Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS! they belong to JK rowling.
Chapter 1
It has been nearly a year since Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger befriended Draco Malfoy. At first, working with each other had been trouble. Many insults had been fired back and forth within each other and one of them even ended up badly injured.
It wasn't until a random night when Ex- Death Eaters decided to visit the four junior Aurors-in-training during one of their assignments, when things changed.
"Hey Hermione?" Ron asked, couple months later.
Hermione looked up from her paper work to see Harry and Ron standing in her door. "Yes?"
"We're going to visit Draco after this. Want to come?"
She absently caressed the scar that's hidden beneath her blouse, "Of course."
"C'mon then." Harry said, "We're going to apparate there again."
Hermione nodded and filed her paper work away before following her two best friends out. As they entered the familiar sightings, their eyes scanned around the stones to read familiar names.
Severus Snape... Fred Weasley... Colin Creevey...
The three stopped abruptly and stared at the tombstone in front of them.
Draco Lucius Malfoy
1980 - 1998
Ron bent down and conjured a flower from his wand, setting it in front of the stone.
"Hey, ferret." He whispered.
"Things has been rather quiet without you barging around as if you own the place." Harry said with a small smile, sitting next to Ron.
Hermione remained standing, staring at the name of the deceased Pureblood man who saved her.
After they said whatever they wanted to say to Draco's tombstone, Ron and Harry stood up and looked at Hermione.
"You coming?" Harry asked questioningly, reaching out so they can apparate again.
"You two go. I'll stay for a bit." She said quietly.
Harry and Ron looked at other, understanding.
Ron nodded and turned to his best friend, "See you, love."
''Don't stay out in the cold for too long." Harry said, before apparating with Ron.
Hermione finally bent down and reached out her hand to trace the name of the man who kept haunting her dreams.
"Hey, Malfoy." She murmured, "I finally have the right to call myself an Auror." She laughed softly. "I wouldn't have done it without Harry and Ron, though. Mind you, I probably could, but still... Auror training had been stricter and harder on us ever since you... left."
She sighed and settled herself down on a more comforting position, bringing her knees up to her chest and leaning her chin on her knees. She glanced up at the stone in front of her and sighed, "Why did you do it?"
Why did he save her?
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FLASHBACK:
"Sod off, Ferret!" Ron snapped, as he continued digging on the floor. "Quit complaining!"
"Honestly, the faster we finish, the faster we get back to headquarters." Harry sighed impatiently.
Draco sneered and crossed his arms, "I didn't want to become an Auror to literally dig up dirt."
"Stop being a git, Draco." Hermione tutted him, "Help us out."
"No, I rather not, thanks." He said. "I understand with your blood that digging dirt isn't a bad thing, Mud-
Hermione pointed her wand at him, "You want to finish that sentence?"
Draco pursed his lips into a tight line, ignoring the sniggers coming from Harry and Ron.
She looked at him smugly and smirked, "That's what I thought."
Before Draco could retort back, he was interrupted by a voice.
"Well, well, well. What's four young heroes such as you lot doing here all alone?"
Harry, Ron, Draco, and Hermione turned to see Fenrir Greyback striding towards them, wearing an evil digusting grin.
"What are you doing here!" Harry shouted, aiming his wand at him.
"Harry!" Hermione screamed, seeing him about to curse the werewolf. "Don't!"
"Wise move, Mudblood." Greyback sneered. His eyes darted to Draco, "Ah, young Malfoy. Now that your father has received the kiss and your poor mother's in the loony bin of St Mungo's, how's life treating you with filth such as these?" He nodded towards Ron, Hermione, and Harry.
Draco glared at him, "They're way better company then you."
Harry turned to Ron and muttered, "While Draco's distracting him, get Hermione and you out of here and call for help."
Ron nodded and quickly reached over to Hermione, "Come on!"
"Wait!" Hermione whispered, shaking her head. "We can't just leave Draco and Harry!"
"Now that I have you all here, I think my revenge will come sooner than I thought." Greyback continued.
Draco continued glaring at him but noticed Harry standing in back of the werewolf with his wand out. Unfortunately, Greyback saw their wordless exchange and immediately reached out for Draco.
"Do it, Potter! Kill me and I'll kill your blood traitor friend here.'' Greyback sneered, pointing his wand at Draco's throat.
Hermione gasped, "No!"
Ron looked at Harry with his eyes wide, not knowing what to do. He gripped his wand tightly and pointed it at Greyback, thinking of a spell that could harm him without harming Draco.
"What is this?" Greyback smirked, "The Mudblood is fond of Draco Malfoy?"
"Shut up." Draco said harshly, "You leave her alone."
As Draco and Greyback were talking, Ron muttered a hex towards the werewolf, making him let go of Draco immediately.
"Why, you little-
"Expelliarmus!" Hermione shouted, reaching to grab Draco's arm.
The werewolf dropped his wand and growled at them, "You'll pay for that." He reached for his wand and shot a spell towards her. Hermione quickly blocked it, shooting him another hex.
Harry and Ron began firing spells at him, as Hermione turned to Draco.
"Get out of here and ask for help." She told him quickly.
