Chapter 26
The boy was lying motionless on the same bed in the hospital looking place that Hermione had seen last time. He didn't seem to be breathing. Hermione recognised this as it had happened to Draco not long ago.
The girl walked up with a book in her hand and seemed perfectly at ease with the now sobbing boy in front of her. She opened the book and started to read silently. She just sat there. Reading. Ignoring the boy.
Hermione was confused to say the least. Did she have to read to herself next to him? Did she have to ignore him and mind her own business? Did she need to read it to him using her mind?
There were many possibilities for what the girl may be doing. Then, randomly, the girl began to hum. It was a tune Hermione was sure she'd never heard before but it was so recognisable…
Hermione then felt water prickle her eyes as she realised it was a song that Danny had made up when they were younger. He had sang it to her whenever she got scared and ran into his room at night time, when she had been ill and whenever she was sad.
That had all been before it happened. It was Hermione's worst memory. She remembered that game they had been playing. When he had been called by is friends and he had brought her along. When his friends had…
Best not for her to think about that. Hermione saw him occasionally. Whenever she went to her parents house she would insist on seeing him and end up crying for most of the stay. He would talk to her in her dreams and at night time when she felt lonely up at Hogwarts she would unknowingly start to hum his song.
She had never learnt the words. The song was too pretty to bother trying to listen to the lyrics rather than the music. It was a unique song. Unlike any that Hermione had ever heard. It was a special song. It was his song.
Yet here was the girl humming it to the boy crying on the bed and he looked as though he were starting to awaken.
It hurt Hermione that Danny had sang it just before...it happened… and he could never sing it again, yet it was going to be something that may allow Draco to be able to hum and sing it. She knew he had a talent for singing.
Hermione realised that his singing voice was almost an exact copy of Danny's. Hermione buried her head in her hands and sobbed viciously into them. She could hardly cope at the moment. Whenever she got like this, she could usually not stop for ages but she didn't have ages.
There may have only been a matter of time before Draco died up in the bed upstairs and Hermione had to go up seeming fine and calm. She eventually pulled herself together and sat on the sofa for a while.
Tallulah then appeared looking confused and worried.
"What's wrong?" She asked softly. "Didn't the vision help? I'm sorry. I had thought it would work. I did not mean to upset you."
"No, no." Hermione said shakily. "It's just that… that song...Danny used to sing it to me. It...it was his song. Our song."
"Who's Danny?" Tallulah asked, sitting down next to Hermione and wrapping an arm around her shaking shoulders.
"I haven't always been an only child." Hermione said slowly, her voice cracking. Tallulah bit her lip and Hermione continued.
"His friends called for him to go and hang out with them and he brought me along. He was about to turn eleven and my parents were out for a meeting. His friends said that I was too young to play with them. I was four. One of them shoved me into the road while a car was coming and Danny ran out to save me. He pushed me out of the way and the car hit him. It was a big car and they hadn't been driving slowly at all. I ran over to him and he seemed to be finding it hard to breathe. He might have made it into an ambulance and to the hospital if he had saved his voice but he...he sang some of his song to me and used up the last of his breaths. He died after he finished the second verse."
Tallulah didn't know what to say to make the girl in hysterics stop crying so just sat there in silence.
"It was the same tune that girl was humming to that boy…" Hermione finished and felt Tallulah disappear beside her. Hermione had never felt more alone.
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