Blood-Red Roses:

The Fire

A/N: Well hello! I've finally stopped typing on my other story! Here's the way-too-long-awaited chapter 9!

Harry's POV

I ran with her on my back for miles. Never feeling the ache in my legs as I ran, I could run for years and never stop. She had her chin resting on my shoulder and she looked ahead whispering sweet words of love into my ear. I would laugh as her breath tickled and caressed my ear. We watched as a glow in the distance rose. Hermione started to panic.

"No, it's only 9:30! The sun can't rising!" she cried her arms tightening around my neck.

"You're right, my love." I said as I squinted to see what was going on. Possible thoughts ran through my mind. Angry mob, the sun was rising, a fire, lights. I shook my head as I continued to run. I felt her move uncomfortably on my back, her nails digging into the flesh on my neck.

"Love, I'm sure everything is all-" I broke off and stopped as a wave of heat hit my body making me fall backwards. I landed on top of Hermione who screamed in pain as the heat wave hit her too. I quickly covered her body with mine as the heat burnt my sensitive skin. I picked her up and ran into the trees, the wave danced away but I could still feel the burn of the heat. Hermione ran forward, I grabbed her ankle and made her fall back down to the ground. She hissed at me and kicked my hand. I wouldn't let.

"Let me go, Harry!" she screamed "It's not the sun!" she kicked my hand again and I let her go, I followed her as she ran forward the heat burning us. We stopped frozen at the sight in front of us. Hermione let out a cry of agony. Sirius and Remus' house was engulfed in flames. I looked over to hold her in my arms but she was already running to the house.

"HERMIONE!" I yelled running after her. I ran into the house. I hear a faint crying from upstairs.

"I'll get him! You look for Sirius and Remus!" she screamed over the roaring flames. She started up the stairs, her foot fell through the first step.

"Hermione the stairs are going to collapse!" I yelled

"I need to get my baby!" she replied running up the stairs to following the cry of our child. I ran through the house.

"REMUS! SIRIUS!" I yelled, where were they? "REMUS! SIRIUS!"

Hermione's POV

I ran up the stairs, I heard them collapse after I got to the top. I didn't look back. The heat burnt my skin, I could feel the welts start to form. I didn't care, I just needed to find my baby. I opened every door on the top floor only to be met with a wall of flames. The crying had stopped.

"JAMES! MUMMY NEEDS YOU TO CRY BABY!" I screamed, I felt a sob fill my throat. I went back to the doors I had opened, I took a deep breath and ran through the wall of fire. I screamed as the flames licked my skin. I saw his crib, I ran to it. His eyes were closed and soot was on places of his small cheeks. I put my hand on his small stomach to be sure he was breathing. I let out a sigh of relief to feel his chest rising and falling.

"Baby, wake up for mummy." I said shaking him. His eyes opened and her coughed.

"That's it baby don't go to sleep okay? Mummy's here." I whispered as I put him on my shoulder. James nuzzled his face in my shirt as if he knew not to inhale the air. I ran into the flames again and heard James' piercing cry. He wasn't burnt but he was scared. I jumped from where the stairs used to be.

"HARRY!" I screamed "WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE! THE HOUSE IS GOING TO COLLAPSE!"

Harry ran out of the kitchen a haunted look in his eyes. We sprinted out into the grass. I unwrapped James from his blanket and started to cry.

"My baby, my baby, my baby." I whispered holding him in my arms. He wailed and looked around for Harry. Harry pulled him into his red covered arms. The haunted look never left his eyes.

"I couldn't find them." He said, his voice hoarse with remorse. I crawled over to his side and wrapped my arms around him. We turned our heads as the house collapsed Sirius Black and Remus Lupin with it.

"I could have saved them," Harry whispered as we stood.

"You tried your best." I whispered softly wrapping my arms around his waist.

"They're dead, and it's all my fault! Look Hermione!" he shouted pointing above the house. I looked up quickly and turned away not wanting to look above. The Dark Mark hung above the sky in a warning. A warning that needed no words, it meant that if Harry didn't go after Voldemort there would be more death's of his friends than just Sirius and Remus.

"He tried to kill James and he succedded in killing Sirius and Remus. Hermione we-we can't be together, if he goes killing more I don't know what I would do if he killed you and James."

"He couldn-" I started

"A simple Vampoirus Acorpious would kill you Hermione! I love you, but we can't be together. Take-Take James and don't come back to me."

"You're breaking up with me?" I asked feeling the blood rise in my eyes.

"I love you too much to lose you." He said handing James to me "I love both of you, take care of him."

Harry stepped forward and kissed James' forehead and my lips then he was gone.

A/N: Vampoirus Acorpious is a spell I made up that kills vampires. It turns them into a mortal and attacks their heart killing them in less than two seconds. I hope you enjoyed chapter 10!