Chapter 25
It had been three weeks and Hermione was still not talking to Draco and he was getting rather infuriated with it as she refused to acknowledge his existence, every now and then she would reply with a one word answer but never anything more. Draco knew he was wrong to say those things but he really did think that she was blowing it way out of proportion and was over exaggerating.
Draco had decided to wake up early and cast a spell on their only way in and out of their living quarters. No one was coming in and Hermione definitely wasn't leaving. Draco sat on the sofa, getting warm in front of the fire and listened as Hermione fumbled around in her room; once she made it downstairs she made a b-line for the door, only to be knocked back. Hermione tried opening the door several time before giving up with a defeated huff, she turned to the sofa and glared at Malfoy knowing full well that this was his doing "What?" he questioned falsely innocent "Door" Hermione stated pointing at it "What are you? A Neanderthal?" He questioned sarcastically "You gotta use your words love" he stated smugly "Open the damn door" Hermione growled through gritted teeth. Draco pretended to think about his answer "No" he said simply, which only angered her, which in turn angered him as he was the only one in the room that had the right to be pissed off.
He got off the sofa furiously and took dangerously quick motions towards her, causing Hermione to place a protective hand over her abdomen; he stopped inches in front of her "Seriously?" he questioned in disbelief "You think I'd hurt my child?" Hermione just shrugged enraging him even more. He forcefully pushed her chest causing her to fall into the door, he slammed both his hands on either side of her head boxing her in "You're not going anywhere" he snarled at her, however it was not his words that scared Hermione but his eyes; his usual silver had turned into a dark grey, borderline black and this terrified her, she had never felt so frightened under someone's intent stare, "Let me go" she whispered out, her voice breaking on the last syllable "We need to talk" he removed his hands from the door and wrapped one hand around her wrist and dragged her to the kitchen table, he let her go when she was sat down and he knew she wasn't going to try anything.
For a long while Hermione stared at the fruit bowl in the middle of the table while Draco stared at her in silence. This was his stupid idea, yet he didn't know what to say, he crossed his arms and sunk further into the counter "Three weeks, you haven't spoken to me in three god damn weeks" He raised his voice causing Hermione to flinch "This is getting ridiculous and petty, I've been disconnected from you and our baby for three weeks Granger" he said painfully, slowly walking over to the table and sitting in the seat opposite her. As he sat down she got up with haste and walked over to the stairs, however Draco was quicker; he wrapped his fingers gently under her arm and stopped her in her tracks "Come on Granger" he pleaded "You have to say more than a few words to me, you can't continue to ignore my existence."
She wriggled her arm out of his grasp and stared venomously at him "Well?" he questioned "You want a sentence? How about 'I hate you Draco Malfoy" he stared at her for a moment "Try again" he baited her with his smug grin "That wasn't a sentence, it was fact" He stated. Hermione could feel her blood beginning to boil; he got under her skin in every way possible.
She decided to end his torturous silent treatment that she had been subjecting him too "You're nothing but a selfish, jealous, pig headed jackass who thrives off of other peoples misery" she moved her face in a little closer to make him feel as uncomfortable as she could "Did you get off on making me upset? Did you enjoy throwing those hateful words at me? Did you relish in listening to me cry? Listening to the emotional damage you caused? Did you run back to your little friends and brag about how you made the little mudblood cry? I bet you did eh? Did you a kick out of it?"
she threw all these rhetorical questions at him and he had to argue against his nature and let her vent it out without out interruption "You're a hurricane, you come in full of rage and hate, destroy everything in your path and just leave, letting everyone else deal with the chaos and mess and mistakes that you've made" she rubbed her hand over her stomach "This mess cannot be undone, and if you keep hurting me, sooner or later your words are going to lead to a chaos that can't be fixed" she explained in a quiet tone before walking up the stairs.
"So now would be a bad time to invite you to my quidditch match this afternoon?" his question was answered with a loud thud of a slamming door "I'll take that as a 'screw you' then".
Draco left for the quidditch match not long after their discussion; Draco hovered above the field and scanned the stands in hopes that Granger had changed her mind and shown up, "What's eating you mate?" Blaise questioned as he flew over to his friend "What? Nothing, now get back in goals, the match will be starting any minute." Blaise complied with his order and shortly after the match began.
Nearing the end of the match Draco spotted the snitch, he lowered his body so he was eye level with it and almost parallel with his broomstick; the snitch raced off with Draco hot on its tail, once he was within arm's length of the snitch he stretched out his arm and extended his fingers in an attempt to snatch it out of the air and claim victory for Slytherin. A small grin graced his face before a terrified voiced screamed out his name causing him to turn around.
As he did, he caught sight of the Bludger that hit him square in the chest, before he fell off his broom, hitting the ground with a sickening thud, all Draco could hear were screams and gasps as his team mates surrounded him. Blaise came into Draco's line of view "You'll be all right mate" he assure his friend who lay helpless on the field "Granger, get Granger" he rasped out before passing out, Blaise complied with his last order and set off to find Hermione.