Broken Home

A/n-thank you thank you thank you, to all of you who reveiw!! well here ya all go, i know i didn't update for a day, so read fast

Chapter 5!

When Hermione woke up her body was aching so badly she thought she would immediatly pass out again. She realized she was covered in blood.

'Now I know why he wanted me on this floor. Easier to clean..'

She got shakily to her feet and with every step she took her body felt like it was ripping. The wounds from the whip were tight with dried blood.

'He has never gone this far before.'

She was terrified to shower, knowing it would be painful. But she didn't really have a choice. She had dried blood all over her body. Her ribs hurt even more from having to breathe heavily, and all the screaming.

After her shower she went back to the kitchen and cleaned the floor. If she didn't she would be in even more trouble. After that she drug her exhausted body up the stairs and into her bedroom. She laid on her bed carefully and flitted in and out of sleep.

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Draco had been sitting on pins and needles all day. He couldn't just sit around trying to listen in classes and act like nothing was happening. He decided that he needed to get into the restricted section of the library and try and find something useful that could help. He had to try, right?

He would go tonight.

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It was saturday, and Draco was sitting on the couch in their common room going over the books he had found. He had 3 in total. 2 from the Restricted section.

He wasn't expecting Hermione for much later. He figured she would be coming in late. Around 10:30 or something absurd like that.

He was shocked when she came at out of the fireplace at 6:00.

He smiled warmly when he seen her. Until he realized that she was pale as a ghost. She came forward slowly, almost as though she was unsure of herself.

He stood up and moved out of her way, she was walking straight for the couch. Her eyes..were frightening. She sat down slowly and let out of a sigh of relief to be off of her feet.

'Deny him Hermione.'

"Are..you okay?" He asked with such sincerity that Hermione knew that she wouldn't be able to hold herself together.

"N..no.." she sighed

"Let me look at you."

Terror filled her eyes.

"I'm not going to hurt you, Hermione" He assured her.

She nodded and she started to remove her clothes carefully. She slowly pulled her arms out of her robes, wincing as she did, with large movements her cuts from the whip would crack open and begin bleeding again. After she was out of her robe she lifted her arm slightly and gave Draco a pleading look. He pulled her shirt over her head and gasped. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. she started sliding out of her pants. She was left in her bra and panties, but she wasn't worried.

He was gazing at her with sad eyes.

'Oh how I want to make that bastard pay!'

"Oh God, Hermione. Lay on your stomach. I will be back in a few minutes, don't move!"

Hermione was passed out before the common room door had closed.

He ran to the door and out, down the corridors, down the marble staircases, through the entrance hall and didn't stop until he was at Severus Snapes door. He was breathing heavily and didn't even knock, just burst through.

Snape looked positively startled.

"What is the meaning of this Draco?" he snapped.

"Sir I need a bottle of Murtlap Essence and a sleeping potion. I need you to follow me!! I need your help!" Snape didn't move.

"NOW!!" Draco practically screamed at the man.

He still didn't move.

"Do NOT come bursting into my room, shouting commands at me Draco." He said coldly.

"I'm sorry Sir, but this is an emergency."

"Well as your teacher and Head of House, I feel that it is my business to know why. So tell me. Why?"

"It's just...well one of my friends" 'Friend(?)' "Is really hurt, and I need to help her, quickly" he answered hurriedly. "I swear I will give you more information. I'm just in a hurry right now!!!!"

Snape finally understood the urgency. The look on Draco's face was fearful. He had never seen him so worked up before.

He walked to his private stores with Draco hurrying along beside him. He grabbed the things he would need, and followed Draco to their common room.

When they got back to the common room Hermione was exactly where Draco had left her, only now she was asleep.

Snape let out a startled gasp. He was looking at the Head Girl, blood and dried blood covering most of her body. The girl had bruises everywhere.

"What the hell? Draco? What happened to her?"

"I will explain Sir, I will. Just let me take care of her right now, please. Come over here I need you to look at something!"

Snape moved forwards. He wanted to look anywhere other than the sight in front of his eyes. Draco kneeled down and pointed to Hermiones ribs. There was a spot that looked like it protruded a bit more then normal.

Snape eyed it warily.

"I'm not a healer, Draco! Take her to Madam Pomfrey."

"I can't do that, Sir. She is going to be livid when she finds out that even you have seen her. Please. You are a much better healer then me. Please help me sir!" He said desperatley.

Snape looked into Draco's eyes. He had never ever seen him like this. He had to help him. He obviously felt something towards the girl.

Snape kneeled down and touched his wand gently to Hermione's ribs, muttering an incantation that healed it.

