A little shorter than usual and I do apologise.

Disclaimer: I don't own Carmilla or Harry Potter also I've been watching a lot of Don't Tell the Bride... I should be stopped.

"Alright Lawrence spill, how's it going working with Mel?" Laf asked once things had settled down again leaving just them, Laura and Danny sat at the table.

"She can be overpowering" Danny told them honestly, not that she didn't love working with Mel but sometimes it was needlessly difficult to come to agreements.

"That's probably an understatement" Laura added.

"She's not that bad once you get used to her" Danny retorted trying to defend her friend and fellow member of the Summer Society.

"Apart from that time she almost hexed Tonks because she morphed her features into one of the Summer Society girls and in her words 'rescued' some of the illegal Butterbeer there was at one of your meetings" Laf chimed in remembering the time from their fourth year.

"She didn't rescue it, she stole it and only the girls in fifth year and up were allowed to drink it so it wasn't that illegal" Danny explained.

"Not that what she did was right but Tonks did only take one six-pack" Laura reasoned.

"And we did appreciate it" Laf tagged on.

Lafontaine, Carmilla and Tonks had managed to sneak onto the Astronomy tower after Tonks had liberated the Butterbeer from the Summer Society and spent the evening laughing before almost being caught by Filch.

"Well I'm glad you had fun" Danny told them rolling her eyes "anyway, how's Perry getting on at St Mungo's?"

"She's good, I mean it's a lot of hours but she's putting in the work so it'll be worth it in the end" they smiled sadly.

"So she's not around much at the moment" Danny sympathized "I know the feeling, sorry I couldn't be around more but I'll try harder to be here more often."

"Timetables Gryffindor's" Mcgonagall called waving her wand and sending a piece of parchment to sit in front of each student.

Hermione picked up her timetable, quickly scanning over the classes for her first day back, noting that their first class of the day should be interesting.

"We have Defence Against the Dark Arts first" Harry commented "I wonder what Umbridge will have in store."

"It might not be as bad as we're assuming" Hermione added trying to sound positive before shaking her head at herself "who am I kidding, it will probably be atrocious."

"At least we'll know what we're up against" Ron shrugged chewing another piece of bacon.

Hermione was about to make a comment to Ron about chewing with his mouth open when the sound of owl's began to fill the room. Many of the owl's began to drop letters in front of first years who'd written their parents before bed, excited to tell them which house they'd been sorted into, with a few delivering to older students.

Hedwig's unmistakable form dropped a bundle in front of Harry before flying off, leaving the hustle and bustle of the Great Hall as a small barn owl made its way towards the three of them and landed in front Hermione.

"Isn't that Laura's owl?" Harry asked, the bird waiting patiently to be dismissed.

"I believe so" Hermione told him stroking the bird "yeah, this is Cookie, you can go back to Laura now."

The small bird twitched its head in understanding before taking off and exiting the Great Hall just as the rest of mail owls.

"So what have you got there mate?" Ron asked Harry who was inspecting his mail.

"Letter from Padfoot and a copy of the Prophet" Harry replied handing Ron the newspaper.

"Honestly Harry, I don't know why you bother" Hermione told the boy as she opened her own letter.

"I know it's crap but at least if I know what they're saying I can… I don't know, speak out against it better?" he shrugged "I'd rather know what they were saying than be out of the loop I suppose."

She patted him on the shoulder sympathetically and went back to her own letter noticing that the handwriting was messier than Laura's.

Hey Hermione,

I said I'd write as often as possible, not sure if this is too soon though but what the hell.

I know it's technically been less than a day since I saw you at the time of writing this but I kind of miss you already and yes I'm sure at least 50% of it is because it's warmer in the bed with you there.

I hope school is good, I'm sure there isn't a lot that can go wrong on the first day, even if it is Hogwarts.

Oh, and Laura got the job, she's getting the back page of the Quibbler to fill with news.

I'll write again soon,

Tonks x

Hermione smiled down at the words making a mental note to reply as soon as she got a moment to herself. She was brought out of her thoughts by Ron asking her a question.

"So what was Laura saying?" he asked.

"It was from Tonks" she saw no point in lying about who the letter was from "she said that Laura got the job at the Quibbler."

"That's great" he nodded.

"I knew she would ace it" Ginny appeared beside them.

"Where did you come from" Ron asked not having noticed his sister's arrival.

"I was at the other end of the table" she shrugged.

Hermione eyed her suspiciously knowing she hadn't seen the girl when she glanced down the table earlier. Her suspicions were confirmed when a familiar blonde made her way to the Ravenclaw table, you're such a terrible liar Ginny, Hermione thought to herself.

"So let me get this straight? My batshit crazy aunt has escaped from Azkaban and met up with my oh-so loving mother and other aunt?" Carmilla asked, distaste and sarcasm dripping from every word.

"To put it simply" Danny asked "pretty much."

"Well that's fucking fantastic" the Raven haired witch sighed.

Laura wrapped an arm around her girlfriend's shoulders feeling the other witch calm at her touch. They'd all chatted for a bit once the Ravenclaw arrived home with Danny and Carmilla only threatening to kill each other once before Tonks arrived and they told both of the girls what had happened at the meeting earlier.

"Could be worse I suppose" Tonks shrugged.

"True" Carmilla agreed "I could have to visit grandmother and listen to her bigoted rants or about how much of a disappointment your mother is because she made the conscious decision to be a half decent human being."

"Told you so" Tonks laughed.

"So your family is just one big barrel of laughs" Danny raised her eyebrow in question.

"Indeed they are Xena" Carmilla responded feeling Laura's grip on her tighten slightly, knowing that no matter how much sarcasm she used speaking about her family could still be difficult for Ravenclaw.

"At least you don't have to talk to them any more" Laf reasoned.

"True Einstein" Carmilla smirked at her best friend "very True."

Update: I'll be back to posting chapters in a couple of weeks, I'll be without internet for a while.

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