Chapter 17
A.N. Hola everyone! I have FINALLY updated!!! Yes…I know…it's been a while but I've been SO busy!!! I hope this chapter will satisfy all of you!! Review please! I would LOVE to get 500 reviews by the 18th chapter =) So please keep them coming!! Oh yes, and the responses to them will be at the bottom of the chapter, as usual!! And now…on with Love…Or Something Like It!
Hermione looked over and saw Harry sleeping with a blank expression on his face. He had a large white bandage wrapped around his head and it was obvious it still bled after it was bandaged, since there was a red stain on the side. Part of his raven black hair was matted down with old blood.
"Harry!" Hermione ran over to the side of his bed and held onto his hand. "Harry…" she began to cry. The tears were starting to spill out. "What has happened to you?"
Suddenly, Hermione felt Harry's pulse begin to get faint. "Oh no! Harry!!!!! HELP!! SOMEONE HELP!!" Nurses came running over to her side. She told them that Harry's pulse was dieing. They began to put charms on him to keep him alive. Meanwhile, Hermione was pushed out of the way, so she ran over to Ron. He put his arms around her while she began to cry.
"Is he going to be okay??" She whimpered through tears and sobs.
"Shh…its okay Hermione…shhh…" Ron said as he held her. Hermione had turned away from Harry and was crying into his chest, while he watched.
"Please don't leave us…" Ron whispered quietly to Harry as the nurses worked around him, "Stay with us."
The nurses quickly scrambled around Harry's unconscious body, while Ron and Hermione stood there paralyzed. Their best friend, in the whole world, the one they spent their time with, the one who knew their secrets was on his deathbed. He wasn't moving, and from the way the nurses were acting, it seemed like he wasn't doing too well.
Hermione still hadn't looked at the scene that was playing out in front of her, and was holding on to Ron as tight as she could manage. 'Harry…' she thought through her sobs, 'Please make it. What have I done to deserve this God?' As she cried into her other best friends shirt she could feel his arms wrap around her small frame, and for just a second she felt safe and secure, but reality hit her again, and the flood of tears continued to flow down her cheeks.
Meanwhile, the nurses were quickly running around the stiff forms of Hermione and Ron. They were muttering spells, making potions and doing anything possible to save the boy-who-lived.
"Excuse me, you two need to leave." A female voice said sternly to the duo, "We can't have you here right now. I'm sorry." They both looked at her before she wrapped a curtain around Harry's bed and the dozen nurses working on him. Hermione looked up at Ron before she turned and ran out of the Infirmary, not believing what was happening to her at all.
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Draco Malfoy stood in the middle of the Head dorm corridor as he watched a familiar bushy haired lioness run down toward the Infirmary.
"God damn it!" He swore under his breath as she turned the corner and disappeared from his sight. "What the hell is wrong with me? What was I just about to do!!!" Draco slowly ran his fingers through his bright blonde hair before he sat down against the wall. "I was just about to kiss…Hermi- Granger. God! What if Lucius finds out! I'll be murdered for sure."
Draco quickly stood up and made his way back towards the Head common room. His initial plans were completely forgotten, after what happened. "Mysterious" he muttered and the portrait opened and he quickly walked in and slid down on one of the couches located in front of the fire. "Alright…I'll just have to tell Granger that there's nothing going on between us, and I was just…messing with her. Yes…that should work, okay, good."
"Draco…" a voice said from behind him as he was falling into a light sleep. He turned towards the voice, "Fancy seeing me here??"
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Hermione ran blindly down corridors after corridors. Her eyes were still filled with the salty tears she had been crying as she tried to run the pain out of her, but it was not working. She slowly slid down a wall and collapsed into a corner, crying to herself.
"Harry…" she muttered to herself, "Why? Why…my life is already horrible." She sobbed quietly, "I've been raped by a guy…I don't even…know…and I'm overly cautious…because…of it. And now…you might…die…Harry…" A new wave of tears came over her, as she rocked quietly back in forth in the same corridor.
