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"What's going on? Why isn't she awake yet?" Draco asked after fifteen minutes of staring at Hermione's bed.
"It's just taking some time." Madam Pomfrey said in response hoping that her voice was not laced with concern.
"Why?" Blaise asked quickly.
"It's been a long time since she was awake. I wouldn't be surprised if her body just needs to catch up with her mind." Dumbledore said gently trying to be the calming force in the room. "She may not realize that any time has passed."
They all continued to look at Hermione, waiting for any change to occur. Gradually Hermione's eyes opened. She looked around and let out a sigh of relief when she saw Draco and Blaise.
"Both of you are okay." Hermione croaked, her throat dry.
"Yes both of us are fine. Have some water." Blaise said approaching the bed and helping her take a drink.
"I'm sorry I took so much of your magic. I didn't know what else to do." Hermione told Blaise after a few moments.
"It's okay, you did an amazing thing." Blaise responded kissing her on the top of the head.
"I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to move." Madam Pomfrey said as she drew her wand and began to run a battery of tests. "May I have a few moments alone with Hermione?"
"Of course." Blaise said with a slight nod of his head. He grabbed Draco's hand and led him away from the hospital bed.
"That means you too, Albus." Madam Pomfrey said quietly.
"Right, I suppose I should be getting back to bed anyway." He responded and he took his leave bidding them all goodbye.
"How do you feel? You're acting very calm. Significantly calmer than I expected." Madam Pomfrey said when she had Hermione alone.
"Good, I guess. My chest is a bit sore but other than that I feel fine."
"Good, good. You have quite a powerful contraception charm in place."
"That was a big change in topic. Um...yes, I have one. You're the one who cast it." Hermione said blushing.
"Well, now that you're married do you want it removed?" Madam Pomfrey asked gently.
"No, I don't see children anytime in the near future. All of us want to have careers and a baby just doesn't fit in with that plan."
"Have you had this conversation with your husbands?"
"No, am I supposed to?" Hermione asked confused.
"Kind of, yes."
"Well, if it comes up and we decide differently I'll come in and have the charm removed." Hermione said with a tone of finality to her voice.
"Okay, good. I'm going to send you home with some pain-relieving-potions. I don't want you to lift anything heavy and I don't want you do to any strenuous activity for about a week. That includes sex!"
"I don't think that will be a problem." Hermione said blushing again.
"Would you like to see your husbands now?" Madam Pomfrey asked kindly.
"Yes, please." Hermione said smiling broadly.
"How do you feel?" Blaise asked when he and Draco arrived at Hermione's bed.
"A bit sore but good. I'm glad to see the both of you." She responded with a smile.
"We've missed you, Hermione." Draco said looking at her with love in his eyes.
"How long was I out?" Hermione asked cautiously.
"Almost a week and a half." Blaise said gently pushing a lock of hair out of Hermione's face.
"A week and a half! I missed so much class, how am I going to catch up?" Hermione asked in a panic.
"We took notes for you in the classes we have together and we copied other people's notes for the classes we don't have together. You will have access to notes from Harry and Theo Nott and the Patil twins." Draco explained.
"You don't have anything to worry about when it comes to the classes you've missed." Blaise said to her.
"What do I have to worry about?" Hermione asked quickly. "Tell me everything I missed."
"Well, I've dealt with most of the Heads issues. There were a lot of questions about why you saved me, we didn't know what to say so we just told everyone that you and I had gotten close because we have to work together so much. Ginny suggested that we have a Halloween Ball. I agreed so we need to plan that soon. I think that about covers it." Draco said to her.
"How have the two of you been holding up?" Hermione asked softly.
"We've been good." Blaise said quickly.
"You're not a good liar." Hermione told him gently.
"Honestly, it's been hard not having you around. It was made significantly more difficult when you severed the connection so you could finish healing." Draco said to her.
"We dealt with it as best we could. It's good that Ginny and Harry were here so often, they stopped an awful lot of fights from happening." Blaise said quietly.
"I'm sorry that this was so hard on the two of you. I didn't mean to make your lives more difficult." Hermione said not looking at them.
