Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, though if I did Cedric would have lived! XD
A/N: I just wanted to thank everyone that is reading my stories. I can't believe that my newest one, Unexpected Lovers, is already the most popular one, check it out if you haven't already! Also check out Love Can Change Everything, next chapter coming sometime this week! I hope that you all enjoy the first chapter of How To Save A Life! (-=
Seven Years After The Tri-Wizard Competition. Hermione is 21 and Cedric is 24.
I peeled off my white rubber gloves and threw them in the waste-paper-basket before apparating back to my flat from St. Mungos for the day, utterly exhausted. I walked over to my couch and plopped down, picking up my book from the coffee table. I flipped open to the page I had marked by folding it over and began to read where I had left off.
A few minutes later I was jolted out of my reading my a tap on the window. I sighed, folding over my page ans standing up. I walked over to the window and let the huge black owl in.
"Hello, big guy," I said, patting down it's slightly rumpled feathers and untied the letter from its leg, seeing that it had the blue seal with an white S. M. on it, the St. Mungos seal. Then I walked over to the cabinet and took out an owl treat, feeding it to the owl before sending him out the window. Then I walked back over to my couch and sat down, carefully opening the envelope and pulling out the piece of parchment, praying to the gods that I wasn't in trouble for some reason. I then unfolded the letter and began to read.
Dear Miss Hermione Jean Granger,
St. Mungos is happy to announce that you have won the Trip Raffle this year! All the names of the employees at St. Mungos were placed in a bowl, then we randomly selected one, that happened to be you. You have won a trip to Florida in the U.S.! You will be able to floo to, Ocean Side Resort, on Saturday at noon. Your stay will be for free for a week, as well as all food, and services, such as the spa. We hope that you enjoy your stay!
Sincerely
Ellen Morania,
Sponsor
I nearly squealed in excitement, I had never won anything, except the war, but that didn't count, because it was y best friend who had killed Voldemort. I quickly walked over to the refrigerator and stuck the parchment on with a small cat magnet, before nearly dancing off to my room to pack.
I lugged my black suitcase out of closet and began to stuff my things into it, skirts, tank-tops, dresses, shorts, jeans, T-shirts, a couple bathing suits and bikinis, some jewelry in case I felt like going anywhere nice while in Florida, several pairs of sunglasses, sandal, flip-flops, a pair of sneakers, my spray that managed to somewhat tame my still horribly wild hair, and then I filled a separate smaller bag with books.
I then dragged them over to the fire-place and set them down there, Saturday was in two days! That was it two days before I got my much needed vacation, two days before I got to relax for once. Two days before I could escape my patients for once, before I could take a break from wearing my light blue and white St. Mungos uniform.
"Just two days," I repeated over and over as I put on my black silk night gown before crawling into my bed and closing my eyes. Just two days.
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"Yes!" I nearly screamed when the flames in my fire turned green. Harry, Ron, and Ginny had been jealous when they found out about my vacation, but after assuring them that I would by buy them souvenirs they had stopped complaining as much. I grabbed by suitcase, and bag and walked over to the fire.
"Ocean Side Resort!" I said, throwing a handful of floo powder into the fire before stepping. A few minutes later, I fell out of the fireplace, into a clean lobby.
It was decorated with green leafy plants and pom trees. I stood up and dusted off the yellow sundress with brown flowers that I was wearing before grabbing my bags and walking over to the front desk.
"Hello miss, how can I help you?" the blonde female witch at the desk asked in an American accent asked with a bright smile.
"Um, I'm Hermione Granger, I won a contest," I said, offering her a smile in return. The witch glanced down at a piece of parchment.
"Ah, yes, here you are. Room 860, third floor. You can leave your bags here, one of our elves will deliver them, just wave your wand at the door, it will sense that it is you by reading your wand," she said.
I nodded and headed towards the lift. After a minute or so of waiting the door swung open and I walked in and pushed the four. I waited until it stopped at level four before walking out and heading down the carpeted hall ways.
"856, 857, 859, ah here it is 860," I murmured to myself, pulling my wand out of my messy bun. I waved it in front of the door and it swung open, revealing a beautiful suit. There was a bed, with a light green bedspread and darker green pillows. There were two light green cushy armchairs, each containing there own dark green pillow, and a dark green couch containing two light green pillows.
