Harry and Hermione finally move out of the Lupin home and into their new apartment. Guess you can say that it's a start for them and Arielle. Pansy and Draco will appear too, with some news regarding their captors.

I did receive a review, saying that no one is in character. Acting as if Malfoy and Parkinson have done nothing wrong; it's been two years and everyone's made peace not to mention what's happened so of course no one is in real character. As I stated before Draco and Pansy have made peace with Harry and Hermione so they're not best friends exactly but they seem to like each other.

That and the pairing of SSxRL, it's just a pairing but there won't be any slash scenes in this fic other than a few hugs and kisses that's it.

Oh yeah, I know I made some mistakes in the previous chapters, but please disregard those.

It's just fiction, so it doesn't have to match everything exactly.

I don't own Harry Potter.

Enjoy!

Hermione's P.O.V.:

"Alright, clothes, toys, books, etc…" it was the big day of our move. Harry, Arielle and I were moving into our new apartment today and we were almost done packing our things.

"Mummy!" I turned seeing Arielle wearing her blue jumper, bouncing up and down holding a half-eaten chocolate frog in her hand.

"Remus!" I shouted and he came up. "What did I say about giving her too much chocolate?" he looked down and saw the candy.

"I didn't give her that." I gave him a look. "I swear I locked the candies up after you asked me to."

"Then who gave it to her?"

"Guilty." Severus called from the den.

"Severus!"

"Hey she asked." I groaned, Arielle was wrapping both her uncles around her finger and she was starting to take advantage of that.

"Sweetie give mummy the chocolate." She looked at me. "Give mummy the chocolate."

"No!" she ran out of the room and Remus laughed.

"I'm sorry Hermione…"

"Just get that away from her the last thing I need is my two year old daughter on a sugar high." I went back to packing the rest of my things, and luckily Harry and I didn't have too much otherwise this would be a stressful day. All we had were our clothes, our wands, some books, Arielle's toys, and a couple of home trinkets from Molly and Arthur.

"Mione." I turned seeing Harry come into the room. "Are you about done?"

"Almost, just double checking to make sure I didn't miss anything."

"Actually you two are forgetting something." Remus came back into the room holding a box. "I forgot I had these from when you vanished." He set it down on the bed and opened it; inside was Harry's old photo album, the one Hagrid gave him at the end of first year. I also saw his old Quidditch uniform, some photos Colin Creevey had taken in his first year, my old Ancient Runes textbook I had scribbled down all my notes in, a photo of Harry's parents dancing, the original Order photo from Sirius, the scarf Molly made me in our fifth year, a snitch, and a green hourglass with white sand that I had found in my sixth year.

"Remus…where did you get all this?" he smiled.

"I was helping clean out some old areas after the war and found some of these. I saved them in case…you know." I had to hug him, and Harry joined me.

"Thanks Remus, I can't believe you saved this." Harry.

"Just a kind gesture from an old friend, now come on we've got to get you two out of here." He walked to the door.

"Trying to get rid of us that easily are you?" Harry smirked.

"Oh hush." I grabbed the bags, shrunk them and the box, and then placed them in a smaller bag. Our landlord had the apartment cleaned out and done over just to be safe. Arielle was so excited we would have our own home, and she would have her own room just like we promised.

"And that's everything." Harry held me and kissed my cheek. "Let's get our daughter and go to our new home." We walked out to the den, and Severus was there with Arielle in his arms and Remus with Teddy.

"Ready to go?" Severus.

"Ready as we'll ever be."

"Then let's move." We were going to floo our way to the Leaky Cauldron, and then disapparate to the new neighborhood. Of course we'd likely run into some people but it didn't matter since we were going to have our own home and no one would bother us.

"Everyone step inside." The fireplace extended and Harry grabbed a handful of floo powder. "Leaky Cauldron!" in a rush of emerald flames we ended up in the main part of the Leaky Cauldron's lobby. It wasn't crowded, so we could sneak out easily.

