Author's Note. This chapter is not a happy chapter for Draco and Hermione, or for that matter any of the characters in this chapter except Severus Snape. I really like how I wrote this chapter. I hope you do too. Please if you don't like it, then don't review yelling at me. Go ahead and read now.

Chapter 7. Remembrance "He put one hand on my waist and the other behind my neck, "This is perfect." and he kissed me . It was no ordinary kiss, it was filled with love, passion, desire. It was the perfect kiss. "

Chapter 9. Anything but perfect

Draco felt something cold and sticky on his hand. He remembered earlier when Snape had kicked Hermione's legs out from under her, her head had hit the stone floor. He quickly removed his hand to find what he feared, Blood.
Hermione's blood. By now a small puddle had accumulated on the stone floor. The stone floor that had cut a hole into Hermione's head. How long had she not noticed that she was bleeding to death?
Draco stopped looking at his blood stained hand, and looked at the girl in his arms. Hermione's eyes were closing, and Draco couldn't tell if she was still breathing.

Headmaster Dumbledore stood outside the Potions classroom, waiting for Mister Weasley and Mister Potter to finish explaining everything that was going on between his Potion's Master and his student. So far he had a great deal of information. He had been told that Severus had impregnated Miss Granger, beat her, with all the in between information that's included with it. And now he was being told that Severus, which of course was being called Professor Snape by his students, that he had locked Miss Granger and Mister Malfoy, both wandless, in his personal storage room.

"Well, if that's all I believe it's time we rescue our classmates." And following their Headmaster, Harry and Ron proceeded to open the potions door and moved to were their friends were being held captive. Upon their arrival at the storage room , Professor Dumbledore began casting complex spells to unlock the spell ridden door. Headmaster Dumbledore nodded after a few minutes, signally that it was unlocked. " Hermione, Draco, we're coming in!" Ron yelled in warning, just in case they we're descent. They pushed open the door, not expecting what they saw, as they stood in the doorway.

Draco called Hermione's name over and over, but he never got a response. He stayed collected long enough to gently place Hermione on the floor, wrap her in his robes and tightly place his shirt to her bleeding skull. Hermione's eyes opened an inch as her body shivered under Draco's laced arms. But Draco didn't notice she had regained consciousness until she inhaled a harsh raggedy breathe. " Hermione, oh God, Hermione." But she had started to fall back into unconsciousness, "Hermione, stay with me." Her eyes opened wider and she looked straight at Draco. In her normal voice, she said two simple and yet utterly complex words, "Save Me." Draco was about to respond but Hermione wouldn't have heard him, she was unconscious. Draco held Hermione tightly to his chest, not caring that his once beautiful shirt was covered in blood. He began to sing.

When this world gets you down I'll always be around I will be there for you, I'll be there for you

And if you're feeling small I'll help you through it all I will be there for you, I'll be there for you

And if you need me you gotta let me know Cause you know you always got somewhere to go

Suddenly he heard Ron Weasley yell from the other side of the door, "Hermione, Draco, we're coming in!" Come in they tried, but didn't succeed.
Of course Draco couldn't see why, just because Hermione's skull was bleeding crimson blood and that the floor and himself were covered in it. Now why would anyone stare at that? After a few moments Draco couldn't see them moving in the near future, so to bring them out of their revere he need to get them to understand that Hermione was still alive. " Don't just stand there staring, someone go get Madame Pomfrey." Ron and Harry both ran out of the doorway, to get their resident nurse.

Silently Professor Dumbledore cleaned the floor and Draco of their crimson companions. In a solemn voice, he asked " Mister Malfoy, would you mind telling me how Mrs. Granger acquired the injure that resulted in her massive loss of blood?" Draco was shaking his head while answering the Headmaster. " When she tried to acquire Snape's wand…' "Professor Snape, Mister Malfoy." Draco kept talking like he hadn't heard him, which he mostly didn't. 'He kicked her legs out from under her, and her head hit the stone floor, hard Sir. I didn't notice till Snape had locked us in here. After thirty minutes she started to fall into unconsciousness. Only when some blood was on my hand did I realize what had happened."

