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PART 6 - MICHAEL AND DAMIEN
Harry and Ron came to see her about half and hour before the train came to the station. 'Cause Draco was there they couldn't talk about anything. When the train came to stop it was the time to say goodbye.
"Bye Hermione. Owl us if he does anything, okay?" Ron said and hugged her. Hermione hugged back and nodded.
"Take care, 'Mione. Just one owl and we'll be there. Dursleys can't keep me from coming," Harry said and hugged her. Draco rolled his eyes and felt her embarrasment.
"For crying out loud! Hate to break this touching" he said prolonging the word 'touching' "moment but we have to get off this train, in case you didn't noticed.
They got off the train. Harry, Ron and Ginny headed towards Mrs. Weasley and Draco and Hermione, after getting to the muggle station, started to walk away from the platform.
Outside of the station Hermione started to look around. "Where are they?" She asked aloud. Michael and Damien knew what had happened and how she needed a break. 'Where the hell are they?'
"HERMIONE!" They heard someone yelling and turned around to see a guy with black hair and a guy with blond hair running towards them. Before Draco or Hermione even know it the black haired guy had wrapped his arms around Hermione and was hugging her tightly. Then it was the blond haired's turn and Hermione got same kind of bear hug from him, too.
"Great to see you. You don't know how much we've missed you," the blond haired one said and let her go. Then the two guys turned to Draco. When Draco saw the blond haired one he gasped.
"Draco." The blond haired said with his faced showing no emotions.
'Oh. My. God. They look just alike. How I haven't noticed that before?' Hermione asked herself and again looked at them. First she looked at Draco and then Damien.
"Damien..." Draco breathed out and felt like a huge rock was lifted off his heart. Hermione felt this too and secretly smiled. It felt good and she had a feeling that Draco doesn't get to be happy that often.
They did't move and the silence around them was deadly. The black haired one cleared his throat and they turned to him. "I think we should, you know, get in to the car. People are staring."
Hermione nodded and followed the black haired one to the parking lot with Draco. He, not used to cars, eyed the cars around them strangely and Hermione felt his curiosity. The blond haired one, Damien, opened the doors and they got in. Hermione sat on the front next to the black haired one who was driving while Draco sat behind her. They had Chevrolet Camaro Z28 model 1984 and Draco thought that it look hot. He didn't know about cars that much, just the basics, but he knew what was good looking and what was not. He had managed to buy a book about cars and American cars were the best looking. The car was midnight blue and it look better than good. It looked HOT!.
"I guess I should interduce you." Hermione started and turned to look Draco. "Malfoy, this is my brother, Michael. Michael, meet my enemy, Malfoy." Hermione said and the black haired guy turned to look at Draco.
"Finally. Hope you enjoy your stay here with muggles." Michael said and smiled evilly.
"And this is our friend, Damien." Hermione said and felt the tense between them.
"We've met before." Damien said and noticed that Hermione was expecting more. "Herm, Draco's my brother."
Hermione's eyes got wide. Had she just heard right? Did he say brother? "What?"
"I said that he's..." Damien started but Hermione cut him off.
"Your brother. Yeah, I heard. Could you tell me why you didn't tell me this piece of information sooner?" Hermione asked with annoyed tone.
"I had left the wizard life behind me, okay?" Damien said. He truly regretted that he didn't tell the truth to the person he considered as his sister but the truth was that he was afraid that she would see him differently.
Draco felt her disbelief at first and then anger but soon the anger died and hurt took it's place. He looked at Hermione and then his brother. Damien Malfoy. Seven years and he still remembered how he looked.
"Well, Damien," Draco said his name like it was venom. "Why did you leave?"
"Now it's not the time or place to discuss it and it's not your business anyway." Damien answered and Michael turned the car engine on.
"F*ck you! It IS my business!" Draco yelled before thinking. Then he realized that they weren't alone. Hermione and her brother were also in the car. "We'll talk about this, don't you forget it."
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The trip back to Granger's house was odd between the four people in the car. Michael asked Hermione how the things were going and so on but Draco and Damien were silent. Michael pulled to the driveway and they got out. Draco noticed that the house was huge. It had three floors with an attic and probably a basement. Three car's garage and a huge yard. He recognised it from his dream. Michael grabbed Hermione's trunk and headed towards the door but when Damien reached for Draco's trunk Draco pushed him aside.
