A/N: Hey guys! Thanks for the reviews! This story has taken a slight turn in order to someone's review, who mentioned seeing Hermione's parents as well. I never really thought about it that way, so I decided to run with it! Much…Much Love!!
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Ps. I changed the first chapter a lil, so if you come across something you don't remember about Harry and Hermione's relationship, refer to the new first chapter! (But not much has changed--so don't fret!)
Pps. The nightmare portion of this story will eventually be turned into a sequel/new story!
Enough blabbing already…
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Harry's mouth dropped open, "What?!"
"I found it." She restated looking at him with a smile on her face.
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He stared at her grinning in disbelief. He felt a smile tug at the corners of his mouth. "You…You found it?"
She nodded her head quickly, "I found it."
"Oh Merlin, You found it!" He said smiling bigger.
"I found it." She repeated, the two of them loving those three words.
"You found it." He stated one last time and hugged her tightly. She hugged him back with her grasp on him as tight as ever. She started to feel tears swell. He picked her up still hugging her, not caring if the younger students were staring. He put her down and she laughed as quietly as she could. He pulled away.
"Wait, Hermione, it can't be that easy. It can't be. There has to be some, some loophole, or…" He searched for a reason to believe this miracle wasn't occurring.
"Harry. Listen to me. All you have to do is visit a doctor in Hogsmeade. He's very…prestigious. Now, there is a few…well, setbacks. He's been researching this serum for 10 years. Only one other person in the world, other than himself has used it. It worked; it passed the test with flying colors. He visited with his sister, who was murdered for exactly one hour. Really, no one knows about this. At least, not that many people. But your…well, Harry Potter. He'll talk to you. You just have to go to his office. I scheduled an appointment. Once you get inside, introduce the matter." She said, holding back her excitement for her best friend.
He smiled, "I guess it's worth a try. But wait."
"What?" She asked curiously, her smile falling.
"You're coming with me to the appointment." His smile got bigger.
She threw her arms around him, "Really, I can? Oh Merlin, that would be amazing to talk to him!" She squealed like a little girl. She broke apart from him and looked at him for a minute.
"Your amazing, Hermione." He told her. "I can't believe you found this." Brown eyes met Green eyes. Their eyes were locked in a tight gaze for a moment before Jonathon Higgs and Ron walked in the room.
"Hey Guys!" Ron exclaimed rather loudly as Madame Pince glared at him. He rolled his eyes. Harry and Hermione broke their gaze and looked at the two. Jonathon was a year younger than them and had a big crush on Hermione. Ron brushed it off, saying Jonathon would get over himself. Harry always looked at Jonathon as if he was stealing Hermione away from him. He hated Jonathon just for that fact. Ron looked down to see what she was doing, but Hermione quickly closed all of the books and the notebook before he could see. Harry looked at her confused, but Hermione gave him `the look' so he backed off.
"Hello Ron…Jon." She acknowledged laughing at the sound of their names. "What's going on?"
"Nothin" Jonathon answered shrugging, "Just wondering if you guys wanted to come play Exploding Snap with us?"
Hermione rolled her eyes. "No. I'll stay here, thank you."
"We'll play." Harry answered, earning an angry glance from Hermione. "Hermione and I both, we'll be there in a second. Meet us in the common room." Hermione glared at him.
"Cool. I'm glad your coming Hermione." Jon said, grinning at Hermione. Ron rolled his eyes; Harry glared at him on accident. Hermione ignored him and slapped Harry on the arm as Ron and Jonathon walked out.
"Harry! I don't want to play!" She exclaimed as Harry shrugged, "And why did you look at Jon like that?" She asked confused.
"You're playing. I refuse to let you stay cooped up in this library today." He took her hand, grabbed her notebook and started to lead her out. "B-Bu-But…I-I have to-have to check the books out!" She tried to get out as he pulled her out. "Later." He said.
He pulled her all the way down to the hallway where the portrait was, where he stopped on the steps. "Hermione?"
"Yeah?" She asked one step above him and looked down, dropping his hand.
"What about…" He tried to search for a way to say this, "What about your parents?" He met her gaze. She broke it, dropped down a step to face him and cleared her throat, looking up from the ground to his face.
"What about them?" She asked looking down again. She had tears in her eyes, so he wrapped his arms around her.
"Hermione…" He tried to comfort her. "No, Harry, I'm fine. I'm okay." She told him pulling away. "What about them?" She wiped her tears and looked at him in the face.
His arms dropped to his sides. "Well, maybe you should…well be able to, you know…err…see them, too." He held her arm. "I mean, Hermione, you can't be this strong for me and act like you don't feel any pain. I know that you're hurting. You may be able to fool the entire world, but the one person you can't fool is me." Their eyes locked, and she choked back tears.
