Chapter 1

Hermione watched as her childhood room emptied before her eyes into a brown trunk with her initials on top. She smiled a small, soft, almost sad smile at the memories of her times at the school she spent the last seven years protecting. She let out a small sigh as the last of her things settled in her trunk, she closed the lid with a soft click. She made sure it was locked and ran her hand across the initials and the emblem of her school: Hogwarts. When she stood up, arms wrapped around her from behind and she tensed until she heard a soft familiar voice in her ear.

"You don't have to do this you know." The voice whispered.

Hermione gave an exasperated sigh as she rolled her eyes.

"We have been over this multiple times. I need to do this." Hermione replied.

"But what am I to do without my best friend?" the voiced asked and Hermione could just hear the pouting in his voice.

"Oh Harry. It won't be that bad. I'm going to have the floo connected and you can apparate any time you want."

Harry tightened his arms around her for a second then let go. "I know Hermione, but it's just not the same. What have you told Ron?"

Hermione turned around and sighed at the mention of Ron. "I only told him that I need to go away for a while."

"Did you tell him where?" Harry asked as he looked at Hermione with sad eyes.

"No, and don't you dare tell him."

Harry quickly put his hands up as a sign of surrender. "I won't, but please promise me that you will call me when you get there."

"Of course Harry."

Harry pulled her into his arms for a hug one last time and whispered in her hair, "I still don't get why you want to take a plane over there. Why don't you just apparate yourself?"

"We have been over this one too. I need to time to think, and this gives me a chance to do something normal."

Harry sighed as he let go. "Fine. I understand. Doesn't mean I have to like it. By the way, I got you something." Harry handed her a small package. Hermione opened it and inside was a beautiful watch.

Upon closer inspection, Hermione noticed that it was a replica of the one in the Barrow that Molly had added Harry and Hermione into after they left to hunt Horcruxes on their seventh year of school. Even when Ron returned without them Molly still kept Harry and Hermione in it.

Hermione looked up in shock. "Harry! This is wonderful, thank you."

"I gave one to everyone. If you put it on the ground and touch the face with your wand it will became a large grandfather clock like Molly's. If one of us is in danger then this will light up and vibrate to get your attention. Or if you push this button on the side it will send a distress signal to everyone, and before you ask, Ron's will always say that you are safe until you touch his with your wand. He won't get the distress signal either."

Hermione gave Harry a big hug and then put it on her left wrist. She looked at it once more and noticed something, "It even has Fred on it too."

"How could I not put Fred, he is still family."

"Right. Well I need to go before I miss my flight."

Hermione then shrank her trunk and put it in the back pack that she was carrying. It would be funny if she boarded a plane without anything at all.

"One more thing Hermione, I know you're going to a muggle city so if a muggle looks at it then they will just see a regular watch face, and this button over there on the left side of the face will show you the time."

Hermione gave the button a push and '6:45pm' flashed across the glass of the face.

Harry gave Hermione one last hug and apparated out of the house just as the cab Hermione had called earlier arrived. Hermione made sure the back doors were locked up tight before exiting out the front and climbing into the cab. She watched as the house she grew up in disappeared before her eyes, before the cab even left the curb. She gave a sigh knowing that Harry had just completed the last part of the Fidilous charm so now no one except for her, Harry, and Ron could find the house. It did a lot of good, now that she was leaving and her parents were dead.

Hermione remembered going and finding them in Australia after the war was over. They were so mad when she told them why she obliviated them but in the end they didn't stay mad long. They were so happy to just know that she was alive. Hermione had spent a week down there with them. She had even talked about going to medical to be a dentist like them so she could work with them. Maybe even being able to treat fellow witches and wizards. That thought only seemed like a fantasy now. Right before they were about to leave to return home, they were found by six rouge Death Eaters. As hard as she tried, Hermione couldn't save her parents. Her dad was already dead by the time she got to the house from the beach. A stray spell got past her shield that was around her and her mother, her mother bled out. By the time the Aurors got there Hermione was barely holding her own and three of the Death Eaters where unconscious. A tear spilled down her face. She remembered making all the calls to friends and families to tell them about the funeral. It was when she called to talk to Charlie Swan that he reminded her about the small home her parents had gotten from a distant relative. So here she was on her way to Forks, Washington in the United States.