One Year Later.

As soon as Hermione entered her flat she shrugged off her jacket and removed her heels. Wandering through the living room and into the kitchen, she grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge before making her way to the bedroom. It was Hermione's birthday and she was due to have dinner with her boyfriend and best friends that night, so she needed to get ready.

When Hermione entered the bedroom she spotted a large green box, tied with a silver ribbon, sitting in the centre of the bed. Walking over to the bed, Hermione placed her water onto the bedside table before examining the card on top of the present. From the colour scheme of the decoration she had immediately assumed the present was from Draco, and the card only confirmed that it was indeed from her boyfriend.

Placing the card to one side, Hermione untied the ribbon and lifted the lid on the box. Peeling the tissue paper that was in the box to the side, she revealed a set of green and black lingerie. Hermione picked up the skimpy undergarments to examine then, when a voice behind her made her jump.

"Do you like them?"

Hermione turned round to find Draco leaning in the doorway to the en-suite bathroom. Technically Hermione lived alone as Draco still resided at Malfoy Manor, but her boyfriend spent almost every night at her place so she wasn't the slightest bit surprised to find him already in her flat. His sudden emergence from the bathroom half-dressed however, had given her a shock.

"I do." Hermione replied, placing the silk garments back in their box. "But I suspect they're more for your benefit than mine."

"I'm sure you'll thoroughly enjoy the effect they'll have on me." Draco smirked.

Hermione laughed lightly as she headed towards her wardrobe to find something to wear. She knew Draco was right and they would both enjoy the sexy underwear he had purchased for her. Hermione's fears about not being good at sex were unfounded, she and Draco had a varied and fulfilling sex life that never disappointed either of them.

After picking a dress to wear, Hermione grabbed her new underwear and headed for the shower. After showering, Hermione got dressed and did her hair and make-up. Once she was ready, she grabbed Draco and the couple apparated to the restaurant where they were meeting Harry and Ron for dinner and drinks.

Hermione was relieved that dinner with her friends passed without a major incident occurring. Over the course of the previous year Draco, Harry and Ron had all learned to get along with one another. Hermione knew her two friends would never be great friends with her boyfriend, but she appreciated the three of them making an effort to be civil towards each other.

The only time throughout the night when Hermione worried things were going to get messy was when Harry and Ron presented her with her birthday gifts. When the boys produced the presents, Draco made a crack about them shopping at Knockturn Alley. Luckily both Harry and Ron could now see the funny side of what had happened a year ago and they laughed along with Draco at the memories of the immersion book.

After dinner, Hermione returned home while Draco popped back to the Manor to pick up the second part of his present for her. While Draco was away Hermione used the time to prepare herself and when her boyfriend returned she was lounging on the bed, wearing just her new lingerie set.

"Do you like what you see?" Hermione asked Draco, when he came to a stop just inside the doorway. Judging from the way his grey eyes were scanning her body and the bulge that was forming in his trousers, Draco definitely liked what he saw.

"Very much." Draco regained the power of speech as he stalked towards the bed, placing a large box on the floor beside the bed.

"Oh, is that my present?" Hermione asked, sitting up and peering at the box on the floor.

"I'll give you it in a minute." Draco said, pushing Hermione back onto the bed and climbing on with her. "Right now, I've got something else in mind."

Any complaint Hermione might have made was stifled as Draco's lips crashed into hers and he pinned her half-dressed figure underneath his fully clothed one. Hermione eagerly responded to the kiss as her hands reached out and began unbuttoning Draco's shirt. Very quickly after that Hermione had divested Draco of his shirt and trousers, leaving him in just his underwear.

"Do you want your present now or later?" Draco asked as he pressed kisses against Hermione's collar bone and neck.

"I'll have you now and the present after." Hermione replied, pulling Draco into a searing kiss as her hands pushed his boxers down his legs.

Draco quickly obeyed Hermione wish and divested her of her new underwear. In a flurry of lips kissing and hands caressing, Draco entered Hermione and they began to make love. What started out slow and steady soon became fast as furious as the couple lost themselves in passion. With a culmination of loud shouts and screams from both parties, Hermione and Draco climaxed almost simultaneously, before slumping back onto the bed tangled together.