"Thanks but no thanks." He muttered and went after Michael. Hermione followed him not wanting to risk her health but not before sending a sympathetic look to Damien.
"Malfoy, what's wrong with you?" Hermione asked. "I thought that you couldn't be more rude than in school but obviously I was wrong."
"Stay out of this Granger. It doesn't concern you." Draco answered coldly but Hermione felt hurt.
"Oh, yes it does. I treat Damien like he's my brother. He's been there for me for six years and I trust my life in his hands and now you treat him like sh*t!" Hermione told him stopping him right on his tracks. "It is my business."
"You DON'T know ANYTHING, Mudblood!" Draco turned around yelling in rage but immeaditely felt her sadness and regretted that had said the word. Mudblood. Still he refused to apologize. "He's been there for you for six years but what about me? I've been without a brother for six years. He's my brother and I didn't even knew that he was alive! I have the right to be pissed and rude at him! Don't put your nose where it doesn't belong, Granger."
Hermione felt bad. He had lost a brother and she had gained one. And now she accused him. Draco felt her regret and sighed.
"I..." Hermione started but Draco cut her off.
"It's between me and my brother. Just leave it, okay?"
Hermione nodded and went to her room. Michael sat there on her bed her trunk at the end of her bed.
"Okay. Dumbledore explained the circumstances to me and Damien and we made few adjustments. Herm, you sleep on your bed and Draco sleeps as far as he can. That is there." Michael explained and pointed the bed on the other side of the room. It looked comfy and Draco went to test it. It was comfy. "You don't have to bathe together, thank God for small miracles. Our bathroom ain't that big. Other one waits on the other side of the room while other one is gettin washed."
Draco and Hermione both nodded and Michael left the room but not before he gave a small pec to Hermione's cheek saying, "It's good to have you home, sis."
After he was gone Hermione went to her bed and laid down. "What do you want to do now, Malfoy?"
Draco looked around. Her room was nice. Very spacey. She had posters of some bands with letters L and P on her walls and her walls were light blue. Her shelves were full of books and on her desk were some machine that Draco had never seen before. He was interested on what was it.
Hermione followed his gaze to her computer. "Ever heard of computer?"
Draco nodded. "I've heard of it but never seen one. Is that it?"
"Yep. My very own, fifteenth birthday present from Damien and Michael. They keep it updated while I'm in school." Hermione explained, got up and put it on. "I usually listen some music while I study and of course I e-mail with Harry."
"E-mail?" Draco asked feeling stupid. Muggle studies, not his gategory.
"Yeah. It's like owl post but in electrical form. A lot faster." Hermione said and clicked some icon. Few clicks later heavier music was coming out of the speakers.
"What's this?" Draco asked wondering why was he so nice to Hermione. 'Must be the potion talking.' He thought. 'The better she feels, the better I feel.'
"You, mighty Draco Malfoy, interested in muggle music. Call the press. The hell has frozen over." Hermione laughed and Draco glared at her. "It's a band called Metallica." Hermione said and changed the song. "THIS is great song."
Now Draco listened someone to say the words rather than singing them. He had to admit. That little of muggle music that he had heard was good. "So, these posters... LP? Means... what?"
"Linkin' Park. Their song called 'Crawling' is coming after this. It's very good." Hermione explained. "This is Eminem's 'Sing For The Moment'."
"It's..." Draco started but was interrupted by Damien.
"Can we talk now?"
"Sure." Draco said and glanced at Hermione. "Can you… you know… leave?"
"She can stay. I don't mind. I have some explainings to her, too." Damien said and Hermione looked at Draco.
"Fine. Stay if you like. But I don't promise to watch my language." Draco flopped down to his bed.
Hermione stayed still and Damien sat on her bed. "I guess I should start from the beginning."
"You think so?" Draco said with venom in his voice but was ready to listen.
"I know that you're angry with me, Draco. But I had to leave. Every summer Lucius pressured me to become a death eater and saying that I would make a wonderful follower. And every time I said the same thing. I sure as hell don't want to be a death eater. And every time he took me to the dungeon and beat the crap out of me." Damien begun. Draco remembered those. The last beating was the worst because Damien had said that Harry Potter will defeat the dark lord and that he'd rather die than to be on the dark side. Damien had also said that he'll marry a muggleborn or even a muggle and have dozen of kids with her and have a big party when the dark side have been defeated. Lucius almost killed Damien that time. On the next summer... "When I was almost graduated I knew that Lucius was going to force me to become a death eater. I didn't want it. So I talked to Michael and we agreed that I would come to live in the muggle world. I would leave wizarding world. I haven't touched my wand after the Grangers picked us up from the station. On that day I met Hermione."
