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Authors Warning: There is a small section of this story that has some homophobic words and I just want everyone to know this doesn't reflect me or my beta starkiss666
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Hermione was up bright and early the next morning, excited for her girls (and Teddy!) day out, she had it all planned, they'd start by getting breakfast in Port Angeles, followed by car shopping for her, and maybe some clothes shopping while they looked for new bedding. Bella had mentioned she wanted to find something for her dad's birthday which was coming up in the next month, she never really left Forks other than to go to the reservation, so this was the perfect opportunity to find something.
She dug out a purple loose-fitting tank top, a pair of no show socks and her black shorts that laced up the sides, she had put a permanent sticking charm on the ties making them unable to be untied, she learned her lesson the first time she wore them. The twins couldn't walk in the same room as her without flinching and covering their now reappeared bits for months after their little prank. She shook her head at the memory and pulled out her all black low top converse, she charmed the laces to match her tank top and headed into the bathroom to get ready.
She let her hair out of the plait it was in and ran her fingers through it to part the curls. Using her wand, she put two small, tight twists on each side of her head running back underneath the rest of her hair, she then pulled the front part of her hair up and did a light braid keeping her smaller "bangs" out of her face, letting the braid fall down the left side of her hair securing it with a silver bead that had Algiz, the Viking rune of protection, engraved on it. She then added three smaller braids on the right underside of her hair securing them with the same type of beads but one had Fehu, the rune for luck, one had Berkana, the rune for rebirth, and the last had Perth, the rune of fate.
She snorted at the last one, they had all been a gift from Luna, but this one was given separately right before they left the wedding. Luna knew Hermione was not a firm believer of fate, but she swore up and down Hermione would need this with her move. Shaking her head, she pointed her wand to her face and muttered a spell, when she opened her eyes, she saw it was perfect except for that one eyebrow, muttering under her breath she fixed it the muggle way, did the charm to keep it in place and quickly got dressed. Glancing at the makeup once more she smiled, she didn't have much in the way of eye makeup on besides a shimmery nude color and a smudgy cat eye with some mascara, her lips were a dark plum which set off the light eye makeup and made her perfectly white teeth stand out.
She tucked just the front of the tank top into her shorts before summoning her black studded backpack and making sure she had the appropriate cards and everything in it before summoning her cell phone and throwing it in as well. She ran downstairs to find Remus and Sirius standing around the island again, making a mental note to look for some barstools while they were shopping, she walked up and stood between them.
"Is Teddy ready?" She questioned distracting Sirius enough to steal the last of his donut off the paper towel he was using as a plate. "Also, papa, we have plenty of plates in the cupboards that I know you guys put away, feel free to use them." She winked at him and she shoved the donut into her mouth before he could object.
Remus just chuckled and shook his head at her, "he's ready, he's just hiding in hopes to scare you when you go to look for him." he nodded towards the pantry door where she could see little fingers wrapped around the edge and an eye peeking around the corner.
"Oh my, I need to get in the pantry to find something to eat! I'll just go do that!" she said loudly and over dramatically, listening to the quiet, well quiet for Teddy, giggles that were coming from the pantry,
As she got closer, he threw open the door and launched himself at her, "rawrrr! I'm gunna get you!"
She let herself fall to the ground, careful not to fall on him, "Oh no! The dragon has got me, help me papa!" she reached her hand towards Sirius who just gave her a very shark like grin before stalking his way over.
"I got her Teds, tickle her!" Teddy's face split into a huge grin before he started tickling her sides as Sirius held her down.
"Nooo!" she howled, laughing when he ran his tiny fingers over a particularly ticklish spot on her ribs, finally Sirius let go of her and she grabbed Teddy hugging his tiny body to her. "I've captured the tickle dragon!"
