Chapter 26: The End

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Another 3 months passed.

"Agh..." she heard a gruff voice. It seemed like it came from her but I sounded so foreign. Everything seemed so fuzzy. She slowly blinked to adjust her eyesight.

Hearing voices outside the room, she listened, "Oh you are here. Mr and Mrs. Granger."

"Yes, we believe in our daughter. Even if the estimated time for the treatment to wear off is one more week, we know she will wake up soon." She heard what sounded like her father say.

"You better go rest, dear. You look tired." She then heard her mother say. Footsteps could be heard walking down the hallway and away from the door as she heard the door handle to the room she was in turn.

She furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. Everything was fuzzy at the moment. What was she doing here? Where am I? She looked over at the night stand and saw the familiar metronome. Then everything rushed back to her mind. The parasite. The treatment. The decisions she chose to go through. How is Mum and Dad? How is everyone? Did a lot of time pass as she slept? ...How did Draco take her letter?

Hermione struggled to sit up but her arms didn't listen well. She used as much strength as she can muster and propped herself up by her elbows. Surprised by the movement, the bed magically tilted forward to support her as she thankfully smiled. Turning towards the window, her reflection surprised her. She looked different than she remembered. She seemed a bit more grown, a bit more mature. Time must of passed a lot as she pondered to herself. She heard something fall on the ground and a gasp.

She turned towards the door and saw her parents rush to her side ignoring the basket and flowers she dropped on the ground. "My dear! You are awake!" Hermione's mother gripped her hand desperately afraid if she let go, Hermione would be back in her comatose sleep. Richard was frozen speechless as Hermione saw tears glisten at his eyes threatening to fall. She nodded happily as she felt her own tears slide down her cheeks. Her parents aged a lot more than she did it seemed. Faces filled with worry lines and wrinkles due to stress and grief.

"I-I'm sorr-y for putting you guys t-hrough this. H-how long as it been?" She asked as her voice croaked due to the long time of not using it. Her tears flowed from her overwhelming emotions of sadness and happiness.

"Eleven years. Eleven long ones." Her father answered her after her parents glanced at each other.

Eleven years. Wow. That was all she could think of at the moment.

Before Hermione could say anything else, she heard a third person enter the room. "You're awake.." A male gasp she vaguely recognized as the Slytherin boy she fell for. Her parents shifted aside to make room for him. He hurriedly raced over to her side and gingerly cupped her face with his hands. He scanned her face and stared at her honey colored eyes for a longest time trying to capture it in his mind. "You wreakless but brave girl." He said finally as he smiled the brightest smile she had ever seen him smile.

"You waited for me?" She said with her hoarse voice.

"Of course I did. We all did." He replied to her as she questioned his statement with a raised eyebrow.

...

A few years later.

Crash! A priceless vase fell from its display stand.

"Scorp! Why did you move?"

"You were going to hit me with that!" Scorpius replied to his sister, Rose.

"Now mum is going to reprimand us and it's all your fault." Rose said with a huff as she crossed her arms.

"What?! What does that repri-..what does that even mean? Just because you are just a few minutes older doesn't mean you can bully me. How is it my fault? You are the one using magic indoors." Scorpius shouted back.

"It means mum is going to scold us. Read some books, will you?" Rose said snobbishly.

"I do read! I just can't read as high as you yet." Scorpius retorted.

"Just because we are six, doesn't mean we limit ourselves to certain levels of literacy." Rose said.

"Yeah yeah yeah." Scorp said, "so what do we do with this?" He asked as he moved his hand around in the vase's direction.

"Let's get Dad's w-" Rose started to say as she smiled mischievously.

"Get Dad's what?" They heard a deep voice say at the door way.

The twins gasped as they heard their dad and turned around slowly to face the door.

"What are you two up to?" Smirking, Draco asked as he leaned against the frame of the doorway.

"Uh, nothing." Rose said as she looked everywhere other than her dad. She saw Scorpius shake his head furiously.

"Doesn't look like nothing." Draco said as he crouched down to her level so she had to look at her dad's grey eyes that mirrored hers.

"...we were practicing magic. We slipped and hit the vase on accident." Rose gave in and told her father.

"Please don't tell mum. I don't want her mad at us." Scorp said with sad eyes as he looked at his dad.

Draco sighed exasperatedly. "You guys tire me out." After pulling out his wand, he brandished it and the pieces of the vases picked themselves up and once completely settled back on its display stand. "Last time, I won't tell your mother-"

"Tell me what exactly." They heard a kind but stern voice from the door way. All three became alert and stood up straight. Rose rushed to her mother and hugged her legs.

"Just that we love you." Rose said as she clung on her legs. Hermione bent down to hug her back as Scorpius followed suit. Draco smiled seeing the people he loved most together in a tight embrace.

Knowing that she wasn't going to get any information out of the two rascals that she loved with all of her heart, she didn't force it any further. "Alright, you guys. Uncle Harry and his family are coming over soon. So get ready to greet them."

"Yay!" Scorpius and Rose both exclaimed as they released their mother and ran towards the study where the Floo worked.

RHermione smiled as she stood to face her husband. "I am going to get it out of you, you know?" She raised her eyebrow. They started to walk out of the room into the hallway.

Draco reached over to her shoulder and pulled her close as she hugged his waist. He chuckled. "I know."

A/n: Last chapter. I finally finished! Thank you for those of you who were with me from the beginning. Thank you for the ones who read my story and stuck with it. I hope it was to your liking! I'm sorry the last chapter was so short. I meant to finish at Ch. 25 but I made it a two chapter thing so Chapter 26 is a bit short. Sorry it too so long too.

I hope you all had a nice time reading it as much as I had a great time writing it. I might start on a new story soon that isn't as long but also a Draco/Hermione story. I also have a One shot Draco/Hermione if any is interested. Thank you!

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