24. Broken hearts

Parents Too Young

Disclaimer: If I was JK, I'd be working on book 7 and not typing fanfiction. None of this is mine.

A/N : I really suck at updating. And I apologise to everyone that actually stuck with this story and waited for me to update. I hate leaving stories unfinished so…here it is.

I'm going to give you guys a choice here. I know some people would prefer a story never updated than a story update with a really crappy chapter….so this is the chance for those people to stop reading now. You can choose to not bother with this chapter…or read it at your peril. Don't say I didn't warn you ;-)

Broken hearts

Lucius smiled wide as his son stood next to him. He knew his son would chose family over some stupid mudblood, he had been raised to believe that blood line and family were the most important thing.

'Well, now we have that out of the way…would you mind removing yourself from my grounds so I can disinfect the house? Oh and take the consequences of a spell gone wrong too' He said coldly, indicating to Ella who still looked completely confused. Where as Hermione was attempting not to cry, her hurt and betrayal shone obviously in her eyes as she shook her head.

Hermione started to turn around to head out of the mansion when she heard a gasp come from Malfoy and a 'how interesting' come from Lucius. She spun round to see what was the matter and found both sets of eyes trained on the space next to her. She looked down expecting Ella but found no one and nothing. She looked around wildly and then at Malfoy who was in a state of shock.

'What just happened?' She asked Malfoy desperately trying to make eye contact.

'She just dissapeared' He said slowly, looking at the empty space beside Hermione. Lucius stood with a curious expression on his face as his eyes narrowed.

'They did the spell' Hermione said softly. 'They didn't wait for our say so and instead they did the spell without us!' She yelled, attempting to prompt a reaction or show of expression from Draco. She was hoping for too much. She saw a flick of surprise upon his face before he returned to his look of boredom.

'I can't say I'm not pleased. Anyway, would you mind leaving the premises now before I have to curse you?' He said looking at the girl who was breaking down in front of him. She collapsed to the floor in tears as the entire situation overcame her, she had lost the one person she thought she loved and now she'd just lost her child. Lucius merely rolled his eyes and let out a bored sigh.

'Don't you dare move boy' Lucius snarled under his breath as he saw Draco make a move to go to Hermione.

Draco looked up at his father and then at the crumpled mess on the carpet that was Hermione. He looked between them before moving out of his fathers reach quickly and bending down to comfort her.

'I'm sorry' he said sadly as he wrapped an arm around her and kissed her gently on the lips. 'I'm so so sorry' He muttered again. Hermione quickly flinched out of his grasp as her crying slowly died down.

'Get away from her, Draco' Lucius said. His expression one of complete disgust at the scene in front of him.

Draco gave a last look at Hermione before standing up and leaving the room abruptly. Hermione stood up shakily, looked at Lucius with a last look of pure hatred and walked slowly out of the mansion and headed back to Hogwarts attempting not to cry again until she got there.

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Hermione took a shaky breath in as she packed her trunk with her stuff, she was avoiding the looks from Harry and Ron as they helped her. She had got back to the castle and told them what had happened, Harry, as predicted had been a whole lot more sympathetic than Ron over the situation.

She moved the bed covers aside to find her pyjamas and instead found a Slytherin cloak lying there, she picked it up and threw it across the room angrily before aiming her wand at it and making it burst into flames. Ron and Harry exchanged worried looks before increasing the speed of packing.

She heard a slight noise coming from the living room and looked up at the doorway, expecting Ginny or Claire to appear but instead she got a bigger shock.

'Draco'

'Hermione' he said leaning against the door frame. Both Harry and Ron stood up and reached slowly for their wands.

'Get out of here, Malfoy' Harry said slowly. Draco raised an amused eyebrow and sighed.

'Calm down Potter, I'm only here to get my stuff'

'How dare you walk in here…' Ron said angrily, moving closer to him. Hermione put out a hand onto Ron's arm to stall him.

'He's not worth it' Hermione said, busily packing her clothes in her trunk.

'Actually, I was wondering if I could have a word' Malfoy said to Hermione. 'Alone'

'You must think we're idiots!' 'We're not leaving you alone with her you evil ferret' Ron and Harry both shouted.

Hermione looked at Malfoy's pleading eyes and gave a shaky sigh. 'Ok, can you give us a minute?' Hermione said quietly. Both Harry and Ron gave her an offended look before stalking out the room past a very smug Malfoy.

