Sorry for the wait, It took my beta-reader longer to edit this chapter than the others. I hope you enjoy it :) Thanks to those who reviewed last time!

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Arriving in the Ministry the next morning, Draco quickly made his way to Harry's office. Sure enough Harry was sitting alone in his office. He quickly walked into the office and shut the door behind him causing Harry to look up at him confused.

"What's going on Draco?" Harry asked watching Draco pace his office

"Hermione received an owl last, I'm not sure who it's from but they sent her a picture of…well…you're not going to believe it." Draco reached into his bag and pulled out the picture. He tossed it onto Harry's desk where it landed face up.

Harry picked up the picture studying it. Slowly the color drained from his face when he realized who the man was. "When was this taken?"

"I'm not sure when but according to the back, it was taken in Finland."

"But this girl…she can't be that old…she looks like she might be…"

"Only a year younger than Hugo. I know I can't believe it."

"Why though? He never mentioned anything to me, and both he and Hermione seemed so happy in their marriage."

"You knew him better than I did; it does clear up what he was telling me during his last mission; about seeing his wife and kid."

"He had to have been seeing this woman before Hugo was born for this girl to only look like she's a year younger than him."

"Hermione did tell me that Ron was away on missions a lot more than you were and he never wanted to cut back on them."

"I had always thought that he did that to make more money, I knew it meant a lot to him to be able to provide for his family."

"We'll he did seem to do that, he just had two families." mumbled Draco

"How did Hermione handle it?"

"I found her lying on her bed crying when I brought Rose and Hugo home, she was extremely upset but that is to be expected."

"Did she calm down? Rose and Hugo didn't see this did they?"

"She did eventually calm down; I managed to get her to eat dinner. Rose and Hugo just thought that she was sick, they didn't see the picture."

"Good, I don't know how we can explain this to them or even the rest of the Weasleys."

"That is all on you, I'm not explaining this to the entire Weasley family."

"Thanks, when should Tristan's sister be here?"

"Kristen should be here in an hour; actually we should go get Hermione, because she wanted to be there when we questioned her."

Draco and Harry left Harry's office and made their way over to Hermione's. Walking into the office they found her writing quickly on a piece of parchment.

"Hi Hermione." Harry said in a warm caring tone

Hermione looked up quickly and smiled at Harry before getting up and running into Harry's arms. Harry hugged Hermione for a few minutes before letting her go.

"It'll be alright Hermione, we'll figure everything out."

"I know we will, now I have figured out what questions we need to ask Kristen when she gets here; are we escorting her from the portkey arrival area or are you having other aurors doing that?" Hermione asked picking up the parchment that she had been writing on

Harry shook his head in disbelief as he watched Hermione get straight to business. "I'm having an auror meet her and bring her up to an interrogation room."

"That's probably a good idea. Should we head over to the room?"

"Sounds good to me." Draco said feeling slightly left out of the conversation

The trio headed over to the interrogation room where they were surprised to find Kristen and the auror waiting for them.

"Sorry that I'm a little early, my husband insisted on escorting me and we had to bring our daughter too, they went out to walk around London though." Kristen explained the trio not noticing that Draco and Harry were gawking at her and Hermione was trying not to cry. Kristen had straight black hair and black eyes and was a dead ringer for the women in the photo with Ron. "Is something wrong?" She asked when she noticed that no one had said anything to her yet

"Oh sorry, nothing is wrong you just look familiar that's all." Harry quickly explained

"Oh well it's been some time since I've been to England, I've been living in Finland for the last eight years." Kristen explained

"Eight years?" Draco asked slightly confused he would have thought that it would have been six years

"Yes, I moved back there when I found out that I was pregnant. I wanted to raise my child where I grew up, my husband moved out there a few years later to be with us."

