A/N;; I just thought you all would want to know that... I gots a hello kitty shirt on! -giggles- yay! R&R?

Chapter 3;

She put her shoulder to the door and slowly turned the knob. Then she crossed the room to the bed in the center of the back wall. The being lying in bed stirred trying to situate himself before the silence was once again over taken by soft snores. Kneeling down so she was eyelevel with the raven-haired boys closed eyes she reached over and shook him lightly.

" Harry," She whispered watching him roll over restlessly. " Harry- it's me…wake up," She said making her voice as calm as her features were soft. He slowly lifted his head from the comfort of the plush white pillows, his eyes meeting hers.

" Hi Hermione," He said with the saddest excuse for a smile she had ever seen. He reached over and felt the top of the table beside his bed for the wired glasses. Upon finding them he slid them up the bridge of his nose and watched the blur of his vision become a young woman.

" Hi Harry" She replied her brown eyes shining as she tried to form another sentence.

" What day is it?" He asked his voice returning to the normal hoarse croak. That usually meant he had been crying again.

" It's Tuesday the third of March," She said without much thought.

" I've been in bed for…four days…" Harry heaved a frustrated sigh.

" Yes" She answered although it was not necessary. She nervously reached her shaking hand up to his cheek and ran her fingers along it gently.

" I'm fine Mione" He snapped turning away.

" I'm sorry Harry- it's just…I worry," She said tears forming in her eyes. " Ron worries too, Ginny Molly, Tonks, The twins…" She trailed off sniffling.

" I don't see why, I'm perfectly fin- perfect" He said his greasy hair flopping into his eyes as he tried to sit up.

" God damn it Harry! You are not! You haven't showered, you don't eat enough, you never leave the house, you don't even know that you've been fired!" Hermione exclaimed no longer able to hold her aggravation inside.

Harry stayed silent as she breathed heavily in front of him, his head falling limp. Finally after many minutes he whispered, " I just- I miss him so much" Then the tears began to fall. It started out as a single drop wandering down his cheek but the flow increased and he was soon sobbing helplessly.

" I know you do" Hermione whispered regretfully. " I know you do" She repeated quickly throwing her arms around his neck. She wished she could take all his pain away, soak it into herself.

" I can't stop this Herm, I don't know where he is- if he's dead…I-I" He spluttered the rough sobs sounding painful. " I need him…I need him…" He repeated in a whisper to her ear.

Hermione held him for hours as she always did. She ran her fingertips up and down his back in a soothing rhythm. She wiped his tears away before the saltiness hit his thin lips as he heaved sob after sob.

" I saw him today Harry…" She finally murmured into his trembling chest. The shaking stopped. Along with his heart stopped.

" Wh-where?" He managed to ask rubbing his eyes.

" In town- he was alone" She answered stroking his hair.

" I- when did he get back? What did he say? Did you talk to him? Did he ask about me? Did he ask about where I was?" He slurred the questions together.

" Two weeks ago…yes…yes and no" She answered slowly pulling away from him to look into his eyes.

" D-did you ask him w-where he was staying?" Harry asked sitting up straight.

" No Harry, I'm sorry…I was- I still am angry with him," She answered candidly fingering the hem of her skirt. Brown locks fell in front of her eyes covering the guilt written on her features.

" Bu-But he's here? In London?" He asked hurriedly a true smile stamped across his own face.

" Yes but Harry," She opened her mouth to continue but he interrupted her by jumping- yes jumping- from the bed fumbling around noisily for a shirt.

" DRACO IS HERE IN LONDON WITH MEEE! HARRY POTTER!" Harry danced around in nothing but boxers, socks and a half-buttoned shirt.

" HARRY!" Hermione finally exclaimed trying to catch his attention. He snapped his head to look at her. " I don't want you to see him" She stated sheepishly. He stopped pulling the pair of pants he was about to step into and stared at her wide-eyed.

" Why not?" He asked blinking in confusion.

" B-Because he hurts you!" She said sounding flustered.

" No he doesn't Hermione, anyways, even if he did…it doesn't matter" He brushed off her comment.

