Striving Towards Recovery
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Hermione's head shot up out of her arms, which were resting on Harry's hospital bed, when she heard someone calling her name.
"Hermione? Is that you? Where am I?" she heard Harry said weakly.
Sunlight poured in through the infirmary windows and she looked up at the clock in the infirmary and gasped. She had been so exhausted after helping Madame Pomfrey heal Harry, that she fell asleep with her head in her arms on Harry's bed for the rest of the night.
"Yes, Harry, it's me. You're in the Hospital Wing," Hermione whispered back as she softly caressed his hand that she was holding and placed his glasses back on his face. "Thank God you're awake. You gave us all a scare."
"How'd I get to the Hospital Wing?" asked a befuddled Harry.
"Draco carried you," she replied and his face turned from complete confusion to udder bewilderment.
"What?!? Malfoy?" he yelled as he tried to sit up but Hermione pushed him back down into the pillows.
"Yep. Don't try to sit up all the way yet. Just sit up enough to drink this," said Hermione as she took a cup of antidote off of the table next to the bed.
She handed him the antidote, which he reluctantly drank, and said, "Harry, do you remember anything that happened?"
"I remember being kissed by an angel," he said as he gazed lovingly into her dark brown eyes.
She blushed and replied, "I mean about the accident. Do you remember who stabbed you or how it happened?"
"Well I remember walking down to the Potions room with Neville just before dinner was finished. I realized that I left my book there and I needed it for homework. I hoped that it was still there and that Snape hadn't picked it up yet, so I wasn't concentrating much on my surroundings. I heard this deep voice in the shadows saying, "Goodbye Mr. Potter. The heir will rise to take the throne." And then I was stabbed," Harry explained.
"The heir will rise to take the throne," Hermione repeated quietly. "Draco."
"What?" asked Harry.
"Nothing," said Hermione as she handed Harry a plate of sliced apples that Madame Pomfrey just set on the table. "Hungry?"
Harry shook his head and Hermione took an apple slice and bit into it. Suddenly, the door to the Hospital Wing burst open and a very flustered Ron Weasley ran into the room.
"Harry!" Ron exclaimed breathlessly as he bent down and put his hands on his knees. "Neville just told me the news! How are you feeling?"
"A little sore in the side, but otherwise I'm ok," replied Harry from his half way sitting position.
"So rumor around Hogwarts is that a Death Eater attacked you. I wonder how he got into the castle?" pondered Ron.
"That's a good, question. I really don't know," replied Harry.
"I know who would know," said Hermione suddenly. The two boys looked at her curiously.
"Who?" asked Harry.
"Draco Malfoy," she replied.
"Malfoy?!?" Harry and Ron chorused and Hermione nodded.
"Why would he know? Did he finally become a scary ole Death Eater or something?" asked Harry jokingly and Hermione nodded again. A dumbfounded expression came over Harry's face when she nodded and Ron blew up.
"WHAT?!? AND YOU WERE GOING OUT WITH HIM! YOU WERE GOING OUT WITH A DEATH EATER!" yelled Ron angrily.
"Yes she was. Is there a problem with that?" replied a cold voice.
Three pairs of eyes darted to the entrance of the infirmary to see Draco Malfoy standing there, looking very upset about what Ron had just said.
"Draco I," stuttered Hermione but he put up his hand to silence her.
"I came in here to see how you're doing, Potter. Instead I find out that Hermione, a person who I thought I could trust with my secrets, just revealed my deepest most darkest one," Draco said angrily and Hermione hung her head in shame.
"So it's true then?" stated Ron coldly and Draco lifted up his sleeve to reveal the Mark.
"I was thinking that he could go to the Death Eater meetings and figure out who stabbed you, Harry," said Hermione as she looked at Harry and smiled sweetly.
Draco noticed that their hands were linked on the bedspread. He also remembered what had happened between Harry and Hermione in the infirmary so he said, "So this is the path you have chosen?"
Hermione and Harry quickly released their hold on each others hand. Harry had been holding Hermione's hand mostly for comfort, although he had a huge crush on her he knew he would never go out with her. She was still too deeply in love with Draco. When she didn't respond Harry looked at her questionably.
"Fine," he said firmly as he started to walk out of the infirmary. "Enjoy your time together."
"Draco," Hermione replied in a please-don't-do-this-to-me tone but he had already walked out the door.
Hermione sighed then felt Harry's hand gently touch her face so she turned towards him.
"Hermione, you know that I love you," Harry whispered and Hermione nodded. "Go to him. Go to him now, he needs you more than ever."
"Harry," said Hermione but she was interrupted by Harry putting his finger to her mouth.
"Draco loves you Hermione. Now that he's a Death Eater he will need your love more than ever." Harry said. "As much as I want you to be my girlfriend, I know you will never love me as much as you love Draco. You wouldn't be happy with me and I wouldn't be able to live with myself knowing that you're not happy. You're happy when you are with him."
Hermione looked at him with tears in her eyes, bent down and hugged him.
"Thank you," Hermione said and he smiled at her and gently brushed a strand of her hair back from her face.
"I will always love you Hermione Granger. Remember that," said Harry and she nodded.
"So what is it like dating a Death Eater, Hermione?" asked Ron curiously as he took an apple slice from off the plate.
"Stressful," she sighed. "He's slowly being dragged deeper into the Dark Arts whether he realizes it or not. His father hates me and he just recently cheated on me. I can't believe he is one of them now. It's going to make it so much more stressful dating him."
"So break up with him if it's that stressful," said Ron casually and Hermione laughed.
