LAST CHAPTER! For this chapter I'm not going to have dates posted up on every new time skip like the other characters, but that's because it's all kind of unsure to me when it actually happened in the seventh book and movie. Anyway I just wanted to thank you all for following and favoriting the story. I honestly did not think this would turn out to be so well liked, so thank you guys, you're the best.
Hermione spend the first week back with the vampire family getting almost everything she could think of that she would need for the mission Harry plan on doing. Her Uncle Jasper was happy to give her a helping hand and advice on what she could possibly need.
Hermione also put everything with sentimental value in her safe at Gringott. If she died then she already arranged in a will on who would what out of her friends and family. It wasn't money, but items that would remind them of her.
In the second week Fleur and Bill came to visit them and invite them all to her wedding. Alice, Rosalie, Esme, Hermione and Fleur were all talking about wedding feeling excited. It was something to look forward to in these dark times.
The third week was just time with the family. Hermione knew that Edward and Jasper could still hear and feel her fear, but all she wanted was time with her love ones. Who knew when they would see each other after the war was over.
On the fourth week, Remus, Tonks, Moody, and Kingsley visited her about recruiting her for a secret mission for Harry. She accepted in a heartbeat. Rosalie and Emmett argued about choosing someone else, but their daughter had already made up her mind and it was impossible to change it. The two vampires then made requests, she needed to be with someone powerful to protect her and not on a broom. Kingsley offered to partner up with her much to their relief.
After that, Hermione was moved with the four core members of the Order to Grimmauld Place. More confidence with handling dark books, she use most of her time at the Black library. She had also learned that Remus and Tonks had gotten married some time ago, and she was happy that her once crush and lonely Professor was finally with his mate after fighting his werewolf instinct for so long. As a late wedding gift, she made a cute wolf plushy for their future kid.
Tonks loved it, but Remus was conflicted.
On a day that all of the core members were off doing who knows what, Hermione was disturbed from her reading by the sound of someone in the house. On high alert, she went up to the sound on the fourth floor where she saw the door opened and looked to be rambled through.
The Grimmauld Place was being robbed.
Acting fast, Hermione ran into the room and attacked the burglar with hard punches to the face, sides, and stomach. Seeing as the burglar could not move anymore, she bound him with a spell and got a look at him. It was Mundungus Fletcher, he's an Order members and a burglar from her understanding. Crookshank always attacked him when he first met the man and that made Sirius have a distrust toward the man.
Patting the burglar down, she took out all of the jewelry, antique, and loose money out of him. It was by chance that found the Dark Lord's horcrux. It looked just like the one Harry got back from the cave, and then everything started to fall in place.
R.A.B. was Regulus Arcturus Black.
"Kreature!" Hermione called out.
With noise coming out of the other room across the hall, the mean house elf appeared in front of her with a limp and cradling his head. He was attacked by Mundungus trying to protect whatever was in that room.
"Kreature, I caught Mr. Fletcher stealing and have stopped him before he could get away. You can put these back where they belong, but…" she stopped, not sure if she could trust the elf with the job.
With the mission that will take place in hours from now and staying at the Burrow afterwards, it was most likely not safe to have it on her. She was taking a leap of faith for with this elf.
"Kreature, I need you to hide this so that no one could get to it, but you. Harry, Ron and I are going to destroy it, but it's not safe to carry with me, so can you please keep it safe?"
There was a look of joy and determination from the elf that Hermione had never seen on the elf before, "Kreature is a good elf, and will hide the necklace. Promise Kreature that you will destroy the necklace. Kreature could not find a way to destroy the necklace, so Kreature could not fulfill Master Regulus' last wishes," there was sorrow and regret in his tone making the seventeen year old feel sorry for the elf.
Hermione waited for the Order members to come back. Moody gladly dealt with Mundungus before they had to leave to Harry's.
In the end of the whole mission, Alastor Moody, Mundungus Fletcher, and Hedwig were killed. Hermione was actually chased down by Voldemort at some point of the chaos. George also lost an ear.
The stay at the Burrow was uncomfortable for Hermione, but she was fortunate enough to be with either Fleur, Bill, Harry, or Ron the whole time. She also got to room with Harry and Ron with Molly and Arthur wisely decided not to let Ginny and her share a room. The redhead girl had try several times to apologize and try to make it up to the lighting scare boy, but he was taking none of it.
On the morning of the wedding, the Weasley's got the shock of the lifetime at the sight of seven vampires at their doorsteps, especially with Edward looking so much like Cedric. They were all informed beforehand, but it still came to a shock with actually seeing them.
