The flakes of snow drifted lazily through the air, sometimes fluttering up with the breeze only to settle down once more as it drifted back towards the icy earth. A lone boy stood over a ledge staring out into the whitening night. With each passing moment he seemed to grow smaller and smaller and any passing by might have thought he would surely be engulfed by the deepening snow.
Harry had long since stopped shaking from his sobs as a growing void filled his core. He couldn't feel anything anymore. No pain, no sorrow and no cold. He just continued to breathe not knowing why. More than once the thought had crossed his mind to just take one step further. A life without Hermione was the equivalent to no life at all yet death he knew would erase all consciousness of that reality. He just couldn't do it.
After what seemed like days to him, a soft crunching beat began to sound behind him. Footsteps in the icy snow. They stopped behind him and after an awkward silence, he began to feel compelled to acknowledge them, if only to tell the offending individual to leave him to his sorrows. He slowly turned around and looked up from the ground. A young girl stood before him, clad in an emerald green skiing outfit, holding two cups of hot chocolate. The girl whom he felt he would never see again slowly and silently offered him one of her cups and moved alongside him to stare out over the ledge.
As if the void within him cracked, his soul filled with emotions and all over again he began to tear up. He sipped on his hot chocolate to help muffle his pain as he stood next to the girl of his dreams. Neither spoke nor looked at the other until their drinks had long turned cold.
"Harry…" the girl spoke, "I wanted you to know how deeply you've been hurting me. I feel as though I've lost the Harry I knew and I don't know why." She swallowed and closed her long lashed eyes. "If I've done something, then tell me. I just want things back to the way they were." The pain was evident in Hermione's voice as she continued through his silence. "I paid that girl to start that rumor and I watched your reaction from the hallway. How you couldn't see me, I'll never know, but I understand you don't really hate me. I just don't understand anything it seems anymore."
She took a shaky breath and looked away as Harry bit his lip, thinking of the words he thought he could say. Suddenly, the words the man in the store had said flooded back to his mind and he grabbed Hermione's hand and looked deeply into her face. "I love you Hermione." She looked sharply at him, her eyes wide and her breath caught in her throat. "I'm just a coward who couldn't say it until I thought I'd lost you forever. You were right to do that. You've shown me what's really important to me. You before all else. I was a fool then and still am, but I'm a fool in love, if you'd have me…" His eyes bore into her own searching for any response from the girl he found himself praying wasn't just a ghost wandering confused and alone in the falling snow after a terrible accident just a short ways down the mountain…
N/A: Okay guys. I actually did not bother reading most of your hate-reviews haha. It was surprising any of you bothered to leave one at all! I decided after a long time to go ahead and finish this one (I had it all mapped out to begin with). This was always part of the original storyline, but it was the perfect place to stop for a story that seemed to be dead. I am shocked that when killing off a main character, you all rose up out of the ashes to flame me….but then I guess people would rather criticize than anything else. It is only human after all. So for all you humans who got a little bit angry about it ending the way it did and for all those more-than-humans who actually had something constructive to say for the story and writing, here's another chapter. I'll start trying to pump these out again until they are finished. Enjoy!
PS. I am dropped the review quota but I would still appreciate all your thoughts! Remember, I can't get better or know what annoys you or even know what the heck I just did right until YOU tell me! So feel free to leave me a review or PM or something to give me a clue of what to do.