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Chapter Twelve
Broken Hearts
"I don't see how this is going to work"
At that Ginny gave a small sigh and opened one of her eyes, leaving the other closed still. She and Hermione sat cross-legged on the floor of Hermione's bedroom, the lights off and candles completely surrounding the two of them. "Well no wonder." Ginny replied, opening both eyes and giving another sigh. "Close your eyes, Hermione and relax."
"How can I do that? You know…with so much going on?" Hermione, who sat across from Ginny, stated. "I…just…" Her voice trailed off.
But before she could finish, Ginny started up again. "Hermione…you're forgetting the whole point in meditation. It's meant TO relax you." Ginny once again closed her eyes and relaxed herself.
"You're right, Gin."
"Of course I'm right, silly." Ginny giggled, her eyes still closed. "Now…close your eyes and sit up completely straight…now take a deep breath."
Hermione sighed, taking a deep breath. "I just need to relax." She once again took at deep breath and closed her eyes, her back perfectly straight. "But…"
"OH…for the love of…." Ginny almost screamed, opening both eyes this time and stared straight across at Hermione. "Hermione…there is obviously something on your mind. Now…what is it?"
"Ummm…." Hermione loosened herself up and got up off the floor. "It's nothing. Really." She insured Ginny. On the other hand, Ginny wasn't quite buying it as much as Hermione thought she would.
"Oh come off it, Mione. There is obviously something you want to talk about. So…spill. Come on. Out with it."
Hermione began to pace back and forth, stepping in between candle after candle. "It's just that…well…I feel so alone." She stopped and looked over at Ginny, who still sat on the floor.
"What are you talking about, Hermione?" Ginny looked back up at Hermione. "You are not alone. You are very well liked and you have friends."
"No, not like that. I just mean…" Hermione's voice trailed off as she began to pace her bedroom floor again.
"What?" Ginny asked looking sympathetic toward Hermione.
"I mean…this whole thing with Draco." She let out another sigh.
"What?" Ginny let out a little giggle, a bit of a confused look on her face. Hermione stopped pacing once more and looked at Ginny.
"What is so funny?"
"Nothing… it's just that…" Ginny never finished her sentence. Hermione shook her head in disgust and moved over to the door. "I don't mean it like that, Mione. I just don't quite get what you mean."
Hermione continued to move over to her bedroom door. She opened it and looked around the hall and then turned her gaze over to Draco's bedroom door. It was closed. Hermione then reappeared in her room and closed her door once more. "Listen, okay. I never told you exactly what happened." She paused and walked back over to Ginny and sat down across from her. "But…well...this whole reborn thing is still on my mind." Hermione began to look down at her hands that rested in her lap now.
"What is it?" Ginny asked, looking even more concerned at her friend.
Hermione then began telling Ginny all about when she was outside with Harry…what he had told her about him being in love with her. About how she supposable passed out. About that so called eerie and bizarre dream she had and how it didn't really seem like a dream at all. She told her about Lenne's warning and what had happened in potions class.
"Its like…one thing leads to another a-a-and I'm already confused as it is."
Ginny really didn't know what to say at that. She didn't know what to make of any of this. She wanted to help but she was just as confused as Hermione. "Wait…didn't you talk to Trelawney after that whole thing in potions class? What did she have to say?" Ginny added rather hastily.
Hermione, who had again began to pace around the room, suddenly stopped and looked at Ginny. "Oh that's right. I almost forgot abou-----"
HERMIONE'S VISTION
"LOOK…you said it yourself…" Draco began, tears slowly forming in his eyes. "You told me…..you told me that you changed it… just by the simple fact that you told Ginny ahead of time."
"You're right. I said that I changed it. But, Draco. That's just a small fraction of the outcome. That's not going to change everything. It's still going to happen whether you or I want it to. It's still going to happen." Hermione finished almost in a shout, turning her back to Draco.
Tears slowly rolled down her cheeks and she soon became blinded by more of them.
"It's still going to happen…." She added in a whisper. "….and the only way.." She couldn't even bring herself to finish her sentence but she knew she had to.
"Please." was all Draco could manage to let out.
"…the only way we can stop it completely…" she let out a small sigh, more tears rolling rapidly down her cheeks.
"Please..don't."
"I have to." Hermione began to cry more. She finally turned around to face him once more.
"Hermione, please..." Draco cried. "Please don't do this."
She looked deep into his eyes and could see the hurt in them and knew it was real…his pain…was real.
