Ch. 9-
The ball was tonight and everything had to be perfect.
"Mum!"
"Yes Hermione?"
"I need your help with this please!"
Amy walked into the room and found Hermione in her knickers trying to figure out the dress.
Amy laughed at her and Hermione threw her a mock glare…
Her dress was a deep purple satin that hugged her cures and flowed to the floor nicely.
She fixed her hair straight and silky, and her makeup was barely anything except deep brown mascara and eyeliner.
She looked simply incredible.
Amy was wearing a plain black dress stopped at her knees and pointy, high Jimmy Choos.
"Mom you look great!"
"Thanks hunny, you look so beautiful."
Her mom left her and she was facing the mirror when she saw someone standing in her doorway.
"MERLIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!"
She had a huge grin on her delicate face as she spun in her chair to race over to him.
Mr. Granger was standing there smiling with almost leaking eyes.
"Hey Hermione, you look beautiful sweetheart."
"Wow! I haven't seen you in forever!"
She gave her adopted father a hug and then smiled really big at him. "I'm so happy you could make it!"
"Actually hunny, I just came to see you, and tell you I love you before I head out."
She faltered.
"Where are you going?"
"I got a job at the American Ministry of Magic in Chicago, so ill be back in London maybe three times in the next year."
"I can't believe it! You've wanted that job for so long, you finally got it!"
"Yeah, I did, thanks to your dad; Lucius has some serious connections, he's a fine man."
"Thanks, I hope it all goes well and when you comeback maybe we can grab lunch."
"Alright, you take care Mione, I love you."
He stepped out the door and she smiled, 'that's just what I needed.'
Draco was busy putting on his tie when he growled in frustration.
He opened his mind to her.
'Hey Mione?'
He waited.
'What's up Dra?'
'I can't do this, will... Will you come help me?'
She laughed, 'Sure ill be right there.'
She entered Draco's room and he turned around but stopped as he saw her.
"You look beautiful Mione,"
She flushed and smiled at him.
"Thanks Dra- what do you need help with?"
"My tie, the bloody thing doesn't wanna work."
She laughed and started on his tie.
"You know what Mione?"
"Hmmm?"
"I like this."
She finished and tugged the bottom and tightened the top around his throat, "Like what?"
"Having a sister, a family, my mum again."
"I do too Dra, I like it a lot, I feel like I'm about to wake up from a dream or something crazy."
He pinched her.
"Hey what was that for?"
She rubbed her arm.
"Its real Mione, it's all real."
He walked past her and held open the door as she took his arm, "Shall we?"
They walked down the hall and then Draco stopped.
"Me and dad are going out first to announce you, then you and Mum can come after alright?"
"Ok…"
She started biting her nails.
Draco slapped her hand, "That's filthy."
Then he kissed her cheek, "You look beautiful, don't be nervous." He ran over to his dad in a hurry.
Her Dad and Draco went through the curtain together and everyone clapped.
She could hear Lucius speaking to everyone.
"Family, Friends, WELCOME!"
Everyone clapped again.
"As you all know, tonight is a very special night, because I have a surprise for you, it is both- shocking, uncanny, and blessed."
It got quiet.
"Not many of you know, a long time ago, I married a woman named Amy Jane Zabini."
An old lady in a powder blue suit starts crying loudly.
Amy whispers "my mother" to Hermione.
"Yes, she was perfect, wonderful, everything I could ask for, she gave me Draco, and another, Melissa Malfoy. They were twins."
Everyone looked shocked.
"When the Dark Lord was taking power, it was safer to not have a big, POWERFUL, family, especially one of Zabini's and Malfoy's."
A few men standing together, some with bleach blonde hair and grey and some that looked like the mafia nodded and raised there glasses, 'here here!'
Lucius nodded to them.
"Yes, well Amy did what she could to protect her family, as some of you know; she supposedly passed in a car accident along with Melissa, but actually, she moved away to keep our family safe."
Gasps all around the room.
