Chapter 3

Hermione rushed out of Herbology to her room and set her stuff down and changed again into her

muggle clothes. She hadn't seen Ron or Harry since breakfast so she decided to go visit them. Walking up to

the portrait of the fat lady, she remembered all the years they shared together. Thinking back to the Chamber

of Secrets and the Marauder's Map and the Order of the Phoenix. Her thoughts were interrupted by the fat

lady "Are you coming in or not!" she asked angrily.

"Incarcerous!" Hermione said the password angrily and stepped inside. Harry and Ron were sitting

on the couch when she walked in.

"Hi guys!" she said while walking up by them. Both of them smiled and Ron blushed.

"Hermione! What's up? We never talk to you anymore! How was your first day with Malfoy?"

Harry asked.

"It was okay" Hermione said while sitting down "It could have been worse I guess. But today I had Double Muggle Studies,

you should have seen him! Isn't that hilarious! Malfoy in

Muggle Studies! It was great!" she smiled happily at the dire mood Malfoy was going to be in.

Ron and Harry looked shocked.

"Wow Hermione" Harry said "That's the first time I've seen you smile since we got here."

"So Hermione, how was your summer?" Ron asked.

"Oh, it was umm...dreary, you could say" she said while wrapping some hair around her finger.

"Why do you say that?" Harry asked confusedly.

"Ooh...well, my mom died" Hermione answered without batting an eye. Ron and Harry both stood up.

"What! What happened Hermione?" Ron asked

"Yah! Why didn't you tell us?" Harry asked. They both sat down. "Hermione, you went the whole

summer and you didn't even write and tell us? I thought we were your friends! We would have been there

for you."

"Harry" Hermione said "You guys are my friends. But I just needed time to deal with it by myself.

My dad totally left me alone all the time. So I was by myself a lot. Its not big deal you guys, don't worry.

Anyway, I gotta go do homework. I will talk to you guys later. See ya!" Hermione walked out of the

portrait hole and felt tears well up in her eyes as she remembered the look in their eyes. 'I should have told

them before' Hermione said to herself. She hugged her arms around her and walked back through the door

into her common room. Malfoy was nowhere to be found so she sat down on one of the couches to take a

small nap. 'Of course' she thought 'Once I get to sleep he's going to walk in those doors and scare the

hell out of me' so she got up and walked into her room dragging her feet and slamming the door behind her.

Hermione reached into her bag and grabbed pictures and more jewelry. She lifted out the photo album and

opened it up. She traced her finger along the picture of her and her mother. It was snowing and they were in

hats and big coats. They smiled at each other and then waved at the camera. The snow fell around them and

into their hair. Hermione felt the tears well up in her eyes. 'Dammit!' she thought 'Its been four months!

I need to get over this! Don't be a baby!' she felt the tears course down her cheek, which infuriated her

even more. She rubbed them off hard and threw the album back into her bag. Hermione looked down at her

hand and saw black makeup from her eyes. "I'm going to have to put all my makeup back on!" she growled

angrily she picked up her wand and walked into the bathroom. She felt the tears course down her cheeks still

and slammed her wand down onto the sink counter. As she slammed down her wand, the large glass mirror

suddenly exploded. Glass shards and pieces flew all over the bathroom floor and into Hermione's hair.

"Oh shit!" she yelled as the tears coursed down her face. She looked down on the floor and saw her

reflection in a large piece of glass, before she knew what she was doing she picked it up and slammed the

sharp glass into her wrist and cut it down to the inside of her elbow. The cut was deep and immediately

started bleeding heavily. The blood started pouring down her arm and dripping onto the glass shards

below. It started bleeding profusely, Hermione looked around for her wand. It was nowhere to be seen, she

began kicking the big glass pieces with her foot to look underneath them for her wand. She had her bleeding

arm pressed up against her shirt and she felt the wet warmth through her shirt. She immediately felt dizzy

and started swooning. "Get a hold of yourself Granger" she said angrily while swaying on her feet. She fell

to her knees and dropped her arms to her side and blacked out.

Draco walked in the common room door and fell back onto the couch. It had been a horrible day.

He rubbed his face with his hands, he felt himself start to drift off to sleep when he was awakened sharply

with a loud explosion. Draco sat up and looked around the room and raised his wand. He heard Hermione's

voice in the bathroom, she seemed to be talking to herself and then heard a soft thump. Draco jumped up

and walked into the bathroom, only to be surprised with pieces of glass everywhere and a puddle of blood

slowly starting to form around Hermione.

"Damn mudblood" he grumbled as he picked her up and carried her to his room. He grabbed a

towel off the floor and wrapped her arm in it. It was immediately soaked. 'You idiot' the little voice in his

head said 'Use your wand!' Draco slapped his forehead and grabbed his wand out of his pocket. He said

the appropriate spell and her arm stopped bleeding. Immediately he said "Scourgify" and the blood vanished

from her clothes and her arm as well as him. Draco leaned down over Hermione and shook her gently. Her

eyes fluttered and her arm shot out and the heel of her hand caught him right in the nose. Draco fell back

clutching his already bleeding nose "OUCH!" he yelled "Wad was dat for!" he sat down on the floor

and felt his nose which was broke.

Hermione felt someone shaking her shoulders, she immediately brought her hand up into their face

and heard them yell. She sat up and looked down at the floor and saw Draco tentatively touching his nose.

His eyes were already turning black and blood poured out his nose. Hermione got down on her knees in

front of him "Oh I am so sorry Draco! Here, let me help!". Surprisingly he complied and let her look at it,

her hand was warm on his cold face. She flicked her wand at his nose and it immediately cracked and went

back into place and immediately stopped bleeding. Hermione took his face in her hands and felt along the

bridge of his nose to feel if it went back into the correct place. Draco put his hand onto hers that was placed

on his face and whispered "Thanks" quietly. Hermione looked into his silver eyes and quietly answered

"You're welcome".

Draco looked into Hermione's warm honey colored eyes and had a strange feeling in his stomach.

'That was weird' he said inwardly while looking into her eyes. His eyes immediately went down to her soft l

lips. He gulped and leaned forward to capture her soft lips. His other hand went up to the back of her head

to bring her forward, he twirled her soft hair in his fingers. Draco never looked away from her eyes as he

leaned over to kiss her. Suddenly, pain flashed across her eyes and she stopped and looked down at her arm

which had started bleeding profusely again.

"Shit" he said standing up and helping her to her feet "We are going to have to take you to the

hospital wing Hermione".

"Okay" she said quietly and started walking to the door, where she immediately fell on her wobbly

legs. She fell to the floor and promptly passed out from the blood loss. Draco bent over and picked her up in

his arms, feeling her light body pressed against his he ran her to the infirmary with her blood pouring down

him as he ran.