Chapter 19- The end?

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Well here is the supposed last chapter but if you want more you know what you have to do! Review! (hey that rhymes) Anyway as this is the last chapter of a story defined as a romance there is a lot of, yep you guessed it, romance. You will gag on the amount of fluffiness there is, you won't be able to speak for days because of the hairballs…okay that's enough! I hope you enjoy this last chapter and as always I would love your feedback!

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Hermione took a sharp intake of breath and then slowly…ever so slowly turned around…Draco's lips twitched and he smiled at her. Hermione burst into a new flood of tears and flung herself down beside him once more.

"Steady on, Hermione." He croaked as she threw her arms around him, sobbing into his chest. Eventually she lifted her streaming eyes up to his and found him staring down at her with that same little smile.

"So, you love me then?!" he said with a hint of teasing in his voice. Hermione flushed slightly.

"Y..you..you heard that?" it was now her voice that had gone croaky*

"Yep, I heard all of it." He was wearing a grin now.

Hermione suddenly got a look of fury on her face.

"All of it?" she shrieked agitatedly, "and you just lay there? You big PRAT! How could you do that to me? I thought you were dead! Dead! Do you have any idea how that feels Draco? I thought you had gone, left me. How could you do that? Just lie there? I can't believe even you could be so…so…stupid! Well that is just fine Mr Malfoy, you be like that but don't expect me to.." her ranting was broken off by Draco's lips on hers. It was a soft kiss but both of them felt fireworks go off in their hearts. Draco pulled back after about 10 seconds and looked at Hermione searchingly.

"You're not really angry at me, are you?" he looked so worried that Hermione laughed.

"No, you idiot, of course not!"

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Dumbledore had decided to leave Lucius where he was for now and he started back to Hermione and Draco's body. He saw her wrap her arms around his still form and cry, 'poor Hermione' he thought sadly. What he saw next surprised him immensely. Hermione started yelling. 'She is obviously hysterical' he began to hurry to comfort her but he came to a screeching halt when he saw Draco lift his head and kiss her. For a second he thought his heart was going to give out then he gave a great laugh of joy as he realised that the spell must have just knocked him out for a while. He joined the young Hogwarts students and laughed again as they looked up at him guiltily.

"Don't worry, I won't tell Madam Pomfrey that you kissed the patient so soon after he regained consciousness!" he told Hermione who laughed with him.

"It would be a lie anyway," she told him "the patient kissed me!"

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They rested where they were for some time until Draco seemed fully himself again and then the question of how they were going to get back to Hogwarts came up. Draco and Hermione insisted that they should apparate together but Dumbledore was a little concerned that Draco wouldn't be up to it after such an ordeal. After a while they managed to persuade him and it was decided that Draco and Hermione would go first and Dumbledore would follow them to his office.

"Then" Dumbledore said firmly, "you are going straight to the hospital wing. Both of you. You have suffered a great deal from what I can gather and you need time to rest and recover."

Both Draco and Hermione grumbled but agreed when Dumbledore told them it was a direct order.

"Remember," Draco said seriously to Hermione, "to maintain contact at all times."

She gave a soft laugh and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Shouldn't be a problem." She murmured into his ear. Draco wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close.

"Looks good from where I'm standing." He whispered back.

There was a slight cough from behind them and they broke apart slightly, very embarrassed.

Dumbledore smiled.

"It's true that you must maintain contact, however it is not necessary to have ALL parts of the body touching."

Hermione gave a cry of humiliation and leapt away from Draco.

"Headmaster!" Draco said, astonished.

"I was young once too, you know. Now you had better be off."

When Hermione made no move back towards him Draco gently pulled her against his side and gripped her hand tight.

"I'm scared." She said quietly.

"Me too." he admitted, "Now concentrate very hard on where we are going." He said seriously.

Hermione looked up at him and he winked. She suddenly understood.

They both concentrated and suddenly they felt the same sort of tugging as you get with a portkey ( AN you know the whole pulling at the navel thing!) and they both vanished with a pop.

Dumbledore smiled and decided to give them a few minutes. 'But don't think I don't know what you're up to Mr Malfoy' he chuckled to himself.

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Draco and Hermione appeared suddenly in the Slytherin dormitory and Hermione, not ready for the landing, staggered forward. Draco lunged to catch her and also lost his balance, luckily the bed was there and they both tumbled onto it.

"Phew," Draco said as he looked down at Hermione from their rather uncompromising position. "I was a bit worried that you hadn't understood me and would try to get to Dumbledore's office."

"Yeah that would have been a bit weird." Hermione agreed trying not to blush at their situation. "So why are we here again?" she asked casually. Draco grinned.

"There is no way I'm spending the next week in the infirmary with Madam Pomfrey breathing down our necks."

"She's not that bad!" Hermione giggled.

"Yes," he agreed "but I doubt she'll let me do this…" and he leant down and kissed her gently, "…whenever I want."

Hermione faked a pout.

"And what makes you think I'm going to let you do that whenever you want?" she laughed at Draco's hurt look. "Don't worry, I give you permission!"

Draco's face split into a wide grin. "If Madam Pomfrey won't let me do this" he gave her another quick peck on the lips, "there is no way she is going to let me do this…" and he crushed his mouth against hers for the most passionate kiss yet. Hermione's stomach exploded in a fit of butterflies and her hands, seemingly of their own accord, reached up and twined themselves in amongst his soft hair. Draco let his hands travel softly up and down her neck as he deepened the kiss even further. They were so wrapped up in each other and the kiss that neither of them heard the soft pop beside them and they only noticed the other person in the room when Draco felt a tap on his shoulder. He ignored it the first time but the second time the tap was more forceful and insistent and he broke away, extremely reluctantly, and turned to face the person who had interrupted them. It was Dumbledore.

