Chapter 9: With Pain Comes Happiness
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Draco sulked down the corridors until he reached the portrait of the lost little boy and girl. Just as he was about to mutter the password someone lurking in the corridor shouted,
"CRUCIO!"
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"Ahhh!!!" Draco screamed as he fell to the ground. His body was
twitching and a horrendous pain was shooting through his whole body. He
couldn't do anything. All he could feel was pain. Sure he'd been under
the Cruciatus Curse before, but it hurt like hell every single time and
this time was no different. He was helpless against his torturer.
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Hermione awoke suddenly to the sound of someone screaming. She bolted upright and went stepped outside of the portrait hole and into the hallway.
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'Stop, please stop.' Draco was thinking. 'Hermione, Hermione, if I could just see her face everything would be okay. Fuck please stop.'
But the villain didn't stop. He kept his wand pointed and his concentration was fixed on his target, lying helpless on the ground before him.
"DRACO!" Hermione screamed as she realized what was happening.
Draco slowly and painfully turned his head and saw Hermione with a look of horror on her face...but he saw her face. With all his might he reached inside his pocket for his wand but he wasn't fast enough.
Lucius turned as he heard Hermione scream. He pointed his wand at her and shouted "STUPEFY!" Hermione flew back and hit the portrait behind her and sunk to the ground.
With the concentration broken and his father distracted, Draco with his wand ready, stood up and cried "CRUCIO!" with his mind completely focused on the destruction of father and avenging what he had done to Hermione. Draco didn't care that he was bleeding profusely and he ignored the fact that he could barely see through his weary and pain-stricken eyes.
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As Blaise Zabini was walking down a corridor heading toward the heads common room, he heard a loud cry, then another loud cry and then as he got closer he heard someone shout stupefy then as he came upon the sight, he saw Draco utter an unforgivable curse at his father, Lucius Malfoy. He saw Hermione lying there unconscious and then he saw the look of pure hatred and contempt on Draco's face and he ran to get a teacher.
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"Go on boy, finish me off. Go ahead, do it." Lucius spat at his son. He wasn't stronger than Draco, but he had a higher level of tolerance of pain than him, and the Cruciatus curse didn't have the effect on him Draco hoped it would. Lucius remained on the ground but he wasn't thriving as much as Draco had and he wasn't feeling as much pain, he could have stood up if he had wanted too, but he didn't.
"No, I'm not going to kill you. Because I'm not like you and I never will be." With those words said, Draco stunned Lucius and bound him with cords then attended to Hermione.
"Hermione, are you ok? Please wake up, c'mon it's me, it's Draco, no one can hurt you now, please wake up." He fell down next her on the ground and held her in his arms.
Blaise had gone straight to Snape's office and to his luck, Snape and Dumbledore were both there. As soon as Blaise finished his story, the three of them ran all the way to where Draco and Hermione and Lucius were. When they reached the scene, Dumbledore acknowledged that Lucius was bond and lying on the ground and seeing that he was securely not a danger at the moment, Dumbledore walked over to Draco and the unconscious Hermione.
"Mr. Malfoy, she needs to go to the hospital wing. Poppy will revive her immediately. You need to worry. But you should come with me however, and your father so that we can get this mess cleared up and make sure you are safe."
Draco looked up from Hermione and spoke,
"I won't leave her. You don't need me to convict Lucius, he murdered my mother, what more do you need? I can't leave Hermione."
"Yes I understand that you want to make sure she is going to be alright, and yes I do know that Lucius murdered your mother, but if you came it would add to his sentence and we could make sure he was locked up. I assure you Miss Granger will be fine and I highly suggest you come with me."
"I won't leave her."
"Well, since you feel so strongly about this, very well then. Professor Snape will escort you both up to hospital wing while I take Lucius to the ministry."
And Dumbledore disappeared with Lucius levitating down the corridor and out of sight, leaving Professor Snape, Blaise and Draco and Hermione.
"Mr. Malfoy let's get Miss Granger to the hospital wing."
Draco nodded and easily lifted her with as much care in the world in his arms and they all walked to the hospital wing where Madame Pomfrey was already waiting for them and had already made a bed for Hermione.
"Lay her down right here. Just a moment and she'll be awake, a little groggy, but awake nonetheless." And Madame Pomfrey hurried to make a bed ready for Draco next to Hermione's. Draco sat down in the chair next Hermione's bed and laid his head down on the side of the bed waiting for any sign of movement. Sure it was a simple spell that Lucius had used on her, but the force of it was so strong Draco was afraid she wouldn't wake up. He was terrified.
"Mr. Malfoy into this bed right now. Your beat up pretty bad too, here drink this, all of it." And she shoved a vial at him and he took it slowly, and drank it. It tasted like watered down pumpkin juice and a warm feeling flooded through Draco's veins and he grew sleepy and nodded off to sleep. Seeing that everything was taken care of, Snape and Blaise left the infirmary and went back down to the dungeons.
