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Blinded	By : ssdawn Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 26887 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Blinded Chapter 25
Hermione hated working late, especially now that she had someone to go home to. Draco always left right on time so he could be home with Scorpius and spend the rest of the evening with him. Hermione tried to be there too, except this past week. Her department had been bombarded with cases of wizards ending up either dead or with their memories modified. Harry and his team of Aurors had also been working overtime to figure out what now was going on in their world.
As Hermione walked down the quiet hallway the dark shadows made her anxious. Looking around, she noticed that the department seemed to be empty, which was unusual lately. Where was the team of Aurors that were on night duty? A tingle of uneasiness shot down her spine. The only sound she heard was the click-clack of her high heels as she hurried towards Harry's office. He had a file she needed to read tonight before the daily briefing in the morning.
The squeaking of a door hinge made her almost jump out of her shoes. She'd never been one to be jumpy when it came to being alone that is, until after she'd went through the horrendous experience of being kidnapped and almost killed.
She looked back behind her and saw no one there.
"I'm not going to let my imagination spook me here."
Saying it out loud would give her the courage she needed right now. The problem was, she didn't even believe what she was saying. As she twirled in a circle she looked all around her. Her heart was beating overtime as she wished she'd not stayed late tonight. She tried to shake off her fears and started to walk as fast as her high heels would let her. Her ears now heard every little sound that The Ministry For Magic could make at this time of night. It was also one of those times that she wished her Muggle cell phone worked in magical buildings. She would be calling Draco right this minute. With no phone, she reached in her sleeve and pulled out her wand. With her hand holding out her wand, she spun 360 degrees and glanced at every unopened door looking for any movement. She could feel that someone was there and wondered why they hadn't made themselves known.
"Who's there? Come out and face me you coward," the words sounded fierce, but inside she didn't feel so confident.
A bright light shot down the hallway that blinded Hermione. She reeled back as the light hit her. Realizing too late what it truly was, Hermione was knocked back by the force of the unknown spell. Her head hit the wall and her neck wrenched from the force of hitting so hard. A loud groan came from her mouth. She tried to focus on the danger that was in front of her, but her head was still swirling from the knock against the wall. Hermione knew that the danger wasn't going away, so she cast a few spells down the hall and then everything went dark.
Draco held Scorpius in his lap as he read the fifth bedtime story to his very tired son. He glanced at the mantle clock seeing how late it was getting and there was no sign of Hermione.
"Papa," Scorp yawned one more time, "Keep reading."
Draco looked back at the story and quickly finished the book. Putting the book aside he swept the boy up high in his arms.
"Bedtime little dragon." He jogged to Scorpius's bedroom and tucked his son into bed. "You fall asleep quickly son. It's way past your bedtime."
"No, Papa. I want to kiss Herminee good night." Scorpius pouted as he whinged at his father. "Please let me…stay awake." His little eyes closed mid-protest.
Draco leaned down to kiss his son's curly locks, loving that his son had grown so attached to Hermione. Everything had turned out great, considering how mucked up things had been several months ago. His son was back, safe, and healthy. He was engaged to a beautiful and intelligent woman. Though right now his chest hurt with the fear that something wasn't right. Since everything was fine here at home, then that only meant one thing, something was up with Hermione. It was 10:00 o'clock and she should have been home by now.
Going to his fireplace he went to make a floo call to the Potter residence. Maybe Hermione had stopped at her friend's house on the way home and lost track of time.
"Potter…are you home?" Draco waited for an answer hoping against hope that Hermione was there.
"Malfoy? What's up? It's late and we're all heading to bed."
Draco's stomach turned at hearing Potter's words. "Is Hermione there at your place?" Even before asking the words he knew what the answer would be.
"What? Hermione's not there. Step aside, I'm coming through" Harry emerged from the fireplace with a worried look on his face. "What's going on?"
Draco hesitated as he saw the same fear on Potter's face that he knew was probably on his own too. "She hasn't come home yet. I'm…worried." He ran his hand through his hair, unaware of going back to his nervous habit. Draco started pacing the length of the living room and every awful scenario was racing through his head.
"I left at 7:00 and she said she had a few more things to do and then she was leaving. She's getting a case ready for tomorrow." Now Harry was pacing up and down the front room alongside Draco.
