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Chapter 3: Nurse Malfoy
"Ohh," Hermione groaned as she sat up and rubbed the sore spot on her head. She remembered grabbing onto the portkey with Malfoy in Dumbledore's office before she landed here… wherever here was. Unfortunately for Hermione she didn't land on her feet. Instead she landed lying down. Her head had banged against the ground knocking Hermione out cold. As Hermione reached up and felt where her head hurt she realized how bad it really was. There was a huge bloody wound where her head had collided with what Hermione now realized to be a rock.
Tied around Hermione's head where her wound was, was a strip of what looked to be a Hogwarts cloak.
Looking around her surroundings Hermione saw that she was in what she thought was the dead center of a very large forest. Around her were trees, lots and lots of trees. There were also bushes and some areas of grass amongst the dirt and rocks. Malfoy was nowhere in sight.
Where did he go? Hermione thought to herself.
As if on cue Malfoy came walking from amongst the trees. When he reached Hermione he sat down next to her. In his hand was his spare cloak. It had been used as a bag. Malfoy opened it up to reveal all sorts of berries. He started to eat some of them.
"Malfoy?" asked Hermione awkwardly.
"Granger," he responded coolly.
"Did you do this?" she asked pointing up at the piece of cloth around her head.
"You were bleeding so I bandages up the wound and went to look for food. You've been out for awhile." Malfoy told her still munching on the berries.
"Yeah, well thanks," Hermione said to him.
Malfoy just acknowledged what she said with a nod of the head.
"Here," he said gesturing to the food he'd gathered. "We still have to make shelter before the sun sets."
Hermione looked up at the sky. The sun was slowly lowering. Within a few hours it would be night. Hermione began to eat what Malfoy had gathered. For the next couple of minutes the two ate in a comfortable silence. Hermione just couldn't help but wonder why Malfoy had helped her.
Back at Hogwarts Professor Dumbledore sat at his mahogany desk. Fawkes was resting on Dumbledore's arm as he stroked the red and gold phoenix. In front of Dumbledore's desk was a basin shaped bowl with water in it. Dumbledore peered into it and saw Malfoy and Hermione. Whet Malfoy and Hermione didn't know was that Dumbledore would be watching them from time to time to check up on their progress. Dumbledore would check up on the other groups too, but for the time being he wanted to be sure that neither Malfoy or Hermione killed the other.
Inside the bowl Dumbledore saw Malfoy and Hermione land after the portkey had brought them to their destination. Hermione landed violently as her head smashed against the ground knocking her out. Malfoy had landed on his feet and once he saw Hermione he ran over to her. Carefully, Dumbledore saw, he ripped a piece of his sleeve off and carefully cleaned the wound. He then ripped off another piece and tied it around her head. For the next half hour or so Malfoy sat silently by Hermione checking every once and awhile to see if the wound had stopped bleeding. Dumbledore continued to watch the two until Hermione regained consciousness. Once Dumbledore was sure that everything was under control he put the basin back into one of his cabinets.
"Yes," Dumbledore whispered silently to Fawkes who was still perched on his arm. "Yes, maybe there is hope after all."
A/N: Thanks sooooo much to anyone who reviewed it was much appreciated. Sorry for the short chapter. The next one should be longer. I will hopefully update around every two weeks. This chapter would have been up much sooner but the computer was getting fixed and I had so much stuff to do with band, band night, Tae Kwon Do, soccer and like a million other things. Anyways please review! Just push the button! Until the next time,
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