A/N: Hola! I'm back! Well, I was back the other day, but I forgot to say I'm back, so now I'm saying it! This chapter has not been read by my beta because she is out of town, so excuse any typos I may have missed. This chapter was a difficult one for me to write, I didn't want to end it the way I did, but in order to understand what happens next, they have to be apart. Hope you understand, R&R!
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After Hermione left the hospital wing she knew who she had to go see, but she didn't know what she was going to talk to him about. Obviously her visions were memories, but if she didn't remember, why would he remember. Who had obliviated her, and why was she remembering. With all these thoughts running through her head she didn't realize she had arrived in front of Sirius' office. She opened the door and was relieved to find that he didn't have a class.
"Sirius?" Hermione said walking in and shutting the door behind her. She saw Sirius walk out of his office.
"Hermione," he said walking down the stairs, "How are you, I haven't seen you in a while. All better, I trust!"
"Yes, all better, I was glad to see you don't have a class!" Hermione said.
"Class…Hermione, my dear girl, it's the weekend, I was just doing some reading." Sirius said holding up a book. Hermione smiled, but didn't believe for a second that he was up there just reading.
"Right…" Hermione said, "Actually Sirius I came to talk to you about some strange dreams I have been having recently." Hermione said not looking away from his eyes, "They are odd, and I keep having them every night, I am in my room with a spell written on a piece of paper, I can't tell what spell it is, but the writing looks old, like I have had it for a while, and it has worn. I say the spell and I always wake up right after seeing your face. Why?" Hermione kept her eyes of him, he looked away.
"Hermione, I don't know what you are talking about, it sounds to me as though you had a dream that frightened you, now if you would be so kind, I have work to do…" Sirius began
"Who brought you back?" Hermione asked interrupting him. Sirius didn't say a word. "Sirius," she said making her tone more firm, "Who brought you back?"
"Hermione, there are things we do, things we keep from you that are strictly for your benefit, if you knew who brought me back, it would be bad, I can't tell you why, just simply that it would be." Once Sirius said thins Hermione knew who it was, he wouldn't be trying to hide it so hard otherwise.
"It was me wasn't it?" when he didn't answer she turned towards the door.
"Hermione, you have to understand," Sirius began, "it was for your own benefit!"
"My own benefit, my arse! You kept it from me so you wouldn't have to deal with telling me." Hermione said harshly. "My parents died because I brought you back, don't you think I deserved to know that they might die because I was helping a friend. Don't you think I deserved…"
"What? The right to drive yourself crazy not knowing when they were gonna die, if they were gonna die?" Sirius said forgetting that she was a student he a teacher. "Hermione you did what you thought was right and it turned out badly, so what you should be happy you got to spend some time with them like everything was normal."
Hermione just stared at him with anger, "That wasn't your decision to make." She said before heading out the door.
"Wait, Hermione don't leave, look I'm sorry what happened and that you found out this way, but I'm not sorry for how I handled it. I did what I thought was best for you and I can't change that." Sirius said
"I need…to go!" Hermione said exiting the room. Seconds later Harry came inside.
"What was that about?" Harry asked in confusion.
"Nothing, she's just angry at me." Sirius said. Harry laughed.
"It's about time someone else dealt with her anger besides me and Ron!" Harry said smiling.
"Is there something I can help you with Harry, I really do need to be getting back to work!" Sirius said moving towards the stairs.
"Yeah," Harry said, "Where are my parents?"
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Hermione stormed out of there unsure of where to go. She knew she had to go somewhere where no one would find her and she considered the Room of requirement, and decided since there was no way she was getting out of the castle she walked towards it. Once she got there, a door was already there and letting curiosity get the best of her she opened the doorknob to find an empty room.
"Hello?" Hermione yelled into the room only to be met by silence.
"Hello!" a voice said from behind her. She immediately swung around, to be met by nothing. Confused she felt for her wand to find it not there, she must have left it back at her room.
"What do you want?" She asked to no one in particular. When she got no response she walked over to the couch against the wall. Hermione noticed that there was a door over on the other side of the room. She hadn't noticed it there before and she didn't know what made her get up and walk over to it, but something about it drew her to it and as soon as she put her hand on the doorknob she felt herself being tugged in all directions. She closed her eyes and when she opened them she was in the middle of a house. She heard voices from behind her and turned to come face to face with Lily and James.
"Hello?" she asked causing them to stop what they were doing and turn to face her. When they got over the shock they smiled.
"Hermione…what are you doing here?" James asked and Lily hit him.
"What my husband means is, we're so glad to see you but, what are you doing here?" Lily said.
"I think I came here by accident, I was just trying to see what was behind that door and I guess it was a portkey, but I just wound up here…where is here anyways?" she said looking around.
"This…is our house," Lily said with a smile, "or more properly known as Godric's Hollow!"
