Chapter Three… Where do you run….
The next day Hermione went to visit Harry and Ginny after they owled her asking if she'd drop by for lunch.
"He did what!?!!" Ginny asked exasperated
"I know I was just as surprised!" Hermione replied.
"Oh that is so romantic!" Ginny gushed.
Harry wasn't reacting the same way though. "Hermione stay away from that slimy git. You have enough problems on you hands without having to deal with another one." He said through gritted teeth.
Hermione sighed. She had forgotten all about losing her job.
"How'd you find out?" She said sullenly.
"Colin Creevey was talking about it in the lunchroom at the ministry today. He came up for an interview for the Daily prophet about the latest auror assignment in Angola and let it slip that you had a spat with the editor and haven't been in since."
"Yer well the git had it coming! He doesn't want our readers to know the truth about what really goes on in the wizarding world! I posted one lousy article about the mounting cruelty to Pallopuffs in the valley and he fires my arse!"
They sat in silence for what seemed like an eternity. Harry loved his friend Hermione with all his heart but her stubborness was so frustrating sometimes.
"Hermione that wasn't the only reason we asked you here today." Ginny finally spat out. Hermione looked at Ginny puzzled. 'What else could there possibly be?' Hermione thought.
"It's Ron… He's asked me to give this to you." Ginny handed a fuschia envelope to Hermione cautiously with a sympathetic look on her face.
"I'm sorry Hermione. You don't have to go if you don't want to, but he insisted I at least invite you to the wedding…Pansy and Ron are getting married."
Ginny's shoes must have suddenly become extremely interesting as she couldn't stop looking at them. Hermione felt a chill go down her spine as she remembered the day when she arrived home to find Ron straddling Pansy Parkins in their bed fucking her senseless…
"I'm sorry Hermione. I just don't love you that way anymore. We can still be friends right?" Was all he had to say.
Hermione went off her nut at him and slapped him right across the face before kicking him out of the apartment. Everyone knew Pansy only went after Ron because he was the last pureblood who would take her. After the war Malfoy had refused to have anything to do with her. Hermione knew all about it as her editor had forced her to write about it on multiple occasions.
"Hermione? Are you okay?" Harry asked putting an arm around his friend.
"Yeh, I'm fine, I'm… I'm just gonna go. Thanks Harry. See you Ginny." Hermione leaned over and hugged Ginny and placed a kiss on Harry's cheek
before grabbing her coat and rushing out the door.
Once out the gate she apparated straight to St Mungo's and raced to Malfoy's room as her tears began to fall. She burst through the door to find Malfoy propped up on his bed with a copy of the muggle fairy tale 'Snow White' in hand. As soon as Draco saw Hermione he felt his heart breaking for her.
"Hermione what's wrong?" He asked concerned putting the book he found in the waiting room down.
Hermione realised she didn't even know what she was doing there. Why would Malfoy want to know about her problems anyway? She thought.
"I don't even know what I'm doing here!" Hermione said pacing the room frantically her tears still falling freely.
Draco sat up fully and walked over to the frenzied woman in his room and pulled her close to his chest.
"You're here because you are supposed to be. Please, tell me what's wrong." He whispered.
Her sobs began to subside as he picked her up and led her over to bed sitting down with her still tucked up against his chest. He had refused to wear the hospital cloak, and was wearing a crisp white oxford shirt and grey suit pants. Already his shirt was soaking wet from Hermione's tears and he stroked her back soothingly.
She handed him the fuchsia envelope and he opened it and read through the invitation to Pansy and Ron's Wedding. He didn't really care that the Slut was marrying the Weasel but obviously Hermione did.
"Why aren't you marrying the red-nut Weasel Granger? I always thought you two intended on having lots of ugly red-headed babies together?"
"Prat." Hermione said and she began to pound his chest with her hands. Draco just tightened his grip on her and she let out another loud sob and told him the story of Ron's unfaithfulness.
"How did you not already know they were together? Don't you read the Daily Prophet?" Hermione asked pressing the palm of her hand into her eyes to wipe away her tears.
Draco chuckled.
"That rubbish? As if I would waste my time."
At this she smiled and hugged him tighter.
