Blood Red, Snow White | Dramione ✔

20. The absolute

"Hermione!", Draco called her as he apparated into their lounge. The lounge gave a good view of the kitchen and one of the bedrooms and she wasn't there.

"Hermione!", he tried again. Fear began to engulf him as he ran upstairs towards her room and found it empty.

"HERMIONE!",he yelled.

" Damnit", he muttered and ran downstairs again. He checked every corner of the house, except for his bedroom......

*****

" Pansy! Brown!", Draco yelled as he rushed towards them. Harry and Ginny were eyeing him curiously.

"Did she come back?", he panted.

" Who ?", Lavender asked.

" No Draco she didn't. ", Pansy replied and knitted her brows together.

"Isn't she at home?", Lavender asked.

" I wouldn't be asking if she were.", Draco spat.

" You should check in your bedroom.", came a dreamy voice. Draco turned and saw Luna staring at him.

Draco frowned.

" My bedroom? "

"Yes. Your bedroom. Did you check it?", she asked in her sweet voice.

Draco's face fell.
" No...no I didn't. "

"Then go.", Luna smiled.

" Thanks Lovegood. "

******

Draco walked past the lounge, towards his room. He turned the doorknob and clicked it open. Relief washed over him when he saw a figure lying on his bed. A smile crept onto his face as he walked towards her.

"Hermione", he said softly. This soft tone was reserved for her and her only.

*****

40 minutes ago, Hermione had come home crying. She was crying because she couldn't lose Draco. People might not know, but she knew that Draco was in love. He had said out loud himself during the war, although with whom, she did not know. She would often find him staring at nothing in particular. Often busy in thoughts. She would find him smiling at nothings and gazing at the stars with his eyes unfocused. It broke her heart to know that Draco, her Draco, was in love with somebody else.

She would be lying if she said that she didn't suspect that it was her. There were moments when she thought he loved her. That she was his significant other. She had even imagined him say 'I love you' to her billions of times. After all, that was what brought her back to life. When she was in coma, she saw Draco and heard him say the three magical words that revived her sleeping heart. Of course it was only inside her head, but it still gave her chills. What would it be like to hear those words from the one person you love ? Unfortunately, Hermione Granger would never know.

Draco had saved her from a horrid life and she wouldn't let her feelings destroy this....friendship that they had. Draco had come for her. Always. And that's when she heard him.

" Hermione."

His voice so soft that it made her heart lurch. He had found her again.

*****

" Hermione? Are you up? ", he tried again, softly.

Hermione's heart fluttered at the worry that was laced in his voice.
She sniffed.

" Hello", she whispered.

Draco sat next to where she was lying on the bed and took her hand in his, instantly warming it.

" What happened?"

"Nothing.", she smiled and sniffed.

Draco was rubbing the back of her hand with his thumb, ever so gently.

" Hermione.", he said as if warning her.

" Nothing, Draco. I promise I'm fine....its just that"..I love you...".I'm tired.", she finished.

Draco knew she was lying but he didn't want to push her. " Alright. I'll get you your bed time milk.", he smiled and was about to get up when a small hand held his wrist.

" I don't want milk.", she sniffed.

" Then what do you want?", he asked and stared at her intently.

" You.", she blurted out and immediately covered it by saying,

" I mean. Stay with me ?"

Draco's heart clenched. He was expecting something.....else.

He nodded and removed his shoes and tie and scooted closer to her in bed. Hermione snuggled upto him but she wanted more, so she turned around to face him and placed a kiss dangerously close to his lips, at the corner of his mouth and then fit her head inside the crook of his neck and snaked her arm from his chest to his back. Draco wrapped an arm around her and buried his face in her curls.

She fell asleep almost immediately and Draco released the breath that he was holding.

" You're going to be the death of me, Hermione Granger. ", he murmured and sighed into her hair.

" I love you.", he said a little louder and then he, too, welcomed sleep.

That night, Hermione Granger dreamt of hearing the three magical words from the love of her life.

Little did she know; it wasn't a dream.

A/N: A small chapter for you guys 🙈 I'm so sorry! I've been really busy with my exams. I'll try to update more regularly now.

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