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Hermione returned to the lounge room, replacing her gold dress with a black and pink tracksuit, she found Blaise and Ron having a heated conversation about what advantages Blaise had in the next election, and Harry staring into space silently, the coffee Blaise had made, left untouched on the table.

Pulling her curls into a loose ponytail, Hermione picked up her favourite coffee mug and crawled onto the seat next to Harry. For a minute or two she simply watched him, taking in his appearance, to anyone else it would have looked like e was listening to Ron and Blaise, but Hermione knew that he wasn't from the glassy look in his eyes behind his glasses.

He still looked like the same old Harry to her, if anything though he looked thinner, but then again he had always looked a bit thin. He brown eyes soon came back to his green ones, and she studied them carefully, they looked slightly tired and a little lost.

"What?" Harry asked, finally noticing Hermione staring at him, he unconsciously toughed his hair.

"Nothing," Hermione replied, turning to watch Blaise and Ron's conversation. She tried to change the topic, and remembered something Mrs. Weasley had told her a couple of days earlier.

"Ron? Your mum said you had a date tonight, what happened?" She asked, genuinely interested. Ron stopped talking, mid-sentence, and turned from Blaise to Hermione.

"She said she was your new trainer," The brunette continued, she stared at Ron and waited for his reply.

"Well, uh, you see, the thing is, I, uh, decided that there were important things going on than for me to be dating," He finally stated.

"Like what?" Asked Blaise, sounding genuinely interested.

'Um… like Harry coming back," He said quickly, glancing at Harry.

'You told me it was just a team meeting," Harry finally spoke, eying the red head cautiously, "not a date,"

"Okay, apparently she's like obsessed with me, all the guys say she talks about me non-stop when I'm not there and she has pictures of me in her office," Ron blurted out.

Hermione began to giggle, while Blaise looked at Ron slightly confused. Even Harry smiled slightly at Ron's pathetic behaviour.

"What about you Harry?" Ron began, trying to change the subject, "you got a hot American girlfriend?"

Harry looked at Ron, but stayed silence.

"You were in America?" Blaise asked, his eye brows raised at Harry, "Doing what?"

"I've been in California. Basically, living as a muggle," He said casually, "And no, Ron, I did not have a girl friend, or any proper friends for that matter."

Hermione hugged him, "How did you survive?" she asked as she let go of him.

"I worked in factories, mainly, it gave me enough to live on from week to week," He responded automatically.

Silence filled the room as Harry avoided his friend's gaze.

"Are you back for good?" Ron asked, slightly red again.

"I hope so," Harry shrugged, "How are the Cannons?" he knew it was a feeble attempt to change the topic, but it worked.

"We're going great, it's one of the best teams I've been on," Ron said enthusiastically, "Apart from Hogwarts of course."

Harry and Blaise both nodded, while Hermione rolled her eyes back.

"What about you Mione? Hows life as the next Minister of Magic's girlfriend?" Harry said turning to the brunette.

"Fiancé," Blaise cut in.

"That's what I meant," Harry said his green eyes twinkling at Hermione.

She smiled at Blaise, "Well, it's pretty much the same as it was four years ago, only more people are interested in us now," Hermione said, laughing slightly.

Silence filled the room once again.

"So, Harry, what are you going to do now that your back?" Blaise asked, he hated the silence.

Harry spoke as Hermione placed her empty coffee mug back on the table.

"Well, I guess I need to find a job and a place to stay first," Harry answered, realising for the first time that he needed to organise a lot of things.

"You could stay with me,' Ron offered.

"Ron, your apartment only has one bedroom, Harry'd have to sleep on the couch." Hermione pointed out.

"Oh yeah," Ron replied, actually thinking about it, "Mum and Dad won't care if you stay at the burrow though, they'd probably enjoy having you there,"

Harry nodded silently, but Hermione glanced at Blaise. He had plenty of space in his apartment, plus he was hardly there so it wouldn't be like Harry was intruding on him or anything. She smiled sweetly at him, and Blaise finally got the hint.

"Um, I well, there's a spare room in my apartment," he said slowly, "Your welcome to stay there."

Once again Harry nodded, but stopped midway through his head going up and down, before frowning, "won't Hermione be moving in with you though?"

"Um, yeah," Blaise said, looking at the brunette. They had talked about it when Ginny and Draco announced their engagement, he didn't want Hermione staying in their apartment by herself, his only reasonable solution was for her to move in with him, she had refused. They hadn't talked about it since.

Harry sat on the couch and answered the questions form the other three automatically, like he was a robot. He didn't even think about what he was going to say, he just processed the question and answered it.