"Hermione," Draco said putting his hand under her chin so she would look up at them, "you haven't made our lives more difficult. It's because of you that I still have my life. You make our lives better so the thought of not having you was unfathomable."
"Draco is right. Not having you around made us realize how much we need you. It made us both a bit testy. But, you're back now so we don't have anything to worry about." Blaise said smiling at her.
"I'm ready to go home now." Hermione said trying to hide her emotions.
"Okay, I'll go see if Madam Pomfrey is going to release you." Blaise said leaning over to kiss her on the forehead.
"Do we have a theme for this ball?" Hermione asked Draco after Blaise had left.
"Hermione, we have all the time in the world to talk about that. For right now just focus on getting better."
"What do you think I've been doing for the last week and a half? I want to get back to work."
"I know but your health is more important that some ball." Draco explained to her.
"I'm not going to win this argument, am I?" Hermione asked frustrated.
"No, especially because Blaise would agree with me so it would be two against one." Draco said before he leaned down to kiss her gently on the lips.
"Break it up, break it up!" Blaise said when he walked to stand next to Draco with a bag full of stuff. "I got a change of clothes, your potions, and all of the cards and trinkets people left for you."
"When did you get a change of clothes?" Draco asked confused.
"I wasn't sure when Hermione was getting out so I grabbed a change of clothes for her and a duffel and brought it here on the Sunday after the accident." Blaise explained.
"Bloody brilliant." Draco said smiling at him and kissing him on the lips.
"I always was the smarter one." Blaise said smiling at him after their kiss.
"I think that I'm the smartest, actually." Hermione said to both of them with a broad grin across her face. "Can you had me the clothes and turn around?"
"Do we have to turn around?" Draco said in a whiney tone of voice.
"Yes, you have to turn around." Hermione said. She smiled when the boys complied and she quickly got dressed in the clothes that Blaise had handed her. "Okay, I'm decent."
"Good." Blaise said before turning around. "Madam Pomfrey gave me very explicit instructions. You have pain-relieving-potions, ointment for the bruises, and strict orders not to lift anything that weights more than four kilograms."
"Okay." Hermione said nodding.
"Also, if you need help applying the ointment, and you don't feel comfortable coming to one of us, she is more than happy to help. I'm sure that Ginny would be as well." Blaise said to her.
"Right, can we go home now?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, we can go home." Draco said smiling at her and picking up her duffel. When he felt her annoyance at his action he turned to Blaise and said, "This is more than four kilograms, yeah?"
"I think that's about right." Blaise responded smiling at him.
"I'm mad at the two of you." Hermione said in a huff. "I am perfectly capable of carrying a duffel."
"Not right now you're not. Madam Pomfrey would have my hide if she saw you carrying that." Blaise said as he reached out to grab her hand.
"Fine." Hermione said with an eye roll.
"Fine." Blaise said with a bit of a chuckle. He leaned down to kiss her tenderly on the lips before they bid Madam Pomfrey goodnight and made their way home.
The next day was a whirlwind. She, Draco, and Blaise had arrived home at about four in the morning and were excused from all of their classes that day. This did not sit well with Hermione, who ended up going anyway. She deeply regretted that choice at about lunch time when she couldn't stifle her yawns and she was in a large amount of pain from carrying her bag around.
"I thought that Blaise said that you were supposed to be resting today?" Harry asked when he sat down with her at lunch.
"I was but I couldn't miss another day of classes. I'm already so behind now."
"Hermione, go home. You look exhausted." Harry said gently looking critically at Hermione.
"I just have two more classes." Hermione said looking at him with big eyes.
"Fine, at least let me carry your bag." Harry said with a sigh knowing that nothing short of a coma would stop Hermione from getting to class.
"Okay, you can carry my bag." Hermione said smiling brightly at him.
"Don't look now but your husbands have just arrived and they don't look too pleased with you." Ginny said as she slid in next to Harry facing the Slytherin table.
"I know, I can feel them." Hermione said to the younger girl.
"How mad are they?" Harry asked with a grin.
"They aren't. It's more annoyance and a lot of concern." Hermione said to Harry. She quickly tried to hide the pain she was feeling by masking it with other emotions.
"Don't you have class with them next?" Ginny asked curiously.