The women mainly helped preparing Fleur, while the men did all the manual labor. Mrs. Weasley gladly took the helping hand, and it help relieve her children of all the work they had to do cut in half. Harry had a hard time possessing Edward, but after a private conversation he seemed better. The mind reader vampire said that the raw-looking-scare seventeen year old was in deep pain and conflicted the whole time they talked, but was better in the end.
The wedding ceremony was beautiful, and Fleur and Bill just looked so happy with love in their eyes. Tear were spilled. Hermione could of sworn that she saw a tear slide off Viktor's cheek, but her vision was blurry by her own tears.
The reception started and Hermione was sitting with the Cullen's and Viktor. Dancing started and Emmett took her first dance, after that it was Carlisle, Edward, and Jasper. She was going to dance with Viktor, but he seemed occupied with Harry and Luna's dad. Happily dancing with her eccentric friend, Fleur cut in to have a dance. After that she stayed with the the Cullen's. Viktor soon joined back with them, and took a dance.
Rosalie and Emmett talked about having a wedding again, and Hermione was excited by these news. She wanted to be at her second parents wedding. The blonde vampire even said that she already had plans for her daughter's future wedding and would have a book already for when the time was right.
More dancing was going around, and Hermione was actually starting to enjoy herself. Forgetting about the death of her parents, Dumbledore's death, the war, and Voldemort, she was smiling and laughing. Edwards and Jasper looked at each other with a smile. They both could sense that their honorary niece was finally forgetting her trouble.
Everything was going so well, until a lynx patronus with Kingsley's voice informing that the ministry has fallen, the minister was dead, and that Death Eaters were coming. Panic set in to everyone as they ran to disapparate out. The vampire family watch the panic, people showing up and attacking, and a fire started. They all heard Hermione call out to Harry and Ron saying they needed to get out of here.
Before Rosalie and Emmett saw their daughter disapparate away, they heard her with their acute ears say that she loved them, and that they should run away now.
And then the young woman that the two vampires saw grow up since she was six just disappeared right before their eyes.
It took all of the Cullen's strength to drag Rosalie and Emmett away from the chaos. Jasper had to forcefully calm them down. It took about ten minutes, but they managed to come to their senses. Returning to Carlisle old home that they've been staying at, the devastated vampires looked at Crookshank waiting with Romeo at the door. The half kneazle went up to the distressed blonde women and try to comfort her. She gave out a cry, but no tears fell.
"I'm going to have to go to the Volturi and inform them on the situation here," Carlisle said as he held his wife who was also in a bad state after what happened tonight.
Ron left and it was just Hermione and Harry now. She knew her redhead friend would come back, he always does, but the necklace twisted his head. Then again, he did also suffer a splinched when they all try to escape the ministry.
Hermione was blaming herself. Sure she healed Ron back up, but she had urged them that they needed to infiltrated the Ministry to gather as much information as they could about the new Muggle-Born Registration Commission. They collected some of the first documents and were planning on leaving until they were all pulled apart with task, but seeing Moody's, who she grown close to in her stay at the Grimmauld Place, magical eye on Umbridge's door is where everything went wrong.
Hermione took back Moody's eye.
After that it went downhill, she was chased and she took down guards, and was later joined by Harry and Ron. At some point, she managed to disapparate them all out, but Ron got splinched in all the chaos. The only good thing out of it was that they managed to copy the documents in mass proportion, pass them in Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade, and Hogwarts. That week, the number of muggle-born going into hiding was about one fourth of UK's wizarding population.
It was now Christmas and Harry's wand was just barely attached by the phoenix feather core. It was also the first Christmas for Hermione without her parents.
The two friends just sat in silence, with the horcrux around Hermione's neck as she read the book Professor Dumbledore left her. She misses Hogwarts, her parents, her second family, and her friends. She misses all of the full meals she used to have instead of rationing their meals to to make it last.
Ron took the radio, so there was nothing left listen too. Harry came up to her and took off the necklace and set it aside. He pulled her to the center of the tent and try to dance with her. She laughed at his poor excuse of a dance, but joined along.
In the end, they just held each other silently crying as they sway. They would get past this.
They had too.
Esme watch her two children cuddle together on the couch with Crookshank and Romeo with them. The two were so withdrawn from almost everything. She leaned in to her husband with concern written all over her face as she try to draw comfort from her mate's arm. What could she do to help her two children?
