I am a horrible updater it's just that when I meant to update my computer crashed but luckily I had saved my stories on a disc. And I've just found the disk!!OMG.
Updates will be slower seeing as I have just started high school again and urgh...Also I have good news...there might be a sequel. The reason being is because the plot will change and instead of me getting you all confused etc...a sequel is better. Also I've got a friend who's helping me come up with ideas for it. So give me a yay or a nay if you want a sequel. But as promised there are two chapters being updated today. Also I've done a sort of tribute to chaters 15 upwards. It's on youtube lol LTstars Dramione Trailer.
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It all started with...
Chapter 15
Concern...
"So...all in all that wasn't the best week you've had." Fred Weasley said resting a foot on Hermione's bed. Ron's was just next to hers. It was night time, Hermione had just woken up, Ron was still asleep, the Hospital wing was filled by the Weasley clan and Tonks, Slughorn and a few of the Hogwarts staff.
"Fred!" Molly hissed as she watched over her youngest son. "If you can't say anything proper then don't say anything at all!" Fred shrugged his shoulders and turned his attention to Hermione.
"He will be ok right?" She asked her throat was sore from them ramming the bezoar juice down her, even if she had drank a small bit of the deadly concoction she wouldn't stop vomiting until she had her share of the bezoar stone.
Fred gave her a small smile. "Yea' I mean it's Ron. He's been attacked by a chess set, survived the Forbidden Forest, survived the Whomping willow, helped Harry fight a giant snake...fought off some Dementors, didn't do much in fourth year...help Harry create an army then fight of some Dark Eaters..." Hermione gave him a small smile.
The sound of many footsteps echoed around the large room, Hermione edged herself forward to see who was coming. She smiled slightly when she saw Ginny rushing in Harry running after her, she noticed two things that weren't normal. Ginny had been crying. In a bad way. Harry had a red mark against his face and looked upset. "Hermione! Oh good you're awake!" Ginny said her voice sounding like something was being squashed. Fred got up from his seat and went over to George who was entertaining a 1st year student using his wand to make small birds out of an old sheet. The adults huddled together not wishing to be part of the on coming lovers quarrel.
"Has he woken up?" Harry said looking at his best friend. Ginny let out a snort. "It wasn't my fault."
"Wasn't you're fault? Because of you Ron is here! He nearly died!" Ginny shouted whipping round so fast her hair flew around her face. Hermione looked towards Harry and Hermione.
"I wasn't the one who ate my chocolates!" Harry muttered back glaring at her. Ginny's face flushed as she realised that she had been dating a very popular guy.
"Hermione warned you! Why didn't you throw them away when you had the chance? You had a girlfriend! You didn't need another one!"
"Well-"
"Harry didn't want to throw them away when she could see. He didn't want them to assault you." Hermione jumped in. The pair looked at her. "But he had been warned." She added glancing towards Harry. She could tell from the way Ginny was acting now- silent blushing slightly- they'd be together before the night was out.
Harry turned round and gave Hermione a brief smile before turning his attention back to Ron. "Lucky that Harry knew what he was doing." Hermione said to Ginny. Ginny glanced over her shoulder at Harry. Ron was stirring slightly.
"Yes...I guess it was." Ginny whispered softly. Hermione looked around saying nothing, she wanted to see a glimpse of bond hair but somehow she couldn't. "I told him that when you were out he could see you." Ginny said softly looking hard at her friend.
"We're only friends Ginny." Hermione said confidently. But something nagged at her deep down inside. Where they just friends? It was hard to tell seeing as she had spent the first month at the Hospital Wing. Ginny rolled her eyes. She wasn't stupid.
"Right..." She drawled, she glanced again at Harry. She turned back to Hermione and was about to say something when the sound of squeals followed by Madame Pomfrey's warnings. Everyone turned their attention to the sound of Lavender Brown wailing 'Won-Won' as she rushed to his bedside.
Harry leapt out of the way. He didn't want to be caught up with this love scene. His love life was on a knife's edge already. "My darling love! Don't worry I'm here!" She wailed sitting in Harry's seat and snatching up Ron's limp hand.