"It will not be fully healed. It will still give her some pain. It will probably hurt her to breathe for a while. Try to keep her from running around alot. She shouldn't be climbing stairs, but thats unavoidable here. Just watch over her. I want you in my office on Monday directly after classes to tell me what has happened. For now you may attend to her. Goodnight"

He swept out.

Draco accioed a washcloth and dipped it into the Murtlap.

He touched it to one of her cuts and she jumped at the feeling, her eyes flying open. She started whimpering slightly at the pain in her back.

"Shhh" he whispered to her while cleaning the large, deep welt-like cuts on her back, legs and side. There was even one on her forearm, and he found that her head must have been hit also because there was a cut on the tip of her ear and slightly on her head.

After she was all cleaned he helped her up and took her to her bedroom.

He pulled a stool beside her bed and sat down on it.

"Snape was here...I had to tell him Hermione. I needed his help. I can't heal broken ribs. Please don't be mad."

She was mad, but she understood.

He looked into her eyes, and she looked dazed. She seemed like she was looking into the past.

She didn't have the energy to argue. She just looked at him and nodded her head.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a vial.

"It's a dreamless sleep potion." He explained, "it will give you some much needed rest. Ill give it to you, make sure you fall asleep and leave, I promise." he told her timidly.

"Draco...thank you. But.... I want you to.... stay with me..please?" That was the first thing she said to him since she got back, other then "no" Her words were broken and it seemed like she was having trouble getting them out in one sentance.

"Only if your sure. I am determined to not cross any lines. I'm sorry Hermione. I'm so sorry..for everything."

She shook her head. "It's okay..just stay with me please."

He nodded and reached for the bottle.

He tipped it towards her lips, and she swallowed it.

He got up and walked to the wall. Turned off the light, and crawled in beside her. On the outside.

'Oh Jesus...' he thought to himself. 'Please be careful Draco. Don't hurt her!'

He laid beside her for a long while. Listening to her even breaths before he finally dozed to sleep.

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Hermione woke up, but didn't open her eyes. She laid there on the bed, so close to the wall that she could feel the cold even through her blankets.

She stopped and listened very carefully, she could hear someone breathing. Did Archie stay in her room for some reason last night?

Even though she was terrified to open her eyes and find out the truth, she still had to look. She opened her eyes slowly and seen blonde hair. She sat up slightly, gasped, and his eyes shot open. Eyes the color of mercury stared at her. He was still wearing his clothes and was incredibly dishevelled.

"How did I get here?" She whispered to him.

He looked hurt for a couple seconds before saying, "In your bed, or back to the school?"

"Both" She whispered, it looked like even talking was hurting her.

"You came back to the school through floo, and I brought you to your bed." He said, sadness and concern cleary etched on his features.

'I need to help her! I can't just sit back and watch this happen!!'

"Oh.." She looked dazed, like she might just pass out at any moment.

Draco sat up and swung his feet off the bed, he looked back at her. An idea suddenly clicked in his head, causing him to leap up.

"I just thought of something!" He said suddenly. "I'll be back in a moment."

He ran to his room and seized a peice of parchment and a quill. He scribbled a hasty note on it, while checking the address on a magazine, and ran to the owlery, looking for his beautiful brown owl. He spotted her within seconds and she fluttered down to his arm. He attached the note to her foot and watched her soar away. He turned and started walking swiftly back towards his room. He needed to tell Hermione that Severus had seen her. She obviously had no idea.

He turned a corner and smashed into something hard, he was sent onto his ass. He looked over to see Harry looking completely harassed.

"Potter" He growled. "Why don't you make some use out of those ugly glasses and watch where you are walking" He smirked.

Harry just shrugged. "Is Hermione back yet?" he asked, trying to ignore the statement.

"Yes, and she is asleep. I might remember to tell her that you asked. I don't really talk to her anyway." He added, hoping Harry didn't see through it.

He didn't.

"Well i'll just stop by later then." Harry said.

'Shit'

"You can't. Well I mean I guess you could, but I will have a bunch of Slytherins there tonight, and you probably don't wanna walk into that." He said swiftly.

"Well then I will come and take Hermione somewhere else. I can't imagine that she would want to spend the night with the likes of you and your baboon friends."

'Fuck'

'Look, I'll just tell her you were looking for her. If she wants to talk to you then I'm sure she will contact you herself. You can't just drop by unexpectadly.....Bloody fool." and with that he walked away.

'What the HELL was that all about?..'Harry thought, and proceeded to his destination, thinking about Malfoys weird attitude the whole way


A/N- Now i know that this chapter isnt as long as the others, but i needed to split what i had originally intended to be one chapter, into two. So sorry about that. I also know that i didn't give anything more about Hermione, but i felt that she had endured enough pain for one day, obviously there was more, its just not spoken of. And don't worry, this isnt the last of it, she will be going home again.

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*SHANNON*