The adventure begins.
Chapter3
The next morning, Hermione arrived outside the restaurant at exactly 8am. Draco had not arrived yet. She waited outside the restaurant thinking what to do when they reached Paris. First thing they were going to do was to go to the hospital and ask for her parents. She was so damn happy that she could tell her smile reached her eyes. She was finally going to find her parents.
Draco arrived 5 minutes after she had. He looked in a hurry and as he reached her almost running, he said, "fast hold the portkey, it can go off any second now" Hermione did as she was told. She took hold of the portkey and accidently brushed her fingers with his, a current went through her. A second later she was flying in the air and there she was in Paris. They were in dark alleyway. There was a time change, it was evening in paris right now.
Draco said, "so, what's the plan now? Going straight to the hospital?". "yes actually, I planned to find my parents as fast as I could". "ok so, the hospital is 3 blocks away, do you want to apparate or walk there?". " I would like to walk, as it would soothe my nerves and I would see a little of paris." So they started down the alley. Just when they were going to enter the second block, they saw 3 drunk man. The drunk men started staring at Hermione and making comments. Hermione cold see the anger on Draco's face, and she quickly held his hand as he was starting to go towards the men and continued walking. As their hands touched a jolt went through Hermione. She still hadn't been able to find out why it happened.
As they walked forward, draco asked her, "thank you for holding me back, or I would have atleast killed one of them". "Yeah, u should just ignore those people you know". They remained silent for the rest of the way. As they neared the hospital Hermione started to become really nervous.
At the reception, draco asked if there were any mr. and mrs. Mathews. The receptionist said, " I am sorry, but we cannot tell you about them, it is confedential". Hermione impatiently told her, " I am there daughter" " okay so, yes they work here as dentists" as the receptionist finished saying this, a woman walked out of a room, and this was the first time in about one and a half years that Hermione saw her mother. She just stood there and watched as her mother made her way towards her. The receptionist said, " dr. Mathews, these two people here wanted to meet you and your husband". Her mother said, " hello dear, what could I do for you.". Hermione said, "actually I wanted to talk about something really important, can you call your husband and then we could go for dinner". Her mother surprised said, "yeah sure, I will call him."
they entered a restaurant, Hermione saw that the restaurant was something regular but private. There was chamber for every group. They found a secluded chamber and sat down to order. Everyone kept silent while ordering. When the dishes had arrived and no one had something till now, draco whispered to Hermione to lift the memory charm. Hermione spoke the counter charm and waited. Something happened to her parents but they didn't really react like she had expected. She asked them, " mom? Dad? Do you remember me? Your daughter?". They looked confused for a second, then her mother said, "you must be mistaken, we are not your parents" they stood up and walked away. Hermione saw them walking towards the hospital. She knew she was going to cry, there were tears in her eyes. She unsteadily said, "please apparate us to the hotel!" draco watched her for a second, concern in his eyes, then took her hand and apparated. They reached the hotel and took their key. Hermione was on the verge of crying and did not know how much more she would be able to control now. Her world had come crashing down.
Their room had a living room, 2 bedrooms with bathrooms and a kitchen. Hermione sat on the sofa and stared at the wall opposite her, controlling herself. Draco mumbled something about going for a bath and left. Hermione was sure she could only stay calm for some minutes. She thought that atleast now draco wouldn't hear her. But how wrong she was. Hermione broke down. Yesterday she had thought that her life was going to go back to normal, but no, her life was hell again. A door opened and someone came and sat down beside her, most probably draco, who else would it be? Draco took her in his arm and sat her on his lap. She kept her forehead on his shoulder and cried. Cried for herself. Cried for her parents. And cried for the people who lost loved in the war. She felt completely full in draco's arm, and yet small and frail. She felt the warmth of his body. The air of his breath on her head. Hermione cried for hours that night and draco didn't even budge when she ruined his shirt.
She woke up the next morning in draco's lap, and blushed. She slowly stood up as not to wake him up. She went to her bathroom and freshened up with a hot bath. Now, she felt better and remembered what had happened last night. why had draco come for her, and not left her alone? Why had he been awake just because of her? He surely didn't care for her? Did he? No he just felt sorry for her, yeah that's it. He felt sorry for me and that is why he was with me the whole night. When she entered the living room, she saw that the sofa was empty and draco was missing. She entered the kitchen and got some cereal for herself. As she sat to eat, she heard his door open and looked up. He saw her and gave her a small smile, " are you feeling ok?" he asked. Something like concern in his voice. " yes, I fell much better now!" she added " thank you for being there for me yesterday, I really needed someone" she said with a smile. "can you make some cereal for me to, I don't know how to make some" he said sheepishly.
She got up and made some cereal. They sat down together on the sofa and had breakfast. There was a comfortable silence. When they were just going to finish their breakfast Hermione said, "if you want to go back, you are free to go. I am just going to research memory spells and find a cure". " you know, I always loved researching during Hogwarts. I wouldn't mind doing it again". Hermione had hoped his answer would be this, she hadn't really wanted him to leave. She smiled brightly at him and finished her breakfast. Afterwards they quickly went out searching all the libraries in London and Hermione wrote a letter to professor McGonagall asking for books on memory charms. They both were exhausted by the time they were back and had agreed to have something light for dinner and go to sleep. They would start searching the books tomorrow.
The next morning, Hermione woke up at 7:30. She got freshened up and exited her room. She found Draco in the kitchen and greeted him, "good morning Draco". He turned "good morning Hermione". They ordered some tea and sandwiches for breakfast and got down to work. The books from Hogwarts had arrived and Draco and Hermione had searched each and every wizard library in paris. Hermione decided to go through the books that had come from Hogwarts as she had to return them within a week. They both got into reading their chosen books.
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