He pouted for a minute since his fun had stopped but when she let him go, he smiled and ran to Remus who picked him up and deposited him on the island top. Hermione took this as a chance to see what they had dressed him in. She almost laughed out loud realizing Sirius had to have been the one who dressed him, the boy was dressed in a black t-shirt that said 'I'm this many', with a picture of a hand throwing up the sign of the horns, a pair of dark jeans and his black velcro shoes, and his hair was done up in a mini faux-hawk, he was sporting black hair and grey eyes at the moment.
"Well I'm going to take him and get headed out, its already 7 and it'll take us about two hours to get to Port Angeles, Bella and I are going to get breakfast and do some shopping. Is there anything we need for the house?" She glanced at Remus as she said this noticing the bags under his eyes, "Remus? Would you rather I stay here and help Sirius? I can watch Teddy and help him while you take a nap if you want?"
Remus shook his head, "no Mina, take him and have a good day with Bella, it won't take Sirius and I very long to add on the three maybe four rooms we are gunna add, we discussed building a bathroom on the first floor since we won't have the one in the basement once we make it into a dueling area and potions room, we are going to expand the basement a bit to keep the laundry area though. Might take us 2 maybe 3 hours and then I know Sirius will make me go take a nap." He gave her a tired grin when Sirius nodded emphatically beside him.
"You're sure?" Sighing when he nodded again, she reached for Teddy, "Okay, well you know I'm just a call away okay? If you need me, I'll come right home. Come here Teddy bear, we are gunna go for a ride okay?" He clapped his hands and she told him to tell daddy and padfoot bye bye, which he responded by waving and sticking his tongue out at them which made her giggle.
A few minutes later they were pulling up in front of the Swan residence, she beeped the horn a few times and watched as Bella swung the door open and waved to her dad before sprinting to the car.
"Is this yours?" Bella asked with awe, "This is such a nice car! You know, Dr. Cullens son Edward drives one kinda like this, I've seen him driving it around town."
At the mention of the name Cullen Hermione's hands gripped the steering wheel so tight her knuckles were turning white, "No, this is just a rental actually, I was thinking we may even go car shopping today? I probably won't buy anything right now but it can't hurt to look!"
Bella was too distracted playing with all the buttons and knobs and trying to find a station she liked to notice Hermione's discomfort. She took this chance to take a good look at what her cousin was wearing, dark wash boot cut jeans that did absolutely nothing for her figure, a very un-form fitting dark green tank top that looked like it was three sizes too big showing off the bright red scars on her shoulder and a pair of ratty old sneakers. Hermione knew Bella wasn't much of a girly girl but she decided when they went shopping, she was going to get her into some better fitting clothes.
She pulled out her wand from her purse and pointed it at Bella, "I'm going to alter your top and jeans a bit okay?" With Bella's confused nod she went to town, making the tank top fitted showing off her slender frame, and she altered the jeans to more of a fit and flare boot cut that she knew would show off Bella's backside a bit more, Bella took after the women of their family, a slender willowy figure not unlike Lunas, Bella was a bit taller than the rest of the women in her family, at 5'9" but she wore the height well.
Hermione took after the women on her dad's side, short and curvy, it was further accentuated when she was adopted by Sirius. When she hit about 15 and started really developing, she hated her body, it took many months and help from Andromeda to make her realize that her body looking the way it did wasn't a bad thing and it wasn't her fault for attracting attention when she didn't want it. Andromeda had taught her an old, very old, Black family spell that most of the women in their family had used, it was applied to the caster and would cause a serious shock to anyone who grabbed her without her consent, and that had not so innocent intent behind the groping. Cormac McLaggen had been subject to the shock many times, to the point the spell had left scars on his hands, finally Harry had taken it upon himself, much to Hermione's dismay, to punch him right in the face the next time he approached her. While not the way she would've handled it, she was glad for the backup as it made other boys seem to want to stay away from the boy who lived's sister.
Once she was done with Bella's clothes she went on to her face, Bella wore no makeup and was beautiful without it so she just did a simple spell that filled in her eyebrows a bit, added some mascara, blush and a nice light pink lip tint. It really made her eyes pop and showed they were not just a dull brown, the were cinnamon in color and around the pupil was a ring the color of firewhiskey. When she was finished, she let Bella look in the mirror. "Hermione! How did you get the makeup to look so natural? I never wear makeup because every time I put it on I look like a china doll."
