Hermione's Four Hearts 7

“Please tell me you are all using gloves to touch anything?”Narcissa asked. Hermione chuckled at the look of disgust the woman was sporting. Not that Hermione could blame Narcissa. Bill’s room was a gross disaster. The only thing clean in it was the lounge chair Hermione was sharing with Narcissa. Hermione had put up a fight about being fed by the woman but had given in when Narcissa pouted at her. Hermione had been so shocked that the woman could pout that it had her agreeing before she realized what she was doing. Not that she really minded. It seemed to make Narcissa happy to take care of her so Hermione would try to be more accommodating as she was coming to learn that not only was Narcissa’s happiness important to her but Andromeda, Bellatrix and Fleur’s as well. Something that Hermione had a feeling the four women were going to play off of to get their ways in the future.

“Yes I am using very thick gloves.”Fleur held up her hands and showed them her industrial rubber gloves.

“Can your fingers even move in those?”Hermione asked.

“Yes they can and if you would like a demonstration I am more than happy to show you.”Fleur winked at Hermione smiling when she blushed.

“What has got you blushing already pet? We haven’t even started.”Bellatrix said when she walked into the room followed by Andromeda who was holding a potion bottle and a glass of water.

“She is flirting with Fleur.”Narcissa told her.

“I wasn’t flirting!”Hermione denied.

“You might not have of been but I was.”Fleur was definitely flirting.

Andromeda handed Hermione the potion.“Alright sweetheart. I need you to drink this potion and the full glass of water.”

“What’s this one for?”Narcissa asked.

“It’s to heal her strained muscles.”Andromeda grimaced at the face Hermione made drinking it.”I’m sorry darling. I know they don’t taste good.”

Hermione shrugged and held her hand out for the glass of water.”It’s my own fault I have to take them.”

“What do you mean it’s your fault?”Fleur couldn’t think of anyway Hermione getting hurt was her fault.

“I could have gotten away from the snatchers if I wanted to. I let myself be caught however because I was hoping to find the snake. Then when I got to the manor I could killed Bellatrix and destroyed the horcrux. Instead I chose to kill Lucius to free Narcissa and to stay and figure out a way to save Bellatrix. I could have left at anytime. I proved that when I sent the other captives here.”Hermione explained.

“You believe you could have left at anytime?”Narcissa wasn’t sure she believed that.

“I did leave my cell numerous times to look for the snake and read books in the library.”Hermione was still upset she didn’t find the snake.

Bellatrix looked at Hermione in shock.”You really did stay just to save myself and my sister.”

“It’s what Sirius would have wanted and even though she wouldn’t have admitted it Andy would have wanted it as well.”Hermione was just fulfilling one her father’s greatest wishes.”So as I was saying the injuries are my fault. I wasted time I should have spent coming up with a spell to free Bellatrix trying to find the stupid snake.”

“His snake is a horcrux?”Narcissa would think of Hermione’s sacrifices later. When she had time to come up with a proper way to thank the young witch.

“Yes, all that’s left are the snake, the cup and diadem.”Hermione told her.

“Where did you find the locket?”Andromeda knew that was one of the ones Hermione had been searching for.

“The Daily Prophet showed me where it was.”Seeing their confused expressions Hermione explained.”I was reading through it when a picture caught my eye. It was of Umbridge and she was wearing the locket in the picture.”

“How did Umbridge of all people get a horcrux?”Bellatrix didn’t think the Dark Lord would trust the woman with anything.

“It’s kind of a long story about Regulas being given it by the Dark Lord and him having second thoughts in the end and throwing it away. At least that’s what Kreecher said when he gave me the fake one Regulas had made to trick the Dark Lord. How Umbridge got it I have no clue.”Hermione hadn’t really cared to find out.

“I didn’t know that Reggie was involved.”Narcissa had fond memories of Regulas.

“I think his mother pushed him into. Sirius told me that he couldn’t live with the guilt of all the bad things he had done and committed suicide. Walburga of course claimed he died in a flying accident.”Andromeda told her.

