Secrets

Dreams

"Hey baby." The familiar voice echoed.
"Come here." She didn't want to.
"I said come here."
He grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer.

"Please let me go." Hermione tried to pull her wrist free which only tightened his grip.

"Why are you trying to get away from me?"
"Do you not like me?"
"I though you liked me."
He tightened his grip and began twisting her frail wrist as Hermione desperately tried to pull away.

"Ow, stop you're hurting me, ow!"
"Please stop!"
How could she let this happen? She was Hermione badass Granger! She's not stupid, she saw the signs. The ones she tried so desperately to ignore.

"You're hurting me baby." He countered through gritted teeth.
"You said you loved me."
"You lied to me!"
Hermione's hand went numb when she heard a muffled crackle under her skin.

"Ahh ahh ow ow please, please!"
"Please stop hurting me!" She cried through her immense pain.
"I do."
"I do love you."
"I love you so much."
"Please."
Suddenly she felt her hand fall to her side still unable to move it.

"That's all I wanted to hear."
He pulled her face close to his and gently wiped her tears with his thumb.
"That wasn't too hard was it?"

Hermione shot awake with tears still dripping onto her bedspread.

She felt a flash of pain rip through her arm that she was leaning on. It only took her a quick squeal to grab it away quickly. And almost as long to realize it was a flashback of her 'stairs' incident last week.

"The stairs." That what she had to explain for her severely broken wrist. Even madam pomfrey admitted "fixing it with a charm wouldn't be possible with this injury's extent."

So Hermione had to suffer with the fact that her boyfriend had gotten so abusive to her that he physically broke her arm.

Nick (her boyfriend) had never been this bad to her before. To this extent. It was always something she could fix with her extensive knowledge of spells. She had found a book in the Hogwarts library on how to fix injuries that usually had everything she needed.

But this? Even the school's magic healer couldn't fix what Nick had done to her this time.

Hermione looked over at the clock a realized she only had a few hours until she needed to be awake.

She cautiously lied back down and closed her tear filled eyes, certain she would not be able to sleep a wink.

Yes I know Nick wasn't in the original Harry Potter books or movies but in this he's a year older then Hermione and he's a Slytherin.