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Hermione had her head shaved the following morning for her operation and made a rather large mental note to buy a nice, pretty wig. She thought maybe it should be blue or pink, something wild at the very least.
Harry dropped by about eight and gave Hermione a hug. This was it for Hermione. She broke into tears and cried. He kissed away her tears and tried to keep her calm until Draco got to her apartment.
When he did get there he took her into his arms and said something into her ear. She smiled slightly and stopped crying. Harry was shocked. He had known Hermione a hell of a lot better than Draco did, and Draco could stop her crying! It wasn't fair!
Harry followed Hermione and Draco to the hospital, as he had said that he would meet Ginny there. He pulled into a parking spot, and looking to his right noticed that Ginny was parked next to him. He walked in and Ginny jumped out of her chair, kissed and hugged and waited for Draco and Hermione to walk through. They waited and waited, but neither came. After about ten minutes the pair walked through the door, Draco looking slightly upset and Hermione with large, red puffy eyes. She walked over to Ginny and gave her a hug. Then they walked over to the operating waiting room and Hermione had her name marked off.
A nurse was soon striding towards Hermione and beckoned her into a room. Draco, Harry and Ginny all stood up and followed Hermione into a bright, crisp, clean room. The nurse sat in a chair and gestured at four chairs on the other side of the table. Putting up a CT scan on the white light that she had, she picked up a black marker and marked on Hermione's clean shaven skull roughly where the tumour was.
"I am marking where the tumour is because it will be easier for the surgeons. If you will excuse us, Hermione must get into her gown and be sedated. You can sit in the waiting room, in here or go to the coffee shop. I am sorry to say, however, that you cannot see Hermione until after surgery because you are not related by blood. The surgery could take six or more hours. Do not worry, she is in good hands. Hermione, if you will follow me," the nurse said. Hermione stood up and hugged the group. She was so scared she couldn't say anything. She followed the nurse and they went through some plastic doors. The operating room plastic doors.
"Hermione, please take this gown and go to the bathroom over there and get changed," another nurse said to her. Hermione took the gown and fumbled over to the bathroom. Stripping her clothes she put on the loose fitting gown and shuffled back to the bed and got in. Yet another nurse came over, except this one was male. He shoved a needle up her hand and explained it was a cannula, it was to keep blood and fluid in her body whilst she was in surgery. Hermione felt a cold rush go up her arm as the sedative was injected. She felt drowsy and felt the bed being pushed, but it was more of a feeling than seeing the world moving. There was a bang from some plastic doors being hit and Hermione saw a bright white room with lots of doctors and nurses and instruments (but not the musical kind). The bed stopped and she was heaved onto another surgical bed next to her. Another cold rush and she felt herself swirling into a black hole.
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A/N: I'm not finishing at half a page, but for all you people who haven't had an operation, that is exactly what happens. However, I have not had a brain operation like this. I had a muscle biopsy on my upper left thigh. So I know all the sedative stuff. It might seem a short time that I portrayed it, and trust me, it feels like it, but it really is about half an hour, well probably longer but you understand I'm sure. Anyway, I'm sure you want to find out what happens so read on.... ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~ *~*~*~ "BP?" the main doctor, Dr Calbamine, asked.
"Stable," said a nurse.
"Scalpel," another doctor instructed. He was handed the scalpel.
For the next four and a half hours the doctors worked on her head, located the tumour, and tried to cut it out. It was harder than first thought.
"BP?" someone said.
"Stable," was the reply. A doctor asked for suction, and finally saw what he was looking for. The tumour. It was fairly small, but dangerous all the same. He managed to cut it out and placed it in the metal tray.
"BP is dropping rapidly," someone called out.
"Damn!" a doctor exclaimed. "We have blood everywhere. Suction!"
"We have to clamp it off. Find the mainstream," a hand went in and found the source. It was clamped off but Hermione's BP was still dropping. What was going on? Any lower and she would go into cardiac arrest. Too late. She had.
"Give me those over there. Charge to 240!" one of the doctors yelled.
"Ready!" a nurse yelled back.
"Clear!" But Hermione's BP was still low. He charged to 360 and tried three times. But it was no use.
"Time of death."
"Wait! Look!" Hermione's BP was traveling steadily.
