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Chapter 24 (SAD ENDING)
"Hermione!" Draco screamed.
Her body withered a few times then was still. Her hair covered her face so he couldn't see the emotion on her face. He couldn't see the pain. The hurt. The loss.
"No Hermione. Why? Why?" He asked as his knees buckled and he fell on the floor.
A sharp pain stabbed at his knees as he fell, but he didn't care. His heart hurt more. He was broken. He killed her. He destroyed her life. Imperious curse or not it was still him who killed her. He felt so guilty. It was all his fault. He should have tried harder to escape from Voldermort's hideout. If only he had tried just a little harder.
He started pounding his fists on the ground. All his fault. All his fault. It was all his fault. Blood ran down his knuckles. Spreading across his fingertips. Blood. His blood. Harder and harder he pounded. More and more blood leaked out. Crimson covered his fingertips. Red splattered across the ground, as though someone sprayed paint on the floor.
His sobs echoed throughout the room. Sounding so strange to his ears. How could Hermione be gone just like that? It was like she just vanished. Gone. Gone forever. Never coming back. Not coming back. He wouldn't see her again.
He looked at his hands. They looked like Hermione's. Just like Hermione's at the funeral. After she had pounded her fists against her parent's gravestone. He sobbed harder at this connection. He sobbed so much that his hands became a blur of crimson and white. A blur of skin and blood.
The death eaters that surrounded him sneered, but he didn't care. He wasn't worried about them. Not at all. He continued with his sobbing. Continued with his pounding. Continued with his breaking. His breaking of his heart.
He had to look at Hermione's face just one more time. No matter how contorted with pain her face was. He just had to look at the face of his angel. For one final time. He knew that he probably shouldn't look at her. The memory of her face would remain in his mind for all of eternity. Yet something compelled him to look at her.
Slowly he crawled on his throbbing knees over to her. He was still very weak from all of the curses and the hexes, but he still made it over there. Slowly he turned her limp body towards him. Cradling her head in his lap. He brushed away her hair and saw the face of his angel.
Her face was in a grimace. Her eyes closed shut tightly. Her mouth contorted in pain. Tears of pain were still wet on her cheeks. Yet she was still his angel. His broken angel.
Her eyes momentarily fluttered open and she smiled up at him. She was still alive!
"My love..." she choked out.
She loved him and she was dying. She loved him with all of her heart and he loved her with all of his. Yet they would never be together. She was going to die soon and no matter how hard he tried not to think about the fact that she was going to die... the thought just wouldn't go away. The thought of her dying in only a matter of minutes brought him to tears.
"I love you Hermione. I really love you. I love you with all my heart and I always will," Draco whispered to her, as the tears flowed down his cheeks.
He grasped her hand and held it up to his cheek. Letting the tears fall upon her fingers. Letting the blood on his knuckles flow to hers. Their heartbreak was like a song. A song that they knew very well and they sung together. The thousand-step journey would never be completed. Their hearts never mended. Their souls still broken. Yet they had one thing and that was their love for each other.
"Dying... We'll never be to... together," she managed to choke out.
He wanted to deny that they would never be together. He wanted to tell her that they would always be together. That she wasn't going to die. That everything would be fine. Yet he couldn't lie to her. They wouldn't be together. She was going to die and nothing would ever be fine. Nothing would ever be fine without her.
"No Hermione we will be together," he told her.
There was only one way that they could be together. There was only one way that they would be side-by-side and that was in death. To be together they would have to die together. To be together they would have to say goodbye to this world. They would pass the world by and move on to a different place. What that place was they did not know. They did not know what would await them in death, but for Draco death was the only option.
"We shall die together," he explained.
She did not argue with him. She knew that this was the only way. The only way he would ever be happy. The only way they could ever be together. Their hearts would never be mended, so what did this world have for them. It was much better just to say goodbye.
He lay down beside her. Held her hand. Held her body close to his. They held each other close and felt death consume them. They felt the warmth escape from their bodies. They were like candles with the flame extinguished. All light was gone. All warmth was gone. All that was left of their flame was the smoke. The remains of their bodies. What was left behind after the flame was blew out. That was what was left.
The Death Eaters had watched them die. They had seen how they held on to each other. How they smiled even with blood on their fists and dried tears on their cheeks. They still smiled. Smiled because they were together and that was the way it was going to be. Forever.
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