okay i have a warning for all you guys, this chapter is rated M, and includes some beating and stuff so just be warned, and if you get triggered by that stuff just don't read this chapter please because i don't want any of you triggered or anything. so yeah, enjoy!
chapter seven:
draco woke to the sound of his alarm clock, set for eight a.m. hermione was naked next to him, snuggled with her back to him, still asleep. he turned his alarm off and turned onto his side so he was facing hermiones back. he brought a hand up and started tracing the veins he could see on her back. occasionally there would be a small scar from where she was hit with a spell, but otherwise her skin was perfectly smooth.
draco was not the same, not at all. he had scars all over his body, mainly on his upper torso. most of them were on his back or shoulder area, some decorated his chest. there were large scars on his back from belts whipping him one too many times, causing his skin to break open and scar. his shoulders had spots that were decorated with circular shaped scars that he never knew how he got, but they had been there for as long as he could remember. his arms showed the occasional line from a cut that had been deep enough to scar. on his chest, there was only one profound scar, the rest were smaller and not as visible at first glance. the scar was around three inches long, and it ran across his left nipple, bright red, the color having never faded.
draco was still tracing hermiones back when he started thinking about his mom. he had abandoned her to the mercy of his dad, which was practically no mercy at all. his dad was not a merciful man, if you disobeyed him or did something he didn't like, you were hit.
draco longed to go to his mom and tell her that he was ok, and that he was safe and happy with hermione. he longed to make sure that she was ok and that his dad wasn't beating her to death. but he knew that if he went back there, his dad would be there and he would most likely get beat, unless he didn't get caught.
the normal malfoy schedule was to eat breakfast together as a family in the dining room, and then you had the rest of the day to yourself until dinner. his dad was mainly either at their bar or with fellow deatheaters, or voldemort himself, but voldermort was dead. his mom normally spent the day in the drawing room, either reading or practicing the piano. she was sickly often, so lucious didn't really allow her out of the house very often. draco was always locked in his room unless forced out by his dad.
draco sat up slowly, trying not to disturb hermione, and swung his legs over the side of the bed. he slowly stood up, stretching his sore limbs. he walked to the dresser and slowly pulled out one of the drawers that contained his underwear and socks. he grabbed a pair of each and slipped them on, grabbing pants next and donning those too. walking to the other side of the room, as quiet as he could, he got to the closet and opened the door slowly, making sure it didn't creak. he grabbed a black shirt and slipped it on, then walked out and closed the door as slowly as he had opened it.
he kneeled next to hermiones naked body, pulling the covers up to her shoulders, and then brushed her hair out of her face, tucking it behind her ear so it wasn't in her face. he placed the note he had written her - telling her where he was in case she woke up before he returned - on her nightstand. quietly, he opened the bedroom door and slipped out of the room and into the living room. he knew that when you apparate, it would make a popping noise, so he tried to get far away from the bedroom before doing it so that hermione had a smaller chance to hear the noise.
he focused on the drawing room of the malfoy manor, and thought of standing right beside the piano. he closed his eyes and apparated. when he opened his eyes, he was standing in the malfoy manor, his mom sitting at the piano, staring at him in shock.
"draco?! is it really you, my boy?" narcissa whispered.
"yes mum, it is really me." he whispered as he hurried over to her and kneeled beside her, caressing her cheek.
"what are you doing here?"
"i had to come see you, to make sure you are ok."
"i'm ok, my boy. what about you? how are you and hermione?"
"we're ok, we've got a hotel room and are doing good." draco paused. "is dad beating you?"
"i take the occasional beating, but he's not home very often anymore. it's not bad, i can handle him. you should leave before he comes in and sees you."
"i just have a few things to take care of in my room."
narcissa looked at him with a questioning look.
"clothes, books, stuff like that."
"ah. okay."
"remember that you can always find me if you need to get away from him. me and hermione will gladly take you in, you don't need to stay here with him. i would rather you be safe then getting beat when it should be me in your place."
"oh, my boy, you and hermione have your own life now, i would hate to intrude."
"it's not intruding. you're my mum, you're always welcome."
"thank you, draco, but he is my husband after all, and i need to stay."
"then just promise me, that if it gets too bad, that you'll come and find me."
