Hey everyone. I'm so so sorry that I haven't updated in so long. I had a crazy summer with a job and never got the chance to update this story. Well it is finally here so enjoy.

Hermione slowly opened her eyes but regretted the decision immediately. She laid there with her eyes closed and listened to the soft beeping of machines. After a few minutes she decided to try opening her eyes again. This time she succeeded and looked around the small room. She saw white walls and multiple machines she was hooked up to by cords and IVs.

"I'm definitely not in Hogwarts," she muttered to herself.

The door clicked open and a woman with blond curly hair, who Hermione assumed was a healer because of her attire, walked in the door.

"Hello?" Hermione croaked. Her voice was raspy and her throat was dry and made it painful to talk.

"Oh, Mrs. Granger you're awake." the healer said dropping her wand in surprise.

"Yeah... What happened? How did I get here?" Hermione asked.

"You had some Dark Magic placed on you. You were brought here shortly after they looked over you in the Hospital Wing at Hogwarts," the healer explained as she looked over her patient.

"You have a very kind boyfriend," she commented after a moment.

"What? I don't have a boyfriend," the young witch tried to explain.

"You don't?" the Healer asked. When Hermione shook her head she got a confused look on her face. "Then who was the boy that was in here everyday over Christmas break?" she thought out loud.

"There was a boy here? Who was it?" Hermione questioned.

"Yes believe his name was...oh what was it? It started with an R." the nurse thought.

"Was it Remus Lupin?"

"Yes I do believe that was his name," she stated a bit distractedly. "Well you seem to have made a great recovery. You should be good to return to school in about two days."

With that she left the room and Hermione heard her footsteps echoing down the hall.

Remus, James, Sirius, and surprisingly Lily were sitting together at a secluded table in the library. Lily and Remus were studying for a Defence Against the Dark Arts test with numerous piles of books around them while James and SIrius discussed ways to prank the Slytherins after James failed for the tenth time that week in his attempt at getting Lily to go out with him.

"Mr. Lupin," Remus' head jerked up from his book at the sound of his name.

"Yes, Professor?" he asked.

"The Headmaster would like to speak to you," the stern professor said presenting him with a slip of parchment.

"Um... okay, thank you," Remus said unsteadily, accepting the parchment.

The boys gathered their things and left the library leaving many students to sigh in relief that the place was left virtually untouched, other than the large stack of books.

"What do you think he wants to talk to you about?" James asked after a moment of silence.

"I don't know, James."

"What did you do, mate? I haven't even been called to the Headmaster's office and you know how much I've done" Sirius said walking ahead of them and turned around so he was facing them.

"I didn't do anything," Remus told them.

Inwardly he was wondering if it had anything to do with him telling Hermione about his lycanthropy.

"I'm going to get expelled. Dumbledore told me not to let anyone find out about my being a werewolf and I told Hermione. She just wanted to know how I continued to get hurt and where I was going. I could have come up with a good lie but I told her the truth. I'm so stupid. Why do I have to be so honest?-"

"Remus, Remus?" James sang waving his hand in his friend's face.

"Hu? What?" Remus was jerked out of his thoughts and back to reality.

"What were you thinking about? You were totally zoned." Sirius commented, tripping over the edge of his robe and falling. James started laughing and Sirius shot him a look that could kill him.

"Oh nothing," Remus lied.

"It wasn't nothing you look worried. What's wrong?" James asked.

"Nothing, butterscotch," Remus hurriedly said the password and the gargoyle moved aside and Remus jumped onto the stairs and up to the Headmaster's office before anymore questions could be thrown at him.

Remus knocked on the large double oak doors and was soon beckoned in by the Headmaster opening the door.

"Have a seat Mr. Lupin," the old Headmaster said, "Lemon drop?"

"No thank you sir," Remus kindly declined. "What was it you wanted to talk to me about, sir?"

