Pain then Love
Summary: One ShotWhen an enemy is found being beaten down Knockturn alley they find that it wasn't the first time and that this attacker has even given a gift. What will happen to their enemy? Will the leader be overcome with rage or empathy or will he finally come to pass those feelings that he has kept hidden from everyone. HG/DM, GW/BZ, PP/TN
Disclaimer: The characters that you know are obviously not mine, and of course the characters you don't know are mine. This is rated T for crude language and an explicit theme,
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Side Note: This is a one shot that I had wrote while I was writing America during the summer, it was like 3 o'clock in the morning when I wrote this so there may or may not be some spelling and grammar mistake. Hopefully I have fixed everything, I never had my beta read it, because I wanted to shock her.
My writing Style
"…" - normal words
'…' - thoughts
Italics - spells
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Chapter 2
A few days later, Granger still had not woken up from her unconscious form. Their curiosity was reaching their peak but still they hid it well. They really wanted to know who tortured their long time enemy. Draco stayed alone most of those few days, his mother was out doing whatever she did and his friends were busy with family things so it was just Draco, Granger and the house elves in the huge house. He decided to wander around the house knowing full well where everything was he still wandered aimlessly for awhile then he just stopped. He looked at his surroundings as to where he was and he was right outside Grangers door 'why do I always do that?' he thought to himself knowing he would not get an answer.
He didn't bother to knock because he knew he would not get an answer. So he walked straight in, the room smelt of sick people who hadn't cleaned in a few days. The flowers beside her bed were wilting and the wood was dirty. "Ditzy" he said to nothing
"Yes Master Draco?" the house elf appeared beside him and looked at him.
"Why is this room filthy?" he asked calmly, he was never one to be mean to the house elves that was only his father. "Shouldn't this room be cleaned as well, is it because there is a sick person in here you refuse to clean it?"
"Sir we was told to watch Miss, you did not tell us to clean her room" she said directly "Does sir want us to clean it?"
"Ditzy this room like any other room has to sparkle or it is not done. If my father were here and saw this you'd all be punished but because I am not my father I shall not punish you but just get it done before mother comes home"
"Yes Master Draco" she said and apparated away most likely to get some other elves to help. He walked over to the pale skinned girl, "since when was Granger pale?" he asked himself this time aloud. He just shook his head and left the room and went downstairs to the pool. He had to clear his head and he always thought a nice swim clears away everything he had. That and flying but since he had to stay near the house elves he really couldn't go flying. He grabbed his swim trunks and went down to the pool.
He touched the water quickly with his hand to feel the temperature first. It was really cold probably because it was not heated. He pulled open the many drapes on the sunroom using magic that brightened the room considerably, and because it was glass walls the room started to heat up a little. It used a temperature spell to make it not rise anymore and then he made the pool a little warmer. Then he dove in. Normally he would lounge on a chair that went up and down a little in the water but today he wanted to do laps so he did. He swam across the 20ft long pool and back again a few times then did some dives of the diving board skillfully diving a different way each time. He was having a lot of fun especially since he didn't normally do this. He almost didn't see the house elf appear in the room. "What is it Daisy?" he called to her
"Master Draco, Ditzy sent Daisy to come get you sir for Miss has woken" Daisy said quickly "under Master Draco's orders to come get him once Miss has woken"
"Okay I am coming" he got out of the pool and changed really fast. Then he ran up the stairs—a few at a time—to see Granger you know on doctor's orders. He knocked on the door politely and was answered by his mother. "Daisy said she was awake" he said walking in the room
"Malfoy? You saved me?" she asked her voice was very hoarse. She was sipping on some soup and nibbling on some crackers that were in front of her "Thank-you Mrs. Malfoy"
"Call me Narcissa please and it's no problem Miss Granger. Don't worry dear about you parents they know you are here"
"Thank-you Again" she said and Narcissa left the room "Thank-you Malfoy, I couldn't shake him he just kept coming I mean how could someone do that to another" she just started rambling and then burst into tears. He quickly ran over to her and shushed her. She pulled him over and cried harder onto his shirt. He just patted her back not used to this type of thing,
"There, there" he said trying to calm her down "its okay, it will be alright now, your safe here, no one will hurt you or make fun of you" she didn't respond just kept crying into him. After while the tears deceased and she asked simply "How did you know it was me?"
"Your eyes." He said simply and she looked at him weird waiting for him to explain "For all the times I have been eye to eye with you in our face to face confrontations I learned those eyes very well, just as you could probably know mine" she nodded in understanding. "And you know the one light in that side alley helped too I mean it was pitch black in the alley and your face went into the light for a second . . . you were reaching for your wand . . . and we were walking past and I saw you."
"We?" she said "Oh the other Slytherins right?" he nodded "So why did you save me? I mean I am very grateful for it but still why? I am your enemy. I figure you would have enjoyed it or something."
"We saved you because even though you are our enemy you are still a person being tortured" he said, "Besides I can't stand to see a woman beaten by a man, just because the woman is stronger than him"
"I see. Well thank your friends for me please," she said trying to get up
"Wait, where are you going?"
"I have to go home, see my family; I haven't seen them in a few days"
"Miss Granger you are going nowhere until we can figure out if that potion I just gave you is going to keep your bruises away" Narcissa said in the doorway
"What do you mean? What happened?"
"Well you were administered a bruise potion while you were unconscious. They went away but returned a few seconds later so the head healer came here and gave a stronger potion that could only be administered when the victim is awake" she walked into the room more with some more food, this time it was a sandwich. It stayed like this for a few more days, Hermione was given this potion each morning and her bruises would stay away for the day only to show again the next morning. On the fifth morning she woke up with only a few bruises so she basically tried to get up.
