A/N: Before we get started, I'd just like to give a big shout out to one of my friends. Croaker. She has recently became my betta a few chapters ago and I couldn't ask for a better friend. So, YAY FOR CROAKER!!!! Lol. LYLAS.
It's so sad. The last chapter is finally here. What will happen? Will Draco finally tell Hermione that she was a bet? Will Pansy finally seek her revenge on Hermione? And what about that little twist? Find this all out in the very last and very sad chapter.
Chapter Thirteen
My Last Breath
Hermione ran out into the rainy night. "Draco, I've been looking all over for you. Why are you sitting out here all alone in the pouring rain?" she said running up to Draco who was sitting on one of the benches. She hadn't even been out there for more then a few seconds and she was already soaked from head to toe.
"Aren't you cold?"
"Hermione. There's something I have to tell you." Draco had his head tilted downward. He spoke sadly without looking up at her.
"Oh." Hermione spoke in no more then a whisper as she bit her lower lip. Hermione took a seat next to Draco on the bench. He sat leaned forward, his arms resting on his knees.
"For a long time I couldn't find the heart to tell you." Draco twiddled with his fingers as he spoke.
Hermione's heart began to pound harder in her chest. "You were a bet, Hermione."
"WHAT!" Hermione jumped to her feet.
She couldn't believe what she was hearing. She couldn't take it. "I-I-I'm a bet?"
Tears started to form in her eyes as his words buzzed around her head. "I'm a bet? Just a bet? That's all I ever was to you, wasn't I? I can't believe you. I spilled my heart out for you. I told you how I truly felt about you all of these years and you lied to me. You changed me. You put me against my friends and you manipulated me into thinking you really love me."
Draco jumped up too. "I do love you, Hermione!"
"How can you say that?" Hermione said furiously. She tried to hold back more of her tears. She looked up at the sky. Raindrops poured down on her face. To her they felt cold but refreshing. "Why am I so stupid?" she shouted at the dark cloudy sky. "Why didn't I just listen to Ron? 'He's only using you, Hermione.' He had said." She looked back over a Draco. " 'He's nothing but an arrogant little PRAT!' He had said. 'Your only going to get yourself hurt, Hermione.' " Her last sentence was said in a whisper. Hermione finally let her tears fall down her cheeks.
"Why didn't I see before?" she sobbed. "WHY WAS I TOO BLIND TO SEE IT?" Hermione screamed up at the rainy sky.
"To see that all of this was just your little game. To see that you were just one of the players." She gave a small pause. "I really loved you, Draco." she told him. "And I thought you felt the same way. But why on earth, would someone like you fall in love with someone like me?"
"Its true." He moved closer to her. "At first you were just a bet. I didn't care about you. I didn't care if I hurt you. But something in me changed and I started to realize I've always loved you." He turned his back on her and moved away from her, putting a little distance between them as he folded his hands on top of his head. More raindrops fell to his face.
"Think about it, Hermione. If I didn't really love you, do you think I would have gotten that jealous over you and Harry? Do you think I would still have went out of my way just to get back at you?" Hermione stood there, quiet, not knowing if she should be angry or sad. "And don't you think that if I didn't really care about you, I would have just let you find all this out on your own."
He turned around to face her once again. He dropped to his knees as he began to sob. The ground beneath him was soggy and wet. "But I guess none of it matters any more, does it? I already screwed everything up, haven't I?" he asked himself more then Hermione. "To think that I, Draco Malfoy, a pure blood Slytherin, could actually love a mudblood Grffindor." His gaze was fixed up at the sky, watching all the drops of water fall down to the cold earth. "I mean all I ever wanted to do from the first time I set my eyes on you was to hold you, love you, be your casket made of splinters to catch all of you tears. But I messed all of that up now." he burred him head in his hands.
Hermione still didn't know what to say. She wasn't sure if she should be mad still.
Hermione walked up to Draco who still knelt down on the ground, his head in his hands. He looked up just in time to find her walking over to him. As she approached him, she saw tears in his eyes. 'Maybe he really is sorry,' she thought.
