A/N: I've been thinking about writing a new story were Draco makes a deal with Hermione to have a hair. Set after school maybe say 6 years. Say maybe his mother is sick and asking him to get married and have kids as her dieing wish. Where Hermione wants to get married to her boyfriend and buy a house….I don't know what do you think sound like a good idea?
Chapter 14
Hermione woke to look into the pale face of her boyfriend. He looked dead to the point Hermione shook him awoke to make sure he was ok. Draco grumbled in a sleepy tone he was tired, too tired to get up. That's when Hermione realized he had not had his much need surgery and what she was seeing was the real him with no magic anything helping him throw the day. She didn't like what she saw one bit. To see him so weak and helpless scared her to death.
She went and got Peter to make the vampire look his son over. He sighed running a hand throw Draco hair. "I'll give you wizard one thing, at lest you found something to make this part of the change less stressful." He then literally had to dress Draco as if the boy was a life size doll. "I'll carry him to the school…We'll come up with a lie to tell them on the way there." Once they were ready Peter picked Draco up in his strong arms. Leading Hermione throw the woods and back to school.
Draco was awake for the walk he just wasn't very coherent. He seemed to fade in and out of a deep sleep only to mumbling answers to questions asked 10 minutes before each fade out. Peter assured Hermione this was normal and he would get better, but for now his body need to rest up. As they stepped out of the woods Hermione saw people she knew running toward them. She and Peter had agreed the lesser a part he play in there story the better.
"Hermione you're alright!" Harry yield happy before giving her a hug, Even though days before he had been upset with her for some unknown reason, her kidnapping seemed to fix the problem. Ron and Ginny hugged her as Peter looked to the much larger man coming there way. "What happened to him?" Harry asked looking over to Draco's scary ass pale face. She didn't know why but it looked as though Harry carried if he was ok or not.
"How' the boy?" Hagrid asked taking him out of Peter arms. Peter of course lied with not even the faints sigh he was emotionally attacked to is son.
"Not sure I found these two about seven hours ago. He didn't look so good then, said he was fine, but he didn't get far before he passed out…Girl said she'd been kidnapped form here. I fingered I return your students and call it a day." Peter waved moving back "Nice meeting you Hermione, but I have work to do" He then walked into the woods without looking back.
As they made there way up to the Hospital wing Hermione went throw the story of 'what happened' "My kidnapper took me out into the woods. I'm not sure if it was human or not, I mean it bit me a few times." She said as they walked up the stairs. People's heads turning and watching them go. "Sometime during the night the thing fell asleep and well Malfoy showed up and helped me get away. He seemed a little out of it, but I guess he felt bad for losing to the attacker, so he came to get me…Anyways we got totally lost, running form this and that until we ran into Mr. Newkirk. He said he had spoken to Draco before and seen me…Thank gods he was out there because it wasn't even 10 minutes later Draco caplets and couldn't get up again."
As she answered questions and what not she wonder if Draco's mother and her parents had been owled about it. She got her answer when they enter the Hospital wing, Draco's mother was there with her own parents. That was a bit surprising to see her own parents; Mrs. Malfoy however was no big shocker. Hagrid laid Draco down as his mum and the med-witch rushed over to him. Her parents of course helped her sit down and fused over her. What parent wouldn't fuse over there child, who had been missing for two days.
She went over the story again and again, until she found Mrs. Malfoy standing in front of her. The woman gave her a very uneasy kind of look. Hermione wasn't sure what it was, but she got goose bumps all over when she looked up into Draco's mums face. "I heard my son saved you" She said in a questioning tone. "Is this true?"
"Yes, your son came out into the woods to find me." She gave a very faint smile "He tried to save me when I was being pulled out my window, but the thing that had me was much too strong… Guess he felt responsible or something." She hoped the older woman wouldn't be mad, after all she was a Malfoy and they all at one point in time where muggle haters. She didn't want Draco's mother to be angry with him for protecting or saving a muggle born.
"Why was he in your room?" That question of course made her parents and friends give her a very quires look. As if asking if they were doing anything together they shouldn't have been.
"Draco had just come back form dinner and I was going to bed. I heard someone knock on my door. I thought it was him, but he said he had just gotten in and he had not knocked." She shrugged trying to get Mrs. Malfoy heavy stare off her skin. "I went back to my room leaving him in the command room…When I was attacked he heard me scream for help…My door was lucked he had to blow it open to get in…By then I was being pulled out the window." Hermione explained leaving out the faked he was with another girl and she was mad about it.
"I heard you know my son was very ill, but you still called for him." Hermione got the feeling she was sitting on the provable hot seat. Mrs. Malfoy was asking her questions she didn't want to answer. "And then even though he can barely walk some days I am to believe he went out into the woods looking for you" She saw some wide eyes form her friends and family to hear Draco was so sick.