Draco shut the door behind him slowly and walked cautiously into the room. Hermione crossed her arms and sat down in the bed, folding her legs.

'You must be quite annoyed' Malfoy said, shifting his robe off of his shoulders.

'Quite annoyed? You think I'm quite annoyed? I'm more than annoyed! I had the urge to kill you back there you worthless bit of crap. And Ella, poor Ella…'

'Look, I'm upset about Ella too'

'Oh yeah, look at you. God, you're heartbroken aren't you?' She snapped sarcastically. 'I mean, the last thing Ella probably learnt was that her father was an arrogant ass who has left her and her mum'

'You have to understand-'

'No, you have to understand. How could you do that? I thought you'd changed!'

'I'm a Malfoy, a Slytherin and a pureblood. Did you really think we could work? My family hates muggleborns. I would be the laughing stock of the entire family. I would never be respected. My mother and father would disown me. I'd have nowhere to live and I'd have no money to my name. Never doubt that I loved you, ok? Oh I did. But deep inside, I knew from the start nothing could happen.'

Hermione stared at him before rested her face in her hands as the tears started to slip down her cheeks yet again. 'So what now?' She asked quietly.

'We go back to what we were.'

'So we'll now walk around school throwing insults at each other?'

'Well…yeah.'

'God I hate you'

'Don't say that' Malfoy said sadly as he reached out to touch her but she pulled away as if burnt. 'Hey, is that my Slytherin robe in the corner all burnt?'

Hermione threw him an unimpressed look before standing up and brushing herself down. 'Well, I suppose now you're out of the equation…maybe I'll go and ask Ron out or something'

'You wouldn't dare'

'Oh I would'

'You wouldn't'

'Oh trust me, right now I'm capable of anything' Hermione said, fire dancing her eyes.

'But Weasley?'

'His name is Ron'

'Like I care'

They both looked at one another and both let out small smiles. 'I'm gunna miss you, Granger' He said softly as he bent down and kissed her one last time before practically running out of the room before he could see the heartbroken expression on Hermione's face.

Neither Hermione nor Malfoy asked Dumbledore about his decision to do the spell that would make Ella go, as they both knew it was for the best, however much it pained them.

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2 months later

Snape rolled his eyes as he looked down at Hermione who had her hand waving about in the air.

'Miss Granger, I'd much rather other students attempted to answer my questions than you, who thinks she knows everything in the world.' He snapped. Malfoy let out a snigger as the other Slytherins smirked.

'We will leave that there for today. You may go.' Snape snapped as he watched everyone eagerly shove all their books into their bags and run out of the classroom.

'Hermione, you coming to lunch now?' Ron asked outside the classroom.

'Lunch? You do realise Snape just gave us an essay to do, don't you? I'd much rather eat knowing I have all my homework done' She said, giving them a smile before turning in the direction of the library. 'Oooof' She said as she made contact with something and her books fell the floor. 'Damn' She cursed reaching down to pick them up.

'Watch where you're going, Granger' Draco said, as his friends kicked the books further away from her.

'Shove off, Malfoy' She said as she gathered her books into her arms and walked by him. It was getting easier for her now to act horribly to Malfoy, probably because Malfoy was acting horribly to her and the words seemed to spring from her mouth before she could stop them.

She sat down at a small table near the back of the library and started reading before her attention was broken as someone sat down beside her.

'How've you been?' She looked up into the smirking face of Draco Malfoy. Hermione blinked in shock.

She snapped out of it and shrugged. 'Not bad, you?' She said casually. He gave her a gentle smile before looking around the library.

'I'm good. So…doing much lately?'

Hermione looked suspiciously at him before sighing. 'What is it that you want?'

'Well, I heard this rumour you see. And as you know, rumours in this place tend to have some truth behind them.'

'I'm trying to do an essay here so could you cut to the chase.' She snapped impatiently.

'Well…I hear you and Ron are a couple now' He said, watching her reaction as carefully as possible. She looked highly surprised and then smirked.

'So what if I am?' She said, watching him carefully.

Draco leaned back hesitantly. 'Oh, I was just wondering. Well congratulations then' He said looking down sadly before standing up and turning to head out of the library.

'I'm not going out with him' She said slowly. Malfoy turned around with a wide smile smacked on his face. 'And it wouldn't really matter if I were now, would it?'

'Hmmmm' Draco said, sitting down next to her. 'Wanna hear something cool?'

'I suppose' She said, looking expectantly.

