Ok, this is short but it's an epilogue and I like this chapter a lot. So please read and review at the end nad tell me how you think it was!
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Epilogue- Takes place two years later
Draco Malfoy woke up feeling very tired. As he opened his eyes, he realized that he was surrounded by white walls and a lot of people wearing white. Slowly he blinked his eyes and tried opening them fully. Just then, something sour tasting was shoved down his throat and much to the annoyance of the medi witches around him, he spit it right back out.
"What the bloody hell was that?" he spluttered as he raised himself to a sitting position.
One of the medi-witches wiped her face off and said, "Oh, good Mr. Malfoy, you're up." Then she turned to another medi-witch who was standing next to her and said, "Show his family in." She turned back to Draco and said with a cheerful smile, "How are you feeling?"
"Fine, my legs hurt though."
"That's understandable; getting hit with the Crutacious multiple times. We were all surprised that you lived." She put her hand to her chest and looked up then said, "Thank God that Harry Potter defeated You-Know-Who."
Draco shifted in his bed then said, "How's he doing?"
"Still sleeping from what I've heard."
Draco looked around the room and saw that there were dozens of flowers and get well soon cards around him. A few years ago, if he was in the hospital, nothing would have been in sight except for a glass of water and healer instruments. Then his eyes came to a calendar. "How long have I been in here?"
"Three weeks, Mr. Malfoy."
"Three weeks…"
"Yes, a long time. Mr. Potter though, he'll be in here for longer. Poor boy, he came in so battered up that we almost couldn't tell that it was him."
Just then, the door burst open and in came Tonks, her parents Andromeda and Ted, Mrs. Weasley, Ron, and Hermione.
Tonks came up to Draco first and said, "How're you doing? We've been worried sick."
"Yeah," said Ron. "Hermione thought that you wouldn't make it."
"I'm sorry if that makes you feel bad but let me tell you that you're probably going to have your own wizard card."
"My own wizard card, Hermione?" asked Draco. He started howling with laughter which slowly turned into a cough.
Mrs. Weasley came up to him and comfortingly began rubbing his back. "There, there, don't exhaust yourself, dear. Take some rest."
Draco smiled weakly at her then said, "Why would I be on a wizard card?"
"Because, Draco," said Tonks, "you got hit with the Crutacious over twenty times in a row; to add to that, you survived! No one's lasted for more than ten before."
"Thanks, I feel so good," he replied dryly.
"Well, we have to go check on Ginny then Harry," said Hermione. "Get well soon, Draco!" Then she, Ron, and Mrs. Weasley left the room.
"Oh, right I have to go to the ministry and sort out some papers," said Tonks. "Dad, can you come with me, you know for the floo powder?"
"You don't know how to floo, Tonks?"
"No, I know how to, I just…land badly, that's all," she replied flashing her shiny white teeth at him. "Get well soon, Draco."
"Will, do," he replied watching his cousin as she exited the room with his uncle. Draco looked at his Aunt who had been sitting quietly in the room while everyone had talked. "Hey, Aunt Meda, how are you doing?"
"I'm fine," she said, "I lost both my sisters. I'm not sure what I'm sad about since neither of them liked me but all the same, I'm still sad. How are you doing with your mother?"
"It hurts a lot. She was the only other person who came close to understanding me apart from…" Draco sighed and looked down at his hands.
"Apart from…Gwendolyn?"
Draco looked up shocked. "You knew her?"
"Of course I did. I knew her even before your mother married your father." Andromeda right away noticed the change that had occurred in her nephew's mood when she had said Gwen's name. "Draco, don't be sad. If she was here, she would be very proud of you. I always knew her as a fierce person with a monstrosity of ambition. She always wanted to do what everyone else didn't want to do." She walked over to Draco and said, "I know that you don't feel too comfortable with me yet but look at me for a second. She will always be proud of you, dead or alive because you did what you wanted to do. That's what Gwen was about. Freedom. Don't bring yourself down because she's not here. Do this for yourself, not her."
Draco looked at his aunt with shining eyes and said, "Thanks." Then he pulled her into a big hug and she left the room with a content smile on her face.
These past two years have been interesting. First I join the light side, make friends with Potter and Weasley then the next thing I know I'm in the hospital for helping to defeat Voldemort and all my immediate family is dead…wow. That's just how I like it.
Draco leaned back on his bed, closed his eyes and promptly fell asleep once again, dreaming about what he was going to do once he and everyone else got out of St. Mungos.