"Harry I'm…" She shook her head, trying to say something. "No, Hermione. Don't. Don't try to hide this from me. You can not hide from me." He said both his arms on her and shook her. "I'm here, love, I'm here for you." He told her. She was a little flustered and confused as to why he had called her `love'. None of her friends, besides Seamus when he was joking around, had called her that. But for the moment, she disregarded it.
She gave up and cried into his chest. "I do. I do miss them…but I got time with them, 16 years, you got…"
"Nothing." He answered for her. "But, Hermione, if I am going to do this, there is no way that I would even consider you not being able to do the same with your parents. No questions asked. If you argue, it'll only make me angrier." He chuckled, the torturous feeling returned. She pulled away and smiled.
"Okay. I guess…" She let him wipe the tears from her eyes. People continued walking by them, occasionally stopping to try to hear their conversation. "Well, we can talk later, come on now lets go." She took his hand and they walked into the common room.
"There you are! We've been wondering what took you so long! Hey, Hermione." Jon greeted them, his face brightened when he said her name. "Hello, Jon." Hermione greeted.
"Yeah." Ron agreed, "I can't imagine." He mumbled. For some reason he couldn't help but be jealous of the two. He knew Harry was in love with Hermione. And he could see it in Hermione's eyes that she cared a lot for him too. Hermione moved to let go of Harry's hand to walk toward Ron and Jon, but Harry pulled back on her hand. She looked confused and faced him. Ron and Jon looked confused and watched them.
"What's wrong?" She whispered. He whispered, "Are we going to tell Ron?" She thought about it for a moment. "Yes. Well, I think we should. He should know. Later." She whispered again. "And I think you're right…again." He whispered straight into her ear this time, she felt his hot breath on her skin and smiled widely as he kissed her quickly on the cheek. Her smile widened and she faced him. What Harry and Hermione didn't realize was the lust that locked between their eyes. Jon's face fell into a frown and averted his gaze at her, in jealously. Ron rolled his eyes and shook his head, turning to Jon and shrugging. Harry and Hermione looked away from each other smiling and walked towards Ron and Jon.
"Sorry we took so long." Harry apologized. "So are we going to start or what?"
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After dinner, Ron, Harry, and Hermione gathered in the common room. Harry and Hermione sat on the couch, Ron on the arm chair. Instinctively, Hermione laid her head on Harry's shoulder. "Ron?" Hermione asked, as Ron averted his gaze from the fire to her. "Hmm?"
"I…Well Harry and I…we…" She looked to Harry for the words. Ron raised his eyebrows in anticipation for what he expected was them admitting their relationship. However, the real news came as a shock.
"We found a way to see our parents again." Harry finished for her quickly. She mouthed a thank you to him and turned to Ron again.
"You…You WHAT?" He asked in shock, trying desperately to keep his voice down. "YOU FOUND A WAY TO SEE YOU'RE…and excuse me for this…DEAD PARENTS?"
"Shh…" Hermione silenced him looking around the somewhat empty room, "And yes. I did. There's a doctor in Hogsmeade, surprisingly, who created a serum where you could spend an hour with someone…well who is deceased. It's been properly tested and passed. Harry and I made an appointment to see him." She smiled when she saw Ron's excited face.
"Oh, Merlin that's amazing! I can't believe…wow! That's so…cool. I mean, whoa. Are you going while we are in Hogsmeade this Saturday?"
"Yeah." Harry answered. "That's our Hermione." She blushed and smiled eagerly.
They all talked about the news, nervously and excitedly. Harry couldn't believe what could change in one day.
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The week had gone by rather slowly, because of the anticipation of Saturday's meeting. Harry found himself more in love with Hermione as time went along, he ached to tell her. Time inched along…
But finally, it was Friday night.
Hermione found that she could not sleep, and after many hours of tossing and turning, went down to the common room. She found Harry there again. He didn't notice her; she walked around the side of the couch and plopped beside him. She didn't care if all she was in was a long t-shirt, it did the job of covering her.
"I can't sleep." She told him bluntly. "Yeah. Yeah, me neither." He agreed quickly, without looking away from the fire. She was just staring at him.
"Are we really going to do this?" She asked sleepily.
"Yeah. I guess so. I can't believe this…it's…impossible." He said, still staring intensely into the fire still.
"It's a miracle! That's what it is." She said smiling and snuggling closer to him. He turned to look at her and smiled down at her. He kissed the top of her head.
"Yeah. I'm just afraid of expecting anything. What if he can't help us?" He inquired.
"I've thought of that, too." Hermione agreed. "But we just have to hope for the best and be glad that we even have that possibility."
"Your right." He said. "How are you feeling?"
