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Theodore and Hermione Christmas Vacation

Flashback:

Hermione was sitting in the library alone. She was supposed to be studying for Defense against the Dark Arts, but she couldn't focus. There were so many people in the library and not one of them was being quiet. Hermione had enough; she walked over to where the most noise was coming from. She frowned, there sitting at the table was Theodore Nott, Pansy Parkinson, Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zanbini. It was going to be a fight to ask them to do anything. Hermione cleared her throat and Theo looked over at her. He smirked at her and rose to meet her eyes. He asked her in a snotty tone, what it was that she exactly needed since she was interrupting a wonderful story. She frowned at Theo and grabbed his arm. He stood his ground and didn't move, he was offended that she had even touched him. She was after all a filthy Mudblood and he was a Pureblood. Hermione continued to frown at Theo; he told her that she was so much prettier when she smiled. Hermione stopped frowning but didn't smile. Theo walked over to the stacks, next to where Hermione had been sitting. She sat in her chair and he sat down on the other side across from her. Theo couldn't let anyone in Slytherin hear what he said. Hermione started frowning again; Theo smiled a genuine handsome smile and grabbed Hermione's hand across the table. Hermione was so surprised that he was touching her. Hermione couldn't move, she was stuck in her seat. This moment would never come again and Hermione was going to take this moment and relish it for what it was worth. A handsome man smiling at her and holding her hand.

Next Year around Christmas:

Sitting on the bed in her dorm room at Hogwarts, Hermione was trying to figure out how she was going to tell her friends that she was leaving on a Christmas Holiday without them. The past five years, they had always spent the holiday together.

Hermione needed to think of a plan and think of it fast. She had already accepted his invitation to go away for Christmas. He had written her and requested her company on a Christmas escape to a warmer climate. He had told her that he was sick of sneaking around and that they needed to go somewhere that they could be together and alone. Together in public, somewhere they didn't have to hide their relationship. He had already paid for the airlines and the hotel, all he needed was her.

Hermione finished packing her bags. She would send them downstairs with a house elf, when the time came. Hermione had packed a great many things, probably more than she needed. She didn't know how this vacation would work. They hadn't been alone for that long before, so it would be something new. Hermione walked down to the Great Hall for breakfast, this was the last breakfast before the Holidays. She needed to tell her friends about her leaving and now was the time.

Theo looked across the Great Hall; Hermione was smiling and talking to her friends. She looked so fantastically beautiful right now. He couldn't take his mind off her and their wonderful upcoming vacation. He had it already all planned. He was going to take her there and propose to her, she was his dream women. Everything he had ever dreamed of, now if he could only change everyone else's mind.

Hermione decided to be blunt about it. Harry was sitting next to Ron, across from her. She cleared her throat and said," I am going on Holiday with one of my friends from home. I haven't spent much time with her, so it is an exciting experience. I am sorry we won't get to spend Christmas together, but I will be back right after the New Year and then we can celebrate together. Okay?" Harry, Ron, and Ginny looked like Hermione was speaking parseltounge, but smiled and agreed that she would have a magnificent time on her vacation.

Theo went back to his dorm room and got the rest of his bags together. Hermione would be going on the train and then they would go to separate cars on another trains and then apperate from there to the airline. They were going to change their looks, so no one would see them together.

Hermione had already packed; she was still herself after all. Now she had only wait until the train was ready to leave. She couldn't wait for the holiday to begin. She and Theo would be together and have a wonderful Christmas. Hermione had gotten him a wonderful present and couldn't wait to show him.

Theo finished packing his bags and walked into the common room. Pansy Parkinson was sitting in a chair by the fireplace, she knew of his plans, just not who he was taking. Pansy giggled as Theo sat down, she was waiting for him to surprise her with the other ticket. Blaise told Theo that he would be doing an around the world tour over the holidays and maybe he would stop my where he was staying.

Hermione walked down to the Great Hall. Her friends were sitting there waiting to head to the Burrow. Molly was expecting them soon and they knew better than to be late, but they couldn't miss their friend before she left. Harry leaped up when he saw Hermione enter the Great Hall, he handed her a present wrapped in silver paper and told her not to open it until Christmas. He also told her that he had put a charm on it so that she couldn't open it until then. Molly had taught him since her kids seemed to think "no opening presents" didn't apply to them. Ginny and Ron where wearing their Christmas sweaters. Ugly homemade sweaters, but they were made with love.

Theo went out with the other Slytherin to the carriages, to take them to the train stations to ride the Hogwarts Express to London. Theo handed his luggage to one of the house elves and sat down next to Draco Malfoy. Draco smiled at Theo, he also knew of his plans to go on vacation. Draco was the one who actually suggested the hotel. The Twisted Dragon. It was first class all the way, just like Draco.