Description: Two lovers, star struck and lost, reminisce about their times together. What is this deadly task that he must complete and why can neither forget about each other? HG/DM
This should be a fairly short story. I had originally meant to make it into a one shot but it was so deep that I had to make it into a short story with a few chapters. It mainly involves memories as both think about their times together. Enjoy and don't forget to leave a review!
The First Time They Met
Click, click, click
The clock ticked loudly on her bed stand as she sat there absent-mindedly staring at the digits.
4:59
It was almost 5:00, which meant 5 hours had passed since the last time she would ever see him again. She furiously wiped away a tear that was slowly falling down her cheek. No, she was not going to cry. She couldn't cry. She had promised herself that. What was he to her? Absolutely nothing! He was just some egotistical pain in the arse that had caused her enough grief to last her a life time.
A pain in the arse that she happened to love. That's right, love. What did the word mean? Hermione certainly didn't know until she had met him. She laughed silently at how cliché that sounded but it was true. She could still smell the exhaust as she stood on that train station 6 years ago.
"Bye mom! Bye dad!" she waved frantically as she proceeded to get on the train.
"Bye sweetie!" said her mom happily through tears. "Write to us everyday!"
Hermione blew a kiss to her mom and got on the scarlet steam engine. The inside of the train was a bustling mess of students, new and old, that were struggling to find their friends or an empty compartment. Hermione sighed, she knew no one because she was a muggleborn and didn't even know she was a witch until she had received the letter. She decided that she would sit near a friendly face and try her best to make friends.
She walked down the aisle of the train and stopped near a compartment that had three boys and a girl in it.
"Excuse me, may I please sit here?" she asked as politely as she could.
The pug faced girl just sneered, "Hah, no way! This compartment is for future Slytherins only!"
"Slytherins?" Hermione had read all about the four houses of Hogwarts and Slytherin was the nastiest one. "Oh, that's fine then. I'll find somewhere else to sit."
She turned around and started walking away, unaware of the pair of silver eyes that were staring at her unwaveringly. She next found a compartment with a round faced boy in it. He looked worried about something so she decided to ask him what the matter was.
"I lost my toad, Trevor. And now my grandma is sure to get cross. I simply must find him!" he said hysterically.
"Not to worry, I'll help you find him. What's your name?"
"Neville, my name is Neville. Neville Longbottom."
"Well, it's nice to meet you Neville, I'm Hermione Granger."
And so, after introductions, she proceeded to find the toad. She found a compartment that had two boys in it, one with fiery red hair and another with unkempt jet black hair. She decided that they seemed friendly enough and decided to ask them if they had seen a toad.
"Excuse me, have you seen a toad? A boy named Neville has lost one."
"No, sorry," said the boy with the jet black hair.
"Holy cricket! You're Harry Potter!" she said excitedly to the boy.
She quickly went to sit down across from him. "I'm Hermione Granger, and you are?" she asked pointedly to the red haired boy.
"I'm…Ron Weasley," he replied with a mouth full of chocolate frog.
"Pleasure," she then chatted with them for a few moments and went on to continue her quest for the toad. She came out of the compartment and crashed right into someone. She began to fall so she closed her eyes tightly, but the ground never came because she found herself being caught by a pair of strong arms. She opened her eyes and saw the startled look on the pale boy's face.
"Uh…watch yourself next time," he let her go quickly and continued into the compartment that contained Harry and Ron accompanied by two abnormally large boys. Hermione watched him go into the cubicle with a sort of dazed expression. She stood outside the room and listened to the conversation going on within. Hermione learned that the pale boy's name was Draco Malfoy and that he wanted to be friends with Harry Potter.
"What a nice guy," she thought with a smile.
She listened on for a few moments and realized that Harry and Ron were turning down the boy's offer of friendship.
Draco Malfoy stormed out of the compartment and was startled to see her. He stopped dead in his tracks and he just stared at her for a while. He shook his head after a few moments and just walked off in the other direction.
"What a strange lad," she thought to herself.
Hermione smiled after this flashback. That was the first time that she had ever been so captured by a member of the opposite sex. Just something about him had made her interested in him. She didn't know what it was or why he fascinated her so much. He was just someone that could make her tear her hair out for hours on end and still she couldn't conclude anything about him. He had a way of complicating things for her. She sighed and laid her head down on the pillow. She reminisced some more as the tears rolled down her face.
Tick, tock, tick, tock
His watch ticked loudly in the silence of the train compartment. He had been staring absent-mindedly at the wall in front of him. He looked at his watch.
