Adult-FanFiction.org : Harry Potter

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
- 7
- 8
- 9
Chapter 8- Remember
Monday August 1st, 2005 11:34am
Three full days. That is how long Hermione has been asleep. She hadn't moved or even fluttered an eyelash during that time. It worried Draco every time he came to visit. It was getting hard to look at her; all he wanted was to have her look at him, but she wouldn't open her beautiful brown eyes.
Harry and Ginny came and visited everyday as well. Well, as much as their schedules allowed them to. It cheered Draco up a little but it wasn't enough. He just wanted Hermione to wake up.
"Hey, love…It's me again." Draco began as he sat down on the chair that now became his. "Doctor Baker says you're doing better…I guess that's good, right? It would be better if you would wake up though…He said it takes time for things like this…They did another brain scan on you the other day. They found out that you had hit your head when you fell and had a small brain bleed. They said it was nothing serious and they never saw it the first time the checked, but they fixed it yesterday. Don't worry," He chuckled "Your hair is still intact. They did a small incision or something and drained the bleed." He took Hermione's left hand in his. "Potter and Weaselette will be coming around noon to visit you. I bet you're excited to see them. It still strange, you know; to hold normal conversations with them and not fight. Actually, it's still full out weird to me." He chuckled again. "The doctors say to keep talking to you; keep you updated on what's going on. They say it might help you remember things when you wake up. And I am saying 'when', because I know you will wake up…I don't want to keep talking to you like this though; I want to hear your voice again…I miss you, Hermione."
Wednesday August 3rd, 2005 12:16pm
"Me again…I bet you are getting tired of hearing that, huh?" Draco gently touched Hermione's cheek with the back of his knuckles. "Good news, I get my stitches removed in four days." He smiled down at her before taking a seat in his chair. "Potter said he wasn't going to heal it because he didn't want to shock the hospital at how quickly my wound healed and then disappeared. He did heal the bruise on my shoulder though…We also researched different spells and potions to try and help you wake up. Unfortunately, this kind of thing, only you can do. Your body has to heal on its own…In other news, I am going to get a new wand tomorrow…" he looked up at the monitor that kept track of her heart beats.
The steady rhythm of the beeping, soothed and annoyed Draco at the same time.
"Please wake up Hermione…I miss you."
Saturday August 6th, 2005 11:10am
"I won't even say it…You already should know." Draco pulled his chair up and sat next to Hermione.
He reached out his hand and took hers; just like he always did.
"I miss you…I talked with the insurance company about the damage to the building…They are going to have to tear it down. Along with the building it is leaning on. There was too much structural damage. I am thinking about rebuilding the company but that is a lot of work and starting over. The payout from the loss is good but…I don't care about the money." He sighed and sat back, never letting go of her hand. "Ms. Tate made a full recovery. But as soon as she was released a few days ago, she served me with papers. Claiming I fired her under wrongful termination and wants workman's comp to help her with the bills." He huffed. "She won't win though. Security was able to salvage the tapes from that day, as proof. And I won't have to cover her hospital stay due to her no longer being an employee when she, get this, jumped in front of the tree to try and make her case stronger." He laughed slightly "It was all caught on camera. That paramedic was right; she is a nut job. And it just so happens, her little charade is illegal according to muggle law, so she might have to do time in their prison. Ministry is going to make sure her wand gets snapped before that happens though…What else…oh, Ginny made it into the Hall of Quidditch yesterday. Youngest Chaser in the world to do so! She is really gifted at Quidditch. I think she is the real reason Slytherin always lost to Gryffindor at school. Anyway, ceremony is next week, hopefully you can come." He lowered his head "Please come back to us, Hermione…We all miss you."
Monday August 8th, 2005 11:28am
"This is getting harder to do every day. But I won't stop. I won't; not until you wake up, and even then I am going to still come…"
Draco leaned forward on his chair and took her hand in his. His eyes watering as he looked her over as if willing Hermione to wake up.
"Potter should be here shortly. He took the day off to come see you. Ginny had to go chaperon try-outs for her team but she said when it is done, she will head over to come see you…Your room is covered in flowers by the way; roses and lilies. I bring the roses, Potter brings the lilies. He said you would know what that means."
He continued to scan her face as her chest rose and fell with her steady breathing.