"Of course, if you'll just come in here we can ask you the questions and then you can be on your way." Harry said gesturing to the door and following Kristen in

Before Draco went in he turned to look at Hermione whose eyes were shining with unshed tears. "Why don't you just go in the observation room or back to your office, you don't have to be in there." He said pulling her into a hug to comfort her

"I'll just be in the observation room, I should be okay, and here are the questions that you should ask her." She said shoving the parchment into his hand and heading into the room next to the interrogation room.

Draco sighed before walking into the interrogation room and sitting next to Harry, across from Kristen.

"I'll be recording the conversation if that is fine with you." Harry told her and when she nodded Harry pulled out a muggle looking tape recorder and pressed the record button. "For the record can you please state your name?" Harry asked

"Kristen Weasley, I don't have a middle name." She answered

"And you're married?"

"Yes to Ron Weasley, we've been married for six years."

"And how old is your daughter?"

"She is eight, Ron wasn't able to come out with us right away when he learned that I was pregnant, he still visited plenty of times though."

"Right, well we just wanted to ask you a few question about your brother Tristan." Draco explained

"I haven't seen him in about six years, he helped my husband come over from England and then we stopped taking to him."

"Why did your husband need help getting to Finland?" Draco asked

"He was tied down with some personal matters with his family; he never told me any details."

"So you have never met his family?" Harry asked

"No, he said that he was leaving on a bad note and didn't want to upset anyone."

"Well we think your husband is connected to your brother." Draco explained slightly hoping that he was wrong

"That's impossible, like I said we haven't heard from him in six years!" She shouted

"So you have no idea what he is planning on doing to England?" Harry asked

"Oh no, no, no, no he said that he would do that." Kristen mumbled under her breath

"Do what?" Draco asked

"A while ago he told me that he wanted to become Minister of the British Ministry in order to change it back to the way they should be; I don't know what he meant but he did borrow some money from me a while ago too."

"You wouldn't happen to know if he is still in Finland or not would you?" Draco asked

"No but I could probably find out and then tell you."

"That would definitely help us a lot, just don't tell him why you are wondering, we don't want you or your family to get hurt." Harry told her

"Alright, are we done?" Kristen asked

"Yes we are, the auror outside can escort you to the atrium unless you are meeting your family elsewhere." Draco told her and they all stood up and walked out of the room, Hermione walked out of the observation room at the same time.

"No the atrium is fine, thank you very much." Kristen said

"Not a probably, thank you for your time." Harry said as they watched the auror lead Kristen away. "Let's go back to my office." He said to Draco and Hermione


"So what are we going to do? Questioning her was a dead end." Hermione asked once they were seated in Harry's office

"Well I guess we will just have to wait to see if she can find out where Tristan is." Harry said

"I think we should call it a day, it's not like we can do anything else right now." voiced Draco

"Sounds good to me." Hermione agreed

Within a few minutes the trio had gathered their belongings and garbed a lift up to the atrium. They were not prepared for what they saw when they exited the lift. There standing near the statue was Ron with Kristen and their daughter. Hermione froze and Draco and Harry had to drag her along as they walked along the far wall around the statue; both men were glaring daggers at Ron the whole time. Their plan didn't last long though as Ron and his new family began to also walk towards the fireplaces. Harry ran into someone just as the trio reached a fireplace and when he turned to apologize he realized that it was Kristen.

"Um sorry about that." Harry said trying not to look at Ron who had turned pale at the sight of Harry

"Oh don't worry about it; this is my husband by the way, Ron, and our daughter Diana." Kristen said introducing them oblivious to the fact both new full well who the other was

"I know, we've met before." Harry said harshly while Draco pushed Hermione behind him a bit so that she was almost out of sight

"Yeah, it's been a few years." Ron said glaring at Draco for his action

"Oh, well it is a small world." Kristen said trying to lighten the mood

"Right, we were just going then." Harry said turning away from Ron and Kristen back towards Draco and Hermione

