Crimson Rain Drops
Chapter 14
Disclaimer: I only own the plot and the characters that obviously aren't in the books.
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Cold as Ice
Hard as Stone
Both believe
They must face this world alone
What happens
When Enemies Meet
All they share; a love of hate
But what they find; they do not seek
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Previously:
Hermione rolled on her side just in time to see Dallis' fist connect with Ryan's jaw.
CRACK!
Ryan groaned in pain as his head was thrown to the side.
"Eva. Go get the first teacher you find. Now" Luke yelled at her running over to help Dallis as Ryan struggled against the hold.
Draco ran to Hermione when he saw that they had Ryan under control and he had stunned Teresa
"It will all be ok. I promise" he whispered to her as he put her head in his lap, stroking her hair back. There was so much blood.
If there's a God in Heaven, she'll be ok.
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The worst is over now and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
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Eva ran threw the door open, Dumbledore, Snape and Pomfrey all in tow.
"Is she ok? Lord, please, please, tell me she's ok" Eva's tears finally began to fall.
Pomfrey ran straight to Hermione's side as Professors Dumbledore and Snape ran over to help Luke and Dallis. Not that they needed it. Ryan was almost unconscious now anyway.
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'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
You've gone away
You don't feel me here anymore
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Pomfrey began to treat Hermione's major wounds right there. Hermione felt as some of the bones started to fall back into place and some of the open wounds closed up.
"Hermione, you'll be just fine. I promised to protect you, to keep you alive and I'll keep you alive. I don't care if it kills me" Draco swore as he saw her eyes start to roll back.
"Mia, I'm so sorry" was the last thing she heard leave Draco's lips as the blackness silently kissed her, pulling her into it's own world.
All three Professors and the three friends surrounded Draco and Hermione as Draco shed his first tears since he was little. Only one thing caught they're attention
"Hermione, we just thought we would drop your birthday gift off…oh my god" all 7 heads turned to the open door to see Harry and Ron standing there, frozen in shock.
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Draco sat, looking at the pale face of Hermione, just willing her to move, to open her eyes, to say something. There was nothing though. Hermione hadn't moved since she was brought in here three days earlier.
Only the day before had he realized that the bond between them was broken. There was no longer a physical link between them, yet he just couldn't leave her alone here. Ryan was in pretty rough condition still but he would live. All he had was a broken jaw but that would heal with the proper amount of time. They had left yesterday.
He just couldn't wrap his mind around this. The fact that Hermione, this creature that had done little to deserve what she got was on the verge of dying right this moment, while her parents were walking free.
Luke had seemed to be avoiding coming in as much as he could. Eva and Dallis were there every second they got. Even Harry and Ron had been by a few times. Luke though, Luke seemed to just come at mandatory times, making sure to stop by for no more then 5 minutes two times a day.
Draco looked back down at the angelic face of Hermione. She looked so innocent, just lying there. It was because of this that she looked so eerie though. Hermione Granger wasn't innocent, not really. The peaceful air that was about her was the scariest aspect of all. She was way to peaceful. All they needed her to do was a move a finger to tell them that she would be fine.
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Luke looked down at the book he had open in his lap, pretending to read it. Not a single word he had read was making sense though. All he wanted to do was go and see Mia but every time he was there it was all he could do not to let all the tears he had been holding back, fall.
This wasn't supposed to happen. Someone was supposed to watch over her at all times. That was just a given. How could Draco just let her go with them, knowing exactly what they were going to do? Luke just couldn't understand why he would let this happen.
He ran his hand through his blond hair and rubbed his navy eyes. He was exhausted but every time he tried to sleep, all he could see was a picture of Hermione laying on the floor in a puddle of her own blood.
He jumped slightly as a hand rested on his shoulder. Looking up, he saw Eva standing there, a worried expression on her face.
"Luke, what's wrong with you?"
"What do you mean? Nothing's wrong" he jerked out of her grip.
"You know what I mean. Our best friend is in there, basically dying and your sitting here reading" she cried at him, built anger and frustration starting to show through.