“That old bag. What I wouldn’t give to throw the fact that her son adopted a Muggleborn and she now runs the family in her face.”Bellatrix would have loved to see her aunt’s reaction.

“There is a living picture of her in Sirius’ home. When my adoption was official he showed her the tapestry. The woman was very upset. I asked him one time why he kept those pictures up and he told me he took great joy in them seeing him live his life the exact opposite way they wanted him to. I haven’t been back since since his death but I’m going to go back one day and make sure that I show off the ring to every single portrait.”Hermione was doing it in honor of her father.

“I’m going with you to do that.”Narcissa wouldn’t miss it for anything in the world.

“I’m pretty sure there are some living portraits of my parents at Black Family Manor you can show it off to.”Bellatrix was going to be there right beside Hermione when she did it.

“Those portraits are now in the attic.”Andromeda told her.

“What do you mean they are in the attic?”Narcissa asked.

“We tried to burn them with everything from basic fire to fiendfye and it doesn’t touch them. Hermione even tried to soak them in water overnight to destroy them that way but nothing works. That’s why we put them in the attic.”Andromeda wasn’t taking them down either.

“I hate that I was not there when you made those attempts but putting them in the attic was a good move.”Bellatrix wished she had gotten to try and ruin the paintings.

“We moved most of the paintings up to the attic. It has made our home peaceful. Whereas when I first moved in they were constantly yelling at me.”Hermione hated walking through the halls of the manor before they moved the pictures.

“Your home? Does that mean you live at Black family manor?”Fleur had never really thought about where Hermione lived. She had always assumed in the muggle world but if she was a Head of Household for a pureblood family it would make sense she would live in a house owned by them.

“I moved there after Sirius died because it was to painful to stay at his house. When Andromeda and I decided to move in together she agreed to stay with me there.”Hermione loved the manor and planned on living there a long time.

“That settles it. When all this is over I am traveling to each Black family property and bragging to each living portrait about how my blood traitor sister and her muggleborn lover defeated the Dark Lord and saved the Black family.”Bellatrix smiled just thinking about their reactions.

Narcissa shook her head at Bellatrix’s silliness.”Who else knows where you both live?”

“Just Dora. Everyone else thinks Hermione lives with the Grangers when in reality the couple moved to Australia three years ago. She had been living full time with Sirius until he died and moved to Black manor. As for me not many people know about my divorce so they assume I live with Ted. That however will change now that people know I’m dating Hermione. Though they probably will assume I’m living with Dora.”Andromeda didn’t think anyone would figure out where they lived.

“The lack of people knowing was also why I was going to recommend we relocate there if Bellatrix and Narcissa didn’t object.”Hermione didn’t want them to be uncomfortable.

“I don’t mind.”Narcissa had great memories of her family home and without her parents there to abuse her it would be nice to experience it without the fear of getting in trouble.

“I just hope that no one messed with my room.”Bellatrix wanted to see if she had anything stashed in her old hiding places.

“We didn’t go in either of your rooms so I’m not sure.”Andromeda didn’t feel right going into her sisters’ personal spaces and Hermione hadn’t had the chance to go through the place yet.

“I would like to see how exactly a pureblood lives. Sirius didn’t let us walk around his house so all anyone got to see was the front room, the dining room and the kitchen.”Fleur was hoping Hermione would be willing to give her a tour of the place after the war was finished.

“We haven’t put in the effort to change anything so you will get to see exactly how my parents left it before they died.”Andromeda was waiting until the war was over to remodel so that Hermione could be involved with the decisions.

“That isn’t true. We put in the tv room.”Hermione reminded her.

”How could I forget it’s where all the house elves hang out instead of doing what I need them to do.”Andromeda was extremely frustrated with Hermione for introducing the elves to tv. 

“They still do their jobs.”Hermione didn’t mind that the elves liked to watch tv.

Andromeda didn’t bother arguing.”Then it’s settled we will go to Black family manor.”

