Dream On

Chapter 4: "Our Love Will Always Remain Strong"

After her father's death that summer, Shiva took up the job as Potions professor at Hogwarts. At night Shiva would sing her child, Christina, to sleep, "I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living my baby you'll be." Shiva went to Hogwarts and left Christina in the care of the newly wed couple, Ron and Hermione. They were good friends and would watch Christina until the summer. The night Christina was left in Ron and Hermione's care Shiva happened to bump into an old friend.

Shiva was walking to the train station as fast as she could go. The students would be arriving at Hogwarts in a week. I must inform you now that Shiva only smiles when her child is with her. Anyways, she was walking when there was a flash of silvery-gold and Shiva then found herself on the ground. It was dark and the light was dim, but Shiva recognized the man she bumped into.

"Draco Malfoy," Shiva said softly as he helped her up.

"Shiva, how have you been?"

"Perfectly fine without you. No if you don't mind I have a train to catch." Shiva then walked past Draco quickly trying hard not to remember how he had broken her heart so long ago. Her heart was still shattered, but because of the birth of her baby, it was slowly mending itself back together. When Shiva spoke it broke Draco's heart to hear those words. "Without you…" Those words remained ever implanted in Draco's mind. It was all he would think about for the rest of the night.

The next morning, however, when Shiva was in Hogsmede, Draco happened to just walk into the same coffee shop as she was in. He simply walked over to her and without permission sat down across from her.

"What do you want, Draco?"

"Just to talk."

"About what?"

"Um…how is Harry?"

"Dead."

"Oh. How is Severus?"

"Dead."

"Oh. Sorry about your losses."

"You have nothing to be sorry about. You did nothing wrong."

"Shiva, will you join me for dinner this evening?"

"No. I want nothing to do with you. Please, just go." Draco felt his heart fall into more pieces as he walked out of the shop. If he had turned around, even glance back, he would have seen Shiva's eyes fill up with tears. He would have seen her cry, regretting what she had just said. Of course, being Draco, he didn't look back. Not once. He didn't even say goodbye.

About a week after the students came, while Shiva was grading papers, she began to sing, "Always thought your promise was for life. I did not think that I would hear you say good-bye and I always heard you led another life. I doubted every time. I guess my love was blind cause in my eyes love was always something magical, but the feeling is so tragical and all I know is in love the thing that I want most I can't possess. There's only emptiness. In the late of night just before I closed my eyes you lied as you kissed me goodnight. In the late of night just before I closed my eyes I cried as you kissed my lips good-bye… In my eyes you will always be the lucky one cause you know you'll always have my love for all times until I die. Through the end I gave to you my best. You gave, you gave me loneliness. In the late of night just before I closed my eyes you lied as you kissed me goodnight. In the late of night just before I closed my eyes I cried as you kissed my lips good-bye… Goodbye… Goodbye…"

Draco was just about to knock when she finished singing, but decided it was best if he just stayed away. Months passed by and Draco never returned. Shiva cried herself to sleep every night. Not once did Shiva smile as she taught her students. Not once did Shiva smile as she was a Professor at Hogwarts. Soon the year was almost over and still Shiva had not smiled. She had cried herself to sleep every night because Draco had not yet returned.

Then one evening as Shiva was in the Great Hall eating dinner with all the rest of Hogwarts the doors burst open. The man who walked through the door was Draco Malfoy. He walked up to the staff table and stopped next to Shiva. The hall grew quiet as Draco got down on one knew and took out a small velvet box. Draco opened it showing Shiva a dimond ring. Draco slid the ring on Shiva's finger and said, "Shiva I love you. I can't live without you and I know what I did so many years ago wasn't right if I had to hide my feelings. So I am asking you to end my suffering. Siva, will you marry me?"

Shiva started to cry tears of joy. For the first time the students of Hogwarts saw their Potions professor smile. "Yes, Draco. Yeas I'll marry you," Shiva said falling out of her chair and into his arms. She threw her arms around Draco's neck and smiled again. The Great Hall cheered and clapped and everyone was happy because they got extra dessert!

Draco picked Shiva up in his arms and left the great hall as everyone cried with joy and the Slytherins looked disgusted. The first thing Shiva did was quit Hogwarts. Next she picked up her child, Christina, and showed her to Draco. He smiled at the baby and then at Shiva. He took both of them in his arms at once and kissed his future wife. Shiva smiled at him and Draco started to sing, "I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living my baby you'll be."

"Draco, I love you. I always have. This baby may not be your true child, but you will be her father and she will know no other. It would have been nice for her to meet Harry, but I know you'll take good care of her."

"Why?"

"Because I love you."

"I love you too, Shiva. I love you more then the world itself. I would die for you and your baby."

"Our baby," Shiva corrected Draco. Draco hugged both Shiva and Christina and kissed Shiva again. "Our love will always remain strong, Draco."

"It definately will, Shiva. It definately will." Draco then took his future wife and child home.

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