"Yes, I'm sure I'm going to get an earful tonight as well." Hermione said with a laugh.
"How has the sex been?" Ginny asked when Harry had turned to have a conversation with Seamus.
"Ginny!"
"What? I'm curious!" Ginny told the older witch with a smile.
"It hasn't been." Hermione confided in her friend.
"Really?" Ginny asked in shock.
"Yes, really. When I'm ready it'll happen but I don't think I'm ready for that step yet." Hermione said quietly.
"Aren't you at least curious?" Ginny asked.
"Of course I am. It's just that they know each other already and I don't. Well, at least not that I remember...there was our wedding night." Hermione said blushing.
"I've heard rumors that wealthy Pureblood families sometimes hire women of the night to teach their sons how to please a woman."
"Is that supposed to make me feel better? If it is it didn't work." Hermione said coldly.
"It wasn't meant to make you feel better or worse. I'm just saying, it's probably going to be really good sex. You'll learn about what they like soon enough; you've always liked learning." Ginny said with a smirk.
"I have always enjoyed learning. I don't know if I'll enjoy learning about this though. I think it's going to be awkward." Hermione said blushing deeply.
"It very well might be but, it's also going to be very fun." Ginny said smirking.
"Whatever you say, Gin. Enough about me, how are you? What's going on in your life?"
"I've got a boyfriend." Ginny said excitedly.
"Really? Who?"
"Theo Nott, he's really good for me. I really like him, Hermione. I like him a lot. And he likes me too! He likes me back." Ginny said with a flourish.
"That's wonderful!"
"He's really good friends with your husbands. Speaking of the devils, they are making their way over here."
At that Hermione turned around to see that Draco and Blaise were almost at their table and they were holding hands. Jealousy flared in Hermione at the sight of their clasped hands. Draco caught her eye and they held eye contact until he and Blaise were standing next to her.
"Can we talk?" Draco asked quietly.
"Of course! I'll see you later?" She asked Ginny who nodded in response.
"I'll get your bag." Draco told her snatching her bag right out of her hands.
She followed them out of the Great Hall, her short legs struggling to keep up with their long strides.
"Can the two of you slow down?" Hermione asked quickly.
"What were you thinking?" Draco asked harshly turning around to face her. His eyes burning with anger.
Hermione cowered back unaccustomed to the anger radiating off of him. "I couldn't miss another class."
"You bloody well could have! We could have gotten you the notes!" Draco said his anger in full force. Hermione flinched at his harsh tone and the intensity of his anger which she could feel.
"I'm sorry?" Hermione said with tears in her eyes at a loss for words.
"Don't, just don't. I can't do this right now." Draco said thrusting her bag at Blaise before he turned on his heel and left in a huff.
Hermione's face fell and the tears started spilling out of her eyes. She felt Blaise usher her into an unused classroom.
"Hey, stop crying." Blaise said as he sat down and gathered her into his arms.
"He hates me." Hermione said through her tears as she curled onto Blaise's lap and put her head on his shoulder.
"No, he doesn't. Draco just has a hard time expressing himself sometimes. He's just worried about you." Blaise said gently.
"That's not the way normal people express concern." Hermione said through her tears.
"I never said Draco was normal." Blaise said with a laugh.
Hermione laughed through her tears and looked up at him. She sniffled and wiped her eyes as she continued to laugh. "You're good at this comforting thing, you know?"
"I know." Blaise said smiling and cupping her cheek in his hand.
Hermione smiled back at him and leaned into kiss him tentatively on the lips. She moaned lightly when he deepened the kiss. Blaise pulled away after a while and Hermione pouted when he did.
"Don't pout like that. We have to get to class, we have three minutes to get to class." He said looking at his watch.
"Do we have to?" Hermione asked still pouting.
"Yes, we have to. I brought you a pain-relieving-potion. You should take it now and let me take your bag for you." Blaise said smiling at her.
"Thank you for cheering me up and for bringing me a potion and for taking my bag and for being you." Hermione said awkwardly.
"You're welcome. Now, get off of me so we can get to class."
"Fine." Hermione said rolling her eyes and leaning down to kiss him again quickly.
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