Hermione woke up early the next morning, her hope was that she would be able to get ready for the day with little interaction with Malfoy. Hermione knew that she would have to take him with her when she left to open the shop. Honestly Hermione was pissed that Harry had even thought that the two of them should be left alone together. Why did she always do what Harry asked? Hadn't she learned that even though he was like a brother to her that she shouldn't necessarily be with him all the time.

Going through her normal routine Hermione spent from 4: 30am to 5:15am doing the books for the store. Hermione found that it was easier to do the maths required early in the morning free from the stress and constant bombardment of people that the day would bring. From 5:15 to 5:45am she did her daily dose of yoga. 5:45 to 6:00am she finished her daily meditations, something that after her breakdown she found help calm and ease her into a better state of being. At 6:01am exactly she moved from her position on her office floor to the shower. Hermione would spend exactly 29 minutes in the bathroom showering and getting ready for the day. Today though was a little different even though everything went as normal she spent longer under the hot jets of her shower trying to relax a set of tense muscles that had started to form in her shoulders.

Hermione had just turned the shower off and was reaching for a towel when she heard a throat clear from the door. Looking up she Draco standing there. Fuming she let loose with her wandless magic and sent a stinging curse at him.

"OW! WHAT THE FUCK GRANGER!" Draco screamed as it hit him hard in the chest. She had been aiming for his face, but she was a little rusty on all her spell work. Hermione was just glad that it actually hit him somewhere.

"WHAT DID I TELL YOU MALFOY? DID YOU EVEN LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE THAT I HAD POSTED?!" Hermione screamed as she rushed to grab a towel to cover herself. After securing the towel Hermione grabbed a copy of the schedule that she had mounted on the back of the door.

"Look Malfoy, it clearly states that I have the bathroom until 6:30 and that guest usage doesn't start until 6:50 am. What time is it right now?" looking around to the clock that she had mounted to the wall in the hall it clearly stated that it was 6:33. Draco mumbled something about her needing to relax and that it was an honest mistake.

"Its 6:33 Malfoy. I don't have to be out of her for another 15ish minutes. If you would just follow the schedule that I have provided for you things will work and run more smoothly."

"Sorry I thought that you were finished."

"Whatever Malfoy." Hermione shoved past him and headed toward her bedroom

"We are leaving at 7:40. Not a minute or more after, but at 7:40, otherwise its going to be hell getting things done today. Normally scheduled departure is at 7:50, but we need to get you an oyster card. Hermione continued planning out all the things that could happen between now and then that might through the day out of whack.

Draco couldn't help but think that Hermione had fallen off of her rocker. That woman really need to have something done with all of her control issues. He was worried about all of the other things that he might actually happen during the time that he would be staying with her. Draco didn't mean to take too much time. He just did what he normally did in the morning. It wasn't until Hermione yelled at him to get a move on did he realize that he had two minutes before Hermione had wanted to leave and was only half dressed. quickly throwing on the rest of his clothing he made it to the front door with a 15 seconds to spare.

Hermione practically ran to the bus stop. it took all Draco could do to keep up with her. Two bus rides and a thirty minute walk later the two of them reached a tiny little bookstore in the middle of Heywood. Hermione spent most of the day telling him ridiculously amounts of information that he could care less about. There was more time keeping him to the back of the store than actually telling him what he could do to help the store. He didn't even get to meet the other employees. After the work day the two of them left with little word to each other. Reaching her place the two of them parted as Hermione went to change and get ready for the dinner at the Burrow.

Spending the evening at the Burrow was going to be a hard one for Hermione. It would be the first time that she in two years that she would be there with the Weasleys. It would be the first time in two years that she would be in a room with Ron, and she wasn't sure how she would be able to handle it. Teddy would be there as would James. If there were anybody that she would be okay with it would be playing with four year old Teddy, and three month year old James. Hermione wasn't sure how the whole Draco situation would go down. She knew that Harry and Draco were on friendly terms, but the uncertainty of knowing how the rest of the Weasley's felt of him was too much for her. The whole afternoon had her in a borderline panic attack. It also didn't help that Draco was just wondering the shop doing nothing really. He spent a lot of time flirting with Tanya one of her employees.

"Are you ready?" Draco shouted from the bottom of the stairs. His question brought Hermione back to the fact that she was just standing in front of the mirror in her room half dressed between what she had worn to work and the outfit that she had pick out last week specifically for this meeting. Slipping out of the high waisted pencil skirt that she had worn to work she put on a tailored pair of denim skinny trousers and a sleeveless button up black shirt. Grabbing a boyfriend sweater making sure that it was on and in place before slipping on a pair of converse. As Hermione reached the bottom Harry's owl with a package was knocking on the window. In the package was a book and a note.

