After a War ((Old Copy))

Chapter 35 Book 1

After a War

She dropped her bag and peeked through the waterfall. Death eaters!? She grabbed her wand and ran out from behind the waterfall. Solomon was a Wampus. He wasn't much of a wand fighter. Malfoy and Maya were fighting six death eaters at once. Malfoy's wand needed to replace its core so it wasn't doing well at all. Hermione got out her wand and made a temporary wall. The Death eaters fought the wall.

"We have to get out of here." Hermione said as she grabbed Maya's arm and Malfoy's hand. Solomon followed close behind and Pansy was on his back. He clearly wasn't pleased by it but she remained.

"How did they even find us? Why are they even here?" Maya asked.

"I don't know, and at the moment, all that matters is getting behind the waterfall without them seeing us." Hermione said as she dragged Malfoy and Maya with her. She walked behind a tree for a moment and made sure the death eaters were still too focused on the wall to bother looking for them. She pulled her friends towards the waterfall. The magic wall collapsed as they hid in the cave. Hermione used her wand to make it look like there wasn't a cave there at all.

"I should have seen them coming." Pansy said. Solomon turned into a human and lay on the stone floor. Pansy ripped her sleeve off to tend to a wound on his leg.

"Its not your fault Pansy, I shouldn't have dragged you all into the woods in the first place." Hermione said quietly. She looked at the cave opening, four black wisps were seen through the clear water of the waterfall. She shivered.

"We have to move though, they know we're nearby. They will find us here." Malfoy said. Maya nodded.

"He isn't in a position to move right now!" Pansy growled at Malfoy and Maya. She motioned for Solomon. He was unconscious. She was tightening her sleeve around his leg.

"We have to move!" Maya said. Solomon slowly woke up and winced at the pain in his leg.

"They're right." Solomon mumbled to Pansy. "We have to move."

"Your kidding! You wont be able to stand, much less walk, or run." Pansy said. Solomon shook his head. He stood slowly and put most of his weight on his good leg. Someone entered the room. Hermione held her wand up to the woman. She looked familiar actually. Hermione froze. She remembered something from before the Obliviate. The woman that walked in was the woman that killed Fred. Hermione yelled a spell.

"You killed my friend!" Hermione yelled. She cast another spell. The witch was backing out. Hermione continued to shoot spells at the cowardly woman. The woman fell back. Hermione couldn't remember her name, or much about her, just that she killed her friend. She was dragged out of the cave and pulled towards the woods.

"We need to get out of plain sight." Malfoy mumbled to her. She nodded. Maya was right behind her, she was using her wand to keep Solomon floating quickly behind. Her and Malfoy made it to the woods. She turned around and hoped to see Maya, Pansy, and Solomon. They had a death Eater between them and her. Pansy cursed the death eater but they were forced in another direction. Hermione wanted to run back in and help them but she was dragged away.

"Wait! No! Let go of me Malfoy! We have to help them!" Hermione yelled as she fought against him.

"They'll make it another way, we have to get far away from here, we'll find them again soon. Be quiet, we don't want them finding us." Malfoy said as he continued to drag her along. She stopped struggling and started running herself. He stopped.

"Why are you stopping?" Hermione asked.

"Your not going to like this but I have a faster way out of here." Malfoy mumbled as he pulled something from his pocket. He threw it on the ground.

"No, I'm not getting on that infernal thing." Hermione said, she made it clear that she didn't want to ride the broom. Malfoy rolled his eyes and at on it.

"I'll go without you then." He said.

"You wouldn't." Hermione said.

"True, I wouldn't but, just get on." Malfoy said. She shook her head. He grabbed her hand and pulled her onto the broom. He started racing and weaving between trees. She wrapped her arms around him quickly and closed her eyes tightly. She pressed her cheek against his back and stopped breathing. "Id go above the tree's but they'd see us, I don't know where I'm going, other than deeper into the woods. Just hold on and try not to fall off." He said. She didn't respond but she did remember to breathe again.

After riding on the back of the broom for over a hour possibly, they stopped. She had almost fallen asleep. The sun was down, it was dark, and being scared of how fast they were going took a ton of her energy.

"Hermione, you still awake?" Malfoy asked quietly when they stopped. They hovered above the ground. She sat up slowly and rubbed her eyes. She almost fell off the broom. He sighed and got off the broom. She gripped the handle of the broom now. She got off of the broom slowly and it shrunk and flew into Malfoy's pocket.

"I'm awake." Hermione said sleepily. "Ready to search for Solomon, Maya and Pansy?" She asked as she yawned.

"Your too tired." Malfoy said. "And so am I." He sat and leaned against a tree. Hermione stood up straighter and tried to look more awake.

"I'm not tired." Hermione tried.

"Yes you are, sleep." Malfoy said. She slouched again.

"But Draco, I want to go find Maya. Even if she keeps laughing at me." Hermione said. She leaned against the same tree and slid down.

"Ok, your really tired, that's my first name-Wait, why does Maya laugh at you?" Malfoy asked.

"Well, honestly, Its because she thinks I like you, and she might be right." Hermione mumbled. He looked at her.

"Ok, you act drunk when your tired. Sleep, go to sleep. Now." Malfoy said. Hermione groaned.

"I don't want to." She whined.

"Yeah, ok, go to bed." Malfoy ordered.

"There aren't any beds out here." Hermione said happily.

"Sleep." Malfoy said firmly. Hermione rolled her eyes and laid down.