Bound

Epilogue

A/N:- I am not physically capable of saying anything. Gonna write my notes at the end of the chapter.

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Hermione had never thought that she would be here.

She had never thought that she would be leaving Hogwarts with people that she had never thought likable. With people that she now freely calls her best friends.

School has ended; Hogwarts has ended. Their chance to be children has ended...but if they were being honest, they never had a childhood to begin with. A lunatic wanting to kill them had never been ideal.

They were waving goodbye now, waving goodbye to their friends who had promised to be at the trial, but also waving goodbye to the Hogwarts Express. The one thing that had given them the chance to go home.

But their home is a constant thing in their lives; Hogwarts will always be a constant thing in their lives, even if they won't spend a full year there again. It will always be in their hearts and minds; the common room that they had laughed in, the Great Hall that they had eaten and danced in, the classes that they had attended daily. Everything at Hogwarts was constant. A lifeline to grasp whenever they felt lost. A grasp of their long lost childhood.

Hermione sighed when the train disappeared.

The trial was within a week. A week left for them to get ready and do whatever they wanted to do before everything gets serious. A week left for them to be idiots in love. A week that they could spend every second of together.

A week at Malfoy Manor.

Draco had asked — asked might be exaggerating it, he may have forced — Hermione to go with him to Malfoy Manor so that they could spend the week together.

Narcissa had invited her over already, but Hermione hadn't had the time to consider her invite, with her getting everything ready for the trial and all.

She have been working hard for the trial, even though Draco had asked her to stop worrying about the trial, had told her that his mother was going to get everything ready, had told her that everything was going to be okay and right, but Hermione couldn't turn her back on him when all he had done this year was be perfect to and for her.

When all he had done was love her.

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"Because I love you."

"You do?"

"Of course, you idiot. I know that you love me as well."

"I do?"

"You most certainly do."

"Why are you so sure of yourself."

"Because you are going to say it back."

"I am?"

"Yes."

"What if I don't?"

"You will."

"What if I don't though?"

"No need to answer that question, you will say it back."

"Mhm?"

"Mhm."

"I love you too, you asshole."