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"Harry, this is no time to be a gentleman! Knock her off her broom if you have to!"
-Oliver Wood
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Chapter might contain scenes that other readers find disturbing
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Chapter 8 - Draco's Past explained
"How did you sleep?" Hermione asked the next morning as she walked into Draco's dark bedroom.
"Fine, you?" he lied. He didn't sleep at all. He and Hermione went straight to bed the night before and didn't have a chance to talk.
"Ok, slept better than I would if I had got home and you weren't here" she said making her self comfy on Draco's bed "No classes today" she gloomily said
"Why?"
"Something about Peeves and the Grey Lady"
"Old Peeves causing trouble for Ravenclaw?" Draco asked while trying to prop himself up against his pillows so he could see Hermione better, which he regretted because he was really sore all over
"Something like that" she said looking away from him "Listen Draco, I'm really sorry"
"Don't be Hermione, I told you its my fault"
"How can it be yours?"
"I followed you"
"Only because I told you what Max was like"
"Ok, if you want me to blame you I will" he laughed, Hermione looked at him and laughed too.
"Seriously though, thank you wanting to look after me" she said
"No problem, I just have a problem with violence"
"Yeah, I wanted to ask about that, what did you mean last night?"
"About Lucius, me and mum?"
"Yeah"
"He use to beat my mum all the time when I was growing up. Never left her alone. He killed her in the end"
"I'm sorry"
"He use to just beat her for no reason, I had a sister once you know, well two actually"
"Really" she said sadly
"I had a older sister, mum called her Gypsy, mum said she was the spitten' image of her, but then again so I am, we all seem to be in my family." Hermione smiled "She would have been 23 now"
"What happened?"
"She was born when mum was in 7th year she was only 17 when she gave birth to Gypsy, Lucius had been out of school for 3 years before then. When Lucius found out it was a girl he took her away from my mum and killed her, not the first time he used a Avada Kedavra on someone, but the first on his own flesh and blood"
"I never knew"
"Not many did, mum told me in secret, my other sister was born when I was 5, she was still born"
"Oh"
"Lucius admitted feeding mum poison and it killed my little sister, mum said Lucius said that it was a good job he gave her the poison since it was a girl. After that mum couldn't have any more children, even though she would have loved another, if only a boy to please Lucius"
"Did your younger sister have a name?" she asked interested
"Emily, mum named her that"
"Its lovely, so is Gypsy"
"I thought so too. After I started school he started to beat me just because of you" Draco spat and turned away from Hermione, he really didn't know if he sould have told her that, but he did.
"Me?"
"Because he cant have a muggle born besting his only son and heir in studies"
"I see"
"Yeah. Every year when the exam results came back, know how all the parents get a list of the top ten" Hermione nodded "Draco Malfoy...second place to Hermione Granger, the same every year"
"I didn't know he beat you because of that"
"He did, killed my mum because of it too" Draco looked at Hermione's outraged and upset face "she tried to get him to stop laying into me, but he wouldn't, after he beat me he turned on her and beat her because she interfered with 'bonding session' as he so nicely put it"
"I'm really sorry" Hermione said as tears ran down her face "Its all my fault" she cried
"Its ok, it's not your fault, you didn't know and you are a better witch than me...probably because I'm a wizard," they both laughed. Hermione sniffed and wiped the tears out of her eyes "I'm over it now, still miss her, always will but I don't for one minute miss him" Draco said "Come here" he pulled Hermione into a hug as she started to cry again.
"I was so pleased the day he died, I told him at his funeral that I would never let my kids go see his grave, my mothers of course but never my fathers" Hermione smiled and tried to imagine Draco having children, she didn't know if it was a good thing or not, part of that analysis made her want to laugh out loud but she didn't. As she continued to think about Draco having children, no matter how funny the thought was (to her he didn't exactly seem the type, he loved to torment and tease first years) she couldn't help but feel her heart warming to Draco more and more.
"Lucius would have liked Max" she spoke softly
"How come?" Draco asked
"Because Max once killed someone"
"How?"
"Nothing like your father, he just put people in hospital by beating them and threatening them not to call the police. He once ran someone over because he had been drinking"
"Did you know the person?"
"Yeah, my friend, he was one of our best friends when we were growing up too"
"Was it a accident?"
"Looked that way, but he had been drinking"
"Sorry"
"Its ok, what's done is done"
"Thank you for telling me this" she said
"That's ok, I had to tell someone how I felt. Fancy some lunch?" Draco asked listening to her stomach
"I do"
"Lets go get some"
"Are you ok going like that, I can heal it for you" she offered
"I'm fine, ill tell people I got into a fight with a rouge school broom and lost, besides the swelling has gone down"
"The great Draco Malfoy admitting he got beat by a broom" she laughed making her way into the common room
"After been turned into a rat"
"Ferret" she corrected, enjoying the memory
"Whatever" he laughed taking her hand that she offered "in fourth year, and a slug in fifth, a rouge broom wont be damaging to my reputation any time soon" they both laughed and left their private common room and headed to the great hall for some much needed lunch.
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