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A/N So a little small note about this chapter. It took me two weeks to do it. I still feel some things just don't flow right. Jason my fiancé poke a lot of holes in it but I think the finished chapter looks good. I would like to thank everyone who has review. I would also like to thank Jason for beta reading this. I tell you guys if it was not for him you most likely would not read it. I'm that bad. So thank you Jason. So on with the story.

Ch 7 A true friend and his tale

Hermione wiped her face. She got off the couch and went to the door. There was one more knock and then she open the door. She was surprised with the person who was standing on her doorstep. Why would he be here? At all the times he could have showed up he chose now. Hermione was a mess her hair was all over the place, her eyes were red and swollen from the crying she was doing earlier and there stood Harry waiting to be let in. What a day she was having. There was not much thought to what she did next . All she said was " Harry.". Then she pulled him in and closed the door. As soon as the door was closed Hermione threw her arms around Harry and cried well not cried more like sobbed her heart out. She was not sure how she made it to the couch but when she looked up she saw that she was no longer by the door. Harry must had moved them.

Half an hour had passed when the tears slowed down enough where she was able to talk. Harry who had been out of her life for a while stayed and held her close. He did not say a thing, in a way it reminded her of the olden days. Whenever her and Ron would fight or she would have a bad day he was always there for her. A few more minutes had passed before she tried out her voice and spoke. " Harry, what are you doing here? , asked Hermione her voice sounding like a frog just made itself at home in her throat. Harry instead of answering her question went and ask her one. " Are you OK, Hermione?" asked Harry with a look of concern covering his face. When Harry asked the question she had to think for a few moments. She thought even though she felt the pain right now it would leave and she would be fine. It was like she just knew it and so with that she told him. " I will be fine!" So with that out of the way she tried to asked her question one more time. " Harry, why are you here?"

" Well as you know by now I ran into Ginny. She gave me your address I know that you got my letter. I just was not sure if you were going to write me back, so after many mental fights in my head I made up my mind to come and see you. Hermione I was not expecting to find you the same way I left you. What happened?", asked Harry. " I went over to Ginny's and for the first time in three years I ran into Ron. It did not go well Harry." ,said Hermione. " I slapped him, he raised his wand at me of course that was after I called that soon to be wife of his a strumpet ." When Hermione had said strumpet Harry let out a gasp. " Hermione, I would never think you would say something like that." " Well a lot has changed.", said Hermione flashing back through all the pain she had been through. " Yes, I can see that, so go on and tell me what happened after that.", said Harry. " After we raised our wand's Ginny cut in and took them, that reminds me I need to get my wand back from her.", said Hermione. " Where was I, oh yes so we kept Ron there until he finally told us why he did it.", said Hermione remembering back to earlier that morning.

What Ron had said was still very fresh in her mind, so when she began to tell Harry all about it there was a tightness in her throat. The frog had return and the tears began to form again. " Harry , I learned... (sob). I learned that...(sob) it was ( hiccup)." The tears were falling freely now . " It was my fault!", cried Hermione. Hermione hiccuped and sobbed a little bit more then laid her head on Harry's shoulder. She tried to slow the crying down so that she could finishing talking. " I was the one who was not there for him.", whined Hermione taking her nose and wiping it on his shirt. Hermione did not see it but when she began to whine Harry had a look on his face that he wished that he could cover his ears. " I...I... was ...a bad girlfriend.", cried Hermione. Hermione was still crying but when she said she was a bad girlfriend Harry had heard enough. He took hold of her and turned her where she was looking at him. He took his hand and lifted up her face. " Hermione I will not sit here and let you wallow in self doubt. You might of had a few things that you could have changed but Ron even though he is my best friend he was no saint. Ron could have done a lot of things differently, at least from what I know you did try.

When Harry said that she had tried her heart felt the pain that told her that she did not try hard enough. " Harry I was not there. I could had done better.", said Hermione moving her face out of his hand. She moved back on the couch and covered her face and cried some more. Hermione felt the couch shift a little bit and looked up. She saw that Harry had moved off the couch and was now standing in front of her. " Come on.", said Harry with his hand out for her to take hold of. " Where are we going?", asked Hermione moving forward and taking his hand. " I thought that I would take us to the kitchen and make us some tea.", said Harry taking Hermione's hand. " That is if you would be so kind as to show the way.", said Harry with a smile. Hermione smiled a little and then pointed in the direction of her kitchen. They walked to the kitchen Hermione snuffling the whole way. When they made it in the kitchen Harry led her to a chair and pulled it out for her. She sat down and laid her head down on the table. While she had her head down Harry was searching the cabinets to find all the stuff that he needed to make tea. He placed the kettle on the stove and then went to sit by Hermione.