"You are still beautiful, you know that?" he lowered his head to her hand and placed a soft gentle kiss on her knuckles before looking back up at her.
"She always was."
Draco turned his head and saw Harry standing in the doorway with his arms crossed, leaning against the frame, with a sorrowful expression.
"Yeah." Draco muttered before turning his attention back to Hermione. "Potter is here, Hermione." He smiled and held her hand up so his lips could rest comfortably on her skin as he held on to her with both hands.
Harry moved from the doorway and took a seat on Hermione's right.
"She looks like she is still sleeping…a few shakes and we could wake her up." He sadly admitted while lightly caressing his pointer finger against her hand.
Water filled both of the men's eyes but neither of them, let the tears fall.
"I want to tell her…but I don't want to tell her while she is like this." Draco uttered into her hand.
Harry didn't say anything for a while and they both sat there in silence for a few long minutes.
"You should tell her." he began softly "At least then she will know and then…then you know that you said it. If anything, it will help you heal."
"I don't need healing, Potter. I am just fi-"
"No you're not." Harry cut in calmly "None of us are. We are all broken right now and the only person who can fix us…is her. We need to tell her everything we can; while we still can…It's been over a week, Malfoy. If she was going to wake up, she would have done it already."
"What are you saying? That we just give up on her?"
"That is no were near what I am trying to say." He sighed and leaned forward in his chair; removing his glasses, he wiped his face with his hand before putting them back on. "I am saying. We need to think about what Dr. Baker said to us the first day. We need to prepare ourselves-"
"For if she doesn't remember us, not that she won't wake up!" Draco claimed in frustration.
"Malfoy," Harry's face fell to sadness as he stood up from his chair "You need to tell her." he frowned for a moment as Draco looked up at him; dread and grief overtaking him.
"I'm…I'm not ready to let her go. Saying it means goodbye and I can't-" his jaw quivered and a single tear escaped his grey eye.
"You're not saying goodbye…You are saying…You're just saying, until next time." Harry let a tear fall from his green eyes and he quickly wiped it away. "I'll give you a moment…If you need me, I'll be right outside the door."
Harry turned on his heels and slowly made his way out of the room. The sound of the door clicking shut made Draco's bottom lip shake more as another tear escaped his watery eyes. He turned his face back to Hermione as he prepared himself.
"Hermione," he whispered as his lips still shook "I…I promised I would take you home, remember? We were supposed to run away together and we…we would go to a beach…We would run in the sand and splash each other with the ocean water…I promised…I told you that where ever you are…Where ever you are, I would run to…but I don't think I can keep that promise anymore." He lowered his head into her hand and took a breath before looking back up "Do you remember when you kissed me? I was so shocked that you showed me any type of affection that I just stood there and stared at you but, then I kissed you back and…and it felt, like Heaven. I don't know much about the muggle God or the Heaven and Hell he or she apparently created, but from what I heard; Heaven is the most wonderful place to go to…You made me feel like I was in Heaven, Hermione; even when we stood right above a living Hell. And then you told me you were in love with me and I…I never got to say it back…I have dreamt of you saying those words to me for years…." He sighed and looked up to the ceiling "My apology to you that day was bullocks." He lowered his head back to her hand "It was all true, don't get me wrong, but…But I left out one important part." He wiped a tear from his eye "I picked on you in school, not because you were muggle-born. I picked on you because I had a crush on you and I…I didn't know how to handle it…I have always liked you; my feelings just grew when I grew…I am in love you, Hermione. I have been for a long time…Merlin, this isn't how I wanted to tell you but…I ca-"
Draco stopped instantly and pulled his face back from her hand. He stared at it for a few seconds, thinking he was going crazy. But then it happened again. Hermione lightly squeezed his hand.
Draco stood up so fast it knocked his chair over and he released her hand; letting it fall back on the bed at her side.
"Potter!" he called out "POTTER!" He yelled.
Harry came rushing back into the room looking frantic.
"What? What is it?" he asked panicking.
"She squeezed my hand."
"What?" Harry began, quickly walking over to Hermione and taking her hand in his "Are you sure?"
"Of course I am sure! I wouldn't lie about that!"
Harry leaned over Hermione and looked deeply at her face.
"Hermione? Hermione if you can hear me, squeeze my hand."
