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What Could Have Been

Hermione's POV

There are many things that could have been. I could have been a pure blood. I could have been popular. I could have been stunningly gorgeous. I could have been many things but the thing is I'm not. I'm not those things, and it's most likely for a reason. Still, that doesn't stop me from thinking those things. It doesn't stop me from thinking of what could have been.

If I had been pure blood I could have been with HIM for longer. I could have by passed all the pain I feel now, from all the names I have been called. I could have had everyone like me. And if I had been born into a pureblooded family I would most definitely have been a lot prettier than I am now.

Most importantly to me, if I were a pureblood, if I had been popular, if I had been prettier, is could have been held in his arms longer. I had only been held for such a little of time. His body heat radiating off his and onto me. It was gloriously heart-warming to have someone there for me. Alas, I must be grateful for what I had.

Within just a little while of us together he has to tell me that we couldn't be together. That we couldn't live as we did then. He had told me that people were after us. These people were willing to kill us because we were together. Is it a crime to love the enemy?

Now I sit alone in a dreary room watching the rain fall outside my window. There I think of what could have been. What would have happened if we hadn't been split by his heritage? What would have happened if he had refused to follow in his father's footsteps? What would have happened if he hadn't been killed by the Order's hand? What could-would have happened? There are too numerous directions in which the Fate's could have decided. Why, I must ask, did they choose to take him away from me? A simple question, yet, the answer is so complicated.

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Draco's POV

I watch her from above. Of course I think of what could have been. It pains me terribly to watch her waste her life away at that window, staring off into nothingness. What could have been if I had done various things? What could have happened if things had been different?

What could have happened if SHE was pure blooded? Would we have hit it off from the start? Would our parents have arranged a marriage? Would we have married anyway? Would we have had kids? Would our kids have kids? Would we have died old together? Would we have loved each other until the day we died? There are so many 'What Ifs'.

Could I have been of different blood? Why had the Gods and Goddesses cursed us to be of two different worlds? There must surely have been a reason.

Why had I have to tell her we couldn't be together when we had just become close? I did it to protect her but what could I have done to keep our pain from happening? To keep the dark hole that had been her from appearing? I had cried many a night from the loss of her presence around me. It seemed that she was the only one that kept me sane long enough to understand the feeling of love. When one loves another so much that they'd do anything for that person. That's what I did. I had to break her heart as much as it broke mine to keep her save.

What could've been if I had refused to become his follower? Would I still have lived longer? Would I have died somewhere else in a different time? What if I had stayed with her? Could I have had kids with her? Could I have watched little Hermione's and Draco's running around the house? Could I have helped this happen?

What would've happened if I hadn't died? Could I have lived long enough to see the children I could have had grow up? Then, eventually, have their own children? Could I have told bedtime stories of how it had been?

There are abundant 'Could have happens' but that doesn't change the fact that they are just that. COULD have happened.

As I observe her from high above I wonder if that's where she'll die. I wonder if she'll die from the loss of everyone close to her, namely me. I only hope that she come to me soon because I am depressed without her company in my arms.

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A/N: another one done. I know there are A LOT of questions but that's the only way I could have written this piece. And now I'm really REALLY sick of the words 'what could have been', 'Could have' and 'What could have happened'. Haha. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this fic so far. A bit hard to write because I haven't gotten very many reviews leaning to one side or the other. Please state your opinion on this fic! In other words…REVIEW!