He only had her for a little while. For such a short time, and if they won the war their lives stretched out on and on and on, but they would be bisected from each other. Draco would go to Azkaban and he wouldn't let her wait. He would do one fucking selfless thing in his life at least, and that would be it. He wouldn't let her wait, and so he would never get to kiss the Hermione that had smile lines around her mouth, the beginnings of crows" feet, and strands of grey in her wild hair.