Both men stood frozen as they waited for Hermione to do what was asked. But she didn't; she didn't move a muscle as she steadily kept breathing.
"Malfoy, are you sure it wasn't a reflex? Like the doctor said she could have?" Harry asked releasing her hand and laying it on the bed gently.
"I am sure."
"Wait!" Harry held up a hand while looking down at Hermione's.
"What? What is it?" Draco asked in bewilderment taking a step forward.
"Malfoy, come over here." He waved his hand for Draco to come over after staring for a few seconds. "Watch her hand…Now say something."
"Like what?" he asked confused.
"Look! Right there!" Harry exclaimed "She is reacting to your voice! Say something again!"
Draco's eyes widened and he moved to stand closer to Hermione.
"Hermione?" he asked, looking down at her hand.
Her fingers twitched and Draco looked up at Harry with happiness written all over his face.
"I'll get the doctor!" Harry announced and ran out of the room.
Draco took a seat on the edge of the bed and took Hermione's hand in his.
"Hermione? Can you hear me?" he asked with desperation in his voice.
Hermione's hand squeezed his and this time, it was a lot stronger. He looked up from her hand and saw her eye lids begin to flutter open. Draco let out a laugh as he expelled a gasp of relief. He watched as she opened her eyes slowly and started looking around the room before her eyes, landed on him.
Draco smiled so wide and lifted her hand to kiss it. He didn't want to attack her face with kisses just yet. He knew, even through his happiness, she might not full remember him.
"M…Mal…" She grunted "Malfoy?" she whispered in a hoarse voice as she raised a brow. "Why are…ehm, Why are you holding…my hand?" she cleared her throat again.
Draco quickly let go of her hand but the joy radiating his body, never left him.
"Sorry…We've um, we've all been worried sick about you." he replied clearing his throat and changing his voice back to his firm boss-like one, so to not freak her out.
"Water." she whispered lowly.
He moved to pour some water into a cup from the pitcher by her bedside and placed a straw in it before handing it to her. She took the cup and started greedily drinking it.
"What uh; what do you remember?" he asked rubbing his hand on the back of his neck.
Before she had a chance to answer, Harry and Dr. Baker came rushing into the room.
"Ah, Ms. Granger. You are awake!" Baker began excitingly "How are you feeling?"
"Okay, I guess. What happened?" she asked looking away from Draco and to the doctor.
"You had a mighty fall…" he began, shining a light in her eyes "What do you remember?"
"Um…I remember arguing with a woman at the front desk of…Malfoy Tech."
"So you don't remember the tornadoes?" the doctor asked, sitting on the edge of her bed on her left.
"Tornadoes? In England?"
"Well, you don't seem to have forgotten too much and your speech is impeccable. No stuttering or jumbling of words and letters. That is great news." Dr. Baker looked around the room smiling "Your memory lapse just might be temporary. I want to keep you here the next few days and monitor you; see how you progress, okay?"
She nodded her head and looked back to Draco.
"How long have I've been asleep?" she asked him directly.
Draco looked at Harry, confused that she was speaking to him, but Harry just shrugged his shoulders. Draco looked back to Hermione and licked his lips; biting his lower lip he looked to the doctor, who just nodded his head.
"Eleven and a half days." He replied carefully, looking back to her.
She took in a breath, while absorbing the information, and turned her attention to Harry.
"Did…Did I tell him?" she asked with her eyes misting up.
Harry's face fell slightly and his shoulders dropped.
"Not in the way you wanted to Mione, but yes, you told him."
"Oh." She lowered her head and started picking at the blanket on her legs.
"Well," Dr. Baker announced, patting Hermione's leg lightly "I will take this as my queue to give you guys some time alone…It would be best on her health, if you let her remember on her own. I'll be back later to check on her." He smiled and stood up.
Everyone in the room nodded and faintly smiled as he walked out of the room. Harry pulled up the chair that Draco sat in every day and took Hermione's hand.
"We missed you, Mione." His eyes glazing over and he stood up quickly to hug her tightly before releasing and sitting back down.
"I know…I heard you talking to me…not everything or all the time, but I heard the 'I miss you's' a lot. It was like your voice was pulling me back."
"Not just me, Hermione." Harry stated calmly.
Draco moved to lean against the ledge of the window and crossed his arms while he watched the two best friends talk.
"Ginny too." She stated in a soft voice.
