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A/N: Hello everyone! This is chapter Eleven. Put up earlier due to the shortness of my last chapter. This one is thankfully longer so there will be the usual wait before the next chapter.

So without further ado.

Gleaming Knife: Chapter Eleven – The Awakening

As soon as I was allowed in the hospital wing I rushed to Draco's side.

He was still unconscious but that didn't stop me from taking his hand and apologising to his lifeless corpse.

Harry had sat with me as long as he could but needed to get back to the common room before Ron started to worry.

Not long after Harry had left I fell asleep in my chair still clutching Draco's hand.

I awoke only when Madame Pomfrey began to bustle around Draco's bed.

"Miss Granger, don't you think that you should go back to your dormitory and get some sleep there."

"No, I couldn't leave Draco."

"The boy is going to be just fine and he will probably wake in a few hours." The nurse flurried around a bit before turning back to me. "Fine you can stay for a while if you have to."

Then she walked back to her office.

I looked at Draco's pale face.

He looked so deathly pale.

I turned away. I couldn't handle seeing him like this.

"Hemione?"

OOOOOOOO

I opened my eyes. The first thing I saw was Hermione turning her head.

"Hermione?"

She turned back to me staring at me stunned.

I was stunned also. I was meant to be dead. I had thrust a knife into my chest. Why was I at Hogwarts, lying in the hospital wing.

I looked at Hermione.

All other thought was forgotten. She looked at me with a look I would remember for the rest of my life. There were emotions swirling around in her toffee coloured eyes. Anger, sadness, hurt and something else.

Love.

"Draco are you alright?"

"I'm… fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I think so. Just a bit sore."

"Right then."

I looked at her, she was confusing me.

"Draco Malfoy. Don't you ever do that to me or anyone else again. I will kill you! Do you know what I went through, finding you, thinking you were dead, reading your suicide note, realising you were alive, waiting outside the hospital wing, waiting to see if you were going to die or not! And may I also add while we're at it, who the hell confesses their love for someone in their suicide note?"

She was working herself into a tizz. Any second now she was going to get hysterical.

I grabbed her shoulders and sat her back down on the chair.

"I'm sorry to put you through all of that. I didn't expect you to find me, I thought that you wouldn't want anything to do with me after you ended it."

"I'm sorry too."

"What…? Why?"

"I shouldn't have been such a bitch. I shouldn't have ended it with you and made the biggest mistake of my life."

"Hermione, you are not a bitch."

We both sat there sitting in silence. Many emotions were running through me. By the way she had spoken it seemed that she had had second thoughts about ending it with me. I wondered how to find out what was going on with her and Ron. But before I even came up with a plan she answered my question.

"I broke up with Ron." She said looking down at the floor. "I was coming to tell you that I loved you not Ron when I found you."

She kept her eyes on the floor. Obviously not wanting to see my reaction.

"Thank you." I said, she looked up.

"For what?"

"For loving me."

Then I lent forward and claimed her lips with mine in a searing kiss that sent electric shocks through my bones all the way to my fingertips.

I ran my fingers through her hair. Thinking that because of my stupidity I may have never been able to do this again.

"Mr Malfoy! Miss Granger." Came Madame Pomfrey's shrill voice across the hospital wing.

I quickly broke away from Hermione.

"Miss Granger! He is a sick patient. What were you thinking? I think it's about time that you left."

"I'm sorry."

And with one last glance she left the hospital wing.

A/N: Did you like it? I hope you did. Please tell me what you think and review. I love hearing what everyone thinks. I would like to thank the gorgeous reviewers that have previously reviewed and I would like to also thank Lucas and Lynny who read this chapter for me. The next chapter should be the last. I am considering a sequel. Oh and if you want you can check out my other stories, Lovefool and Misunderstood.

So until next time.

Jayne