AUTHORS NOTE: So we've made it to the last chapter. Thanks for sticking through this story, I know it's been a while since I started it. I want to say that I honestly appreciate all of your support whether you left a review, or added this to your follows/favorites. I hope you enjoyed it, leave a review and tell me what you thought of it!
Also going to add this here in case anyone is confused. I do not own Harry Potter that honor goes to JK Rowling. I also don't own Titanic the ship or the movie that goes to White Star Line and James Cameron. Because if I did own either of these franchises my bank account wouldn't be so sad all the time.
FIVE HOURS SINCE RETURNING FROM 1912
Hermione and Draco had fallen asleep after they got back. The sound of knocking had caused them to stir. The knocking was coming from the portrait door.
"Mhmm," Hermione hummed at Draco as she gave him a soft shove. "Will you see who that is?"
Draco groaned but did as she asked. He rolled over the side of the bed and grunted as he stood. Stretching his body as he walked towards the door. Shuffling his feet and dragging his hands through his hair he wondered who could be on the other side of the door. He looked at the clock on the mantle, and it read eight. The sky outside was pitch black; he didn't realize that they had slept for so long.
It was hard to wrap his around what had happened. They had been away for two full days but only eight hours had passed while they were away. If he hadn't woken up in Hermione's bed he might've thought it was a really strange dream.
When they got back they talked about what was going to happen with them. They could no longer pretend that their pasts didn't exist, they were back in the real world.
Hermione had said that she wants to be with Draco, she had forgiven him for his past and she knows the kind of person he really is. Draco wanted a relationship as well, he wasn't scared of what people might think, he wanted to be happy and Hermione made him happy.
They also performed the contraceptive charm on Hermione. She was sure that time travel wouldn't affect her cycle but it was better to be safe than sorry. It was one thing to explain to everyone that they were dating, let alone if they were going to have a baby!
The knocking continued, louder now.
"I'm coming" Draco growled. He shoved the door open "What?" he said in a nasty tone, then he saw that it was Professor McGonagall standing outside their door with a bewitched doorknocker still banging on the door.
He stood straighter and cleared his throat "I mean what can I do for you, Headmistress?"
McGonagall raised her eyebrows at him "Mmhmm." She waved her wand at the doorknocker and it turned into a handkerchief that she placed in her robe pocket.
"You can start by telling me why you and the head girl have neglected all of your duties today. Along with missing every single meal. Are you two ill? If so then you should be in the hospital wing. Are you not going to invite me inside Mr. Malfoy?" She was glaring at him now.
"I… uh yes of course!" Draco stood aside so McGonagall could walk past. He closed the door behind her. "You see… as for us not being around all day… well, Hermione can probably explain it better than I can" He said she walked into the common room.
McGonagall turned towards Draco and furrowed her brows "Since you can't supply the answers, then let me speak with Ms. Granger."
Draco gulped, he felt like a child being caught having eaten all the Christmas cookies. "I believe she is sleeping, let me knock on her door." He waved his hand in a gesture to McGonagall to have a seat. He walked towards Hermione's door and was glad that he had closed her door because he didn't want McGonagall to know he had been in Hermione's room. They were in enough trouble as it was.
He knocked on her door and a practically shouted "Hermione, you need to wake up. Professor McGonagall is here and wants to know where we have been all day."
Draco heard Hermione give a quiet gasp, "I'll be right out."
Draco turned back to McGonagall, who had taken a seat on the couch. He decided to sit in the chair closest to the fireplace and opposite the couch; Hermione could sit next to the headmistress.
"Good evening Professor" Hermione greeted McGonagall as she exited her room. "What can I do for you?" She sat on the opposite side of the couch and turned to face McGonagall.
"Well, Ms. Granger, you and Mr. Malfoy have neglected all of your head girl/boy duties today. You both were supposed to have a prefect meeting after dinner; it is mid-semester, and you needed to make sure that everyone is doing as they are tasked to do. You were also supposed to meet with me after lunch and go over the final arrangements for the Fall festival ball that is being held the second weekend in November, which may I remind you is next week! I've come to learn that neither of you has been seen all day; I am aware that neither of you have classes on Friday, but to skip meals and meetings that is unlike the both of you. So please tell me why you weren't where you were supposed to be."
