Until Death Do Us Apart (Dramione Fanfiction)

Part 13 - the reason why

I woke up feeling a bit under the weather but still better than yesterday. Draco had his hands wrapped around me making me unable to move.

Despite that I turned around to take a look at him. His hair was all messed up. He looked tired but his smile still stayed on. His skin wasn't so pale more of a rosy tone and his muscles were really tense.

I stroked his platinum blonde hair to wake him up gently not to scare him.

"Morning sleepyhead." I whispered amd his eyes slowly opened revealing their unique stormy grey colour.

"Morning beutiful" he whispered back kissing me softly.

"We should probably get u-"

He put his finger on my lips.

"Shhh.. its Saturday. Let's stay a little more. Then we can go for breakfast at Hogsmade ok?" He said closing his eyes and covering the distance between us.

We stayed like this for at least an hour. It was so warm and fuzzy inside his arms. He was so caring and sweet towads me, something that I hadn't seen before. It was like a new Draco. A better, changed one. It was the Draco I wish I had met from the beggining.

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We eventually got up and put some clothes on. We got out of our common room closing the door behind us holding hands, fingers interlocked.

Then I saw Harry walking down the hallway furiously. I let go off his hand.

"Go. I can handle him myself." I said to him nodding for him to leave towars the other diection.

"Hermione, we have to talk"

"What's the matter?"
I asked playing off.

"Don't act like you don't know. I saw you. You and Draco. At the quiddich pitch. KISSING. ON THE LIPS."

"Ok. So what? What if he is my boyfriend? Is there a problem with that? I thought we got over these stupid arguments and thar you were ok"

"Yeah to be friends. Not your boyfriend!" He said with that its-obvious face.

"So? I trust him."

"Well. I don't"

"I don't give a f*ck! You are not my dad to tell me what to do! I trust him! I have trusted him with my biggest secrets!" I said on the verge of tears.

"Hermione, don't you remember what he did to us, to you? You are trusring him too easily-"

"He is trying to change and you are making harder for him! He has suffered Harry! He needs me and I need him! He completes my gap and I complete his"

"You are just saying that because of Ron dumping yo-"

"I LOVE HIM HARRY! THE KIND OF LOVE THAT I NEVER HAD WITH RONALD! AND IF YOU CAN'T ACCEPT THAT I PREFER TO LEAVE BEHIND EVERYTHING WE LIVED TOGETHER RATHER THAN THE REASON I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING!" I said crying.

He was left gobsmacked. I turned around and left.

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"Hermione what happened there? Why are you crying?" Draco asked lulling me into a tight hug.

"I just defended our relarionship" I said.

"I heard almost everything. Hermione I understand that I have been a major problem among you pals. I mean Ron is now hating you and Harry most prbably won't talk to you for the most part and I think that It would be better if we were seperat-"

I grabbed him from his shirt and kissed me passionetelly with tears on my face. I kissed him liked I have never kissed him before. A kiss that said 'I only love you and only you'

I pulld apart.

"You want me to give up the person who was there for me when noone else was? The person I searched for a whole week? The person that would die for me? The person I have shared my darkest secrets? The person to whom I have given my heart to? No Draco. No. Because I prefer to give up on my friend rather than the person that made me question everything."

I said before sinking again in a deep kiss. I melted in his arms. I didn't care if someone watched. He was the one for me and I wanted it to stay that way. He was the one to save me from a life I would grow up to hate.

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We returned from Hogsmeade after having a great time together. It was the perfect place. We could hold hands freely we could kiss shamelesly and we could be a couple without anyone judging us about it.

We got into our common room without anyine seeing us.

We eventually sat down on the couch. Draco wasn't looking well. He looked very sad and cloudy. I turned around to take a look at him and a tear was eunning down his face.

"Draco what happened?" I said worried.

"It has been exactly one year since my father.." he couldn't finish the sentence. It was hurting him so much to say these words.

"Oh Draco..." I said pulling him into a tight hug.

"And the worst part is that I never managed to make him proud.. all these years.. and I never managed to do that.." he said.

He was terrible. He was so devastated from everything and everyone. He was keeping so much to himself that he couldn't keep up anymore. He needed someone to blow off some steam. But I couldn't see him suffer. It broke my heart in pieces.

"Draco.. don't ever say that to yourself again! I am sure he was proud of you in every way possible. He is proud because of everything you have accomplished. He is proud to have been your father. But most of all he is proud of you because you changed at your own will and became a better person not only for the world but for you. Because you got past blood statuses and fell in love with a muggle born. Because you are in good terms with Harry. Because you became the best person I have ever met."

I smiled to him and he smiled back with the most loving smile he has ever gave me. Behind his red puffy eyes layed a happy spark of hope and forgiveness.

"Do you really believe that?" He asked.

"With every part of me" I answered wiping the tears off his face.

He slowly pulled me into a hug that lastes for what seemed like forevee. He was feeling relieved and I was feeling like a boulder lifted off my shoulders.

"It's getting late. We should probably go to sleep.." I said not wanting to really go.

"I know you don't want to." He said smirking a bit.

We ended up lying on top of each other on the couch in front of the warm fire.

"I am really lucky to have you, Granger." He said sleepily.

"What did we say about surnames?" I said a bit jokingly.

"I thought future mrs. Malfoy would be too long."

I smiled widely after that one. I knew I was going to end up married to him. One way or onother.