Living Without You

A/N: The song is Toni Braxton's 'Un-Break My Heart', and the story takes place about 10 years after their seventh year of Hogwarts. Hermione is visiting a grave. But whose is it? Disclaimer: I don't own either the song or anything to do with Harry Potter. But then again, you already knew that.

Don't leave me in all this pain

Don't leave me out in the rain

Come back and bring back the smile

Come and take these tears away

I need your arms to hold me now

The nights are so unkind

Bring back those nights when I held you beside me

Hermione walked through the cemetery, heading for the plot she had spent so much time at these past few months. Once she arrived at her destination she knelt down and carefully laid the flowers that she'd been carrying at the foot of the headstone.

Un-break my heart

Say you'll love me again

Undo this hurt you caused

When you walked out the door

And walked out of my life

Un-cry these tears

I cried so many nights

Un-break my heart

My heart

It had happened nearly a year ago now, but that did not stop Hermione from remembering the events of that day as if it had been the one before. Not that she could ever forget.

The smile on his face as he woke her up that morning, the breakfast they'd eaten together, the plans they'd made for the day. All of it replayed in her mind like a muggle CD on repeat. And so did the feeling of her heart breaking when she had realised that she was going to loose him forever.

Take back that sad word good-bye

Bring back the joy to my life

Don't leave me here with these tears

Come and kiss this pain away

I can't forget the day you left

Time is so unkind

And life is cruel without you here beside me

The tears were rolling down her cheeks now, blurring her vision and making her cheeks red. She was such a mess, both on the outside and in. She no longer looked after her hair, instead choosing to let it go back to the frizzy mess that it had been when she was in school, and she hadn't seen or spoken to any of her friends since the day of the funeral.

Un-break my heart

Say you'll love me again

Undo this hurt you caused

When you walked out the door

And walked out of my life

Un-cry these tears

I cried so many nights

Un-break my heart

My heart

Everyone had been so sympathetic, asking if she was okay and telling that they were there for her if she needed them. They'd all told her that they couldn't imagine what she must have been going through. And they were right. Ever since he died Hermione had been living a nightmare.

Don't leave me in all this pain

Don't leave me out in the rain

Bring back those nights when I held you beside me

She rarely slept anymore and so had taken to sitting up at night smelling his clothes and staring at photographs of him. It was at those times when she was thankful for wizard photos as they meant that she could still see his smile and hear his laugh. Sometimes she felt that that was all that kept her sane.

Un-break my heart

Say you'll love me again

Undo this hurt you caused

When you walked out the door

And walked out of my life

Un-cry these tears

I cried so many, many nights

Un-break my

Her thoughts were broken by the sound of footsteps coming up behind her. Wiping the tears from her eyes Hermione looked up to see the man standing over her. It was her husband. Without saying a word he reached down a hand and she took it, using his strength to help her stand. When she was back on her feet Draco took his wife in his arms and whispered "I miss him too.", as he looked over her shoulder at their young son's headstone.

Un-break my heart

Come back and say you love me

Un-break my heart

Sweet darlin'

Without you I just can't go on

Can't go on

Samuel Malfoy

2008-2012

His parents will love and
miss him for eternity