Disclaimer: Unfortunately J. isn't the one writing this. So the only thing that is mine is my ideas.

So I have good news: I'm back! (literally just got back) I stayed a little bit longer than I thought. This is the longest chapter yet. And once again it gives another link to Hermione's and Snape's past. This is turning out to be a mini mystery-like story, clues given each time to figure out what happened between Hermione and Severus. Plus nobody knows anything about the twins past, so i want to add some of that too.

We have a Surprise guest-star in this chapter, so get on to reading!

Chapter Four: Awkward Coincidences

"So girls, what else do you need to get on your list?" Hermione asked the twins. They were in magical heaven. Hermione never took them to a place with so many wizards. She wanted the reality of it to set in around the age they are now. Of course, Katherine and Hermione had used magic around the twins. They had been around a lot of wizarding things,but not as nearly as many wizarding things or wizards as other children. She wanted the twins to be excited when they went to Hogwarts. She wanted them to feel the same excitement she had for her first year at Hogwarts. She succeeded at her wish, seeing they were gibbering excitingly behind her.

"We need our books.." Isabella started to answer her mother's question

"And a pet! Can I have a cat mom, pleeeeaaasssee?" Clairabelle finished excitedly. Isabella rolled her eyes.

"If you get a cat, then I'm getting an owl." Isabella retorted.

"Girls, focus. Pets are optional," While the girls started a quite argument, Hermione looked at Katherine who was staring out into space and whispered in Katherine's ear, "Kat , can you go pick up a cat and owl from the pet store. Then can you go to the apothecary to get me these items?" Hermione pushed a slip of parchment into Katherine's hand when Katherine nodded and walked away to find the two stores.

- Isabella Granger-

Isabella walked into a store called Flourish and Botts. Everywhere, there were books stacked. She was in bookworm heaven. After her and Claria's argument over if mom would buy them pets or not, they agreed to try and find books quicker by looking in different places.

Isabella walked down one of the isles that were stacked to the top of the roof. She looked down the rows of books. Sometimes pulling some of the books that looked interesting and scanning them before she put them back up. She had recently pulled a book down about the most powerful wizards and started to scan it. They had Professor Dumbledore in there, a Harry Potter dude, who she swears she heard her mom talking about, and a powerful dark wizard they defeated with the help of some Snape guy, and Ron and wait.. Did that say Granger? Her mom helped to defeat some evil dude named Voldemort?

"Claira come see!"She heard her voice say.

"NO! Come see me! I'm busy." Clairabelle shouted over the massive piles of books. Isabella growled. Her twin was so lazy. She turned around and ran smack into someone dropping the book.

"Oh I'm sorry mist.. er" Her eyes trailed up to a very tall man with black hair and eyes much like her own, and a hooked nose. Fear and embarrassment swam across her face, and with that she ran around the man and hurried to her sister forgetting all about what the book said.

- Hermione Granger-

She was supposed to meet Katherine at the Leaky Cauldron. Katherine was fifteen minutes late and Hermione was beginning to worry. The girls were sitting at the table chatting quietly about some scary guy in Flourish and Botts. Hermione laughed silently to herself. Kids always making things scarier than they should be. She was guilty of it herself when she was a kid.

Suddenly the door from Diagon Alley to the Leaky Cauldron swung open. Katherine walked in with some platinum haired man, giggling and smiling. The man followed as she walked over to Hermione.

"Hey, sorry I'm late." Katherine smiled. She put her purse on the table and sat across from Hermione signaling the man to sit down too.

"Looks like you've brought someone back with you." Hermione eyes the familiar man.

"Oh yeah, we saw each other a the apothecary shop. His name is Draco" Hermione cut her off.

"Malfoy?" Hermione squinted at the man. Of course. How could she forget? Silver eyes scanned her face while the man's hand went through the silky white-blonde hair.

"Hello, Granger." Malfoy smirked, "See you've come out of hiding. Everybody just thought you killed yourself."

Katherine hit him on the arm, "He's just kidding." She said trying to lighten up the awkward mood between her, her friend, and the man she just met a couple of hours ago.

"Of course he is" Hermione said through her clenched teeth.

