A/N: alrighty new story! 😊 yea I'm still working on the way it was supposed to be (might change the title) its at 60 chapters now and has turned slightly complicated with three timelines and pulling it together and the romance and reactions things like that but I definitely adore writing for you all anyways this is my new story it is a Sirius/Hermione I do hope you'll adore it and it'll have some select Weasley bashing no Dumbledore bashing because I want to give him a bit of redemption!. There is an end note btw if you want to read it. Also I recognise that brother bear didn't come out until 2003 but I love the movie and the song so I'm putting it in.

I DON'T OWN JK ROWLING IT'S HER CHARACTERS AND UNIVERSE ANYTHING OTHER THAN PLOT ISNT MINE! "tell everybody I'm on my way" isn't mine it is lyrics of a song written by Phil Collins - On My Way Lyrics in the movie Brother Bear and belongs to them.

Dan and Helen Granger, of Ottery St Catchpole, were proud of the advancements their little Hermione, at the age of two, could show, thank you very much. Neither being slouches in the intelligence department they were more than capable of recognising the signs of a genius, and that is exactly what their darling Hermione was, who cared if she could cause their garden to bloom in the dead of winter? Wasn't Helen just that morning speaking about how she missed the beautiful roses that entranced her? And who cares if Hermione at five weeks had caused her eyes to flash green? Dan had after all wished his daughter had taken after him a little bit in the looks department anyway.

So, their Hermione was special, she was different, and they'd be damned if they allowed anyone to harm her but for a two-year-old Hermione was exceptionally bright, she understood that she couldn't show off her talents, others wouldn't understand, they weren't like her and her mummy and daddy.

"tell everybody I'm on my way!" Hermione giggled loudly as she danced down the park pavement, wobbling every now and again. She turned towards her father who was making silly faces at her mother, who didn't seem to be appreciating it at all, she didn't understand why her daddy was awfully funny.

"PETER SETH PETTIGREW YOU PUT MY BOOK DOWN RIGHT NOW" a screech tore through the nearly empty park causing the little family to whip in that direction, a beautiful red-headed woman was towering over a cowering fat man a book clutched between his quivering hands.

"L-Lilly-"a snarl of rage cut off the man as she tore the book out of his hands.

Dan and Helen had dismissed this with a snort of laughter and as they looked down towards their daughter they saw her missing.

Hermione adored books and the book that the screaming lady, Lily? was holding looked old and as her mother said old books held the most knowledge, as Hermione was desperately wishing that she was over there, perhaps if she politely asked she could touch the book? She didn't notice her magic gathering within her to fulfil its mistress request and she disappeared with a quiet pop.

Lily Potter was fed up, why she ever agreed to marry the annoying prat known as James Potter she would never know.

"perhaps he enchanted you?" Remus's voice cut through her ponderings, she glanced up in shock, wondering how he knew.

"it's written all over your face plus we are best friends like you can keep anything from me, everything's packed by the way" his attention was diverted by the squirming infant in his arms and Lily's heart melted.

Her darling Harry had barely turned two the week before, the time had flown by and she wasn't sure she liked it. She took Harry into her arms and his eyes snapped open the same colour and shape of her own, with such a startling intensity, it took her breath away, smiling up at Remus who was carrying a large bag with him, they both headed downstairs.

James and Sirius were trying unsuccessfully to hide behind the sofa in fear of the wrath Lilly Potter was renowned for, rightly so.

Letting out an amused snort Remus spoke "it's okay guys, she's holding Harry"

Grinning towards each other, they sprung up knowing that Lily wouldn't do anything while holding Harry.

"Great idea to have a mini Prongs, James, the kids already saved our arses from getting hexed numerous times" Sirius gave a bark of laughter as he vaulted over the sofa to get closer to his Godson who was happily crying "Siri! Siri!"

