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Dealing With The Pain

Chapter Five: Muggle Library

Draco got hastily to his feet, and faced the monster before him, "Hello, father."

Lucius glared at him, he lashed out and grabbed Draco by the scruff of the neck and dragged, him in the direction of Knockturn Ally. Once they arrived there, Lucius slammed Draco against the brick wall, causing a loud CRACK, as Draco head made contact with it. Draco, although he didn't lift his hand anywhere near his head to check, he could tell he was bleeding, he could feeling the warm blood running down the back of his head.

"Don't you ever let me see you doing that, again!" Lucius snapped, pointing his finger at Draco in a threatening manner.

Draco nodded, which was a bad idea, since it made his head pound in extreme pain.

"Now, for your job," Lucius said, in a business-like tone of voice.

Draco looked at his father in, hidden, horror, as his 'mission' concerning the Head Girl, concerning Granger, concerning Hermione, revealed itself.

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Hermione entered the Leaky Cauldron, and went straight to the window in her room, and she stared out of it. She sat there for an hour and a half, waiting.

Suddenly, he appeared, Draco Malfoy came through the entrance of Diagon Ally, I wonder if he would mind if I called out to him?

Hermione had just opened her mouth to called out to Draco, when she realized that something was strange about his posture, and his face, his whole look looked odd, for some reason.

Hermione continued to watch until he entered the Leaky Cauldron, and disappeared from sight. What the bloody hell was that?

Hermione could of sworn that she saw something red dripping down the back of Draco's head, that could not of been what I thought it was, could it?

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Draco walked out of Knockturn Ally through to the Leaky Cauldron; he entered the pub and looked around.

Draco's eyes fell onto a group of people standing near by, and he knew everyone of them.

"What the hell are you looking at, Malfoy?" Harry snapped at him.

"What's it to you?" Draco sneered, trying to make it sound as though his head was not in complete and utter pain.

"Just get out of here, Malfoy," Ron spat.

"How dare you order me around?" Draco snapped at Ron, his head was starting to throb.

"Because I can," Ron said.

"You should just go and crawl back into whatever dirty little hole you crawled out of," Draco shot; now his head was pounding.

Ron lunged and tackled Draco to the ground, landing punches on him left and right.

It took Draco a minute to get his consciousness back, he stared up at the ceiling, while Ron hit, until he finally got his mind back and started to shout, which, of course, didn't help his head.

"Get the hell off me!" Draco shouted, trying to block Ron's fists from coming into contact with his body.

"RON!"

Draco glanced over, and there at the top of the stairs, was Hermione. She was glaring at Ron, who had stopped in beating on him, to stared at Hermione as well.

"He was being a git!" Ron tried to justify himself.

"I DON'T CARE!" Hermione said, rushing down the stairs, and over to where Ron had Draco pinned to the floor.

What happened next was completely messed up, Hermione raised her hand, and brought it around, where it connected painfully with Ron's cheek.

"What the hell?" Ron said, as he put his hand to his now red cheek.

Draco stared, what hell just happened?

"Now, get off of him!" Hermione ordered, glaring at Ron darkly.

Ron obeyed, and quickly got up off the floor and Draco. Once Ron was up, Draco got to his feet, and looked to Hermione, who continued to rant on Ron.

As Draco stood there, one of Hermione's hands went behind her back that only Draco had a clear view of and point a finger towards the stairs. Draco got the point, and left without another word, or a glance back.

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Draco sat in his room at the Leaky Cauldron thinking about none other then Hermione. Usually, Draco never stayed at the Leaky Cauldron, but somehow his father had let him, and Draco sure as hell wasn't going to complain about it. Anything that got him out of his house and away from his father was fine with Draco.

Draco suddenly started to think of his conversation with Hermione, and about what she had said about her friend, Elizabeth Scots.

Committed suicide, Draco's mind didn't seem to want to leave that part of the conversation alone, why would anyone do that? Why would anyone choose to die?

Draco then thought of what his father had said to him, by the end of this school year, he wants her dead.

Draco shivered, I've never killed anyone before, and now that I know what she went though this summer, how the hell am I suppose to bring myself to kill her.

Draco jumped to his feet, and threw a book that had been on the table in front of him at the wall. It hit the wall then fell to the floor with a 'thump'.

Committed suicide, the words came to Draco's mind once more.

You know, Draco thought, I'm beginning to see the reasoning behind that suicide thing.

Draco stared out his rooms' window, and thought, but how's it done? Wait, it's a muggle thing, so maybe…

Draco looked at his rooms' door; he then got up, and changed into a pair of faded blue jeans, and a navy green shirt. He cleaned off the back of his head with a wet towel he conjured and he blessed the fact that the ministry wouldn't be able to tell that he had used magic, since there were lots of wizards, and witches here. He then summoned a bandage and put on a khaki green muggle cap. Draco, then, walked out of his room, and down the stairs, he was in such a hurry he didn't even notice the brown haired girl standing a few feet down the hall from his room.

Draco quickly checked to see if Potter and his little gang were around, and when Draco didn't see them, he walked out into the street on the muggle side of the pub.

Hermione stood at the top of the stairs and thought to herself, why on earth would Malfoy go to the muggle world?

Coming to a quick decision, Hermione decided to go after him, so she ran down the stairs and across to the door, which she opened slowly.

Draco looked to his right, and then his left. On his right, further down the alley, was a group of muggle teens, they looked like they were waiting for some unlucky kid to walk into their territory, on Draco's left was the busy street, full of muggle vehicles, and nicer looking muggles, then the ones down the alley, walking along a stone sidewalk. In all honesty, if this had been any other day, Draco would of gone right, and beat the hell out of the group of teens; today, however, Draco turned left, and walked out onto the muggle sidewalk.

Hermione peeked out into the alley beyond the Leaky Cauldron's door, just in time to see Draco disappear into the crowd of muggles walking down the sidewalk. She quietly snuck out, and walked into the muggle world. She saw Draco ahead of her, so she quickened her pace so that he stayed in her sights.

Draco's head swiveled left and right looking over the many different buildings that surrounded him. There were ones where people where sitting outside eating, ones that sold clothing, and others sold plain old knick-knacks, it was when Draco reached what seemed to be the centre of town that he stopped walking, whoa, okay, big building, Draco informed his mind bluntly, as he looked up at a large building, with large stone pillars outside it that held up a large stone over hang. On the over hang, the words 'PUBLIC LIBRARY' were spelt out in steel letters.

Library…Draco thought to himself, huh, I never knew muggles were smart enough to have libraries.

Draco walked up to the building, pushed open the large, and heavy oak doors, and he walked inside.

Hermione Granger stood on the corner of the muggle street, and stare as she watched Draco Malfoy walk into the library.

Why on earth would he want to go to the muggle library?

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