Stay By My Side ✅ (Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy)

Future

Apologies that I've been slow at updating. I recently got a new part time job whilst trying to keep up with my studies so it's been hard. I'll do my best though. But because there won't be much left of this story *sobs* I want to try and make the final chapters as perfect as i possibly can, so that may take time also. 

Draco POV

 Neither Ginny nor I said anything to each other. I desperately wanted to believe that this was all some sort of dream and that it wasn’t actually happening, but I was only fooling myself. I thought about Blaise and that look of arrogant pride he had whenever he done something bad and I clench my fists. Hot rage burned in my veins, I wanted nothing more than to destroy , tear and kill anything that came upon me.

“We can’t just stand here. We must do something.” Ginny whispers beside me in a pleading voice. I immediately snapped out of all my thoughts and my main focus was back on Hermione now. I needed to get to her. Now.

“Hold on.” I whisper. “I’ll go. You get help.”

“There is nothing you can say or do that will-“

“I have no time for this. I need you to listen to me.” I snapped in an annoyed way. “Blaise will be there when I turn that corner and not a moment can be wasted. Go and find help as quickly as you can.”

She sighed and a look of pure worry appears across her face. “Fine. But I swear Malfoy, if anything happens to her because of you I’ll personally cause you serious harm.”

I tried to ignore that fact that Blaise was the only one who harmed her but I chose not to address it. “Nothing will happen to her, I’m going to help her. Now you can’t go this way because it would mean passing Blaise, I need to face him alone. Turn back and go the long way, I know it’s inconvenient but if you go fast then all the better.”

She quickly nods indicating that she understood all of what I told her. I didn’t look to see her disappear from behind me because I was already forcing myself to move forward to observe what had just happened. In seconds I find myself standing in front of the scene. My eyes quickly dart towards the motionless body that lay on the floor. Hair sprawled out from behind her, dried in blood over her lips and on her forehead… if she didn’t look so hurt then I would probably think she was sleeping. She looked peaceful in a disturbing way. My heart aches for Hermione. I want to reach out to her and hold her small body in my arms and never let go. I would never let anything or anybody hurt her, ever. I take a few steps forward until I am standing above her. I am just about to kneel down and scoop her up until a rough hand appears on my shoulder and pulls me back. My profound anger awakened once again. I now look at Blaise and my maniac desire to kill him right here and right now grew a bit more. But what good would that do? For me? For her? I knew I didn’t care in that moment because I was so consumed with anger, it would take a lot to hold me back. I scanned over Blaise’s expressionless face in search of some answer. I don’t really know what I was looking for. Remorse maybe? He definitely didn’t show that. In fact I couldn’t tell at all what he was thinking. He showed nothing. He releases his grip from my shoulder and he inhales deeply. He brings his focuses to the floor and doesn’t say anything.

“You better speak now Zabini before I have to force it out of you myself.” My voice sounded somewhat calm.

“What is there to say?” He is still looking to the floor. “It’s obvious what I’ve done.”

“You… you hurt her. You should have done it to me… you had no right.” I practically growl at him. “It’s me, not her that you have a problem with.”

I think a saw a smile on his face from where I was looking but I wasn’t sure. “Does it bother you?”

“Bother me? Of course it does. It infuriates me, it disgusts me… you were never like this.” I was raising my voice a bit which I wasn’t aware of. “Look at her. How could you do it?” I point towards Hermione on the floor. I really needed to get her out of here.