After a few minutes recovery time, Draco leant over Hermione and picked the present up off the floor. Placing the box in-between them, Draco told Hermione to open it. Hermione sat up and began opening the silver ribbon that was tied around the box, it hadn't escaped her notice that this second present was wrapped in the same colour scheme as the first. Opening the lid, Hermione peered into the box and found a collection of books.

"Immersion books." Hermione commented, as she pulled the top book from the box and examined it. "Really? After the trouble we had last year, you've bought me a collection of them?"

Hermione was slightly sceptical of the present as she knew Draco was aware that she was unsure of the books now. While she had freely admitted she had loved the experience she had in the book, she had also admitted the dodgy spell had made her wary of even trying a normal book. In fact the spell in the replacement book that Dumbledore had given her had never been touched, Hermione had read the book but she had refused to do the spell even though she had been assured it was the correct spell.

"Your book last year may have been trouble, but it brought us together." Draco replied.

"I know." Hermione smiled. "And that was the best birthday present I've ever received."

"Until now." Draco grinned. "I promise, you're going to love what I've had done to these books."

"Please say, you haven't tampered with the spell." Hermione said, looking at the book in her hand warily.

"I have, but in a good way." Draco responded. "I actually had these printed specially from the makers of the books. Instead of the normal one person immersion, these books are equipped with a spell to immerse two people into the story."

"So only us two would be in the book?" Hermione asked, checking she had understood right.

"Yes, unless of course you cast someone else as your leading man." Draco replied.

"As tempting as that is, I think I'll stick with you." Hermione chuckled. "Although I do have to note, that yet again my birthday present seems to benefit you."

"I thought the first present benefited both of us." Draco smirked. "After all a few minutes ago you were screaming my name rather loudly as you reaped the benefits of wearing sexy lingerie. I'm sure this present will benefit us both as well, just think of the fun we can have."

"I am." Hermione grinned, looking up from where she had been scanning the back of the first book she had been looking at. "I take it these are all adult books with the racy content."

"Of course." Draco snorted at the idea he would buy anything else. "I only bought them for the sex."

"Let's see what you've got then." Hermione said, delving into the box.

For the next ten minutes Draco and Hermione examined the books in the box. They discovered all sorts of titles, including some more medieval stories and some historical ones, much to Hermione's delight. They also discovered that some of the books had the male character as the lead star and some had the male and female characters as equal leads.

"We should give this one to Ginny." Hermione laughed, picking up a book about a student having an illicit affair with her teacher. "I swear after last year, she has a major crush on Snape."

"Maybe, she liked what she remembered from the story." Draco replied.

From a conversation Draco had overheard his parents having a few night ago he had a sneaking suspicion that Ginny's crush was not quite as unrequited as it would appear. Lucius had been telling Narcissa that Snape had confided in him that he was having inappropriate urges towards one of his students. While Ginny's name was never mentioned in the conversation, Draco heard enough to know that she was the student in question. Draco had no idea if Snape would ever act on his urges but if something did happen between him and Ginny, Draco didn't want to be the one to tell Hermione about it.

"Do you want to try one now?" Hermione asked, drawing Draco's attention back to what was happening.

"Sure." Draco grinned, thrilled that Hermione had come round to the idea of the books. "Since it's your birthday, you can pick which one we try first."

"I've already picked." Hermione replied as she tidied the books they weren't using back into the box and handed Draco the book she was planning on experiencing.

"Pirates." Draco exclaimed, reading the synopsis about a pirate captain that kidnapped the beautiful daughter of a king who was chasing him and wanted him dead. Even though the synopsis didn't go into details, he figured the pirate captain and the princess would end up having a passionate affair and falling in love with each other.

"Yep, Pirates." Hermione smiled, taking the book back off Draco and breaking the seal on the spell. Exchanging smiles with her boyfriend she cast the spell that would send them headfirst into a pirate adventure set in the Caribbean sun.

The End.