Harry had put on some coffee and sat down when someone knocked on the door of the newly refurbished Potter house. It was 11:30pm, he thought, who could be hear at this time of night?
Harry answered the door and was a little taken aback by who was there.
"Hermione? What are you…come in." he said ushering Hermione in.
Hermione, Ron, and their daughter Hailey had been in Romania for the past 2 years because of a case Ron was working on. There was something going on. She would never show up unannounced especially without Ron.
"Sorry for coming so late, I hope you weren't asleep." she said.
"Its fine. I just got home actually. Here hand me her." Harry took Hailey in his arms and made her a bed on the couch so she could nap.
"You're just now getting in at this hour?" she exclaimed
"Yeah, we are so overworked at the ministry, its not funny. You want some coffee? I just put it on." he offered.
"yeah. Coffee would be great."
Harry handed her a cup and sat down at the table.
"So, how have you been? I feel like I haven't seen you in ages."
"Its alright. Romania is pretty interesting but I miss home. How have you been?"
"Working. That's about it. Ginny's touring with her team. I don't get to see her much."
"Im surprised you guys haven't tied the knot yet." she giggled.
"Ah, I've been busy and she's been busy. It just doesn't seem like a good time right now."
Hailey mumbled in her sleep and they both looked.
"She looks just like you Hermione."
"Well mostly."
"How old is she now? I haven't seen her since she was really tiny."
" 2 ½, she'll be 3 in September."
"Wow time flies by. Teddy is almost 5."
"Do you see a lot of him? How's Andromeda? I heard she was getting ill."
"Yeah, Teddy is here all the time or I go over to Andromeda's. She's getting worse and she's already said she hasn't got much time left after losing her husband and Tonks like that. I get full custody of him when she passes."
"I hate to hear that."
"Yeah, but we've all came to terms with it. "
There was a bit of a silence.
"Listen Hermione, what's the real reason your hear?" he asked.
"What are you talking about?"
"You never show up randomly, especially without Ron? You can tell me what's going on. Did you guys have a fight or something?"
"Something like that."
"Well what was it about? Anything I can help with?"
"Not really. The fight was about us."
"Us? Like what?"
"Our past came up…our um…physical past."
"Oh…well that was only once and we both regretted it."
"Twice Harry. Once during the time Ron was gone and the other time was when we went to find my parents when we were both drunk."
"I try to block out the last one, not that it was bad or anything, just that you guys were together and I feel guilty about it."
"Yeah I know. But it got brought up because of Hailey."
Harry's heart dropped. 'What are you saying Hermione?"
"Well, Hailey isn't Ron's. She's yours. That's why I'm here."
Harry felt like he could faint. It couldn't be true. "Are you sure? How?"
"Well if I would've know at the beginning I would've told you but you see, baby's are born with blue eyes and then they change. Well Ron and I have blue eyes so I didn't think anything of it. But, her eyes changed to green when she was around 1 ½. I was trying to find a way to tell you both but before I could Ron noticed. We've been doing paternity testing and fighting, and turns out Ron's not the father."
"Are you kidding me?
"Im sorry Harry, I really am. I didn't mean for this to happen.'
"Don't apologize. We didn't mean for it to happen. Its not your fault. We just have to deal with the consequences. The beautiful consequences. " he smiled.
"So where do we go from here?" she asked.
"I think we'll go to sleep for the night because we are both exhausted. Hailey can sleep in Teddy's room and you can take my room. Ill sleep in here."
"nonsense Harry Its your house, your bed, you sleep there."
"I insist Hermione."
"We both can sleep there. We're just sleeping anyway."
"I don't know Hermione."
"Harry we aren't doing anything. Its no big deal."
"Fine. But lets not mention it to Ginny. Lets not mention anything to Ginny just yet."
So what'd ya think? I know its not like the actual story but hey I like this idea. don't be afraid to leave a comment about it. Constructive criticism is welcome…no flames tho. If people like it, I would be more encouraged to continue it.