Quick note: there is an excerpt from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and I do not take credit for that it was written by JK Rowling, it is marked by asterisks around the area, also, i know I put 13 instead of 12 there is a reason for that :D PLEASE review, and yes I know they haven't made it to Forks yet, but I promise it IS coming! This is my first ever fanfiction and I'd like to give a shout out to my best friend and beta starkiss666!
"I'm home!" she hollered as she entered the two-story townhouse that she and her fiancé Ron had just started renting a few months ago. Quickly slipping off her jacket, she stepped out of the sensible 3 inch heels she had been wearing for her meeting today. She finally got it pushed through! There was a new legislation, finally, that forbade employers from not hiring and/or firing individuals based on them being werewolves. It also made it so they had to give the two days before and after the full moon off to any employee with the lupine trait. Along with her earlier legislation that stated they must receive equal pay to their non-lupine counter parts, as well as benefits this was a major step in the right direction to stop all the prejudice and hatred in her world.
"Ron?" She called out into the dark home again. 'Where in the world could he be? I know I'm a couple hours early but he said he'd be home by 5' She glanced at her watch, noting it was 6:30 then up to the big clock hanging on the wall, an engagement gift from her soon to be mother and father in law. The hand labeled Ronald was pointed to home along with her own, the multitude of different colored hands hanging underneath the clock made her smile. She couldn't wait to get married and start a family with the man she loves. A small snort popped out when she remembered just how many empty hands there were hanging under the clock 'Honestly, does she expect me to be a broodmare? One or two will suffice!'
Climbing the stairs quietly she started unbuttoning her grey silk blouse but froze when she reached the landing leading to the 2 bedrooms and single bathroom on this floor, along with the master suite. The unmistakable sound of skin slapping skin met her ears. She drew in a shuddering breath and slowly made her way towards the closed door of their suite, grabbing the knob she turned it quietly preparing herself to face what was behind the door. Pushing it all the way open she took a step into the room and stood there staring at the sight before her. Her love, her life, underneath a man! She slapped her hand over her mouth to try and stifle the sob that threatened to escape, she started backing towards the hall. Unfortunately, she stepped right on one of their pants and made the belt jingle, the two men stopped moving, their heads snapping towards the door.
"Mione!" Ron yelled, scrambling out from underneath who she now recognized as Theo Nott, a Slytherin from their year at school.
Fumbling to get her wand out of the pocket of her straight leg black work pants she finally got it and pointed it in her fiancé's direction "Don't take another step towards me Ronald Weasley, what the hell is going on here?!" She screamed shrilly.
"You weren't supposed to be home till 8:30!" Ron stated, pulling on the jeans he finally grabbed from the floor
"O and like that's an excuse? I come home after working all damn day to get this legislature pushed through, which it did by the way, hoping to celebrate with my fiancé but instead I find him in bed with Theo balls deep in him!"
A snort came from the bed, she glared at Theo moving the wand to him for a moment, he held his hands up in surrender. "Honestly Granger, if you want to join us, you're more than welcome." The dirty blonde-haired man smirked at her.
Groaning she moved her wand back to Ron, "Now Mione'..." he trailed off as she glared at him harder. "Mione' love, it's just a mistake, a one-time thing, I just needed to get it out of my system before the wedding, that's all!"
A snort again came from the bed "O Granger, please tell me you aren't going to fall for that? We've been fucking since 5th year"
Her jaw dropped and without thinking she flicked her wand at the closet, watching as her clothes, shoes, etc came out along with her luggage, the clothes folded in the air and packed themselves neatly into the luggage before it shrunk and flew towards her, she did the same towards the bathroom and a few seconds later had three shrunken bags in her pocket.
