~Disclaimer- Please note that only original characters and the plot and any other new things are mine everything else is not and the other characters are J.K. Rowling but then again you most likely already knew that so on with the show~ oh and this mean that the characters are thinking to themselves or having flashbacks
"Oh my god, oh my god, I did not just slam that door in Harry's face did I?" Hermione stepped back "what do I do? What umm maybe I should open the door but what do I do what do I say, should I open the door?" she asked herself.
"Hermione I think you should open the door." Said Harry through the door, Hermione walked over and opened the door to find Harry still standing out side leaning against the door way.
"Hi" she said smiling at him.
"Hi." He replied with a little smirk on his face looking her up and down. Wow she looks good, she's changed Harry thought.
"Umm I guess that you would… ummm… want to come in" Hermione said stepping out of the way; great out of all the apartments in London that I could've chosen , I picked the one right next to one of the people that I just did not want to see yet.
"I'd love too" he said stepping through the door and into the living room. "Nice apartment looks a lot better than mine does, even now, mine still looks really run down."
"Thanks Harry, it's uh been a while"
"Yeah it has, 6 years since graduation"
"Yeah, so what's new with you?" She asked, a little hesitantly.
"Well not much I'm the seeker for the Cannons and I also work part time as an Auror."
"Well that doesn't surprise me, you've always been into those two things." She said smiling slightly "you know you can sit down, Harry."
"Yeah thanks." He said taking a seat on the couch. "So what's new with you, Hermione, Where have you been all this time, why did you leave and I'm sorry for asking but what made you come back?" asked Harry after a couple minutes of a very uncomfortable moments of silence.
"Do you want something to drink?" asked Hermione getting up off the couch that she had just sat down on to move to the kitchen, man I knew he was going to bring that up but not that soon.
"Yes please, a beer or coke" he answered, "and you never answered my questions, where have you been?"
"Here she said handing him a beer and sitting down across from him; I've been in Canada with my Aunt for the last 6 years, when I was in Canada I was going to school and I was working as an assistant to a Social worker and I was training to be one as well. I came back because Dumbledore asked me too; he wrote a letter to me saying he wanted to meet me in the beginning of the school year, so next week I'm taking Floo Powder from the Leaky Cauldron Hogwarts." She said
"Really me too, I'm suppose to go to meet Dumbledore too" said Harry "so why did you leave, what did we do to make you want to leave?"
"You didn't do anything, and I don't know if I'm ready to tell you."
"WHAT! YOU RUN AWAY, DISAPPEARING WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE YOUR GOING AND THEN YOUR NOT GOING TO TELL ME, you just left and you, you really hurt me, everyone by just leaving and if you came back expecting everything to go back to the way it was it probably wont but you could at least tell me what I did, what other people did to make you leave." He finished standing up half way across the room from her without even knowing that he had stood up and moved a way from the couch.
"Harry if you'll just calm down, I can tell you I'm not ready to…"
"Hermione, I wasn't ready for one of my best friends to run out on me… Ron and I fought Voldemort without you and it only made him stronger… I just don't understand how you could just leave, I mean Ron and I searched for you, we were convinced that you hadn't just left and had been taken by Voldemort and the death eaters."
"I wasn't though… how'd you figure out I wasn't?"
"Dumbledore told us you had written to him asking that he make sure that Ron and I didn't go crazy and ruin our lives looking for you, I think were the words that you used." He said taken a seat once more across from her. Hermione stood up silently and walked over to her yellow bookshelves and ran her hand slowly across the row of old books that she had bought throughout the seven years she had spent at Hogwarts and the ones she had bound in the Wizarding world in Canada. She looked at the books that she had taken out of the boxes and had began to place on the shelves, she reached into the nearest box and removed a book called CHARMS, WARDS AND SPELLS FOR PROTECTION she placed it onto a shelf and walked around to the book stand she had.
Harry watch Hermione with fascination, she had changed so much over the past 6 years as he was sure he had. Now instead of wearing his cousin's old hand me down Harry had on a pair of jeans and black sweater, his hair was longer than before coming to the top of his shoulders and still very messy, he wore no glasses after having his eyes magically fixed and pair of sneakers. He watched Hermione go over to her book stand and flip through it randomly.
