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Chapter 10

"Well, as far as we can see…" Hermione craned her neck as she watched her heart beat on the monitor going crazy.

"There are no physical defects affecting any of the babies, they would have already manifested if there were." Draco breathed a sigh of relief as Hermione began to cry softly as she clutched his hand.

"They're ok." Draco spluttered in a voice choked with tears.

"Unfortunately there is still the chance of a serious abnormality such as a deaf or blind child, but apart from that, your babies are just fine."

Hermione pulled Draco down into a deep kiss, mixed with both of their tears.

Relief was an understatement.

"Well Miss Granger, if you like you can go off for a potter, there are a few shops downstairs, that I'm sure you could explore while your partner is resting." The over cheery nurse beamed as she left with Hermione's charts.

She'd been under observation in the hospital for little under a week, and was starting to get bored.

With a sigh, she got out of bed, put on her slippers and padded out of the room in search of some food.

As she was heading down the hallway, she caught sight of a familiar name, one she wasn't likely to ever forget.

It was etched into a plaque outside one of the wards reserved for long residing patients, and as her curiosity got the better of her, she couldn't help but step through the open doorway of the ward marked:

Ron Weasley.

She entered timidly, smoothing down her hospital gown as she peaked around the door.

She gasped as she spotted several Auror's standing around outside the curtained off bed, one of was still talking to a shaky Molly Weasley.

Her slight intake of breath was enough to alert pretty much everyone in the room, and they all turned to face her.

"Oh Hermione, Merlin." Molly cried, placing a hand over her mouth as she quickly bustled over and enveloped her in a warm hug.

"W, what is it Mrs Weasley?" She stuttered, opening her mouth in surprise as Ginny appeared from behind the curtain, looking a little worse for wear.

"Oh God, Ginny." She breathed, taking in her best friend's fat lip and black eye.

Ginny bit her lip to stop it from quivering and hastily wiped her eyes.

"Got me when I wasn't looking, don't think I would've let him otherwise." She choked, looking away as Hermione felt her eyes well up with tears.

"He was drinking, I don't think anyone realised how much. We were all in the kitchen whilst he sat in the living room alone. He came up to Ginny, he was shouting, and talking about how he'd been betrayed, betrayed by you Hermione." Molly looked away as the tears began to slide down her rosy cheeks.

"And then, we were all in the kitchen, no one even knew she was with him, but he rounded on Ginny and, and," Molly clutched her hankie to her face as her shoulders shook, racked with sobs.

Ginny blinked away her own tears and turned to face Hermione.

"I just didn't think there was any need to be on the defensive, I mean, it's Ron." She sniffed, taking a sideways glance at the hospital bed.

"And then we heard what had happened to you Hermione, we got the call from some terrified young man who said he was at the hospital with you, didn't even give his name, but said he knew you from school. Ginny wasn't available to identify him of course." Molly sniffed, dabbing at her eyes as Hermione nodded her head in understanding.

"So who was it?" An ice cold, hardened voice echoed from the door, and Hermione spun around to see Harry standing in the doorway, his face gaunt as he clutched two coffees as though his life depended on it.

Hermione could already tell this was incredibly hard on him. His best friend had attacked his fiancé and his best friend, and he hadn't been there to stop him.

"It was Draco." Hermione said quietly, as Harry's eyes widened and he almost dropped the coffees.

"Malfoy?!" He spat incredulously as Hermione rubbed her temples and took a seat with a sigh.

"Yes. I've been seeing him for a few weeks now Harry, ever since Ron," She gulped and looked away.

Harry was still looking at her in total astonishment, whilst Ginny just rolled her eyes and nodded as though she'd known all along.

"I knew you weren't meeting Ron all those times, Mione you're not exactly the best liar."

Hermione raised an eyebrow.

"But you're not surprised it's Draco?" Ginny shrugged and winked.

"C'mon, the sexual tension between you two is insane." Harry almost choked on his coffee as Hermione laughed and pulled her best friend into a hug.

"I'm sorry I never told you Gin." She sighed as she felt Ginny's shoulder shake with long repressed sobs.

"How long?" Harry spat, and Hermione tensed once more. He couldn't seriously be angry about her and Draco? It was just a petty house rivalry hatred, a childish dispute that she thought they'd put behind them for their last year at school.

"I already told you, a few months." She snapped.

Harry shook his head, and glared murderously at the shrouded hospital bed.

"No. How long was he, was he" He looked away, his knuckles turning white as he tried to steady his breathing.

"Harry there's nothing you could've done, you didn't know." Hermione said quietly as he spun around to face her, tears in his eyes.

"Don't you get it Hermione? Of course I could've done something, you're my to best friends in the world yet I didn't notice what was happening between you, I didn't help or even try to ask you what was wrong, because believe me I knew something was up. I could've stopped all of this, all of it." He cried, as Ginny stood up and went to him.

He turned away as she approached, leaning against the wall as he sighed, defeated.

"Don't Ginny. I don't deserve you." He sighed, as she rolled her eyes, spun him around and slapped him hard across the face.

"You're damn right Potter you don't, but you also don't deserve to be blamed for all this. It was my idiot brother, not you, and if you dare try and go all miserable it was all my fault again, I'll leave you with the damn ring and you can marry someone else who'll listen to you hating yourself now shut up and pull it together." She snapped, as Harry and everyone else in the room looked on at her in complete shock.

"Well then, now that that's over and done with," She smiled brightly, as Hermione tried to stifle her laughter. Even in the toughest of situations, Ginny never lost her spunk. She wished to God she was more like her best friend, if she were maybe she would have had the confidence to tell someone or just defend herself with Ron.