Much later that night Draco woke up in the infirmary. He was slow to remember where he was and why he was there, but once he did, he immediately turned to the bed next to him to see if Hermione had woken up yet. She wasn't there. His heart raced. 'Where could she be? I hope she's ok. I have to find her.' And he got up and left the hospital wing. He didn't have any trouble leaving as no one was awake at the hour and he didn't run into anybody either. As soon as he was inside the portrait of the lost little boy and girl, he rushed up to Hermione's room. He knocked on the door but no one answered. He slowly turned the knob and peaked in. To his relief, she was there. She was sound asleep, looking like an angel. He walked over to her bed and placed a light kiss on her forehead. Then he sat in a squashy chair on the other side of the room and watched her sleep the rest of the night.
When Hermione awoke the next morning, she was unaware of the boy sitting in one of her chairs, fast asleep. When she finally did notice him, she got up immediately and ran to him giving him a huge hug and waking him up.
"Hey." Draco said very wearily as he wrapped his arms around Hermione and pulled her onto his lap.
"Hey, how are you? Are you ok? What happened to Lucius?" Hermione said in a hurry as she was anxious to know what had happened. She rested her head against his chest and listened to him speak. He sounded so exhausted it made her just want to throw him down on her bed and make him go to sleep so he could get some rest and feel better.
"I'm fine. Dumbledore handled everything with Lucius. I assume he's Azkaban now." Draco finished speaking and let out a big yawn.
"Oh, well I'm so glad you're ok. I'm surprised Madame Pomfrey let you out of the hospital wing so soon. Oh, this must be so hard for you." As she stopped talking, Hermione stood up and grabbed Draco's hand and pulled him up from the chair and over to her bed.
"Ya, well she didn't exactly let me out. I woke up last night and saw that you weren't there and came to find you to see if you were ok."
"Oh. Thanks, but you didn't have to do that."
"Yes I did. And besides I wanted to, I needed to. I needed to know that you were ok."
"Why?"
"Hermione, I'm crazy about you. You're in my every thought. I can't stand it when I'm not with you and when you're with any other guy like Potter and Weasley. Hermione, I love you."
"Oh Draco." She said softly and wrapped her arms around him once again. "I love you too, I have for a long time but I didn't want to admit it to myself, but I do, I do love you."
Draco leaned down and kissed her passionately on the lips and then Hermione leaned back and lay down causing Draco to do the same. "You're so exhausted, you need to get some sleep."
"I know, I know, but I can't leave you though, I won't let you go anywhere alone, not while Nick is still around."
"I'm not going anywhere."
AUTHOR's NOTE:
Ok, what'd you think? No more songs, I'll add a lemon later. Sorry it took so long. Hopefully the next chapter won't take as long as this one did. Review review review!!!
~jojo~
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Draco sulked down the corridors until he reached the portrait of the lost little boy and girl. Just as he was about to mutter the password someone lurking in the corridor shouted,
"CRUCIO!"
~*~*~*~
"Ahhh!!!" Draco screamed as he fell to the ground. His body was
twitching and a horrendous pain was shooting through his whole body. He
couldn't do anything. All he could feel was pain. Sure he'd been under
the Cruciatus Curse before, but it hurt like hell every single time and
this time was no different. He was helpless against his torturer.
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Hermione awoke suddenly to the sound of someone screaming. She bolted upright and went stepped outside of the portrait hole and into the hallway.
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'Stop, please stop.' Draco was thinking. 'Hermione, Hermione, if I could just see her face everything would be okay. Fuck please stop.'
But the villain didn't stop. He kept his wand pointed and his concentration was fixed on his target, lying helpless on the ground before him.
"DRACO!" Hermione screamed as she realized what was happening.
Draco slowly and painfully turned his head and saw Hermione with a look of horror on her face...but he saw her face. With all his might he reached inside his pocket for his wand but he wasn't fast enough.
Lucius turned as he heard Hermione scream. He pointed his wand at her and shouted "STUPEFY!" Hermione flew back and hit the portrait behind her and sunk to the ground.
With the concentration broken and his father distracted, Draco with his wand ready, stood up and cried "CRUCIO!" with his mind completely focused on the destruction of father and avenging what he had done to Hermione. Draco didn't care that he was bleeding profusely and he ignored the fact that he could barely see through his weary and pain-stricken eyes.
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As Blaise Zabini was walking down a corridor heading toward the heads common room, he heard a loud cry, then another loud cry and then as he got closer he heard someone shout stupefy then as he came upon the sight, he saw Draco utter an unforgivable curse at his father, Lucius Malfoy. He saw Hermione lying there unconscious and then he saw the look of pure hatred and contempt on Draco's face and he ran to get a teacher.
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"Go on boy, finish me off. Go ahead, do it." Lucius spat at his son. He wasn't stronger than Draco, but he had a higher level of tolerance of pain than him, and the Cruciatus curse didn't have the effect on him Draco hoped it would. Lucius remained on the ground but he wasn't thriving as much as Draco had and he wasn't feeling as much pain, he could have stood up if he had wanted too, but he didn't.
"No, I'm not going to kill you. Because I'm not like you and I never will be." With those words said, Draco stunned Lucius and bound him with cords then attended to Hermione.
