Entry for the "February Event: Teamwork Exercise" at "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges and Assignments)"

Prompts:

(colour) Baby Pink

(dialogue) "I love you, you belong to me." / "I don't belong to anybody. I'll never let anybody put me in a cage." / "I don't want to put you in a cage; I want to love you!"

Entry for the "Ultimate Hermione Granger Pairings Challenge" at "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges and Assignments)"

Pairing: Hermione/Graham Montague

Entry for the "Word Prompt Express" at "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges and Assignments)"

Prompt: 10. afternoon

Entry for the "Gringotts Prompt Bank"

Character Pairing: Hermione/Graham Montague

(320 Words)


Over

Graham could still see the scene in front of his inner eye – Hermione in her baby pink dress, standing in the frame of her door while the late afternoon sun made her brown hair shine. Her brown eyes were gleaming with tears as he begged her to listen to him.

"Hermione, please... I love you, you belong to me!" Graham pleaded, reaching out for her hand, but she took a tiny step backwards.

"I don't belong to anybody. I'll never let anybody put me in a cage, Graham," she shook her head, slinging her arms around herself, as if she wanted to protect herself.

"But I don't want to put you in a cage; I want to love you!" Graham exclaimed, but his words only caused her to shake her head.

"But you are trying to take control over me! Graham, I don't feel free when I am with you! I love you, but you are restricting me... It's as if I cannot breathe when I am with you because you want to control my every step... I know that you love me, and I know that you're afraid of loosing me... but that is the problem, Graham! You are holding on too tight! You are squashing me!" Hermione explained, tears running down her cheeks as she spoke, her voice shaking in sadness and distress. "I love you, but I just cannot live like this any more, Graham! I am sorry..."

"No, Mione, wait!"

But before Graham could jump forwards to hold her back, Hermione had closed the door and locked him out of her life.

He regretted everything that he had done, that he had allowed his fear to drive him and it tore him apart that he had lost his Hermione over this.