Still on his knees on the ground, Draco grabbed Hermione from around her waist and hugged her, his head resting on her stomach.
"I'm sorry." he sobbed still holding onto her as she held on to him. "I'm sorry."
"Truly pathetic." a female voice behind Hermione and Draco said. They both looked up in time to find Pansy walking over to them.
"Draco, its her. Its Pansy. She's the one behind everything." Hermione told Draco as he got up.
"AND WE HAVE A WINNER!" Pansy shouted. "But you see, it wasn't all me."
Pansy said in an innocent little girl's voice. "One of my companions, Blaise Zabini, he played Harry of course." she whispered. "I made him kiss you to brake you and Draco apart. It only brought Draco in my arms for a short time. Enough time to think of another plan."
"Why did you do it, Pansy?" Hermione asked, Draco stood next to her now.
"Isn't it obvious, Hermione? You STOLE DRACO AWAY FROM ME! You see it started of as just a bet," Pansy started to pace back and fourth in front of Draco and Hermione. "but I knew…I knew it would end as something more. The day of your detention I was spying on you two, watching your every move, listening to your every word." (A/N: That's really creepy.)
Pansy took a pause and stopped pacing.
She now stood right in front of Hermione. "It was then that I realized that you weren't just a bet anymore. You were the one who he chose. You were the one that he loves. I could see it in his eyes. Every time he looked at you or thought about you, his eyes were full of warmth and love. Not at all like the usually coldness." she took another pause and glared hard at Hermione. "Do you know what I would give just to have him look at me the way he looks at you? Do you know what I would do just to have him love me the way he loves you?"
"It seems as though my other plans to brake you two apart blew up in my face. That's why I have to take more drastic measures. That's why I have to destroy the one thing he cares about more then anything else in the world. The one thing that stands in the way of him and I. YOU!"
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MEANWHILE…
AT GRYFFINDOR TOWER…
Harry was sitting alone in the Gryffindor common room, thinking to himself. He was thinking about everything Hermione had told him.
"Think, Harry, think. Who could be in on it? Who has the perfect motive?" Harry scratched his head, trying to think. "Pansy! That's it! It's Pansy. She has the perfect motive. She wants Draco and is jealous because Draco loves Hermione. Pansy got someone to use the polyjuice potion to transform into me and brake them apart."
Harry thought.
"Yes, Harry. You're a genius. But wait. Some one else is on it too. I just know it." he tried to think who it could be. He thought about everything Hermione had told him.
About everything that has happened. "Oh my god. I know who it is." Harry said aloud.
"I've got to find Hermione and tell her before its too late."
He jumped up and ran out of the portal hole.
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MEANWHILE…
BACK OUTSIDE WITH HERMIONE, DRACO, AND PANSY…
"Knock it off, Pansy. This is ridiculous." Draco shouted.
"No. It's not. Your mine Draco and she took you away from me." Pansy began to sob.
"I was never yours, Pansy. I have Hermione."
"Not for long." Pansy whispered, glaring at Hermione. "I'm surprised you didn't figure this part out, Hermione but I couldn't' do this without one more person."
"What are you talking about, Pansy?" Hermione asked.
"I'm talking about someone you thought you could trust, someone you thought was your best friend is in on it too." Seeing the puzzled look on Hermione face, she added, "Ginny, why don't you come out here." Hermione's mouth dropped open as she caught site of her friend walking over to them.
"But I thought-----------." Hermione started.
"Yeah, I know what you thought. You thought it was I who used the polyjuice potion to transform into Ginny when in fact, it was really Ginny herself all along."
Pansy gave any evil smirk. "That was part of the plan," she continued, "You see, I was in your common room, listening to that little argument you and Ginny were having. When I saw Draco carry you into his room and shut the door, that's when I went into your room where I found Ginny on the floor, leaned against the wall."
"She was unconscious. I knew it was a matter of seconds before one of you came back, so I quickly carried her to the Slytherin Tower." Pansy finished.
