The spirits of the air caressed their faces as they stood side by side looking into the horizon. A great unknown existed there that caused them to be enraptured with the wonders and mystery of it all. The aqua waves that kissed their feet solidified the couple's stance in the sand as they held hands, fingers interlaced. It was a metaphor for them as they had indeed become strong over the last year with the many obstacles they had to overcome to come together as they were now. In the beginning, it had seemed like the couple, with all the forces that be, would have been swept away- akin to seashells that are swept back into the arms of the sea with the outgoing tide.
But that was in the past, as both defiantly stood in the sunset; serenaded by the melodic sounds of nature, which only acted to heighten their sense of awareness.
Awareness of life….
Of love…
Of each other.
It was with this awareness that they turned to finally face the other. As Hermione looked into the grey depths of the man of her dreams, she immediately smiled a secret smile; as she knew that he, Draco Malfoy, was far from perfect—but hers all the same. Aside from the black fitted swim trunks he wore, his body was laid bare in all its chiseled perfection. Chest, arms, back and abdomen peppered with sea spray, they glistened against the backdrop.
She inhaled deeply, drawing in his familiar scent and sighed in contentment.
The object of her affection gazed into her hazel orbs with equal admiration. If someone had told him that he would be here—right now- with Hermione Granger he would not have believed it. Yet, here he was with this vision of loveliness before him. Her hibiscus adorned curly hair was wildly tossed by the wind, creating a halo around her face—bronzed by playing in the sun. Soft curves housed in a burnt orange triangle bikini top with matching sarong, Hermione looked temptingly exotic.
Ethereal.
He smirked with satisfaction upon hearing her sigh, and brought her hands to his lips. They had graduated from Hogwarts 2 weeks ago, at the top of their class. It was a grand affair as they celebrated with family and friends. Hermione had been offered a job as an auror by the Czech Ministry, based in Prague; which she accepted. He, Draco, was going to take the helm at Malfoy Enterprises as CEO. The inheritance of his estate accorded him when he turned 18, the world was his oyster. For the first time, he was looking forward to what the future held. Life was wonderful, new and exciting to him.
He had everything he wanted, except one thing.
Hermione broke the gaze. freeing hands to twirl around with her hands held open. Her face turned to the sun, she smiled and laughed. Draco smirked and raised an eyebrow at her antics as she stopped to join his embrace once more.
"This has been so wonderful Draco." Hermione whispered as she placed her arms about his neck and rose on tip-toes to kiss him.
"Mmm hmm" Draco responded in assent as he deepened the kiss for a brief moment. "I told you that you would like it here."
They were on a private island not too far from the Aruban coastline. Draco's father had bought it as a honeymoon gift for Narcissa, before everything was as it was. There had been love here at one time, and Draco was conceived here, in that love—all unbeknownst to Draco.
So it was no surprise that love would find itself here once more.
"That you did. Well, you were right."
He smirked and rolled his eyes. "Of course I am Hermione. Aren't I always?"
She playfully shoved his shoulder. "OH! Yo-"
She never got to finish her statement, as Draco crushed herto him in a searing kiss. He sucked her tongue into his mouth, running his fingers through her wild mane as he did so. Hermione relaxed into his embrace, using her fingertips of trace across his back—teasingly, promisingly.
Feeling his groin tighten, Draco broke the kiss. In the time they had been together, they had not yet had sex. It was mutually agreed upon that they needed to take the relationship slowly—because as much as they may have realized they loved one another, they didn't like each other—they didn't know the other. And so, after that fateful night on the pitch, they had a new beginning—a fresh start.
It had been this way for 7 months now—Draco courting Hermione.
"Two weeks…" Draco began.
Hermione scoffed at Draco. "Don't start. Prague isn't THAT far. We'll see each other Draco, we will."
Draco shifted uncomfortably, as he has been known to do when faced with having to show emotion. He was a little better about it, but he was still a Malfoy, still Draco—with hardware fully programmed. This was why, in all this time. He hadn't told her…
But he would…he told himself…
Eventually.
Draco sighed in resignation. "Of course we will." The weekends would be their time. Between him working through his headquarters in London and her off fighting in Prague, they were supposed to find a medium. Draco thought it bullshit. He would lose her and he knew it—to her ambition—their ambitions. A pain gripped his chest as those words sunk in.
Losing her… his light.
Hermione lifted her hands to cup his face, using her nose to nuzzle his as she kissed him lightly. She knew what he was thinking. She knew him so well. "Don't worry love. That won't happen to us, I promise."
The wheels turned in Draco's mind as he made a decision.
'You're damn right it won't.'
And so, in the midst of the sand and surf, Draco finally declared himself.
"As a kid, I used to love puzzles. Each of them unique, they were always a pleasure to put together. 200 pieces, 500, 1000…they all had their parts that joined to make a whole—to make the big picture. So, imagine my surprise, when I find that one of the pieces was missing. I couldn't visualize what was to be, because that necessary piece wasn't there."
Hermione looked up at Draco indulgently. "What are you talking about love?" Draco suddenly got downon one knee before her, taking Hermione by surprise as she whispered,
"Oh."
