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A/N: Hey there everyone well I know I have not updated in ages but I had a computer melt down. My poor little five year old Dell was finally taken from me by Spyware. It totally corrupted my system. So I have spent the last few weeks working like a mad women to get a knew computer. So I should be back on my writing track within the week.

Broken Vow
Chapter Five

Her heat was racing. Banging against her chest so loudly she could hear it in her ears. Screaming for her to turn and run in the other direction. Her small feet making little, if none, noise as she walked slowly towards the portrait she knew all to well. The one she had walked threw hundreds of times during her seventh and final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She walked up the few steps and faced the lion and eagle.

When Draco had been head boy the portrait had been that of a lion and a serpent. But things were different now. She took a deep breath and was about to say the password when a large hand grabbed her shoulder roughly.

"Hermione what are you doing here?" She didn't turn to face Harry. She knew the look he was giving her.

"He is in there Harry." The hand on her shoulder tightened.

"What are you doing Hermione?" She closed her eyes. He didn't understand.

"I'm ending it." She continued to stare at the lion. Silently chanting to herself to be brave.

"I told you not to come here Hermione. I gave you and order. When Ginny told us you went to Malfoy Manner we figured it was the best time to attack the school without worrying about you following. Now I see you lied to both Ginny and myself." His voice was turning angry.

"I didn't lie Harry. I went there first before coming here. I figured something out." She began. She stopped when she heard voices coming down the hall. Harry didn't let her finish.

"Well you can tell me about it on the way home we are leaving. We have rescued the students and staff. They can have the bloody castle" He began pulling her to face him but she stayed still.

"I'm not leaving."

"The hell you are." Suddenly another hand grabbed her shoulder and spun her around. When she finally faced him she realized he was bleeding and tired. He had been fighting.

"You're my best friend." She slightly smiled at him. He let go of her and shock his head no.

"Hermione," He began but it was her turn to cut him off.

"I have to do this. I can't live like this. I can't live me life between loving him and hating him. I have to end this." He nodded slowly the look in his eyes changing and for the first time she knew he understood completely. She wasn't doing this to help the war, or save him. She was doing it for herself and herself alone.

"What are you going to do?" he questioned. She took a step forward and gave him a hug. Her eyes tightly closed.

"Kill or be killed." He gave her another tight squeeze before letting her go. "If I don't come back." She started but he turned on his heel and began walking away.

"I'll see you later Hermione." His voice was quiet. She held back a cry. There was a very good chance she wouldn't walk away from this. She turned and faced the portrait again. Her heart stopping as she whispered the password.

"Abscond." She was pretty sure she had stopped breathing. The portrait opened slowly revealing the common room hidden behind the door. The lights off but the moonlight streaming through the large window on the opposite end of the room. She stepped in as the door behind her closed. He had his back to her. His large frame outlined by the moonlight. Covered in shadow. She didn't touch her wand.

She didn't need it.

"Still alive. What a shame." She took a few steps toward him and stopped. Ignoring what he had said to her she started breathing again.

"Do you remember our first kiss Malfoy?' She saw his shoulders tense but he remained silent. "During our sixth year when we were both perfects. You told me I was beautiful and that I was doing something to you. When I replied that I had done nothing and called you an ignorant fool you smirked at me. But it was a different smirk. The one you always saved for me. You ran you thumb across my bottom lip and told me I had done this. And then you kissed me. Do you remember?" he turned and faced her. His eyes burning with anger.

"The though makes me ill Granger." His voice was growling at her. She took another step forward and met his eyes with steal.

"It's all your fault Draco. You started this," she took a deep gulp "and I'm fixing it." His face turned into a sneer. And he started towards her. She didn't try to move as his hand wrapped around her throat. Her breath disoriented.

"Oh Granger you'll never get me back." He tightened his grip hard before throwing her to the floor. Her knees banging into the hard stone. After a few moments of racked breathing she felt herself laughing. She hadn't meant to but knew it felt only right. Crazed humor from a damaged women.

"You still can't do it can you?" Her breath was still short but she squeezed the words out. "You can't kill me." She looked at him. The angry smirk on his face growing. He had always hated admitting when she was right. She slid onto the floor more until her knees were tucked up to her chest. Her eyes suddenly burning. "Look at us?" Her voice was so low she didn't care if he heard it or not. She looked at him The man she had loved so much. His blond hair and pale features standing out against the black clothing he wore. He looked like a different person. "Is this so much better then before?"

And for a brief moment his features lightened.

And then it was gone. She let her tears fall freely. There was no hiding from him. She reached her feet and walked towards him. She noticed his fist tighten. He was planning on hitting her. Nothing knew. "Was loving me so hard?" Within the next moment she was holding her face in her hands. In the spot where his fist had collided with her frail skin.

"Stop it Granger." His voice was small. His action was large. But the irony was that she was hurting him. After a few moments of defining silence he did something that scared her more then being hit by him. His hand reached out and brushed away the hair that had matted her face. Her skin red with shock. She didn't look at him. Her eyes avoiding his own. "Don't say such stupid things." She look up at him for a moment. His eyes somehow different. "Loving you was never the problem." She didn't say anything. She only waited for the inevitable to come. "It was your disgusting blood that was." He smirked and her eyes feel to the floor.

"You let me down Draco." His hand feel from her face and he cocked an eyebrow.

"An obvious fact Granger."

"You promised me. You promised you would never be him." Her voice had turned harsh and cold. She practically spit the words out at him. "Your him Draco threw and threw and you let me down."

"Shut your mouth Granger before I send you threw that window." She smirked at him.

"Another example. You have become him and you're so full of hate and malice I once thought the man I married to be dead. But you're not dead Draco. You've just become your father and you hate yourself for it." Her voice was still strong. Still slamming the words into him. He reached out and grabbed her shoulders. He yanked her off her feet and pulled her face inches from her own. His fingers digging into her skin.

She had hit a soft spot.

"The only thing I hate is you mud blood."

"Another reason you hate yourself Malfoy." She fought back. He shock her harshly.

"No Granger I hate you." He was screaming at her again.

"I hate you to." She suddenly cried. Her voice somehow trapped between sobbing and screaming at him. "You stole my heart Malfoy and you tore it apart. I hate you because I still love you. And I most of all despise every atom in your body for letting me down." He let her go and took a step back. The shock on his face apparent. "I was the only person you promised anything to. I was the only person who was ever there when you cried about the things he done to you. To us. I was the one who knew every inch of you. I gave you everything and you threw it away you selfish pig." And something else happened that caused her to stop screaming at him. A feeling went through her of emptiness.

The magic was gone.

She didn't know how she knew but at that moment it was gone. Her hear suddenly felt abandon. Her breath caught in her throat. She looked at Draco the confusion on his face matching her own. He felt it to. The loneliness.

And then something happened that truly surprised her.

A/N: alright I know its short but I'm using my friends computer and don't want to sit on if for my usual 3 hours. Grrrrr I am so mad about this! Well keep your fingers crossed my next pay check is enough!!! J Please review!!!!