A/N: Hello everyone! I am so; so happy you all are enjoying the third and final part of this trilogy! It makes me so happy! Anyway… on with the story!
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Chapter Four: Honestly Over?
Hermione laughed as Harry told her a joke before sipping her coffee. She looked around at the café she was at having breakfast with Harry. It was a cosy place, with a warm feeling to it and it was across the street from Gavin's Potions Shop.
"So how have your day's been?" asked Harry.
"Full of drama," sighed Hermione, "Harry… I love Draco. But he is with that stuck up snob of a model Terri. Yet he wants to be friends with me."
"Is that a bad thing?"
"I can't be friends with someone who I love Harry. It's too hard. And not to mention he is with Terri."
Harry nodded and thanked the waitress as she dropped that day's Daily Prophet on the table for them both.
Hermione smiled, "Remember at Hogwarts when we would sit at the Gryffindor table and read it together?"
Harry nodded smiling as he opened the paper, "Have you read the Rumour Mill at all since waking up?"
"No. How long has that been going on for?"
"Since December last year. Let's see what's in today's column," murmured Harry turning to the page.
His eyes widened at the top rumour and slowly he handed the paper to a curious Hermione.
Hermione took the paper and read the heading out loud, "Draco and Terri Call It Quits… well like the heading says, it could be a rumour."
"The reporter is Pavarti, Hermione and she is very through with her research and look, she even has a quote from Terri."
Hermione sighed, "What is your point Harry?" Hermione leant back on her chair, "Normally you don't insist on things unless you have a point of some sort."
"You love him Hermione and I dare say he loves you too. Why not get back with him?"
Hermione sighed and leant forward resting her head on her hand, elbow on the table, "It's too difficult Harry. So much has happened to us and four years have gone past. For all I know he might not be the same Draco from four years ago. It's just too hard."
"I understand and I'm sorry for pressing the issue on you," said Harry smiling, "Come on. It's Saturday and my first day off in weeks. Let's go have a look around the Alley."
!Z!
Draco stood in front of the Granger house, his heart pounding a mile a minute. The house was two storey's high. The bricks were white with a black roof. The grass was a dark green and the garden on the edge of the pathway to the house was well taken care of.
Draco gathered his wits and walked to the door and rang the doorbell before stepping back and waiting.
A few seconds later the door was opened revealing a smiling Amy dressed in jeans and a pink halter neck top.
"Hello Draco," she greeted smiling, "How are you?"
"Hi Amy," replied Draco smiling a little, "I'm fine. Umm… is Hermione home?"
"No, sorry. She's gone out with Harry. Would you like the come in and wait for her?"
"Is that okay?" asked Draco to make sure.
"Sure! Gavin and I are watching the video from our wedding."
Amy stepped back and let Draco in. She shut the door behind her and led him to the lounge room. Amy sat beside Gavin who smiled at Draco. Draco smiled back and sat on the recliner and looked at the TV.
Gavin and Amy were laughing as they cut their three storey high wedding cake. Gavin was in a black tuxedo with a white shirt and a golden tie. Amy was in a long white dress that tied up around the neck. The back was bare to her waist. The dress hugged hr body until the hips where it flowed outwards and down to the ground.
"You both looked nice," commented Draco.
"Amy looked beautiful. It was a pity you couldn't come," said Gavin.
"Yeah, sorry about that."
Amy smiled at Draco, "Don't worry. We all understood why."
Draco half smiled as Gavin stopped the tape.
"So I gather you are here to see Hermione?" asked Gavin curiously.
Draco nodded, "Mum thinks I should leave her alone for a while."
"And your mother was right."
The three spun around in there seats to see Hermione standing beside Harry. Hermione looked tense as she looked at Draco.
"Hermione," cried Draco standing up, "I nee-"
"I don't want to hear it Draco. We both decided it would be best to let things go and move on."
"But I'm not with Terri!"
"Terri or no Terri, Draco, things have changed for you and for me. Why can't you accept that?"
Draco stepped forward, "Because I love you."
"I love you as well Draco but I've accepted that fact… I need space to work out what is going on in my mind and around me. For you everything seems the same, for me nothing is the same, nothing at all!"
"You think, that just because I've been awake these past four years that everything is the same for me?" asked Draco angrily, "Than you obviously have got your wires crossed because nothing, NOTHING, is the same for me. I felt nothing but anger and sadness while you were in your coma. And that you are back I want to feel complete again, but you won't let me!"
