Chapter 2
Harry felt Hermione leave and opened his eyes. He knew what he was doing to her was wrong but he just couldn't help it. He did love her but it was the love of a long friendship and so many years fighting side by side. He had tried to will it to spark into something else but it just wasn't going to happen. She just wasn't meant to be his. He would have to tell her that if he lived through this. He knew now that he truly loved Ginny and would never love another person as much as he had loved her.
He opened his eyes full and put on his glasses and noticed a certain red head standing in the door way. His heart leapt when he first though it was Ginny but it was Percy. Of all the people in the world who would come and visit him he had never thought he would see the exiled Weasley at his bed side.
"Err,
hello Percy. What exactly are you doing here?"
"I'm here
because I need your help. I realize that I was wrong in when I wrote
my family out of my life but all I want now is to be back in. And
since my mother pretty much adopted you into the family I was
wondering if you could help me get back in."
"You're speaking as if your family is some sort of club that you come in and go as you pleas but its not. You broke your mother's heart. And your father's. You're bonkers if you think that forgive easily or that easily forget what you've done. I even haven't forgiven you for siding with the ministry against your family. You followed them blind for two years. And what all of the sudden you've seen the errors of your ways and want back in. No way Percy, you had your whole life what I would have killed for and you threw it way like it was nothing. All for a career? So you can take your career and go #$! yourself." Harry hadn't been so mad in ages. He turned to face the wall and waited until he heard him leave then turned back to stare at the ceiling.
He was just drifting back off into sleep when he heard Hermione come back in. he knew it was her because he could smell the cinnamon she always put in her tea wafting over him. It was quite calming knowing that if died he wouldn't die alone. Even if he truly didn't love that person. She took his hand in hers and started to talk to him in her low quiet voice and he just drifted off into sleep.