“Alright let’s see what Bill is hiding in his underwear drawer.”Bellatrix made sure her gloves were on properly before she pulled the drawer open. Rifling around she was unimpressed.”Every pair of underwear in this drawer is torn and stained. Most of those stains very large.”

“Cissa what do you make of these potions?”Andromeda carried a leather bag over to Narcissa and set it on Hermione’s lap.

Narcissa adjusted herself so she could reach around Hermione. Picking up and examining each bottle she frowned.”I don’t think Fleur wants to know what these potions are.”

“I have already decided to wait and plan out my revenge so you don’t have to worry about me going after him right this second.”Fleur was planning on speaking to Hermione about it because she was the most talented magic user Fleur knew and would probably come up with something extremely traumatizing to do to Bill.

“Alright then. The potions in this bag are the love potions you know about, a potion that makes you sexually attracted to someone, an erectile disfunction potion, a potion that increases the chances of pregnancy, and one that is for hair growth.”Narcissa told her.

“So he is bald and his dick doesn’t work.”Bellatrix wasn’t surprised by that.

“He also has a thing for pregnant women.”Andromeda said as she held up a stack of magazines.

“Is that all fetish porn?”Hermione asked.

“Yes it’s theme is pregnant women in various sexual positions.”Andromeda gave Hermione a smile.”I won’t make you look at them.”

“Thank you sweetheart.”Hermione didn’t want anything to do with Bill’s porn collection.

“This drawer is filled with my dirty clothes.”Fleur found numerous items of clothing that she had thought she lost in the drawer.

“I would recommend burning those. Unless you don’t care about what Bill did with your dirty clothes.”Bellatrix would burn them.

Fleur shivered in disgust at the thought.”I’m burning them.”

“Hermione you never finished the story of how you destroyed the locket.”Narcissa wanted to know how Hermione did it.

“Where was I…Oh Umbridge had it.”Hermione said picking her story back up.”I knew that she worked in the ministry and where her office was. I also knew from my time spent with her at Hogwarts that she was obsessed with status. So I snuck into the ministry basement where the elves lived and worked out a deal with a couple of them to get me strains of hair and some clothing from high ranking employees and in return I would give them a radio.”

“You bargained with house elves that don’t belong to you?”Bellatrix didn’t know you could do that.

“That’s the thing the ministry elves belong to not just the people in charge of Britain but all the citizens of the country. So everyone who lives in Britain owns the ministry elves.”Hermione explained.

“Holy shit.”Andromeda didn’t even know that and she was brought up in the magical world.

“How did you know that?”Narcissa asked.

“When I was at Hogwarts I saw how abused the elves were. I wanted to make things better for them so I read every book I could get my hands on about house elves and rules of ownership. In an old tome from about 300yrs ago it talked about the ministry elves and it explained how they were magically linked to every citizen not just the ministry workers.”Hermione told her.

“Get back to your story.”Fleur was going to ask Hermione questions about house elves another time. She was more interested in the horcrux.

“The house elves came through brilliantly. One of them got me some hair and an extra suit belonging to the minister. I had one of the elves alert me when Umbridge entered her office then drank the poly juice potion, put on the suit and made my way to her office. I thought I got caught a few times but I was able to talk my way out the situations. When I got to Umbridge’s office she was ecstatic to see me. I spent a good ten minutes flattering her and telling her how impressive she was. Once she finished puffing up like a proud peacock I asked her about the necklace. She tried to tell it was a family heirloom.”Hermione was cut off by Andromeda’s laugh.

“She was trying to say that Salazar Slytherin’s locket was a family heirloom? She is a freaking half blood with a father that was a squib. There was no way that locket belonged to her family.”Andromeda shouldn’t have been surprised that Umbridge would claim such a thing.

“She tried to claim it came from the Selwyn family.”Hermione told her.

“When we were at school she would try to claim a relationship to all the pureblood families.”Narcissa hated Umbridge during school and those feelings didn’t change when they became adults.