Hermione mimed being sick behind Lavender's back. Ginny had to stifle a giggle. "Miss Brown you are not immediate family! Please wait until Mr Weasley wakes up!" Madame Pomfrey gasped as she arrived panting from picking up her skirts and running after her.
"But he's here!" Lavender snarled pointing a sharp finger at Harry's direction. "He's not family! He's not his brother! He's not his cousin! He's the very reason my Won-Won is here!" She spat out the 'he's' like it was a vile word. Harry felt uncomfortable with this outburst, he knew how he could handle Ginny's but Ginny was his girlfriend...or used to be...Lavender wasn't she was Ron's (sort of) girlfriend.
"He saved Ron's life!" Ginny shouted jumping up and marching in front of Harry. "What were you doing? Telling everyone you were best mates with Harry Potter and you were dating his best friend! Don't you dare accuse Harry for this!" Ginny defended. Lavender's mouth dropped slowly.
"Mmmh." Ron's moan snapped everyone's attention. They all crowded to his side. Lavender grabbed Ron's hand.
"Ron? Darling?" Ron let out another moan. "See! He senses my presence!" She said triumphantly looking directly towards Harry and Hermione.
"Susan..." Ron moaned. Everyone stumbled backwards slightly. Lavender stared at Ron then at Harry. "Susan..." Lavender dropped Ron's hand like it was burning her.
"It's...Lavender..." She mumbled dumb struck she got up when he moaned Susan's name again. She stumbled backwards leaving the Weasley family as she left the hospital Wing, her tears being the only sound besides Ron's moans.
"Young love." Fred muttered.
"Never get old." George finished.
"You can stop moaning. She's gone." Harry said making sure Lavender was gone. Ron opened one brown eye then the other. Ginny threw herself on him hugging him hard. "Why Susan?"
"Mate...it was the first name I could think of." Ron mumbled, his throat sore from the bezoar stone being rammed down his throat.
"Thank god you're awake!" Ginny sobbed as she hugged her brother.
"Ginny. If Fred and I end up like Ron would you be like this?" George teased as he approached his youngest brother. Ginny punched him playfully in the arm.
"Don't ask stupid questions like that." She said turning her attention to Harry. "I forgive you." She said bluntly. Harry blinked before smiling at her, he pulled her into a hug and then everyone turned away from the couple making up.
Hermione suddenly found herself wishing that she had something that Harry and Ginny shared. She wanted to be out soon, she hated being here and missing out on her school work but Madame Pomfrey assured the girl that Professor McGonagall has slowed homework down a bit in view of recent events. She missed having her heated conversations with Draco. Then she remembered something. In less than two weeks it'd be Valentine's Day. God help us then.
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Draco burnt Ginny's note informing him that Hermione was out of the hospital wing. He had spent the worst two weeks of his life. Not only had he been beaten up by the other Slytherins for being weak but his father had threatened showing up. Today he had received a seventh years beating, he knew that come evening he'd be beaten up again by Crabbe and Goyle. He chuckled bitterly; people looked up to him...now they were beating him up.
"My life gets better at each passing day." He muttered picking up a book and taking it to the large rectangle shaped desks. He picked up the foundation he had nicked off Pansy, it his bruises for the time being.
"Draco!" He turned round ignoring the way his heart flipped at the way she said his name. He tried to grin at her but it hurt his lip. She walked up to him and gasped when she noticed his fat lip. "Oh my god Draco!"
"Don't." He muttered brushing away her hand. "It's nothing." Hermione edged her seat forwards. "Trust me."
"Draco that looks like a fat lip." She said frowning at him; she gingerly touched his cheek as she tried to get a good look at it. She ignored her stomach doing flips as she felt the touch of his cheek run through her like a hundred volts. She removed her hand and noticed something. Something that was tan coloured had come off her fingers. She looked back at Draco.
"It's nothing." He repeated. He hated seeing that pained look in Hermione's soft brown eyes. He moved his head out of Hermione's reach as she tried to touch him again.
