Hidden Emotions
Chapter 19: In an Instant
A/n:Wow. Two years? Where the HELL have I been? To tell the truth, here. Well, this is the first time I've logged into in so long. I guess you guys deserve an update? I wouldn't blame ya if you hated me. Well, here's a next chapter. I've long since changed my email so if you need to get ahold of me try : I figured I need to finish this fic up so sadly, this will be the last chapter. TEARJERKER!

"Hermione, wait up." An anxious Draco followed behind his fiancé' in the pouring rain. Hermione clutched the silken flower to her chest as she picked up yet another one from the roots.

"Oh! There's a whole field of them!" Draco smiled at Hermione, the childish charm she possessed at the moment, made his stomach flutter. She always had that effect on him. Her now blue faded almost gray in the rain eyes, as she watched upon the miles of shimmering flowers. "They're so beautiful." She cooed to herself as she stroked another petal. Draco brushed the back of her head, soothing her wet hair.

"Like you." He mumbled, not expecting for her to hear him over the pouring rain. Draco pulled Hermione into a bear hug and in took the scent of the flowers and the sugar smell of her skin. "Let's go love, we have a wedding to plan." Hermione smiled back and brushed her lips over Draco's, She pulled away her smile soon fading into a frown.

"I'm sorry." She mumbled, her hand caressing his. Draco's gray eyes held a questioning look.

"What?" He asked softly, confused. Hermione's sad look remained statued. She repeated her words again as a small tear fell down her cheek, mixing with the rain as it fell to the ground.

"I'm sorry." She said, her voice rough with a sob choked in. "I'm sorry this is a dream Draco. I sacrificed everything for you. This is a dream." She pressed her finger to his chest, "Draco…Remember the real truth."

"This is for Harry!" She raised her wand "Diffindo!" She cast the splitting charm. "This is for Ron!" Again she looked him in the eyes. "Incenido!" The fire-lighting curse sprung out of her wand hitting him. "This is for our baby!….Curciuo!" She smirked at the withered form in front of her. "And This is for Draco…Avada-" She raised her wand one last time, then saw he was already dead. "You weren't worth it anyway…" She muttered. She heard a laugh behind her. "AVADA KEDVAR!" She yelled, turning around and shooting the killing curse at him.

The dark lord laughed deep within his throat. "Silly girl," He reflected her hit, and sent her spiraling to the ground with another hit of energy. Hermione groaned as her soft already bruised cheek, bled on the cold graveled concrete. "You're not going to win!" She whispered harshly and rose to her knee, wincing, wand in hand. "I will not let you win!" The dark lord, now amused at the half blood veela smirked. "Kill me then." With another loud shriek the words, "AVADA KEDVAR!" Shot out once more. Before the stream of bright green lighting hit Voldemort, he placed a reflection charm on where he was, appeared behind Hermione and laughed as he held her in his grip as the curse shot back, killing them both instantly.

Dumbledore shuffled through the rubble, sadly stroking the cheeks of the innocently fallen. And helping Ron, Draco, and Harry up and to consciousness. Draco was the last to wake, spitting blood out of his mouth as he in took a fresh breath of air. "Where's Hermione?" He asked in a shallow ragged voice, dry as the desert. A shadow fell on Dumbledore's face and he pointed over to where a batch of house elves kneeled around Hermione's body with the school nurse who was shaking her head sadly, tears shinning. Draco's steel colored eyes widened. "N-no.." He whispered to himself, his eye clenching as he fought to his feet despite his body's plea. "Don't leave me again! Hermione!" He shook her shoulders, tears starting to well in the corner's of his eyes. "Hermione.." His whisper of his name was hoarse, caught in the shallow of his mouth.

He stroked her hair, kissed her cold cheeks, pressed her pale hands into his warm palms.
Dumbledore watched from afar, as Snape and McGonagall lead Ron and Harry down to the infirmary. Dumbledore placed his hand on Draco's shoulder and tapped his wand on his head, knocking him out on top of Hermione's body. "She needs to rest in piece my son.." He said to himself as a lonely tear fell down his cheek.

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Draco awoke in the infirmary wrapped and bandaged into all sorts of places. He glanced around, at the four bed next to him. "Weasel, Potty, Hermione.." He did a mental checklist, then backed up when he got to the fourth bed where his better half should lay. He checked again. "Weasel, Potty…" He stopped this time and looked around, pushing his body to do so. "Mr. Malfoy. You need the rest. Lay down M'dear." Madam Pompfrey guided, as she walked to his bed. "It's been a long week for you, you need strength for tonight."

"Graduation can wait, Madam!" He barked and again searched for his love. Madam's eyes glazed over,
"Graduation is days away. I'm speaking of her funeral." Draco's head jerked to stare at the nurse. "Who's?" He asked slowly as if that one word was a long drawled out sentence. Days since the battle and he'd been in a coma, who's funeral had they been talking about. "Ms. Granger's of course." With that said, Draco fell into a silenced of startled shock.

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Graduation has come and gone, it had been painful enough without their head girl and loved by many Hermione Granger. The school was pained at the thought of her absence, and Harry's speech was no where as good as of what Hermione's could have been. Through out the steady crowd of graduates not one was more sad and dulled than her lover himself, Draco Malfoy. No one dared mentioned her name to his face, their relationship was out, their story like a tragedy written for a book, the daily prophet was even reporting the story from beginning to end. Draco didn't dare go near the Dormitory of the Heads, nothing of her was touched. He wanted everything to remain the same, he even paid the school to close off that section of the school, to leave it how it was forever for her memory to dance in.