“How did you get it away from her?”Fleur asked.

“I asked her if I could see it up close so I could take in the details. She was of course flattered and eagerly took the locket off and handed it to me. Once I had I asked if I could have a cup of tea and while she was making my tea I switched the locket with the fake one I had already gotten from Kreecher. After the switch I spent a few more minutes with her then I excused myself, returned to the basement, changed my clothes then collected my stuff and left. No one was the wiser.”Hermione thought it was the smoothest mission to get a horcrux so far.

“I’ve got to give it to you. You got guts.”Bellatrix didn’t think she could have pulled it off without drawing her wand on someone.

“I can see why you say that you can’t trust the Order to do what you do.”Narcissa thought the Order would have gone wands out storming the ministry getting themselves killed trying to get the locket.

“It was different when Sirius was alive. He was there to back me up on decisions and he would enforce my orders. The mission he went on that got him killed was something I wasn’t told about. The others went behind my back and for some reason Sirius went with them. I think he went to try to save the idiots but I don’t know for sure.”Hermione would never forgive the Order for Sirius’ death.

“What exactly was the mission?”Narcissa had only heard about her cousin’s death not the details. 

“They raided an illegal gambling club that they believed was run by Death Eaters. It was not. It was run by the Dorsey family.”Hermione was unsurprised by the gasps of shock coming from the others.

“They went after the Dorsey family?”Seeing Hermione nod Bellatrix was even more confused.”Why would they go after a crime organization that even the Dark Lord stays away from?”

“Because they were trying to be heroes. They got sick of not making the front page and not being the ones in charge. That’s why they went behind my back. They wanted to prove they didn’t need me.”Hermione said.

“I personally think they knew it wasn’t a Death Eater run business. They just were jealous of the fame and praise Hermione was getting and they wanted to do something to make people think they were the real heroes.”Andromeda hated every single member of the Order that was involved in that mission for taking her cousin away from Hermione.

“They haven’t done anything as stupid as that again but they still try to do dumb stuff to make a name for themselves.”Fleur never went on any missions that Hermione wasn’t involved in. Not that it mattered because Hermione was the only one who sent Fleur on missions. The others ignored her and never listened to her suggestions.

“What was the mission Ron and Harry went on that they got caught by aurors and had to be rescued?”Bellatrix asked as she finished with the dresser and moved on to the bags and boxes piled in the corner of the room.

“I don’t know what the mission was. I was just called in to rescue them.”Hermione didn’t respond to the owl.

“I was there for it. The twins came up with this device that you leave part of it a room and with the other part you can hear the sounds coming from the room with other part in. The parts work up to two miles apart from each other. Everyone was talking over each other about how useful the device was and where they thought the best spot was to put it. At one point Ron slammed his hand on table to get everyone’s attention. Once he had he told everyone that the most obvious thing to do was for him and Harry to sneak into the ministry and put the device in the minister’s office.”Fleur told them.

“Please tell me they didn’t go along with that.”Narcissa couldn’t think of a more stupid plan.

“Unfortunately for everyone they did. The plan was destine to fail from the start because they didn’t even dress up in disguises or use poly juice potion. Ron was wearing the ugly sweater his mom makes for the family every Christmas and Harry a Gryffindor sweater complete with matching scarf and hat. The pair stormed out of the Burrow with wands already out rushing to leave the wards. It was then they both realized they couldn’t take themselves to the ministry because they aren’t capable of magical travel and would have to have an escort take them. Well about two hours later the escort comes back without Ron or Harry and tells us that the pair got arrested for pulling their wands on the receptionist.”Fleur smiled when the others laughed.

“Idiots.”Bellatrix expected no less from the pair.

“Apparently they asked the receptionist how to get to the minister’s office and she told them that only people with an appointment get escorted up there and everyone else was not allowed. Instead of trying to find a different way the pair pulled their wands and started making threats. Harry asked her is she really wanted to stand against the chosen one and Ron kept saying that Dumbledore gave him the mission. The escort said it was chaos with the two yelling nonsense until the aurors came and took them to the cells.”Fleur had to force herself not laugh out loud when the escort came back.

