Come Back: Part Two
Chapter Ten
Tears for You
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"Ron, what time is it?" Harry asked.
"Not yet, I'll tell you when it's time." Ron replied.
"I still can't believe that it's been over a week." Ginny said sadly.
It was early morning almost a week after Hermione first arrived at St. Mungo's. Ron, Harry and Ginny had received an urgent owl almost an hour ago that a healer wanted to speak to them at exactly five, ten minuets from now. They were currently sitting on the floor just outside of Hermione's room each looking tired and exhausted. They had spent most of their time over the past week sitting by her bedside or tiring to sleep for a few hours only to return back to this very spot. Ginny who was leaning her head on Harry's shoulder had fallen asleep as Ron kept tossing nervous glances down the hallway. Harry was watching Ron's wrist watch tick by slowly while trying not to disturb Ginny.
Finally, after the longest ten minuets in the history of time the sound of footsteps could be heard down the hall. Harry and Ron instantly jumped up, leaving Ginny to flop over onto the floor and curl up to continue sleeping. Harry laughed at her then shook her slightly to wake her up. Down the hallway, two female healers were walking towards them. One was holding a clipboard and was making notations while the other was carrying what looked like a rather heavy tray.
Ginny slowly stood up, rubbed her eyes then smiled as she saw the healers getting closer. "Oh, I do hope they have good news." Ginny said while yawning.
The witch with the clipboard walked up to Ron and smiled while the witch with the tray walked past them and into Hermione's room.
Ron smiled and said, "Hello, we got your owl."
"You're Mr. Weasley then?" She asked.
"Yes, how is Hermione?"
"Well, after today we hope that she will be quite well. We called you here because I and Telaya, the other healer, think we have found a way to revive her." She said with a smile.
Ron looked suddenly pale, "You have…what is it?"
Harry could feel Ginny tensing beside him as they waited for an answer.
"Well, from what you told us she was put into a never ending sleep. We have tried every reviving potion and spell we could think of. So I thought anyways, yesterday I remembered reading something years back about a patient who had been revived from a coma by stimulation. Basically they started chucking stuff at the patient and making loud noises until their brain sort of turned back on. And I think if we try our strongest reviving potion then try massive stimulation that we can wake her up."
Ron's face fell and he looked on the verge of tears. "That's it's…that's your big idea. We have tried all of your potions and we have tried stimulation but neither of them worked."
Ginny stepped forward and smiled, "Yes Ron, but we haven't tried them at the same time."
"Well, it's worth a shot." Harry said trying to sound excited but he felt like Ron had the right idea in thinking it was a lost cause.
The healer headed into Hermione's room and Harry, Ron and Ginny followed. The witch with the tray was already giving Hermione a potion as they gathered around her bed. The monitor they had resting around her unborn child was beeping happily as it had over the past week. They all sat and waited as the potion started to do its job. The only sign of it working was the increase of Hermione's heartbeat.
Once the healers were satisfied that the potion was running thru her system then nodded and smiled at each other then drew their wands. They indicated that Ron, Harry and Ginny should do the same.
As they held their wands over Hermione's limp body the healer with the potion said, "Just repeat after me, we will start small at first then increase the stimulation."
The healers pointed there wands at Hermione, one on each side of the bed and said in unison "Stelino." Harry, Ron and Ginny followed suite. Out of each wand came a strong gush of wind that hit Hermione on various spots and brushed against her skin, nothing happened. They each did it once more, this time in different spots, still nothing.
Next the healers tried a weak stunning spell, Ron, Harry and Ginny did the same with no result. The healers motioned for Ron, Harry and Ginny to hold their wands as they tried an even stronger stunning spell with no avail. They tried tickling spells, spells that made loud sounds, poking spells and pushing spells. They tried poking her with the wand tips, shaking her, wiggling her, pulling her hair and everything else that would normally cause feeling, nothing was working.
