Summary

Hermione Granger was currently engaged with Harry Potter, the boy who lived.

She should be happy about this, in fact ecstatic about it, after all she had been in love with him since first year. But she wasn't, she loved Harry to bits but the spark wasn't quite there.

However with a certain red head the spark was definitely there. Wasn't it?

Disclaimer: I have a secret to tell you. I am J K Rowling, you see I have writers block for the seventh and final book so I've decided to write this as an extra thing.

Not mine!

He walked over to the table she was sitting at and sat opposite her. After five minutes she broke the silence and said "Fred, I know you're here, so just leave me alone."

Chapter 2 Auburn red and chocolate brown.

"How did you know it was me?"

"Because anyone who knows a Weasley would know that they all have extremely bright red hair which is hard to block out. And the only two people who knew that I had disappeared were you and Ginny, Ginny doesn't have short hair and isn't a man so the only option I had left was unfortunately you."

"It's auburn red hair actually." Muttered Fred.

Hermione tried not to laugh at that statement, but she couldn't help it.

"Well it is." Fred replied indignantly

This caused Hermione to laugh harder. Fred tried to stop himself from laughing but he couldn't, her laugh was infectious. They sat laughing for about five minutes, anyone who passed would have thought that it was the most bizarre thing to see two twenty something's sitting in a school library laughing like there was no tomorrow.

Fred suddenly turned serious which surprised Hermione quite a lot. "Hermione, I'm sorry about earlier." He apologised. "It's just the Mione that I knew had eyes that could warm anyone's heart, but today when you said that you were happy I knew you didn't mean it, how could you when you're living with him?"

"You don't know anything about me Fred Weasley!" Snarled Hermione jumping up. "You think spending five minutes with me will determine whether you think I'm happy or not? And what did you mean when you said 'How could you when you're living with him'?"

"What I mean is," Fred began "ever since Harry became famous- well, even more so- he's been such an arrogant prick, and I don't want to see you get hurt."

"Fred, I'm not going to get hurt. I-" She paused "I love Harry."

Fred didn't look convinced but he didn't say anything. He was deep in thought when Hermione interrupted them. "Are you coming for a walk?"

"Sure." They left the castle and walked around the grounds a couple of times.

They talked about everything from quidditch to Weasley's Wizarding Weezes to Fred's last disastrous date with one of Ginny's friends from work.

"I'm telling you," Fred said between laughter "She was the most biggest air-head I had ever met. She even asked me if lamb was a type of chicken!"

This caused Hermione to giggle uncontrollably, they had been laughing for the past hour and a half. Every time Fred looked up he couldn't help noticing how pretty Hermione looked when she laughed.

"I can't remember when I last had this much fun." Hermione said wiping the tears of laughter from her chocolate brown eyes. "Thank you so much Fred."

"Anytime Mione."

Hermione looked at her watch and gasped "Oh no! I was meant to meet Harry half an hour ago." She then started running towards the Hogwarts gates.

"Why don't you just apparate?" Yelled Fred at her retreating back.

"You can't apparate or disapparate inside Hogwarts. Have you never read Hogwarts a History?" She shouted back not turning round.

Fred ran to catch up with her, "Wait." he grabbed her arm to stop her leaving. "When will I see you again?"

"I- I don't know to be honest." Replied Hermione stepping back from him

"I have to see you Mione, I have to." But before he could persuade her anymore she was gone. Again.

x-x-x

Hermione quietly opened and shut her front door. All was quiet. Maybe he hasn't noticed that I'm late, she thought to herself.

She tiptoed past the living room and into the kitchen.

"Where the hell have you been?" Snapped Harry from behind her.

Hermione jumped. "Didn't I tell you I was going to be later than usual?" Hermione replied trying to sound nonchalant, but inside she could hear her heart thumping against her chest.

"No you didn't." Snarled Harry "I looked such an idiot standing outside the stadium by myself. There were heaps of reporters there and everything. I bet it'll be on the front page of the Daily Prophet tomorrow. 'Potter moron stood up by fiancé."

"Harry," Said Hermione turning to face him, she was trying her hardest not to lose her temper. "I think there will be more important things in the Prophet other than you. After all, the whole magical society doesn't revolve around you."

"You little bitch!" Shouted Harry striding over to where Hermione stood.

"Well it's true."

Without warning Harry lifted his hand up and struck Hermione on the face. She stumbled back and as she looked into his eyes she saw something that she had never seen before; evilness. It went almost as quickly as it came and Harry again walked towards her. "Hermione, I'm so sorry. It's just I- I lost control."

Hermione, for the third time that day disappeared, there was only one place she could think of to go.

x-x-x

"Hermione, what-?"

"I'm sorry if I woke you, it's just that I needed someone to talk to and I couldn't think of anywhere else to go."

"Of course," Replied Fred opening the front door wider to let Hermione in. "Come in."

Hermione stepped over the threshold and looked around at her surroundings. There were heaps of little gadgets and gizmo's every where. It was exactly how she imagined Fred and George's flat to look like.

Fred disappeared into another room while Hermione went into the living room and sat down. Fred reappeared with a towel in his hands. "I thought you could use this to dry yourself off." He said handing it to her.

"Thanks." Hermione replied rubbing it through her hair. It had been pouring with rain outside and Hermione had been walking around Fred's block of flats for about an hour deciding whether to go in or not.

They sat in silence for a while. It felt strange to Hermione- not an uncomfortably strange but pleasantly strange-.

"May I ask why you're hear?" Fred enquired concern filling his eyes.

"I just wanted to see a friendly face that's all." Not looking him in the eye.

"Ok, but I'm here if you need to talk." He stood up to go into the kitchen when he caught sight of the other side of Hermione's face. "Mione, your face's all red, what happened?"

"Nothing." Hermione said a little too quickly for Fred to believe.

"Did, did Harry hit you?"

"He didn't mean to, he just sort of… lost control." She finished lamely.

"I'll kill him." Growled Fred looking furious. "I know he's Ron's best friend but he has no right what so ever to treat you that way."

"Fred-,"

"Has he ever hit you before?"

"No!" Said Hermione sounding alarmed. "Like I said, he lost control. It was really my fault."

"Oh, so you made him hit you?"

"Well, no, but if I hadn't have said that the whole wizarding society didn't revolve around him then he wouldn't have hit me in the first place." Hermione paused as she noticed Fred's ears go bright red; never a good sign in the Weasley family. "I provoked him."

"Well someone needed to deflate his overly large head."

"Fred, if you care for me at all, just do one thing for me and leave this be, I don't want the whole wizarding world to know that Harry hit me."

"Fine," Fred snapped angrily "but I swear, if he does it again I'll go and kick his ass."

Hermione sniggered a little bit about this statement.

Fred rounded on her and said "What?"

"You'll kick his ass?"

"Well, try to." Fred replied smiling at Hermione and sitting back down beside her.

They spent the rest of the evening talking about who they would love to kick in. Hermione finally fell asleep and Fred, not wanting to wake her summoned some pillows and a duvet before wrapping them around her and going to sleep himself.

A/N: Ok, please don't kill me for making Harry out to be a ass hole, I don't particularly like him in the books so I think that has contributed to me writing him up this way.

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