Chapter 15. I bet you're wondering what the hell is going on with Draco, huh? Well, you're going to find out in a few… I liked your reviews a lot…keep doing that….Lol…I don't got nothing else to say so read the story.

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Chapter 15: Another Flashback and The Question

Draco was walking down the hall back to his dorm. It was the middle of the night and he had a massive headache. He reached his dorm, knocked twice, gave the password and entered. He walked in and saw the window was open on the other side of the room. His first thought was Hermione.

"Hermione!" he yelled while running up to her room. There was no one there.

"Hermione!" he yelled again, this time heading for his room. He pushed open the door and saw the horrifying scene before him. Hermione was still tied to the backboard of his bed and there was blood everywhere. She wasn't awake, but still had tears pouring down her face. She wasn't wearing any clothes, but Draco didn't even notice. He walked towards her and figured out the counter spell that was holding her wrists. He pulled her down easily so she was laying flat. She apparently awoke in the process of this.

She whimpered at the sight of him and closed her eyes shut, as if waiting for him to hit her.

"Hermione?" she whimpered again, she was definitely in shock, as was he.

"Don't hurt me anymore, please, don't." she cried.

"Hermione I-"he cut himself off," Anymore? Hermione, I never hurt you, what happened?" She didn't answer him.

"Hermione…" he reached out his hand and touched her. She flinched at his touch. At the touch of her, Draco remembered what happened and saw it flash before his eyes.

Flashback

Draco was walking behind everyone else out of the Great Hall. He saw Hermione up ahead of him walking with her friends, but saw her turn down the corridor. He automatically started walking towards her when he suddenly felt a blow to the head. He felt to the ground…hard.

Draco's body was on the ground, but now he could see who hit him. Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy. He could hear them cackling as Lucius pulled out one of Draco's hairs and put it in a small glass of what looked like goo in a cup.

Polyjuice Potion, Draco thought. He saw his father take the form of his own body. Lucius and Narcissa split up, while Lucius followed Hermione, Narcissa went the opposite way. Draco followed his father. Draco saw him swing Hermione around and kiss her. Draco's blood boiled.

"I love it when you do that." she said softly to 'Draco'. Draco wanted to blast his father now.

"You do, do you?" he smirked.

"Yes." she said matter-of-factly. He kissed her again. They walked back to their dorm and Draco followed. He slipped inside the portrait after them and watched them start kissing once more. Lucius pulled Hermione up to Draco's room. Draco followed their every move, his anger boiling every second.

"Draco, please, not so rough…Draco?" Draco watched her plead to his father to stop, but he didn't. He watched fear flicker in Hermione's eyes and watched his father start undressing her, then himself.

"Draco! Stop! What the hell are you doing!" she pleaded. Lucius took off the rest of their clothes and Draco swore to himself that he would get revenge.

"Draco!" she yelled, more scared than mad now. Draco wanted out of this memory. He didn't want to keep watching this, but he couldn't figure out a way to get back to reality.

"Shut up, mudblood, you'll pay for what you've done to me." his father said threateningly. Draco's face softened. He wondered if Hermione would ever believe him when he told her it wasn't him… that he never did this to her.

He watched her face fall as his father said this. He watched Lucius moved towards her and enter her. She screamed and winced. His father was pumping into her while she screamed. He gagged her and now all she did was whimper. A little bit later, she passed out. Draco saw his father pull out of her and get dressed.

"Stupid mudblood, I have no idea what my son sees in you." he smirked Draco's trade-mark smirk, but Lucius' was more malevolent. Draco lost it. He ran towards his father and tried to hit him, but his arm went right through him. Draco yelled in frustration. He felt his body start to shake and saw everything start to fade.

End of Flashback

Draco was on the floor now. He opened his eyes and saw Hermione looking at him understandingly.

"Hermione I-" she cut him off.

"I saw it too." she whispered quietly.

"I'm sorry." he said just as quiet. She turned away and was now wrapped in sheets.

"We need to you get you back to the hospital wing…" he said slowly.

"I don't want to." she said.

"You're bleeding still." he was looking at the sheets. They were turning red where her wrists (not her cuts) and private area was.

Hermione let more tears fall. "I just want to take a shower and if the," she gulped," bleeding doesn't stop then I'll go, does that sound good?" she asked, still very quiet.

Draco hesitated, but nodded," Okay."

"Can you help me to the bathroom? Every muscle I move aches horribly." she asked. Draco felt terrible. He wished everything would happen to him, rather than her. After all, she'd been in and out of the hospital for the past few days.

"Do you want me to start a bath for you instead?" he asked.

"Would you mind?" she asked.

"Not at all." he walked into the bathroom and started the water so that it wasn't too hot, but not cold. He walked back to where she was in his room.

