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The Fight
Draco was in a cold stone room in a cold dark castle. His bed was still made even though it was nearing midnight. He could not sleep. Something inside of him was screaming and it wouldn't shut up! Pacing the room, many things flowed through his mind at once. So many thoughts came at once he couldn't hear them all. He was becoming very upset and extremely confused.
God damn it Draco Malfoy! After seventeen years of not caring about any one, why the hell did you have to go and fall in love with the one girl you were supposed to help kill?
All of the other voices were silenced. Draco once again had control of his mind, but the thought he was thinking made him sink onto the bed. Love? It was a word he had never used, and didn't really know the meaning of. But then, it seemed all of a sudden, to be the only word that made any sense. He thought of Hermione, of her warming smile, of her inquisitive mind, of the way she would debate with him for hours about anything, of the way she had refused him when she thought he hit on her, of the way she never ceased to surprise him, of the feeling of completion he felt when he had kissed her. He loved Hermione Granger.
He also thought of their child, he loved the child too. He was to have a family! One that he could have loved as he had never been loved as a child. Why? Why did he have to realize this when it was too, late? There were already here. It was all over. He should have run when he had the chance, Hermione would have understood, she loved him. His head dropped into his hands in defeat. She could never forgive him now, could she?
Suddenly he sprang up, he was going to get out of here, and so was Hermione! They were going to leave, and be free. The didn't care about the Death Eaters, he didn't care about Voldermort, he cared about only one thing, and that was love. He felt the love surge through his body and he understood it now; it made him powerful. Any thing was possible. They would escape, and Hermione would listen to him, he just knew it.
With these thoughts in mind, he left his room and began to search for Hermione.
Draco was running down a dimly lit hallway, he had to get to Hermione. He didn't know where exactly she was, but he had to find her, she could die! There were so many rooms, but they were all empty. Where was she? She needed him, he could feel her. He was scared, really scared, a feeling to which he was not accustom. The fear he felt was for her, she might die, and it was all his fault. If she died he would die too, he realized this. There was no living without her. He was so worried, he was loosing hope when he heard a small noise. Turning to the open door on his left, he noticed a small shadow lying on the floor. It was her!
Draco ran into the room, and towards her. Hermione, however, recoiled from him; she was scared.
"Hermione listen to me," he pleaded, "I'm sorry Hermione, I figured things out too late. But I know now, we don't have much time, so I'll try to make it quick! I was supposed to become a Death Eater. I was to bring you hear as my initiation, to prove my loyalty. I was told to get close to you to make you trust me, and I did. But I messed up. I messed up, because I fell in love with you." Here, Hermione looked up into his eyes. And he continued, "Hermione, I don't want to be a Death Eater. I never really was all that thrilled about it in the first place, but now I know I could never be one. And it because I love you. And I know that you probably hate me right now, but, I am going to get you out of here, whether you believe me or not…" he was unaware of the tears that were streaming down his face, and in his passion probably would have rambled on all night if Hermione had not kissed him.
She could tell that he was telling the truth, and that he really did love her and wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. When she pulled away from him, he was staring at her incredulously. "I love you," she said, "and I forgive you for taking too long to figure things out. More tears came out of Draco's eyes; he was so lucky.
Wasting no more time he undid the bonds that here holding Hermione in place. He helped her to her feet, and supported her as they walked out of the room. They made sure to walk quietly and made it all the way to the front entrance without incident. But as they neared the door, a single torch lit.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
The two teens turned around to face Lucius Malfoy who was wearing a malicious grin.
"Two little mice trying to escape? My, my, and one of them is most assuredly a traitor!" He turned to his son, "You shame me boy, and for that you will pay. You are both going to die now. And I promise you, it will be painful. Now, which one should I play with first?" He rounded on Hermione with his wand held at the ready. "How bout you Mudblood?"
Hermione's wand had been taken, she was defenseless, Draco knew this, and reached for his own wand and found it missing.
"Looking for this?" his father droned holding up Draco's wand. Draco cursed under his breath. "Now watch this son, its going to be a lot of fun. Crucio!"
There was one thought running through Draco's mind, and that was that he wouldn't let Hermione die. As soon as his father spit out that fatal word, he jumped at Hermione, knocking her out of the way not even a second before the spell would have hit her. Instead, the spell hit Draco, and he fell to the ground screaming in agony. His son's actions infuriated Lucius even more, and his spell took on more power with all the rage and hatred he felt. When he released his spell, Draco lay unmoving on the floor.
Hermione rushed to his side, and knelt beside him.
"Hermione?" he said in between gasping breaths.
"Yes Draco, I'm here."
He reached his hand up trying to touch her face, but his muscles were no longer obeying him. She took his hand and put it to her face which was wet with tears. He looked at her in the eyes and said between his gasping breaths, "Her, mione, I, I, love, you." He let out a large breath, the words having tired him immensely.
"I love you too Draco!"
He smiled as his head sank to the floor and his hand fell away from her face.
"Draco. Draco!" Hermione called.
"He can't hear you now, Mudblood! Nor can he save you. Now say good bye."
She closed her eyes waiting for the words that would end her life, she did not oppose death any longer. But the words never came, instead two voices from behind her rang out and cursed Lucius Malfoy. And the voiced did not stop until the man was also laying on the floor unmoving. She turned as Harry and Ron staggered towards her. It had been quite a battle, and she was most useless as she had no wand. They pulled her up and she hugged them sobbing uncontrollably.
They saw Draco's dead body, and were rather confused. Draco, they thought, had been in with the Death Eaters. Hermione shook her head and told them everything in a condensed version.
"But you see he really loved me, and," she looked down. "And the baby"
"The baby!"
"Oh I'll tell you the rest when we get back to school."
They nodded and put their arms around her back and started to the door.
"Harry! Ron!"
"What?" asked Harry.
"We are not just going to leave Draco here!"
"Why not? He's dead."
"Because Ronald Weasley, I love him! And I am not going to leave him here in this godforsaken place to rot!"
"Shh! It's okay Hermione," Harry said, "Of course we'll take him."
Harry walked over to Draco and said, "Wingardium Leveosa." Draco began to float in front of Harry. Now with Hermione satisfied, they walked outside and went back to the castle.
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Okay, don't hate me just yet! I know that many of you are probably upset about what happened to Draco, and I didn't want for things to be this way, but this fic is a romance, and what is more romantic than sacrificing one's life for the one one loves? ::sighs:: actually I told him not to do it, that we could be happy together, but he wouldn't listen. ::cries:: But yea one more chapter left, so don't quit reading quite yet. things don't work out as bad as they seem! ::winks::
I hope you like it! And I hope you review ^_^ please? You know its kinda upsetting that Harry doesn't have green eyes in the movie, especially when it is so easy to change eye color nowadays. ::sighs:: oh well.
Yea so I got my computer back now, yay! But I started a new story since I couldn't work on my old one, I wrote sooo much, but I am not posting that one until school starts again in September. I hope to finish my other two in the summer, and this one will be done with posting in the next day or two!
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SilverDreams04: Glad u liked it! Yea she is pregnant b/c of the dream, but it wasn't really a dream, it actually happened, but Hermione and Draco had no control over what was going on, so they thought they were asleep, but they weren't really.
