Title: Lost

Summary: It had been six years since the war ended. Seven years since anybody had seen or heard from Draco Malfoy. His tracks have long ago run cold. Hermione, whom works for the Auror office shuffling paperwork, is lost in a world of cold cases. With her own life in shambles she holds on to one case she is determined not to remain unsolved: Draco Malfoy.

Disclaimer: Thank you J.K Rowling for creating the world and characters of Harry Potter. I do not own Harry Potter. All characters and situations in this story are all based on the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. I think I covered everything.

Chapter One

Gone

I know you're gone;
I know you're leaving me
behind your dreams,
behind your prayers.
What do you think,
what do you want,

What do you love?

Files

Paper

Dust

This is what Hermione's world had now consisted of. Deep down in the debts of the department of ministries in the basements of the Auror offices is where she presided. With her talents and smarts she could have done anything she wanted after Hogwarts. But things have changed since then, she had changed.

She was presently in the lowest level of the Auror department. This is where they sent the cold cases, artifacts and evidence. It was her job to catalog everything that would never be touched again. The files that made it to this level were unsolved it was a land of the lost.

It was darker and even gloomier than the rest of the basements, if that was even possible. A think layer of dust kissed every object in the cramped and cluttered room. Boxes containing who knows what, blanketed furniture, old chests, and filing cabinets were abundant.

She was presently sifting through centuries of the Malfoy family belongings and documents to see what was valuable or not. Hundreds of papers laid scattered on the floor, with photographs making up a pile of their own. This was what she did when she was not given work to do from upstairs. This was her obsession.

"Hermione" someone shouted

Getting up she quickly rounded the corner of the last row of boxes and sheet-covered Cabinets, when she spotted Harry at the front desk. He was dress in his finest work robes, only the best for the top detective Auor in the department. Her job did not require her to wear such extravagant robes, most of the time you would find her in slacks and a sweeter.

Time had been good to Harry the scars from his past had been lifted to be replaced with happiness. He had married Ginny Weasley years ago and they were now expecting their first child. Life for her two best friends was perfect unlike herself.

"Hi Harry" She said smiling brightly as she greeted him.

"Hey I was wondering if you wanted to grab lunch with me and Ron" Harry suggested smiling back at her. "I think its time you get out of this dusty basement."

Ron he was an Auor too. But he was a person she choose not to see unless she absolutely had to. Hermione nervously shifted though some papers around her, "um I don't know I'm really busy down here and…"

"Hermione" Harry said interrupting her excuses, "that was your reason last time it's been four years you need to look past it."

Hermione now was getting angry, "Well Ron didn't leave you at the alter, so I really don't expect you to understand HARRY."

Yes Hermione was going to be married to Ron like everyone expected them to be until he left her on their wedding day. What hurt the most was the fact that a year later he married Lavender Brown and started a family right away. He had left her alone and lost she still had not recovered fully from it.

"Okay fair enough," Harry said putting up his hands "Me and Ginny have just been worrying about you. You haven't been on a single date since Ron and all you do is coup yourself up down here."

"This is my job Harry!"

Harry shook his head and rounded the corner into her office and pointed at her wall "this is not your job Hermione."

She looked over everything papers, pictures, and statements littered her wall, all involving one person Draco Malfoy. It was the day of Lavender and Ron's wedding when she received his file with the bright red ink the said unsolved on it. He was lost just like her and she had vowed to find out what happened to him.

"Hermione it has been seven years! You are not an Auror or a detective. Everyone who could have told us anything about what happened the night Dumbledore died is now dead."

"But Harry…"

"NO, this is unhealthy you didn't even like the kid why are you so obsessed with this." Harry was at his wits end and was scared for his Friend. "You got to stop this Hermione Voldemort was never a compassionate person, Malfoy failed he did not kill Dumbledore, and that was probably the first and last thing he did right in his life."

"Harry he is not dead, I know this, I can feel it" Hermione was shouting, "It doesn't make sense nothing points to him being killed"

"Then where is he Hermione, you don't think the department spent long hard nights on this file for nothing, if there were any warm traces of him I would agree with you but there is a reason his file traveled down here it's a lost cause." Harry ended his speech softly, "I should go Ron is waiting for me." He turned around to leave when Hermione stopped him.

"He's just lost"

"No, Hermione he's gone"

Authors Note: Okay, a little different from my other story but it has been on my mind for a while and just needed to get out there. Not sure where I am taking this story I haven't mapped it out yet. I think seeing a response from you guys will help it will defiantly be a Hermione/Draco story if you haven't guessed.

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