Letters
Hermione woke the next morning feeling the best she had in a long time. She quickly got dressed and hurriedly ran to the cafeteria. She ate at top speed and practically ran to the study room. She grabbed a quill and a piece of parchment.
Draco,
I miss you so much here, being locked up in this place. I know you probably don't like me anymore or anything. If I were you I'd probably hate me too. The thing is I just need to get this out. I don't care if you don't reply or if you ever talk to me again.
I want you to know that even though I'm mad at the fact that you went to my parents about this. But last night right before going to sleep I thought, maybe it was for the best. But I also realized that I could never stay mad at you.
I'm sorry for blowing up at you when my parents told me I was coming here and when you confessed that you were the one that told them. I'm sorry; I just wish I wouldn't have messed up. I'm sorry for everything that I ever said. I was just really upset.
I hope someday you can find it in your heart to forgive me. I know that may never happen. But when I get out of this hellhole I would like us to be friends. I know we will probably never have a relationship again and I accept that. I mean who would want to be in a relationship with me anyways.
I miss you, take care of yourself. I'm hoping to be out of here by Christmas. I've only been here a week, but yet it seems like I've been here forever. I'm only hopping to spend 4 months here. Maybe I might even be able to get out sooner.
The other reason why I wrote is because I want to say thank you. Thanks for telling my parents. I don't know where I would be right now if you hadn't. Well actually I do, I'd be at Hogwarts for my 7th year. Oh, well if I wouldn't have messed up I probably would've made head girl. That's out the window now though.
If you do decide to reply, please let me know who Head Girl is and who Head Boy is. No matter what, even if we go back to being enemies even though I can hardly see that happening I just want you to know I'll always love you.
With love from the bottom of my heart,
Hermione
When Hermione had finished her letter she got up and went to the front desk. "Would you mind sending this to Draco Malfoy?"
"No problem," the witch at the front desk told her. She picked out an owl and attached the letter to its leg. It was then sent off. "We'll call you if you get a reply."
"Thanks for the help." Hermione then looked around for Amy. Even though she had only been here a week, she felt close to her. "Hey, guess what?"
"What?"
"I just sent a letter to Draco."
"Well that's good," she paused. "Oh yea, I'm supposed to tell you that group got moved back an hour. Seems Claire is having trouble getting here."
"Oh, want to go play some chess?"
"Why not," after Hermione got beat badly at chess the hour was almost over. "We should probably head over to the group room."
"Yea, let's get going." They were the second ones to arrive. Claire was already there. After about 5 minutes, everyone was present.
"Hermione please continue on with your story."
"Well, after our argument Ron just flat out avoided me, Harry told me not to worry about it and that eventually he would come around. Well during that time whenever something went wrong I cut myself.
"One day, it was about 4 months after we'd been really dating Draco came up to me and asked to talk."
Flashback
"Hermione," Draco said one day in the middle of studying.
"What?"
"Well, I don't think we should be together anymore." It felt like my heart had shattered.
"Why?"
"Well, my father, he's a death eater and I don't want you to get hurt. My father wants me to be a death eater too."
"I'm not going to have us break up just because of your father."
"Hermione, I don't want to see you get hurt."
"Hurt! So what do you expect this is going to do to me? Leave me all fine and happy?"
"Well of course not. I just don't want you to die because of me."
"It doesn't matter. I'm staying with you anyways."
"If you get hurt, Potter and Weasley will kill me."
"Draco, I'm not going to let us break up because of this. Do you want to be a death eater?"
"What! No! I just can't get out of it."
"Yes you can, go to Dumbledore."
"No."
"Well fine, but I'm still not leaving you."
"Well what's going to happen after schools out?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, what's going to happen then? We can't be with each other unless it was in secret. My father wants me to marry Hermione, by god I want to marry you but it's impossible."
"We can get through this okay. We just need to think up a plan."
"Hermione, I don't want you getting hurt. My father will kill me and you and I don't want to lost my life and I don't want you to lose yours over me."
"I'm staying with you, so please stop arguing with me."
"Fine, be that way."
End of Flashback
"Every once in a while after that Draco would try to push me to have us breakup I knew that he didn't want to. I wasn't going to let his father stand in the way of the relationship."
"Well Hermione, that's all the time we have for today." As Hermione was walking past the front desk the lady called out to her.
"Dear, you have a letter." Hermione walked over to the desk and was handed her letter. She looked at it for a minute, daring herself to believe it was from him. No it's not. He wouldn't write back. She finally decided to open it. She immediately recognized the handwriting. She was right, it wasn't from him, it was from Harry.