"got to work on the pronunciation mate but you're getting there!" he encouraged with a grin as he happily stole his prongslet from Lily. Lily let out a snort of amusement at the way the rumoured Casanova that was Sirius Black melted in front of her son, oh if only people knew the truth.

Diverting her attention to her husband who was struggling with the stroller that she had bought for Harry, she couldn't help the soft smile that had broken out on her face, he was handsome, not conventionally maybe with his scrawny build and messy hair, crooked glasses but it was his lopsided grin and sparkling eyes that burned with intensity, her son might have gotten the colours of her eyes but she knew he had gotten his father's intensity, that being said though they did just cover her room in sparkles and got her clothes to perform the tango in front of her, who knew her knickers knew such moves? She quickly flung a stinging hex at her husbands, admittedly great arse, and he let out an almighty yelp of pain jerking quickly up.

Smirking at her husband who was looking at her incredulously, she winked cheekily at him before turning to Remus.

"where's Peter?" she asked wondering where the man was, he had been so stressed lately, well they all had with- No, she stubbornly shook her head, she wasn't going to think about the war or the prophecy not on their potentially last day of freedom.

Remus seeing where her thoughts were heading, smiled gently "he said he would meet us at the park apparently something came up with his dad" he absently started picking out some books to take with him so that he and Lily would have something to read while they relaxed.

Nodding her head in understanding, she whistled sharply to gain James and Sirius's attention. "come on then you two, Peter is going to meet us there and I want to take full advantage of this beautiful weather" she grinned happily before stealing Harry back and twisting on the spot.

Giggling as she landed on the gazebo, that had carefully crafted spells to avoid the looks of muggles she quickly glanced around before striding forward towards the lake, a beautiful place in Ottery St Catchpole. Watching Remus jogging over to the spot that she had picked she gestured for him to place the blanket down as Sirius and James came tumbling out of the gazebo happily warring with one another.

"Oh honestly" she rolled her eyes before catching sight of a small, plump twitching man, with a beaming smile she called out for Peter who jumped at the sound of her voice before scurrying over.

"L-Lilly lovely to see you s-sorry that I'm late" he spoke quickly glancing around before timidly sitting at the edge of the blanket.

"it's lovely to see you too Peter" she smiled gently at him before handing Harry to an impatient Remus and sorting through the books Remus had picked, Peter quickly grabbed at a bottle of butterbeer, uncapping it and taking a quick sip before speaking.

"where are-"the rest of his sentence was cut off as Sirius and James steamrolled him, causing the bottle to go flying out of his hand and smashing against one of Lilly's prized books. He quickly grabbed at the book fruitlessly trying to clean off the liquids, James and Sirius quickly scrambled out of the way as Remus calmly bounced Harry up and down who was gurgling happily at the scene before him.

"PETER SETH PETTIGREW YOU PUT MY BOOK DOWN RIGHT NOW" she shrieked in total rage, her emerald eyes flashing.

"L-Lilly-" a snarl of rage cut off Peter as she violently tore the book out of his hand, her hand twitching towards the ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow wand that was concealed up her sleeve. A pop of apparition was heard and then a voice

"Hello, Mrs screaming lady can I perhaps have a look at your books please?" Hermione's voice cut through the tension in the air.

Lily glanced down to see a sweet looking little girl, with a halo of brown curls a headband attempting to keep some semblance of control and cute bunny teeth, she was clad in a light blue dress with black Mary Jane shoes, she was impeccably well dressed but ever so tiny.

"Sweetie are you lost?" she asked gently glancing at James in apprehension, how on earth did this little girl apparate? He discreetly pulled out his wand just in case.

The little girl gave out a loud giggle

"No, my parents are over there, we came to the park to play, do you come here often? Can I read your books? I promise I'm good with books I have loads of my own and daddy says I'm awfully good at reading and I don't need to use pictures or have help unless the word is super complicated like onomatopoeia – her nose scrunched up cutely as she stumbled slightly over the word- and why is he holding a stick? Do you all have sticks? Is he like a dog and he played with sticks? Is he a dog? My mummy says I can't have a dog she says that they're messy but I-"

She was cut off by the cry of an older woman, Lily figured the little girl might have carried on forever otherwise.