After about an hour, she quietly rubbed the tears out of her eyes, seeing that she couldn't cry anymore, and took in her surroundings. She had no idea where she had run to. Hogwarts was SO big that she could be anywhere! For all she knows, she could be in one of the top towers, or down near the Slytherin dungeons. Hermione shivered at the thought.
With grace she picked herself off the cold tiled floor and tried to straighten out her robes, so she would look at least half decent, and it wouldn't seem like she had been crying for most of the day.
"God…" she whispered to herself as she felt her hair. It was all tangled in knots of all sorts. Hermione quickly said the spell to fix her hair before slipping her wand into her robes and looking out the closest window. It was slowly getting darker out, as the sun dipped behind the mountainous horizon. Hermione assumed it was dinner time, and everyone would be in the Great Hall.
'At least I won't have to run into anyone," She thought to herself while she made her way down to the Head corridor. "Wait…where the hell am I?!"
Hermione looked around and noticed that she was in a very long hallway, with doors on each end. She walked over and opened the closest one. Inside there were various brooms, mops, buckets and cleaning material. She tried the next; only a class room.
"God this is great!" she screamed out loud, not caring if anyone heard her. But if they did, it would probably be the best. At least they would be able to help her out of here.
Hermione continued her way down the long corridor, trying each and every door, until she came to the last one.
"Please let this be a staircase," she quietly said to herself, as she turned the brass knob, and pushed forward. "Yes!" she said as happily as possible, and shut the door behind her. But that was a big mistake. The room got pitch black dark, and surprisingly there were no lights located above this staircase.
'I must be in the dungeons," she thought to herself as she searched for her wand, to mutter the incantation that would lighten up the room. Once she found it she lifted it up and began to say "Lumo-" but was cut off by a hand covering her mouth.
"Hello love…" a very familiar voice said to her. One that she could never forget. It was him.
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Startled Draco looked at the intruder who was interrupting his nap, but smiled when he realized who it was. But that smile soon turned into an angry scowl.
"Zambini! You jackass! You woke me up from my god damn nap." Draco hollered at him, before standing up and running his fingers through his hair. "What the hell do you want anyway…wait hold on, how did you even get in here?"
"Calm down Draco…I'll explain in a matter of time. Aren't you going to at least allow me to sit down?"
"Well you managed to break in here, and I don't expect you'll need my word for you to take a seat."
"You know me too well Malfoy," Blaise drawled as he took a seat on the couch across from Draco.
"Now what do you want? I'm tired." Draco said angrily to the black haired boy in front of him, who simply smiled.
"Well I've come to talk to you."
"Obviously." Draco retorted and rolled his eyes."
"Relax Malfoy…you sure are one cranky ass when someone wakes you up. Don't start breathing flames"
"If you don't hurry up I will!" Draco snapped back with fury.
Blaise simply raised his hands in defeat and began again. "Alright Malfoy, the reason why I came to talk to you was about your girlfriend…Granger."
Draco's eyes shot up from the floor, and up to one of his fellow Slytherin's face. "She's not my girlfriend." He said quietly but sternly. The anger he was feeling could be seen in his eyes.
"Well, it looks like I hit a nerve or two." Blaise smirked at him and began to analyze his fingernails, before continuing on. "With no further interruptions I would like to continue." Draco just glared at him. "Anyways, about Granger, I don't think its best for you to be having…let's say…physical and emotional relationships with her."
"And what makes you think I am?" Draco gritted his teeth as he asked the question and waited for the reply.
"I saw you two…on the grounds one night." Blaise replied with ease as he began to analyze his cuticles.
"Oh really? And what was it that we were doing? Granger and I?"
"Well, you supplied a nice and lovely picnic for her, didn't you? And then you fed each other. Oh yes, the grand finale, you two kissed…" Blaise smirked and looked up from his nails to Draco's flushing face. "So, what do you have to say to that?"
"Nothing," Blaise slowly raised his eyebrows at him, "Because it never happened." Draco growled as he clenched this fists behind the couch.
"But my dear Draco, I don't think these eyes would deceive me, now do you?"