Draco gawked at her, "No, Granger, I'm helping you lot-
"You will, by getting help!" Hermione pleaded. "Go on!"
Draco shook his head furiously but stopped, seeing Greyback coming towards them. He instantly reached for Hermione and dragged her in back of him, "Stay away from us!'' He warned Greyback, with his wand pointed at him.
Greyback laughed cruelly, "Or what? You'll just end up like those two." He nodded towards Harry and Ron, both lying on the floor clearly unconscious.
"Ron! Harry!" Hermione screeched, "Wake up!"
"They can't hear you, pet.' Greyback sneered. "Couldn't handle a big man like me."
"You're not a man." Hermione retorted, "You're a-
"Granger, stop." Draco whispered, "Stop it, before he-
"You've got such colorful words coming out of that pretty filthy mouth of yours." Greyback said, interrupting Draco.
Draco backed away from him, but keeping Hermione safely behind his back. "Stay away from her!"
It all happened too fast. The next thing he knew he was lying flat on his back, hearing a feminine scream, and his hand throbbing painfully. He realized his face was becoming moist from the heat of his blood pulsing madly through his veins, clutching his hand.
"Draco!"
He opened his eyes to see Hermione, staring down at him, her eyes streaming with tears. "Draco! Hang in there!"
Draco looked to his side to see Greyback walking towards them, "Granger!"
Hermione whipped around and pointed her wand at him, "Stupefy!"
The werewolf easily dodged the hex and sneered at her, "Nice try, Mudblood." He sliced his wand in the air, forming a harsh deep cut across Hermione's chest, down to her stomach.
Hermione screamed in shock and pain.
"Granger!" Draco shouted, as he sat up ignoring the burning pain in his hand.
Hermione looked at him through her tears, "No! lie down, Draco! You're losing blood!"
But he wasn't listening to her as he threw himself in front of her, protectively guarding her from Greyback.
"GREYBACK! Stay away from them!"
They turned to see Harry and Ron rushing towards them, panic written in their faces.
As Harry, Ron, and Greyback fought, Draco looked back at Hermione, grabbing something inside his pockets. He took it out, muttered a spell and slapped it inside her fist.
He held her face, so she could look at him and spoke fast, "Hermione, this is an emergency portkey. It's going to take you to St Mungos in a few seconds, understand? Greyback wounded you deeply, so you need to go to the hospital. You're going to lose consciousness because you're losing too much blood."
She nodded weakly, feeling too exhausted and painful to move.
"Malfoy! Look out!" Harry cried out.
Draco whipped around and saw Greyback striding towards them.
"Just let me have a taste of the Mudblood, Draco." Greyback sneered, lifting his wand.
Draco aimed his wand at him and shouted, "Stay away from her!"
The next thing Hermione heard before she unwillingly let unconsciousness take over was spells being shouted, a dreadful scream, and what felt like a muscular body falling across her painful stomach. She felt the tug of the portkey, bringing whatever it was with her, as she was taken over to St Mungos.
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Hermione opened her eyes slowly, staring at the white ceiling on top of her. Her eyes darted around her in confusion and saw Harry and Ron beside her bed.
They both sat up in surprise and rushed towards her, engulfing her with their arms tightly around her.
"Thank Merlin, you're safe!" Ron muttered in her hair.
"Greyback?" She asked.
"Azkaban." Harry said, letting her go.
Hermione nodded with relief. She glanced around the hospital and frowned, "Where's Draco?"
Harry and Ron said nothing, but stared blankly at the hospital floor.
Hermione scowled, not liking to be ignored. "Where is Draco?"
"Hermione, lay back down." Ron mumbled, "You're not-
"Where's Draco." She asked again.
Ron sighed, "Please-
"Ron.'' Harry said, warning him to stop.
Ron shot a look at Harry, before looking back at Hermione. "You- You don't know... do you?"
"Don't know what?" Hermione asked in annoyance.
"Malfoy... he's.. But, you should have known!" Ron screamed shooting up from his seat, tears forming in his eyes. "You accidentally disappeared with him! You-
"Ron, calm down!" Harry shouted over him, "She didn't know! The doctor said she was unconscious when she arrived here!"
Ron immediately stopped talking and sat back down, bringing his hands up to his face, furiously rocking back and forth. Harry stood beside him and placed a hand on his shoulder, while he held his other hand to cover his eyes.
The whole time, Hermione stared at them in confusion. "What the bloody hell is going on! Why are you two crying and where is Draco!" She shouted in frustration.
Harry looked up at her, "he's gone."
Hermione gawked at him, "What do you mean, he's gone? Where did he go?"
"No, love." Ron spoke up quietly. He looked up at her and said, "He means, he's gone."
Harry and Ron stared at her intensely. Their eyes giving her the message they can't say out loud.
He's gone?
Hermione stared back. Her eyes darted from Ron to Harry and to the empty extra seat where he should have been as a fellow colleague. But he's not present because, he's gone?
Where is he?
She stared at her friends, still feeling lost and confused. He's gone?
After seconds of realizing what they meant, she felt as if a ton of brick had fallen on top of her chest. She snapped her head up to them and snarled, "Where is he?"
