What happens when the person you love is taken away and you have to try and rebuild this life you call your own? Draco never wanted to find out. They had seen enough pain and death to last them an eternity and yet here they were again. Broken.

There was never an intention to get caught. He was supposed to be protected by those around him, and they had failed, and now his life laid in the hands of a bushy headed brunette he had tormented. He'd find out that her life relied on him as well.

Everything stings.

He needed them the most. They were everything, and she was taking them away.

He hates her, more than one could fathom. He loathes her. But he can't help how he's feeling.

Draco Malfoy finds Hermione Granger in a precarious situation, very unlike her.