Chapter 26

Authors Note: Sorry haven't updated in while but just be patient… the story is almost finished are you excited? I know I am! Let me know what you think please…. As always I do not own Harry Potter, or any thing about it!

Chapter 26:

We landed in the Heads common room, still trying to hold Draco up.

"Harry we have to get him to the hospital wing, or he could die". He looked at me with a concerned stare.

" What about you?" I shook my head " Hermione your injuries are pretty bad!" he argued, but I wouldn't listen, my concern was Draco. Harry just looked at my many gashes and bruises all over my body, and torn robes, and all I could do was continue to shake my head.

" No Harry, I'm sorry I appreciate your concern, but I'm head girl and I have to make a sacrifice. No one will die on my watch not even the Head boy!" I struggled to keep his arm around my shoulder s I could take him to the hospital wing.

" Are you going to help me or not?" Harry just sighed and took his other arm and wrapped it around his shoulder as well, and I apparated us to the Hospital wing. Students weren't allowed to apparated on school grounds but seeing as how Draco was dying, and I was head girl it should be acceptable.

Madame Pomphrey was in the Hospital wing discussing matters with Head Mistress Mcgonnagal, but they were interrupted when we came crashing into them.

" Hermione!" Harry shouted, and Draco just grunted because he was unconscious now.

" Ouch, I should really work on my landings" we were now faced with two angry witches, who were demanding and explanation.

" Miss. Granger, Mr. Potter explain the meaning or this, and what on earth happened to Mr. Malfoy?" McGonnagal crossed her arms, and Madame Pomphrey stood there shaking her head. I looked at Harry, and he looked back at me, I nodded and we told them everything. They stood there listening to how Draco's father escaped Azkaban, heard of Draco's connection with me, and how I was kidnapped by a Death eater to become a sacrifice and bring back the dark Lord. We also told them how Harry teamed up with Draco to save me and how Draco had to sacrifice killing his father to save us, which left Draco cursed and near death. After hearing all of this Madame Pomphrey rushed Draco to the nearest hospital bed and started paying him immediate attention. She urged me to stay and get looked at as well, but I refused, I had to continue with my Head duties, since my co-Head was unable to do so, and it was partly my fault. She urged me to drink a potion everyday to help me recover faster, and I did, but it tasted like raw fish and smelled like bad feet. McGonnagal allowed me to attended classes as normal and over looked my apparating on school grounds, as I knew she would because it was an emergency. I attended classes like I normally would, and Draco was excused under head mistresses orders with no questions asked, and no one did. I could hear people whisper about his absence, and they wanted to know what happened. Some people even suggested that he was just skipping classes, and I wanted to stand up and scream but I just sat there in class just going by on autopilot. Even thought it was all over, I felt like I wasn't really there, I wasn't me. When I wasn't in the Library to take books out and study alone I the common room, I was in the hospital wing by Draco's side. Even though a lot of bad keeps happening I have to believe that good can still happen, I just had to wait.

It had been two weeks since the incident, and I kept my distance from everyone. I only spoke when spoken to, or it was relating to my head duties. I haven't even really confronted Harry about what happened. Sure we see each other in class and in the great hall for meals that I would hardly eat. Harry could see that I wasn't the same. After the war I had changed, but not as much as this recent incident had. In classes I could feel him staring at me, and watching me walk down the halls, but I would avoid eye contact. I knew what he wanted to say to me, but I just can't hear it right now.

Professor Snape had set a 10-page essay due next week on how to best brew a summoning spell, and how to best ward it off from your enemy. I took it upon my self to go to the library to so some research like I always do. However it was during dinner when most everyone would be in the Great hall so I knew it would be the perfect time to really be alone in the library. I had been studying in the Library for about an hour now, with like six books in front of me when I heard footsteps get louder behind me, and eventually I saw a dark shadow hover over my shoulder. I froze for a minute then quickly turned around.

" Hermione we need to talk" came the calm voice of my best friend who now looked concerned.

" Harry!" I jumped up, and looked at him with fear and surprise.

" Hermione, I know that you've been avoiding me for two weeks." I turned my head away from him and bit my bottom lip as I listened to him go on. " And I just want to apologize" I turned back to face him.

" What do you need to apologize for?"

" For doubting you, not trusting you, and for years not really being there for you when you needed me." I could feel a tear sub consciously forming in my eye. I wrapped my arms around him and gave him the biggest hug ever. " From now on, I'm not going to turn the other cheek, and look away." He whispered in my ear. I finally let go and wiped my tears from my eyes.

" Thank you Harry, I know I have been rather unapproachable and cold lately, and.." Harry cut my off before I could finish my thoughts.

" No! Hermione don't even go there it's not your fault, none of this is."

" Harry I know, just let me finish." He nodded " It's just I don't know what to do. If I do what I want to so I will lose it , and if I do what everyone else just expects me to do and not think about what I want to do I will lose it, so I have to be on mute. I am just scared for him and I pray everyday that it will all be over… I mean really over. That it was all just a bad dream, and we'll both wake up in the common room in each other's arms." I started to sob again. Harry tried to comfort me.

" Everything will be ok."

" How do you know that?" I shook my head. " It's sjut what your supposed to say."

" Because it always is. Look at everything that has happened to us, and after all of that you have to think it will all be ok I n the end." I smiled at Harry. He was right, he had to be. After Harry left, I finished studying, and then went to visit Draco in the hospital wing.