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Written for the February Event (Teamwork) over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Teamwork Prompts: (Quote) "My six word love story: I can't imagine life without you." (Unknown), (Title) My Fair lady

1000 Word Challenge: Live

Notes: AU! Set in a world where Fred didn't die and the war didn't end after The Battle of Hogwarts.

Word Count: 484

My Fair Lady

Hermione clung tightly to her husband as he led her towards the evacuation point.

The war had been raging on for five long years. Harry was nowhere to be found after a spectacular defeat during the Battle of Hogwarts, where he had barely escaped with his life, and London was fast becoming an unsafe place.

The new mother had adamantly been refusing to leave for the last week ever since her husband had told her that he had arranged for them to join the evacuation. It was an argument that she was losing, but that didn't stop her from continuing her protests.

As they joined the small crowd of the surviving muggle-borns at the safe point, Hermione turned to her husband.

"I won't leave Fred, I can't. Please don't make me," she pleaded.

"You must my love. Allow me to tell you my six word love story: I can't imagine life without you," he told her earnestly. "But I would rather have a life without you by my side knowing you are safe, than run the risk of losing you. You have to get yourself to safety – before it's too late."

"Only if you come with us," she answered, cradling their young child in her arms.

"I can't, my place is here fighting with the Order, for a better world, so that our son won't have to grow up in a twisted, muggle-born hating place."

Hermione glanced at the crowd of muggle-borns, many of whom were sharing emotional farewells with their loved ones, and then turned back to her husband.

"Then I'm staying. My place is by your side, wherever that may be," she informed him stubbornly. It was perhaps the dozenth time she had said this to him in as many days

"I can't let you do that Hermione. I know this might sound a little sexist but your place should be with our son, protecting our son, and – should the worst happen – telling our son that I died fighting for a better world for him to grow up in."

Hermione's dress billowed in the wind as he kissed her tenderly on the cheek.

"Please, if not for me, then for him," he begged, nodding towards their sleeping infant.

A tear slid down Hermione's face and she reluctantly nodded her head in agreement.

"Promise me you'll let me know you're okay whenever you can," she pleaded as she looked into her husband's equally watery eyes.

"Of course I will my fair lady," he said with a grin on his face, giving her a low bow, just as the one minute warning for departure sounded. "You'd best get going."

Hermione flung herself carefully into her husband's arms, and kissed him tenderly.

"I love you," she whispered in his ear, before prising herself from his arms and turning to take the first of many painful steps from the man she loved with all her heart.

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