Second Chance

Summary: Before Hermione and Draco started school at Hogwarts, Draco asked Hermione to be his girlfriend. She had to turn him down. Now as they are in their 7th year, old emotions start to come back and they realize that they want to fight for the love they thought they'd lost. Rated for later chapters and language.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters.

Chapter 1: The Hogwarts Express

Hermione sat alone on the Hogwarts Express in the heads compartment. She was reading, Hogwarts a History, one of her favorite books. The head boy had not arrived yet so she had no clue who it was. Before she could have time to wander about it, the door to the compartment burst open and she saw Malfoy standing there saying, "This has got to be a mistake! That fucking mudblood can't be head girl!"

"Well, that's just too bad for you then, because I am," Hermione said in a very calm tone not even looking up from her book. She knew that he'd called her a mudblood before and that didn't really matter to her. The reason why she was upset was because her worst nightmare was confirmed, Malfoy was head boy.

Flashback

Hermione and Draco were walking behind the Malfoy Manor hand in hand. "Hermione," Draco said with a hint of nervousness in his voice, "I have something I want to ask you."

"What is it Draco? You know you can ask me anything."

"Well, I was wondering.... if you would like to be my girlfriend. I've liked you since the day I met you and I would love it if you would be mine. What do you say?"

Hermione started to cry, but in between sobs she managed to get out, "I'm sorry Draco, I just can't." She had really wanted to be his girlfriend so badly, but they weren't allowed to be together and he and she both knew that. He was a pureblood and she was muggle-born. How could he have not understood this? All this time she had been fighting her urging feelings for Draco and now she had to let him go.

Draco saw that Hermione could not stop crying and it broke his heart to see her cry. She slowly stopped crying as he turned away from her.

"You have to understand, Draco, you know we can't be together."

"Whatever mudblood, just leave me alone."

Hermione started to cry again and against her better judgement she said, "Fine Malfoy," and then left. If Hermione would have stayed around for about a second longer, she would have seen Malfoy turn around. He watched her walk into the distance to get away from him and even though he knew she couldn't hear him, he said, "Wait. I just wanted to let you know that I love you." After he said that, a single tear slid down his face as he fell to the ground and started sobbing.

End of flashback

Hermione had never told her friends about her and Malfoy because it was so long ago and just the thought of what happened between them brings tears to her eyes as it was now.

Hermione looked up at Malfoy with her tear stained eyes and he said, "Granger, what's wrong?"

"Like you would care," she said even though she didn't mean it. Deep down she knew that she loved Malfoy now, that she had always loved him. She was just never able to admit it. But the fact was, he probably hated her now so there was no point. This ent her into another round of tears. "Excuse me," she said as rushed past Malfoy to find Ginny. She needed someone to talk to.

Malfoy stood there awestruck. Had him calling her a mudblood forced her into tears? He'd called her that many times before. But right now he could only think of one other time that he'd done it. It broke his heart to see her cry. He sat down where she has just been moments ago as, for only the second time in his life, a single tear streaked down his face.

I hope you liked it! The next chapter should be out soon!