This Last Dance -- Part One
By Angela Graham

Author's Note: Well this is my new series, but yes I'm still working on Spying Lives. I'm almost done with Chapter Two. But this is about the Last School Dance that our heros (yes, its their last year) will have at Hogwarts. Slow songs, I guess. Ya know. Mainly Draco/ Hermione because I've been dying to write a D/H. I need some ideas for H/H. This could possibly turn into more than D/H, but R/H or H/H. All characters belong to Ms. Rowling. Please e-mail me at Rebelchickxoxo@yahoo.com, actually it's Vanessa's e-mail, but she'll fwd it to me. I've already got her permission for this so.. here I go!

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This I Promise You
*N'Sync
Dedicated to: Casey

When the visions around you
Bring tears to your eyes
And all that surrounds you
Are secrets and lies

Draco Malfoy heard the music, of the first of the few dances that they had left of their seven years at Hogwarts. He had never told anyone about his secret crush on her, Hermione Granger. There she was, so beautiful in her golden dress, standing next to her was Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. How could I tell her? How could I? He strode up to her, not fully confident with himself. As he approached he could feel Ron and Harry's eyes sear through him, making his bold attempt feel like an utter humliation.

"Hermione, I know you may resent me for all those things I've said about you in the past... but I was wondering," Draco paused to see how she was taking this. So far, so good. "May I have this dance?"

"Of course, Draco." She smiled at him, as she accepted his hand and he led her onto the floor, despite the frowns that Harry and Ron had tried to send to her.

I'll be your strength
I'll give you hope
Keeping your faith when it's gone
The one you should call
Was standing here all along

As she wrapped her hands around my neck, and my hands found their way behind her back, while holding her close to my heart. I've never been close to a person in my life, unless you count my mother and father. "You know, Hermione. I've always wanted to tell you how much I enjoy seeing you. All this time, thinking I could only hate you."

She looked into my eyes, with not hate, but hope and that warmth that she sent through me. "Only this year, did I realize that I didn't hate you. I loved you. You're the only one that can bring that certain feeling, a feeling of comfort into my heart.... whenever I see you." Draco continued.

And I will take you in my arms
And hold you right where you belong
'Tiill the day my life is through
This I promise you
This I promise you

"I love you too," Hermione said honestly, "Harry and Ron have always hated or dispised you, so I supposed that I had to hate you as well. I find out only now, enough to salvage our time at Hogwarts so that we can be at least, friends... If not more."

I can't believe this! She loved me back! It wasn't that feeling of rejection that I had hoped that I would recieve. That now I realize she's the one for me... She's the one that can bring out the true inside of Draco Malfoy, the cold-hearted Slytherin.

I've loved you forever
In lifetimes before
And I promise you never
Will hurt anymore

Draco listened to the lyrics, finding complete understanding as he looked down upon Hermione's head leaning against my chest. It sent tingles up my spine, to wonder what my father would do if he found out that I loved her, Hermione Granger, not the mudblood I thought I knew enough to call her one.

She wasn't that mudblood my father roared about when he found that my scores were slightly lower than hers. She was special, a treasure to have. An influence, if she touched your life, and an angel if she found her way into yours. Of course, my father wouldn't look of it that way. He would call me a coward, and a hopelessly romantic fiend who had dishonored the family name.

I give you my word
I give you my heart
This is a battle we've won
And wit this vow
Forever has now begun

I turned my head, to find the whole of the seventh years staring at myself and Hermione. The first pair of Gryffindor and Slytherins to actually pair up on the dance floor at a school dance. Albus Dumbledore (himself) had been looking at me, in an odd way, until I looked his way, and he turned around so that I might not notice that he had been one of the many on-lookers.

I don't care what they think. I've found her. Draco sighed. Hermione and Draco continued to slowly move back and forth, among the other couples.

Just close your eyes (close your eyes)
Each lovin' day (each lovin' day)
And know this feeling won't go away (no)
Till the day my life is through
This I promise you
This I promise you

Over and over I fall (over and over I fall)
When I hear you call
Without you in my life, baby
I just wouldn't be living at all

And I will take you in my arms (I will take you in my arms)
And hold you right where you belong (right where you belong)
'Till the day my life is through
This I promise you, baby

Just close your eyes
Each lovin' day (each lovin' day)
And knowing this feeling won't go away (no)
Every word I say is true
This I promise you
Every word I say is true
This I promise you
Ooo I promise you

Draco let go of Hermione, as she smiled greatly and went back to Harry and Ron, with a blush flushing her face. Looking down in his hands, Draco realized that he had to be with her. She was his salvation, his love. "And I will take you in my arms. And hold you right where you belong. Till the day my life is through. This I promise you." Draco whispered as he rejoined his Slytherin friends.

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