Hermione laughed and told her that she'd teach her how to do this look the muggle way one day. With that they were off, an hour or so later they were pulling up in front of a little bistro in Port Angeles. They parked and climbed out, Hermione reached into the back to grab Teddy when a wolf whistle sounded from the other side of the street. She ignored it and finished unbuckling Teddy and pulled him out, setting him on her hip while she shut the door. "Aye, baby, leave the kid in the car and come hang wit us." She heard someone holler from behind her, ignoring it yet again she walked to the other side of the car to go inside with Bella. "Yo bitch! I'm talkin to you, show some respect!" Hermione scowled and handed Teddy to Bella who took him willingly not liking the look on her cousin's face. "Oh, I see you're one of those dyke bitches, well why don't you come here and let me show you what a real man can do and we'll fix you huh?"
That was the last straw for Hermione, never one to back down from a challenge she spun around and stalked across the street to the group of guys standing there. "Which one of you catcalled me?" She smiled a flirty smile enticing him to admit it was him, when the guy stepped forward with a cocky smirk on his face she eyed him for a second before she leaned forward a bit, showing off a hint of her ample cleavage and waited for him to glance down before grabbing him by the man bun on the back of his head. The pain from how she had his hair held and the fact that she was almost a foot shorter than him brought him to his knees in front of her.
She leaned forward, her lips almost touching his ear as she whispered, "If you ever catcall me again, you won't have a tongue to speak with when I'm done with you." She moved her leg a bit so it was positioned between his, "and, I'm going to leave you with a little parting gift to remember this lesson." with that she none too gently kicked her leg forward and watched as he fell on his face, holding himself when she let go of his hair. She stood there staring down the rest of his group who just put their hands up in the air, with a sniff she turned and sauntered back across the road to a grinning Bella.
Bella sat Teddy down on the ground and he immediately grabbed Hermione's hand, "You're insane Hermione! What if they had ganged up on you!" Bella scolded her although the smile on her face told a different story.
Hermione shrugged and leaned towards her and whispered, "I'm a witch, I may not be legally allowed to do magic in front of muggles but I'd have figured something out I promise." She winked at her cousin which made Bella snort in laughter. The trio walked into the little bistro and got a table, Hermione then ordered a bowl of apple cinnamon oatmeal for Teddy with a glass of milk, while she ordered a Belgian waffle with peanut butter and strawberry jam and a side of bacon. Bella ordered some cheesecake stuffed french toast, topped with raspberry sauce and a side of sausage, both girls ordered orange juice with their meals. They chatted about things in general, Bella telling her about her time in Arizona with her mom, Hermione questioned Bella about her classes, learning quickly that Science was Bella's favorite class. She also remembered that Bella took ballet when she was younger and brought that up making Bella laugh and tell her how she had to quit because of how big of a klutz she was.
Their food came out and the topic soon turned to boys, Hermione told her about finding her ex fiancé in bed with a man, Bella thought that was hilarious. Bella told her about a boy she had been seeing back in Pheonix, she wasn't really sad about breaking up with him because she knew they weren't meant to last forever but it was a comfortable relationship. Hermione noticed the blush forming on her cousins' cheeks when she asked if she had met any boys since moving to Forks. She watched as Bella poked at her french toast and when she glanced up and saw Hermione watching her the blush darkened.
"Well, I mean, I have met some of the boys. Like Mike Newton is this loser who will be in my class this year. He's annoying, but he hangs around the diner during the day and he saw me with my dad and had to introduce himself, you should've seen dads face, thought he was gunna arrest him for some made up charge just to get him to shut up and go away." Bella laughed, so did Hermione because she could see uncle Charlie doing just that to keep a boy away from his daughter. "There's also Edward."
