Disclaimer: Not my characters. I'm just bending them to my will. Don't sue me.
AN: Yes it's been a while. I've been busy etc. no excuses really. I've come to a decision about this story:
Harry and Hermione will be 16. I KNOW I KEEP CHANGING IT!! I know i do!..but I was happy with them being 15 some people weren't. They wanted them to be 17. So I changed it to 17. But I've realised I'm compromising my story for others. So they're 16. I should go back and re-write the chapters as 16 I know. But I don't want to lose my reviews!! Do you think I should?
Also I realised that instead of this story being AU. It's actually a pre-OOTP story. So if that hadn't happened Sirius could still be around. So whatever! You choose what you want it to be.
Anyway okay yes. Read on my reviewers this is the last chapter but there will be an epilogue. So sad. *sob*
So here's the chapter!!
Chapter 4- the final chapter
Harry took a deep breath and gave Hermione a reassuring smile. He took her hand in his as they stopped outside the familiar wing that Harry knew so well.
"It's okay." Harry said reassuringly.
Hermione bit her lip and shut her eyes momentarily. Harry squeezed her hand and gently pulled her into the hospital wing where Madame Pomphrey was waiting for them.
"You're here for the-"
"Yes." Harry interrupted.
She frowned at him and waved him towards a seat by the door and walked to her office door where she waited for Hermione to follow. Hermione turned to Harry, her lip firmly between her teeth.
"You'll be fine." Harry said firmly, "We'll work everything out."
He gave Hermione a soft kiss on her cheek and calmly strode to the wooden chair by the door. She took a deep breath before meeting Madame Pomphrey in her office. The door slamed shut with a loud bang startling Harry and a patient in one of the beds stirred and sat up. Harry hadn't noticed anyone in the hospital wing until this moment.
"Potter." the patient drawled.
'Fabulous. Absolutely fabulous.'
"Malfoy." Harry said with a nod in his direction.
"What are you doing here?" Malfoy drawled.
"None of your business." Harry hadn't been in the wing for more than 5 minutes and Malfoy was already getting on his nerves.
"Come to visit me have you Potty?"
Harrys eye twitched, his gaze firmly on the shut door he'd last seen Hermione walk through, "Hardly."
"Tell me. Is it true? Did you knock the mudblood up?" Malfoy asked, a smirk on his face and a haughty eyebrow raised.
Harry stood up quickly, almost knocking over his chair, "You keep your mouth shut about Hermione. Don't you dare talk about her like that."
"You're not denying it Potty."
"Piss.off." Harry said between clenched teeth.
He started to pace, ignoring everything Malfoy said. He needed to keep his temper. Hermione needed his support at this time. He must control himself from throttling Malfoy.
Seconds passed like minutes. Minutes like hours. Hours like years.
Finally the door opened and Harry stopped pacing. Hermione came out, her eyes red. Madame Pomphrey came out after her, "Ah mister Malfoy. You're up. And I see you haven't taken your potion yet." She bustled over to him and let Harry move to Hermiones side.
"Hermione?" Harry asked.
"She said-I-and-I didn't know-and-I'm just being stupid-I just-" Hermione said inbetween sobs.
Harry wrapped his arms around her, not quite understanding what was going on.
"Come on, lets go for a walk." he said taking hold of her hand once again.
Malfoy watched as they walked out of the hospital wing. 'So it's true.'
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Harry led Hermione over to the big oak tree beside the lake. When they'd gotten underneath it, Hermione collapsed on her knees; staring at her hands.
Harry sat down next to her, "What did she say?"
Hermione sighed and moved so she had her arms wrapped around her legs, "I'm not pregnant."
"You're not?" Harry asked, his eyes widening, "But I thought-"
"I was wrong." Hermione snapped.
"Okay, well...thank goodness." Harry said letting his head rest against the tree.
Hermione bit her lip and then started to cry, letting her head drop onto her arms.
"Hermione?" Harry asked sitting up straight, "What's wrong? Why are you crying? I thought you didn't want to be pregnant."
"I don't." Hermione admitted still sobbing.
Harrys brow furrowed and he wrapped his arms around her pulling her against him.
"I'm just being stupid." she said, wiping her streaming eyes in vain.
"No you're not." Harry said, wiping a stray tear that was making its way down her cheek away.
"She said I made the potion right. But I took another potion after it. It gets rid of my period pains." She bit her lip again, "And that the anti-pregnancy potion did work..but because of the other potion it made my body think I was pregnant."
"But your not." Harry stated as a question.
"No. No I'm not. And I know we're too young. I really do," She looked up at him at this point, her eyes red and glazed over, tear tracks down her cheeks, "But...I kind of got used to the thought of being pregnant. You know? Having something so small growing inside of me. Something we'd made together. I kind of grew attached to it. And I know it's so stupid because there never was anything there to begin with but..." Hermione trailed off.
"It's okay." Harry said in a soothing voice, "I understand. And someday we will have a child. When we've finished school and we're happily married. And we'll raise him to have values and to be a great flyer."
"He?"
"Or she." Harry added sheepishly.
"I love you Harry."
"And I love you Hermione."
The two sat there watching the sun set in the beautiful purple and orange streaked sky. Both hopelessly in love, and both mourning something that never was but something that could have been.
AN: TA DA!! THE END CHAPTER!! HAHA what did you think?? Watch out for the epilogue. And leave me some reviews will yah? Sorry if I confused everybody about the whole ages thing. I think someday I'll go back and change the ages. Someday lol =D! Review for me!! And watch out for the epilogue.