Hermione slept restlessly that night. Every sound woke her up and she would call out for Ron. At 2am she got up and went down stairs. She had just poured herself a glass of milk when she heard the lock in the door scratch and open.
"Ron? IS that you?" Hermione wondered down the hallway.
There was Ron; he looked hungry and exhausted.
"Is everything OK?" Hermione asked concerned, taking off his coat.
"Everything is fine, just a late night at the office." Ron smiled.
"Very late indeed," Hermione kissed her husband's cheek "Would you like something to eat of drink?"
"No thanks, I had a burger earlier and lots of coffee." Ron stated.
"OK then, you better be off to bed then." Hermione said.
"Will you be coming?" Ron grinned.
"If you like." Hermione giggled.
It was just like they were teenagers again. Hermione loved it. She followed him upstairs to their bed where they had slept together many times.
They made love happily for the first time in weeks. It had become to busy and hectic to have time for anything these days but it had been well worth the wait.
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Harry woke to find himself of the floor of their dinning room. His back ached from not sleeping properly and he was chilled to the bone. Cho slept soundlessly beside him.
Harry slowly stood up and slipped on his pants. He looked at his watch 7:47am.
'Damn!' Harry thought to himself. He was supposed to meet Sirius at 8am to start on their case. Harry changed his shirt, hurried a note to Cho explaining his departure and he was out the door quicker than you could say quidditch.
Harry rushed through the crowd of London City to the SMS departure unit. Harry entered the run down building that had been bombed in world war II and no one had bothered to knock it down of fix it up. He ran up 3 flights of stairs before he got to the 2nd room on the 4th landing.
He found the empty old can of baked beans and held it in his hand. He looked down at his wrist and read the time 8:04:55.
Hermione was clever. She would organise a new Portkey for every 5 minutes until everyone was at work. 'This one must leave at 8:05.' Harry thought
"4…3…2…1." Harry counted down. He had been travelling like this for years now but it still gave him quite a fright when he was jerked forward and started speeding in a howl of wind and colour. The baked bean tin stuck in his hand as though it was magnetic.
Suddenly everything stopped and Harry's feet slammed on the dirt ground outside SMS. Harry looked up and smiled at the tall skyscraper Hermione had designed. It reached high above the clouds and was made from real gold and silver. A great sign read SMS, Hermione Granger and Co.
At the front doors stood 4 bodyguards, Hamlet, Pert, Jill and Ben. Harry waved as he approached the building.
"Good morning gentlemen," Harry smiled, what a wonderful day it was so far.
"Hello Harry," Hamlet replied "Card please."
Hamlet new Harry came here everyday besides the rare sick day of bludge day but it was *procedure* because it was so easy to forge identity these days, I mean Hermione, Ron and Harry himself had done it in grade 2 so it can't be that hard!
Harry pulled out his badge; there was no way to fake this ID card. It had a special power in it and when it is placed in the gel slit in the building's wall it is scanned.
Hamlet placed Harry's card in the blue gel slot, it beeped twice and shot out again. The monitor read Approved SMS. Harry smiled. He loved the feeling of being part of this corporation. He was so proud!
"Wand next thank you Harry," Hamlet stepped aside to reveal a second gel slot. Harry placed the tip of his wand in the gel slit. The wand was sucked in side for a second and shot out again, Approved SMS.
"And your hand." Hamlet sighed.
"Right you are Hamlet." Harry grinned. He slit his hand in the next blue gel and one second later, Approved SMS.
It may have seemed like about 20 minutes but Harry was through security in less than 2 minutes.
The huge brass doors opened widely to let Harry in. If they detected more than one person entering at a time without more than one person's card being used it would drop spell repellent gates around the intruders.
Harry walked through the doors and into the Entrance Hall. A large room with comfy couches, information desks, snack bars and much much more. Harry waved at all the people. The secretary blushed as he winked at her and the lunch lady laughed when he said she was "Lookin' good!"
Harry made his was to his office, on the 49th floor, along with Sirius' and Hermione's. Their offices were huge with a conference room in the middle where they would meet and greet clients as well as have their daily meetings (or should I say bludge periods).
Harry opened the door of his huge office to find Sirius waiting for him. Harry slung of his jacket and sat down opposite Sirius. This looked serious and Harry wasn't in the mood for his day to be spoilt when it had only just begun.
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Sirius noticed the smile on Harry's face as he walked in. Damn Harry, in a good mood and late! He must have had Cho in bed last night.
"Was the sex good?" Sirius asked seriously as Harry sat down.
"What?" Harry hated it when his Godfather talked to him about sex. He had first encountered it in 5th grade and now he was 23! God, couldn't a guy have a private life anymore?
"Don't try and deny it Harry, I can see it in the way you smile. Your father was always like that the day after as well." Sirius still frowned.
Horrible images came to Harry's head of his mother and father "Ewe, come off it Sirius. OK yes it was good. Now we have that sorted you can spoil my good mood." Harry sighed.
"Alright." Sirius sighed too. "Its going to be a shock to you Harry so are you ready?"
"Yeah, just spit it out would ya." Harry hated the 'are you ready' games.
"Harry, last night Voldermort came back to power. Full power, he killed." Sirius sighed very heavily almost breaking down into tears.
"You can't be serious? Full power? Killed?" Harry knew Sirius wouldn't lie about such a thing but it was unbelievable. The Wizarding world had kept him away for so many years without him coming back to full power.
"Its all true Harry. I witnessed it this morning. The house was in ruins and their bodies, just sprawled on the floor. Like the night I found you in the ruble. Lily and James, cold as ice." Sirius broke down and a tear slipped his eye.
Harry went cold inside, it was really happening. Voldermort was coming back.