Unfortunately that wasn't going to happen when we spotter Lavender Brown and Romilda Vane in the corner, glaring or at least Vane was.

"Ignore them love." Harry pulled me aside and we made our way to the door. The minute we set foot outside we disapparated to the neighborhood, I quickly took out the bags and made them large again in an alley. Harry grabbed some and I grabbed the rest. "In we go."

"Do you have the key?" he nodded holding it up. "Good." We walked in, took a spot on the elevator straight to the fourth floor.

"I like it so far." Remus.

"Wait until you see the flat." Harry unlocked the door and the fresh smell of pine and lemon hit my nose. The room was recently cleaned just like I thought.

"It's nice, you both picked a great spot." Severus set Arielle and she just went all over looking for her room.

"Hold on sweetie daddy'll show you your room." Harry grabbed her hand and took her into the back. I levitated the suitcases into the main living room and pulled out the home trinkets. A nice blue and silver china bowl that Molly had been wanting to give to me and Ron if we ever got married but still gave it to me since she considered me her daughter; some dishes and silverware from my parents, a hand woven blanket from Andromeda, and a linen tablecloth I bought in the alley sometime back.

"It's a nice place Hermione." Severus helped me set out the items while Teddy went to look around with Harry and Arielle.

"Thanks, Harry and I agreed it's a good home."

"You know if you want to look for a job you could always work at Hogwarts next year, I think Minerva's looking for a new Ancient Runes professor."

"Maybe, but right now I just want to focus on being a mother. I want to give Arielle everything she missed as a baby before I enroll her into a daycare."

"That sounds good."

"I figured when she starts daycare I can look into some things and look for a job. Then I can focus on my career for a bit and spend time with my family."

"And your parents, are you going to see them soon?"

"We are, at that dinner remember?"

"Oh right, well here." He handed me the table cloth and we set the table.

"Mummy!" Arielle came running in with her doll in her hands. "Pretty!"

"You like your room?" she nodded and clapped. "That's my girl." I lifted her into my arms.

"It's almost hard to believe how smart she is." Severus smiled. "She talks so much better than most two year olds."

"She is your daughter after all." Remus came back with Harry and Teddy. "No doubt she'll be more brainy than brawny." Severus scowled. "Sorry Sev."

"Well let's hope if she's in Gryffindor she's more like you Hermione, and at least brave like her father."

"Are you suggesting that I'm not brave?" I glared at him playfully.

"You were brave enough in the library at night that's for sure." Harry laughed.

"Bad daddy." Arielle whispered.

"Hah our daughter is on my side." I stuck out my tongue.

"Only because she takes after you." Harry groaned. "Come on let's finish unpacking."

"No need." Remus and Severus raised their wands and in a rush of magic and color all of our things were out and ready wherever they needed to be.

"Ok…" that went faster than I thought. "Now that we've…unpacked why don't we go get lunch?"

"Hungwy mummy." Arielle rubbed her stomach.

"Me hungry daddy." Teddy repeated the same action.

"Three Broomsticks?"

"No, too crowded."

"Leaky Cauldron?"

"Ron will likely be there."

"Hog's head?" that sounded good. "Oh that reminds me, I promised Pansy and Draco we would meet them there."

"Severus…" Remus.

"It slipped my mind shut up."

"Look let's just go and let's hope we don't run into any trouble with anyone." They all nodded and we disapparated out of the apartment straight to Hogsmeade. After we entered the Hog's Head we saw dear old Aberforth Dumbledore come our way.

"Potter, Granger." He gave a small smile.

"Hello Aberforth, how are you?" Harry shook hands with him.

"Been quiet around here, I saw the prophet and don't worry I don't believe any of it. I do know that kid's yours though." He pointed at Arielle.

"Yes, can we have a table?"

"In the back, I'll get your drinks."

"Butterbeers and two glasses of milk please." We sat at the table and Arielle kept staring at the goat in the back, a small baby billy goat no doubt, one of Aberforth's favorites. "This place has been fixed up nicely."