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Hermione glanced up, gasping for breath and groaned when she saw the headmaster.

"God," she muttered, "not you again." Even though she said it very quietly Dumbledore still heard her and replied:

"Yes, miss Granger. Me again. You seem to have got lost on your way to the infirmary." He turned to Draco with an eye brow raised, "can you explain how this happened?"

Draco grimaced. "Well, isn't this the infirmary? The medicine here seems to be doing me the world of good." He winked at Dumbledore and Hermione gave a small cry and buried her head under one of his pillows in embarrassment. Dumbledore laughed.

"If you like the medicine so much I could arrange with Madam Pomfrey for her to continue administering it to you."

Draco gave a howl of disgust and then laughed along with him. Hermione refused to come out from underneath the pillow.

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Two days later

Hermione yawned and glanced over at the other bed where Draco was sitting, reading.

"I'm so bored!" she yelled out making him drop the book and look over at her annoyed.

"Hermoine! Now I've lost my place!" he grumbled.

"Boo hoo!" she hopped out of her bed and stepped across to his. She stood there and gave him puppy eyes** until he gave an exasperated laugh and lifted the covers.

"Come on then." He laughed and she snuggled in beside him. "Better?" he asked

"Much." She answered looking up at him "What're you reading?"

He showed her the cover of the book. It read 'History of the Malfoy's'. She gave a shiver,

"That must be a dark and twisted tale." She said noticing the black leather and heavy gold lettering.

"It's not too bad actually." He replied, "it's mostly about all the stuff I have inherited." As Draco was the sole remaining Malfoy he had suddenly gained a ridiculous amount of money. He leant down and kissed her forehead softly.

"We get out of here tomorrow" he said, "excited?" she wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Hmm sort of. Kind of anxious about how Ron and Harry are going to react."

Dumbledore had left strict instructions that for two days only Madam Pomfrey was to see them and no one else knew they were there. It had given them a lot of time to themselves as Hagrid had just introduced a new fierce creature into his lessons and not an hour went by when at least three people came in with minor scratches that Madam Pomfrey had to treat to prevent infection. Draco smoothed her hair with his hand.

"Don't worry, it'll be fine."

Suddenly Hermione stiffened and Draco's hand stopped mid pat. They had heard a familiar voice from the main infirmary area.

"In France we do not have beasts like those." There was a minute of silence and then they heard a giggle and the original voice continued "Ah your name is Pansy? What a beautiful name. A beautiful name for a beautiful girl, my name is…"

Hermione and Draco stared at each other in horror.

"Nicolas" they said together.

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* which is fair enough considering all the crying she had done over the last week!

** I have always thought that is a really disgusting saying. Imagine someone giving you a handful of puppy eyes. YUK!

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Well that was the last chapter! What did you all think? I'm so happy to have finished a proper story for once! Yay for me. Did you like the ending? I can sense I'm going to get a few complaints but I thought just for a laugh I'd bring the most hated character (except for Lucius, of course) of my fic back in. I know I'm a shocker at emotional stuff and kissing! Don't even get me started on how ridiculous my kissing scenes are. I'm really sorry but I don't seem to be able to describe them accurately. Maybe it is because I get all faint thinking of kissing Draco! Scream out if you want an epilogue or if you want a sequel and I will be happy to oblige. Since this is the last chapter I want everyone to review with what they thought of the whole story. Please? Pretty please? Thankyou to everyone who has reviewed it equals a staggering 284! Wow I never thought I would get half that! Thankyou so much! My thankyous from chapter 18 are:

Heather: Of course it can't end with Draco dead! I wouldn't be able to sleep at night! Thankyou so much for your review and for saying that my emotional stuff was alright. It really means a lot to me!

Enid: I know how you feel and there is no way I would be responsible for writing his death. Way too sad! Thankyou.

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Calypso in love: so I have some powers too? I can make you repeat yourself Yay *dances around scattering the arsenal that Calypso was going to use to kill her* It is fine. Draco is not only fine but a millionaire so everything turned out for the best. Thankyou so much for reviewing through out my story.

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Joyce: I think just for you I will write a sequel and/or epilogue we'll just have to see how many other people agree! Your review was so incredibly nice and I was so happy to receive it. You were basically demanding for a continuation so I think it likely there will be one. Even if only you read it, it will be worth it. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!

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Gaille: You are probably the most important person in my thankyous. You wrote such uplifting and encouraging emails and you always reviewed. I can't thank you enough, you are stupendous! But lets go over this again, I thank you not the other way around! It was so sweet of you to though! Thankyou thankyou a thousand times thankyou! I bow down to the wonderful Allison!

CC Montgomery: I have hurried and this is the finishing product. Like? I hope you did. Thankyou for reviewing so often, it was really nice of you.

Mia Sizemore: You can't thank me! I'm supposed to thank you! Thankyou for thanking me for thanking you anyway! Poor Hermione. Perhaps she could have Nicolas…. Well I hope you forgive me for nearly killing off your one and only! Thankyou again!

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And that is it! Oh what a feeling of sadness has come over me! An end of an era…or is it?! It's up to you guys, was that a good place to end or do you want more?! Wow it really sounds like I'm pushing this issue, doesn't it?! I love everyone who reviewed this story and I would like to give you a gentle nudge towards a certain story called: If you ever…! Has anybody noticed I use … a lot? I only just saw then how much I used them in this story and as for my second story! Every second word is …! Okay I'm rambling now, thankyou and goodbye! (maybe)

Love Jess/Star123

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