JUST A NOTE BEFORE HAND SNAPE MAY SEEM A LITTLE OUT OF CHARACTER IN THIS AT TIMES BUT IF HE DOES PLEASE JUST ROLE WITH IT :)
Curses were flying everywhere, desperately searching, bodies lying everywhere, more still collapsing around her, blood streaming down her face, vision blurring slightly, cursing hitting her back causing excruciating pain, dragging herself up, must find the one she loves, lights flying everywhere, attacking only those threatening her or to help her friends in need, explosion throwing her to the floor once again, cutting her lip, her arm, her chest, everywhere hurts, fighting the darkness threatening to engulf her, ".awake" she whispered to herself encouragingly, spotting the blur of ginger she'd been searching for, locked in vicious combat, joining his side, taking his hand and fighting off the many attackers, one was left but wasn't defeated in time as a flash of green flew out his wand and collided with Ron, gashes appearing everywhere, blood spilling from him as Hermione finished his attacker off and collapsed on her knees next to the man she loved.
"Hermione" he breathed between each ragged breath "I love you, now and always, no matter what happens, I always have, if we make it through this, I will marry you, I, love, you" a tear streaming down his face, his breath laboured and short
"Ron, I love you too, with all my heart, but this isn't goodbye," she said her voice shaking as tears streamed down her face, cradling Ron in her lap "Please, fight it"
"Im so cold Hermione, so, so, cold" the look of fear and pain in his face mixed with over whelming love was enough to break anyone's heart fighting back the weeping "You're going to be okay Ron, I know you are"
His hand came up and cradled her cheek and wiped away her tears "I'll always be with you, and that's enough for me, wherever I am, I love you" using all his energy to lean up and kiss her one more time with all the love in the world just as strong arms wrapped around her pulling her away "Ron! No, let go off me! Ron!" she screamed as he was hidden from view, multiple people working over him, "Ron" her voice was weak as the blood loss go to her, her vision going dark
"Miss Granger" came a silky voice from behind her as she collapsed in his arms, her worst enemy, yet her strangest saviour
Slowly she awoke hearing hurried whispers around, her eye lids to heavy to lift so she laid still, listening, feeling her body slowly come alive, starting with her toes slowly working up, enjoying the sensation until she started feeling the excruciating pain that came with it, a tear escaping her eye, unable to move as the effects of the immobilization potion faded off, her eyes fluttered open to see Remus Lupin sat by the side of her bed looking extremely haggard and cut stitched on his forehead.
"Hermione, your awake" a note of relief in his voice
"What happened?" She said trying to push herself into a sitting position and Lupin's hands came up to help her as she winced in pain
"Remus, where's Ron?" no answer "Remus, what happened to him?"
He took her hand "Hermione, im, so sorry, but there's nothing we could do"
"No. I don't believe you. He wouldn't just leave me." The tears in her eyes and streaming down her face proved that deep down she knew what he was saying was true but she wouldn't accept it "NO! HE'S NOT DEAD!"
"Hermione, calm down, you're going to hurt yourself even more"
Ignoring the pain she flung her legs over the side of her bed and slid out "Get off me" she growled as Lupin tried to stop her and she seized her wand from the bedside table, stumbling to the door, using everything and anything for support, tears streaming down her face. Opening the doors with magic, taking all her effort not to collapse, not seeing the cloaked figure in front of her until she smacked straight into him the silky voice coming once more his strong arms wrapping around her body holding her up "Miss Granger?" as she slowly slipped in semi consciousness weeping madly into his chest. Lupin just stared at him his mouth hanging open as Snape's arms wound around her a confused look on his face. "Miss Granger I think you should return to your bed before you do yourself anymore damage" his only response was a nod against his chest as she struggled to control herself, before turning and almost falling over, and would of if Snape's arm hadn't wrapped around her waist in time to save her, pulling her up before Lupin came to his senses and rushed over, picking her up and carrying her to her bed, laying her gently in it before realising blood had soaked through her bandages
"Poppy!" he called but she was already there
"You shouldn't have let her out of bed"
"I…"
"What's done is done, now I need your help"
"What can I do?"
"I need to change her bandages, and I need someone to put pressure on the bleeding while im getting the new one started"
"Why don't the spells work?"
