When you kiss me like that…
Hermione POV
"I'm sorry." I whispered in the shadows as we sat next to each other. In my mind I meant for what I had done, for using the time-turner, for leaving him, hurting him, for everything…
"For what?" He asked me just as quietly.
"For whatever it is that's making you feel miserable." I answered back. Finally lifting my eyes to meet his. He was looking at me with something that looked like recognition and understanding in his eyes. It was just a flash and then there was confusion written over his face again. I looked at him with all the love I felt for him and that was probably showing in my eyes.
After thinking back to our time together I can't not look at him like that. Suddenly he had is hand on the back of my neck and pulled me against him to kiss me. I was shocked, but it felt so good to have his lips against mine again that I couldn't help kiss him back. I kissed him back with much force pouring all my love for him in that kiss and he kissed my back just as fiercely. Finally coming to my senses, I pulled back from the kiss with me fingertips touching my bruised lips.
"I can't Draco… I can't do it again…" I cried out looking at him with tears in my eyes and running from the room as fast as I could.
"Again? What do you mean again, Granger?!" I heard him yelling after me, but I was already halfway down the corridor. From that kiss I could tell that he remembered something. He was kissing me like he did before, like it was familiar and not something new. Whether it were actual memories that he was having or just feelings that he remembered, there was something there…
Draco POV
What the hell was that?! She kissed me back! What did she mean by again? I knew there was something going on! The way she has been looking at me all sad and in love. I knew that was love I was seeing in her eyes. And why the hell do I feel the same? I'm missing something here…
Flashes of memories started going through my head like flames, giving me a headache… Flashes of a room with the colors red and green plastered over the walls and the sheets on the bed, flashes of skin against skin, soft lips against mine, brown curly hair entwined through my fingers, moans of pleasure, holy hell, Granger… Making love to Granger… A feeling of happiness and contentment…
I started wandering around the corridors with all these questions in my head, without actually having a sense of where I'm going. After walking aimlessly around for a while, I ended up in front of the staircase to Dumbledore's office. Looking at my forearm, imagining the moving tattoo that would soon be there, I was once again disgusted with myself… Maybe the old man could help me. Even if this weird thing with Granger hadn't been happening I still didn't want to do what I was ordered… I couldn't…
He must have known I was there, cause the staircase started moving, so I stepped on.
"Mr. Malfoy, what may I help you with?"
"What's happening to me?" I wanted to ask if he could help me out of my mission, but something else came out. Somehow that question seemed more important right now and for some reason I just knew that he knew the answer to that. He always knows.
"Are what I have been seeing real memories or just dreams, desires? It seems real and the way Granger has been acting lately, I think it's all very real! And I know you know the answer to that, so please tell me? Please?"
"Oh everything you have been seeing is very real. You and miss Granger fell in love during 6th year and by the end of the year you parted ways from each other because it was safer. You went back to the deatheathers to keep her safe, even though most of them probably already knew you had betrayed them, so going back would most likely mean your death.
But you wanted to keep miss Granger safe and you felt that going back and keeping up appearances would be the best way to do that. Miss Granger begged you to stay, but then I died and you felt that Hogwarts was no longer safe and protected so you wanted to stay as far away from her as possible to keep her out of harm's way.
Hermione then proceeded to spend months creating a spell that would allow her the turn back time an entire year with her the only one remembering. I had put that idea into her head. I had no idea if it would work or if it would change things for the better or for the worse, but it was the only thing I could think of to save people. I also had to know if the love between the two of you was strong enough to get through any challenge. Because the love between you two might be what saves the magical world in the end.
The fact that you are remembering things from a completely different timeline, tells me it is." He finished with that annoying little twinkle in his eyes.
"Well, how come you remember if Hermione made it so that only she would remember?" I asked curiously. I mean I was remembering because of the love we apparently shared in the other timeline, but there was no explanation for him to remember anything.
"I had put most of my memories, from the past year, into the pensieve before Miss Granger used the time-turner. And not even a time-turner's magic, or even the impressive spell she created, is strong enough to erase memories once they have been put into the pensieve.
I can only show you my memories from the other timeline Mr. Malfoy, for the more 'personal' memories, you will have to speak to Miss Granger. Perhaps if you tell her that you remember some things already, she will be more inclined to speak about everything that happened.
I believe she is still a little apprehensive about revealing too much, in fear of history repeating itself. But perhaps that is exactly what needs to happen for your love to survive. I assume that what brought you here, to my office, in the first place, has something to do with the mission you have undoubtedly been given? I also see that your arm is still unmarked, so I suggest you stay in school during the holidays, so it remains unmarked." He told me worriedly. I could only nod my head, being rendered speechless by all the information given to me in the last half hour or so.
"Very well, Mr. Malfoy, I will get back to you on that. But if it is protection from the order that you seek, in return for your loyalty to our cause, it is protection you will receive. You may look into my memories from the pensieve and then I suggest you find a way to speak to Miss Granger in private and get the rest of the story." He told me.
