Author's Note:

This is my first published fan fiction so please go easy on me. However, I am very curious to know what you my lovely readers think.

I don't have a beta so please forgive any spelling and grammatical errors, and let me know about them.

It will be rated M for later chapters.

I own nothing except the plot. All hail Queen Jo!

Prologue

It was a slightly boring, at least in Hermione Granger's opinion, midsummer afternoon that we begin out story. Said war heroine was sitting in her office at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries when she heard a call over the public announcement system.

"Healer Granger to Ward One" came the voice over the loud speaker, "Healer Granger to Ward One."

Hermione was curious about the call as she worked primarily as a family physician and rehabilitation therapist, but she stood from her desk and grabbed her Healer's robes as she made her way out of her office on the third floor and towards the stairwell that would take her to the ground level of the magical hospital.

As she was descending the stairs Hermione couldn't help but wonder what she was being called to the Artifact Accidents Ward. She emerged through the door on the main level of the hospital and made her way towards the nurse's station.

When the nurse on duty saw her she simply pointed to a room directly to the left of the station that was used for emergency procedures in the ward. Hermione walked to the room and before entering allowed herself a moment of calm and a deep breath to centre herself before her work began.

As she entered the room, Hermione immediately noticed the chaos of it. There were several occupied beds in the long room with Healers working around all the stretchers. Weaving her way between the flurry of activity and flying objects she found the ward supervisor hunched over one of the beds and went over to Healer Bryce to find out why she was there.

"Healer Bryce," she addressed the man in charge of the Artifact Accident Ward.

"Oh good, Healer Granger," he responded as he moved away from the bed where he had been working on a man's torso, as he stepped away Hermione noted that the injury looked like a chemical burn. "There's been an accident in the potions lab here at the hospital, quite bad I'm afraid as you can see. They were working on some new experimental potions," he began before shouting an order to a younger healer at a bed nearby. "We sent for you because of your unique background as both a healer and a therapist."

Hermione nodded at his assessment, she knew the potions research department had been working on several very intricate projects, "I understand what do you need me to do?"

The Healer led her away from the open section of the room towards one surrounded by curtains at the end of it. "Most of the patients are potions masters that were hit with the potion that exploded, and their injuries are related mostly to the actual potion having touched their skin. However, the patient who has been the most severely affected was working on the potion they were researching that would cure blindness. The potion exploded in his face due to an apprentice's error and since it was still in the development phase the results were not what was expected," He broke off turning towards a noise to his right. The patient in the bed nearest them momentarily distracted him as she cried out in pain before being subdued by a Healer with a quick wand.

Hermione turned back to the Healer waiting for him to continue, still not understanding why she had been called to the ward. When he at last faced her again she saw the look of pity in his eyes at the misfortune of the people in the ward.

He shook himself briefly before continuing, "I was led to understand that you had been assisting the potions department in their research, and had worked closely with them on the development of the potion, and so I thought it best that you help this particular patient." He turned to the curtains surrounding the closed off bed, before he pulled away the curtain he spoke once more, "We have healed the initial burns from the potion on his hands and face, but we are quite sure that given the nature of the experiment that when he wakes he will be blind. I believe you can help."

Finally pulling aside the curtain for them to walk through, Hermione followed him into the small area surrounding the bed. When she at last saw the reason why she had been taken from her own ward she was startled to see Draco Malfoy laying unconscious on the bed before her.