best crook shanks Hermione lazily stretched, kneaded the bed and then curled back up on a pillow, flashing annoyed glares at the three slytherins. Meanwhile her heart was pounding her chest and she still felt exposed, even if 100% of her body was now covered with fur.

Snape interjected, "as I"m so very concerned about the new stray... I would like to remind everyone that the Head Girl is missing!". Lucius stepped in, "where am I to start searching Severus?". "Lucius you are to search the outskirts of the forbidden forest, I'm on my way to the astronomy tower and upper level now." Draco stepped in "and I'm going with you". Snape tried to restrain the boy's rash decisions, "you are a student, it would be completely inappropriate to be searching the grounds, you must stay in the great hall untill you have further instruction". Draco gave his father a pleading look, "It's out of my hands Draco, Severus I just need to gather a few things and I'll be on the outskirts immediately, please make sure Draco makes it safely back to the great hall?" Snape nodded in response and guided Draco away from his father's office.

Lucius closed and locked his office door and came back over to Hermione.
"any ideas of how to fix our little predicament pussy?" Lucius ran his hand over her sleek fur and to Hermione's surprise she let out a purr. WIth one hand Lucius cupped her chin and with his wand hand he transfigured her back into Hermione. "And next week they'll be storming my office with torches and pitchforks". With another flick of his wand he pieced together Hermione's clothes back on to her and smoothed her unruly curls. "This is our plan, I can buy you enough time to get to the astronomy tower, I can cast an invisibility glamour on you to get you safely out of my office, you will have 5 minutes to make it to the tower under my glamour, I wont be able to hold that kind of charm from that far a distance".

Lucius swiftly went to his bookcases and removed a couple books that he shoved into Hermione's hands. "This is what you will say to Snape when he finds you. You pretend you were sleeping, you stir when he finds you, act very surprised and disoriented, you went there to clear your head. You've been under a great deal of stress lately with trying to secure an internship at the ministry" He gave her an wicked wink that implied many things to Hermione, was he going to help her with a career? "and were so exhausted, you were just resting your eyes when you fell right into a sound sleep" Hermione gripped the books so tightly her knuckles turned white. "I really hope you know what your doing" she said shakily.

"Trust me my dear" he said as he ran his thumb over her lips. "and I don't need to remind you to be convincing"
Lucius cast the glamour onto Hermione and everything including her books vanished into thin air. "After you my pet" Lucius said as he broadly swung the door open. Hermione made a mad dash to the astronomy tower when she turned a corner and came upon a sight that made her blood run cold.

Snape was just exiting a classroom when Hermione spotted him, she walked as quietly as possible hoping her foot steps would not make a sound to give her away. She barely squeaked past him before he entered another classroom where she resumed her break neck speed up to the tower. She couldn't let Snape see the astronomy tower door open or move so she had to make sure she beat him there with time to spare. Hermione raced up the huge flight of stairs and quietly opened the door and just as carefully closed it before rushing to a far corner of the tower, she slumped to the ground and wiped the sweat from her brow, opened a book and layed it on her lap she rested her head against the cold stone wall. It was like when she was a little girl and would bounce on the bed instead of sleeping, and when her parents would come to check on her she would try to surpress her racing pulse and heavy breathing to pretend she was fast asleep.

She wished she was 6 again... Hermione could feel her stomach churning at the task ahead, she was functioning on some basic motor level. She was shocked at herself and a little ashamed, and completely mesmerized by Lucius's slytherin cunning, hoping and praying it would be enough to save both their asses.

Hermione heard the door creak open and clang shut. Snape spotted her right off and she fluttered her eyes open and feigned being completely disoriented. Snape moved closer to her "Miss Granger do I need to remind you where your dormitory is?" she said snidely. Hermione rubber her eyes and yawned "Oh professor Snape! you startled me! She looked at her surroundings "Am I in the astronomy tower?" "You are indeed Miss Granger". "I'm so sorry professor! I must have nodded off.. you see I came up here to clear my head last night and brought some light reading, I've been so exhausted lately... I guess I just must have tried to rest my eyes and fell straight to sleep"

Snape scowled, "I would like to inform you Miss Granger that your little shut eye session , total disregard for the rules has put the whole castle into chaos". Hermione hung her head and could not look Snape in the face, that had recently turned purple with rage. "We have all the professors searching the castle and grounds for you, were were going to cancel classes today, the head boy was frantic when you never made it back to the dormitory, he insisted that you had befallen some kind of ill that started all this chaos.

Hermione's heart broke into a thousand little peices. Draco had waited up all night for her... She felt hot waves of guilt wash over her, not just because he worried himself sick and raised all kinds of hell because of it, it was because she was fucking his father, well not quite yet but its really just a formality because her virginity was as good as his once she drank that potion, and felt even guiltier at the fact that she should have been there with Draco, her friend and confidant.

She should have been back in their dormitory studying together, painting each others nails, not satisfying her own selfish needs by sleeping with his father and her professor. Snape gruffly interrupted her thoughts "Well lets not delay this any longer, your to be brought back to the Headmasters office at once". Hermione followed Snape down the tower stairs, her feet feeling like led. As they walked through the halls Hermione interrupted the intense silence between her and Snape "professor may I ask you something". Snape gave her a sideways glance "go on.."

. What provoked all this chaos, I mean I know all the trouble before the war but doesn't closing down the school sound a bit rash to you?" Snape rounded on her with anger in his voice "First of all when a student is missing it is a very big deal, secondly the head boy came to me almost in the middle of the night, he was frantic and suspected you to be in great danger due the fact that you forgot your wand and were supposed to meet him to discuss prefect duties that night. I told Draco to go to bed and contact me immediately if you did not show up in the morning. So you see... you've been gone for some time. "I completely forgot about prefect duties..". Snape eyed her coldly "apparently".

Hermione and Snape made their way to the Headmasters office as professor McGonagall addressed all the students in the Great Hall. The Deputy head mistress announced that the Head Girl has been found unharmed and it was just an honest mistake reporting her missing. Classes will be held as usual, and you may all report to your respective classes immediately. Draco had never been more relieved in his life at those words but was still very curious as to what she was doing out so late at night without her wand to protect her, away from their safe dormitory. Ok he had to admit it to himself, she was away from him - and the safety he provided her. He had no idea where she was or if she was hurt or if she needed him. He knew she was safe when he was around, because he knew what his fellow housemates were capable of... let alone other more dangerous enemies. And God knows that she wasn't safe with Potter around, on their little outings he's almost sent her back in a body bag on several occasions.

But they both knew the truth of what Draco was so concerned about. It was because of the way Harry still didn't trust him after he forged an alliance to the light side and how he overheard Potter and Hermione talking in the library, Potter was still trying to sabotage him... trying to get Hermione to not trust him and he was scared that she had listened.