"You selfish asshole! What about mom? What about me?" Draco asked yelling. "Oh, daddy wants me to become a death eater. Better run away." Draco said with mockery in his voice. He got up ready to full blast. "I have been suffering the same sh*t than you have but with tenfold. Everytime he beats me he almost kills me. And you know what? He uses the forbidden curses on me. To you? Never. To me? Every time. He checks my mails, mom's mails... He even used forbidden curses on mom once. And all because YOU ran away. You've been here, fine and dandy, while I've been in hell! F*ck you, Damien. F*ck you!"
"Malfoy?" Hermione said and Draco's face turned to Hermione. Hermione had felt all the pain, the sorrow, the horrow, the anger, the sadness, the betrayal... It had overwhelmed her. Made her feel sick. Draco was giving so much emotions that he didn't noticed Hermione feelings. "You forgot one thing. When you saw Damien you were relief."
Draco shifted from one foot to the another. "Yeah, so?"
"Why?"
Draco didn't want to admit it. He had been afraid all these years that his brother had been dead. That he would be totally alone. "I don't know."
Hermione felt it. A lie. "Yes you do."
"You were relief?" Damien asked and Draco looked at him.
"I was happy that you weren't dead, okay? I missed you." Draco said with sadness.
"You were?" Draco nodded.
A strange silence followed. For five minutes they sat there saying nothing until Damien spoke.
"I thought about you. I couldn't sleep or eat. I knew my actions would affect on you and mom but I couldn't come back and walk to my death. I was a coward, I admit that. Little by little I came back to the living and started to live. I build very successful business with Michael and kept my attention focused. I wanted to go back but I couldn't. Then I started to receive letters from Hermione that told me what kind of pain in her ass were you and I knew you were alive." Damien explained. It didn't justified his actions but it was a start to a new beginning.
They looked at each other for a minute and Hermione felt Draco's anger and pain to become easier to handle. Three minutes later Draco and Damien gave each other a manly hug and Hermione smiled. New start was what they needed.
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PART 6 - MICHAEL AND DAMIEN
Harry and Ron came to see her about half and hour before the train came to the station. 'Cause Draco was there they couldn't talk about anything. When the train came to stop it was the time to say goodbye.
"Bye Hermione. Owl us if he does anything, okay?" Ron said and hugged her. Hermione hugged back and nodded.
"Take care, 'Mione. Just one owl and we'll be there. Dursleys can't keep me from coming," Harry said and hugged her. Draco rolled his eyes and felt her embarrasment.
"For crying out loud! Hate to break this touching" he said prolonging the word 'touching' "moment but we have to get off this train, in case you didn't noticed.
They got off the train. Harry, Ron and Ginny headed towards Mrs. Weasley and Draco and Hermione, after getting to the muggle station, started to walk away from the platform.
Outside of the station Hermione started to look around. "Where are they?" She asked aloud. Michael and Damien knew what had happened and how she needed a break. 'Where the hell are they?'
"HERMIONE!" They heard someone yelling and turned around to see a guy with black hair and a guy with blond hair running towards them. Before Draco or Hermione even know it the black haired guy had wrapped his arms around Hermione and was hugging her tightly. Then it was the blond haired's turn and Hermione got same kind of bear hug from him, too.
"Great to see you. You don't know how much we've missed you," the blond haired one said and let her go. Then the two guys turned to Draco. When Draco saw the blond haired one he gasped.
"Draco." The blond haired said with his faced showing no emotions.
'Oh. My. God. They look just alike. How I haven't noticed that before?' Hermione asked herself and again looked at them. First she looked at Draco and then Damien.
"Damien..." Draco breathed out and felt like a huge rock was lifted off his heart. Hermione felt this too and secretly smiled. It felt good and she had a feeling that Draco doesn't get to be happy that often.
They did't move and the silence around them was deadly. The black haired one cleared his throat and they turned to him. "I think we should, you know, get in to the car. People are staring."
