Chapter One

That morning the Dailey Prophet read 'Tributes Paid to Muggle Born Who Died in Tragic Accident'. Draco heart stopped thinking about it, his brain was still trying to process information that his wife, one true love person that he was meant to be with for the rest of his life Hermione Granger died. He still couldn't breathe at the thought of it, never seeing her face again, never smelling her perfume, and never being around her again. He could not think what the world would be like without her, it just wasn't right. He knew that the world could be a mean place to live it but how could it be so cruel to take her from him? What was he meant to do without her? How could he live his life knowing that she couldn't live hers alongside him?

It had been a week now since Hermione's body was found in their home. She was murdered, by a cool blood killer Lord Voldermort. Draco and Hermione have been married for 5 years now, and were living in quite a big house not far from Hogsmead. All those who knew Hermione had left flowers at the gates of their home. There was around 50 bunches of flowers, will messages on also quite a few candles which left out a soft glow until the wind blew them out.

It was the morning of the funeral, Draco had organised the entire thing. He wanted for Hermione to be proud of him for that. For her to look down on him and say how well he had done for her. Draco got the feeling sometimes that Hermione thought he couldn't do anything for himself because she was always doing everything for her. He wanted to prove her wrong for once, even though he knew deep down that she wouldn't be able to fight back in this argument he still did it anyway.

"Come on Draco it's time to go" Emily said, she had been his rock the past week. She was Hermione best friend they had been inseparable when they were at Hogwarts. Emily had helped him since her death and put on a brave face for him. He knew however that she was faking this brave face and inside she was dying herself, she has just lost her best friend and she cannot grieve for her because she is looking after her husband and making sure that he is going to be okay before even thinking about herself.

"Okay let's get this over with" He sounded sad, of course he did he was not ready to do this, not ready to say goodbye to her. It was too early way too early. This wasn't right.

"You're going to be fine, me and Ron will be right by your side" Emily was married to Ron Weasley. Draco had always hated Ron, even back at Hogwarts they weren't in the same house and never ever spoke. Things got better between the two of them as they started seeing each other more because of the girls. This meant that they had become quite close friends.

"I know, it's just going to be hard saying a final goodbye to her, it's too early Em. This can't be happening she was only 25 years old. We had the whole rest of our lives planned; we were going to have a family. Another 75 years of marriage together at least it's not right that she has gone" Draco broke down in tears. This wasn't the first time that Emily had seen him cry recently he had been staying with her and Ron, she could hear him cry himself to sleep every night. Emily felt sorry for him, she had lost her best friend but he lost his soul mate that night. She couldn't put into words how he must be feeling right now. If she lost Ron she would just stop breathing and living herself.

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Draco had cut out what the minster was saying. He was too busy staring at the wooden box in front of him. This wasn't right that at the age of just 25, he was attending his own wife's funeral. Emily had made him prepare a speech he was dreading the moment that the minster was going to announce that he was going to have to go to the front.

"Hermione's husband now has some words planned. So I am going to hand it over to him"

Great. The moment that he was dreading, he knew the speech of by heart but took the paper with him anyway. He stood in front of the stand and placed the paper there so that he could see it and didn't have to hold it because his hands were shaking like crazy. There were around 200 people all staring at him at once waiting in anticipation. There was an awkward silence which felt like forever but he was sure that it was only a few seconds. He took a deep breath and began.

"I had a whole speech planned, practiced for hours but I realised that I don't need any fancy speech anymore. I just want to tell the world I loved Hermione with all of my heart, for years I felt lost and like there was a hole in my heart. No matter what I did I could not fill this hole until I meant her. She saved my life in so many ways. On our wedding day we said vows that are supposed to be kept for a life time, she was so young and had her whole life ahead of her. In one second of one day someone took that from her, just one wave of his wand he took my world away. I love you Hermione Granger, always and forever" Draco couldn't say anymore, he didn't want to cry in front of all of these people. He knew that everyone expected a massive long heart-warming speech from him but he didn't want to give that to them. He got his point across and that was as much as he wanted to give them nothing else.

It wasn't planned but Emily decided that she also wanted to say something about her best friend. So she got up and made her way to the stand at the front. She could see the minster out of the corner of her eye look in confusion but she didn't care she wanted to do this no matter what he thought. She hated speaking in front of other people it had always been a phobia of hers. Then she saw her husband sat there, she focused on his eyes and all the other people in the room disappeared.

"Okay so I know that a speech from me wasn't planned but I have some things that I want to say. I have known Hermione since I was a first year at Hogwarts. She has been there for me and supported me through my life no matter what and I am forever grateful for that. I have seen her change Draco for the better. He was a bad guy at school, but her kind hearted self changed him into a completely different person. I know that she is looking down on all of us now, wondering why we are all being so silly and crying. Draco she would be so proud of you for all this, I know that she loved you with all her heart. I love you best friend, I will never forget you. Your always be in my heart sleep softly Hermione"

The rest of the funeral was just a surreal blur to Draco. Everyone had gone back to Emily and Ron's house for the wake. Everyone kept coming up to him talking to him about how they knew her, and saying sorry for his lost. He didn't know half of them but just nodded along anyway. He had drunk too much; he had a new drink in his hand practically as soon as he'd finished the last one. It seemed to help with the pain of everything, it took it all away from him each time he drank more. He hadn't seen Emily or Ron for ages. He decided that he would go and look for them maybe they knew some of the random people that had been coming up to him! He finally spotted them they were stood in the corner of the kitchen talking to a woman that Draco couldn't recall seeing before. She wasn't in black, in fact she was just in dark blue jeans, and a red hoodie with converse on. It was a strange experience to see her in those clothes because she obviously hadn't of worn that to the funeral surely? She was a dark haired girl, she had long black hair and looked a lot like Emily but with brown eyes instead of Blue and darker hair.

"Hey Draco how is everything going?"

"Fine, random people keep walking up to me. I don't really know who half of them are. They must have seen the post in the prophet"

"Yeah I don't really know everyone here!" it was true she didn't. She knew a fair few of them, the majority in fact but there were a few people that she swore she had never seen before in her life! They were here and showing their respects to Hermione so knowing them didn't really matter.

"Em hadn't you better introduce Rachel to Draco!" Ron realised that the thought of this had clearly slipped his wife's mind so he thought it was best to remind her.

"Oh yes! Draco this is my twin sister Rachel, Rachel this is Hermione's husband Draco!"

"Hi nice to meet you" Draco shook her hand. Rachel fell in love straight away, she thought that he was good looking when he came over. She felt bad for him, his wife just died but that wasn't going to get in her way. She hated not getting her way, even though he had just lost his wife she was going to get this man. It might take some time but this was her aim in life to get Draco Malfoy to fall for her.