"i promise."
"thank you." draco enveloped his mom in a huge hug. "i'm going to go take care of those things, and then i'll come back and say goodbye."
draco stood up and started to walk towards the door, when suddenly his dad barged in, swinging the door open wide as it slammed into the wall with a bang.
"draco?!" lucious roared at the sight of his son.
"father." draco said coldly.
"lucious, let him by." narcissa said shakily, knowing better than to stand up to her husband.
"shut up, woman!" lucious said, barging towards narcissa with a hand raised.
"no. stop. you have no right to hit her." draco said, stepping in between his father and his mom. "she is protecting her son, something that you have never done."
"you dare defy me like this? i raised you, took care of you, provided you with shelter and food. step away, boy." lucious spat.
"no."
lucious slapped draco. dracos head whipped to the side, and his hand came up to feel where the hand had come into impact with his face. draco swung his fist at his father's face, his fist colliding with lucious' nose. there was a sharp cracking sound as his nose broke, and his hand immediately came up as blood poured out of his nose.
narcissa screamed and scrambled off the bench as lucious lunged at draco and landed a punch on the boys chest, knocking the air out of draco. draco grunted as he rolled over, punching his father furiously as his father landed some too. draco could feel his lip split, along with the skin above his eyebrow. his dads nose was still pouring out blood, blood now coating the floor and both men as they rolled around punching furiously.
draco finally landed the finishing punch after quite some time of fighting, the fight going on for longer than lucious had expected since draco had never fought back so he didn't know the strength of his boy. dracos fist collided with his dads nose again, snapping lucious' head back and leaving him unconscious. narcissa ran to draco and gripped his arm gently, helping him up. he stumbled to his feet with his mothers help, and felt searing pains in his chest, arms and face. his dad had some mean hooks, and he had gotten draco many times.
although draco had landed more punches, lucious had more force in his, causing draco to come out worse. there were cuts on his arms, chest and face where his skin had split at impact. of course, his knuckles were bleeding and swollen from punching, but that didn't bother him so much. he flexed his fingers while his mother led him to the couch so he could sit down and rest. draco didn't want to sit down and rest, he wanted to get back to hermione so she could kiss him and tell him that everything was ok and that he was safe with her.
he got up, ignoring his mothers protests, and told her that he had to get his stuff so he could go home to hermione. she relented and let him go. right as he got to the door, there was a shout from the other side of the room where his father had been unconcious.
"crucio!"
{one hour earlier}
hermione awoke with a start, screaming, panic rising in her chest, her breath hitching. she had woken and immediately sat up, scared, but she didn't know what she was scared of. the covers had fallen off her chest, revealing her bare torso and her breasts. she looked over and noticed that draco wasn't next to her, which made the panic even worse.
she couldn't breathe. the walls seemed to be closing in on her, getting closer and closer to her. she grasped at her neck, raking her fingers on her skin, trying to find some breath. she rocked back and forth, clutching her head to her chest, panicking. her breath was ragid, and she would occasionally get a gasp of breath that rasped out as it rattled out of her lungs.
there was a loud knock at the door, and hermione stumbled out of bed, collapsing to the floor in a heap and curling into a ball, clutching her knees to her chest and putting her hands over her head. the knocking got more frantic, and suddenly there was a shout from outside, quiet from how far away it was. there was some sound that sounded like unlocking a door, but she was still trying to find breath. she was still nude, having immediately been seized by a panic attack before having a chance to put any clothes on.
someone ran into the room, bursting the door open. hermione felt cold hands on her biceps, pulling her up, into the clutches of someone as they wrapped their arms tightly around a panicking hermione.