Hermione bit her lip and looked away from the Professor. Should she tell McGonagall? She was going too eventually but now? Hermione looked over at Draco for some insight. He looked just as confused as she felt, he shrugged not sure on what to do either.
"Someone needs to give me an explanation and give it to me now," McGonagall said firmly.
Draco looked at Hermione and nodded his head. "We might as well tell her now; it is going to be not believable at any point so why not now."
"Tell me what?" McGonagall looked back and forth at Hermione and Draco, waiting for one of them to answer.
Hermione took a deep breath "Well you see, the reason we didn't go to any meals or meetings is because we weren't here."
"What do you mean you weren't here dear?" McGonagall asked she was very confused.
Hermione blushed in embarrassment. "Well, I had an assignment for History of Magic, it was to write about a wizard or witch that wasn't well known and discuss their accomplishments. I chose a wizard by the name of Wilford Crockford, he had discovered a mutation in blood that proved that wizards and muggles are ninety-nine percent the same except this one tiny mutation that let one do magic and the other not. Well after what we had been through I wanted to know more about it since Crockford was banished from the wizarding world for his discovery there was only one way to get the information and that was to go back to when he was last known to be, which was the RMS Titanic 1912. So I took my time turner from the third year and went back to 1912. But there was an accident and Draco had gotten swept up in the time warp. So the two of us have been away for two days trying to collect the information from Crockford, who now went by the name of Clarke. We almost didn't make it back, but Clarke sent us back and he gave me his files so that we can share the information so we don't have wars over blood purity again."
McGonagall sat with a stunned look on her face. "I'm sorry, Mr. Malfoy is correct when he says this isn't believable."
Hermione rushed to her room, she came back with the file that Clarke had given her only a few hours prior. "If it didn't happen to us I would perhaps not believe it either, but it's the truth. Here are all of Clarkes files and I promised him to take this to the ministry and have it be officially recognized. Please, Professor, will you help us?"
Hermione handed over everything to McGonagall who stared at in disbelief.
"You really traveled back to 1912 and made it back without causing a time catastrophe. Sirius was right when he told everyone that you are the brightest witch of our age. Of course, I will help. I'll owl for Kingsley to come to the school at once and go over this with him. To be honest I'm not sure on what to do with you two. You clearly have broken rules, due to your time travel, that could be an expellable offense, but you did do a good thing. So this is what I am going to do. You both have to serve an hour detention with me on Monday, does that sound fair?" McGonagall asked not really looking for objections.
"Yes very fair," Hermione said.
"Yes Ma'am," Draco said.
"Good, I will let the prefects know that you two were sick and the meeting has been moved to tomorrow at nine am. I expect you both to be there by eight-forty-five understood?"
"Yes Ma'am," they said in unison.
McGonagall began to rise when Draco called out to her.
"Professor have you ever heard of people reading each other's thoughts without the use of legimency?"
McGonagall quirk her head to the side "Are you experiencing that?"
Hermione nodded. "It was something that has been happening for a while but it wasn't until this incident that we actually noticed that we can hear each other's thoughts even when we aren't even trying to."
"Have either of used legimency on the other before?" McGonagall asked.
Draco looked at his lap "I used it on Hermione during the war."
Hermione came to Draco's defense "It was when the snatchers had taken us to Malfoy Manor and I was being tortured by Bellatrix. Draco entered my mind to help relieve the pressure of the crutacius curse. He probably saved me from being a vegetable, like poor Nevilles parent's."
McGonagall nodded in understanding "So what must have happened that due the force of the curse a part of each of your thoughts were combined together while Mr. Malfoy was in your mind. I've never heard of this happening so I can't tell you if it is permanent but it might be something that you want to work on so the wrong thoughts don't get to the other person. I'll let you two go back to bed and will see you in the morning."
"Thank you, Professor," Draco said.
"Good night professor, and thank you," Hermione said as she led McGonagall to the door.
