A/N: Hmm... Chapter eight is here! hope you like it. Thanks to all the reviewers! I love you all!
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Chapter 8: Take Care
Hermione woke up the next day feeling very light-headed. She tried focusing her eyes to her son but she can't do so.
"What's with me?" She asked herself wiping her eyes to get a better vision but to no avail. She tried to feel the one beside her, supposedly, her son. When she felt something, it was hard and soft at the same time.
'I don't think this is my son,' She thought, panic starting to rise in her.
"Draco?" She asked, tentatively.
"No, It's Blaise," The body informed her. The moment she heard the name, she jerked her hands away. She attempted to get up but only succeeded in stumbling out of the bed, hurting herself in the process.
She tried getting up but thought better of it. She can feel something broken. Probablyher ankle.
'It might be twisted or something. It hurts so much!' She grumbled silently.
She heard footsteps coming near her. She tried to crawl away from him but, damn, she can't!
"What's wrong, Hermione?" She heard Blaise said.
'He might be crouching next to me. I can hear his voice clearly,' She sighed.
"I think I broke something and…I can't see." She informed Blaise while she was stroking her ankle. It really pained her.
"Uhm…what can I do?" He asked kindly. Hermione was fidgeting slightly.
"I need my wand," She said looking straight ahead.
"Draco has your wand in his study. Come on, I'll take you there." He stretched out his hand although Hermione can't see. Hermione shook her head.
"I can't get up," She said shyly. She thought she heard "oh," from Blaise and smiled slightly.
"Or I can heal you myself. Although I can't use my wand," Blaise proposed.
"You don't have a wand?" Hermione wondered.
"Well, technically, it's being repaired," He informed her.
'Oh, that's why he didn't use it yesterday on Pansy. I thought he was restraining himself,'She thought.
"Let me fetch something from the potion's cabinet," Blaise got up and started walking.
"It's in the bathroom!" Hermione called out to him. Blaise smiled to himself.
'She's so silly, I've been spending my summers here since birth! Of course I know where the potion's cabinet is.' He shook his head in gladness.
'She's still beautiful even after the illness (if you could call it an illness). She lost her usual radiance but she is still beautiful. Draco must have told her about the side- effects of Pansy's delirious potion because she seems not to mind.' He sighed at the memory of the Potion.
Pansy's potion came out wrong. Supposedly, Hermione will die but thanks to Pansy's skill to shuffle the ingredients and come out with a not-so-brilliant-potion-but-woke-up-Hermione potion.
Hermione will lose all memories and certain feelings like love and care and hatred. So, it's all up to them, the people around her, to bring those certain feelings back.
Blaise sighed again (seems like an epidemic! First Draco, now Blaise. Who will be next?). He took out a paste potion that says: Tink Vivé for soreness and broken limbs. He looked at the back label and it says: May sting the moment of application, lasts for five minutes. He strutted back to the room and there he saw Hermione still in her spot, caressing her ankle.
"I'm back! Miss me?" Blaise called out playfully. Hermione smiled as she looked to her right where she thought Blaise is standing.
"Still can't see? Bloody hell, what happened to you?" Blaise exclaimed as he saw Hermione's ankle. It was a bright shade of red and was swollen to a size of a snitch.
"Why? What is it?" Hermione stated and twisted her neck in all directions to try to look if something was wrong, but in her state ofsight, she can't see anything.
"Nothing," Blaise lied. He opened the lid of the paste potion and started applying it to Hermione's severe ankle. The touch made her wince and the sting brought tears to her eyes. She closed her eyes to stop the tears but only resulted for it to roll down her cheeks. When she opened her eyes again she can see!
'So, I only needed to close my eyes for a minute to get my vision.' She said bitterly to herself.
When her eyes refocused, she saw Blaise almost face to face! Literally! She can also feel his breath on her face.
'Peppermint.' She involuntarily wet her lips. He was looking straight into her eyes!
"What are you doing?" She whispered, slightly uncomfortable of their position and looked down.She also had this feeling in the pit of her stomach that she can't explain.
"Just checking what's wrong with your eyes," He retorted.
"I see you can focus it now. It has a blank shade earlier." He continued. He was now applying a second layer of the paste potion and Hermione winced again, she almost jerked her foot away. To her surprise, Blaise leaned close to her ankle and started blowing soft, warm air to it. It, somehow, lessened the sting and she was feeling better (except for that feeling in the pit of her stomach).
"Do you want it bandaged?" Blaise asked her politely. She has no reaction whatsoever except for a curt nod. Blaise stood up to get the bandages and the feeling in Hermione's stomach became a sinking feeling, like she lost something.
'What is wrong with you, Hermione Jane Granger-Malfoy? You can't be… with that Zabini are you? That's just preposterous! You have a husband and a beautiful son. You can't have someone like Blaise Zabini ruining it for you! You just can't.' She tried getting into her bed and a question flashed in her mind.
When Blaise came back with the bandages, Hermione was now sitting on the bed.
"You were able to get up. That's very good of you." He smiled at her and settled on the carpet, crossing his legs underneath him. He was now wrapping the bandage over her swollen, stinging ankle tightly when she asked him.
"Why were you here?" Hermione asked looking at him. He looked up at her toffee eyes when he answered.
"I was asked to take care of you for the day,"
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