"Well as you know, Hermione has been in St. Mungo's for the past week." Dumbledore explained.

"Yes I am aware of that," the young boy commented.

"Mrs. Granger woke up two days ago and has been cleared to return to school tomorrow. I want you to make sure that she doesn't have any other accidents."

"She woke up two days ago? How come no one told me?" Remus asked. He was a little angry that he had not been informed of this news earlier.

"The healer's didn't want anyone to come visit her till they were sure she of her health. Do you understand?"

Remus nodded his head acknowledging the Headmaster. He left the office feeling absolutely elated. Hermione was coming back and he would get to see her again. Merlin how he missed her.

"Hey Remus what did Dumbledore want to talk to you about?" James ran up to him from across the common room.

"Hermione is coming back today," Remus told his friends.

"Thats good," James said with a smile that Remus knew all too well.

"Well James you know what that means?" Sirius asked with a cunning look on his face.

"Yes I do," James replied with the same look.

"Welcome Back Party!" the two said in unison.

Remus smiled and buried his face in his hands shaking his head and trying not to laugh at the exchange between his two best friends.

Hermione was brought back to the school via the floo and appearing in the Headmaster's office.

"Welcome back Mrs. Granger," Dumbledore said leading her to sit across from his desk.

Hermione sat and looked at the grandfatherly figure expectantly.

"Now during the Holidays you experienced a kind of dark magic. We found a letter addressed to you and it had the same trace of the magic placed on you. Do you know anything about the cause of it?"

"Well Headmaster, I don't know who did this but I do know that someone sent me here. I'm from the 90's actually. Someone set this whole thing up." Hermione explained.

"Remus is the only one who knows about this," she added it as an afterthought.

Dumbledore just sat and listened to her share her story of the last few months with him. When she was done he just looked at her.

"Well while you are residing here I would suggest that you keep this a secret and I trust that Mr. Lupin is the only one who knows?"

"Yes," she agreed.

"Good, now if you receive anything else that seems questionable then bring it to either me or Professor McGonagall."

"Okay," Hermione nodded. "Anything else you would like to discuss with me sir?"

"Yes. I want you to know that I am a where that Remus shared his secret with you and I want to make sure that you are aware of the severity of his situation and that you will not divulge his secret to anyone," Dumbledore explained.

"Sir I assure you that I would never dream of doing that," Hermione promised.

"Alright then that will be all, and I am sure that Mr. Lupin will be very happy to see you. You are dismissed."

Hermione thanked the Headmaster and made her way down the stairs where, true to Dumbledore's word, she was met with an excited Remus who greeted her with a warm and over enthusiastic hug.

"Hermione I missed you. How are you feeling?" Remus inquired of her.

"I can't breath," Hermione gasped.

"Do I need to take you to the hospital wing?" Remus looked down at her with worry etched in his eyes.

"No, all you need to do is let go of me."
Remus looked down to realize that he was still hugging her. He released her and stepped back.

"Sorry Hermione."

"It's quite all right, Remus," Hermione laughed.

"Okay, well you may want to know that James and Sirius are planning a welcome back party for you and it will be in there style and that means you will want to be careful with where you go," Remus explained.

"I understand," Hermione said with a knowing smile on her face, "Why don't we go somewhere else then. They won't know that I'm back yet will they?"

"No they won't we'll just be careful not to run into them. Why don't we go down to the lake?" Remus asked.

"That sounds fantastic." Hermione agreed.

The two of them walked down the stair and across the grounds to the lake and sat there under the beach tree talking until curfew.

"Perfect. So the Old Man and the werewolf think they can protect the young witch do they? Well he is in for a surprise. That was only the beginning of what is to come for the young girl."

In a dark room a man sat watching the exchange between the Old Headmaster and "The Brightest Witch of Her Age," planning his next move to destroy the life of her.

Hope you all enjoyed it. On my profile there is a poll where you can vote for what animagus form you think Hermione should have. Please vote.