A/N: the bold italics are for Draco's Dream/Past
Italics are still for Ron
And regular is for people who are still alive speaking, this Chapter is in Draco's POV
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'The battlefield was thick with smoke, no one could see anything or anyone, some saw vague flashes of light when wands were fired but that was it. It was that battle the last the one with no return or regrets, just results. Harry had finally found all the Horcrux and destroyed all of them all he needed to do now was kill him.' Draco thought, 'I know Ron was at my right and Harry on his, and on Harry's right there was Neville, the rest were either dead or further back, for now it's just us four, I can remember Blaise fighting one of "our old mates" probably Goyle or some other idiot… Finally the smoke cleared and there was either a wizard or a witch for each of us, Neville had gotten my aunt Bellatrix, Ron had gotten McNair, I had gotten my father and Harry- Harry had gotten Voldemort. We were fighting our hardest but I remember now that Ron had killed McNair first, I had finished off " daddy dearest" the "Muggle way" 'cause I lost my wand… I remember smiling as I look up at Ron, but he wasn't smiling he ran, ran towards Harry, he had used himself as a human shield because, what I didn't notice then was that Harry had been paralyzed, by one of Voldemort's spells and couldn't say or do anything, so Ron, being Ron ran in front of Harry and protected him, Harry still couldn't move so I yelled the counter curse and attacked Voldemort, after that I moved because I could see Harry getting up then he did it he finished the job, he killed him. Voldemort had killed Ron with the first blast, so Harry killed him. Neville finished off Bellatrix right after. At first none of spoke, then about 10 minutes later Neville turned to me,'
"Draco… his ring… you need to- for Hermione…"
"Wha-what?" I was shaking because it was actually her, Hermione who dug me and Blaise out of the holes we were in with our families, I was in line to kill Dumbledore, and Blaise had to kill someone from the Golden Trio, I think it might have been Hermione actually. We didn't know what to do… Hermione brought both of us to Dumbledore, we didn't want to be on Potter's side but we didn't want to kill anybody just because they weren't on Voldy's either so we chose the former… I looked at Neville but then he looked down, I know what he meant and why, I needed to get Ron's wedding ring and bring it back to her, because the truth of it was, Harry and Ron had grown up as best friends, but once Hermione had sorted me and Blaise out… Ron and I were basically brothers, his family adopted me after I switched sides, my father had abandoned me, but my mum secretly gave huge portions of gold to me and the Weasley family, and my father took me off of his Will but stupidly kept mum on, and on her death/will I get everything… That's just to like my father, he tried to spread his hate as far as he could and it ended up blowing up in his face.
Despite all of that, the fact was Ron and I-- we just we were the kind of the same person where I was wealthy he had family, and that's all that really mattered…
Meanwhile after we found out about the prophecy Neville and Harry coexisted like Ron and I did. There were two reasons as to why Neville was asking me… The first was that Harry couldn't handle it, he saw it as his fault, and I don't blame him if that had been me, I would have felt the same. The Second was that it was just something that as guys we knew that someone needed to do it, but we agreed that it should be me, I really can't explain this better, so for that I'm sorry, but after a little while longer Harry spoke.
"Draco, Ron's w-wedding ring for Hermione…" he started crying, after that we all lost it.
"Bloody freaking hell!" I woke up, that bloody dream… I got up to get a glass of water and made some coffee, I knew I wouldn't be sleeping much, not after that. That dream always got worse for some reason, maybe it's guilt because I feel I might be taking Ron's place, or maybe it's just because I've been away for a month and a half since the anniversary It's five thirty, that's way too early to owl Hermione…
"No it's not mate. She's awake in England anyway…"
"Ron?" I looked around holy shit, I must still be dreaming
"Malfoy you big git you're not dreaming…"
"What're you doing here? And why are you wasting your time with me shouldn't you see Hermione?"
"I already have, as for "What am I doing here" I'm here to tell you to grow a bloody backbone, Draco you like to pretend that Hermione is the only one living in the past but the truth is your more in the past than she is."
"I-I dunno what you're talking about."
"Look Ginny got my message completely screwed up… But dun worry I'll fix it"
"You talk to Ginny too? And fix what? What do you need to fix?"
"Yeah I talk to Ginny, Kaylee too… You look after her pretty well mate…"
"You know aside from Blaise you are- were my best mate…"
"Yeah, thanks Draco… Listen, I have some things to sort out with you too."
"like what?"
"Like the real reason behind why I asked you to take care of the girls, and why I jumped in front of Harry with no fear and why, I'm going to ask you to be with Hermione for not just her sake but for yours…"
"Now, I know I dreaming, look Ron I know before I left I acted inappropriately but it won't ever happen again I promise."
