Sunlight entered the room and lit up the white room so bright it woke Hermione. She stirred a little, and was shocked. Stirring, she had moved… She had moved her body, not just her fingers, or a movement in her face, but her shoulders, her hips! She opened her eyes and blinked a few times to adjust her vision to the light of the room. Then she decided to give it a try. Since she hadn't moved in quite a while she had to think about what she had to do before she could help herself to sit up. She turned herself on her back and grinned. Then she placed her hands next to her and pushed herself up. With her hands she shove herself against the back wall and looked around the room, everything was still quiet. She felt so full of energy, she hadn't been feeling like this since she'd been hit. She moved every finger, her arm, her toes. She pulled up her knees and the smile on her face grew wider. She stretched and felt every muscle she hadn't been able to use. It was time for her.
She threw her legs of the bed and let her feet feel the cold stone floor. The white nightdress wasn't really warm, but Hermione didn't care anymore. She pushed herself off the bed and took a few seconds to regain balance, but she stood. With one hand she held her nightstand while she made a step. Another followed soon after, and Hermione moved away from the nightstand, walking freely in the room. She walked step for step, but after every step a next one followed. She took the steps faster after each other, her bare feet made almost no noise on the floor. The door leading to the corridor opened and a platinum haired boy came in. Hermione took the next test and tried for a run. Her heels didn't even touch the floor anymore as she ran over to Draco. Only she couldn't stop and she almost knocked him down as she flew around his neck.
'Hermione, you can walk? Where did you get that from?' he asked surprised, but happy.
'I don't know. I woke up with a lot of energy and the ability to move,' Hermione smiled. He moved one hand from his neck up into his hair. It was soft and light. Her fingers slid down his temples to his cheek, she traced his jawbone, his lips and his eyebrows with her fingertips. She hesitantly moved her face towards him and her lips softly touched his. He immediately responded by answering the kiss and putting his hand on her hips. His tongue ran over her bottom lip and she granted him the entrance he was asking for. Never she had kissed someone with this intensity, it felt great. The door of Madame Rosian's office opened making the two of them move away a little from each other. Hermione buried her face in his neck and Draco moved his arms up her back to held her against his chest.
'Why are you standing over there?' she asked. Hermione looked around, but still holding on to Draco.
'I can walk,' it was the only thing that left her mouth, but the smile on her face said enough.
'Miss Granger! That's great! And I see you're talking has improved too. Your hearing was already as good as could be. Did we do the seeing test already?' Hermione shook her head. 'Well, then we'll do that right now. I'm going to test you to see if your body's functioning alright. If you would come over to the bed, please?' Hermione wanted to walk back to the bed, but Draco had already picked her off her feet.
'Draco I can walk now!' she laughed.
'Well, there goes my one excuse for being overprotective,' all three of them laughed. Draco put Hermione on the bed and when they were done laughing Madame Rosian started the tests. Indeed every part of her body was being tested, also the functions that had already been working all the time. It took over four hours to test everything and it turned out everything was working as before, her hearing even better. Madame Rosian was now writing down all the progress and Draco had arranged some lunch for both of them. They sat for a while in silence, a comfortable silence in which there wasn't anything to be said because they were both at ease.
'It'll probably the greatest problem to adept to the outside world again. So much has changed, the last time I've been outside there was this strange dark fog and always those storm clouds. They're gone, right?' said Hermione.
'Yes, they are. It's summer, Hermione. One of the warmest in years. Like nature is trying to make up for the passed time. The fog is completely gone and people have new plants, so everything is much more colourful. Also they still haven't completely gotten over their joy from the ending of the war. You still see wizards in cloaks and hats in the muggle streets.' They both laughed at the thought of that. 'But I was wondering, you haven't got a house to return to, have you?' She hadn't thought of that yet. She didn't have her own flat. She didn't have a job. Then how was she supposed to get a house without money.
'I don't,' she said, with saying it out loud she only realized how much that meant. She had no where to go! She couldn't possibly just move in again with her parents again.
'Well, I was thinking. How about you move in with me? I've got plenty of room for you too,' said Draco.
'Moving in with you? You mean in Malfoy Manor or do you have a house of your own?'
'I've got an apartment in the near of wizard Londen. I would like it if you'd move in,' he took her hand an squeezed it.
'Don't you think I'm a burden, I mean, I've got no job, and I'll probably start a study, that means I only cost money. Besides that I'm a morning person, which some people find very annoying.'
'Well, I'm certainly not one of those people. Even tough your smartness and stubbornness is annoying sometimes, it's a thing I like about you. I love you, Mione, and I want to spend that time you have left with you. I've got enough money, so that's no problem at all. Do you want to move in with me?' Hermione smiled and nodded. 'Then that's settled. After you're released from the hospital you'll move in with me.'
'That might be very soon, Mister Malfoy. There's a chance she might be released tomorrow, if not then, the day after,' said Madame Rosian. Hermione's face lit up. Not only she would be released from the hospital, but she would move in with Draco and get a new life. Everything was going to be fine. It all turned out just fine. She put her plate on the desk next to her bed, on top of Draco's.
'Ginny is keeping your stuff. I'll ask her to bring them to my apartment, though I think lots of things were lost and unable to be tracked down. Only your purse is left,' said Draco. Hermione sighed in relief. Her purse was safe. She looked up at the confused face of Draco and smiled.
'That purse is magically enlarged. It contains over a thousand times more than the outside shows,' she said.
'I should have know that the brightest witch of her age wouldn't travel around the world searching for horecruxes under the most evil man in the world his nose. And I was always wondering where you kept your luggage when you moved. Stupid me. Even while I had an enlarged backpack with me. You were always a step ahead of me,' he shook his head laughing and messed her hair a little. She smiled.
'You know if Ginny touched anything?'
'Well, according to Harry he managed to keep it away from her,' said Draco with a smirk on his face. Hermione laughed and poked him in his stomach. To which Draco replied by starting to tickle her. Hermione burst into laughter and ended up calling his name and begging for mercy.
'Don't poke me,' she said with a very big grin on his face. Hermione smiled a sly smile at him, while whipping the tears from laughter from her cheeks. She wasn't just going to let Draco win, she wasn't the type to give up, and especially not to him. She was used to win from Harry and Ron, but with Draco every argument was a challenge and a joy. Even though some of his comments really had hurt and they had been calling each others names a lot. There had always been some intelligence behind their words, a second deeper meaning Harry and Ron mostly didn't get that soon, and Crabbe and Goyle not at all. She bit her lip in an attempt to stop the grin from growing wider at that memory.
'You didn't even wince.'
'What going on here?' Madame Rosian came in. Both of them snapped their heads in her way and Hermione's neck made a strange snapping noise that didn't sound very well. Her neck was stuck in that position until Hermione pulled her head back in the right position. She rubbed her neck with a painful expression on her face. Only then she met Draco's eyes that stood very worried. She cocked her head a little and when her neck didn't snap again she moved forwards to give him a kiss on his lips.
'Don't worry, it's only normal when you're head's been in one position for so long. You'd better get used to it when I move in. It'll happen more often.' Draco grinned again. That boy just wasn't able to just smile, it always seemed to turn into a grin on his face. And she couldn't help but smile too.
'I can get used to having you around, Mione.'
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