Hermione
felt consciousness sweep over her; the first thing she felt was the
lack of pain. She couldn't put her finger on it in her
sleepy-state, but she knew this was the most comfortable she had been
in weeks. She flickered her eyes open so that they were met with the
scene of a large, lilac room with white Muslim curtains. The room
felt cosy, she looked down and saw that she was lying in a bed with a
thick duvet cover over her. There was an empty bed against the side
adjacent to hers and a door on the wall opposite and another door on
the remaining wall.
Hermione brought her hand from under cover up
to her face, it was clean! She couldn't feel a trace of blood. Her
hair was still knotted, but felt cleaner than before as she ran her
hand through it. She decided to try and step out of bed, she pulled
the duvet cover back to realise she was wearing lilac baggy pajamas.
Smiling to herself she wondered over to the window, which was by the
side of the other bed, and wrenched opened the curtains to expose
floods of light, drenching the room in white.
Suddenly, she heard
the handle of a door go. She whizzed around and saw a man immersing
from the one opposite her bed.
"I thought you were never
going to wake up, lazy bones." Sirius said, playfully chucking
his towel he was just using to dry his hair at her.
She caught it
and smiled, Sirius had obviously just emerged from the shower, he had
dark jeans on with no top, his dark hair was damp and fell about his
face. His face was undeniably good-looking, his smile seemed to light
up the world.
"Sirius! What's happened? Where are we? Where's
Harry, have you spoken to him? Are you alright, I remember your
wounds!" All these anxieties suddenly burst out of Hermione all
at once at the sight of Sirius, her good friend.
"Hermione,
"He said softly, "Its ok, we are at Grimauld place. I
haven't spoken to Harry yet, I have not been downstairs, I wanted
to wait for you. And I am fine; it seems that whilst we've been
asleep they have healed our wounds for us too. Although I think that
scratch might leave a pretty scar on your cheek there." He said,
bringing his hand up to his own cheek to indicate where it was.
Hermione felt it with her hand; she felt she had a deep on her cheek
just in line with her cheekbone.
"I feel like I've slept for
days. We will go and see Harry soon, just let me have a shower and I
will be right with you." she said nodding her head,
understanding his need to see him. She walked up to the door Sirius
was standing by, and as she walked past, Sirius reached out for her
hand. He looked her in the eye and paused.
"We made it
Hermione. We are back home."
