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Earth Shattering	By : Luckycharms Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 11678 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. That right goes to the AMAZING JK Rowling. One event however, is based off real facts and no profit is made off this story.

Chapter List
- 1-Meeting
- 2-Unexpected
- 3-Descent
- 4-Almost
- 5-Confessions
- 6-Change
- 7-Breathe
- 8-Remember
- 9-Home
- 10-Release
- 11-Wrong
- 12-Strong
- 13-Quidditch
- 14-Beginning
- 15-Endgame
- 16-Truth
- 17-Epilogue
- 9
- 10
- 11
Chapter 10- Release
Wednesday August 10^th, 2005 10:15am
“Bullshit!” Ginny yelled as she stared Draco down.
Harry and Hermione looked back and forth between the duo as they sat across each other on the hospital bed with worry, while Ginny tried to call Draco out. Draco however, condescendingly smirked at the red head and lowered his hands to the bed; never taking his eyes off Ginny.
Ginny leaned forward and looked at the cards he flipped over and shrunk her shoulders while letting out a frustrated groan.
“Ugh! Again?” she asked as she collected the large pile of discarded playing cards in the center of the group. “How the hell do you keep doing that?”
“You are challenging a Slytherin to a game of Bullshit. Do you really think I can’t mask a lie?” he stated with a raised brow as he let out a chuckle.
“I hate that you always win!” she stated in aggravation as she sorted the stack of cards in her hand. “It’s not fair.” She frowned.
The group snickered at Ginny’s frustration as they continued the game.
“Four three’s.” Harry claimed, setting four cards face down in the center.
“Bullshit.” Ginny furrowed her brows and looked at her husband “I have all the fours.”
“You have all the cards.” Harry laughed as he pointed to the large stack in her hands.
“I quit!” Ginny threw her cards in the center and crossed her arms in a huff, as she leaned back into her chair.
Everyone let out laughs, well, everyone except for Ginny, as Hermione collected the cards and fixed them.
“Do you want to play again?” She asked with an innocent smile.
“No!” Ginny announced “Not if Malfoy keeps winning.”
“Well someone is a sore loser.” Draco chuckled, leaning back in his chair.
“I wouldn’t be if you didn’t win every game we have played. You even won at monopoly! Monopoly! A muggle game you have never even played before!”
“It’s a business game.” He stated as a matter of fact “It’s wasn’t hard to figure out.”
Ginny rolled her eyes.
“And what about Candy Land? Or the Game of Life? Hmm?” she pressed on.
“I got lucky in those. Just the luck of the roll.” He responded shrugging his shoulders.
“Battleship?” she continued.
“Okay,” Harry interrupted with a chuckle “We can move on to Trivial Pursuit if you want, Gin?” he suggested. “Malfoy is sure to lose at that game.”
“So will I!” she uncrossed her arms “That game is all about muggle facts. Only you and Mione would actually win that game.”
Harry looked slightly defeated as he let out a sigh and turned to the pile of games they borrowed from the kid’s play room.
“Well, we have-”
“Good morning!” Dr. Baker announced, cutting Harry off, while knocking on the open door. “How is my favorite patient doing today?” he smiled entering the room with a clipboard in hand.
“Excellent, Dr. Baker!” Hermione chirped.
“That is wonderful to hear…I have good news for you Ms. Granger.”
Hermione smiled widely as she looked at the doctor.
“I get to go home today?” she asked cheerfully.
Dr. Baker frowned and looked down at her chart.
“Well your scans came back clean and your wound is healing nicely. Your memory is almost back to normal, but…”
Hermione’s face fell and Draco instantly felt bad for her. He knew she was done with the hospital and just wanted to go home. He also wanted to be the one to take her home. The doctors had been monitoring her for the past two days and she had improved greatly. He didn’t understand why she couldn’t leave.
“I am just kidding.” Baker grinned “You get to go home today!”
“Really?” she pipped up with wide eyes and a large smile.
“Really.” Baker stated softly, lowering the clip board. “You are all cleared to be released; you just need to sign a few documents at the front desk and then you are free to go.”
Ginny let out a loud squeal and stood up to hug Hermione. Draco reached over and took Hermione’s hand in his and squeezed lightly with a small smile on his face.
“Ow Gin, why are you squealing so loudly? You are going to make everyone go deaf.” Ron Weasley asked, stepping into the room while holding a hand to his ear.
“Ron?” Harry stated standing up “You made it just in time. Hermione is being released today!”
“Yeah, it was hard to get away.” Ron replied shrugging “Dragons are not easy to han-” he stopped as soon as Draco came into view, from behind the doctor, and his eyes lowered to his hand holding on to Hermione’s.
“What the fuck are you doing here, Ferret?” he spat with hate.
