Pain, Hurt, and…Love?
Chapter Twelve
Lucius…Dead or alive?
Hermione in all her wrath stood before Lucius. He didn't look at all scared. Hermione didn't care what he thought. He was going to die and that's all there was to it.
"Are you ready to die Lucius? I hope you are, because this is the last you will see of this world!" Hermione shook at her own words. Draco stood not sure quite what to do anymore. Hermione seemed to have a hold on things but he didn't want her to get hurt either. Draco hoped his father would understand that Hermione really would, or could kill him.
"Go right ahead mudblood! Lets see what you can do!" Hermione shook. The winds grew more rampant. They were coming from every direction making Hermione's hair whip around her face. She looked ready to kill, not that Draco didn't doubt she would, it was just scary.
Hermione lifted her hands to he air and shouted words that were indistinguishable from anything because of the heavy winds and now rain that had started to fall. Lucius to seemed to be saying something, though Draco didn't know what it could be. Hermione brought her hands down slowly and an evil smile crept over her face.
"I hope you had a nice life Lucius because it's now over!" Hermione screamed as loud as she could. Draco heard her but weather his father did or not Draco couldn't tell. He made no motion that he had heard a thing that Hermione had just said but he didn't think that Lucius really cared what Hermione had to say.
Hermione threw back her head and yelled something to the air, again Draco couldn't tell what it was. Before either Draco or Lucius knew what was happening Hermione had sent a lightening bolt toward Lucius, it hit dead on in his chest. His whole body convulsed. Hermione smiled in satisfaction. It was obvious that was not the worse that Hermione could do. She kept the winds and rain as strong as before.
Nacrissa was huddled in a corner. She couldn't look. No matter what Lucius had done, she had loved him and to watch him be killed in such a manner was almost more then she could stand. She only looked up when she saw the light. She looked up just in time to see the bolt hit him square in the chest. She let out a small whimper that went unnoticed by everyone.
Hermione raised her hands once more and yelled again. Again, lightening came down but harder and bigger. Aimed right at Lucius. Lucius looked like he had been charmed with his feet stuck to the floor. He didn't look like he was going anywhere. He stood there and watched as his fate looked him in the eye.
When it hit, Lucius himself seemed to light up, then his body fell to violent convultions. All of a sudden it was still. Lucius moved no more and Nacrissa seemed to be unconscious. Hermione stood with the winds still ripping through her looking in shock. Draco didn't think she had meant to actually kill him. She dropped to the ground. She was unconscious. The winds stopped, the rain stopped. All was still. Draco stood rooted to the spot. He heard something. It sounded like heavy breathing. He didn't know quite where it was coming from but he thought he would go and look. The sound seemed to be coming from Lucius himself.
"Father…" Draco wasn't sure.
"D-D-Draco…She….really…is…strong…isn't…she?" Draco nodded his head.
"We tried to warn you Father but you wouldn't listen to us would you?"
"I…ne-never…thought…sh-she…could…do som-something…like…that…"
"Neither did I. Never doubt the power of one father. If you are going to live I should take you to St. Mungo's. They will take care of you there." But Lucius was already unconscious before Draco even finished. Oh boy. What am I going to do? Hermione is unconscious, my mother is, and now my father may die. What am I going to tell the Ministry if they ask what happened? 'Yes sir my girlfriend tried to murder my father but she didn't kill him just sent him into a coma.' Yeah that would go over well.
Hermione stirred. Draco rushed to her side.
"Hey you. How do you feel?" Hermione blinked up at him.
"I'm okay I think…My head hurts and I feel a little nauseous…but other then that okay." She smiled slightly. Draco smiled back.
"Hermione we need to get Lucius to St. Mungo's. While he's still alive." Hermione's eyes opened wide.
"He's still alive?" Draco nodded his head gravely. Hermione's eyes watered. "I didn't mean to go that far Draco. I didn't. I wanted him to hurt like he had hurt you. I couldn't…didn't mean to…I couldn't control it…I…"
"Shhhhhh Hermione. It's okay. I know. I know." Draco wrapped his arms around her and she relaxed a little. Draco soon stood up. "We must get him to the hospital. He'll be better off there. I don't think that the Ministry will ask to many questions since they have been wanting to throw him into Azkaban since he was first convicted of being a Death Eater." Hermione shook her head. She didn't know if that was a good thing or not but she would take it. She figured she may want to go to there to because she didn't know how bad her injuries may be.