Ron held his hands up, taking a step closer to the pissed off little witch, "Mione' baby, we can work this out, just because I'm fucking Theo doesn't mean I don't love you! I'm marrying you not him! We can still have everything we wanted! You got that legislature pushed through, now we can focus on the wedding and after that babies, you won't have to work anymore, you can take some lessons from mum to get all the motherly spells down and in the meantime, I can keep Theo in his apartment and see him on the side! It all works out, no one has to know except the three of us."
He watched as his women's hair sparked blue at the tips, shuffling back quickly to hopefully escape her wrath he stumbled back onto the bed "Avis!" Hermione stated quietly, watching as a hundred little birds popped up, Ron trembled on the bed. "Oppungo!" she smirked slightly as the birds dove towards Ron, she turned on her heel slamming the bedroom door behind her she made her way back downstairs and to the fireplace, grabbing a fistful of floo powder she stepping into the brick hole, threw the powder down while stating, very clearly, "Lupin Cottage"! Several seconds later she stumbled out of the fire and fell to her knees sobbing.
"Hello?" she heard someone call from the kitchen, ignoring them she fell back onto her bum and pulled her knees to her chest and started crying into them. "Kitten?" she glanced up to see Sirius Black, one of her father figures for the last 8 years staring at her with concern written all over his face. She just opened her arms and continued crying. He didn't even hesitate to rush over and scoop her up, hugging her close and whispering into her curly hair that everything was going to be ok, he sat them on the couch and pulled out his wand. "Expecto Patronum" he watched as the big shaggy dog materialized "Remus, we have a problem with kitten, come home now" he watched the dog bound out of sight before reaching up and petting Hermione's hair. "shhh Kitten, I'm going to go get you some calming draught and then you're going to tell me what happened ok? Remus will be back soon."
He wandered into the kitchen, flicking his wand at the warded upper cupboard (toddlers ya know), it popped open and he grabbed a small vial and flicked his wand at the tea pot a couple times, filling it up and making it boil. He'd normally do it the muggle way but he just didn't have time, he pulled out her special tin of caramel red apple tea and quickly made it. Adding just two drops of the potent potion, he stirred it in and walked back out to the living room just as Remus came barreling through the floo.
"Mina...what happened?" Remus murmured to Sirius, he just shrugged and wandered back to the couch, handing the still crying girl her tea, she took a few sips and waited for the potion to take effect. Her tears finally slowed down, turning into sniffles, she cuddled into the werewolf that had sat on the couch next to her, his arm wrapping around her middle. "Mina-bird, why are you so sad? I heard from Luna at the bookshope that your legislation went through! Shouldn't you be happy?"
The girl in question nodded mutely, "It did, and I am happy about that" she hiccupped, "but I got home a couple hours early and wanted to celebrate with Ron and I walked in on him in bed with someone else!" a fresh round of tears started streaming down her face and she turned her head into Remus's shoulder. A vicious growl ripped through the room, she felt his arm tighten around her middle, she knew that he was using her to keep him grounded and stop himself from storming her townhouse and murdering Ron.
"Kitten! Who was it? Was it that slag Lavender? I knew she hadn't actually moved on!" Sirius ground out.
Hermione just shook her head, "Honestly, worse, it was Theo Nott"
Both men just froze, shell shocked, "Theo Nott, as in the male, Theo Nott" Sirius questioned.
Hermione sighed "The one and only, can I stay here a couple days? I Just need to clear my head and figure out what I'm going to do, I'll gladly watch Teddy in exchange for a room".
She shot a watery smile towards Remus when he snorted "You know you have your own room here Mina-bird, you don't need to ask and you don't need to watch Teddy as payment, this is your home too" he poked her in the ribs for emphasis, grinning when she let out a little giggle and squirmed away from him, sitting up she ran her hand through her raven locks.
She grabbed the mug and downed the last of her tea while it was still warm, "I'm going to go change and have a quick shower, I'll make dinner after." with another quick watery smile, she bolted up the stairs heading for her room.
