Chapter 6
"Ok guys, I knew it would come to this. He wants something, and I don't know what it is. But we can get Hermione back. . .there are so many of us, it can't be hard. We charge in there and talk to him. See what he wants. Then we plan from there" Draco rationalized. Truth be told he wasn't quite sure what he was doing, Potter was always the savior. But he didn't seem to have any better ideas either. The group got their wits together and decided it was now or never.
"Alohamora!" Draco cried out. His voice echoed in the stone hallway and he heard a loud click as the door unlocked and swung open. The group followed their leader into the large damp room. There were no windows, but there was water was leaking from the ceiling. Then he saw her. Hermione was unconscious on the floor. She looked extremely thin. It had been a whole month and who knows how often she got to eat. He could see the rise and fall of her body that signaled she was still alive. Now he just had to find his father.
Pansy heard the door open and entered from another room. "Ahh, I knew you would be coming" she said with a smirk comparable with Draco's though not as cute. "Your father was right. You have turned soft. Maybe you should have been in Gryffindor. After all you do have a liking for the mudbloods" but she was cut off by a cold voice in the shadows.
"Pansy, I'm done with you now. Leave" he told her.
"But you need me. I am supposed to marry Draco now" she pleaded with him.
"Shut up. Don't you understand? I was using you. Using you to do all my dirty work. You see I am a true Slytherin. Couldn't you see it coming?" he said with a brutal laugh. Instantly ropes tied around her body and confined her to a chair. Her voice was silenced with a spell.
Draco broke in. "YOU KILLED HER YOU BASTARD! I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!" he screamed so the entire world could hear him. "I LOVE HER, HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?" He lunged at his father with all his strength. Soon everyone was after Lucius.
With one simple spell he broke free. "Draco, calm yourself. She is alive and she is fine. I have put Pansy in charge of taking care of her. I have knocked her out to see you fight for her. Is she worth it Draco? She's no pureblood, I want to know if it's worth it?" he asked him as though daring to defy him.
"She's everything to me. Everything you weren't. She loves me and she knows how to show her love. Something that I have never seen before I met her. I cannot believe that this is a fucking test. Wake her up, now!" he screamed at him as he ran to her side.
Lucius uttered a spell to revive her, but it didn't work. With a confused look on his face he tried again with no luck. His eyes shot daggers at Pansy. "I thought you were taking care of her you twit!" he screamed at her.
"Well I thought we were killing her, so I saw no reason to feed her everyday. But she has eaten a little bit. I mean, she's still alive isn't she?" Lucius couldn't believe his ears. He wanted his son to have everything he wanted. And his son wanted this girl. Pansy would definitely pay for this later. The one thing that made him feel better was he had Potter. He would avenge his master's death.
"Well what are you standing there for? Take her to St. Mungo's!" Lucius yelled. Draco quickly scooped her up in his arms. She was so light. He could have carried her with one hand. She was never very heavy, but he could tell she had suffered. He apparated her to the hospital and the others followed. Harry, however, was held back by a strong hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see what it was when he was punched in the face.
He fell to the ground as blood flowed freely from his nose. He was so shocked as to what had just happened he had no time to react. "I thought you said it was just a test? Hermione is in the hospital we have to go" he yelled at him.
"Oh the famous Harry Potter hasn't caught on yet? Well Draco can have his mudblood. I can die today and I don't care because I am going to kill you first. Don't you see? You killed my master due to that damned prophecy. Now I will fulfill a promise to myself. I will avenge his death. I will kill you tonight!" he yelled as he lunged at Harry again. He seemed to be dueling the muggle way tonight.
Harry whipped out his wand immediately. "STUPEFY!" he yelled. Lucius' body went rigid in the air and his body slammed into the stone floor. He had not expected Harry to react so fast. Blood trickled from the blonde head. Harry could not tell if he was dead or alive, nor did he care. Right now he had to be at Hermione's side. Pansy still sat in the corner watching the events. She mouthed for help, but Harry just left her there. If she could allow Hermione to suffer then he had no trouble in allowing her to suffer also. He would make sure they were found. . . eventually.
Harry quickly apparated to St. Mungo's. He talked to the witch at the front desk who pointed him in the direction of Hermione. He walked down a few halls and up a lift. There he saw a group of people that he knew and loved, but they were looking very sad indeed. Suddenly they looked up and saw Harry standing there.
