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Chapter One: Unlucky Accident

"Draco I'm going to get a shower don't you dare try anything funny while I'm in there." Hermione called to her roommate who happened to be none other then Draco Malfoy, her enemy for six years. "Why the hell would I care mudblood?" was the response that was yelled back at her. With that she went into the bathroom taking no fresh clothes with her, only her wand.

She stepped into the bathroom and after locking her own door leading in, she went across to the opposite side to lock the door Draco would use to enter; she wanted to make absolutely sure she would not be disturbed. She took her wand and used a simple charm to close all the slits and cracks where water could escape at the bottom of the shower. After undressing, taking off all clothes except her undergarments, and putting her clothes in a neat pile she took a note out of the front pocket that was on her robes and set it on top of all the clothing. The note was written in shimmering green ink and was addressed to Draco.

Draco,

I wanted to make sure this was written so as to ensure you would be in no future trouble. Tonight shall be the end for me as I'm sure you will have discovered. It has grown to be an unbearable task just to get up out of bed every morning and live out the day. Even though I'm sure you will have no care whatsoever about what I have done I just wanted to say I'm sorry that you will have to be the one to find me.

As a last request I would ask that you do not have my body shown to Harry and Ron. Please just call in Professor McGonagall and I'm certain she will take care of the rest. I am truly sorry we never became friends. Maybe if I would have made more of an effort to establish a friendship with others to have more friends to back me up I wouldn't be writing this.

Once again I am sorry for everything.

Hermione

After reading it through one last time making sure it said everything needed she stepped into the shower. As she turned the water on a single tear fell from her left eye. Even though it was what she ultimately wanted she couldn't help but be upset. She sat down at the bottom of the shower wand in hand. Her mind kept drifting to the scene between her and her stepfather that happened the day before she would leave to go to Hogwarts.

Flashback

Hermione had her wrists and ankles rope tied to the bed. She had nothing on except her undergarments, her stepfather preferred to have as much skin exposed as possible when he preformed what gave him so much pleasure. Drops of sweat and tears were falling off of her face; drops which she knew would soon be mixed with blood. The door to her bedroom slowly opened and her stepfather stepped into the room holding a belt and knife. With no words spoken between them he walked up to her and brought the belt down hitting her over and over again. With every hit he would move the belt slightly off to the side of the area just hit. Once he was sure her whole body was covered with wounds from the belt, this taking several hours, he put and fastened the belt around his waist as though it was not tainted with his own stepdaughters' blood. Next he reached over and picked up the knife. This would be the fun part. He would first slash words into her skin such as worthless, bitch, pathetic, then would come the phrases, you were a mistake, should never been born...The final step would be to take the knife and dig it into her skin about one third of an inch deep then slowly pulling it out. After this last step was repeated about ten times he would untie her and throw her wand to her allowing her to only close the wounds enough to keep her from dying then to provide a concealing charm.

No one would ever know as to what happens to her. To make sure of this the very first time he so called abused her, not that it seemed like abuse in his mind, he put a concealment charm on her that would hide all wounds and bruises in public from everyone. The charm would only be nonexistent to someone whom she could truly have a romantic future with. Knowing that no one loved her at her freak school he felt the charm would be sufficient. As he walked out of the room all he could hear was the whimpering and pain filled moans emanating from her battered body.

Return

"It's for the best," she whispered. With wand in hand she rose to a kneeling position and used her wand to close all the drainage holes making absolutely sure no water could escape, after throwing her wand out of the shower sure enough the water started to rise. Up to her ankles...up to her waist...and what seemed like hours later it was finally over her nose. As she drifted into darkness she uttered the last words "I'm sorry."

"Granger you open this god damn door now!" Draco was standing outside his bathroom door pounded on it so hard as to make sure that there would be no way she could not hear him. "Granger I mean it." Losing his patience he shouted one more final remark. "Granger I'm coming in." When no remark or insult was shouted back in the very back of his head a tiny part of him was thinking 'God I hope she's alright.'

Since his wand was on the other side of his room he just broke down the door, rushing into the bathroom. Hearing the shower running his eyes quickly drifted to see if she was there. When he saw the pale unconscious Granger he freaked. "God Granger what the f---ing hell have you done!" Using his speed to his advantage it took only mere seconds to break open the shower, water flooding the bathroom.

He quickly picked her up bridal style, resting her head against his shoulder, and as he made his way to the door leading to her bedroom he caught sight of the note lying on her clothes and knew he would have to come back for it later. After taking his eyes off the note that's when it finally hit him that this was not some unlucky accident.

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