" IT DOESN'T MATTER?! Harry James Potter!" She got to her feet and walked over to him jabbing her finger into his chest angrily, " You have been like this" She paused to motion around them. " Since he left you. He hurt you! He hurt you many times before too!" Hermione added trying to compose herself. Harry backed from her with one step and shook his head in disbelief.

" It was my fault he hurt me, I wasn't good enough for him…but I'll do better this time Hermione, he won't hurt me if I do better" He replied his voice saturated of deceit. The corners of Hermione's mouth twitched and her jaw dropped her blinking increasing rapidly.

" Is that what you thought all these years? That it was you?" Her voice shook, " That stupid, lousy ungrateful little cockroach!" She screamed her eyes full of hatred.

" I am going to avada kedavra him! I swear to Godric fucking Gryffindor!" She was storming around the room now, tidying things up as she always did when she got anxious. " I will turn him into a ferret and force him to eat dirt from the floor!" She continued her rant. Harry stayed where he was dumbfounded by her sudden burst. " He's awful! A foul little pig! All he wants is a stupid bang every so often. Oh Malfoy will get a nice bang- not the sexual kind either!" She shook throwing a wad of clothes into the hamper beside Harry's feet. " Calling me a Mudblood, Ronald a Weasel, now this! When I am done with him his superiority complex will be so messed…he is so shamelessly obsessed with himself! He cares for no one else," She hissed ignoring Harry's attempts to force her to sit down. Her face had gone crimson and small droplets of sweat formed upon her furrowed brow.

" Draco Malfoy is going to pay for what he's done to you Harry" She finally stopped moving long enough to stare him down. " Go get the telephone book" She barked flopping down on the bed after conjuring a large pile of papers. They were going to do a bit of research. And with every breath Hermione Granger took, Draco Malfoy was one step closer to his downfall.

" I should have known he lives at Bella and Rae's" Harry rambled as Hermione turned sharply into a drive. " It's so ironic because you know," He was about to say 'its where we lived together' but stopped realizing Hermione had no way to see the future the way he had.

" Who?" She turned her head to look at him but quickly allowed her eyes to dart back to the road.

Once the car was stopped, Hermione briskly climbed out slamming the door behind her. Her footsteps echoed across the pavement as she neared her destination. Harry still sat in the car fumbling with his seat belt as Hermione knocked on the door.

" Open up!" She yelled her accent flaring. There was a rustle of movement, which then turned to footsteps before the bolt-lock turned clockwise, and the door handle twisted open.

" Hermione?" The blonde asked through squinted eyes. It was easy to see that he had been napping quite recently. Before he could pull his shirt the rest of the way over his head something hit his nose with a powerful force. Draco stood there slightly dumbfounded not aware that his nose had begun to bleed heavily.

" Hermione!" Came a voice as a man came and grabbed at the girls arm as if to take back the punch.

" What!? He deserves it! Look what he's done to you, Harry" The name was what caused Draco's jaw to drop. While she continued Draco reached into his back pocket. As if in a dream everything slowed. The moment sparks flew from the end of his wand things snapped back in to place.

" What did you do to her?" Harry exclaimed kneeling over to examine the girl passed out on the ground.

" It's just a spell to knock her out- sometimes it can have a few side effects…I've only ever done it once," Draco replied as if this were a normal situation.

" Like?" Harry asked seemingly to have forgotten his fear of the very man before him.

" Memory loss, Brain lapse, things like that" Draco said pushing his wand back into his jacket pocket. Harry was lifting Hermione's closed eyelids with his thumb.

" How do I wake her up?" He asked after shaking her by the shoulder receiving no luck.

" The spell is called Revisio but, I don't want to be around when you wake her" Draco muttered his back now turned to the door.

" Okay um, Draco?" Harry said softly.

" What?" He snapped turning around causing Harry's cheeks to tint pink.

" Err- Thanks" Harry said then watched Draco walk back inside. Refusing to cry in front of Draco's window he picked up her body and began to drag her back to the car. Once he reached the car and her body was limply propped up in the seat he curled into a ball and lightly began to sob. The pain became overwhelming surrounding his skin in heat. He finally sat up and prepared to say the spell.