So my muse is very stubborn and dug those lovely heels into the ground and wouldn't give me inspiration to write. Well she is coming back slowly, now that my summer project is over with, so maybe another chappie will be out this month. I cant make promises she is stubborn but I can hope.

I hope you enjoy this chapter, even through all this fighting between me and my muse I really enjoyed writing it.

Please review at the end and let me know what you think of my story!!!

Marla1

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Remus ran his hands through her hair, happy to be holding his daughter. Hermione slowly loosened her grip on his shirt, as the tears stopped and she got her emotions under control. She smiled at him, tears still finding their way down her cheeks.

"I hope those are happy tears…" Remus said brushing them from her cheeks.

"Happy and sad ones, I am happy that you are my father but I am…"

"I understand you don't need to explain yourself to me ever."

Hermione smiled and sighed resting her head against his chest. Her mind was whirring with conflicting thoughts and emotions. Finally the fog started to clear in her jumbled mind and Hermione's organizational tendencies started to take over.

She stared up at Remus, a plan brewing in her mind, "Dad, I want to go by the house and get my stuff." Remus started talk but she continued, "There are things I need, like clothes and I some stuff I want to get… and I need to go there today."

"But love it might be too early to do that…"

"I need to go, I need to face the house…" Hermione fought the tears that threatened to spill down her cheeks.

"Oh sweetheart… I just don't want you to hurt more. You are dealing with the death of both of your parents I just don't want you to push yourself too far. If you feel like you want to go today then we will go after breakfast, and I promise I will be with you the entire time."

Hermione smiled, "Thanks dad" she buried her head back in his chest as she started to feel surer of the plan formulating in her mind.

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Tonks paced around the kitchen as Harry finished plating the food they made. She was nervous about Remus and Hermione's talk, she was worried and wanted to make sure that everything was going smoothly.

Harry walked up behind Tonks and tapped her on the shoulder, "blimey harry what was that for?"

"Whats wrong?" Harry asked, thoroughly confused as to why Tonks was freaking out.

"I'll let Hermione and Remus tell you… its not my place but I just want to know how it went." She sighed and sat down at the table.

"Is it something bad, is Hermione okay?" Harry asked worriedly.

Hermione walked into the room and smiled at Harry, "Yea I'm fine Harry, I'll talk to you about it after breakfast, which smells great." She sat down at the table and started eating her breakfast.

Remus smiled at the confused look on Harry's face, "You heard the lady, food first. Thanks for cooking guys." And with that they all sat down a quite but happy breakfast.

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Hermione finished telling Harry about her and Remus' talk earlier that morning. Harry smiled at his best friend, he was happy for Hermione and Remus.

"Harry I feel guilty for being happy…" Hermione whispered as she finished talking.

Harry's quickly moved to Hermione's side putting his arm around his friend, "Oh Hermione." He pulled her into his arms as she started sobbing. "It's natural to feel happy, your entire life has been flipped upside down and in so many different ways. And then you are told news that helps to put at least some part of your life back together. You shouldn't feel guilty that something is going good, especially feeling guilty about this." Hermione's sobs started dying down as Harry rubbed her back, "Your parents loved you so much Hermione, your mother saved your life by pushing you through that fire. You were their pride and joy and they loved you very much. I know they are happy that your biological father is someone that you trust, and who wants to be a part of your life. I know they are happy about that, that if they can't be on this earth helping you through life that Remus can and will."

"I know they would want me to and I keep telling myself that but I just don't know. I am going to go back to the house today, I think I need to face it. I…" she took a deep breath and continued, "Harry will you please come with me today when I go?"

The desperation in her voice made Harry's heart scream in sadness. He already knew the answer to the question before she finished asking, "I will be there Hermione. I will not let anything stop me from coming with you." Harry smiled at her.

The door to the library opened, Hermione moved off of Harry's lap and on to the couch beside him. She did not know who would walk in the door and more importantly she did not know how to deal with the feelings she was having about her green-eyed friend at the moment. Her brain could only hand so much processing and the resurfacing of feelings for Harry were confusing her even more.