Hermione saw Harry's feet under the table and knew that he was sitting beside her. She was still trying to sort out her feelings. First there was Ron, but that was still to hard to look at right then, so she moved on to the fact that Harry was in her kitchen making her tea trying to make her feel better. Harry who had been gone for three years was back. She was happy that he was there. She had this feeling that someone was watching her and looked up. Harry was staring at her " So how are we doing now?", asked Harry taking her hand and squeezing it. The tears had stop, the snuffling was every once in a while and she was fairly certain that she looked about as bad as she felt. It was really a good thing that he had seen her look way worse, when that was she could not recall. She looked at Harry and told him, "We have been better." " I know that if feels like the world going to end, but I promise it will get better.", said Harry. When Harry said that to her there was a look in his eyes that told her that he had an idea what she was going through. " Harry, I know that I will be fine, I just can not believe I wasted three years of my life.", said Hermione with a tone of regret in her voice. " Harry , I was mad for a long time and to find out that I was mad at the wrong person just hurts a little bit.", said Hermione. Harry open his mouth to say something , but the tea kettle began to whistle.

The tea was done and Harry fixed them a cup of it and sat back down next to Hermione. When the tea whistled Hermione was sure that Harry was going to say something. " So Harry what was it that you were going to say?", asked Hermione sipping some of her tea. " I forgot.", said Harry with a dumb look on his face. Hermione had to laugh at the look. " Well since you forgot I have a question for you.", said Hermione. " What is it that you would like to know? , asked Harry flashing a charming smile. Hermione had to recollect her thoughts when Harry flashed that smile her whole body went to mush. " Harry, where have you been for the three years that have ruined my life? , asked Hermione. Hermione watch as the smile that Harry had on his face went straight to a frown. " I really don't want to talk about that. , said Harry turning his head away from her and looking at the cabinet. " Come on Harry is it fair that I can sit here and pour my heart out not to mention my tears and you don't have to say a thing? , asked Hermione getting just a little bit upset. Harry turned around, looked at Hermione and told her, Look it was your decision to tell me all about what happen to you, but I really DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS! , said Harry raising his voice in the end. Hermione thought Harry had never raised his voice before why would he do it now. " Harry, I'm not sure what happened, but don't you think it would be good to get it out in the open?", asked Hermione taking hold of his hand. Harry looked at her and smiled a little bit. " OK, Hermione I will tell you.", said Harry

" It was a few days after you had left that I was sitting on the couch in mine and Ginny's flat. I looked around and felt anger everywhere I looked. I thought I needed to leave, but where was I to go. I got up and grabbed a backpack from my closet and put in a few of my clothes and a few other items. When I walked out of the door I still had no idea where I was heading but at the moment I did not care.

I walked and camped for a good six months I can't tell you where because I really did not know. I was running low on supplies and needed to stop. There was a small town that I had passed so I turned around and went back to it. I went to the shop that they had in the town. I got the few things that I needed and then I left. I had walked for just a few minutes and had this feeling that someone was following me. The woods were by where I was walking and I thought that if I went in there then I could maybe lose this feeling. As I was walking I kept turning around and still I saw nothing. I might have walked for another thirty minutes when the person who was following me made his presence known. " If you keep walking in that direction you will run into the Black Sparrow land and they don't take kindly to strangers walking in there woods." I turned around to look at the man that the voice was coming from. He was 6' 2 tall had long black hair that was in a ponytail. His name was Wolf Fang and he was an Indian and we became really good friends.

It turned out that the Black Sparrow have been their revivals since there grandparents were kids. I won't get into that. So Wolf Fang saw the backpack and asked me all these questions. He asked me if I would like to room at his house there was an empty room. There son the oldest left and now they had a room that they could loan out. I had been on road for a long time and I guess you could say I was tired, so I told him sure. We walked back to his place and he introduced me to his wife Utsa and there other child Dawn. They took me in and made me feel at home close to the same way that the Weasleys did. Time went on and before I knew it a year and a half had passed.

One night I was in bed trying sleep when there was a knock on my door. I open it and there was Wolf Fang at my door. I asked, " Wolf Fang what is it?" " Do you mind if I come in for a sec I would like to talked to you about something? , said Wolf Fang. I looked at him like he was crazy , but I went ahead and moved aside to let him in. He walked in and sat down on my bed and began to speak. " Harry, you have been with us for a while now and there are just a few things that will be going on this week that you might not understand. I would like to explain somethings to you and if you are willing I would like for you to join us. So about every two years we have a celebration for all the men who have been or are working on their spiritual journey. It takes a while and some still have a ways to go. So this is just a way of saying thank you to our ancestors for all that they have done. If it was not for them we would not be able to learn how to do it. So the reason that I'm here in your room this late is because we are having a gathering right now in the woods and we would like to know if you would like to come and join us?", said Wolf Fang moving off the bed and going to the door. I thought it might be something worth watching so I told him sure. I got dressed and then we went to the woods.