"She's back and fighting. Right, close her up. I don't want to risk it again," Dr Calbamine instructed. He flung off his gloves and washed his hands. He knew the other doctors would be ok. He walked out of the doors. He knew that no family were coming but it was only fair to tell her friends. He checked the waiting room and the office that they had been in earlier but they weren't there. He also checked the café, but couldn't see them there. He went to the pager's office.
"Could Hermione Granger's friends please return to the operating waiting room. There is a doctor to see you. Hermione Granger's friends," boomed Bill, the pager.
Dr Calbamine returned and waited. Not more than a minute later he saw three young youths running towards him. They introduced themselves as Hermione's friends, Draco, Ginny and Harry.
"What's the problem?" the man called Draco asked.
"I never said there was a problem, but you are right, there was a problem. Hermione was going great, and we are fairly sure we got most of the tumour. However she began bleeding in her brain. We were able to stop it, but her blood pressure, or BP, kept dropping. She eventually went into cardiac arrest. We tried, and lost her after four attempts. One of the other doctors started to say the time of death, when miraculously, she picked up her BP. We had to close up, but as I said earlier, we got most of the tumour. She should be fine, but you must be aware, that she will be very tired, might have some brain damage that won't last, and she could slip into a coma. But that is very unlikely. I expect she will be stirring in a few minutes. Draco, as a boyfriend, you can see her. I am afraid that Ginny and Harry, you will have to wait,"
"NO! Ginny and Harry are like brothers and sisters. They will come with me," Draco said angrily. Harry and Ginny were shocked. They had never seen Draco so white and angry. Never. And he had hated Hermione at Hogwarts. So to see him angry about Hermione was a little bit surprising, to say the least.
"Oh, alright. But you must be quiet, she is not meant to have lots of visitors. We are not sure where to put her though for wards. Children's could fit her in and she would be well looked after. She could also have some relaxation there," Dr Calbamine frowned.
"What? Relaxation in a hospital with little kids running around yelling. That sounds so relaxing, I might stay too," Draco interrupted sarcastically.
"Children's ward give a lot of attention. I must go. If you are to come too then follow me. If you want to make sarcastic comments and miss your chance then that is your problem. Not mine!" He nodded curtly and walked out. Harry would have loved to punch him in the face but doing that to a doctor wasn't necessarily the best idea. So the trio trailed the doctor, at a distance, to Hermione. She had large, white bandages on her head. But it was just her head. Her face was visible. Ginny immediately drew up a chair for herself and sat there holding her hand, and saying words softly. From the look on Harry's closed eyes and face he figured Ginny was praying. But Draco didn't believe in that rubbish so he went over to the other side of the bed and kissed Hermione lightly on the lips. He got a chair, sat heavily down in it and held Hermione's other hand. A drip was still in, dripping steadily, as it should, and Draco bent his head, Ginny's soft words filling his head, clouding it with sleep.
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Draco woke up to the light chatting of Ginny and Hermione, and stirred slightly. He noticed the windows were dark and Harry was dosing in a pull out bed behind him. He opened his eyes more fully and saw Hermione propped up talking to Ginny, but not much. It was Ginny doing most of the talking. What a surprise! He stood up and collapsed. After sitting with your legs bent for a couple of hours they tend to go to sleep, like the rest of your body. He stretched, moaning with the pain, and stood up again. He bent over Hermione and gave her a kiss that warmed her whole body. Ginny then fell into a deep sleep, well, not before climbing into bed with Harry of course. Draco talked to Hermione about what happened in surgery, both to her and to him. Eventually Hermione got tired and Draco curled up with her.
A nurse walked by and saw the two couples. She had been told that the girl was a special case, and not to disturb her or the males because they got angry easily. Ordinarily she would not have allowed it, but seeing as it would create more of a disturbance rather than fix the problem, she decided to let it go. Besides, she wished her husband was that kind!
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When Draco woke up he was in a bright blue and green room that had cows and chickens on the wall and he assumed they were in the children's ward. He slid out of the bed and went to get something to eat. He was hungry. He soon found some toast and juice to have and he thought. He couldn't cope with this. Hermione nearly dying, the whole tumour thing. I mean, after all, he wasn't Superman. He decided then and there that he would help Hermione as a friend, but not a boyfriend. He just couldn't do it anymore.