Draco didn’t know how to answer without it starting a fight and the last thing he wanted to do was fight. He was so tired of it and he was tired of past grudges always being brought up. He just wanted to be left alone.
“He is here because of Hermione, Ronald.” Ginny expressed looking up at him before releasing her hold on her friend. “They were trapped together and he helped save her life, so before you start shit that doesn’t need to be started, I suggest you stop now and change your tone real quick.”
“So what if he saved her? That doesn’t make up for everything else he has ever done to us. He doesn’t belong here!”
“Is that why you came here, Ron?” Hermione asked releasing her hand from Draco. “To start something? I want him here.”
“No, no I came to see you.” he turned his dark eyes away from Draco and moved them lovingly to Hermione. “I am sorry I couldn’t be here sooner. Work held me up. I came as soon as I could.” He stated walking past the doctor and moving to stand next to her; as far away from Draco as possible.
Ron leaned down and hugged her. Pulling back, he pressed a long tender kiss on Hermione’s cheek and Draco desperately wanted to push him away. Draco crossed his arms and gave Ron a death glare; never taking his eyes off the man as he pulled away with a smug look centered on his face.
He changed his mind. He most definitely wanted to fight Ron now. He knew the weasel was purposely trying to get under his skin and it was working.
“Anyway,” Dr. Baker chimed in after standing there for a few moments watching the two men who hated each other stare one another down. “The receptionist is expecting you at the front, so I will let you pack up.” He smiled wearily. “You will be missed Ms. Granger. You brought so much light to a lot of the patients here. I hope you will be back to visit…preferably not injured though.” He chuckled.
“Thank you Dr. Baker; for everything. I will try my best to visit.” She smiled and moved the blanket off her lap.
Dr. Baker nodded his head and turned on his heels to leave. Once he exited, Draco turned to get Hermione her clothes. Ginny and Harry had done some shopping the day she woke up, so she had a new outfit to wear when she was released, since her old outfit was ripped up at the scene when she almost died.
He handed her the shopping bag that contained a pair of light blue jeans and a plain white t-shirt. There was also a pair of flats and some undergarments for her to put on and a bottle of perfume to help her rid the hospital smell from her body.
Hermione took the bag and eased herself off the bed. She walked to the bathroom to change and Draco started collecting her books that were brought to keep her occupied; stacking them in a neat pile and placing them in a separate bag.
“I want to take her home.” Ron announced, staring Draco down.
“Malfoy is already doing that. We can visit her tomorrow once she is settled back in and-”
“Are you kidding me? No, I will take her home. I haven’t gotten to see her the whole time she was here and I want to spend some time with her.”
“And whose fault is that?” Draco retorted in distaste, under his breath, while standing up and setting the bag on the bed.
“Excuse me?” Ron questioned angrily “I had work and couldn’t get away. Listen you piece of shit, you are only here because Hermione has a thing for you. You are a fling and she will learn that quicker than you think. Don’t get used to being around here, Malfoy. You are temporary; the quicker you learn that the better.” He spat in hate.
Draco snapped his head up and glared the red head down. He wanted to punch him in the face so badly but he knew, in the end, he would be blamed for starting the fight and Hermione would not easily forgive him for punching one of her best friends.
“Ron!” Harry cut in “Can we not fight right now? Please? Let’s just get Mione home, okay?”
“Fine.” Ron replied crossing his arms “But I will see her tomorrow whether this filth likes it or not.” He said with venom in his voice.
“Ron, stop with the name calling. You don’t even know Malfoy. He is not that same and he has grown up since Hogwarts.” Ginny added.
“I don’t care if he adopted a country of muggles and had gave away all of his money to support them! He is still the coward prat he has always been and nothing you or anyone else say, will change my mind about him. He won’t get within two feet of Hermione after tomorrow.”
“You can’t control her, Weasley! She can do what she wants and if she wants to see me then she will!” Draco spat back.
“We’ll see.” Ron stated a little too calmly while furrowing his brows.
“What is that supposed to mean?” Draco asked now even more angry.
“It means how it sounds, you git!”
Draco’s hands curled into fists at his side and he was struggling with himself to not jump over the bed and land a hard knuckle sandwich into the freckled arsehole’s face.
“Okay seriously stop!” Ginny yelled. “This is ridiculous! It has been seven years since school and you, Ron, are acting like we are back in class! Grow up and move on!”
“Why the fuck, are you defending this egotistical, narcissistic, prejudice, low life?” Ron turned to his sister with an out stretched hand pointing to Draco. “He is a coward and doesn’t deserve Mione in the slightest! He won’t keep her! If it’s the last thing I do in life, I will make sure he never sees her again!” he turned his hateful glare back to Draco.
“Okay, Weasel. Good luck with that.” Draco replied, rolling his eyes and moving to pack up the rest of Hermione’s things.
