Death
Hermione woke up feeling much better and not so lightheaded. She sat up and began to stretch when she saw a red rose and a letter on her bedside cabinet. She quickly hoped that it was from Draco.
She picked it up and hurriedly began to read it.
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Dear Hermione,
How are you feeling? I heard you calling my name yesterday but when I came out of my room, you were on the floor unconscious. I brought you to your room and I owled Madam Pomfrey. She said that you fainted because you were stressed out. She's given you the day off from classes so you can rest. I'm sorry for just walking out on your like that after your told me that you were pregnant. I feel really bad. I just need a couple of days alone to think. Just remember that I love you and I always will.
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Draco /center
P.S. Ron came while you were unconscious that something about Harry said that you wanted to talk to him. I am thinking that he doesn't know about the baby then? Hope he takes it well.
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Hermione smiled. At least Draco wasn't going to abandoned her. But she needed to talk to Ron before Harry had a chance to tell him about the baby. Hermione waved her hand at her bag and a piece of parchment, ink and a quill came flying towards her. (A/D: Do you remember her powers? I know that I haven't mentioned them in a while but I just wanted to remind you that she had them. It will be vital to one of the upcoming chapters) She wrote:
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Ron,
Meet me in my common room after your classes. I need to talk to you.
Hermione,
/i
Hermione whistled and Fe-Fe came flying towards her. "Can you take this to Ron? If he is in class try and not let the teacher see you, ok?" Fe-Fe purred and nodded. She disappeared in a flash and Hermione got out of bed looking for something to do.
For the rest of the day Hermione read by the fire and every once in the while she would run to the bathroom to puke her guts out. But it was all worth it, because in eight months she was going to have a child that she loved more than life itself. And Draco was the father. Life was going to be perfect.
"Hermione." Ron said pounding on the wall where the door would appear.
Hermione giggled. 'I must have forgot to tell him the password.' "It is ok. Let him in." She said out loud and suddenly she could see Ron. "Sorry Ron. I must have forgot to mention the password."
"Yeah, you must have." Ron said plopping himself on the couch. "So what is it that you wanted to talk to me about?"
"Err . . . just promise that you won't get mad, ok?" Hermione said her voice weakening. Ron nodded. Hermione took a deep breath. "I'm pregnant." There she said it, now how would Ron react?
"Congratulations!" Ron said shooting up and giving her a bone-crushing hug. "Draco is the father right?"
"Of course!" Hermione said playfully hitting him on the shoulder.
"I was just making sure. Where is Draco?" Ron asked.
"I don't know. He said that he needed some time to think." She said lowering her head. "Did he seems alright in class?"
"Hermione, he wasn't in class today. No one knew where he was. We just all thought that he was here with you." Ron said worried.
Hermione then realized the note. i 'Just remember that I love you and I always will.' /i "Oh no!" She said getting up. 'He is going to kill his father!'
"What?" Ron asked getting up after her.
"Draco. In the letter it said i 'Just remember that I love you and I always will.' /i When we spend the Holidays as Malfoy Mansion he and Lucius got in a fight. Lucius wanted Draco and me to break up and if he didn't break up with me then he would kill me. Now that I am pregnant Lucius will be coming after me and Draco knows that. He went to go kill Lucius!" Hermione said all in one breathe. "I have to go. He is going to get himself killed!" She ran up to her room with Ron running behind her.
"Hermione you can't. Lucius will kill you." Ron said.
"I don't care. I will not let Draco get killed for something that I did." She said. "You can either come with me or get out of my way."
"There is no way that I am going to let you go there by yourself." Ron said.
"Fine. We can floo there." She said.
They went downstairs and flooed to Malfoy Mansion. When they got there no one was there. The two took out their wands just in case some Deatheaters were there. "I don't know where they can be." Hermione said.
Suddenly she felt a vision coming.
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Draco was sitting on the floor covered in blood and he seemed just barely alive. Lucius Malfoy had his wand pointed at him. "First you, then your precious girlfriend. Avada Kedavra!" Then is a bright green flash Draco laid motionless and dead.
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The vision ended. "I know where they are at. I remember being there once. They are in the basement." She said running through the house to the basement with Ron following her.
Hermione ran into the basement to see Draco lying in a corner drowning in his own blood. But she didn't see Lucius. Hermione ran to Draco with Ron behind her.
"Hermione, where is Lucius?" Ron asked worried.
"Right here!" Lucius said appearing out of a shadow. "Expelliarmus!" Hermione and Ron's wand flew out of their hands and towards Lucius who caught them and pocketed them. "Powerless are you?"
Ron motioned to get up but Hermione held him back. "No, this is my fight." She got up and faced Lucius. "You think that just because I don't have my wand that I am powerless." Hermione smirked. Hermione flicked her wrist and Lucius flew hard into the wall behind him. "You couldn't be more wrong."
Lucius recovered with a piss look on his face and his eyes red with anger. "Cruico!" He said.
Hermione wasn't quick enough to block it. She fell down onto her knees in pain.
Lucius smirked at her weakness. "Do you really think that you could save Draco?" He said while lowering his wand.
Hermione brought a hand up to Lucius and fire came out of her hand and burned his wand out of his hand leaving burn marks on his hand. With another flick of her wrist her and Ron's wands flew out of his robes and flew towards her. She threw Ron his and turned to Lucius who was on his knees weak. "I just did. Avada Kedavra!" And Lucius was dead. Then she felt pain in her lower stomach and everything got black.