"shh, everything is ok. shh." a voice cooed in her ear as hermione struggled to get out of her arms. the voice belonged to emily steeple, the old woman from the hallway. she had heard hermiones scream while making coffee and immediately ran to the room at the end of the hallway. when she knocked and got no answer, she called for room service to unlock the door. she had run inside, searched all the rooms and ran into the bedroom, coming around to the side to find a naked hermione having a panic attack on the floor.
emily used to be a nurse, so she knew a thing or two about calming someone down when they were having a panic attack. someone having a panic attack is hard to handle because you don't know how they'll react, but one of the best things to do is to pull them into a tight hug or into a tight embrace any way you can and hold them even if they struggle against you. eventually, the person will relax into your arms, which is just what hermione did as emily started to hum.
the vibrations that came from emily's throat calmed hermione down as she felt them against her bare skin, reverberating around her body. she eventually calmed down after a half hour of emily humming, rocking back and forth with hermione curled up in her arms on the floor. emily could have cared less about the fact that hermione was naked, she was more concerned about the girls well being, especially because her boyfriend was no where to be found.
after a while, hermione had calmed down and had started breathing more normal, each breath less shaky than the last. emily was still huming and rocking back and forth, making the best effort she could to make sure that hermione wasn't seized in a fit again. her constant thought was about where her boyfriend had gone, because hermione seemed to had just awoken when emily ran into the room, so he had left before she woke up.
"thank you. i'm sorry if i disturbed you." hermione said in a raspy voice in between small pants of breath.
"it's my pleasure, dear. i heard your scream while my coffee was brewing, and i knew something was up. you didn't disturb anyone, all of us on this floor are old folk, except you, and we understand panic attacks." emily said softlly.
emily let hermione out of her embrace and hermione shuffled into the closet and put on one of dracos new black button up shirts. it went down farther than her butt, and almost to her mid-thighs, so she grabbed a pair of underwear and donned them. emily had gone back to her apartment when hermione had assured her that she would be fine. hermione found the note on her nightstand and opened it.
"dearest love,
i've gone to the malfoy manor to pick up some of my things, don't worry, i'll be back within the hour. brew some tea for me, will you?
i love you
-draco"
hermione looked at the clock and noted that it had been at least an hour since she had woken up, and that meant that draco had been gone for longer than an hour by now. she started to worry after sitting on the couch after 15 minutes, so she decided that she would go to the manor and find him, no matter the consequences.
she remembered back to her horrid experience with bellatrix at the manor, and remembered the layout, and quickly apparated to the destination she wanted.
"crucio!" was the immediate thing she heard as she arrived, followed by dracos screams. she ran towards the direction the voice had come from, knowing that draco was in trouble. she slammed the door to the drawing room open, and what she saw made her fill with anger and adrenaline.
lucious was standing over draco, who was crumpled in the corner of the room, spasming on the floor as convulsions rattled through his entire body. he was screaming in agony with tears streaming down his face as he shook on the floor, crumpled into a ball. narcissa was trying to get lucious to stop as her son screamed in agony, tears leaking uncontrollably from her eyes. lucious slugged her in the stomach, and she crumpled back, filling hermione with more anger.
"stop!" she screamed as she ran at lucious, wand raised.
lucious took his focus off draco, ending the spell and rendering him unconscious from pain. he was bleeding from multiple small and large cuts on his body. "levicorpus!"
"liberacorpus!" hermione screamed in response. their spells disarmed each other.
"relashio!"
hermione mentally yelled "protego," shielding from the spell.
"petrificus totalus!"
"reducto!"
their curses met in the middle, bright red and green flashes of lightning sparking off each other.
"stupefy!" hermione screamed.
"protego!"
"levicorpus!"
"liberacorpus!"
"MORSMORDRE!" lucious screamed, conjuring the dark mark.
"no!" hermione yelled, running to draco. narcissa followed suit, not wanting to leave her boy in this moment of need.
death eaters started apparating all around them in black swirls of smoke, wands raised, casting spells furiously. hermione screamed and suddenly, a bright light emitted from her, blocking every one of the spells that was cast. the light moved outwards, as if it was some type of force that was blocking the spells. hermione raised up from the ground, arms out, hair floating, and she screamed once more, releasing the light. she fell back to the floor, landing on her feet, not knowing what had just happened. she quickly grabbed narcissa and draco by the arms and apparated again, quickly bringing them to the hotel.
they were in the living room, narcissa hovering over draco while hermione shook him, trying to wake him.
"draco, draco please, wake up." hermione whispered, sobbing, her head on his chest.
hehe i'm going to leave you guys at that cliffhanger, just know i should be updating soon today, and if not today then tomorrow. i'm in the car for twelve hours as we drive back home so yay me.