"Hermione!" the woman quickly snatched up the girl, the man that was beside her slightly standing in front of his wife and child, Lily noticed that his fists were clenched.

"-know dogs are my favourite!" Hermione happily finished completely unaware of the tension surrounding her.

"are they really sweetie?" Lily murmured absently as she went and grabbed Harry, keeping a close eye on the supposed family in case it went south.

"you can't just apparate, you know, muggles might see" James asserted drawing the attention towards him.

"what's a muggle? What's apparating? Is it what I did? Because I just jumped really, I'm good at jumping and has it anything to do with your stick? Is it a special stick?" Hermione tilted her head to the side as she pondered the new knowledge that was coming towards her.

"what do you mean 'what's a muggle?' Aren't you magical?" James reached up and scratched at his head in confusion.

"what are you on about? Magic doesn't exist" the man shuffled uneasily, hoping his large frame would block their view of his Hermione, Helen meanwhile was desperately going through the plans that they had made in case this would ever occur, she still had her get-out-of-dodge bag under the bed, call her paranoid but like hell was her daughter being experimented on.

"so, you're saying your muggles?" Remus spoke up for the first time, eyeing up the family in suspicion, he had pegged them for Malfoy's the moment he had seen them.

"that's it Daniel I'm leaving and taking Hermione with me, we don't need this" the woman snapped angrily, as she protectively held her daughter to her chest, she turned and began to walk away.

"No, wait! We can explain, magic is real, and your daughter is a witch and the sticks are wands!" Sirius cried out, the desperation in his eyes caused James to look at him weirdly, Sirius didn't know what was going on himself but the moment he had seen the curls of the petite girl he felt something move.

"really?" the girl wriggled in her mother's arms, fruitlessly as the mother began muttering about crazy people as she carried on storming away, with a huff of annoyance, she screwed up her face in concentration and with a pop! Disappeared again only to land right in front of Sirius.

"Tell me more!" she demanded, looking up at him as her mother started to march back, her eyes flashing in protectiveness.

Crouching down Sirius stared into the innocent honey-gold eyes and felt the earth shift beneath his feet, he felt rather than saw everything around him fade as he was dragged deeper into those golden pools, a bond began to form reaching out from Sirius and towards the girl, swirls of silver rose from their chests before intertwining and locking together, Magic had spoken.

"you see, Love, some people are born with this incredible gift known as magic, we can harness this power to do amazing things and we go to a wonderful school where we learn how to control it and expand our knowledge, apparating is a lot like jumping where we go from one place to another simply by willing it and our sticks are also known as wands, a conduit for our Magic" Sirius spoke gently his eyes soft and sparkling at the little cherub in front of him.

Her eyes sparkled happily up at him, she decided right then and there that this man was her favourite and she was going to keep him, he smiled at her and answered all her questions. Glancing up she saw that the adults were staring at her and the nice man, silly people they should just ask her silver-eyed man and he would answer.

Her daddy was slowly turning purple but attempting to keep his cool.

"what the hell are you on about? Hermione come here now" his voice had turned stern, so Hermione knew that she had to obey, she reluctantly walked over to her father, glancing back at her silver-eyed man, a pout on her face.

"Right okay, I'm James Potter this is my wife Lily and our son Harry, these are my best mates Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew we are wizards, well Lily is a witch like your daughter, she's also muggleborn like your daughter a magical person born to non-magical people" James glanced about, the park was slightly deserted but still they should move "perhaps we can go to the gazebo and discuss this further?"