Alice was in the living room making out designs when she saw the worse vision she ever wanted to see.
Hermione was being tortured.
The psychic vampire was shocked to even get a vision of her honorary niece since magical people were hard to see their possible future. She knows, she has tried several times to see Hermione's and her friends future, along with some of the adults she saw at the wedding.
Edward saw Alicia's vision, and it was very concerning and disturbing. His honorary niece looked to have lost a lot of weight as she lay on the floor screaming in pain as a woman was on top of her carving something in her arm with a knife. Her two friends finally came in to rescue her, but she ended up with the same knife on her throat. The next thing was a chandelier fell and got both culprit and victim, and then they were gone.
"That was a pretty long vision Alice, are you going to tell us what was it about?" Emmett said in a monotone.
Alice looked at Edward, 'Is it wise to tell them?' she thought.
Edward knew that even if the news were bad, his two siblings would want to know, and the whole family would be there for them. He nodded to Alice.
"It's about Hermione," Alice said making every come in closer, "I don't think this is a future event, I think it was currently happening, kind of like when she got news that her parents were dead. I honestly don't know how to explain it, but it just feels different from the rest of my visions, but I don't have much vision of witches and wizards."
"But how is Hermione doing," Rosalie ask, not interested at all with Alice's rant.
Alice hesitated, "She was being tortured for information. Her friends, Harry and Ron, try to rescue her, but it wasn't fully successful. A chandelier fell and it got Hermione and the other woman that was holding her. Harry took this distinction to get her and they all disappeared out of their."
The two were quiet as Rosalie just curled into Emmett, and he moved her to his lap. The beautiful blonde vampire was aware of the side effects of torture after studying in the medical field for all these year. Her rape still left some effect even after sixty five years.
"Can we have Hermione live with us?" Rosalie ask softly.
"Of course, we will always welcome her in our home, and what grandfather would I be to turn my our granddaughter away," Carlisle said as he place a comforting hand on his two children with Esme doing the same.
2 May 1998
Hermione looked around the Great Hall with tears. They finally won the war and she had celebrated with Harry and Ron as soon as it was over, but then they were hit with the lost they had suffer.
Remus and Tonks will never see Teddy grow up. Colin, who she had tutored, will never experiment with magical pictures like he had plan and possibly making his own company like she had encourage. The Weasley's were definitely affected by Fred's death. Lavender, along with several others, would have to suffer some werewolf symptoms. Gwap who fought against giants was dead. Twelve more students were dead along with forty two dead adults from the light side. She wasn't even sure with the dark side, but she didn't care at the moment.
Hermione was just so exhausted after everything.
Although Hermione did not sleep like some of the people, she helped try to clean up and collect the dead bodies. Kingsley came over to her and offer her a job to work as an Auror with Harry and Ron. There were a lot of Death Eaters that got away in the end of the battle. Who knows what they could do now that they were on the run?
Like make a child an orphan just like her.
"I'll take the offer Minister Kingsley, but I need to finish my education at Hogwarts first before I become an Auror."
Kingsley gave the studious young lady a smile and accepted the answer.
June 1998
Hermione was working with Kingsley in his new Minister office going over files. I was late already, but she didn't want to sleep. She couldn't with all of her nightmares.
"Hermione, you should head back home and try to get some sleep," Kingsley said with a hand on the young woman's shoulder.
Hermione gave her friend a sad smile, "You know I can't."
"But I can still hope that you will. Come, let's call it a night, and head to the floo."
Hermione gave a sigh of relief the Kingsley said he would walk with her out. After pointing a wand at an assistant running behind her to finish a task, it was clear to all that there was a problem with her, but it wasn't just her. Several were like that after the war, and fortunately St Mungo's Hospital was doing everything they could to deal with it, but it was a totally new field for them to explore in the magical world.
So the help they all were getting was still in its infancy and they would not be getting the best help like they could in the muggle world. Some had thought of getting help from the muggle world, but it was advised against since anyone could slip up about magic. In the end Healers just try to study what they can from books talking about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how to overcome them.
With that, it was also opening the eyes that there was a problem with the Auror and how they also suffer from PTSD. If they had, Moody would of probably never ended up in such a mindset like he was.
Going through the green flames, she walked in Carlisle's old home were a family of vampires were waiting for her. Were a very angry Rosalie and Esme were wait for.
"You got some nerve missing out on lunch and come late for dinner. Did you even eat the snack I packed you," Rosalie said tapping her foot with her arms folded.
