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Two people stand facing each other. They stand in the middle of a clearing in a large forest. Tall tree's reach up around them blocking most light from entering the clearing the place is dimly lit but the people are easy to name. One is Hermione Granger her brown hair tumbling down her back and her brown eyes staring up at the taller of the two figures standing opposite her. The other person, and taller of the two is Fred Weasley his taller figure stretching above Hermione his ginger hair in a mess a usual he was staring back into Hermione's eyes with his own green eyes.

"Hermione…?" said Fred quietly, which was not like him at all.

"Fred…?" answered Hermione in a shy voice.

"Where are we?" asked Fred speaking slightly louder, he seemed to have recovered from the original shock now.

"I don't know." replied Hermione, which surprised both herself and Fred for she wasn't one to not know something.

"Some kind of woods or forest." Fred suggested, both he and Hermione knew he was stating the obvious but Hermione still nodded in silent agreement.

"We… well we should probably be trying to find our way out from here." Said Hermione after a few moments silence.

"Yeah" agreed Fred. "But which way should we go?" he enquired.

"I don't have a clue." Said Hermione in answer to his question.

"My god Hermione and Ron said you where the smart one." Fred said laughing, Hermione looked away as her cheeks began to go red

"Well" said Fred "Since you are so unsure I say we go that way" he continued pointing to the only way out of the clearing that wasn't blocked my trees and vines.

Hermione decided not to ask why, the reason seemed pretty obvious and she didn't want to embaress herself again in front of Fred.

It took her a few moments to realize Fred had already headed of through the trees she ran to catch up to him and when she did she stayed close behind him so she did not lose him in the trees. "Its strange." Hermione found herself thinking "Me and Fred have never really been that close and until now I have never cared what he thought of me. So why do I care so much now." However these thoughts where dismissed from her mind when she heard Fred say "We should stop and rest here for awhile, we don't want you passing out with tiredness." he smiled at her but Hermione found she could not return the smile instead she just sat down in the long grass and lay back against a tree. She let her thoughts envelop her mind before drifting of into a dreamless sleep. Meanwhile Fred was pacing the space in front of Hermione while he thought "Why am I here, how did I get here, why is she here and how did she get here as well." After an hour or so in Fred's mind, although he had not idea how long it had really been he woke Hermione.

"What?" asked Hermione sleepily when Fred succeeded in waking her up, it took her a few moments to realize where she was and what was going on "Oh hi, did I fall asleep?" she asked although the answer was pretty obvious Fred still nodded and replied

"Yes you did."

"Oh, im sorry." Said Hermione

"What for?" asked Fred. Hermione shook her head just realizing then she didn't know what for.

"Anyway." Said Fred "We should continue trying to find a way out of here, no point in just standing around." And with this the two of them started following the grassy path they had been following before resting.

They walked silently along the path, the only noise was twigs snapping underneath their feet. They continued like this until the sun had reached its highest point in the sky and had started descending again eventually they reached a river, Fred was about to put his foot in to the water when "No don't !" yelped Hermione.

Fred froze and said "What is it Hermione?"

"Cant you see, the colour of the water?" asked Hermione

"Yeah I can, its like all water." Said Fred

"Oh you are so stupid !" exclaimed Hermione she pulled out her wand pointed it at the water and muttered an incantation the surface of the water sparkled then it appeared to boil and then red sparks flew from it, Fred jumped and yelled "What the hell?! Are you trying to kill me?" Hermione smiled slightly

"The water is cursed, if you had stepped in it your life would've been drained, im saving you if anything." Said Hermione

"Oh, thanks I guess." Said Fred smiling slightly "So we need to jump over the river." Stated Fred.

"Yeah, well we need to cross it without touching the water so if we are jumping it we need to be carefull." Hermione said. Fred took a few steps backwards before running and jumping clean across the river and landing safely on the other side. When he did Hermione let out a sigh of relief before realizing it was her turn next.

She took a few steps back, she could feel her heart hammering against her chest she closed her eyes, ran and jumped, she put all her energy into her jump and… landed clumsily on the bank, before she could regain balance she stumbled backwards her entire life, her friends, family, school everything flashed before her eyes she knew the end was near. The next thing she felt was Fred's hand close around her wrist, she pulled her other arm around her and grabbed his wrist.

Fred pulled with all his strength, a little to much Hermione came flying towards him, he tried to get out of her way but. Crash! Both of them landed with a thud on the ground, Fred groaned, he hand landed flat on his back on the rough forest ground, Hermione had landed, on top of him.

