After a War ((Old Copy))

Chapter 21 Book 4

Everyone exchanged gifts, and among all the madness, Hermione and Draco sat quietly on the couch and swapped boxes, Hermione opened hers first, She put the box down and gasped. Draco felt successful as she teared up. It was a charm necklace with a single charm on it. The charm was two parents holding a child wrapped in a blanket. The entire charm was silver except for a small red gem in the center shaped like a heart.

"Each chapter of our lives, I'll get us a new charm, and maybe some to cover things from the past." Draco said quietly, and he knew she had heard him, even over the yelling from the people sitting on the floor around the Christmas tree opening presents. Everyone had gotten a Weasley sweater, Draco admired how Molly always made time just to make these for everyone. Draco did chuckle when he caught Theo and Pansy crying because they'd received one.

"Thank you." Hermione snapped Draco from his thought and they both smiled. Draco opened his box, it was about the same size as the one he'd given Hermione, though he didnt suppose it was a necklace. He pulled out a string with pictures attatched to it, somehow, Hermione had managed to capture every moment they'd ever had. When they danced in the room of requiment for the first time, the truth or dare with the magic candles, the roller skating, the ferris wheel, the milkshakes, the soda, their first kiss, the first time they met, everything, she'd captured everything. The box seemed to be endless as he pulled cards out with moving pictures. Draco hated crying, and he usually only did when something bad happened, but for once, he shed a tear full of happiness and warmth.

"Hermione," He breathed and leaned forward and kissed her. Hermione smiled successfully and leaned on him.

"Oh, I almost forgot, I got something for the baby too, I know she inst born yet, but I may as well get excited two months early. It's in our bedroom, I'll show it to you later-"

"Alright, now we've had our little, young adult Christmas by ourselves," Fred yelled to gain everyone's attention. "Now it's time to head over to the Burrow and get up with all our parents and see what we can get into." He finished, giving a direct look to Maya specifically, and then a few others, one of them being Jack, and another being Solomon.

"Merlin." Draco heard Solomon whisper. He'd left his father after his mother died, which is why he was the adopted son of Remus.

"Alright, everyone get off your butts and apparate, if any of you cant apparate for apparent reasons of being a Wanderer, hold the hand of someone who can. And if you don't know how to get there, again, join hands with someone who does." Draco called to get everyone moving instead of sitting in shock. After another second, people stood and quite a few gathered hands as Draco knew a few of them had never been to the burrow and didn't know where it was. He felt Hermione grab his hand even though she could apparate, or maybe she couldn't, there was no telling with everything that tended to happen.

All the sudden within the blink of an eye, they were at the burrow and Molly was there to greet them. Looking around, he could spot everyone except Makayla, speaking of her, he couldn't find Fred either. . .

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Makayla gasped as she appeared in a fairly cluttered room, looking around she could see large boxes with the Weasley Wizard's Wheezes symbol on them, allot of the room was covered in dust. And in front of her, she saw Fred, who was still holding her hand, she didn't even remember grabbing his hand before the apparition.

"Look, about the kis-"

"It was the Mistletoe, and only the mistletoe, it never happened." Makayla interrupted the ginger and turned around, looking for the door. She stepped out of the room and quickly walked downstairs as she could hear footsteps behind her.