Disclaimer: Heck. I want an answer as to why I am still putting this part up. Though, I admit, I don't have the answer to myself. I would like to leave it blank but, it just doesn't feel right. Maybe I could just write the cursed word in every chapter I make. "Disclaimer."
A/n: Okay. First off, I am terribly sorry for the Canadian readers here. I made so many mistakes about the factual setting and everything. FORGIVE ME. I will just straighten things up now.
They are now in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Not Ontario.
Period.
By: Aningme
Chapter 40
Dilemma
It all happened to sudden.
One moment they were looking for each other, missing each other. And now, destiny pitied them, gave them mercy, letting them meet again…
A/n: I guess in this case, I am destiny. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
He slowly lifted her from the asphalt ground and to his car, gently laying her at the passenger's seat. He was so tired, but he felt like a newly regenerated man. He never felt so happy in his entire life. The woman he had loved was finally with him.
Shutting the door of his black convertible, he glanced at her and stroked her hair, watching her sleep. He noted how the dim light flows through her silky skin, her glowing hair. She was the most beautiful creature he had seen. And he would do anything to take care of her.
Lifting her off of his car into his arms, he carried her to his room. He walked up to his suite, opening the lights of his bedroom and laying her on the bed. He gently took off her jacket, and her shoes, tucking her in the sheets. He ordered up some alcohol medicine, cold water, and took a shower for a while.
Dressing up, he found his orders on a wheeled table.
He sat down beside her and lifted her torso to his lap. He supported her head with his arm and let her swallow the pill and drink a sip of water.
Afterwards, he opened two buttons of her button down shirt and placed a cold compress down her neck and on her brows.
He held her hand and felt her feverish heat steaming out of her. He was a little mad at her for letting herself get drunk like this. But then, he was overly worried. She moaned time after time, as he wiped her face with cold water. She was sleeping restless, and he couldn't leave her side.
Hours later, he found himself lying beside her, staring at her.
He was still holding her hand, waiting for her to wake. Thoughts had rummaged him, worn him out. He thought of reasons why she would let herself be drunk like this. He thought of things to say when she awakens. He thought of how things were for her in the past two years. He thought of things to tell her about his work and all. He thought of them, his love for her, if it was true. But all in all, he thought of asking her the question. The question that he had thought two years before. The question that he never thought he would be asking her right now.
Heck, fate had been playful with them for two years.
It felt like years since she had slept. Her head spun like a roller coaster. And she couldn't remember anything. She opened her eyes, but darkness still loomed before her.
It was, most probably, midnight, she deduced.
She tried to move, but her body felt heavy, she tried to picture where she was, but remembered she was in her room.
Or was she?
Slowly sitting up, she rubbed her eyes and pried them open, waiting for her irises to adjust with the darkness. She felt like floating in an abyss as she looked around the dark. She slowly ran her hands across the bed, making sure she was on steady ground. And by then, her splitting head ache came back to her.
Her hands gripped at her hair, her eyes shutting almost so abruptly as the shot of pain dawned her. She was drunk, she remembered. But what happened afterwards was still a big blank to her.
But after letting the pain reside for a while, she felt something down her legs.
She sat still for a moment, making sure she wasn't delusional. She sometimes get delusionalwhen she's drunk. Heck, she wasn't even sure if she was still drunk or if she was just in the phase of ahang over.
But when she felt it again, she was quite sure she was sober then.She swore she felt something move between her legs. She thought of snakes, but figured how would hotels have snakes? She thought of pillows. But how could pillows move?
There is a possible reason, Hermione. She talked to herself. She figured stress was taking its toll on her. Pillows can't move.
She reached for the bedside lamp and switched it on only to find…
"Oh." He said. "You're awake?"
Hermione only stared at him before she screamed.
Screaming her head off, she pushed away from him, startled and bewildered with his presence. She was falling down the edge of the bed, but with his reflexes, he grabbed her arm and tried to pull her. But, nice try though, he was a little too late. He just let himself be pulled by her.
Getting ahardfall on the carpeted floor, Draco Malfoy panted, his heart beating like hell as he lay on the floor. His head was resting on the side table-where he got a hit too-and was spinning like a roller coaster. It took him a full minute before he looked down in his arms and saw Hermione laying down on him, her face on his chest, herbody in between his legs.
She waspanting like hell too, and her body was shivering.
After a few seconds of silence, she cried.
"Hey," Heslowly wrapped his arms around her. "Hey,I didn't mean to scare you." He whispered.
But she couldn't stop. She just clasped at his shirt and cried, soaking him wet with her tears. She couldn't hold back her sobs-she was practically choking-and she didn't know what to think.
He's here... He's here... I found him...
As her sobs grew deeper, he just held her and wrapped his arms around her. They let themselves be blanketed in the calm silence, letting the night explain it all. The sounds of her cries seemed to echo beyond the walls of their chambers, but he held her tight, not letting her go.
"I thought..." She was trying to breathe slowly. "I thoughtI would never see you again…" She muttered and closed her eyes.
He smiled as he listened to her voice. He slowly lifted her face to him, lifting it by her chin. He slowly reached over her face and wiped her tears with his thumbs. He wanted to tell her, tell her everything. He wanted to tell her everything that had happened for the past days. The talks with Ron, the car incident of Relina, Ginny, his chase for her at the airport, his dream, and the revelation in the hospital. He wanted to tell her the stories, which seemed like a hundred years ago, but can't. He didn't know where to start. He felt like his tongue was tied and he couldn't help it but just stare at her.
He then found himself leaning over her and kissing her.
He slowly took her in, tasting her soft lips. He was gentle at first, afraid to hurt her. He was holding back the urgency he could feel under his skin. All he wanted was her, and nothing else.
She let him take her, feeling his lips getting hotter, getting desperate. Both of them needed the touch, both of them needed each other. They didn't know how the hell they got through those two years with out each other. And hell, they would not and never ever let each other go again.
"Merlin… May all the devils curse me…" Draco muttered in between breaths. He touched her cheeks and stared in her eyes, panting. Everything seemed to flow out of his mouth now. "It was a mistake leaving you like that… I couldn't face all of the risks of falling in love with you—"
Hermione shook her head, placing a finger on his lips. "Nothing matters now… nothing…" She took in a deep breath and held his hands. "You're back now, aren't you?"
He smiled at her and gently pecked her lips. "God, I'm sorry..."
Hermione just closed her eyes and rested her brows on his. "I don't care about what happened." Her tears were starting to roll in again. "I don't give a damn, Do you remember your last words? Before you left?"
He just stared at her and listened.
"You told me... you told me you love me." She whispered, her voice still trembling.
"Yes. And I do."
She smiled and opened her eyes, staring back at him. "I wasn't able to tell you before." She answered. "I love you too."
Draco smiled at that and kissed her again. For two years that was what he wanted most. For two years, that's what he was waiting for.
But then, after a while, Hermione stared at his face and noticed the bluing bruise growing on his jaw. "What happened to your face?" She suddenly said.
He just laughed. "You did that."
"I did?" She asked, holding his face. "I… I don't remember…"
He just smiled and sighed. "You were drunk on the streets awhile ago. I almost ran over you."
She furrowed her brows. "Was I?"
"Yeah. And you punched me."
She smiled. She never smiled like that for the past two years. "I'm sorry."
He chuckled and stroked her hair. "Nothing matters anymore, doesn't it?"
A/n: The end…
Is near…
Nope. Still not thinking of ending it NOW. There would be more chapters to come. But heck, only a few will do. The end is indeed coming near.
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