Wanted Memories

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Chapter 3: Heavenly Awakening

Hermione stood alone in the living room of the Burrow. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley left to go inform the Granger's about Hermione. Draco was lying on the couch across from the fireplace. Harry, Ron, the Twins and Ginny, who woke up during the time Draco fainted, were up stairs writing a letter to Dumbledore, McGonagall and Pomfrey asking to meet them in Hogsmeade to talk.

Hermione slowly walked over to Draco, sitting on the edge of the couch at Draco's side, and ran her fingers threw his hair. As she watched his sleeping form, she was engulfed in a dream-like trance.

Memory

It was a bright and a little too windy out, but of course Harry, Ron, and Draco said it was prefect weather for today's activity, Quidditch. Today was for the Quidditch Cup at Hogwarts, between Slytherin and Gryffindor and poor Hermione was at lose as to whom to cheer for. She soon decided that every time Gryffindor or Slytherin made a goal she would cheer. But she still hasn't figured out what to do when the game actually ended and the snitch was caught. That was her biggest problem. If Harry caught it, there would be an amazing party in the common room but she wanted to be with Draco to cheer him up. On the other hand, if Draco caught it, He would want to celebrate with her but then Harry would depressed and need cheering up. Sometimes it really sucks when your best friends' team is verse your boyfriend's team.

She sighed and was brought out of her thoughts when the Gryffindor stands erupted into cheers because they had just scored a point. It was now a tied game and all that was needed to win was the snitch. She turned her attention back to the game and just in time to see both Harry and Draco in a serious dive for the snitch. As they both got closer to the snitch, everyone in the stands was so quiet and focused on the two seekers. Even the rest of the players stopped playing and watched in suspense where they were on the field.

It was like Hermione was watching everything in slow motion, as Draco leaned his body flat against his broom and reached out and grasping the snitch tightly in his hand, finally winning a game for Slytherin against Gryffindor. Draco shot his broom straight up in the air, with a giant smile on his face and the snitch clutched tightly in his hand. The Slytherin side on the pitch erupted in screams of joy for the quidditch team as Draco joined his team in a well-deserved victory lap.

Hermione run down to the field and gave Harry and Ron a friendly hug and what seemed to be a sympathetic smiled, even if she was excited for Draco's win. When she saw Harry nod his head over towards Draco and smiled down at Hermione, she knew that both of them were ok and that she could go party her heart out with Draco. She hugged both of them quickly and went off to go find Madame Hooch. Once she talked things over with Madame Hooch, Hermione was able to get the game winning snitch for her. Taking out her wand, she froze the flying snitch and made it into a charm for a necklace she was going to give Draco as congratulations on the victory for Slytherin. After placing the now charmed snitch on a chain and in a small box, she performed a spell that wrapped the box in silver paper with a green bow on top.


Hermione smiled at the gift and made her way to the Head Common Room where she had a feeling that that's where Draco told the rest of the Slytherin to go for the victory party. As she drew close to their common room, she could hear the loud music and voices from inside. She looked up at the portrait that was guarded the Head's Common Room and gave it an amused smile. It seemed to fit them perfectly. It was a gorgeous portrait with the Hogwarts castle in the background, but in front of the castle was a dragon laying down peacefully with a lioness also laying down in front of it. The portrait also at times, Hermione noticed, seemed to reflex their moods. She gazed up at the portrait to see that the Dragon had a smug little smile on his face and was swinging his tail in time with the music. The Lioness would just look up at him from time to time and smiled proudly at him then shake her head in amusement.

Hermione smiled as the Dragon looked at both Hermione and the Lioness lovingly then proceeded to ask Hermione for the password. Hermione smiled at them and said, "Forbidden Love." She was taken back when the loud music hit her as soon as the portrait opened. She slowly made her way in and looked around to see if she could find her heroic boyfriend in all the masses that were in their common room. She was about to give up looking when a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist and lightly pulled her back into a well-defined chest. She smiled when he rested his head on her shoulder and kissed her check.

"Hey sweetie I didn't think you were gonna make it. I thought you would be with Harry and Ron trying your hardest to cheer them up." Draco said as he turned her around and started dancing with her as a slow song come blaring over the wizarding radio.

"I was going to do that but both Harry and Ron knew that I really wanted to go celebrate with you. Speaking of celebrating I have a gift for you. Do you think we could go to your room or mine? I want to give it to you in private." Hermione said, giving him a soft kiss.

Draco smiled at her and gently took her hand in his as he led her up the stairs into his room. He opened the door for her, waited for her to pass into the room and then proceeded to step in his room himself and closed the door behind him softly. Hermione was sitting on his bed, holding a small present in her hands and smiling at him. He walked over to her and sat down next to her. She held out the gift to him and smiled as he started to open it.

"I just got the idea for it at the end of the game while you were taking your victory lap with the rest of your team mates." Hermione said just as he was about to open the lid of the box. He gave her a perplexed look but shrugged it off and finally opening the lid. He looked inside the box, gasping and then looked up at Hermione.

"Is this what I think it is? Is this………..from today?" He said taking the necklace out from its box and held out to take a look at it. He glanced up at the one girl that saw passed the manly layers of the pureblooded arse that he acted like the last 5 years.

Smiling, she took the necklace from him, slipping it over his head and kissed him. "Yes, it's what you think it is and yes it's from today. After you came here, I went to Madame Hooch and asked if I could have the snitch that you caught. She said it was ok and then I made it into a charm for a necklace. I thought it would be nice to have the snitch that finally let you beat Harry and the Gryffindor Quidditch Team."

End Memory

Shaking her head to wake from her daze, Hermione looks down at Draco's neck and spies a gold chain around his neck that had gotten tucked under his shirt. She pulls on it to reveal the same necklace from the memory.

"Draco's snitch" She whispered, running her thumb over the snitch and seemed almost still in a daze.

Suddenly a hand grabs her hand around the necklace, pulling Hermione from the daze with a gasp. She looks down at Draco to see him awake and staring in her eyes. Ten minutes pass and neither of them have the will to look in any other direction. They couldn't help it but stare into each other's eyes. Love, happiness, and a little pain were the emotions that could be seen shining through Draco's eyes. Confusion, then a haze of recognition could be seen shining through Hermione's eyes. Draco brought his other hand, which was not clasped with her hand, to her cheek and lightly caressed it with the pad of his thumb. Hermione closed her eyes and leaned into his touch, knowing that in the back of her mind that this was right.

"I thought you were another horrible dream. That I'd wake up in my bed, calling your name and then sadly realize that you were never really there. But here you are, sitting right next to me………You use to do that every time I was stupid enough to get myself into the Hospital Wing at Hogwarts." Draco said softly, finally expressing what he's been feeling all this time.

He slowly sits up and places both hands on her checks. "Please tell me you remember something? Please tell me that there is something of my Hermione that I love?"

A.N. I know you people probably hate me for not updating. But you know I got caught up in my senior of high school and now that I'm going off to college, I'll probably be able to write more. I already have chapter 4, 5, and 6 written out, all I have to do is type them on my computer.