Before Professor Dumbledore could question Draco further, Madame Pomfrey rushed into the room. "Where is she?!" Madame Pomfrey spoke as she came up next to Professor Dumbledore, he just pointed at Draco, who was still holding Hermione. "Heavens! Move over Mister Malfoy, let me have a look at her." She knelt down beside Draco and started looking at Hermione's head wound. "I want to know everything that went on here, for Mrs. Granger to have acquired this, but not now, we must get her into the hospital wing, before she bleeds to death." Madame Pomfrey stated, as she quickly stood and started to levitate Hermione to the hospital wing. At one point Draco's shirt fell off her head, allowing her blood to start dripping on the stone floor.

Upon their arrival, Madame Pomfrey placed Hermione in one of the more private beds, toward the end of the ward. Professor Dumbledore, Ron, Harry, and Draco watched as she disappeared then reappeared from her office carrying several vials of potions in her arms. As she was tilting Hermione's head back to administer the potions, she announced the potion's names and their properties.

Once Madame Pomfrey was finished, looking quite please with her promptness, she turned on Draco, Ron and Harry. "Now tell me… How Miss Granger come to be in this condition." "Professor Snape kicked her legs out from under her, she hit her head when she fell." Draco stated quietly. Madame Pomfrey looked shocked. She turned towards Dumbledore, hoping to be told this wasn't the truth. When He replied, Harry noticed his eyes weren't twinkling. " I'm afraid so Poppy, it appears that Severus has been abusing Miss Granger and so today Mister Malfoy stood up to him. Which resulted in the usage of two unforgivable curses on Mister Malfoy And since he is still alive, I believe you know the one's I'm speaking of."

Madame Pomfrey turned to Draco, "Mister Malfoy are you in any pain what so ever ? Or have you forgotten that you even experienced the worst curses' imaginable, just to make sure that Miss Granger was safe?" Draco thought for a moment, he couldn't remember when he stopped feeling the pain of the Cruciatus and started feeling the realization that he might lose Hermione. "Mister Malfoy, do you need to lie down?" "Huh? Oh No Madam, I'm fine." Madame Pomfrey was about to interrogate Draco some more when Professor Dumbledore interrupted. "Poppy, I believe it's time to leave these young men alone, so they can contemplate everything that has happened, to themselves and Miss Granger." Madame Pomfrey looked worried about leaving three teenage boys alone in her hospital ward, but Professor Dumbledore finally convinced her.
Once the Headmaster and Healer had left the ward, Harry and Ron went over to the right side of Hermione's bed, leaving Draco standing alone at the foot of her bed. Alone, that's how Draco felt at the moment. Very alone. He walked over to the left side of Hermione, opposite Harry and Ron. He pulled a chair up next to her, and took her hand into his. Harry and Ron weren't mad ashe took Hermione's hands and started singing softly to her.

When this world gets you down I'll always be around I will be there for you, I'll be there for you

And if you're feeling small I'll help you through it all I will be there for you, I'll be there for you

And if you need me you gotta let me know Cause you know you always got somewhere to go

Oh if you put your hand in my hand Put your trust in me and I wont let you down I will always be there for you Oh if you put your heart in my heart Take a walk with me and I will show you now We can leave the pain behind us hand in hand

If you just need a friend When the heartache starts again I will be there for you, I'll be there for you

I'll chase the hurt away My love is here to stay I'll be there for you, I'll be there for you

I know I'm not wrong about what we got The thing we feel between us babe is worth a lot

Oh if you put your hand in my hand Put your trust in me and I wont let you down I will always be there for you

Oh if you put your heart in my heart Take a walk with me and I will show you now We can leave the pain behind us hand in hand

You know I still want you baby (you know I still want you)
You know I'll always need you baby (you know I'll always need you)
You know I still want you baby (you know I still want you)

You know I'll always need you baby (you know I'll always need you)
You know I still want you baby (you know I still want you)
You know I'll always need you baby (you know I'll always need you)

Always be there Whoooooaah

I know I'm not wrong about what we got The thing we feel between us babe, is worth a lot

Put your hand in my hand Put your trust in me and I wont let you down I will always be there for you Oh if you put your heart in my heart

Take a walk with me and I will show you now We can leave the pain behind us hand in hand

Put your hand in my hand Put your trust in me and I wont let you down I will always be there for you

Oh if you put your heart in my heart Take a walk with me and I will show you now We can leave the pain behind us hand in hand..

Ron looked at Harry once Draco had finished singing and said quietly, so Draco wouldn't hear, "Even if he does love her, to me he will always be the amazing bouncing ferret."

Author's Note: I hope you like it. I know I did, even if it is sad. And I just couldn't help my self, so I had to include the ferret comment. J. Merry Christmas J