(COMPLETE) Dramione -The seventh year at Hogwarts

Confessions

At the astronomy tower at 7:30pm

Draco is pacing up and down the balcony that looks over the lake. He thinks to himself. Ok so I have half an hour before she comes. Hermione Granger, what would I do without you. Without you I would still be battered and bruised. Without her I would be frantically trying to summon the Dark lord from the dead. Without her I would be Draco Malfoy , the boy who made all of the wrong choices. But to her I am the boy who had no choice. To me I am the boy who had no choice. I  had no choice. I have no choice, I have to do it tonight or I'll  break, I wont have a choice, I love her. I said it, I finally said it. I finally admitted it. But  I have to tell her, if I don't she will never know. He runs his hand along his hair. Several more thoughts run through his head and before he knows it, it is  8pm. Hermione comes up the stairs, almost exactly on time. Draco is looking out of the balcony now, and doesn't notice her so when she comes up beside him, he jumps out of his skin, whipping his wand out of his back pocket.

"Merlin's beard Hermione you scared me." He exclaims putting his wand back. She laughs loudly.

"Shhh we aren't meant to be here." He says slightly quietly. She shuts her mouth and her laugh turns into a sweet giggle. This makes Draco's heart go wild.

"Before I ask why we are here, I want you to tell me that you did what I requested." she looks at him seriously. He smiles gently.

"I did. Although I did get a strange look from Madam Pomfrey when I didn't complain." She looks at him and smiles letting another giggle escape.

"Good."

"How did it go with potter, I'm guessing that is where were you went when you walked out on me." she smiles.

"I may not have beaten him like he did to you but I gave him a pretty forceful slap though." he chuckles.

"I'm sorry. For threatening him like that." he looks at her carefully.

"I'm sorry that I started it all, but if there is one thing I have learned by being friends with Harry, is that you can't plan life. It just happens." he looks at her slightly shocked, but realises that she is right. They look out of the balcony for a while before he turns to her.

"Hey Granger?" she looks at him.

"Yeah?" she replies. He smiles.

"Wanna watch a movie?" she looks up at him.

"Sounds perfect, and its getting cold out here anyway." she smiles and they walk back to the common room. When they get in, Hermione goes straight to her room whilst Draco goes and changes, he puts on a green T-shirt and fitting jeans that aren't quite fitting enough to be called skinny. She tries to find a decent movie but can't. When he comes in he is faced by a slightly annoyed Hermione.

"Draco I cant find one." he looks at her confused.

"What do you mean, there are loads there." he points to the shelf that she has just finished going through. she looks at him as if he is stupid.

"You can't just pick a random movie Draco, you have to want to watch it, you have to be in the mood." He laughs a bit and looks towards her worried face.

"No need to stress, lets just play a game instead." She smiles at him.

"I knew you still had a child inside waiting for its true potential to play." she laughs.

"How about Truth or Dare, Draco style." she looks at him.

"What's the Draco style catch?" he smirks cheekily. As they both sit in the middle of her bed.

"If you lie or forfeit, you get a shock, there will be a magic lie detector spell. If you are shocked you have to say the truthful answer before you can move on." she tilts her head at the proposition.

"Fine." she looks competitive now.

"Ok me first, Truth or Dare?" Hermione is now thinking of all of the questions and dares she could ask him to answer and do.

"Truth." He says smiling. She thinks.

"I'll start easy on you. What is your favourite colour?" He smiles.

"Easy, Green of course." Hermione rolls her eyes at the obvious answer.

"Now Granger, truth or dare?" she now thinks about it.

"Truth." he smirks, whilst leaning forward.

"Who would you rather hang out with, Weaslette or me?" her face becomes shocked.

"That's mean! Ginny." she smiles.

"OW!" Draco looks at her surprised.

"Liar." he Smirks then laughs.

"Truth or dare." she says still rubbing her arm from the shock.

"Truth." she already knows what she is going to ask.

"What did you smell in the Amortentia?" his smile slowly turns to a scared face.

"I can't remember, it was weeks ago!" He is shocked.

"Ow!" he grabs his arm in pain.

"Oh come on Draco, What did you smell?" she is smiling now that his own rule has trapped him.

"Fine, I smelled: Books, spare parchment, hot chocolate and some sort of fruity perfume." Hermione then looks seriously at him. She thinks to herself. I read tonnes of books, I always have spare parchment, I drink a hot chocolate every morning and I wear a fruit based perfume. Draco is attracted to me? Why didn't I see this before, I mean I almost kissed him and I still didn't realise! Draco looks at Hermione who hasn't spoken for about half a minute now.

"Hermione are you ok?" she snaps back into reality.

"Yeah I'm fine I was just thinking." she sits back and lies down on the right side of the bed.

"It's quite late, I think I should go." Draco says frowning and moving to get off the bed.

"No, Draco wait." she sits up and pats on the bed beside her for him to sit. He goes and sits beside her. She puts her head on his shoulder.

"Why didn't you just tell me?" she asks in a soft tone, his heart thumps as he tries to think of a good way to answer.

"Well when I gave you the drawing, I thought that you had forgotten it, so I didn't bring it up. But then when you had that argument with Harry about me, I was so wrapped up in trying to make you happy and I was so mad at him for almost hitting you that I couldn't tell you then, and then after the owl, I lost confidence. I was going to tell you on the astronomy tower. Until you said that life just happens and you cant plan it. That's why I am here right now." Shocked, Hermione looks at him. Her eyes are no longer filled with confusion, but with something else. Draco cant figure out what it is.

"Draco." she looks desperately at him, he stares into her eyes and his heart begins to thump hard in his chest.

"Yeah." she takes her left hand and it meets her right hand at the back of his neck, her heart now beginning to thump, he holds her waist and pulls her closer, she looks into his softening eyes, he knows what's next. Finally she plants her lips on his, he wraps his arms around her pulling her so close it would be humanly impossible to pull her any closer, her arms move to his back as they kiss, slowly, softly, sweetly. When their lips finally part, they rest their heads against the other, savouring the moment, both of them smiling still holding each other close.

"I love you, and I don't ever want to let you go." she whispers in his ear.

"And I will love you for eternity, and I can promise you now that I will never let you go." He returns. He kisses her again, so full of love and passion, it takes a great deal of effort to pull away.

"I honestly never thought this day would ever come." he says.

"Nor did I." she smiles as they lay back down and she rests her head on his chest, she hears it thumping just as much as hers does and without thinking they both slowly drift off.