"I believe they would my 'dear Blaise'," Draco mocked him; "I suggest you go get them checked. It might do you good, so that way you won't be seeing things that never even happened."
"I think you're wrong Malfoy," Blaise said quietly, "Because I know what I saw, and trust me, you're father wouldn't want to know what you've been up to…especially with a mudblood."
"But Zambini, I haven't done anything with Granger. Trust me; my father wouldn't want to find out that someone has been lying to him about his son's love life."
Blaise smirked before saying, "What if he knows that the person telling him wasn't lying, and that he has proof of what has been happening."
Draco narrowed his eyes and then retorted as calmly as possible. "Well just for your information Zambini, nothing has happened between…the…mudblood and me. Now could you leave my Head dorm. I would like to go to bed."
"Very well, we'll talk some other time Malfoy. Until then." With that, Blaise Zambini started towards the portrait but stopped and turned around. "Oh yes, just one more thing Draco. I would watch out for that mudblood of yours. You wouldn't want anything…bad to happen to her." Draco glared at him but before he could reply to Blaise's comment, he had left the Head dorm. "Master will be very pleased." Blaise smirked to himself, before quickly making his way down to the Slytherin dungeon.
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"Now my love, I don't think we'll needing this." Hermione's rapist plucked her wand from her hand and threw it on the ground, near the top of the staircase. "I think we're all set now, don't you Hermione?"
Hermione tried to say something nasty to him, but her words were muffled by his large hand and all that came out were a few grumbles.
"What was that darling?" he asked again, and this time he removed her hand.
"I hate you…" She said bravely, "you mother fu-" But the rest of her words were muffled once again, by the man's hand being placed over her mouth again.
"You're going to want to take that back, you filthy little mudblood bitch. That is, if you want your dear "Boy-who-lived" to survive."
Hermione's eyes widened in surprise, 'He did that to Harry!! Harry must know something about this, why else would he want to hurt him.'
"Yes…I did hurt your friend. It was so much fun you know. Soon he will become the "Boy-who-did-not-live". That wound was pretty deep wasn't it? If it wasn't for your friends who found him, he would be dead by now."
Hermione's eyes widened even farther and she began to thrash against him, but he held her tight.
"Don't worry though love, I won't hurt them. They wouldn't put up a fight, and they don't know anything about me or…what I do…to you." The man chuckled. It was the worse thing Hermione had ever heard in her life. If she could have moved her hands, she would have covered her ears. "Now, you won't tell anyone about this, or that red head friend of yours will soon be in the same state as Mr. Potter. Do you understand?"
Hermione nodded her head the best she could. She would do anything to now allow anything happen to any of her other friends.
"Now, I will remove my hand from your mouth. You can scream as loud as you want, but no one will hear you. We are in the unused part of the dungeons. These walls are so thick, that they are practically soundproof. And nobody would even come up here anyways; all of these classrooms haven't been used for years."
Hermione's eyes widened in fear this time, instead of surprise, as the man removed his hand from her mouth. She quickly turned away from him and threw herself into the corner she thought held her wand, but it wasn't the right one. The rapist, figuring out what she was looking for, quickly went over to the opposite one, and picked it up. He laughed a hollow and cold chuckle, before taking the thin stick of wood and flinging it down the stairs.
"No…" Hermione whimpered to herself as she saw his massive figure approach her. "Please don't. Stop…I don't want to. No!"
But the man just laughed yet again. "Go ahead scream for me Hermione. I LOVE it when you scream for me. It just makes this even more enjoyable."
"No." she said in a quiet and shaky voice.
"You might not want to now, my love, but by the time I'm done with you, you'll be screaming in pain." The rapist slowly pulled Hermione down on the ground by her hair and said a quick immobilizing charm, so she couldn't move or run at all. When Hermione heard this, she tried to get up and run for the stairs, but yet again he was too quick. The man shoved her back down onto the ground and said to her "You recognize this spell don't you."
