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Chapter 2: It's Over when it's Over

*Still 8 years ago*

"Of course I will be there every step of the way Padfoot, I'd never leave those two to your whims" Remus quipped back a smile on his face. He had missed his friend so much over the last 12 years, he couldn't grasp how he ever believed that Sirius was the one to turn Lily and James over to Voldemort.

Sirius looked over and saw the look in Remus's eye, reaching over he gave him a one-armed hug "Moony I don't blame you ya know, I shouldn't have run off half-cocked after Hagrid took Harry"

Suddenly they heard footsteps coming down the stairs, turning to look they saw a cleaned-up Hermione dressed in a pair of Harry's sweatpants and a t-shirt of his, Harry trailing not too far behind her.

"Ok Hermione, we need to go back there and call the aurors are you ready?" Sirius put his hand out for her to take, she turned to Harry and gave him a big hug and said she'd see him later.

She reached over lacing her hand with Sirius's, she turned to look at Remus "You're coming too right?"

When he nodded a small smile lit up her face, not quite reaching her eyes. They told Harry to stay at the house and they'd be back as soon as they could.

They wandered out the front door and hailed the Knight Bus, they all started as it showed up with a pop "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...oh it's you again, well ya look betta" he nodded towards Hermione

"Corner of Heathgate and Meadway, Hampstead please" she mumbled back blushing a bit.

"Eleven Sickles, each" He held his hand out, Hermione went to reach in her pocket but Sirius's hand stopped her, she looked up and he shook his head while handing Stan the correct amount. "Choo' a seat and 'old on tight"

With a bang they took off, a few minutes later they were standing in front of her parent's house, Remus had gone in and checked to make sure no one was still there before sending a patronus to Kingsley to get the aurors here.

"I didn't notice and signs of dark magic, no dark mark above the house, it looks like this was a muggle robbery gone wrong." Remus muttered to Sirius, making sure Hermione couldn't hear. "Seems to me they were stabbed and bled out, their wedding rings are missing along with where I was assuming their tv was."

Sirius sighed and ran a hand over his face, "Kitten, when the aurors get here, they're going to want you to look around and see if anything is missing ok? I promise you won't go in there alone, I won't allow it."

Hermione sniffled a bit, rubbing her nose on her arm as she nodded to Sirius, when a crack in the air made Hermione jump. "It's just the aurors kitten, they aparated into your parents back garden so no muggles could see them." About that time Kingsley Shacklebolt came walking around the corner of the house flanked by four other aurors .

"Sirius, Remus, you said it was an emergency what's going on?" Kingsley's deep baritone rang out.

"Kings, this is Hermione Granger, Harry's best friend, her parents didn't show up to Kings Cross today to pick her up and when she got home after taking a cab, she walked in to find them murdered." A sharp intake of breath made Kingsley look down at the little witch.

"Hello Hermione, it's very nice to meet you, I just wish it was under better circumstances, do you mind if we go have a look around your house before you come in?" She shook her head no, biting her lip to try and keep the tears in. Sirius noticed and wrapped an arm around her, pulling her into his side.

King's motioned for the others to scope out the house "Kings, I did do a sweep and didn't find anyone else in there, I also didn't find any trace of dark magic, but we thought we should let you know just in case, her being a muggle born and all." Kingsley nodded at Remus before heading into the house himself. 15 minutes later he wandered back out, he informed Sirius and Remus that they were right, this was a muggle killing, not done by death eaters.

"Hermione dear, I need you to come in with us and tell us if anything is missing, can you do that?"

She looked up at Sirius and he held her hand nodding at her "I'm going in with her Kings, she isn't doing this alone." Kingsley agreed and led them into the house.

Hermione noted that her parents wedding rings were gone, along with her mum's silver locket that she has had since she was a girl, the tv and radio were missing and her mother's jewelry box. She had wandered into her room to find her music box, and some of her books were gone. Once she had compiled a list, she gave it to Kingsley, he had also asked for a list of friends and family explaining to her that they were going to be memory charmed to slowly forget about her and her parent's existence, and if there was anyone she didn't want that to happen to, she needed to make sure and mark them.

"Hermione you're going to have to come with us until we can find a placement for you, since you're technically a ward of the ministry right now." She looked up at him in shock and then looked back at Sirius.

"Kings, I'm taking her back to my place, she will be staying with me, Remus and Harry. I'm not letting her become a ward of the Ministry, not with everything that is going on."

Kingsley sighed and told them he would try and work it out with the ministry, but until then she could go with them. He waved them off and told them they'd deal with the muggle neighbors and cleanup.

Sirius pulled Hermione out of the house and back to Remus who was waiting in the back garden, "We need to get her back to my place and do the spell now, they are already talking about taking her."

