Wow I can't believe it's the tenth chapter already, in most fics that I've read about that use this challenge Hermione and him are married or she is starting to fall for him…sorry to disappoint but do you really think she'd give in that easily? Anyway I'm just so happy I've reached ten. This one is an average length. I've got so much coming up in this fic! Well here we go!
Disclaimer: Read the first chapter for full disclaimer. Also just because this contain student/teacher relations does not mean I approve of them. Also before anything happens, Hermione will be 18. Just so you know!
Crash and Burn
Chapter 10 A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
There were girls sitting together talking, they were no older the five. The four girls sat on the bed and floor in a pink coloured bedroom. One had blonde straight hair in pig-tailed braids with little pink bows on the end, another had brown hair in two stubby pig tails and a yellow flower clip in her hair, the other had honey coloured curly hair that had a bow in it and the last one had dirty blonde hair in a ponytail.
"I'm going to be a princess when I grow up!" the blonde one said.
"And you'll marry a hansom prince, Kate!" exclaimed the brown haired one.
"Like Cinderella! Who will you marry Jane?" said the curly haired one.
"I know I'm going to fall in love with one boy and he will be like prince charming, Hermione." giggled Jane, the one in the ponytail.
"Yeah, we will be best friends, when guys lose their cooties of course, then we will fall in love and we will live in a castle and live happily every after!" said the brown haired one.
"Yeah Becky, we can live in castles together, and be neighbours!" exclaimed Kate.
"What about you Hermione, how do you want to fall in love?" asked Jane eagerly.
"Well…I just want to be like Sleeping Beauty. I'll walk through the forest one day like normal, and then I'll start to sing! All the birds and animals will come then my prince will hear me and come, and then we will fall in love and live happily ever after!"
"Yeah!" exclaimed Becky.
The girls faded away slowly as they continued to talk about their fantasies.
There were two girls swinging together on a school playground. They were no older then seven. One had curly brown hair and the other had straight brown.
"Hermione? Do you like boys?" asked the one with straight brown.
"I guess so Sarah, when they aren't annoying like Jack Cooper, he has cooties!" Hermione giggled.
"Do you think you will ever get married like our mums are?" Sarah asked.
"I guess so…but I want to fall in love." Hermione said thoughtfully, suddenly serious.
"Yeah, me too, I wish it was like in fairy tale books. I'll be a beautiful princess who runs away! I'll meet a peasant man and we will become friends and fall in love, then I'll find out he's a prince and we will get married and have two kids! A boy and a girl!" Sarah sighed.
"Yes, he will take you to his magic kingdom, where everyone will be happy and everyone will love each other."
The scene faded out.
Two girls were sitting in a pale blue bedroom on a bed arguing. They were around 10 years old.
"You must believe in fairy tale love Hermione! You just have too! Why would they write so much about something that doesn't exist?" the girl argued.
"They write stories about magic! About unicorns and fairy tale creatures! Is any of that real? You can't expect me to believe all that exists! We aren't princesses; all that fairy tale stuff never happened and never will Trisha!" Hermione yelled.
"I don't think it will happen, but don't you believe in love? That one day you will find love?" Trisha asked.
The young girl named Hermione bounded over to her friend and her face was full of hope and seriousness and looked her friend in the eye.
"I don't think Trisha, I know there is love! No not prince love, but we will find a guy who thinks we are princesses and we deserve to be treated like princesses. They will become our princes that will be our fairytale! I hope it will come true!" Hermione said solemnly and wishfully.
"Me too, Hermione, for both of us!"
Again the scene faded out.
Three girls sat under a tree the summer sun beating down against them. They were 14 years old.
"Hermione, do you miss us when you go to boarding school?" one girl asked.
"Of course I do Melissa! I love you guys!" exclaimed Hermione.
"See any cute guys there?" asked another.
"Kelsey! Yes there are a couple but I they are immature. I wish I could find a guy who would be serious about me." Hermione said sighing.
"Yeah I know, I may like to fool around and flirt but, all I want is or a guy to see me for me you know? Apparently they don't grow up till their 30, the idiots." Kelsey said pointedly.
"Yeah I know, when I was little I thought it would be so easy, but it's so hard." Melissa said.
"I just hope I'll find someone who cares about me and wants to protect me, but lets me do my own thing…you know?" Hermione asked.
"Yep, I here you. Oh well, we can have our fun now and later we will find guys!" said Kelsey happily.
"As long as you don't have too much fun!" said Melissa.
"Prude." exclaimed Kelsey.
"Hey! I only have two months here and winter holidays! Are you guys going to fight the whole time I'm here?"
"Yep!" they laughed together.
They faded out.
The four girls named Hermione from each of the scenes all lined up together.
"I will fall in love with a prince and we will live happily ever after." exclaimed the five year old twirling.
"I will fall in love with a man who will be a prince! We will meet each other as friends and fall in love!" exclaimed the seven year old.
"I will find a guy who will be my friend! He will love me and care for me, he will become my husband! he will treat me like a princess and will become my prince charming." swooned the 10 year old.
"I will meet a guy who likes me for me and we will have mutual feelings for each other. he will protect me and let me speak for myself, but he will love me. An unbreakable love and we will be together forever." dreamed the 14 year old.
She walked towards the dreaming younger versions of herself. A broken down 17 year old. She turned to the happy little girls and began to talk.