Hermione reached out again much quicker this time and wiped off more of the foundation. She gasped when she saw the ugly purple bruise staring at her. "That is not anything!" Draco moved away from her hand. "Draco who did this to you?" She demanded.
"Don't worry about me. I can take care of this." He replied wishing their reunion had been a bit more enjoyable. Hermione suddenly felt the urge to hold him in her arms. She felt ashamed at herself, she hadn't realised what he had done when he had confessed in front of the school. He had lost the respect that he had earned, students who had feared him now beat him up and kids that feared him but didn't express it would use him as their evening enjoyment.
"I'm sorry Draco." She said tears forming in her eyes. "This is my entire fault!" Draco looked at her like she was mad. It isn't her fault! She can't think that!
"I chose to make that confession. You didn't make me." Draco said clasping Hermione's hand with his. She looked at him her eyes filled with tears. "I can handle this. But don't cry for me. I don't deserve it."
"You're my friend. You didn't deserve this." She said slowly, tears still falling down her face.
"To top it off...I can't play Quidditch in the next match. Snape saw to that and so did Flitch." He said clenching his fists in anger. "They beat me up because I showed feeling. Because I showed feeling they beat me up." Draco spat angrily. Hermione only could hold his clenched fists as he expressed his pain.
"Draco I'm sorry." Hermione said slowly raising his hand to her face. His hand unclenched itself and to his amazement she nuzzled into it. It felt right somehow. It felt nice and like if Hermione's touch could heal him.
"Don't you dare apologize!" Draco muttered. He removed his hand from Hermione's warm cheek. Hermione looked up at him. "My problem not yours." He muttered. He got up and left Hermione, she watched as he left the library and suddenly she felt like something clicked inside.
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Draco rushed out of the library, he couldn't be s near her like that, he actually was in pain, not from his beatings but rather his heart. He knew the answer for why he was feeling like this but he didn't want to accept it. When he reached his common room he was met by two bulky figures. "Hello Crabbe. Goyle." He said as he walked past them. They kept him back.
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Hermione picked up her books and left the library.
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Draco grunted in pain when he felt Goyle punch him in the stomach. "That's all you got?" He asked chuckling spitting out the blood coming from his mouth. Crabbed cracked his knuckles and charged at Draco.
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Hermione was walking up to the Gryffindor common room when suddenly she stopped and from a large window that was by the bottom of the stairs, she rested herself on the table in front of it and gazed upwards at the now starry sky.
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Draco bit back the pain from being rammed into the wall. He felt something crack and he guessed he had broken a rib. Crabbe started punching his face.
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"I hope he's ok." Hermione mumbled as she noticed a shooting star. Hermione suddenly jumped up from her seat, she felt like she needed to be somewhere.
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Draco spat the blood coming from his mouth. Their punches got harder and harder. Then it hit him, his father's letter saying he might turn up. He couldn't so he made his son's ex-friends turn on him. As they kicked him in the ribs again and again. Draco could only think of Hermione.
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Hermione jumped up and ran down the stairs, her need to find Draco intensified.
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"Look at the blond prat! Ferret face we've brought a guest for you. Blaise he's yours." Goyle taunted. Blaise's cool hand touched his side. Then with his wand he pointed at the bloodied boy and whispered. "Crucio."
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The stairs seemed endless; the corridors seemed too long for her. She was nearly there.
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His whole body withered in pain. "What do you want from me?!" He gasped blood dripping from his mouth. The pain from his wounds came twice as painful.
"I'm here to teach you a lesson." He replied coolly as he pushed the spell further.
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Hermione tripped over her robe. She cursed herself as she picked herself up. She rubbed her chins from the cold marble.
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"Blaise! Whatever my father told you to do-ARGH!" Draco yelled as his body twisted in pain. Blaise lifted his wand and left Draco catch his breath. "We used to be friends!" Draco groaned.
"I'm never friends with a traitor. Crucio." Draco who had just picked himself up from the ground was sent back down again. The pain was like a thousand sharp knives scraping against a fork, it drove him insane.
