Draco Malfoy stalked the streets of Diagon Ally.he knew full and well that today would be hard. It was her birthday, he wondered if she had lived to see it. He certainly hoped so.Merlin did he love that girl.

He walked into a bookstore, this is where they would be, knowing her. He wouldn't think of anything else that she would have wanted.He walked around for a while finally stopping in the back corner of the store, surely no one would be back here. He was looking at the old dusty volumes that looked like they hadn't even been touched in ages when he heard a small sob.

Spinning around to see where it came from his eyes landed on the darkest corner. Even though he was standing a few feet away from it he still couldn't see who was there. Taking a step closer he saw...

Hermione Granger had done a lot of things in life that she regretted. For example, the day that she agreed to be Ron Weasly's girlfriend. They had been going steady for a while and she figured that this was only natural.

But now, she would do anything to take that desicion back, it had caused her so much pain, mentally and physically that she wasn't even sure what still made her get up in the morning. Maybe it was the glimmer of hope that she would get away, escape this hell that she called a life. But she knew somewhere deep down that if she tried that that she wouldn't be the only one hurt.

She had left the one man that she truly loved, her soul mate, the one person that could make her feel alive to save him. Ron had promised that he would die if she didn't do exactly as he told her.

Today was her birthday and surprisingly Ron had let her go off on her own with some money. The first place she thought of was of course Diagon Ally.

Draco couldn't believe it, after the worst year of his entire life there she was right in front of him. It was like a dream. He had to pinch himself just to make sure that it was real. That this was real her sitting in front of him in her own little world crying her eyes out.

Before he could say anything she looked up and saw him standing there. She gasped and then started crying again knowing that this was just another dream. A silly little dream that could never come true, she would never see him again. She looked again and found him crouched down sitting near her hand streched out to brush away her tears.

She was astonished, it wasn't a dream! He was really here! She leaped forward and threw her thinning arms around his neck embracing him. This was the happiest she had been in a long long time.

This was the happiest moment of Draco Malfoy's life. He would not let her go this time, he flat out refused. Id only spending a year apart tore him up that much imagine him never seeing her again, knowing that he had let her go once was bad enough but he deffinatly could not have handled twice. He would simply die.

She pulled back and smiled at him, muscles in her face that hadn't been used in a while spread a light across her face and seemed to bring the life back to her brown eyes.

But then she remembered something. Ron. There was no way that she could stay another moment, it was cruel to lead Draco on like this. She stood abrubtly and sprinted to the door. Draco scambled awkwardly to his feet and ran after her. He caught her just as she reached for the door handle."Your not leaving again Hermione I won't let you." he said staring into her cinoman eyes.

"But Daco he'll kill us both you know that. Please just forget you ever saw me." she said catching him by surprise and opening the door.

"But I love you." he whispered. "And I will save you."