Disclaimer: I really meant to put one up last chapter but i was hounded by rabid hippogriff's to get the story started and totally forgot so this is for this chapter and the last: I TabbyMalfoy own nothing that has anything to do with Harry Potter.
Introduction:
It's fifteen years after the war against Voldemort, and Hermione Granger shows up on the steps of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry after everyone thought that she had died in the fight. Headmistress McGonagall is shocked to see Miss Granger and her fourteen year old son Alek who in the Professor's opinion looks somewhat familiar. But no one is more shocked(aside from her two best friends Harry and Ron) than Draco Malfoy. Having turned himself into the Order after Dumbledore's death he is now the Potions Master at Hogwarts.
Hermione's POV
"Hermione?"
Is the first thing I hear as I walk into the Entrance Hall of Hogwarts. It takes a few seconds for me to take it all in again but as I look around I realize that it's all the same.
"Hermione?" I turn around to see Ron Weasley staring at me as if I'm Fluffy the three headed dog.
"Ron!" I exclaim excitedly as I run to give him a hug. "What are you doing here."
"I'm the Charms Professor". He says still looking at me questioningly.
"Ronald Weasley, I believe those are four words I never thought I'd hear you say." I reply laughing.
"How could you possibly know what I'd say considering you haven't seen me in fifteen years." Ron say's rather huffily. Its my turn to look at him weird but before I could get a word in I hear a loud thunk behind me.
"Mom, what did you pack in this trunk, bricks?" I hear my son Alek ask as he comes in behind me.
"Alek that's your trunk," I reply turning around to look at my slightly bewildered son, "Anyway come and meet my good friend Ron."
"Well I wouldn't say good friend since you neglected to let anyone know that you haven't been dead all this time." Ron exclaimed angrily.
"WHAT!!" I yell as I turn back to Ron. "Ron what the hell are you talking about."
"Everyone thought you died fifteen years ago in the war against Voldemort, we had a memorial service and everything." Ron said warily.
"Th..This, this can't be possible, I left a note for Ginny that night before telling her I had to leave, why I couldn't fight. I even left one for Professor McGonagall just in case something happened to Ginny."
"Come on."
"Where are we going".
"McGonagall's office".
"How many time's do I have to tell you to call me Minerva, Mr. Weasley, and I'm right here." we heard on the stairs in front of us. There stood the imposing form of Minerva Mcgonagall with that look on her face that makes students and professors alike fear her. But I could tell by looking in her eyes she found something rather amusing.(probably the look on Alek's face.) "You three should probably follow me to my office." She said turning back around.
"Come along Alek", I said pulling my reluctant son by the arm thinking that it was good he was already fearful of his future Headmistress. As we come to the statue of the gargoyle, I remember the last time I was here the Headmistress was telling me that the school would be temporarily closing. That was less than four weeks into our seventh year. We had to practically drag Harry back with us but in the end we all ended up missing that last year.
As we enter the office I find it too is exactly the same as the last time I saw it. Professor McGonagall goes behind the large desk as Ron and I sit in two conjured chairs in front of the desk while Alek sits over to the side on a very comfortable looking couch.
" Now please tell me Miss Granger, it is still Granger I assume," She continues as I nod, "Tell me how you're here when we all thought you dead."
"Like I was telling Ron, I sent letters to both You and Ginny Weasley explaining why I couldn't stay."
" I see, I vaguely remember getting something but with everything that was happening I never read it." She said bustling around the room. She knelt by the fireplace and after throwing in a bit of floo powder shouts for the old order headquarters, Number 12 Grimmauld, and stuck her head into the flames.
"Mrs. Potter, do you think you could spare a moment to come over to my office?" She then pulled back and returned to the desk. I turned to Ron and mouthed "Potter". He nodded back still a bit perturbed. Seconds later Ginny Weasley, I mean Potter, came bouncing out of the fire place.
"Don't think I'll ever get used to that." She muttered half to herself before looking up and seeing the other occupants of the office. "HERMIONE" she shrieks before giving me a huge hug and sitting in a newly conjured chair.
"Mrs. Potter, do you remember getting a letter from Miss Granger around the time we thought she disappeared?" Um yeah I remember that, I actually still have it I think.