There was also a small dark wood night stand, and a dark wood desk.
The kitchen floor was tiled with white tiles, flecked with light green, dark green, and black. There was a refrigerator, stove, coffee maker, and microwave, all run by magic, (and obviously a sink) and a dark wood table with four chairs.
There were also two closets and a bathroom with the same tiling as the kitchen that had a large jacuzzi and a glass shower, and of course a toilet and a sink.
All in all the suit was amazing. The window opened up to an amazing view of the beach that the Hotel was on, many people bustling around on it. I sighed and contemplated what to do first. I'll stay at the hotel for today and tomorrow, then start to explore the rest of Florida, I have until Friday. Should I go to the pool or beach first today? Or maybe to spa? No, the spa can be for after a day that I have spent outside the hotel. I'll go to the pool today, then have dinner, and tomorrow morning I'll wake up early and go for a walk on the beach.
I walked over to my bags that had been delivered and changed into my dark purple bikini and slipped on my white flip-flops, put on my white cover up dress, grabbed my handbag with my wand in it before leaving the hotel room and setting off down the hall to find the pool.
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I lay back on a beach chair near the pool, letting myself sun dry, listening to the sounds of the other people laughing, talking, swimming, and splashing around in the pool. The ceiling covered by a huge glass dome that let the sunlight in. I sighed and sat up after about twenty more minutes, my hair just slightly damp now and returning to it's usual bushy state. I picked up my cover up dress and slipped it back on. Then i stuffed my feet into my flip-flops and grabbed my handbag, slinging it over my shoulder, as I was walking down the halls, admiring the different painting on the walls, I walked right into a hard body.
I would have fallen over if it weren't for the muscular arms that wrapped around my waist catching me. I moved them off of my waist and dared to look up into an incredibly handsome face with the most beautiful gray eyes.
"Cedric Diggory?" I asked, blinking hard. We hadn't spoken since I sort of saved his life. Not that I had wanted a thank you or anything, it just would have been nice to find out that he was alive before seeing it in the newspapers, you know, being the one that saved his life and all. He had never returned to Hogwarts for his seventh year. Instead he had moved away and became an Auror in the U.S.
"The very same. May I just ask, how exactly do you know me?" Cedric asked, not in a mean way, more in a curious and confused way.
I really, really felt like saying, 'The person that saved you life you bloody git, not that I knew for sure until I read it in the papers!' or 'I don't know, take a wild guess, how many people know about the curse Imitatio Morfem at the age of fourteen and saved your bloody life?' but instead she let out an inward sigh and said, "I'm Hermione Granger, I went to school with you," That was so lame, and way too nice, considering he never thanked me for saving his bloody life! Why do I suddenly care about this so much? I never did before!
Cedric's eyes widened in surprise. "I didn't recognize you! You look great, well you never managed to tame your hair, but other than that. . ." Cedric trailed off upon seeing my scowl.
"Why thank you Diggory," I said walking around him and continuing in my way down the hall, still unable to get the picture of Cedric's perfect face out of my head, and the feeling of his muscular arms wrapped around my waist. . . . .I shook my head, trying to clear any less than appropriate thoughts of Cedric from my mind.
I pulled my wand from by bag and waved it in front of the door of my room, deciding upon ordering room service that night, not wanting to have to encounter Cedric again, at least today, maybe tomorrow I wouldn't mind seeing him. After all, I still had to find out exactly why he never decided to update me on his aliveness.
A/N: I hope that you all enjoyed the first chapter, I had written two drafts of this, one where Hermione is already at the hotel, has fallen and Cedric had just caught her, and then there is a flashback on all of the stuff before that, but then I decided not to do it that way after I read it over and found so many points that made no sense whatsoever that I decided to start over. I probably will include some flashbacks, just not in the first chapter. Thank you to everyone that is reading my fanfics, I'm getting another email saying that someone followed or favorited Unexpected Lovers practically every other minute, I still can't believe that it's the best one so far! Thank you to everyone and please review, that's the only thing I'm not getting a lot of, for any of my fanfics! (-=