Hermione cocked her head to the side and let a look of concentration come onto her face, "Edward, you mentioned him before, right? The doctor's son?" She almost laughed out loud at how red Bella's face was getting.
"Yes, the doctor's son, Edward is going to be in my senior class as well. He's one of the, things, we discussed when we talked about Jake and them remember?" Hermione nodded, she just liked riling her cousin up, she also had a slight worry about her cousin getting too close to the vampires.
"Bella, the English professor, Mr. Halstrom, he's in the hospital with pancreatic cancer, you know how I'm here to study the behaviors of them, I am planning on applying for the substitute position if he's not better in a month or so. Would that bother you? Having me there as a teacher?"
Bella had stopped eating when Hermione said that, she got a look on her face that she couldn't quite decipher before shrugging, "I don't think it would be an issue for me, I know you wouldn't let our relationship get tarnished by being my teacher or let me use it to my advantage. Do you have all the credentials to be a teacher?"
Hermione nodded, "I do, well, I will. It's not like I don't know everything that will be taught this year and it'll give me the ultimate advantage to watch how they interact with people. Even though who I'm really interested in is Dr. Cullen, though, I heard you can tell me a bit about your experience with him." She leveled Bella with a glare that had her shifting in her seat. "When were you going to tell me that one of the boys hurt you?"
Bella sighed, "It was an accident, I accused them of trying to make Jake join a gang...I was obviously wrong but still. Dr. Cullen was great with stitching me up, I didn't even know what he was till Jake told me later that day."
Hermione sighed and nodded before taking another bite of her waffle, about that time the waitress stopped by and put the check on the table, which Hermione grabbed before Bella even had the chance to look at it, she placed her card inside and handed it back to the waitress.
"So I need some bedding, I figured we could go look at some clothes while we did that as well, maybe we will find something for uncle Charlie." Bella agreed and finished her food while Hermione cleaned up Teddy's face. Soon they were done the trio headed back to the car and once they were all in they headed towards a department store Bella's GPS lead them to.
"Okay Bella, where would you like to start? Bedding? Gift for Charlie?" she shot her cousin a smirk and continued, "Or an entire new wardrobe for you?"
Bella let out a shocked squeak, "what? No I don't need a whole new wardrobe! I have plenty of clothes! I love my clothes."
Hermione started laughing, "Okay, no full new wardrobe, but I will be buying you a few more essentials and we are going to get you some clothes that fit you a bit better, more like the clothes I have you in now, I can alter most everything you have to fit you better also, won't take me very long if you'd like." She gestured to the outfit Bella was wearing.
With an eye roll and a sigh Bella nodded, "Fine, but I get the final say in what you buy me! Nothing too, skimpy." She eyed Hermione's shorts with a raised eyebrow that caused her older cousin to grin.
"Between you and me Bella dear, these are spelled to not come untied, and they're not skimpy, everything is covered that needs to be covered" She replied with a laugh, finally parking the car and hopping out to unload Teddy. "Does this department store have cheap strollers you think? Just little ones, I forgot to bring Teddy's stroller with me and I don't think we want to haul a two-year-old around all day."
Bella waited on the other side of the car her Hermione to join her before answering, "Ya they have a children's department, I'm sure we can find something small in there! Want to go there first?"
Hermione nodded and placed Teddy on her hip before the trio headed inside, following the signs pointing them to the children's department. The quickly found a small single stroller and bought it before heading back out to the car so Hermione could magic it together. Once that was complete, they strapped a sleepy Teddy into it, casting a noise dampening bubble around the stroller, making sure nothing would disturb Teddy's small nap and headed for the houseware section.
A few minutes later Hermione was trying to decide between a couple colors of satin sheets, she glanced down at Teddy taking in his sleeping form with a small smile on her face, when suddenly a chill went through her casing her spine to stiffen and every hair on her stand on end. She spun around one hand on Teddy's stroller and the other in her pocket gripping her wand. Her eyes sought her cousin finding her unharmed but flirting with the same vampire Hermione had seen in her memories. She watched as Bella twirled a piece of her chocolate locks around her finger laughing at something the boy said, Hermione didn't miss the predatory look in his eyes as he watched Bella, she glared at the vampire when he lifted his golden eyes to meet hers. They were darkening by the second.
