A/n: Welcome to 'Finding.' This is my first installment!!!! YAY!!! Please read and review!!!

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Chapter 1: Take Me Away

"I feel like I am all alone All by myself I need to get around this My words are cold, I don't want them to hurt you If I show you, I don't think you'd understand Cause no one understands"

-Avril Lavigne

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Hermione had just woken up and the sun was in her face. She quietly cursed the offending light that had woken her up and gotten up to take a shower for the new day. She had been living on her own near the middle of London for quite some time now. She had a steady job at the Ministry as an Aurors' Report Reviewer and worked with pride everyday. One could say she was getting in to the rhythm of things.

She had walked out of the shower and on her bed was a letter. It was addressed to her in a familiar writing. It was from Harry.

'Mione,

Ron and I are getting together later on today. Some time around 3.00 at the Leaky Cauldron. Would you care to join us? You don't have to reply, just show up. Ron should be there first, because he gets out of work just before me, so be looking for a weird looking red head. Aha, I'm only joking. Hopeful to see you later.

Love,
Harry

She smiled warmly at the letter and put it down, inwardly agreeing to meet up with them. She slowly got dressed and headed into the kitchen for a bowl of cereal. After retrieving the cold bowl and eating the sweet substance that smelt of cinnamon, she started to think.

'What had happened to the good old days?' she asked herself 'Where have they all gone? Why had everything changed so much?'

She continued to think like this and came to the conclusion that it was because of all the lost friends and family. The War. Hermione had to strive so hard and long just to keep it together after so many losses. She started to think if there was ever a way to get any of it back. To get him back, that man she loved.

Coming up to the front door of the old pub that she had done so many times before, she remembered her first day. She smiled to herself. She was having a good memory now. Walking in, she saw Ron sitting at the table, but Harry had yet to show up, as he said would happen, she laughed slightly.

"Hermione, over here!" Ron stood up, waved a hand and made sure she could see him.

She casually walked up with a smile, 'Why am I smiling so much?' they hugged and sat down.

"I'm so glad you could make it." He exclaimed, smiling brightly at her. "Harry should be coming along in a minute."

"That's good." She pulled off her scarf, jacket and hat.

They hadn't been waiting too long before Harry showed up, and they ordered drinks and a late lunch.

Harry looked to Hermione, "So, how have you been 'Mione? You've been a wee bit too quiet for your self lately."

She lied "I'm fine" and she smiled warmly.

When she got home, she realized that she actually had lied, and her smile had faded since then. She then realized she was not fine. She felt alone and cold.

That day she did not have any work and decided that she would stay home for the remainder of the it. She couldn't find anything to stimulate her mind with, so she started to go through some old photo albums. She quickly went through the newer ones, and as she faded into the older ones she slowed down a bit. She would look at the pictures in depth and try and remember those people.

Remus, Sirius, Tonks, Ron, Harry, and her sitting in a semi circle, at Grimmauld Place. She looked closely at the pictures and noticed that everyone was smiling. She never remembered Sirius' smile before. She now thought about him.

'It all started with him. If only he was still here, everyone would be able to hold it together a bit more' she thought for hours on this subject. Thinking if only there was a way for him to come back.

"Hermione, I need that report on my desk in one hour!" screamed her boss, Mr. McCormick.

She mumbled a 'Yes, sir' to herself and finished up the report and dropped it off on his desk. Getting her things together to go home, a picture had fallen out of her pocket the she had taken out of her album. It was of her, Sirius, and Harry. It was funny because in the picture Sirius had surprised her with a kiss on the cheek, and her face had glowed with happiness in the picture because of it as her picture self pushed Sirius out of frame, and Harry giving Sirius an amused stern face.

She gave a small laugh at the image and decided to walk home, because it wasn't that far. She had continued to glance at the three of them laughing, giggling and just enjoying life in that picture. Now she really wanted it back.

These pictures, this was before her and him. Before her and her first love.

On her way home she had made a detour into Diagon Alley and was looking around a bookstore. As she looked, she found herself becoming more interested in looking for an answer, an answer she was determined to find.

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