Chapter Two

It had been four years since Harry Potter lost his life to the Dark Lord. Four years of Voldemort ruling the Wizarding World. Hermione Granger sighed as she continued to doodle on the calender's date box, her mind not willing to focus on the paper work she knew she had to look over. The world didn't end when Voldemort stepped up to the plate much like Hermione envisioned it. She had been right all those years ago when she said they would never live if they didn't fight so they had separated into four divisions; Hermione and Sirius ran Division One, they headed towards Australia. Neville and Kingsley took up the lead in Division Two and led the group towards the Amazon. Molly and Arthur took the rest of their family and led Division Three towards the states. Division Four was ran by Krum and Aberforth- they went to Alaska with the women who chose not to fight and the children. A majority of the students who had went to school with and before Krum had volunteered to be the guards of the final Division, thus having Hermione making it the most heavily guarded and keeping their most valuable belongings there.

After the first several months Hermione's Division left Australia, a place where the brunette had to fight with herself from going to search for her parents in fear of what she would find. She kept herself busy by keeping in contact with each of the leaders of the other Divisions, making plans, and prioritizing rations per compound and all the in between. Sirius and Ginny worried over her but Hermione did what she did best, she threw herself into her work.. By the end of their first year in hiding Hermione had some how became their official leader, a vote unanimously in her favor. She finally understood the pressure Harry had felt for years. But she persevered and three months later sent out their first scouting mission, three months later they raided their first safe house killing four Death Eaters and freeing four muggle women who had their memories of their horrors wipes away. They healed what they could, stole what was valuable and burned the building to the ground. Hermione had stayed to watch until the flames died out and when she finally got home she broke down and cried, locking herself away from everyone, even Sirius for a week. When she had emerged again she contacted the Weasley's, they had found the states to be the safest location away from Voldemort's reign and recommended making a permanent base out there, Hermione figured it was about time she checked it out for herself; she never left after that visit. Making a tough decision she built their home base on a plantation down in the state of Georgia; there was enough room for every Order member to live comfortably especially with the help of magic but to keep them safe Hermione rotated groups of fighters living on the base.

A knock on the door caused the twenty two year old to jump slightly. Not only did the young witch have to deal with the stresses and anxiety of war but she was leading the rebellion; she was slightly strung out to say the least. Running a hand over her face she turned her chair towards the door "Enter."

"General." The tall blonde walked in with a smirk on his face causing Hermione to roll her eyes. He closed the door behind him and covered the distance to her desk in four steps, his icy blue eyes glancing down to the stack of papers on her desk.

"You know I hate when you call me that Malfoy."

"I hate when you call me Malfoy."

"Switch sides, lead our raids, be disowned by your family but until your birth certificate changes you are still a Malfoy."

"You're in a bitchy mood today."

"I'm tired."

"Welcome to war love."

"Fuck you Draco, what do you want?"

"The Wackspurts are asking for more rations, they have had some new members join their group." Draco dropped the hastily written note. The rebel groups used Hermione's gallons to communicate between themselves; with only so much space to write on whoever was on communications details wrote out the message on paper before delivering it. Hermione felt her brow wrinkle in distaste at the note.

"Who are these people?"

"Abbott is working on the names now, they are coming in but from the handful I have seen they are alias."

"God dammit, how many spies do we need to execute before they start taking my entry procedures seriously? Who is it in charge of the Wackspurts again? Johnson right?"

"She is soft Granger, I have told you this."

"Right, because I need a told you so moment. Tell Angelina the Wackspurts are to return ASAP. All new members need to be restrained and kept in the dark on their current locations at all time." The brunette sighed, "Can you please tell Sirius I need to speak with him."

"Don't you have a bell that summons him or something?"

"Draco!" Hermione barked causing him to roll his eyes.

"You need to get laid Granger." He moved quicker than her reflexes and by the time the pencil holder reached where he had been sitting he was already opening the door and walking across the threshold with a smirk.

"How can you just treat people who come to us for help as the enemy!" Angelina huffed, crossing her arms. Hermione took a deep breath trying to control her anger and annoyance at her former house mate. It had taken the Wackspurts three weeks to make it back to the base and the moment they entered the wards Hermione had been woken and Angelina had been taken to meet with her. The muggle born witch hated her responsibility. She always had to be the bad guy, she couldn't be soft, she couldn't be weak, she couldn't do anything but fight and lead.

"Because not everyone's as innocent as they make themselves look, or do I need to remind you of Sasha? Pregnant teenager whose fiancee had been tortured and killed by death eaters?" Angelina's lips thinned as they pushed tighter together, "She took out a whole base that was home to six kids; children. Or perhaps Andrew? Or was his real name Marc? Raped and mutilated Lavender and Dean, did you forget that?"

"That is enough Hermione." Sirius commanded as the dark skinned witch began to cry but Hermione only glared at him.

"No Sirius it is not. Because having to live through these things were not enough of a reason to take our security precautions seriously than I obviously need to remind Angelina." Hermione looked back at the older girl, "Did you forget you have Teddy in your group?"

"He was safe Hermione, he is safe."

"Not safe enough, none of your people were. You just let strangers walk into your group, into your every day lives with no knowing who they really are."

"Your measures are invasive."

"My measures keep us safe. And I am the only one who invades their privacy, they only need to hate me." Hermione stood from her desk and looked to Sirius. "Please tell Severus to bring me our new batch of Veritaserum and can you please bring me the pensive."

"Hermione."

"Sirius. Do what I said or I will get someone who will." The dog animagus narrowed his eyes but said nothing as he went to do as she bid. Her heart cracked slightly knowing she had pissed him off but instead she turned to Angelina. "I know you mean well, I don't fault you for that. Merlin knows in this shit world we need good hearted people out there Ang. And you need to stay good hearted but I have a village to protect and a war to fight. I can't be nice, I can't be good hearted, I can't take the risk. You are no longer in charge of the Wackspurts, I am going to send Fred and George to take control and I would really like it if you stayed here at base and started working with Pompfrey and our rehabilitation program."

"Okay." Angelina nodded and stood as well, wiping at her eyes before locking gazes with Hermione. "You know it isn't right that this fell to you. It wasn't right that it fell to Harry and it wasn't right it fell to you."

"No one chooses the cards they are dealt...we just play them to the best of our advantage."

Author's Note:

Okay so here we go. the next chapter should be a little longer than this one. I hope this is better than the first one (I know it was far from my best, I will admit). Please excuse all and any mistakes. I have read through it more than once but I am far from perfect!

Thank you to SB- Potterhead Budgie Lover for the review!