4:59
It was almost 5:00, and that meant that it had been 5 hours since the last time he would ever see her again. He sighed, he knew that he shouldn't be thinking about her, not now, not ever. She had caused him enough pain and sorrow. But she had also brought something to life inside of him that he thought had long been dead. He smiled distractedly as he remembered the very first time he had seen her. Coincidentally, it had been on a train, not very unlike the one he was sitting in right now.
"Come Draco!" squealed his childhood friend, Pansy Parkinson from the steps of the train, "You're going to miss the train!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" he grumbled as he lugged his huge trunk onto the scarlet steam engine.
He waved good bye to his mother and father who were standing a few meters away. His mother waved back happily but his father just stood there like stone.
He stepped on to the train, and onto a new chapter of his life. He was going to learn spells and enchantments that would help him become powerful. He smiled as he followed Pansy into a compartment. Another two of his friends, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, joined them a few minutes later.
"This is going to be great!" Pansy said as she jumped up and down in excitement. "We're going to learn spells, and…and potions, and so many things! I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait! And we're going to be in Slytherin just like our fathers!"
"Yes, it's going to be fantastic," he drawled smoothly.
They were interrupted by a girl that seemed to be about their age.
"Excuse me, may I please sit here?" she asked ever so politely.
Draco opened his mouth to answer, but Pansy beat him to it.
"Hah, no way! This compartment is for future Slytherins only!" she sneered nastily.
A momentary look of hurt crossed her face but it soon disappeared. "Oh, that's fine then. I'll find somewhere else to sit."
She turned around and began walking away. Draco turned to Pansy who had immediately began talking again.
"Omigoodness did u see her hair! It was like a cat had died on her head! And her shoes. Oh they were awful! Didn't you think so Drakie Poo?"
Draco said, "Oh sure, why not? If you'll excuse me, I'm going to just wander around the train to see what mischief I can cause." He winked before getting up and walking out of the compartment.
He didn't know why, but he felt compelled to see that girl. He found her in a compartment with a round faced boy. He stood outside the compartment and listened in on the conversation.
Apparently, the boy's name was Neville and he had lost a toad. He didn't care about that really, but he also had discovered that her name was Hermione Granger. She stepped out of the compartment after she agreed to help find the lost toad, and she began walking so fast that she didn't even notice him standing there.
He decided to follow her around some more. Draco saw her stop in front of another compartment. He peered inside for a few seconds and found it to be occupied by a Weasley and a new boy. A momentary look at his forehead as he exposed it to the Weasley showed him to be Harry Potter.
"This will not do," he thought to himself, "Harry Potter cannot be hanging out with riff raff like the Weasleys! Has the man got no pride?"
Draco decided that he was going to save Potter from the terrible mistake he was about to make. He proceeded back to his compartment to get Crabbe and Goyle and he would return later to introduce himself to Potter.
A few moments later, he was marching back towards Potter's compartment with Crabbe and Goyle. He noticed that Hermione was walking out of it, but it was too late as she collided with him and began falling to the ground. Her eyes were scrunched up tighlyt as if she were falling from atop a high tower. Draco's reflexes kicked in and he immediately caught her before she fell and hurt herself.
She opened her eyes and stared at him. He was at a loss for words.
"Uh…watch yourself next time," he said and quickly let go of her and walked into the compartment. He introduced himself to the two boys inside and discovered that the Weasley's name was Ron. He made it known to Potter that he needed to make the right choices when it came to friends and even extended his own hand in friendship. But Potter made it known to him that he could pick his own friends quite well thank you very much.
Draco Malfoy stormed out of the compartment and was startled to see that girl, Hermione or something, right outside. He stopped in his tracks. He didn't know what it was about her that intrigued him. She looked ordinary enough. She had chocolate colored eyes and brown frizzy hair. Something about her just captured his attention. Maybe it was the way her eyes widened when she was excited or surprised or the way her eyes scrunch up tightly when she was frightened. And how did he know all this about her? He had been watching her throughout the entire train ride and had accumulated many details about her. The way she walked, the way she talked, the way that she moved her hands when she talked.
He shook his head, what was going on? He didn't even know who the hell this girl was. Not her personality, not her breeding, not anything about her besides what he had deduced by following her around for a while. He shook his head again to snap himself out of it and walked back to his compartment to get ready to get off the train.
He smiled as he remembered everything about her that day in vivid detail. He was bewitched by her in every sense. She had captured his interest so entirely that he would never forget her throughout the next years ofhis life.
He sighed as he laid his head back and closed his eyes momentarily. He really hoped he survived this mission because he felt so empty and lost without her. As he remembered more about her, he drifted off into a dreamful slumber. What a surprise, his dreams all revolved around her.
Well, that was the first chapter. Not much action. I just wanted to have a base before I got carried away. Anyways, please leave a review!