"Hermione darling" Tonks said walking into the library. She smiled and filed away the flushed cheeks and confused expressions on the teenager's faces to think about later. She continued, "If you guys are ready we were going to head to the house, Remus checked with the Order and the house has been secured. They will give us an hour window to get stuff out."

Harry helped Hermione stand up from the couch, Tonks continued as they walked started down to the kitchen, "Sorry we couldn't get you more time but you're lucky we got in today. Remus was insistent and just about convinced Moody to let us get in there."

Hermione smiled at the thought of Remus convincing Moody. Her smile got brighter when she saw Remus standing in the kitchen waiting for them.

"Alright Honey you and I will go first, then Tonks and Harry will follow." Remus said walking over to the fireplace.

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Hermione walked around her parents room, running her hands over their possessions, tears streaming down her face.

"Mom, dad I am really sad that you are gone. I think I am still in shock…" she grabbed one of the pictures from her mother's dresser and put it into the endless bag on her side, "I wanted you to be here, it's not fair… but I…"

She sat down on the bed and hugged her mother's pillow, "I hate that you guys are gone. And I don't know if I should be happy as happy as I am about Remus with you guys gone. It feels so sad without you here and yet part of me wants to jump for joy over Remus."

She stood up and started packing her mother's jewelry box, she found an envelope at the bottom. She smiled at her mother's scribble but was perplexed by the writing on it, 'Hermione's Fiancé',

"Mom what is this all about?" she sighed and tucked it into her bag and finished packing the jewelry box. She packed all of the photos and other keepsakes from her parents room and headed towards the door.

She turned in the doorway, "I love you mom, I love you dad… and I know you want me to be happy. I will always love you and will always want you there whenever things happen. I am glad that I get the chance to have Remus in my life. I love you."

She walked down the hallway, plans and lists going through her mind. She walked down the stairs and into her parents study. She flicked her wand and all of the books lining the office flew into a box.

She sat down in her father's big leather chair, smiling at the memories that flew through her head. She opened the desk drawers, looking for any papers that she needed to keep. She found her father's safe key and opened the safe that was under his desk. She pulled out the set of legal files and tucked them into her bag. She opened the last drawer and found an envelope with Remus' name on it. She tucked it in her bag.

She shrunk the box of books and walked out of the study, her heart feeling a little lighter.

Remus and Harry reminisced in the memories shown on the photos lining the hallway.

"Can you take down those photos for me? I'm going to grab my grandmother's china from the dining room then I will be ready to go" Hermione asked.

Remus turned around and smiled at her, "Of course."

Hermione waved her wand at the china cabinet, and all of the blue, hand painted china flew into a box, with cushioning spells placed into between the pieces. She shrunk the box and tucked it into her side bag.

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Hermione lifted the fairy tale books of her childhood on to a lower shelf in the library. Memories of her parents reading these fantastic tales brought out conflicting emotions.

'Hermione, I know you will find prince charming… and when you first meet him you may not even know its him… but he will be there when you need him the most' is what her dad would tell her when she complained that prince charming hadn't come for her yet.

Hermione laughed at her father's words, "oh dad I hope you were right." She whispered to the books.

As she got to the bottom of the box of books and a smile formed on her face. She pulled out fifteen photo albums, all filled with pictures from her childhood. She smiled and set the albums aside for later, story time was what they needed.

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Remus walked around the house with a huge smile on his face. He placed pictures from the Granger household around various rooms in the house. Hermione had no plan for the pictures. Remus decided that he would put them around the house, so that she didn't have to awkwardly ask permission and would feel more at home with pictures from her childhood.

"Hey love." Tonks stood in the doorway of the living room, "You should put this one there." She handed him a family picture, and pointed to the table that had the Potters, Marauders, and the Order family picture on it.

Remus took the picture from her and gently placed in on the table. He turned and reached for Tonks, who welcomed his embrace.

"Did I tell you how much I loved you today?" Remus smiled.

Tonks laughed, "Many times dear, many times, but you know I don't mind hearing it again."

Before Remus could tell her, Hermione walked into the room laden with five photo albums. She stopped at stared at the two of them, and spun back around not wanting to interrupt the moment they had.

