A Girl's Guide to Living and Dying

by prying.delilah

Hermione's been fatally cursed and there's only one Potions Master who can help her. But there are more obstacles in her way than she anticipated including the charismatic and dangerous Malfoys. Multichapter drabble version of What Not To Do by cordyangel

2. When Angry, Count To Ten

Chapter 2: When Angry, Count to Ten

He could kill her for coming here.

Hermione's eyes flew open; disoriented only a moment "Professor?"

"Shut up!" A myriad of emotions possessed him but he chose to embrace the familiar: anger. "Get out!"

"Please, I have nowhere to go!"

With her pale face and bitten lip, she looked so vulnerable; so exposed, so naked; it was indecent to look.

"That's not my concern."

She sat defiantly, vulnerability gone.

"You have no idea what I'm capable of." Grabbing her frizzy hair, twisting her head up; black eyes met brown. "I am a bad man, I have done things-"

"Killed Dumbledore?"