Hermione emerged from the bathroom fully changed with a wide smile on her face. But her smile fell when she caught the angry look on Ron face and Draco instantly was glad he didn’t punch the man. Hermione looked so disappointed in Ron at that moment, he was happy that it wasn’t aimed at him this time.
Draco decided to play Ron’s game and walked over to Hermione with a large smile on his face and her stuff in his hand.
“You ready to go?” he asked leaning down and kissing the cheek the weasel didn’t touch with his foul lips.
She brightened up and grinned from ear to ear as she gazed up at him.
“Yes!” She stated happily.
Draco held out an arm for her to take and started walking her to the door. He could feel the death glares Ron was giving him from behind, but he just smirked as he walked Hermione out of the room and down the hall.
They stopped by the front desk and Hermione signed the release papers she was told would be waiting for her. Once she was done she turned to her friends and hugged each one of them goodbye.
“We will stop by tomorrow to see you, okay? Harry claimed with a smile as he pulled back from her.
“And I will make sure to take off from practice to come too.” Ginny added, leaning in for a hug.
“Thanks, guys. But how about I come see you instead?” Hermione stated with a small smile before turning to Ron who looked at her with adoration.
He stepped forward and pulled Hermione into a deep hug; slightly shocking her in the process. However, he stared at Draco with a mischievous look as he held on to Hermione longer than anyone else. He rubbed his hand on her back and hugged her tighter before turning his head and planted a light kiss on the side of her neck.
Draco almost lunged forward but Harry had apparently seen the look Draco had given Ron and took a step to lightly tap Ron; breaking the moment to move him away.
“Come on Ron.” He pulled on his arm “We should go see your mum. She is going to be ecstatic when she sees that you’re back from Romania.”
Ron released his hold on Hermione and stepped back; but not before giving Draco a wink followed by a dirty look.
“Bye Mione. We will see you tomorrow!” Harry called out as the group walked away from them and down the hall.
“Am I missing something?” Hermione asked turning back to face Draco once her friends were far enough away. “Are you and Ronald fighting over me?”
“What?” Draco asked shaking away the hatred that filled his features “No…Besides, even if we were, he would be no match for me.” He smirked as he wrapped an arm around Hermione’s shoulders and began walking down the corridor towards the stairs.
“I don’t want there to be tension between you two. I love you both and I want you guys to be okay with each other.”
“I don’t really see that happening, Hermione. Weasley hates me, probably more than he ever did before.”
Hermione sighed as Draco opened the door to the stairwell and stepped through. She froze though when they got to the top of the stairs.
“What’s wrong?” he asked looking down at her.
“Nothing.” she stated with a small shake of her head.
She held out her hand and touched the railing lightly, but she still didn’t take a step down.
“Can you stop pretending that everything is okay and saying ‘nothing’ when there is obviously something wrong?”
She lifted her head to him with a saddened expression. The door to the stairwell opened and a nurse stopped in his tracks. He looked at the couple for a second before nodding his head and brushed past them to start walking down the stairs.
“Are you scared to go down?” Draco asked, bringing his attention back to his Gryffindor.
She nodded her head and looked back to the first step. Another nurse opened the door and walked past them as they stood at the top of the stairs.
“It’s okay to be scared Hermione.” He continued “I was when I first came here. I still won’t take the lift…I am right here though. I will be here the whole time.”
She let out a light laugh and turned her head to look at him.
“No offense, Draco, but you where there with me when we fell through multiple floors at Malfoy Tech. and we were separated after we landed…that doesn’t really make me feel any better.”
“True. But this time I am not injured.”
“Still not helpful.” She let out a breath.
Draco didn’t really know what else to say to her to help her anxiety about the stairs, so he came up with another idea.
He closed the small gap between them and she instantly turned her head to eye him skeptically.
“Do you trust me?” he asked looking down at her.
“I…Yes.” She answered with hesitation.
He leaned down and scooped her up in his arms, bridal style. She let out a noise in shock and immediately wrapped her arms around his neck.
“Now we can’t be separated.”
He smiled down at her before turning to face the top of the stairs and began his decent down. He carried her down all five flights of stairs, effortlessly, and gently set her on her feet once they reached the bottom.
“Thank you…You didn’t have to do that, you know?” She stated lowering her head in embarrassment.
“I know I didn’t.” He put his hands in his pockets “But I wanted to.”
She raised her head and parted her lips. Draco wanted to kiss her but he knew if he did now, he wouldn’t be able to stop. So he cleared his throat and opened the door leading out into the lobby. Hermione looked at him almost as if she was upset he didn’t kiss her, before turning to walk out of the stairwell.
Draco watched her walk away with her head hanging a little low and he felt bad. He wanted to make it up to her and he wanted to let her know he still wanted her, so he jogged the few steps to catch up to her and took her hand in his. She lifted her head as she walked, and gave him a smile; squeezing his hand in hers.