When I got in the woods the first thing I noticed was the fire that was in the middle and all the men that were around it. Some of the men were laying down and really not moving and the rest was dancing around and chanting. Wolf Fang looked at me I guess to see how much I was affected by what was going on. I thought it was cool. Wolf Fang smiled a big smile at me and then motioned for me to follow him around the fire. After a few minutes of dancing the men stopped and Wolf Fang began to speak. He told everyone he was glad they were there and would like them all to continue doing what they were doing. He then introduced me to all of them. They greeted me and then Wolf Fang told me how everything worked. I thought it would be good to try it so that was what I did. It took me 6 months to get to the end of my journey. The night that I came back we had another gathering. Wolf Fang was the one who introduced me again only this time instead of me being Harry I was Lone Phoenix. When Wolf Fang gave that name to me he had the biggest smile on his face.

I had been there for two years and there were a lot of things that had changed with me. I was so much happier then I had ever been. One day I was working in the woods keeping my eye out for Black Sparrows. I had worked in the woods for a while when I saw this woman. She was beautiful, she had black hair and her skin was bronze and the dress she had on looked very good on her." Harry began to get a far off look in his eyes and stopped speaking. Hermione watched Harry as he began to speak about this woman she could see in his eyes that he had great love for her. When she thought that, there was just a slight ping in her heart, but it went away. Harry shook his head and said " I'm sorry. and then continued with his tale. " I had never seen this woman before which means that she had to be one of them. I was not completely sure, she could have been one of the families friends. I began to follow her. It was not long when I realized she noticed I was following her. She took off running.

I chased after her and she would run one way then make a circle and turn this way and that trying to keep me off of her. It was a cat and mouse game and I was the one who lost. I not sure how but I lost her. I was heading back when she jump out of no where and had a knife to my throat and me up against a tree. She looked at me with anger and there was a little bit of fear but she tried to cover it well. She asked me why was I chasing her. If I would had made one word with that knife that close it would had not been pretty. I looked at the blade then at her and then back at the blade. She moved it back a little. I told her that I saw her in the woods and was not sure if she was a friend or one of them. She looked at me weird and then snapped, "One of them!" I gulped and then I whispered Black Sparrow. She looked at me and then began to laugh. I was really worried she was angry one minute and then she was laughing this woman must had been crazy. She stopped laughing and said yes she was one of them. She told me she just does not believe in all this fighting. She then realized that she still had the blade to my throat and dropped it. I was happy to be able to move and not worry that she might harm me. We talked for a while and learned a lot of things about each other. It was getting later and I knew that I would had to leave soon. I told her that I would like to see her tomorrow she looked at me but said nothing. I told I would be here waiting no matter how long it took. She smiled and then she left. I went back home with nothing but thoughts of her.

For weeks we would meet each other in the woods. I was never asked where I would run off to, I guess they just thought I was doing my job. I have to say this It was the best job at that point. Willow Lily and I were became really close it was getting harder to say bye to her. I had finally got to the point to were I really cared a lot for her, I was going to go talk to her parents and let them know that I was in there daughters life and I was not going anywhere. I though that Willow Lily had felt the same way, but when I went to tell her this she was not happy like I though she would be. She told me not to do it and then she left that day early. I was not much worried I thought she would be back tomorrow. I went to our place and I waited and she did not show up. I left after the sun went down. I went back the next day and waited like I did last time. I was just about to leave when I saw her. I did not stop to think I just ran to her and held her and she held me. We never spoke again about me seeing her family.

We began to meet at night a few weeks later. It was just to hard to say good bye to each other. We would cuddle under one of the trees in the middle of the woods. One night we fell asleep in each others arms, I woke to some noise coming from the other side of the trees. I moved Willow Lily softly so that she would not wake up. I got up to go see what it was. I walked quietly so as not to alert whatever it was. I got to the spot I could have sworn that it had came from. I did not see anything so I turned around to go back to where I left Willow Lily. I found Willow Lily right where I left her. I sat back down and wrapped her back in my arms and then I kissed her head. I not sure if it was me moving her or the kiss that woke her but she looked up at me. I leaned my head down and we kissed.

