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Paris, Capital of Love?
Chapter 9: The Epilogue
She watched him turn away and walked to the elevator. She watched him press the button and watched the doors close on him. The doors closed and the elevator began to descend with Nick. With Draco. With whomever.
A few seconds later she looked down and saw him walking out of the door and across the grass. She called out to him.
"Nick! NICK! Come back! Please come back! Nick, Lexi's right here! It's me, Lexi! NIIICK!"
"Nick."
She watched him run across the grass and into a taxi. He motioned for the taxi to go and the taxi left, leaving Lexi or Hermione standing there at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
She untied the mask and curled her hair and dropped to the floor, crying hysterically.
Suddenly she heard footsteps and Prof. McGonagall and Prof. Snape appeared in front of her.
"Poor dear. Come here, Ms Granger, come on. Come or you'll get sick," Prof. McGonagall said.
It was a mere murmur. "He left me."
Prof. McGonagall looked at Prof. Snape and frowned.
"Yes, I'm afraid so, Ms. Granger. I'm afraid so. Come on, we don't want you to get sick." She stuck out her hand and pulled Hermione to her feet.
As they got to the elevator she looked back to the spot where they had been standing. She remembered the kiss they had just had. She got in the taxi and they headed to the hotel. She ran to her room and grabbed the portraits and the gnome then raced back downstairs. She ran to the trashcan.
"I don't want these stupid portraits or the gnome! I don't ever want to remember you! I HATE YOU!"
She was about to throw them in, but stopped. She stared at the portrait of them two together. Nick's arm was wrapped around her shoulders and she was leaning on him, smiling. Smiling.
She grabbed the two portraits and headed back upstairs slowly. She packed quietly, not responding Ron and Harry's questions then headed downstairs to the taxi. She got inside and sat quietly the whole time. Even on the train ride, she said not a word.
"Hermione?" Harry asked.
"Hermione are you alright?" Ron inquired.
But Hermione made no movement. She just turned around to look at the rain dropping outside and fingered the rose he had given her a few days ago. But she said nothing.
Weeks had passed since the trip and Hermione had not spoken to him. They would occasionally meet in the hallways or in classes and have eye contact, but neither would say a word.
He was now dating Pansy, everyone said. The first time she ran into them kissing she ran back to her dorm crying and Harry and Ron were confused. She never told them who her partner had been. She never even spoke to them about that week. But every Sunday she would sit on her bed and finger the rose. She would sit there and just play with it, placing it in her hair and remembering that week.
Sometimes, when she was asleep, Harry and Ron would hear her murmur a name.
"Nick"
She said it as if the wind was murmuring.
"Nick"
They asked her often who he was, but she never answered. After a while, they got tired of asking. Hermione thought he had forgotten her and wished she could, too, but she couldn't.
"Aren't you going to come in? The water's fine after you get used to it," Nick said.
"But it's cold!" Lexi whined.
"Aw, come on!" Nick said as he grabbed her hand and pulled her in.
Lexi bobbed up a few seconds later.
"Meanie!" Lexi said as she splashed water on Nick.
"Don't get me started!" Nick said as he splashed water back. Then he sped away.
She began to cry. And remembered more.
Then he pulled out a piece of cloth when the storekeeper wasn't looking and bound Lexi with it. Then he pulled the cloth and Lexi began to spin the other way and laugh.
"Nick!"
"What? You're not enjoying it?"
"Yeah but-"
"Then let's do it again!"
"Do it again, please," Hermione murmured. And she could almost feel the same sensation.
"Boy was Karen hot!" Nick commented.
"HEY!" Lexi cried as she yanked her hand out of his.
"I was just kidding, love," Nick replied.
"Love." She remembered that day. He had called her love.
"Do I look like the painting?" Lexi asked.
"Nope, not at all."
"Aww."
"You look much better," Nick said and Lexi smiled genuinely.
"I looked better than the Mona Lisa," she murmured to herself. She got up and looked in the mirror and frowned. "Can't you tell me I'm beautiful just one more time, Nick. Just once more, please?"
She dropped on her bed, crying silently.
"And I thought Paris was the capital of love! Stupid Paris! I hate you!"
She buried her face in her pillow and a while later fell asleep. When she woke up, she found Draco standing in front of her.
"Draco?" She put out her hand to touch his, but the image flickered.
"Sorry."
"What?"
"Sorry," the image said again.
"I forgive you." She put her hand out to touch his face, but the image disappeared.
"It was fake! He isn't sorry!" Hermione began to weep again and ran out of the dorm and into the hallway. She stopped, remembering the night on the Eiffel Tower.
"Nick! It's me, Lexi! Nick, it's me!"
Draco looked up at her and she could almost swear that he was crying. But she couldn't be sure, maybe it was the raindrops.
"Sorry." He whispered.
But she was sure he was kidding. She continued to run until shebumped into a boy and fell on the floor.
"I'm sorry," she said hastily as she got up. He reached out to help her to her feet and dusted her off.
He bent over and whispered in her ear then left. Hermione looked up and realized who it was. Then she remembered his words.
"No, I'm sorry Hermione Granger. Maybe, someday, my Father will be too and we can be together."
"Someday soon I hope," she whispered back and he turned around and winked at her as he threw something out of his pocket that landed in her hands. The blood red rose rested there, evidence of his feelings for her.
"Thanks."
But no one was there to respond. And she was sure he never would.
A/N-So, what do you think? Was it a good ending? I was lost on where to end. I wanted to end it when he said sorry, but I thought that was too short. When he said sorry at the Eiffel Tower. What do you think? Was it too sappy?Please review!
Acknowledgements:
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