~Somewhere Out There~



It had been three hours since Harry left. Ron called up the dormitory staircase trying to get me to come down for dinner. He gave up after a while though, obviously realizing that I wouldn't be coming down any time soon. I wasn't the only one who had been such a mess. Katie Bell, who had been going out with Oliver Wood since her fourth year at Hogwarts, had been crying almost as much as me. But, at least she knew that Oliver loved her.

I walked down to the dark common room and sat down on one of the couches nearest to the fireplace. I stared into the flames and just sat there. I felt so alone and my heart had this horrible hole in it. My crying was finally beginning to cease, and after about twenty minutes of just staring, I felt a hand on my shoulder.

" 'Mione, are you ok?" Ron said to me quietly, sounding concerned. I just turned and looked at him, and shook my head slowly, not able to speak to say no. He walked around the couch and sat down next to me. "What's wrong?" He asked.

I searched for the right thing to say, "I want Harry to come back," I said solemnly. "I have this horrible feeling that something will go terribly wrong, He needs to come back!" The tears began to fall again.

He pulled me into a tight hug and I began to cry hysterically into his chest. "Shhh.... 'Mione, everything will be alright," He said soothingly, "He will come back, I promise."

"I love him," I said, though it sounded muffled because my face was so close to him, "He needs to come back..."

He pulled me away from him so he could look me in the eye, "He will come back, 'Mione', He always wins." He said seriously.

Every time he said that it just made me more upset. I was so afraid. I stood up and backed away from the fireplace. He just looked at me sympathetically, and I ran up to my dormitory. I sat on my bed and cried. Ron believed that he would be ok, and I should too. He did make me feel a bit better.

Then all of a sudden I heard a tap on my dormitory window. I ran over to it and opened it up. Hedwig flew in and perched on the edge of my dresser. She had parchment tied around her leg. I took off the parchment and I unrolled it. My eyes widened when I saw the familiar messy handwriting I had seen so many times.



~Somewhere out there

~Beneath the pale moonlight





"Dear Hermione, I am writing this to you from the Order of the Phoenix Headquarters. We are to leave for battle in a half an hour. I needed to write this to you because I did not get to say all I wanted to before I left...." I began to read the letter out loud. It was a fairly long letter and I was so eager to see what else he had to say.

"...and you need to know. There is a reason I didn't say anything when you kissed me. It wasn't the kiss that silenced me, it was what you said after it. You were trying to make me promise to you that I would come back... and that is something I can't guarantee. I didn't want you to be angry at me for not returning if something goes wrong." Him saying that was breaking my heart. I just wanted him to tell me that everything would be alright and that he would be safe.

"And I'm not sure how to say this.... but I wanted to kiss you." For a second I felt that I could not breathe.



~Someone's thinking of me

~And loving me tonight



"I wanted to take you in my arms and give you a kiss that showed my true feelings for you. But I couldn't. I was set on going to this battle, and if I kissed you I knew I would hate myself for leaving." When I read those words a tear fell from my eye and landed on the parchment, making the letters that the teardrop landed on blur.

"I never knew how you felt about me, and I always thought that we were just friends. But when you kissed me and I saw the hurt in your eyes, and I knew that you loved me. And, I know now that I love you too. I pray that you forgive me for not telling you sooner." 'Of course I forgive you, Harry' I though in my head after reading that line. It was myself I couldn't forgive. I should've told him, and things might have been different.



~Somewhere out there

~Someone's saying a prayer

~That we'll find one another

~In that big somewhere out there



"I need you to be strong for me Hermione, Because knowing that you have faith in me will help me have the courage to fight. And if I should die in battle, promise me that you will always love me, for I will always be with you. I will always love you, and I hope that I come home soon, so I can kiss you like I meant to for so long. I Love You, -Harry-"





~And even though I know how very

~far apart we are

~It helps to think we might be wishing

~On the same bright star



He loved me! I felt as if I was floating and I wouldn't touch back down to the ground for a long time. There was a Post statement on the letter as well, "P.s.- Hermione, I need you to do something for me... At ten thirty go outside and look up at the moon..." I read aloud, 'why does he want me to do that?' I thought to myself. "I know it sounds strange," I continued to read, "But I will look up the moon at that same moment and if you are looking too than I will know that we are not that far apart, for we can both see it from where we are standing. And every moment after that, if I am feeling I can no longer go on in battle, I will look up at the moon and know that we are under the same sky and I will find the strength to keep going. Promise me you will do that.



~And when the night wind starts to sing

~A lonesome lullaby

~It helps to think we're sleeping underneath

~The same big sky



I read the letter over and over again in my head, until I knew it almost by heart. I put it down and sighed, "I promise," In response to his request. I looked at my wristwatch and realized it was ten twenty three. "Oh Merlin!" I shouted stuffing the letter under my pillow. I Pulled my cloak off the hook next to the door and bolted out of the room. I rushed through the common room, almost knocking down Lavender and Dean on the way out of the portrait hole. I thought for brief second about how we are not supposed to be out of the dormitories past nine thirty, but I would sacrifice breaking the rules for this....because I promised him. I ran around a corner and stopped at the locked door of the astronomy tower stairwell. "Alohamora!" I shouted and I ran up the stone steps.



~Somewhere out there

~If love can see us through

~Then we'll be together



I reached the top and walked to the railing of the tower. I closed my eyes for a second feeling the soft breeze blow my hair around my face. In my head I heard Harry saying 'I love you," though I have never actually heard him say it in person. I opened my eyes and looked at my watch. I watched the numbers switch from ten-twenty-nine, to ten-thirty and I looked up into the sky. I saw the moon instantly; it was full and high in the sky. It seemed to cast a silver glow on everything around. "I kept my promise, Harry..." I said softly to the moon, "I love you..." My eyes began to fill with tears, but I would not let them fall. 'He told me to be strong.' I thought firmly in my head. I closed my eyes to keep back the tears for a moment, "Please come home soon."



~Somewhere out there

~out where dreams come true....









(A/n- awww lots of fluffy happiness and some sadness, all packed in one chapter! Yay! *dances around room* So how'd you like it! Review PLEASE!!!!!!!!! Well I think there is like two more chapters of this story coming up. I have this weird thing with making short stories four chapters long. I dunno. Once again sorry if this chapter has lotsa mistakes. My friend didn't check this chapter over for me because, once again I was too impatient. I wanna thank my reviewers from the frist chapter! Thanks a bunch and Keep the reviews comin!)