A/N: This is the last chapter! I hope it lives up to everyone's expectations! This is probably the last you'll hear from me in a while – I'm going to take a break from writing until I start the sequel. I want to have it all planned beforehand. Anyway, there's quite a lengthy 'Thank-you's' at the bottom of this chapter, and I do realize this chapter is short but it's a sort of Last Chapter/Epilogue. Please forgive!
After he got changed and had a quick cup of tea, Neville left for Hogwarts. There was no point in Hermione and Draco leaving with him – the term was nearly over.
The couple sat together on the couch, snuggled up close. Hermione was in her pajamas (a tank top, boxers and bunny slippers). Draco merely wore a singlet and shorts. Both were quiet – content just listening to the wind rattle the window panes and the rain dance on the roof. There was no need for talking, for neither wanted to ruin the moment.
Thoughts flashed across Hermione's mind in a slideshow. Narcissa and Lucius, smirking at her; her mother's tearstained face; her massive engagement ring; Draco's forlorn expression; the sights of Paris; Draco's naked body pressed up against hers; the clicking cameras of the media, and the bright white light of their cameras'; Salmond's mangled body; Snape's truth potion; and last but not least, Tom Riddle, smirking at her as she hit the floor of his dungeon.
She knew what she had to do.
'Draco,' she said, breaking the silence.
He kissed the top of her head. 'Yes?'
'I love you. So very much. I also dislike you very much at some points – but whatever. What would you say… if – if I suggested we move?'
Draco's expression turned questionable.
'I think we should move away. Away from your mum's rules, away from Voldemort, away from everything.'
A long pause followed her statement.
'I'd say – yes.'
'We'd tell no one, so they couldn't find out, and so your mum couldn't nip round to hound us – no offense – and so we could live happily. Together.'
Draco kissed her softly. 'I think it's a wonderful idea.'
Fanny James lived next door to a run-down old cottage on Privet Drive. So rundown she was almost embarrassed to be living next to it. It had been that way for decades.
One day, a couple moved in. Fanny watched them with her beady eyes from her living room window. The house was painted badly with bright, offensive colors, like yellow, orange and blue. The couple put vines up and down the outside walls – but left the garden the same, for they seemed to like it.
It was the only cottage on the entire street and the only house decked up with every flower imaginable and the only house with an unruly garden. Old tosh, indeed! It stood out not only because of its vibrant colors but because it ached with life and energy. Often, especially in the evening, two lovers would sit outside, drinking tea on a peeling white table, laughing over something, almost hidden by the thick bush of their garden. Most times, a scruffy teenager with a strange scar on his forehead would join them and they would all joke together. They waved amiably to the disapproving passer-bys and couldn't care less what the neighbors thought of them. Also, they received a great deal of strange visitors. Once, an enormous man visited them, and couldn't fit inside. If Fanny believed in giants, which she didn't, that was what she would have thought one to look like.
Also, it was the couple itself that bothered her. They were too young to be married – they seemed to have a great deal of fights. The things that happened in their house were unusual to. The whole street was suspicious of them, but they didn't know and probably didn't care.
The lady with thick bushy hair was friends with another peculiar lady, known by all as Mrs. Figg. The young man was more… rude. He once caught her staring at them, and sent her a look which would have made her cat tremble. Old tosh! As if he could have frightened her!
She found out their names. Draco and Hermione. Their names were as eccentric as the rest of them. Draco and Hermione, indeed! Tosh!
But the strangest thing about the couple, especially Hermione – and all her Fanny's friends agreed – was her tendency to speak to herself. Often, in the late hours of the evening, Hermione could be heard chanting to herself.
'Ginny,' she could be heard saying. 'We'll come for you… we'll rescue you… take you back.'
But she was always half asleep when she did this. Or crazy.
At this point, Hermione would retire inside and Fanny would roll her eyes exasperatedly.
Thank-you's: First of all I want to say a HUMONGOUS BIG thank-you to EVERYONE who read and/or reviewed my story! Thanks for encouraging and contructive reviews and inspiring me to write more of the story!
Sissified: lol I think Ginny and Tom are a very interesting couple too! I've always liked that pairing, so I thought I'd use it in the story!
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Goddess of Gorgeousness: I know, the c2 thing IS confusing. (Did you know I'm STILL jealous that you got to meet Avril Lavigne…? Wish I could )
Agey: Can't say I've read much Harry/Hermione myself… but thanks anyway!!
KAIRI: Thanks, I'm glad you felt the doom and fear. Lol!
Chika: Sorry I couldn't update in the weekends… though I hope you did well in your exams anyway. You have a similar situation? What happened? (If I'm not being too nosy! )
Saiyachick: Lol that sucks. Did you predict this ending?
Zxcvbnm: I really don't know why Voldie is acting so un - Voldie like. I guess cause I said so (LOL). My villains are never very… villain like, I guess.
Moi: Wow… I'd kinda forgotten about that, if you can believe it. Hermione's – oops sorry can't say, wait until the sequel! Lol I'm so evil gives evil laugh
Nubia: It is Voldemort but he looks like Tom Riddle from the diary (because I don't think Ginny would kiss a forty year old guy. That's really the main reason.)
Krissygirl: Wow extreme… I've updated!
Spychick989: Will they save Ginny or not? Well, I can't say. Time will tell…
LunaDemonica: Lol I do that a lot, as well. Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!!
Helkardowen: Awww… you don't like Tom and Ginny?? There might be some of them in the sequel so… watch out. Lol
J.N. Cahill: Oh no Tom's not old – cause he's the Tom from the diary. Unless sixteen is old… but yeah. It would be weird for Ginny to like the Old Guy Voldie. Well, I reckon,
Harry-or-dracos gal: Same! That's exactly how I pictured him 2!
Nebel Engel: Ooo can't say!
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::Snaps out of begging mode:: So that's that! The story's finished. Thank-you again to everyone for everything!! (PS.Sorry about the random question marks. And the short chapter. And for it taking so long. And if I missed out somebody in the Thank-yous!).