Hermione opened her eye's slowly only to see Fred's green eyes staring at her. She smiled a little before saying nervously "Ummm hi." Fred laughed a little before replying

"Hi." He said returning Hermione's smile through good manners. "Hermione." he said quietly.

"Yes." Whispered Hermione, he heart rate rapidly increasing.

"Could you please get of me?" asked Fred a huge grin bursting across his face.

"Oh, of course." said Hermione blushing slightly before slowly getting to her feet and brushing her hair out of her face. As Fred got up Hermione turned away so he could not see her cheeks which where a dark shade of red now.

Fred took no notice of Hermione's unusual behavior and continued to lead the way. The continued onwards the ground was getting more and more uneven and vines and roots had started blocking their path.

Just as Fred was about to suggest turning back they came into a second clearing a lot larger than the first, part of it was covered by a lake. "This place is beautiful." Sighed Hermione a dreamy smile spreading across her face.

"You know if you want we could rest her awhile before we continued trying to find a way out of here, if you want that is?" said Fred.

"Really?" asked Hermione surprised, shocked Fred would consider her wants in such a way, knowing he did made her strangely happy but she tried to ignore it.

"Really." Whispered Fred smiling at Hermione.

Both Fred and Hermione where tired from long hours of walked, so they both sat with their backs to two tall oak tree's at the edge of the clearing. Hermione sighed as she sat in the soft grass her back up against the mighty tree, thoughts where flying around in her head like tennis balls. She shook her head in an attempt to organize her thoughts. "It's Fred." She told herself

"Exactly." Said a voice in her head "Just Fred, its not like you are great friend or anything."

Hermione groaned "But he is Ron's older brother."

But the voice wouldn't give up "And has Ron ever really cared what you think about his girlfriends?" it asked.

"No." answered Hermione "But this is different, Fred is Ron's brother."

"So." Said the voice. "You should at least give it a try, see what Ron says."

"No!" yelled Hermione's mind, dismissing the voice completely. "Stupid voice" she mumbled.

Fred's thoughts much resembled Hermione's "She is perfect." He thought "but she is also your brothers best friend." He told himself but then another thought "So what why should you let Ron stop you from having what you want." Fred let out a small sigh "It just wouldn't feel right" Fred tried to convince himself "Whatever you say." Said the other part of himself. Fred slid further down the tree and whispered "Damn it."

"Hey, Hermione." said Fred, Hermione turned to look at him "I am going to cool my feet down in the lake you coming?" he asked.

"Yeah." Answered Hermione "anything to get these stupid thoughts out of my head." She thought.

They sat together silently both staring out across the lake, Fred glanced at Hermione, he noticed her hand wasn't far away from his rested on the grass. Despite his decision not to act on his feelings for Hermione Fred slowly moved his hand towards hers, his heart beat slowly increased as he did, when it was just an inch or two away he stopped, he couldn't do this could he? He summoned his last reserves of courage and slowly closed his hand around Hermione's.

With all honesty he had expected her to jump away and ask him what he was doing, but she didn't instead she wrapped her fingers around his hand and squeezed it, he mimicked her before slowly turning to look at her, she was already looking at him, she smiled shyly, he returned the smile staring into her beautiful brown eyes he moved his other hand toward her leg, running it up her leg to hold her by the waist. She moved her other hand to hold his shoulder, they continued staring at each other while moving slowly towards each other, their forwards touched, they tightened their grip on each other, their lips where so close to touching then…

Hermione released her grip on Fred and pushed him into the lake, unfortunately for her Fred did not release his grip and the two of them tumbled into the water with a splash.

The two of them spent hours together in the lake, swimming about and splashing each other with water and as long as the sun was in the sky they remained in the lake, but as the moon started to rise Fred said "We should get out now, we don't want to catch a cold after all." So Hermione reluctantly climbed out of the lake followed closely by Fred. She performed a quick charm that dried them both before looking up at Fred, he was looking at her as well, the moon was high in the sky and the only noise was caused by a light breeze blowing over the clearing.

Fred wrapped his arms around her waist and looked into her eyes, she wrapped her arms around his shoulder and they stood their staring at each other. "Hermione…" began Fred but Hermione put a finger to her lips mouthed shhh and shook her head. Slowly they got closer together, they could feel the others breath on their own lips, and still they got closer, they could almost feel the other persons lips, they where practically touching, slowly getting closer…

Hermione Granger woke with a start in the Gryffindor girls dorm room, her breathing was heavy, her heart was beating fast and her head was filled with memories of the dream she had just woke from.