Chapter 1 – Return of the Slytherin Prince
Draco Malfoy walked through the halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the first time in three months. On the last 13th of October, the blonde haired Slytherin had suddenly disappeared. No – one within Hogwarts knows why. Some say he left to escape his death eater future, some say he left to pursue it. Only the Malfoy family know the one true reason behind the disappearance, and Draco was doing his best to forget...he had to forget.
Draco was so lost in thought that he only realised that he wasn't alone when he went crashing straight into another student, who was now on the floor. "Sorry" Draco mumbled and looked down at his collider 'Of course,' Draco thought 'The first person I see since coming back just has to be Hermione bloody Granger.' Hermione hadn't looked up yet so she didn't know that she'd walked into Draco. "No, no it's fine it was my fault! I wasn't looking where I was - MALFOY?!" she had looked up. Draco sighed softly "Hello Granger" he replied in a bored tone, but Draco was just wanting to get away.
"Where the hell have you been?!" asked the Gryffindor astonished.
"Why do you care?" Draco snapped. Hermione folded her arms and scowled.
"Oh, I don't know... Maybe it's the fact that three months ago you just disappeared and now you're back?" Draco glared at his enemy, not forgetting the punch in the face during third year
"It's nothing that you need to know" Draco mumbled and tried to push past Hermione in order to get to Slytherin common room. "See you round Granger." Draco was planning to just brush past Hermione without saying a single thing to her but Hermione was too fast. She had grabbed Draco's left arm causing him to cry out in pain and whip around to face the Gryffindor who was wearing a worried expression. "What's wrong with your arm?" She asked softly. Draco sighed and shook his head "I can't tell you-"he began but stopped himself. 'I guess it wouldn't hurt to tell her' he thought and looked at Hermione, with one eyebrow raised. "You really want to know?" He asked. His reply was a simple nod of Hermione's head. Draco looked away for a second and he rolled up his left sleeve, showing skin which had the word "TRAITOR" engraved into it. Hermione gasped and looked up at Draco horrified. "W-who did this?" she whispered.
"Have one guess" Draco replied. If he thought Hermione's eyes couldn't get any wider, he was wrong.
A/N: Cliff-hanger! Who engraved the words into Draco's arm? Why is Draco a traitor? Find out in the next chapter of Mending the Wounds!
P.S: Sorry it's so short! future chapters will be longer :) xox
P.P.S: This is my first Fanfic so I hope it isn't completely suckish! Thanks for reading!
-TopazSwiftie13