Chapter 13: Opposites Attract
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get the door open. I would have used a few spells on it, but I didn't have my wand. I could always fall out of the window again, but that's a little too risky seeing as I'm not a cat nor do I defy gravity in any way. So I went and sat down at Professor McGonnagal's desk and started rummaging around for anything. I found papers, potion bottles, everything but a key. I know she was trying to protect me, but I HAD to get out of here. Just when I had lost all hope a saw a little shiny object in the back corner of a drawer I had pulled out. It was a box. A wooden box with a tiny gold emblem on the side labeled "TT" is fancy writing. I recognized what it was right away. And it may have been just what I needed.
A time turner. I had borrowed one in my third year, but to unfortunate circumstance, I had to give it back. I'm sure she would have turned back in by now. This couldn't have been the same one, she's not that forgetful. It had to be an extra incase something went wrong. And believe me, something went wrong. A part of me still today thinks that she locked me in that room on purpose so I would find it. She later told me I was the only student of my generation that she had ever trusted with a Time Turner.
There was no time to waste. I had to change everything back before it was too late. I was scared to go back so far in time because I could be changing so many events just by stopping me from kissing Draco. And it wasn't a chance I was willing to take. I had to think of something else. I had to stop Draco from dying. That's all I cared about. So I decided to go back in time right before we were tied up and see where the Fakco hid our wands. Then when he came back, we would hide and then attack him. Genius.
I set the time turner to the right callobrations and off I went. I ended up near the stairs where they couldn't see me. I went back far enough to see myself get hit. It was more painful to watch it because I knew how it felt. Draco was over on the floor and I had gotten him so good that all the Fakco had to do was tie him up. Maybe I should have went back a little bit further to before I attacked the real Draco...No, this seemed like the right thing to do. It had to be. Ron needed to get what he deserved. plus I couldn't risk all three of them seeing me. This was the only way.
I saw him take both our wands and pocket them. Great, how am I supposed to get them? He started walking towards me. I started to panic. I did the only thing I could think of when he got close enough. I gathered all the energy and adrenaline I could muster and I punched him hard in the face. He fell the the fell and hit is head on the railing of the stairs on the way down--which knocked him out. I didn't realize I had that much power. I guess people do crazy things when they are in love. Or their lives are at stake. Or both.
I quickly got our wands out of his pockets and broke his in half...again...This boy is not meant to have a wand in his possession. I untied me and Draco and tried to revive us by slapping and shaking us. Draco was the first to stir.
"Hermione? What's going on?" he asked groggily. I couldn't let him figure out there was two of me. So I quickly ran and hid again.
When Draco was fully awake he looked around to find his imposter by the stairs knocked out and me in the chair next to him. He urged me to wake up and I finally did. I watched as we had the same conversation we had when we were tied up. It was so pretty watching it instead of living it. Don't get me wrong, I loved living it; but seeing the love in our eyes made it more meaningful. He finally kissed me. I knew that everything was going to be ok. Then Ron started to stir. I noticed the the polyjiuce potion had worn off. That's probably why he left--to go get the "Harry" potion he had made.
Draco and me..the other me...finally figured it out and petrified him. I heard them say that they were going to take him to the Headmaster. I now knew for sure that everything was going to be ok. I had to get back to my right time. As I was walking towards the door I noticed the my hands were fading, then my arms...oh no! I was disappearing! I guess since I was never brought to McGonnagal's office, therefore never using the time turner!
I don't remember much after that. The next thing I knew I was waking up to a new day. I was told that the professors had suspected a rift in time and went back to save me right before I fully disappeared. They gave me a whole lecture about the improper use of time travel and how I could have died. But they understood I was only trying to save ours lives and they forgave me and decided to keep it a secret. I love how they do that.
After that I went to find Draco. He was sitting by the fire reading a book. I sat across from him.
"That was very stupid of you." he said, not even looking up.
"I was trying to save your lif--"
"And I was trying to save yours!" he cut me off and snapped his book shut. "What if you had died! Do you know how scarey it was to watch you fade away as we were taking Ron to the headmaster? I didn't know what was happening and there was nothing I could do to stop it!" he said as he fell on his knees and hugged mine. "I would have rather died than have you to."
I started to cry. I didn't know what else to do. He loved me...he really did. I don't know how we turned out like this, but we did. I scooted myself down there with him and I held his head on my shoulders. All we wanted to do was save each other. And we did. In so many ways we saved each other.
"I never want to lose you, Hermione." he said. "I don't care what anyone thinks. You are the only person who has every been real with me and put me in my place when I was being an arrogant jerk. You are the only one who has tamed me."
He looked me in my eyes. His beautiful, luminous grey eyes--oh how I lost myself in them. He kissed me, gently, on the lips. His hands roaming my back, hugging me closer to him. I didn't ever want this moment to end. The moment of truth. In this moment, he was mine and I was his. No one could come between us. I wanted to be with him. We were lost in the moment. And I didn't want it to end.
It's been two years since this happened and I just felt I had to tell you. No one really understands how we ended up together and I thought that if I told you the whole story you would understand. Ron was sent to Azkaban and as far as I know, is still there. I really do feel sorry for what happened to him; but it was his jealousy that got the better of him. Harry understood and got back with Ginny, the real love of his life. They recently got married and found out that she is pregnant with their first child. Lucious didn't take too kindly to the whole muggle-born thing and kicked Draco out of the house when we finally told him that summer. He had taken some money out of his bank account beforehand so he would have some before his father completely cut him off. We moved in together that week, after he got a house, and we've basically lived happily ever after. Draco has always been a good guy corrupted by his home life and he just needed someone who cared enough about him to show him the light. I still don't understand how one year of us changed him, but I think it's because he wanted to be changed. And you won't do anything unless you want to. We were opposites. And opposites attract.
Author's Note: There you have it. I hope you all liked the story and even if you didn't, you can tell me why. I take well to critisizm. I know that in the books they will not end up together, but back when I started this, I believed that they would. That's why they call it fan fiction. Because we write what we would like to see happen. edit: ok maybe I don't like it. I like the idea of them not ending up together, but I couldn't quite figure out how to go about it...DANGIT! Now I have to write another alternate ending. j/k.j/k.j/k. maybe later.