"We've got to go now. I have a bad feeling, despite that she'll be as angry as hell that we'll be sweeping in there if nothing is really wrong." Draco headed back to the fireplace. "But, I'm willing to take that risk. Are you with me Potter?"
"Absolutely Malfoy. Let me call for Ginny to come and get Scorpius."
Within minutes Draco and Harry were on their way to the ministry ready for whatever they'd find when they got there.
Draco and Harry ran straight to level two where they knew Hermione would probably be. None of the Aurors assigned to night duty seemed to be at their station, which baffled Harry greatly, seeing this was his own department.
"Where is everyone? There's always supposed to be someone here at night on call. Even the night watchmen are gone." Harry looked around, perplexed at what he saw, or didn't see.
Draco burst into Hermione's office only to find her not there, but her lamp still lit, and her files spread out over her desk. Right there was a sign that Hermione was still somewhere in the building because she never left a messy desk. "She's here somewhere Potter. She'd never leave her office looking like this before she left."
"Agreed Malfoy. Something's up and that means she's in trouble. I'm going to my office, come on."
Harry quickly left, running to his office. Draco followed with his wand out. They both skidded to a halt at seeing blood spattered on the wall. Looking around they first missed Hermione slumped against the wall. They couldn't miss the wizard sliced through, his body hanging on the broken door leading into Harry's office.
"Ugh, sweet Merlin! What a mess!" Draco felt his stomach jolt. Despite his years as a junior Death Eater, he had a weak stomach when it came to the gore that often came with the territory.
Harry turned, looking all around until he spotted Hermione. "There she is!" his voice shouted out due to adrenaline.
Draco's head snapped from the mess at the office door, to his fiancé lying in a heap further down the hallway. Having longer legs than Harry, he got to her first, pulling Hermione into his arms.
"Love, can you hear me? Gods, is she hurt anywhere?" His hands were patting her down for any injuries, but finding no blood until his hand swept behind her head. Feeling the wetness, his hand shot out staring at the blood.
"Potter, she's bleeding from her head. I'm not sure if it's from impact or from a spell. We need to get her to St. Mungos." Draco tried to stay calm though his heart was trying to jump out of his skin.
"Before anyone moves her, we need to check for any other kind of spell damage. The more information we can give the healers, the more quickly they can help her." Harry started to do a scan for spell damage. "I found a few spells, including something stronger that probably knocked her out." Draco held her in his arms while Harry worked.
Harry stood up and sent out his Patronus with a message to St. Mungos. Within minutes, healers came to help stabilize Hermione enough to take her to the hospital.
"Malfoy, go with Hermione, I need to stay here and clean up the mess and find out who this is. This is going to be like putting the pieces of a puzzle together to figure out who this was."
Draco grimaced at his words, but he was glad that it was this stranger Harry was talking about and not the woman that he loved.
Hermione opened her eyes with the bright light hurting her eyes. Where was she? Looking around she groaned when she realized where she was, St. Mungos. Why did she keep ending up here? She was starting to feel like Harry who'd always been a frequent visitor to the hospital wing at Hogwarts. Next, she recognized the bright Malfoy hair that was resting on her bedspread.
"Draco. Draco?" She tried to wake him but he didn't stir and kept on sleeping. Hermione sighed trying to stretch as she ached all over. She tried hard to remember what had exactly happened last night.
"Are you awake?" Ginny came walking into the room holding Scorpius's hand. Hermione smiled as she saw Scorp looking up at her with his eyes so full of worry. He hesitated, clinging onto Ginny's hand not sure what he should do next.
Hermione put out her arms, "Come here big guy and give me a hug." Scorpius smiled and came running to her bed. He knocked into his father who finally stirred.
"What's up?" Draco asked sleepily.
"I need a Herminee hug," Scorp said smiling. Draco scooped him up and dropped him on the bed.
"Be gentle mate. Our Herminee has been dueling with the bad guys again." Draco said with a smirk. Hermione shook her head at him.
Scorpius gave her a gentle hug around her middle. His head lay against her as he snuggled in. "I missed you. I slept at Potter's house."
Draco laughed at hearing his son refer to Harry as Potter just as he had been doing for years. Even Ginny Potter stood there giggling at hearing Scorpius.
"I missed you so very much." Hermione hugged Scorp and meant every word. It amazed her how quickly she had grown to love this little boy. The thought that she would soon be his mum, made her even more protective of him.
