The first time Draco Malfoy said goodbye left Hermione Granger's heart in tiny, broken shards. This time, watching him walk away felt like her heart had been ripped from her chest and then stomped on, crushing it beyond repair. She couldn't understand why she felt like that, when it was her who had insisted on his absence in the first place.

Draco was about to close the door behind him when he heard Potter's voice. "You better tell Hermione that you love her, Malfoy, or I will." Draco Malfoy concluded that he liked being enemies with Harry Potter, meddler extraordinaire, better.

If I still had the time-turner, I'd turn back time to six months and six days ago so that I'd be able to avoid from getting my life tangled with his and spare myself the heartache. The heartache that began with the three famous words. Yes, it had begun with an "I love you." Imagine that.

On the fourth day of September in the year 2002, Hermione Granger discovered what it meant and how it felt to leave something one held so dear, and what people mean when they say that they'd left a part of themselves somewhere else. For on that fateful day, she left her heart at Malfoy Manor, at the hands of Draco Malfoy, and she feared that she was never going to get it back.

Draco was about to close the door behind him when he heard Potter's voice. "You better tell Hermione that you love her, Malfoy, or I will." Draco Malfoy concluded that he liked being enemies with Harry Potter, meddler extraordinaire, better. COMPLETE.

It wasn't the first time that Draco Malfoy cried because of Hermione Granger, and he was pretty sure it wouldn't be the last. COMPLETE.