Summary:

Hermione Granger was perfect right? Perfect friends, perfect grades, perfect family, perfect life. Wrong! How very wrong you are. Her life was far from perfect. Of course how were you supposed to know that because at school Hermione was a bookworm, a know-it-all but outside in the Muggle world? Mia a bookworm? Yeah right! Mia was a party animal!

Two more days! Only two more days would Hermione be stuck in this fiery pit her father called a home. Then she would be free to Hogwarts, the only place she now considered a home, or at least the only place that deserved to be called a home in her opinion. As Hermione sat there thinking this she heard him get up. He was moving about his room in the usual way, making a lot of noise. All of a sudden she heard a loud cry over the noise in the next room over. She jumped up and ran to the crib in the corner of her room, but Hermione wasn't quick enough. Her stepfather had heard Nicole and was now furious.

As soon as Hermione had picked Nicole up and started soothing her in a gentle whisper, Scott, her stepfather, slammed her door open and in a fit of rage and started screaming, " Get that freakin brat to shut the heck up!"

As soon as he had said that Hermione screamed, "Get out!"

"And you wench! You are a total screw-up! You ruin everything! If you had never been born you mother would still be here and she would be living a happy life! YOU drove her to her death! Her drover her to suicide! You and You alone killed her!" he screamed at her with malice dripping from every word.

"Out!" Hermione said in a deadly whisper her eyes narrowed into slits.

After her stepfather had left her room Hermione went back to comforting the now wailing child in her arms. Hermione stood with her cradled in her arms and rocked her back and froth all the while sing softy to her one of her favorite muggle lullabies,

"Rock-a-bye baby, in the tree top
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall
And down will come baby, cradle and all"

This lullaby never really made sense to her why you were talking bout the cradle falling and the baby falling down and everything but it really didn't matter it had a nice tune and was all in all a nice little song.

Hermione carefully stood up, holding Nicole in her arms and walked over to her window to see Scott getting into his black BMW and driving away to go to work. Scott was a car salesman and owned is own dealership. He worked long hours and didn't get off work till late in the evening then once he got off at work he went to the bar near home and drank away her memory a little at a time (A.N. He never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind till the night). Every night he would go to the bar and then come home so drunk he could hardly walk. As soon as he would walk in he would wake Hermione up and beat her within inches of her life then she'd pass out with only one thought on her mind that he would stay away from Nicole

Each morning when Hermione woke up she would go check on Nicole and then go put healing ointment on her back. Each morning she would breath a sigh of relief seeing that Nicole was left untouched. Yet this morning was different The house was eerily silent and she had and awful feeling in the pit of her stomach.

As soon as she got up she ran to Nicole's crib to see her covered in blood and barely breathing. As soon as she saw her hot tears ran down her face. Hermione quickly set to work clearing away as much of the blood as she could so that Nicole would have a clearer breathing passage. Then she levitated her onto a flat surface so as not do disturb her so much that she could cause any more damage. Then she levitated all of her things into her trunk and ran outside to flag down the Knight bus.

Soon it was there and Hermione told then to get to St. Mungo's in the next few minutes or Nicole would die. They were there in a matter of minutes due to the acceleration of that bus and Hermione was into the hospital w/ her things and Nicole almost as soon as the bus had stopped. She ran to the receptionist's desk the second she entered the hospital. She quickly told the receptionist her name and Nicole's and the shortened version of what had happened to Nicole.

The receptionist quickly ushered her into and empty room. Soon there was a Medi-Witch with her and Nicole. She told the Medi-Witch the whole story and the she told Hermione that Nicole had a few fractured bones, but that they were mendable and Nicole would have to stay there over night. Hermione consented and was feeling considerable lighter now that she knew that Nicole was ok. If Nicole hadn't been ok she didn't know what she would have done, but it wouldn't have landed her much short of Azkaban to say the least.

Hermione was usher out of the hospital and into London by the Medi-Witch, telling her to get a room at the Leaky Cauldron and come back the next morning to pick up her daughter. So Hermione went and took her time getting her things to her room at the Leaky Cauldron and then deciding to go take a look around Muggle London while she had the time to do a little last minute school shopping. That was when it hit her she was going to have to take Nicole with her or risk the life of her daughter and there was no way that Hermione was going to put Nicole life in danger ever again after what had happened with her step father.

Hermione decided that because of recent events that she would need a darker less naive wardrobe to fit her less innocent new self. So when she hit the streets of Muggle London it wasn't to window shop it was to buy a new wardrobe ad to change her appearance to fit her new personality. All through this summer Hermione had had her best friend watch Nicole when neither her now Josh could (A.N. Josh is Nicole's father, Hermione's second boyfriend.). Jess had watched Nicole while Hermione worked her butt off trying to save up money for school stuff and to support herself and Nicole after she finished her last year of schooling at Hogwarts. Mrs. Nicole Granger-Mouch, Hermione's mother had left her what was left of her father's money from when he had died when Hermione was only 9.

