I'm sorry for leaving so many cliff hangers but I always say, if someone doesn't hate you, you are not doing something right. Love you ALL! Not in a creepy way though...
Do you ever wish you could just walk away? Like if you were taking a shower, you would just wash down the drain?
That's how I feel right now, I wish I would just disappear again, hide away from everyone, to just not have a single care or worry.
But those footsteps made my heart almost do double its speed, and put the sickly sweet taste of copper in my mouth. I stared wide eyed at the doorway waiting for the person unknown to appear.
"Mum, you home? I got the Doxie droppings, like you asked." A voice called out.
Footsteps came closer and closer until a head peeked through the door and looked in. The red hair whipped back and forth until they saw me. Blue eyes met brown, and they both started to water.
She took a step forward tripping a little and walking hesitantly over to me as I rise from my seat, biting my bottom lip, waiting for the worst. I'm not even sure what the worst is...
Hitting me? No. Screaming at me? No.
"Hermione? You're here? Alive? I'm our house? How?" She was blinking rapidly, trying to stop the flow of tears.
I go to her and put my hands on her shoulders, "I'll explain everything as soon as the others get here, ok Ginny?"
Please don't hate me, please, I have so much to tell you, just please just listen.
She nods as her face goes blank and I see her emotional barrier go up before my very eyes.
"Molly, Ginny's here!" I call out.
Molly rushes in with a platter of tea, cakes, cookies and coffee. "The others will be here soon."
I nod and poor myself a cup of coffee with sugar as Ginny takes a cup of tea, and glances at me every now and then.
Molly rushes to the door, "Boys, in here! Come on now hurry up the lot of you!"
"Mum what's with the ASAP message? What's got you in such a twist?" A male voice shouts out.
"Just come in, come in, head in to the living room, I have a surprise."
A stampede rushes towards us, thundering along.
"What is this big surprise mum? I have to work in an- Hermione!"
"Move you git, did you forget how to walk?"
Six redheads' two blonds and one black haired come shoving each other into the living room, and one by one they all freeze.
I stand and say calmly, "Bill, Percy, Luna, Ron, Charlie, Fleur, Arthur, Harry, George, please have a seat." I gesturing around at the various miss matched items of furniture.
They all sit hesitantly some farther away than others.
I get a, "Hello, Hermione," from Luna, and I smile in return.
"Hi everyone. I know you're really, really confused, and if you could just hold all questions until the end."
"So I didn't die as you can see, I took off. I didn't want to deal with magic, I did go in the Forbidden Forrest like everyone says, I just don't remember what happened exactly. I went and lived in the muggle world as a singer. Then Draco Malfoy showed up with his niece and they found out who I was. We went out to a club where Neville saw me. We went outside, Neville and I. he was hit with a curse and then I went, um, home. So I visited Neville this morning and Hannah Abbott, did you know they were together? Anyway, she got so jealous that she smacked me! And then I then looked for my wand in my storage compartment because I had to tell you all this before the profit got a hold of you, some teenagers that were friends with Draco's' niece, got my picture to the profit. I went to where the fake me is buried cried so much there, I found my wand decoyed as a rose and came here." I glance wildly around the room hopping for a response.
There is a pregnant silence all around and I look to Molly for help. She comes forward and says, "Yes, I have already quizzed her with my cookies. She is real, and she is here." She looks to Ron who stands up walks over to me with long brisk strides and pulls me into his chest, rocking me silently.
"I thought I was dreaming." He mumbles into my hair.
Next is Arthur, then bill, Charlie, Fleur, Luna, Ron again, Percy in a half hearted hug, and George. I look to where Harry and Ginny are seated looking at me. I give a half smile to Ginny and she stands up and leaves to the up the stairs.
As if I didn't have a red face and watery eyes before, Harry walks over to me and wraps his arm around my shoulder, "She will be fine, just give her time, god we all missed you so much." He pulls me in for a tight hug that make tears spring down my face.
"I missed you too, I-I am so sorry I have no excuse," I bow my head sniffling and run my sleeve across my eyes.
"You did what you had to. I'm, we, are just so happy that you are alive!" harry looks down and beams at me.
