For my Guest Reviewers: LOL! Yes, Epilogues IS the word I was looking for, goodness, how could I have made such a silly error? Thank you I've fixed it! And for the second one, I appreciate the feedback! One, it is always nice to hear what you want is MORE, that is the best kind of criticism, and second thank you for taking the time to tell me how you like to see characters developed. Perhaps as a grandmother I have forgotten how much parents miss kids, at this stage I am just glad to be able to give them back and have a tempter tantrum be the wife's problem not mine!

Epilogue

Ginny got her wish and was the maid of honor. The wedding was a small affair held at the burrow with the reception held at Draco and Hermione's Manor. The only two who could possibly have been happier were Rose and Scorpius. Except when they were trying to maim one another. Rose declared him the most annoying boy she had ever met and Scorpius declared her the prettiest girl he had ever met. She responded to that statement by pushing him off of his broom.

Three weeks after the wedding and one week after they returned from their honeymoon Hermione received a strange owl requesting her presence at St. Mungo's.

When she arrived she was ushered in to the room of a frail looking woman with black hair and blue eyes. A man she recognized was sitting by her bed holding her hand. There was no doubt who the pair were. Astoria Greengrass and Theodore Nott Jr.

"Hello Healer Granger" began Theo, uncertainly "this is my wife Astoria."

Hermione nodded "I am.. familiar.. how can I help you?"

Astoria looked up weakly from her bed "I want you to explain to my son"she began coughing "Why I.. why.."

"Why you abandoned him and his father to begin an affair and left them both to wonder why they were never good enough?"Hermione would have never spoken to one of her patients like this, but this woman was not one of her patients. She was the bitch who nearly destroyed the man and child she loved.

Astoria nodded sadly. "I don't expect you to understand, and I am not looking for forgiveness, but I don't want my son to think I hated him or that it was his fault.."

"But you are OK with Draco thinking it was his fault?"

"I can't pretend I didn't blame him for the longest time. I wanted him to suffer. But I know now he had nothing to do with it. The curse that is killing me comes from my family."She waved her hand at her medical charts.

Hermione read the charts. The blood curse that was killing Astoria was rare but activated when she became pregnant with a male heir of a pureblood line. Had she been with a younger son it would not have occurred. There was no cure. She would die from the curse.

"But why abandon Scorpius?"

"When I first got sick I didn't know what was wrong with me. I thought it could be contagious and make Scorpius sick. I knew it was a curse but not how it was passed on. I thought it was something with the Malfoy line and mine and I thought if I stayed away it would give him a chance, since he wasn't sick when I left. And the longer I stayed away and he didn't get sick the more certain I was that I was right. And I could not bear the thought of being near Draco, since I blamed him for my condition. It was … irrational I know. That is part of my illness. Theo was there for me at a time when I desperately needed someone. I just don't want to die until someone knows who can explain it to Scorpius when he is older. Please."

Hermione nodded. "I will explain it. But don't expect any more. I had to pick up the pieces of what you left behind because you couldn't be bothered to send a note." She glared at Theo "Either of you. If this is what you need o die in peace, you have it. But more than that? I just don't have it in me. If Draco wants you to see your son he will make that decision. It is not up to me."

She left the hospital and went to find her husband.

After a long walk she told him exactly what she had learned. He was silent for a long time staring in to the distance. "So none of it was me."

"None of it"

"What do you think I should do?"

She sighed "I want to tell you to let her die in the mess she created. But one day Scorpius will have questions. You want to have the right answers."

He nodded. "I won't take him. But I will allow my mother to do so. If you will be there to help him through it when it is done.

"Always my love. I will always be there."