"Hermione-
"Where is he!"
"Stop it, Herm-
"Damn it, Harry! Where is his room! I want to see him!"
"You may Miss Granger, if you calm yourself down." A voice said in the door.
They turned around to see a healer walking towards them.
"How are you feeling?" The doctor asked Hermione, casting a spell on her for any more wounds. "You're lucky we managed to take out the infections from your wound in time. If you came later, you might not have made it."
"Where's Draco Malfoy?" Hermione snapped.
The healer glanced at Harry and Ron. They both nodded at him reluctantly, giving him permission. The healer looked back at Hermione and sighed, "Come with me."
She instantly got up and followed him out, not caring that her two best friends stayed behind. As she followed the doctor inside a room, she stopped immediately seeing a bed with the top blanket covering the occupiers entire body. The healer muttered his condolences, closing the door behind him for her privacy.
Hermione slowly walked up to the bed and reached forward to pull down the blanket. She stiffened seeing at the sight in front of her.
There, lying on the bed looking so pale and cold, was Draco Malfoy.
Hermione shook her head in denial, "Wake up, Malfoy. I have your portkey."
He stayed quiet with his eyes closed as if in a peaceful slumber.
"I said, wake the hell up!" Hermione snapped, feeling her heart tugging at his lack of response. She reached to touch his cheek and immediately held her hand back, at the feeling of his skin so ice cold. "Wake up!"
"He's gone."
She turned around to see Ron and Harry, staring at their best friend.
"Stop it." Hermione snarled. "Stop that, he saved me. He's changed, he's not like before. He saved me!" She turned back to Draco, "He's just being his stubborn self!"
Harry and Ron rushed towards her with comfort. Hermione buried her face on Harry's chest, as Ron held onto her hand tightly.
"He's not dead! He saved me! We owe him!" Hermione shouted, "He's not dead! We owe him!"
"Hermione-
"He saved me!"
It took Harry and Ron hours before they finally made her see that Draco Malfoy was truly gone.
Dead.
End of Flashback.
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Hermione fumbled with her keys before opening the door. She groaned in tiresome and dropped her coat on the floor, before throwing herself on the couch. Immediately, she was greeted with her favorite fluffy orange cat, Crookshanks. After petting him behind the ears, she yawned and stretched lazily, before grabbing the a random book from a desk.
She flipped through the pages and settled down on the chapter she was looking for, and continued reading.
"I knew it. Hermione Granger lives a boring life."
Hermione shot up in surprise and looked around her, seeing no one.
What the hell?
She shook her head, trying to gather her thoughts and looked back at the page of her romance book. Oh great, she's at the part where the male character realizes his mistake, and runs after the girl before it's too late.
"Is she seriously reading this rubbish?"
Hermione immediately got up and took her wand out, pointing it in front of her as she whipped around her, searching for that voice.
"Hello?' She called out.
"Wait, you can hear me?" The voice gasped in surprise.
Hermione furrowed her eyebrows, "Of course I can hear you! Show yourself!"
Silence.
"Hello?" She called out again.
Again, silence.
What the hell was that then? Was she hearing things?
"I heard you, I know somebody's here." Hermione snapped in annoyance. "If you come out now, I won't hex you."
More silence.
"Maybe I am just hearing things," Hermione muttered under her breath, "Ron and Harry is right. Too much hours at work."
"Talking to yourself is a sign of madness." The voice said again.
Hermione gasped and whipped around towards the sound but found no one in sight. "I know, you're wearing an invisibility cloak!"
The voice laughed, "Honestly, Granger. Really? Am I?"
Granger? That irritated her. Who the hell was person entering her house and laughing at her?
"Who are you?'' Hermione snapped, her wand still pointed in front of her.
"Drop your wand, it's not like it can do any good." The voice snapped back.
"Tell me who you are first." Hermione snarled angrily.
As she listened to the voice, her head was telling her how awfully familiar it sounded.
"Drop it and I'll reveal myself." The familiar voice sighed.
Hermione hesitated before dropping her arm. "Fine."
She stared in front of her and saw a mist forming in mid air. She scrunched her eyes to better her vision as the mist turned into a silhouette. Hermione rubbed her eyes and opened them again, this time seeing the figure of the annoying proud Pureblood who was supposedly dead nearly a year ago.
"Mal- Malfoy?" Hermione gasped, not hearing her wand hitting the floor.
Draco Malfoy, looking transparent, floated towards her. He smirked smugly as Hermione took a step back.
"Strange. I didn't know you can see or hear me!" Draco said excitingly, drifting towards her again.
Her heart was beating way too fast as she backed away, accidentally tripping into a footrest, and tumbling backwards. She hit her head hard on the floor and stared at the shock look of Draco's transparent pale face, before blackness overcame her.
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LOL so i dont even know why this came up to me. but it did. i'm not even sure if i should continue it... depending on the readers... I wanted to try writing something a little bit different since most of my stories were happy and all haha tryin something newwww...
I'll try not to make this too angsty... I'll throw in some random humor and of course Dramione romance is a must, right? Right.
So REVIEW! lol tell me if i should continue or just take it off haha let me know by REVIEWING! ;)