Draco closed his eyes painfully at the closing of Dumbledore's words pronouncing them all graduated and full powered witches and wizards. He was empty, a precious hole protruding through his heart, feelings at if with each beat blood was spurting out of him and he was slowly loosing life. He dragged his feet through the early morning dewy grass, and up the steps of Hogwarts again. Snape watched his former pupil proceed back up the steps and walked to catch up with him. "Malfoy, you cannot stay here forever you know."

Draco quickly wiped the tears away anxiously as he heard Professor Snape's stern voice. "She is." He whispered back glancing up at the tower's where only a week earlier they had shared. Snape's voice softened. "I'm sorry Malfoy. Ms. Granger..she..was a wonderful person, a intelligent witch for her time. It's a terrible tragedy at her loss." He paused, "But she ended all the suffering, the dark lord is gone now. She has freed us all, I doubt she'd want us to remember her in vain." Draco let out a hushed sob as the tears threatened to gush out of his eyes.

"Just leave me be." He said softly and ran up into the castle and booked it to the Head Dormitories. Every step closer to the tower's brought another memory to haunt him, another smile she'll never give to him. With a shaky hand he opened the door to her bedroom, ignoring any request for a password of the sort. Upon entering the room, her scent immediately filled his nostrils, giving him a moment's peace. Her clothes were still folded neatly in the drawers, her brush laying on the vanity, her graduation robes pressed and ready for wearing, a valedictorian sash to wear around her. A small cry came from his throat as he touched the velvety fabric that would now never feel her body.

"Hermione.." He whispered into the robe and clutched it tight between his fingers before moving on to the next artifact that would bring him back. He walked slowly into the bedroom they shared together, still wallowing in its own perceive beauty. He couldn't take this anymore he crawled up into her bed and buried his head into her pillow, lingering in the scent of what she always smelled like. In between the curtain of tears he noticed a long strand of hair, laying on the pillow. He picked it up and let it lay in his hand shimmering in the frail light. "Oh Hermione.." He gritted between his teeth. "How could you leave like that!" He now yelled clenching his fist into the sheets. "And you called me selfish." He hissed in an almost normal tone. "I'd never leave you like this…twice." He added with a painful laugh at his sick joke. He curled up in her covers and closed his eyes, tears dried upon his cheeks.

"Draco." A soft voice echoed in the distance. "Draco. It's me." Through the fog a soft silhouette of an angelic Hermione came from the distance. Draco about collapsed as he ran and held Hermione in his arms, crying. "How could you do this to me!" He yelled into her chest. "You should of just let us all die! Atleast then I wouldn't be without you!" He hugged her tighter. "Do you know how this feels! I'm all alone 'Mione! All alone!"

Hermione smiled sadly, her eyes blanketed with sorrow. "My dear, Draco. I love you never forget that." She stroked his hair and planted a soft kiss on his forehead. Draco kissed her passionately, and tasted the saline from both of their tears.

"I don't want this to be the last time I hold you, Hermione." He whispered into her neck. Hermione tensed,

"We'll be together again, someday.." She whispered back, rubbing his back in comfort.

"I can't wait that long." he mumbled and pushed himself away from her, abruptly waking himself from the dream.

Draco's eyes fluttered open from the dream, determination on his face. "I'm not letting us be separated this long Hermione." He searched for his wand in his pocket and pointed it at his chest. Within moments the last breath Draco uttered, he used in these words, "I'm coming with you Hermione."

Draco was brought back to the foggy white room to see Hermione standing facing the other way. "Draco why.." She asked before Draco even got a chance to say something . "You threw your life away." She whispered.

"I am nothing without you Hermione. I told you I'd be back." Draco encircled his arms around her waist and pulled her into his chest. "I love you too much." Suddenly another couple joined them from the distant fog. "Hermione, Draco..Hello." A beautiful woman with glowing green eyes and long red hair smiled at them, at her side a handsome tall man with jet black hair stood mimicking her smile. Hermione's mouth fell open.

"Lilly and James Potter?"

James smirked, "In the flesh. Well, not really." He let out a small smile. Lilly rolled her eyes in 360 manner and shook off his cheap attempt to a joke. "The reason why we're here. We wanted to give you another chance."
Hermione and Draco looked at each other confused, "Another chance?"

"At life." James continued for his wife. They all exchanged looks. "You destroyed the evil one, the one we couldn't defeat, you risked your life, saving everyone with the ultimate power, love." Lilly smiled at the shocked expressions, she held on to James' hand and tossed a white shimmering power onto the couple and they disappeared.

Draco and Hermione awoke in each other's arms with killer headaches. Neither said a word just starred into each other's eyes and sunk into the soft silk comforter in the Head Girl's dormitory.

THE END
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Haha! I got you all you thought it was going to be a sad ending didn't you? I highly considered it, but hey.. Where would the fun be in that with all those angry reviews? None right! Well, tell me how you liked it!
Ps I really apologize for the crappy grammar ect, in the early chapters, my writing was not as good three years back. Forgive me! 3333

Meg