Hi Everyone

welcome to my first Harry Potter fanfic, I have quite a few written already, but hope you like this one. Please review it gives me lots of pleasure to read them. This is like an introduction to the story, the next chapter will be from present day

Hope you enjoy,

Siriuswriter xoxo

Disclaimer: I am not the wonderful and brilliant J., I just like to play in her world.

The Partner

Hermione was crouched down low to the ground, her knees squelching in the mud and her face covered in scratches from the plants. This was the part of the job she really disliked. Hermione Granger was 24 and a fully trained Auror. She had begun her training with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley but they didn't finish.

Ron had been playing Quidditch part time and then as a reserve for the Chudley Canons. He had to replace the seeker, who fell ill, and the team loved him so much they offered him a full-time position. That was the beginning of Ron's Quidditch Career. Ron and Luna Lovegood had started going out when Ron was in 7th Year and had married when Luna took over her father's company The Quibbler, the year after she graduated. It was two and a half years later when Ron became a dad to twin girls, Chantal and Natalie, now 4. They both had their hands full when Luna fell pregnant again; this time thankfully only one, but they had a son, Brandon. He was 6 months old and he was a cutie.

Harry had lasted longer in his Auror training than Ron did. He was with Hermione for two and a half years when he called a meeting with his superiors and said he wanted out. No explanation, no nothing. Needless to say, Hermione wasn't going to let him get off that easy. He was grilled when he arrived at their house that night, he tried to put her off saying he had a headache but she wouldn't be swayed.

"Sorry Harry, a headache doesn't cut it, out with it" Hermione was standing with her hands on her hips with a very grimacing look on her face. He decided not to take his chances.

"Mione you don't understand…" Harry didn't get very far with this line of explanation,

"Well you had better make me understand Harry because I am at my wits end with you, Ron left us and you promised you would stay with me, now you are leaving too and you didn't even have the common courtesy to tell me first. I looked like a right fool when people were coming up to me saying have you heard the news about Harry leaving" Hermione was breathing hard when she finished her tirade but Harry was getting angrier by the minute and her last comment threw him over the edge.

"Oh I see now, that's the real reason why your upset because you didn't find out first" Harry's fists were clenched at his side and his face was red. You could see he was holding back because it was Hermione but he was getting close to losing it.

"Well sorry 'MUM' but I didn't realise I had to get permission from 'you' to make decisions about MY life. I know you have been with me through thick and thin but have you been in here Mione" Harry was pointing to his temple, he was so riled up that ornaments around the house were breaking with his outbursts of magic. The lounge room was beginning to look like a war zone. Glass frames shattered on the carpet and pictures were falling of the walls. He didn't realise Hermione's temper had come down and she was actually crying.

"You have no idea how hard it has been. First being told you're a wizard then finding out about Voldemort and all the dramas that followed and then defeating Him and then, then….. " Harry stopped; he was remembering something he clearly didn't want to share with her. He was breathing hard and only when he stopped did he realise Hermione tears running down her cheeks. He stepped towards her but she flinched and this action made him feel as low as he had ever felt before. He looked around the room and realised what had happened and why Hermione was scared.

"Mione I am sorry please just accept this decision for me, it is what I really want to do, please" Harry was pleading now.

"OK Harry I will, but I am not happy because I feel that you are hiding something from me, but…" Hermione stopped and looked into his eyes and he had never seen her look so vulnerable in his life.

"What is it Mione?" He stepped closer to her until he could feel her breath on his neck, he slowly lifted his hand up to tilt her face to him even though he was still cautious because of her reaction earlier, he placed one arm on her waist. Hermione looked into his eyes and blurted out what she was thinking.

"You are going to leave me too aren't you, just like Ron left and now you will go too?" Hermione was openly crying now and Harry felt his heart break even more. He could never tell her why he couldn't continue with his training how his feelings for her were becoming harder and harder everyday to deal with. When they trained together they were always partnered because they were the best team around. Of course Harry had always had feelings for her since 4th year but over the last two years they had started to take over his life; he lived her, breathed her and worked with her. So in his mind he decided that if he wasn't in such close proximity with her at work then he could still live with her and everything would return to normal. So here he was, faced with watching Hermione's heart break because he was leaving her at work and she thought he was leaving her at home too. Little did she know that was a step he really could not bring himself to do. That would be committing heart suicide.

"Mione look at me and listen carefully. I WILL never leave you OK you are stuck with me, even when you get married to some handsome man I will still be here.." after Harry said it he instantly regretted using that as an example but at least it brought a smile to Hermione's lips.

"OK Harry I will hold you to that promise" she leant up and gave him a kiss on his cheek and lingered there a little longer than she usually did. She pulled away but Harry grabbed her and held her in a tight hug until she moved back. There foreheads touched and Harry looked into her eyes and could see she had relaxed and had believed him, that was enough for him for now.

Ok so what do you think, let me know please. This is like a background to the story so far, from the next chapter it will be from present time.