BOOK 7

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A/N: Thanks everybody for the reviews. Sorry for the late of this... Life got in the way:) I hope you enjoy this chapter. Read&Reaview please:)

In My Place

By Anilem Atarih

Previously in Chapter One:

"Please Draco, don't do this to yourself, you didn't give me my illness, you gave me life, I gave myself my illness, if I hadn't been so stubborn, if I had followed my head not my heart, I wouldn't have been silly enough to give my purity to Takeshi... I just refused then to have my first time with someone I didn't love... I'm going to die because I didn't respect what the curse demanded 'purity of the maiden' back then I didn't really care if I'd live or die...That's why I thank you Draco Malfoy, you gave me life...Never forget it!... And promise me you won't blame yourself!"

"I..."

"Promise me"

"I promise you"

"Thank you... now it's your turn... your story from the beginning... and I want the details this time, and a better description of her... what's her name? You never told me..."

"Her name?...It's Hermione..."

CHAPTER THREE: St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

"Hermione?... It's a very beautiful name..."

"Yeah..." then I got lost in my memories of her..

"Draco?... it's your turn now..."

" It's still hard for me to understand why it's so important to you... it's just too painful to think about what we had and couldn't keep..."

"I have already told you..."

"I know... where should I start?..."

"How about the begining? Why don't you tell me about the first time you met her and then on..." She said with a faint smile.

"Well, it's not nice... I saw her on the train to Hogwarts to my First Year there, she seemed a nice girl but you could clearly see she was muggle born... you know? Her clothes, attitude gave her away... so as imature as an 11-year-old pureblood that I was I told her she didn't belong there, she didn't deserve to be one of us... all that pureblood crap that our parents told us, but she didn't cry qas I had expected her to, instead she looked right into my eyes and told me I was wrong and she'd prove it to me, then she turned and left, just like that..."

"I can't imagine your face..."

"Anyway, she did prove it to me... she beat me in every single test and I hated it..."

"I'll bet... you never liked losing" Sophie said faintly, I could barely make out what she was saying...

"Sophie, are you alright?"

"Yes, don't worry.." she said closing her eyes "go on with your story..."

"I don't think you're fine... I think we should call your brother... he's your private doctor and it'll take 15 minutes for him to get all over here if you..."

"No! I'm ok! It's no need to bother Hiroshi, he's on vacation with his family in Brazil and I'm fine, please go on with your story.."

"Ok" I said still thinking I should call her brother she definitly didn't look good.. "I insulted her, picked on her... I keep teling myself I hated her because she was a mudblood, because she was Potter's friend, the teacher's pet... then I saw her at the Yule Ball in our Fourth Year and I knew I didn't hate her... How could I hate an angel?... that was surely one of the most confusing nights of my life... I felt something when I looked at her and it wasn't hate... and then... Sophie? Sophie?..." my wife if that was possible was paler than ever "Sophie? Are you alright?"

"What?...Oh! I'm sorry Draco... I think you were right... I'm not feeling.." then she passed out so I did the only thing I could do at the moment, I took her to St Mungo's Hospital, I was worried Hiroshi wouldn't make it on time...

At St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

I barely could pay attention to what I was doing, I took my wife on my arms and apparated on the Emergency Room, I got the first Healer I saw and told her Sophie had been unconcious for over a minute now, the Healer took her away and I was to fill in some forms and wait.

After a long and anguishing minutes a Healer approached me holding the forms I had filled in.

"Malfoy? Mr. Malfoy?" when I looked up I saw the Weaselette, oh! That's childish, I saw Mrs Potter looking at me as if she had been waiting for an answer...

"yes?" I eyed her carefully, that was not what I needed of all the Healers in this Hospital, She had to be the one to get my wife's case... all I had wanted was for them to make Sophie better enough to wait for her brother so she could be treated at home... You see, Sophie never came to St Mungo, she had been treated by the best healers in the world which includes her brother, but we had successfully avoided English, French and Japanese Healers.. we tried to prevent people from knowing about her illness and so far we had been able to keep it a secret... the only Healer totally aware of her codition is Hiroshi... but now I was afraid that we wouldn't be able to keep it a secret anymore... but what could I possibly do, she fainted, I couldn't wait 15 minutes...

"Mrs Malfoy is stable now, we gave her a potion to make her concious and stronger, but we would like to keep her here a little longer so that we could perform some other charms and spells..."

"No, if she is better I'd like to take her home, I have already owled her private Healer who will be home by any minute now..." I could see that was not the answer she wanted because she took a deep breath and said:

"Unfortunately Malfoy, we don't believe she's strong enough to be moved, besides the Preliminary Charms showed traces of a curse, so we can not reliese her until it's clarified the reason why she has been cursed and..."

"But that's an absurd! Are you saying I cursed my wife and brought her here?"

"No! That's not what I said! I said the hospital policy is to verify all traces of possible curse, after the Hogwarts war is a standard procedure.."

"And because of my past you think I cursed my wife?"

"No! I said that she has traces of a curse and so we have to investigate, that's all!"

"I will not tolerate this! I'll take my wife home so she can get the proper treatment"

"You're unbelievable! You're still the same the arrogant git! She is getting the best treatment..."

"I don't care! I'm taking her home! You don't have her medical background, her private healer has... he knows what is wrong with her... I appreciate that you made her better but I'm taking her home!"

"I'm sorry, but she will stay here, maybe you could send her private Healer here..."

"I want to talk to the Healer in charge, my wife is not staying here, she hates Hospitals, her brother is her Healer, he is probably waiting for us at the manor now..."

"Fine!" Mrs Potter said in a very pissed off tone of voice "I'm taking you to the Head of the Department, she will now how to deal with you!" and then she took me to an office when I looked at the little plate on the door I knew I shouldn't have asked to be here, I should have gone to the ministry and got a permission to take my wife home...

"Here you are Malfoy!" and she knocked on the door before I could say anything.

"Come on in" said a too familiar voice.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you but Mr Malfoy here would like to talk to you about his wife, here is her file" and she left leaving me to face Head Healer Hermione Jane Granger-Weasly.

A/N: I hope you liked this chapter, on the next one I plan on Hermione's point of view. Thanks for reading and please review!