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They walked around the castle in silence. No one spoke; no one glanced, neither paid attention to the other. They both knew the route like the back of their hand. After the situation in the library Hermione didn't think she could actually find a voice to speak with. Draco was annoyed at her, at himself. He let his guard down, he showed her that her cared even the slightest bit. They wondered deep in thought, silent, and annoyed. But hey, it's a routine science for these two.
After about an hour and a half of finding no rule breaking students and seeing nothing out of place the silence was broken.
"I think we can turn in for the night." Hermione looked at Draco as if he had five heads. Turning in early for Hermione was an insane idea. She would never abandon her duty like that.
"But we're not finished."
"Granger. It's 11:36 PM. I'm tired, please let's just turn around and go back to the common room." They never stopped walking the path they were going down. Hermione ignored his request and they continued walking in silence. When suddenly Hermione stopped. She grabbed Draco's arm to stop him. She put her finger to her lips in a silencing motion so he wouldn't yell. Then motioned for him to listen to the sounds coming from a room a few feet away from her. They walked over to the door and listened quietly.
Hermione made a face of disgust when she heard lip smacking and groans. Draco was smiling at the face she was making. "What, Granger, never got laid before?"
The look on her face was pure horror. "Don't talk about what you don't know." He looked at her with a hint curiosity. "Now open the door and stop them!"
"Wow. Hermione Granger doesn't want bust rule breakers. Woe is me!"
She flipped him the bird. Smirking he moved to the door and she moved closer, so close that he could feel her breath on the back of his neck. He suddenly threw open the door, with Hermione hiding her eyes behind him. "Brown? Weasley?"
Hermione shoved Draco aside when she heard Ron's last name. "What?" She gasped in shock at the sight before her. Ron was trying to cover a topless Lavender and retrieve his pants at the same time. All Hermione saw was red. She wasn't the least bit jealous no she was pissed. For the past four months Ron had made her life a living hell. He had put her through so much that no one knew about, and then he had the audacity to cheat on her. She lost all rhyme or reason; she lost all sense and sensibility. All she had at this moment was a hell of a lot of pent up anger that was ready to come out.
Lavender was muttering apologies and 'she didn't know's. Honestly, Hermione wasn't mad at Lavender, it was Ron's fault. All Ron's fault. "You asshole. You bastard. There are no words that I can call you that justify what you are." Her voice was calm, calm in a way that could scare anyone. She couldn't yell, she was too angry for that. She slowly moved toward him as he finished buckling his pants. "I can't even believe you. How dare you? How dare you think that you could bloody get away with this?" He tried to speak but she cut him off. "No! No apologies, no sorries, no excuses, no fucking reason!"
She removed her wand from her robes and turned to Lavender. Lavender was crying hysterically and then some when Hermione pointed her wand at her. "Go to the Gryffindor Tower. You go and you stay there and you tell no one, absolutely no one, what happened. Understand?" Lavender nodded and ran from the room, she was scared shitless of Hermione. Who wouldn't be?
When Lavender left, Draco who had been watching with a great deal of interest shut and blocked the door. Hermione turned her attention to Ron. He was trying to think of something to say, but Hermione silenced him with a spell. "For once you're the one who's going to listen. You almost killed me. You beat me with in an inch of my life and I forgave you! I fucking forgave you! Then you continued to treat me like shit and act as if I was your punching bag. Five months! I let you get away with this. I felt sorry for you! I thought it was your way of dealing Ginny's death. I defended you. I lied for you. I thought you lost your mind. No! You were just some mind controlling abusive asshole looking for a good shag!"
Hermione removed the Concealing Charms she had place on herself. When Ron attempted to look away she slapped him. "Look at me! You did this."
Ron was shaking his head in shock and, maybe, remorse. He had never seen his after affects on Hermione. She always hid them well. Even though she was in a rage, Hermione held her composure, always calm and thorough. "Look at me. Look long and hard. You did this to me. The one you loved. I made excuses for you. And you destroyed me!" She slapped him again. "I was everything you told me to. I did everything you said to do." Another back hand as he tried to look away. "You fucking cheated on me. You beat me and then you cheated on me."
Her composure was lost. Hermione slapped, punch, kicked, and spit on every part of Ron she could get a hold of. All the while screaming at how much of a piece of shit he was. Tears were streaming down her face in anger and in heartbreak. She realized she lost her once best friend. Now she hated him and his every being.
Draco who would have honestly paid a great deal of money to see this particular event decided to intervene. Part of Draco knew he should just let her kill him, but that was inhuman, on his part. And remember, he's trying to redeem himself. Slowly, he walked behind Hermione and grabbed her by the waist and pulled her away. She screamed like a banshee. Clawing at his hands trying to make him let her go.
"Weasley, I suggest you disappear before I decide to let her finish what you started." Ron glared at Draco, but quickly left the room. Hermione had calmed down. She was still crying and hiccupping in distress as Draco held her. He picked her up in his arms and carried her bridal style over to a chair in the back of the room. He sat down on it and placed her in his lap. Now she was regaining her breath and only hiccupping every once and a while. She rested her head on his shoulder, as she stared off into space trying to fix this mess she had gotten herself into.
"Feel better?" She snapped back to reality.
"Yeah, actually. I feel a lot better." He smiled a genuine smile.
He caressed her bruised cheek with his index finger. "Do you want me to heal it completely?"
She huffed with frustration. "I told you I already tried."
"And I'm telling you, your father wasn't a Malfoy." Draco knew what it felt like to be beaten. It hurt like a mother- well it hurt. After years of being bruised and broken so many nights, Draco started looking for ways to heal his pain. As the beatings got stronger, he found more powerful healing spells. He liked to think of himself as a professional healer without a degree.
She looked at him with sympathy. "Thank god, or what happen would have been extremely gross." He laughed.
"So is that a yes?" She nodded her permission. "It might hurt a little."
"I think I can hack it."
When Draco said the spell, Hermione gasped in pain. But it quickly subsided and she felt better than she had in a while.
"Thank you." Was whispered quietly. Hermione was feeling weird about sitting on his lap, but at the same time it was incredibly comfortable. Draco, who had been watching her, saw the confusion in her eyes. He decided to have fun with her for a little bit. And maybe make her forget Weasley.
A/N: I don't even know how long it's been since I updated. Anyway, about this chapter. I love Ron, I really do. This personality in this is just because I felt he fit the part. And now I regret killing off Ginny, cause sometimes I forget that she's no longer available and I write her into a scene and then I'm like "shit!".
If you guys read the story at all, could you please give me some kind of opinion? I really like getting reviews. They make me happy.
And, updating is going to be scarce for a bit. My mom recently had a heart attack and she needs a lot of help. So don't think I'm abandoning the story, I just have work and everything else to do.
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