Welcome to the final bit of Just A Stupid Crush. I hope you've enjoyed the story so far and please enjoy the ending!

Just A Stupid Crush

Epilogue

10 months later…

Hermione's POV

"SIRIUS!" I shouted as I woke from a dream, my heart racing and my breathing heavy. I could hear a very audible sigh coming from somewhere in the room. I think my roommate wants to murder me.

"Hermione Granger! Will you do something about this already? How many times have we been through this? I know he hurt you, but I also know that he sounded pretty sorry for it. I know you miss him, he probably misses you like crazy, so go get him already!"

Sitting up, I hugged my knees and stared down at my bed. She certainly was right. I really wanted to forget him, but I just can't seem to. This was, quite obviously, not the first time I've had dreams about him. I don't blame her for getting tired of my waking up like this. It's true, I do miss him. A part of me wants to apparate to Hogwarts right now to go find him, but another part reminds me of how much pain he caused me.

"He's probably found someone else by now," I tried to reason. I heard my roommate get up and walk towards me. The next thing I knew, I heard something whoosh through the air and collide with my face.

"Ow," I said rubbing my head and grabbing my own pillow with my other hand, "what was that for?"

"Oh, I'm sorry," she said sarcastically. "I was just trying to knock some sense into that head of yours. Yeash, for someone so smart how can you be so stupid about things?" I considered hitting her with my own pillow, but burst out laughing instead. I felt her sit on the bed next to me and we both laughed for a few minutes.

"So you really think I should go find him?" I asked after calming down.

"Oh, you're hopeless!" she said getting up suddenly. "I'm going back to bed. I swear, if I have to hear you yelling about this Sirius guy one more time, I'm going to apparate you straight to him myself."

I just smiled and said goodnight. She really needs to meet Ginny and Natalie.

The next day, I had a hard time concentrating in classes and I really thought hard about what I should do about Sirius. I do really miss him. I never really stopped missing him. I think I was good at acting like I didn't care about him anymore, but never to the point that I could quite convinced myself that it was true. It's been over a year since I've even felt his touch, but a still remember exactly what it was like. I've tried to put myself back into the dating field, but there was no one quite like Sirius. Who was I kidding? Sirius said he needed me and that he loved me. I need him and I love him too, but what are the chances that after all this time he still feels the same way? What if I get myself all excited to see him only to learn that he's moved on? Could I deal with a broken heart all over again? Maybe I should just go to see him, just to see how he's doing, and convince myself that anything is likely to happen after that. No, I'll convince myself that he's probably moved on by now. That way, if he has, I won't be so disappointed. Yes, good plan, Hermione. Hm… talking to myself now. Apparently in addition to all my other crazy problems, I literally am crazy. Interesting.

I planned my trip to Hogwarts for the upcoming weekend. I found myself getting excited as the day came closer. I tried not to get so excited and to convince myself that I was only going to visit and see how he's doing. I could go see the rest of the staff too. And Ginny and Natalie. It's been quite some time since I've seen those two. Aw and Ginny and Harry are getting married in a few months! That'll be exciting. Oh, I bet Sirius will be there. Of course he'll be there, he's Harry's godfather for goodness sakes! Well that'll be interesting depending on how this weekend goes.

The day finally came and I apparated into Hogsmeade, glad that it didn't seem to be a Hogsmeade weekend. I walked the familiar path up to the school and hadn't realized just how much I had missed Hogwarts. Everything still seemed the same, but I guess how much did I expect things to change in the 10 months I've been gone? It did feel strange to be back. Almost wrong in a way. It started drizzling as I made it to the front door. I walked inside, glad to have shelter from the downpour that was sure to start at any moment.

I wandered the halls, encountering a surprisingly small amount of people. I felt old. It seems like it's been so long since I've been here.

"Hermione?" I heard a voice behind me say. Not who I was looking for, but it's close.

"Remus!" I said turning around. He looked very surprised to see me.

"What are you doing here?" he asked walking closer to me.

"Oh, you know. Just visiting," I said smiling. He looked at me carefully and I knew that he knew why I was really here.

"You wouldn't happen to be here to visit someone in particular, would you?" he said speaking slowly. I didn't like the tone of his voice. I could tell something wasn't right.

"Where is he?" I bluntly asked. "Is he okay?" I was starting to panic. What if something had happened to him and no one told me?

"Hermione, listen, don't panic. He was fine the last time I heard from him," Remus said quickly as if the sooner he got the words out, the better. What does he mean the last time he heard from him? Remus noticed my confused look and sighed. "He's not here. He hasn't been here probably since the last time you were here. He decided that he wanted to take some time to travel for awhile. I took over the defense against the dark arts class." He looked a me carefully, then said in an unsure voice, "He took losing you pretty hard."