"Well do you mind telling us why you let us believe she was dead?"
" Professor what's...Hermione?"
I turn to see Harry Potter standing by the fireplace.
"Harry where are the kids?" Ginny asks frantically.
"Oh don't worry, I left them with Fred and George."
"Yeah like that's any better than leaving them alone..."
"Can we please get back to the subject at hand." Prof. McGonagall interrupts.
"Yeah Harry sit, your wife was just about to explain to us why she didn't tell us Hermione was alive all this time." Ron snaps.
"But I didn't know she was alive, the owl came after the fighting had ceased. Since the final battle came so unexpectedly I thought she sent it but didn't have enough time to get out. Since I never got an owl saying she settled in America I figured we had been right to assume she had died. It was all so sad all I could do was think about that poor innocent baby."
"Wait what baby?" Harry interjects confused.
"I believe she means me." Alek speaks up for the first time since entering the office, startling everyone but me with his American accent.
"Harry, Ginny I'd like for you to meet my son Austin."
"Oh my, he looks just like him." Ginny exclaims softly.
"Miss Granger why exactly did you leave?" Prof. McGonagall asks interrupting the introductions.
"Um..." I start looking warily at my son.
Seeing the look of panic on my face, Ginny comes quickly to the rescue.
"Ron why don't you show Austin around and let him get accustomed to the halls of his future school. I'm sure he must be bored listening to a bunch of old people catch up with one another."
It would have worked perfectly except Ron is a idiot.
"Hey I want to know why she left also, and I'm not old thank you very much." Ron exclaims, which makes me turn to the headmistress to give her the 'please tell me you were temporarily insane to hire someone as dense as Ron to teach' look but seeing her with her head in her hands allows me to realize she's regretting said idea.
"Don't worry I can take a hint."Alek says and proceeds to leave the room.
" I hate keeping things from him, but how do you tell your son you had no intention of keeping him after he was born."
"WHAT!!" Ron and Harry yell together. I get up and walk over to the window looking out at the grounds trying to figure out how to say something I've been avoiding for fifteen years.
"It all started about two months before the last battle," I start still gazing out the window, "Ron and I had just broken up and I was still a bit upset about it. I would have never intentionally turned to this person for comfort but for some reason he was there for me. We didn't mean for anything to happen it just did. But he and I couldn't be together because he was involved in a pretty serious relationship. So it was nothing pursued after the fact but the damage had already been done. About a week before the final battle I gave in and accepted the fact that I was pregnant with Alek. We all knew something big was about to happen, so when I found out about the baby I got scared and decided I would go somewhere safe until the fighting was over. We had found all of the horcruxes and all there was left to do was kill the bastard, and as much as it pained me to stay away I knew that I would be too distracted worrying about the baby then trying to stay alive. Ginny was the only one who knew I was pregnant, so she knew I was going soon just not when. So I went to America, Boston to be exact. Once I got there though I decided to stay at least until the baby was born and then adopt him out to a nice wizarding family and come back to England. I knew I wasn't ready to be a mother and there would be a loving family out there that would take care of him. But once Alec was born I knew there was no way I would be able to give him up. I sent an owl to Ginny telling her I would be staying for the time being. But I'm guessing now she never got it. Anyway Alek was studying at the Salem School for Magick but has been begging to come to Hogwarts. I figured it was time to come back anyway, so here we are."
"Who's the father?" Ron asks quietly.
"Huh?" I said quite eloquently.
"You never mentioned who Alek's father was." He said.
"Professor I..." We hear from the doorway.
As I finally turn from the window I feel my heart speed up, and there are two questions that run through my head:
1) How come no one knocks anymore, and
2) What the BLOODY HELL is he doing here?
For I already knew that voice.
"Draco..." Is all I can manage before everything goes black.
AN: Sorry to leave you with a cliffy but it really anticlimatic ( in mine own opinion anyway) the next chapter will be up in no more than a week i hope. although the first bit of this story was written a while ago I have to go back a tweak a few things. I'm also in the process of writing my other story and that will take up some of my time.
I want to say thanks to all of my reviewers and it was really you who prompted me to put this up so quickly, i wanted to wait but most of it was already on my comp. i just had to type up a page and a half so i figured why not. well all thats left to say is please review and let me know what you think.