Remus agreed, "Hermione have you ever side along apparated?" He asked, she shook her head no "Ok, well Sirius is going to take you and apparate back, it's going to feel weird like you're being sucked through a straw, I will meet you there with a stomach soother ok?" He didn't give her time to answer before he turned on the spot and disappeared.

Hermione gaped at the spot he was just standing in, she'd read about apparting in books but had never seen it done in person. "Magic is amazing" she breathed, Sirius chuckled and told her to hold on tight. Making sure she had a good grip on him and he had a good grip on her he spun on the spot and landed in front of 12 Grimmauld place just outside the fidelius but still within the muggle repelling wards.

Hermione had her hands on her knees and was breathing heavily trying not to throw up, suddenly there was a potions vial in front of her labeled stomach soother, she gratefully took it. After a few seconds the potion had the desired effect and she slowly stood up straight.

"It gets better over time Kitten, plus once you can apparate on your own it's much better." Sirius grinned before walking into the house, "Harry! We are back! I want you to show Hermione to the room next to yours, that can be hers for her stay here" a wink towards Remus made the werewolf grin. After the two teenagers had disappeared upstairs and Sirius made sure they were out of earshot. "Moony, what all do we need for that potion."

Remus grabbed the book and started reading the list, "I believe you have everything here in the potions lab in the basement, it takes 2 hours to brew so you may want to get on it before Kingsley comes to collect her. I'm going to go back and see if I can't get Hermione some clothes and grab her trunk, did you happen to see Crookshanks when we were there?"

"Nope, I hope the cat's ok, he was a lot of help when I was hiding out by the school, you know he's the one who got me the password list from Neville right?"

Remus just chuckled and started towards the front door, as soon as he opened it a streak of orange fur bolted in. "Bloody hell! Crookshanks?!" Remus saw the spitting mad cat make a dash for the stairs before he heard a happy squeal.

"Crooks! O darling, I forgot you when I left so suddenly, I'm so sorry baby, maybe Sirius has a can of tuna, would you like that?"

Remus shook his head with a fond smile and left. Sirius had wandered down to the lab in the basement and had made headway on the potion when the wards alerted him that someone was coming in the kitchen door. He walked back up the stairs making sure to ward the basement door, walking into the kitchen he saw none other than Dumbledore sitting at his kitchen table drinking a cup of tea.

"What brings you out Albus?" Sirius wasn't too happy seeing the old fool sitting there. He still hadn't forgiven him for not getting him a trial, plus he fought him on getting Harry back.

"I heard from a little birdy that Miss Granger is staying here, you know any student that doesn't have a magical guardian after their parents pass is automatically a ward of the ministry and as such should be held at the ministry until further notice." Dumbledore had that stupid twinkle in his eye as he informed Sirius of this, he was really growing to hate that twinkle.

"I realize this but you must understand that Hermione has gone through a very traumatic experience and she needs to be around people she knows and trusts."

Dumbledore merely smiled and told Sirius that he would be glad to take Miss Granger under his wing. When Sirius declined the offer and asked him as politely as he could to leave, the twinkle in his eye diminished and he stood up in anger.

"She will be coming to the Ministry one way or another, I will be back to collect her and her things when Kingsley shows up."

With a final nod to Sirius he turned on the spot and disappeared. Sirius let out a breath he didn't realize he had been holding and jumped when a small voice rang out from behind him.

"Do I really have to leave?" Hermione had apparently come downstairs to get something to drink and overheard the conversation. "Am I imposing on you being here? O I knew I shouldn't have come but I couldn't think of anywhere else but here." tears started welling up in her eyes again.

"No kitten, you are always more than welcome here, I'm also working on a plan to make it so you never have to leave and the old codger won't be able to do anything about it, why don't you come down to the lab with me, I think it's time we had a little talk."

She followed him downstairs to the potions lab and he pulled out the book he had been using, "Hermione there is a very old and somewhat grey magic spell and potion in here, it's called sanguis sanguinem mei, it basically means blood of my blood, and what it would do is change your DNA to match mine, you would biologically be my daughter and an heiress of house Black, neither Dumbledore nor the Ministry could take you away from Harry and I, I've started brewing the potion today in case you would be interested in doing this."

Her eyes had widened to comical proportions. "What all does the potion entail?"

"All you'd have to do is put 3 drops of blood into my vial and I'd put three drops into yours and while we drink them Remus would cast sanguis sanguinem mei and you would be mine. That way no one could make you leave us."

Hermione had started reading over the potion in the book, it didn't seem dark, and she knew in her heart she didn't want to be separated from the boy she thought of as her little brother. "Okay, I want to do this. When will it be finished?"