"I think it's time I clarified a few things with Hermione here." She turned to face Hermione, and grabbed her arm, slumping down in the chair and tapping the seat next to her.

"So," She began as Hermione sat back down beside her.

"Is the baby Ron's? And I hope to Merlin the answer here is no?" Hermione smiled and shook her head.

"The baby's not Ron's, well the babies." Ginny's eyes widened before she nodded in understanding.

"Oh yeah, the weird triplets thing on your mum's side."

"Am I the only one who didn't know about that?!" Someone exclaimed from the doorway, and Hermione beamed as Draco came in and joined them, after awkwardly shaking hands with Harry at the door.

"So Malfoy, you ready to be a father as well as finishing you're NEWT's and getting a well-paid job?" Ginny jumped right in, always ready to fight Hermione's corner when her best friend wouldn't.

Draco raised an eyebrow and nodded slowly.

"Well yes, obviously. Not that it's any of your business Weaslette." Ginny rolled her eyes and turned back to Hermione.

"I hope to Merlin you're right about him Hermione, because he doesn't seem all that changed to me." Hermione grinned and winked.

"Well, I never said he wasn't a son of a Banshee."

"Hey!" Draco exclaimed as Ginny grinned, before turning back to her best friend.

"So! You must be, what 10 weeks along now? What's it like?! I'm guessing avoiding your period's been pretty fun? What about morning sickness how are you doing with that?" Both boys cringed simultaneously, and gave Mrs Weasley a pleading look before she rolled her eyes and placed her hands on her hips.

"Well now boys it's nice to know how comfortable you are with all this seeing as you're both going to be fathers pretty bloody soon."

Hermione gave Ginny an opened mouth look of shock, which earned her a blush and a wave of the hand.

"No Hermione, I'm not up the duff, we actually use protection." She winked as Hermione mock gasped and slapped Ginny's wrist.

"Nah, mum's just nagging about Grandkids." She grinned, as Mrs Weasley shot her a look.

"You watch how you speak about me Ginevra." Ginny winced at her full name, and turned to call over to her fiancé.

"Harry I give you permission to leave and go do something for a bit while me and Mione have a catch up." Harry raised his hands in surrender and sighed relieved.

"Not a problem." He grinned, kissing Ginny quickly before heading for the door.

He paused, and turned back awkwardly to Draco.

"Um, so Malfoy, do you want to, ah, I dunno, come with?" He asked sheepishly, ruffling the back of his head like he always did when he was nervous.

Draco looked at Hermione worriedly.

"Do you need anything? Water, juice, snacks?" Hermione rolled her eyes and pulled him in for a quick kiss.

"No you idiot, go and relax for once, I'm fine. Seriously." She smiled reassuringly as Draco nodded and headed off to the door.

"Hm, not bad. Maybe the Ferret has changed." Ginny mused as Hermione laughed.

"So anyway, back to"

Their conversation was interrupted by a low moan emitting from the bed in the corner.

Ron was waking up.

Ginny glanced nervously at Hermione whose lips had pursed as the second Medi Witch came rushing in to check on his vitals.

"Are you ok to talk to him?" Ginny asked carefully as Hermione straightened her back and nodded resolutely.

"Of course." Ginny smiled slightly and rubbed Hermione's shoulder comfortingly as she stood, and made her way to the bed in the corner.

The nurses were leaving with his charts, talking calmly which clearly meant he was doing ok.

With a deep breath, Hermione pushed back the curtain and looked down at Ron as he rolled over and looked up at her.

If she'd felt any kind of emotion at that moment, she would have gasped.

She knew later she'd feel sorry for him, but at that moment in time, all she could feel was emptiness.

Because the nurse hadn't been lying, of the three of them, it certainly looked as though Draco, and even herself had gotten off lightly.

From the waist up, Ron looked completely normal, if a little weaker than usual.

But she noticed with a jolt that something was wrong.

Incredibly wrong.

Because Ron's right leg was gone.

Completely gone.

Almost as though it had never even been there.

"Mione?" He grunted, rubbing his eyes as he looked up at her.

He noticed her staring at his leg, which now cut off in the middle of his thigh.

He attempted a shrug and sighed.

"Yeah, I know it's a little weird but I guess you get used to it. It really doesn't feel too bad, you"

"Ron I'm not here to chat." She interrupted sharply as he lowered his eyes, as though he understood what she was talking about immediately.

"Look, Hermione I,"

"Save it." She snapped, causing him to look up at her in surprise.

"I just want you to know that I'm with Draco now. I don't care if you like it or not, that's how it's going to be from now on. You hurt me Ron, you hurt me so much I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you again. And I'm sorry for your leg, I really am. I wish you the best with therapy and all, but I want you to know that I won't be here to help you. You pushed it too far, and I'm done."

He looked up at her miserably.

"But Mione I'd never hurt you, never," He said quietly before Hermione slammed her hands down on the end of his bed and glared at him.

"But you did. Every single day for months. You hurt me. And not just emotionally." She flicked her wand and the three visible scars on her face immediately appeared.

One small one cutting through the lower part of her lip, one just above her eyebrow and the third, largest running down the left side of her jaw, was almost four centimetres long.

"Those are just the ones you can see." She said hollowly as Ron looked away, ashamed.

"Good bye Ron. And good luck."

Draco was waiting for her outside his room, and he quickly wrapped his arms around her.

"Ginny told me he was awake. Is everything ok?" He asked softly as he kept her in his arms.

She broke away, and he was surprised to see her smiling.

"Done with that." She grinned, and took his hand as they headed back to her room to pack up her things ready to go home.

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