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Chapter three

"Hermione, Hermione," a voice called out to her. She knew who it was, even though she could not see him. It was so dark, almost pitch black, but her eyes were steadily adjusting.

She noticed the fresh smell of pine trees and evergreen, and deciphered that she was in a forest. But how? How did she get here?

"Hermione, stay with me," the voice called to her again.

"Where are you?" she questioned.

And then, there he was, standing to her right, a light shining down upon him. He held out his hand towards her, and she stepped towards him, but stopped almost as quickly as she started.

Two more voices starting calling out to her.

"No, Hermione, come with us."

She looked to her left and saw Harry and Ron with their arms outstretched towards her.

Her head whipped back and forth between Draco and her two best friends. Each time she looked towards Harry and Ron, more people were standing behind them, until Lupin, Tonks, the Weasleys and other members of the Order of the Phoenix were with them.

She looked back towards Draco and not only saw him, but his parents, Professor Snape, and Bellatrix Lestrange standing with him. His hand was still outstretched towards her.

"Hermione, we need you," the Order called to her.

She made a move towards them, until she heard Draco speak.

"Hermione, I love you," he said, his voice sad and full of love, and that was all she needed to hear.

She ran to Draco and grabbed his hand. She had chosen.

Hermione woke up with a start, breathing deeply, and felt numbness in her right arm. She looked down and noticed that her hand was locked in Ron's grasp.

She slowly pulled her hand out of his, trying hard not to wake him. He had a vice-like grip on her fingers, but she finally got her hand out and he rolled over onto his other side, snoring loudly.

She found it hard to go back to sleep, even though she knew that it was too early in the morning to wake up just yet. So, instead of falling asleep, she thought about her dream, and the fact that she awoke holding Ron's hand.

She knew that she had only been holding his hand because she had grabbed Draco's in her dream, but Ron would not have been able to know that.

She hated that Ron still loved her, and that he had no idea that she felt only brotherly love towards him. She could feel his advances gaining speed, and she dreaded the day when he would finally confess to her his feelings, and she would have to deny him.

She felt awful about it, but her heart belonged to Draco Malfoy.

Her thoughts turned to the dream, which was still fresh in her memory, and she replayed it in her mind, not missing any detail.

To her, it seemed that there was some hidden meaning.

She could tell that most of it meant that she would choose love over friendship, Draco over Harry and Ron. That much was obvious.

But would she really? Would she really choose Draco, who she had really only known for a matter of months, over Harry and Ron, her best friends, who she had know since she was eleven?

She shouldn't have to choose between them, she told herself.

If Harry and Ron were really her best friends, and if they really cared about her, they wouldn't make her choose between them. They would accept Draco. But she knew, deep down, that if she had to make the choice, she would always choose Draco.

But did that mean that she was choosing dark over light, evil over good?

Hermione, without meaning, let out a strangled cry. No, she would never choose evil!

She stopped thinking these thoughts, not wanting to be too overwhelmed by a small dream, and listened to the stillness of the room.

Besides her own, she heard only one other set of steady breaths.

Hermione sat bolt upright in bed, and looked over to the spot on the floor where Harry was sleeping.

Or rather, had been sleeping, because he was no longer there.

"Ron! Ron!" she cried while smacking him over the head with a pillow and he jumped awake.

"What? Wassamatter?"

Hermione was already out of bed and heading towards the door.

"Harry! He's gone! He's not here!"

She rushed out of the room, Ron hot on her tail, and started looking and searching throughout all of the rooms in Grimmauld Place.

Ron started out in the basement and Hermione took the first floor.

She stopped at a door that bore the words "The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black 'Toujours Pur.'"

She slowly pushed open the door, knowing without knowing that this was an important room.

"Lumos," Hermione whispered, and the room fluttered with light. She sent a spell of fire towards the gas lamps, and the room was finally lit up enough to see.

All four walls were covered in the Black family tree. She stepped in to the room and looked closer at all of the names, forgetting about her search for Harry for a moment.

Sirius was nowhere on the tapestry. But there were a few burn marks scattered around the walls, and Hermione could only imagine that he was underneath one of them.

Upon further inspection she saw that Andromeda Tonks was also burned off the wall, and she remembered that Tonks was related to Sirius.

Hermione's eyes widened as she saw the name of the family to the right of Andromeda.

Narcissa Black was linked to Lucius Malfoy, and a single vertical line linked them to their son, Draco Malfoy.

Hermione could not stop staring at the picture of Draco. He looked so young, and so mean there. She could remember that was how he always looked, before he received his task from Voldemort.

The picture brought back memories of the days when he would harass her, and call her Mudblood. A few tears were shed at the memory.

She did not like to think of those days, not anymore, not when she had such good memories to think of.

And those memories moved to the front of her brain. They were as vivid as if they just happened yesterday.

She ran her fingers lightly over his face, and closed her eyes, pretending that he was really right in front of her, and that she could really feel him.

"Oh, Draco," she sighed, "I wish you were here."

Author's Note: Well, here's chapter three. Thanks again for reading and I hope you like this chapter! :)