Dear Hermione,
I hope your doing well in treatment. We can't wait to have you back here at Hogwarts. We're hoping you might be able to make it back for Christmas. Things aren't as exciting as they are when you're around. I miss you Hermione, and when you get back it's going to go back to normal. Or as ever normal as it gets around here, I don't have much else to say and Ron really wants to talk to you so. We miss you, hope you get back soon.
Love from,
Harry
Dear Hermione,
I'm sorry for being such an asshole lately. I should have been there when you got sent there. I can understand if you don't forgive me. I was being a jerk. I hope to see you at Hogwarts soon. Please do get better, we all miss you here. We've only seen Malfoy around in classes. He doesn't even come to the Great Hall to eat anymore. Whenever we see him he's always really sulky. Well I hope to see you soon. I miss you Hermione.
Love,
Ron
Hermione practically had tears in her eyes from Ron's letter. She was so glad they were on speaking terms again. She practically skipped down to the study room. She grabbed a sheet of parchment, a quill, and ink.
Dear Ron and Harry,
Its okay, I forgive you Ron. I miss you guys so much. I'm sorry for that when I was with Draco I pushed you guys away. I can't wait to get back to Hogwarts and get out of this place. I'm hoping to be there for Christmas. It's hard here really. In group I'm sharing my story and after I share my story with my group I'm going to get private counseling.
It's been hard living over the whole thing. I get lots of flashbacks at night right before I go to bed. Most of them I just want to push to the back of my brain and never see them again. There about everything in my life. I'm also having dreams to, about you guys, Draco, Hogwarts, and things from when I was little.
There's this girl here, Amy, she's really nice. She's like my only friend here. At night we mostly play wizard chess. It's nothing compared to playing chess with you guys though. I wish I could redo last year and then I wouldn't have gotten myself into this mess. I feel really bad about it too. I mean I just left you guys, not that I had a choice or anything, but it makes me feel really bad. I miss you guys so much that whenever I think about you I almost break down crying. I hope to see you at Christmas.
Love from,
Hermione
Hermione went back to the front desk. "Could you send this letter please?"
"Sure thing," Hermione watched as the owl took flight. "Are you Hermione Granger?"
"Yes."
"Well, I've got another letter here for you." She handed the letter to Hermione. Hermione's heart gave a little flutter. She sat down and ripped it open.
Dear Hermione,
I'm so sorry that I haven't written to you all of your treatment. I don't blame you for what happened. I should have left you more time for your friends. If anyone's to blame it is mostly me. I really hope you get back to Hogwarts soon. I miss you, I can completely understand if we never have the relationship we used to have. But I would really like to be friends with you. I miss you so much, hurry up and get back here.
Love,
Draco
Hermione almost shrieked in joy. Draco didn't hate her; in fact he wanted to be friends with her. She had never felt so happy in her life. Just then Amy came walking by and saw Hermione. "Hey, I've been looking for you," seeing the smile on Hermione's face she continued. "What happened?"
"I got a letter from Draco, and Harry, and Ron!"
"Well that's great, want to play some chess."
"I'm not sure actually. I think I would just rather sit here for a while."
"Oh, ok, I'll see you later then."
"Bye." Hermione sat there until it was dinner time. Amy had to practically drag her out of her seat and into the Cafeteria. Hermione didn't eat much; she just sat there in her own daydreams. After dinner they went to the study room to do their homework. Even though Hermione was away, she intended on being first in her class and being Valedictorian at the end of the school year.
By the time she was done with all her homework she went into the bathroom and took a nice long shower. She had never been this happy in her life before. Not even out of any of the times she had spent with Draco, or any of the adventures that she's had with Ron and Harry. Nothing could compare to this day.
Right before she fell asleep she had another flashback of the day she left for treatment.
Flashback
"Hermione, Ron will come around eventually, it will just take some time."
"I don't know Harry maybe he never will. Maybe he'll hate me forever."
"He will not. Don't even think like that. I'll always be here for you Hermione, forever."
"Harry, I'm going to miss you so much." She engulfed her friend in a hug. "Thank you for standing by me."
"Hey, what are friends for."
End of Flashback
Yes, what are friends for. With that she fell asleep into the first peaceful sleep she'd had in weeks.
A/N Okay so do you like it? Hate it? Please review and tell me what you think. I also have to say this, not all of Hermione's story is going to come out during group. She is going to go to a private counselor after she's done with group. I think I'm going to have her go to her private counselor in about 2 chapters so please be patient. Thanks to all of you that review. You know who you are. I also want to thank silent readers just for reading my story. Please review, it would mean so much to me if you did.