"I want to tell you Harry, I do but I just don't think that this is the right time, and I don't feel comfortable because I'm going to have to tell Dumbledore anyway and you said that you were coming too so I can tell you then, please Harry!"
"I guess Hermione, its just, I don't understand, everything was fine and then you were gone, it just doesn't make sense" Said Harry.
"Look Harry I'm sorry but maybe you should go, I need… I to, to finish unpacking" Hermione said.
"Ummm… alright I guess but I'd like to talk to you later." He said.
"Sure look its only 12 why don't we go out for dinner tonight, just the two of us ok? Its just I really need to get this stuff done, I hate living out of boxes and that's what I'm doing right know"
"Alright Hermione I'll come by at 6:00(pm) we can go to the Leaky Cauldron for dinner or wherever"
"That sounds nice Harry; I'll talk to you later ok I just want to finish everything"
"OK, I'll talk to you later, or tonight, thanks for the beer." Said Harry as Hermione saw him to the door.
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Hermione sagged against the door taking in a few deep breaths, trying to calm down. Of all the apartments in London, in England why, why did she have to rent the one right next to Harry? She was trying to avoid seeing Harry and Ron but it did not seem to be working. She could not believe how much Harry had changed, she had always had a crush on him in Hogwarts and they had ended up going to the graduation ball with him, but she never got to tell him how she felt and know Hermione found that the feelings were still there. But whatever was happening, she needed to talk to Mike her Whitelighter (Yes that to is from Charmed, I love that show so deal with it), but first she needed to finish unpacking everything and she just didn't fell like doing everything by hand. She walked over to the book stand and began flipping through it, it was 1:30 now, all she had to do was to finish unpacking and talk to Mike. After that she would just relax with Crookshanks and then around five get ready for dinner, but right now she had to finish her work.
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Harry heard the door close behind him and he turned to head towards the door of his apartment as he dug into his pants pocket searching for the key. He opened the door and entered his apartment, which was somewhat less than pin neat. His entire apartment was painted beige, with brown couches in the living room, not all that nice looking but comfortable enough and they had come very cheep, which were perfect for him. He had magazines, Daily Prophets, and Quidditch equipment. He was still in shock about how Hermione had shown up again. He remembered what it was like when they had all found that she had disappeared. He was the last to believe that she had just left without a word it was just so unlike her.
He remembered how Ron and he had come by her small apartment to see her, but she wasn't there
Harry and Ron walked up the stairs of the apartment building to see Hermione, it was Friday morning and normally on Fridays or at least last Friday the trio got together to go out and see a movie, and then after the movie they would go out to dinner.
"So Harry what movie are we going to see?" asked Ron
"I don't know it's up to Hermione today" said Harry.
They knocked on the door and waited, but no one answered. Hermione was always home on Fridays when they were going out. Ron pounded on the door again once again was met with silence.
"Where the bloody hell is she?" asked Ron
"Try behind the door numbers, she normally keeps a spare key there" said Harry, Ron reached up behind the numbers.
"What the fuck? There's nothing there, Harry I have a bad feeling about this"
"Yeah Ron me too, we should talk to the management, they should have a spare key" said Harry as he began to run for the stairs with Ron right on his heels. They made it downstairs and ran into the main office.
"Excuse me sir, do you know where Hermione Granger is, room 113?" asked Harry to the man behind the desk.
"Hermione Granger?" replied a gruff voice "Oh yes that nice girl, don't know she up and left last night as if someone was chasing her, all I know is she left most of her stuff, furniture and what not behind said that two guys fitting your descriptions would come by and asked me to tell them that they could have anything they wanted and to sell the rest, You are Mr. Ronald Weasley and Mr. Harry Potter aren't you?"
Both Harry and Ron had thought that she left because she was being chased or had been taken and someone else had told the man that message or maybe they had done something. They thought she would contact them in a day or two and tell them what happened but she didn't, so they were convinced that she had been taken. It wasn't until Albus Dumbledore had told them of her letter did they believe she had left on her own free will, even still Harry did not believe she did it on her own but now that she was back he would find out sooner or later.
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