"…The only way we can completely stop it from happening again..is-----"
"HERMIONE!" came a small voice from the distance. It was Ginny and at the very sound of her voice…it instantly pulled Hermione back and she snapped back to reality.
END OF HERMIONE'S VISION
"Hermione?" Ginny called again. "What happened? Are you okay?"
Hermione open her eyes only to fine she was lying on her bedroom floor. "Ummmm..I..I think so." Hermione could feel herself shaking slightly, feeling the tears still fresh in her eyes.
"What happened?" Ginny asked once more, kneeling at Hermione's side.
"I had a vision." Hermione slowly sat up. "…Of me and Draco, although I haven't the slightest clue on what we were going on about." She began rubbing her head as she completely got up off the floor, Ginny still kneeling beside her. "Although..I think I would have found out if only I wasn't drawn back to reality by someone's voice." Hermione laughed as she looked down at Ginny.
Ginny frowned. "Opps." She giggled.
"Well what else did you see?" Ginny asked, even more concern could be heard in her voice than before. She quickly got up of the floor and followed after Hermione into the bathroom. Hermione stared at herself in the mirror for a few seconds and quickly splashed water on her face.
"It's really hard to explain." she said, quickly wiping her face and heading back into her room before Draco could hear them talking. Ginny walked in and Hermione shut the door behind her, leaning her back against it. "Well…" Hermione began as Ginny took a seat on Hermione's bed.
"We were fighting. Something about….how I found a way to change everything from happening again. But before I could tell him…mind you …it seemed like I really didn't want to say it…he knew what I was going to say before hand."
"Wow!" Ginny stared across the room at Hermione. "You have it rough… don't you?"
"I..I just dunno what to do." Hermione slid down to the floor, her back still up against her bedroom door. "I mean..the look on his face…it was horrible. I was hurting him and you could see it, Gin." Hermione buried her face in her knees and began to cry.
"OH! Mione!" Ginny stood up and reached out a hand...although she was still on the other side of Hermione's room. "Don't…don't cry, Mione." Ginny let down her hand and walked over to Hermione.
"No! You don't understand." Hermione looked up just in time to see Ginny kneeling down in front of her. "It was a vision which means…naturally.." she broke off. She wiped the tears from her eyes. "…naturally it will come true…as to when..I'm not sure. But I know that it will and when it does.." Hermione broke off again.
"I saw it once in a vision. I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO SEE IT AGAIN!" Hermione shouted.
Just then there was a knock on the door. Startled, Hermione and Ginny both jumped up.
"W-w-who is it?" Hermione stuttered, trying to calm her pounding heart.
"Ummm..me." Draco called from the other side of the door. Hermione quickly opened it to find Draco standing there. He had his arm resting on the door post. He looked up just in time to find Hermione opening the door and gave her a smile.
"What's going on?" He asked, looking at Hermione and then shifting his gaze over to Ginny and back again.
No reply came.
"What's with all the candles?" Draco added, peering into Hermione's room.
"What's with all the questions?" Ginny, who stood behind Hermione, suddenly became on the defense. Hermione quickly shot her a look to stop and Ginny got the hint. She suddenly looked down feeling rather silly.
"I..think I need to talk to you." Draco told Hermione as he gave Ginny a weird look. "Is that alright?" He asked, turning his gaze back on Hermione. She nodded in agreement.
"OH, would you look at the time." Ginny practically shouted, making both Draco and Hermione jump a bit. She then pretended to look down at her wrist watch. Ginny then headed back into Hermione's room and gathered up her things, shoving them all in her school bag. "I best be off then." She laughed. "Oh yeah, Mione. Before I forget." She added hastily as she rummaged through her bag all while walking back up to Hermione and Draco.
"Here's that book I thought you should read. Just different ways to meditate."
She handed the book over to Hermione and Hermione took it. "Hope it helps."
"Thanks, Gin." Ginny nodded and smiled weakly. With that, she slipped past under Draco's arm, who was still standing in the doorway, and descended down the stairs and out the portrait hole.
Hermione held the book close to her chest, almost as if hugging it tight. "So…" she began, avoiding Draco's eyes.
"I just wanted to say----" Draco started.
"It's going to happen. I can feel it." Hermione's thoughts whispered inside her head. Draco stopped talking and gave her a weird look.
"What's going to happen? What can you feel?"
Still holding the book close to her, Hermione turned her gaze on Draco very abruptly. She then quickly looked away. "Note to self: Try not to think so loudly in font of Draco."