"Because that is dark magic Remus"
"What about stitching it?" came Severus' voice "It's a muggle method they use on the interior and exterior to hold it together and stop the bleeding, therefore giving it a chance to heal"
"But" came Lupin
"But what?" he drawled
"That might just work Severus" she said "Remus fetch me a needle and thread from my office please, Severus come here and help, I assume you know what your doing?"
"Vaguely, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out"
"Look Severus, you're just going to have to swallow your pride, roll up your sleeves and help another human being for once in your life"
He sighed and began rolling up his sleeves as Lupin came back "Here you go Poppy"
"Thank you, now I believe Dumbledore needs your presence"
"Very well, just take care of her Poppy she's like a daughter to me"
"I will Remus, don't worry she'll be fine, now go" she said watching sadly as he turned and left,
"Right let's get to work" Poppy said
An hour later they were done, they had lost count of how many stitches she had needed but the huge 8 inch trail running diagonally across her ribs suggested a great many and enough for their hands to be covered in blood.
2 days later Hermione awoke, every part of her hurting but the pain she recognized most was in her ribs, head, arm and heart. Slowly shifting her weight, she slid up, noticing she wasn't in the usual hospital gowns, she had on lose fitting white linen short shorts and a lose fitting linen shirt,
"Ah Miss Granger your awake, how are you feeling?"
"Sore"
"Understandable, here taking these potions you need them to heal fully"….. "I'll leave them on the table" she said bustling round and placing them next to Hermione before turning shooting her a worried glance just before she left and as soon as she did Hermione broke down once more, the type of weeping that signified a broken heart, the type that could cause pain to anyone who heard it because of how desperate and full of pain it was.
Days passed in this same routine, she would wake up, stare at the walls, refuse to drink her potions or let Madam Pomfrey tend to her wounds, insisting she was fine, weeping until she was completely exhausted and her throat burned, barely speak to her visitors, barely sleeping, always having nightmares, staying in the same state as the day she came in because she refused to take her medicine, having no light in her eyes and refusing to take the books she offered, barely eating and drinking only when Madam Pomfrey insisted. Until one night Snape visited her.
It was about 11 o clock at night he visited Poppy to deliver some supplies and noticed the light was still on behind Hermione's curtain, his curiosity getting the better of him
"Poppy, why is Miss Granger's light still on isn't it past lights out?"
"She refuses to sleep, I think she's scared of what she will see when she does, she screams in her sleep you see, not normal nightmare screams… the type of screams that strike fear into your heart, the heartbroken screams, the type that leave scars inside, the type you can't describe"
"You're worried about her?"
"Of course I am Severus, I'd be a fool if I wasn't, she doesn't sleep, or eat, or speak. She only drinks when I insist she does, she weeps, weeps that suggest a broken heart, ones that's shouldn't becoming from such a young girl, she doesn't take her medicine and refuses to let me tend to her wounds, she hasn't got any better, if anything, she's gotten worse, she's blocked herself off from the world, the lights left her eyes, she refuses books, she just sits there and stares at the walls… her voice is always sad… they say the eyes are windows to the soul, if that's true then her soul is well and truly broken, and it is weeping, no one can get through to her"
"Do her parent's know?"
"Her parent's do not even know she exists, she oblivated them and sent them to Australia with no memory of her, just so they could be safe"
"Typical Gryffindor thing to do" He growled
"You would have done the same"
"Goodbye Poppy, let me know if you need anything else brewing"
Sighing "Goodbye Severus" and entered her quarters
He slowly approached her curtain, hesitating, listening to her sobs, before slipping out the door, away from the girl whose blood had been covering his hands mere days before, and that was not something he was going to forget.
I KNOW SNAPE HASN'T VISITED HER YET AND IM NOT SURE IF THIS IS ANY GOOD, IT WAS OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK PLEASE, I WOULD APPRECIATE IT GREATLY, PLEASE R&R... ALSO I KNOW IT IS ALL RATHER ABRUPT BUT I JUST NEEDED TO GET THE BASIC STORY LINE DOWN, THERE WILL BE FLASH BACKS IN THE PROCESS OF HEALING AND ALL THAT THIS CHAPTER IS JUST TO GET THE BASICS DOWN SO SORRY ABOUT THAT...
