As If We Never Said Goodbye
By joelenemalfoy
Chapter Three
Dancing Fool started playing through the speakers. Madam Prince was not happy neither was the man from earlier.
He got out his handgun and checked the ammo and then took the safety off.
The group onstage were all happy with their final dance and they were all performing from their hearts.
Lucius, Severus, Lily and Draco were watching the group wondering why they were dancing in their Academy uniforms. But it didn't bother them one bit.
Harry and Hermione smiled at each other happy that they had managed to not perform S&M.
They had nearly finished the dance; the man got up from his seat and headed towards the exit. As the music ended he turned back and aimed at Hermione and the fired his gun.
Audience members started to scream as gunfire was heard. The man exited the auditorium and headed out of the building.
Harry was on the floor holding Hermione in his arms in shock. She was bleeding out in his hands. Justine had tears in her eyes and took off her Academy jacket and pressed it over the gunshot wound.
"SOMEONE CALL FOR AN AMBULANCE!"
Harry tried to keep Hermione awake by talking to her.
"Hermione stay with me girl."
Hermione's eyes opened slightly. She looked up to see that she was in the arms of Harry.
Severus, Lily and Draco rushed up onto the stage to check out what was happening.
"Harry son, are you ok?" Lily asked of her son.
Harry didn't answer his mum and tried to keep focusing on Hermione. Lily was getting worried about him.
"An ambulance has been called and also the police. I can't believe that this has happened. She's such a brilliant dancer as well. Who could have done such a thing? I hope that she survives." The stage manager told them.
Lucius noticed that Severus's mum was at the back of the auditorium. He slowly made his way over to her.
"So it's you that run's the Prince's Academy then. You're not going anywhere Eileen after what I've heard about the Academy behind closed doors. I've had private investigators check out things after you wrote to me asking for financial help. But what I was told about the Academy! You are going down Eileen, just like your husband."
"I'm innocent Lucius, innocent. I haven't done any wrong doing." Eileen pleaded to Lucius.
"Oh so you aren't selling your senior girls on the side to your old male buddies then as prostitutes? Plus you've had a serial killer also around the Academy pupils. And I bet that it was him who fired the gun tonight wasn't it? Where is he Eileen? Where is Fenir Greyback the mass murderer?"
The ambulance technicians rushed in to check on their new patient. The police also followed behind them to check on what was happening.
"Please just save her. She means the world to me." Harry started to cry as he noticed someone trying to help Hermione.
"Don't worry we will try and help your friend. We just need you to let go of her so that we can help and get her better." One of the technicians asked of Harry.
"Come on Harry. Let them save Hermione." Draco pulled Harry away.
Harry slowly got up and moved away from Hermione covered in her blood. He was still in shock as to what was happening. Harry then noticed Lucius talking to Madam Prince at the back of the auditorium. He decided to confront his dance tutor that he trusted over the years.
"IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG! SHE TOLD ME WHAT YOU WERE FORCING THE SENIOR GIRLS TO DO! I HOPE THAT YOU ROT IN PRISON FOR WHAT YOU HAVE FORCED THEM TO DO!" Harry shouted at Madam Prince.
"I haven't done anything Harry. You need to believe me I've done nothing."
Severus looked to see his mum in tears and is being restrained by two police officers and Harry was shouting at her.
"Lily stay with Miss Granger. I'm just going to see what is happening with my mum and Harry." Severus told her.
Severus walked over to his mum.
"What's going on Lucius? Harry?" Severus asked the pair.
He got no answer.
"Ok then, so mum why are you being held by two police officers then?"
No answer.
"Ok then is anyone going to tell me anything?"
Silence…
"Fine then. If no one is going to talk to me then I will just leave you all to it. Oh I do hope that you get what is coming to you mother. It's been a long time coming, since my father." Severus walked away.
"I'll talk Lucius, but please keep it all away from my son. I will tell you everything about what's been happening and where Fenir Greyback is as well." Eileen had tears down her cheeks.
