#dramione edit

He felt it all sliding off his chest a bit. Relieving that pressure more with every word, until he was talking so quickly that the words were almost blending together. Just tripping over themselves to getoutgetout. Finally, shifting off of him and onto her. To weigh her down like he was with it.

“Alarm woke me up, and then, there it was. Blood on me. All over me, and I saw this man – I don’t know this man, Granger. Never seen him before. Didn’t even know I was seeing him when I was seeing him, but I saw him. Had to. Because I remember, right? Of all the things I forget, I remember. Just a few seconds. Six seconds exactly. Just my wand moving, and the blood, and then he fell. With his eyes open.” She was against the wall now, and he closed the space, her eyes as open as the man’s had been. As wide as hers had been that night with the blanket. He could just fall into them. “Just staring up. Looking at me, with his blood pouring out into the alley and my clothes a mess. Then it’s over. So what does that say?”

“Get–” she whispered, her voice trembling like her hands were.

“I killed him.” He trapped her between his arms for just a second, pushing his palms into the wall with his breath on her ear, taking in the fear she showed that matched the one boiling inside him. Then she shoved him back. Slammed her hands into him and threw her body forward. Stepped forward, shoved him back, stepped forward, shoved him back. “I. Killed. Him. Are you happy now? Is this what you wanted to know? Was it worth–”

“Stay away from me, Malfoy. You’re so…you’re so fucked up,” she yelled, her voice thick like she was close to tears, and then she took off down the stairs. Left him there with his words, his admittance, the mess he had made.

A Kingdom Beside the Seabyeverythursday

During a dual gone wrong, Draco is hit with a curse that begins to erase his memories. Stuck with Granger in a lopsided house beside the sea, Draco’s life and mind begin to unravel as he struggles to hold on to who he is while losing who he had been. 

“I’m not going to try and make excuses,” she said, doing her best to keep her voice level. “I know what you must think. But he’s not the person you think he is. He felt like he had to do as he was told to protect his family. I… I know him.”

Ginny’s eyes suddenly grew large and round. “Wait, wait…”

Hermione did, her heart sinking, ready to be thrown under the bus.

“… did you two have sex?”

Whatever she had been steeling herself for, that particular question was not it. At once she felt her cheeks flooding with heat. She scrambled to speak, failed, closed her mouth tightly. Ginny’s face dropped.

“Oh my god… is he good?”

“Ginny!”

Revert bySUPRNTRAL LVR
Six months post-war, Malfoy is in serious trouble. He’s on the run from the Ministry, Death Eaters, and a deadly curse which is eating him alive. When he hits rock bottom, a change in fortune lands him in 12 Grimmauld Place under the Ministry’s custody - and forces Hermione to remember the secrets they’ve both kept for years.

It seemed this intimacy with Hermione had removed some of his protective shell and now he was raw. And vulnerable. Would he have done it if he’d known this would happen? Not sure he’d been able to stop himself. 

Pretence bycamnz 

Marriage Law fic. Normalcy was an unrealistic ambition when everyone must return to Hogwarts for their final year after the war. The pretence impossible to continue as all are called on to save the wizarding world - yet again, by law, this time.