"You should join us for dinner!" Kristen shouted all of a sudden

"Huh?" Harry asked confused turning back around to face her

"All three of you should join us for dinner." She repeated

"No thank you." Hermione said speaking for the first time in the conversation. "My kids are expecting me for dinner tonight." She added looking directly at Ron who shrunk away from the glare that she was giving him

"Oh, they're welcome to come too if you want." Kristen said seeming determined to have the trio out for dinner

"No I don't think that they would enjoy themselves, it's nothing personal." Hermione said curtly before walking into the fireplace and flooing off

"What's wrong with her?" Kristen asked rudely

"She's had an upsetting week, she found out her 'dead' husband is still alive and has a new family." Draco spat staring at Ron the entire time who was avoiding making eye contact with anyone

"That's horrible the poor thing, I hope the two of you are taking good care of your friend." Kristen said somehow oblivious to the fact both Harry and Draco were glaring at Ron

"Oh we are, the two of us just started dating so I'll be able to help her out." Draco said with a smile as he watched Ron start to scowl at him

"Well that's good; I hope that you two are happy."

"We are very happy, thank you very much, I need to get going now, please do let us know if you find out where your brother is." Draco said as politely as he could

"I will." Kristen said watching both Harry and Draco leave through the fireplace

"Can you imagine thinking someone is dead just to find out that they left you for a new family?" Kristen said to Ron as they left the ministry with Diana for the street above

"Sounds horrible." Ron mumbled distracted as he was unable to get rid of the sad look that he had seen on Hermione's face from his mind. How can she be dating Malfoy. Ron thought disgusted as he followed his family back to the hotel they were staying at.


Draco had followed Hermione to her house and discovered her in the middle of cooking dinner. She acknowledged his presence with a nod of head but didn't say a word. He simple sat down at the table and waited for her to speak.

"I'm going to need to tell Rose and Hugo." Hermione said after a while breaking the silence of the kitchen

"Do you want me to be here when you do?" Draco asked

"I don't think so, but maybe you could be on standby, Hugo has really started to look up to you."

"I'll be on standby then. Will you do it tonight?"

"I think so, I'd rather do it sooner rather than later and risk them finding out some other way."

"That's a good idea."

Suddenly the floo flared and Rose and Hugo came through.

"Hi Draco!" Hugo shouted running over and giving Draco a hug. "Are you staying for dinner again tonight?" he asked

"No I'm not, I was just leaving actually." Draco told him getting up from his seat

"Aw man, I wish you could stay, we could play chess." Hugo whined

"Don't worry I'll be back soon." Draco said with a laugh

"Can you bring Scorpius when you come back?" Rose asked

"We'll see about that, I'll see you all later." Draco said with a smile and gave Hermione a kiss before leaving

"Dinner is almost ready, why don't you go and wash up." Hermione said and both Rose and Hugo raced off to the bathroom to wash their hands

Hermione placed the dinner on the table and sat down in her usual seat, staring blankly ahead of her; she had no idea how she was going to tell her children that their father was alive. Rose and Hugo came back into the kitchen at the same time chatting about something that had happened earlier and sat down.

"Mum are you alright?" Rose asked noticing Hermione's vague expression

"I need to tell you both something and I'm not sure how to do it." Hermione told them as she placed food on her plate, both Rose and Hugo followed suit waiting for her to say more

"Is it bad news?" Hugo asked

"It depends how you feel about it."

"That's a pretty vague answer." Rose pointed out

"Do you remember when our old owl died?" Hermione asked deciding to switch tactics

"Pig? Yeah I remember, I think I was seven and I cried for like the whole day." Rose said

"I remember too! How old was I then?" Hugo asked wanting to get his facts straight

"You would have been five." Rose told him "What does this have to do with your news?" Rose asked her mother

"Well how would you feel if Pig was all of a sudden alive again?" Hermione asked them

"I'd be confused, you can't come back from the dead." said Hugo

"Uncle Harry came back from the dead." Rose informed her brother

"Really?! No way, you have to be lying." Hugo said

"Nope, I'm telling the truth, just ask him the next time you see him."