"YOU WON'T LET ME DO WHAT I WANT EITHER, DRACO!" screamed Hermione, "YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT HARD! I'M DEALING WITN MORE THAN AWAKENING FROM A COMA! HOW ABOUT LIVING MY LIFE FOR ONE DAY?"
Gavin and Amy stood up and hurried past them to the kitchen, followed by Harry. Harry slid the door shut behind him, leaving Hermione and Draco alone.
"How am I meant to know what you are dealing with if you won't talk to me?" asked Draco in a calm voice.
"The whole point is that I don't want you too know, because I am trying to get over you," replied Hermione turning and marching up the staircase.
But Draco wasn't giving up; angrily he followed Hermione up them and into her room.
"Get over me? You want to get over me?" asked Draco outraged.
"I do! But with you constantly around me its not that easy," cried Hermione in desperation leaning on her desk chair.
"What about all that we have gone through, Hermione? How can you just forget that?"
Hermione turned to face Draco, "You forgot about me but didn't you?" Hermione's voice was a deadly whisper.
"What do you mean?"
"You forgot all about me! Once a year! Once a year, Draco! Is that all the time you could give me? You say you love me, yet only once a year did you dare visit me!"
"You wrote in a letter to move on!"
"THAT WAS IF I BLOODY DIED! DO I LOOK DEAD TO YOU?"
"Well you may have well been!" snapped Draco, "What else was I meant to do huh? Sit around, just waiting for you to wake up and declare my undying love for you?"
"You know what?" said Hermione in a cool tone, "That is exactly what you did do, Draco. Sure you had that lovely girl Terri, but you never were serious about her, were you? She was just a mere distraction to you. You spent four years waiting for me… and now here I am. Awake, you dump Terri thinking I will welcome you back with open arms and that everything will return to normal. Well sorry to completely smash your dream to nothing, Draco. This is reality, nothing is the way you want it to be, and nothing is how it seems."
Draco said nothing. He took a deep breath and looked at Hermione, "Fine. I see how it is then. Goodbye Hermione. I hope you enjoy your life."
Hermione said, or did anything as Draco turned and left her bedroom and ran down the stairs and stormed out of the front door, slamming it closed behind him.
Silently Hermione sat on her bed and closed her eyes, "This is how I want it to be."
!Z!
The day passed slowly and Hermione spent it in her room in tears. She really couldn't find a proper reason for goodbye. Everything she said to Draco was the truth but when she thought about it, it came across to her as complete and utter crap.
As she lay on her bed starring at the ceiling a knock came at her door.
"It's open," said Hermione.
The door opened and in came Ginny smiling, "Hey. I heard you finally got to Draco?"
"News travels fast."
"He came around to mine and Blaise's place and told him everything. How are you coping?"
"Fine," lied Hermione.
"That is the biggest lie I've ever heard you utter. Now, you are in dire need of a night out with the girls. How does club 18 in Hogsmeade sound?"
"Club 18?" asked Hermione confused.
Ginny smiled, "It is a new club for youngling's such as myself, you and Amy. It opened up about a year ago. The hot spot in the Wizarding world."
"It doesn't sound like my sought of thing."
"Well… just for a little while? Come one Herm's. You deserve it after all you have been through."
Hermione nodded and sat up, "Clothes?"
"I like your top… but you need to changed into jeans."
Hermione nodded and hurriedly changed. She grabbed her purse and followed Ginny down stairs. Amy was waiting by the door, smiling.
"You both planned this," cried Hermione.
Amy chuckled, "Well we needed to cheer you up. Now come on."
!Z!
"Blaise this seriously is not the night to go to Club 18," grumbled Draco as him and Blaise walked into the dark club with muggle music playing.
Blaise smiled, "Hey man, you need to forget about your troubles and just be happy."
Draco rolled his eyes as him and Blaise made there way to the bar.
"Two fire whiskey's," ordered Blaise as he sat on one of the stools by the bar.
Draco sat beside him and looked at the dance floor full of people dancing extremely close.
"So-" started Blaise before a smile lit up his face, "Harry, Ron. Hey guys!"
Harry and Ron smiled at Blaise and nodded at Draco before taking the two spare seats.
"Didn't expect to see you two here," commented Ron turning to check out the females on the dance floor.
"Draco needed to get out," replied Blaise, "Heard anything else on that murder case in upper London?"
Harry shook his head, "Not a word. The forensics can't even work out the death. Though they say unforgivable's were used, but not the cause of death."
Blaise was about to reply when he saw three females walk into the club. He turned around to face the bar when a Lindsay Lohen song started.
