Path | Dramione

f o u r t y o n e

-Hermione Granger-

I watch as Draco runs his hands through his hair as he listens to someone on the phone. His jaw is clenched and anger is clear in his eyes.

I sigh and walk over to him, wrapping my arms out him in hopes to calm him down. He wraps his free arm around me and kisses the top of my head.

I feel him relax in my arms and I smile knowing that it's working.

He gets so worked up by the mafia sometimes and I don't know what else to do then just help him calm down and let him talk to me about it.

They haven't made him kill anyone yet but they have asked him to send out some illegal substances. We both don't know where they are going, we just know they're illegal.

He did that yesterday because if he didn't then they would hurt him somehow. Which probably meant me and the babies.

"Brenton I can't do that. You yourself should know what it's like, you have a family. Please" Draco pleads for something that I'm not sure of. I hear a muffled answer on the phone and Draco's grip on my tightens as tears prick his eyes.

He slowly brings the phone down from his ear and sets it down on the table.

"Please don't leave me" He whispers to me and I cock my head to the side.

"What?"

"Don't leave me Hermione, promise me you won't"

"I promise" I say, furrowing me eyebrows together as I say this. What's wrong with him?

Draco placed a soft kiss on my forehead and walks away from me. I stand there, still confused until I hear the front door shut and soon the car pulling away in the drive way.

He has to kill someone!

I gasp and run out of the kitchen and the door. My heart is beating at a thousand miles per hour as tears clog my vision, making it blurry.

I feel my knees starts to go week and I tumble against the wall of Draco's home, the place I also call home.

I place my hand on my heart to calm my now rapid breathing.

He's going to kill someone...

He promised he would kill anyone. He promised! And now he's going to kill some person, a random person.

I stand up, using the wall for help and make my way back to the kitchen. I grab his phone off he counter and unlock it before flipping through his contacts and calling Brenton.

It takes a few rings and he finally picks up.

"Aren't you-"

"Who are you making him kill" I cut off the gang leader and hear him chuckle on the other end of the line.

"Someone who deserves it." Brenton says strongly, making me bite my lip.

"No one deserves to die" I mumble and look at my feet as I rock back and forth on them.

"This guy does."

"Why...?"I ask, not knowing if I really want to know.

"He raped his twelve year old daughter...murdered his wife who was carrying his son and daughter... and buried his three year old son alive." Brenton slowly lists off the things he has done one by one and with each one my eyes get more blurry.

I feel my hearts stop for a second before returning to its natural pace. "You know what, your right...he does deserve to die."

"I knew you'd understand, Hermione." He says in a calming tone. "We only kill people who deserve it. I hope you understand what we do now."

"I do, I understand. Just don't make Draco do it again." I end the call without letting him answer and wipe the stray tears away from my face.

I'm not mad that Draco's killing him now. If anything more proud. He's ridding the earth of a heartless man. He's doing good in the form of bad.

I sit on the couch and blankly watch the TV, thinking about what's happening between Draco and the man right now. What is the guy hurts Draco...?

Oh please god don't let Draco be hurt.

It's seems like hours before Draco's home with a slam of the front door. My eyes shoot open and I jump over the couch back and run to the entry way where I see Draco crying.

I run over to him and wrap my arms around him. "Shhh it's ok Draco. I know what you did and it's ok" I whisper to him as he cries into my shoulder.

"D-don't leave me Hermione" he begs me. "Please I love you too much..."

I kiss his temple and run my fingers through his messy blond hair. "I'm not going to leave you. The man you killed deserved to die. You know that right?"

Draco shakes his head no at me and I sigh before telling him everything he did. By the end of it I'm crying also. Just the thought of someone doing that to their children and wife. How could humanity be so ruined?

"I love you Draco. I'm not leaving." I say, half true. If he goes too out of line because of the mafia I might leave but it'd have to be horrible. It'd have to be unthinkable.

"I love you too" he whispers back to me, still hanging onto me as we hug tightly.

"Let's get you cleaned up and in bed" I tell him and he nods.

"I'm a murderer..." Draco says randomly as I take his shirt off.

"No, Draco don't say that. Don't. You are not." I scold him and cup his cheeks.

"Yes I am. I killed a man, deserved or not."

"Draco you did the dirty work, your boss, Brenton...he's the murderer." I say, not completely making sense. "You're not a murderer."

"What if they make me do it again.

"They won't" I promise him and hug him tightly.

"How do you know?"

"I'll make sure of it baby it's going to be ok...all of this is going to be ok."