Draco cleared his throat, which was already tight with emotion. "What I visualize, to be my future could not be a future, without you in it. We have been through a lot in the seven years we have known each other, and the 7 months we have been dating that allows me to think—no, I believe and know, that we can weather any storm. I am naught but a man. I know that I'm not perfect and that I will always be a bit difficult at times, but…..
Hermione Jane Granger, I am also… the one who loves you. If nothing else, I am the man who loves you, now and always."
Unshed tears shone in Hermione's eyes as Draco snapped his fingers, causing a ring to materialize before her very eyes. It was a 2.5 carat princess cut pink diamond set in a platinum band encrusted with diamonds. Totaling 4 carats, the entire band was blinding as it provided its own source of light. It was well made—it was beautiful, and fit for a queen.
"Oh Merlin Draco…" said Hermione she admired the ring he held poised over her left ring finger.
"I've decided to move the headquarters to Prague and use London as a satellite. The city has a lot of promise, and I'm sure it's just as good a place as any. I don't care really, as long as I'm with you….beside you…
And so, love of my heart, my long sought after light, will you marry me?"
Hermione looked thoughtfully at Draco. She had never expected this—for him to do all of this, just to be with her. He was wonderful…
And finally, he would be hers.
"Yes Draco, I will." With the band finding its new home, the pair kissed passionately, consummately. They were apart of nature… the circle of life…
And now… of each other—a puzzle complete. Today and always.
Draco picked Hermione up and carried her back across the beach towards the veranda, which revealed their master suite. Entering the suite, Draco lowered Hermione onto the bed. Hereyes were glossy and bright as she pulled him on top of her so that their lips would meet. They kissed hungrily…yet languorously, savoring each other as if delicacies. Passion rose between them, the heady scent of their lust spurring them on. Draco, still kissing Hermione, removed her bikini top to place his hands over her warm globes. Teasing the nipples with his thumbs, he kneaded her eager flesh as she moaned her pleasure into his mouth. He broke the kiss to move down her body.
"Oh, Draco…" she sighed as Draco planted butterfly kisses over her neck and chest. He playfully licked her nipples, sending a jolt to Hermione's core. She shivered with the contact, the anticipation. Draco swirled his tongue about her aureole, flicking her nipple, then sucking on them. Feeling naughty, he repeated the cycle on the other breast, making Hermione cry out. Her breasts were always sensitive, and he liked that—A LOT.
Made his torture sweetest.
But she pushed him off her to roll him onto his back, reversing the game. It was his turn to squirm she thought as she straddled him.
"Oh no, cowboy," whispers Hermione as she licked his earlobe, his pleasure spot.
"I'm not going down all by my lonesome." She saidas she moved to bite and suck on his neck, while her hands traveled southward to release the bulge in his pants.
Draco had no idea what a cowboy was, and he honestly could give a fuck, as long as she didn't stop doing what she was doing. Hermione had eased his trunks off of his body and began to stroke him. Her soft hands expertly maneuvering his flesh, he grew even more within her hands—pulsing—throbbing, his life force causes his manhood to spring and jerk in her grasp. Draco felt like a naughty schoolboy with his first, the way he was groaning in pleasure.
Especially after she began nuzzling and licking his balls.
Draco gasped in a raspy voice. "Merlin woman, you're trying to kill me. I know you didn't—ah" She took him into her hot warm mouth as far as she could before she suckled him. As she bobbed up, her tongue caressed the underside of his manroot. Hermione looked at him devilishly.
"No, I didn't learn it from you. I saw it in a book and I thought I'd try it."
She licked and sucked the tip of him where his precum lay, swirling her tongue about the sensitive area, where the head of the penis begins before taking him into her waiting mouth once more. She moved her head as she bobbed up and down on him, massaging his testicles as she did so. It was sensory overload for Draco as he instinctively thrusted into her mouth, reveling in the sweet warmth and goodness that was her mouth. Whimpering as her mouth became even more pressurized; he could feel himself getting closer. Damn.
Trust her to follow whatever that book was to the letter.
Determined to be in control once more, Draco grudgingly pulled himself out of Hermione's mouth. Kissing once more, they both stood to ease off the remainder of Hermione's clothing before lying back down on the bed. It was turn-on as Draco tasted some of his essence within Hermione's mouth. She had given it a flavor all her own.
And it was with this thought that Draco laid on his back once more. Hermione looked puzzled for a moment.
"Straddle me."
Not understanding at first, Draco guided her until her womanhood was placed directly over his mouth. Draco extended his tongue to tease her quivering labial folds before plunging into her wetness. Upon doing this, Hermione began to ride Draco's mouth, rocking, gyrating on his tongue as she mewed and gasped her pleasure. Opening her legs wider, she felt him wrap his tongue around her clit, running his whole tongue over it before nibbling it… and sucking it. Hermione gripped the headboard, as she feels she might collapse on Draco—cutting off his air supply.