Draco's mouth fell open slightly. "Is there something you're not telling me?"
Hermione didn't reply. She continued to look away, anywhere but Draco.
"Fine." He added and with that Draco turned to leave but Hermione tried to stop him.
"Wait."
Draco turned back around to face Hermione again. "What?"
"Alright. I'm sorry. Okay?" Hermione turned her back to Draco and walked to the middle of her room and stop. She turned to face him once more. "It's not that I wanted to keep everything from you."
Draco finally moved into Hermione's room.
"It's just that…I'm already so confused. Trying to explain it to someone else…it just doesn't help matters at all."
"No. But you have no problem explaining it to Ginny. Do you?"
Draco turned to leave once more but suddenly stopped at the sound of Hermione's voice. "Fine. Okay. You're right. I was telling Ginny but it's only because I don't want to hurt you."
Draco stood still and never turned around to face her. "Yeah..and?"
"And I think you have a right to know…even if I'm not exactly ready or if I really don't understand it myself."
Draco didn't reply. He slowly turned to face Hermione.
Hermione looked away still clutching the book Ginny gave her tight. "I'm just scared, Draco."
Draco moved a little closer toward her. She continued to stare deeply at her bedroom floor. "What happened down in the dungeon...I'm not to sure but all I know is that it must have been like a vision. Only I could feel it this time. I was there when it was happening. It was so real. Harry turned to me and said I was bleeding…and then…when I looked down I saw it pouring out and I could feel the gun shot. I just screamed out but then something forced me back..and..and I realized Harry never told me that. I wasn't bleeding after all but I felt and saw it."
Draco moved closer and pulled Hermione into a hug.
"I know it sounds stupid, Draco but----"
"It doesn't sound stupid." Draco insured her, holding her close to him.
"Well as far as Trelawney goes…."
FLASHBACK
"…and that's about it. So.." Hermione, who sat on top of Trelawney's desk, had just finished telling Trelawney all about what happened in potions class. "..what exactly does that mean?"
"Hmmmm…" Trelawney thought for a second, rubbing her chin as she paced the floor of her class room. "I'm not quite sure at the moment."
"Do you think it really means anything at all?" Hermione continued to ask more questions.
"Its very possible, my dear. Anything is possible." Professor Trelawney finally stopped pacing, stopping in front of Hermione. "I think…it could possibly be another warning of some kind." She turned her back toward Hermione. "Perhaps.." she raised her pointer finger in the air as she continued to walk away from Hermione.
Trelawney then stopped and turned on her heal. "…Maybe its was something like your visions." She now looked directly into Hermione's eyes. "A memory of some sort. After all..from what you tell me about some of your visions..some you can tell are from the past, which if I may add, they seem to be memories of you past life and others are from the future, things you know will eventually come to be."
Hermione looked down at her feet as they dangled off Trelawney's desk.
"What's the matter, dear?" Professor Trelawney asked.
"It's just that…." Hermione's voice trailed off again. She looked back up at Trelawney. "I wish….I wish I didn't GET THESE STUPID VISION!"
"I know, dear. It's very frustrating." Trelawney continued. "But you have to understand…everything happens for a reason. Obviously something that happened in the past needs to be changed for whatever reason. For that, you were given a second chance to change things…you and Draco both."
"But you know as well as I do, Professor. Time is fading away. There really isn't much time left." Hermione finally stood up.
"Yes." Trelawney simply said, turning on her heal once more and began pacing back and forth. "But you mustn't give up hope. Not so soon...not yet. You will find away. I know it"
There was a bit of silence. Trelawney continued to pace the floor, rubbing her chin as she thought to herself and Hermione stood there, biting on her lower lip, thinking rather hard herself.
"Professor?" Hermione said after awhile.
"Yes?" Trelawney looked up in the direction of Hermione.
"I have been doing a lot of thinking…and…" she broke off. "Well." Hermione picked up fast again. "I think I may have thought of away after all."
"Well that's fantastic! What is it, dear?" Trelawney asked, walking back over to Hermione. Hermione made a worried face. "I thought about this long and hard, Professor. But…."
"But what, Miss Granger?"
END OF HERMIONE'S FLASHBACK
Hermione couldn't bare to possible continue telling Draco the rest. She was now sitting on her bed and looking down at the floor. She was still clutching the book tight for some reason. Draco on the other hand, was still standing in the middle of her room, his hands in his pickets.
"Well you obviously told Trelawney." Draco started. "So what's the plan?"
