Through the Veil

Ch. 11

After Charms was over done with; which happened to be an uneventful class of the day, Hermione Granger followed the rest of the Gryffindor group to the Great Hall for lunch. Just before she had reached the doors; a long red headed female had grabbed her arm, and moved towards the Entrance Hall's doors and walked outside. Hermione really had no idea of why Lily Evans wanted to talk to her; for she had the feeling that she did not like her, not even a little.

Lily faced Hermione, "I have to say something and I hope that you don't take it the wrong way, but when you first came here, I had thought that you were going to take my boys away."

Hermione gave her a surprised look upon her face, "Excuse me?"

"I had the boys for all of my Hogwarts life and here you come, and every one of them wants to be around you," Lily waved her arms out, like she was ticked off; like someone was taking her toys away. "I have no friends here, Hermione. The only friend I truly had was the one that called me that God awful name. What is so special about you that Sirius 'playboy' Black wants to be in love with you?"

Hermione gave Lily a worried look, "You do realize that you married James, don't you. Why do you want the other guys to fall for you, when he has stated his claim over you? As for Sirius; I was there for him, when he truly needed a friend and he was there to help me understand the Wizarding World."

Lily huffed, "Were you sleeping with Sirius; while you were with my son, or you really didn't care for his feelings?"

Hermione sighed, "Okay; I see that you are jealous for me being around the guys, because you never really had to share any of them with anyone else. But to say that I was sleeping with Sirius; when he was close to thirty-five years old, when I was only fifteen when I had last seen him. Then you go on to say that I don't care about Harry; when all he has ever been was my brother, in ever since of the word but blood." Hermione gave the red head a sad look, "You must understand that I feel scared about being here, while I should have been with Harry to stop Voldemort. I really don't know how I should act or behave while being in 1978; while I was barely a girl in 1998, and I am not a pretty girl by any standards."

Lily growled, "You're playing me, aren't you? Are you saying that you don't see every guy in the school turning their heads towards you, when they used to do the same to me?"

Hermione laughed full heartily, "I really don't know what you are talking about, for I don't see anything like that. All I see is people questioning why a bookworm had gotten her hands on Sirius Black. Someone who is not beautiful or has a well-known name, or even a family to call her own," Hermione had started to choke up, as tears were trying to make their way from her eyes, "no family that will be there when I need them the most; for the good times or the bad, for I have no one."

As tears started to flood Hermione face; Lily started kicking herself in the ass at that point, "Hermione; I'm sorry, I forgot that you really don't have someone to keep you grounded here. I am such an awful person," Lily reached out towards the out of time girl and wrapped an arm around her, as she saw Hermione breaking down before her. "Please forgive me; I really shoved that foot of mine down where I shouldn't have. Oh Hermione; dry those tears and I will share my boys with you, but not James, he's mine."

Hermione started laughing as she heard what Lily said about James, "Don't worry Lily; he looks too much like Harry for me to do more than talk to him, and he really is a carbon copy of James with your eyes."

Lily pulled away from Hermione as she was picturing what she was told about her son, this caused a smile upon her lips; which she had painted red that morning. "I can't wait to see him again; I really hope that I will be there for his adventures this time around."

Hermione laughed some more, "I just hope that they are nothing like the ones that I have gone through with him; I really want him to have a family Lily; a big happy family that he had always wished of having."

Lily wrapped an arm around Hermione's and led her towards the Great Hall once again, "I hope that he gets that too, we will make sure that everyone will have a better life this time around."

Hermione sighed, "That's all I'll ask, for everyone to have a happily ever after."

As Lily and Hermione made their way through the massive oak doors of the Great Hall; the boys at the Gryffindor table turned around and saw that the girls were together, and waved for the girls to hurry up and sit down before lunch was due to be over. Lily sat down next to James; while Hermione sat next to Sirius, and the girls grabbed some sandwiches and started eating while the boys talked about some ideas that they wanted to do for their paper in their DADA class. Neither one of the boys bothered any of the girls; for they knew that they needed to eat, before going to their next class of the day.

Sirius fished out a copy of his times table and saw that they were going to be in History of Magic's class; which he knew was going to be a boar, but he knew that he was going to have to pay attention in order to keep Hermione proud of him. With a smile upon his face; he was going to prove to her that he was the best man that she would ever find, and she would forget about all the other guys that she might have dated.