Death Wish - Part 1 - Prologue
Title: Death Wish
Author: ladysasuke
Summary: A year into the war and Draco has been found innocent of any wrong doing and his parents freed from the dark mark. They go into hiding during his 5th year but reappear during his 6th when the war is at its peak. Draco tries to get back into a pattern with his friends but some find it hard to forgive.
"Draco Malfoy is innocent!" The judge bellowed loudly, her gavel pounded thunderously throughout the small courthouse shocking its patrons.
The spectators soon roared with applause but to 17-year-old Draco Malfoy, even the slightest noise sounded hollow.
After six months of being held in Ministry custody, bound and experimented on, he was finally free. Tears slid down pale cheeks, but he hardly noticed stunned by the judge’s decision. He did however tense up at the band of arms coming around his slender waist, he recognized them as the same ones who comforted him for the past month; he turned in them burying his face in the owner’s warm chest.
Hermione Granger tightened her grip on the frail body in her arms; malnourished and weak was shivering uncontrollably. She stroked his blonde hair; long and unkempt, whispering words of comfort into his ear.
The sound of the gavel being pounded against her desk had them turning to face the judge again, and she smiled gently at Draco." It’s over; you are free, though I can’t say the same for your parents. Their trial is set for four months from now so get some rest that is all court is dismissed.
Hermione grabbed their things while Draco thanked their lawyers Hermione bought and grabbed her hand. The walk outside the courthouse felt heavy as Draco dragged himself with Hermione’s help down the steps and into Snape’s arms as he hugged his godson.
"Welcome back, Draco." He whispered but the moment was short-lived as they soon faced the flashes of cameras desperate to take a shot of the now freed heir. Mumbling under her breath, Hermione turned to her professor and tried her best to shield Draco from the vultures, covering him with her jacket as Snape apparated them to Hogwarts and into his quarters followed by a heavily breathing Hermione who took a seat on his bed.
"Oh thank, Merlin." She muttered fanning herself. After she’d threatened the reporters with castration, she was sure she wouldn’t have to deal with them for a while. "How is he?" She asked once Snape laid Draco on the kind size bed, pulling on the too big robes hanging off his body and they gasped at the sight.
Draco’s body was thin, his ribs showing and his skin pasty, looking to be falling of his bones. Hermione bit her lip in horror, she’d heard of the treatment Draco suffered while in the Ministries custody, but she hadn’t thought it would be this bad.
He was a nasty shade of pale, being inside had kept him from getting some much needed sunlight. Running a hand down the side of his thin arm, Hermione thought back to that fateful day when she was rescued by Draco and swore to stay by his side.
To be Continued...
Authors Note: This is my first harry potter fic, i'm excited to see how this turns out.