Chapter 5

She opened her eyes, looked at Draco as if she was dreaming and whispered in a barely audible voice, "Draco?" and then she fainted.

Draco closed his eyes and exhaled a breath that he didn't know he had been holding. He was overwhelmed with a sense of relief that he never thought existed. His name on her lips had sounded so right. Draco shook his head to clear these confusing thoughts and scooped Hermione in his arms to apparated. She felt so fragile, lying lifeless in his arms, but he knew that he was holding one of the strongest witches of all time.

Draco looked at her face and decided that he would help her heal, he would make her the same Hermione granger who helped bringing the dark lord down, he would make her see that her life was worth so much more than she ever realized, he just needed to figure out how. With that in mind, he held her closer in her arms and disapparated.

/slash scene/

Blaise had been in Hermione's old house, checking every room and calling for her when he saw Draco patronus, a silver dragon which informed him that Draco had found Hermione and was taking her to his flat. Relieved but confused, he apparated to Draco's flat with one thought in his mind,' what was Draco up to?'

/slash scene/

Luna had been looking for Mr. and Mrs. Granger's graves when suddenly she saw a silver dragon appear out of thin air, informing Luna of Hermione's location. Luna was so relieved that she almost cried tears of joy. She apparated to see Hermione with one thought in her mind,' what was Draco up to?'

/ slash scene/

Draco had apparated with Hermione to his flat as he had no idea where Luna and Blaise lived. His mother had wanted to live on their vacation home in the countryside and he had wanted to live in a simple apartment in London, so prior to his return to London Blaise had bought and designed his new home. It was an open apartment with a lot of windows, pastel green walls and lots of space; just what Draco had needed.

Draco placed Hermione gently on the bed in his guest room and flooed his family healer, Mr. Carter. The healer had been a bit stunned at the arrival of the youngest Malfoy, but had quickly gathered his medicine kit and flooed with Draco. Mr. carter was shocked to see a dripping Hermione granger lying unconscious on the bed.

Mr. carter, remembering the Malfoy background automatically assumed the worst and turned towards Draco and said," what did you do to her"

Draco got a pained look on his face and said," I believe I saved her"

The healer gave him a disbelieving look then turned to his patient, she was a war hero, he had to save her. After a drying spell and various murmured incantations and complicated wand movements over Hermione's body the healer sighed and turned to Draco," She has suffered from hypothermia and the presence of so much alcohol in her system will slow the healing process. I will give her some potions, but I think she'll take another 24 hours to gain consciousness.

Just then they her two pops of apparition and together Blaise and Luna entered the room. On seeing Hermione, Luna ran to her side and hugged her unconscious body tightly and sobbed her relief. Blaise walked to her side and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. Luna then turned to the healer and urgently asked," is she going to be fine? Why is her body burning? What is wrong with her?"

The healer recognized Luna lovegood as she was also a war hero and harry potters friend and wondered what was going on here, but then he answered," as I was telling Mr. Malfoy, Miss Granger has suffered from hypothermia and due to the presence of alcohol in her system the healing process will be slow. I am giving her some potions, but I think she'll take another 24 hours to gain consciousness.

He took a vial containing a green liquid and poured it in Hermione's mouth and put 5 similar looking vials on the table near the bed. Then he turned to the odd group and said," well my work is done here. Give these potions in every 5 hours and keep miss Granger well attended. She is going to be fine, and if you need anything I am a floo away. Goodbye for now". With that he disapparated.

As soon as the healer left, Draco was bombarded with questions.

"where did you find her?"

"how did you find her?"

"how did you know where she was?"

"what did she do?"

Draco silenced their endless questions by saying," I found her near a beach. I had myself been there before. I knew she might be there as I had once seen her there. And well…ummm". He was hesitating to answer the last question as he knew it was too much for Luna to listen.

Blaise understood his friend's hesitance; even he didn't want Luna to hear the details. He walked over to her and wrapped an arm around her waist and said," babe, leave it. What is important is that Granger is safe and she is going to be all right. you don't have to…"

Luna interrupted him and said," I want to know what she did? She came to me when she needed a friend and I was unable to help her. If ginny had been here she would have…"

Blaise turned her so that she was looking directly in his eyes and calmly said," please stop blaming yourself; it's not your fault. You tried to help her. In fact you did help her."

Luna nodded then looked towards Draco and said," I am strong enough to hear it. Please tell me."

Draco sighed and glanced at Blaise who looked worried but then looked at the determined look on Luna's face and said," she jumped off a cliff near the beach where I found her. I saw her just in time to see her jump."

Luna eyes widened and tears filled them. She went pale and almost looked like she would faint. She didn't want to have a breakdown in front of them so she managed to croak," I will be back in a moment" and left the room.

Blaise looked at the door, where Luna had just exited, with a pained look. He wanted to just hold her in his arms and make all her pain go away but even Hermione needed proper care.

Draco saw his best friend's dilemma and said" I will take care of Granger, you go. Luna's best friend tried to jump off a cliff to kill herself, she is going to need some time to digest this. She needs you, go calm her down; I'm here with Granger."

Blaise gave his friend a thankful look and followed his distraught girlfriend.

Draco looked at Hermione and said," there are so many types of love in this world; I wish you had seen how much your friends love you. Then maybe instead of dying for that Weasley you would have decided to live for your friends".

With that he took a chair, placed it on the bedside and settled on it for the night. It was sure going to be a long night and he had a witch to take care of…

A/n: I know this chapter is a little short but with time the chapters will get longer. I have finally found a beta…! Yiipppiiiee! AlyssaMarie4Eva has very generously offered to help. This chapter is not betad but hopefully till the next chapter we would have made a schedule and coordinated. (we live in different time spheres)

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