Not now, not ever.
He finished his semi-breakfast and made his way back to Hermione's room. She was stirring and Draco figured he should tell her now rather than later.
"Hermione?" Draco said tentatively.
"Mmm?" was the sleepy reply.
"I'm not breaking up with you, but I can't go through with this. Not after the last few days. I need a break. I'll call you but I'm not breaking up with you so don't get the wrong idea. I.I.I just need to think and see someone before I commit suicide. And I don't want to do that to you. Not now," Draco gushed out. He walked out of the room and drove off in his car a few minutes later. Arriving home he looked for a couselor. He was going to need one after that.
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Harry awoke to Hermione's soft sobs.
"Hermione! What's the matter?" he asked, almost immediately at her side.
"Draco.Draco.broke.up.with.me!" she said, bringing a fresh round of tears. Harry was speechless, but he doubted it would last.
"He.he.he said.after.the.last.few da.da.days.that.he.needed.a.a.break!" Harry rocked her back and forth.
"Well, now do I get to punch the bastard?" he asked. Hermione just burst into more tears.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ! DO NOT ONTO THE NEXT CHAPTER WITHOUT READING
THIS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE!!!! (Cuppy!)
A/N: Well, you may or may not have seen that coming. But this is not the end of the story! I repeat, this is not the end of the story. Housten, we do not have a problem! (LOL! To many space things!) Anyway, there will be a steamy chapter next so if you don't like that sort of thing, a)Don't read it, b) Read it, c) Deal with it or d) Read the chapter that will impact the rest of the story. Oh, or e) Don't bother reading the story any further (which you are totally not allowed to do!) Just to let you know as well, the next two or so chapters will actually be fairly steamy and there is a kidnap/rape type thing coming too, so I'll let you know now. My last point is that Hermione's hair, being a witch, is going to grow back Super fast. I have thought that because she is a witch she has some special power so that when her hair is gone it grows really fast. You know, this is the longest Author's note I've ever done? Anyway, G2G!
Cuppy!
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Hermione had her head shaved the following morning for her operation and made a rather large mental note to buy a nice, pretty wig. She thought maybe it should be blue or pink, something wild at the very least.
Harry dropped by about eight and gave Hermione a hug. This was it for Hermione. She broke into tears and cried. He kissed away her tears and tried to keep her calm until Draco got to her apartment.
When he did get there he took her into his arms and said something into her ear. She smiled slightly and stopped crying. Harry was shocked. He had known Hermione a hell of a lot better than Draco did, and Draco could stop her crying! It wasn't fair!
Harry followed Hermione and Draco to the hospital, as he had said that he would meet Ginny there. He pulled into a parking spot, and looking to his right noticed that Ginny was parked next to him. He walked in and Ginny jumped out of her chair, kissed and hugged and waited for Draco and Hermione to walk through. They waited and waited, but neither came. After about ten minutes the pair walked through the door, Draco looking slightly upset and Hermione with large, red puffy eyes. She walked over to Ginny and gave her a hug. Then they walked over to the operating waiting room and Hermione had her name marked off.
A nurse was soon striding towards Hermione and beckoned her into a room. Draco, Harry and Ginny all stood up and followed Hermione into a bright, crisp, clean room. The nurse sat in a chair and gestured at four chairs on the other side of the table. Putting up a CT scan on the white light that she had, she picked up a black marker and marked on Hermione's clean shaven skull roughly where the tumour was.
"I am marking where the tumour is because it will be easier for the surgeons. If you will excuse us, Hermione must get into her gown and be sedated. You can sit in the waiting room, in here or go to the coffee shop. I am sorry to say, however, that you cannot see Hermione until after surgery because you are not related by blood. The surgery could take six or more hours. Do not worry, she is in good hands. Hermione, if you will follow me," the nurse said. Hermione stood up and hugged the group. She was so scared she couldn't say anything. She followed the nurse and they went through some plastic doors. The operating room plastic doors.
