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"What am I going to do?" I cried and sunk to the ground, not caring about the gravel poking my legs. "I can't lose him. I can't." Ginny tried to drag me back to standing position and hugged me. I knew she probably didn't know what to say.

"I'm so sorry Mione. We'll figure out what to do." she assured me. "Medicine has come a long way..."

"She knew...SHE KNEW...and didn't bother to tell me." I sobbed, still in my own world. Ginny nodded.

"She probably didn't want to trouble you, your life is hard enough. Or maybe she was planning to tell you, but she wouldn't just tell you at a game."

"I doubt it." I whispered and pulled away. I wiped my eyes and tried to smile. "Thanks for...um being there?" Ginny smiled.

"We're best friends, it's what we do."

"I think I'm going to go home." I said. "Tell everyone I'm sorry for leaving." Ginny nodded.

"You okay getting home alone?" she asked concerned.

"I'll take her." I heard Malfoy say. I whipped around.

"No way in hell am I going with you." I protested and looked to Ginny for support but she only said.

"You sure you can handle her in this emotional state?" he nodded.

"She's punched me before, I think I can handle." Ginny's eyes grew wide.

"Hermione, you've punched him before!" I rolled my eyes.

"Third year, was pissing me off." I said curtly and started to walk away. She laughed.

"I'm impressed." and shoved Malfoy to follow me.

"She's worried about you, you know." Malfoy said quietly to me once we got into the house.

"Gee and I wonder why?" I said sarcastically. "Guess wishes come true for you, don't they Malfoy?"

"What is that suppose to mean?" he asked, a bit angry. I sighed.

"The destruction of Hermione Granger. The one thing to break me down, the sole goal of you tormenting me in school." I spat. "How does it feel? Really I want to know." He looked at me with a mixture of emotions.

"I never wished that." he finally said when he finally went back to his cool mask. "I do have a heart, despite what you think." I was surprised, but still scoffed off the statement.

"Then why torment me in school? Because your father says so?" I laughed. "Weak, very."

"You don't know what he could do." he shot back.

"You didn't even what you could do. Sure you were number two in the standings but all I ever saw you do was reports, I didn't see you waving a wand. You were so afraid of what your father would do, you limited your own learning. You knew it all but didn't put it to use. So you what? Took it out on me? Jealous were you?" I paused and rewound the words I had just said. It was exactly correct, it must've shown on my face because he answered.

"Yeah you figured it out. You think I didn't want normal caring friends? You think I wanted people fearing me? Hell no." I actually looked at Malfoy. I mean really. He looked a bit hurt, something I had never truly seen. It was like I was looking at the real Malfoy, sure part of it was a real jerk, but the other part was...well...human?

"I don't really know what to say except maybe I'm sorry for judging you. But you did judge us too, so I'm not completely sorry." he smiled a little.

"Truce?" he asked. I raised an eyebrow.

"What kind?" I asked a bit interested.

"The kind where we promise to not kill each other. The kind where we can I don't know...be friends?" I wasn't sure if he was being honest but I took a look in his eyes and I somehow knew he was.

"I suppose we could try that." I said after a moment. "This isn't going to be easy is it?"

"Most likely." he answered. "But I think we should start with introducing ourselves to start over." I gave him a confused look when he held out his hand to me. "Hello, I'm Draco Malfoy and I promise not to judge any people with the name Granger." I chuckled and I shook his hand.

"Hello, I'm Hermione Granger and I promise not to judge any people with the name Malfoy."

"Call me Draco. If this thing is going to work, I think we can handle saying each other's first names." he said and I nodded.

"I go by Hermione or Mione. Doesn't matter." I mentioned and smiled a little. "So we're really having a truce...I wonder how Harry and Ron are going to take that?"

"Well we could just tell them we're dating." he offered.

"You ready to do war when that happens?" I asked. He laughed.

"I think I can deal."

"Then we are in agreement." I said finally. Then I hear the door open and I heard my mum call me. I groaned and rolled my eyes. She quickly found me and made a point of wanting to speak with me. I looked to Mal-, no Draco, for help but he simply let me get dragged away by her.

"You and I" mum said point to me then her, "need to talk." I laughed.

"About what? How you knew dad's will most likely die and didn't tell me? How could you? Am I not part of this family anymore?"

"I wanted to spare you the pain-" she started but I interrupted her.

"You know I've seen worse. I know your intentions were most likely good but I need to know these things, I could've spent more time with dad. Now I have a month. A MONTH. To show him how much I love him, to show him that he's so important to me." I felt my eyes mist. "I've had people betray me before, but I never thought my own mother would ever do that." I took a deep breath. "Guess I was very wrong. There is nothing to talk about, mother." I stated.

"Honey I'm sorry but do you really think I wanted to say to you your father's dying? I'm still reeling. You don't know how hard life has been-"

"You don't know half my life." I said, interrupting her again. "If only you knew." I sighed. "I really can't talk to you right now. I'll say something stupid and say something I'll regret." and I turned away and walked to my room, only wanting to go asleep. I was about to crawl under the sheets when I heard a voice.

"I'm sorry." I looked to see Draco.

"For what?" I asked.

"Your father, for what I used to call you, everything." it touched me a bit, though a bit too simple.

"Thanks." I said softly.

"Sleep." he said and I followed his command and was drifted away from my life.

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