"Well, Katherine, It was nice to meet you, but it seems as if I have to go now." Malfoy said as he stood up and went to leave before he turned around and seethed, "It's good to see you again here Granger. I'm sure my Godfather would be ecstatic." Finally the evil git turned to walk out of the Leaky Cauldron's door. What did he mean by that last statement? Hermione shook the thought from her mind and focused on Katherine.

"Really Katherine, Malfoy?" Hermione asked.

"Let's not do this now, Hermione." Katherine pleaded. She took a little kitten out of her purse that looked was spotted with gold and red. It had a red ribbon tied around it's neck. She pulled a small cage out with an owl, and then enlarged it to its normal size, while Hermione was making sure the twins were still engaged fully in their conversation. The owl had black feathers with silvery tips and green eyes.

"They are going to be so excited!" Hermione exclaimed quietly, while examining the two pets. Katherine got in front of the table hide the pets for their excitement.

"Hey you two!" Katherine said to the twin, with both golden and coal eyes staring at her. "Look at what your mom made me go get for you!" She step out of the way revealing the animals.

The twins started to shriek with excitement. Hermione and Katherine laughed at the twins. The twins were so happy. Hermione smiled. Little did Hermione know, there was a Black-haired man staring from all the way across the Leaky Cauldron.

That night Hermione and Katherine were talking in low voices inside their shared room. They were staying at the Leaky Cauldron until they could find somewhere else to live. It was decent for now.

"So what's with you and Malfoy?" Hermione asked curiously.

"You mean Draco? He asked me on a date Friday." Katherine said when Hermione looked at her shocked.

"Oh. Are you gonna go?" She asked awkwardly, hoping the answer was no.

"I mean I guess so. So, you know him?"

"Well, I went to school with him." Hermione frowned. She was disappointed at Katherine's answer.

"Tell me about it! If our date turns out horrible then I could use it against him!" Katherine said excitedly while Hermione laughed. There's the Katherine she knew. Hermione knew in her heart that Katherine would probably be a Slytherin if she had went to Hogwarts and not Washington's School of Magic, which was one of America's magic schools. It turned out they had three instead of one.

"Well, He used to call me Mudblood all the time. I mean after a while I had gotten used to it, but it was still wrong. He was mostly influenced by his father who was downright evil and gave me the creeps.

And Malfoy did try to help us defeat Voldemort at the very end of the war but after that he was still horrible to me. I think it's because I got higher grades than him and I'm a muggle born, yet he's pureblood. I guess once you grow up into caring about blood statuses, it's hard to turn back. Oh, He was also called the Slytherin sex god." Hermione giggled.

"Well, I guess I have a lot to ask him about Friday. If it doesn't go well then maybe I could coax him into having a little fun" Katherine winked. Hermione Laughed.

"Not unless you want to end up like I did. Two kids who don't have a father." Hermione frowned. She still missed Severus. She wondered what he would be like towards the twins.

"Just talk to him, 'Mione," Katherine comforted her. "He'll understand."

"Anyway, Why do you even want to go out with Malfoy?" Hermione trying to change the subject, not wanting to go into that area.

"Why did you want to go out with your professor?" Katherine asked back.

It was a Wednesday and they had Potions today. Professor Snape was such a killjoy. Her good mood would be ruined in seconds. Hermione had asked Professor Snape to tutor her until her NEWTS.

It was only the second week but all Hermione and the professor would do is constantly fight.

They made their potions and he examined each and every one of them, stopping at Hermione's last.

"It seems as someone would never get anything wrong with that know-it-all brain of your Miss Granger." His eyes flashed something that she had never seen from a male before. "This potion is almost perfect."He said close to her ear, in a low voice. She shivered slightly from the sound of his voice. If they didn't jump down each others throats so much she would probably consider him as the sexiest man in Hogwarts. He is the sexist man in Hogwarts even if they fight like cats and dogs.

Truth is, she wouldn't mind finding out what was underneath all the black clothing he wore. Still, he was her professor and that was illegal. Even in the wizarding world.

The bell suddenly rung, and Hermione swept up to Snape's office after everyone else left the class. She knocked on the door.