Sirius turned to Remus just in time to tackle him to the floor to stop him storming through the floo. The boys wrestled for a minute before Sirius straddled Remus pinning his arms to his side with his legs "Moony! She'll end you if you storm over there and kill him!" The werewolf just growled his eyes flashing amber and hardening in anger, "Moony, seriously, you don't wanna be on the receiving end of her wand! Trust me, been there, done that, it isn't fun!"
Sirius watched as the amber slowly faded back to his friend's sea foam eyes. A crooked smirk pulled on his face and he transformed into padfoot, licking Remus's cheek and bounding off. "Uhg! Padfood get back here so I can strangle you" Remus yelled laughing slighty, he took a glance at his watch, "Sirius! I'm going to go get Teddy from Andromeda, I'll be back in about 15 minutes, do NOT let Mina cook! I'll stop by that takeout place by the leaky and grab Chinese!" a muffled affirmative answer came from wherever padfoot had gotten himself wedged, another chuckle slipped out as he grabbed a handful of floo powder and spun away to Andromedas.
20 minutes later, Hermione found herself dressed in comfortable black and white striped pajama bottoms and a purple tanktop with fuzzy purple socks on her feet. She wandered back down the stairs when she suddenly heard the distinctive squealing laughter of her 3rd favorite marauder. Walking into the kitchen she saw Remus dishing out chinese food from the takeout place by the leaky, turning her head she saw Sirius sitting at the table using his wand to make multicolored bubbles spray out towards a turqouise haired Teddy who was sitting in his highchair giggling and clapping his hands.
A slight laugh escaped from her and caught the attention of Teddy "Mina, mina, mina!" he chanted over and over reaching his arms out towards her.
Smiling she walked over and scooped him out of his chair, placing a kiss to his cheek. "Teddy bear! I missed you! You've gotten so big!" She tickled his belly and relished in the peals of laughter it drew from him. She placed him back in his highchair, much to his dismay she noticed, as his hair turned a slightly darker blue. She just placed another smacking kiss to his cheek and wandered over to the counter. "Can I help at all Remus?" He nodded and pointed to a plate off to the side, she grabbed the plate of beef and broccoli that had been cut up and cooled so the toddler could feed himself. She also wandered to the cooling cupboard and pulled out a bottle of milk that she filled his sippy cup with.
Walking back to Teddy's chair she placed everything in front of him, smacking Sirius's hand as he reached for a piece of broccoli. "Padfoot! Get off your bum and get your own" she admonished him with a fond smile on her face. Grumbling under his breath about evil little witches, he got up and wandered over to the counter and grabbed a plate of chicken fried rice and scooped on some general tso's chicken. Walking to the cooling cupboard he pulled out three bottles of butterbeer, placing them on the table he waved his hand and popped the tops off.
Hemione had wandered back over the counter and started piling up her own plate, she grabbed crab rangoon with a packet of sweet and sour sauce, a heaping pile of general tso's chicken, a small dish of steamed rice and a bowl of egg drop soup. Standing on her tip toes she placed a kiss to Remus's cheek "Thanks for buying dinner, but you know I'd have gladly cooked."
A smile crept onto his face "You had a big day, you didn't need to spend your time cooking mina-bird." Nodding she walked back to the table taking the seat between Sirius and Teddy, she leaned her head on Sirius's shoulder and began to eat her crab rangoon.
Sirius dropped a kiss to the top of her head, "so kitten, what's this that Remus was saying earlier? Your legislature got approved?" Hermione bolted up and he grinned when he saw the spark in her eyes as she dove into a lecture about how she had gotten it pushed through. His smile widened as he took in her features, long black curly hair, dark blue-green eyes, small button nose, a scattering of freckles dusted the bridge of it, full pink lips, she looked every bit the pureblood black princess. He would never regret the rash decision to blood adopt Hermione the summer before her 4th year.
