'I've found it, I think,' she said. Harry still stared at her blankly. 'I've found the way home.'

Harry's mouth dropped open and a distraught expression appeared on his face.

'But...I have to say goodbye to my parents.'
It was then that Hermione stopped bouncing and the smile fell from her face. She had known this was going to be hard for Harry, there was really nothing for him at 'home' and here he had everything he had ever wanted. He had his parents, Sirius was still alive and not to mention he didn't have to be taught by Snape anymore. This was going to be really difficult.
'Oh Harry, I'm so sorry, I got all worked up at the idea of being able to see my parents again that I forgot that you'd be leaving yours.' Harry's head hung and Hermione took hold of one of his hands in both of hers until he looked up into her eyes again. 'Ok, we'll go to the common room and Great Hall now, it's lunch time so none of them will be in class but Harry,' she paused, 'we can't tell them that we are leaving. They will want an explanation and we just can't give them that.' Harry nodded and they headed for the Gryfindor common room.

To Harry the walk seemed to take an eternity though he wished with all his heart that it would take a bit longer. He didn't wanna do this.

When they entered the common room all of their friends were sat around the fire talking and laughing. Harry stood at the portrait hole for just a second. Where I'm going 3 of these people are dead and one of them is working with Voldemort. Harry took a deep breath and, with a squeeze of his hand from Hermione for encouragement, they walked forward.
'Hey guys,' Sirius said smiling widely. 'Here, settle this argument. Jamie-Boy here thinks that he will be the first one of us lads to have children. When I think it will be me who will pass on my good-looks, intelligence, amazing sense of humor...'
'...bad smell, arrogant attitude, annoying jokes,' James finished for him. Harry couldn't help but smile as they looked to him for an answer.
'Well,' he cleared his throat, 'I think it'll be James.'
'Yes!' cheered James, punching the air in triumph. 'Thank you, Harry, just for that I'm gonna name my first son after you.' James laughed at this but Harry was fighting back tears and all he could manage was a weak smile, his breathing was getting quite uneven and Hermione noticed this.
'Come on Harry, we've got to go,' she said taking hold of his arm gently. Harry nodded.
'Ok, see ya soon,' Remus said, smiling and everyone else also said bye or waved enthusiastically in the case of Sirius.
'Bye everyone,' said Harry, 'Bye Lily, bye James.'
With that the pair left the portrait hole, both with tears in their eyes. As they walked Harry couldn't help thinking that that was the hardest thing he ever had or ever will have to do.

They stopped a few corridors away and Hermione pulled Harry into a hug.
'It'll be ok,' she said, but she also had tears running down her face.

'Ok, this is how I think we'll get home,' Hermione explained to Harry, as they were walking back into the room where Hermione had broken Harry's heart just 45 minutes before. He was sitting in silence on one of the old desks, listening to Hermione's explanation with a look of pure misery on his face.
'Well, you know how the time turner works by letting the sand run through the hour glass after each turn,' she didn't wait for a response from Harry before she continued, clearly in 'professor mode', 'well, I think that if I can use a spell and make the sand run upwards through the glass rather than down it will reverse the effect and send us forward in time rather than backwards.'
Harry nodded and stood up, moving closer to Hermione so she could loop the necklace around his neck.

She was currently muttering some words under her breath and holding her wand ready. What she was saying, Harry didn't really care about, he was trying to think of a positive side to having to leave everyone he loved, then suddenly he had a thought.
'Hermione, stop.' Hermione stopped chanting and looked at him, questioningly. 'When are you sending us back to.'
She lowered her eyebrows, 'Well, I'm sending us back to our time, when do you think?'
'No, no, no,' said Harry, 'I mean, make sure that you send us back to before Ron, you know, or else this has all been pointless.'
Hermione nodded and continued with her chant. Harry started counting in his head, 5 seconds and they would be leaving.
4 seconds

He held his breath.
3 seconds

He closed his eyes.
2 seconds

He gripped Hermione's hand.
1 second
This was it!

Harry closed his eyes even more tightly and held on to Hermione. They were so close that he could feel her chest rise and fall in sharp breaths.

Then...nothing.

No bright lights.

No feeling of being lifted off the ground.

No transportation through time.

Nothing.
He opened his eyes and looked down at Hermione who was staring directly forward with a look of horror and disbelief on her face, her chest rising and falling rapidly.
'It didn't work,' she muttered before breaking down crying, tears rolling uncontrollably down her cheeks. She angrily pulled the chain off from round her and Harry's necks and threw it on the floor, letting out a scream as she did so. Harry watched the sand start to run out onto the floor as the tiny hourglass shattered. She walked away a few steps before spinning around and looked at Harry.
'That should have worked. Why didn't it work?' She was looking at him like he had all the answers.
'I don't know Hermione, but it's ok, we'll find another way,' Harry said. He stepped forward to give her a hug but she pushed him off, angrily.
'No Harry, you don't get it. I have been searching for 6 months now. There is no other way.'
'It's ok,' said Harry.
'Of course it's ok for you,' shouted Hermione with her fists clenched by her sides. 'This is exactly what you wanted. Congratulations!'
A hurt expression spread across Harry's face and immediately Hermione felt guilty, 'I'm sorry,' she said and falling to her knees she started crying again.

Harry took hold of her in his strong arms and pulled her close, whispering words of comfort that she didn't hear in her ear. He held her for a long time with no intention of letting her go and she was extremely grateful to him.

He pulled back slightly to look at her face and placed his hands on both of her cheeks. They locked eyes and Hermione immediately stopped crying. She felt herself moving towards him. Her face closer to his. Her lips towards his. She didn't know what they were doing and neither did he but right then, in that small abandoned classroom Harry Potter and Hermione Granger shared their first kiss...

A/N PLEASE R&R