Who Am I? (Dramione)

Chapter 3- Face To Face

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Chapter 3- Face To Face

Hermione POV

I couldn't help but feel the overwhelming sense of happiness and comfort as I stepped inside the Hogwarts library for the first time in 16 years. The rows and rows of books and the smell of parchment and old ageing books filled my nose and made me feel like I was home.

"I knew I'd find you here." I heard a familiar voice say behind me, one I hadn't heard in 16 years. It made me freeze in my spot for a minute or two as I was bombarded with memories and feelings that I had always kept deep and hidden. I took a deep breath before turning around, my chocolate brown eyes meeting his stormy grey ones for the first time, in what seemed like a lifetime. I'd managed to avoid him and his stare the whole night before at the feast.

He had a mixed look on his face that was a combination of anxiety, fear, relief, hurt and something else I couldn't quite put my finger on. We looked at each other both silent until his mouth started to turn up at the sides and turn into a slight smile.

"Hermione." He said my name in the same way I'd always loved, in a way that made my heart lurch. The same way he always had 16 years ago when he spoke to me. And I felt like I was 18 years old again and before I knew it my feet were moving and I was running. Running away from the memories, running away from the pain, running away from the feelings but most of all running away from him. I was running from him again, just like before.

"Hermione! HERMIONE WAIT!!" I heard him call after me. But I didn't stop or turn to see him or if he was coming after me. I didn't stop running till I was out of breath and realised I was outside the head mistresses office.

I whispered the password before stepping onto the bottom step and waited as they rose up till I was outside of her office door. I knocked quietly twice before hearing a calm voice from inside.

"Come in." She said and looked up and smiled when she saw it was me. "Good morning Hermione" She said in a kind voice.

"Good morning Professor McGonagall." I said smiling back at her.

" Hermione please call me Minerva you are not one of my students here anymore you are a staff member and a colleague."

"Okay I will try to remember that, Minerva." I said smiling. "Sometimes I wish I was a student again it seems much easier. I envy the students quiet drama free years in comparison to the ones my friends and I had. " I said deep in thought and realising to I was still breathing rather heavily.

"Hermione are you okay? You seem to be breathing very heavily?" A look of concern had graced her face as she looked at me quizzically.

"Yes I'm fine I was just.... Uh running from something I am not ready to face." I said looking into my lap and feeling like I was my 18 year old self sitting in this office.

Something caught my eye and I looked up at the two portrait's that hung on the wall beside Minerva's head. Professor Dumbledoor smiled kindly at me, even Professor Snape's eyes looked at me in a way that wasn't as hateful or cold as I'd remembered in my youth. Minerva followed where my eyes were looking before smiling at her old colleagues.

"Hermione what was it you were running from or was it a who?" She said clearly concerned but scared she was prying. I looked again at Professor Severus Snape before answering.

"It was a who.." I said nervously as I twisted my hands together.

"You don't have to tell me but who were you running away from?" She was looking more and more worried by the second and this time when I answered I didn't look at her, I couldn't look at her. Instead I stared at my old potions professor as I spoke.

"I was running away from him... From Draco. From Draco Malfoy." As I said it I watched Professor Snape's face twitch his eyes getting a bit of a spark to them and his mouth looked like it was starting to twitch up into a smile before he control it and turned it back into his usual scowl.

"You were running away from him, from Draco?" She said trying to sort through all the puzzle pieces in her head. I looked at Professor Dumbledoor who was looking at me smiling, his blue eyes were shinning and he looked like he knew it all and to be honest somehow he probably did. He'd always been good at that.

"Yes I was running from Draco." I hadn't spoke about Draco or any of that time to anyone in 16 years, if ever. "Draco and I were together once apon a time before I left. We fought together even if on different sides. He never wanted that life, you would know that wouldn't you Severus? To love a muggleborn, to go agenst everything your family had ever taught you." I said looking at him pleadingly hoping for understanding because he had known that kind of love I'd seen it in the memories of him and Lily Potter. He'd been a spy for her, he'd risked it all for Lily. I couldn't bare to look at my old head of house as I confessed my past feelings for the Slytherin prince, feelings that had never left.

"You loved Draco?" Snape said in the same raspy voice that didn't seem so cold and heartless anymore.

"Yes I did love Draco, I never stopped loving Draco. But I'm not a fool it would never have worked Lucius was going to Azkaban for who knew how long if not life, Narcissia was never going to think I was right for her son and she was just as much forced into that life as he was.  And who was I to make Draco walk away from the only family he'd have left regardless of the problems and issues. So I left, we left." I said and could feel a few tears escape and roll down my cheeks.

"Hermione your children, Scorpius, Athena and Orion are they.... Are they Draco's children?" Minerva said, her voice was wobbling a little and I looked up at her with tears pouring down my face.
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