When Hermione opened her eyes, she saw wonderfull trees, green grass and a deep blue lake... About 250 metres under her...

She looked around and found that she had to sit on the roof of one of the towers of the castle. Spike sat next to her, staring into the clouds

"Hey pet... Ya know, just thought we could... get to know each other here... Where nobody is interrupting..."

Hermione smiled "What d'you want to know?"

"How was it?"

"What?"

"The battle"

"Oh... you weren't there?"

"It was the day dad told me I was supposed to become HIS heir..."

Hermione sighed "It was like... Hell on earth. Everywhere people screamed, used the unforgiveables... The floor was covered in blood and you never knew how many people would attack you and from which direction. I was standing there, behind Harrys left side, Ron behind his right. HE had told the death eaters not to touch Harry and most of them didn't dare to attack one of us because they were afraid that he could jump in front of us to save us and then, the lord would have done something worse than dying to the deatheater that hurt Harry..." She swallowed hard, tears glittering in her eyes

Flashback

Harry, Ron and Hermione turned and stood now backs to backs... They stood there for a few minutes, sending curses in every direction. Suddenly, Hermione felt a heavy weight on her back, stumbled and fell. Her head hit a rock and she fought against unconsciousness but around her, everything went black...

When she woke up again, she heard somebody sob. Then, Harry screamed "No! You can't just... No... We have to take them with us... I lost them... lost everybody.... Mum, Dad... Sirius.... And now Ron and Hermione.... I wasn't able to protect them... I wanna be there, next 'ter them...."

Hermione slowly opened her eyes and saw a quite messed up Remus, holding Harry back...

"Professor?" Everything around Hermione moved, the floor, the corpses... Then, the weight fell off her back and she stared into Rons dead eyes. A scream escaped her and she crawled away backwards from his corps until she hit Remus' feet "Professor?" she whispered

"Yes, Hermione?"

"Is anybody I know alive? Besides us?"

"Well... Mundungus and Charlie Weasley fell, but the rest of the order survived... We were well organised... Tonks is at the very edge, but Poppy says she'll make it... Some death eaters escaped... Lucius Malfoy, for example..."

Harry fell to his knees next to Hermione, taking her in his arms "I thought I lost you... I thought I lost you, Mya... Don't you do that again to me.... I thought I lost you..."

End Flashback

Spike stared at Hermione whose tears fell to her skirt which had become rather wet by now...

"And... Potter?"

Hermione sighed "He had defeated Voldemort, so some deatheaters were rally angry at him... They broke into the burrow, where many of us stayed in the week of Rons and Charlies funeral... they were both burned... and in the burrow, they killed him, me being next to him, staring into his eyes when he fell to the ground... But they didn't notice I was there... Or they thought I was asleep in the bed in this dark corner... And I wanted to kill them so much, but I was so shocked I couldn't move... And when they were gone, I screamed... Molly said, it wasn't my fault, but it was. I was right next to him and I did nothing to protect him..."

Spike smiled at her "It was not your fault, pet... If you had made any noise, you wouldn't be sitting here right now..."

Hermione sobbed, but got her selfcontrol back soon "You know... I dressed in black at the funeral of Ron and Charlie, and then again after Harrys death... And I never stopped... Neither did Ginny..."

Spike smiled and took her into his arms "You know what? Scarface and Weasel are sitting somewhere up there right now, looking down at you and screaming 'He's the fuckin' Ferret! Let go of him!'"

Hermione laughed a little and then looked up into the clouds. She stood up and screamed "Oi, Harry! Hey, Ron! You know what? I never said good-bye to you... never had the time, you know? Don't worry 'bout me, I will be fine... See the fuckin' tears on my cheeks? They are for you and the Ferret who really is no Ferret anymore will surely wipe them away... Goodbye, dudes... I'll never forget the two of you, deal?"

She waited for a few seconds but became no answer from above... Somewhere under her, she heard somebody yell "Deal"

She looked shocked down and spotted somebody with red hair "It's me, Ginny... And the whole campus heard you, Mya!"

Hermione laughed and let herself fall back "You know... for some moments I really thought they were speaking to me from hell..."

Spike laughed and looked up to the sky himself "Hey Scarface, Weasel... I understand why you two, both purebloods, liked this know-it-all... finally I understand... And I promise I'll take care of her..."

They sat there until the sun set and after that, apparated into their room.

Rick sat on the edge of his bed, staring down at Tricia. Sydney sat with Ginny on the other side and stared into her sisters face. Spike went over to them and looked at Tricia. She was pale...

"What happened?"

Ginny stared at him "He... We were in their room and Trish and Rick, again, started fighting... The usual crap, you know? About she being his girlfriend and stuff..."

Sydney interrupted her "Then, the stupid git came in, fuckin' Dean... He told them to shut up and Rick told him..."

Ginny took over again "...he told him to pull the stick out of his ass and behave like a man..."

Spike sighed "Rick, you knew you shouldn't fight with him..."

"But you did today"

"Yeah, but you don't have to get yourself in trouble..."

"But you..."

"I have got no parents that could just refuse to pay for my study"

Rick looked into Tricias face "He wanted to hit me with his bloody curse but he hit Tricia... She flew against the wall and was knocked out immediately..."

Hermione stepped to the bed "Which curse was it?" "I dunno... one of those I-hit-you-in-jour-stomach-and-its-like-a-car-just- did"

"So it's like... just the crash that knocked her out?"

"Yeah"

"When was it?"

"'bout an hour ago..."

Hermione smiled and let a stream of water from her wand hit Tricias face

"Hey, what the hell... Where's the fire?" Tricia sat up and stared at Rick "You!"

"No, Trish... don't be mad at me, I..."

Tricia stood up and faced Rick, standing on the bed "Can't you ever close your fucking mouth?"

"Trish, I..."

"God, boy... Do you have such a short temper or are you just stupid?"

"Well... The second one, I guess..."

"Yeah, same here..." She began throwing things at him – everything she could reach - until he ran out of the room... and followed him.

Spike looked at the door and thought for a moment "I'm going over to him... Gin, you share a room with two guys, right?" Ginny nodded "Alright... you'll change."

Hermione, Ginny and Sydney stared at each other when Spike left the room

Sydney looked nervous "What d'you think he's going to do?"