Here is the second installment of The New Trio! Thank you to all of my reviewers.
Disclaimers: As always, I own absolutely nothing, just the plot I dreamed up.
Hermione tossed and turned in her sleep. In her dreams she saw her friends in their final moments.
"Hermione! Take Ginny and run! Run!" shouted Harry as Death Eaters swarmed the Order's unprepared campsite.
"Crucio!" cried a Death Eater and as Hermione watched, Harry fell to the ground, writhing in pain.
"Harry!" Hermione screamed as she ran to her fallen friend, heedless of her own danger.
"Stupefy!" Shouted Ron as he stunned the Death Eater who had been about to kill Ginny.
The Order and the Death Eaters were engaged in a fierce battle for survivor. Already, countless bodies littered the field. Then suddenly the Death Eaters parted ranks and allowed Voldemort to walk through. The all the Order drew back, save Harry Potter.
"Ah Potter. We meet again, for the last time. Farewell boy." drawled Voldemort in a jaded voice.
"Avada Kedavra!" Hermione and Ginny screamed as their best friend fell dead, seconds after he pronounced the fatal words. The Death Eaters began attaking again with regence.
"My Lord is dead!" wailed a distraught Bellatrix Lestrange as she battled Ron.
"My best friend is gone!" Ron yelled in her face as he sent ball manner of spells at the Dark witch.
Seconds later, Ron lay bleeding to death next to Bellatrix who had been finished off by Ginny herself.
"Ron!" cried Hermione. The pain of losing her two oldest friends within minutes of each other was too much. A Death Eater sent a stunning spell, which she saw to late to avoid. She crashed down into the blood-soaked turf as everything went black.
Hermione screamed as the memory played over and over again.
On the adjoining bed, Draco was having a hard time going to sleep that night. Hotel beds weren't very comfortable and his mind was whizzing too fast for him to sleep anyway. When he heard Hermione start crying, he debated about what to do.
On one hand, they had been tentative friends for only a few days, yet on the other, Hermione was clearly in pain and Draco couldn't leave anyone like that.
His mind made up, Draco slowly rose from his bed and crossed the short distance to Hermione's. He gently shook her to wake her up but was not prepared for her reaction.
Hermione opened her eyes instantly and threw herself into Draco's unsuspecting arms. Draco staggered at the unexpected weight before dragging the overwrought witch with him to lie on his own bed. He gathered her up in his arms as he tried in vain to sooth her frantic sobbing.
"Hermione. It'll be all right." He murmured in what he hoped was a comforting way as he hesitantly started stroking her hair.
"Oh Draco! All…all my friends!" Hermione sobbed into his shoulder.
Draco knew exactly what Hermione was going through. He himself was in the same position. He had lost many friends, his parents, and his almost sister, Pansy. He had been holding everything in since the battle and only now let it out. He lowered his head into Hermione's hair and finally let his own tears flow down his cheeks unchecked as it finally set in that he would never again see the people he had lost.
Draco and Hermione cried all night, seeking whatever comfort they could find in each other's arms. Finally, exhausted by their emotions, they drifted off to sleep.
That's all for now folks! Please review and tell me what you think. I changed the rating and the genre of the story as I wrote this chapter because I thought it fit the developing story much better. I know Blaise is not mentioned in this chapter, don't worry, he will be.
Thanks for reading!