Thinking to herself as she spun around, 'I hope Remus… dad… dad… dad… didn't see me. I don't want to interrupt them.' But the sound of Remus' voice stopped her in her tracks.

"Hey you, why are you leaving?" Remus called out.

Tonks turned in his arms, and smiled at Hermione who spoke, "I don't want to interrupt you guys…"

"No worries Hermione. Do you want some help with those?" Tonks asked seeing her shift the pile of books from one arm to the other.

Harry swiftly moved the pile of books from Hermione's arms to his as he walked into the living room, "Mademoiselle, where would you like these?"

Hermione laughed, "On the table kind sir." Her heart fluttered at the smile he gave her," "Remus… dad" she sighed and stopped, and restarted her sentence, "Dad I wanted to show you the photo albums I brought back from the house."

Tonks kissed Remus on the cheek and moved to walk out of the room to give them some time alone. Harry placed the albums on the coffee table and followed Tonks.

"Hey I wanted to show them to all of you… that is if you want to…" her voice petered out at the end.

Tonks smiled, "Well then I will grab some drinks and sandwiches and come back for Hermione story time."

Remus sat down on the large sofa leaving a space beside him for his wife.

"Harry…" Hermione didn't know why her voice hitched at the end nor did she know why she could not finish her sentence. She knew she wanted him there.

Harry walked over to the couch and sat down, he patted his hand to the spot between Remus and himself. Hermione let out the breath she didn't know she was holding and sat down.

"Wow, they sure took a lot of pictures." Remus said looking at the pile of ornately titled albums.

"And that is only the first five years… the others are in the library. And then once I got into Hogwarts mom let me design how I wanted those albums, so those are not done yet…"

"Well we will just have to finish those wont we." Harry said.

"So my dad would always reminisce over these albums whenever I came back from school. He loved story time, and my mum and I would sit by the fire and listen to him tell stories. I wanted to share those stories with you…"

Remus wiped the tears that had fallen down her cheeks, "I would love to hear them."

"We all would." Tonks said sitting down on the couch.

Hermione grabbed the first album and opened it.

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Hermione finally gave into her exhaustion after the last photo album and fell asleep against his chest. His heart felt a little lighter knowing more about his daughter.

"She had a great childhood didn't she?" Harry said, "I can see how she turned out the way she is."

"Yea." Remus said, not trusting his voice, he opened the album in his lap.

He turned the page and ran his fingers across one of his favorite pictures of Hermione. It was of Hermione playing Cinderella, in a bright pink dress dancing around the living room. Hermione blushed when they got to that picture and didn't want to tell the story. It took Harry, Tonks and Remus threatening to tickle her to death before she told the story. It was taken a couple of days after she had received a Cinderella tape for her birthday and watched it so many times that it broke and clogged the VHS player. When they went to the store to replace the player she saw the pink dress and fell in love. After much begging at the store, he bought her the dress. For the next week she wore the dress and ran around the house playing Cinderella. Her parents eventually convinced her to wear different clothing but for the next month she asked every night that Cinderella be read to her. Even to this day it was her favorite fairy tale and she loved the prince because he could dance and swept her off her feet every time she read it.

While she told that story, Remus noticed that when she mentioned prince charming her eyes darted in Harry's direction. He turned towards Harry and was caught off guard at the look Harry was giving his daughter. He gave her the same look Remus gave Tonks every time she came into the room, smiled, or did something that was incredibly Tonks in nature. Remus didn't know how to react, so he chose not to because there was nothing he could do.

Harry blushed when he looked away from Hermione and noticed that Remus was watching him.

Remus continued, "You know when I first met Hermione I was amazed by her. She was not only an extremely intelligent young lady, she was also kind and caring. She had this fire about her that I couldn't place and this stubborn determination that marveled me. The more I got to know her, the more attached I felt to her, and I never knew why. " Remus sighed and closed the album, "They raised her to be such a wonderful person."

Harry reached out and patted Remus on the shoulder not knowing what else to do.

"I owe them so much Harry, I cant even begin to say how much I owe them." Remus wiped away his tears before they could fall.

"I know, Remus we owe them so much."

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