The Grey In His Eyes! Dramoine Story (Draco & Hermione)

Chapter 21 ~ Stars

It was snowing again.

Not that Hermione was surprised in the slightest by that, but still, it was snowing. It was snowing harder than it had snowed in a long time. It was just irking her. Not even the weather seemed to change. She wasn't sure why she was standing outside in the first place, for it was just irritating her more. But perhaps it was because Draco was standing outside; and she needed to be where Draco was.

"Is a clear sky too damn much to ask?" she asked; though her words were harsh, her tone was soft.

He smirked and took a step closer to her. "Language, Granger".

"Fuck off" she grinned, rolling her eyes. "I just - I want to see the sun again, or the stars... or anything else. I haven't been able to see the stars, or anything, really for a very long time... Far too long of a time".

He studied her for a moment. "The sun and stars won't fix anything".

"They're beautiful" she argued. "And everyone needs a little beauty in a time like this; even in the strangest places".

"Yes, but they're pointless at the moment; just something to look at to distract us from the damn world we live in. Distractions are pointless... There's no meaning behind them except for that we look to them because we don't want to face our problems".

"We're not pointless" she murmured.

He arched an eyebrow. "What?"

"I mean - It's what we are. We're beautiful, we're a distraction... but we're not pointless; or at least I don't think we are," Hermione sighed.

Draco licked his top lip in concentration as if he too were pondering whether or not whatever they were was pointless or not. "In the scheme of things, we're pointless. There's no room for... passion or anything else in a time like this".

He had almost said 'love', but the word seemed so pointless, so insignificant. 'Love' was drowned out by the hate of the world, in his opinion. There was no point of even having it, when in the end it would be crushed until you were left with nothing but the scars to show the proof.

"There's room for that everywhere, Draco" she said quietly, cupping his face in her hands and tracing his cheekbones and jawline. "I - I just don't want to think the only thing good left in my life is pointless".

He met her gaze. "Fine, Granger. We're not pointless".

She smiled, but it was not a happy smile. It was a sad, bittersweet smile. "War - war has made me lose a lot of things. I've lost my innocence, my friends, my family, my morals, my faith, and everything else. I refuse to lose one more thing by deeming it as pointless. I won't lose this".

"We're always going to be the silver lining; you know that. It's not like I'm going to give up on this either. I wouldn't - I wouldn't want to give up on you, you know. Not when nothing else, and no one else, is left".

She wrapped her arms around his neck and stood on her tiptoes to place a light kiss on his lips. They thought that maybe it was pointless. But they also thought it didn't matter, and it wouldn't stop them.

He realized that sometimes beautiful things are insignificant... But the fact that they are insignificant doesn't make them any less beautiful.

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Pansy studied him curiously, as if he was an experiment. That was the way that Granger studied him at times, too. Only when Granger did it, it didn't bother him. He scowled at the other blonde. "Would you stop bloody looking at me? I'm just trying to drink my morning coffee so I can get through the day and your eyes burning holes in my skin is rather distracting".