Thank you reviewers! I didn't know it was that good of a story… J
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Last time
Hermione focused on the lesson, but before she knew it, she was passing out and was sprawled out on the floor. She heard a yell that sounded like Draco. The voice was far away, and different. "Hermione!" she tried to talk. "D…" Her head made contact with the floor, and everything was black.
Draco watched, shocked, as Hermione's face paled and she slipped to the floor. "Hermione!" he yelled, jumping out of his chair. Her mouth opened for a second, but she couldn't talk. She hit the floor and was out cold. Draco kneeled down beside her and picked her up. He ran out of the room with her, after briefly speaking to Lockhart. "Thank god he's so gullible." Draco muttered under his breath and carrying Hermione to the hospital wing. About halfway there, he started to wonder why she passed out. Her arms felt clammy under the robe. Pushing up her sleeve, he gasped. Her arm was full of scars and had dried blood sticking to it. It was abnormally pale. The other arm was the same. He started running as fast as he could with her in his arms. "Blood loss! Oh shit! This isn't good!" When Hermione was safely in bed at the hospital wing and was being tended to by the nurse, Draco went to their dorm, not even thinking about bothering to go to class again. He pushed the door open to Hermione's room and looked around. He was nothing unusual except for a small pile of candies obviously sent to her from Harry as a way of saying 'forgive me.' A note was lying forgotten on her desk, but only had two words carefully written at the top, in red ink. 'Dear Draco,' and at the bottom of the page a few more words. 'I think that I am falling in love with you.' Draco caught his breath in his throat. He couldn't believe her few words. He knew that there was something up when they kissed each other, but he had thought that it was the usual teenage hormones. "She can't be in love with me. She's hated me for six years." He shook his head and looked around her room some more, just to find out if it was true. After five minutes of looking, but not finding anything, he walked back to his room, and fell back onto his bed, falling asleep instantly.
Hermione woke at nine the next morning. She gave a loud moan, as a sudden rush of blood seemed to go to her head and make her feel dizzier than she had ever been in her life. She clutched the first thing that she could reach, and tugged it to her. Startled by a rather loud 'umf,' she snapped open her eyes. The world seemed to spin as Draco's pale face lit up next to her. "Hermione! You're awake!" his eyes brightened as she let out a small smile, but faded into sadness as she winced in pains going all over her. She let a small whimper escape her lips. Draco sighed, and stroked her cheeks. Hermione smiled weakly when he kissed her hand, but her eyes turned to fear when the nurse bustled over once more. "Drink this! Drink that! Bla bla bla!" Draco rolled his eyes, and she was asleep again.
It was about three thirty in the after noon four days later on when madam promfrey finally let Hermione leave with close orders to stay with Draco at all times, except for the usual changing and bathroom stuff. She even wanted them too sleep in the same room. "You don't have the right amount of blood yet! Still too little, and I want someone to be with you at all times! And don't lock the bathroom door! I want him to be in there if you pass out again!!" Hermione rolled her eyes but agreed with the woman. Draco grinned and gave Hermione a quick kiss on the cheek when she met him outside of the hospital wing's doors. "Hermione, are you sure you're okay?" His eyes were full of concern that she had never seen before. "Yeah, I think that I can walk… Okay…" (Fifty feet away from the wing) "Draco… a little help here!" Draco instantly held out his arms and grabbed her before she could fall. "Hermione, maybe we should go back to the nurse, now." "No! Draco, I'm fine! I'm just tired! Let me sit for a second. I'll be fine… just fine… absolutely good…" Sitting down she tilted her head back to the cold stonewalls, and listened to Draco slide down to the floor next to her. "Hermione-" he began, but Hermione gave him a quick peck on the lips to shut him up. "I'm fine, Draco. No need to fuss over me. I'm not a ferret, you know." She smirked at his blushing face. "Can you help me up?" Draco nodded, and helped pull her to her feet. She wrapped one arm around his shoulder, and his other hand went around her waist as they hobbled to the head dorm.
After another two almost falling incidents, they were outside of their dorm. Gently, Draco let Hermione down on the couch and sat next to her. She tilted her head onto his shoulder and sighed. An owl swooped into the room and dropped a letter and a package on Hermione's lap. She just stared at it as the owl screeched and flew out the window. "Open it, Hermione. It's for the best…" She barely nodded as she slowly eased the paper off. A silvery knife tipped onto her lap, ripping her robes and drawing a few drops of metallic blood. Hermione whimpered a little and grabbed the knife. Draco jumped, unsure of what she would do with it. Hermione let a small smile pierce her lips as she chucked it out the window and made it explode with her wand. She smiled, and tossed the letter into the fire. She didn't want to look at the words. Lying back down on the couch with her head in Draco's lap, she fell asleep.
The sun poured into the dorm as he stirred a little. He opened his eyes slowly to see Hermione's sleeping face. "She's so beautiful…" he muttered, tracing her jaw line. Hermione mumbled something and stretched, accidentally punching Draco rather roughly in the jaw. "Ow! Fuck!" he half-yelled, making Hermione jump and grab him for support. They both ended up on the floor, and both ended up yelling, "Ow!" when they crashed on the floor. They just laughed and headed down to breakfast, happy to be with each other again.
A/n okay! That was the 4th chapter! REVIEW! I'm getting a little tired of writing it, but oh well. Some people have to be reminded! ::wink::