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This is why I can't stand you	By : LovelessHope Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 5438 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Hermione felt a cold chill in the air as she left Draco's home. And she thought she could still feel his bloodshot eyes boaring their way into her soul. She had maybe spent 20 minutes in Draco's house but when she left it felt like she had spent a lifetime in his dark, unkept home rotting away. The toad's eye was in her pocket and she could feel it's presence of heat against her leg. She needed to talk to somebody about this, somebody who wasn't absolutely insane.
The was one problem though, the mast of potions, Professor Snape was dead. And his storage of everything from potions to books on how to make them was covered by a layer of broken pieces of Hogwarts. She hadn't actually been to the Hogwarts grounds since the war, but she assumed that if she were to go there looking for answers, there was atleast a minimal risk of being trapped under falling rubble and starving to death in the shambles of the place she once called home.
As she walked back to Hogsmeade village to tell Harry she was feeling better and could help out with the shop, the presence of heat got more intense and she couldn't help but want to touch the toad's eye again. It was the bug bite that dared her to scratch. The words of Draco echoed in her mind "You're my kind of fucked up now" and "As much as Toad's eye is a plant... it's a curse". It was at this moment when Hermione realized something : How on earth did this plant get in her shop in the first place? Draco had assumed that it was growing somewhere in the shop, but this was just a little part of what is told to be a very large plant. Wouldn't she have noticed if a tombstone sized plant was growing somewhere in the shop? Was someone trying to curse her?
She needed more information on this plant. She couldn't wait around until she needed to touch the toad's eye again. And from what deduced from touching it the first time, is that when it gets hot and is touched, bad things are to pass. She needed to know more about this before she succumbed to it's enticing lure. At this point what choice did she have? She needed to try to get to Snape's storage and find something about this plant. Then like a flash of lightning she saw "Sprout's Botany" sign to her left. And without really thinking she walked inside.
Luna Lovegood's eyes lit up when Hermione walked in "Hi there Hermione, it's been a while since you stopped by. Are you looking for potion ingredients, we have a fresh batch of valerian if you want to try your hand in minor love potions. They are really popular these days". The overexcited smile of Luna Lovegood started to pick at the already annoyed part of Hermione's brain.
"Hi Luna" Hermione said in a dull monotone voice "Is Professor Sprout around, I have a question about a particular plant"
Luna looked into the open air and loosely said "No... she's not. But Neville is in the back and he knows just as much as her"
Hermione grimaced but tried to force a small smile "Can you grab him for me? It's important"
Luna smiled widely again "Okay I will be right back, be careful of the nargles though, they keep trying to get at the plants"
When Luna turned her back Hermione's face twisted into a look of sheer annoyance. Luna quickly returned with Neville and Neville looked pleasantly surprised to see her.
"Hi Neville. I have a question about the plant Toad's eye, actually it's really not a question, but can you tell me about this plant?"
Neville scratched his chin and looked at the ceiling "Umm well, I don't know much, I haven't come into contact with this plant and you can't know a ton about what you've never experienced, coupled with the fact that almost every living person who has come into contact with it has died within the first few weeks of seeing it. But I can tell you that it is a very dark omen, it signifies death. More accurately death from revenge. If you are the victim of betrayal it will appear around you, and if you touch it, it will compell you to get revenge on those who wronged you, however if you are the persecuter of betrayal then you will start seeing signs that death is inevitable. Such as seeing Dementors that aren't really there and a lot of once living plants will die. Things of that sort"
Hermione gulped "What happens if you don't do the plant's bidding"
Neville shook his head "I'm not sure, but like I said, everyone who has come into contact with the plant dies. Well almost everyone. It is rumored that Draco Malfoy came into contact with it and from what I can tell he's still alive. He's not doing good though. He never leaves his house." Neville chuckled nervously "It's times like this when you wish that Snape was handy, he probably knew everything about this plant. It's kind of right up his alley. Well it was"
The three of them shared an awkward silence before Hermione turned to leave
"Well thank you two. I appreciate your time" Hermione said softly
"Hey Hermione" Luna's voice broken the soft tone of the room "Feel free to stop by anytime. For what it's worth, we don't like Ron anymore"
Hermione felt her eye twitch. She just turned around and stomped out of the store
Luna turned to Neville "Was it something I said?"