"When I woke up," Ginny said taking over. "I found myself laying on the Slytherin's couch. Pansy was sitting in the chair next to the couch." Ginny looked up as if trying to see inside her head. Her mind flashed back to the day in Slytherin Tower.
Flashback
"Where am I?" Ginny who was lying on the Slytherin couch said. She tried to sit up but her back was aching to much.
"Can you remember anything?" a female voice came from the chair next to the couch. Ginny tried to see who it was but all she saw was blurriness. She squinted hard at the figure. "Do you remember anything?" the voice asked again. Ginny thought for a second.
"Yes." she answered. "I remember everything." her vision was slowly starting to repair. Ginny realized it was Pansy. "Hermione and I were…we were fighting over Harry."
'Great!' Pansy thought. 'I can still use her.'
"She kissed Harry." Ginny said through clutching teeth. "I'm so mad at her I could…I could…"
"Seek revenge on her?" Pansy asked finishing Ginny's sentence.
"Yeah!"
"Well if you help me, Ginny. I'll help you. You know, I scratch your back. You scratch mine." Pansy said giving Ginny an evil smirk.
"What did you have in mind?" Ginny asked.
"Why don't we mess with Granger's head a little?" Pansy said. "We'll make her think that I used the polyjuice potion to transform into you." Pansy said in a whisper.
She leaned in a little so Ginny could hear her.
"Go back to Hermione's common room and act like you were at Gryffindor Tower the whole time. Act like you just found out about her and Harry. Leave the rest to me."
Ginny listened intently.
"That way, in time, she'll think it was me who she was having the fight with. She'll think it was me acting like you and all evidence pointing to you will now be on me."
Pansy gave her evil laugh.
"When the time is right, she'll get what's coming to her. She'll pay for taking Draco away from me," she whispered, "and Harry away from you." she added.
Pansy stuck out a hand for Ginny to take as she gave her an evil grin. "Do we have a deal?"
Ginny gave Pansy an evil grin as well.
"Deal!" she said taking Pansy's hand."
End of Flashback
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MEANWHILE…
Harry was on his way to the library when he ran into Ron.
"Harry, where are you going in such a rush?" Ron, who was almost knocked down by Harry, asked.
"Sorry, Ron. I don't have a lot of time. I'm trying to find Hermione." Harry breathed. He started for the library again.
"How come?" Ron followed.
"Pansy's jealous because Draco and Hermione are going out." At that, Ron's face tightened.
"She got someone to use the polyjuice potion to transform into me to kiss Hermione. Obviously to brake them apart. Ginny found out thinking it was really me." Harry tried to shorten the story a bit. "Pansy is using Ginny to get to Hermione but Ginny doesn't know. We have to tell Hermione before its to late."
"How do you know its Ginny too?" Ron asked, trying to keep up with Harry as they ran.
"Think about it, Ron. You know how frantic Ginny gets about me."
Ron thought for a second. "Well what are we waiting for?"
Ron and Harry ran to the library, hoping Hermione and Ginny were still there.
"They're not here, Harry." Ron said as he and Harry search for Hermione.
"Maybe she's at hers and Draco's common room." Harry said as he ran out of the library, Ron following close behind.
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MEANWHILE…
OUTSIDE WITH HERMIONE, DRACO, PANSY, AND GINNY…
"I suppose it was you who planted that book with the polyjuice potion in it in McGonagall's office?" Hermione asked Pansy.
"To right you are." Pansy replied.
Hermione turned her gaze to Ginny. "Ginny. You have to stop this non-sense." Hermione said, not believing that her best friend was in on it.
"NO! You took Harry away from me." Ginny replied angrily. "ITS NOT FAIR YOU GOT DRACO AND HARRY!"
"But, Ginny. It wasn't really-----------,"Hermione tried to tell her it wasn't really Harry but Ginny wouldn't listen.
"NO!" Ginny shouted. "Its to late to explain now. Pansy's right, you know Hermione. You must me eliminated." Ginny reached into the inside of her robes and pulled out a gun.
She pointed it straight at Hermione.
