Twenty-one. Hermione
I rushed through the school as fast as I could, hoping no one would be awake to see me. As I pushed through the heavy front doors I slowed my pace slightly to catch my breath. The air had become bitterly cold and I could see it leaving my mouth and rising. I smiled; I never took notice of things like this anymore. As I followed the air rising high something in a high window caught my eye; a high window in the Gryffindor wing.

I squinted my eyes slightly but could not miss the unmistakable mass of red hair. I gasped. He had clearly seen me and as I watched, he left the window. Within minutes he would have woken Harry and came to see what I was doing. I sprinted towards the school gates and un-locked it with a spell McGonagall had shown the guys and I, in light of our late night adventures.

I kept up my speed all the way to the shed, stopping only a few feet away from it. My hands immediately flew to my wind swept hair but I did not care. I needed to get inside, fast.

I banged on the door to no reply. I waited for a while before attempting it again and this time, my knock was answered by a low growl.

Nineteen. Draco
Not now..!
I was curled up in my wolf form in the corner of the room; I found it more comfortable than when I was human. I hadn't slept properly the night before constantly thinking about Hermione. Just as I started drifting off there was a loud bang on the door. I had placed a spell over the shed so that only magical people could see it, and I was sure what was on the other side of that door could not be good.

I lowered myself to the floor and waiting for another knock, which came seconds later. There was no way of me escaping so I tried to scare them off instead. I let out a low growl and with no response I presumed they had left. But I was wrong. The door flung open and in the door way stood a hooded figure with a wand pointed my way.

I put my body lower to the floor, my growl turning into a bark. I could see the figure shaking though their wand hand was extremely steady. Fear washed over me and I instantly cowered to the floor slowly turning back into myself.

She removed the hood from her head and rushed to my side. I felt sick, I was sweating and I could not stop my body from shaking. Hermione started crying. She pulled me up into her and rocked as she hugged me. Eventually I calmed down. This was one of those moments where her feelings reflected in me four fold.

When I knew I could move without collapsing I put her head in my hands and began kissing away the tears that stubbornly carried on falling, although she knew all was fine now. Her face shimmered with tears and her eyes glistened from the moon light shining through a gap in the wall.

"Draco," she whispered. "Wh-what were you doing?" I smiled weakly at her.

"Becoming a deatheater requires the ability to be an anamagus." I said, simply. "I change to get food, and to sleep; it's more comfortable sleeping in that form."

She let out a held breath. "I thought, maybe, you had gone back to them." Another tear slid slowly down her face and her mouth trembled threatening to let out a sob. "I thought you were going to hurt me, that I was wrong about you." She started shaking and I couldn't bare looking at her; she looked so hurt although she knew the truth now.

"I could never do that," I whimpered as tears left my eyes to and I pulled her towards me. I could feel her body shaking in mine.

"I'm sorry Draco," she whispered into my chest. "I know you would never hurt me. I don't know what I was thinking." I squeezed her as my way of letting her know it was ok. I couldn't speak. I didn't think I could handle any more of our mixed feelings.

After a while she pulled herself away from me and smiled, wiping a tear of my cheek. "Draco Malfoy, crying?" She giggled, "I never thought I'd see the day."

"Are you sure?" I asked.

She looked down at her feet. "No, I knew I would." She smiled at me.

"How have you dealt with it all?" I asked after a while.

"With all what?" She asked confused.

"Well, everything," I answered. "All the things you've been through with Harry and Ron, being able to feel my feelings for all these years, having to share a school with a jerk like me." I smiled, charmingly.

"Harry and Ron were always there for me. They had gone through it to and possibly were worse off. I still haven't dealt with it and," she paused. "I had a voodoo doll of you in my dorm with I would stab every night before I went to bed."

"That's disturbing," I laughed. "But, seriously, I don't know how you did it. I would have killed me personally."

"Yes, well there were moments when it crossed my mind."

"I can't believe I missed out on five years of getting to know you. I wish things had turned out differently." I said, deep in thought of what could have been.

"Do you really?" She asked with a quizzical look.

"Well, yes don't you?"

"To have had things differently would mean to have changed you Draco, and I wouldn't want that." I looked at her shocked.

"What, even the obnoxious, cocky part of me?" I raised an eyebrow to her.

"That's the best part," she said with a smirk that rivalled mine as she pushed me back onto the floor playfully. She sat on top of me and tilted her head to the side as she looked at me.

"You're beautiful," I said. She smiled as she lent forward to kiss me and in a quick movement I turned us both over so that I was lying on her. She giggled. I pressed my lips against hers and savoured every minute of it, in these time you didn't know when your last moment would be. I would always remember her vanilla flavoured lip gloss and the way she would run her tongue over the roof of my mouth, leaving a tingling trail.

Suddenly she pulled away and pushed me up so that she could sit. "What's wrong?" I asked because of the worried look on her face.

"I heard someone." She said and let out a gasp.

"What is it?" I made my way to my wand.

Twenty-Two. Hermione
"There's someone out there, I just saw them walk past that gap

The clogs in my head shifted faster than ever. Whoever it was were spying on us through the gap, if it was a deatheater, both our lives were in danger.

"Maybe it's just a muggle being nosy," I whispered.

