A/n: Hello there. This is my first time writing a fanfiction for Draco and Hermione. I'm sorry for the past, present, and future mistakes. I don't have an editor, so if there are any grammar mistakes, please do tell. I'll try my best to adjust. I hope you enjoy reading Hide-and-Seek. The story is narrated by the two characters' POV.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything except the plot.

Warning: Suicidal. Angst. Drama. Death. If in any case you don't like these themes, I recommend reading a different story.

Summary: After the war, Hermione has drowned in her own depression at the murder of her own parents and Ron, the love of her life. Unable to surpass this depression, she turned to the only logical thing that comes to her head, suicide. But at that fateful day, another person barged into her life and saved her from her death. And it was no other than Draco Malfoy. And he was planning to do a suicide too. Then, came an agreement to save each other from their own selves. Will they be able to save each other just in time?

Chapter 1: Game

These games of ours, it all started a year after the war. It was summer then. The colours were still vivid in my mind. The red smeared palm blending against the harsh orange fires in the sky. It was hauntingly beautiful. It was then that I saw her.

Alone.

Bleeding.

Grasping for the remaining breaths of her life.

And I did something unexpectedly un-Malfoy. I saved her. Oh wait, maybe it was to feed my own insanity-filled bruised ego. I wasn't exactly in the right state of mind these past few years. I'm damaged, really. I could remember 6th year… dark colours clouding my visions, my nightmares still haunting me up unto this day. It was breaking me, and I was in the brink of my sanity. I needed something to pull me back to reality. Either that or I drown in my own impending darkness, I call death. So, that's how I found her. And I ended up feeding my insanity.

I saved her from her own suicidal death. It was funny really. I am enthralled by the predicament that happened. She was taking her own life, painfully slow in the middle of the grass, bleeding. I saved her, not because I cared, more like a fascination of how this filth would live the rest of her life making it up to me, and the humiliation of seeing her in her breaking point. No, I saved her, just to torment her, that reason only. Now, I'm back at reality. And she became my pull. Little did I know, this predicament would also happen to me.

And thus, started our game of suicidal hide and seek.

It was sunny then. I could remember the summer tingling air kissing my skin with its warmth. It was a nice day to die. I didn't know when I had these suicidal thoughts… I just knew I wanted to die, to sink deeper to that depressing hole I call life. The war has ended for a year now… a year without Ron. My mind kept on rejecting and denying the fact that he already died along with many others. But when I did accept it, I broke. I lived an empty life for 365 days, an empty shell. Harry, Ginny, and my other friends were worried. They called for the rest of the year, trying to contact me. But, I didn't answer, not a single one. I was becoming unstable, and I didn't want them to witness this shit I'm going through. It wasn't just Ron though… I wouldn't break down to this point, if it was only one. But, it wasn't. My mom and dad were murdered during my participation in war. It was all downhill from there.

I was lying on the grass that day, now that I remembered. I pierced my side with a knife from mom's vintage collection, the one with a glass snake and lion sculpted along its silver gold handle as if it was to hold a certain kind of liquid in it. I lay there bleeding. I examined my blood tainted hand against the burning orange skies. And my hand fell beside me. My chest was convulsing, coughing blood to the air, grasping to what's left of this earth. Before my vision turned black, I caught a glimpse of the sun meeting the horizon, and there in the corner of my sight, a blur of green light and blond hair.

And then, that's when the games started.

This is Hermione Granger, suicide attempt #1. And point 1 goes to Draco Malfoy for saving my life.

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H.