Sirius perked up and told her it'll be done brewing in 30 minutes and had to be consumed within an hour of being finished. She nodded slightly and told him she wanted to go talk to Harry. He agreed that he should have a say in this since he didn't blood adopt him this way and they didn't want him to feel jealous.

Of course, Harry was ecstatic that Hermione would be Sirius's daughter and wouldn't have to leave them, he knew Sirius would blood adopt him if needed but since he was the Potter heir and had a magical guardian there was really no point and he obviously loved him like his own anyway. 40 minutes later Hermione, Sirius, Remus and Harry were all gathered in the kitchen. Sirius raised a silver dagger to his forearm, he made a cut and let three drops fall into Hermione's vial. He corked it and handed it to her to shake four times. The color turned black with spots of silver. "Kitten give me your arm and I'm sorry this will hurt a bit, I'll heal it as soon as the spell is through ok?" She mutely held her right forearm out and winced and he made a small cut, watching as three drops of her blood fell into his vial. He corked his and gave it four shakes, marveling at the vivid purple color it had taken along with gold streaked through.

"Now you two need to drink, Hermione first, then Sirius." Hermione took a deep breath and uncorked the vial, she took a delicate sniff and realized it smelled of cherries, she raised the vial towards Sirius and Harry who was sat at the table behind him and she upended the vial downing it all at once. (Blood of my blood, you are mine, I am yours until the end of time) "Sanguis sanguinem mei meus es tu, tuus sum usque ad consummationem saeculi" Remus chanted as she finished, Sirius repeated the gesture to her and he uncorked and downed the vial in his hand."Sanguis sanguinem mei meus es tu, tuus sum usque ad consummationem saeculi".

"So mote it be" Hermione and Sirius called out together. They all held their breath when suddenly a golden glow came from Hermione, a matching silver came from Sirius.

Harry gasped as the glow suddenly brightened, the silver reaching out and surrounding Hermione's golden glow till it was no more. He watched enthralled as her bushy brown hair turned into sleek black ringlets, the rest of her baby fat seemed to have melted away and when he looked at her face, her nose was almost the same shape just a little smaller, her freckles remained, her lips became fuller and her lashes darker and longer. Her eyes opened and he saw they were no longer the color of fire whiskey, they had turned a deep green-blue, much darker than Sirius's grey.

The glow suddenly dimmed and Sirius opened his eyes to see the new Hermione. She could be his spitting image in female form except the eyes. He couldn't believe it, he has a daughter! Hermione shyly asked if someone could get her a mirror and Remus conjured one up. A slight gasp fell from her lips as she took in her new look.

She turned to Sirius and Harry with tears in her eyes, this time from happiness. "Thank you thank you thank you! Thank you for not casting me out and for making me a real member of your family!" She gave them both a big hug before turning to Remus and doing the same thing.

Suddenly the wards tripped and Sirius and Remus were in front of the kids with wands drawn watching the kitchen door. It opened and in walked Kingsley and Dumbledore, "Sirius it's time for us to take Hermione to the ministry so we can see about finding her a magical guardian." Kingsley's deep voice sounded sad.

"I'll gladly fight to be her guardian Mr. Shacklebolt." replied Dumbledore with that damn twinkle back in his eye.

Sirius and Remus smirked at each other, "Actually sirs, there is no need for that" Remus stated.

"And why not? The girl has no magical guardian and no family left." Dumbledore replied.

"Actually professor, she does now." Sirius quipped back,

"and who pray tell would that be Mr. Black?" Kingsley asked,

"Me, I used the sanguis sanguinem mei, potion and spell on her, with her permission, and she is now legally and biologically my daughter and you cannot and will not touch her or take her Dumbledore, she is the Heiress Black from here on out."


*Present Time*

Hermione was cleaning up the kitchen from dinner, Remus was upstairs giving Teddy a bath, how that child managed to get more food on himself than in himself she'll never know. A fond smile came over her face when she looked out into the living room, Sirius was reading a motorcycle magazine, he got his back from Hagrid after he became free. Hermione was finally coming around to riding on it, flying on it was another matter completely. She couldn't have asked for a better family to help her through the grieving stage after her parents had died.

It had been decided that it was a muggle home invasion gone wrong. Her parents hadn't left when they said they were to go get Hermione because her dad had needed to do an emergency root canal and they were running late. Two men had broken in thinking it was an empty house and stumbled upon the Grangers, what would have been just a robbery turned into a double homicide. Her parents had been stabbed multiple times and were left bleeding out on the floor while the men took everything of value they could find. The aurors had put out feelers to the nearby pawn shops and had located one of the men responsible. He was an 18-year-old from a bad family, he quickly gave up his friend and the aurors had regained all of the Grangers belongings and gave them back to Hermione. Although Kingsley had informed Sirius that he suspected the boys had been imperiused, but he had no proof.