So when Hermione walked into the salon that day she decided that this was her chance to be herself and to look like her personality. So Hermione got her hair dyed black and had blue streaks placed in it. She went and got clothes mainly consisting of black and blue (the color of bruises) and a few other colors. She bought many pairs of combat books and a few pairs of vans, converses, and a couple pairs of black high-heeled boots. When she had done all that she got herself more makeup and in the end ended up spending a little more than $400.

She then went to the Leaky Cauldron, set all of her new things neatly into her trunk and went to check up on Nicole. After checking that Nicole was ok Hermione went back to her room and looked through her purchases and thought of only two more things she really needed. She quickly left to go out and get them. Once she was finished Hermione had gotten her nose, cartilage, ears (double), and her naval pierced. She had also gotten a tattoo that was a heart with Nicole written on it on her upper thigh and a tattoo of a heart with a dagger through it on her lower back.

After putting her thing into her trunk and slamming it shut, Hermione realized she was exhausted so she tiredly crawled into bed and as soon as her head hit the pillow she was asleep.

As soon as Hermione woke up she took a quick shower and threw on a blue tube top and a black mini-skirt and her new black combat boots. Then she went to pick up Nicole so they could leave for Hogwarts Express. Once she got to the hospital she went to the receptionist's desk and asked about Nicole Sager (A.N. Josh's last name!). The kind lady took her back to Nicole's room and she and Nicole left after she checked Nicole out.

As soon as they left they went apparated to the Leaky Cauldron and Hermione shrunk her things and put them into her pocket. She then threw on a large cloak and she and Nicole walked to Platform 9 3/4

Once they had navigated the train station and put Hermione's stuff on the Express Hermione went straight to the Head's Compartment glad she wouldn't have to talk to Harry, Ron, and Ginny. Hermione wasn't up to explaining why she hadn't answered any of their letters. She wasn't ready to tell them that she had been too busy taking care of her daughter to write them back. As she walked there she was praying that this year's Head Boy wasn't going to be Ron or Harry, she would even take Malfoy over either of them. Hermione loved Harry and Ron like they were her brothers but they didn't know about Nicole and she wasn't ready to disappoint them with the news that she had a daughter they didn't know about. (A. N. but in the wizarding world they have concealment charms and when teens get pregnant they don't get that big.) Malfoy at least, even with all of the name calling wouldn't worry about her or care enough about her to be disappointed about the fact that she had a daughter at the age of 15. At worst he'd treat her like dirt but by now she was used to that from her stepfather and from him
calling her a Mudblood all the time. As long as Nicole was with her Hermione was just fine.

When she reached the compartment she climbed in and unshrank Nicole's baby rocker and she sat it on the seat. She then sat Nicole down and lay down to get some rest. Around an hour later she awoke to quiet whimpering. When she looked up, she saw that Nicole wasn't in her rocker and started to freak out. The she heard rumbling laughter coming from the seat across from her and looked up to see Nicole in the arms of Draco Malfoy.

"Malfoy give her back! Now Give Nicole back!" said Hermione voice filled with malice.

Malfoy just tsked at her and said, "Explain why she's here and maybe I will."

"Do I really need to explain how babies are made to you? I'd think that the 'Slytherin Price' would know that kind of thing," said Hermione with a smirk.

"You know what I meant!" Said Malfoy with a glare and a sneer at her.

"Why do you care? At the moment you're holding someone partially muggle," said Hermione with a smirk.

"Part muggle? How is she only part muggle when you are a mudblood? Did your mother cheat on your father? Of curse she didn't you are after all the one with the perfect family!" sneered Malfoy a look of discst written clearly on his face.

"Malfoy she's a half blood with mudblood decendants. Why would you want to dirty your pureblood skin because you were holding my daughter? Anyway since when do you care?" Hermione sneered a look of pain written all over her face."

"You're daughter?" Malfoy asked incredulously, "How the heck do you have a daugh--" He was cut off by the compartment door sliding open. Both Hermione and Malfoy turned quickly towards the door. It was Harry and Ron, and with just one look, hermione could tell she had some major explaining to do. With one look Hermione realized she had some major explaining to do.

OMG The new Harry Potter Book was awsome! I loved it but it was soooooooo sad! I cried! I can't believe he's dead i mean come on! But i guess that's why i read Fanfiction because if i dont like what's going to happen then I just switch stories. So I have a new beta she's one of my friends and she rocks! Ok well review for me giving an opinion on what u think of this story. Tell me if u love it, hate it? Just tell me what you think! You guys rule!

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