"Really you're going to see him in like 10 minutes couldn't Harry have just given you the book when we got there."

"It's a portkey." Hermione stated flatly as she finished the note that accompanied the copy of Hogwarts a history. Harry thought he was quite the funny man. Draco was complaining about having to take it when the two of us could easily apparate.

"Don't you know anything?"

"I know lots of things I just don't know what we are port keying when both of us are perfectly capable of apparating." Draco whined as they waited for the book that Harry had sent over earlier to activate.

"Well lets think about this. I have been out of the magical world for almost three years and haven't apparated at any point during that time. You are supposed to be in hiding and magical signatures especially those around apparating can be tracked and monitored. Its for the best and more secure traveling this way." Draco had started to say something but Hermione couldn't hear what he was saying as the pull from the port key had caused his words to be lost and moments later the two of them were standing in the front garden of the Burrow.

"Hermione! It's so good too see you! I was wondering when you would finally come around." Molly swept her up into a smothering hug. It felt as if she were being crushed and possibly a crushed rib from the hug. Hermione moved to make it inside as Draco took her place wrapped in Molly's arms. Arthur stopped her before she could sneak inside the Burrow.

"I'm glad that you are here Hermione. We all have missed you." Arthur wrapped her in a hug that felt like it was coming from her own father. George took his turn next and picked her up and spun her around. By the time all had taken their turn in welcoming her back to the Burrow Hermione was wishing that she had just stayed home. She had forgotten how loud the family was and it didn't help that she felt like she was on eggshells trying to catch up on life with everybody else. Secretly she wished that she could just wander off with a book into the garden and forget everybody in the house. The noise level kept rising as time went on. The biggest contributor was baby James. James was screaming his head off and Ginny was doing everything that she could to calm him down. Hermione could tell that Ginny was getting extremely frazzled, Hermione also wished that she could do what James was doing right now. Just cry and scream. Feeling her connection with the baby, she just walked right over to Ginny snatched James out of her arms and almost instantly he had started to calm down. Taking him over to the rocking chair by the fireplace Hermione spent the time before dinner was served ignoring the rest of the chaos around her and just focused on singing and talking to James.

Ginny was extremely grateful that Hermione was able to calm James down. He scram like that every time George held him, she was convinced that he was hexing him, or pinching him, but he denied it and she could never catch him doing it, and it always took hours to calm him back down. Hermione had always been good with him, and now that she had been convinced to go to family functions, maybe George would leave her baby alone.

It was strange to Draco to see Hermione hiding in the corner with the baby James. Draco had been around Weasley's for almost a year now, but the level of noise and chaos that happened never ceased to amaze him. It was something that would have never of happened at the manor and he didn't seem to mind it. It did surprise him that the Hermione retreated in a corner so fast. He would have thought that she would have been in the midst of everything especially since he knew it had been quite along time since she had been back. Harry and Draco's friendship had started about the time that Hermione's relationship with Ron was falling apart. Draco could understand not wanting to come around but he would have thought the connection that she had with the family wouldn't have kept her from them too long. George, Charlie and Arthur all instantly cheered up when she came through the door. It was easy to see that the family not only deeply loved and cared for her but they had also missed her.

"Hush a bye. Don't you cry. All the pretty little horses." Hermione was lost singing to James that she didn't notice Arthur coming to sit by her. She finished singing and went to

"I just want to let you know that I am happy that you decided to over for dinner this week, and just know that I am always here for you love. I think of you as a second daughter, and I have missed you terribly." Arthur gave her a quick hug and a kiss on the head he then headed in to the kitchen to help Molly.

Ginny practically had to wrestle James out of Hermione's arms so she would join the family for dinner.

"Fine if you can feed James you can keep holding him." Ginny snarked as Hermione reluctantly gave up her safety blanket that was her god son. Slinking slowly to the dining room there was little choice as to where she could sit. There was a seat open at the end of the table next to Harry and one on the other end of the table in between Draco and Charlie. She stood there for a moment thinking over the different things that could happen between the two seats. Finally she decided that Ginny would probably like to sit next to her husband so she sneaked in between Charlie and Draco. Charlie noted her seating choice by giving a reassuring squeeze to her knee. Hermione decided that it was better if she just ignored the blonde on her right, and engaged in conversation with Charlie. It had been surprising to her that he was here and not in Romania but as it turned out he was severely injured and now working a desk job t the Ministry's Department of magical creature regulation. It was not nearly as exciting but it was a lot less dangerous. They chatted about the gossip in the wizarding world, and Charlie inquired about what she had been up since leaving/ Hermione told him all about the bookstore she was running and that took up most of her time but that was changing now that she had to babysit Draco.