"You idiot, I WANT you to go out with Hermione!"
" I am never drinking again."
"You're not drunk! UGH! You're even worse than Hermione! Listen Draco I know, I've always known! And I know the reason why you never turned on the Malfoy charm or anything while I was alive was because you wanted her to be happy, well mate I'm dead, I've been dead, it's not taking advantage of her anymore!"
"Look will you please just stop, I've been haunted by you enough, without you actually haunting me! Just Leave!"
"You'll regret this, I know that she loves you, I know that part of it was created only after I died but, I know that there was, before we actually got together there was a time and a place where she could have easily picked you over me, because there were many times, that you got her where I didn't. We were more or less opposites, where you two were practically the same person, and you knew that but you saw us together you even bailed me out of fights that we were having, because you knew that it would make her happy."
"Shut up! I'm not listening, and that's not even true you and I are practically the same not me and Hermione."
"Why is it so hard for you to admit you love Hermione? Is it because I'm the one whose calling you out or is it something else? And that's a load of Bullocks, we are similar in some ways but you and Hermione were cut from the same cloth."
"Ron- please just go away."
"I'm not going anywhere. We can do this the easy way or the hard way, your pick mate."
"And what exactly is the hard way?"
Ron sighed, "Hard way it is then, you should have set aside your Pride."
"Ron I just asked you what the hard way was I didn't mean- what the?"
"The hard way is back-tracking through all your memories of her, believe me it's not that hard when you're a ghost."
"That's it Ron, I'm taking some sleeping draft that's going to put me in a dreamless sleep so I won't see you, when I wake up I'm going to Blaise's house, as planned and we'll talk later."
Ron sighed again, "I'm Definitely going to have to do this the hard way…" I quickly drank the sleeping potion and when I woke up Blaise was standing over me and groaning that I shouldn't drink too much.
"Blaise I wasn't drinking, I had some sleeping potion because I-I saw Ron."
"Draco mate, that is not so re-assuring Ron, died."
"Blaise I know he died, look I had the dream again, and then when I woke up Ron was standing in my room, telling me I should go out with Hermione."
Blaise- is laughing at me, great my best mate who is alive is laughing at me. "You know, thanks Blaise really, you know who to make a guy feel like an in idiot."
"Look, Draco, frankly I don't think that was Ron, I think that was your, conscious, you've had a thing for Hermione Granger since… I can't even remember it was so long ago." I scowled at Blaise, I got over that thing with Hermione the second I knew that she was meant for, Ron, it was before she got engaged/pregnant. There was a look, there was a certain look between the two of them, and that is when I forced myself to give up on looking for a look like that especially from her, because it would never hit me, ever.
"I got over it."
"Mate, you still haven't gotten over it, but c'mon we're going to be late, and the kids want to see you."
"With the exception of Luca of course."
"Yeah, poor thing, ended up in Slytherin, that means he's stuck with Parkinson's daughter :shudder: my poor son."
I laughed, it's true Parkinson's family had actually never been involved, well intimately involved with Voldemort, so she was free to roam about, she finally got over me… (I slipped her a love potion specifically alone to have her attracted another guy… well Blaise and I. He being a healer and all was able to get the ingredients we needed)
"Don't worry, we can always have Pansy's "lovely little girl" change her mind to look for another..." I smirked
"Draco shut up about that I'd lose my license as a healer if anyone found out I made an illegal potion." Blaise is referring to a love potion we made so that we could get rid of the girl.
"It was during the war, no one would say anything…"
"True, True, I actually got a couple of letters from Luca, he hangs out with the Gryffindor's mostly. Especially Kaylee."
"Wow… a Slytherin and a Gryffindor who'd have thought?" I laughed, but then Blaise being Blaise of course had something to say about that.
"Actually if you count Hermione and you then they're the second couple."
"One day someone will hurt you and, I will know why." I retorted:deep sigh: I just came here to see his kids, it was stupid to tell him about Ron… really stupid. :deep sigh: "Let's go you git, I'd actually like to see your other son and your daughter. And Millie of course."
"Of course so, let's go."
"I'll see you when you get back."
"shut up." I really do not want to see Ron Weasley when I get back…
"What did I do?" Blaise asked a little confused
"What, oh sorry nothing just talking to myself…"
"Ok… well c'mon then."
"Right."
pop pop
"… Hard way, without a doubt."
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A/N: hey, sooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry!!!!!!! Yeah school sucks, and my mom is reprimanding me about college, so yeah well anyway next chapter, Ron is going to back-track through Draco's mind, and poor Draco everything is revealed… So I uh hope you enjoy please R+R!!!!!
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