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Beta: hermione snape
Never Too Late
A Remus/Hermione story
Chapter 1: Prologue
It had been five years since Hermione Granger had seen any of her friends and loved ones. She left late one night after everyone had gone to bed. When they got up they discovered she was gone. They set out on a frantic search for her but found nothing.
That night her secret lover for a little over three years found a note with her scent on it sitting on the dresser. It read:
Dear Remus,
I am so sorry for the pain I am causing you to feel. I never meant to do this to you or cause you to feel this way, but I had to leave. I had a feeling that if I didn't something awful was going to happen to you and to everyone else.
Please don't blame yourself, for it was my fault that this happened. And don't worry about me, after all I survived being on the run with Harry and Ron, the war, Bellatrix and Voldemort themselves. I am strong and will pull through somehow.
I'll come back eventually when I know it's safe, and if you're still there, maybe we can work everything out. I'm not asking for you to put your life on hold and wait for me. I couldn't ask you to do that for me. But if you haven't moved on then maybe it would work.
You probably hate me right now and I don't blame you, I hate myself.
Please find some happiness in your life Remus, don't be unhappy because of me. That's not right. I'm the one that doesn't deserve any happiness for putting you through all this.
Just please remember that I do love you and I truly didn't mean to hurt you.
Love,
Hermione
(P.S. Please give the others my letter that is under the mattress. This one is for you.)
Remus put the letter down and sank to the floor sobbing uncontrollably until there was nothing left in him. When he got up there was a new man standing there.
He would be strong and wait for her to return. He had to be. It was the only way for him to survive. She was and always will be his life, and without her he was incomplete. So he would be patient and wait for her return.
TBC ……