She finished in the kitchen and walked out to the living room, "Sirius? I'm going to leave Ron, I'll go home tomorrow and get the rest of my stuff, and come back here, is that ok?"

He had looked up from his magazine when Hermione said his name. "Of course kitten, do you need me to go with you to get it?"

She chewed her lip thinking, shaking her head "No, even if Ronald is there, he won't hurt me."

Sirius shrugged, "you know how to get ahold of me if something happens."

She nodded grasping the charm bracelet around her wrist, it had been a gift from Sirius but it was invented by the Weasley twins, it was charmed with an unbreakable charm and only she could take it off. It had different charms that did different things, there was an emergency shrunken broom, charms that would tell her location if she was in trouble, a wolf head for Remus, a lightning bolt for Harry and a paw print for Sirius. There was also a cat head that if Hermione felt unsafe would cast a strong protego bubble around her, one of the charms was her little beaded bag, all she had to do was pull on it three times and it would come off and return to normal. The last two charms were ingenious, they were spare wands, she still had her main one but you never know when you might need a new one, she had learned that the hard way.

"Goodnight Sirius!" She leaned down and pressed a kiss to his cheek, "Thank you again for everything you've done for me, I don't think I'd be here if it wasn't for you."

He smiled and shooed her off to bed. He sat up for a few more hours reading his magazines and contemplating ways to get rid of Ron Weasley without anyone knowing it was him. At around 11:30p. he wandered up the stairs, only to stop by Hermione's room when he heard muffled crying. Knocking on the door, he gently pushed it open, "Kitten? Are you ok?" He looked in to see her curled up on her bed.

"Oh kitten, it'll be okay" he said walking over and sitting next to her, he started running his hand over her curls which were pulled back in a neat braid.

"I just don't understand why he would do this to me? I don't care that he's gay! I would've been happy for him! Why did he have to lie and cheat?" she hiccuped lightly.

"well, what I've learned about Ronald Weasley over the years is he is he only cares about himself. He probably thought it would be frowned upon for him to be gay so the best alternative was to marry you as a cover."

Hermione sat up abruptly, "I refuse to be sad about this any longer, it's dumb, he's made his choice, I'm making mine, I'm done, tomorrow I'm going over like I said, but after that I'm going away for a while, I think. Maybe take a trip for a year or so." she mused out loud.

Sirius sat there staring at her, "where would you go kitten?" He didn't want her to leave but he knew she needed a fresh start.

"I have an estranged uncle in America whom I haven't seen since I was about 10, come to think of it I shouldn't have included him in the list to have their memories modified, but I hadn't seen him in years so I didn't think I ever would again. I'm thinking maybe I could go there, I've heard rumors of a coven of vegetarian vampires living in his town, there are no records of vegetarian vampires anywhere in our systems! It would be a once in a lifetime chance to study them!"

Sirius frowned, he didn't like the idea of his daughter being anywhere near vampires, vegetarian or not. "What if, and hear me out kitten, what if I went with you? I don't want you left all by yourself in a different country."

Hermione smiled "Papa, I'm 22 years old, I think I can take care of myself, besides Remus, Teddy and Harry need you here!"

Sitting on the edge of her bed Sirius took in the form of his daughter, she had certainly grown from the tiny witch he had adopted. She had stopped calling him papa around the time she got engaged to Ron, it was nice to hear it from her again. She now stood at a towering 5'4" and her hair reached her waist, she had really grown into the looks that were forced on her during the change.

"What if we all went with you? Remus, Teddy and me? I'm sure Remus would go! Andromeda has been talking about traveling with Michael anyway, she never got to before marrying Ted and having Nymphadora." Sirius smirked at the use of Tonks' full name, he just knew she was rolling in her grave wanting to come haunt him. Andromeda had started dating a man by the name of Michael Droops, a muggleborn she had met at the park while she was there with Teddy, he just happened to be there with his grandkids.

"What about Harry?" She asked,

"Harry has been doing fine, him and Luna are going strong although I don't see marriage in the near future with the way she travels, you know Harry loves being the DADA professor! He'd be ecstatic for us to move!" That had come as a surprise to everyone except Hermione, Harry declined the offer to become and Auror and instead continued on to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, since Voldemort was dead the curse on the job was broken and Headmistress McGonagall was ecstatic to have him as the professor, she had tried hard to get Hermione to get her mastery in transfiguration so she could take over when Minnie was ready but Hermione had much grander plans.

Hermione mulled it over, "You convince Remus, Harry and Andromeda and I will gladly let you come with me!" She had made up her mind, Forks, Washington here she comes!