Chapter 3: Almost Fallen

Four long hours had past. Harry sat their staring at the girl sleeping on his bed he had been holding her hand for the last hour in hopes that she would wake up soon.

Just then a snowy white owl had flown into his room through his open window.

"Hedwig thank Merlin your back!" Taking the letter from her he opened it and let out an exasperated sigh.

"St. Mungo's says alls we can do is wait until the Rophynol is out of her system, then I should keep an eye on her for the rest of the night," He said to the snowy white owl that was now perched on his bed side table also anxiously awaiting Hermione's recovery.

"They said if she doesn't wake up in a few hours to send another owl and they will come get her."

When he sat back down on his bed next to her, he felt her body stir next to him.

"Harry?" She said groggily.

"Hermione your awake," He said softly while touching her cheek. She looked up at him and smiled.

Then her smile faded into a look of shock and fear. She bolted up into a sitting position almost knocking Harry off the bed.

"Woah, Hermione calm down, relax. The mediwizards said you need to rest."

"Harry, what happened to me? How come I don't remember coming back up here? How come it's 3 in the morning, last thing I remember was going downstairs, and that was around 10 o'clock." She said in a frantic blurb of words.

"Hermione, when I left to go to the bathrooml last night, I came back and you were acting strangely. Almost like you were drunk." He tried to explain to her, but she cut him off.

"Harry I don't drink, I never have."

"I know, I figured out it wasn't alcohol, you were…. Hermione, you were drugged." He paused for a moment looking at the expression of horror on her face.

Finally after a long pause of silence she spoke, "Harry what happened, at the party, I mean, uhhhhhhh?" she said this like she was trying to choose her words carefully but didn't really know what to say. "Did I, ummmm, do anything embarrassing?" she said figuring that was the best way to ask the questions she wanted answers too, without actually having to ask them.

Harry smiled at her. "Well you had a few choice words to say about our lack of pretzels, but other than that, not really." He said to her figuring it would be best not to mentinon the kiss.

She laughed, "Harry, I don't even like pretzels."

Harry told her an exaggerated story about how he had to beat up 3 bouncers and his cousin to get answers about who was selling the drugs, then he had to kick all the people out of the party one by one. Then he told her how he carried her up to his room and sent word with Hedwig to the hospital.

She smiled at him when he finished his embellished story.

"Harry Potter, you're my hero," she said to him giving him a big hug, and a kiss on the cheek.

Harry burst out laughing, and Hermione looked at him as if he were nuts. "What's so funny?" she asked him.

"Nothing, it's just you said the same thing to me last night." He said to here through laughs.

"Oh did I? Really?" She said laughing as well.

"Well I guess I should go to bed," She said to him while trying to stand up.

"Oh no you don't missy" Harry said while pushing her back down on the bed, "You're sleeping right here tonight, the doctors said I need to keep an eye on you."

"Harry I don't really think it's appropriate for us to sleep in your bed, together, alone." She said almost as horrified as she was before.

"What are you saying Hermione? You want some one else in their with us? Harry said laughing again.

"Hermione, I am kiddng, I am gonna sleep on a cot next to my bed, you can have my bed to yourself."

With that he took out his wand and said "Accio cot" and a loud noise came from down the hall, in the closet. Next thing they new a cot was floating in through the bedroom door, then it fell up against Harry's real bed.

"That's better," Hermione said smiling.

"Thank you Harry," she said to him not really looking into his eyes.

"For what?" He had asked her not knowing what she was getting at.

"For taking care of me, I know I could trust you with my life, I have before, and I… I just wanted to say thank you." She said and kissed him quickly on the cheek again and laid down in Harry's bed and closed her eyes, making it obvious that the conversation was over.
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The next morning came quickly as they had only slept a few hours. Unfortunately for Harry even when Hermione was hung over she was still a morning person.

"Wake up Harry, its 8 o'clock in the morning, we slept in." She announced in a way too chipper voice.

"I'm going to shower, and get dressed, you have 15 minutes to wake yourself up, then it's your turn for a shower."

"Yeah yeah yeah, I'll wake up with you in the shower… good idea Hermione," Harry said to her with a smirk worth a million galleons.

"Ha ha ha, very funny… you have 15 minutes or you will regret not waking up when I asked you to the first time," she announced walking out of the bedroom.

Just like she promised she was out of the shower and dressed 15 minutes later. Harry unfortunately didn't know this because he had fallen back asleep.

"I told you that you would regret not waking up Mr. Potter," she said quietly with a mischivious smile.

Hermione took out her wand and preformed a levitation charm on a sleeping Harry. He rose above his bed wearing only his pajama pants, and she took a moment to admire his nicely defined form.

Quickly pushing those thoughts out of her head because she shouldn't think such things about her best friend, she floated him down the hall and into the bathroom. She carefully maneuvered his sleeping body into the shower with his head, shoulders, and chest resting underneath the shower head. Slowly she lowered his body into the tub.

She held her breath as he stirred from his skin hitting the cold surface of the shower floor, but he did not wake up. Letting go of her breath, she turned the water to the coldest level possible and let the water run free into the tub.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, HOLY CRAP. WHAT THE FUCK? HOW THE HELL DID I GET IN HERE?"

Harry was screaming, while fumbling his hands over the handle to turn the water off as quickly as possible.

When the shock of the cold blast of water wore off his system Harry realized there was someone laughing at him in the bathroom.

"Hermione? You did this to me?"

"Oh Harry I had to. I told you that you would regret not waking up when I asked you to," she said through snorts of laughter.

"But… but how did you get me in here?" then recognition set in and he realized, "You used a levitation charm." He said a little too proudly at her because it had to be a strong charm to lift him up.

"Okay Harry, take your shower, hurry up and get ready." She said to him while closing the door to the bathroom behind her.

Sitting in Harry's room she was trying but failing to do her hair.

"I need a mirror for this mess," she said to herself, and looked inside of his closet on a shelf where she remembered seeing one while putting away some of her belongings.

Finding what seemed to be an ordinary piece of a mirror, she looked at it and scowled at the other shards of glass around it, "This wont do at all."

This "mirror" was broken into little bits and pieces. "Reflecto Repairo," she said and the small hand held mirror had pulled itself back together. Picking it up, she looked into it with a smile at her magical ablilities.

"Ahhhh, much better." Hermione finished fixing her hair and then put the mirror back onto his closet shelf.

Walking into his room to put on his shoes Harry saw Hermione sitting on his bed reading a book.

"Gee Hermione, do you ever do anything else other than read?" he said not really expecting her to answer him.

"Well actually I do Harry. I woke you up didn't I, and I fixed that mirror of yours." She said in a snotty attitude, then she smiled at him with satisfaction.

Harry dropped his jumbbled up dirty clothes that he had been holding in shock, Hermione's face fell when she saw his expression.

"Hermione, What mirror did you fix?" he asked her slowly looking directly at her.

"The broken one in your closet, I'm sorry if I wasn't supposed to go in your closet, I just remembered it being their, I didn't snoop or anything, I swear Harry." She said this so quickly that she had to catch her breath after she finished.

"Harry?" she asked him looking at his face as he ran to the closet door and grabbed the mirror out of the closet, it looked like he had a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

"Harry what are you doing?" she asked him again.

He didn't answer her, he only held the mirror up to his face and said loudly into his reflection,

"SIRIUS BLACK!"
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