Hermione looked up at Draco. She didn't want to get to that part. She didn't want to even think about her plan. She didn't want to hurt him...not again...not after what she saw in her vision and knew it had to be coming.
"It was stupid really. She said it wouldn't have worked anyway." Hermione lied.
"Oh." Draco said, his gaze falling to floor.
"Don't worry about it. Really. It's alright. Besides there's something else that I need to tell you." Hermione continued. "Something important."
Draco looked back up. "Go on then."
Hermione then began to pace her bedroom floor once again. "Well. Before when I was talking to Ginny. I had another vision." She stopped pacing and sat back down on her bed and waited for him to say something but he didn't reply. "It as about us and we were fighting about something."
Draco listened intently.
"Only I have no idea why or about what for that matter but.." Hermione couldn't hold it in any longer. She began to cry, tears rolling down her cheeks."
Draco walked over to Hermione and sat down next to her on the bed. "What is it?"
"It was horrible, Draco." She got up. "And what makes it even more frightening is that I know it is going to happen for real. I know that but I don't want it to." Hermione walked away from him and over to her bedroom door, the book still in her hands.
She opened the door and walked out. Draco followed after her.
"I know what its like to be scared but we will find away to beat this, Hermione. Together." Draco told her.
Hermione didn't reply. She was now standing on the stairs and Draco was standing in the hallway, watching the back of her head. She began to wobble back and forth, the book loosening from her hand just a little.
"Hermione?" Draco called, still watching her.
"I'm fine." She whispered. Although she was indeed not fine at all. She began to wobble more and the book completely loosened from her grip. It began toppling over, making a small thud sound with each step as it came in contact.
"Hermione"
Hermione opened her mouth to scream but no sound came out. She began to collapse. Draco, who saw this coming, ran over to the stairs and caught Hermione.
She landed softly in his arms.
HERMIONE'S VISION
Pansy laughed evilly.
"Isn't it obvious, Hermione? You STOLE DRACO AWAY FROM ME! You see it started off as just a bet." Pansy started to pace back and forth in front of Draco and Hermione. "But I knew…I KNEW.. it would end as something more."
Pansy took a pause and stopped pacing.
She now stood right in front of Hermione. "It was then that I realized that you weren't just a bet anymore. You were the one who he chose. You were the one that he loves. I could see it in his eyes. Every time he looked at you or thought about you, his eyes were full of warmth and love. Not at all like the usually coldness." She took another pause and glared hard at Hermione. "Do you know what I would give just to have him look at me the way he looks at you? Do you know what I would do just to have him love me the way he loves you?"
"It seems as though my other plans to break you two apart blew up in my face. That's why I have to take more drastic measures. That's why I have to destroy the one thing he cares about more then anything else in the world. The one thing that stands in the way of him and I. YOU!"
She reached into her robes and pulled out a gun and pointed it straight at Hermione----
END OF HERMIONE'S VISION
Draco pulled away from Hermione. Hermione was lying on the stairs and Draco was hovering over her.
"Sorry I pulled away and broke the connection but I didn't want to see that. Not again." Hermione looked up at him. "I had to see it once. I don't want to have to see it again."
"Do you know what this means?" Hermione asked as she sat up a little.
"No, what?" Draco asked, helping Hermione up. She finished descending down the stairs, Draco following close behind. When she finally reached the bottom, Hermione quickly spun around to meet Draco coming down the stairs.
"Didn't you see who was holding the gun this time?"
"Yeah, it was Pansy." Draco answered, taking a seat in the arm chair.
"Right." Hermione started, passing the floor as she thought to herself. "Which means that something changed. Back then it wasn't Pansy… remember? It was Ginny who shot me."
Draco sat up straight and thought for a second. "Yeah, you're right but then…how did it change?"
"I dunno. That's what I'm trying to figure out." Hermione bit on her lower lip as she continued to pace back and forth… thinking. "Ummm.."
"OH! Wait. I think I got it." Hermione said, her back to Draco.
"What?"
She quickly turned on her heal to face him again. "I remember something about..umm…me and Harry. He told me that he loved me." At this Draco made a face and he fists tightened. "Which Ginny obviously didn't like. Umm..Pansy..she…she used that to get inside Ginny's head long ago and turned her against me. Therefore, it was Ginny who shot me."
Hermione paced back and forth in front of Draco.
"Yeah..and?" Draco asked, not fully getting the whole picture.
