Souls Forever

Chapter 22 -

Hermione's POV: 

As we were leaving, Ginny came from behind me and hugged me, I guess she already knew what we were doing. I hug her bag and wipe the tears from her eyes.
"Stay safe." she says. I just nod in reply, I can't promise her something that might not happen. When we broke apart, she handed me a crumpled piece of paper, I started opening it but she stopped me. "When you're outside." she whispered. I looked around and the only ones here were Luna and Ginny, Harry was in the hospital wing, Draco standing outside and Blaise somewhere. I look around but I can't see Ron anywhere. 

"Hey Gin, where's Ron?" I ask. 
"In the hospital wing with Harry." she says, "I couldn't see him like that so Luna and I left." she says, her voice breaking, "Stay safe."
"Don't worry Ginny, I won't let anything happen to any of us." I reassure her, I then go over to LUna and hug her from the back, she hugs me back but is still crying. She doesn't say anything though so I leave her alone and go back to Draco. I look back at Hogwarts and it might be my last time seeing it. When we geet past the diameter of the Hogwarts apparation charms, I apparate Draco to my old house. 
"Where are we?" he asks.
"At my old house." I say, hoping I don't start crying, but that didn't last long, I felt tears fall down my cheeks and Draco comes and hugs me, I hug him back, tightly. 
"It's going to be ok, don't worry." his words soothed me and I wipe away my tears. It would be our dinner time at Hogwarts, so I wash my hands and see that there is nothing in the fridge.
"I'll be back, I'm going to the muggle shops and grabbing some food so we can have dinner." I go upstairs and grab my old piggy bank, I smash it. This makes Draco run upstairs.
"What was that?"he asks.
"Nothing, I was just getting some muggle money from this piggy bank." I tell him.
"Why smash it then?"
"That's the only way to open this one." I tell him.
"Ok then, can I come with you?" he asks, I can't say I was shocked about this. 
"Sure." I say and gather up the money from the floor. Alltogether, I have £45.67. 

I grab my purse, put the money in there and head out to buy some gorceries. 
" What do you want to eat?" I ask.
"Anything." he says.
"Ok well I don't feel like eating much so I will just make pasta, is that ok?" 
"Yep, that's perfectly fine." he says. I nod and make my way into a Tesco's to buy some pasta, I take all the ingredients I need, and grab some milk,coffee,bread and eggs for the morning. 

When we got back to the house, I placed the food down on the table and started cooking. I could see Draco staring at me. 
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing, I have nothing to do."  he says.
"Well I'm nearly done." I say. Realising, this house is feeling very dull, I look around for our radio or my old phone. I found it and plugged it in charging and started playing some Music. 
"Wow, that's some nice music!" Draco says.
"Yep, they're the beatles in a  nutshell." I tell him.
"Beatles!" he asks.
"The band is called the beatles." I tell him as I plate the pasta. I hand his plate over to him and we eat in silence. 

"Hermione, why did you come?" he asks me breaking the silence.
"Because, Blaise is my friend too and when I saw Luna and Ginny cry, the usual sparkle they usually have in their eyes was gone. And there was no way I was letting you do this all by yourself." I say. 
"Thank you," he whispers.  I stand up and go and hug him. 

"Ok well we can either plan now, thinking about where Blaise might be kept, or we can sleep and do it in the morning." I say. 
"No let's plan now, then we can start off in the morning." he says.
"Oh wait, Ginny gave me a piece of paper and maybe that might help." I take it out of my pocket and open it up.

Ideal Apple May Windmill Ace Ice Thing Injury Nice Gangster.
Meet Elephant Eggs Time Me Elf Insect Not Thames Hello Effort 
Ferret Orange Rest Engine Stick Tell Dance Elm Ant Never.

"What is this nonsense!" Draco said.
"There must be some meaning behind this, just focus carefully." I say.
"Draco look, at the first letter of each word, maybe if we put that together, it would mean something." He grabs a piece of parchment from his bag and a quill. 

I A M W A I T I N G 
M E E T M E I N T H E 
F O R E S T D E A N

"Wow how did you get this?" Draco asks.
"Muggle school." I say.
"Gosh you are perfect!" he says and he kisses me, this catches me off guard, but I kiss him back. 
"OK come on, we need to get ready for tomorrow, we have to meet this guy in the forest dean." I say.
"Wait seriously, but what if this is all a trap?" Draco asks.
"Yes the likeliness of it being a trap is really high, but this is a clue. The only clue we have so we have to go, then maybe even if it is a trap, we might be able to find something else." I explain,"and it might not be a trap, what if Blaise is really there?" I ask him. 
"This is all my fault." he says.
"No it is not, stop blaming yourself, that isn't going to get you anywhere!" I say, my voice rising,"Draco maybe we should take a break, let's go and taake a walk outside. That way, it will clear your mind and you'll feel more refreshed." I say.  And that's exactly what we did, but  I don't blame Draco, even though the walk was really nice, it felt wrong taking a walk while our friends were still in critical danger. Please, please, wasn't the war enough, why did this have to happen. I just hope Blaise is OK.

A/N - Sorry for the late update! Next chapter is going to be Blaise's POV