"like hell-" her father's voice rose

"Dan, stop, we haven't found any answers to do with Hermione's…abilities, your brother couldn't figure it out maybe they'll be able to do it" Helen spoke they all seemed trustworthy apart from that twitchy rat of a man, but she'd just keep an eye on him. Dan looked down at his wife of over twenty years and sighed heavily before jerking his head in acknowledgement.

"fine, let's go" he started to march towards the gazebo his wife following him, scooping up Hermione, before stopping and turning back to the group

"well come on" he demanded impatiently

"muggles aren't supposed to see the gazebo" James spoke his eyes narrowing slightly, as his hand moved slightly towards his arm, but Remus nudging him stopped him from acting.

"could be squibs" Remus spoke calmly, having stayed quite due to his appearance knowing how people reacted to his scars.

"what's a squib," Hermione asked staring at her Silver-Eyed Man, he grinned at her but allowed the plump man to answer.

"A-a s-squib is an m-magical person b-born to m-magical parents b-but w-without t-the m-magic" he stuttered out, wringing his hands nervously.

Hermione stared at the plump man before reluctantly nodding her head, she would wait until her silver-eyed man answered her questions, he didn't seem so nervous. They got to the gazebo, Dan hesitating a moment before squaring his shoulders and heading into the structure feeling a chill of something wash over him. The group entered the gazebo before sitting in an uneasy circle, the Grangers on one side of the gazebo the magical on the other.

"Right, explain" Dan spoke glancing at the group in front of him, wanting to know what was going on.

"perhaps we can know your names first?" Lily spoke up

"right yes, I'm Daniel Granger this is my wife Helen Granger, and this is our daughter Hermione, she's special but I'd like to see proof that you can do it too, we haven't seen anything like it" he shuffled slightly, his body language betraying his inner thoughts, he was terrified.

"sure thing" Sirius beat the rest of the group to the punch line pulling out his wand, cypress wood 14 inches with a dragon heartstring core, and walking to stand in front of the grangers, with a wink towards Hermione and a casual flick of his wand, the area around them had turned into a galaxy, being of black blood he had been capable of producing this spell since he could walk and he would only admit it to himself but he adored this spell it was his favourite to cast.

Hermione stared in awe at the stars around her, it was amazing to see all the colours and it felt so real as well if this is what magic could do then she had to learn all about it!

"Daddy I want to learn" Hermione spoke her big doe eyes pleading with him, Helen looked at him with the same expression and he let out a heavy sigh there was no way he could deny them when they looked like that.

"what is this whole thing then?" he rubbed his head wearily already feeling a massive headache coming on.

"we'll get to that, but first could you tell us about your families? Specifically, your parents and their family names? We think that you could be the children of squibs and since they never told you anything because you didn't show any magical potential this is all new to you" James asked he wanted to know all about their families if they could produce such a powerful child.

Helen hesitantly spoke first "well my maiden name was Moody; my father Ignatius Moody married my mother her name was Leta Lestrange" she glanced up at the strangled sounds coming from the other occupants of the room.

"No wonder Mad-eye doesn't talk about his family if one of them shacked up with the psychos from hell," James said, scratching the back of his already messy hair.

"that is my mother you are talking about" the icy voice of Helen snapped

"Sorry, it's just the Lestrange family don't have the best reputation in the wizarding world, they're a very dark family whereas the Moody family are renowned for producing Aurors- like magical police- they're very light" James hurriedly went on to explain.

"from what I heard from the family, Leta was considered to be the white hippogriff of the family like me, she was all buddy-buddy with Newt Scamander and his creatures, got her brother Credence to help him out when he was found after the whole kidnapping debacle, but then she up and left when her brother forcefully took over the family and started going crazy, no one knew what happened, most people figured she ran off to go save some indigenous species somewhere" Sirius scratched at his neck as he tried to think of everything else he knew about the woman, Helen was staring at him in shock so he went on

"I'm a pureblood, so I grew up with all of this, everyone knew everyone and gossiped relentlessly the lestrange's were close with my family the Black's, pureblood meaning only magical parents for centuries but that's a whole can of nifflers in a gold store that you don't want to open" he hurriedly explained as Helen was starting to look slightly creeped out. She nodded her head in acceptance before glancing at her husband.

