Hello there! I obviously don't know any of the Harry potter characters or Harry and Hermione would have gotten together! I would love to have reviews on this one-shot and they multi-chap book that my friend and I wrote.

Harry watched in horror as Hermione kissed Ron for his comment about saving the house elves. He thought she loved him. What about those nights when Ron was gone and they told each other everything. What about when he held her because she couldn't fall asleep alone. What about how he told her he had always had feelings for her but that he didn't act on them because Ron liked her also. What about when she kissed him after his admission. As Harry stood there thinking about how he opened up to her, he realized that she never said it back. She never told him that she loved him too. She just kissed him. He felt like he was hit in the chest with a buldger. She used him. He was nothing more than comfort while Ron was gone. He fights the urge to leave them here and walk away.

"Is this the moment?" Harry says angrily while they continue to kiss.

"Oi! There's a war going on here!" He yells at them so they will stop.

"I know, mate, so it's now or never isn't it?" Ron says with a grin plastered across his face. Harry quickly turns away before Hermione can't look at him. He doesn't want her to look in his eyes because he knows that he would break down and right now he can't afford to do that.

Harry watches as the Weasleys all gather together around Fred's body and cry. He feels broken and beaten down when Hermione runs to cry with them. As he looks around he notices all of the bodies and the injured people who are fighting in this war, his war, and the disgust he feels for himself overwhelms him. While he scans the bodies he notices a tuffet of bubble gum pink hair, and with a closer look he knows its Tonks. Grasped within her hand is Remus's. No, they can't be dead. Remus is the last conection to his parents. They just had their baby. They were supposed to live happily together, raising their child in a world of peace. The guilt washes over him. He can't stay here anymore. His grip on the bottle in his hand tightens reminding him that he needs to go watch Snape's final memories. He tears his eyes from the bodies to look for her, the one person who would help him and show him that everything will be okay. When he finds her again he sees that she is with Ron and his family. He wonders if he asked her to come with him if she would, or would she stay with Ron. He chooses not to ask because he doesn't like his odds right now, with the way she has been acting toward him he knows she would say no. With a frustrated hand running through his hair he turns and walks away from the Great Hall towards Dumbledore's office. When he gets to the gargoyle he sees that it is torn away from the doorway, leaving it open for anyone. He slowly walks up the stairs and once inside he grabs the pensive and pours the memories into it.

He falls out of the pensive and on to his butt. Normally a fall like this would steal his breath for a few seconds but it left the second he found out that he had to die. He was a Horcrux. His death meant that others could be free from Voldemort's tyranny. Instead of feeling anger at Dumbledore for hiding this from him he felt acceptance. He knew that if Dumbledore had told him in 6th year that he never would have fought this hard. Dumbledore must have known that by the end of this war he would be too tired, too worn, too broken to fight this. The worst part for him about finding this out is that Dumbledore was right. He wasn't going to try and fight it, what was the point. Everyone he loved was either dead or better off without him. He knew that Hermione would be fine, after all she didn't love him she loves Ron. He let that thought sink in because that thought would be the reason he left the only home he knew to go face Voldemort and die. Harry stands up and wipes the tears off his face. With a grim determination he walks out of the office. He contemplates telling everyone good bye, but he knows that they wouldn't understand and he would be wasting whatever time he had left to get to the Forbidden Forest. He quickly pulls the invisibility cloak out of his jacket and throws it over his head. Just as he is walking down the stairs and out of Hogwarts he notices Neville looking through the rubble for people or bodies.

"Hey, Neville." Harry whispers.

"Harry? Is that you? What are you doing out here, everyone has been looking for you inside." Neville says worriedly.

"Nev I need you to do something for me."

"You have to promise me that you aren't going to the Forbidden Forest first."

"Of course not, I just have to do something real quick. Nev I need you to kill the Voldemort's snake."

"Why?"

"It's very important that you do this for me Nev. I can't tell you why, but I trust that you will do this for me. Ron and Hermione also know and will be trying to kill it too."

"Alright Harry, I'll try."

"Thanks Nev, you are a great friend." Harry says while pulling the cloak back over his head. Harry quickly walks towards the forest to met his death. He doesn't notice the way Neville looks around and shakes his head as if he finally realized Harry was lying to him.

"HARRY POTTER IS DEAD!" Voldemort shouts gleefully. Screams of no run through the group fighting against Voldemort. Hermione falls to her knees and screams Harry's name in pain. He can't be dead. Please don't let him be dead.

"Look you foolish people! Your savior laying dead at my feet, where he was always meant to be." Voldemort sneers. Hermione doesn't notice any of the talking or fighting, she just sits on her knees staring at Harry's body while crying. The memories of his soft timber whispering I love yous in her ear while he holds her in the dark and looking into his happy green eyes when she pulled back from their first kiss flies through her mind. She never told him that she loved him. A swooping sensation hits her stomach and her heart seems to fall and shatter on the ground. She remembers how when Ron came back she ignored Harry and everything that happened when they were alone in that tent. She kissed Ron right in front of Harry. What was the last thing Harry said to her? She can't remember. Oh God, what has she done. The only thought that runs through her mind is that Harry has to be alive so she can tell him that she loves and beg him to forgive her for what she did to him. The sound of Neville talking and killing the stupid snake are drowned out when she sees that Harry's body is gone. She frantically looks around for him and notice that everyone is running towards the Great Hall and she follows them.

When she gets inside she is immediately thrown into the fighting. While fighting Bellatrix she sees Harry in the corner of her eye and loses her focus. Mrs. Weasely jumps in and fights Bellatrix which leaves Hermione to watch Harry fight Voldemort. She can't hear what they are saying but she can tell that Voldemort is angry that Harry is still alive and able to fight. Harry and Voldemort speak their cruses of choice and a bright light envelopes them and encases the whole hall. When the light dissipates all of the Death Eaters are on the ground and Harry is the only one left standing in the front of the hall. Hermione runs as fast as she can to Harry and launches herself into his arms. She has never felt more relief than in that moment when Harry's arms wrapped around her. Tears of happiness run down her face and onto Harry's shirt. He's alive and he will never leave her again. She feels Harry pull back but she buries her face in his chest.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"Then why are you crying?"

She pulls her face back and looks him square in the eye. "Because I thought you were dead, prat."

"I didn't think you would care."

She feels like she has been punched in the stomach. "What made you think that?"

He looks into her tear filled eyes. "Since Ron came back you have ignored me and then I saw you kiss him. When we were alone in the tent I told you I loved you and all you did was kiss me, you never said it back. I figured I was just comfort for you until he came back."

She feels horrible because she did do all of that to him. "No, I do love you and I'm so sorry that I made you think any different. I am the biggest idiot in the world because I thought by being nice to Ron then he would stay and I didn't even think about it would affect you. I don't even know why I kissed him, but the second I did I hated it. I love you and only you. Can you forgive me for being so stupid and selfish?"

His eyes water half way through her speech and as soon as she finishes he kisses her to let her know that she is forgiven.

"I love you too, and yes you are forgiven."

"Please don't walk off and die again, okay?"

"I have no reason to now, I have you."