Just Pretend

This chapter was beta'd by my great Beta Unbloomed. Thank you!


"So do you want to tell me what happened back there?" Blaise asked, they fell into an awkward silence.

Draco glanced at Blaise. "I don't know. I woke up and I thought she was mad at me because I grabbed her boob in my sleep or something. Then started to talk crazy. I couldn't understand her. She started to hurt herself. That is where the blood came from." When Draco mentioned blood he was staring at his hands.


"Her blood. It was on my hands." Now Draco was speaking as if he was in a trance or something. "She was hurting herself until she was bleeding. I couldn't understand why she would hurt herself. I freaked out. Blaise, she wouldn't wake up. I didn't know what to do. I slapped her." Draco said the last part so low that he had to strain to hear. Then he wasn't sure if he correctly.

This was the first time he never heard of Draco hitting a woman. No matter how frustrated he got with them, or mad or anything. Blaise never seen him hit a woman.

Playing around sure but to seriously hit a woman. Never.

Blaise really didn't know what to tell Draco. He could understand him freaking out. What could he do? Not much. He could only imagine how Draco felt. “She wasn’t even sure if it was me.

“Um…Draco.” Blaise started. He looked like he was about to tell Draco that someone close to him died. “I heard the Healers say that Hermione tried to kill herself the muggle way.” Blaise said softly. Blaise figured that Draco would rather hear it from him then one of the Healers.

“The muggle way?” Draco questioned

“Yeah, the cuts on her wrists is how she attempted to kill herself.” Draco thought back to yesterday. The deep cuts that were on her wrist, he saw them when she was clawing at her wrist as if someone’s hand was there.


“Is she awake?” Draco asked. Blaise nodded silently. Draco sat up, and then swung his feet off of the bed. “Wait!” Blaise had suddenly become panicked. Draco looked at him. Why was Blaise acting weird so sudden? Now Blaise looked like he was going to tell him someone died again.

Great that meant more bad news. “What is it now, Blaise?” Draco asked impatiently. Blaise swallowed hard. “The Healers said that you can’t get out of bed.” Blaise said quickly, and then looked up at Draco to see if he bought his lie.

“So? Blaise since when do I follow the rules?” Draco moved to get up but Blaise pushed him back down onto the bed.

“Blaise I want to talk to Hermione.” Draco said irritated with him for not letting him up.

“IthinkHarryistheonethatrapedHermione” Blaise said nervously.

“Blaise wasn’t even English. Say. It. Slower.” Draco said, crossing his arms over his chest.

Blaise was chewing on his bottom lip to the point where it looked painful.

“Um…Well…Hermione was sorta kinda talking in her sleep. And…I might have heard her say stuff.”

“Like what kind of stuff?” Draco asked curiously.

“You know stuff.” Blaise said. Trying to avoid the subject entirely.

“Blaise.” Draco growled.

“Okay! Okay!” Blaise said quickly. “I heard her begging Harry not to hurt her again in her sleep.” Blaise was looking everywhere but at Draco.

“I want to talk to Hermione alone.” Blaise didn’t say anything he just left the room quietly.
Draco was sitting on Hermione’s hospital bed when she came back from the bathroom.


Hermione stood in front of him. She wanted to place herself into his lap but he didn’t seem like he wanted to hold her. “Hermione who raped you?” The question took Hermione back. This isn’t what she wanted to talk about she didn’t think this is what he wanted to talk
about.

“I don’t want to talk about this right now.” Hermione said softly.

“Do you know who it was?” He asked ignoring what she said.

“No! I don’t want to talk about this. Dam it!” Hermione said, her voice getting louder.

“Don’t lie to me Hermione. That is the thing I will take from no one. You lied to me!” Draco was now standing.

Hermione couldn’t say anything as Draco towered over her. He was now yelling also.

“Harry is the one who did it. You lied to me to protect to bastard who hurt you. You try to fucking kill yourself over all of this!”

Draco had tears running down his face. “You never talked to me about it. I could’ve have talked to you. You didn’t have to go this alone. I was there but you wouldn’t come to me.” Draco continued to yell not caring who heard.

Hermione said nothing. She didn’t know how he found out. She didn’t know what to say to him. She didn’t tell him that was Harry cause she didn’t want to hurt Harry. If anything it would be her to hurt him when she had enough courage.
“I love you! I don’t want you to kill yourself. Hermione I don’t know what to do but I think we need a break from each other. We need to think stuff over.” There was so much more Draco wanted to say.

“What?! You’re breaking up with me?” Hermione needed Draco like she needed air. Hermione now had tears running down her face.

“Yes.” With that being said he was out the door. Leaving a lost and confused Hermione to stand crying.

Madme came over to ask if she was alright. Hermione only nodded and took whatever potion she was suppose to take.

Blaise was standing outside the door. He heard the whole thing he would be surprised if the whole castle didn’t hear the whole thing. He followed Draco to make sure he didn’t do anything stupid.