-1Chapter 25- The Truth Comes Out

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Around dinner time Hermione walks out of her shared tent and walk towards the eating area. She finds Harry and Draco sitting by the fire pit and quickly waves at them when they look at her before going to get her food.

On the serving tent she finds her new friends there and they talk for a few minutes but Hermione soon says her goodbyes. Before she can walk towards her tent to eat away from the prying eyes of everyone both Harry and Draco motion for her to join them. She slowly walks to them and they make room between the two men. She sits down and Harry quickly wraps his arm around her waist and holds her closer to him.

"How are you feeling?" he whispers into her ear.

"Tired." she says turning to face him.

Their faces are only inches away making Harry's eyes glaze over before she looks away but leans over to him more. He then kisses the top of her head before going back to his food.

"Come on, princess, smile." Draco finally says after they are almost done with the food in silence. "I will have to let you know off my deepest secret if you don't."

"Should I be afraid to hear such secret?" she says putting her plate down and snuggling closer to Harry as she looks at Draco.

"Maybe." he responds.

"Dear, cousin, I have told you many times that there are something's better not known." Harry says joining into the conversation while he feels all warm and good inside being so close to the woman he loves.

"Now, you have me intrigue. I must know at once." Hermione says pulling away from Harry.

Only that with her movement Harry decides to wrap his arm tighter around her.

Draco raises an eyebrow at Harry as Hermione's eyes got wide with his movement but she doesn't said a word.

"You see, beautiful, I have found it hard to sleep lately. The only thing that has let me sleep well is if I see your smile before I go to bed." Draco says trying to make his lie believable.

"Right, I can definitely tell by your snoring, sir." Hermione says with a smile on her voice.

"I am shock, my lady, for I am a gentleman and gentleman's never snore." he says with a complete look of mock shock.

"Sure you don't mister gentleman." Harry says trying to hold his laughter as Hermione lets out a snort from holding her own laughter. "That is as true as princesses not snorting."

"Hey!" Hermione exclaims pulling away. "Well I have never been so insulted in my life." she stands up in front of them. "I will leave you now before you insult me anymore. I bid you guys a goodnight." she says in an overdramatic voice.

She then walks away with a smile in her face laughing quietly to herself. She is feeling happy that she has decided to eat with them instead of going to her tent and feeling bad about the past. Just moping around because of what happened to her mother and how she was taken away from her at such a young age.

"Where is your dad?" Draco says as the boys settle down with a bottle half full of fire whiskey and two shot glasses. "I haven't seen him since we return. He was looking quite upset."

Before they can take there second shot Remus and Sirius take the shot glasses of there hands and swallow it down with a quick shake in there heads afterwards.

"Hey, we were going to drink that." Harry says but Sirius grabs the bottle and fills his and Remus' glass and the both of them drink some more.

"Your too young for that." he finally answers.

"Besides us old men need it more." Remus says. "How is Hermione doing anyway?"

"We finally got her to smile." Harry says then looks of towards his fathers tent. "How is he?"

"He is just going through some bad memories." Remus says sitting on the ground in front of them.

"Yeah, I mean Jane was killed because some crazy ass witch was upset at her." Sirius says shaking his head. "Its just wrong. She was happily married and just had had her daughter."

"Not to mention that it was James who found her dead body on the dirt ground." Remus says.

"What?" Draco and Harry exclaim together.

"You didn't know?" Sirius ask and the two boys shake there head. "He was going to go meet her or something at a little town. When her horse showed up hours later with no one on it he went looking for her. He found her there left on the side of the road like an animal."

"No wonder my uncle looked like he wanted to murder that woman." Draco says.

"I am going to go see him before bed." Harry says getting up and walking towards his father tent.

"We should all go to bed too." Remus says. "Tomorrow is going to be a long day."

That said the rest of the men goes out to there own tents.

"Dad?" Harry says entering his father's tent.

He looks around and sees his dad lying on his cot fast asleep. Harry smiles down at him as he sees the blanket fall to the floor. Harry picks it up and puts it carefully around his dad.

"Sleep well, father."

"Jess," James says as he sees the magnificent white horse stop to get some water.

A look of terror goes through the kings features as the saddle of the horse that belongs to his dearest friend looks disarray. He quickly goes to his own horse and starts to gallop away on the road that leads to Hufflepuff.

About fifteen minutes later he hears a rustle on the side of the road. He quickly stops and jumps of his horse and runs towards the noise. There he finds the woman that once stole his heart lying on the ground bleeding profusely from her wound on her stomach.

He quickly kneels by her side and holds her close to him.

"I have to take you to town." he says as he feels relief when he can feel her heartbeat.

"Its… to late." she says with difficulty. "I…" she continues with tears in her eyes. "I…am…dying."

"Don't say that. Please, don't say that." he says cradling her face. "I can't loose you, Jane. I need to know your alive for me to be happy."

"James…" she croaks out. "you…know…"

"Yes, I know and I understand. I just need to know you are okay and happy. You can't die on me." he says.

"Tell…tell…Arty and…and…Hermion… I love them." with that said the queen of Hufflepuff dies in the arms of king James.

James wakes up and rubs his face. Once more he is reliving that nightmare and it all had to do with that hated woman.

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When Harry opens the flap to his tent he finds Hermione and Draco talking animatedly.

"Hey, how is your dad?" Draco ask after he sees Harry.

"I don't know. He was asleep so I left him alone." Harry answer starting to get ready for bed.

Hermione looks at Draco questionably and the blond just shrugs.

"Well, I am off to bed." Draco says after Harry pulls back the blanket allowing him to change in privacy.

"We will appreciate it if you don't snore to loud tonight." Harry says winking to Hermione making her giggle.

"Whatever." he answers lying on his cot.

"Goodnight, Draco." she says still giggling.

"You look beautiful like that." Harry says holding his hand out to her after he finishes getting dress for bed. "Come on lets go outside to talk."

"Harry we should really go to sleep now." she says hesitating.

"It wont take long. I promise."

"Alright." she says taking his hand and following him outside.

He leads her to the rock she was sitting on the night before.

"So…" they both say at the same time.

"I just want to tell you something. I really should have told you earlier but the time never really seemed right." he says after a while.

"What is it, Harry?" she says putting a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"Well before we came to war I had a talk with your sister."

"I remember." she says frowning.

"What you don't know is that we broke up our engagement at that moment." Hermione looks at him surprise. "I just couldn't drag her along. I don't want to marry her." Hermione opens her mouth but he cuts her off. "Even if you tell me you don't love and we will never be together I wont marry her. She is a good woman and she deserves the best. I just wont be able to give it to her."

When he finishes Hermione removes her hand from his shoulder and looks away.

"This is a lot to…" she begins but trails off.

"I know. I understand that you wont be able to say anything to me right now. I mean I just told you I broke my engagement to your sister because I still love you."

"Harry…"

"You must hate me." he continues standing up and pacing in front of her. "You will probably never want to see me after the war."

He stops when Hermione kisses him in the cheek.

"You are a good guy, Harry. But your right I need to process all of this information before I make any decisions." she then grabs his hand. "I can tell you this much, I don't hate you. Goodnight."

She lets go of his hand and walks back into there tent.

Harry decides to stay a little longer as a huge smile crosses his lips.

"Goodnight, Hermione."

Okay there was more I wanted to put on this chapter but I got sidetracked, in a good way. Anyway till next time.