So I'll admit it. I think my last chapter was pretty good! haha, okay, I'm kidding, but I keep thinking that i need to write longer chapters, but then when i think i do, they never turn out right. So I think that there is going to be an intimate chapter soon. I was going to put it into this chapter, but it just didn't seem right to me. I'll tell more on the bottom of this chapter

A/N: Definetley don't own ANY characters OR songs in my stories. If I did, I'd be a billionare and wouldn't be writing FanFiction...and Sirius wouldn't be dead. Dang...

Chapter 20: Your Guardian Angel

I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Hermione fell to the ground and covered her head. There were loads of colors flying every where. Every so often she would hear different spells; 'Avada Kedavra', 'Expelliamus'. The death eaters around, scattered, leaving a forgotten Hermione, still lying on the ground. She uncovered her head, and looked up to see everybody yelling curses, dodging spells, and, in some cases, physical fights. Hermione turned her head the other way, just in time to see a spell sailing towards her. She scrambled up and out of the way. Instead of hitting her, the spell hit a rock exploding it.

Hermione was running towards the house. One, she would be safe inside there, and two, she would be able to recognize who was who. Hermione was itching with anticipation. They've come to rescue her! She wasn't even ten feet from the ground, when she fell, once again. She looked back to see Malfoy, who had fallen onto the ground earlier, grabbing her ankle.

"You won't escape me, mud-blood. You are and always will be in the hands of Voldemort forever." Hermione turnerd around, struggling out of his grip. Malfoy reached for his wand.

"Crucio!" Hermione fell back onto the ground, not daring to scream in pain. Malfoy lifted the curse, once he had gotten up from the ground. Hermione took a deep breath and also got up.

"Cruc--" he was interuppted by a sickening crunch. Hermione had given all her strength to punch Malfoy straight in the nose. As he fell to the ground, Hermione stood over him.

"I was never in the hands of Voldemort." Hermione grabbed Malfoy's wand, and ran to hide. She wouldn't know, yet, if her magic was still in her. She daren't try to find out. The mist that was hanging in the air earlier, had now descended into a thick fog, hiding people from others. At this point, the only thing you could see were the colors of the spells, and the faint sight of feet. Hermione walked slowly, quietly, towards the back of the house, keeping her eyes on Malfoy's feet. She turned around quickly making sure there was no one behind her. When she turned her eyes back onto malfoy, his feet were gone. Hermione was panicking now. What was she thinking, punching the older Malfoy?
Hermione kept walking backwards, looking around more quickly. She had suddenly hit something. Hermione turned around, dreading that it would be Malfoy.

"Hello love." said the voice she all too recognized.

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He ran around occasionally, making sure people were alright, and biting death eaters on the way. When Sirius turned back into his human, he noticed that he was besides Remus, who was fighting a Lestrange. Now back to back, Sirius had then gotten into a battle with Crabbe.

"Moony, mate," Sirius yelled in between spells, "You need to find Hermione and get her to the house."

"As soon as I beat Lestrange!" Sirius nodded his head, even though Remus couldn't see him. And as he promised, Remus beat Lestrange.

"Hermione! Where are you?" He asked himself. It was getting quieter and Remus was afraid that something even worse had happened. Remus heard distant voices and footsteps. He started to go over there when he heard,

"Avada Kedavra!" Remus stopped, eyes widen with shocked. He looked down to see a body, and man's body. When he had gotten to the body, Remus looked up to see Hermione looking straight back at him. With the wand still in her hand, it took Remus only a second to realize that Hermione had killed someone. There was no time for that at the moment, though. Remus grabbed her hand, and started running.

"C'mon! Voldemort should be here soon!" Hermione ran with him, dropping the wand in the process. The Order was still fighting the last time Hermione looked back at the them. As soon as they got to a proper place (about thirty minutes away from the Riddle house), Remus apprated to number twelve Grimmauld place.

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Hermione blinked. She hadn't seen this house in over ten years. To her, it hadn't changed at all. But why would it? To everybody else, she had only been gone for a few weeks.

Remus got a good look at Hermione, now that they were safe. Her hair had grown fairly long. She was a little skinnier that he remembered, she was the same height, but she was older. Much older. Hermione turned towards him, with tears in her eyes.

"Y-you found me." Her voice high with emotion.

"Of course we did. It took us a while, but we found you." He replied softly. He come towards her and hugged her. Hermione was tense at first. Her last hug had been James, right before she left. After a few seconds she relaxed and tightened her hug on Remus, not wanting to lose anybody.

"Wotcher Hermione. Don't want to choke him, do you?" Hermione opened her eyes and saw a grinning Tonks, who was supporting her famous pink hair. Hermione let go of Remus and went to hug Tonks.

"I-I've missed you guys s-so much." Hermione sobbed. Tonks soothed her, until she calmed down.

"There, there. We're here. For right now, It'll only be me and Remus, but the others should be back soon. In the mean time it looks like you could use a shower, no offense." Hermione laughed through her and agreed. She was taken up to the bathroom.

"Shampoo is in the shower, and towels are right in the closet." Tonks told her. Unnoticed by either of them, Remus had followed them up, his wand out.

"We need to clean up those cuts of yours. I'm afraid that you might've twisted your ankle." Hermione looked down at her right ankle, and noted that Remus was right. It seemed like Malfoy had gripped to hard on it.

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It was minutes later that Tonks made her way back down the stairs. It was great to have Hermione back. She went into the study where she found Remus sitting on the couch, just looking at his wand.

"Sickle for your thoughts?" Tonks asked, quietly. Remus smiled.

"I don't know how I'm going to tell Hermione about James and Lily. They were her best friends." Remus was getting angry with himself. "Damn James. He told me what Hermione told him. I told him to use Peter as a secret-keeper anyways, and he listened. Now look where it got us." He brushed the angry tears away and took a deep breath.

"But we've got her back. And for now, that'll mean a lot to Sirius." Tonks replied. Remus smiled a little and was about to say something back, when he heard noises coming from behind him. He took his wand out quickly and stood up. he let out a breath and greeted the other Order members. When he turned to Sirius he smiled and nodded his head towards the upstairs. Sirius grinned and left towards the upstairs.

Indeed, as Sirius ascended the steps he hears the shower running and mist coming from the bottom of the door. He opened the bathroom door and got undressed. This is what he had been dreaming of. Sirius opened the curtain to find Hermione sitting on the shower floor, water running onto her. She looked up, tears mixing with the hot water.

Sirius got in the shower and sat down, pulling Hermione close to him, holding onto her tight. She looked at him, running a finger down his cheek and onto his chest. She was tracing his tattoo's when she finally looked up again.

"I'm not dreaming, am I?" She whispered.

"No, love. You're really here." Hermione buried her head into his chest, crying. She lifted her head, kissed him, and laid her head back onto his chest. Hermione listened to his heart beat for awhile until she spoke again.

"Sirius. I-I killed some one tonite." She looked into his eyes, as if to find some disgust. Instead they were filled with sadness.

"'Mione. You had to. You were defending yourself." He told her, looking into her eyes. The water was getting cold, but neither of them noticed. She sighed and laid her head back onto his chest.

"I know," she started, quietly, "but no one deserves to die. Not even Brandon."

Alright, so this was the chapter. I was going to have some intimacy in the shower scene, but it just didn't sound right at that moment, so hopefully, I will have some later, but I'm not going to promise much. I just dont know how good I'd be at writing things like that. Well, i hope this chapter was long enough-ish.