'I've just gained my inheritance, so I'm now stupidly rich' he said proudly with a grin.

'Well, thanks for sharing and gloating but I do have work to do' Hermione said, turning back towards the book in front of her.

Hermione suddenly felt warm breath on her neck and ear, and closed her eyes. 'I miss you' Draco said softly.

'Well, it was your fault you lost me' Hermione said pulling away from him.

'Well, what if I said I was wrong?'

'Too late now, I'm with Ron' Hermione said, cracking a smile.

'You just said you weren't'

'I'm not, but I like winding you up' She said smiling up at him. 'Anyway, I thought we were meant to be doing the whole hatred thing.'

'I could never hate you. I loved you'

'You loved your father more' She said with some anger.

'What if I said I don't care about my father that much anymore? What if I said, I want you right now on this table and then I want you for the rest of my life?'

'I'd ask what you'd been drinking' Hermione said, smiling innocently.

'Let's try again ok? I can't bare it. Every time I see you... it hurts!'

'You know what? I want you to feel, feel the pain, hurt and betrayal you put me through' Hermione said coldly standing up and facing him. 'So Draco, us is not going to happen' She cupped his cheek softly 'I'm sorry' She whispered as she watched him recoil in hurt.

He turned away from her coldly and started striding away. 'If I were you, I would have never let me go' Hermione said loudly, knowing he could hear her, as he walked out the library.

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The next few months consisted of Malfoy either looking longingly at Hermione or looking depressed every time she walked into a room. The Slytherins had actually refrained from letting Lucius know that his son was still longing after the mudblood. They either turned a blind eye or were completely oblivious to Malfoy's constant depression at any mention of Hermione.

Hermione on the other hand was the opposite, she appeared to be happy all the time and would smile and laugh at anything anyone would say to her, even if it weren't funny at all.

It was a cold, April morning when Hermione took notice that Draco hadn't come down for breakfast. The thought entered her mind as quickly as it came and she didn't think about it again until the paper arrived. 'Oh my goodness' Hermione said, dropping her pumpkin juice over the table.

'What?' Harry said as half the Gryffindor table looked at Hermione expectantly. 'Lucius has been arrested. He's in Azkaban.' Hermione said. She looked towards Draco's empty seat, got up and rushed out of the hall. No one said anything but everyone knew exactly where she was going.

Hermione rushed to the Slytherin common room and rushed past Blaise who had just said the password to get in.

She walked through the common room, ignoring all the dirty looks she was getting and walked up towards the boy's dorms. Blaise caught up with her and looked at questioningly.

'What are you doing?'

'Where's Draco? I heard about his dad.'

Blaise gave her an unsure look before pointing to a door down the corridor. 'Be careful, he's not in the best of moods as I'm sure you'll find out.'

Hermione pressed open the door to see Draco lying on a small double bed staring at the ceiling.

'We're not allowed girls in here' Draco said blankly.

'Like you ever stuck to the rules'

'I suppose you're here to gloat about how happy you are'

'No' Hermione stated. 'I was worried about you'

'Oh. I'm fine' He said, emotionless.

'Yeah you sound it' Hermione said with an edge of sarcasm. Hermione sat slowly on the edge of his bed and leaned down slowly and brushed his hair away from his eyes. 'I am sorry'

'I know' He said sadly as she lay next to him gently. 'I'm heading home later today to see my mum.'

'Do you know how she is?'

'Coping' He said, idly picking up her hand and fondling it. Hermione leaned over and pressed a light kiss to his cheek. Draco cracked a smile. 'Wow, if I knew that all it'd take was my father going to jail to get you running into my room willingly and kissing me, I would have sent him to azkaban myself along time ago.'

'You love your father'

'Do I? I'm only there because I fear the consequences. I only respect him because he seems to have all this power. But all that power has come from other people's fear of him. I don't wanna be like that. I used to...but not anymore'

An out of breath Pansy suddenly appeared at the door. 'Draco!' Her eyes saw Hermione lying closely next to him and she sighed. 'Knew I was too late. Sorry to hear about your dad.' Pansy said before turning and leaving as quickly as she had come.

Draco and Hermione lay together on the bed looking at the ceiling for what seemed like hours. Neither saying a word as they realized that everything that once stood in their way of being together was now gone.

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A/N Told you it sucked. I haven't decided if there's gunna be another chapter or not. I showed this one to my friend and they suggested that I could just leave it like that. But I dunno…

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