"Lets get going. I want to make sure that everyone lives through this." Draco looked to his father in disgust, "Though I wish that one would." Hermione tried to stand up and swayed around. "Are you alright Hermione?"
"I'm okay. Just a little woosey from all the strength I sapped." Draco nodded his head.
"Do you think that you can apperate?" Hermione nodded her head. "Then you apperate and I will find a way to get my father there too. I don't know if I can apperate with him…but I will try." Hermione nodded one more time and then with a loud pop she was gone.
Draco looked to his father. What to do…what to do… Do I help him or leave him here? I should leave him here. No that's what I want to do, that doesn't make it the right thing to do. Hermione would tell me the right thing to do but she left.
"Draco…" He spun around. His mother was there laying on the floor. She seemed to be okay. But she seemed a little out of it, dazed.
"Mother, are you okay?" She stood up and brushed herself off and smiled at Draco.
"Yes Draco I'm fine. But your father…is he…dead?" Draco shook his head no in response. He put his head to the floor.
"I didn't know that Hermione would do something like that. She was furious at Father I just didn't know how mad she really was. I should have known that Hermione of all people could do something like that. I don't think that I could do that." Draco looked to his mother. She looked to him and then to Lucius.
"I don't care what Hermione did. He diserved no more or no less. Hermione did what she thought was right, that's all that matters to me." Draco nodded at his mother and picked up his father.
"I'm going to take him to St. Mungo's. We'll be there if you need anything." Draco apperated with a pop and was outside of St. Mungo's where Hermione was waiting for them.
"I wasn't sure if you were coming or not." Draco smiled.
"I had to come. I thought about leaving him there and coming to see how you were doing, but I knew that you would say that wasn't the right thing…so I did the right thing." Hermione laughed. "Can we please go inside now, he is rather heavy." So the two of them went in.
Instantly there were medi-witches all around them. "What happened here?" "Who is this girl?" The questions kept coming.
"Quiet! I am Draco Malfoy. This is my father, I'm sure you all know him." They all nodded their heads. "This is Hermione Granger. We are in some desperate need of help. We had an accident, my father may die and Hermione may become unconscious at any time. Please hurry and find them a room. Seperatly if you can." Soon the medi-witches were off in all directions. Lucius was taken from Draco's back and Hermione was taken quickly to a room. Draco went with Hermione to make sure that she would be okay, and he really didn't want to see his father.
Many hours later, a medi-witch came in with results on both Hermione and Lucius. "Well good news is that Ms. Granger will be fine. She just needs a little rest and not to much stress. Lucius on the other hand, well he's not doing to well. He hasn't come around and the ministry is out to get him. I'm not sure what happened to him exactly but I don't know. Ms. Granger I hear that you may have had something to do with this?" The sides of her mouth were twitching but she didn't smile. Draco and Hermione looked at each other and Hermione replied;
"Well I had a lot to do with it. I caused the condition that he is in. I hadn't meant to hurt him so bad…will he be okay?"
"Yes. But I can't garrentee that he will ever wake up. He is a…"
"A coma?? NO he can't be! I didn't…no no no!" Draco put his hand on his shoulder.
"Hermione it's okay. It will be better for me and everyone if he never wakes up again." Draco's face went grim. The medi-witch looked oddly at him.
"Mr. Malfoy I do not think that is the best way to speak of your father."
"If you knew the hell in which he has put me through you would think the same of him. I do not expect you to understand but Hermione, she does and she wants him to stay asleep almost as much as I do." The medi-witch just looked at him and walked out.
"I don't think that was the best thing to tell her."
"I don't care what she thinks. I hate my father and I am not going to lie to her about how I feel about him. He did something stupid and he should have known the consequences of his actions. He assumed that you wouldn't be able to do what you did but you could." Hermione hugged him tightly. Draco hugged her back then pushed her back.
"You lay down! Didn't she say that you needed rest?" Hermione smiled and laughed at him.
"Oh I'm sorry Draco! I don't feel very tired. So what am I going to do??" Hermione had a playful sparkle in her eyes, so did Draco.
"Hmmmm…I don't know Ms. Granger. What are you to do?" Draco smirked at her.
"Well I don't know. That's why I asked you silly." Draco leaned in and kissed her.
Hermione and Draco laughed. They didn't know why, maybe it was the weight that seemed to be off their shoulders, but whatever it was they had never been more happy or carefree in their lives.
A:N- Well what did you think? I didn't think that this chapter was all that great…but what did you think? I want to know!! So review…you know the little blue button on the bottom of the screen? Yeah! Hit that and review!!