I know I have 2 stories hanging, but I have had this plot bunny kicking up dust, so I thought I would go with it! Hopefully I can extend it more than one chapter :) Unfortunaley I don't own Harry Potter, but the plot is all mine! Enjoy, and please leave me reviews!! I want to hear your thoughts!!
"Cassie come on love, the car will be here any moment!" Hermione yelled up the stairs to her almost four year old who was moving at a snails pace.
She had just got done shrinking almost everything they owned into three trunks. As she shucked on her winter coat, and grabbed her daughters as well, she thought back to two nights ago when a very persistant owl pecked at her bedroom window very late at night. She knew the owl and her heart stopped, as she opened the window, and it stuck its leg out for her to retrieve the note stuck to its leg, her heart seemed to beat even harder. It nipped her as she handed the bird a treat and it took off, not waiting for a reply. She opened it and recognized the hand writting immediately. It was a quick note, not saying much but everything all at once 'Hermione, it's safe. Come home. I miss you D.M.' That was it. It was all she needed to put her and Cassie on the next plane to England.
"Mommy, do we have to take muggle transportation? Why can't we take a port key thingy?" Cassie whined, holding on to her stuffed dragon.
"What kind of adventure would that be? And besides, I have to give your surprise time to get ready" Hermione said with a smile as her daughters blue-gray eyes sparkled.
"A supwise for me mommy? What kind of supwise?" As her blond curls bounced all around.
"It wouldn't be a surprise if I told you now would it?" Hermione said as her daughter pouted. "Now let's get your coat on, the car will be here any minute, and Uncle Harry will be waiting for us at the airport ok?"
"Ok mommy, are we gonna stay at ucle Harry and aunt Ginny's while we are there?" Cassie asked.
"Only for one night, once you go to bed, I will go and get your surprise and then we will go home in the morning. You do realize that we aren't just visiting right? London is home, and we are finally going back." Cassie nodded as someone knocked on the other side of the door.
Hermione's face split into a huge smile when she opened it and saw her best friend standing on her stoop.
"Harry Potter! What are you doing here? I told you that we where going to travel the muggle way, so that Cassies surprise has more time!"
Harry grinned back and said just barely over a whisper "No can do Mrs. Malfoy, her surprise is driving me up a wall, and insisted that I get an emergency port key to bring you home."
Hermione sighed as she realized that her daughter heard that last part and looked up to her mom with excitment growing in her face.
"Yay!! A port key thingy!!" Cassie jumped up and down until she jumped in Harry's arms "Uncle Harwy, where my supwise? Did you bring it wif you??" Harry quirked and eyebrow up at Hermione, and shook his head no as he handed her to her mom. "Sorry little one, your surprise will be at my house later, remember mummy has to go get it."
"Ok uncle Harwy" Cassie said as she pouted some more, and nuzzled her face into the crook of her moms neck.
" Cassiopeia Narcissa Malfoy, you stop your pouting right this minute." Hermione said sternly. "Uncle Harry is only doing what mummy asked him to do. Now buck up, the sooner we get to uncle Harry and Aunt Ginny's and you go down for a nap the quicker you get your surprise, ok?"
At the sound of getting her surprise, Cassie brightened up quickly holding on to her stuffed dragon and giggled as Harry pulled out a tattered pink umbrella. "Uncle Harwy is that the port key thingy??"Cassie asked.
"Yes it is" He said as he chuckled. Hermione just raised an eyebrow as Harru continued "Since Hagrid got his wand back, he gave me his old umbrella, so I use it as a port key from time to time."
Hermione smiled thinking of the old games keeper at Hogwarts, as she shrunk her three trunks, and handed them to Harry to put in his pocket.
"Are we ready?" She asked " I just want to go home and sleep in my bed." She let out a loud bark of laughter seeing her daughter nod her head up and down quickly.
"C'mon uncle Harwy, get that port key thingy to work!" Cassie said excitedly.
"The faster I get my nap, the fastwr i get my supwise!!"
"Ok, Ok!!" Harry said to the little girl, and then whispered into Hermione's ear " And I thought Draco was bossy"
Hermione just looked at him and stuck her tongue out at him as all three touched the umbrella and the next thing Hermione knew she was in Harry and Ginny's living room. She barely had time to brace herself as a flash of red hair came flying at her at warp speed.
"Mione!! You're home!! Please owl your husband and let him know that you are back in London please. He has owled three times since Harry left." Ginny said with James squirming on her hip to get down to play with Cassie.
"I was only gone 30 minutes, next thing you know he will floo over" Harry said "Ginny did you-"
"Close the floo to him? Yes dear. It wont open again until Mione goes over. So please tell him you will be over shortly" Ginny said as she rolled her eyes in laughter.
Hermione made her way down to the kitchens to owl Draco and let him know she will be over.
'Draco, I'm back in London, let me freshen up and I will be over. I love you. H.M.
She sent it off quickly with Harry's owl, and started to walk back up to the living room as she neared the top of the steps, she heard her daughter tell Ginny "No aunt Ginny, I not hungry! Mommy said the faster I go sleep, the faster I get my supwise!"
Hermione giggled as she walked in the room, and thought, she is more like Draco than anyone could imagine.
"Ok little one, you ready to take a nap? That way I can go and get your surprise?" Hermione asked Cassie as she picked her up and started to carry her up the stairs.
After she was able to get Cassie to fall asleep, she quickly got a shower and got dressed in what used to be Draco's favorite outfit. A white silk button down, a short light blue pencil skirt, and matching undergarments with thigh highs and a garter belt with black heels.
She kissed her daughter once on the head as she quickly made her way down stairs and to the living room, saying her goodbyes and letting them know that her and Draco would be back soon after Cassie woke, if not before.
She grabbed a small handfull of floo powder and yelled "Malfoy Manor!" And almost as quickly that she left, she arrived at her destination, and standing there waiting for her to come out was him, truly him.
"Draco..." Hermione whispered as she ran into his open arms. Draco hugged her tighttight, breathing in her scent. She looked up at him and smiled and said "I'm home..." just as his soft warm lips crashed on to hers.