"Come in."Snape's silky baritone voice came from behind the door. She opened the door and made her way inside is office.

"Ahh, Miss Granger," The professor smirked, "Come have a seat." he pointed to the chair next to him. The cauldron was lighted underneath already. He was cutting something up to put into the potion.

"You couldn't wait for me.. just had to start, didn't you?" Hermione growled.

"Of course Miss Granger," He smirked, "And it would seems as if you've forgotten to be formal. You are still my student."

"As I remember I asked for your help so I could do outstandingly on my NEWTS," She said in her know-it-all tone, " Not to come in to find the potion already half-way done" Hermione's voice had to a deadly turn. She shot Snape a death stare.

Before she sat down, she slid her chair a little bit away from him.

"Well it would seem that if a petty little know-it-all student wouldn't need my help to begin with." Snape snorted.

"Well it would seem that you are a fool for thinking that I wouldn't try my hardest to do my best." Hermione seethed.

"Detention Miss Granger." Snape taunted. His eyes were dancing. Hermione huffed.

"The bloody git." Hermione said under her breath.

"I heard that." Snape glared.

"Like I care" She sang. She started doing her part in the potion quietly. She went on doing her thing, while Snape silently studied her. She got to the part where she had to cut some kind of seed. She was having a lot of trouble.

"Your doing it wrong."Snape said quietly. He came behind her and picked up a saw-like knife. He hand handed it to her. She tried to saw at the seed but it didn't work.

"Like this" Snape's breath was tickling her ear. A shiver went down her spine as her put his hands on hers, holding them in the right place, and in one swift motion the seed was open. She lifted her hand to squeeze the guts of the seed into the potion. She gave it a couple of stirs before she turned the fire off and used her wand to store the liquid potion in a glass container.

"Done" she said still feeling him behind her. She turned around to see him face to face. He was gorgeous up close. All of his war scars were shown. Her hand went up to his face to trace one of his scars.

"Hermione.."He said with his eyes closed. She knew what he was going to say, and she wanted it. Boy, did she want it! She silently slapped some sense into herself by what she was thinking. Why did she have to touch him? Why was she attracted to him? No, this is wrong.

"I.. I.. I.. can't do this Professor Snape." She said walking her way towards the door. It slammed in front of her. She turned around and was pushed back against the door.

"What do you want from me?" She said in a hushed voice. Feeling his hot breath on her face that was inches away from his.

"To relieve the tension between us. Nothing more. I don't need a lovestruck teenager following me around, planning a marriage. Just a.. how should I put this.. eh.. fuck buddy." His hot breath was now

trickling down her neck. He started to plant simple kisses along her jaw-line and then made is way to her neck. She fought back a moan until she couldn't hold it in anymore. He made his way back up her neck and kissed her mouth. He tasted of mint. She wrapped her arms around his neck as his found their place around her waist; pulling each other in as close as they could get. The kiss was deepened by Hermione herself before he broke off and said, "Meet me at 10 p.m. sharp in this exact place for your... eh...detention." He smirked before he left.

"I wouldn't exactly call that 'going out' Katherine. We just fucked. He never had the feelings that I had for him. I don't think he ever had any feelings for me. I was just his slut." Hermione frowned at the realization she made almost twelve years ago right before leaving him.

"You are not a slut. You had sex with a man you love. There is nothing wrong with that. What you explained of him, it sounded like he did have feelings for you and he probably still does. At least enough to help you raise your kids." Katherine sighed searching her best friend's eyes for some kind of hope. There was none. Hermione wanted to end this conversation. She didn't want to talk about him.

"Well, if I let you date Malfoy and stop asking questions, will you stop pestering me about what happened almost twelve years ago and pushing me to talk to him?" Hermione compromised.

"Maybe" Katherine yawned "Go to sleep."

'Hogwarts is only a few days away' Hermione thought, then fell into a deep sleep.

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Do you like the new Draco addition? Do you think Katherine is going to tell Hermione how someone came after her? What Houses do you think the twins will be put in? What do you think will happen between Katherine and Draco, will it be nothing, or will they end up together?

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