"Ok then. Take Madam Prince to the police station, I will be down as soon as I can."
"Eileen Prince Snape, I'm arresting you for illegal prostitution of minors and perverting the course of justice. You may have a lawyer present but anything you do say will be given in evidence to the court of law. Is that clear?" The police officer holding back told her.
Eileen nodded her head and led away from the theatre.
"Now then young Harry, let's go and see how our new young dancer is." Lucius put his hands on whom he considered as a son shoulders.
"Ok Lucius." They both headed back to the stage.
The paramedic technicians were just putting Hermione onto a gurney so that they could get her to St Mungo's hospital.
"Have her parents been informed as to what is happening?" One of the medics asked.
"Her parents are at convention in Spain at the moment. But I think that I can contact them." Harry mentioned to them.
"Would I be able to claim guardianship until her parents are back in the country?" Lucius asked.
"Lord Malfoy I'm sorry it needs to be either her parents or her next of kin."
"That's fine I'll just get Hermione's cell phone and see if I can contact them." Harry turned and headed to the dressing room to find Hermione's bag.
Harry sat down on the floor still dressed in his bloodied Academy uniform when he looked in Hermione's bag to get her cell out.
Once he found it, he started to search who she had called. He then found a cell number under 'parents holiday cell'. He started dialling the number hoping to get someone at the other end.
"Hola Hermione from Spain, how is you my little spirit dancer." Her father answered the phone.
"Hi Mr Granger, it's Harry from the Academy. Look sorry to bother you whilst you are on holiday, it's just that something has happened to Hermione." Harry managed to say without crying.
"Oh Harry what's happened?" Mr Granger asked of the boy.
Harry's throat closed in on itself and couldn't answer.
"Hello? Harry are you still there?" Mr Granger started panicking.
Harry started to cry as he couldn't hold it in anymore.
Draco had headed downstairs to the toilet when he heard someone crying in the dressing room where Harry's friends were appointed. He looked in to see that his boyfriend was on sat down on the floor crying whilst on the phone.
"Aww Harry give me that." Draco took the cell from Harry and checked to see whom he was going to speak to.
"Hello, Mr Granger?" Draco asked the person on the end of the phone.
"Yes it is, please tell me as Harry closed up and didn't tell me. What has happened to my daughter?"
"Mr Granger, Hermione was involved in an accident that happened whilst she was performing at a gala in London with the Academy. She's currently on her way to St Mungo's for further treatment. They need your permission for treatment to continue or for Hermione's next of kin to authorise anything." Draco explained as best as he could.
"Hermione only has me and her mum as the rest of the family don't talk to us and both her grandparents are dead. So it's just us." Mr Granger told Draco.
"Sir, would you be willing to allow my father to take temporary guardianship until you are back in the country?" Draco had to ask.
"Who is your father my boy?"
"Lord Lucius Malfoy sir."
"Then let me talk to Lord Malfoy then so then it can be arranged."
Draco pulled Harry up and dragged him upstairs so that he could put Hermione's father on to speak to his own father.
"Father, please take the phone and talk to Mr Granger, he's willing to pass temporary guardianship over to you." Draco passed the phone over to him.
Lucius took the phone and started discussing details.
"I'm going with Miss Granger." Lucius told one of the paramedics.
"Lord Malfoy please."
"Mr Granger would you please tell these people that you passed temporary guardianship over to me please and that the paperwork is currently being faxed over to my offices." Lucius passed the phone over to the paramedic.
"Yes of course we will thank you. Lord Malfoy, we haven't got time to waste. We need to get Miss Granger to St Mungo's now or she won't make it. Now shut the phone down and follow us."
Lucius told them that he would keep in contact with them as they made arrangements to fly back to the UK as soon as they could and that they would send the paperwork over to Lucius's London office for his lawyers to put through.
Lucius went with his new ward to the hospital.
"We'll follow you as soon as we can." Draco shouted towards his father.