Calming Flames

A Swift Goodbye

Hermione mutters softly, griping her bedsheets in a night sweat. "No... she didn't do it... it was us..." Her voice was hoarse and raspy. She jerks awake to Ginny shaking her. "Hey, I know we've all had a bad day, but you need to shut up." She said groggily, patting Hermione's head and shuffling back to her four-poster.

The next morning Hermione awakes to her corridor completely empty. She showers, walks down to the fireplace, and sets her books for OWLS retakes. She opens a book up and starts studying. Harry and Ron burst into the room from the portrait, gasping and gagging for air. She slowly looks up, with a puzzled face.
"What's up with you two?" She asks, standing up.
"Draco... gone... dementors... looking... for you..." Ron wheezed.
"WHAT?!" She yells, startling the pictures on the wall. She runs up to her corridor and grabs her trunk. "Why the hell would they be looking for me?" She mutters and Harry and Ron follow.

She starts cramming her robes and books into her trunk, folding them sloppily and quickly placing them into the trunk. She takes her wand in her hand and runs down the corridors steps. She glances outside to see dementors floating outside the building.
"Hermione... where are you gonna go?" Harry says, concerned.
"Hell if I know... I just need to find Draco." She blurts out, she immediately covers her mouth and shuts her eyes.
"Draco?" The two boys say in unison.
She nods meekly and continues packing the rest of her books.

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'Shit, shit, shit, SHIT' Draco thought to himself as he races toward the Forest. All he could think about was Hermione. He stops running and looks back. A small figure was coming toward him. He runs towards it to find his frizzy haired love.
"Why are they looking for us?" She says, gasping. He shrugs and wraps his arms around her placing her trunk down on the forest floor, and sitting down, setting her on his lap. She molds into his body and starts crying.
"She's dead Draco..." she sobs, "we killed her..."

He pulls her tighter to him, shushing her, and rocking her back and fourth. "I'm sorry... I should've just left the school with my family... you would've passed and probably be in the Ministry by now..." he sobs silently and continues to rock. She falls asleep watching the dementors patrol the grounds.

--

Ron looks over to Harry, "Draco? Really? Draco over me?" He asks and glances at the corridor floor, noticing the dementors outside we're starting to leave.
"You are kinda boring..." Harry blurts out.
"Hey!" Ron says laughing and punching him in the arm. "Asshole..."

"I hope she's okay..." Harry sighs, looking outside. Ron grunts as they walk into the Great Hall. Harry walks quickly to Ginny who smiles at him. He leans over and whispers something to her, her hands immediately cover her mouth and she stands up and hugs him. Ron can hear a faint "I'm so sorry..." from his sister.

Ron runs out of the Hall, racing down the corridor to the common room. He grabs his trunk and sloppily tosses his clothes and books in. He runs down the stairs and takes the passageway that Hermione took to get out. He whispers the passcode and the statue molded into a doorway.

--

Hermione was shivering in Draco's arms. She she wakes up to her clothes strung up onto trees and her trunk was empty, her robes made a tent-like figure and her book held them down.
"What the hell are you doing?" She says.
"Do you want to freeze?" He spat back. She glares at him and sat on the cold dirt floor. He sits next to her and slowly starts to kiss her neck, wrapping his arms around her. She giggles and hugs him tightly, kissing him slowly on the lips and cheeks. Draco's robe was already off, it being strung up with the others. She slowly unbuttons his shirt, revealing scars stretching from his chest to his back. He stops immediately and looks at her with a panicked face. She touches the scars softly, he winces as if she brought the pain back, and kisses them one at a time. Draco smiles and cuddles her.

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Ron ran outside following Hermiones' footsteps, he made it to the edge of the Forest and he sees the tent of robes. He walks up to it and coughs loudly as he lifts open the rose covering the doorway. He sees a shirtless Draco spooning Hermione, who had small hickeys forming on her neck.
"Weasel..." Draco says softly,"the hell you doing here?"

"I'm here to see if she's okay..." Ron looks down. "Is she?"

"No you moron," Draco rolls his eyes and snickers.

"Why the hell does she like you? Even better, why do you like her? In your words she a Mudblood..." Ron hissed.

Hermione awoke to these words and glares at Ron. "Get out" she says calmly.
Ron backs up as she gets up and grabs her wand. "Get out Ronald." She demands. He raced toward the secret entrance and whispered the code again.

Suddenly a dementor floats towards Hermione, she lets out a squeal and Draco races toward her. Dementors swarm to the two lovebirds as they grab their arms and starts preforming the Kiss on the two.

Draco reaches for Hermione's hand and they fold together.

"I love you!" She says with a raspy tone.

"I know..." He smiles back and sobs silently as their souls are sucked out of their bodies.

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Dun... Dun... Dunnnnnn....

Super cliffhanger and an FYI the next chapter will be the last one so I will be making new fan-fic soon!

~Firepaw