Title: Blind Love

Summary: Hermione becomes blind when a spell backfires on her. Now she must stay at St. Mungo's hospital or she must have Malfoy as her guide. This only brings old feelings of bitterness, hatred, danger, and... love, back.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter!


Chapter one: Hermione

"Hermione? Hermione! Are you okay?" Ron's voice rang in my ears which made me cringe. When I tried to open my eyes so I could see him, they stung and everything was black. Flash blacks and memories of what happened to me all came flooding back. Great. I was probably blind. I already knew because in the directions of the ingredients of the spell said that if it made eye contact then you could become blind.

"We have to get her to St. Mungo's Harry!" Ron sounded frantic and I let out a deep breath to try and tell him not to worry, but when I tried my voice was dry and crackly and hard to understand.

As I felt myself being lifted up off the ground I managed to get my voice to work.

"Guys you don't have to worry."

"Honestly Hermione do you expect us to believe that?" Harry asked.

I stayed quiet at this. What else was I supposed to say? For the first time ever I was left speechless. After a few minutes of silence it began to bug me. I felt like I was sitting in a dark abyss.

"Guys... I'm sorry for this. We where supposed to be heading back to Hogwarts so that we could help teach the new students and I messed up," I trailed off to wait for one of them to answer.

"Mione, it isn't a problem. We can always tell McGonagall that you had an accident at home and we stayed to help you," Ron explained and I smiled.

"Thanks Ron. Harry are you okay with this?"

There was a slight pause. "Yeah I'm fine. Ginny and I have a date planned tonight." I could here the smile in his voice without having to see him.

"Harry that's great!" I explained.

"Yeah. We haven't been able to spend time alone together in months," he explained.

I smiled to myself and wished I could hug him but Ron had me held tightly in his arms so it wasn't like I could just get up and walk over to him.

"Harry could you come here please?" I asked and when I heard footsteps walk up to stand next to Ron and I, I leaned forward a little and held my arms out like I was trying to hug him. When I felt his arms wrap lightly around me I sighed.

Ron cleared his voice. "We should telaport to St. Mungo's now," he said.

I let out a reluctant breath and then held it in pain when we telaported to the hospital wing. A cold and hard voice welcomed us and I gasped when I recognized it as Draco Malfoy's voice.