Chapter 7... Camping issues with a Malfoy...
"I`m coming home to breathe again, to start again..."- Shannon LaBrie- Calls me home...
Hermione's POV...
The first thing I was aware of was the cool earth between my fingers. The second thing was: Malfoy. Complying rather loudly about anything and everything...
Wait what was he doing now? Did I just hear water and rocks?
I lift my head up a fraction and sun light all but blinds me. Shielding my eyes I stand up and recognise where we are immediately. We are both stood in a rather familiar forest clearing, a lake silently shimmers in the sunlight to my right and is almost hidden by a cluster of trees. The memories hurt... So I try to focus on the second- thing- I noticed.
"Malfoy, what on God's earth are you doing?! You're destroying a perfectly beautiful environment! Pull you're self together for Godric's sake!"
I don`t get an answer because he`s still pelting pebbles into the lake. Well, I think, he doesn`t take the outdoor`s well... Poor ferret...
"Malfoy!" Still no answer...
When I finally walk close enough he's stopped abusing random wildlife and is now crouched down against a tree head bowed as if he doesn't want to show his face.
"Oh... so you're awake then? Good" He states. Wait. I think. What does he mean by awake?!
"What are you talking about? And what do you mean by awake?!" I demand.
He rolls his eyes, stands and that's when I really get a look at him since we escaped. He has a split lip, bruising along his jaw and a black eye. His hair is also slightly messy from running and sleeping on the floor for a night. And he doesn't seem too bothered by the blood that's trickling down his chin as a result of his lip and it is pure crimson against the paleness of his skin.
I gasp.
"What happened to you wh- what- did someone do that to you!?" I stammer. I can`t believe it.
"Aw concerned about my safety now Granger, why I`m so touched?!"He sneer`s sarcastically, picks up another rock, lobes it at a tree and yelp`s when it bounces back and misses him inches. I just stand there and witness him have a nervous breakdown. After several more minutes of throwing and shouting he seems to have got it all out of his system.
For now, I think.
"Malfoy just come here, please!"
He sighs and walks over to me slowly still keeping his head down.
"Honestly, I've seen Harry in way worse states than you, look at me"
He does and he just looks miserable. I hold my wand up to his face.
"Just, just stay still for a moment, It's going to hurt a little but just bare with me..."
"Episkey"
He winces and cringes as I heal all his cut`s but he doesn`t look as bad now. The bruises were so bad that they are still not completely healed; they just look a few days old. (He must have been hit a lot) But at least his mouth is back to normal. His eye is no longer severely inflamed but has yellow and blue bruising below just it and his cheek is ever so slightly swollen. Apart from that there is just the odd bit of dried blood here and there.
"Thank you. Can- why are you doing this? Even bothering to help me if I put you through hell for seven years straight? Granger, why?" He stands back just staring down at me. And he looks hopeless.
So I tell him the truth.
"I-I don`t know why... It`s just. I saw your face in at the manner and H-Harry he was wrong." I look him in the eye`s then.
"You're not a bad person, Malfoy. You're just..."
"Brilliant? Amazing? Se" I cut him of there.
"You" I smile slightly and wonder of to start the protective enchantments around the site and I leave him there looking dumbfounded...