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The songs used in this chapter (Bring Her Back – Human Nature, Over My Head – The Fray, If I Could Turn Back Time – Cher, 20 good Reasons - Thirsty Merc, Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall) are not mine they are just mine for the borrowing for this chapter :)
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 15
Moving On
Draco stared out of the kitchen window and watched Hermione once again.
Bring her back
Just bring her back to me
Bring her back
Just bring her back to me
It was a month and a half after the final battle had come and gone and still Hermione refused to move on.
Another night without you
Another hour to wonder why
I care so much about you
Draco sighed it was going to rain soon he could just sense it and no matter how much Hermione wanted to sit out there in the rain he was not going to let her do this to both of them.
Bring her back
Just bring her back to me
So I can hold her in my arms again
As he walked outside to talk to Hermione the radio began to play a song that used to be so familiar to Draco. Ever since he and Hermione had moved back into their house he had not turned that radio off save the deathly silence may kill him.
Hermione sat outside, she had become but a mere image of her old self a ghost in reality.
Hermione's face once again sunk into her palms as she began to cry once more.
I never knew
I never knew that everything was falling through
That everyone I knew was waiting on a queue
To turn and run when all I needed was the truth
But that's how it's got to be
It's coming down to nothing more than apathy
I'd rather run the other way than stay and see
The smoke and who's still standing when it clears
As Hermione cried she thought of everything that had happened to her over the last two months…
John found out she was not really Diane,
Then she found out that John was really Draco Malfoy,
The prophecy was then revealed to them,
And suddenly the war was upon them,
Where Ron turned out to be a traitor,
And Harry did not believe her and she told him this,
But the most devastating event for Hermione,
Was not the loss of her friends, the discovery of her enemy being the man she loved,
But that she had lost herself and did not know how to find the old Hermione.
"Where have I gone?" Hermione muttered to no one but herself.
My world was shattered I was torn apart
Like someone took a knife and drove it deep in my heart
You walked out that door I swore that I didn't care
But I lost everything darling then and there
Then to Hermione's astonishment she felt a pair of arms wrap around her and someone bury their face in the crevice of her neck.
"I don't know," Draco replied as her held her close "but I what her home soon."
Hermione smiled as she spun to face Draco, when Draco saw this he couldn't help but smile in return this was the first smile he had seen since right before Voldermort had attacked them.
Standing up Draco pulled Hermione up and whisked her inside moments before the rain that he had predicted began to fall.
Hermione stood by the kitchen window and watched the rain drench the backyard, as if it were washing everything away.
Hermione sighed, she needed to let some of the stress off it was not good for either of them, the doctors had told her numerous times that she had to let it go or it could go downhill further on…
Draco watched her and knew that she was slowly coming back to him, he smiled and turned the radio up a little and saw that she did not flinch on hearing the music as she had but a week ago.
So tell me baby,
Why should I let you go?
Give me 20 good reasons
I need to know, yeah
Give me 20 good reasons
Give me 20 good reasons
Give me 20 good reasons, to let you go.
Quietly Draco crept up behind Hermione and once he had successfully arrived behind her, he proceeded to wrap his arms around her waist and gently swayed to the music with Hermione as they both stared out the window.
"Hermione," Draco whispered into her ear, "what do you want to do tonight?" he asked her as he held onto her tight and hoped that she would stay like this and not fall back into her silent world that she had lived in.
Ever since Harry Potter, her supposed friend, the boy-who-lived had pushed her from his life and accused her of lying just moments after she had awoken.
Hermione had become reclusive; Draco knew she felt bad for ignoring then for two years while she had been pretending to be Diane, but he knew that she had to wake-up and move on soon otherwise she may never be the same woman that he fell in love with and Draco could not live with himself if the world were to loose that woman.
Her face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world
You can see she's a beautiful girl
She's a beautiful girl
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it
It makes you calm
She holds you captivated in her palm
"I think I need to visit someone," Hermione replied back.
Draco stood up suddenly, "Hermione are you sure about this?" he asked.
She looked up at him and when he looked into her eyes he knew that she was ready to close a few chapters in her life and move on.
"Ok love," he whispered as he kissed her on her forehead, "would you like me to come with you, or would you rather go alone?" he asked as he let her go.
She didn't move for a second considering his offer, "Draco I think I'd better do this myself but if I need your help I will come and get you ok" she replied and smiled for the second time that night, kissed him on the cheek and walked towards the fireplace as she was in no condition to apparate.
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When Hermione arrived she saw a light in the next door room but other than that the house appeared to be cloaked in darkness.
As she crept towards the door that led into the next room she paused for a moment when she heard voices, she almost cried they were so familiar after hearing them for years but also so foreign after being shut off from them for the last two and a half years that in itself was almost and eternity.
"Well here goes nothing," Hermione muttered to herself before she took a deep breath and opened the door.
"Oh my goodness, Hermione you're here" the young woman cried as she jumped from the table and ran to Hermione and engulfed her in a warm embrace.
Though all the warmth from her hug was soon gone once Hermione's eyes met with his.
Hermione quickly looked back at the young woman, "Ginny it is so good to see you" Hermione said as if she had rehearsed it a million times.
Ginny's smile quickly dimmed as she looked from Hermione to Harry and back again.
"Ok there must be something between the two of you? Otherwise I would have expected Hermione to be here every single day since the war especially when James was born. But when she did eventually arrive I would not expect her to appear like she is treading on thin water." Ginny exclaimed as her voice began to rise.
"Harry you have some explaining I understood why you may be angry with Ron we all are but Hermione, has done nothing but put her whole life on the line to save us all and instead of welcoming her back as a friend would you push her away. Why?" Ginny cried as she began to resemble Mrs. Weasley.
Harry looked at Ginny for a moment, before looking at Hermione.
"she's was more a death eater than Ron was she left us all and when they both went into the woods only she came out, Ginny." Harry yelled back.
"Oh and what Malfoy said has no relevance seeing as he also came out only moments before Hermione did." Ginny yelled back.
"Yes!" hollered Harry back as he turned and stormed from the room.
Once he had Hermione looked at Ginny who immediately went to comfort her.
"No Ginny it's alright." Hermione said with more confidence that she thought she had.
"I have to deal with this tonight I won't let it eat away at me any longer." Hermione said before hugging Ginny "oh and congratulations with James."
Once Hermione had arrived at the door to Harry's study she paused for a moment as she heard the sound of glass smashing. Taking yet another deep breath Hermione took the handle of the door, turned it and entered the room.
A/N: hey I know I'm sorry about the cliffy! Don't worry my 3 week period of crazy exams is over and the holidays are just around the corner! So I will hopefully update soon! Hope you enjoyed the chapter! And pretty pretty please take the moment to review it really makes my day people!
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Eddie