Epilogue!
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Okay so this isn't a sequel but it's better then nothing surely! This chapter has a lot of dialogue and not much action not to mention it is so fluffy it makes me sick just to think about it! I hope you enjoy!
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"Ready?" Draco squeezed her hand tightly and Hermione nodded slowly. As one they strode into the full great hall and looked defiantly around at all the students who were eating breakfast. Slowly a hush spread through out the tables broken occasionally by cutlery falling to the floor as people dropped them in shock. Then….
"Hermione!" Two students bolted from the Gryffindor table and ran towards them.
"Ron! Harry!" Hermione slipped her hand from Draco's and raced over to her two best friends.
They met half way and Hermione was enveloped in a big hug, first by Harry and then by Ron. All three had huge grins on their faces and they all talked excitedly at once as Hermione leapt between them bestowing kisses on their cheeks and being pulled into more hugs. Everyone in the great hall seemed to be smiling at the reunion between the trio. Everyone that is except Draco whose face darkened continually until it seemed he couldn't take it anymore and he stalked out of the hall not even glancing at his Slytherin companions.
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After a full ten minutes Hermione remembered Draco and turned back to where he had been standing only to find that he had gone.
'Uh oh' she thought as she disentangled herself from Ron and Harry who, it seemed, were extremely reluctant to let her out of their grasp now they had found her again.
"I'll be back in a sec!" she laughed and then ran anxiously into the corridor trying to think of where Draco would be. She didn't have to look for too long, however, as a hand grabbed her arm and pulled her into an empty classroom.* She leaned back against Draco's taught body and sighed.
"Draco, why did you run off? You knew it was going to be hard but I needed you there."
"I didn't run!" Draco said indignantly, "no matter how much my girlfriend kisses other men I don't run."
Hermione spun in his grasp and glared at him.
"No!" she yelled, "don't you even start against Ron and Harry. They are my best friends, Draco, and nothing is going to change that. They will always be a part of my life just as I hope you will be too and you are just going to have to get used to it. Do you think any of this is easy on me? I wanted you there when I explained to them about us and how you're not such a bad guy after all but when I turned you were gone and I had to follow you."
Draco wouldn't look at her and this angered Hermione further. She gripped his chin and forced him to look at her.
"Stop sulking! God Draco you should look at your expression, you're acting like a 3-year-old!"
"Oh really?!" Draco asked sarcastically.
"Yes really!" she shot back
"Have you ever seen a 3-year-old do this?" he asked as he leant down and kissed her passionately.
"Ewgh, Hermione!" there was a groan from the door and they pulled apart to see who the speaker was.
"Ron , Harry!" Hermione said again this time with a bit less enthusiasm in her voice.
"Hermione, Draco." They answered grimly.
"I can explain…" Hermione began just as Draco said calmly:
"I love her."
"So do we." Ron said quietly.
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"Potter, Weasley and Malfoy would you stop it!" Professor McGonagall yelled exasperatedly as Nicolas's robes turned yet another rather attractive shade of pink.
Nicolas looked down happily
"Don't worry Professor, I quite like the colour."
Harry, Ron and Draco exchanged glances and sniggered quietly.
Hermione rolled her eyes.
"I'm sorry about these three, professor, they really are quite impossible to control."
"Aw, but you love us really." Said Harry earning himself a furious glare from Draco, Harry simply grinned back at him, "don't worry, Draco, I didn't mean it like that.
"Class dismissed!" Professor McGonagall announced and Ron smiled mischievously.
"Well, Draco, Harry might not have meant it like that but I think I might just have to steal your girlfriend for a minute." so saying he slung the surprised Hermione over his back, fireman style, and raced out of the classroom. Ron ran along to the Gryffindor common room and put her down inside.
"What's this all about?" Hermione asked, breathless from laughing.
"Harry and I just wanted to check up on you." Ron answered looking at her seriously. "you know we are fine with Draco as long as that is what you want but we just wanted to check that you were all right.
"It's been 2 months, Ron, why are you asking this now?" Hermione asked interestedly
"Well we thought we would give you a while to settle back down into routine and get over what happened."
"How very considerate of you!" Hermione laughed, "Look, Ron, I have never been happier in my life. I love all three of you with all my heart. In fact I think my heart must be divided into thirds and I am so glad that you and Harry seem to be accepting Draco and me."
"Well," Ron looked embarrassed, "anyone who loves our Hermione as much as we do can't be a bad person and anyway we are united against a new common enemy!"
Hermione laughed ruefully
"Poor Nicolas."
Ron snorted.
"Hardly, me and Draco and Harry walked in on him and Pansy in a cupboard just yesterday. Not a sight I ever want to see again, let me tell you!"
"Draco, Harry and I." Hermione corrected gently, "and anyway what do you mean you just 'walked in on them'?"
Ron grinned, "you know me too well, what I really meant was Harry, Draco and I locked them in a cupboard yesterday.
"Hmm, I thought so!"
Suddenly they heard shouts from outside the portrait hole.
"Tell me the password!"
"Tell a Slytherin the Gryffindor password? I don't think so!"
"Tell me!"
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Hermione rolled her eyes again and opened the door.
"Tell m….oh hi Hermione." Draco said stopping mid yell.
"Hey." She answered "I think we could all fit a bit of studying in before dinner time so I suggest you all go and get your books, I'll meet you in…"
"The library!" the three boys finished for her.
"I can think of a more interesting magic I would like to study." Draco said quietly, leaning in for a kiss. Hermione gave him a butterfly kiss on the nose.
"Corny. Sweety" she said smiling, "very corny."
"Hear, hear!" Ron and Harry agreed making faces.
"I love you Hermione." Draco whispered catching her lips in a lingering kiss
"I love you too, Draco." She answered.
"And I love you too." Ron said laughing and kissing Hermione on the cheek.
"And me!" Harry added kissing her on the other cheek before the two of them raced off followed closely by Draco.
Hermione went back inside the common room and closed the door. Settling herself down in a large, squishy armchair she pulled a scrap of parchment towards her and a quill. She thought for a minute and then Draco's words came back to her, she smiled and began:
'Love. A magic all of it's own. By Hermione Granger. A truthful account of the adventures had by…', she stopped and giggled a little to herself, 'the soon to be Mr and Mrs DH Malfoy.' She couldn't wait until Draco read this story!
* Blimey, empty classrooms are really handy in Hogwarts aren't they?! They pop up everywhere!
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Eek, it is actually finished though I am contemplating writing a sequel ( as you all know) so keep a look out for it. If you liked this story why don't you read my other story, If you ever… I love reviews and I have so many thankyous this time. Yippee!
Heather: There was a little going on with Nicolas and pansy so you were right! Thankyou for your review and for saying my fic was great!
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