"Harry!" Ginny yelled as she grabbed him around the neck. "Where have you been? I didn't want to go back to that place. . . I knew you would make it fine. What happened?"
"Lucius attacked me. He wanted to avenge the death of Voldemort" and so he continued to recount the story of what had just happened. You couldn't really say the group was shocked at Lucius' actions. But now it was Harry's turn to find out the story.
"So how is Hermione?" he asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.
"Draco is in with her now. She will be fine" Ginny told him happily. Just then Draco came out of the room with a sad look in his eyes. "Draco, what's wrong? Hermione's fine" she said reassuringly.
"You don't understand. She was pregnant. . . she lost the baby" he said as a silent tear ran down his cheek. He never showed emotion, but he could not hold back. "She's still unconscious, but she is fine. She will be able to go home in a few days, she is just malnourished" he told them as the stream of tears became more steady. He quickly walked away from the group. He had to be alone to take this in.
He walked down to the lounge as the rest of the group watched him walk away. He sat down in the uncomfortable chairs in the cold hospital and cried. Draco Malfoy never cried, and now he couldn't hold back. 'It wasn't planned, but I had gotten so excited. Sure, she wasn't far along, but I was so ready' he thought to himself. Soon Harry and Ron came into view. Harry knocked slightly on the wall.
"Can we talk to you?" he asked politely. Draco nodded and the two proceeded in. they took a seat on a couch beside Draco and Harry leaned over. He reached his arms around Draco and pulled him into an embrace. It was just one of those times where you forget everything in your past and all that matters is you have someone to lean on. Draco silently cried into Harry's sweater. Suddenly he pulled away.
"Thank you. You know I never thought that we would ever be friends, but right here and right now, well it proves that you really care" he confided in them. He had never known what it really was to have friends, and now he did.
Harry and Ron sat there for a while just trying to comfort Draco. Draco in turn was touched by the fact that even Ron had come to make him feel better. Soon he returned to Mya's room. He sat in a chair by her bed and held her hand the entire night. He never slept. While the rest slept in the lounge he waited all night for his love to wake up. He needed to be there when she woke up to tell her that she was ok. . . but the baby was not. And he dreaded it every second.
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"Ok guys, I knew it would come to this. He wants something, and I don't know what it is. But we can get Hermione back. . .there are so many of us, it can't be hard. We charge in there and talk to him. See what he wants. Then we plan from there" Draco rationalized. Truth be told he wasn't quite sure what he was doing, Potter was always the savior. But he didn't seem to have any better ideas either. The group got their wits together and decided it was now or never.
"Alohamora!" Draco cried out. His voice echoed in the stone hallway and he heard a loud click as the door unlocked and swung open. The group followed their leader into the large damp room. There were no windows, but there was water was leaking from the ceiling. Then he saw her. Hermione was unconscious on the floor. She looked extremely thin. It had been a whole month and who knows how often she got to eat. He could see the rise and fall of her body that signaled she was still alive. Now he just had to find his father.
Pansy heard the door open and entered from another room. "Ahh, I knew you would be coming" she said with a smirk comparable with Draco's though not as cute. "Your father was right. You have turned soft. Maybe you should have been in Gryffindor. After all you do have a liking for the mudbloods" but she was cut off by a cold voice in the shadows.
"Pansy, I'm done with you now. Leave" he told her.
"But you need me. I am supposed to marry Draco now" she pleaded with him.
"Shut up. Don't you understand? I was using you. Using you to do all my dirty work. You see I am a true Slytherin. Couldn't you see it coming?" he said with a brutal laugh. Instantly ropes tied around her body and confined her to a chair. Her voice was silenced with a spell.
Draco broke in. "YOU KILLED HER YOU BASTARD! I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!" he screamed so the entire world could hear him. "I LOVE HER, HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?" He lunged at his father with all his strength. Soon everyone was after Lucius.
With one simple spell he broke free. "Draco, calm yourself. She is alive and she is fine. I have put Pansy in charge of taking care of her. I have knocked her out to see you fight for her. Is she worth it Draco? She's no pureblood, I want to know if it's worth it?" he asked him as though daring to defy him.
"She's everything to me. Everything you weren't. She loves me and she knows how to show her love. Something that I have never seen before I met her. I cannot believe that this is a fucking test. Wake her up, now!" he screamed at him as he ran to her side.