*8 Years Ago*
Hermione Granger was 14 years old, far old enough to cross through the wall at platform 9 ¾ to meet her muggle parents on the other side without an adult watching her, or so she told her two best friends Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley. She had parted from them after greeting the Weasley gang, Sirius and Remus as they crowded the platform waiting for the trio. She was so glad that Crookshanks had been there that night, she couldn't imagine what would have happened if Pettigrew had been able to get away after Remus turned. The smart half-kneazle had pounced on the fallen wand before Peter could get his hands on it to turn back into his rat form.
When professor Snape showed up, he immediately bound and gagged the traitor, Sirius in his padfoot form had already lured Moony away from the humans. After Snape escorted them all back to the castle, she was relieved to find the head Auror waiting in Dumbledore's office, she'd never forget the look of shock on his face when he realized who he was looking at. The long thought dead 4th marauder, who was supposedly murdered by none other than Sirius Black. A month later Sirius was a free man, regaining his fortune and taking his place as head of the Black family. His first act of being free was to legally regain custody of his godson, Harry, much to Dumbledore's dismay.
Hermione shook her head with a grin and walked through the wall, looking around for her parents who she knew would be waiting for her just like the last two years. She frowned a bit not seeing them in the crowds of people. Shrugging she headed to the car park outside, the place was busy and they probably just couldn't make it inside on time. As she walked about the car park she couldn't seem to find her parents car at all. 'Weird, they're not usually late...maybe I'll give them a call' she thought, spying a payphone across the way. She reached into her pocket and produced a couple muggle coins. Stepping up to the phone she made her call, it rang, and rang, finally reaching her parents answering machine. "You've reached the answering machine of Dr. and Dr. Granger, we are unable to come to the phone at this moment, please leave your name and a short message and we will get back to you, thank you"..."Mum? Dad? Anyone home? You seem to have forgotten to come get me...I'm just going to call a taxi ok? I love you, see you in a bit!"
She pressed the receiver cradle down to stop the current call before sliding another couple of coins in and calling a cab company, after giving them the pickup and the drop off address she sat down on a bench to wait. 25 minutes later she was pulling up in front of her parents modest two-story home. She paid the fare and climbed out of the car. Retrieving her luggage from the boot she sat crooks carrier down before letting him out, she laughed as he ran towards the back of the house, off to chase mice, she made her way inside only to freeze dropping her trunk in the doorway. There lying face down in the now ruined living room was her mother. She immediately pulled out her wand from her boot and took a step further in, looking at the prone form of her mother, the blood underneath her not even dried yet but she could tell she wasn't breathing, she touched her fingers to her neck but didn't find a pulse. Taking a deep breath to steel herself she moved slowly through the living room towards the kitchen, she stumbled into the wall after seeing her father's feet sticking out of the doorway. She couldn't take anymore, falling to her knees she lost her dinner on the floor, sobbing uncontrollably.
Scrambling to her feet she bolted out of the house slamming the door behind her, not even thinking how she might look with her knees and hands covered in blood she continued on tripping on the curb, landing hard on her knees. Suddenly she heard a bang and before her was a giant, triple-decker, vividly purple bus. *"Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go. My name is Stan Shunkpike, and I will be your conductor this eve-*….bloody 'ell what happened to chu? What cha on the ground for?"
Hermione looked up, "how much to get to number 13 grimmauld place, London?" she choked out, ignoring his questions.
*"Eleven Sickles," said Stan "but for firteen you get 'ot chocolate, and for fifteen you get an 'ho-water bottle an' a toofbrush"* Hermione picked herself up, reached into her jeans pocket and pulled out eleven sickles, "Choose a seat, and 'old on tight" Stan told the little witch, Hermione just nodded and sat on the first spot she found.
With a bang the bus took off, a couple minutes later Stan announced "Numba 13 grimm-old place" Hermione nodded to Stan as she climbed off the bus, running across the street she banged on the door of the house only she could see since it was under a fidelius, as she waited for someone to answer a fresh round of tears started cascading down her face.
