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Earth Shattering	By : Luckycharms Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 11680 -:- 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
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Chapter 2- Unexpected
02:30pm
Fear. That was all Draco could feel as he watched the tornado barrel through the quite town of Sparkbrook. He had heard about tornadoes before and he had seen them on the news when they happened in other countries, but never did he think, he would see one in real life.
Draco turned around quickly and began trying to push every button he possibly could to get the elevator doors open. None of them worked. He pulled out his wand when Hermione turned to speak to him.
“Why can’t I disapparate?” She asked panicking.
Draco struggled to look at her as the terror on his features took over him. He had forgotten about disapparition; however, he was more concerned about the fact that she was willing to leave him in the broken lift alone, while a giant EF3 tornado might possibly strike his building.
“Head of security put up a charm so no one can apparate in or out.” He began to explain, shaking off the anger he held against her. “The anti-apparition ward was placed up about a year ago to prevent anyone from breaking in or stealing valuable company secrets.”
“So take it down!” she yelled in distress.
“I can’t!” he yelled back in frustration, slamming his fist against the buttons “Only head of security can!” he took in a deep breath, raising his right arm above his head, he leaned against the panel. “It was considered a liability if I was to be kidnapped or someone used a curse on me to gain Intel and copy the work done here.” He pushed away from the panel and turned to lean his back against it.
Suddenly, he remembered his wand and went to reach for it out of his suit jacket but out of the corner of his eye, he saw a large black object flying at them at full speed.
He stopped grabbing for his wand and instead threw himself on the back of an unsuspecting Hermione. They both fell to the floor with a hard thud; but the pain of the fall was the least of his worries.
A large SUV flew through the sky and crashed into Malfoy Tech., directly above their heads, settling in the elevator shaft. The glass to the elevator car shattered at the impact and the whole building felt like it just exploded. Draco kept his body on top of Hermione as he covered both of their heads from falling glass.
The lights went out and the wind roared through the now open window, blowing his hair all over the place. Draco looked up when the horror of the incident finally subsided and slowly began removing his body off of Hermione.
“What the hell was that?” Hermione asked pushing herself up to her knees “Ow.” She looked down at her hand that had a rather large cut on the side of her palm.
Draco looked down at the blood seeping out of her palm and went to pull out his wand to heal it, but she stood up and walked towards the now open window.
Rain continued to pour down, only slightly spraying inside the tiny room, and the wind blew at her blouse as she stepped to the edge and looked out.
“The tornado is moving away.” She began before turning her head to look up. “There is a large SUV sticking out from above us. We should probably get out of this lift before it falls with us still in it.”
She looked down at the ground below as Draco too, stepped to the edge and leaned his hand on the frame of the window, careful not to touch the broken shards of glass.
People where running around in panic, dodging past turned over cars, and looking at wreaked buildings while crying.
Draco turned back around and brought out his wand. He pointed it at the elevator doors, preparing to blast them open with a Confringo curse.
“Conf- ” the curse resting on his lips; but he suddenly felt Hermione grab his arm and push it down.
“No!” she yelled out “Even handled properly, the vibration of the blast might make the lift fall; or worse, it will cause the car on top of us to fall!”
She removed her hand gently and moved back to the window. Draco lowered his wand and turned to face her.
“Do you…” he started and she turned her head to look at him “Do you want me to heal that?” he pointed to her bleeding hand.
“What?...Oh, uh sure, I guess.” She slowly faced him and held her hand out to him.
Draco reached out and cupped her hand in his. He had to contain his excitement at touching her soft supple skin. He almost caressed his thumb across hers but he stopped himself. Instead, he lifted his wand and silently cast a healing spell.
The cut on her hand mended in a matter of seconds but instead of letting go right away, he held on to her for a little longer; basking in the idea of being able to freely touch her.
She gently removed her hand from his and held it to her chest; looking at him in disbelief.
“Thanks.” She muttered eyeing him up.
Draco lifted his head and nodded ever so softly before placing his wand back in his suit and moving to stand next to her. He brushed the remaining shards of glass from the frame before speaking.
“So…What are we supposed to do?” he asked looking down at the street again.
Hermione shrugged her shoulders and looked up at the car again.
“Well, we can’t climb down and levitating at this distance, would not only be dangerous, but muggles would see.”
Draco crossed his arms and leaned against the frame.
“Were you really going to leave me here?” he asked not looking at her.
“What?” she asked turning her head to look at him, confused.
“When you asked me why you couldn’t disapparate…Were you really trying to leave me in this broken machine while a tornado came towards us?”
“First off, I didn’t know you couldn’t disapparate in this building and second…I did try to take you with me.”
“Come again?” he asked turning his head and eyed her skeptically.
“I tried to take you with me…You didn’t feel me grab your arm?” she asked somewhat shocked.
“No…I-”
“Assumed that I was just as callous as you and would leave you here to die?” she scuffed facing back outside.
“I’m not callous!”
“You sure had me fooled.” She rolled her eyes.
