Missing
Draco wasn't there when I woke up. Draco wasn't there when I left, Draco…wasn't there the whole next week of school. What do you expect when you break your own rules.
I went to see Ginny; I needed her. We sat on her dorm floor putting a crib together. She had been giving her own room.
""Any word from him?""
I shook my head.
""I guess that's what guys are good at, right -- disappearing?""
""Thank God your okay.""
""Yea.""
She was getting emotional, ""I could have lost you, Hermione. You could have died.""
""No fair, you're not allowed to get all upset after the fact. I'm okay, Gin.""
But I couldn't hold it in anymore. For a moment I lost my cool.
""Except for…I mean…can you ever really trust anybody? Ever? I refuse to…shit!""
We hugged. Letting my emotions show, the fall out from everything that happened since New Year's Eve rushing over me.
It was a bright, sunny, winter day. Ginny helped me, my arm was still in a cast. She had popped out quite a bit, or had at least stopped hiding her growing belly.
I passed Draco's locker, and saw he still wasn't back.
That night I lay in bed and heard a sound. I stood and looked out, half expecting Draco. It was just a tree.
And then…
I was in the corridor one afternoon, during a break, looking out the window. I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned to see Draco, smiling at me.
""I'm back.""
I didn't say anything. He tried to hug me, I stiffened, barley turning to look at him.
""I thought of you every second of every minute of every place I went,"" he said sincerely.
""You really don't get it, do you?"" I said as I turned toward him.
""If you think you can come back and I'll just pick up where we left off, then you really don't know me at all.""
I started.
""And I'm really not in the mood to wait for you to grow the hell up.""
I left. Leaving him alone.
Two nights later I sat by the dam he had brought me to, alone. Watching the rushing water fall.