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Hermione felt the anger creep back into her body when she left Sprout's Botany shop and against her better judgement, she reached into her pocket and grabbed the plant. Touching it felt just like drinking water after being in the desert for weeks, it felt so right. Until the burning in the back of her mind started again.
This time there was no red background, just a clear picture. She was in Draco's bedroom tied to the bed. He approached her with a sick smile, and a candle dripping hot wax in his hand. "I bet you're ready to feel something other than that plant huh?" He laughed and she could feel the wax drip onto her body as she writhed and screamed "You're just as fucked as me now! Just another witch who can't help but love the pain anymore" When the picture faded the words "Kill him, Hermione" etched there way into her brain and she gasped for air when the words turned into the vivid picture of Ron's face. Then like the first time, just as fast as the image started it faded away.
Hermoine stuffed the plant back into her pocket and again, she knew exactly what she needed to do. She had to go back to Draco, she needed to know why the visions were happening and changing. She basically sprinted back to his house and threw open the front door.
"You're controlling me somehow" She yelled at the skinny blond wizard who hadn't left the chair he was sitting in when she had first come to him.
Draco Smirked "It's getting stronger Huh?"
Hermione pursed her lips tightly then spoke through gritted teeth "I had a vision of a terrible sex act with you" She could feel her face turning bright red
"Was it nice?" Draco asked. And for the first time since Hermione had known him he used a voice that wasn't meant to intimidate her
"No" She said coldly "It was wrong and painful"
"That's toad's eye for you. It latches on to every part of pain in your mind until you're begging for something physical to aleve the mental torture"
"I'm ready for your help. I don't care what you make me do. I just can't have that be the end game. Please"
"Okay" Draco said with a sick smile "Well first you need to know that you have two weeks starting from the moment you touched that plant to get rid of it's curse. Or it will eat away at you until you're nothing but a corpse, torturing yourself physically until you're dead. Or until you kill the person who wronged you"
Hermione just looked at him with shock but he continued "I came across this plant last year. Snape gave it to me in order for me to be able to kill Dumbledore. I never could because Dumbledore had never wronged me, however someone had to have because it ate away at me for weeks." He rolled up his sleeves for Hermione to see the laserations on his arms "I did this. I tried to burn away the pain that painted itself across my mind. Dumbledore never wronged me.. But my father did." Draco felt his face get hot from the oncoming of tears but fought them back "This plant is useless and can't hurt someone who was never wronged, and I didn't think anyone had wronged me. But Everytime I touched the damned Toad's eye I could see my father."
"Draco... Did you kill Lucius" Hermione said in shock
"I... I had to" Draco said with an icy tone to his voice "I did it quietly, I slipped a potion of "Never Wake Up" to him before he slept. And in the morning after he never woke up the toad's eye did nothing when I touched it. The news said it was a suicide, no one knew it was me."
"Draco... I'm.. I'm sorry"
"Don't be I'm already sorry enough without you being sorry. I don't need your pathetic pity. Why do you think I never leave my house Granger?"
Hermione just stood and blinked
"Every damn thing I do reminds me of him!" Draco shouted "So if you need my help, just know that I am beyond fucked up. Snape thought the toad's eye could be used and manipulated to hurt anyone. He was wrong". His bloodshot eyes boar their way into Hermione's fearstruck ones "Dead fucking wrong"
"Why do you want to help me then?" Hermione said with caution
"Because I can't feel this way forever. I need to get out my anger, that's where this favor comes in. I will take you to Hogwarts, we can go through Snapes notes to figure out a way to where you don't have to kill anyone and I will help you make a healing potion. I was always good at that. Potions. But when I feel angry, I will take it out on you. You will be bruised and hurt. Just like me. It's how I will heal, to make you feel just what I did. Then you can rebuild your life, but you will always know... Part of you belongs to me"
Hermione gulped "Can I think about this?"
"Yes because that worked out so well for you the last time"
"Okay... fine. But you need to promise, that I won't kill anybody"
"Cross my heart"
"Then" Hermione took a breath "What's the plan?"
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