A/n- So the basic premise is that Hermione is standing on the beach near the shell cottage after everything that happened in the Malfoy Manor, and Harry comes to see her.
Disclaimer- Anything you recognise is not mine.
Bonded By Scars.
The wave came to kiss the shoreline, just to be sent away,
As the night grew darker, the world waited for the light of day.
Staring in to the distance, stood a broken girl on the shore,
She looked the same, but she'd changed since the night before.
She hugged herself, on this cold night, to keep herself warm,
As the moonlight shone on the words tattooed on her arm.
The words told the world that through her veins ran mud,
But instead on ink, they were written and painted by blood.
She looked hunted by the demons of her devastated past,
As she thought of those like her, who had to grow up too fast
Her pain-ridden eyes told that even strength came at a cost,
They told her long tale of a broken heart and innocence lost.
"Does it still hurt?" A soft and familiar voice said from behind,
She turned to see the only person she'd expected to find,
"No," she wanted to say, but they both knew she would be lying,
He came up to her and she gasped, he looked as if he'd been crying.
The colour of the sea before a storm his eyes had become,
They spoke warnings of the what was done and what was yet to come,
"Is it worth it?" She softly asked him in the silence of the night,
"Is this pain, this hurt, death, is this battle worth enough to fight?"
"I don't know," he said, "I thought I did, but I don't, not now,"
"But I think, I think he would've wanted us to continue anyhow,"
She smiled, thinking of that little elf, the one who saved her life today,
Harry's pain made her wish there was something that she could say.
Their fingers intertwined, forces joined to not the let the past win,
She let out a gasp, when her thumb was met with scarred skin.
"I must not tell lies," she remembered as the silver moonlight shone,
She looked up to be met by the most truthful eyes she'd ever known.
"I'm sorry," he whispered softly "Sorry I couldn't save you the pain,"
"I swear I'll die but I won't let anything happen to you again,"
"It wasn't your fault," She whispered, squeezing the arm that held hers,
He turned to her and said, "Your every scream hit me like a curse,"
"I stood there, hearing you scream, and my heart broke with every plea,"
"I listened, but there was nothing I could do, while she tortured my Hermione,"
"You saved me," she said, taking her face in her hands, "You saved me,"
She repeated those words again and again, until he finally believed.
"It's not worth it," he said, looking right in her eyes, "If the cost is you,"
This look in his eyes, were at the same time familiar and new,
"You make my heart beat, Hermione," he said, his words healed her ache,
"I can face a lot," he whispered, "But losing you is more than I can take,"
"You'll never lose me," she said, laying her head down on his heart.
She let him put together the pieces of her that had broken apart
"I'll always be right here," she said, "You can't get rid of me so easily,"
She felt his smile, as he said "I would never want to get rid of you, silly,"
They'd been bonded by the fight for peace, bonded by war,
They were bonded for all that they were struggling for,
They were bonded by everything that was written in their stars,
And now after nine years, they were bonded by their scars.
A/n- All reviews would be appreciated.