“I am not the same person I was back in school, Granger. Maybe you should actually get to know me as a person rather than just insult me.” He stated rather angrily.
“Right! And I am just supposed to assume you have changed when you are suing me for trying to help those less fortunate?”
“Less fortunate?” he looked at her dumbfounded “No one that works for me is treated unfairly! You saw me fire an employee for disrespecting you, this company, and myself! How much more proof do you need Granger?”
“How about the proof that your staff, who are magical creatures and not wizards or witches, are paid the same amount as everyone else?” she crossed her arms and scowled at him.
“Everyone IS paid fairly!”
“Okay then, why are none of your elves paid anything at all?”
“I tried paying them! They refused any sort of payment! Are you serious? That is why you have been following me around and protesting in front of my office for months?” he questioned fully fed up.
“They shou-”
The elevator trembled and dropped slightly, cutting Hermione off. They both looked up at each other in alarm and realized what was about to happen. They quickly moved towards the door and tried to pry it open, but it was to no avail.
Gravity ceased to exist, for the briefest of moments, before the elevator suddenly dropped, throwing the duo slightly in the air before immediately coming to an abrupt stop, only a few seconds later. Hermione let out a loud cry and Draco a loud grunt as they slammed hard into the car floor, landing on their stomachs.
Draco took a second to figure out what just happened and slowly began to ease himself up on to his arms. He looked up at Hermione, who was also trying to get up.
“Are you okay?” he asked looking right at her.
“I…I think so…Are-are you okay?” she replied looking around.
“As far as I know, yeah.” He answered as he began to try and stand up.
Once he was fully up right, he leaned down to try and help Hermione up but she quickly shoved him off and stood up on her own, so he held up his hands and backed away.
Moving to look at the window, he noticed it was now half covered by the thick concrete wall that separated them, from the outside.
“How far did we fall?” Hermione asked, now looking at the window as well.
“I don’t know…I can try to look.” He eyed the opening; contemplating the best way to proceed.
Touching the edge with his hands, he studied how strong the wall was, before lifting himself up. He used all his strength to balance himself on his arms and leaned forward to look outside.
Looking down, he saw people scrambling around as emergency services filled the street. He yelled out to them, but they didn’t seem to hear him; so, he quickly turned his body to the side and looked up at the stuck car above them.
Dropping back down, he turned to face the traumatized Gryffindor.
“Well…we were on floor thirty-six and if my calculations are correct, from where the SUV hit on floor thirty-seven…we dropped four floors.”
“Four floors?” she questioned in surprise “Malfoy we need to get out of here, now.”
He nodded his head in agreement and walked to the doors. He tried to pry them open again but they wouldn’t budge. Hermione stepped up and tried to help him.
They pulled as hard as they could on both sides and the doors began to slowly open. However, the doors caught on something and only left about a two foot gap.
They let out breaths as they stopped pulling and looked at the new opening.
“That is too small to squeeze through.” He mentioned looking up at the floor that barely showed above them.
Hermione let out a sigh and continued to scan the lift.
“Wait!” she called out in excitement and Draco quickly looked to her. “What about that?” she asked pointing up at the emergency hatch on the roof of the elevator.
Draco looked up and expelled a small breath through his nose.
“That could work.” He nodded still looking up.
“But how do we get up there?” she asked looking around for something to stand on.
“I’ll lift you up.” He began looking back down at her.
“Okay, but then how do you get up? I’m not strong enough to pull you up.”
“You could levitate me up there.” he shrugged.
“So then why don’t you just levitate me up there instead of lifting me?” she eyed him doubtingly while crossing her arms.
“Because we both know you don’t trust me.”
“I trust…I trust that you won’t throw me out of the lift, if that is what you mean?”
“So…that means that you do trust me, at least a little bit.” He smirked but silently cheered in his head.
“Ugh, just levitate me Malfoy!” she stated in frustration, uncrossing her arms “We don’t know how much time we have until this thing drops again.”
“If.”
“If what?” she turned to him in puzzlement.
“You said, until, this thing drops again. You mean, if, this thing drops again. It might not.” He explained.
“Do you really believe that it won’t?”
“I didn’t say that. But it is good to keep a positive head about it.” He stated a little annoyed.
“Just lift me.” She rolled her eyes and looked up at the ceiling.
“Fine.”
Draco first slowly levitated the exit panel and moved it slightly to the side, but because the ceiling was blocking the way, he couldn’t move it any further; although, there was enough room for both of them to get by it. He then turned to Hermione and pointed his wand directly at her back.
“Wingardium Leviosa.”
Hermione lifted a few inched off the ground and Draco was pleased with himself. He had not used the first year spell, in almost ten years. He was happy he still had it and prayed to Salazar he didn’t drop her as he lifted her higher up.
She reached her arms up as she dived through the exit and grabbed a hold of the edge so that when he released the spell, she could pull herself the rest of the way up.
He let go of the spell and lowered his wand as Hermione lifted herself out of the elevator and moved out of view, towards the floor they were stuck on.