Hermione felt something probing at her mind, narrowing her eyes at him she secured her occlumency barriers, fighting the urge to smirk smugly when his eyes widened a fraction. She couldn't resist mouthing to him that she'd light his ass on fire if he so much as touched a hair on her cousin's head. She could tell if he wasn't already super pale, he would've been after that threat if the was he took a slight step away from Bella and his eyes widened a bit was any indication. She continued glaring him down as he bid Bella goodbye and wandered away but not before glancing back at Hermione as he did.
Hermione schooled her features and turned back to the sheets grabbing two sets of the navy colored satin sheets. She grabbed a cream-colored set of Egyptian cotton sheets that would fit the bed she was currently using so they had a spare set.
"Hermione! I just talked to Edward! He was here, did you see him? He's gorgeous, isn't he?" Bella gushed, "Do you really need three sets of sheets?" She raised a questioning brow to her cousin.
Hermione shook her head, "I didn't see him, I'm sorry Bella, you should have introduced us, maybe the next time. I was too distracted trying to decide between the navy and dark teal color."
Bella smiled at that, before grabbing the cart again and leading Hermione to the comforters. "Now, what color are you thinking? White? Black?"
Hermione leaned against Teddy's stroller and thought, "I think a nice light grey will be perfect with the navy color I chose."
Bella nodded her eyes darting around searching for something of that color. Her eyes lit up when she saw the perfect set, a simple plain dove grey duvet set. It came with two damask printed pillow shams, the design being just a slightly darker grey. She quickly drew Hermione's attention and pointed it out.
"Oh Bella it is perfect! I'll need a king size will you watch Teddy while I grab that down?"
Bella nodded and took control of the stroller, glancing around and spotting some solid decorative pillows with some pickups in the fabric and a fluffy dove grey body pillow. Turning to see if Hermione was watching she quickly grabbed two of the navy pillows and one of the body pillows throwing them in the cart before returning her attention to the stroller in front of her.
Hermione had finally given up trying to reach the set by herself, she doubted even Bella could reach it. She huffed and informed Bella she was going to find a worker to get it down for them, since she couldn't risk just summoning it and having a muggle see. Turning on her heel she wandered down the isle turning the corner only to smack right into something solid as a brick wall, she would have fallen right on her bum if freezing cold hands hadn't grabbed her upper arms holding her just above the floor. She steeled herself to look up, a small growl escaped her lips when she met the honey colored eyes of none other than Edward Cullen. His eyes widened comically when the growl slipped out, he almost let her fall before standing her up.
"Of fucking course it's you Cullen, are you stalking us?" Hermione crossed her arms under her chest, a scowl on her face as she started tapping her foot staring the vampire in front of her down.
Edward held his hands up in surrender, "I'm not stalking you, well, not really. I'm curious about you and I feel a very strong pull towards your cousin. I can't help myself but be near her."
Hermione glanced around not seeing anyone near them she grabbed his arm with her bare hand, "Listen to me and listen carefully vampire, I don't give a shit if you're a 'vegetarian' or not, if you or any of your coven."
"family" Edward interrupted before snapping his mouth shut at the feeling of heat running up his arm, radiating from her hand he looked there then back at her face and kept his mouth shut at her glare.
"If you or any of your 'family' lay one finger on my cousin that isn't by her choice I will wipe your entire family off the face of this earth. Do you understand me." She let a bit more heat radiate from the palm of her hand into his arm, not enough to burn him but enough to be painful.
Edward was torn between being amazing by this tiny human, and she was human even if her scent was a bit off, and being pissed that she thought he would hurt Bella. He wanted to pry her hand off him because whatever she was doing was painful to him but he didn't want to hurt her. A small sigh left his lips when she finally released him.
"I asked you vampire, do, you, understand, me?"