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Summary: John Smith and Diane Chancer have their missions for their sides. Though falling in love and a special rose wasn't mentioned.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Chapter 12
Understandings
Hermione stood in the doorway with her arms crossed tightly across her chest.
"Draco Malfoy I will not ask you again" she said as she stalked over to him only stopping when her nose was my inches from his.
Draco stood there just staring at her for a second before he glanced over at Merlin behind Hermione, a gaze which Hermione quickly followed.
Merlin nodded that Draco could tell Hermione of his new findings, before ushering the pair back into the library and leaving them there.
"Draco," she said as he motioned for her to take a seat.
"What is happening? What has that prophesy got to do with us?" she asked as she collapsed into the couch next to him.
As Draco placed an arm around her, he knew that he didn't have long to explain. If what Merlin aid was true then after Voldermort saw the rose pendant on Hermione, well really Diane then he must have realised what was happening.
"The prophesy is about us" Draco began.
"We are the pair from the opposite sides," Draco said as he realised "I am from Voldermort's side the dark side and you are from the order or the 'light' side as you like to call yourselves." He said before looking at Hermione.
"I mean not that there is anything wrong with that," he said quickly after seeing the look on Hermione's face.
"That day when I gave you that rose pendant over two and a half years ago was the beginning of all this, see," he said as he pointed to the first line.
A single rose shall bring destruction
"That single rose is referring to the around your neck" he said as he gently removed the pendant from beneath her jumper.
A monster filled with evil.
"But what of the second line, and the monster that it talks of?" Hermione asked him in reply.
"Ahh," came a voice from the doorway. "I think that is where I can be of assistance" Merlin said before walking over and resuming his seat in the single chair.
"If you look at the next line" Merlin said as he read it out aloud.
After 50 years have come and passed
"There is an evil that is still present in your world that was created over 50 years ago." He said before pausing and waiting for the pair to catch up.
Though before he could continue any further Hermione answered the very question she had just asked.
"Voldermort, but how did the rose create him?" she asked Merlin.
Merlin smiled no wonder she was considered the greatest witch of her time, even he was humbled to be in her presence.
"You are not the first couple to be brought together through the power of the rose." Merlin began, "even I was once a pawn in the rose's game of matchmaking."
"but why is there a prophesy for us?" Draco quickly cut in.
Merlin smiled a weak smile, "when I was cast the master of the rose I happened to spy a young girl who had nothing to live for but the love of one man, the man as well had nothing to live for except the hope of true love so I used to rose to bring the pair together, thinking that in the process I would possible weaken the bloodline of Salazar Slytherin."
Before he continued on he looked up from his hands at the couple and saw that Hermione knew where this story was going unlike Draco.
"Voldermort's mother was a descendant of Salzar Slytherin and his birth happened in those same circumstances a little over fifty ye…"
Here she stopped mid sentence.
"No, you didn't did you?" she said as her eyes looked for some confirmation in his that this was all a lie, though they soon realised that it was not and that the greatest wizard of all time had been the cause her best friends parents and godfather's deaths.
The rose shall try once more
She sighed after looking at the next line of the prophesy.
"We are the next try aren't we." she said to Merlin.
Merlin looked over at Draco, "did you get around to telling her everything?" he asked.
Draco's only response was a slight smile and a shrug of his shoulders.
"Well I was sort of hoping that you would explain that to her as I still cannot exactly believe it myself."
Merlin smiled, "of course I can tell her."
10 minutes late Hermione awoke to see a panicked Draco.
"What happened?" she asked as Draco helped her back to her seat.
Merlin replied as it seemed Draco was focused right now on making sure Hermione was safe.
"Well my dear," he began "I am not completely shocked by you actions after what I just told you." After a quick glance at the look Hermione was giving him he quickly said "you fainted."
To right its wrongs
"So let me get this straight," Hermione began, "the entire fate of not only the whole muggle community and the fate of many wizards are on our shoulders. And you have known not only this but also that we were both deceiving each other the whole time."
Merlin smiled and replied with the same answer to the last 20 questions of hers that had all been the same "yes."
"But what if we don't want to do this or be a part of this?" Hermione asked on a spur of the moment.
Merlin knew this question would pop up eventually though he had expected it from the boy and not her. Instead the boy had been very quiet for over the last hour.
'Probably stuck in his own thoughts on this whole mess I've handed over to them' Merlin though to himself.
"Then you are not the young woman that I though you were and grew to respect." Merlin replied to her foolish question.
And bring together
"So is this all that the rose is capable of?" Draco asked Merlin once he had gotten away from his thoughts and back to the conversation between Hermione and Merlin.
"Of what?" Merlin replied.
"Bringing people together?" Draco responded quickly.
A pair from opposite sides
"Is it always people from opposite sides, which would not usually meet in any normal circumstances?" she quizzed him.
"well when the prophesy says 'opposite' sides," Merlin began "it does not mean that it has to be opposite side like in a war it can be different social classes, religions or having magic or not."
Draco smirked this was beginning to make sense to him.
'I must be going mad.' He though to himself.
To end the war that it has caused
"So you're saying that the rose was the cause of the Great War, how?" Draco asked Merlin.
"Well," began Merlin, "had there been no Voldermort created through the rose the war would have never begun in the first place basically."
"So basically the rose thinks that it is the cause of the Great War, right" Draco asked Merlin.
"yes." Was the only response needed from Merlin.
"There would have been a war eventually." Draco mumbled to himself, though Hermione heard him.
"Yes there would have been though there would still be a prophesy on how to end the war, we just have to accept it that we are the chosen ones this time." Hermione replied as she gently squeezed his and in support
Then Hermione turned to Merlin, "but what of the last line of the prophesy?"
And leave only undying love behind.
Merlin smiled he knew they would question this line, especially once he confirmed their suspicions.
Before he could reply though a woman ran into the room.
"Sweetie," she said to Merlin, which received a look from both Hermione and Draco.
"He has begun to prepare they attack within the hour."
Merlin suddenly stood and quickly ushered them all back to the bed room.
"I regret not being able to show you part of my time though I know that you would have enjoyed it." Merlin said to Merlin as he retrieved the single rose off the ground and handed it to the pair.
"Good luck," he said to them both.
Merlin then placing the book with the prophesy in a silk bag that would fit in her pocket and thrusting it into Hermione's hand.
Once Hermione had the bag, and they both held onto the rose Merlin muttered something under his breath and the room began to spin for Hermione and Draco.
Seconds later everything began to slow down and Hermione and Draco found themselves back, home.
Hermione quickly dropped the rose from her hand and took the bag over to the kitchen bench and emptied the contents onto it.
Draco meanwhile stayed and watched the rose turn to dust the moment it left Hermione's hands.
'This is the point of no return.' He though to himself, before walking into the kitchen to see what Hermione had found.
Once he walked in he saw that the bag and the contents of it were forgotten on the bench as Hermione's attention was diverted to the scene unfolding in the park down the hill from their house.
Draco and Hermione looked at each other.
"What do we do?" Hermione muttered as Draco wrapped his arms around her.
"We end this thing once and for all." He mumbled back as he snuggled into her hair trying to catch every detail about her so that no matter what happened he would never forget her.
Then a voice from the doorway replied "yes I think that would be a good idea."
A/N: yes a cliffy!! I know and I'm sorry though I had to save the war for the next chapter!! Hopefully it won't take me too long to write that chapter!! Though I'm not making any promises cos I'm moving schools :S so I'll try to write it as quickly as possible ok :)
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Eddie