Nightmares | By : Tnteacups Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 12275 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Anger
A hand on her shoulder made Hermione jump, and she turned to see Malfoy pulling her from the Pensieve.
“Wait, that’s it?” Hermione asked, feeling cheated.
“What were you expecting, some sort of revelation that would change everything else that happened?” Malfoy sneered, “There’s no such thing. Nothing will change it, and nothing takes the pain away. Glad you asked for the truth yet, Granger?” He asked, sporting a conversational tone.
“How can you be so… so calm?” Hermione demanded, staring hatefully into his rude face. He was making it so easy for her to hate him.
“Hard to feel much of anything else when you’re trashed.” Malfoy leered, his eyes darting down to the empty decanter that sat on his desk. She stared at it for a moment, not recalling it there previously. She looked back up at him, looking for a sign that he was lying. She hadn’t noticed him swaying or slurring his words in the Pensieve.
“You’re drunk right now?” She asked, seeing the red in his eyes that she’d barely noticed, having seen it so frequently it seemed almost a part of him. His hair was slightly out of place, and his eyes wouldn’t quite focus on her, even as he stared her down.
“Not as much as I’d like to be. You interrupted.” He said, lifting his eyebrows in a look of expectation.
“Why? What do you have to drink over? Nothing happened to you! It happened to me!” Hermione was shouting, tears pricking her eyes as her built up anger, anguish, and guilt burst forth, finally having someone to direct it at.
“It happened to me! And you just watched! You could have helped! You could have let them kill me, at least! Or killed yourself, so I could never recover those damned memories!” She spat hatefully, her lip quivering as she screamed at him.
“That’s right Granger, I let them hurt you.” He was moving around the desk quickly, stepping toward her, and glaring down at her. “I watched, and I didn’t lift a finger to stop them!”
Draco’s head snapped to the side, and Hermione’s hand stung from the force of her slap. Malfoy turned his head slowly back to face her, and Hermione stared up at him without fear.
“Go ahead, Granger, slap me again.” he dared, his eyes narrowing, his hand halfway to his stinging face. “You can hit me all you like, because I deserve it, don’t I? I watched them rape you. I raped you. And I enjoyed it.” His face was a vicious snarl, and Hermione found her hand lashing out again, striking the same spot, as hard as she could, both hands pounding at his chest, slapping at the front of him as his tongue darted out to lick a spot of blood from his lip. She shoved him as hard as she could, and he stumbled back a few steps, smiling maniacally at her as she followed after him, shoving him a second time, forcing him into a tall bookshelf. He let out a grunt of surprise as his back collided with the shelves, a brief flash of pain crossing his features, before he met her eyes again, and twisted his face back into a malicious grin.
“That all you got Granger? No wonder it was so easy to-”
She balled up her fist and punched him in the face, screaming wordlessly as she renewed her assault. She kicked at his leg, tears escaping her eyes to streak her cheeks as she tried hitting him in the stomach, receiving a laugh from him for her efforts. She paused briefly to look into his face, seeing blood lining one of his nostrils, the corner of his mouth, a red handprint lining one cheek, and his disarray of blond hair making him look demented.
“It’s your fault!” She shouted, hitting him in the chest again, the details of him blurring through her tear-filled eyes, “You didn’t help me! You should have gotten me out! You should have stopped them! You shouldn’t have touched me! You shouldn’t have gotten me pregnant! It’s YOUR fault, Malfoy! I hate you!” She screamed as she banged on his ribs, her screams eventually dying into a wail of misery, as she collapsed to the floor, sobbing as the wall she’d been maintaining between her emotions and her self shattered, leaving her in the swell of feelings she’d dampened since waking up in St. Mungo’s.
“Go on, Hermione, scream all you want.” Malfoy’s voice was softer, closer, and she struggled to see through her tears, barely able to make out the blobs of black and platinum of where he knelt next to her.
“Fuck off, Malfoy…” She sobbed, reaching a hand out to shove him again. His hand caught her arm, keeping himself from falling over, and yanking her toward him.
“Let me go!” She bawled, shoving at him with her other hand, making no progress as he pulled her into his chest, and wrapped his arms around her. Her face pressed into his shirt, and she curled her arms around his back, holding the warmth of him against her as she sobbed, keening and hiccuping as she clutched at him.
“It’s okay… You’ll be okay.” His voice breathed near her ear, shuddering with his own repressed emotions. His hands stroked her hair and back, the comforting motion making her sob harder as guilt overrode her anger. She’d pummeled him, and he was offering her solace.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it. I didn’t enjoy what I did to you. I’m so sorry…” his voice rose in pitch, choking slightly as his chest shook, his own suffering taking voice. “It’s my fault. It’s all my fault.”
Hermione held onto the weeping man, her whole body shaking as he pulled her into his lap, his face buried in her hair as he cried, his arms squeezing her so tightly it was hard for her to breathe. She pressed her face into his shoulder, quickly soaking the material under her face with tears.
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