Chapter 5: Give Him A Chance

They arrived in front of the house and as soon as they got there Hermione gasped.

"Like it?" asked Draco.

Hermioned smiled and said, "I love it. So much better than the picture."

"Well come on. I'll show you the rest," said Draco.

He wanted to take her hand, but something inside told him not to. They stepped inside to a warm living room. Everything about it was completely inviting. He showed her around and they stopped in the library.

"This is your favorite room of course," said Draco.

Hermione's smile brightened even more.

"It's amazing!" said Hermione immediately scanning all the shelves. She pulled out a Muggle fiction novel to take with her… something of comfort to make her feel better.

Then they went into their bedroom. It was absolutely gorgeous done in silver and black and incredibly romantic. Except right now instead of feeling romantic it made Hermione sick to her stomach again.

"Are you ok?" asked Draco noticing her face.

"Yeah. Fine," said Hermione obviously completely lying.

"Ok," said Draco getting something out of the closet.

"No. That's a lie. I'm sorry but can I ask you to do something for me?" asked Hermione.

"Anything," said Draco turning to face her.

"Do you mind if we slept in separate bedrooms? You're kind of still a complete stranger to me," said Hermione.

Draco's face fell, "Yeah sure. I'll just go take the guest bedroom down the hall. You can stay here."

"What? No. I'm the difficult one. I'll go," said Hermione starting for the door.

Draco stopped her.

"It's fine. Besides maybe if you stayed in here it will spark your memory," said Draco.

"Thanks," said Hermione quietly.

Draco got a few of his things and left for the other bedroom. Hermione took a moment to go look at all the pictures on the walls and start to go through her own things. Absolutely nothing was familiar and she looked so happy in all of these photos, but why couldn't she feel the same way now? It was all too much… quietly she slipped away to the main fireplace and floo'd to Harry's without Draco even noticing.

Harry heard the roar of the fireplace and got up to see who it was.

"Hi," said Hermione quietly.

"Hermione," greeted Harry a little more stiffly than she would like.

"Do you mind if I stay here tonight?" asked Hermione.

"I guess so, but I really think you should stay in your own home. Staying here won't help anything. Did he hurt you or something?" asked Harry.

"No. Everything is fine it's just uncomfortable and I don't trust him at all," said Hermione.

"Why not?" asked Harry.

"Because I just don't ok! What's wrong with that? Where's Ginny?" asked Hermione trying to avoid the topic completely.

"Ginny stepped out for a minute, and you aren't going to avoid the topic of conversation so again I ask why don't you trust him?" asked Harry blocking the doorway.

"Because… because he's Draco Malfoy and a Death Eater! How can you ever trust someone who's a Death Eater?" asked Hermione.

"He's not one! He may have the mark but he's not a real Death Eater! We already told you this! He hates himself for even giving in to that in the first place and you should be discussing this with him and not me," said Harry.

"Well I don't want to talk to him. I just want to live my life the way I want to now," said Hermione.

"Hermione he's your husband and you haven't even given him the time of day to make it try and work!" said Harry getting more frustrated with her by the minute. When the day came that she did remember and she remembered Harry didn't force her to try and make it work she'd probably hex the life right out of him so he had to try even if she hated him now.

Hermione just stood there and glared at him.

"You know what I think? I think you're scared to death because you know it's all true and you know the minute you even try to let him in you'll fall in love with him. You're not giving up," said Harry.

"Just because you're Harry Potter doesn't mean you can force people to do things," said Hermione turning back to the fireplace.

Harry grabbed her arm to stop her.

"It's not because I'm Harry Potter. It's because I'm your best friend and I know everything will be a lot better if you just tried," said Harry.

Hermione didn't say anything.

"Please. For all of us, for him, for yourself, and for your child. If things honestly don't work after I've seen you try then maybe I'll think about letting you stay here, but not until then. Hermione Granger Malfoy would never give up," said Harry.

