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Asgardian93 and L and Misa for Eternity: don't worry you haven't heard the last of me. I am still not entirely sure where this is going but from what I can see there is quite the journey left for our dear draco. And much more to read. Thanks for commenting and I am glad you like what you read so far! :D

Draco fell to his knees before the image, pressing his forehead against the glass as he fought back the tears that threatened to spill, refusing to reveal such weakness before the man he was supposed to kill.

"Well Draco? What do you see?"

"Nothing. Nothing that matters. Nothing that can happen or that is right." Pulling himself to his feet with the decision that all of this must just be a trick created to trip him up by that old fool he pushed the image aside to stand tall. "My decision stands. I won't join you." Turning from the wild rebel back into the petulant school boy he should still be if it wasn't for these times that made everyone age before their time he looked at the professor, "can I go now?"

Disappointed but still certain that all things would come to be as he hoped he nodded and watched the boy run off before taking his own turn before the mirror, watching the images of all he wanted battle for dominance in the glass. He had never been a man for whom a single dream was enough and he never would be. "He will come around," he muttered to no one in particular, "the mirror is very persuasive even if nothing else is."

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Draco waited behind the pillar for Professor Dumbledore to leave the room, hoping the old man was still too wrapped up in his own thoughts to be thinking much of the boy who had just fled, the image of her smiling, laughing in his arms playing over and over again in his head. He had to see it again, had to see if it was real. Reality and the image in the mirror blurred as the desire for all of that to be real took hold. Need for it to be real curling in the pit of his stomach making him cringe, nauseous as he analyzed all he had done and realized exactly how far he was from making that dream a reality.

Watching his headmaster exit the room of requirement he had to question for a moment what it was that he saw as Dumbledore's self-satisfied expression made it seem as though he had won whatever little game he had tried to play with Draco and the mirror instead of having the boy leave him in the dust while throwing everything he wanted back into his long bearded face.

Satisfied that the Professor was gone and would not be returning to catch him in the act Draco moved from his hiding spot to stand before the blank stone wall, closing his bright blue eyes. He pictured the door, one that would open only for him and the room containing the mirror where no one would be able to find him, allowing him to gaze at all it had to show him for as long as he desired without interruption. The haste to complete the vanishing cabinet for the Dark Lord was pushed aside in the waves of desire to just see her again, to feel her in his arms like he had as he looked at her in the glass. To feel his cheeks ache from smiling so much, from smiling more than he had in his entire life.

He breathed a sigh of relief as he stood before the mirror again, relief at finding her there in the glass, soft smile on her lips as she held out her hand to him as though she had just been waiting for him to return to her. She could not speak but the smile on her lips, lips he longed to kiss if only the glass would be more forgiving, said it all. He sank back to his knees before the mirror, palm pressed against the cool surface as the dream sensation of her fingers entwined with his flooded his senses along with the scent of perfume and old books and something that was simply belonging to her tickled his nose. Allowing himself to forget that this was anything but real, or that eventually he would have to return to life outside the walls of his sanctuary and her ghostly arms, back to a world where they hated each other and where she was nothing more than a Mudblood.

*Ok so the beginning stuff is taking longer than I thought it would but I really want to do this justice so bear with me, he sees Hermione in real life in the next chapter so things should start picking up soon. Thank you to everyone who favorite and alerted this story as well as to my dear reviewer!