Hermione nodded and followed the black haired one to the parking lot with Draco. He, not used to cars, eyed the cars around them strangely and Hermione felt his curiosity. The blond haired one, Damien, opened the doors and they got in. Hermione sat on the front next to the black haired one who was driving while Draco sat behind her. They had Chevrolet Camaro Z28 model 1984 and Draco thought that it look hot. He didn't know about cars that much, just the basics, but he knew what was good looking and what was not. He had managed to buy a book about cars and American cars were the best looking. The car was midnight blue and it look better than good. It looked HOT!.
"I guess I should interduce you." Hermione started and turned to look Draco. "Malfoy, this is my brother, Michael. Michael, meet my enemy, Malfoy." Hermione said and the black haired guy turned to look at Draco.
"Finally. Hope you enjoy your stay here with muggles." Michael said and smiled evilly.
"And this is our friend, Damien." Hermione said and felt the tense between them.
"We've met before." Damien said and noticed that Hermione was expecting more. "Herm, Draco's my brother."
Hermione's eyes got wide. Had she just heard right? Did he say brother? "What?"
"I said that he's..." Damien started but Hermione cut him off.
"Your brother. Yeah, I heard. Could you tell me why you didn't tell me this piece of information sooner?" Hermione asked with annoyed tone.
"I had left the wizard life behind me, okay?" Damien said. He truly regretted that he didn't tell the truth to the person he considered as his sister but the truth was that he was afraid that she would see him differently.
Draco felt her disbelief at first and then anger but soon the anger died and hurt took it's place. He looked at Hermione and then his brother. Damien Malfoy. Seven years and he still remembered how he looked.
"Well, Damien," Draco said his name like it was venom. "Why did you leave?"
"Now it's not the time or place to discuss it and it's not your business anyway." Damien answered and Michael turned the car engine on.
"F*ck you! It IS my business!" Draco yelled before thinking. Then he realized that they weren't alone. Hermione and her brother were also in the car. "We'll talk about this, don't you forget it."
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The trip back to Granger's house was odd between the four people in the car. Michael asked Hermione how the things were going and so on but Draco and Damien were silent. Michael pulled to the driveway and they got out. Draco noticed that the house was huge. It had three floors with an attic and probably a basement. Three car's garage and a huge yard. He recognised it from his dream. Michael grabbed Hermione's trunk and headed towards the door but when Damien reached for Draco's trunk Draco pushed him aside.
"Thanks but no thanks." He muttered and went after Michael. Hermione followed him not wanting to risk her health but not before sending a sympathetic look to Damien.
"Malfoy, what's wrong with you?" Hermione asked. "I thought that you couldn't be more rude than in school but obviously I was wrong."
"Stay out of this Granger. It doesn't concern you." Draco answered coldly but Hermione felt hurt.
"Oh, yes it does. I treat Damien like he's my brother. He's been there for me for six years and I trust my life in his hands and now you treat him like sh*t!" Hermione told him stopping him right on his tracks. "It is my business."
"You DON'T know ANYTHING, Mudblood!" Draco turned around yelling in rage but immeaditely felt her sadness and regretted that had said the word. Mudblood. Still he refused to apologize. "He's been there for you for six years but what about me? I've been without a brother for six years. He's my brother and I didn't even knew that he was alive! I have the right to be pissed and rude at him! Don't put your nose where it doesn't belong, Granger."
Hermione felt bad. He had lost a brother and she had gained one. And now she accused him. Draco felt her regret and sighed.
"I..." Hermione started but Draco cut her off.
"It's between me and my brother. Just leave it, okay?"
Hermione nodded and went to her room. Michael sat there on her bed her trunk at the end of her bed.
"Okay. Dumbledore explained the circumstances to me and Damien and we made few adjustments. Herm, you sleep on your bed and Draco sleeps as far as he can. That is there." Michael explained and pointed the bed on the other side of the room. It looked comfy and Draco went to test it. It was comfy. "You don't have to bathe together, thank God for small miracles. Our bathroom ain't that big. Other one waits on the other side of the room while other one is gettin washed."
Draco and Hermione both nodded and Michael left the room but not before he gave a small pec to Hermione's cheek saying, "It's good to have you home, sis."
After he was gone Hermione went to her bed and laid down. "What do you want to do now, Malfoy?"
Draco looked around. Her room was nice. Very spacey. She had posters of some bands with letters L and P on her walls and her walls were light blue. Her shelves were full of books and on her desk were some machine that Draco had never seen before. He was interested on what was it.
Hermione followed his gaze to her computer. "Ever heard of computer?"
Draco nodded. "I've heard of it but never seen one. Is that it?"