"I know it sounds unreal Mrs. Malfoy, I called for help form him because he was the only other person there… I don't know for sure way he came out into the woods looking for me… I just know he did." She remembered something Draco had said to her once and she hoped that maybe it would make this moment less awkward. "Draco told me once that he was sick of being sick. He said he just wanted to be able to do the things he use to do… Being as I was the only person in this school his age that know how sick he was, we talked a lot…I have a feeling that Draco didn't just come to find me, I think he was trying to do what any healthy person would have done…You know as away to prove to himself he was still useful."
Mrs. Malfoy moved to sit down next to her. "What else had my son told you?" She sounded very sad as she asked this. "Draco won't talk to me about it." She must have read Hermione face or something because she was answering unasked questions. "I think he just doesn't want to upset me, so he puts on a face that all is fine and says nothing more."
"I see…Well you'd be happy to know he says he feels better being here." She decided she'd leave out the part that it was being with her that made him happy. "Most days he does fine, gets winded here and there, but he has a pretty normal life for someone so ill and that makes him happy" She saw his mother smile a little nodding along. "This is really the only time he's been so weak. I mean he misses having the strength to run all over the place and he gets grumpy when he feels stressed…But who doesn't"
"I was going to take him home after this" Mrs. Malfoy said making Hermione heart skip a beat. "But if he feels better here…I should let him stay" She sighed heavy looking over at her son. "I was told awhile back he might be dieing…They found some strange blood cells in his blood and they're not sure, but they think it killing him slowly…" She sniffed as tears filled her eyes "I just want him to enjoy whatever time he might have left…"
Hermione want to tell the woman there was no need to cry and that her son would be getting better. She just known that as much as she wonted too she shouldn't. "Mrs. Malfoy, I don't know if that's true or not, but I know he is happier here…I understand it must be hard being away form him and knowing what they think, but I think he is getting better" She felt a soft pat on her leg as Draco's mum tried to put on a strong face for her son. "He gets winded less and less each day…And he was fine until this morning. He felt very tired, but he was ok…I wouldn't let that possible make your chose on weather to let him stay or not."
Mrs. Malfoy gave her a warm smile this time. "I'm glade Draco has such a good friend to talk to." Draco shook a little as the med-witch came out to check his temp.
"I'm going to bring him in now" She said looking over to Hermione and Mrs. Malfoy "Will you be sitting with him again Ms. Granger?" She felt a gentle squeeze on her hand. It was Draco mum giving her a different kind of look. One she hadn't seen before.
"You sit with him?" She asked softly, Hermione nodded her head yes. "How often do you sit with him?"
"Um, every night scene the second week of school I think" Hermione said feeling a little odd.
"Well then he'll be excepting you, won't he now" She helped Hermione off the bed to follow the med-witch into the cold room. She could feel everyone's eyes on her. Each one thinking a different thing as the watched the doors close. Hermione took Draco hand sitting down in her chair she looked him over giving a weak smile.
She didn't know what was happen on the other side of the door. If she did she would have turned bright red in the face. As her parents and Mrs. Malfoy talked about young love in front of her three best friends. All she knew was Draco look so cute as he slept with his month slightly open. She had a hard time not kissing his lips the temptation was so grate.
She know at some point she would have to explain to her friends why she didn't let them in on Draco's illness and why she had cared so much, but for now it was just her and her sleepy boyfriend. She enjoyed there private time together before rejoining the group and being told she could leave anytime. She was walking her parents out of the school to a magical taxi when she found out, Draco's mum had invited her family to spend charismas with them and then, this really blow her mind, the woman had invited Harry and the Weasley family to come too.
"Wow I guess Draco's not the only one that changed" She said softly as she watched her parents drive away. She felt a hand on her shoulder making her turn and look into a soft friendly yet worried face.
"Hermione can I talk to you in private?" Harry asked in a soft tone.
"Sure Harry" She replied being lead over to a tree. "What do you want to talk about."
"Something I should have been up front with you from the beginning" He said sitting down with her. "See back when Ron and I got in trouble and where for band form going in the heads rooms…I snuck in to see you the next day" Hermione got a uneasy feeling with those words. "I saw some things and heard some stuff…I was mad because she didn't tell anyone about it, but I was still your friend so I didn't tell anyone either…"
"You know what he has…and that we're kind of close?" She asked softly
"Yeah and I want you to tell me about it…Because if what I read is true he's going to go crazy and really hurt someone…I know you have feelings for him, but Hermione if he dang…" She cut him off
"No he isn't, Harry I'll tell you everything, just please process me you won't turn him in" She whispered, he nodded his head. Hermione whispered in his ear were to meat her later and the two went there seaport ways. When alone safely in the command room Hermione brought Harry in on the big secret and told her friend how much she had fallen in love with there old enemy.