Finally, they stopped asking him questions, turning the topic back to the good old days when they were young and carefree (yeah, right) and spent the days roaming the walls of Hogwarts.

"Hey, Harry, remember when that boggart turned into Hermione's worst nightmare?" Ron said, laughing already, "She failed her OWLS."

"That's not what happened, Ron, "Hermione said, he voice a bit high "Besides, at least it wasn't a couple of spiders."

Harry smiled, but quickly covered it when he saw his two best friends faces.

'It is too what happened," Ron cried, "and I already explained about the spiders,"

"What the hell would you know what my boggart turned into anyway?" Hermione said defensively, looking at Blaise and Harry for support. Both men avoided her gaze, knowing that for once Ron was actually right about something.

"I know you too well Mione," Ron smirked.

"Fine. What's my favourite colour then?" Hermione snapped.

"Um, does anyone want another coffee, or anything?" Blaise asked suddenly standing up, not wanting to witness any possible displays of violence between the two. Harry watched as Blaise backed out of the room.

"Red," Ron responded confidently, ignoring Blaise.

"Blue, Ron, Blue is my favourite colour," Hermione exploded. Harry glanced at Ron, who was pale, then suddenly bright red.

"It used to be red," He protested.

"NO, it didn't," Hermione replied, "What was my favourite subject at Hogwarts?"

"Transfiguration," Ron said, a hint of uncertainty in his voice.

"It was Ancient Runes, what about my middle name then?" Hermione said calmly, a little too calmly for Harry's liking.

Say Jane, Harry pleaded silently at Ron, even though it was no use since Ron had no idea.

"You don't have one," Was instead Ron's feeble answer. But before Hermione could explode again, Harry quickly stood and excused himself from the room, finding a short hallway.

At one end was a large dark green door which had two or three locks, the entrance, to the left of this door was an open door which didn't have a door, for a kitchen it was quite clean and looked as if it had been hardly used.

Harry entered the kitchen, to find Blaise and Ginny talking in there quietly, at first it sort of surprised him since he had sort of forgotten that Draco and Ginny were still in the apartment.

"They still fighting?' Blaise asked as they noticed Harry's presence.

Harry nodded, nut looked at Ginny, who was staring at her nails intensely.

"Where's Draco?" Harry finally asked as Blaise left to save Ron.

"Asleep," Ginny replied, not looking up from her nails. Silence filled the room and Harry racked his brain to find something which he could say to fix everything.

"I'm sorry," He said quietly. Finally the red head looked up and just stared at him.

"I know, we know," A voice came from behind him.

Harry watched as Draco stepped past him and stood behind Ginny, wrapping an arm around her waist protectively, (or to possibly restrain her).

He opened his mouth to speak, but the words didn't form as Draco flicked his wand, Harry felt the tightness of the silencing charm take affect.

"I don't want to hear it, Ginny has told me enough," Draco said calmly as Ginny glanced back down at her hands.

Harry nodded.

"I don't car anymore Harry, I really don't. I don't want to know why you came back or how long your staying," Draco continued, "do remember back before the last battle and I told you to promise me that you'd look after Ginny no matter what happened?"

Harry nodded again, remembering the night Draco had told Harry how he didn't want Ginny to get hurt, how he needed her to be protected. Then he remembered his response.

"You told me, that every battle had it's casualties, and you wouldn't promise me that you'd stop people from getting to her," Draco paused and Ginny inhaled sharply, she looked at Harry, who couldn't say anything, "That made me more determined to make sure nothing happened to me, so I could protect her. Then I realised you never made any promises, you were afraid of breaking them and hurting other people."

Harry nodded again, it was all he could do, but he avoided both their eyes.

"Well, now, Harry, I want you to make me one promise, I want you to stay for at least three weeks, then you can leave and I won't care," Draco finally finished.

Harry nodded once again, this time looking at Draco, to let him know he would keep his promise.

Now Draco turned to Ginny, telling her that he was going back to his manor and he would see her in the morning. Then with a flick of his wand at Harry and a quiet pop he was gone.

Ginny turned toward the doorway and began to leave the kitchen.

"Why three weeks?" Harry asked suddenly. Ginny turned back to him, studying him carefully.

"Our wedding's in two and a half," She said quietly, before vanishing into the living room with Hermione, Ron and Blaise.

Leaving Harry alone.

A/N: okay so I know that was a bit short and a whole load of nothingness. But I just kind of wanted to put it in there before I moved on a bit more…anyway hopefully I can update soon since I don't have much homework this weekend…please review