"My wife, Narcissa Black Malfoy was a wonderful woman, I miss her dearly, but she knew about Amy and I and agreed to marry me to help raise Draco, I loved her, but in a different way, she was a dear friend."
Several people nodded acknowledging everything he said was true.
"But- a few days ago, I ran into a beautiful woman in Flourish and Blots, and later found out that she was my Amy, not only is she not dead, but neither is my baby girl, Melissa."
Gasps again and clapping and crying.
"I would like to re-introduce my family, who is once again together this evening for the first time in 17 years."
He held his hand out, "Formally known as Jane Granger- Mrs. Amy Jane Zabini Malfoy."
She came out and everyone started to cry and clap. Lucius gave her a sweet kiss on the lips and then turned back to the crowd.
"And my other - formally known as Hermione Jane Granger, Melissa Hermione Malfoy!"
Everyone was dumbfounded.
There was hugging, kissing people and squeezing their cheeks red.
Lucius then goes back to the stage and it gets quiet.
"My family, together again, but my kids, Draco and Hermione are twins, separated only a year after birth, their Bond was broken and now, we are going to invite everyone to witness their ceremony of re-bonding them together."
Everyone clapped.
Dumbledore stepped out and the twins held hands and smiled at each other.
"Draco Xavier Malfoy, you are the brother, the protector, the fighter, and dragon in the night, this bond will bind you to your sister forever, and never to be severed as long as you both shall live."
"Melissa Hermione Malfoy, you are the sister, the healer, the peacemaker, and the phoenix in the day, this bond will bind you and your brother forever, and never to be severed as long as you both shall live."
They turned towards the crowd and Dumbledore tapped them both on the head with his wand.
They could feel a tingling sensation and wind started circling their waists, vibrant greens, reds, silvers, and golds swirled in the mix.
"Brother-Sister, Healer-Protector, Fighter-Peacemaker, Dragon and Phoenix, combined together so they are within another, power invested in me, power invested in them will forever be bound, and make them right."
Dumbledore touched both of their temples with his thumbs.
The colors spun faster and then evaporated into their skin and they felt alive, like someone was both dousing them with water and flying them on a broom.
Hermione's hair started to darken into a crisp chocolate brown that was silky and smooth and her eyes were slightly larger and a deep chocolate color as well. She smiled and her teeth were sparkling white, straight and smaller, perfect teeth like Draco's.
She turned to Draco and saw his hair change too; it was the same color as Hermione's and it was silky and shaggy, coming over his forehead and falling into his eyes. They had stayed the same. The silver, blue pools that you could melt in stayed where they were and he smiled at her.
It stopped.
Dumbledore smiled and turned to everyone-"the bond is now complete.'
Everyone clapped and Amy and Lucius were crying and smiling.
They both stepped down from the stage and music stated to play and people started to dance.
Hermione went over to see Harry, Ginny ad Ron with Draco.
"That was beautiful, how do you feel?" Ginny asked.
"Alive."
"Alive."
They both said at the same time, and then started busting out laughing.
"You look so different Hermione, but in a good way."
"Thanks Ron, I feel different."
Ginny gave Hermione a hug and then Draco a hug.
Draco leaned his body into her and could smell her lavender shampoo on her hair, a small feeling in the center of his chest, like he couldn't breathe for a minute, but in a good way.
"You look different too Draco, I like your hair dark and long, it's a good look on you."
She flashed him a huge smile and he noticed her teeth were very white and even.
Her hair was super shiny and a rich deep red unlike Ron's.
She had definitely filled out and grown from her awkward height and bony body.
He was stunned by her.
'There's something about that girl."
"Oh really Dra?"
"Shit your not supposed to do that.'
"Sorry couldn't resist, ask her to dance, I think she would like to."
Draco closed his mind to her and smiled at her at the same time. He turned to Harry and Ron and shook their hands as his friend Blaise comes bounding up to them.
"Hey cousin!"
He stopped after he gave Draco a hug and turned to Hermione.
"CousinS."
He gave her one too and looked at them both smile.
"Bloody hell, you really do look like twins now, it's amazing."
They all laughed.
