Her Last Sentence
Note: Sorry, I was on holiday the last three days and could not update. But anyway here it is.
I was, to plainly put it, exhausted. I had to help Potter and Weasley clear out their damned rooms and it seemed that Professor Lupin or Remus as they liked to call him, gave them the dustiest room in this accursed house. I spent the rest of the day cleaning out their rooms.
It was still early but all I wanted to do was to drop dead on my bed. The moment I entered those beautiful mahogany doors, all I could think was to sink myself in the tub. My shirt was soaked with sweat and was severely uncomfortable.
I took it off with haste, and rumpled my hair in frustration. I wanted to take off my pants too, but the thought of Hermione charging in here when I was three quarters naked was not a good idea.
However, it did not take long to reach the bathroom, I could sprint there in less than three seconds, and anyway taking off my pants right now was just speeding up the process so I could bathe and get out, right?
Successfully persuading myself into stripping I grabbed a towel, a change of clothes and practically skipped to the bathroom. I sighed in relief before finally pushing open the door. I turned around and locked it manually.
Just as I was about to pull apart the curtain…
"Ahh…" I whined softly as Sirius roughly treated my wounds. I was bruised all over and if that made things worse, I was also dealt with the Conjunctivitus Curse, causing extreme pain to my eyes. My eyes were slightly better now though.
"Did she have to be so harsh?" I mumbled hoarsely, the bruises really hurt and they had to drag me out of the bathroom because Hermione refused flatly to bring me out herself. I always knew she still held a grudge against my refusal of her admittance to the Malfoy Library.
"You should have checked," Sirius instructed sternly.
"Why?" I asked, "I'm going to see her nude eventually," I stated stubbornly, causing Sirius to clean one of wounds forcefully.
It was that coincidental, the moment i barged into the bathroom was when Hermione decided to step out of the shower. Not to mention she hexed me several times and punched me all the way too.
"Malfoy, you better not hurt her, or you'll have the entire Order behind you," Sirius cautioned. And while he was rambling on about something unimportant something came to my mind and I sat up abruptly.
"Sirius!" I asked, turning to look at him, "Did I bleed? Bleed in anyway?"
"Yeah, you lost some blood. Why?"
I cursed at his confirmation, no doubt Dumbledore was the secret keeper of the manor and he had just allowed everyone to enter the manor by telling us, including Hermione. I grabbed some clothes and put it on hastily, and using my wand, I apparated in a second…
I pushed open those goddamned heavy doors, revealing the lavish décor of Malfoy Manor. The chandelier hanging over the hall, the two curved staircases leading to the upper chambers. But this was not the time to appreciate my parent's expensive taste. I bounded up the staircase and ran through the hall, three corridors to the left, up one staircase and turn right.
The library was musky, as it always was, the doors yielded to my blood and I pushed past it with ease, it made no sound and I was careful to not make a noise when walking on the carpeted floor, my feet making nothing but padded muffled sounds that I strained to hear.
After a few minutes, I could hear the rapid turning of pages, the crisp sound of ancient books. And sure enough there huddled over a whole stack of books was Hermione Jane Granger. Her hair was covering her face and at her speed, I shuddered to think of how many dark books she had already read.
I drew my wand and blasted that book of her hands in a second. I was furious, I was so angry I could have killed her right there and then. But then, the coolness and calm of a Malfoy seeped into me, to do things rationally.
Hermione looked up her eyes were dark and glazed over, as if in ecstasy, I knew she was trying to absorb in as much information right now. I ran over, and grabbed her hand, I dragged her out of her chair and she stumbled to keep up with my long strides.
After finally reaching the end through the long maze through countless shelves, I swung Hermione on the wall, she made contact painfully and she winced. I pushed myself right in front of her. I could feel every inch of her body.
It was emotional turmoil, and I hated that strong resilience she had that both attracted me but proved to be quite a disadvantage at times. I had lost the battle sooner than I though, I anticipated that I would at least hold off for a month or two, but I never thought it would be that exact same day that she would defeat me.
She tried to wriggle out of the corner I had her trapped in. but my arm rose swiftly to block her route. She looked flustered, with the desperation of escape. She ran a hand through her curls and looked at me in the eye.
I closed my eyes, trying to control the strong burning inferno that was raging inside of me. There was no doubt that if the Light was threatened for a second, she would use the spells she had skillfully learned in the books she had scanned over.
I just wanted to throw her down, and show her what she meant to me right there and then. But that was not the solution, I did not need relief, I need a solution.
I pushed her up the wall, so that her feet was not touching the ground and all that kept her up there was my body.
"Why did you do that, Hermione?" I asked calmly but I could not help the betrayal leaking into my voice.
She did not answer but continued to stare aimlessly into my eyes. I spied the smear of the red liquid of blood on her lips; I tilted my head and licked it away. She drank my blood, Malfoy blood was currently in her system.
How she had actually escaped being sick escapes me. She had swallowed my blood, a blood that was foreign to her body, even when she swallowed a pint of her own blood, she would most likely become sick, let alone mine.
I grimaced at her and let her down. I accioed the books she had been currently reading and stuffed it in a nearby shelf. My bruises, caused by the physical attack I received just now were aching and I really did not have the energy to…
Suddenly, everything went black.