Chapter 1 Everybody wants something from me
"Everybody wants to see me down, Leave my body on the dirty ground…"
- Everybody wants something from me
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1999, April
She was in her room, in her own room in the house that her parents left her. They decided to live in Australia now, and asked Hermione to take care of the house, it's her childhood home after all.
It's a warm colour of red, to match her house during her first winter at Hogwarts, hand painted by her father, it was not in a too deep of shades to avoid the feeling of being pressured and trapped. However warm and light and filled with love from her parents, she could not feel it now.
She hadn't feel anything for awhile now, her deep dark secrets threatening to be spilled, to be told. Living with her parents didn't work, living in the burrow didn't work, seeing her friends didn't work and working didn't work. She just wanted to feel something, even if it's pain. She didn't mind being depressed, stressed, haunted or even tortured, she seemed to lost the privileges of feeling for some time now.
Every bone in her body, every nerve in her brain was screaming, it is very hard to believe that this is happening, but the more she tries, the more she fails, and how she hated failure. She was conflicted, this might be the first time when she couldn't think it through.
She didn't know how it happened, she just knew, no one else should know, not her best friend, not the love of her life, not anyone. She had to run.
Far, far away, Somewhere no one could ever find her.
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Hermione disappeared, the day of her graduation, the day of which the golden trio was supposed to be reunited. No body knows what happened. Harry, of course, used all his resources, his fame, his status, something that he's reluctant to use before. The Weasleys also put a lot of effort into finding Hermione, since their family was big and everywhere.
But still, nothing. Not in Magical Britain, not in muggle Britain, not with her parents, not with her friends, Aurors couldn't find her. Owls were able to be delivered at first, they came back with letters and notes missing, they just didn't get a reply. They kept sending and sending, thinking it would at least drive Hermione crazy and reply. And it did work, Hermione eventually wrote a reply 6 months after her disappearance, telling him that she's fine, just needed a little time by herself, and promised she'd be back soon, more importantly stop writing.
It wouldn't work on him, he's the boy who lived and lived (George added the other "lived"), then one day, even Owls couldn't deliver anything to her, and that was 5 years ago.
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5 years later. 2004, March
It was a sunny day, didn't seem like a day for sorrow, unfortunately, it was the day that Molly said goodbye to all. Fulfilling her last wish, Ginny's getting married, to none other than Oliver Wood. They met through Quidditch, being the last to get married in the Weasley family, Molly's only dying wish is to see Hermione again.
She had a habit of taking children under her wing, and after all these years, she saw Hermione as her own. While there's no other children for her to worry about, Hermione was the only girl on her mind.
Harry and Ron already sent thousands of owls, posting stories in the news, hoping she would come back, even if just for 5 minutes, just to say goodbye to Molly.
Their wish was granted in a mysterious way. They did receive an owl, that night, when Molly took her last breathe, she was able to finish the letter before death came for her, perhaps a part of her needed to know Hermione's well, and refused to go even if death stood by her side.
Hermione promised Molly, she would be present at her funeral, paid her respect and she truly loves her, for being a motherly figure during the darkest time. She apologised to her, saying that she wished to be there with her now. But Ron was furious, she could be here if she wanted to, what could stop a witch from travelling after all, while Harry kept silence.
Their relationship ended effectively as Hermione left, not that it was going great before, he married a fine lady to start the family that he always wanted; Harry took the job as DADA professor at Hogwarts, 5 years is a lot of time, and where they would be if Hermione was here is now all mystery.
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Mere: Hey, thanks for the lovely Addicted2ItAll, for beta-ing this. Am going to upload the whole thing now. This has been dragging me through the year. Let's just say it's not fun being a nursing student.