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Chapter 27

I'm Yours

July 31, 1999

Blaine, Washington, United States

Luke rang the bell to Michael's house and held his breath. He needed his friend to be there.

He needed Michael to be willing and ready to turn himself in.

He needed Michael to come in without a fight.

Luke was tired of the killing. He was tired of the sleepless nights he'd been experiencing since trying to kill Hermione and knowing his closest friend was killing people for no real reason.

He was simply tired.

Michael heard the bell ring and his heart began to race. He hoped it was someone he knew and trusted. He needed to get help. He grabbed his wand, and made sure he had the other wands from the people he had killed hidden in pockets, and headed to answer the door.

He opened the door to see Luke, Harry, and someone he didn't know on his front stoop. A smile spread across his face at seeing the familiar faces, they were here to help him.

"You came, Luke. I knew you would!" Michael looked at Harry and then he remembered what he did. He remember seeing Harry cast that spell on Draco and he remembered using the spell on LeStrange during the Final Battle. He remembered Luke telling him about trying to hurt Hermione. Michaels brain was going a million miles a second. He was starting to freak out.

"Michael, it's okay. We're here. Calm down. It's okay, Mike. Come with us. Please, we are going to get you help." Luke urged Michael.

"You can fight this, man. Come on. You don't have to do this. You're stronger than whatever you're going through." Roddy said. Michael didn't know his voice. This unnerved him. Who was this guy with a thick southern accent?

He tried to fight it.

He was trying so hard.

He just wanted to go with Luke and get help.

It was too late. He was past the point of return. He had his wand in his hand and silently cast a stupefy on Roddy, Luke, and Harry. They crumpled to the ground. Ron, Hermione, George, and Neville were in the bushes and quickly jumped out of the bushes and began firing stunning spells and disarming spells at Michael. Michael had up a shield charm that was stronger than any one that Hermione had ever seen.

Neville was able to disarm Michael for a moment before he pulled another wand out of his back pocket to replace the one Neville had in his hand. Michael was too fast and no one was able to stun him. Hermione was trying to work her way around to the back of him and fire spells where the shield charm was lacking but Michael wouldn't have that.

He had his back against the wall and the shield charm was completely surrounding him.

Draco heard all the commotion coming from the front of the house and took off to the front of the house along with Johnny Ray and Ashira.

Johnny Ray saw what was going on and quickly cast a form of the Fidelius Charm to keep the muggles away along with a muggle repelling charm. Johnny Ray then headed over to Harry, Roddy, and Luke. Draco had cast a rennervate and made sure that Harry, Luke, and Roddy were okay. Johnny Ray and the other four were talking about ways to break through Michael's shield charm.

"This charm is stronger than any that Hermione has ever cast. I have no idea what he is doing that is making this so much stronger than five strong witches and wizards." Harry hollered over the sounds of the spells bouncing off the shield.

"What if we tackle him? Like run at him full speed and knock him off balance and then stun him?" Roddy asked way too enthusiastic about that idea.

Johnny Ray looked up and noticed that Michael had another wand and was now casting spells and cursed back at his team.

"Shit! We've just got to continue to cast spells at him. He'll break eventually!" Johnny Ray hollered and began to fire stunning and disarming spells at him.

Draco, Harry, Luke, and Roddy all began to fight too.

There were curses and spells being cast at every side. Draco worked his way around to Hermione.

"How are you holding up?" He asked Hermione while blocking a curse Michael sent his way.

"How the fuckin' hell is he able to keep that shield up?" Ron hollered before Hermione could answer Draco.

"I've got no idea. It's stronger than anything I've ever seen. He has been running for a long time. He's had all the time in the world to improve on it. In his right mind he probably has no idea he can even do that." Hermione screamed back at Ron.

Their little conversation gave Michael all he break he needed to cast three sectumsempra curses at Roddy.

His body fell to the ground and blood pour out of his chest and neck.

"NOO! NOO! NO!" screamed Draco as he ran toward Roddy.

Everyone looked up to see Roddy's near lifeless body lying on the ground which gave Michael and opportunity to disarm Harry and prevent him from healing Roddy.

Hermione took off after Draco. She was trying to get him to calm down. He wasn't having it. He was seeing red.

He stood up and began to cast the most rapid fire series of spells that anyone standing there had ever seen.

Those who had been stationed around the house had come to the front and everyone was crowded around Roddy.

Michael was so taken aback by the amount of hate and anger he saw coming from Draco that his shield momentarily dropped just long enough for Draco to hit him with an incredibly strong stunning spell.

"Here's the fuckin bastard. I hope his soul is sucked from him in the most painful and demoralizing way that has ever been thought of." Draco hollered still seething and disapparated.