"Ron's a git who doesn't deserve you anyway. So why are you crying? Do you still love him?" Draco felt his chest tighten anxiously at the idea.
"No of course not!" Hermione said exasperated. Draco let out a sigh of relief.
"It's just…It still hurts. Remembering he chose that slut over me and didn't even have the decency to let me know first hurts." Hermione had stopped crying and Draco and Hermione were simply sitting silently in each others arms.
"How about we go to the wedding. Together." Draco asked Hermione. She looked up at him stunned at what he had just asked.
"Are you sure!?" She asked surprised.
She had not expected that. She didn't know what was going on between the two of them considering he only came back into her life two days ago. Hermione had no idea how to describe whatever it was they had going on. All she new is being around the man Malfoy had become made her heart flutter rapidly.
"Of course I'm sure." He said
"Malfoy what the hell are we doing?" She asked sighing.
"We're sitting on a hospital bed? Geez Granger I knew you were brought up by muggles but I thought even muggles could recognise when a person was sitting." Draco smirked.
"Can't you be serious for just one minute Malfoy!" Hermione yelled hopping off Draco's lap and heading for the door.
"Hermione come here." Draco said seriously.
"No!" Hermione yelled back and went to open the door and leave.
Draco grabbed his wand and quickly locked the door with a spell.
"Can you stop thinking for one second and listen to what I have to say before always jumping to conclusions!" slamming his arm next to her head against the door. He stared into her eyes with a fiery, passionate anger Hermione had never seen.
He leaned in against her making it impossible for her to move even if she wanted to. Which she didn't.
"I have never. NEVER felt this way about a woman.."
Hermione looked at him stunned by what was happening.
"When I'm around you my heart stops and I feel I can hardly breath. Even when we were at school and I made your life hell, I could never come to close to you because I felt I might not be able to control myself and ravage you right then and there. But now, everything is different. I did hate you. I hated you with a passion not matched with anything but my love. I loved you with a passion which I could hardly control and I hated you for making me, A Malfoy! Feel out of control of his emotions! And ever since you came back into my life I feel I'm going crazy! I need you every second of the day! Every moment you're not here I ache for you, and even when you are here I feel you're not close enough and I want more of you. I want you Granger. More than anything I've wanted my entire life! I need you Granger. More than I need air in my lungs and blood running through my veins. Because without you breathing seems pointless as living without you would cause my heart to stop and my veins to run dry…Hermione, I love you."
Hermione stared into the eyes of the handsome man pressed up against her. She felt her heart beating so hard she was afraid it would beat right out of her chest. Draco was still staring intently and passionately into her speckled Hazel eyes waiting for her to react. Waiting for her to push him off and tell him to stay away from her. He felt his heart thumping loudly against his chest and his breath was laboured and quick.
Just as he was about to back away from Hermione and let her go, her lips crashed down on his and he melted back into her body and groaned. His hands wrapped around her waist and he picked Hermione up as her legs wrapped around him. Draco carried her over to the hospital bed as they heard the nurses begin to pound on the door worrying about their patient.
Hermione and Draco were too lost in each others passion to care. Draco's tongue roamed every crevice of Hermione's mouth as he groaned. He began to kiss down her neck as his hands tugged her white flowing blouse down. His hands cupped her now naked breasts and he took one nipple in his mouth and sucked gently. "Oh Draco." Hermione moaned as her hands ravaged his hair. Hermione felt her growing arousal and even more so she felt his against her. She couldn't resist to reach down and cup it in her hand.
The banging outside the door grew louder as the nurses began throwing hexes at the door. Sooner or later they were going to break threw the locking charm and they were going to be livid .
Draco suddenly stopped to Hermione's surprise.
"Hermione not here." Draco said pulling Hermione's shirt back up. As agonising as it was, he didn't want to make love to her for the first time in a hospital bed. Especially considering the hospital staff were about to burst into the room fuming. And at that precise moment there was a loud bang and the wall split in half as six fuming nurses stormed in.
A/N: Sorry that it's taken me a couple of days to get this chapter up. But I had this mass brainwave for another story and have been writing it madly! Also I got passed the writers block on my other story only to find another one only a few chapters further! Grrr!!