I watched the walls around me crumble
But its not like that will build em up again
So here's your last chance for redemption
So take it while it lasts because it will end
And my tears are turning into time
I've wasted trying to find a reason for goodbye
Draco frowned at Blaise and looked up to see Hermione walking with Amy and Ginny. She was smiling a little at what Amy was chattering on about, but he could tell she wasn't fully into being here at Club 18.
Hermione nodded at something Amy asked her and looked up to see Draco looking at her.
"Oh no," she murmured, "Oh no… not tonight."
I cant live without you
Can't breathe without you
I dream about you
Honestly tell me that its over
Because the world is spinning and I'm still living
It wont be right if were not in it together
Tell me that it's over
And I'll be the first to go
Hermione sighed and looked away from Draco. Things had to be the way they were. It was the right thing to do… or was it.
"I cannot have second thoughts."
"What?" asked Ginny confused, "Seconds thoughts on what?"
"Draco," answered Amy for her noticing Draco.
Hermione nodded, "I made the right choice right?"
"Only you can answer that for yourself," said Ginny, "No one else can."
Don't want to be the last to know
Don't want to be the one to chase you
But at the same time your the heart that I call home
I'm always stuck with these emotions
And the more I try to feel the less I'm whole
My tears are turning into time
I've wasted trying to find a reason for goodbye
Draco kept his eyes on Hermione. His heart as normal was racing and his palms were getting sweaty.
She couldn't possibly want to call it quits? Right? He stood as he saw her turn and race out of the club, leaving a very startled Ginny and Amy in her wake.
"I have to go!" cried Draco standing and running.
I cant live without you
Can't breathe without you
I dream about you
Honestly tell me that its over
Because the world is spinning and I'm still living
It wont be right if were not in it together
Tell me that it's over
Draco ran over to Amy and Ginny looking worried, "Where has Hermione gone?"
"I don't know. She just said she couldn't stay," answered Amy before Draco left the club.
And I'll be the first to go
Yeah I'll be the first to go
Don't want to be the last to know
Over, over, over
Hermione pushed open the club door and ran out to the deserted street of Hogsmeade. Tears were welled up in her eyes as she stood in the middle of the road, her arms hugging her body.
"I AM SO SICK OF CRYING!" she screamed to no one before slowly walking up the road, heading for no particular destination – anywhere was better then the club.
My tears are turning into time
I've wasted trying to find a reason for goodbye
Draco ran out of the club and looked up the street. He could see a solitary figure walking alone, their arms hugging their body in desperation.
Draco knew it was Hermione without even thinking. With hope in his heart he ran after her.
Can't live without you
Can't breathe without you
I dream about you
Honestly tell me that it's over
Because the world is spinning and I'm still living
It won't be right its where not in it together
Tell me that it's over
Tell me that it's over
Over
Honestly tell me
Honestly tell me
Don't tell me that it's over
Don't tell me that it's… over…
Hermione tripped a little and wiped tears from her blurred vision. Behind her she could hear running feet and instinctively turned around.
It was Draco.
"Don't you ever give up?" she screamed half-heartedly.
"I made a promise to you in our seventh year that I won't leave you Hermione," said Draco walking towards her slowly, "And I won't."
"That was years ago."
"It was like yesterday to me."
Hermione looked at the road, tears falling down her cheeks. She wanted nothing more than to feel Draco's arms wrapped around her, holding her tight and never letting her go.
"I want…" started Hermione before stopping.
"You want what?" asked Draco quietly.
"I want to be loved… I want… I… I miss you so much… you have no idea how hard these past few days have been… everything is so messed up, nothing feels right anymore. Not one thing."
"But you are loved Hermione. I love you and I know that feels right… at least have one thing in your life that isn't messed up… I am standing here, not giving up on you."
Hermione looked up at Draco. She raised and hand and wiped her tears away, "How do I know you haven't changed on me?"
Draco gave a cocky smile, "You'll never know unless you give me a go will you?"
Hermione smiled, a real smile and hugged him, "That smile of yours proves you are still the Draco Malfoy I know and love."
Draco chuckled and looked down at Hermione, "Do you really think I could change?"
"A lot of things happen in four years."
Smiling, Draco leaned down and kissed Hermione softly on the lips.
But deep down in Hermione's mind the nagging feeling of knowing Clarissa was still out there played in her mind worse than ever before.
A/N: Happy, or too soon?
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Well the song wasn't mine. It is Lindsay Lohen's song "Over" and I thought it suited this chapter.
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