“What do you see?” he called out to her.
She was silent for a few moments and Draco was about to call out to her again, in fear that she left him, but then she finally responded and her head appeared in the opening as she knelt down to look at him.
“The door to this floor is jammed by a piece of rebar…It’s stuck in there pretty good. We can’t fit through, but there is an opening two floors above on level thirty-five. We can use the ladder on the wall to climb up.”
“Okay, lift me.” He began, but the sirens, they heard earlier, began to blare again.
He quickly ran to the window and lifted himself up again to see outside. People began to run and scramble for safety and as he looked up, he could see exactly why. Another tornado was brewing in the sky, not far from his building.
“Fuck! Granger, hurry up!”
She pulled out her wand and quickly said the spell need to lift him. He rose through the exit and she set him down gently on the roof of the elevator. He looked around for a second to find the ladder she mentioned. After finding it on the opposite wall from the outside, he rushed to it and waved for her to go first.
Hermione quickly began ascending the ladder with Draco following directly behind her, but the building began to shake again, after almost reaching level thirty-four. The both grabbed on to the bars to hold on as dust and debris from the car fell down the shaft.
The rumbling stopped but it was only for about a minute.
“Go, now!” he yelled up to her, realizing their position was extremely dangerous, and she started to climb again.
The building started to shake again, but this time, a lot harder. They both stopped suddenly and looked up.
The vibrations from storm, was enough to shift the SUV; allowing a large piece of cement from the wall it crashed through, to break free. They held on to the ladder tight, as the tumbling rock fell straight passed them; landing on top of the elevator.
It hit with enough force that the cables holding the lift in place, buckled; making the whole lift fall the rest of the way down.
Another piece of cement came hurdling towards them when the lift crashed to the ground, nearly missing them as it bounced off the walls. It hit the ladder slightly below him and the impact caused a decent chunk of the ladder to break off. It had also made Hermione lose her hold on the bar.
She screamed as she started to fall but he reached out and grabbed her hand, catching her. He repositioned his right arm on the bar as he tried to hold her weight with his left with everything he had. She held on to him with both hands and looked up at him in consternation.
“Please!” she started to cry as she begged and gripped tighter to his arm. “Please don’t let go!”
The fear in her voice was something Draco, never wished to hear.
“I won’t let go but I need you to help me, okay?” He tried to say calmly but even he could hear the shakiness in his voice.
She nodded her head as tears slowly ran down her cheeks. She started to look down when something in her pocket fell, but he quickly stopped her.
“Don’t look down, alright” her head snapped back up to him as she dangled in the air. “Look at me, keep your eyes on me.” He looked up and tried to calculate how much further they needed to go to get to the open floor, before looking back down at her. “I need you to grab the ladder as I lift you, okay? On the count of three, I am going to pull.”
Hermione nodded her head as she kept her eyes on him the whole time.
“One…” he moved his right arm to wrap around the bar “two…three.”
Draco began lifting her; letting out a loud groan while he used all his strength to lift Hermione up. Once he couldn’t lift his arm any higher, she removed her left hand from his arm and reached out to grab the bar near his chest.
He moved slightly to the side so she could fully grab on and released her hand. Shaking his left arm in the air after removing the weight of a human being from it, he rested his hand on the small of her back to support her.
Hermione clung to the ladder and rested her head on the bar as she began to cry. After a few seconds, she took in a deep breath and let it out quickly.
“Thank you.” she claimed after getting her emotions under control.
“I told you…I’m not callous.”
She expelled a light laugh and slowly turned her head to him. She gave him a weary smile and he was glad he could sort of cheer her up after she almost just fell to her death; even though he wasn’t trying to make a joke at the moment.
A smile played at the corner of his mouth but the moment was lost as the car above them began to shift again.
They looked up and realized the SUV, was about to fall. Not wanting to risk being in the shaft when the thing fell, he quickly looked down at Hermione with wide eyes.
“Climb!” he stated in alarm.
Hermione didn’t even say a word as her lips parted slightly and dread filled her features. She quickly shifted herself and started climbing as fast as she could. Draco waited until she was about two bars ahead of him before he too began to climb.
The SUV jerked as the concrete floor it rested on, started to give way.
“Hermione, I need you to climb faster!” Draco mentioned with worry not even caring that he called her by her given name.
If they were going to die in that moment, then he figured the least he could do, was call her by her first name.
Hermione started climbing faster as rubble from above, fell down on them. They were a few feet away from the open floor when the car jerked again. Draco looked up and noticed a rolling chair, on its side, was now the only thing stopping the car from completely falling on top of them as it blocked one of the front wheels.
Hermione was about a foot away from their exit when the chair gave way and the floor collapsed from the weight of the vehicle.
“Go, go, go, go, GO!” Draco shouted with fright.
She finished her climb as the SUV came plummeting at him. Draco reached the entrance of the floor and Hermione grabbed his arms, pulling him out of the way right as the vehicle fell past him; but not before hitting his left calf.
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