We knew that we both had to leave soon so I got up and Willow Lily was still on the ground and I was holding out my hand for her to take when I heard this scream. I turned around to see this very angry guy running towards me. I'm not sure how it happen one minute she was down on the ground the next she was in front of me taking the hit that the guy had for me. I watched as she fell to the ground I thought it was just the hit that had her down, but when I looked she was clutching her chest I leaned down to see if she was OK that was when I saw the blood. I had just saw the blood when the guy started to come near me again. Willow Lily was hurt and all I cared about was rather or not she was OK. My thoughts were of nothing but her so to stop the guy from getting near us I took out my wand that I had not used since I got there. I shouted Incarsarus ropes shot out and bound him and then I looked back at Willow Lily. The guy had a blade and it was now in Willow Lily's chest. Willow Lily was dying because of him. I placed her head in my lap and she gasped for breath and then her last words to me were I love you she then took her last breath and died. My heart broke that night and I was in so much pain that I did not know what the guy in the bindings was saying. Words were breaking in my thoughts but they were not registering. Words like sister, let me go, I had no clue what they were.

I was still in so much pain and the anger was building in me. I walked over to the man lying on the ground and looked at him, still his words were not getting through. All that I was thinking about when I looked at him was that he killed Willow Lily. I'm not sure what happened next I came back to realty with some people pulling me off of the man that was under me. They were not my family the White Rain they were the Black Sparrow. I was dragged the whole way back to their village. They questioned me about Willow Lily and about her brother I told them everything. I had apparently beat the guy to the point that he was in a coma and they were not sure on whether he was going to make it or not. After they questioned me they put me in a cell and that was where I stayed for a week. It was on that weekend that I was lying on the mat when I heard some noise coming from outside. I looked out the best that I could, but I saw nothing. I laid back down and that was when Wolf Fang passed by my cell. I called out his name I was so happy to see him. He opened my cell and said "Come on we have to get out of here before they find out." He did not have to tell me twice we got out of there. We made it back to our side and that was when Wolf Fang looked at me. He told me that I could not go back to White Rain. I was sad , but I understood. We said our goodbyes and that was the last time I saw him and the family.

I still think about Willow Lily but the pain has lessened. When I came back here I found a nice flat and met with Ron and we started our friendship right back to how it was. I know that you have seen me in the paper with women that I have dated but I still feel like something is missing. So Hermione you have been caught up on where I have been.

Hermione was in tears so she got up and got some tissues. She came back to the table sat down and looked at Harry. " I understand now why you did not want to talk about it.", said Hermione taking a tissue and blowing her nose. "Harry I'm so sorry." " I have had a while to come to terms about it all.", said Harry leaning over and taking a tissue and wiping Hermione tears off her face. They stayed at the table talking about different things for almost the whole night one of them was about Hermione and her dates. Harry did not think it was the best idea, but he really could not say much especially when Hermione brought it to his attention about all the women that he had been with lately. Harry had left at 3am that morning Hermione dragging herself to her room and went right to sleep not think about all that had happened yesterday.

What A Morning

Once again Hermione woke to the owl pecking on the window in the kitchen. She was still so sleepy especially when she had only got four hours of sleep. She got up out of bed and went to the kitchen and let the owl in. She took the letter not bothering to open it and laid it on the table. The owl left she debated about going back to her room and back to sleep, but she was up now she just needed to open her eyes.

She went to the cabinet and took out a tea bag. She put a kettle of water on the stove to get hot so that she could have some tea. She had just filled her cup and was getting ready to have her tea when there was a knock on her front door. She put her cup down and made her way to the living room. She was still half asleep and hope that she did not bump into the table.

She open the door and there was a delivery man. " Good morning I'm looking for a Hermione Granger.", said the deliver man with a smile. " That would be me. Can I help you?", asked Hermione wiping her eyes so she could get a better look at the guy. " I have a delivery for you. If you would just sign right here.", said the guy handing her a clipboard and pointing right where she need to put her name. When she had finished signing the guy walked to his van and unload a dozen red roses. She watched as he came back to the doorstep " Where would you like us to put these?", Hermione had only saw one guy so she did not know why he said us until she saw one more guy walking towards her with roses in his hand. Hermione pointed in her living room on the coffee table. The last thing that the guy brought in was a large heart. When they had finished he handed a note to her and then they left.

She looked in her living room on the table was six dozen roses and the large heart what was going on, she looked at the note in her hand and all it said was see you soon. There was no name and she did not recognize the hand writing. The note said see you soon maybe it might be from the next date thought Hermione. She went back to the kitchen picked up the letter from OSR and read what it said. She was going on a date at 10 am with Justin Finch-Flechley to the Museum of Fine Arts. She was not sure if it was Justin that had sent the roses she was just going to have to wait. She was just happy she did not have to wait long.

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