I do not own the "Harry Potter" series or any of the characters. Only the story idea is my own.

Yay, last chapter!

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Hermione was surprised to find an owl sitting oh her bed, cleaning it's feathers. It was light colored with wide, dark circles around its eyes.

"What are you doing here?" Hermione asked defensively. The owl looked at her and hooted frustratedly, holding out it's leg. Hermione took the note attached to the bird's leg off, and shortly after ruffling it's feathers, it flew off. After reading the note, Hermione snuck into the boy's dorm and took Harry's cloak and the Maurader's Map, hiding them in her robes. After what he had done to Severus, she didn't care how he felt.

Back in the girls dorm, she wrote a note simply letting Severus know she would see him soon, conviently forgetting to mention that it would be that night. She heard voices in the common room and jumped. Putting on the invibility cloak, Hermione went out of Gryffindor Tower to the school's owl house. She wasn't in the mood to speak with Harry.

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Severus paced through his new flat anxiously. Hermione had written back, but she did not say anything about the next Hogsmede trip. He did not write a reply; it was almost certain it would never reach her in time. All he could do was be paitent.

/Why, then, am I so anxious?/ Severus asked himself, passing the window and looking out. Laylah hooted quizzingly, and Severus glared at her.

"Be quiet," Severus huffed, "I've got too much to worry about as it is." Laylah ruffled her feathers irratibly, but obeyed. Severus fell in to the chair next to the window and rubbed his eyes. "Something bad is going to happen, Laylah. I don't know what, but I can feel it."

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Hermione managed to slip into Honeydukes just before closing time, take off the invisibility cloak, and slip out the door unnoticed.

At once, Hermione felt a presence behind her, and as much as she tried to ignore it, she couldn't. Up until that point Hermione had not worried because she had been under the invisiblity cloak, but now she felt vunerable, and whoever was following her had already seen her.

Hermione ran through Hogsmede before she got to Severus' flat, and pounded on desperately.

"Game over." Came a worn out voice from behind. Hermione turned to see a exhausted Comnya pointing a wand threateningly at her. "You have no right to be in love with Snape. He's mine."

"What are you talking about?" Hermione asked wildly.

"The rumors...the note on your bed..." Comnya grinned wickedly, holding up Severus' letter, "and the fact that you are here right now. Leave him alone. He's mine."

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There was a knock on the door, and Severus knew instictivly who it was. He pushed himself from the chair and opened the door. Without looking past Hermione, or even really looking at Hermione herself, he grabbed her by the arm and dragged her in.

"I told you..." He began, but was interupted.

"AVADA KERDAVRA!" There was a flash of green light and terrible pain, and Severus knew no more.

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Hermione screamed. Severus fell to the ground, and Comyna dropped her wand.

The rest passed in a whirl. It semmed only a few moments before the dementors came and applied the Dementor's Kiss to Comyna, and Severus' body was take to be prepared for the funeral.

Professor Dumbledor came and took Hermione back to Hogwarts. The entire way, they didn't speak, until she went to his office.

"I'm going to be expelled, aren't I?" Hermione sobbed. "First I loose Severus, then I loose school too."

"You won't be expelled, Miss Granger." Professor Dumbledor replied calmly. "You will merely be suspended until next year. I cannot allow one of Hogwart's best students to loose a good education, even under these circumstances." Hermione still couldn't bare to look Dumbledor in the eye. He filled a form explaing Hermione's transgression and the punishment, and she signed it to show she understood and accepted it.

Ron and Harry were waiting for her outside Professor Dumbledor's office.

"Hermione, are you all right?" Ron asked, "What happend?" Hermione shook her head and fought back the tears.

"Nothing. Nothing happend." Hermione replied, continuing to walk towards Gryffindor Tower. "I'll see you next year, okay?"

"Next year!?" Harry exlaimed, "What do you mean next year?"

"Shut up!" Hermione shouted, "If you hadn't gone running to tell Dumbledor about Severus and me, none of this would have ever happened!" Hermione stopped and caught her breath for a moment. "I never want to speak to you again, Harry Potter." Harry shrank away from Hermione. She continued to glare at him before remembering Ron was there as well. She turned and hugged Ron. "I'll see you next year." Hermione murmured, and went to pack her trunk.

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Okay, please don't hate me forever. I'd like to say thank you to all of my faithful readers and reviewers.

Also, to all the artists who sang the songs below, because these songs inspired this story.

"Cry"--Mandy Moore (Snape's Dark Secrets, Chapter 1)

"I'm With You"--Avril Lavigne (Late Night Confessions, Chapter 4)

"What Do We Wish On Now?"--TrueVibe (Is This Farewell?, Chapter 7)

Thank you all.