"Well." Hermione continued. "When I was talking to Ginny upstairs before… I told her about that whole thing with me and Harry. Which means-----"
"Which means Pansy can no longer get in Ginny's head that way." Draco finished for her.
"Right." Hermione picked up again. "Therefore, Ginny takes no part in it now and Pansy is the one that will carry it out. Or until she comes up with another plan to get to Ginny or finds someone else." Hermione frowned, making a worried face.
Draco stood up as Hermione turned her back to him.
"This isn't fair." Hermione could hear Draco behind her say. "Why does it have to end this way still?" Hermione didn't reply. "There's got to be away to stop it...I know that you changed it but it's still not fair"
"I know." She whispered as she closed her eyes and let out a sigh. She opened her mouth to talk once more but quickly closed it again, debating whether or not she should tell Draco. Hermione closed her eyes tighter as she bit on her lower lip. She could feel Draco moving closer to her with each step he took. "There is one way." Hermione whispered to Draco, her eyes still closed and her back still facing toward him.
Draco didn't seem to have heard. "I want to show you something, Hermione."
Hermione turned around to face Draco and saw him reaching in the pocket of his robes. He suddenly pulled out at small box and Hermione's mouth immediately dropped open. "Oh, Draco. You didn't."
"I know…" Draco suddenly kneeled down on one knee. "…I know that if people were to know about us that they wouldn't approve. Some people more then others. But, Hermione. I love you."
Hermione suddenly covered her mouth with both of her hands. This whole thing was overwhelming. For she knew what she had to do and now that Draco was kneeling down at her with a box which obviously contained a ring….it made things even harder for her.
"I don't care about anyone else. I care about you and I want to be with you." He looked up at her with his silvery-blue eyes. "So I'm here to ask you." His voice trailed off for a second. He opened the small box and Hermione let out a small gasp. "Would you, Hermione Granger, be my girlfriend?"
"Oh, Draco." Hermione couldn't get out the words she knew she had to say. Instead she just stood there looking down at Draco. "I..I dunno what to say." She lowered her hands to her sides finally.
"You don't have to say anything." He took her hand in his. "Just know that I love you." He slowly took the ring out of its box. The light casting a magical glow on it, it sparkled as Draco went to slip it on Hermione's ring finger. The ring had barely even touched Hermione's finger when images began to pour through.
HERMIONE'S VISION
"Oh my god!" Hermione repeated. Draco, who was still on the floor, took Hermione's ring finger and slipped the beautiful ring on finger. He then got up off the floor. He could see that Hermione had begun to cry as she held her hand up in front of her to view the ring that now lay upon her finger.
"Why are you crying?" Draco asked her.
"Because….its so beautiful." Hermione sobbed. Draco laughed and put his arm around her and gave a big hug.
END OF HERMIONE'S VISION
Hermione quickly pulled away her hand from Draco's grip before he could place the ring on her finger. "I'm sorry." was all Hermione could manage to mutter. "I'm so sorry, Draco. I can't." She began to back away from him. "I can't except this." A single tear escaped her eyes and gently rolled down her soft cheek. Followed by another.
"What?" a small whisper escaped Draco's lips. He got up slowly from the floor.
"I can't do this." Tears flowed from her eyes at the sound of her own voice. "I'm sorry. I can't be your girlfriend, Draco. I just can't." She turned away from him. Hermione couldn't possible bare to see the look of hurt on his face. More tears fell from her eyes as she continued. "I'm so.. so sorry. I really am."
Draco stood there facing Hermione's back as he stared down at his feet, speechless and on the verge of tears himself. (A/N: awwww and yeah don't be mad lol. Because I know some of you when you first started reading the "I can't except this." thing…you were like… "oh no she didn't…" so don't be mad. After all...this is a Hermione/Draco story.)
"I don't understand." The words finally found their way out. "Why are you doing this?" Draco almost shouted. He finally looked up at Hermione's back, his silvery-blue eyes lingering on her for a moment. "Don't you love me?" he whispered "I thought you loved me." She spun around quickly.
"I DO LOVE YOU, DRACO!" she pleaded. "I'm doing this…BECAUSE.. I love you." Draco's eyes continued to linger on her, burning deep into hers now. His gaze then fell back down toward the floor, expressing his sorrow and grief. "Don't you see what's happening?" Hermione waited for him to reply but it never came. "EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING AGAIN. DON'T YOU SEE IT?" More tears flooded her eyes and then gently rolled down her cheeks once more. "DON'T YOU SEE IT, DRACO?"