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Harry was worried. He hadn't heard from Hermione all day, and it was worrying him. He had gone to the hospital wing to find she had already left and went to Sirius' office to find her storming out. He tried to get her attention but she didn't stop and so he went into talk to Sirius. After he had left he went to the Gryffindor common room to do some homework and had fallen asleep, only to wake up hours later with no Hermione in sight. He checked the clock and found that it was 10 and tomorrow was a Saturday, meaning that Ron and Lavender would be upstairs and despite that they would not like it he had to know if either of them had seen Hermione. He walked up to the Girls Dormitory and went to Lavender and Hermione's room only to find Lavender sitting on her bed.
She looked up, "Hello, Harry!" she said sitting down the paper she had been studying.
"Lavender, I don't mean to seem rude, but have you seen Hermione?" Harry asked walking into the room.
"No, I figured she wouldn't be coming back tonight." Lavender said, looking at Harry.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked.
"Well, I figured since it was her first night out and yours back together, you might…celebrate…for lack of a better word." Lavender said a blush creeping onto her cheeks.
Harry's eyes widened, "Oh, um…no, actually she walked away pretty angry this afternoon and I haven't seen her since." Lavender looked down, thinking.
"Well…use the map!" Lavender said as though it was nothing.
"The map! Of course, you're brilliant!" Harry said running out of the room.
"Wait," yelled Lavender, "I'm coming!" she said running after him.
"No go back, I need to work this out with Hermione by myself!" Harry said reaching his room and heading for his trunk.
"No way, I'm coming too, I wanna be involved in this adventure too." Lavender said walking into his room, "Wow, you're messy!" she said scanning the room, only to be sent a dirty look by Harry.
"She's not on here!" Harry said searching all the different areas.
"Who's not on there?" they heard from behind them. Harry and Lavender both spun to come face to face with Hermione. Harry looked at her as though he was looking at a ghost.
"Where have you been?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, what he said!" Lavender said with her hands on her hips. Harry looked at Lavender and she looked at him. "Oh, um…yeah I guess I'll be leaving now." She said before exiting quickly.
"You didn't have to do that, now she will spread it all over school…" Hermione said shutting the door behind Lavender.
"Where have you been?" Harry asked again, not moving.
Hermione stared at him, "I needed to clear my head, so I went to the room of requirement."
"I went there, I didn't see you there." Harry said.
"Well, I was there. Why are you acting like this?" Hermione asked stepping towards him. "You've never been like this before!"
"That was before you started keeping things from me!" Harry said and Hermione looked up, surprised.
"I'm…I'm not keeping anything from you!" Hermione said in an unconvincing voice.
Harry scoffed, "I cannot believe you are lying to me!"
"I'm not lying to you!" Hermione said.
"No, then why have you been avoiding me ever since you came to, why have you been pretending to be sleeping when I would come to visit you in the hospital wing. And why do your eyes always say something different than you say." Harry asked, pleading with his voice.
"I don't know what you are talking about!" Hermione said not looking him in the eye.
Harry stepped up to her until he was inches from her face, "Tell me!" Harry said before leaning into kiss her. Once they broke apart Hermione just looked into his eyes and for the first time since they came back she considered telling him. Then he grabbed her hand and she suddenly flashbacked to the cave and felt the coldness of his hand when he had died and stepped away.
She looked at Harry, "I'm sorry!"
"What happened in that cave?" Harry asked his eyes never leaving her face.
"Nothing!" Hermione said.
"Liar!" Harry said turning away from her, "God Hermione, why for once in your life can you not act like you need to be in charge."
"Oh that's priceless, you're the one that has a thing for saving people. You always have to be the one that saves the people from death and horrible things." Hermione said.
"Yeah well, that's what I do, what I don't get is why you're hiding this…secret or whatever, it'll eat you from the inside out. It couldn't possible be so bad that it would hurt me." Harry said.
"Yes, it can!" Hermione said, "If you found out, it would be terrible, you'd never forgive me, or yourself!"
"Why wouldn't I forgive you?" Harry asked, "Maybe because you kept it from me?"
Hermione looked up at him, "Kept?"
"Yes, kept?" Harry said, he turned towards his trunk and pulled out something. "When I woke up, I found these on the ground, I took them, I don't really know why, I just thought they would be useful. Snape ran a bunch of tests on them to find out whose blood it was on them." Harry said holding up two bloody swords. "One, was Cho, the other, was me!"
Hermione couldn't believe what she was hearing, "You knew all along!" Hermione asked, "You knew that you had died, and you made me go through that hell." She saw Harry look down. "What?"
"I didn't know I had died until now, I just thought that I was badly injured." Harry said in a quiet voice. He dropped the swords into his trunk and walked towards the door and opened it. "Get out!"
"What?" Hermione asked.
"Get out!" Harry said more forcefully this time, "I gave you plenty of chances to tell me the truth but you just lied to me and told me nothing happened. I didn't care about the fact that I died, it wouldn't have hurt me, but the fact that you kept it from me because you thought it was what was best for me, really hurt." Harry said, "I can't just forget that." Harry said in a softer voice, "Now get out, as far as I am concerned…we are through!"
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