"We are heading back to our house after we pick up some ice cream for the boys." Ginny said.
"That was my idea." Scorp said with a huge grin on his face as he hopped off of the bed and went skipping across the room.
"That's my boy." Draco beamed at Scorpius. "Come give your Papa a hug before you go." Scorp came running back and jumped into Draco's arms.
"I love you, Papa."
"I love you too son."
Hermione couldn't help the tears that came when she viewed this tender scene. What a difference seeing these two Malfoy "men" compared to Draco and his stern Father who never showed much love towards his son.
"I'll be by later to collect you little man. Be respectful and no trouble."
"I know Papa." Scorp said in a singsong voice. "I know how to act."
As Ginny and Scorp left, Draco turned back to Hermione and rubbed his hand along his stiff neck. He stood studying her for a moment. The atmosphere in the room suddenly changed. "What happened last night?"
Hermione gave a big sigh, "I went to Harry's office to pick up a file he'd left there for me. As I walked along I noticed how quiet it was. It's like the entire ministry had emptied and I was the only one there."
"Why didn't you leave?" Draco sounded irritated by his tone of voice. She wasn't sure she liked the accusatory tone either.
"You know me, I'm not scared easily. I didn't even realize anything was wrong until I heard noises in the hall leading to Harry's office. Then I knew someone was there."
Hermione hated to admit the next part to Draco because she already knew he was overprotective of her since her kidnapping. "That's when I became worried and wished I had my cell phone with me."
"Did you ever see a face?" Draco questioned her. "Do you have any idea of who it was that was waiting for you?"
"No, I didn't see a face and why are you getting so irate at me?"
Draco was now standing in a defensive pose, along with a red face. Hermione knew that this next bit of information wasn't going to be good.
"Harry came in here earlier, and after picking up all of the pieces of the wizard you sliced with your hex, the MacAteers are down one more family member."
Hermione sat with her head down, stunned at his words. "How did he get in? What happened to the Aurors that were supposed to be on duty?"
"Luckily for them, they were only knocked out by a good old fashioned Muggle knock to the head. Ron and Harry found them bound in a closet by the doors at the lift, right where you enter the second level. Once they were out of the way, it was only you and he left alone."
With frustration, she looked up at him. "So what are you trying to say with this whole story Draco? I know I'm lucky that I'm not dead."
"You know how much I love you and how worried I've been about you?"
He didn't raise his voice often these days, especially to her, but he couldn't control himself right now. Hermione was feeling a mixture of fear, anger, and sadness. She felt like she was at war with her independent side and the side that wanted to be Draco's wife. She knew she needed to tread lightly with this whole conversation. They were both tired and stressed from these events, and with the threat of the MacAteers still very real to them, it was like a wall standing in the way of their happiness.
"I love you too and I don't want you to be angry with me," Hermione said in a quiet voice.
"I'm not angry at you Hermione, I'm worried about you. These men are smart and ruthless and will do anything to get to you." Draco came and sat down next to her.
"So, until Harry and his men have found them, no more working late. You can't stay there by yourself."
Hermione didn't like how this sounded like an order and not a suggestion. She almost felt like it were Ron speaking and not Draco. He had always ordered her around, despite people thinking she'd been the bossy one.
"So you're saying I need a babysitter." The words slipped from her brain to her mouth before she'd realized it.
"That's not what I'm saying." Draco's grey eyes became a shade darker, especially when he was upset about something.
"You have to realize part of loving me is loving who I am, all of the parts of me. I can't be tied down and confined at home. I won't be happy and neither will you." Her words came out a little sharper than intended. "Maybe we need to think about our situation a little better before we make anything permanent."
Draco gave her a glare that would compare to the ones he used to give her back in second year. He stood and brushed off his pants. "Well, Miss Independent, let me know when you decide what you want. I'll be at Malfoy Manor with my son." He turned his back on Hermione and left the room.
Hermione sat alone a few minutes wondering what the hell had just happened, and then she burst into tears. She flung herself back against her bed and pulled the covers up over her head. Gods! What had she just done? Did he just leave her? Did this mean their engagement was off?
Sorry, dear readers to leave you here but it needed to be done. Welcome to all of the new readers to the story. I hope that you like it and I would be very happy to have any reviews you can spare to give. This story needs some love and attention from its readers. Hopefully, a new chapter will be up within a week so you can find out what happens with our couple.
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