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A/N: Hey everybody. Thanks to everyone who reviewed I've finally passed 100! Yay for me. So anyone who reviewed can consider themselves the REVIEWER OF THE CHAPTER! Now that you all feel special I just thought I'd warn everyone right off the bat that I'm not in a good mood and I'm using this to vent so I'm sorry if this chapter is depressing or overly evil but I'm warning you now. Anyway on with the story. Read and review then maybe I won't be totally depressed anymore. Sorry to play the guilt trip on you.
Whisper~Mad~Crazy Chapter 16-Death
Draco awoke the next morning to find Hermione watching him intently.
"I'm just too good for you to keep your eyes off me huh mudblood?" He asked with a hint of amusement in his voice. Unfortunately Hermione didn't catch the joke.
"Shut up Malfoy, I can't believe I thought you had changed." She spat, turning away from him.
"Hermione, no I was just kidding. God can't you ever take a joke?"
"Just shut it Malfoy, I'm tired of hearing your excuses."
"I'm sorry! Hermione what do you want me to say?" He pleaded.
"I don't want you to say anything. I want you to shut…up."
Draco shook his head in disbelief. She could be so stubborn sometimes. Why couldn't she just realize it was a joke? Sighing he pulled the curtains around his bed and changed back into his uniform and robe. When he stepped back out he found that Hermione still hadn't turned around. He watched her, pleading with his eyes, willing her to turn around to see the pain they held. Unfortunately Hermione couldn't read his thoughts. But if she could, he wondered, would she still have turned around? He dropped his head and took a shuddering breath before stalking out of the infirmary.
"Goodbye Hermione." He said quietly.
Hermione heard the infirmary doors close softly.
"Goodbye Draco."
Draco walked slowly back towards the Head Common Room but stopped suddenly when he heard footsteps behind him. He turned to find Professor Snape stalking towards him.
"Draco what are you doing out of the infirmary?" He questioned.
"I felt better so I left." He replied casually. Snape surveyed the young man before him.
"Right. Listen Draco something's come up." He said hastily.
"Come up?" Draco asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, to cut to the point your father is here, in the castle."
"What? Right now?"
"Yes right now, he's looking for you. He's not happy."
"I couldn't imagine why." Draco said sarcastically. "He's never been happy before why should he be now."
"What I mean Draco is that he's angry. I don't know what he'll do once he gets his hands on you."
"Oh you know just the usual, a couple Crucios here and Imperious there." Draco obviously wasn't taking this very seriously.
"Damn it Draco! Stop playing dumb, this is serious!" Snape's yells echoed through the deserted hall. "He knows." He continued dropping his voice.
"Knows what?" Draco asked suddenly concerned.
"He knows about Hermione."
"Hermione?'' Draco whispered, worry flashing through his eyes.
"Yes. We think he may try to do something to her also."
"What?" Draco yelled. "Then what are we doing standing here for? I have to go, I have to make sure nothing happens to her."
"Draco stop!" Snape yelled but it was too late. Draco took off running back towards the infirmary. He burst through the doors panting.
"Hermione!"
He watched in horror as Lucius and a small band of Death Eaters surrounded Hermione's bed.
"Draco!" He heard her yell.
"Stop!" Draco cried running towards them. Lucius backed away from the bed and aimed his wand at him.
"I told you, you would pay." He said coldly.
"Do what you want with me!" Draco said defiantly. "But leave Hermione alone!"
"How very touching." Lucius replied. "But I think not."
"No!" Draco yelled running towards them.
"Crucio."
Draco dropped to his knees. He didn't scream or yell. He had been taught not to, but everything he had been taught meant nothing when he heard her voice.
"Draco!" Hermione screamed. "Leave him alone you bastard!"
"Patience Ms. Granger. Don't worry you'll get your turn." Lucius replied pointing his wand towards her. Draco slowly got to his feet.
"I said leave her alone!" He yelled. Lucius shook his head.
"Foolish boy." He turned his wand on Draco once again.
"Incrementum Crucio!" Draco fell to the ground once again but this time he screamed. He screamed for himself, he screamed for Hermione, he screamed for everything that he had ever done wrong or right to please the poor excuse for a man standing before him. With one last burst of energy he spoke.
"I hate you Father. I hate you." With that he dropped to the ground, blood flowed from his mouth and nose.
"No!" Hermione screamed. "Draco!"
"Shut up!" Lucius yelled. "I'm getting tired of your whining mudblood! No matter though your time has come."
"Lucius!" A loud voice rang through the infirmary. Lucius cursed under his breath before turning to the speaker.
"Dumbledore, so glad you could join us. But if you would excuse me, I have some unfinished business to attend to."
"I don't think so Lucius." Dumbledore warned him.
"Look around Albus. Do you plan on stopping me and 4 other Death Eaters all by yourself? Where are your loyal followers now? Where are those poor excuses for teachers? And oh yes where is my pathetic excuse for a brother?"