“I got a howler from Molly demanding that I rescue them immediately. I ignored it and went back to what I was doing.”What Hermione had been doing was pleasuring Andromeda and that was way more important than rescuing Harry and Ron.

Andromeda smiled thinking about what they had been doing when the howler showed up.”I was very appreciative of you ignoring it”

“I feel like you two are talking about something naughty and I would like very much to know what that is.”Bellatrix said as she started looking through a box of books.

Andromeda made her way to Hermione and kissed her blushing cheek.”They’re nothing to be embarrassed about sweetheart. You are the greatest lover I have ever had and you should be proud of how satisfied you keep me.”

“Andy.”Hermione lowered her head trying to hide her face with her hair.

“I myself am very interested in this topic.”Narcissa wanted to hear all about Hermione’s skills in the bedroom.

“I am as well.”Fleur wanted to know what she had to look forward to.

“What else have you guys found?”Hermione asked.

Bellatrix chuckled at the obvious attempt to change the subject. She would just bring it up to Andromeda later.”I found a bunch of books on how to please you lover. Then there is one that is filled with spells that are supposed to do things like enlarge a penis and give a man a 2 hour erection.”

“How many of those books do you think his mother gave him?”Andromeda bet Molly gave all her sons those type of books.

“Probably the whole box and a bunch more he left at the Burrow.”Hermione could easily see Molly giving books like that to her children.

“Especially if those books can help Bill get someone pregnant. Molly is obsessed with everyone having a dozen children.”Even if Fleur could mate with a man she would never pick Bill.

“She was like that is school as well. Always lecturing the girls around her on how to be a proper lady and what books had the best spells for maintaining a household and raising children.”Narcissa had hexed Molly one time when she tried to approach the table she was sitting at not wanting to listen to her.

“I think I found a muggle contraption?”Fleur held up a long clear tube with a pump on one end.

Hermione laughed at the sight of it.”That’s called a penis pump. It’s suppose to make a man’s penis larger if they use it.”

“I’m not surprised he has a small dick.”Bellatrix thought that fit with Bill’s personality perfectly.

“All that’s in both bedside tables are candy and biscuit wrappers. Should we looked under his mattress?”Andromeda didn’t know if they would find anything.

“Might as well.”Narcissa was more than willing to prolong the search because it allowed her to spend more time snuggling with Hermione. Who was now completely relaxed into Narcissa.

“All I got over here beside the books is his dirty clothes and a box of pictures. Most of pictures are of his mother.”Bellatrix wanted to find something humiliating. Then again the penis pump and the pregnancy porn kind of was.

“Make sure after you check under the mattress to check under the bed.”Fleur was done with looking through Bill’s belongings. After what she had seen she planned to burn the bed as well.

Andromeda lifted up the mattress, found nothing then looked under the bed. Under it she saw a large leather bag. She grabbed it and put it on the bed. Opening the bag she whistled.”Seems like Bill isn’t the type of man to keep his gold in his vault.”

“He left behind gold?”Narcissa asked.

“Yes he did.”Andromeda showed everyone the continents of the bag.

It was Bellatrix’s turn to whistle.”That right there is a fortune for a Weasley.”

“What are we going to do with it?”Hermione didn’t want to give it back.

“We can give away.”Fleur didn’t want to keep it nor did she want to give it back to Bill.

“Who should we give it to?”Narcissa on board with giving it away.

“Maybe we should give it to Ginny to give her a chance to get away from her mother and Harry.”Andromeda suggested.

“I like that idea.”Hermione would be more than happy to help Ginny.

“I was just thinking earlier about speaking to others about getting Ginny help. Bill’s gold will be a good start.”Fleur thought Ginny was the perfect person to give the gold to.

“It’s settled. Now are you set on burning this all right now or can we come back at a later date and do it because I would like to leave before others start coming to test the wards.”Bellatrix also was excited to see her childhood home again.