"Come Dear, I still have warm food for you," Esme said as she got a plate ready.
Hermione smiled, she felt absolutely safe here with her family. There was also the fact that she put a very strong ward around the house, but that was just her hypervigilance with a hit of paranoia showing. It was just sad that it couldn't stop the nightmare.
"So how was the Hospital, Grandpa," Hermione ask Carlisle as she got ready to eat her nutritious meals that cover the whole food triangle.
"It want well so far, helped four more patients get past night terrors, and the saw five more patients to give them therapy and coping skills."
Hermione nodded as she chewed. Since the family of vampires were staying with Hermione, until she started school again, Carlisle along with Rosalie and Edward were helping St Mungo's Hospital form the new department for mental illness. It was mainly for people with PTSD at the moment, but with time it would hopefully expand to more.
September 1998
It was just the first week of school, and Hermione didn't think she could take it any longer with staying at Hogwarts anymore. That notion was just heartbreaking to the witch who has come to love Hogwarts as her home. Walking up to the Headmistress' office, Hermione stood in front of Professor McGonagall.
"Professor McGonagall, I don't think I can stay at Hogwarts for very long," Hermione said with her fist clenched and her eyes staring.
"Has something happened dear," the now Headmistress said as she got out of her seat to sit next to her favorite student.
"No, but I don't think I can stay in Hogwarts for long. It's just a constant reminder, and I don't think it's good for my health that I stay here longer than necessary," a tear fell as she finally said it out loud.
"Alright Dear, but what do you plan on doing?"
"I was planning on staying with my family in Alaska. I will still come to Hogwarts when needed, but I think it would be best if I did independent studies and work at my paste. I'll still come here for books and help from the professors, but I just can't stay here for any more," more tears fell as Hermione try to desperately try to wipe them away.
Hermione them felt arms around her as Minerva held her. That action felt like it made a dam break and water to become overflowing everywhere. The almost nineteenth year old could not believe how things had come out to what they are now. She wondered if she would actually get better with time.
March 1999
Hermione was panting after the training session she did with the auror with the rest of the trainees.
"Granger, you've done an excellent job again with this exercise and got full marks again. I just might have to move you up again. Keep this up and you should be with Potter and Weasley by a month or two," Relish said writing down something on his chart.
"That's the plan," Hermione said controlling her breath.
"By the way, since you're done here unlike the rest of these lazy bums, Kingsley was to see you. If you do well again tomorrow, I'll move you up again."
Hermione nodded and headed to the Minister's office. She was unsure if it would be a talk about her health as she pushed herself to reach Harry and Ron, the draft she made about goblins, sketchy ministry workers, or all of the above. The auror in training was just happy that she had a caring friend like Kingsley who was more aware of her behavior.
Harry and Ron were great to, but they too had their own demons and weren't always aware of her situation. Fleur and Viktor were probably the best too, but Fleur was busy with her pregnancy and Viktor was still so far away.
Hermione was just happy to have such a great support system in her life.
2 May 1999
Hermione was dressed in a lovely red gown with gold accents at Hogwarts to celebrate the first anniversary of the end of the war. Thinking about the time that pass, she's happy with her achievements. She helped Kingsley clear out the ministry of its corrupted official and workers, went back to Hogwarts and graduated late December, speeded through Auror training and was now at the same level as Harry and Ron, and on the side, she also drafted some new laws for Kingsley to look at.
Harry was with his date Luna, who have been dating for nine months now, and Ron was with his date Lavender. Hermione, not wanting to be dateless to such a big event, had Viktor as her date, but Emmett always had the first dance.
During her free time, she did talk with the director of the banker, Ragnok. Her relationship with the goblins was very hard to rebuild, but after signing a constant saying that she would pay a certain portion of the damage, gave them a new idea for security, and manage to get them a few stores in Diagon Alley where they can sell their craft. They started to somewhat trust her, but whenever she was at Gringott, she was watched like a hawk.
After the party, she returned to her home with her family in Alaska. She was so happy that she could portkey back and forth between home and school. She honestly couldn't stay in a place that haunted her for so long. It actually encouraging her to finish her N.E.W.T.'s just so she didn't have to come back to Hogwarts.
"So, when are you going to start going on missions?" Emmett ask.
"Harry, Ron, and I should be field ready in two more months. Why? Do you want to go through a training now?" she ask still in her dress from the ball.
"No, but I still can't believe you're going to start field work soon. My daughter is the coolest with an awesome job hunting down the dark witches and wizards," he stared proudly with his chest puffed up.
