Finding Who We Were Before

Please Come Home (Chapter 6)

It had been two days since I had seen Draco on the beach and ever since then I couldn't get him out of my head. So i decided this morning I would meet with him, just to hear him out. I know he wants me to go back with him but I just simply can't. Besides if I go back with him what kind of future would I even have.But I'm getting ahead of myself I haven't even sent him an owl yet.

Draco,

Meet me in town at the coffee shop on Main at noon. I'm finally ready to hear you out.

Hermione

I attached the letter to my owl and told her to find Draco. It wasn't even 20 minutes later when I had my response from him. So now I stand in my closet trying to decide what to wear. What does one wear to a coffee date with a man who she loved and no doesn't even really know. I looked at the clock and realized I had to leave, so I just put on a sundress that mom had picked up for me about two weeks ago, slid on some saddles and left.

I knew he was there before I could even see him. I could always sense when he was near. It was like our bodies were drawn to each other. It makes me remember the first time I ever saw him at Hogwarts. We were all standing waiting to enter the Great Hall to be sorted. I saw him standing with his friends and I couldn't take my eyes off of him. It wasn't until halfway through our first year he told me the feeling was mutual. The rest of our time at Hogwarts we had to hide our true feelings from the world. We had to say hateful things to and about each other to keep our cover. But the nights we met in our hidden room in the Library were some of the best nights of my life. It was in our 5th year that we discovered the Room of Requirements would become whatever we wanted it to be. At first it was our escape from the rest of the world, where we didn't have to hide our feelings. Then it became our sanctuary, we would spend most nights there holding on to each other like it was the last time we would ever be alone. Our sixth year is when we decided we wanted to be together forever. The night before Dumbledore died we had made a plan to run to the States and wait out the war. But when we awoke our dreams soon became nightmares and I was forced to grieve a relationship no one had ever known I had.  

And now I stand here staring at him sitting at a table in the corner of the coffee shop wondering how we can move forward for here. I was about to turn to leave when I felt his eyes on me and I knew no matter what I had to hear him out.

"Hermione" He spoke from across the room waving me over to him. It was as if my mind had no control over my body because before I knew it I was standing at his table.

"Draco," I spoke is a soft voice unsure what it would sound like if I spoke normally.

"Hermione, I'm really glad you reached out to me. We really need to talk about Hogwarts and you coming home. We also need to talk about us, Mia. I need you to come home with me. I can't live without you."

"Draco, I know we need to talk but you need to remember a lot has happened over the last year. I am a different person and so are you. You can't just expect things to go back to how they used to be."

" Don't you think I know that Mia! I still have nightmares about that night at the manor. Merlins Mia, I hate myself for not being able to save you from my Aunt. Your screams from that day still haunt me even right now as you sit across from me looking breathtakingly beautiful. I know during that time you had to force yourself to heal and that forced you into the arms of another but I don't care Mia. You are my forever, you always have been. If you don't want to go back, then we won't. I will stay here with you or move to the States like we had planned. I don't care where we are Mia, because wherever you are is my home. You are my home Mia, I love you so much."

Damn it! Why did he have to go and say that? Say the perfect thing to make me realize the words he spoke to me are the truth and something I had known all along. Ron was a patch to stop the bleeding. Yes I loved Ron, it was hard not to. He was a sweet guy who would do anything for the people that he loved. But deep down I always knew that somehow I would end up back with this man who just bared his soul to me. So without thinking or any hesitations I took Draco's hand. In that moment his eyes met mine and I said the only words that came to mind. "Then come home Drake, please come home." 

And with that declaration he swept me up into a kiss. When the kiss was over he looked at me and asked. "Mia where do you want to build this home?"