"But he hasn't lost me!" I blurted out without realizing quite what I was saying. Remus looked sadly at me.

"Well you sure made it seem like he had." I gave him a glare to tell him that this shouldn't be my fault. I shook my head and stopped glaring, looking down to the ground instead. I could hear the rain pattering softly against the windows.

"I know. I guess I just needed some time away from everything, though. But I suppose he did too. Thanks, Remus. It was good to see you again," I said walking past him without looking at him.

"Hermione," he called. I stopped and turned to look at him. "I'm sorry," he said softly. I nodded and turned again before he could see my tears. I knew I shouldn't have gotten so excited to come back.

Remus's POV

As soon as Hermione turned around to leave, I knew what I had to do. I quickly made my way to my office which was nearby. Once inside, I went straight to the fireplace, took a bit of floo powder, threw it into the flames, and yelled the name of the last place I knew Sirius to be. Stepping into the green flames, I prayed he wouldn't be too difficult to find.

Hermione's POV

I changed my mind about seeing anyone else. I couldn't bear to be in the castle any longer. I hadn't expected that he wouldn't be here at all. I suppose I should have taken that into consideration. I walked slowly through the halls until I reached the front doors again. I took note of the rain but did not stop because of it. I moodily walked through the heavy rain, doing nothing to cover myself from it. I was almost to the village when I thought I heard something that made me think that I must be going crazy.

"Hermione!" I heard a faint yelling. It sounded just like- but no. I can't be. I continued walking thinking I really must be insane.

"Hermione!" I heard the yell again, this time a little louder. I turned around to see someone sprinting towards me.

"Sirius," I whispered with a smile. I ran to meet him and without stopping, leapt right into his arms. He held me tightly, as if he never wanted to let go. I could feel his chest rising and falling dramatically and realized that he must have sprinted all the way down here. He set me down and we stood facing each other, just looking at the other. The rain was falling all around us, but it was difficult to care.

"What are you doing here, Sirius?" I asked curiously.

"I could ask you the same thing," he said with that classic Sirius smile. Goodness have I missed that smile. I returned it gladly.

"Sirius, I-" I started to try to explain everything but got cut off by him.

"Don't. Please, you don't need to say anything," he took a step towards me and gently cupped my face. His touch sent a familiar, but long missed, warmth through me. How I've missed this.

He stared deeply into my eyes and seemly unable to contain himself a moment longer he said, "Mione, I've missed you so much," and placed his lips tenderly on mine. He took his free arm and pulled me closer to him and deepened the kiss. My head was spinning and my mind was in pure ecstasy. Even though the rain was pouring down on us, there had never been a more perfect moment. He pulled away, smiling down at me and stroked my face with his thumb. I leaned into his hand and suddenly noticed something on his wrist. I grabbed his wrist to take a closer look.

"You still have it?" I asked staring at my hair tie on his wrist.

"You haven't taken it back yet," he responded smiling at me. I stared at him completely amazed. I never would have thought he would really keep it, especially for this amount of time and after I asked him to leave me alone. I was speechless, but he just chuckled at me.

"Come on, we need to get you back inside and out of this rain." He had a mischievous look in his eyes as he said, "Race you?"

I snapped out of my amazement, laughed and said, "You're on, old man." He feigned a hurt look then smiled and said quickly, "Ready, set, go!" He changed into his animagus form and ran towards the castle. I just laughed.

"Sirius, no fair!" I changed into my own form and chased after him. Never had life been quite so good as it was at this very moment. And to think, all of this started as just a stupid crush.

AN: Well. That's it. This is the end. I very much hope that you have enjoyed my story and I'd say if you've made it this far you probably must have liked it, if even only a little bit. To be perfectly honest, I never thought that this story would take off quite the way that it did, but I'm very pleased all the same that it did. Also, I'm not very good at writing endings so, I'm sorry. I hope this sufficed for all you SBHG fans out there. Now down to the most important order of business. Thank you SO much for reading and an especially large thank you to anyone who has reviewed any chapter along the way! I could not be more grateful. I wish I could give acknowledgement to each and every person who reviewed, but I'm not allowed to do that.

So, I guess this is farewell. Once again, I hope you enjoyed my first completed fanfic and may we meet again in the world of fanfiction!

PadfootBlack4Ever

9:00pm October 28, 2007

Don't mind that, I just like to put the date and time of when I officially complete something.