"Where are you going?" Malfoy's voice came from the door; she looked at him and noticed that he was carrying breakfast (toast and eggs) "Stop trying to get up Granger, mother said you are not aloud to leave until all the bruises are healed"
"I have to Malfoy, I have to see my parents my friends tell them I am alright, they need to hear it from my voice not Dumbledore's or Narcissa's. You wouldn't understand"
"What, what wouldn't I understand?" he said coldly he hated people telling him he doesn't know something
"Never mind, but can I at least my friends?"
"Who? Weasel and Potter? No freaking way!"
"No" she said immediately without thought as well as brushing off the nicknames "I mean Ginny . . . uh little weasel or weaselette to you" she said, "Please I need to see her" she pleaded with the puppy dog eyes that no man can resist.
"Fine I will urgent owl her" he said finally giving in to those evil puppy dog eyes that he can't say no to. Pansy and Millicent did that to him all the time when they wanted something. They had even come to visit Granger a few times giving her girls to talk to, but I guess nothing rules out being with your friends. I mean they had gotten along, there was no more name calling between the Slytherins and the Gryffindor but there was still nothing better than your best friend to talk to.
"Thank-you Draco" she said simply turning off the puppy dog eyes
"Your welcome I guess . . . did you just call me Draco?"
"Yes, I felt it necessary because you are being so nice to me"
"Okay then" he left to go urgent owl Ginny and in a few minutes her met her at his door outside the manor, no insults were exchanged just polite hello's. He led her to Hermione's room and let Ginny in "Here she basically pleaded to me to have you here"
"Ahh the puppy dog eyes" she said simply and he nodded "Well thank-you Malfoy" he nodded and left "Mia! OMG are you okay we have been so worried especially since Dumbledore told us. You are covered in bruises what happened?"
"Well I was sort attacked in Diagon Alley" she said "…again" she muttered this under her breath so Ginny wouldn't hear it and then continued "He chased me into Knockturn alley and down one of those really dark side alleys then he started to beat me and punch me and then he ripped my shirt and my pants and tried to well rape me…again"
"Oh. My. Fking. God" she said "Well why didn't you just use your wand to get him off you?"
"He took my wand from me and threw it out of reach by about two feet"
"Well how did Malfoy find you?"
"Apparently he and his friends were walking down Knockturn alley and Malfoy spotted my face in the single light of the alley" she answered her friends questions "He noticed my eyes out of all things because of the face to face confrontations we had. Just like I can spot his eyes," she said answering the unasked question
"So how did you get here?"
"Well he and his friends brought me here once they blew off the guy. Then Narcissa oh um Mrs. Malfoy had two healers come to get rid of my bruises but it didn't work, they just returned so now I am on a very powerful potion until they go away completely"
"Miss Granger it is time for your potion" Narcissa said in the door way "Oh sorry dear didn't know you had company. Good Morning Miss Weasley when did you get here?" she asked nicely whilst handing Hermione the potion which she downed in a few seconds shaking her head slightly in disgust at the awful taste.
"About 20 minutes ago, but I can leave if you want me to; you really don't want Weasley germs messing up your beautiful home now do you?"
"Nonsense Miss Weasley, I don't care about that stuff I am not like my ex-husband or my nasty mother, as to which I am sure you have met her portrait" she said smiling. "Stay as long as you like, Miss Weasley, though Miss Granger is not leaving until all her bruises go away, luckily for her they have already started. And your parents have been told that you can go home in a few days when your bruises are all clear" Hermione nodded and Narcissa left the room
"So Mia do you want to tell me who did it?"
"Not really"
"Do you know who did it?"
"I have a slight hunch" she said lying, she knew exactly who it was but was not going to telling Ginny at all "but I am not going to go with it until I know for sure"
"Are you going to tell me?"
"Nope" she said. She knew she couldn't tell Ginny who did it, it would break her heart.
"Well I hope you find them and kill them"
"Thanks Gin"
"I got to go I'll be back tomorrow, don't worry I won't tell Harry or Ron anything"
"Thank-you, they don't need to know right now" she said and Ginny apparated away "I can't tell her, it would break her heart"
"So you really know who did it?" Pansy said form the doorway she was alone for once, normally Millicent would be tagging along behind her
"Of course I know Pansy I am not an idiot but I am not going to tell Ginny" Hermione said, "Where's Millicent I thought you two were like peas and carrots?" she asked changing the subject.
"She's on vacation with her family, they went to America for the rest of the summer" Hermione nodded to show she was listening but Pansy switched back to the other topic "So are you going to tell me who that mystery man is?"
"Do you promise not to tell anybody" she nodded "on the strength of your magic, that if you should tell anyone you would become a Squib" she nodded again this time a little more slowly. "Okay" Hermione said and then put non-listening spells on the door and any other opening to the room. She popped a little piece of paper in her hand that had the person's name on it. When Pansy saw it she almost screamed. "You can't tell anybody or you will become a Squib and I will hold you to it"
"Hermione I am so sorry" she said and they hugged Hermione then took all spells of her room that she had put on "I can't believe it, why would he do that though? I mean shouldn't you be able to trust him and then he does this. I mean I was there and it was pitch black but still oh my freaking god". After awhile Pansy left, needing to go back home she was very uncomfortable with this new information, she walked out of the door to see Draco walking past.
Pansy's face was white and she was crying as well finally knowing the truth and her curiosity was now made into hindsight (where you want to know something so bad, and you will do anything to find out, only to find that you didn't want to know in the first place). "What happened Pans?" he noticed her tears as well and gave her a brotherly hug to cheer her up. As much as people thought, there was nothing going on between Pansy and Draco, many people thought they were obsessed with each other and she was madly in love with him but there was nothing more than just friendship between the two of them.
He waited for her answer while she cried on to him.
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