"Oh, I'm fine…But I think I'm going to bed." She said yawning. "Okay." He agreed and went off to bed himself after her.
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That same night, only 3 hours later at 2:00am, he was awakened by Ginny and Lavender running into the boy's dorm. They shook Harry and Ron awake.
"Ahh…Knock much?" Ron called out sleepily while Ginny shook him. Lavender woke Harry. "Guys, come on, get up! It's Hermione…" But before Lavender could say another word, Harry was out of bed and towards the door. "Is she hurt?" He asked ready to run out the door.
Lavender spoke in a rushed voice, "I don't know…she's crying, she's pretty shaken up. She told us not to get you Harry, but we didn't know what to do but get Professor…" She trailed off as Harry was out the door and Ron was soon to follow.
The found Hermione standing in the common room shaking and crying. When she saw Harry, she shouted through tears, "I told you not to get him!"
"Hermione, what is going on?" He asked confused and hurt. Why didn't she want to see him? He tried to reach for her, but she roughly got away and fell into Ron's arms. Ron looked at Harry strangely. What was going on?
"Hermione what's wrong?" Ron asked. "What happened?"
"Don't go Ron, don't go." She told him crying into him.
"I…I won't." Ron said confused. He held her until Harry came up.
"Mione, please, what's wrong?" Harry asked her.
"Get away from me! You can't be near me!" She shouted. Some students were peeking out of their rooms now to watch the scene.
"Mione, please." He grabbed her arm and took her into his arms.
"No, no! You can't die, you can't. Get away!" She yelled, beating her fists on his chest. Ron looked at the Harry and shook his head. Ron sent Ginny and Lavender off to bed and walked back towards the two.
"Hermione, Harry's here. He's right here. He's okay." He rubbed her shoulders.
"No...No…No…" She sobbed harder. Harry took her too the couch and they sat down.
"I was only a nightmare, love, I'm here." He told her repeatedly. Ron backed away, knowing Harry was going to comfort her now, and that was what she needed right now; Harry's love.
She let him wrap her arms around her tighter and she completely melted. "Really?" She asked sleepily.
"Yes." He answered softly. "I'm here, love, I'm right here." Ron went upstairs, knowing he had it under control.
"Why do you call me love all the sudden?" She asked almost falling asleep.
"Do you want me to stop?" He asked never taking his eyes off her.
She shook her head and drifted off into a deep sleep in his arms as he kept whispering, "I'm here, love, I'm here."
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The next morning, Harry woke up and looked down at who was in his arms. Hermione was still softly asleep, cuddled against Harry. He smiled, but then remembered why she was like this. She had had some sort of nightmare in the middle of the night. She hadn't even wanted to look at Harry. He still wondered what had happened. She moved slightly against him, pressing even farther against him.
She mumbled, "Harry…"
"Shh…Mione, I'm here. Are you okay?" He asked her. She nodded and moved to face him. Then he asked her, "Do you remember what happened last night?"
"I had a nightmare. Harry, I've had a few lately. And you…you always…die. I'm sorry for…acting like that." She said trying not to cry.
"Hermione, why didn't you tell me?" He asked her worried.
"I'm fine. And I don't know. I mean yesterday, I dreamt just fine about my parents...and now…"
"It's okay. They're just dreams. I'm here, and I'm fine. I'm not going anywhere. There's no way I could ever leave you. I will not leave you." He reassured her kissing her forehead. "I…I love you, Hermione."
She looked up into his eyes. Could he really have just said what she thought he said? Judging by the look in his eyes, he did. She had to say something. Merlin, she couldn't just…sit here. She has to say something. Come on, Hermione Jane Granger you know you're in love with him! You've been so deeply in love with him for six long years. Now he said he loves you! Tell him you love him! You know you do! Say it!
"I-Well, I- I love you, too, Harry." He smiled. "You do?" He asked.
She flung her arms around him. "Oh yes Harry more than anything! God I've been in love with you for so long! I tried not to, I was in denial…but I can't. I love you so much Harry James Potter, I can't tell you how much." He smiled and laughed, she was crying.
"I love you, Hermione. I've always loved you. I'm sorry I was too blind to see it or too stupid to tell you. I never want to see you as miserable as you were last night. But I do love you, don't ever forget that." He held her tighter as she cried.
He lifted her head up and kissed her tears, until they were all gone, and then he kissed her on the lips, softly. She deepened the kiss. They continued kissing for a few more minutes before Hermione pulled apart, "Is this really happening?"
"Only if you want it to." She nodded and he kissed her once more before saying, "We should go down for breakfast, we've got a pretty important day today. Hmm?" She nodded.
"You're right." He kissed her on the top of the head. I'll see you at breakfast." She smiled and they parted their separate ways.
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