WARNING IN FIRST CHAPTER
The loud crack of a floo entrance was heard followed by Shirley screaming like a maniac. Partly because she had never been witness to floo travel but mostly because it was near midnight. Draco made his was into the living room to find Shirley near frightened to death and Hermione brushing some powder off her shoulder. "Sorry for the fright dear. I assume you've never been subject to floo travel."
"S'okay." Shirley said with a nervous giggle.
Hermione looked up with a sharp point glare into Dracos eyes. Apparently Harry had informed her of his visit to the coffee shop earlier that day. "You are a piece of work Draco Malfoy."
"How did you know where I live?"
"You are registered with the ministry, and I am a very good employee. Now about this afternoon."
"If it's alright with you I'd rather not do this right now. Shouldn't you be sleeping? You are pregnant."
"After Harry told me of your visit today I can't dream of sleeping."
"Draco you didn't. I told you not to."
"Oh he did, Shirley."
Draco could feel the women wanting to filet him. And he couldn't blame them one bit. "I feel like dirt as it is. I know it was stupid, and I don't think I need to be subjected to anymore than my own hatred at the moment."
"Frankly I don't care what you 'feel' like." She spat at him. He could see the blood boiling behind her eyes. She walked up to him, much shorter than he was but he felt she was a tower over him. "Because you can't possibly know what it's been like for him. What he has 'felt' like for the past seven years. God Draco, he could barely tell me what you said today. We have tried so hard to help him get over you and finally after 7 years he decides to give dating a try. And then bang there you are and it's all gone bloody downhill from there."
"It doesn't seem like he's had a hard time getting over me, daughter and all." He snipped back at her. Harry having a child hurt him much more than he ever imagined. It cut him deep and hard.
"You don't know what you are talking about." She said the words that Harry had earlier that day.
"I've heard that already once today."
"Well you should pay attention to it!" She yelled. "When Harry told me about the two of you I told him he was being rash but he convinced me that you were a different person. And I believed him. And then you broke him. Dear God Draco, you destroyed him. Over something you thought you saw."
"You didn't see-"
"I was with him that morning!!"
"What does it matter? It's OVER now! He has moved on and I haven't been able to!!"
"Don't flatter yourself. I couldn't make him move on if I tried to. Now there are things that you don't know and I personally can't take the stress of this for one More MINUTE!" She put her hand on her head in frustration taking a few deep breaths before words came spilling from her mouth. "Harry has never loved anyone like he loves you, and like he loves Isadora. Not Me, nor Ron, no one like the two of you. When you broke up with him his entire world collapsed. And you might think it has been hard on you but you have no idea what it has been like for him. He left the wizard world so he would never have to see you again. But here you are, some perchance meeting brought you back into his life after all this time and its pain and agony all over again. And then today, as if not to pour salt on wounds you attack him with words about his daughter? But that little 'whore'"
"I didn't mean to say-"
"I AM TALKING!" She yelled quickly shutting him up. "The little whore you referred to belongs to the bastard in front of me." He voice became softer. "He was sick that morning; he thought it was the flu. For the next month when he was sick we thought it was from depression. Neville had spilt a splicing serum on him accidently before he met up with you. If you'd have looked a little harder you 'd have noticed…she looks just like you."
Her words numbed him completely. He stared at her, thinking possibly it could be a cruel joke, but her face never faltered.
"We didn't know until three months after graduation in a muggle hospital after he tried to kill himself. I found him in enough time to save him, but if I hadn't..." She left it to hang in the air. The way she was grabbing at her wrists subconsciously told him what Harry had done. He had done it before in 4th and 5th year, but stopped by the time they were together. "I'm sorry for what happened, whatever you believe you saw that tore you apart in the first place…but it wasn't the truth. I don't know what I expect you to do with this information, but I thought it was time you knew. He couldn't tell you, but I don't think I can deal with it anymore." She then turned to Shirley. "Sorry for the late night intrusion dear. It won't happen again."
Draco didn't even hear her leave; his mind was too lost in his own thoughts to focus on her.
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"Come on Harry pickup." Hermione talked to her cell as she listened to the other end ring It was her third attempt on her way to his house and she was starting to worry that he wasn't home. Finally she heard a click of it picking up, then silence. "Harry? Are you there?" The breathing in the phone was hard to hear, shallow and slow. "Harry?"
"I'm sorry Hermione…I just can't. I love him so…" She heard the phone drop and her heart began to race.
"Harry? Harry!?" She shut the phone and started to run being less than a block away. She charmed open the door and continued to run up the flight of stairs to his apartment. "Harry!" She yelled finding herself in the dark. She flicked on the kitchen light and went to check his bedroom, but on the way down the hall she saw the bathroom light was on. She threw open the door and gasped falling down to his side. "Oh Harry, no." She wrapped a towel around his wrists and tried to stop the bleeding.
"'Mione, let me go…please. I don't want…without him…I can't." He started sobbing weakly.
Hermione got up and ran to the living room grabbing the floo powder. By the time she got back he'd passed out.
"Oh please don't die." She cried before shouting out the name of the nearest hospital.
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'CRASH' a large vase that had been given to them by Charlie met the wall very close to his head. "Hermione Please!" He pleaded with his wife. "Im sorry!"
"You are sorry!!" She screamed at him. The candlestick on the table was the next thing to come flying through the air at him. "How COULD YOU! You lied to me, you lied to him! Goddammit Ron, He almost died and you didn't think it would be a good time to open your mouth?!?!" Anything that crossed her path that could be thrown found its way in Rons fleeing direction. "I cannot believe you!!!"
"Hermione, come on!"
"GET IN THE CAR RONALD! RIGHT NOW!!"
He thought it best not to argue with her and quickly made his way outside.
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That was a lot of info in a short time…*sighs* what do you think????
