Crimson Rain Drops
Chapter 16
Disclaimer: I only own the plot and the characters that obviously aren't in the books.
I only own the plot and the characters that obviously aren't in the books.&&&&
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:
Luke broke the gaze with Dallis. He couldn't look him in the eyes anymore. Everything he said was just so true. No matter how hard he prayed each night for it to be false, it was now and forever true.
"Cade, what the hell am I supposed to do if she leaves? Answer that for me. I understand you but now you have to understand me. You know how I feel about her. You know that I love her as more than just my sister"
A silence settled itself around the three as they just stood there.
"Guys. . . " Eva whispered when she saw Dallas get ready to say something else to Luke.
"Wait, I just want to. . . "
"Dallis" she commanded in a low whisper again.
"Eva, I want to hear what. . ."
"Luke" she gave him a warning. Both boys attention now on her she motioned through the open portrait hole. Neither had noticed that they had reached it or that she had opened it but they gasped silently as their eyes fell upon what she was motioning to.
Draco Malfoy was on the floor, his back leaned against the couch. He held something in his hand. It was what appeared to be a dagger, but that's not what caught their eye.
For the first time in history, an actual human being witnessed something they didn't think was possible.
Draco Malfoy was crying
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Draco looked at the blade in his hand and the blood trickling down in arm. His face felt so warm as the tears trailed down his normally pale cheeks. He couldn't quite recall what, exactly, had brought on the tears.
Later, he would not even be able to recall them stopping at all. Nor would he be have the memories of what all took place in the following few minutes.
At this exact moment though, he didn't care about any of that. All that was on his mind, is what had resided there for days now. There was a girl laying in a hospital bed, close to death and she's what tormented his mind right at that very moment. This girl that he loved yet hated at the same time.
How could he have betrayed her? He broke the promise he made to her and he couldn't take it back.
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Eva, Luke and Dallis stood and observed the scene before them.
Why on earth was Draco Malfoy crying? What had caused this cold-hearted jerk to lose control? And what was he holding in his hand?
Eva walked in the room causally, not wanting to surprise him. She touched his shoulder lightly.
"Draco?" she whispered
His eyes flew up and met hers. "What are you doing here? Who's with Hermione?"
"Don't worry, Harry and Ron promised to stay there while we came to check on you" she told him, her voice a soothing tone.
He nodded mutely and dropped his eyes back down.
Eva glanced down to see what he held in his hand and noticed a blade. A blade with blood on it. She had not noticed it before, but now the free-flowing blood was rather apparent to her.
"Oh my god" she breathed
"Eva, is there something wrong? Did you finally clue into the fact that I have imperfections?" Draco drawled, distain and sarcasm dripping from his voice.
Eva kneeled in front of him and reached for the blade. "Draco, give me the blade."
Draco let out little laugh. "Why? So you can use it as black mail against me? I don't think so. Besides, why should it matter if I die or not? I mean, my reason for living is currently dying on a hospital bed and she's been gone so long that I don't think she will come back to us, she'll give up just like she does with everything else. Take the easy road."
"You don't know that. She is so strong and powerful. So much confidence in everything she does. Who can say that she wont come back to us?"
"She's weak. So weak. Too many emotions sit inside her, stewing. She wont get back at anyone for anything they do to her. Jesus, she refuses to even tell anyone about her problems. I bet you one hundred galleons, though, that I know more about her than you do. Not from speaking to her, or living around her, just from being the same way myself" He brought his gaze briefly away from the blade and met her gaze.
"Your eyes, they are nothing in comparison to hers. Nothing compares to her" The tears still streamed down his cheeks, but no one in the room noticed.
Luke looked at Draco a mixture of horror and sadness in his face. Dallas looked between the three, trying to decide who would be the first one to snap.
"Draco, please, just give me the blade. We already have one best friend in the hospital, we don't need two" Eva pleaded with him.
"You want the blade that bad? Fine" He lifted his arm and threw it sideways across the room. It traveled right down the middle of the gap between Dallas and Luke, as both watched in horror. The knife cut into the wall and stuck there. Draco shrugged and looked at Eva, "Not bad. Now go get it if you really want it that bad. I've betrayed the trust of enough people in my life, one more isn't going to make a difference"
Eva got up off the floor and gracefully walked over to the wall. As she reached to pull it out, she saw something that she wished wasn't there.
