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Chapter 2
Headmistresses Office
Private Quarters
Remus watched as Hermione cried as Sirius held her in his arms whispering specifically so his intense hearing still wouldn't understand his words. Hermione's face slowly contorted in confusion while the sadness sat on the back burner of her feelings. He could tell by the look on her face that she didn't know If she believed what Sirius was saying or not. Quickly, too quickly for Remus to respond properly, Hermione began to walk over, radiating in confidence and sadness all at the same time and grabbed the collar of his shirt, pushing him into the wall with all her force and pointing the elder wand at his throat.
"What did Harry tell all of us before the battle of Hogwarts!?" she cried
"Hermione…" Sirius started
"Answer me!" she yelled
Remus looked at Hermione with sad eyes, "Don't hesitate, do what you feel is right for the situation, protect the injured and fight for what you want you want to see in tomorrow, and never forget the words of Dumbledore, after all of this, remember to turn on the light to find your happiness."
She removed the wand front his throat and back away from him, her eyes never fully making a connection with his as she turned to face Sirius.
"And you knew? … This entire time?" she asked through tears
Sirius stood met her eyes, "I knew Mia, I knew and I'm so sorry, Kingsley told me that I couldn't say a word."
"Kingsley knows, that complete moron knows!" she cried, "Are you fucking kidding me? Does anyone else know?" she said gesturing her between the three of them as she seemed to be trying to stop herself from crying anymore
"Yes. Andromeda knows…." Remus interrupted
"WHAT!" Hermione yelled, "Teddy and I go see her for lunch quite often and I've never noticed that piece of information."
She turned completely toward Remus, her hair wrapping around her waist with the swift movement
"Have you been visiting Teddy when she watches him?"
"I stopped going when he turned one…. I didn't want him to tell you if he remembered…."
"Oh merlin…." Hermione sighed through her tears and she fell to a sitting position on the floor again
Sirius made eye contact with Remus as Hermione sat and wept with slow deep breaths as she continued to attempt to calm herself down. Neither Remus or Sirius could bring themselves to say or do anything as she continued to sit with her legs crossed and her head sitting delicately in her hands.
Remus noticed Teddy tiredly entering the room with a small fox situated comfortably in between his arm and torso as the toddler made his way into the room "Mia?"
Hermione looked up at the boy with red puffy eyes, she had realized that she had never silenced the boys room after they had left.
"You cry?" Teddy said wandering slowly towards her, dropping the fox in the process, completely unaware of the two men watching on either side of the room.
Remus watched, as Teddy climbed into Hermione's lap and hugged her tightly with as much strength as his small arms could muster, while a small sob escaped from Hermione's lips as she hugged him just as tightly, neither of them moving from the wooden floor beneath them. He had caused that sob to escape from her lips and it broke his heart to watch the scene in front of him.
Teddy scrambled out of Hermione's hold and ran to get her the fox that was forgotten on the floor and handed it to her. Remus watched as she took the small animal into her arms. Teddy pointed at Hermione and he heard the small voice once again,
"I help you not be sad Mia," Teddy pointed, "Don't moves."
They all watched as Teddy ran from the room again as fast as his legs would take him as he disappeared no one said a word as they waited for the toddler to return with whatever he had planned. After a couple of minutes of listening to him drag things around his room here in Hogwarts, he emerged with a small bottle of something that Remus didn't recognize. Something muggle he assumed.
"Open please." He gestured the bottle to Hermione. She took it from his hands and sat the lid down on the floor next to her.
The toddler began fishing for something within the bottle, and when he finally grasped the handle with his small fingers he sat on the ground in front of Hermione and began to blow on the hole at the end of the stick. Remus watched at Teddy began to blow small and large bubble into Hemione's face and the area around them both with a large smile on his face. After a couple moments a small laugh escaped from Hermione's mouth that sounded shaky and uneven, but Remus was happy to hear it nonetheless.
Teddy then gave the bottle and stick to Hermione and stared at her with his normal brown eyes as he patiently waited for her to blow the bubbles back at him.
Hermione took the stick into her hand and began to blow the bubbles in a similar faction that Teddy had done before her. He began to attempt to catch them in his hands and squeal with they popped before he had the chance to grab them. Hermione muttered a charm and the bubbles began to bounce around the toddler instead of popping below him and his laughter filled the room and it was soon followed by Hermione's, and Remus felt like he could watch this small moment for the rest of his life.
Remus watched as Hermione grabbed Teddy and pulled him into a hug muttering that she loved him so very much and that he always knew just want to do.
"You are up way past your bedtime my love, I am so sorry for waking you up." Hermione said louder
"Tis okay. We watch a movie?"
"Is that your hint to me that you want to sleep in my bed?" Hermione said with a small laugh
"We sleep good."
Sirius interrupted before Hermione could respond, "How about you and I go start the movie and Mia will be up soon yeah?"
Teddy shoulders slumped, "Okayyyy."
Remus watched as they walked up the stairs and into what he assumes is Hermione's bedroom leaving them by themselves.
Without a second thought Remus strode over to Hermione and grabbed her hands to pull her up from off the floor and hugged her tightly and inhaled her scent as she hugged in back so tightly that Remus had a feeling she was making sure what happening is real and not a bad dream.
"I'm more pissed at you than anything, I should punch you in the mouth." She said into his shirt
"I'd deserve it." He replied sadly
She pulled out of his grasp and smacked him in the arm, "Yes you bloody would!" she said walking away from and sitting down on the sofa and began to windlessly heat up the tea that sat forgotten before.