Before Hermione could move yet again, she was bound to the floor. "But, this spell isn't what you think it is. It also controls you. When I tell you to do something, you'll do it. For example, Hermione, remove my shirt." Hermione sat up and her hands quickly began to throw off the robes the man was wearing, and then unbuttoned his shirt. "Lay down" Hermione retracted back down the ground before he hovered on top of her; his hands on either side of her head, allowing him to stay above her, and not crush her small frame.
Slowly, he began to kiss Hermione after he instructed her to do the same. In her mind she was mentally screaming out in frustration and crying, but none of these emotions could be visibly seen, due to the spell.
The rapist began to undo Hermione's school uniform, her blouse and then her bra. He massaged her breasts and slowly began to lick them. Hermione, if she could have moved would have kicked him hard down below, and ran for it, but that was not an option.
"Moan for me" he commanded, and Hermione's mouth formed an 'O' before letting out a low growl. "Very good."
'How can this be happening to me?' Hermione thought to herself as the rapist continued to perform sexual menstruations on her, and himself, while commanding her what to do. 'I need to tell somebody, but nobody would listen.'
As Hermione thought to herself, the man told her to give him oral sex. As much as she told herself in her mind not to, her body just moved towards his command.
'Ew. Oh god, please help me, somebody save me!' she screamed internally. It seemed like hours before he came and told her to swallow it. She practically gagged, but he commanded her not to. He told her lay back down, and she silently obeyed.
"Now for the fun part," He whispered in her ear, as he removed her skirt and knickers. Hermione whimpered in her mind, as he began to slide up in to her.
"Scream for me bitch." He yelled at her and she began to, as he pleasured himself inside of her. Waves of pain swept over Hermione again, as the torture continued. It lasted too long for her liking, but when it was over, Hermione was glad.
"Thanks a bunch Hermione." He moaned softly as he got himself dressed, and threw her, her clothes. "When I need you again, I know where to find you!" He smirked to himself as he opened the door and started to make his way out. "Oh yes, I need to remove this spell." He muttered the counter charm, before leaving her in the dark staircase.
Hermione picked up her thrown clothes and slipped them back on, before huddling into the corner and crying.
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Once Blaise left, Draco sat down on the couch again, and ran his fingers through his hair.
'What the hell was that about?' Draco thought to himself, 'What does he know?'
Then realization hit him. He had been spying on him. "THAT FILTHY LITTLE BASTARD!" Draco screamed in rage and through a vase across the room. It shattered against the opposite wall and fell to the grounds in millions of scattered pieces. "Why the hell is he muddling in my fucking business!"
Draco stomped across the room, and quickly grabbed his robes. He was going to go for a walk.
He pushed open the portrait and barged down the hallway.
'What the fuck does Blaise think he's playing at!' Draco mentally screamed at himself. 'No body knows about what happened between me and Granger! It's stopped anyways!! I've really got to tell her. But where the hell is she! Probably snogging Weasley or crying over Potter. What the fuck even happened to him anyways??'
As Draco walked through the corridors he spotted a few 3rd years snogging in a dark corner.
"You two, back to your common rooms now," Draco demanded as he looked down at their robes. They were from Huffelpuffs, "And 10 points from each of you for staying out past the curfew. It's almost 11:00. Now, to bed, the both of you." The Huffelpuffs nodded their heads quickly before running down the corridor toward their common room. Draco just laughed. He always possessed the ability to scare people easily. It probably came from his father, being the Dark Lord's right hand. He just sighed, knowing that he'd have to get the Dark Mark soon, but he had no idea how to stop this from happening. His father would be coming in January, which was only 3 months, seeing that it was October, and Halloween was around the corner. "I'm surprised Dumbledore hasn't have Hermione and I plan a dance. I'll have to ask him about that." Draco stored that thought in his head, before continuing down the corridors, in search of stray students.
After searching most of the school, he found none. He was now in the Slytherin dungeons, and he had checked most of the doors, except for one. He opened it and noticed that it led to a staircase. There were no lights at all, and he had to light his wand for him to see anything. 'I wonder where these lead.' As he took a step forward he heard small sobs echoing above him.