On the handle of the otherwise plain knife, two letters were carved. She started to shake uncontrollably.
"Surprised Cade? Did the reality of it all finally hit you?" Draco glared at her. "So ignorant. Even of someone you claim as your best friend. Yet, even after she tells you something or you hear something accidentally, you're so trusting of her that you think that she would just stop. Stupid. Really, that's all you guys amount to"
He shook his head, got up and stormed out of the room, making sure to slam the door behind him.
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Something started to creep over Hermione as she stared it the darkness. She started to feel cold, tired and sad. Only thing was, this was the first real feeling she had had in a long time.
This wasn't right though. Something just didn't fit. It didn't feel like her emotions. She felt like she was living someone else's emotions, while she floated in the middle of the true reality and her own reality.
Hermione was sure that she would collapse if this didn't go away soon. Only problem, she had nothing to collapse on to. It didn't go away though. In fact, everything just seemed to get worse. Anger began to take over the sadness and she could feel it getting closer and closer to her heart.
A door slammed open and yelling filled the room.
"Get the hell out of here you two. I have something to say to her" Draco yelled at Harry and Ron, who quickly obliged, not really wanting to fight with him with Hermione right next to them.
Draco looked down at the white face of Hermione. She had looked angelic, but now all he saw when he looked at her was a quitter. She was willing to rid herself of the world without so much as a thought about them. Well, he had full intentions of changing that frame of mind.
"Get up you bitch. You're fine and you know it. Hermione Granger, you have been nothing but fine for the last three years. You just sit around and wallow in self pity" he raged at her. "I went through the same thing as you and do you see me sitting around, just trying to block out the world? No, because I got over it. I got to the point of just accepting that it would happen every time I went home and would continue to be that way until I was perfect enough for my father or my father was dead, whichever came first."
He ran a hand through his hair, which hung loose around his face. He hadn't noticed that Eva, Luke and Dallas had followed him. Or that Harry and Ron had never actually left the wing. You think that he might of noticed that most every student that was passing by had stopped at the sound of yelling and he now attracted half the school. No, all he could see was the girl laying in front of him.
&&&Lie here
Forget the world outside
All that matters
Is that you come in with the tide
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"Now listen and listen good. Get your ass out of that bed now and come back into the real world. Enter a reality that you have not lived in for a long time. Come back to a place where you are truly happy. Just come back to us. Forget your father and your mother and anyone you know has hurt you to a point where you became a hollow shell of someone who was once Mia Granger. If you come back, there will be no casualties in this inner war, but if you leave me forever, just know that you'll not only kill yourself, you will kill the soul of anyone who even remotely cares about you" Draco had tears rolling down his cheeks again. Tears of sadness, anger and of things left unsaid for too long.
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Because of you
I died years away
Stay away from the world
And you'll not be the one to pay
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"Hermione Granger, just please, come back to us. Come back to me" Draco dropped his voice down to a faint whisper.
"Hermione, Mia, just please, open your eyes and tell me you are going to be okay. I love you too much to let you go for good" Draco leaned over and placed a small kiss on her forehead.
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I promise you
To make you stay there
Never spoken words
Might actually make you care
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Hermione heard him, heard every word he said. She wanted so bad to go to him. To let him know that she didn't want to go but also to let him know, she really didn't want to stay.
She felt something begin to pull at her, but she struggled with it. She hadn't made her final decision yet. Not in her head or in her heart.
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Please come closer
Push me farther
Just remember my love
With each day spent without my father
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Draco looked at her, praying she had heard it all and that she would make the right decision.
Hermione felt warmness start to replace the cold as her soul settled in its new home.
The crowd watched the scene in front of them intently. Each and everyone of them wanted to know what he whispered to her. Most of all, they wanted to know if what Draco said worked.
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You want what you got
I want what didn't leave
Prayers go out
Maybe there wasn't time to grieve
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Draco watched her eyes, waiting to see those brown orbs reappear…
…and that's exactly what they did.
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Hey guys
I hope that this chapter was completely worth the wait! I came up with the idea at work and just went with it. I have no idea when the next chapter will be coming out but I do hope that its soon
The bolded is a poem of mine. I have no name for it yet, but I will let you know
And a huge thanks to A) my beta and b) all of my ever patient readers. I love you all!!
L&H
Pure Mudblood