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14. No One's End
Draco walked up to the door and pressed his ear to the wood.
"Did you really think it would be that easy!" a voice yelled, laughter shadowing in his voice. "I took the spell off, you can get up. Don't try anything tricky though." the voice warned.
"Who are you?" he heard a female voice bravely ask. Instantly Draco's breath caught in his throat. He could recognize that voice anywhere, Hermione's.
"Nothing of importance."
"Nothing of importance? NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE!" she yelled. "You've got me trapped inside your house and who you are is NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE!"
"Shut it shorty if you wanna see tomorrow!"
"Fuck you!" Draco heard something and he was afraid it was the sound of a smack.
Draco looked around to make sure he wasn't being watched. When he was sure he was alone he took out his wand and pointed it at the lock. "Alohamora." Draco whispered. He could ever so slightly hear an opening click.
Raising his wand higher Draco burst into the room.
"Draco!" he heard Hermione's cry of happiness but kept his eyes locked on the other bloke who too, had his wand up. Draco heard footsteps to the right come down a flight of stairs and heard a mumbled "Oh shit."
"Shut up, Barry!" the other guy yelled, to who Draco could only presume was the new member of the room.
"I didn't get myself in this mess so you can just shut yourself up!" Barry answered.
"Did too!"
"I just followed orders cuz you were gonna Crucio me!"
"Unforgivable spell coming into play now boys?" Draco asked, eyebrow quirked.
"I wasn't gonna curse nobody!" the other guy defended.
"Says you. Hermione, get over here." Draco ordered and Hermione was happy to comply.
"Stay!" the other guy said. Moving his wand from Draco, onto Hermione.
"Hermione, come!" Draco yelled, beckoning her with one hand.
"Nobody's moving or going anywhere, I got strict orders here!"
"Oh yeah, from who?" Draco asked. The bully Draco was making an appearance again.
"From--" Barry was about to answer, until the other guy interrupted.
"Oi! You answer no questions, got that?" he yelled.
"But I--"
"Stuff it!"
"You're so unfair, Larry, I hate you!" Draco rolled his eyes, this argument was so stupid and pointless. Like two little kids in a speech fight, presumably big brother against little brother. Draco took quick glances of both of them and realized they kinda did look alike. Their names were Barry and Larry apparently. Holding in a laugh Draco took that distracted moment as a chance to grab Hermione. He took her by the hand and was about to pull her towards him--
"Crucio!"
"DRACO!" Hermione yelled as Draco fell to the floor in agonizing pain. Shortly the spell was lifted.
"Weren't gonna curse 'nobody' huh?" Draco said from the floor.
"Only if I have to." Larry replied.
"You evil little bastard!" Hermione yelled at him.
"Stuff it shorty or I won't hesitate to Crucio you too!"
That did it. Draco lifted himself from the floor. "Stay away from Hermione!" he yelled.
The other man's face turned smug. "Never."
"Expeliramus!" Draco yelled. Larry's wand lifted from his hands into the air and Draco caught it. "Watcha gonna do now big man?"
His face turned pale. "Um..."
The door burst open. "Drop your wands on the floor and put your hands in the air! Draco, not you!" the person yelled as Draco was about to set the wands on the floor. There were two men and a women at the door wearing Auror uniforms.
"Are these the ones, Draco?" the women asked.
"These two." Draco pointed at Larry and Barry who's color had drained from their faces completely. "I'm not sure if they wrote the letters or not though."
"We'll question them then." the second male replied.
"Yes Henley, do." Draco said.
"Please." Hermione spoke up.
"What was that darling?" Draco asked as he wrapped his arms around her waist as the Aurors began taking care of Larry and Barry.
"You forgot to say please." Hermione said innocently.
"At a time like this all you can think about is my manners!"
Hermione smiled and shrugged. "Apparently." she pressed her lips against his.
"I came as soon as I heard!" the door opened again and there standing by the door frame was Todd.
"Not you again!" Draco yelled, annoyance coming back.
"Hermione are you alright?" he asked making his way over to her and taking her hand.
Draco smacked Todd's hand away from Hermione's. "She's fine now leave!" Draco gave him a look that could kill.
"I'll do no such thing!"
"Todd!" Barry yelled, trying to loosen himself from the imaginary ropes place upon him. "Todd!" Todd became sheepish as his name was being called. "Todd get your arse over here and explain it to them!"
"Barry, shut-up!" Larry yelled.
"If he doesn't explain, we're the one's going to Azkaban."
"For once in you're life you're right. Hey you prat get over here!" Larry yelled at Todd.
"Do I know you?" Todd replied.
"You little piece of crap, I'm your brother!" Larry wriggled in his binding.
"Holy sh--" Hermione was about to yell before Todd cut in.
"Am not!"
"ARE TOO!" Larry and Barry yelled at once.
"It was you're stupid plan anyway!" Barry yelled.
"Yeah! I warned you that you were just being mental going after her but NO! You just HAD to like HER! You just HAD to get her from HIM!" Larry roared.
"You little git!" Hermione yelled.
"Hermione I swear!" Todd began.
Immediately binding spells were put on Todd.
"You're coming with us." the women Auror began.
"But I didn't do anything! I was framed, I swear! HERMIONE!" he yelled as his voice echoed through the room as the Auror had taken him and apparated.
"We'll take these two." one of the two Aurors, Henley, said. "Meet you at the Minstry in a while Draco." Draco nodded and they left with Barry and Larry leaving Hermione and Draco alone.
"Woahh, freaky." Hermione said, breaking the silence.
Draco gave a soft chuckle. "Glad that's over anyway."
"Yeah, who would have thought it was Todd?"
Draco straightened up. "I did." he said confidently.
"Yeah right." Hermione rolled her eyes.
"I did!" Draco defended.
"Liar!"
"Okay, fine, you win! I didn't know!" Draco gave up.
"Ha ha!"
"Whatever," Draco shrugged "But there's one thing I could say, and never lie about it."
"And what's that?" Hermione asked.
Draco looked at her and smiled. "'I-love-you'."
Hermione smiled back. "I love you too."
Hand in hand they both left the house with a smile etched upon their lips. Now they could finally live life like they should have, like they did. Long before any of this had begun. Before they had gotten close to divorce. Back when they were happy being Draco and Hermione Malfoy, husband and wife.
Now the question was, what were they going to do now?
Whatever they did, whatever happened it was all going to be okay because, well, they had each other. No one could ever come between them.
No one.
A/N: Fin.
Yes, just about all of you were correct. Todd was behind it all, congrats to everybody who got it right! Did I trick anyone? Even for a second??
A big giant thank you to my beta Lily because she took part in making this story wonderful! For all those who liked this story I have to give credit for that to Lilly because she made it flow and made the writing fit perfectly together. Not to mention corrected all my errors. So thank you SOOOO much!!!!!!
Thank you everybody for your kind encouraging reviews! I hope you all read my next story titled "Breathe Me" which is another Draco Hermione fic and it should be posted on my profile.
There's a lot of questions that have been left un-answered involving the story, so if any of you want to leave me questions to answer, and I get enough, I'll post another chapter answering all of them... If I'm allowed to do that... Am I??... I think I am... Right?
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