"Who's there?" Draco called into the darkness above. The light from his wand only provided a small circle of light around him, just enough so he could see the next stair. There was no reply, just a few sobs, so he asked again. "Who's there?" this time the sobs stopped and he slowly made his way up each stair. "Hello?" Still there was no answer. He was just a step from the top when a body came flying at him. He was pushed down the stairs, and him and his attacker rolled to the bottom.
His head slammed against the door and he screamed out in pain. He quickly recovered and pushed the body mass that flung him down the stairs underneath him. He hovered above her, his arms supporting his large frame above this…girl.
"Please don't hurt me…" She sobbed. Her face was covered in a blanket of chocolate curls, which looked very familiar. Draco raised one hand and brushed them out of her face and gasped. It was Hermione.
"Hermi-" Draco began in surprise and rolled off of her, but quickly changed his tone, "I mean Granger what the bloody hell was that charade?" Hermione just cried softly and backed into the nearest corner. "Answer me?" He yelled at her, but she just continued the soft sobs. Draco just growled in disgust before getting up and picking his still lighted wand from the stairs. He brought it back down with him and shined it between him and Hermione, and suddenly felt guilty.
She was covered in bruises from head to toe. Her clothes were ripped in places, and buttons were missing from her blouse, like someone tare it open. The skirt she was wearing had been put on backwards, and her school robes were on inside out. There were a few scratches on her face, and as he looked down there were many bruises on the inside of her thighs.
Hermione had stopped crying and was watching Draco. When she saw where she was looking she quickly closed her legs and pulled her skirt down as far as it would go to cover the bruises.
Draco looked back up at her with great concern. "Hermione," He said softly, "Who did this to you?"
Hermione just shook her head, "Nobody, I did this to myself."
Draco stared at her and then said, "That's not possible," He said in the same calm voice, "Nobody can inflict this kind of damage on you." He noticed her eyes began to water. "Come on, let's go back to the common room. We can talk about it there." Hermione simply nodded before saying, "Wait, my wand." She quickly got up and noticed it was right on the bottom step, where he must have thrown it. "Okay…let's go."
Draco nodded and helped her up, before opening the door and letting her go first. As she began to walk Hermione stumbled and almost collapsed. Draco noticed and quickly grabbed her arm and helped her up, but he didn't remove his hand. He held on to her, as they walked back to the Head Common Room. For this Hermione was thankful. She had no idea what she would have done with out him.
While they were heading back, Hermione noted that she was right, in thinking that she had been down near the Slytherin's dorm. If Draco wasn't here, she had no idea what she would have done if she had ran into one. She shuddered at the thought.
Draco felt it and quickly asked, "Are you cold?? If you are, you can wear my cloak!" Hermione shook her head and just kept on walking. She loved the feeling of his hand on her arm. It sent waves of warmth through her body.
Once they reached the portrait Draco muttered the password, "Fairy tales" and they walked in.
"Why did you change the password?" Hermione asked, after Draco led her down to the couch that Blaise had previously occupied an hour before and wrapped her in a blanket.
"Because somehow some of our peers found out what it was, and decided to pay me a little visit." Draco responded as calmly as possible. He was still angry from Blaise's visit, but the sight of Hermione in this horrible condition made him forget about it. "Wait right here, I'll go get us some hot coca. Would you like some?"
"Sure," Hermione said softly before wrapping herself tighter in the blanket. After a quick five minutes, Draco returned from the kitchen with two steaming cups of it in his hands. He handed Hermione's hers, before sitting across from her on the other couch.
They both sat in silence and sipped their drinks before Draco broke it. "Well, are you feeling better…?" Hermione smiled and said "Yes, thank you Draco."
When she said his name, he quickly averted his eyes from his cup of coca to her face. Her smile was still intact.
"Look, Hermione…I…well…there's…nothing going on between us at all, there never was. Was there, especially after I got you with that other guy." Draco asked her quickly before looking down at his cup again. There was silence from the other end. "Hermione?" He asked again, this time he looked up. There were tears in her eyes, and her hands began to shake. "Oh jeez, please don't cry. What's wrong?"
