Disclaimer: I don't own anything. The names that are h/p are some of my friends and they basically own them. I also use the theme park Six Flags in here, don't own that either.

Wow. It's been a long time. Well, I do have an excuse but I won't waste my time. Thanks for the reviews and here's your next chapter.

Chapter 17

Date

(Dream)

About ten death eaters stood around in a circle. Their wands were out and ready to fire at any given moment. A young woman, who seemed to be Hermione stood in the middle, trapped. You could tell by the look on her face that she was worried; she knew she couldn't take all of these people on her own.

"It's over Granger. No ones here to save you. You're all alone. There's no Potter here to save the day, no Weasley here to kiss you goodbye, no one. It's all over. This is the end of the line for you mudblood." said one of the death eaters. His voice sounded strong and very familiar, like Harry had just heard it the other day. "And because you thought you could trust me, now the whole world is going to crumple and it's all going to be your fault. Lord Voldemort is going to be so close to defeating Harry Potter and taking over the world just by saying your favorite two words."

"Harry, wake up. It's just me and you, no one can hurt you," Hermione said soothingly, while shaking him gently. Harry slowly woke up and turned around staring at her.

"It's not me I'm worried about, it's you." He commented.

"Harry, nothing's going to happen." She said trying to calm him down. "I'm still here, I'm not going anywhere."

"I just have a bad feeling about this date."

"Harry, it's not really even a date. You can follow us around the whole time, if you want. It would probably make me feel a lot better. But, right now, you really need to go to sleep."

"Will, you please just sleep in here, for tonight. I feel a lot better when you're here with me." Hermione blushed and walked over to the chair beside the bed.

"No you can sleep here. It's not like anything will happen." He said with a laugh.

"Hey, you're awake." Said Harry as Hermione walked down the stairs, sleepily. Harry was in the kitchen cooking breakfast.

"You actually know how to cook," Hermione said, sarcastically.

"Yeah, way too much time with the Dursleys. If it's alright I actually wanted to look through some of Sirius's stuff today."

After breakfast, they headed to Sirius's room. Each of them picked a corner of the room. Within minutes each of them started conversing about the memories that his stuff brought to mind. Harry was also enjoying looking through the many pictures of his family. Suddenly a slight smile widened across Hermione's face.

"What's so funny? Why are you so happy?" Harry asked realizing Hermione was just staring at him, smiling.

"It's just so good to see you smiling again." She said, thinking, 'Your smile's so sexy.'

About two hours later the happiness disappeared. Hermione became bored out of her mind. She took her wand out of her pocket and made some snow with it. When Harry wasn't looking, she packed it into a snow ball and threw it at him, teasingly.

Hey, a snowball in the house? How'd that happen?"

"You're a wizard Harry," she said mimicking Hagrid. She then transformed her into a deeper sounding voice, Professor Snape. "50 points from Gryffindor for you not knowing that and 100 points awarded to Mr. Malfoy just because I like him."

"That's it I'm getting you back," Harry said playfully.

"No Harry, no," She said acting like she was afraid of him.

She got up and ran downstairs. She found the first possible unlocked door and entered. It was her room. Harry quickly walked after her. He kept walking, and Hermione, walking backwards, fell right onto the bed. She was cornered.

Harry was right on top of her. He was ready; finally, to uncover his true feelings .They weren't even inches apart from each other. Butterflies arose in Hermione's stomach, hoping what she had been dreaming was actually going to happen, right here and now. She felt her heart beat against her young womanly body. He came closer than, just about as close as he could to her face. With no time to think, he did exactly what he had wanted to do for weeks. His tender lips touched her soft, strawberry tasting ones. Before she had time to react, or kiss him back, the doorbell rang. Hermione jumped, almost kissing him back because of there closeness. (Ding dong)

"Oh my gosh, that must be Viktor." Hermione said sounding really upset. "Look, uh, Harry, I have a really bad feeling about this date. Will you please just follow us around, please Harry?"

"Yeah sure, but 'Mione, how am I suppose to get there?"

"Hermione smiled at him. She always loved being called 'Mione, but no one ever called her that. She liked being called it because it made her feel comfortable and loved. "I have a car outside, you didn't see it?"

"Okay, I'll be there. You better get going. Have fun."

"Yeah, right." She muttered as she ran down a flight of stairs to make it to the door. She opened it t find Viktor standing there with a bouquet of flowers.

"Are you ready to go?" Viktor asked her.

'How the hell did he find this place?' Hermione asked herself.

"Earth to Hermione!"

"Huh, oh, yeah."

Harry ran around upstairs, getting ready to leave but making sure not to be too early. He grabbed a piece of parchment and Hedwig and left the house. He found Hermione's car and quickly jumped in. Very quickly he spotted Viktor's muggle-like car that was not to far away. He followed them the whole way. In about an hours time they arrived at some big parking lot. Harry was still very clueless as to where Hermione was being taken. He parked a few spots away from Viktor so he could hear the conversation, incase he threatened her.