Hermione put her hand on her stomach again. She forgot about their child. She thought about Harry's words. He was unfortunately right. She was scared, and for what reason? She didn't really have any.

The fire roared to life again as Draco stepped out.

"Hermione! You left without telling me and you nearly gave me a heart attack!" said Draco.

"You left without telling him? Even by forgetting everything the Hermione I know still would never intentionally leave someone. Who are you?" asked Harry.

"I don't know! And that's the problem!" yelled Hermione.

"Well make an effort to find out!" said Harry as he stormed out of the room.

Hermione felt tears in her eyes. She kind of felt abandoned but then realized he spoke some truth. She looked at Draco and could see she was hurting him as well. Then Ginny walked in the room.

"Hermione I'm sorry Harry yelled at you like that. He shouldn't have done that, but he speaks the truth. I heard the whole thing," said Ginny, "Hey Draco, I'm just going to chat with Hermione and then I'll send her back. You can go ahead and go."

"Ok," said Draco as he turned around and left.

"Did you see the look in his eyes? The look of a man that loves you unconditionally and always will but is also hurting right now?" asked Ginny.

Hermione nodded.

"You loved Draco more than anything. Harry is right when he says if you just tried I'm sure you'd fall in love all over again and that's really lucky. Not many women if any at all have an opportunity like that to fall in love with their husband all over again. I mean marriage is great and all but everyone loves the excitement of a new love. Don't deny it," said Ginny smiling.

Hermione smiled back.

"Plus it's even better because you already know he loves you! You don't have to go through the drama of 'does he love me or not.' That takes the stress out of everything!" said Ginny now laughing.

"You make an interesting point," said Hermione.

"Good. Again, I'm sorry that Harry yelled at you like that. He really should have waited for me, but please give Draco a chance. You won't regret it," said Ginny.

"Ok," said Hermione.

"Promise me," said Ginny.

"There is no fighting this is there?" asked Hermione smiling.

"Absolutely not! I'm taking all the precautionary measures," said Ginny.

"Alright I promise," said Hermione.

"Good! Now go back to him. Give him a hug and say you're sorry," said Ginny.

"Ok Ginny I am not 5," said Hermione.

Ginny put her hands on her hips and looked at Hermione.

"Fine maybe I was acting like I was 5," said Hermione.

Ginny smiled and said, "Glad you admit it. I'll come see how you're doing later tomorrow."

"Thanks," said Hermione as she took a handful of floo powder.

Hermione stepped out of the fireplace and immediately noticed Draco with his head in his hands. Draco looked up at her and gave her a small smile.

"I'm sorry. They were right. I wasn't giving you a chance at all and that isn't like me, memory or not," said Hermione.

"It's ok. I can only imagine how it feels to be you right now and then when I think about it I'd probably be the same way only worse. I'm sorry if you feel like I'm pushing you too hard. I can try to back off more," said Draco.

"No. It's fine. You're hardly doing anything when I really think about it. You're just trying to make me happy and I'm being difficult. You should probably be trying harder to help me remember," said Hermione.

"What do you need me to do?" asked Draco.

"I'll let you know when I think about it," said Hermione.

Draco smiled and walked over to her, gently pulling her into his arms. He felt Hermione stiffen but then relax a little and let herself hug her back.

"I need to tell you something and I don't mean to freak you out," said Draco still holding her, "I love you. And you don't have to say it back I just want you to know how much I love you and I always will."

Hermione stepped out of his arms, smiled, and said, "Thanks for not giving up on me. I'll try to be better. And nicer."

"Well I think we've had enough adventure for one day I'm going to go to bed if you don't mind. I'll see you in the morning," said Draco.

"Ok," said Hermione, "Good night."

"Night Mione," said Draco as he left the room.

I think this chapter got a tad out of hand. Hope you didn't hate it haha. But good news Hermione gets a little better coming up and we're venturing into memories of how they got together and cute things they did. :)