“I want to strip out this entire room and that will take time so I am fine with leaving it for now.”Fleur was going to be remodeling the whole house if Hermione agreed to have a relationship with her. They would need the space for Fleur, Hermione and the three sisters.

“Good then do you need help packing?”Andromeda asked.

“When Bill moved in I put all my valuables and anything sentimental in my room so it should only take me a few minutes.”Fleur didn’t have that much stuff.

“Bring anything you want because you will be given one of the guest rooms for yourself. Meaning you can decorate it however you want.”Hermione told her.

Fleur smiled hearing that.”I won’t leave anything behind then.”

“We will be here when you are ready.”Narcissa didn’t want to get up yet.

Bellatrix watched Fleur walk out of the room.”I like her.”

“Fleur has always been a good person.”Hermione said.

“If you know what’s good for you you will stop writing her flock mates.”Narcissa had heard the angry thoughts Fleur had hearing that Hermione talked to other Veela.

“I’m not going to stop talking to my friends.”Hermione wouldn’t stop being friends someone just because Fleur didn’t like it.

Bellatrix chuckled.”Oh pet you are going to be trouble aren’t you.”

“I’m not going to be trouble.”Hermione grumbled.

Andromeda kissed Hermione on the cheek.”Hermione trouble is your middle name but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

“I love you.”Hermione told Andromeda.

“I love you to sweetheart.”Andromeda happily let herself be pulled into a kiss. She had been apart from Hermione for three weeks and scared out of her mind when finding out about Malfoy Manor. Now that Hermione was safe she wanted to have some time alone to reconnect.

Hermione pulled back from the kiss.”I’m in for a long night aren’t I?”

“I made sure the elves stocked our bedroom fridge with muggle energy drinks.”Andromeda was planning on keeping Hermione up until the sun came up or one of them passed out. Whichever happened first.

“You can’t wear her out to much Andy she’s recovering.”Narcissa also didn’t want Hermione to be to exhausted to spend time with her.

“If things play out like they usually do it will be me worn out not Hermione.”Andromeda always felt her age when she woke up after spending the night having sex with Hermione.

“Well I don’t know about you Cissa but I can’t wait to find out for myself if Hermione can wear me out.”Bellatrix smiled when Hermione blushed. She thought it was funny that the most feared person on either side of the war blushed at the slightest mention of sex.

“I personally am going to invest in some of those muggle energy drinks Andromeda mentioned so that I am guaranteed to be worn out.”Narcissa kissed Hermione’s head when she buried her face in her hands.”Don’t be shy darling.”

“She has always been like this. Someone says the word sex and she is a blushing virgin. While she’s having sex she has no inhibitions at all. She has literally caused me to pass out mid orgasm. That’s how amazing she is.”Andromeda was happy she finally had people to talk to about her amazing sex life. It was hard not to brag about it all the time.

“Andy please. Can we not talk about our sex life or sex at all?”Hermione pleaded.

“Fine I will just talk to them about it later.”Andromeda told her smiling when she heard Hermione groan. It was Hermione’s own fault that Andromeda had something to brag about. It was also Hermione’s fault Andromeda had people to brag to. If Hermione wasn’t so charming she wouldn’t have attracted so many would be suitors. It just so happened that her sisters and Fleur were the only ones Andromeda was comfortable sharing Hermione with. Thinking about sharing Hermione brought with it thoughts of home. They would have to renovate the manor if everyone was going to move in with her and Hermione. Not that they had a choice. If they wanted to live with them they had to live at Black family manor because Hermione and Andromeda both decided that would be their main family home. They were planning on raising their children and growing old there. That brought with it thoughts of the other families Hermione was now in charge of. They needed to deal with the wards at Malfoy Manor soon and then there was cup in the Lestrange vault as well. Looking at Hermione Andromeda pushed all those thoughts away. She was going to focus on Hermione for the night and worry about the rest tomorrow.