Disclaimer: Neither Hermione nor Draco belong to me and this piece of fiction was not written to make any money. The Potterverse belongs to JK Rowling and her associates.
Warning: The first prompt is a Deathly Hallows spoiler directly, and the rest all indirectly. So this could be pretty much ambiguous.
A/N: I know it's been a long time since I've posted anything new, even though I'm still waiting for the fic exhcnage over at livejournal to be over to post what I had written.
I've been waiting for a long time to be able to participate in the 1sentence challenge at lj, so since the Draco/Hermione pairing has yet to be cleared for the taking, I decided to do it anyway, so I took some liberties with it. I've done only 30 prompts instead of 50 because personally I think the point of writing only one sentence is to be to the point and to put as much emotion in a small span. Therefore I thought 50 was too much. And then I didn't like some of the prompts within a set, so I mixed and matched.
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1. Victory
It
had finally all ended and even though the Great Hall was packed with
those walking, people injured, and those that cried over the
proclaimed dead, Hermione couldn't stop her eyes from wandering to
the far table with three white-haired blondes.
2. Neutral
Only
a few days had passed when Hermione found out the truth that even
though he was caught in the middle of both sides, he had known all
along the difference between right and wrong.
3. War
It had
taken a huge toll on everyone, but the only two that seemed stuck in
the hole of it all were the only two who couldn't shake the feeling
of despair and misery.
4. Wonder
Days
had turned into weeks and the weeks piled up, but she could never
stop thinking those thoughts about him and wanting to know every
detail about a boy of only sixteen that had been forced to start
experiencing life.
5. Walking
One
day, she was headed home and he was headed in the opposite direction,
and when their eyes connected as they crossed in front of a bakery,
she couldn't help but notice a new feeling in the pit of her
stomach.
6. Rain
She
saw him again a few weeks later in which it was storming outside and
she couldn't stop the jealousy forming inside her as she noticed
how calm he always seemed, even if the world was pouring on him.
7. Waltz
During
a reunion which she had suddenly forgotten the cause for, Hermione
wanted desperately to reach out to him and question him endlessly,
but instead took to watching his elegant, upheld body from afar as
his movements convinced her to learn how to dance.
8. Quiet
A
year had passed in which they never spoke words but their eyes shared
stories between the two, and progress still seemed so far away.
9. Burning
Foolishly
thinking no one was around, she started a fire near the back of
Hogsmeade and proceeded to burn every piece of parchment she could
gather from her days at Hogwarts; now that she had realized that
anything worth remembering could not be written down and that the
things she should have learned, it was too late to make a difference.
10. Blessing
When
she expected another day of empty progress, a package arrived at her
doorstep with only one word written on the card, 'sorry' and for
awhile, she completely forgot about the gift in the box because the
card held more value than anything else he could give her.
11. Jump
The
first time they had finally spoken, she was in Flourish and Blotts
chasing her demons away with written words and he had stepped behind
her and whispered a small greeting, causing her feet to leave the
floor with no choice but to turn around.
12. Weddings
Nearing
on two years since the war had died, his best friend married her best
friend and she couldn't help but notice how much better blonde and
brunette looked together than a mess of red and black, as she sat
next to him, sharing whispered secrets.
13. Whiskey and Rum
When he had asked for a dance at the reception and she
finally showed him how much her waltz had improved—even though he
didn't know how bad she was before—Hermione could smell the weak
scent of alcohol on his breath and for the first time in her life,
she tasted alcohol and faith.
14. Birthday
Some
time had passed since the wedding when Hermione had received an
invitation to a gathering celebrating his twenty years of breathing,
and some how she couldn't help but finally realize how lucky they
all were.
15. Smirk
She
was beginning to reevaluate what progress meant, when he appeared at
her job asking her out to lunch, and that was the moment she came to
the conclusion that all this time she missed his messed up smile.
16. Wishes
After
only months of their random get-togethers, Hermione couldn't help
but dreaming that some day their pasts in the judgmental eyes of the
world wouldn't hinder the both of them from taking steps forward.
17. Solitary
With
progress now on his mind, he came to the conclusion that even
though very little remnants of the war still lived within him, it was
better to have bursts of laughter and something to hold onto than to
linger on the feeling of being alone.
18. Breaking
When
she had received news that his father's life had willingly been
taken away, she knew that all she could offer him was a shoulder to
cry on while the pieces of his soul shattered noisily in her ears,
even though they both now had open eyes to what hate could do.
19. Stupidity
Even
though he had never gotten over the shock of the news, Draco knew
that picking up a new bad habit was not the answer, and until
Hermione yelled at him one day for appearing in her flat in the state
that he had been in, he didn't stop drinking.
20. Sex
Once
the alcohol had worn off, he apologized to her for the second time in
her life, but he did it in his own way and she never struggled
because she loved the feel of his skin on hers and how he could make
her feel so much but yet forget about everything she had once hated.
21. Quarrel
She
fought with him because he had left the box to her favorite cereal
open after breakfast and he undoubtedly fought back; they simply
solved the problem by doing her groceries together since he seemed to
spend more and more time away from the manor.
22. Share
A
year had gone by and they both still refused to label what odd
relationship they had even though more of his clothes would appear at
her place and he had his own toothbrush in the bathroom and his
favorite mug for coffee was now inhabited in her kitchen cabinet.
23. Comfort
His
friends had never questioned it and neither had hers because they all
knew everyone had their own way of coping, but after awhile they all
had grown used to it and everyone became closer as the effects and
the downpour from the war started to finally wash away.
24. Near
Night
after night he fell asleep in her bed and morning after morning he
awoke first and slowly but surely his nightmares disappeared and were
replaced with a feeling he had never known before.
25. Bugs
She
had been clearing out her junk closet one day to give more space
while he found amusement playing with her monopoly game, when she
took out the last box and spotted a spider, of course screaming at
the top of her lungs forcing him to kill it, and he did but not
without laughing at her.
26. Beginning
It
was the next day when Hermione found herself cooking breakfast for
the two of them when she had noticed that the burden and heavy weight
that used to reside in her heart had finally been lifted, freeing up
some space.
27. Flying
During
the holidays, after much persuasion from Draco, she had finally
mounted a broom with tight arms around her and soured through the
cold air, and Hermione couldn't find a reason as to why she
shouldn't have another person to put all her trust in.
28. Sky
Not
once thinking that what they were doing at the time had once been
thought as impossible, Draco threw a snowball past their friends,
hitting Hermione square in the chest; but it was him that knocked her
down and as they stared up into the gray clouds and falling pieces of
snow, they saw the sun.
29. Life
After
an unorthodox proposal, they were scheduled to marry on the
unconventional day that would mark a normal relationship's three
year anniversary, and after she put her white dress on, she stared
into the mirror knowing that she had reached the better end of the
rope long ago.
30. Gift
When
he looked into the sparkling blue eyes of their newborn baby boy,
Draco decided that all the pain and suffering he had gone through had
all been worth it if he could finally recognize happiness.