"I can't Ron, I care too much about him," responded Hermione. "We'll get through this me and him. We'll get through it together."
"I'm sure you will Herm," whispered Harry and Hermione smiled at him.
"So Hermione, are you going to have Malfoy find out who stabbed Harry?" asked Ron through a mouthful of apple.
Hermione sighed and said, "Yes, but first I have to apologize to him."
"Why?" demanded Ron.
"Because I told his secret. You guys, before you think that Draco is some evil Death Eater who wants to go on a killing spree, you need to know something. He didn't want to be a Death Eater. He was forced. His father put him under the Imperious and made him pledge," explained Hermione.
"FORCED!?!" Ron said exasperatedly. "I thought Malfoy wanted to be a Death Eater."
"Well before he met me he did, but he changed," Hermione retorted.
"Ok, Herm we believe you," said Harry in a soft voice.
"What was said in this room stays in this room. I don't want everyone at Hogwarts knowing that Draco has the Dark Mark. Understood?" demanded Hermione and both boys nodded.
"Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger!" shouted a stern voice and the two spun around to face Madam Pomfrey.
"Yes?" they chorused.
"Mr. Potter needs his rest. I would appreciate it if the two of you would leave," demanded Madame Pomfrey.
"But," started Hermione but Madame Pomfrey interrupted her.
"Now, Hermione I'm grateful for your help but Harry needs his rest. I'll give you and Ron a late pass to class."
"Hermione," whispered Harry and she turned to look at him. "Madame Pomfrey is right, I'm kind of tired. I'll see you when I get out of the infirmary."
"When will that be?" asked Hermione.
"Two more days, maybe more. You can visit him during the visiting hours that are posted outside on the bulletin board," Madame Pomfrey answered as she handed a piece of parchment to both Ron and Hermione. "There's a note for your professors telling them that you were in the infirmary helping me. Run along now."
The two of them took their parchments and voiced their thanks.
"Bye, Harry. Get well soon, mate," said Ron as he extended his hand and Harry grasped it firmly but quickly let go.
"Bye, Harry. I'll come and visit you," Hermione said, reaching for his hand and squeezing it gently.
"You better," Harry said playfully as he took her hand and lightly kissed the top of it.
"Have fun taking your medicine," smiled Hermione as she kissed him on the cheek, gathered up her things from the night before, and started to walk out the door.
Harry laughed which was followed by a series of hard coughs causing him to yell out because of the agonizing pain.
"Harry!" exclaimed Hermione but before she could reach him Madame Pomfrey came and shoved an antidote and a sleeping draft down his throat.
"Please leave Miss Granger, I can take care of it," muttered Madame Pomfrey as she dabbed Harry's mouth with a washcloth, cleaning up what he spilled on himself.
Hermione reluctantly walked out of the infirmary and to her dorm room. As she walked into the dorm room she saw Draco sitting on the coach reading something since he didn't have a class at the time. When he saw her he silently and quickly got up and started to walk up to his room.
"Draco, wait," Hermione said as she started to follow him.
When he saw that she was following him he spun around and said, "What do you want, Hermione?"
As Hermione looked into his face, she gasped to see that it was tearstained. She had never seen Draco cry before, ever. According to his father Lucius, Malfoy's weren't supposed to cry but Draco had defiantly been crying.
"I-I-I just," stuttered Hermione but as she looked at her depressed lover she couldn't bring herself to say anything.
Finally with out a word to Hermione, Draco turned and went the rest of the way up the stairs and into his bedroom which he slammed and locked.
"Draco, wait" Hermione yelled as she started to also climb the stairs to his dorm.
"Just fuck off!" yelled Draco through the door and Hermione stopped suddenly in surprise.
She never heard Draco say that to her and it crushed her to know that he was so angry that he would say something like that. She sighed and decided to just leave him be for awhile until he cooled down, then she would apologize. So she walked to her room, gathered up her books for her next class, and walked out of the dorm.
DRACO'S POV
I paced back and forth in my room, pondering over what had just happened. I just lost my girl to Harry Potter, Boy Wonder, and I was furious. He always got the girl, always. I had to do something, I had to get her back. But how? I pounded my fists into my pillow in frustration. There had to be someway to get her back. As tears filled my eyes and threatened to overflow, I tried holding them back. She would never be mine again.
"Malfoys do not cry. Malfoys do not cry," I chanted to myself.
I suddenly did something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I took out a piece of parchment and wrote to my father. I told him I didn't want to be enrolled at Hogwarts anymore, that I wanted to come home right away to train to be the next Dark Lord. If I couldn't have Hermione, I didn't care what happened to me. I finished up the letter, opened the window, and whistled a long, high pitched whistle that resulted in my black owl Ebony flying to me from the Owlrey. She perched herself on the windowsill and I tied my letter onto her leg.
"Take this to father," I said sternly and she took off in the blue sky.
As I watched her fly off, I suddenly had a weird feeling that maybe I was overreacting. Then I remembered back to yesterday when Hermione kissed Harry and Hermione's actions towards Harry in the infirmary right after I left. Their linked hands in the infirmary, Harry telling her he loved her, I definitely wasn't overreacting. She went for Potter as a boyfriend because he wasn't a Death Eater, he didn't have parents who hated halfbloods, and he wasn't the heir to Voldemort's throne. It made Harry easier to date then me. I was going to become the next Dark Lord. In a way, it sounded like fun. Bossing my dad around, killing people and being feared by many sounded like fun in a way. I laid down on my bed and decided that I wasn't going to any of my classes for the day. I had just made a life changing decision and I needed some time alone, to think. So I closed my eyes and soon drifted off to sleep.
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