Chapter One-The Dream

Summary- It has been about eight months and no one has heard from Hermione, and it seems as though no one misses her.  Harry and Ron have each been married since school let out and they still bear a grudge for their old friend.  Hermione is leading another life, away from the man who used her and broke her heart, and has a terrible secret.  Draco Malfoy is the present heir to the Malfoy fortune and is unhappily married to Pansy Parkinson Malfoy.  He still has haunting dreams of another love.  Around eight months after graduation, Pansy and Draco come across something extraordinary, which links them to the last person they had in mind.

Pairing- Ron Wesley and Lavender Brown Weasley, Harry Potter and Parvati Patil Potter, and at the beginning- Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson Malfoy, but subject to change.

Spoilers-

 Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone,

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,   

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Disclaimer-I do not claim to own any of the characters from the Harry Potter series.  They all belong to Ms. Rowling.  Don’t sue, I have a disclaimer and I’m not afraid to use it!

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I sit and watch the rain

And see my tears run down the window pane

I sit and watch the sky

And I can hear it breathe a song

I think of him

How we where

And when I think of him

Then I remember

Remember

In his eyes

I can see where my heart longs to be

In his eyes

I see a gentle word

And that’s where I’ll be seeing him

Safe in his arm

Close to his heart

That I know quite where to start

By looking in his eyes will I see

Beyond tomorrow

By looking in his eyes

Will I see beyond the sorrow

That I fear?

Will his eyes reveal to me

Promises or lies?

But he can’t conceal from me

The love

In his eyes

If I am wise

I will walk away

And gladly

But sadly you’re not blind

It’s hard to tuck away

The memories that you prize

Love is worth forgiving for

Now I realize

Everything worth living for 

Is there in his eyes

-Song From Jekhle and Hyde, the Musical

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Draco Malfoy was in love with a mudblood.  Not just any mudblood, Hermione Granger.  “How did this happen?”  Draco thought to himself.  But of course he knew exactly how it happened.  Throughout their seventh year, Draco and Hermione had become closer, turning into each others confidants.  Hermione’s friends where busy with their girlfriends, and, well, Draco’s friends weren’t ever very good conversationalists. 

Draco, along with his friends, two worst enemies and the love of his life where all in their final year at HogwartsSchool of Witchcraft and Wizardry.  Hermione and Draco had been dating for three years now, but the only people who knew where him, Hermione, and of course, the wise Professor Dumbledor.

Draco sighed and held Hermione closer to him in his bed.  It was a nightly ritual for her to creep from her private Head Girl dormitory to his Head Boy dormitory, but last night she surprised him.  Last night Hermione Granger gave her virginity to Draco Malfoy.

Draco looked at the sleeping figure of Hermione.  She was not the awkward twelve year old he had despised growing up.  Although still extremely smart and rather bossy, she was a beautiful woman with auburn colored hair and caramel colored eyes that glistened like gold.  Seventeen years had progressed Hermione to come a long way.  She was smart and brave, and lived up to the Gryffindor name.  She was on the fast track to becoming the first Mistress of Magic, and, although modest Hermione would never admit it, she was in the same league as Dumbledor when it came to magical ability.  She was already, as a barely 17 year old girl, a fully registered animangus, who could turn into a cat, tiger, panther, or any of the cat family on will.  Hermione Granger was astounding.

Draco smiled sadly, thinking about the doomed that was his and Hermione’s.  “Star crossed lovers...” Draco mumbled. “My sweet Juliet.”  He thought sadly.  Draco knew he was going to have to hurt her, to keep her safe from everything he had grown up with.  Although Voldemort was gone (although it is just gone, not dead, Voldemort never dies…) thanks to Dumbledor and his group of powerful and mysterious witches and wizards who called themselves ‘The Order of the Phoenix’ Lucious Malfoy was still a cold hearted bastard and had already betrothed Draco to Pansy Parkinson, and Draco knew Lucious would have no problem in killing anyone who decided to cross him.  Draco and Pansy where to be married soon after graduation.

The thought of marrying Pansy sicked Draco, but his father insisted that with her name and money, she would produce strong heirs who would carry on the Malfoy legacy.

School would be letting out in a week, and Draco was still wondering how to break up with Hermione.  “This isn’t going to be easy.”  Draco said to himself, and he hoisted himself out of the green silk sheets.  Hermione was still lying there peacefully, her dark hair flowing around her, giving her a look of a slumbering mermaid underwater.

“Hermione? Sweetheart?  Time to wake up.  We have potions in two hours, and you want to get something to eat, right?”  “Mmmhmm.”  Came a muffled sound from a still half asleep Hermione.

They both got up and quickly dressed, talking about their upcoming graduation and N.E.W.T. scores.  After exiting through a portal of an old fashioned looking couple (the first head boy and girl, as a matter of fact.)  Hermione slipped her hand into Dracos and they started to walk down the long corridor.  It wasn’t long before they came across a very ancient looking piece of parchment, which reminded Hermione strangely of the infamous Marauders Map.  They stopped to see if it was a piece of fallen homework.  As head boy and girl they tried to make life easier for the rest o the student body.  Draco picked it up for a closer look, but no sooner had his fingers brushed against the yellowed parchment, Draco felt a pull behind his navel, as though a hook where trying to jerk him backwards.  They plummeted though swirling colors at breakneck speed to land on a very hard stone floor. 

Draco quickly rose.  Hermione, still deeply dazed, could only utter- “Dr-Draco?  Wh-What was that?  A portkey?  Where are we?”  “Shh!”  Said a highly nervous Draco.  “This is my house.  Malfoy Manor.” Hermione gasped, but just then Draco saw a figure emerge from the shadows.  The man had long White blood hair and was strikingly handsome. They man looked remarkably like Draco, only much, much older.

“Father?”  Draco asked confusion and terror written plainly on his face.  “Draco.”  Lucius Malfoy said calmly, but still sneering.  Draco noticed Lucius’s fingers where wrapped tightly around his want, as though he was itching to use it.  “Draco, kindly tell me why you let a mudblood share your bed?”  Draco was startled, as well as Hermione, who hung her head in shame.  Lucius looked at him, then at her, and Draco saw a look he was grown up to fear and dread.  He knew what he had to do, even as his heart was breaking.

“Father! Are you implying that I may have feelings for this- this mudblood trash?”  Draco said with his own trademark sneer, in hopes of sounding completely and utterly disgusted.  “She is nothing more than a good fuck.  A very good fuck. I will marry Pansy when you wish me to father, just as we had planned for years.” 
”Very well.”  Lucius said, satisfied.  He was the one, after all, who told Draco to take care of his Manly urges whenever he needed to.  “You both may leave.”  Draco sighed, but turned away in shame from his father and Hermione as the swirling started once more, but not before he saw crystal tears starting to overflow in Hermione’s beautiful golden eyes.

Eight months later, Draco Malfoy awakened, lying beside his wife, Pansy Parkinson, from a dream that has been haunting him since the day he and Hermione Granger shared their last kiss.   

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In case no one caught that, that was draco having a dream about what happened right before Hogwarts let out, a little confusing yes, but the best is yet to come!!!

Xoxoariel