"Why is she doing this?" Draco couldn't help but to think. He continued to stare down at his feet, tears slowly forcing their way through but he refused to dare let them fall. "Do I really deserve this?"
"Yes, you do, Draco." That devious voice within his thoughts called out once more to him. "Its all your fault…you're the reason, you selfish bastard. You're the reason all this has happened. It's all your fault."
His hands balled into fists at his sides at his own thoughts. "Shut up!" He thought through clutching teeth.
"It's all your fault this had to happen. You did this to yourself. You're the reason. It was you and your selfish intentions that got you both killed."
"No!" Draco whispered to himself, trying to push all this thoughts away. His fists tightened but quickly loosened up as Hermione got closer to him. She suddenly fell into his arms and buried her face in his chest. He rested this chin on her head and held her close to him.
He finally let his tears fall as she began to speak once more. She pulled away from him. "I love you, Draco. You have to understand that that's why I'm doing this. I care about you and I don't want you to get hurt. So the only way we can stop it is if------"
"Stop!" Draco cried out. He turned his back toward Hermione and began to walk away slowly. "I don't want to hear this." He whispered. He knew exactly what she was going to say.
Hermione reached out a hand. "But---"
"LOOK! You said it yourself." Draco spun around to face Hermione, tears slowly beginning to form in his eyes again. "You told me…you told me that you changed it… just by the simple fact that you told Ginny ahead of time."
"You're right. I said I changed it. But, Draco. That's just a small fraction of the outcome. That's not going to change everything. It's still going to happen whether you or I want it to. It's still going to happen." Hermione finished almost in a shout, turning her back to Draco.
"Oh no... This is my vision. It's coming true."
Tears slowly rolled down her cheeks and she soon became blinded by more of them. "Its still going to happen.." she added in a whisper. "…and the only way.." she couldn't bring herself to say it but she knew she had to.
"Please" was all Draco could manage to let out.
"..the only way we can stop it completely.." she let out a small sigh, more tears rolling rapidly down her cheeks.
"Please…. don't."
"I have to." Hermione began to cry more. She finally turned around, facing him once more.
"Hermione, please." Draco cried. "Please. Don't do this."
She looked deep into his eyes and could see the hurt in them and know it was real…the pain… was real.
"..The only way we can stop this completely from happening again...is----" she swallowed hard.
"WHY DO YOU HAVE TO SAY IT! You act like we both don't already know what's coming. So if you really want this then just leave because I don't want to hear it."
"----is if we're not together." she finally let out, halfway ignoring him. (A/N: sorry for dragging that out. Lol.)
"You don't mean that."
"LOOK..OKAY! Maybe this is just the world's way of telling us it's not meant to be." That one sentence alone took a lot out of her. She didn't want to say it but she knew she had to. Hermione turned on her heal again and headed for the portrait hole.
"DON'T SAY THAT!" Draco couldn't help but to shout. "We were given a second chance...BECAUSE…we were meant to be together."
Hermione didn't reply. Instead she continued to approach the portrait hole.
"Hermione, please stop." he whispered softly.
She continued to ignore him and headed toward the portrait.
"Think about it, Hermione." He didn't want her to leave. He just wanted to be with her. "Think about it." He repeated, tying to keep her from leaving. She stopped in front of the portrait.
"You're right. We were given a second chance. But you think about it, Draco." She couldn't bring to herself to continue but she knew that this was what she had to do. Despite all the pain...she knew she had to. Hermione spun back around to face Draco again. "If we were really meant to be together then it wouldn't be happening again. It wouldn't have even happened in the first place. Think about it"
"Think about it." Hermione continued. "It started off with the bet and look where it got us. It got us killed, Draco. Therefore, we were not together. But if you hadn't made up that bet...it wouldn't have brought us closer together. Therefore…we would still not be together. Think about it." She wiped away her tears and quickly turned on her heal, leaving through the portrait.
"DAMN IT!" Draco shouted, punching the wall with his fist. He stared at the portrait hole…hoping and whishing that Hermione would come back in and yell 'surprise' as if it were some sick joke. But it never happened. He quickly turned his gaze over to his bloody knuckles and gave a small sigh.
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A/N: Ok so really don't be mad. You should know that things will get better. As they always do. Well that's it for now. I'll try to get you the next chapter asap. I would have posted this one sooner only I had to retype the whole thing over. Well hope you all enjoyed. Also, sorry if there are a lot of spelling mistakes. Please no flames…lol. Like I said. I'm really nervous for some reason.