"No," he said anxiously. "I've put an anti-muggle spell on this place, they can't see it."

I jumped into a dark corner dragging Draco with me. The door started rattling, it was locked but was only made of wood so could easily be broken down. We stood there, in silence.

Both our wands were held out in front of us when the door went crashing to the ground to reveal two people. Their dark forms stood in the door way and the light outside shone upon us, but we could not see their faces. Both had wands pointing towards us, not us, towards Draco.

One stepped forward and before either of us could make a move had pulled Draco up and thrown him into a wall.

"Ron!" I screamed. I made to run to Draco's side but was held back by Harry who shook his head at me, ashamed.

"Harry I swear to God, if you don't let me go…" I sad through gritted teeth, but he cut me off.

"I can't believe you," he said so quietly I had to strain my ears to listen. He never stopped shaking his head, I could see his temper rising and his fists clenched.

"Harry." I pleaded, trying to get him to look at me. I spun round to face Ron who had Draco around the throat against the wall.

"Ah Weasel."

"I don't think you're in a position to be using petty nicknames at the moment Malfoy." He hissed back slamming Draco's head into the wall.

Draco shut his eyes and took a short intake of breath from the pain. When his eyes opened and he looked back at Ron they were flashing silver with anger and power.

"If I wanted to, I could kill you right now." Ron said into his ear, Draco laughed. "What are you laughing at!?" Ron screamed into Draco's face. "Im not the clumsy, no-so-good-at-magic person I was when you were at school."

"When I was at school? Weasel, you forget that was only a couple of months ago." Draco let out a choked laughed which wound Ron up even more. He brought his arm back but I grab it before he could hurt him.

"I will not let you do this!" I shouted at them all. "I will not stand here and let you fight."

"Hermione," Harry said. "Have you forgotten this guy killed Dumbledore? Do you not remember that? Ron saw you leave the castle and I was getting fed up of not knowing where you were going. So we come here to find you with him. Kissing him! The person that killed Dumbledore!" His body constricted and his fists continued to ball and un-ball.

"I know who he is Harry. Im not stupid!" I looked at Draco. "I know what he did, but I love him." Harry and Ron both looked at me, shocked. It was the only thing that I could think of doing in an attempt to save him.

"And I love her." Draco said from against the wall. Ron let go of his grip and Draco fell to the floor from his lack of breath. I went to run to him but Ron grabbed me.

"He's the reason why?" I looked at him confused. "It was him that made you change your mind about loving me?" He voice was full of anger and sadness.

"No one changed my mind Ron. My feelings changed. Don't try and blame this on Draco, it was your fault."

"Malfoy." Harry said through clenched teeth. "Stop. Calling. Him. Draco!"

"Why!?" I screamed, my temper rising. "It's his name Harry. Now whether you like it or not he's not bad, he's changed."

"Changed!?" Shouted Ron. "The only thing about him that's changed is the mark now on his arm!" He ripped Draco's top back to reveal the dark mark. Draco shuddered from the sight of it.

Ron laughed. "Scared of it are you?" He looked Draco in the face. "Ye, just like you're father; a lousy coward whose only loyalties lie to himself really. Scared of Voldemort are you? Hm, I suppose you should be. He won't be happy now you've been caught." He leant in close to Draco's face. "But it's not him you should be scared of now. You're going straight to the ministry. They've been waiting long enough to rid this world of you." He pulled Draco up and performed a spell to bind his arms.

"Harry, Ron, you can't do this. Please im begging you." Tears rolled down my face and I felt round for my wand. I look at Harry who had it in his hand.

"I can't believe you." He repeated, still shaking his head.

Twenty. Draco
I love you..!
I didn't even struggle against the invisible ropes. I knew there was no use. I just stared at Hermione.

"Please." She screamed hysterically. Harry pulled the door open and was hit suddenly by red light. Shouts emitted from outside the door and five deatheaters ran in to the shed.

The magical ropes become undone and I searched for my wand, ducking from spells which were shooting everywhere. It was no where, undoubtedly Ron had it.

Someone grabbed me from behind as I frantically looked round for Hermione, I needed to know she was ok. I spun my head round to see a deatheater.

"Wait to see what we've got in store for you son," he said with a mocking voice.

"Father you can't do this to me!" I shouted at him, but it was no use. He dragged me outside. I struggled against him but finally he put a spell on me which paralysed me body.

Tears slid down my face. I couldn't see her anywhere. What if she was dead? I heard a scream from near the door and opened my eyes wide in worry. A green light shot through the door sending two deatheaters flying through it and she emerged straight after, running down the hill after me.

My father stopped. "Hermione, go back!" I screamed frantically. He performed a spell which held us in some sort of shield which she could not penetrate. She screamed as she banged against it but to no avail.

"Ready?" He asked, I could see the smirk plastered on his face.

"I love you!" I screamed. I screamed it over and over as though it was the last time I would say it. What if it was the last time I would say it. Tears fell from my eyes as I watched her collapse to the floor still shouting.

"Draco, I love you too!" She also repeated it, as though afraid I could not hear her. But I could, and I always would.

"I'll always love you!" I shouted one last time.

The last thing I saw was her tear stained face screwed up as she sobbed out her final words, "I love you!"