They walked out of the hospital and found a small alleyway, close to the ER entrance, to disapparate in. He turned in his tracks and began walking backwards as he looked at Hermione.
“Where do you live?” he asked.
“Why?”
“So I can take you home?” he tilted his head and stopped walking once they were halfway into the alley.
“Oh, uh…” she lowered her head again and began playing with the bottom of her shirt.
“Do you not want me to know where you live?” he questioned placing his hands in his pockets. “What is wrong?” he asked when she didn’t answer him.
“Noth-”
“Hermione.” He cut her off “We talked about this.”
She let out a sigh and moved to lean against a closed dumpster. She lifted her hands and began picking at her fingers.
“What is wrong, Hermione?”
She lowered her hands and looked up at him.
“I don’t have a home.” She admitted.
“What do you mean?” he took a step closer to her.
She let out a breath and moved away from the dumpster.
“SPEW Inc. doesn’t make a lot of money since it is basically a non-profit organization and I have used all my earning, from the war, to put into my company. Plus with the lawsuit I had to hire lawyers to defend me…I couldn’t afford my flat anymore, so I moved into my office.”
“You have been living at work?” he raised a brow.
“Yes…I can’t afford to own a home. I don’t even know how I am going to pay for my hospital stay.” She sighed in defeat and moved to lean against the brick wall of the building.
“Potter and I already covered your bill. You don’t have to worry about that.”
“You what?” she stated in shock “How could you do that? Now I have to pay you both back!”
“You are joking right?” he asked perplexed “You’re not joking.” He claimed when her face didn’t change from its serious manor. “Hermione, you don’t have to pay us back. We wanted to cover it. It was the least we could do after you basically saved everyone’s arses during Voldemort’s reign. Plus you were injured on my property; I would have felt like shit if I didn’t take care of you.”
“I don’t want to be taken care of, Malfoy!” she claimed in anger.
Draco was blown away at her sudden change of mood. He didn’t think covering her hospital stay would cause a fight but apparently he was wrong.
“Where is this coming from? Why are so mad about us helping you?” he took a step closer to her but she moved away from him.
“Hermione?” he questioned when she began walking away from him. “Where are you going?”
“Home.” She answered as she continued to walk down the alley.
Draco jogged to catch up to her and grabbed her arm to stop her.
“Let go of me!” she hissed.
He released her arm and looked at her stunned.
“Did I do something wrong?” he questioned with a fallen face.
“You and Harry, you think that just because you both have money that you can just go around paying for things without a care in the world! I am not a charity case you both can just pass off to boost your egos!”
“That is why you think we did it? Seriously? Potter is your best friend; you of all people should know he would never think of you in that way. And for the record, I don’t either.”
“Right. So you just happened to mention that you covered my bill after I told you I am broke and homeless!”
“Because it wasn’t important to bring it up, period. You would have figured it out when you didn’t get the fucking bill. And regardless of whether or not you told me about your living situation, the stay was still paid for!”
He turned away from her for just a moment and ran his fingers through his hair before turning back to her.
“I don’t want your fucking money!” she yelled out in frustration. “I don’t want anything from you!”
“I guess you don’t want my blood then either.” He claimed firmly.
“What? Why the hell would I want your blood?” she asked thrown off a bit but her words sounded like she was disgusted at the idea.
“Oh, I don’t know; maybe to save your fucking life!” he crossed his arms and pushed past her; hitting her shoulder with his as he stormed away in anger.
“What the hell are you talking about, Malfoy?” she turned and watched him walk away.
Draco stopped in in tracks and took in a deep breath. He didn’t want to fight with her, especially since her memory wasn’t fully back to normal but his anger was getting the best of him. He needed to cool off before he said something he was going to regret. She was yelling at him for no reason and he was completely drained from having to try and defend himself to everyone, all the time.
“Go home, Granger.” He lowered his head.
“No. Tell me what you are talking about!”
He turned around to face her and put his hands in his pockets. He dropped his shoulders and looked at the girl whose mood changed out of nowhere, with suddenness resting on his features.
“You should already know.”
“Know what?” she yelled.
Draco was at a loss for words. He couldn’t believe that in a matter of minutes, Hermione’s mood towards him altered. He didn’t do anything wrong and there is no reason for her to forget that he helped save her life by donating his blood to her. Harry had told her the day after she had woken up and she seemed absolutely grateful to him. He wondered though, if she was just trying to find a reason to be rid of him; that the idea of being with him verses actually being with him, was too much for her to handle and she changed her mind.
“I knew I wasn’t good enough for you.” he expressed holding back a tear.
He couldn’t take it anymore and he was beginning to doubt himself again. So he did the only think he could think to do; he disapparated away, leaving a stunned and confused Hermione standing in the alleyway, alone. At least, he thought she was alone.
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