Keeping You by KiRa M. EMeRaLd

Disclaimer: The owner of these characters happen to belong to J.K. Rowling.

A/N: Hello everyone! Finally here's the sequel to Once And For All!

For those who haven't read the first one, you might be able to follow along but it'd be best if you go to my profile and click Once And For All.

Also I wanted to thank my beta Lilly for helping me out with this chapter and the story, xoxo!

1. The Next Beginning

Hermione opened her eyes and realized she was in her living room. Thinking that she must have fallen asleep on the couch, she moved her head from what she thought was a pillow, though it was much too hard to actually be one. She tried to move her arms but found that she couldn't, as someone else's arms were around her waist.

Hermione tried to wriggle free but found that whoever it was was much too strong for her.

"Hermione?" That's strange, I thought I heard-

"Draco!"

"Woman, don't yell I'm right here!" He let go of her waist, and Hermione sat up to look at him.

She got off the couch and stood. "Wait, what are you-?" She trailed off as she remembered the events of last night. "Oh," she said slowly.

They were... back together. No nothing had happened, if that's what's going through your dirty little mind; No, they had simply talked, and as the night had rolled on they had fallen asleep in each others' arms as they had done months ago before their big fall out.

"You say that like it's a bad thing."

"No, no! Just..." She was at a loss for words.

Draco tried to fill in the blank. "Confusing? Strange? Awkward?" Hermione nodded to everything. "Um.. okay, that's a start. Look, are you hungry? We can go out for breakfast..."

Hermione slowly sat down on the floor, right beside the couch. "I'm not so hungry," she replied.

Draco nodded.

They stayed there in silence before Draco spoke up. "Do you want me to leave?"

"It's just," Hermione sighed, "I just think it's something to get use to. I mean, it's happened so quickly. One second you're not here, next second you are. Next second... you're back in my life."

"So I guess you don't want me here," he said, getting up off the couch to leave.

"No," Hermione said, grabbing his hand, "I just think this is going a bit too fast."

"So... you want to start fresh then?" Draco said, sitting down beside her.

"I guess... yes." Hermione nodded.

"Hi, I'm Draco Malfoy" he said, extending his hand. Hermione rolled her eyes. "I'm serious. Aren't you the one going 'I want to start fresh'?" he asked in a high pitched voice.

"Oh, come on, my voice is not that high!" She grinned.

"'I want to start fresh,'" he said in a deep, deep voice. Hermione took a pillow and threw it at him; he laughed, and... she laughed, too.

She found that she missed his laugh, she missed him being around. Although she felt like she hadn't, and she thought- or she knew- she could do without him, it was still nice to have him around. It brought back a bit of her, of her past, of her rein as Mrs. Draco Malfoy.

She hadn't thought about those days in a while, either because she was too busy or she just didn't want to. He was here now... but was that really all that mattered? Maybe, maybe not; or maybe it was too early to tell.

But she took a chance on it.

"Hi, I'm Hermione Granger," she said, extending her hand. "Or you could call me Mrs. Malfoy, if you'd like." She smiled.

"Pleasure to meet you," Draco said, taking her hand and kissing it.

"Likewise." She laughed.

Draco looked up at her. He made a promise to himself then and there that he would never let her go, and that he would never let anyone come between them, never ever.

A/N: Yeah it's kinda short but I'll update soon, not to worry.

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