After what felt like hours the door finally creaked open, "Oh look, it's a filthy mudblood, oh if mistress was still alive and saw what the blood traitor was dragging in, oh my poor mistress" a grouchy old house elf mumbled from the crack in the door.
"Hello" Hermione sniffled, rubbing her runny nose on the sleeve of her jumper "is Sirius or Harry here?".
"The mudblood be talking to Kreacher like it's not beneath Kreacher..." a hand was sat on Kreacher's head and it somewhat roughly shoved him away from the door.
"Shut up Kreacher, Hermione?" Sirius poked his head out from around the door, taking in the 14-year-old girl in front of him, first thing he noticed was the blood caked on her knees. She wasted no time throwing herself into Sirius's arms sobbing uncontrollably while trying to explain what happened. "MOONY!" he hollered into the house. "You need to get down here now!" he ushered Hermione into the house, sitting her on the sofa he turned to the sound of footsteps banging down the stairs, Remus burst into the sitting room wand drawn and ready for a fight. When he noticed the bloody Hermione still sobbing on the sofa he froze.
"Hermione? What in the world are you doing here? How did you get here? Is that blood on your hands?" Remus had fired off the questions in such rapid succession that Hermione just sat there and blinked at him, unsure where to start. Sirius had since gone to the kitchen, made a pot of tea and had brought it out to her.
She accepted the cup and took a few sips trying to calm herself. "Mum and dad didn't come to Kings Cross to pick me up today." Hermione took another sip of her tea "So I wandered out to the car park to see if I could find their car, I didn't see it anywhere, so, I found a payphone and called home. No one answered, which was weird because if they were home mum would've answered. I left them a voicemail telling them I would take a taxi home, which I did. When I got there, I went inside and mum was" she paused to take another sip of tea and calm herself "was lying face first on the floor in the living room surrounded by a pool of blood. I pulled out my wand to go further into the house when I noticed my dads feet sticking out of the kitchen doorway, after that all I remember is showing up on the doorstep here."
Sirius and Remus glanced at each other over her head, "Kitten..." Sirius started "Kitten did you call the aurors or the muggle police?"
She just shook her head no, Remus sighed. "We are going to need to go back and call them. Do you think you can handle that?"
Hermione looked up at him, her lower lip trembling a little bit, "Do I have to go by myself?" she asked in a timid voice.
"Of course not! We will never let you face something like this alone, Sirius and I will go with you." Hermione bit her lip and nodded her head, finishing her tea she sat the cup on the coffee table and stood up.
"I'm just going to run to the loo and wash myself up, is Harry here?" as Remus answered in the affirmative and told her he was in his room, the 4th door on the right on the 2nd floor she wandered away.
Remus sighed and plopped heavily on the couch next to Sirius, "what are we going to do with her? She is a minor in our world and now has no legal guardian, she'll be a ward of the ministry and you know that isn't going to go well for her being a muggleborn and all." Sirius just made a non-committal noise, suddenly he bolted out of the room, coming back a couple minutes later with a book in hand.
"Here" he said pointing to a page.
"sanguis sanguinem mei" Remus read out loud "blood of my blood?" he raised a questioning brow towards Sirius.
"Yes! It's an old pureblood spell used when a couple couldn't conceive, they'd take whatever baby they find and use this spell to make them, biologically, theirs. It's not a dark spell but it definitely reaches into the grey, being blood magic and all" Sirius replied.
"Well how does this help Hermione?" a few seconds passed.
"Once the aurors have gone over the home, I'll bring her back here and I will do the spell, making her mine, no one would dare touch a princess of house black" Sirius smirked at the dumbfounded look on Remus's face.
"You would really do that? Put everything on hold that you've just gotten back to raise a teenage girl?" Remus asked.
"well, I've already done that taking Harry in haven't I? What's one more?" Sirius smiled, "besides, the chit needs someone, and I have more than enough means to take care of her and Harry, plus, Uncle Moony will be there every step of the way, isn't that right?"