Joey and Pete from Johnny Ray's team took all of the wands off of Michael and magically bound his hands. With Johnny Ray's instruction they took Michael back to the headquarters in DC threw him into a cell.

While Joey and Pete were taking care of Michael, Harry had taken Ron's wand and cast the counter curse to the spell used on Roddy but Roddy had lost so much blood.

Too much blood.

Tears were streaming down Hermione's face along with Harry's, Ron's, Johnny Ray's and everyone else's.

Melissa had come up with a way to save Roddy.

"I know we don't have blood replenishing potions here, but I know of a muggle way. Everyone stick out your arm." Melissa commanded.

First she cast a test on Roddy then quickly pricked everyone's finger and cast the same test on everyone in the yard.

"Ron, you are the only match. Roddy and you both have a very rare blood type. AB negative. When I saw the results of Roddy's test I thought we were surely screwed but Ron, you're a match. Can we use your blood?" Melissa asked.

"Is it going to hurt?" Ron asked.

"RON! DO IT NOW!" Hermione hollered at him.

"Fine. Let's do this, Melissa." Ron breathed.

Melissa magically tapped into a vein in Ron's arm and drew a line to Roddy's. She connected the two and transferred blood into Roddy.

"It's going to take a little while. Ron, I'll make sure you don't loose too much blood. This should work. I think we caught it in time. Harry was able to heal his wounds as quickly as he could."

Hermione sobbed into Harry's shoulder. "Where's Draco?" Harry just shook his head. He didn't know. It broke his heart to see Hermione this heart broken. He wrapped his arms around his best friend and held her while she cried. He allowed the tears to fall from his own eyes and stream down his face.

They all sat in silence for a long time. The only sound that could be heard was of people wiping tears off their faces, sniffles, and Melissa occasionally asking Ron if he was alright. Eventually, Melissa stopped the transfusion of blood from Ron to Roddy and told them they'd have to wait for a while.

Harry went into Michael's house to see if he could find food for Ron to eat. Melissa had said that would help Ron. He found an unopened box of granola bars and grabbed it.

"I think we can transport him to the nearest hospital now." Melissa said. "Ron needs to get checked out too, and they'll probably give him a blood replenishing potion as well.

They all disapparated.

St. Alfred's admitted Ron and Roddy right away.

"You've done an excellent job of taking care of Mr. Allen. You have probably saved his life." The healer told them.

Hermione and Harry went with Ron and Johnny Ray stayed with Roddy.

"I'm worried about Draco. How will I find him? I need to find him. I need to let him know that Roddy's going to be okay." Hermione fretted.

"He'll find you. I'm glad you're more worried about your missing boyfriend than your best friend." Ron chided.

Hermione and Ashira both smacked him.

"OWWWW!" Ron whined. They all giggled.

Draco apparated to the only place he could think of. Roddy's childhood house. The place that Draco and Roddy had spent many summers and Christmas breaks. The house with the big yard and amazing quidditch pitch. Roddy's parents house stood on a hill not far from the pitch. The pitch was blocked by a grove of trees so Draco knew he wouldn't be seen.

He made his way to the middle of the quidditch pitch and sat down and cried.

He had never felt so much heart ache in his entire life. He had watched that mad man murder his best friend. He saw all of Roddy's blood spilled on the ground around him. He saw Michael cast the sectumsempras and knew the pain that Roddy must have went through. Draco's only comfort was that Roddy died quickly and didn't have to feel much of the pain. Draco's own body began to shake thinking about the pain that the sectumsempra invokes on people.

He didn't feel this much pain when he was fighting in the war. He didn't know he could experience this much pain. He sat in the quidditch pitch for a long time thinking about Roddy and Hermione. He didn't know what to do.

He began to throw himself a giant pity party. He was acting like a Hufflepuff but he didn't care.

Was Hermione was going to call him a coward for running away from Roddy's death? What about Ron and Harry? What were they going to say? He bet they'd think he was a coward and no good for Hermione. They were strong Gryffindors who never got scared. They were brave and courageous. They wouldn't have run. They never ran from anything. He didn't deserve Hermione.

She deserved someone who wasn't scared or cowardly. She deserved someone who would be able to handle death.

He convinced himself that she wouldn't want anything more to do with him anymore.

This made Draco even more sad. He had lost his best friend and now he was going to lose the girl that he loved. He probably needed to man up and go and face his fate.

He apparated back to Michael's yard not knowing where else to go. He hoped they would still be there.

Kyle and Amber were finishing cleaning up the yard and taking down all magical traces and removing all muggle repelling spells when Draco landed in the yard.