Finally after almost an hour of abuse the healers apologized, looked defeated and left the room leaving Ron, Harry and Ginny looking as tired and frustrated as ever. Harry and Ginny sat down in chairs on the other side of the room while Ron sat on the edge of her bed. Tears started to drip down Ron's face as he rubbed his hand over her foot that was sticking out of her sheet.
"Hermione please wake up." Ron said sadly as he continued to rub her foot. "I don't know what to do without you."
Harry stood up and walked over to Ron and placed a hand on his back. "She's going to wake up; we have been through this before remember? She was petrified in second year; she just has to wake up."
Ron didn't look at Harry but smiled none the less. "I remember, but I just don't know this time."
Harry sat back down as Ron continued to rub her foot. A tear fell from his face and landed on her leg. Just as the tear hit her the constant beeping from her monitors started increase. Ron looked up at the baby monitor and it looked the same, but Hermione's heartbeat had increased slightly. Harry and Ginny didn't seem to notice but Ron's continued to stare at Hermione. Another tear fell off the tip of his nose as he squeezed his eyes and landed on her leg, once again her heartbeat increased.
This time Harry noticed the increase and he stood up once more and walked over to Ron. "What did you do?"
Ron blushed slightly and said, "My tears fell on her."
"Well do it again!" Harry said.
Ron wiped of his cheeks with his hands and dropped them onto Hermione's hand. Almost instantly Hermione's hand jerked which caused Ginny to jump up and stand beside Harry. "Ron, she moved!" Ginny said.
Ron walked around to the side of the bed, leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. "Hermione if you can hear me, it's Ron, please wake up."
Hermione made an undistinguished noise as she rolled over onto her side and curled her hands under her head as if she was merely napping and wanted in a better position. Ron, Ginny and Harry screamed in unison and Hermione sat bolt upright in bed with an alarmed look on her face. Ron flung himself around her as she continued to look scared and alarmed.
"What's going on, where am I?" Hermione asked her voice horse from lack of use.
Ron who was sobbing uncontrollably now smiled and grabbed her hand. "Hermione you have been asleep for a week! You were attacked by Bellatrix and we didn't think you were going to ever wake up!"
"I what…I have been asleep for a week!" Hermione said, stunned.
"Yes, we have been waiting for you to wake up, we were so afraid." Ginny said, tears running down her nose.
Hermione turned and look at Harry very intently, fear spreading across her face. She grabbed Harry's hand and asked, "Harry…did we get her? Please tell me that it's all over."
Harry smiled slightly, "You know what, we haven't had the time to think…it's all over. Everyone last known death eater is gone, locked up, they will never bother us again. We did it Hermione." He said softly.
It was Hermione's turn to cry, "Well then it was worth it, finally we can be at peace." Hermione smiled then placed her hand on her stomach, then once more fear filled her eyes. This time she grabbed Ron's hand, "Oh my god, please tell me the baby is okay?"
Ron smiled, "It's fine, they have a monitor on you and the healers have been in every half an hour to check on you and the baby."
Hermione released a deep breath then wrapped her arms around Ron. "Thank you for taking such good care of me." She whispered.
Just then the door swung open and in walked three healers each looking alarmed. At first glance at Hermione they stopped in there tracks and looked confused. One very tall, blonde witch smiled and said, "Oh, she's awake. We got notice that her heart rate increased we thought…well we thought maybe she was in trouble."
Another witch smiled, walked over and started waving her wand over Hermione. "When did she wake up and what did you guys do?"
Ginny walked over and pushed down the arm of the wand waving witch, "It doesn't really matter, she's okay now and I think we all need to leave her alone with Ron."
Everyone turned to look at Ron and Hermione, Ginny seemed to be the only who noticed that they were looking each other in the eyes intensely as tears ran down their faces. Ron, above everyone else has slept the least, ate the least and worried the most. He was so afraid that Hermione wouldn't make it, and now that she was awake all of his emotions over the past week seemed to be flooding out of him. Ginny grabbed Harry's hand and lead him from the room and the healers followed.
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A/N: Yes, I know it's a short chapter but I am stuck on this story. I considered making this the ending but it just didn't feel right yet. I need help…how do you think this story should end?