Chapter Twenty One: I'm Okay, I Promise

Hermione

It seemed like I paced the floor of the Hospital Wing back at Hogwarts for years, but it had only been several hours since dawn broke and the war was called to an official end. Draco and Harry had killed Voldemort. Now I waited for Draco to wake up.

"Please tell me he's gonna wake up, please!" Darris cried running into the room. Harry had kept him busy for the most part, showing him about the castle, but it wouldn't last. He began to crawl on top of Draco I scooped him up and placed him in a chair, afraid he would hurt his father. I was pacing again.

"Mum…"

"Darris I don't have the power to make him wake up!" I cried about to burst into tears. I had been crying off and on all night. Madame Pomfrey had assured me he was okay, he just needed rest. I collapsed at the edge of Draco's bed, holding back the tears with every ounce of energy left in me. Around me I felt a tension left from the room and I looked up to see a small smile curling at Draco's pale lips. It was all I could do to stop myself from pouncing on him.

"Dad, you're okay!" Darris cried rushing to the bedside. He crawled up onto Draco's other side and snuggled into his father. I ran my fingers through his hair, and traced the side of his face with my fingers.

"I'm so glad you're okay."

"Me too, for a moment I thought I had died and gone to hell, forced to hear you scream for all of entirety. I really thought I had lost you, the both of you, but I promised myself that I would be okay and the I had to live, because I had to take care off you two," Draco replied sighing deeply. I pushed his hair back from his forehead and kissed it. He took my hands into his and squeezed them tight.

"I've been thinking about a lot of things, but one of the things that have been on my mind a lot recently is the fact that we didn't have a traditional wedding like you wanted too."

"That's okay, we're married now, and you're alive. Those two things are the only things that matter right now," I replied kissing the back of his hands in between pauses. He shook his head like that wasn't good enough. I held firm.

"No, I think we should try to have a real ceremony right here, in Hogwarts."

"That would be nice…"

"So what are we waiting for?"

"Right now?" I questioned. He nodded. I shook my head. Then Madame Pomfrey came in and saved the day. I gave her a grateful look as she explained that Draco would have to stay in bed for the next two days.

"He was stabbed with a very rare type of dagger, laced with a type of poison I have only ever seen once in my life besides this. Luckily we had the antidote and he'll be okay. The poison is out of his system, but he lost a ton of blood, and has some internal damage that even with magic is going to need some time to heal. But you are not to be out and moving about, and that is an order," She said wagging a finger at him. Harry laughed, thinking back on all the times he snuck out of the Hospital Wing. We chatted lightly about the end result of the war until Minerva came.

"Minerva, may I speak with you alone?" Draco said right as she walked in the door. I gave him a skeptical look and took Darris out to the hallway where we ran into Mrs. Weasley.

"How is he?"

"Good, nothing a few days of bed rest won't fix," I replied. She nodded and let out a sigh of relief. Ginny and I began discussing future plans. She and Harry were thinking about a new baby and I told her Draco and I were on the look out for a new house so we could settle down and make our family a little bigger as well.

"Things are finally looking up," Darris said, not really even knowing the weight of his words. I smiled and kissed his cheek and tussled his hair playfully. He groaned in a complaint but smiled all the same. Minerva came out to call us into the room. Draco was sitting up in his bed that smile on his face, wider than it had ever been before. He opened his arms, inviting me in and I run to him, hiding in my favorite place: his arms.

"What do you say about getting married, again? It's not as romantic as I had planned it but…."

"I do."