The next two nights went much quicker than Hermione expected and before she knew it, she was flooing to the Burrow, for the first time since she asked for the divorce, to pick up Cole and Kira.

Sirius practically had to sit on her until noon on Wednesday, their arranged pick up time, to keep her from heading through the floo too soon.

The moment that the clock struck noon Hermione was at the floo throwing in a handful of powder and calling out "The Burrow," before stepping in.

She was surprised when she was enveloped in a big hug from Molly after stepping out of the floo and into the Weasley's kitchen.

"Oh, don't look so surprised dear, just because you're not going to be a Weasley any longer doesn't mean that you're not still just as much a part of this family as you were before you and Ron married. If you ask me, Ron was practically begging for the divorce, leaving you alone all the time. He's lucky a divorce is all he's getting if you ask me. Why, if Arthur acted that way…." Molly trailed off.

"Thanks Molly. Glad to know I'm still welcome around here, though I must say that it won't be as often as it used to be, with Ron living here again and all." Hermione answered.

The women made small talk for a few minutes, talking about Celestina Warbeck's newest hit record and a new household spell that Hermione was having a problem with.

"Cole and Kira are in the living room playing. Ron's at work already." Molly told her as she turned to look around for the kids..

'Thanks Molly, the past two days have been two of the hardest days of my life." Hermione admitted.

"I remember the first time I left Bill with Arthur's parents. I worried and fretted over him so much that our 'romantic' night was not even close to romantic. I think I spent the entire night crying." Molly said with a laugh.

Hermione smiled and headed for the living room, scooping her children into her arms and hugging them tight.

She headed back into the kitchen with a child in each arm and went to the floo. "Tell Grammy Weasley bye-bye," she told the kids.

"Bye-bye Grammy," Cole and Kira said together.

"See you later Molly," Hermione said as she threw a handful of powder into the floo and stepped in to take them back to her house.

When they stepped into the living room, they were greeted with a room full of white and red tulips, Hermione's favorite flowers.

Hermione sat the children down and reached for a card on the largest bouquet, placed in the middle of her coffee table. It simply said,

I love you

~S

Hermione grabbed a self inking quill and a piece of parchment and wrote a quick note, and grabbed two of the white tulips and transfigured them into orange Gerber daisies, which, she knew from Harry, were Sirius' favorite flowers, and called to her owl. She tied the note and flowers to his leg and sent him to Number 12 Grimmauld Place with an owl treat in his beak.

As Hermione was making ham and tomato sandwiches for herself and the kids and pulling a bag of crisps out of the pantry, Sirius Black was opening his library window to let her owl in.

He handed it another owl treat before removing the flowers and note from his leg and letting him back out the window.

He chuckled at the Gerber daisies that she had sent him. "Must have been Harry," he thought.

He unfolded the note and his heart skipped a beat as he read,

I love you more,

~H

"That girl, I swear." Sirius said with a laugh.

He penned a note back to her and sent it with her own owl, back to her.

While the owl was in route, Hermione was sitting at the kitchen table smiling and watching Cole devour his sandwich like he hadn't eaten in a month, and Kira eating her sandwich like a little lady. "Opposites from the day they were born," she though.

When she heard the peck at the window she automatically got up and let the bird in and gave it a piece of toast from her sandwich. It hooted in appreciation and flew out the window. The note read,

I love you most

Have Cole and Kira ready to go at noon tomorrow,

I have a surprise for you.

~S

Hermione pondered what the surprise could be as she cleaned up the kitchen and took the children down the street to the muggle park just outside her wizarding neighborhood.

After the children were fed, bathed and put to bed, Hermione lay in her own bed wondering about the surprise the next day.