"Ginny. This is stupid." Draco said, getting nervous at the site of the gun. "So this is you plan?" Draco asked Ginny. "Your willing to kill your best friend over a guy?" Ginny pointed the gun at Draco. "Besides, it wasn't really----------," Draco tried to tell Ginny it wasn't really Harry but Ginny still wouldn't listen.
"SHUT UP!" Ginny said, going ballistic. "Its not fair that she gets you and Harry." Ginny yelled.
"No matter how hard you try, Harry's not going to change his feelings for Hermione just because you want him to." Draco told Ginny. Turning to Pansy, he added, "And no matter how hard you try, I'm sure as hell not going to changing my feelings about Hermione."
"So be it." Pansy whispered.
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MEANWHILE…
Harry and Ron were almost to Hermione's and Draco's tower when Ron, who was behind Harry, stopped short. His gaze was fixed out the window, starting out into the cold rainy night.
"Ron, come on. We have to find Hermione." Harry said stopping a distance away from Ron.
"I think I already did." He pointed outside. Harry jogged back over to Ron and gazed out the window. There he could see Draco, Hermione Ginny and Pansy.
Ginny had the gun pointed straight at Hermione.
"Oh no." he whispered to himself, as he gazed out the window. "Come on," he shouted at Ron as Harry ran down the hall and out one of the double doors.
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"If you'd rather have it this way, Draco. Fine." Pansy said glaring at both Hermione and Draco. She then fixed her gaze on Ginny. Pansy raised both of her eyebrows as if giving a signal. "Shoot her!" Pansy shouted.
"NOOOOOOO!" Draco cried. He tried to stop Ginny but Pansy wouldn't let him.
"You had your chance to change, Draco. But you refused to. So now I'm the one making the changes."
Suddenly, Ginny pulled the trigger and shot Hermione in the stomach.
"HERMIONE!" Draco screamed.
Hermione let out a small moan of pain. Everything was growing silent. The only thing she could hear was the echo of the gunshot. She rested her hands on her stomach were Ginny shot her. Hermione quickly lifted them up revealing blood.
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The wind had been whistling in Harry's and Ron's ears the whole time, which made it difficult to hear the gunfire from this distance.
"Ginny wait!" Harry shouted. "It wasn't really…" his voice trailed of as the site of Hermione came into view.
Hermione was growing dizzier. Everything was starting to spin. Suddenly she fell backwards and Draco caught her. Still holding her in him arms, he stumbled to the ground. He was growing weak with fright.
Harry and Ron stared in disbelief at what was happening. Pansy gave and evil smirk and Ginny didn't know what to do.
The rain had begun to pound harder and harder on them and even though it was almost summer, everything felt cold.
"Hermione," Draco sobbed, he was on his knees on the ground, still holding Hermione in his arms, "If I would have known that this was how it was going to end, I would have never taken that bet."
Tears rolled down both of his cheeks.
"I know." Hermione said in a whisper. "But this is how it was meant to be, Draco and there's nothing we can do to change that." Tears started to roll down her cheeks as well.
Draco was starting to fade to black, as did the rest of the world. "I'm dying, Draco." she whispered.
"If you could forgive, I'd like to rest with you someday." Draco spoke softly to Hermione.
Hermione nodded.
"I love you, Draco."
"Please, don't go, Hermione." Draco cried, more tears flooding his eyes. "I love you." he rested his forehead oh her cheek. "I'm so sorry, Hermione." he lifted his head and looked into her eyes.
"Oh my love. Please don't cry." Hermione raised one of her hands and wiped the tears from his eyes.
"I never meant to hurt you." Draco said.
Hermione, blinded by her own tears, gave Draco a big smile.
"I love you, Draco." Hermione said in no more then a whisper. She looked up at the rainy sky. "We will meet again." she breathed her last breath and her eyes slowly closed for the last time.
Draco rested his head on Hermione's and begun to cry harder. "I love you, Hermione." he whispered into her ear even though Hermione was already dead.
He held on to her still, not wanting to let go.
"Ginny!" Harry finally said. "What did you do?"