"What do you want me to Eva? Do you have any suggestions, because I'm out of ideas. I don't know what I'm supposed to do anymore. She wouldn't even be in there if we hadn't pushed so hard for her to start hanging out with Malfoy more. If it hadn't been for him she wouldn't have been in there on her own"
"Don't do this. it's not our fault. Its not ever his fault. Did it ever cross your mind that maybe, just maybe, it doesn't have anything to do with any of us? That maybe they could not have stopped this from happening? Did it even occur to you that, without Draco being around, Hermione would've been lost a long time ago?"
"Hermione would've been lost a long time? But, how? Nothings wrong with her! With us around, she would've been just fine"
"Luke, sweetie, you are in denial. Look at it from Mia's point of view. In her eyes, we have next to no problems. Draco's lived like she has. Draco knows what its like to live the way she has had to"
Luke looked up at her, meeting her eyes for the first time since Eva had walked in. "I know Eva. I just cant get that picture out of my head. She's so far away and all I want to do is grasp the smallest part of her to pull her back to us" he chewed his lip a little, getting up to look out the window
"I know sweetie" Eva wrapped her arms around her brother. "I know you want to, but its not up to us anymore. All we can do now is let her know that we're here for her whenever she decide to come back"
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Hermione floated farther and farther away, accepting the fate she knew lay ahead. All she had to do was wait for life to release her from hits clutches.
She knew why life wouldn't let her go though. She couldn't let her friends go and they couldn't say goodbye to her. Why was she tempted to let it all go though? Why did she want so badly to just say good bye to this life and start a new one, one where she couldn't remember anything?
Hermione stared into the blackness. That's all it was, blackness. You could see nothing, but you could feel everything. Every touch, every breath of air, every word someone breathed into her ears, she could feel.
All she saw though, was an endless hole and she knew then that she had little time to make this decision.
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Harry looked over at Ron. They stood in the door of the hospital wing, watching Draco sit there beside Hermione.
"Why Harry? Why is it him sitting there with her, trying to bring her back, and not us? We should be the ones sitting there. We should've been the ones to save her from her father and bring her here. You and I are the ones the are supposed to be there for her. So why aren't we?"
"Ron, this wasn't a decision that we made. It was hers. We just couldn't face that she had life outside of us. That she had problems just as we did and still do. Hermione was perfect in our world. We didn't even really notice her personality changes" Harry moved his eyes back to the scene in front of him, focusing on keeping his breathing as steady as possible. "I have a question for you Ron. One that I don't even know the answer to. Do you know what has taken place in her life out side of us and her parents over the last couple of years?"
Ron looked dumbfounded for a second. "Honestly Harry? No, I have no clue. I've been so wrapped up in my own life, that I forgot Hermione needed friends to. That Hermione Granger was more then just a homework helper and good listener. I quite literally forgot that under her brains, there was a real person there"
Harry shook his head and sort of laughed. "Just think, all this time we have wasted on ourselves, while our best friend has been slowly wasting away. And we couldn't figure out why she left us"
Harry met Ron's eyes. "We screwed Ron, and now we may never have a chance to fix it"
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Dallas sat back and watched the world around him slowly become unravelled.
His best friend was sitting next to a bed of a girl that he had claimed to hate for so long. Now he had tears in his eyes at the thought of actually losing her.
Luke had become silent. Saying only what he needed to. His source of greatest enjoyment was laying on a bed, and no one knew if she would ever come back. Dallas saw how carefully Luke avoided the hospital wing. Then he just disappeared for hours on end.
Eva spent all her spare time in the hospital wing with Hermione, just talking to her. When she wasn't there, she was comforting someone or catching up on her homework. Dallas couldn't recall if they had even had an actual conversation since The Incident.
Dallas' world was collapsing around him, but there wasn't anything he could do about it. All he could do was sit back and watch it all happen. He knew everything would fall back into place, but he also knew that nothing would happen the way they all wanted it to.
The deciding factor on what exactly would take place would be put in the unconscious hands of Hermione Granger, and there was nothing they could do to change the out come of the decision that she made. The only thing left to do now was watch and wait and just pray that she would make a good choice.
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Hey Guys!
Sorry this took so long!! I've been so busy with school, work and volunteering that I've barely had time to even turn my computer on! I just had time to basically get a few paragraphs here and there written in an incredibly boring class.
So I hope that this was worth the wait. And I'll try and have the next chapter as soon as possible. I have a 4.5 day weekend coming up, so I hope that I'll have another chapter done.
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