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Hermione realised she heading towards the Slytherin area but didn't bother. Draco needed her. She'd do the same for Ron and Harry. But then why did she have this nagging in the back of her head?
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"You are pathetic. You are weak. I'm much stronger than you." Blaise taunted as he circled Draco who was twisting left to right in agony.
"I am stronger!" Draco groaned feebly kicking Blaise. Blaise chuckled at this.
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Hold on Draco! I'm coming! Hermione could hear Draco's groans now. It felt like a knife in her stomach. She pulled out her wand and shouted. "Stupefy!" She pointed her wand at Blaise knocking him to the ground, Draco was lying on the ground panting; the blood was drying up on his head making his hair look a dark colour of blond and his nose looked like an explosion had taken place. "Draco! Are you ok?" She asked rushing to his side. She brushed back his blond hair as she looked at him.
"Do I look ok? No. Why bother asking stupid questions Granger?" Draco whispered faintly. Hermione looked at him closely, from the wounds he had received from whoever that person was, were gonna make him faint from the pain and the loss of blood.
"Draco! Do you think you can stand?" She asked trying to help him up. Draco stumbled up but he managed to stay on his feet, all he needed was Hermione as his crutch.
"Thank you." Draco whispered as she helped him leave the corridor. He rested his head on Hermione's shoulder making her feel slightly light headed herself.
"You're welcome." Hermione replied softly. Draco looked up at her. His eye sight was getting blurry but he wasn't going to tell her that. He had to admit he cared about her.
"I guess I care for you." He said out loud. Hermione flushed pink. She guessed the pain was getting to him, making him say these things. "You really are special to me."
"Don't say things you don't mean." Hermione replied now they were coming up the stairs making Draco moan out in pain. Draco felt his movements grow sluggish and weak. He felt like his body wasn't responding to his mind, he forced himself to stay awake and bite back the pain but he could tell when his body had had enough.
"Hermione...I-I'm going to faint..." Draco whispered feebly, his body slackened slightly and fell into Hermione's arms. He had fainted.
"Draco? Please stay awake!" She pleaded as she lowered the boy down. She pulled her dark hair back as she tied to keep Draco awake. He fluttered in and out but he wasn't totally there. He needed help or else he could fall seriously ill. Placing a hand under each arm she dragged him up the stairs carefully and along the corridors. She was grateful that there were no ghosts to bother her it would look very bizarre if they found her dragging Draco like this.
Finally after five long stair cases, ten long corridors she had made it to the Hospital wing. Madame Pomfrey was sitting in her chair having a sip of what looked like whiskey and was going over some documents. She gave a little squeak when she saw an exhausted Hermione and a beaten up Draco. "Miss Granger! What on earth has happened to Mr Malfoy?" She demanded anxiously as she rushed to his side. She helped Hermione place him on a bed. She unbuttoned his bloodied shirt and let out a harsh sigh.
"He will be ok? Won't he?" Hermione asked as she noticed the ugly purple bruises that were all over his body, the ugliest was around his rib cage.
"Yes. Don't worry Miss Granger. This happens all the time. I've told Albus something had to be done but he seems so occupied by something it's hard to get through to him." Madame Pomfrey said as she bustled towards her cupboards.
"This has happened before?" Hermione asked not realising she was holding his hand tightly.
"I've told him to do something about it but he says he deserves it. I know he's not the pleasant sort of boy Mr Potter is but no one deserves this. It's getting worse. Last night he was close to choking on his own blood." Hermione let out a small gasp. "You can sleep on the bed next to him." Hermione nodded and climbed on top of the bed next to him. She watched as Madame Pomfrey forced him to drink liquids and strapped his left wrist with a white bandage.
Please be ok Draco...please be ok...
In the next chapter just a heads up there is a death but it's not part of the poll otherwise it'd be much bigger lol
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Who should I kill off? Draco has been taken out due to thinking of sequel
A- Ron
B- Neville
C- Luna
D- You tell me who you want to evicte from the fanfic.