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He held on to her as tight as he could. As tight as he ever held on to anything in his life. His hard kisses were as desperate as they were sweet. He kissed her with more passion than he had in his body.
But it was not enough.
Passion was never enough.
Not for her.
Not even for him.
He could already taste the tears that streamed down her cheeks. Regret and sadness mixed in with bittersweet goodbye.
He felt her rapid heart beat against his chest once more, and he also felt it slow down.
She was ready to do it.
He felt her pull away from him, and this time he let her.
"This was a mistake Draco and you know it."
He stood silent.
It was no mistake. At least not on his part. Everything he had done, he had meant to do and would do it all over again given the chance.
She sighed in despair, but quickly gathered her mind and wits about her. After all she had a mission to accomplish.
She looked into his eyes and brushed a slow hand across his cheek.
"You can come with me." she said tyring to look as convincing considering the fact that after last night, after all she had seen in his eyes, the void that his heart held, she had lost all hope for his salvation.
He shook his head to her smiling an empty smile worthy of an empty offer.
"And what my dear Gryffindor, follow you around like a dog while you go home to him every night?"
The words held their weight, and pulled roughly at her heart.
"I never asked that of you Draco."
"Then what Granger. What do you wish of me."
"Let me help you. Don't give in to him. Your better than that."
"You don't really believe that do you Ms. Granger?"
"I've always believed that." Hermione replied, her eyes tearing up once more. She had never felt more for him than she did now.
He looked like the wounded schoolboy she once knew.
She stepped closer to him and placed a hand on his heart.
"I've known the kindness that you are capable of Draco. Don't let them destroy that."
His head snapped to look at her, and the image of the schoolboy faded to that of the most threatening power on earth.
"Like you've destroyed me?" he hissed throwing her hand of his heart.
She shook her head furiously at him holding back furious tears.
"I couldn't..." she tried to say.
"Couldn't what Granger? You couldn't love me?"
She shook her head in denial.
"I loved you!"
"Then why Granger?"
She looked at him now.
This was it.
This was finally the time to settle it.
All the questions of why.
"Draco, you and I, we were and are too different. Our love. My love for you. It would never have survived. We had our fun Draco and it was right to end it there. I loved you too much Draco. You were my first and up until Harry my only. The love I had for you was so intense that sometimes I almost felt ethereal, that's how you made me feel. But you also changed me. I have lied to all my family, my best-friends, all to protect us. I couldn't say anything about us for fear of both our lives. In the end it was beginning to destroy me." She took a breath, and looked at him " And you Draco Malfoy. You whom I loved, terrified me. I knew you were never going to harm me, never let anything happen to me. But I knew the power you held inside of you was greater than anyone could ever imagine. What I had thought you could become, what I knew was your own destiny scared me. I didn't want any part of that, in the end Draco, your destiny never laid with me. In the end Draco Malfoy I did the only thing I could do. I married the man I was destined for."
"And you threw me directly to the path of my fate!" He roared as she finished her explanation. He turned from her shaking with anger.
"Don't you think I was hurt too!? Don't you know that there's also nothing left in me!?" She asked. She beat her fist to her heart. "There's nothing here Draco. There is nothing here. Only duty and loyalty. They are all I have now."
Draco turned to her.
"Oh but I know he is there. Isn't he Hermione?"
"He holds my loyalty and he embodies my duty. But you've always held my heart. You hold it still."
He raised his head. She was telling the truth.
Hermione who knew him too well, and by the look in his cool gray eyes, knew that now he grew even angrier.
"Then you have been playing Potter's mudblood whore." he spitted at her.
Hermione drew a quick breath in as anger inhabited her. But looking at him, his anger the only aura he had left. All she could truly feel was pity.
He was right.
She had destroyed Draco.
Only Malfoy was left now.
She nodded her head at him accepting his choice and his words. She quickly disappeared from his view.
She had failed her initial mission.
But was quickly beginning another.
She had indeed destroyed Draco.
Now she would destroy Malfoy.
Just as fate has destroyed Hermione Granger, and left only another empty Potter.
End
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