"He's really not that bad." Charlie had started to defend Draco to Hermione. She glared

"Come on, he's not I mean he has changed a lot."

"Some people don't change."

"I know that you honestly don't believe that and he has changed. I will give you that there are people who haven't, take my boob of a brother Ron, he hasn't but the man on your other side has." Hermione just rolled her eyes and continued to push her food around on her plate, only making it look like she was eating. Others finished and moved on to various places of the house. Molly stood to clean up. Hermione stopped her and talked her into letting her clean up. It was with great reluctance that Molly left Hermione alone.

Taking off her sweater Hermione got to washing up the muggle way. It was long and took forever, but Hermione loved doing it that way. It took almost an hour before she was even close to being finished. She had just finished putting away the glasses when she a heard noise behind her.

"What do you want Ron?"

"I just want to make sure that you are okay."

"I am, would you now leave me alone?"

"I don't believe you. You're living with Draco it must be driving you crazy."

"Not as crazy as you" Hermione mumbled

"Look I know I handled things badly and I'm sorry." He kept glancing down at the multiple scars that covered Hermione's arms. Sensing his uncomfortableness with she moved to put her sweater back on.

"You don't have to put that on." Ron said as he kept staring at her arms

"You haven't stopped staring since you came in, and frankly you being uncomfortable is making me uncomfortable." Hermione said as she slipped on her sweater.

"I'm not uncomfortable."

"Your shifting eyes seem to speak otherwise." Hermione moved back to the sink to start on scrubbing the pans.

"You could use magic you know." Ron suggested after a few moments of silence. Hermione ignored him and continued with the pans. Ron waved his wand and with that the rest of the dishes. Hermione turned and set a death glare that would bring anybody to tears.

"I don't want to talk."

"Come on Hermione you need to be fair to me."

"I laid everything bare for you. I showed you everything and you left."

"I'm sorry."

"Saying you're sorry isn't going to magically fix it Ron. You hurt me. Its something that I can't just forget it Ron. I don't think that I ever will forget it." Hermione moved to push past him.

"Come on. Really. You're going to be like that."

"Fuck yes I'm going to be like that you wanker." Hermione shoved past him and into the living room, looking for the portkey, Harry and Draco so she could go home.

"Hermione come on." Ron had followed after her.

"I'm done. I don't want to talk to you." She made her way to Harry who was sitting in a corner with Charlie and Draco.

"Can I leave now?" Hermione asked abruptly interrupting what ever conversation the three men had been having.

"You can go whenever you want, no one is keeping you here." Ron stated.

"Come on activate the port key. I've been here longer than I agreed to and I am ready to go."

"What the hell did you do Ron?" Charlie questioned

"Nothing." Ron belted defensively

"The shouts from the kitchen would disagree with you." Draco spoke flatly at no one really.

"Why don't you stay out of this Malfoy." Ron spat. Draco put his hands up in defeat and sat back in his chair.

"If you want to leave so bad Hermione why don't you just go. No one is keeping you here." Ron stated.

"You're about as dumb as Malfoy. I can't just leave stupid. I have to take Malfoy with me and I haven't done any real magic, let alone traveling spells in years, Don't you think its going to look a little strange if I all of the sudden start using and Draco happens to be with me." Ron just gaped.

"That's what I thought you didn't. As for you two, Harry I am going to go and say goodbye to everybody when I get back you had better activate that port key and YOU Malfoy had better be ready to go." With that Hermione spun around and went to track everybody down to say her goodbyes. Molly was laying down in her room, the two women talked for a few moments Molly only agreed to let her go when she agreed that Hermione would be there next week for dinner. Ginny was changing James and surprised that she was leaving so soon.

"If I don't leave now I will kill your brother." Hermione stated as she planted a kiss on James's forehead. Ginny made plans to come and see her in the next week for lunch. Making her way to Arthur's work room outside she bid goodbye to Arthur and after a dizzying hug and a wet peck on the cheek George let her go not without telling her to not let Ron get her down and keep her away. In fact there was a new product that he wanted me to check out and potential carry in her store. Hermione told him he should show her next week, and she would only sell them if they weren't charmed in any way and did nothing harmful to muggles. George just rolled his eyes and kissed her again on the cheek before she left the work room.

Making her way back into the house Hermione could hear a whispered fight take place between Charlie, Ron and Ginny. Both Ginny and Charlie were presently ripping a new one into Ron. No one noticed that Hermione had made it into the house, not until Draco very loudly said her name. Startling everyone out of their yells the room got super quiet. She glared as she told Ron goodbye she gave Charlie a hug and Harry one as well. Taking the book from his hand she offered a corner to Draco and the two of them left for Hermione's place. After steadying herself she stormed up the stairs and into her room.