Hermione returned to the common room and sat on the couch. Draco joined her and wrapped his arm around her. She put her head on his shoulder.
"Does it bother you that we can hear each other's thoughts? Do you want to practice occulumency?" He asked.
"No, it doesn't bother me, just something we need to be more conscious about. I like being able to talk to you with no one being able to hear us, it might turn out to be quite useful" she chuckled.
"Would you like to go back to bed?" Draco asked.
Hermione shook her head.
"Well, what do you want to do?"
Hermione sat up "I didn't think I wanted to know what happened to Daniel and Mary, but I do. Do you think that information would be in the library? It should since they do have muggle literature in there so I assume they would have something on Titanic for those who are curious."
"They have muggle literature in the library?" Draco asked.
"Of course, it wouldn't be a great library if they didn't have everything," Hermione said.
"Wonder if they have Sherlock Holmes, I never got to finish the Study in Scarlet and I want to find out how it ends," he said.
"We'll look after we look about Daniel and Mary. Can we go know please?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, let's go." Draco stood up and intertwined his hand with Hermione's and headed for the library.
The library was quiet, only a few second year Ravenclaws were huddled around a table near the door.
Hermione went to her normal table, pulled out her wand "Accio Titanic books."
Draco had to duck his head a few times as numerous books whizzed by and landed on the table. "Is that how you always collect books?"
"Yes, it is the easiest and saves so much time rather than strolling the stacks trying to find what you are looking for. You take this pile and I'll take this one" she said as she pointed to the pile in front of her.
The two flipped through the books, none so far had information on the passengers until finally, Hermione squealed in delight. "This is it" she looked at the cover "Encyclopedia- Titanic."
Draco closed the book he was looking at and scooted his chair closer to Hermione. She flipped through the pages about the first class passengers.
"Ok here is Daniel and Mary." She began to read in her head "Oh no!" Hermione looked away from the book and began to cry.
Draco began to read out loud what it said about Daniel and Mary. "Daniel and Mary were married in Manhattan on January 8, 1912. They honeymooned in Europe departing aboard Mauretania, and for their return to the USA, they bordered the Titanic at Southhampton as first-class passengers. On the night of the sinking, Daniel assisted his wife to a boat with the words "It's alright, little girl. You go. I will stay." Daniel died in the sinking, his body, if recovered, was never identified. Daniel became a posthumous father following the sinking. Mary gave birth to a daughter named Mary Margaret "Peggy" (later Mrs. Wheaton Kittredge) on 21 October 1912. Mary later remarried and had a further two children before her death in 1975."
Hermione sniffed back a sob and leaned her head onto Draco.
Draco wrapped his arms around her pulling her into a hug. "I'm sad too, Daniel was my friend too, but they had a daughter and that is a wonderful thing."
"That's true, but poor Mary to never find his remains, and to add to my guilt she never knew what happened to us, she probably thought we died in the sinking as well."
"You can't dwell on it, we had to come back to our time, and we couldn't tell Mary that we were a wizard and a witch. She lived as happy a life as she could. Do you want to find about the other people that we had dinner with?"
"Not tonight" Hermione shook her head. "Maybe some other time. I am just ready for bed. Will you lay with me?"
Draco kissed her forehead "Of course."
The walk back the dorm room was quiet, they walked into Hermione's room and laid on the bed. Hermione was once again in Draco's arms laying on his chest.
"Draco?" Hermione said in the silence.
"Yes."
"I'm going to say something that perhaps you won't be ready to say yet, but after everything we've been through and reading about Mary and Daniel, I want to say it to you," Hermione said.
"Ok…" Draco said a bit confused.
"I love you Draco. I love that you were the one to come back with me, help me, keep me on track, make me laugh, and never leaving me alone. I don't expect you to say it back, but I needed to tell you because you never know what tomorrow holds." Hermione sighed.
"I love you too Hermione. You're my dream girl and I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes" Draco squeezed her tighter and lent down to kiss her.
Hermione looked up at Draco and accepted his kiss. "Wow life really has changed since school started hasn't it," she said with a smile.
"A life so changed" Draco smirked and kissed her once again.