"Hermione, are you ok? Please wake up, c'mon it's me, it's Draco, no one can hurt you now, please wake up." He fell down next her on the ground and held her in his arms.
Blaise had gone straight to Snape's office and to his luck, Snape and Dumbledore were both there. As soon as Blaise finished his story, the three of them ran all the way to where Draco and Hermione and Lucius were. When they reached the scene, Dumbledore acknowledged that Lucius was bond and lying on the ground and seeing that he was securely not a danger at the moment, Dumbledore walked over to Draco and the unconscious Hermione.
"Mr. Malfoy, she needs to go to the hospital wing. Poppy will revive her immediately. You need to worry. But you should come with me however, and your father so that we can get this mess cleared up and make sure you are safe."
Draco looked up from Hermione and spoke,
"I won't leave her. You don't need me to convict Lucius, he murdered my mother, what more do you need? I can't leave Hermione."
"Yes I understand that you want to make sure she is going to be alright, and yes I do know that Lucius murdered your mother, but if you came it would add to his sentence and we could make sure he was locked up. I assure you Miss Granger will be fine and I highly suggest you come with me."
"I won't leave her."
"Well, since you feel so strongly about this, very well then. Professor Snape will escort you both up to hospital wing while I take Lucius to the ministry."
And Dumbledore disappeared with Lucius levitating down the corridor and out of sight, leaving Professor Snape, Blaise and Draco and Hermione.
"Mr. Malfoy let's get Miss Granger to the hospital wing."
Draco nodded and easily lifted her with as much care in the world in his arms and they all walked to the hospital wing where Madame Pomfrey was already waiting for them and had already made a bed for Hermione.
"Lay her down right here. Just a moment and she'll be awake, a little groggy, but awake nonetheless." And Madame Pomfrey hurried to make a bed ready for Draco next to Hermione's. Draco sat down in the chair next Hermione's bed and laid his head down on the side of the bed waiting for any sign of movement. Sure it was a simple spell that Lucius had used on her, but the force of it was so strong Draco was afraid she wouldn't wake up. He was terrified.
"Mr. Malfoy into this bed right now. Your beat up pretty bad too, here drink this, all of it." And she shoved a vial at him and he took it slowly, and drank it. It tasted like watered down pumpkin juice and a warm feeling flooded through Draco's veins and he grew sleepy and nodded off to sleep. Seeing that everything was taken care of, Snape and Blaise left the infirmary and went back down to the dungeons.
Much later that night Draco woke up in the infirmary. He was slow to remember where he was and why he was there, but once he did, he immediately turned to the bed next to him to see if Hermione had woken up yet. She wasn't there. His heart raced. 'Where could she be? I hope she's ok. I have to find her.' And he got up and left the hospital wing. He didn't have any trouble leaving as no one was awake at the hour and he didn't run into anybody either. As soon as he was inside the portrait of the lost little boy and girl, he rushed up to Hermione's room. He knocked on the door but no one answered. He slowly turned the knob and peaked in. To his relief, she was there. She was sound asleep, looking like an angel. He walked over to her bed and placed a light kiss on her forehead. Then he sat in a squashy chair on the other side of the room and watched her sleep the rest of the night.
When Hermione awoke the next morning, she was unaware of the boy sitting in one of her chairs, fast asleep. When she finally did notice him, she got up immediately and ran to him giving him a huge hug and waking him up.
"Hey." Draco said very wearily as he wrapped his arms around Hermione and pulled her onto his lap.
"Hey, how are you? Are you ok? What happened to Lucius?" Hermione said in a hurry as she was anxious to know what had happened. She rested her head against his chest and listened to him speak. He sounded so exhausted it made her just want to throw him down on her bed and make him go to sleep so he could get some rest and feel better.
"I'm fine. Dumbledore handled everything with Lucius. I assume he's Azkaban now." Draco finished speaking and let out a big yawn.
"Oh, well I'm so glad you're ok. I'm surprised Madame Pomfrey let you out of the hospital wing so soon. Oh, this must be so hard for you." As she stopped talking, Hermione stood up and grabbed Draco's hand and pulled him up from the chair and over to her bed.
"Ya, well she didn't exactly let me out. I woke up last night and saw that you weren't there and came to find you to see if you were ok."
"Oh. Thanks, but you didn't have to do that."
"Yes I did. And besides I wanted to, I needed to. I needed to know that you were ok."
"Why?"
"Hermione, I'm crazy about you. You're in my every thought. I can't stand it when I'm not with you and when you're with any other guy like Potter and Weasley. Hermione, I love you."
"Oh Draco." She said softly and wrapped her arms around him once again. "I love you too, I have for a long time but I didn't want to admit it to myself, but I do, I do love you."
Draco leaned down and kissed her passionately on the lips and then Hermione leaned back and lay down causing Draco to do the same. "You're so exhausted, you need to get some sleep."
"I know, I know, but I can't leave you though, I won't let you go anywhere alone, not while Nick is still around."
"I'm not going anywhere."
AUTHOR's NOTE:
Ok, what'd you think? No more songs, I'll add a lemon later. Sorry it took so long. Hopefully the next chapter won't take as long as this one did. Review review review!!!
~jojo~