Lucius uttered a spell to revive her, but it didn't work. With a confused look on his face he tried again with no luck. His eyes shot daggers at Pansy. "I thought you were taking care of her you twit!" he screamed at her.
"Well I thought we were killing her, so I saw no reason to feed her everyday. But she has eaten a little bit. I mean, she's still alive isn't she?" Lucius couldn't believe his ears. He wanted his son to have everything he wanted. And his son wanted this girl. Pansy would definitely pay for this later. The one thing that made him feel better was he had Potter. He would avenge his master's death.
"Well what are you standing there for? Take her to St. Mungo's!" Lucius yelled. Draco quickly scooped her up in his arms. She was so light. He could have carried her with one hand. She was never very heavy, but he could tell she had suffered. He apparated her to the hospital and the others followed. Harry, however, was held back by a strong hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see what it was when he was punched in the face.
He fell to the ground as blood flowed freely from his nose. He was so shocked as to what had just happened he had no time to react. "I thought you said it was just a test? Hermione is in the hospital we have to go" he yelled at him.
"Oh the famous Harry Potter hasn't caught on yet? Well Draco can have his mudblood. I can die today and I don't care because I am going to kill you first. Don't you see? You killed my master due to that damned prophecy. Now I will fulfill a promise to myself. I will avenge his death. I will kill you tonight!" he yelled as he lunged at Harry again. He seemed to be dueling the muggle way tonight.
Harry whipped out his wand immediately. "STUPEFY!" he yelled. Lucius' body went rigid in the air and his body slammed into the stone floor. He had not expected Harry to react so fast. Blood trickled from the blonde head. Harry could not tell if he was dead or alive, nor did he care. Right now he had to be at Hermione's side. Pansy still sat in the corner watching the events. She mouthed for help, but Harry just left her there. If she could allow Hermione to suffer then he had no trouble in allowing her to suffer also. He would make sure they were found. . . eventually.
Harry quickly apparated to St. Mungo's. He talked to the witch at the front desk who pointed him in the direction of Hermione. He walked down a few halls and up a lift. There he saw a group of people that he knew and loved, but they were looking very sad indeed. Suddenly they looked up and saw Harry standing there.
"Harry!" Ginny yelled as she grabbed him around the neck. "Where have you been? I didn't want to go back to that place. . . I knew you would make it fine. What happened?"
"Lucius attacked me. He wanted to avenge the death of Voldemort" and so he continued to recount the story of what had just happened. You couldn't really say the group was shocked at Lucius' actions. But now it was Harry's turn to find out the story.
"So how is Hermione?" he asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.
"Draco is in with her now. She will be fine" Ginny told him happily. Just then Draco came out of the room with a sad look in his eyes. "Draco, what's wrong? Hermione's fine" she said reassuringly.
"You don't understand. She was pregnant. . . she lost the baby" he said as a silent tear ran down his cheek. He never showed emotion, but he could not hold back. "She's still unconscious, but she is fine. She will be able to go home in a few days, she is just malnourished" he told them as the stream of tears became more steady. He quickly walked away from the group. He had to be alone to take this in.
He walked down to the lounge as the rest of the group watched him walk away. He sat down in the uncomfortable chairs in the cold hospital and cried. Draco Malfoy never cried, and now he couldn't hold back. 'It wasn't planned, but I had gotten so excited. Sure, she wasn't far along, but I was so ready' he thought to himself. Soon Harry and Ron came into view. Harry knocked slightly on the wall.
"Can we talk to you?" he asked politely. Draco nodded and the two proceeded in. they took a seat on a couch beside Draco and Harry leaned over. He reached his arms around Draco and pulled him into an embrace. It was just one of those times where you forget everything in your past and all that matters is you have someone to lean on. Draco silently cried into Harry's sweater. Suddenly he pulled away.
"Thank you. You know I never thought that we would ever be friends, but right here and right now, well it proves that you really care" he confided in them. He had never known what it really was to have friends, and now he did.
Harry and Ron sat there for a while just trying to comfort Draco. Draco in turn was touched by the fact that even Ron had come to make him feel better. Soon he returned to Mya's room. He sat in a chair by her bed and held her hand the entire night. He never slept. While the rest slept in the lounge he waited all night for his love to wake up. He needed to be there when she woke up to tell her that she was ok. . . but the baby was not. And he dreaded it every second.
A/N: oh I think this is a good one ( hope you like it! REVIEW!