"Where's Roddy, Hermione, Harry, and Ron?" Draco asked the moment he landed in the yard.

"Everyone took Roddy and Ron to St. Alfred's. Do you want someone to take you there?" Amber asked.

Draco nodded his head and Amber took ahold of his arm and apparated him to St. Alfred's.

Hermione had gone searching for Melissa. She had questions for her. She found him standing outside Roddy's room with Nikki.

"Hey Melissa. How are you holding up?" Hermione asked.

"I'm doing well. How are you?"

"I'm okay. I'm worried about Draco. I'm glad Roddy is doing well. Melissa, how did you know about the muggle way of transferring blood? How did you know about all that blood type stuff?" Hermione asked.

"Well, I'm muggle born and one summer when I was home from school I was in a car accident with my mom and I had to get a blood transfusion. Ever since then I've been curious about the differences between muggle and magical healing so I went to college after I graduated from school and I studied to be a healer. I really like the magical way of healing but sometimes you don't have everything you need to heal, like today. I wanted to find a way to use muggle ways in our magical lives. I spend 3 years researching and testing my different theories and procedures. This is one of the my many endeavors. Not all of them have been successful but some of them have been. I am training other healers in America and I hope to try and spread this to other professions, like aurors and MPs. I feel it's something they can use in the field and it should help save lives. It takes a lot of money and not everyone is on board with using modified muggle technology so this is a very slow going process. I really do think that it can change the healing in our world."

"I can't thank you enough for what you did today for Roddy. He is an amazing man and I don't think that Draco would have ever been the same if Roddy had died. I think that using muggle ways is a fantastic thing. You know I'm muggle born as well. I will see what I can do about getting you funding and I believe that every person that witnessed today will be putting their full support behind you. You have some very influential people behind you now. You are literally a life saver." Hermione gave Melissa a hug and walked into Roddy's room.

"Hey, Hermione. How is Ron doing?" Johnny Ray asked in this thick southern accent. Hermione might move here just for their accents.

"Ron's doing well. They are allowing him to eat whatever he wants. He's thrilled." Hermione giggled. "How's Roddy?"

"The healer said his blood is back up to normal levels. There are still a lot of concerns but he should be waking up any time now. Any news from Draco?"

Hermione shook her head. "I'm worried. I don't even know where to begin to look. I have no idea where he would go. I've never been over here. I tried to floo him, but the floo hasn't been able to find him." Hermione tried to keep the tears from spilling over her eyes.

Johnny Ray stood up and wrapped his arms around her. "He'll come back. He thinks his best friend is dead. I don't know where he went, but I do know that he'll come back for you. You're all he thinks he has left. I saw the way he looks at you, I know what Roddy has said about him. I've read about the Malfoy family and I know people like him. He'll be back for you. He won't be able to survive without you. He loves you and he needs you."

"Thank you, Johnny Ray." Hermione whimpered and wiped the remaining tears off her face.

"Don't be getting all mushy on me now, Hermione. Aren't you suppose to be some kind of brave Gryffindor or something like that?" came Roddy's very hoarse voice.

"Roddy!" Hermione and Johnny Ray said in unison.

"I'm glad to see I've been missed. What happened? Did we catch that bastard?" Roddy asked.

Johnny Ray and Hermione both laughed lightly. "We caught him, well Draco's anger at the thought of you dead was enough to break through his charm and he's in DC right now in a cell. You were hit with three sectumsempra curses in a row. You almost bled out there in the front yard." Johnny Ray said.

"Draco's always had a temper. Glad it finally came in handy." Roddy coughed, "Can I get some water?"

The healer came in around that time and shoo'ed Johnny Ray and Hermione out of the door.

"I think I'm gonna go for a walk. Tell Ron I'll be up there shortly." Hermione told Johnny Ray and headed down the long corridor.

Hermione walked out the doors of the hospital. She needed to get away and think for a few moments. She needed to find Draco. She hoped that he'd find her.

She was sitting on a bench off to the side of the hospital when she saw Draco and Amber apparate in.

"Everyone is in there, I've got to get back and help Kyle finish up at Michael's place. I'll see you back in DC. Oh, Draco, everything will be alright, you'll see." Amber said and disapparated.

Draco stood there for a moment before he headed for the doors.

"Draco!" Hermione shouted.

Draco stopped in his tracks. Hermione. He turned around and she was running towards him. He wrapped his arms around her and allowed the tears to spill down his cheeks again.

"I can't believe he's gone. He's my best friend. I... I..." Draco stuttered.

