He had to be down here, there was bars and resturants lineing both sides of the long narrow street but harry was sure ron would be in one of these, after all it was friday night and ron always took his date to one of the palces down this street, he was very careful not to take them to the same ones, if the staff in the restuarnts remembered him and not his date how embarrasing would that be? opening the door to a very smart looking place we ran into the lady at the front 'excuse me im looking for ron weasely is he here?' looking down the long lost of names in her book the lady shook her head, before she could say anything harry had turned on his heel and ran out to the next place.
5 resturants and 3 bars later harry was pointed in the direction of a small table in the corner of a bar, there was slow music playing and dimmed lights, half walking and half running upto the table he could see his friend talking none stop to a dark haired young lady who harry assumed must be alice she had a smile on her face and was laughing, the date must have been going well then.
'Ron!' harry said a little out of breath reaching the table ron looked up at him strangely, why would he be here and how would he know where he was? 'we need to go' he said grabbing his friends arm ron pulled away 'hang on a second mate, id like to introduce you to alice and then number 1 why are you here? and number 2 where do we need to go? ' harry ignored his friends questioning look 'its hermione shes hurt' hearing this ron stood up took some money out of his pocket and placed it on the table 'im sorry' he looked at alice 'i'll owl you' then without another thought both men turned and walked out into the cold night.
'all i know is shes been attacked' harry said heading towards the hospital 'they sent and owl for us and i had to come and find you' walking into the hospital they were met by a tall man with grey hair 'mr potter?mr weasely could you please follow me' they were led into a small room with a desk after they all sat down the the tall man with grey hair cleared this throat 'im in charge of looking after miss granger when she was found her bag had a next of kin emergancy contact card in thats how we knew how to reach you' nodding ron leaned forward 'is she ok? can we see her?' 'im afraid miss granger is in a serious condidtion she isnt awake just yet and she wont be for a few days' 'what happened? i want to see her now' harry stood up 'please sir if you just sit down i will expain about her condition and then take you through to see her' harry looked at ron who nodded and he sat down.
'Miss granger was the victim of a very unpleasent attack she suffered a serious blow to the head and multiple broken ribs that is why weve given her something so she will sleep, it will give her body time to start to heal' he cleared his throat 'im sorry to tell you this but there is also evidance of sexual assult' ron threw his head back in his chair and covered his face with his hands while harry shook his head and looked down 'shes responding very well to treatment so far and she will im sure make a full recovery' harry feeling like his whole world had just fallen apart asked 'can we see her now?' nodding the grey haired man showed them to hermiones room.
walking to where hermione was ron gasped when he saw his friend she looked so small laid out in the bed she looked like she was peacefully sleeping ron wondered if she could hear them? if she was dreaming? if she knew what had happened to her and was replaying it in her mind but was unable to show it thought her facial expessions. They were left alone with her harry walked up to the side of her bed and gently took hold of her cold soft hand 'hey herms, your gonna be ok' he slowly stroked her hand with his 'we are here and we are going to make sure that you are ok' he looked at ron who sat down on the chair on the other side of the bed 'who would do this to her' he took her other hand 'he wont get away with this herms i promise you that' 'and i'll second that' harry moved some hair out of her eyes.
Over the next few days harry and ron hardly left the hospital they made sure that one of them was always with hermione just incase she woke up she contined to improve slowly even making the odd moan when she moved her head, which they took as a good sign, she was getting ready to wake up. On the 4th day of being at the hospital harry and ron were asked to go and see the same man they had seen the first night the one who was in charge of looking after hermione he wanted to tell them about how pleased he was with her so far and how he was hopeing that she should be waking up any day now.
'shes a fighter mate' ron smiled as him and harry was walking back to hermione 'shes going to get through this, we better than anyone know what shes likes and theres no way shes gonna let this bloke win after what he did to her' and he was right, this was hermione granger they were talking about the person who stood up for what was right in the world, she wouldnt let this happen to her with out a fight the state that she was in now proved that much, she hadnt given in and let it happen. They both know where was lots of tears, anger and upset ahead but they also knew that with their help she would get through it. They had spoken alot the past few days and their anger had been pushed to the side for now, yes they still wanted to get hold of whoever did this and make him sorry for even looking at her but they realised that hermione would need them first she would need them to be there for her, he would get what was coming to him but only after she was safe, well and back on the road to recovery.
taking hold of the curtain to pull it back harry stopped ron and looked at him, had he heard it to? it was hermiones voice, all be it slightly quieter and a little horse but he was sure he had heard her. The look on rons face told harry that he was indeed heard it too pulling th curtain back they saw hermione sitting up in bed looking very startled.