"Hermione, please take this gown and go to the bathroom over there and get changed," another nurse said to her. Hermione took the gown and fumbled over to the bathroom. Stripping her clothes she put on the loose fitting gown and shuffled back to the bed and got in. Yet another nurse came over, except this one was male. He shoved a needle up her hand and explained it was a cannula, it was to keep blood and fluid in her body whilst she was in surgery. Hermione felt a cold rush go up her arm as the sedative was injected. She felt drowsy and felt the bed being pushed, but it was more of a feeling than seeing the world moving. There was a bang from some plastic doors being hit and Hermione saw a bright white room with lots of doctors and nurses and instruments (but not the musical kind). The bed stopped and she was heaved onto another surgical bed next to her. Another cold rush and she felt herself swirling into a black hole.
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A/N: I'm not finishing at half a page, but for all you people who haven't had an operation, that is exactly what happens. However, I have not had a brain operation like this. I had a muscle biopsy on my upper left thigh. So I know all the sedative stuff. It might seem a short time that I portrayed it, and trust me, it feels like it, but it really is about half an hour, well probably longer but you understand I'm sure. Anyway, I'm sure you want to find out what happens so read on.... ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~ *~*~*~ "BP?" the main doctor, Dr Calbamine, asked.
"Stable," said a nurse.
"Scalpel," another doctor instructed. He was handed the scalpel.
For the next four and a half hours the doctors worked on her head, located the tumour, and tried to cut it out. It was harder than first thought.
"BP?" someone said.
"Stable," was the reply. A doctor asked for suction, and finally saw what he was looking for. The tumour. It was fairly small, but dangerous all the same. He managed to cut it out and placed it in the metal tray.
"BP is dropping rapidly," someone called out.
"Damn!" a doctor exclaimed. "We have blood everywhere. Suction!"
"We have to clamp it off. Find the mainstream," a hand went in and found the source. It was clamped off but Hermione's BP was still dropping. What was going on? Any lower and she would go into cardiac arrest. Too late. She had.
"Give me those over there. Charge to 240!" one of the doctors yelled.
"Ready!" a nurse yelled back.
"Clear!" But Hermione's BP was still low. He charged to 360 and tried three times. But it was no use.
"Time of death."
"Wait! Look!" Hermione's BP was traveling steadily.
"She's back and fighting. Right, close her up. I don't want to risk it again," Dr Calbamine instructed. He flung off his gloves and washed his hands. He knew the other doctors would be ok. He walked out of the doors. He knew that no family were coming but it was only fair to tell her friends. He checked the waiting room and the office that they had been in earlier but they weren't there. He also checked the café, but couldn't see them there. He went to the pager's office.
"Could Hermione Granger's friends please return to the operating waiting room. There is a doctor to see you. Hermione Granger's friends," boomed Bill, the pager.
Dr Calbamine returned and waited. Not more than a minute later he saw three young youths running towards him. They introduced themselves as Hermione's friends, Draco, Ginny and Harry.
"What's the problem?" the man called Draco asked.
"I never said there was a problem, but you are right, there was a problem. Hermione was going great, and we are fairly sure we got most of the tumour. However she began bleeding in her brain. We were able to stop it, but her blood pressure, or BP, kept dropping. She eventually went into cardiac arrest. We tried, and lost her after four attempts. One of the other doctors started to say the time of death, when miraculously, she picked up her BP. We had to close up, but as I said earlier, we got most of the tumour. She should be fine, but you must be aware, that she will be very tired, might have some brain damage that won't last, and she could slip into a coma. But that is very unlikely. I expect she will be stirring in a few minutes. Draco, as a boyfriend, you can see her. I am afraid that Ginny and Harry, you will have to wait,"
"NO! Ginny and Harry are like brothers and sisters. They will come with me," Draco said angrily. Harry and Ginny were shocked. They had never seen Draco so white and angry. Never. And he had hated Hermione at Hogwarts. So to see him angry about Hermione was a little bit surprising, to say the least.
"Oh, alright. But you must be quiet, she is not meant to have lots of visitors. We are not sure where to put her though for wards. Children's could fit her in and she would be well looked after. She could also have some relaxation there," Dr Calbamine frowned.
"What? Relaxation in a hospital with little kids running around yelling. That sounds so relaxing, I might stay too," Draco interrupted sarcastically.