"Ginny too." He repeated looking her over like Draco did, before she woke up.
She smiled softly but kept her focus solely on Harry.
"Was it only my head that I hit?" she asked curiously.
"No, uh…no." Harry answered, not wanting to give away too much information.
"Oh."
Hermione gently moved her hand out of Harry's grasp and began feeling herself over. She stopped when she got to her left side. Moving the blanket out of the way, she slowly lifted up her hospital gown until the stitched wound, covered in gauze, appeared.
She looked it over for a few seconds before lowering her gown and looked back to Harry.
"Rebar." She stated firmly.
"Rebar." He repeated.
She nodded her head and looked back to the blanket.
"You stood up for me." She claimed after minutes of no one talking, and raised her head to look at Draco.
Draco looked to Harry for help but he just half-smiled at him; indicating for him answer on his own.
"I, uh…ehm um, yes." He replied slightly stuttering, while he moved his body across the ledge slightly.
"Thank you." she smiled.
He softened his shoulders and softly smiled back.
"You're welcome."
Her smiled moved to the corner of her lips before she lowered her head back to the pillow behind her.
Once again the room was silent for what felt like forever and Draco almost had enough of it. He strongly thought about just going for a walk; letting the two best friends talk without him in the room but then Hermione spoke again.
"How is your leg?" she asked sweetly.
Draco leaned off the window sill, uncrossing his arms and looked at Harry, who also looked just as shocked as he did, before looking back to her.
"You remember my leg?" he questioned, still stunned.
"Of course…I bandaged it up for you."
"So you remember what happened up to…" Harry asked, letting his sentence trail off.
"Not everything; just bits and pieces." She finished for him taking another sip of her water that Harry refilled and handed to her, only moments ago.
"That is great Hermione!" Harry exclaimed happily.
She smiled at him, looking proud that she remembered something.
"So how is your leg?" she asked again, handing the water to Harry.
"It's better." Draco answered, while he moved to take a seat in the only other vacant chair.
"That's good." She smiled happily.
"Granger?" Draco looked at her skeptically.
"Yeah?"
"Do you remember the elevator?"
She nodded her head.
"You saved me…but I have a feeling, I said that before."
"You did." He chuckled. "You definitely did."
"I'm tired." She admitted looking somewhat sad.
"You should get some rest." Harry began, standing up.
He moved the blanket up to her chest and leaned over her, leaving a gentle a kiss upon her forehead.
"We will come back up and see you later, okay? He finished.
Hermione nodded her head and the men moved to leave the room but not before Harry closed the blinds, shutting out the sunlight.
"Malfoy?" she asked, now curled in a ball, cuddling the blanket.
Both Harry and Draco stopped in their tracks, halfway through the room, and turned to face her.
"Would you mind…staying for a little longer…at least until I fall asleep?" she asked liked a child would ask their parents.
Draco glanced at Harry in surprise.
"I'll be back later tonight." Harry stated, nodding his head with a smile pressing on the corner of his mouth.
Harry turned off the overhead lights before he left the room and Draco made his way back over to the chair he was so infamously familiar with. Hermione snuggled the blanket closer to her body as the glow from the desk lamps lightly lit her face up.
Draco let out a sigh as he crossed his arms, leaned back into the chair, and watched her close her eyes. He laid his head back and looked up at the ceiling.
"I know what you did?" she spoke in a low whisper.
He lowered his head back to see her and his grey eyes landed on brown.
"Oh yeah? What's that?" he questioned confused.
"You never left my side." She whispered gazing up at him.
Draco just stared at her confused. He thought, she remembered a bit of the parking garage; but what he didn't know, was that she was talking about something completely different.
"I missed you too." she whispered so low that he almost didn't hear her, before closing her eyes, and snuggling closer to the blanket.
@saxman66- I won't give spoilers! lol but I do think, I will make this story longer than the 7 or 8 chapters I planned for. I will add sex because it was request by you and because i think there needs to be at least one mature content added lol.
@Sage of Discord- haha funny enough, I wasn't planning on having a memory loss in this story but I had a fellow reader on Fanfiction request it and the situation last chapter seemed like a perfect time to add it :)
- 7
- 8
- 9
You need to be logged in to leave a review for this story.You need to be logged in to leave a review for this story.
Report Story

Earth Shattering