"Do not be so sure of yourself Lucius."
Lucius laughed mockingly. "And why ever not?" Suddenly he whirled around hearing a chant of voices surrounding him.
"Apertum."
Lucius found himself surrounded not only by all of the staff at Hogwarts but also a number of aurors for the Ministry.
"Very nice Albus, very nice. It's too bad the mudblood has to die." He turned to Hermione but before he could utter a single word, more than a dozen 'Expelliarmus' and one 'Crucio' hit him. Lucius' wand flew out of his hand as he fell to his knees in pain.
"Damn you Severus." He growled. The band of aurors quickly disarmed the rest of the Death Eaters and lead them off the Hogwarts grounds where they apparated back to the Ministry. Snape took a hold of Lucius and dragged him away with the rest of them with something resembling a triumphant smile on his face. Dumbledore dismissed the remaining teachers and called upon Madam Pomfrey.
"Draco." Hermione said kneeling down next to him. She swept his bangs away from his eyes. "Draco please wake up." She whispered. "Don't be dead, please don't be dead." Her vision became blurry as tears overtook her. She cupped his face with her hand. "My god he's freezing." She said looking up to Dumbledore and Madam Pomfrey. "Please help him! You have to do something!" She yelled. Madam Pomfrey bent down and took a hold of Draco's wrist trying to find a pulse. Hermione watched helplessly as Madam Pomfrey slowly dropped Draco's hand shaking her head.
"No." She started softly. "No, no, no! He's not dead! Check again, he's not dead!" She turned to Draco and placed her hands on both sides of his face willing him to be awake.
"Draco you're not dead! Please wake up! Wake up, call me mudblood, call me Granger, call me anything! Come back Draco! Please stay, stay with me! I can't do this without you! Draco!" She buried her head in his chest as sobs raked through her body. Dumbledore put a hand on her shoulder.
"I wish I could tell you that I know how you feel but…"
"You don't know how I feel." Hermione said coldly.
"You are right. I don't." He said softly. Hermione watched as Dumbledore levitated Draco's lifeless body onto the bed next to hers. She then quickly shut her curtains and changed back into her regular clothes. She came back out of the curtains a different person. She wasn't the sweet, caring Hermione everyone knew anymore. Her expression was set like stone. Her eyes held an evil gleam that could rival Voldermort's.
"May I ask what you are doing Ms. Granger?" Dumbledore said.
"I want revenge." She said softly but her voice cut through the silence of the infirmary like ice.
"Revenge won't make the pain go away Hermione."
"I don't care!" She yelled. "Nothing can take the pain away! Not anymore! I have lost the only person that I have ever truly loved! So don't you stand there and tell me what will and what won't make the pain go away!"
Dumbledore sighed. "I am afraid I cannot let you go."
"What? No, you can't do this! I'm going!"
"No you are not." He stepped towards her and took her firmly by the shoulders pushing her back onto the bed. He forced her to lie flat while he put restraints on her.
"No! Let me go! LET ME GO!"
Hermione sat up suddenly bathed in a cold sweat and surprisingly with tears streaming down her face. She looked to the bed next to her. Draco lay there not moving. She got up and quickly walked over to him. She grabbed his shoulders and shook him. He grumbled and sat up halfway.
"What?" He asked groggily. Hermione let out a breath she hadn't known she'd been holding.
"Oh my god you're alive!" She said hugging him tightly, feeling tears trickle down her cheeks. "I thought you were dead! You're father came and he cursed you and…"
"Hermione." He said softly, wincing a little. "You're hurting me." She loosened her grip but didn't let go.
"Don't leave me Draco. Don't die, please." She sobbed into his shoulder. Draco wrapped his arms around her and murmured softly into her hair.
"Hermione, it's ok. Don't worry I won't leave. I promise."
Hermione's breathing slowed to a normal pace and she separated herself from him.
"So you had a nightmare huh?" Draco asked. She nodded her head but looked up when she heard the doors to the infirmary open. She saw Professor Snape stalking towards them. He approached Draco's bed.
"Draco, glad to see you're awake. Listen, something's come up."
"Come up?" Draco questioned. Hermione's eyes widened in horror as she realized how familiar this conversation was. She brought her hands to her mouth and shook her head, slowly stepping away from Snape and Draco whispering to herself.
"Oh no…"
A/N: Well what did you think? I'm in a better mood now. All that yelling in the chapter helped me vent. Although I'm still not peachy so review and tell how wonderful it was and then maybe I'll be happy. Lol, ok no really. Review or the cookie monster will come after you. You know I think I'm gonna come up with a new monster called the cake monster. He would go anywhere there's a cake and just eat it all. Wouldn't that be terrible? Like you're at a wedding and you're thinking, 'mmm cake' and then this monster just jumps out and eats all the cake. Well I'd be scared but anyways enough rambling. Review!
