Hermione found herself at an empty table in a muggle dinner. It seemed about the middle of the night, only because nobody else was in the restaurant and the waitress was nowhere to be seen. She couldn't for the life of her even remember how she got there from her little flat in Diagon alley. Just before she had the chance to think anything else about the odd dinner in the middle of god-knows-where the door opened and a boy walked in, someone with dark hair and striking green eyes so familiar but yet so forgotten Hermione felt ashamed. Following him came in a red head boy with familiar freckles dusting his nose and upper cheeks. They look exactly as she had remembered, fresh out of Hogwarts with still the air of youth around them. At the sight of her best friends her breath hitched in her throat as she stared at them unbelieving and speechless. The boys looked around attentively, spotted her, smiled, quickly walked over to her and stood in front of her as if they had just seen her the day before.

"Hermione!" Harry and Ron called to her as if they had just been reunited after a long and tiresome summer vacation away from each other. Tears were streaming down Hermione's eyes at the sight of her best friends. "No." she whispered, disbelieved.

Harry and Ron looked at her confused "are you alright Hermione?" Ron asked cautiously while taking a seat across the table from her.

Hermione screwed her eyes shut and shook her head violently trying to wake from the current nightmare she was in. When upon opening her eyes she was greeted by the two boys of her past again, she gave a shuttering sigh. Again she looked unbelievingly at them. "Y-You died... ... your not real, this isn't fair." She said shuttering at the sight of them. More tears started to fall from her eyes.

Harry looked at her sadly and nodded. "We know that Hermione, and were sorry, but this was the only way we could see you, we miss you."

Hermione tried to control her sobbing "B-But why now? Why didn't you come to me earlier?" She said as she felt her anger rising. "Why did you have to die, especially before the war ended when I needed you two the most!?"

Harry put his hands over hers and grasped them tightly. Harry felt so real to her but she knew he was not.

"Hermione, we came now because we knew you'd be ready to see us... it was though the inevitable, we would have died sooner or later in the war. Everyone knew I would at least." He gave a sorrowful glance to Ron. "But, we wanted to see you to tell you that were very proud of you and of all of you're accomplishments. Ron and I saw what happened last week when you bought that store and we can't express how happy we truly are for you. Believe me."

Ron nodded in agreement to all of this with a warm smile on his face.

Hermione took a moment to control her sobbing and looked at her friends. "I have missed you two so much, you don't understand."

Harry and Ron looked at Hermione longingly. "We miss you too Hermione, and we are extremely sorry for our absence, none the less we are so very proud of you." Ron said smiling sadly.

Hermione nodded while wiping the tears from her face. "I don't want to wake from this dream."she whispered.

Harry smiled a small smile and gazed thoughtfully at Hermione" we don't want to leave, but we must...life must go on for you Hermione, Ron and I don't expect you to waist yourself away by thinking of us for the rest of your life trying to think about what you could have done to prevent our deaths, it was inevitable Hermione. Ron and I were thinking and we thought it's about time maybe you settled down, maybe get married... have a couple of kids... you need to move on."

Hermione narrowed her eyes at the boys angrily. "You make it seem as if I'm trying to get over a school girl crush, this is not something I can just erase from my mind with a flick of a wand Harry!"

"Well, actually you could if you wanted to..." Ron blurted.

Harry punched his friend hard on the arm emitting an 'Ouch!' from him.

Hermione looked disbelieving at her red head friend. "I can't believe you Ron Weasley!" she screamed hysterically. Ron looked at her seriously and determined. "Hermione, it's been 5 years! You should have gotten over our deaths already! We want to see you live your life... we have seen what your like down there; you put on a mask and pretend everything is ok, when on the inside it's not! That's from lack of letting people into your life. We see you slowly drifting away from everyone you used to care about. You don't let anyone into your life anymore, you don't date!"

"Everyone I have ever cared about is dead Ron! I don't see what 'dating' has anything to do with this!" Hermione Screamed putting her face in her hands. Harry went over and sat next to Hermione and put a comforting arm around her. "Even though we would like to see you start dating and settling down... you don't have to Hermione. But don't push people away. Your parents are alive and well, you have ron's family for support, You have a better support system than you think. The only thing that is preventing you from making that first step to recovery is, sadly, 't let us affect your future anymore Hermione, stop letting us plague your mind."

"But, You two were everything to me, my life! you two were everything that made me truly happy & then that bastard took it all away from me in that Goddamn war!" she said bawling again. Harry had a pained look on his face as well a Ron.

"Hermione... I'm not saying for you to forget us, by all means no! We want you to remember us, just think of all the good times we had and not the bad things that happened... try and move on... that's all we are really asking for, we hate what we are doing to you"

Hermione tried to swipe away all the new tears falling from her now bloodshot eyes. 'How could I cry so much in a dream?' she thought to herself as she grabbed a paper napkin from a nearby napkin dispenser and started to dab her eyes quickly. After a moment of silence and sniffles Harry Cautiously broke the silence.

"Hermione, we must go...our time is up... but we just wanted to let you know that we love you dearly."

Ron nodded in absolutness."Yeah, and were very proud of you. But please listen to what we said...Let people in that love you, maybe find a nice bloke, some extremely irresistible one that will walk into your shop, ey?" said Ron with a wink. Walking over to her and hugging her tightly.

Hermione let out a soft laugh and got up from the table to hug her best friends. "Alright... I'll try, but no promises... but is there any way I could see you guys again?"

Harry thought about this for a second. "Well the reason we were able to see you now was because it was urgent for you, you seemed to be going through a rough time, so they saw it fit to let us come her and try to talk to you; which I hope has worked." He said smiling softly. Hermione nodded.

"So... in other words... yes. But only in life threatening emergencies like this one." Ron said winking.

"But don't worry we'll be watching you Hermione, always and forever." Harry said bringing her into a big hug. "You know what?" He asked.

Hermione smiled. "What?"

Harry smirked at her as so did Ron. "It time for you to wake up." Then with that Harry leaned over and kissed her on the cheek as she saw Ron waving to her smiling.

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