"It's filling up." he told her.

"Thank you." she said," I think the bleeding stopped." she told him. "Let me have your wand." she said, holding out her shaking hand. He handed it to her.

"Episkey!" she said, pointing the wand at each wrist. They stopped bleeding. "Scourgefy!" she said and all the blood on the bed disappeared.

"Yeah, I stopped bleeding." she informed him, "No need for the hospital wing." she said, but she moved her legs towards the edge of the bed and winced in pain. Draco walked towards her and he picked her up and brought her to the bathroom.

"Thank you…" she said as he gently set her down on the side of the bathtub.

"You're welcome…" he was still stunned at what happened.

"Draco?"

"Yeah?" he turned to look at her.

"Do you want to get it in with me?" she asked nervously quiet, "I really don't want to be left alone right now…" she looked into his eyes. He wanted to and he didn't want her to be left alone either, but he still wasn't sure.

"Please?" she asked. Who could say no to her?

"Alright…" he said and walked back towards her.

"Thank you." she said again. She grabbed a bottle from the side of the tub and poured some of it in the tub, then she shut the water off. Bubbles began to appear in the tub magically. They smelled deeply of Lavender.

"Are you sure about this?" he asked.

"Why do you seem so unsure?" she asked," You've already seen my body." she said shyly.

"When?" he asked curiously.

"Just when you came in before…I wasn't wearing anything." she blushed. Draco smiled.

"I didn't notice…" he said.

"Really?" she asked averting her eyes.

"I saw the window open downstairs and I wasn't sure if you were kidnapped or something…" he said truthfully.

"Oh." she was still blushing.

"Are you sure you still want to do this?" he asked her.

"If you are…" she smiled weakly. He walked up to her and kissed her easily, yet passionately. She nodded. He started to take off his clothes and she let go of the sheet and stepped into the water. He stepped in after her.

Draco sat in between her legs and leaned against her. She put her arms around him and he turned back and gave her a kiss.

"I love you." she said.

"I love you too." he said.

"I should've known that wasn't you." she said glumly, out of nowhere.

"How? He took the form of my body…there was no way you could've guessed." he said just as glum.

"You said you would never hurt me no matter what…I should've remembered that part." she gave a weak smile, but let it drop.

"Look, let's not talk about it." he said.

"Alright…" she thought for a moment, "Hey, you know what I just remembered? We still have to plan the Christmas Ball."

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that. What do you want to do for it?"

"Um…classic again? I don't think there is many themes for Christmas."

"Me neither…classic sounds good." he said, right before she splashed water in his face.

"Hey!" he said and threw some back at her. They laughed, but she suddenly stopped.

"Ow!" she yelped.

"What?" he asked.

"My body still aches horribly." she answered.

"Come on, let's get out. We'll go lay down, okay?" he asked.

"Okay." they both stood up and grab towels. They separated into their rooms and got dressed. Hermione just got finished when Draco knocked on her bathroom door.

"Come in." she told him. He opened the door and closed it quietly. She slowly made her way to the side of her bed and sat down with a painful intake of breath. Draco got on her bed and helped her on. He pulled the blankets on top of them and put his arm around her.

Hermione felt her body give a painful throb. She let some tears fall down after the mere thought of what happened. Her body gave a more painful throb. I can't believe I was raped she thought, relax, your safe now her conscience replied for how long? Everything is happening to me, when will it stop? she let more tears fall down, being careful not to sniff just in case Draco was still awake. Just get through this step by step and everything will be fine it said to her What the hell do you know? You can't tell me anything important. She let more tears fall, but this time someone wiped them away. Hermione turned her head into the those icy blue eyes. More tears came to her eyes and she turned herself to face him and threw herself onto him and cried more into his chest.

"I'm sorry, Hermione." he whispered. She sobbed.

"When will it end?" she asked rhetorically, but Draco gave an answer anyway.

"I don't know." he said, "I wish I knew, but I don't."

"I wish I did too." she cried softly. Draco held her and ran his fingers through her soft hair.

"Promise me you'll stick it out with me?" he asked hopefully.

"Forever." she said, calming down.

"Promise?"

"Promise."

"Will you marry me?" he asked and pulled a black velvet box out of his pajama pocket.

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Hey, what's up? I hoped you liked this chapter because it took me all day to write cuz I kept getting interrupted again and it's raining right now…hard…. Well, I know some of you want them to shag but until I can get over the fact that I feel uncomfortable writing those scenes in front my best friend who is reading everything…YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE GIRL! They won't be doing that yet. Also… I'm still not getting so many reviews….I thank all of you who are reviewing, but I need more…. I have to go now…see ya'll next chapter.