Days went on in the castle. Hermione and Draco returned to classes and Hermione tried to act like nothing had happened. Her life seemed to be getting better with the help of Draco. They lived in their secret room and Hermione abandoned all of her friends for him. She loved him more than he would ever imagine and he told her he felt the same. He made her promises that she questioned if he would keep.

Two months went by and Draco came into their room to find Hermione doing homework.

"I have something to tell you Hermione," Draco said in a hollow voice.

"What is it love?"

"I cheated on you with Pansy and Blaise. I'm sorry." Draco looked at her as if he expected her to yell or scream at him, but the yelling never came and he opened his eyes. She was gone. He heard the shower turn on and thought nothing of it; after all she was stable enough to handle this, he hoped.

Hermione took out one of her blades and did a spell to make Linkin Park's "Breaking the Habit" play all around the bathroom. She started a hot bath and she ripped every bit of skin she could with her blade, then slid into the bathtub and watched as the water that was so clear turned a sickening color of red. She passed out from blood lose.

It had been half and hour since Hermione had gone into the bathroom and Draco was starting to worry. He unlocked the door and saw Hermione in a bath that looked like it was filled only by her own blood. Hermione's body started to sink into the water and Draco ran to catch her. He sat her body back up, laid a towel onto the floor, and then laid her body onto it. Draco gasped and backed up from her body, it was so tattered and torn that he didn't want to touch her for fear that he would cause her more pain.

Deep inside he knew it was his fault, but he didn't want to believe it. He had almost killed her but he didn't want to believe it.

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Months flew by and Draco broke more promises and Hermione tore more flesh because of it, but he still refused to believe it was his fault.

One night Hermione was told that Draco had cheated on her with two other girls from Ravenclaw and she ran away, far away. Lucius found her at the Leaky Caldron a day later. Her face was tear-stained and she looked ill. She had a bottle of rum sitting in front of her along with a piece of paper and she was singing a morbid tune under her breath.

Lucius stood her up and led her out of the bar, back to his manor. Harry was there, he had joined the dark side. Lucius and Harry raped and murdered her together, throwing insults at her, and beating her. She still hummed that tune under her breath as they beat her and raped her with the belief that Draco would come and save her. The tune was one that she used to sing to Draco when he had a nightmare during the night to calm him in his sleep, she always thought that he would always save her from her nightmares that came true.

But Draco never came to her aid and because of that she died. Lucius sent Draco a letter that read:

Draco,

I'm happy to tell you that your whore has died at the hands of Harry Potter and me. She had this sitting in front of her in the bar where I found her.

Your Father,

Lucius Malfoy

When Draco read the note the paper that Hermione had had in front of her fell out. Draco silently picked it up and read it.

You never know how much you really love someone until they die...Maybe I should die...just to see how much you really love me.

I love Draco Malfoy Always and Forever

Right then Draco knew it was his fault that she had died and he blamed himself for the remainder of his life, he had let the first thing he had ever really loved die. He led his life as if he were a shell of the person he used to be. He drank all the time until finally he put a muggle gun to his head and shot himself.

In spirit Hermione and Draco were two lost souls, but they were lost together.