Author's Note: I've been dragging this story out long enough. This is probably gonna be the next to last chapter. Please forgive me for making it so breif.
Chapter 12: Fallen
"Where do you think you are going?" we heard a voice say. Draco quickly picked me up and shielded me behind him.
"Don't hurt her!" he exclaimed.
The person stood in the shadows. I remembered that I left the knife on the floor and there's no way I could get to it without being seen. I can't believe I was making so many mistakes. I was usually smarter than that.
"I don't have time for this!" the voice said and with a flick of his wand Draco was thrown backwards, knocking me over, and through the window.
"NOOOOOO!" I screamed as I reached out for him, like it would do any good. I caught one last glimmer in his eyes before he fell. All he wanted to do was protect me all this time and now he was possibly dead. A part of me prayed that he wasn't. That he would come back to save me. Highly unlikely.
I ran over to the knife and held it up threateningly at the shadow. With another flick of his wand it was knocked out of my hand. Why was he doing this? I couldn't take it anymore.
"Why don't you quit being a coward and face me like a man!" I said sternly, holding back tears. The figure didn't move for a few seconds and then slowly stepped into the room. I was in such shock that I fell the the floor and started bawling. I just wanted to die. It hurt so bad seeing his face. My best friend. My boyfriend.
"Harry..." I sobbed. "Why! Why!" I mustered to say.
Then I came to my senses. This was never about Draco or wanting to be him. It was about me. Draco was impersonated and so was Harry. That probably explains why Draco heard Harry talking so badly about me. It was the imposter trying to make Harry look bad. Oh my gosh, I was probably with the fake Harry at one point or another. This was INSANE! By now I finally understood. Love makes you do crazy things. Even if it means hurting the people around you and the ones you love. Only one other person wanted to be with me so bad that they would be willing to do anything for me.
"Ron." I said coldly as I looked up at him.
"Finally figured it out did you?" he said smuggly. "Took you long enough."
"How dare you!" I exclaimed as I got up and ran over towards him. I wanted to hurt him so bad. I began hitting him--in his chest, in his face, anywhere to make sure that he felt pain. He pushed me down hard.
"Calm down and let me explain!" he said.
"No! I already know why! You're insane!" I cried out.
"No! I'm not! I love you Hermione and if that meant pretending to be other people so I could be with you, then I did what I had to do!"
"So you are using the polyjiuce potion?" I asked.
"Yes." he admitted. He still looked like Harry and I had to keep reminding myself that he wasn't."I'm not as smart as you, there's no way I could have done anything more powerful."
I was still in shock. Ron was one of my best friends and look what I did to him. Maybe if I hadn't have led him all those years...
"That didn't mean you had to kill Draco!" I yelled.
"He knew too much. He would have turned me in."
"What makes you think I won't."
"Because I'm going to make you love me."
"What do you think they are going to do to you when they find the body?"
"Everyone is asleep and the ones that aren't saw Harry come up here, not Ron. It would make more sense for Harry to have done that because they have been fighting all these years and they're always threatening eachother."
"They'll know it wasn't him. You haven't thought this plan through enough. They're going to catch you!"
He moved toward me and gently stroked my chin, much like Lucious did in the book shop.
"You're very pretty, Hermione." he said. I slapped his hand away and moved away from him.
This wasn't happening. This was crazy. This had to be a dream. No, it hurt too bad to be a dream. I couldn't let Ron hurt me anymore or anyone else for that matter. I was losing my mind and there was only one way out. I slowly started to move towards the window.
"Ron, I'm sorry for what I did to you." I said.
"Sorry! Sorry!" he yelled. "You made me love you and you went out with my best friend! Not only that, but you cheated on him with our worse enemy! You are a conceited whore, Hermione!"
It hurt. Those words hurt me so bad. The old Ron wouldn't have said those words to me. What he's become is a shame. I finally reached the window and quickly climbed on top of it and faced him.
"What are you doing! Get down from there!" Ron ordered.
"At least I'll never be your whore." I said calmly. Then I fell backwards out of the window.
It was so peaceful for those few moments. I could feel the air rushing under me as I looked up to the night sky at the moon. It was the only thing that reminded me of Draco and it was the last thing I wanted to see before I died. But I didn't die. No. Professor McGonnagal saw me fall from her office and quickly used a spell to slow me down. She hurried out to me and took me back to her office and wrapped me up in a warm blanket.
"Now tell me dear child," she said calmly, "Why did you throw yourself out the window!"
I was still so much in shock that I hadn't told her anything. I didn't know where to begin.
"Did you find Draco?" I asked.
"What does he have to do with it?" she asked, when I looked down she got the wrong idea. "Oh no, HE didn't push you out--"
"No! No one pushed me. I had to get away from Ron. He tried to kill Draco! We have to find him!" I jumped up and headed for the door, but she cut me off.
"Your not going anywhere until you tell me what happened."
So I did. I told her everything as accurately as I could. And I mean everything. From the incident on the train compartment to the harassment in the bathroom to what happened in the Heads' Room. She was speechless for a few moments.
"I have to go get the Headmaster. You stay here! I will make sure that no one gets in! DO NOT LEAVE!" she stressed.
A few moments after she left, I just sat there thinking. I was trying to rationalize everything and make it make some kind of sense. How did we all end up like this? We were supposed to be three best friends forever. I never intended to fall for Draco. I tried to avoid it. I think I went out with Harry because I felt guilty about kissing Draco and I thought it would make me stop. I'm such a bad person. I wish I could go back in time and redo everything.
That's it! I'll go back in time and stop myself from ever kissing Draco! That will have to work.
I walked over to the door and tried to open it. It wouldn't budge. This was going to be harder than I thought.
Author's Note: YES! It IS Ron! It was so obvious and no matter how hard I tried to hide it, yall are just oo good. I hope I'm doing ok. This is all coming from the top of my head. I think There will be one more chapter and then it'll be done. I'm kinda scared to end it the way I planned because you will either love it or hate it. Maybe I could make an alternate ending if you don't like the first one...we'll see...Oh and about the whole "headmaster thing" I didn't use Dumbledore's name for obvious reasons, but in the beginning I did. so...I dunno...just ignore it I guess.lol.