"Are you going to tell me where the hell you have been or am I going to have to look myself."
"Why don't we look together." He said gesturing to the pensive in the other room
Headmistresses Office
Main Room
"Remove the memory or memories needed and place them into the pool, then I will lead us inside." Hermione said quietly
He brought his wand up to his temple and began removing the memory needed for this to make since to the women next to him. He dropped them into the pensive and waited for them to organize themselves. Hermione grabbed the back of Remus's head and brought him into the past with her.
Remus was sitting shirtless with gauze wrapped around his entire torso as he sat waiting in Kingsley's office. The clock read 8:15 a.m. and his labored breathing was the only sound in the room besides the ticking of the clock.
"Where are we?" Hermione asked
"The morning after the war." He replied quietly
"What happened to you?"
"Sectumsempra"
Hermione turned on attention back to the memory
"Remus! How are you feeling this morning? Like shit I'd assume." Kingsley said walking into the room
"You'd be wrong." Remus replied, his eyes heavy
"Don't fall asleep on me boy! Can't have you going into comatose."
"Why am I here?" he asked quietly, "I'm supposed to be dead, how did I not bleed out."
"The curse was stopped by Sirius before it bled for too long, you are very much alive my friend."
"That doesn't explain why I'm here though, I should be at Hogwarts helping…"
"Those who survived, can cope without you for a while." Kingsley said pursing his lips, "plus your task wouldn't work if they knew you were alive anyways."
"What?"
"Oh yeah, you've been determined `missing in action' as Ms. Granger so gracefully called it. Which is great news!"
"How is that great news in the slightest bit?" he said getting up from his chair, "I need to get back to them and tell them I'm alive."
Kingsley flicked his wand and locked the door before Remus could get to it and huffed.
"We have things to discuss and once you're done you can go say hello." Kingsley gestured to the chair. "please at least listen to what I have to say."
Remus sighed and turned about looking at Kingsley once again and nodded, "I don't really have a choice."
"Wonderful!"
Remus rolled his eyes
Kingsley clasped his hands and began, "There has been word, that the death eaters that escaped last night are going to begin attacking the brilliant golden trio in the coming months, certain death eaters want to go after Hermione and certain members want to go after Ron, and basically all of the want a go at Harry."
"What would that do to solve anything?"
"C'mon Remus don't be daft, the main concern at this moment is what they will be planning and when they attack we can bring them in and attempt to stop all of this. No one can find Greyback or Dolohov specifically. Other important death eaters that got away would be Macnair and the less concerning Malfoys, but they got away either way. We need to make sure that they are captured and those who are guilty are sent to Azkaban."
"He just lied to you." Hemione interrupted
"How?"
"I killed Greyback at Hogwarts before he could turn Lavender, he knows that because he was there."
"I see…"
"What do I have to do with any of this."
"Your situation of being currently missing, could help with bringing in the remaining death eaters, they won't expect a dead man!"
"You're out of your mind."
"You could bring in help! It won't take long and then you can return to the living!"
"I have a child, I cannot just leave him behind."
"Oh please Ms. Granger has him, she's capable, she'll be perfectly fine."
"You just said she's in danger, so by comparison my sons in danger."
"That's why this so important! Keeping them safe!
"What a shit job he did at keeping us safe." Hermione mumbled to herself
"What?" Remus sternly looked at her
"Oh… Nothing."
The memory began to fade as both of them were thrown out of the pensive and Remus found himself looked up at the ceiling as the pain in his back went up his spine as he laid on the hard floor beneath him as Hermione stood above him with her eyebrow raised.
"I'm guessing you haven't done that often." She said as she offered him her hand pulling him up off the ground.
"It's been a few years."
"Who helped you catch them?"
"What?" he shifted
"Kingsley said that you could have people help you, and I'm assuming since you've been gone for 3 years and throughout those 3 years death eaters were being captured "occasionally" during this time, I know you accepted, but I know you didn't do it alone, so what I'm asking, is who helped you."
"Sirius helped me."
He watched as her eyes widened and she faced away from him and put her hands on his desk as she took deep breaths. He heard her heart beating widely and thought for a moment that she may cry again.
"This entire time? He knew where you were, and that you were alive and breathing. Gods I'm going to be sick."
Remus walked closer to her and put his hand on her shoulder, "He was under the vow Hermione, he couldn't say anything."
"But you could've!" she said turning to him once again, "How am I supposed to explain this to Teddy? That suddenly his dad is here and ALIVE!"
"Don't tell him yet, I want everyone to be informed so they have time to process this…." He put his hands on each of her shoulders, "I want to be here when you tell him."
"Then you better get yourself ready to tell everyone, because he's bound to notice. He's intelligent and will know if something is different."
"Ok… I'm so sorry."
Hermione sighed, "Don't apologize for something you can't change.
Before Remus could respond Sirius walked into the room.
"He's asleep." Sirius said to Hermione
"Thank you, Paddy, now if you don't mind, I have a term to finish preparing for."
"Hermione…" Sirius started
"Enough for tonight, create a room close to yours for Remus, it's better for him to be in the castle anyways."
"Hermione I..."
"Goodnight Gentleman. Please see yourselves out." She said and started walking away tiredly
"Goodnight Headmistress" Sirius smirked sadly
"Remus has a busy few days ahead of him, as do you. I suggest getting some sleep. I shall see you both in the next couple of days…... Now goodnight."
Hermione finished walking into the door of her private quarters dimming the lights in her office as she did so and shut the door softly behind her.
"A busy couple of days indeed." Remus frowned as he made his way out of the office following Sirius.