A/N: So, the idea of this fic has been floating around for a while in my head so yeah…here it is!
Summary: After Ron is murdered by a former Death Eater, Hermione seeks comfort in an unexpected person.
Waiting to Happen
Prologue
Flashback:
"You know I never meant all those things I said to you right?"
"But then why did you say them when you knew they hurt me?"
"You don't understand. My father forced me to be that way."
"But you always had a choice. You could have done what you wanted to do. You could have come to the good side and fought against everything you knew was wrong."
"Hermione, do you know what he did to me if I ever disobeyed him? Look at this."
He lifted his shirt, revealing scars across his back. They looked as though they had been reopened many times and had never had the chance to heal properly.
Hermione gasped, her hands automatically moving to trace the scars. He grabbed her hands, pulling them to his chest.
"Please," he asked her, looking into her eyes for some indication that she would do what he was asking of her.
"I can't. I'm with Ron. He loves me and I'm not going to give up on him," she said, pulling her hands out of his gentle grasp and turning to leave.
"But you aren't happy with him!" he called after her.
Hermione stopped walking and turned to face him. She walked back over to him and stroked his cheek.
"It doesn't matter," she whispered.
End Flashback
Hermione jumped up and out of her bed.
"This cannot be happening. Not again, not today," she said, beginning to pace her bedroom in the flat that she shared with Ginny.
After Hermione had graduated from Hogwarts, her dreams were plagued with thoughts of Malfoy. Sometimes, they would be figments of her imagination but sometimes, she would have dreams of what had happened between them. After a year, the dreams had stopped and for two years after that she had not had another dream about him or that day. Now, on the day of her wedding, she was lucky enough to relive a day that she had tried so hard to cast out of her mind.
"You aren't happy with him."
No. She wouldn't let the silly little dream ruin her day. She was happy with Ron and she would marry him and they would win the war and grow old together. So what if her relationship with him was lacking passion? She expected that it would come with marriage and she loved Ron enough to stick it out with him.
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That day, Hermione and Ron were married. Although she had cast the thoughts of the dream out of her mind, she could not help but remember them when she recited her vows. She felt guilty thinking about another man on her wedding day but she really did love Ron. She didn't even really know Malfoy. Why should she give up everything she had with Ron for something that she didn't even know would last?