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Hermione sat by the window in her room at home staring at the rain and clutching herself. She tried to ignore the sounds of fighting coming from her parent's room but even studying couldn't distract her from the sounds that carried. The noises of pain her mother made and the sounds of her father's fists hitting her flesh again and again. Hermione curled up tighter and withdrew into her head. *One last summer* she thought *and I'll be gone. Thank god this is my last year.*
Hermione was distracted from her thoughts by her mother's voice screaming. "No baby please!" Then a sound she had never heard from there before, gunfire. Her mother's voice was cut-off mid-scream and the house was silent for precious seconds. Then she heard her fathers footsteps leave their bedroom and walk towards her bedroom. She grasped her knees and tried to shrink herself down even smaller knowing what her father usually demanded from her after one of their fights. The footsteps paused for long minutes outside her door and she sat completely still not even breathing until the footsteps continued on down the stairs and out the front door. Only when she saw her father walk past the window and down the street did she uncurl herself and venture down the hallway on trembling legs. She was so afraid but already knowing in her heart what she would find.
She opened the door to her parent's bedroom. At first glance all she saw was patterns of red and white, then it coalesced. Hermione saw first the crimson blotches on the ivory linens of her parent's bed. Then a red spray misted across the oak headboard. Finally the body of her mother lying on the floor, one arm draped in the spill of bloodstained fabric that she must have pulled with her when she fell to the floor.
"Mommy?" Hermione said in a pleading voice shaking her head in denial of the sight in front of her. She slowly sank to the floor circling her knees to her chest as she sat rocking back and forth gently as tears fell without her notice.
"What are you doing in here you little bitch?"
Hermione snapped out of her trance at the sounds of her fathers enraged voice. She looked up at him towering over her, his fist clenched. "Daddy I…"
"Shut up" he screamed at her and began hitting her, first open handed slaps but graduating into full strength punches on any surface of her body they could reach. Finally she lay there gasping for breath as he looked at his handiwork. "There there daddy's going to make everything better" he said in a mockingly caring voice and began to undo his belt.
Hermione just lay there as her father undressed, in too much pain to move. "Daddy please don't" she begged as he forced her legs apart and ripped her panties off her. His only response was to punch her one final time that knocked her and her protesting voice out.
When she awoke her father was gone and she was lying next to her dead mother where her father had left her. Her body was one stabbing pain and she knew he had meant for her to die as well. She looked at her body and couldn't believe that it was her. Every inch of her skin that she could see was bruised, marked or bleeding. "Oh god" she thought and dissolved into tears once again. After a long while she managed to calm herself down long enough to decide what to do. She needed to get out of there and painfully shuffled down to her leaning on the wall to support herself, leaving blood smeared down the wall as she went. When she finally made it to her bedroom she started throwing her school things in her trunk haphazardly uncaring of wrinkles, not even noticing when one of her books landed open and the spine broke. Once that was done she dressed herself in her oldest most comforting clothing and tried to drag her trunk down the stairs so she could make good her escape, but her strength gave out. She slid down the wall and prayed for someone to come and help her.
A/N thanks for reading this far. It will be SS/HG eventually I promise, it just needs to get there. Please review.