The first cut is the Deepest.
AN: hey there! This is going to be my first FanFic so be forwarned I have no experience and this is something I have been piecing together bit by bit. And I am doing this my way but open to suggestions. I'm a big softie for Draco/Hermione stories.
Hermione's thoughts
Draco's thoughts
The first cut is the Deepest.
Standing by her little red Volkswagen, Hermione Granger was being torn in half.
She was leaving her home, her life and her love.
Looking up to the only place she could truly call home was peering down on her, standing alone and proud.
She hoped she could make her presence mirror that someday.
She slumped against her car with her keys in her hand, she was not going on the Hogwarts express like every other student, for her she had said her goodbyes already and
was driving out of their lives.
It was simpler, it was less heart wrenching.
She looked up and a solitary figure was making his way towards her.
Draco strode over the damp grass to the gates of Hogwarts to her.
She was his everything and he loved her.
She wasn't the only one who was being torn in two.
"This is the last box." Draco opened the back door and crammed the box of memories and trinkets in alongside a very stressed out Crookshanks.
Hermione stared at the ground. This hurt so much but she was the one who had made this decision.
She wanted a life, an adventure, one where she, herself and stood up to the world on two solid feet without a single safety rail.
It was her turn to make her mark.
"How I'm ever going to get all this into my new place I don't know. I have so much random stuff I just can't bear to throw away."
She peered into the backseat and there among her cat and many crammed in clothing bags was her ballerina jewelry box made of a half chopped up Barbie doll and a wooden box her father and little brother Nick had made for her 15th birthday and the snoopy plush Harry had brought for her as a bribe for help on his Transfiguration test and the countless pictures of her, the 'trio' of her Draco.
"So this is it then" Draco looked into her caramel swirls and began to tremble.
Please don't loose it, if you do I'll fall apart.
"Yeah, I'm off and your going on the express."
Why. Cant she see were meant to be?
She put her hand up to his faced and brushed away the falling tear.
"Please baby, Don't cry I can't stand to see you hurt, I love you."
O merlin please make this stop.
"Then if you love me let me be with you. Hermione your everything to me and your walking away and I'm letting you"
He took her hand.
"We've been through this. Every graduate is off to start a life, we need to stand on our own two feet and I can't do that with you. I have to do this myself…I need to do this myself."
"Then at least let me have a name, a place…something."
"I can't. You'd only come and look for me and we can't do that. I know you Draco Malfoy."
She looked into his eyes and her heart broke. The deep shimmering silver pools were becoming grey and clouded.
The eyes- A Malfoy trait that showed the real emotion behind that usual blank unreadable face.
He drew her hand up to his chest and through gritted teeth held back the sobs that stuck in his throat.
"Please don't Leave me Hermione" Draco's walls were falling down fast.
"I love you too much to let you go and I know you love me. Please…Hermione please."
Hermione couldn't take anymore. They loved each other more than any other soul mates on this planet and she grabbed him and fell into his arms. Draco clung on for dear life she was slipping away and there was nothing he could do. They just cried and treasured these last few moments.
I Love You. I Love You. I Love You. I Love You.
She drew them apart for one last sweet, soft, perfect kiss.
She went up on tippy-toes and whispered in his ear "If you love me, you'll let me go."
Draco held her hands in his and slowly lowered them down "Hermione, If there is ever a chance of us again would you take it."
He stared at her hands.
"In a heartbeat."
"When you come back, and if I still crawl into your thoughts, give us that chance"
"I love you"
"And I'll always love you"
And with that, he dropped her hands.
She went to her car and started it up a broken girl, leaving her love in the in the shadows of the Hogwarts.