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"You love her Draco admit it. I'm asking you man to man to please respect her choice and forget the feelings you have for her because they'll make things awkward and I never thought I'd say this but I like that we're all friends now."

Draco looked up at Ron, his eyes steely with restrained emotion and when he spoke his voice was bitter.

"You already won Weasley. She loves YOU. You already get everything that matters so don't ask me to forget because this is all I have to keep of her. You get to keep her. Leave me my memories"

A silence filled the room.

"How long have you known?" asked Draco at last.

"Since the day I first saw you look at her when she laughed."

"What are you talking about Ron?"

Ron shook his head slowly. "I see the way you look at Hermione when she's that happy. It's like you'd do whatever it takes to make sure she keeps laughing so happily. It's incredible."

Draco stared at the floor as he spoke, steadily ignoring Ron's eyes.

"She loves you. She confides in me about you all the time. Everyday I hear about how much she loves you and see how happy you make her."

His voice was brittle, the voice of a man who was just barely keeping his pain under control.

"I will never be able to make her happy the way you can. I'll never be the one she lights up around or the one who gets to hold her when she's unhappy and protect her. That's you. I would never try to ruin your relationship because I don't care who makes her that happy as long as she's that happy. I don't care that I can't be the one she chooses to stand by her as long as someone is by her side with her. So don't worry. I'll die before I try to take her from someone she loves so much."

His voice cracked a little at the end as the emotions he were struggling with slipped through. Ron flinched at the amount of raw animal pain in that brief slip.

"Draco.."

"I don't need your pity."

Ron nodded and quickly left as Draco gestured to the door. At the end of the corridor he turned and saw for a brief moment before the door swung shut what no one should have to see. A man crumpled on the floor, unable to hold himself together from the emotion tearing him apart as he very silently let the tears fall.