Chapter Fifty-Four: What Happened

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Draco, Neville, Lavender and McGonagall all sat in the living room of Harry and Ginny's quarters. The children had long gone to sleep and Draco had just finished feeding Ana.

"Okay we want the full story." Harry stated. Hermione and Ron blushed.

"Well I grabbed my kids and apperated to my quarters, here..."

"Grab some toys you want to play with where going on a special trip." Hermione cried.

"Ohn be there, too?" Julie asked.

"And Daniel and Lily and baby Tina?" Soroush asked. They had never been away from the others before at least not in their memories.

"No honey, this is a special trip just the two of you and I!"

"B-but I won daddy and Ucul Hewy and Ant Gin an ucul Daco." Julie bust into sobbing tears. Hermione did as well; she had called Ron her daddy.

"I-I know sweetie but we can't see them right now." Now Soroush was sobbing as well.

"Hurry and get some toys together." Hermione said wiping her eyes and grabbing a bag, then began to pack their clothes into it. It didn't take her long to notice her two kids sitting in the living room where she had left them arms crossed refusing to move.

"Come on now you two. Grab some toys now or you'll have none to play with tonight." Hermione said before going into her own room to pack a bag. She came back out to find both kids in the same place only now both had a large bag field with toys. Hermione sniffed wiping the last of her tears aside. She had to be strong.

"We apperated back out over to a small hotel in America. We had just checked in when Soroush started screaming that he wanted to go home, Julie began to do the same thing so I decided to take them out to the park to try to calm them down.

"Mummy, I'm cold." Soroush said huddled in his jacket. Despite the fact that it was summer, a cold breeze had come through. Black clouds could be seen coming at them from all directions. Hermione calculated that they could play in the park across the street for at least twenty minutes before they had any problems. With a sigh, she grabbed their hands and they crossed the street over to the large park.

Soroush pointed at the swings at the top of a large hill, and Hermione only nodded trying desperately not to start crying again. They were only swinging for ten minutes when Hermione realized her calculations were horribly wrong. The storm seemed to have sped up and was upon them now. Thunder echoed for miles, lightning shot through the sky. The Julie and Soroush had stopped swinging and were now hanging on to their mothers' legs.

"Mum, I don't wan to play anymore." Julie whispered loud enough for Hermione to hear. Hermione nodded.

"Let's get back to our room." She had only just finished the sentence when it began to pour.

Without much thought Hermione shielded the children with a simple charm, not bothering to make one for herself she walked towards the edge of the hill, where she gasped. Water, at least a foot deep flowed over the roads going at an incredible speed taking signs, yard decorations lawn chairs and anything else it could grab on the way. Hermione remembered the man at the front desk warning her that they had been riddled with storms lately and another one would more then likely flood there already too wet land. They were trapped. Dripping wet she made sure the children's shield was still strong before moving them back away from the edge of the hill. She was crying again, she wanted Ron.

"I decided to go look for Hermione myself. Therefore, I grabbed John and apperated to her parent's house.

"Ron!" Mrs. Granger yelled as she poured some tea, careful not to spill it on her fancy dress she was going to wear to the wedding. "Are you here to take me to Hogwarts?" She asked smiling.

"No, I'm sorry but have you seen Hermione?" Mrs. Granger froze.

"What do you mean? Shouldn't she be getting ready for the wedding herself?"

"She should, but we had an argument a little bit ago and she grabbed the twins and ran." Ron said miserably. Mrs. Weasley groaned.

"They say its bad luck to see the bride before the wedding, I think its tradition so that they don't mess it up while there so stressed out." Mrs. Weasley shook her head.

"Take me to Hogwarts, then check her rooms. If you can't find her there, then I'll give you a list of places she might be." Mrs. Granger took Ron's hand and they appeared in Harmione's rooms in Hogwarts.

"It looks like they just left." Ron stated seeing a small bag left behind on the counter.

"Okay, there are several places I can see her running off to. We have several summerhouses in America. Are biggest one is called the Granger Ranch. It's in Denver, Colorado. Let me write down all the address while I talk. The next one is in Las Angeles, California, the last one is in Texas, it's well hidden and I doubt Hermione would go there it takes forever to get to and we always ended up staying in a small hotel called the Hirton just so that we were near some civilization." Mrs. Granger wrote down all the address and gave quick directions to all three. Search those if you can't find her come back will think of something." Ron nodded. "Now go, I'll watch John." Ron smiled before handing Johns thing to her and giving the boy a kiss, then he was gone.

Ron started in Colorado; it took him an hour to find the house, which was not technically in Denver but up a mountain over looking Denver. Two in the end he had found her not there either. A cold dread ran through him, three hours to go and what if he could not find her. What if she was not in any of her family homes? With a shutter, Ron apperated down to Texas. All this long distance apperating making him feel sick.

He didn't care however, he was focused on Hermione and their kids. Looking at the address he decided to try something he had never done before but heard it could be done. Concentrating on the address he apperated and was relived to find himself at the summerhouse, the very empty summerhouse. He gave a loud cry before he sat down on the steps. He now only had two hours before it was time for him to get married or not. With a groan, he was about to go back to London when an idea hit him.

"...we always ended up staying in a small hotel called the Hirton just so that we were near some civilization." Mrs. Grangers voice came back to him.

Ron apperated back to where he had started in Houston, Texas and bought a map from a local gas station suddenly glad he had thought to exchange money at the local Gringotts here. Looking at the address of the Texas map, he found the two closes places that looked to have civilization on both side of the house.

He apperated right into the middle of a storm. With a splash he realized he was standing in what looked like it could have been a road some time before judging by the stop sign. Now it was two feet underwater. Fear gripped his gut at the thought of Hermione being stuck in this. Apperating is very dangerous to do when your wet or in a storm. He was lucky he was not fried coming in. Just around the corner, he saw a wind blown a sign that read 'The Hirton.' Ron gasped and half ran, half swam over to the deserted hotel.

"No..." Ron groaned before turning around and gave a loud cry, there on top of a large hill sat three-familure people. He was almost swept away by the small current on the road. He made it across however, bound and determined. Running up the muddy hill he was met half way by Hermione and the twins. Tears running down their faces rain soaked faces. Ron and Hermione gave each other a large hug, and they walked up to the top of the hill.

"I'm so sorry, Hermione. Your right we should have the kids in the ceremony." Ron said.

"No, your right, they have been acting up, it would probably be incredibly boring for them to stand up there." Ron laughed and looked into Hermione's eyes.

"I'll leave it up to you, I don't care. I love you." Ron said. There were loud cheers from the twins and that's when they realized it had stopped raining. Ron did a quick spell to dry them all off and they both disappeared before the rain could come again.