"I…I…"Ginny stammered. Pansy still stared at Draco with a smirk.
"It wasn't really me who kissed Hermione." Harry shouted. "Pansy was using you. She got someone to use the polyjuice potion to transform into me, Ginny."
Ginny dropped the gun on the cold wet ground.
"Its true." Ron said.
"What?" she replied. "You were using me?" Ginny asked Pansy.
"Dahhhhhhhh!" Pansy said, smacking herself in the forehead. "I knew if I could somehow get to you and make you kill your best friend over a guy, it would be so much better then me doing it myself." Pansy crossed her arms and smirked at Ginny. "Open up your eyes, Ginny. I mean, did you actually think for one second that you and I were really going to join forces?"
Ginny glared at Pansy but didn't reply.
"Oh… you did. That's so sweet." Pansy said sarcastically.
Hermione was already deadly pail when Draco softly kissed her good-bye. He then gingerly rested her down on the soggy ground and stood up.
"Pansy you stupid whore." Draco shouted the gun in his right hand. It pointed down at the ground. "You don't get it, do you?" he asked. Pansy stared at him but didn't reply. "If you kill her… you kill me too." he raised the gun to his right temple.
Pansy's eyes widened.
"Draco!" Pansy started to breath harder with fright. She tried to stop him but he wouldn't let her.
"NO!" Draco screamed, moving away from her. "This is the only way I can be with her again. This is the only way we can be happy together again." Draco pulled the trigger and Pansy dropped to her knees.
"NOOOOOO!" Pansy's screams and cries were drowned out by the sound of the gunfire. The gun slipped out of Draco's hand and bounced off the ground with a soft thud. Draco's now limp body tumbled to the ground and landed right next to Hermione's, leaving Pansy sobbing on the ground and the look of shock on Harry and Ron's faces.
THE END
A/N: Well that's it. The last chapter. What did you guys think? Was is to much? Be honest.
Well, anyway. I'm thinking about doing a sequel to this story. I know your probably like 'How can she do a sequel to this? They're both dead.' Well I was thinking, and I came up with this idea…..
In the next story, Hermione will wake up one summer morning and realize that this whole "past year" was just a dream. When she gets to school she starts having all these flashbacks of her dream and of Draco and Harry and everything that's happened in her dream. Finally she starts to realize that her dream is coming true. But will she be able to stop it from happening again or will she end up like her dream said.
I know that sounds so stupid but let me know if you think I should do it or not. The more votes I get saying to do it, the more I probably will but the more I get votes saying don't do it, I won't.
Let me know if I should or shouldn't.
DracoLover666
"My Last Breath" By: Evanescence
hold on to me love
you
know I can't stay long
all I wanted to say was I love you and I'm
not afraid
can you hear me?
can you feel me in your
arms?
holding my last breath
safe inside myself
are all
my thoughts of you
sweet raptured light it ends here tonight
I'll
miss the winter
a world of fragile things
look for me in the
white forest
hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)
I know you
hear me
I can taste it in your tears
holding my last
breath
safe inside myself
are all my thoughts of you
sweet
raptured light it ends here tonight
closing your eyes to
disappear
you pray your dreams will leave you here
but still
you wake and know the truth
no one's there
say
goodnight
don't be afraid
calling me calling me as you fade to
black
"Tourniquet" By: Evanescence
I tried to kill the pain
but only brought
more
I lay dying
and I'm pouring crimson regret and
betrayal
I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming
am I too
lost to be saved
am I too lost?
my God my tourniquet
return
to me salvation
my God my tourniquet
return to me salvation
do
you remember me
lost for so long
will you be on the other
side
or will you forget me
I'm dying, praying, bleeding and
screaming
am I too lost to be saved
am I too lost?
my
God my tourniquet
return to me salvation
my God my
tourniquet
return to me salvation
I want to die!!!
my
God my tourniquet
return to me salvation
my God my
tourniquet
return to me salvation
my wounds cry for the
grave
my soul cries for deliverance
will I be denied
Christ
tourniquet
my suicide