"He's not gone. Melissa and Ron were able to save him. He isn't gone. Let's sit down and I'll tell you what happened then we can go see him." Hermione whispered in his ear.

Draco just looked at her. "Not gone?" He whimpered through his tears. She shook her head and led him to the bench.

She sat and explained what happened. She told him about how brilliant Melissa was and how quickly she acted. She told him about Ron and how he willingly gave his own blood in a muggle modified way. She told him that Roddy was awake and probably wanted to see him. Draco pulled her in tight and kissed her.

He couldn't say anything. He was so thrilled that Roddy wasn't dead and so ashamed of his actions. He just held her tight.

Eventually his voice came out thick and rather hoarse, "I've acted like a child. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have run."

Hermione cut him off, "It's okay, we can talk about everything later. I was worried, but that isn't an issue right now. Let's go see Roddy and Ron." She kissed him quickly and pulled him up from the bench.

Hermione knocked on the door and went in when the healer opened the door.

"It's about damn time you got here to see me, you bastard." Roddy said to Draco. "I've been waiting on you to get here."

"I'm... I'm..."

"Oh stop. You know I'm just kidding. Don't be acting all Hufflepuff on me. Draco. Man." Roddy laughed.

Draco smiled. "I am no damn Hufflepuff. I'm sorry. I thought you were dead. I couldn't bare that thought."

"I was almost dead. I should kiss Melissa but I have a feeling Mae wouldn't like that too much. She's a smart one. Probably give your girl a run for her money." Roddy chimed in.

"I doubt that. Hermione's the brightest witch of her age." Draco said. Hermione blushed. "How are you feeling? Did you ever experience any pain?" Draco asked Roddy.

"I'm doing well. I wasn't ever in any pain. I don't even remember being hit. I'm sore now but I'm sure as hell ready to get out of here. This food is awful."

Hermione, Draco, and the healer just laughed.

"You'll be able to leave very soon, Mr. Allen. I am just going to run a few more tests then I'll be able to release you. You'll need someone to stay with you for a few days to make sure everything is alright, but other than that you should be free to do whatever you like. I would suggest you stay away from any 'extra-curricular activities' for about a week." The healer said with a wink.

Roddy groaned and Draco and Hermione laughed.

"I will be celebrating hard as soon as we get Michael completely taken care of. Mae and I are going to some island and not talk to anyone for about a month." Roddy grinned.

"We'll be back in a bit to get you, we're going get Ron all checked out." Hermione said. "Draco, do you want to stay with Roddy or come with me?" Hermione asked.

"I'll go with you. We'll be back soon mate." Draco said to Roddy and laced his fingers through Hermione's.

They found Ron, Harry, Ashira, and George waiting for the healer to sign the final paperwork to have Ron released.

Draco's face flushed. He was embarrassed by his action. None of his friends paid that any mind. They all greeted him warmly and with smiles and hugs.

"Thank you, Ron." Draco's voice was still thick with emotion as he talked. "I can't thank you enough for saving Roddy's life. Thank you Harry again, for healing him. I really don't know if I can ever thank you two enough."

"No problem, mate. It really was the least I could do." Ron said.

"Let's go get Roddy and Johnny Ray and head back to DC." Harry said. "I could use a drink and I have some questions for our friend, Mr. Corners."

"Speaking of friends where is Neville and Luke?" Hermione asked trying to hide the fact the she was worried about them.

"They were here not long ago. They were gonna head back to DC and Luke needed to sleep. He hasn't slept in a long time. Neville took him back and we told him we'd come find him when we got back." George said as they walked down the hall to Roddy's room.

Roddy and Johnny Ray were waiting on the healer to release him when everyone walked in.

"Thanks for everything, Ron. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you. I don't think I can thank you enough." Roddy said.

"It isn't a problem. I'm sure you would have done the same thing if the situations were reversed. I'm just glad I could actually help." Ron answered.

"Johnny Ray, what's the plan for when we get back to DC?" Harry asked.

"I think that we all need a good meal and a good night sleep. I've already talked to Felicia and we will be having supper at my house and then we will meet back at the office tomorrow at 10. NO EARLIER! We will deal with Michael in the morning. We have a lot of questions for him and we need answers but I think holding him in the cell tonight isn't going to change anything. We know he is caught. He can't get out that cell and right now that's all I'm worried about. I need some good food and a night without the thought 'is he going to kill again tonight?'" Johnny Ray answered.

Once Roddy was released everyone apparated back to the office in DC. Hermione went to go find Neville and Luke. She was worried about Luke. She saw how awful he looked earlier today and last night. She wanted to make sure he was doing alright.