"right well my father's father name was Dagworth-Granger, my Father said he had dropped it because it was too much of a mouthful but I'm not sure, my mother last name was Evans, the last I heard there was some family of her's in Cokeworth cousins of mine I think" he scratched slightly at his head, trying to recall more details but giving up.

"Evans, really?" Lily leant forward eagerly

"hmm, yea but I don't know much about that family" he replied

"my Maiden name is Evans! What was your mother's name?"

"Her name was Aster apparently the family was big on flowers and plants, named my little brother Rowan"

"yes, my family was, it's nice to meet another family member, such a small world" Lily let out a laugh, glancing down at a frowning Harry, who was beginning to fuss.

"I think that we should have lunch and carry on discussing this afterwards" Lily smiled before dragging Remus back towards the picnic blanket and horde of foods that she had prepared.

Sirius stood up and went to follow the rest of the group but was stopped by a hand grabbing him by the back of his neck and dragging him back. Spinning quickly, he slapped James hand away from him and frowned unhappily.

"what?" he snapped

James looked disbelieving "what do you mean what? What the hell was that whole magic show with the kid? Do you not understand the statue of secrecy pads? We are Aurors you know, and Azkaban does exist" he waved his arms about in annoyance, lecturing his best friend.

Sirius took a moment to consider James, fatherhood had really changed him, but he wasn't the only one that was changed. Before due to the black blood running in his veins when he was a teenager he would have blown up and accused James of a whole bunch of horrible things, but the war had made Sirius grow up, he was slightly thankful that his temper had been curbed.

"James, think rationally how long have you known me mate? Do I look that stupid? All I know what happened is that my magic and hers it just melded together and everything it just shifted, I'm slightly terrified but it wasn't malicious, and I had not control, it all just clicked" he shrugged his shoulders before running a hand through his hair.

"you know she's like two, right?" James spoke cautiously

"of course, I fucking know! It's nothing like that! I just want to protect her and care for her, maybe in the future, it might be an unprovoked bond look I'll just have to go talk to Dumbledore alright? He'll know" Sirius was tugging at his locks by the end of his speech, pacing nervously wanting his best friend to understand the situation he had been unwillingly landed in.

"I get it mate, look we'll go to Dumbledore first thing and we'll give a load of books to Lily and Remus and we'll solve this alright?" James spoke soothingly already wondering what books will be at Potter Manor he hadn't been back in a while, not after clearing it out but he was certain they'll find the answer.

The Potters, Sirius, Remus and the Grangers spent the rest of the day getting to know each other a lot better, while the Grangers where busy asking about the magical world, Remus and Sirius spent their time taking care of Harry and Hermione who got along like a house on fire, Harry was thrilled to see another child his age and Hermione was delighted that no one seemed to mind her constant questions, the scar-faced one known as Remus, was very nice and wore sweaters and snuck her some pieces of chocolate with a sleight of hand and a wink, but her firm favourite remained the silver-eyed man, Sirius, she liked his smile and his bark of laughter like a dog and he had very nice hair-so very unlike her own- he seemed delighted by her presence and all of her questions which he answered diligently, he didn't talk down to her and treated her seriously. Yes, she decidedly sleepily that night, remembering his leather and sandalwood scent with a nice mixture of smoke, wood and a hint of whiskey, she was absolutely keeping him.

That night a rat took vicious pleasure as he described the events of the day, it was worth the enraged look on Bellatrix Lestrange that she was related to the offspring off squibs who was indeed rather powerful, The Dark Lord, however, looked very thoughtful at the new prospect placed before him.

A/N 4,000 words without these author notes yay! I will be uploading on Thursday and TWIWSTB is under works so don't worry lol, I mean even if you still want that story?