"Indeed so."

"Hello everyone." We all turned seeing Draco and Pansy coming over, and Aberforth came with our drinks.

"Hi Draco, Pansy please sit down." Two chairs joined the table. "How is everything?"

"Things are good, we just came from the Ministry." Pansy smiled. "Kingsley's found some of the men who took you." My eyes widened, that was quick.

"How so?"

"It turns out that some death eaters managed to hide under polyjuice potion. They used the identities of their victims to hide in plain sight, and the few that were caught confessed under Veritaserum that they took part in your abduction." She whispered this so the kids wouldn't hear.

"Kingsley's really put word on this hasn't he?" I felt relieved.

"He has, but they still haven't found my parents." She sighed. "That reminds me, Kingsley wants to meet with you and Pot-Harry tomorrow."

"When?"

"Sometime in the morning, before noon." I nodded.

"Did he say why?"

"Trial." My heart sank. I was hoping we could avoid a trial but of course those death eaters would want an audience when they gloat about what they did to me and Harry.

"No way around it?" she shrugged.

"What the bloody…!" all of our heads jerked to see Ron looking at our table. "What is this?" he stormed over glaring at Draco and Pansy.

"Ron…" I tried to talk but he interrupted me.

"What are you doing with them?" he pointed at them. "They're Slytherins!"

"Ron they aren't evil."

"Not evil? Hermione they bullied us throughout school and joined Voldemort how can you say they aren't evil?"

"They paid for their crimes Ron, now unless you came to apologize I suggest you leave." Harry glared at him.

"Apologize for what?"

"For hurting Hermione and trying to steal her from me."

"Why should I?" Ron glared. "She was mine first." I stood up from the table.

"I'm not a possession Ron so don't call me yours! We are here to have lunch with friends and if you can't respect any of them then leave." Ron was fuming, his face as red as his hair. Arielle huddled close to me and I made sure she stayed behind my legs.

"Mummy…" she looked mad.

"Easy sweetie, mummy's here." I looked back at Ron.

"I don't know why you've done this to me; all I did was wait for you for two long years. I was faithful; I never gave up hope that you would be alive. Then you return with this kid." He pointed at Arielle. "And engaged to him…why? Why Hermione? Why would you do this?" I was about to shout then I saw some tears in his eyes, and I was at a loss for words.

"Ron…please. We can talk this over later…please just…just go home and clear your head." He seethed, but the tears were still in his eyes and one fell down his cheek. To my surprise, he nodded and left out the front door without another word.

"Is it my imagination or was Weasley showing some tears?" Draco.

"Can you blame him, he's heartbroken but his pride's as big as his ego so he lashes out." Pansy shocked me there. "Girls have eyes for these things."

"She's right." I sat back down. "Ron's just upset about this."

"He needs to stop blaming everyone." Remus.

"Look let's not let Ron's outburst get us under let's just enjoy lunch and relax." Easy for Harry to say, either way though Ron and I had to have a talk soon.

"Harry we can't ignore this anymore." He nodded at me.

"I agree, I just don't want to upset the kids." Thankfully Arielle and Teddy were too busy playing with their spoons to notice anything. "We'll talk to him soon, I promise."

"Good, I don't want this to get any worse." Aberforth came with some appetizers and while we managed to cool off after Ron's reaction, I kept thinking about how we were going to help him get around. He was still a friend, and I know Harry didn't want to lose his friendship neither did I; but if he couldn't get past his pride and see that we were in love now, then it would have to stop.

Ron would see reason, I would make sure of it even if it meant giving him a few bumps and bruises along the way.

Yeah this chapter's kind of boring, sorry about that I've been under some stress since I'm starting school soon. Next chapter will be the talk with Ron, and more on the remaining death eaters and no this is not going to end where all the culprits are caught fast and gone to trial.

Still have plans for the Parkinsons, so please bear with me.

Took forever to write, so hope it's worth the wait.

R&R

Later!