Hermione found Luke and Neville in Johnny Ray's office. Neville had configured Johnny Ray's chair into a bed for Luke and he was fast asleep. Neville was reading a book off Johnny Ray's shelf when Hermione walked in.

"Hey, Neville. How are you and Luke doing?" She asked with obvious concern in her voice. Hermione walked over to Neville and he pulled her into him. He wrapped his arms around her before he spoke.

"I'm doing well. I gave Luke a sleeping drought and he's been asleep since we got back. I feel bad for him. He hasn't slept more than 3 hours at a time since he attacked you. Poor fellow. He feels partly responsible for all of this stuff going on. He thinks he should have known that Michael was killing those people, like he should have seen it. I feel bad for him. How's Ron and Roddy?"

"I feel awful for him, too. It wasn't his fault at all. Not at all. Ron is fine. He was given the chance to eat loads so he did, you know he's fine whenever he is given the opportunity to eat whatever he wants. Roddy is doing well. They are all in the conference room talking. I wanted to come and check on you and Luke. Do you know when Luke will be waking up?"

"The drought should be wearing off very soon. It wasn't a real strong one. He's been asleep for about 4 hours." Neville answered.

"You go ahead and go the conference room, I'll wait for Luke to wake up." Hermione urged. Neville looked at her as if to ask, 'are you sure?' "GO!" Hermione said and Neville left.

Hermione needed a few moments to gather her emotions. Today has been a whirl wind of emotions, up and down, good and bad. She was hungry and exhausted.

"'Mione?" came Luke's voice to startle her out of her thoughts.

"Yes, it's me Luke. How are you feeling?"

"Better. How's Roddy doing? I'm so so sorry, Hermione. I never wanted any of this to happen. I'm sorry. Please, Hermione, forgive me." Luke said trying to keep his voice under control.

"Roddy's fine. You didn't do anything wrong, Luke. You were great. You did everything you could. You were brilliant. You have nothing to be sorry for, but of course you are forgiven." Hermione answered.

They sat and talked for a few more minutes before they headed to find everyone else.

"Felicia said for everyone to head on over. We'll floo there. I've already made everyone reservations at the hotel in town. It isn't the nicest hotel in the world but it'll do." Johnny Ray say.

They were all very glad to have a good home cooked meal. Felicia was a wonderful cook and a great hostess. They had fried chicken, rolls, greens, macaroni and cheese, and green beans. There was plenty to go around and everyone was very glad to have eaten well. Johnny Ray refused to allow them to talk about Michael. Felicia served peach cobbler and ice cream along with coffee after the meal had finished.

"This is a sweet little hotel." Hermione said when she and Draco got to their room. Ron and Harry cut their eyes at her when she went into the room with Draco but she ignored them.

"'Mione, Can I talk to you?" Draco asked with a quiver in his voice.

"Of course." Hermione answered rather unsure of what Draco was going to say.

He pulled her into his arms and wrapped them tightly around her. he kissed her deeply before pulling away.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for my actions today. I acted like a spoiled rotten child. I should have stayed. I should have been strong. I wasn't. I was weak. I ran. I hid. I am not worth you. I am not worth your love. You deserve someone strong and reliable and able to handle difficult matters when they come to pass. I can't. I just run and hide and act like a brat. You don't deserve that." Draco's voice was shaky but he was able to keep his emotions in check.

"Draco, you are brave. You are strong. You thought your best friend had just been killed. If it had been Harry or Ron I don't know what I would have done. When I thought Harry died in the final battle I was a mess. I clung to Ron in those few moments of disbelief. I wish you had come to me. I wish you had cried to me, but I do understand that we all deal with things like this differently. I can't ask you to be me. I can't ask you to deal with things like I do. I love you for you. We all have our weaknesses and our flaws. We learn to live and work through these flaws together. I love you, Draco Malfoy. I love you when you act like a spoiled rotten child, when you run and hide from your feelings, when you are at your worst, I love you. I deserve you. I wouldn't trade you for anything in the entire world."

Hermione leaned in and kissed him passionately.

"I'm yours, Hermione. I'm not going anywhere. I need to be brave and courageous for you. I need to stand up and do what's right for you. I'm yours. You've touched me in a way I didn't know was possible. You've seen beneath my well placed masks and you don't care. You still love me. I might not always have the softest touch or say the right words, but I'm yours. I know my edges are rough and I don't feel like I'm enough for you, I'm yours. All of me. Everyday. The good. The bad. All of me. I love you, Hermione. You've come in and you've healed me in a way I didn't know I needed and in ways I didn't think I could be healed. I love you, Hermione Jean Granger. I love you."

He kissed her and began to undress her.