"Children's ward give a lot of attention. I must go. If you are to come too then follow me. If you want to make sarcastic comments and miss your chance then that is your problem. Not mine!" He nodded curtly and walked out. Harry would have loved to punch him in the face but doing that to a doctor wasn't necessarily the best idea. So the trio trailed the doctor, at a distance, to Hermione. She had large, white bandages on her head. But it was just her head. Her face was visible. Ginny immediately drew up a chair for herself and sat there holding her hand, and saying words softly. From the look on Harry's closed eyes and face he figured Ginny was praying. But Draco didn't believe in that rubbish so he went over to the other side of the bed and kissed Hermione lightly on the lips. He got a chair, sat heavily down in it and held Hermione's other hand. A drip was still in, dripping steadily, as it should, and Draco bent his head, Ginny's soft words filling his head, clouding it with sleep.
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Draco woke up to the light chatting of Ginny and Hermione, and stirred slightly. He noticed the windows were dark and Harry was dosing in a pull out bed behind him. He opened his eyes more fully and saw Hermione propped up talking to Ginny, but not much. It was Ginny doing most of the talking. What a surprise! He stood up and collapsed. After sitting with your legs bent for a couple of hours they tend to go to sleep, like the rest of your body. He stretched, moaning with the pain, and stood up again. He bent over Hermione and gave her a kiss that warmed her whole body. Ginny then fell into a deep sleep, well, not before climbing into bed with Harry of course. Draco talked to Hermione about what happened in surgery, both to her and to him. Eventually Hermione got tired and Draco curled up with her.
A nurse walked by and saw the two couples. She had been told that the girl was a special case, and not to disturb her or the males because they got angry easily. Ordinarily she would not have allowed it, but seeing as it would create more of a disturbance rather than fix the problem, she decided to let it go. Besides, she wished her husband was that kind!
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When Draco woke up he was in a bright blue and green room that had cows and chickens on the wall and he assumed they were in the children's ward. He slid out of the bed and went to get something to eat. He was hungry. He soon found some toast and juice to have and he thought. He couldn't cope with this. Hermione nearly dying, the whole tumour thing. I mean, after all, he wasn't Superman. He decided then and there that he would help Hermione as a friend, but not a boyfriend. He just couldn't do it anymore.
Not now, not ever.
He finished his semi-breakfast and made his way back to Hermione's room. She was stirring and Draco figured he should tell her now rather than later.
"Hermione?" Draco said tentatively.
"Mmm?" was the sleepy reply.
"I'm not breaking up with you, but I can't go through with this. Not after the last few days. I need a break. I'll call you but I'm not breaking up with you so don't get the wrong idea. I.I.I just need to think and see someone before I commit suicide. And I don't want to do that to you. Not now," Draco gushed out. He walked out of the room and drove off in his car a few minutes later. Arriving home he looked for a couselor. He was going to need one after that.
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Harry awoke to Hermione's soft sobs.
"Hermione! What's the matter?" he asked, almost immediately at her side.
"Draco.Draco.broke.up.with.me!" she said, bringing a fresh round of tears. Harry was speechless, but he doubted it would last.
"He.he.he said.after.the.last.few da.da.days.that.he.needed.a.a.break!" Harry rocked her back and forth.
"Well, now do I get to punch the bastard?" he asked. Hermione just burst into more tears.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ! DO NOT ONTO THE NEXT CHAPTER WITHOUT READING
THIS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE!!!! (Cuppy!)
A/N: Well, you may or may not have seen that coming. But this is not the end of the story! I repeat, this is not the end of the story. Housten, we do not have a problem! (LOL! To many space things!) Anyway, there will be a steamy chapter next so if you don't like that sort of thing, a)Don't read it, b) Read it, c) Deal with it or d) Read the chapter that will impact the rest of the story. Oh, or e) Don't bother reading the story any further (which you are totally not allowed to do!) Just to let you know as well, the next two or so chapters will actually be fairly steamy and there is a kidnap/rape type thing coming too, so I'll let you know now. My last point is that Hermione's hair, being a witch, is going to grow back Super fast. I have thought that because she is a witch she has some special power so that when her hair is gone it grows really fast. You know, this is the longest Author's note I've ever done? Anyway, G2G!
Cuppy!