The healers came every hour for 2 days, but by the end we felt fine, it was then that they decided to see if we could actually be in a different room. (Yes we had been in the same room for the last 2 days)
"You ready for this?" I asked her as she stood staring at the door that I was about to walk out of.
"Well, we have to do it sometime right?" she said, not really giving me an answer.
"That's not what I asked." I said opening the door and taking a step.
I heard her cry match my own, it was pain this time, it was like my heart was being torn apart.
I fell back into the room.
Breathing hard as the pain reseeded I looked at her incredulously, "What the hell is happening to us?" I asked having no idea.
So we ate, slept and spent all our time together in the same room, we could at least move around the place, if we had to spend all our time in that one room I would be driven crazy in no time.
It did give us plenty of time though to talk it all out, in detail, truthfully we didn't have much else to do.
We talked through my guilt and eventually she began to open up about what that bastard had done to her. She hadn't been able to say his name yet though.
"At first it had been alright you know? He just broke my bones, my body. But then he said that too completely 'heal' me he had to break my mind as well." She took a breath as the events came back to her. "That was when I found out that it was, him." She paused like she might have been about to say his name, but we both knew she wasn't quite ready for that yet. "He cast spells to make me see things, like escapes, rescues. Then other times he made me think I was burning, or that you were being killed."
A tear slipped down her cheek.
"Hey, hey." I said coming around and wrapping her in my arms, "It's okay, you don't have to say anymore."
"But I need too." She took a hand and continued "The whole reason he did it, the one time I remember being fully lucid, was because he saw me with you. He said that I had become corrupted and that I needed to be purified."
I held her close and she faced what she had been running from all this time.
The first appointment we had with the doc, the mind healer, didn't go so well. He kind of pushed a little, and though we had begun facing our demons together, talking it through with someone else, well we weren't quite ready for that yet.
He started with me, asking about why I tried to kill myself, twice, and I couldn't find it within myself to answer. I looked at Hermione and she knew what I was thinking and feeling and we sorted it through with each other without saying a word but that didn't really help the mind doc, by the end he was threatening us with legenimiosy.
That was when we got up and left his office.
We got a new mind healer after that.
We didn't go back to school, they wouldn't let us, even though both of us were pushing for it. They stubbornly said that we had to stay here until our mind healer said otherwise. Our new healer insisted in us calling her Jackie. And then in the midst of all the healers and patients two very welcome faces came to see us.
"Ginny!" cried Hermione wrapping her up in a fierce hug.
"Hey mate." Said Blaise as he extended his hand in welcome, which I shook.
"It's good to see a familiar face." I said as we stood there waiting for the girls to quit the hugging.
"I'll bet, after you disappeared, what was it about a week ago? Well as you can imagine McGonagall was furious, and then I don't really know what happened she sort of just glassed over the fact that two of the most important students had suddenly gone missing. I guess I know why now though." He said gesturing to the perfectly non captured girl in front of us.
After that they came by as often as they could, and when they found out about the whole not being able to go into different room's thing they had amusing reactions to say the least.
The new mind healer came and we actually got along well, she didn't pry, she just talked about, for me, depression in general. Though she seemed to get that I was mostly getting better on my own, well with Hermione.
Hermione herself though, she didn't have it as easy, while I still felt the urge to bleed out sometimes she had it worse. She would wake up in the middle of the night screaming, pleading with that bastard to stop. Though she said that it was slightly better with me there then when I hadn't visited. I felt so guilty about that.
For 2 weeks we fell into a familiar routine, spending our waking hours amusing ourselves with board games, or in therapy session. After a while they did allow work to be sent from the school with Blaise and Ginny came and gave to us every day.
At one stage I asked why Luna wasn't with them, to which they replied that she had started a relationship with Neville, which they were fine with.
It had decided to rain one day, and we had been going stir crazy being kept indoors, so on a whim I had come up with a plan to get us out of there for a little while. June had told me about a garden they kept to grow herbs and the like, which was apparently very large. We probably could have picked a sunny day to break the rules but while everyone was else where we had snuck out into the rain, Hermione a little reluctant but I had persuaded her.
"Come on Hermione, don't you want to go outside?" I asked her, standing in the door way, just out of the reach of the rain.
"Yes, but it's breaking the rules, I'm sure we could find something else to do."
I held out my hand for her to take, "You know nothing will be as good as this."
She bit her lip but slowly took my hand, which I used to pull her closer into a kiss. Than before she could realise what I was doing I pulled her out into the rain, breaking away when she screeched.
"Draco Malfoy!" she cried, astounded that I would do that to her.
"Yes?" I asked innocently like I didn't know what she wanted.
"I believe, that you just pulled me into the rain." She stated, to which I raised an eyebrow.
"No, I'm sure I would never do something like that to my girlfriend." I said, trying my best not laugh.
Then I feared for myself because a evil glint appeared in her eye, which never meant anything good for me.
"Well, if you didn't then I must be imagining things." She said, than she shoved me back into a puddle of mud.
It splashed up and covered me from head to toe, I even had to wipe some from my eyes.
"Hermione!" I whined, knowing that one of my few sets of clothes were now ruined.
"What?" she asked innocently, and I knew she was giving me a taste of my own medicine.
"You just shoved me into the mud!" I cried indignantly getting up.
"No, I would never do such a thing to my boyfriend." To which I laughed, the even copied my words.
Though there was where the resemblances ended.
"Well, I feel out of place. So…" I left it hanging as I lunged towards her, grabbing her before she could dart away, covering her in mug as well, "I think you should join me!" I said once I had her securely in my arms.
"Draco! Get off!" she cried, laughed uncontrollably, knowing she was caught. With the rain now pouring around us I let her go and quickly picked up a pile of mud, throwing it at her still turned back.
"Oh so that's how you want to play it?" she said grinning, grabbing her own handful.
And so we through mud at each other, and I can tell you it's more fun than snow. With the rain coming down around up we ran through the garden, trying and failing to hide behind plants and rocks.
Of course we were found eventually, me having caught her again and us simply enjoying the rain.
They had made us clean the bathrooms for a couple of days.
We knew though that it didn't matter, it was the fun that counted.
Harry came and visited, that was a spectacular time, and we actually became friends, which Hermione was extremely happy about.
They never did find a way to break whatever it was on us, that didn't mean they didn't stop looking, but once our sessions had ended with the mind healer, they couldn't really keep us there for much longer, so we had gone back to Hogwarts. They had made some accommodation changes of course, we slept in the same room and they had to put us in the same classes, but we got through it.
Through it all I never forgot just how much I, Draco Malfoy, loved Hermione Granger.
A/N Yes I do think it end here, unless I get reviews telling me I forgot about some issues or another. I know kind of a strange story, believe me I think so too now. Plus no flames, please I know my spelling and gramma is terrible, so to all you haters, go AWAY!
To everyone else, thanks for reading!
Later lovelies.