Hey everyone je suis desolse. Or in other words I'm really sorry that I haven't updated this is another flashback chapter and the next will be up very soon possibly even today. Sorry I've neglected you lot there's just been going on I'm Cat and may the story begin…………………

Christmas. The castle rang with it in every corridor and classroom. The students were on their first day of break for the holidays. Hermione who had spent the entire previous night finishing up all of her assignments was sitting staring into the snow. Out of no where she felt arms encircle her and lift her up spinning her to face Ron who was wet from a fierce snow battle with his sister and Harry. Grinning they sat down for him to dry before the fire and to sip at some cocoa. Hermione's eyes drifted into the fire she had a feeling and she simply couldn't shake it something was coming. Throwing that out of her mind she shifted back to look at Ron. Her lion heart as she had privately called him for sometime. He made her feel a thousand things she'd never felt before but how could she tell him? He was her best friend; he was also her best friend with a girlfriend. As if on cue, in walked Lavender Brown who in Hermione's eyes wasn't nearly good enough for Ron. He deserved the absolute best and she sighed sadly knowing that, that best would never be her. Forcing a smile that didn't quite meet her eyes she watched as Lavender walked into the common room she headed straight up to the dormitories and seemed to be avoiding Ron. Hermione turned to him a little put out and confused." Ron what was up with Lavender eh lion heart?" she asked casually a lump had formed in her throat and she didn't know from whence it had come. He shrugged heavily and sighed facing her his eyes seemed clouded over a little, " Mione I caught her with bloody Seamus Finnigan the other day. We split simple as that." He said it in such a final way that she could feel the anger and hurt welling up inside him. She waved her wand allowing her cup to float over to a table along with Ron's empty one. Reaching out she pulled him into her arms and wrapped them securely around him as if to convey though everyone else might desert him she was still standing right there. Ron murmured quietly, "You know you're my best friend, right?" Hermione began to think bitterly yeah just your best friend swallowing hard she replied, "yea I know." Ron sighed and shifted so he could meet her eyes, "Here's the thing though mione when I found Lavender with Seamus she said part of her reason was that there was someone else in my life." She looked startled and was prepared to accept the answer that he would invariably give her, he would simply start talking about another girl it was never her and it never would be, right? "Who is it Ron," she choked out." "You."

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The memories spun rapidly around Hermione's mind as the darkness enclosed her. She felt like she was floating, spinning in a world of long forgotten memories and a feeling she'd felt like she'd lost, love. Hagrid had come running at the sight of Hermione on the ground. He'd nearly blanched when he saw her blood spattered on the gravel. Staring hard at her he sighed deeply before stretching his right arm out to the utter bewilderment of Ron and Harry, he muttered something and in a burst of fire Fawkes appeared. Hagrid caught Fawkes on his right arm and muttered deeply, "Get Dumbledore Fawkes and hurry."………………

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