But Draco beat her to it by bringing one of his arms around to crush her sex to his mouth. Her juices sliding down his throat, he slurped and hummed as his mouth covered her pulsing sex. As he felt her beginning to cum, he sucked on her clit roughly as he fingered her ass. Hermione bucked in wild abandon as she came into Draco's mouth- yelling hoarsely as she moved over his still suckling mouth. Exhausted, she rolled onto her back legs sprawled open. Dracosettled between them and engaged her mouth in another kiss, wrapping her legs about him. His fingers sought her out and found her more than ready. He searched her gaze for surety. In answer, she guided him to her entrance, allowing him to begin his descent, wriggling a bit as she felt herself stretching to accommodate him. He gathered her into his arms and held her close, nuzzling her neck. Continuing to enter her slowly until he reached the barrier, he drew her flesh into his mouth before biting down on her neck, thrusting through her barrier as he did so. Hermione cried out in pleasure/pain from it all, as she knew it was meant to distract her. She found it quite attractive actually, how he took her in such an animalistic way. The pain was briefly replaced by a pressure, a delightful fullness and burning within Hermione's belly that she could finally identify as desire—her wanting of Draco.
She moved against his hips to draw him deeper, as she loved the feel of him inside her, touching her most intimate places. Draco, wanting to please, began to move within Hermione, slowly at first, to allow her to adjust, but after a while the pace began to increase. He began to roll his hips, gyrate, and buck inside her. She met each and every one of his thrusts as they rolled around in the bed, never separating from the other.
It was slow… slick and at times rough as the couple expressed their frenzied need for the other—to become one in every way. Draco felt her walls tighten around him as he went to enter her from behind, Hermione growling her pleasure at the newness of the position. She spread herself wide as Draco plunged within her while playing with her already sensitized clitoris. She arched her back to take him deeper, writhing against his fullness, feeling him jerk within her…feeling his seed start as she began to crest.
And so it was here that they came together in perfect harmony. Both screaming in the delight of their reckless coupling—drunk off the power of their own mating. Their afterglow did not last too long, as they reached for each other once again, indulging themselves in their addiction. Draco suckled her as he poured champagne down her belly which traveled south of where his mouth lay waiting. Hermione laughed and giggled as she came—
She would come 5 times that night, as did he.
Draco, finding his final release in the solace of Hermione's mouth, cuddled with his lady love as the remainder of their heat radiated from their bodies. She admired her ring as she layed across his chest, smiling once more.
Her dream come true, now a reality.
Her polar opposite traced the outline of her shoulder as he watched her in awe of the ring. He smiled as well and chuckled. He was happy and life was good.
He would never let her go.
And so they lay there, the stars aligned, their end set in stone, destiny in place, the couple would be bound for eternity.
To travel the path of life together as one, to go anyway the wind blows.
With this knowledge, they closed their eyes and succumbed to peaceful sleep.
Meanwhile, there was another who slept, beneath Hermione's heart, another legacy…another love…another tradition.
Each of the three pulses surrendered to the beauty of the island, which beat to the sound of the drum of the sea. Everything was one, everything was calm…
Everything... was right.
-Fin-
A/N: And that... is the END folks, of Celebrity Skin. It has been a (sweet yet bittersweet as this is the end, 68 pages of wonderful DMHG)pleasure writing this ficlet and I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I. I also hope that many of you (ALL OF YOU) will travel over to my other fic RESURRECTION and also review my work there.:o) Perhaps sometime in the future I may work on a LM/NB (their teen years) or a Blaise/Luna ffic. Let me know what you guys think about that. I have a Malfoy obsession, so either way I'd work it to death. :o)
Also, DO NOT FORGET LORETT'S STORY IT HAD TO BE YOU... READ IT! REVIEW IT!
Peace, love and happiness,
NB
Shout outs:
((LORETT)): It's finally done chica! Can you believe I have a completed work under my belt:o) Thank for the support, the laughs, everything! Going back to work on Res now.. as I KNOW you are missing Draco. Stay tuned... HALLOWEEN is coming soon:o)
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1. Mystical Willow. This is it babe! Hope you enjoyed.
2. SomethingorOther: Its intentional.. as it was meant to be relected in real time vs. simultaneously.. at least in my mind anyway. Either way, I hope you enjoyed the PLOT for its MERITS. The minor stuff doesn't bother me. That can always be 'fixed', if its broken. :o)
3. Flying Wit Da Sparrow- Hope you enjoyed, and HOPE to see you over at Resurrection.
4. XymiAngelGhost- In my opinion...I wouldn't call it 'soft', but I'll leave that for you to decide:o)
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9. Vixen- Aww.. well this is the last one, but I have another one going called Resurrection sopop over, read and tell me what you think! Don't worry about Sebastian... in my mind.. he went on to marry... Ginny Weasley (LONGGG STORY as to how that comes about).
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12. FoxyChic4u- Well, I have a 22 chaptered work (DMHG). Read the A/N for some other unique ideas I have for pairings. Draco/Ginny would actually be awesome, as I think they are fire.. and FIRE, but no.. not writing a D/G fic anytime soon.
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