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“Granger, I told you not to fall in love with me yet,” he teased her with a chuckle.

“Draco, it’s not bloody funny!” she gasped.  He laughed harder. Merlin, he loved when she swore.

He softened and cupped her face, wiping at her tears with the pads of his thumbs. “I won’t let you not have those things.”

“But what if we don’t figure it out in time,” she gasped.

“It’s been killing me for years; things just got a little sped up,” he told her with a sad smile.  “But I promise there’s a version of us that has those things.”

“I want it here, with us,” she pouted.

“I know, Hermione love, I know,” he whispered and leaned in to press his lips against hers in the softest kiss.  Whatever gold she had melted was traveling through him fighting the darkness.  His skin was tingling with a hope that had been dead for so long.

ECHOES | sixteen | Ao3 & FF.net

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ECHOES Chapter 13 preview

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Draco raised an eyebrow at her.  “You wouldn’t go back in time?” 

“No,” Hermione said quickly. “I couldn’t imagine messing up the past, accidentally bringing Voldemort back; I’ve seen what time travel can do.” 

“When?” He tilted his head curiously. He knew that he wasn’t completely privy to everything the Potter-squad got up to, but he thought he had a rough outline of it all from the dark side’s point of view at least.  Though he had never heard about anything having to do with time travel. 

“I had a Time Turner during our Third Year,” she explained. “We saved Sirius Black from the Dementors Kiss, but it had almost driven me mental keeping up with the lies and trying to keep the past and the present straight in my mind without ruining the future.” 

“You’re fucking me.” He stared at her as his memories clicked back to his third year, then his eyes widened as everything came together.  “You saved that bloody Hippogriff!”

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