Rosalie hit her mate on the head, "It's not awesome, it's dangerous," she then turned to her daughter, "Why couldn't you of just been a professor? I'm positive Professor McGonagall will still accept you."
Hermione moved to hold her Mama with the rest of the Cullen's watching her, "Because these Death Eaters could easily make another child an orphan, and if I can prevent that, it makes me really happy. Once I'm done hunting down the last Death Eaters, I'll think about taking that offer with Professor McGonagall, and by then I shouldn't have a problem with Hogwarts anymore."
Rosalie took an inhale of her daughter's sent and wrapped her arms around the witch. She then felt Emmett's arms around them both, "Just promise me you'll be safe."
"Always Mama. Now it's time for me to go to bed," she gave every vampire a kiss, told them she loved them, and wish them goodnight.
SOMETHING A LITTLE EXTRA
December 2002
Hermione had gotten injured. Again. But this time it was pretty bad to where she had to take a month off work along with her holiday time, so she basically had almost five paid weeks off work.
"Your never careful," Rosalie complain as she made her daughter more comfortable on the couch.
Harry, Luna, Teddy, Ron, Lavender, Neville, and Padma who had a growing belly came walking out of her floo in her room and into the living room.
"It's not her fault Rosalie, Hermione is the most careful one out of Ron and myself," Harry try to help as he handed a four year old Teddy to the blonde vampire.
"Then explain to me how my daughter ended up with a brick wall on top of her," the beautiful blonde sternly ordered as she greeted Teddy.
"She thought that pushing the rookie out of the way was more important then herself," Ron stated.
"It would of been terrible for Peterson to get crushed by a wall on his first field mission," Hermione argued.
Rosalie sigh, she had to much of a selfless daughter.
The morning of Christmas, the Cullens were surround around the christmas tree waiting for Hermione to join. They all heard fast small footsteps heading their way. All of the vampires looked at each other, those footsteps don't belonged to Hermione.
They were all in for a surprise when a four year old Hermione in big shirt that was falling off came into view instead of an twenty three year old women.
"Surprise! It's Christmas!" a high pitched voice said excitedly.
"Hermione, what happened?" Rosalie ask with Emmett by her side as she was by her daughter's side and picked her up to explain her.
Hermione latched onto the blonde vampire, "I made a potion to turn me into a four year old. With all the free time I had, I managed to make a potion possible. I still have the mind of my older self, but impulsive and behaving of a four year old. I wanted to surprise you with as a Christmas gift. Did I surprise you, Mama, Papa?"
Surprise couldn't even cover what the family of vampires felt.
"I'm beyond surprise that I can't even explain it. I'm sure your grandparents, aunt, and uncles are too," she said as the three moved back to join the rest.
The family of vampires excited for the day. Esme and Rosalie were both over the moon to have a toddler in the house. The three female vampires left to get her toddler clothing since the potion should wear off in 72 hours. The would donate the rest to charity afterwards.
That left the four male vampires to take care of the toddler Hermione. Emmett of course took charge and they played a game of Catch The Bear like they had used to all those years ago.
The woman's came back to a total mess in the house. The coaches pillows and cushions were all missing, and it looked like a large fort was made.
"Aaaaaah! Papa got my!"
The three turned to see Emmett walk in with a makeshift sack that was squirming and laughing. At the moment, Hermione used magic to tickle the big muscular man to drop her. Once she landed, she ran to her fort where her uncles and grandpa were waiting. Soon, pillows were flying toward the largest vampire at full speed.
The house was full of joy and excitement for those three day. They went out to visit the Denali coven, and the female vampires all loved having toddler Hermione over and way happy that she kindly offer them to experience the same kind of stimulation of having a toddler with them like the Cullen's.
The morning Hermione changed back into her regular twenty three year old body, she wrapped her arms around both her parents.
"I hoped you enjoyed your time."
"I'm positive we all did Mimi. Thank you," Rosalie said as she gave her daughter a big hug and a kiss.
"So what are you going to do with the potion now," Emmett ask as he moved to the chair next to her daughter as she waited for breakfast.
"I was planning on sharing it with George for his joke shop. Hopefully it will bring more money it to cover for the damage I did at Gringott."
That is all. I will post an update when The Imprinted Path and The Immortal Path stories are done and up. After that, I still plan on a Sam and Hermione ending, so please just be patient. As most of you should know, I write everything out first and then post them, so it will take a while.
Love you all, and thank you for reading.