"Viktor, where are we?"

"Six flags."

"A muggle amusement park?"

"No, Six flags is owned by a branch of witches and wizards. This park was just built especially for magic folk."

They all slowly walked up to the entrance. Harry, on the other hand, pulled back, becoming extra cautious about being caught. Harry then noticed two wizards apparate into the parking lot. Each of them had there face covered with a hood, wearing all black. One of them was rubbing his arm. Harry thought that maybe was the dark mark was conjured Two more of them just appeared. Harry turned back and grabbed Hedwig, and a piece of parchment. He quickly scribbled a note and sent the snowy owl off on his journey.

"What's wrong, mate, you sounded really serious," Ron asked.

"They're going to try and attack Hermione, we have to go." Harry said as he quickly started running to the entrance.

"Wait, Who? What?"

"Death eaters, there everywhere, they're going to try and kill her." Harry said panting from the running.

"But how do you know?"

"Trust me I know, come on, and before were to late."

They both walked into the park after buying tickers and searched for Hermione. Finally they found Hermione and Viktor standing in a street.

"This is it, this is the spot, and I know it."

"We have to wait. Maybe we should split up so we can attack more that way."

"Alright, I'll go over there since Viktor hardly knows me."

As soon as Ron walked over to the other side, he noticed something moving in the bushes. He quickly signaled to Harry and they watched the creatures arise out of the bushes. Many of the hooded figures arrived, forming a circle. Harry watched Hermione, who was still oblivious to the fact that she was going to be attacked.

"Mudblood, you actually arrived. Remember today's date, January 3rd, the day you die, the day we take the first big step into bringing dark magic into the real world. Everyone will die." One of the tall death eaters said.

Hermione was scared. She looked around. There was only one person she knew definitely to be there

"Viktor, Where are you?" She called out. A young death eater walked into the middle of the circle.

"It's over Granger, no ones here to save you. Not Potter, not Weasley, no one. You're all alone. Not even your Potter boyfriend came to save the day. No ones here for you."

"Viktor?" she said very confused, she knew it was his voice, he had to be him.

"You thought you could trust me, well guess what you can't. Now the whole world is going to suffer because you arrived here. The fate of the world is all in your hands and theirs no way you can survive against all of us."

Hermione skimmed the crowd looking for Harry. She was hoping he was there.

"Looking for your lover? Well, guess what, he's not here. He doesn't care about you mudblood. He won't be here to save the day today. He wanted me to tell you that he hated you and his wishes were to make you die.

"You're wrong," Harry said coming out of his hiding spot. He couldn't take anymore of them torching Hermione.

"Pertificus Totalus," Ron screamed, knocking out many death eaters.

While Ron was knocking out many death eaters, Harry ran over to Hermione and handed her wand. The trio cursed many death eaters leaving them with very few. Hermione walked over to Viktor wanting to demolish him. As much as she wanted to use the killing curse on him, she knew she couldn't.

"Pertificus Totalus" she screamed. Viktor froze upright and fell over. At this same moment the rest of the uninjured death eaters apparted away. Each of the trio felt very weak, and left the battle with a few cuts and scrapes, but they survived.

Hermione walked up to Ron and gave him a hug. She hen did the same for Harry, thanking them both for being there for here. As soon as Hermione did this the realization hit both of them, 'she never kissed them back'. Hermione then became really frustrated with this thought and tried to cover this up.

"How'd you get here Ron?" She asked. "I knew Harry was here but I never expected to see you here."

"Yeah, me neither. Harry owled me here."

"In the car, I figured everything out." Harry started to explain. "Everything was a setup to drag you here. Viktor was never in the hospital; remember the worker couldn't find him. He just wanted to bring you here. He needed to hurt you to get to me. When I got here I noticed that there were way too many death eaters for just two of u to take on, so I decided to reunite the golden trio."

"So I take it you to are back talking?" Hermione asked remembering all the fights back at school.

"I guess so, right mate."

"Yeah," Harry said, still a little lost in the kiss.

"Well I better get going before mum gets worried. See you guys back at Hogwarts."

Ron left the two of them alone. They decided to go back home. The whole ride was just about dead silent besides the wind rubbing against the car. The kiss was filled in each of there thoughts. Hermione wanted to do something about it, but didn't know exactly how to make her move.

A-n- I can never figure out a good way to end chapters. This chapter seemed a lot better in my brain, before it came out into paper. Well I'm out of school, so updates should be very fast now. There's no way I'm coming to fanfiction after HBP comes out, because I don't want to be spoiled (besides reading Krisit's). So the story will definitely be over. I better get moving.

Kelly