"You will actually not find a prince. There are no such things as princes, you will not find a friend to love, nor will you meet a guy and become friends and love each other." she stated.
The four girls looked at her with confusion and sadness on their faces. The fourteen year old looked concerned and worried.
"What do you mean I won't marry a prince?" the five year old asked eyes brimming with tears.
"What are you talking about?" the ten year old questioned.
"You all will be forced into a marriage with a evil man, who is really old, as old as your father. He will have black hair, black eyes, and a black heart. You may have friends now but, you (she said pointing to the 14 year old), you know him already, and you know why your friends can't help you, and the other ones won't want to help." she said simply.
The 14 year old stood confused for a second; she then put two and two together as a form of disgust came on her face she looked up at her 17 year old self questioning. When she saw the truth, she burst into tears.
"Does this mean true love isn't real?" asked the seven year old.
"Not for you it isn't, you have had that opportunity taken from you like a thief in the night, right under your nose by your so called friends, you don't know them yet but you will soon." said her 17 year old self.
"Does this mean I don't get a prince charming? Do Kate, Becky and Jane get one?" asked the five year old.
"What about Sarah?" asked the seven year old.
"And Trisha?" asked the ten year old.
"Both Kelsey and Melissa will find love eventually won't they?" asked her 14 year old self.
"Yes, all your friends will most likely have their chances at finding love. We don't have that privilege anymore." she said sadly.
"So this is it? All we have dreamed about since we were a little girl? Everything about weddings and romance…is it over?" asked the 14 year old.
"Yes, from this moment on we will no longer dream of love, for us it will never exist."
"Unless we fight!" yelled the 10 year old.
"Don't listen to them!" said the five year old with tears running down her cheeks.
"Look at us Hermione! Look at us! We've been dreaming about love forever, you have been dreaming about this forever! Don't do this!" yelled the 7 year old.
"What can I do?" I asked hopelessly.
"Listen, you need to go back to our old life! You have a choice!" yelled her 14 year old self.
"I have to think this through."
"If you need to ask us, we will be in your heart." said the 10 year old.
"Buh-Bye!" called the five year.
"Bye." I said.
Hermione woke up to the sound of her alarm clock buzzing.
That night she had been moved from the hospital wing after enduring many lectures on the importance of eating properly. She was administered a nutrition potion and fed an enormous amount of food which she could barely keep down. Finally Madame Promfrey allowed her to go back to her rooms.
Now however, she had to get down to classes. She walked into the shower the dream still in her mind. From deep inside her she felt reassurance. She could get through this! She was strong and she could do this, she would find the right way to go, and when she did she would follow her heart.
She hopped out of the shower and turned the radio on as she got ready. The music played and read Hermione's mind perfectly.
Ooh..
I'm not Better watch out So Get ready Bet you don't
think I can take it Better watch out
You average type Of girl
I'm gonna show the world the
strength in me
That sometimes they can't see
I'm about to
switch my style
And soon things may get wild
But I will prove I
can conquer anything
So from my head to toe I'm taking full
control
I'll make it on my own
This time
(Better watch me
shine)
Going for the knockout
And I
won't stop
Till I'm on top now
Not gonna give up
Until I get
what's mine
Better check that I'm about to upset
And I'm hot
now
So you better step back
I'm taking over
So watch me
shine
Here I come
Until the job is done
No
time to waste
There's nothing stopping me
Oh
But you don't
hear me though
So now it's time to show
I'll prove I'm gonna be
the best I can be
So from my head to toe
My mind body and
soul
I'm taking full control
This timeBetter watch
out
Going for the knockout
And I won't stop
Till I'm on top
now
Not gonna give up
Until I get what's mine
Better check
that I'm about to upset
And I'm hot now
So you better step
back
I'm taking over
So watch me shine
But my mind and body are strong
Bet you
don't think I can make it
It won't take long
Bet you don't
think I can take it
But my mind and body are strong
Bet you
don't think I can make it
It won't take long
Now watch me
shine...
Going for the knockout
And I
won't stop
Till I'm on top now
Not gonna give up
Until I get
what's mine
Better check that I'm about to upset
And I'm hot
now
So you better step back
I'm taking over
So watch me
shine
Now watch me shine...Better watch out
Going for
the knockout
And I won't stop
Till I'm on top now
Not gonna
give up
Until I get what's mine
(Until I get what's
mine...)
Better check that I'm about to upset
And I'm hot
now
So you better step back
I'm taking over
So watch me
shine
Watch me...
Watch me shine...
Watch me
Hermione turned off the radio and grabbed her bags and headed down into the Great Hall. She knew she had a decision to make, the song inspired her but she still held fear of what would happen
A/N: Well, it mostly consisted of a dream, but I included the inner struggle just to give it a bit more of a persistence behind her decision and why she fully wants to do something. And now as you will see in the next chapter she must think about her choice because after this next day it will be her birthday. The one with her birthday won't come out till my birthday. Timing's perfect. My birthday is on the 28th so you won't have to wait too long. Actually seeing how it is the 24 and I gave you a new chapter yesterday night, I still have one more to do before the birthday on so really I'll be giving you 4 decent length chapters in 6 days. I'm spoiling you guys, but I love to write! Anyway please review! I'm working my buns off here! LOL!