Just one again today, but it's also update day on Genesis, so if you haven't checked that one out, do! Time travel, Dramione, best friend Theo, and lots of ritual magic!

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(And remember if you're having a hard time I FEEL YOU, but we need you out here!)


Tuesday, October 7, 1998

She was supposed to attend a tea party that day, Theo was supposed to complete some business at Gringotts, and Draco was supposed to go to work. But none of those things happened. Instead, Hermione found herself surrounded by Theo and Draco as Yvonne did a diagnostic on her stomach.

"Everything looks absolutely perfect," the Midwife cooed. "I'm always happy to do house calls, but usually there is a reason, what can I do?"

Hermione chewed on her lip, nervously not saying anything. Draco squeezed her hand and she sucked in a deep breath. "I'm depressed."

Yvonne just nodded thoughtfully. "That's quite common in-"

"No, I've always been depressed," Hermione cut her off. "And I never realised the toll it was taking on me and Theo and Draco before they confronted me about it yesterday. I don't want to feel like this! I want to be good and okay and happy, but I don't know how!" She was embarrassed to find tears leaking from her eyes.

"That's wonderful," Yvonne said kindly, sitting down in front of her. "I have some suggestions on a Mind Healer for you to talk to. Their confidentiality can be guaranteed."

Hermione nodded, "What if we don't work?"

Yvonne chuckled lightly, "Therapy or Mind Healing is not one size fits all, you might have to try a few out before you find your correct fit. At the end of the day they're doing a job that you're paying them for."

"But what if I don't like them, what if that hurts their feelings?" Hermione said quietly.

"Unless you cuss them out and call them names, they won't have hurt feelings! Now I'll give you the name of someone who I think you'll work well with, but I'll want to check in with you about how you're coping with the stress."

Hermione nodded. Not long after, Yvonne left after leaving the name and contact information of the Mind Healer. Hermione stared at the name in her hands and chewed on her lip.

"Love," Theo said, "rubbing his thumb over her lip. Draco and I were talking…"

She looked up at him. He was looking at her with an earnest look that absolutely melted her heart. "Yes?" she whispered.

"We never want you to go through anything alone, so even though your therapy is a solo journey, we're going to get Mind Healers and work on our own stuff too."

Hermione gaped at him and then looked at Draco who had a light pink dusting his cheeks. "It's come to my attention that I have some insecurity around abandonment and I might have some residual aggression from Lucius."

"And I am constantly doing everything for everyone else and joking about my own shit, but we all know how abusive dear old dad was, so I think it would probably help for me to talk to someone about that…" Theo added.

"You'd do that for me?" Hermione asked, stunned.

"No," Draco said, smiling at her. "We're doing it for ourselves and for us. We're going to be parents and I for one know I'm scared shitless of messing up with Scorp. I know we talk about wanting to have so many babies with you, but what if we're shit at it?"

Hermione laughed, "There is no world where either of you would be bad fathers!"

"Tell that to our childhood trauma, love," Theo said with a smirk. Hermione rolled her eyes, but felt significantly more settled with the little business card in her hands than she had moments before.


When her mother came home with Millie from the tea party that Hermione was supposed to attend, Hermione asked about everything they'd heard. Once the two women had stopped relaying information, Hermione had a full sheet of parchment filled with notes and a tentative idea of what the Death Eater's next plan was.

When it was all written down, she sent along her notes to Kingsley and requested a meeting for the next evening after school let out


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