"Okay now you two are off topic." Hermione said putting a stop to this argument

"Sorry, I think I would feel happy but at the same time sad because Pig didn't come back to us right away." Rose told Hermione "Why are you asking? Has someone come back from the dead?"

Hermione took a deep breath. "In doing background checks on the mission that I'm working on Draco and I found a…an abnormality I guess it can be called; we found a person who could help us locate someone and at the same time we found someone who has been missing for years."

Hermione looked at her children's faces and could tell that Rose was piecing it together. Her face had paled and she had a look of horror on her face. Hugo appeared to have no idea what Hermione meant or at least he wasn't showing that he knew what she meant.

"N…no mum it's impossible." Rose whispered

"I wish it was dear." Hermione said softly

"Have you seen him?"

"When I was leaving the ministry with Harry and Draco today yes, he didn't say a word to me."

"So he didn't ask about us? About the family that he abandoned!" Rose nearly shouted

"Honey I have no idea what caused him to do any of these, but if he does ask to see you do you want to see him? I'm not sure how long he will be in London."

"I…I don't know, I would have to think about it, can I be excused?"

"Sure thing, I'll bring you dessert later."

Rose stood up and slammed her chair back into the table instead of just pushing it in. She nearly ran out of the kitchen and soon the sound of her door shutting could be heard. Hugo stared after his sister confused by her reaction.

"Mum what's wrong with Rose?" Hugo asked confused

Hermione sighed; she had thought that explaining this to Hugo would be the hardest. "Hugo, I'm just going to tell you what happened, alright?"

Hugo nodded, wanting to know what his mum and sister had been talking about.

"Your father is still alive, he never died."

"But if dad was alive why isn't he here?" Hugo asked still confused, he may not remember his father as well since he was just three when Ron 'vanished' but he knew enough that dad's should always be around

"It's complicated sweetie."

"I'm nine! You can tell me!"

"Well for whatever reason he had your father decided to leave us."

"But didn't he love us?" Hugo asked tears forming in his eyes

"Oh sweetie, he loved us all very much."

"Okay, do I have to see him?"

"Not if you don't want to."

"Good, I want to play chess with Draco, can he come over?"

Hermione was shocked at the quick change in attitude of Hugo. Sure she was never too sure on how much of Ron, Hugo remembered, but it obviously wasn't a lot.

"I'll see if they can come over for dessert."

"Okay, I'm going to go play with my toys."

Hugo pushed his chair in and ran out of the kitchen. Hermione cleared the table with a flick of her wand and quickly stuck her head in the floo, to floo Draco. After a few minutes she finished her conversation with him and stood back as Draco and Scorpius came through the floo. Scorpius quickly took off to talk with Rose and Draco stayed in the kitchen.

"How did they take the news?" Draco asked while he watched Hermione get dessert out

"Well Rose was really upset and hurt and Hugo was just upset a little bit but it didn't last long."

"He was only three when Ron 'vanished.'"

"I know, it still surprised me though. So, Hugo wants to play wizards chess with you, that's actually the main reason you're here." She told him as she carried the dessert and placed it on the kitchen table with plates and forks

"You didn't want to see my dashing good looks again?" Draco said with a smirk

"Maybe if you play your cards right you can stay the night." Hermione whispered into his ear

Draco's response never happened as at that moment the doorbell rang.

"I'll answer the door, Hugo is upstairs in his room, and I'll bring dessert up in a minute." Hermione said heading towards the door not looking back as Draco walked upstairs

As she swung the door open nothing could prepare Hermione for the sight of Ron on her doorstep, who was smiling sheepishly.

"Hi Hermione, mind if I come in?" Ron asked


Interesting huh? Lots of background but the next chapter will be interesting! Please leave a review letting me know what you think/your reactions :)