Please leave me a review on this chapter if you have any thoughts. I'm still waiting for my next epiphany for the next chapter lol. I wasn't sure how this one would turn out so your input is greatly appreciated. Remember I can handle criticism But that doesn't mean you can't tell me what a great writer I am :p

"Hermione!" she said brightly running up and hugging the witch "You're back early."

"Hermione! You forgot you-"he stopped when he looked at the group before him. Hermione had a very stern expression on her face the two boys were gaping at her and Ginny was smiling.

"Thank you." She said as she grabbed the robes from his hand and turned back to Ginny. "No what is it I specifically told you?"

"Mione," Ron started.

"Have you seen anything you can't explain?" Harry asked Hermione looked at Draco. She could see the uncertainty in his eyes.

"Do you have an explanation potter?" he asked Ginny sighed that answered her question.

"I guess if they are starting to see them we have to do it." Ginny mumbled

"See what, Ginny Weasley you explain to me this instant what is going on!"

"I can't explain it you would never believe me. I have to show you. Malfoy you had best come as well." She sighed before making her way into the Gryffindor common room. Hermione looked at Draco and he followed her through the door and up to the boy's dorms. "Harry you get the pensive I'm going to get the memories." She said before leaving the room.

"Memories?" Hermione asked.

"Please mione don't ask questions. Just remember you wanted it this way." Ron said as Harry brought his pensive to his trunk.

"We are doing this in 3 parts you will watch all three parts I don't care if you get mad upset uncomfortable or what you will both watch it all do you understand?" Ginny ask they both nodded. She dumped the first memory in the pensive. "You should start to remember more once you've finished this first batch." Ginny said the two looked at one another unsure before Hermione took his hand and leaned into the pensive. When she landed she was in the little room they had just left. She was sitting alone on the couch when the door opened behind her. She turned and her eyes lit up.

"I was wondering if you would be able to get free." She said smiling as she approached him. He picked her up kissed her and carried her over to the sofa where he sat with her in his lap.

"I've missed you," he whispered wrapping his arms around her waist and putting his forehead against hers.

"It's been an hour Draco you just saw me in potions." She laughed

"It's been an hour since I saw you but it's been since last night since I could truly be with you." He whispered huskily in her ear she giggled as he started kissing her neck. The memory faded and the two looked at each other curiously. Another memory began to form. It was the potions class room from last year. Snape was standing before them, she and Draco were paired and working on a potion.

"Granger," he said almost a little two sweetly.

"Malfoy?" she asked he handed her and ingredient and she put it in the potion. Pansy was making her way back from the supply closet and walked behind Hermione bumping into her and causing her to fall to the floor.

"Watch it Granger." She sneered. Hermione pulled herself from the floor; they noticed the apologetic look in Draco's eyes.

"Are you ok?" he whispered she nodded and continued to work. They were taken from one memory to another showing how their relationship had built its way to love and how they tried to act normal in front of everyone. They were watching the last memory when Hermione gripped Draco's hand tightly.

"I know what s coming next." She said tears in her eyes. The scene appeared before them just how she remembered. It was Christmas and they were sitting on the sofa each had a present in their laps. Hermione opened hers at Draco's prompting and revealed the beautiful emerald green outfit the real her was currently wearing. "Draco its beautiful." She said running her hand over the material. Real Draco pulled her against him. He seemed to have remembered what was coming next as well. The memory Draco opened his present it was a silver pocket watch with a dragon on the face.

"Hermione," he whispered before he kissed her. He pulled away and she could see the seriousness in his eyes.

"Draco what's wrong." She ask he sighed and put his head in his hands.

"I've been asked to return to the manor this weekend. He expects me to take it mione." He said barely audible she quickly moved into his lap and pulled his head to her chest.

"You know I'll still love you right?" she ask quietly. He sobbed against her chest. He clung to the girl afraid that if he let go she would be lost forever. "Draco?" she asks quietly. He looked up at her with a tear streaked face. "I love you."

"I love you too." He whispered. The couple was then pulled out of the pensive. Hermione collapsed onto Harry's bed as the memories from last year came flooding back.

"What do you remember?" Ginny ask as she watched her best friend.

"Everything up until the night I left." Draco sighed his hands were in his hair. Hermione reached her hand out to him and he walked over to her. He sat down next to her and wrapped his arm tightly and protectively around her waist.

"I do as well." She whispered

"The next part is going to be the worst for you." Harry said "You will watch the final portion no matter what your feelings are at the end of it. We promised the both of you. The couple nodded and harry dumped the second vial into the liquid. This time Draco was the first one in followed quickly by Hermione.

