Disclaimer: I don't own any harry potter characters I tried my hardest to see if J.K rowling would give me draco but no! she wouldn't gimme him( *goes and pouts in a corner again* Oh yeah I'm on a roll!!! Lol wll hope ya like it! "Draco! Tell them this is your choice!" Lucious yelled.

"This is my choice..." Draco said sadly.

"Draco!" Hermione yelled.

"Now leave you nuisance before I kill both you and Potter!" Yelled Voldemort.

"No with out Draco!" Hermione shouted. The last things Draco heard were "AVADA KADAVRA" and the last thing he remembered was him blocking Hermione from death. He couldn't hear himself screaming but he knew he was, and he knew when he stopped. He couldn't die now though! *Hermione and my mother need him so if that Pot head got away with this then why can't I?* Draco thought.

Hours later Draco was still so close to death.

"This is your fault mudblood!" Lucious sneered.

"It is not!" She yelled, but only half of her believed her innocence.

Hearry and Voldemort were glaring at one another but neither had yet made a move. Draco began to stir.

"Oh my God! Draco is still alive!" Hermione squeeled. Draco opened his eyes, still being atagonized by the pain. He looked around and knew he had barely escaped.

"Oh Draco! You're alive! But how? That curse was sure to kill you!" Hermone gasped. Her voice filled with so many emotions; fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.

He still was too winded to speak. He saw Lucious and Voldemort hovering over him.

"Ready?" Asked Voldemort very impatiently. Draco stared. He didn't want this anymore!

"No!" He screamed. This shocked everyone raco had no pure energy but had enough pain, hate, and anger to keep him going. "I won't do it anymore!"

"Oh and why is that?"

"Because of this! AVADA KADAVRA!" Draco shouted pointing his wand at Voldemort. Harry saw this and joined in happily, then Hermione. One of them for sure was not enough but all three, they had a bigger chance to kill him. Voldemort fell trembling, and Lucious was shocked.

Lucious lost it. His master gone? Just like that? Punishment shall be given! Since the other tow weren't his he told them, "For your behavior, you two," he said pointing at Harry and Hermione "Draco will take three times the beating in place of you two!" He threw a punch catching Draco by surprise, and hitting him in the jaw. He grabbed Draco around the neck and with great force threw him into a tree. Draco trembled down to the ground to hurt to move.. Lucious grabbed Draco again and stood him up and began punching him like a punching bag. Draco had no more strength to fight back and he just gave Harry looks that practically said "keep yourself and Hermione back, please!" His sides were being kicked roughly and his stomach got kicked pretty much till he puked up blood. As he took these blows on his hands and knees he fell lifelessly to the ground. His lungs seemed not want to work like usual, so he stopped breathing many times. Lucious kicked him once more to be satisfied. And turned to Harry and Hermione and took his wand and yelled "Petrificus Totalus!" he didn't really want to kill them for some reason...he didn't know why he speared their lives but he did. He picked his master's lifeless body up and brought him to his hideout.
Draco's body seemed dead, nut there was still life in him, so where there life there's hope. Harry woke from the spell and saw Hermione stirring a little bit. She sat up with a jolt and at first took no notice to Draco's dieing body and saw Harry. "Are you o.k.?" Hermione asked weakly.

"Yeah how about you?" Harry asked back.

"I'm...Oh my God! Draco!" She raced over to him. His body looked as if he had not been born with white but black, blue and white skin. His whole body was bleeding all over. Hermione laid his head in her lap and she smoothed his hair back and then snapped at Harry "Go get help you big buffoon!" Harry ran off and Hermione sang in Draco's ear. She knew it wouldn't help but she didn't care.

Harry came back with Dumbledore, Snape, and Mc Gonagall. They explained what happened including Draco's harsh beating.. They knew Voldemort was still alive, and still very powerful, they just knew it. Draco was brought to the hospital wing where Madame Pompfry would have much fun with his wounds.

Hermione's POV

My God Draco! That mark! You were going to get it? Why? What were you thinking? I won't hate you! I love you too much! You've gone through so much but you've held you head higher than anyone I know! You were strong! You never let go, or gave up! But now you turned to your father! You told him you wanted that mark!
That decision of course is worse than your decision to drink alcohol! But do you truly believe your father will hold, love, or take care of you if you turn your life into the hands of his master?
Are you really that dumb! He will only hurt you more! Push you to kill! Kill muggle born! When it comes time for your father to point at me and tell you "Kill her!" will you be able to do it? Hermone just stared at Draco's motionless body. His breathe becoming weaker, signs of pain coming and going. Harry watched Hermione's face. Her eyes were red from crying and her hands trembled.
He knew she loved him even after what happened. But when Draco yelled that he didn't want this, it didn't at all sound sincere. His mind must've been racing when Hermione came from the bushes. Did he really think she hated him?
Hermione was extremely reluctant to leave Draco's side bud did so. That night she couldn't fall asleep without nightmares attacking her silent slumber. She woke up still tired and couldn't face classes right now and decided to visit Draco. She saw Madame Pompfry nursing his wounds. Hermione also saw his stab wound had reopened.

"How is he?" Hermione asked.

"He is doing much better, he's been in and out of it so you may get a chance to speak with him...would you mind taking over dear. There are other sick children that need tending to." Hermione nodded and sat by Draco's side and gently dabbed at his cuts.

Draco's eyes flittered open and he saw Hermone sitting there crying silently.

Draco's POV

She is crying is this because of me? My thought of becoming a death eater was set on doing it, but my angel saved me again. But she does not love me as much as I thought, I think. Still, the thought of becoming a death eater lingers in my mind. Even after last night.

"Hermione?" I say out of caution careful no to surprise her. She looks at me. Oh God! Those eyes look weak and tired, she didn't seem to get much sleep.

~~Draco! You're awake, that's good." She said still cleaning his wounds.

"Hermione, thank you for last night but...."

"Draco, I have no power over you choice! Pick you dad's side, you will be a slave to pure evil! You stay on the side you are on now you will roam free, it's your choice!" Hermione said loudly.

"Dine seeing as you don't give a shit anymore! I'll go along with my father!" Draco yelled sadly.

"Fine go ahead! No one will miss you once you're dead! Along with the rest of the death eaters!" She yelled angrily and thrust the cloth in the bowl. She stood up and her last words to Draco for that day were "Burn in hell Draco Malfoy!" And she stormed off.

He couldn't believe that just happened! No one cares obviously. What a pathetic thought! He laughed silently. He fell into a restless sleep. ~~~~~~Draco's Dream~~~~~~ "My son? This time will you stay true to your word? And not try to kill Lord Voldemort again?" Lucious yelled.

"Yes father, this time I am sure no one will miss me, it's even been said."

"Good." Then Voldemort's body appeared and without hesitation he drew his wand and said his words. Draco woke up in a cold sweat and hardly able to breathe. And his arm was burning, but why? He lifted his sleeve up and there it was. The mark of his enslavement to Lord Voldemort.