Magyk: Darkness and Light

Chapter 8

Draco was the first person to wake up, finding Hermione and Tom still sleeping beside him. For the first time, he did sleep well in an old house with two orphans he just met rather than he did in Malfoy Manor. His parents always arguing outside his bedroom and sometimes he could hear his father cursing some spells to harm his mother, it make him restless every night. He was unhappy and isolated living with parents who didn't want him as their son because of his slow progress to do magic at the early stage of growing up. His father always demanded more from him, repeating the same phrase about being perfect, punishment for doing a simple mistake over and over again. The most painful to endure was the punishment, every time he make a mistake, his father would dragged him from the bed at night to the basement and came back to his room with bruises. Mother would never care to heal him back. Ever since he was born, he rarely seen or speaks with his mother at home. His personal elf would be the one who look out for him as a nanny. His daydreaming was interrupted by a soft murmur beside him and found Hermione was talking in her sleep, her face was frowned and anxious. He leaned closer to her face and heard "Mum... Don't leave me", that murmur turned into sobbing, tears running down on her rosy cheeks. She was unconscious but clutching Draco's hand tightly to her chest as she mistaken him for her dead mother in her dream. Draco shook her shoulder softly while calling here name until she woke up from the nightmare. Brown eyes wide open, to find out a pair of grey eyes looked at her with concern. She throw herself at Draco and sobbing heavily at his shoulder. He awkwardly holding her back until she stopped crying but still hiccups. Hermione always had a nightmare since her mother's death. The image of evil strangers with cloaks still fresh in her memory. " Uh, are you alright?" Asked Draco. She shakes her her mutely. " A bad dream... always had them every night", she said with her head lowered down. " What are they?" "Evil people... T-They killed my mum and dad a year ago... with magic", she finishes the sentence with dejected voice. "Don't worry. We'll find a way to make it go away so you don't have the bad dream from your oversized brain", said Draco in protective and humourous voice. Hermione smiled at the comment. He chest felt strangely warm at her cheerful mood. " Thank you, Draco", she looked at him with grateful and smiled shyly. " Yeah", he said dumbly and turned away from her to hide his little smile. " Are you two done talking?" They both jumped at the sharp voice behind them. They turned their head to find out Tom still looking at them with stern face. " We're just finished", said Hermione. His eyes bored into them but Draco didn't look away from Tom like others did before. He was not a type of person who trusted people so easily like Hermione did. He aware of Hermione seems to grow closer to Draco since he wormed himself into her kindness. He liked the attention Hermione gaves to him back in the orphanage because no one accepted them, they bullied them, mocking them with hurtful words. The two of them always look after each other but he couldn't denied her kindness might attract lonely people him or Draco. She was his possession, like he treated his snake,toys, books or even magic but she was his equal and more than everything. Draco was exactly like them, discarded and abandoned by people. He clutches his fists tightly. Hermione looked at him with nervous face. When he woke up to find out Hermione sobbing on Draco's shoulder was annoyed him. But he remained quiet while listening to their conversation. Her always been her comfort place and to be a shoulder for her to cry on when she ranting about books or sighed about how Mrs Cole treat them like a slave having to do the heavy tasks while the others got a better treatment from that mad woman. He get off from the bed and walked to the downstairs away from them. He pick up the book called ' The Book Of Spells' and begin to read some interesting incantations. That's the power of reading to him,it always make him forget about some problems in reality life to calm his mood. Tom began to look out some spells that could fixed the damage in the house such as broken furniture with the wand. He went to the living room and sat down on the old sofa while running over spells to pass the time. An hour had passed, he lost himself in reading and some of the furniture had been repaired by his magic, he didn't noticed that Hermione walked toward him and sat down beside him. " What are you reading about? " she peek over his shoulder to look at his book while asking him. He didn't said anything but turned his head away from her. Hermione didn't gives up and kneeled in front of him. She tried again with honesty and said " When mum and dad died, I had no one to look after me. A man found me and brought me to the orphanage but still no one wants to be friend with bookworm and bushy hair girl like me until you. I'm lucky to be your friend because you're the first friend I ever had", she stopped talking and smiled with tears in her eyes. Then, he felt a pair of arms wrapped around him tightly. He slowly hugged her back but he knew he has forgives her. They hugged for a while and slowly pulled away from each other but his eyes still staring at her face. She couldn't help but saying " Could you get some foods for us? You should bring Draco to help you", said Hermione. He wanted to protest but couldn't resist to say no when he saw her pleading with wide eyes and lips pouted that annoyingly look adorable as he begrudgingly thought so. " Please, please,Tom. At least try to be his friend. You know, he's not so different from you", she smiled widely, eyes twinkled. He groaned silently as he thought ' Where did she learn to do that?' "Alright, beaver. Do you have any more demands before I go with your pointy faced blonde?" he added with sarcasm and his eyebrows raised higher. " No. Thank you, Tom," she hugged him back. Both of them walked out from the room and went to find Draco was still in the bedroom. Hermione called out Draco and begged him to join Tom to find more foods in Hogmeade. Draco silently walked downstairs with Tom as he tried not to scowl and began their journey.