"I don't want to see anymore." She whispered. He held her in his arms as the memory formed before them they were back in the room of requirement. Hermione was sitting on the couch ringing her hands together and chewing on her bottom lip. The door behind her opened and Hermione stood.

"Draco!" she exclaimed running to him. "I was so worried when you told me they called you home I didn't think you were coming back." There were tears in her eyes and he wrapped his arms around her. They both noticed him wince in pain.

"Mione its ok," he whispered into her hair. "I'll never leave you." The real Draco and Hermione had turned to one another she could see the pain in his eyes.

"Draco your trembling." She said as she took hold of his hand and pulled him to the couch. When they sat down she looked at him closely. "They didn't-"she started.

"Find out about you? No." he answered she looked relieved but still unsure. "He tortured me Mione, right in front of my parents. My father did nothing of course. My mother wept." He whispered. She flung her arms around him and held him tight to her
"Oh Draco!" she cried. The real couple looked at one another his eyes were dark and scared. Before they could speak the memory faded and a new one appeared. They were sitting in the astronomy tower, he was crying and she had her arms wrapped around him.

"You can do this Draco," she said softly running her fingers though his hair. The real Hermione felt his hand tighten in hers.

"No – No I can't, he's going to kill me." Draco stammered she sighed and wrapped her arm around him before turning his head to look at her.

"If you can't do it for yourself do it for me. I can't lose you Draco." She said before kissing him.

"You want me to-"he stared at her in disbelief.

"I want you to stay alive. I want you to do whatever you need to do to come back to me." She said quietly. The scene faded and the couple now sat in the room of requirement again. He was refusing to look at her as she sat on the edge of the couch crying silently.

"I can't keep him out forever." Draco whispered "It's the only way." He finally turned to look at her. She reached her arm out to him like she had just done and he moved over to her wrapping her in his arms.

"I don't want to forget you." She whispered "You're the best thing that's ever happened to me Draco." He reached his hand up and wiped the tears from her eyes.

"I'll always love you Hermione, I'll prove it to you, and I'll come back." He said she curled up against his chest.

"You won't remember what you're coming back to." She said through tears. The real Hermione looked up at him tears in her eyes.

"You did come back." She whispered he smiled at her and kissed her forehead. They were pulled from the memory and landed back on Harry's bed. It was obvious to the other three that they had both been crying. Harry sighed and put the last memory in the pensive. Hermione's head was spinning. So many memories had come rushing back to her. She laid back on the bed her hand on her head.

"Are you ok?" Draco ask concern in his eyes. She nodded and sat back up. "Mione?"

"I'm ok Draco it's just a lot to process." She sighed.

"You have one more to see." Ginny said Hermione sighed and sat up. Draco led the way into the last memory.

They were sitting in the same room only this time they were joined by Harry Ron and Ginny.

"I need to ask you a favor." The Hermione in the memory ask.

"Not if it has to do with the ferret." Ron mumbled. Ginny smacked him upside the head.

"What do you need Mione?" Harry ask.

"I need you to obliviate us. We have selected the memories and set them off to a certain part of our minds. We need you to remove any and all memory of us together." Hermione sighed. She was holding Draco's hand tight.

"Mione are you sure?" Harry asked.

"I have to keep her safe Potter. I don't know what the battle will bring and I can't allow the dark lord to see them. He will kill her." He said trying to remain calm. "I need you to promise me you'll keep her safe." He said looking directly at harry who nodded.

"I promise Malfoy."

"Ginny," Hermione began pulling 3 vials from her pocket. "I need you to hide these. If by some miracle we manage to survive this I want you to show them to us." She took a breath "Only if we manage to come back together." She whispered.

"You mean?" Ron started.

"If I don't come back to her you can't show them to us." Draco said firmly. "That does not mean," Draco began but Hermione cut him off.

"That does not mean that anything that has happened this past summer will change Ronald. Just because I will have forgotten Draco…" she paused and took a deep breath "does not mean my feelings toward you will have changed. Do you understand?" she asked he nodded looking at the floor.

"Mione," Draco said she looked up at him and he touched the side of her face. "I will come back to you." He whispered before his kissed her.

"I'll be waiting." She smiled and turned to her friends. "Do it Harry, Ginny." She nodded to the two respectively. They held their wands up and the real Hermione turned away from the memory burying her head in his chest. She didn't want to relive it again, once was enough. He held the girl to him and she felt the last memory fading. When they were standing back in Harry's room she looked at her friends and at the man she loved. "I – I need a minute." She mumbled before running toward the bathroom.