Hermione just shook her head, "You wouldn't understand!"
Draco got off the couch and crouched down in front of her. "Try me."
"I regret everything!" Hermione sobbed and covered her face. Draco waited for her to continue, "I regret ever going to that other guy. You don't understand, that kiss was forced, like he knew you guys were coming. I didn't want to kiss him. He…he…threatened me." Draco's eyes narrowed a bit.
"He threatened you? How?" he asked, his rage beginning to build. He let Hermione go, for something that she didn't even want to do. Why didn't he just listen to her in the first place?
"With…with a knife…"Hermione choked back a sob, "In my side."
Draco's eyes widened and he grabbed both of her hands, and lowered them from her face, and held on to them. "Did he ever hurt you?"
Hermione began to tremble in fear. "He…well…I can't say."
"He can't hurt you when I'm here. Just tell me."
Hermione nodded, and then sniffed a bit before saying. "The man…I don't know who he is…he...oh Draco!" Draco rubbed her arms and told it was okay. She sniffed again and continued. "Draco he-"
Hermione was suddenly cut off by a loud raping on the portrait door, and someone screaming for her. "HERMIONE!" It was Ron, "HERMIONE! IT'S HARRY!!!! HURRY! COME TO THE INFIRMARY! SOMETHING'S HAPPENED TO HIM!"
Hermione quickly looked at the door and then pulled her hands away from Draco, shrugged off the blanket, did a simple spell to make her look decent, and then ran towards the door, and after Ron.
A.N.She was so close!!! I hope you liked it!!! hee hee!! Okay, a couple of you guessed my age, so I'll have to tell you what it is! Please don't be discouraged, and don't stop reading this fic because…I'm 13. turns red in embarrassment The people who guessed it were: LadY MyStiK (she guessed exactly 13), WaSsupgURLsELphIe (who guessed 12,13, 14) and Shadow Psi (who guessed between 13-17). Hee hee, okay…please keep reading this story though!!! Oh, and here are the replies to the lovely reviews =)
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Shadow Psi- Congrats, you guessed my age…13! Glad you like the story!
quiet-mg- You'll find out about Harry's condition, next chappie! I'm glad you love the story though, and have a great summer as well! =)
Trina Jacobs- Hey! Sorry I didn't update sooner!! I hope Draco finding Hermione, and helping her will make you able to forgive him easier!! Well, in the next chapter, you'll find out about Harry and in the next few you'll find out the rapist!! I'm so glad you love this story! About you're account removed, I completely agree with you! Why would someone read an R-rated story if they get so easily offended by the sex scenes! If they don't like them, they should go read PG-13 or lower! Jeez, don't they have any brains. I think it was just plain stupid for them to report you. It was their fault for reading an R story if they know they get offended by smut scenes!! But, I'm very happy that you are now posting your stories on adultfanfic! Hopefully no idiots will go on there that are offended by sex. Because if they are, why the hell would they even be on that site!!! What idiots! Lol I better stop now before I get carried away on how stupid people can be at times! It annoys me SO much! =)
TearFromABlueRose- He almost found out what happened! If it wasn't for Ron!!! In the next chapter you'll find out his outcome!! =) Glad you like the story!
Lover del Dragon- You'll find about all of that soon!! =) Thanks for the review!
kaiba3- I know, I know. And now it's RON!
Sblomie- When Draco began to kiss her, he wasn't even sure what he was doing. See, he still had feelings for Hermione, and didn't know it, until they almost kissed!! I hope this chapter kind of explains what he's going through!! =)
NoBody SpEciaL- Thank you!
Queen of Serpents- Yes, I know you didn't review, but I felt like I had to include you here, because you didn't get a chance to review. Now that I updated, you HAVE to keep on going with your story!!! It's brilliant!!! I'm so happy that such a great writer like you, loves my story!!! Thank you SO much!!! =)
Please keep reviewing everyone! I would love to have 500!! Pretty, pretty please!! Or at least 450!!! Love you all!!
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