"Yep. My very own, fifteenth birthday present from Damien and Michael. They keep it updated while I'm in school." Hermione explained, got up and put it on. "I usually listen some music while I study and of course I e-mail with Harry."
"E-mail?" Draco asked feeling stupid. Muggle studies, not his gategory.
"Yeah. It's like owl post but in electrical form. A lot faster." Hermione said and clicked some icon. Few clicks later heavier music was coming out of the speakers.
"What's this?" Draco asked wondering why was he so nice to Hermione. 'Must be the potion talking.' He thought. 'The better she feels, the better I feel.'
"You, mighty Draco Malfoy, interested in muggle music. Call the press. The hell has frozen over." Hermione laughed and Draco glared at her. "It's a band called Metallica." Hermione said and changed the song. "THIS is great song."
Now Draco listened someone to say the words rather than singing them. He had to admit. That little of muggle music that he had heard was good. "So, these posters... LP? Means... what?"
"Linkin' Park. Their song called 'Crawling' is coming after this. It's very good." Hermione explained. "This is Eminem's 'Sing For The Moment'."
"It's..." Draco started but was interrupted by Damien.
"Can we talk now?"
"Sure." Draco said and glanced at Hermione. "Can you… you know… leave?"
"She can stay. I don't mind. I have some explainings to her, too." Damien said and Hermione looked at Draco.
"Fine. Stay if you like. But I don't promise to watch my language." Draco flopped down to his bed.
Hermione stayed still and Damien sat on her bed. "I guess I should start from the beginning."
"You think so?" Draco said with venom in his voice but was ready to listen.
"I know that you're angry with me, Draco. But I had to leave. Every summer Lucius pressured me to become a death eater and saying that I would make a wonderful follower. And every time I said the same thing. I sure as hell don't want to be a death eater. And every time he took me to the dungeon and beat the crap out of me." Damien begun. Draco remembered those. The last beating was the worst because Damien had said that Harry Potter will defeat the dark lord and that he'd rather die than to be on the dark side. Damien had also said that he'll marry a muggleborn or even a muggle and have dozen of kids with her and have a big party when the dark side have been defeated. Lucius almost killed Damien that time. On the next summer... "When I was almost graduated I knew that Lucius was going to force me to become a death eater. I didn't want it. So I talked to Michael and we agreed that I would come to live in the muggle world. I would leave wizarding world. I haven't touched my wand after the Grangers picked us up from the station. On that day I met Hermione."
"You selfish asshole! What about mom? What about me?" Draco asked yelling. "Oh, daddy wants me to become a death eater. Better run away." Draco said with mockery in his voice. He got up ready to full blast. "I have been suffering the same sh*t than you have but with tenfold. Everytime he beats me he almost kills me. And you know what? He uses the forbidden curses on me. To you? Never. To me? Every time. He checks my mails, mom's mails... He even used forbidden curses on mom once. And all because YOU ran away. You've been here, fine and dandy, while I've been in hell! F*ck you, Damien. F*ck you!"
"Malfoy?" Hermione said and Draco's face turned to Hermione. Hermione had felt all the pain, the sorrow, the horrow, the anger, the sadness, the betrayal... It had overwhelmed her. Made her feel sick. Draco was giving so much emotions that he didn't noticed Hermione feelings. "You forgot one thing. When you saw Damien you were relief."
Draco shifted from one foot to the another. "Yeah, so?"
"Why?"
Draco didn't want to admit it. He had been afraid all these years that his brother had been dead. That he would be totally alone. "I don't know."
Hermione felt it. A lie. "Yes you do."
"You were relief?" Damien asked and Draco looked at him.
"I was happy that you weren't dead, okay? I missed you." Draco said with sadness.
"You were?" Draco nodded.
A strange silence followed. For five minutes they sat there saying nothing until Damien spoke.
"I thought about you. I couldn't sleep or eat. I knew my actions would affect on you and mom but I couldn't come back and walk to my death. I was a coward, I admit that. Little by little I came back to the living and started to live. I build very successful business with Michael and kept my attention focused. I wanted to go back but I couldn't. Then I started to receive letters from Hermione that told me what kind of pain in her ass were you and I knew you were alive." Damien explained. It didn't justified his actions but it was a start to a new beginning.
They looked at each other for a minute and Hermione felt Draco's anger and pain to become easier to handle. Three minutes later Draco and Damien gave each other a manly hug and Hermione smiled. New start was what they needed.
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