Hermione was alone on the Lost Lady. Harry, Ron and Lavender had left early to go shopping. They, as in Harry, of course told her that they were going to go so that she didn't feel ditched. She wanted to spend some time alone so she was now reading books in the library.

She flipped a page and read a bit on the island of Crete and it's history. It had a lot of interesting facts, such as the belief that Zeus, the Greek god was born here. As she continued to read, she felt a familiar gaze on her, much too similar to the one back in her fourth year at Hogwarts and soon came to a conclusion as to who it was. Viktor Krum.

She lifted her head up to find him smiling at her with his eyes. He was wearing board shorts and a sleeveless top which showed off his well built arms and he stood in a rather relaxed position, fixing himself to leaning against a bookshelf.

"I see you are all alone?" He said after a while.

Hermione nodded. "The other's have gone off shopping."

"They left you behind?" Viktor asked, rather surprised.

Hermione nodded. "You?"

"Oh, Mariah and Sasha are just outside," he said, referring to his friends he had told her about when they had met back on the Balearic islands.

Hermione noticed someone waving towards her and was surprised to see that it was the same blond man who Lavender had been with. The man, who also had well built arms, had them wrapped around a very beautiful brunette's waist that could be no other than the beautiful young woman that Hermione had seen in the newspapers with Viktor.

She suddenly felt sorry for the beautiful brunette as the blond man had cheated on her with Lavender. She gave her a weak smile before turning her attention back to Viktor.

"That's Mariah and Sasha," Viktor said, when he noticed that she had been staring at them. "Why do you look so surprised?"

"It's just that... Never mind."

"Thinking about your friend Lavender?" He asked.

Hermione was rather surprised that he had caught it dead on and nodded.

Viktor chuckled. "Oh," he said. "That was a dare Mariah made him do. Sasha had been cocky about getting any girl he wanted and Mariah asked him to prove it by taking another guys girl. It seemed that Lavender fell for it a bit too easily."

Hermione sighed. "She's getting married to Ronald."

She suddenly felt Viktor's dark brown eyes stare right into hers and couldn't help but notice how long he looked into them for. He seemed to have a worried look on his face and also seemed to be deep in thought, as if wondering whether to tell her something or not. She remembered back in the library how he used to do that all the time, except he had been nervous too. He seemed much more confident now and didn't seem to have the same wondering look he had back then. It was very different.

Hermione suddenly wondered if she knew how she felt for Ron. Viktor always seemed to see right through her so she wouldn't be surprised if he did. At the moment, she felt as if his hand had went straight to her heart, searching for something carefully. She couldn't tell what it was so she continued to stare back at him.

"Are you all right?" was all he said after a couple of minutes.

"Um yeah." Was all she could manage to choke out.

"Mmm, that's good then."
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Three hours later, Hermione ended up hanging around Heroklion with Viktor and his friends. Everywhere they walked, Mariah and Sasha didn't seem to able to keep their hands away from each other. Sometimes they would be holding hands, other times, Mariah or Sasha would have either one of their hands going down the backside pocket of either ones jeans and sometimes an arm would be around a waist. She couldn't help but feel jealous for their love for each other and suddenly thought about the many 'what if's' she could have had with Ron.

"Would you like an ice-cream?" Viktor suddenly asked her.

Hermione stopped walking and suddenly noticed that the two of them were alone. "Huh?"

"Ice-cream?" he said again. "I'll pay."

"I'm all right... Where are they? Mariah and Sasha"

"Busy..."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Hmmmm."

They didn't talk much after that. It was now around twelve so the sun was beaming down on them at it's hottest. Hermione started to sweat a lot.

"Water?" Viktor asked.

"Huh?"

"Water?"

"Oh, thank you."

Hermione drank some off Viktor's water and gave it back. She didn't know why she was talking to him like this. She didn't know why everything felt so awkward. She looked at him and he didn't seem to find their conversation any more comfortable than she did. She suddenly felt that she had to thank him for the effort he was putting to strike up a conversation.

"It's quite hot isn't it?" Hermione said.

"Yes it is." Viktor said.

Hermione saw a sweat droplet on Viktor's face and suddenly reached out to wipe it off but it fell before she could touch it and landed on his right pectoral. Although her eyes were fixed on his well built chest where the sweat droplet had landed, her hand was on his right cheek and she suddenly felt herself blush furiously. She forced herself to not meet his eyes before giving up. She looked up at him and suddenly realised how much more he had grown since the last time they had stood so close to each other.

"I'm sorry," Hermione blurted out, quickly retrieving her hand back. "I didn't- um sorry."

"It is fine," He said, looking rather flustered. "Want a handkerchief? You are sweating too."

"Um. Thank you." Hermione said, quickly wiping her face before giving it back. "Are you hungry? Want to grab something to eat?"

"Sure."

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Hermione didn't know what was up with her. Everything seemed so awkward with Viktor now she couldn't even talk to him. They had went a couple of miles away from Herkalion even though Heraklion had many restaurants and had just finished eating and had left the restaurant they had eaten at. It wasn't anything fancy and was much more of a fast food restaurant than anything else. People left and people went.

The two of them continued to walk in silence and Hermione noticed that everyone here seemed to walk around in a swimsuit of some sort rather than proper clothing. They were at a sea side area after all. They didn't seem to sweat as much as the two did and she suddenly felt an urge to take her clothes off and just dress in a swim suit like everyone else did.

Hermione quietly gasped to herself as Viktor suddenly took his sleeveless shirt off and stood next to her with just his shorts on. She tried not to stare at his well built body, with the lovely muscular cuts down his hips and hard abdominal muscles. She could see it harden slightly as Viktor breathed in and out and couldn't seem to tear her eyes away. She could tell that he had worked even more on his muscles since the last time she had seen him shirtless back at Hogwarts as he looked fantastic.

She looked away soon with a blush and was looking out towards the sea. The way the waves moved was very inviting and she suddenly longed to be part of it. She wanted the water all over her and to cool her from the heat...

"Are you feeling hot?" Viktor asked. "Maybe let's go for a swim?"

Hermione liked the idea. "Sure."

"Let's go to the beach then. Let's swim and stuff."