Hey all. New chapter. Thanks for all the reviews, a few things came up though, yeah,
Sirius sold Hermione drugs, because he never really thinks things through, also as a wizard all his llife he didn't know quite how bad drugs really are. He sold them to make money quite obviously. Also he didn't have any degrees or anything like that, so what was he meant to do?
The line that a few people were confused with is where Sirius said, a life with James and watching over you, or no James, meant if he went back to the wizarding world he'd never be able to speak to James again but he'd be with Harry, Hermione etc. or he could live with James, and know about Harry via Hermione.
Thanks so much for ALL your reviews, they meant so much that as a treat, I'm writing an extra extra long chapter! Anyway, onwards.
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"You're here then, bitch" He said, and stepped towards her,
"Dad?" Hermione asked, "Please... Don't. You said you'd stopped!"
"ARE YOU TELLING ME WHAT TO DO?" He now had her backed against a kitchen cupboard where the handle was digging painfully into her back, the dark blue kitchen, looked even darker as the lights weren't even on.
"No, of course not!" Hermione whimpered,
"You were you whore!" With that he sent a sharp backhand across Hermione's face, Hermione put her hands up to her face, as her face started to burn. She willed herself not to cry, and cursed herself for being the stupid fool who left her wand upstairs, and the stupid fool for believing her dad could have changed.
He grabbed her hands by her face and slammed them against the cupboard,
"What have you been doing eh? Staying at school, telling all your freaky friends about your big nasty daddy"
"Of course I haven't told them!" Hermione said, "I'm ashamed!"
"ASHAMED!" He roared in her face, "I SHOULD BE THE ONE ASHAMED OF YOU!" She could smell the cocktail of drinks he'd had that night and stale cigarettes on his breath, "GET IN THE LIVING ROOM BITCH!" He let go of her hands and she cowered into the living room, wiping her father's spittle off her face. She could hear his heavy footsteps behind her,
"SHE STILL HASN'T COME BACK YOU KNOW!" He shouted,
'and she never will with you like this' Hermione thought viciously,
"WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY?!"
'nothing to you, you bastard' Hermione's thoughts sliced their way through her brain,
"NOTHING? NOTHING EH? YOU UNGRATEFUL BITCH, I'VE LOST EVERYTHING BECAUSE OF YOU!"
With that he sent a punch towards her face, making her hole head ricochet off his knuckle and against the wall behind her. Hermione temporarily blacked out, her vision slowly clouding over. Her dad shook her by the shoulders, slamming her back and head against the wall over and over. He then took her by the neck and through her against the glass topped coffee table that smashed into fragments that dug into her neck, back, legs, arms. He dad kicked her in the ribs, making her turn face down into the pile of glass she could feel shards cutting into her stomach, chest, the front of her legs and arms.
"GET UP! GET UP YOU WHORE!" He screamed. Hermione got onto her hands and knees, huge slithers of glass cutting into her palms and knee caps. She was aching all over as she stood up, she stood swaying unsteadily. Her father threw another punch into her face, she put her hands up in defence which only made him more angry. He punched her in the face, over and over, sometimes missing and hitting her neck or the air beside her head. She screamed and he picked her up and threw her onto the sofa. Burning hot tears flowed down Hermione's face as her dad pulled her skirt down and started to rape her. She started thinking about tiny things to try make her forget the pain between her legs.
She stared at the buckle on her father's discarded belt, and instead of remembering the times he whipped her with it, she wondered that if when she looked at her reflection in something shiny, she would have mascara all over her face. She then wondered about Harry, Draco, Blaise, Luna, Ginny, James and Sirius.
Her dad slapped her face which brought her back to the real world, and the real pain.
"Get up" He said, Hermione did exactly as he asked, she then saw the belt in his hand,
"DAD!" She called out, "No..." She said, knowing it wouldn't make any difference at all,
He pulled off her T-shirt,
"Bend over" She bent over, tensed up waiting for the leather and the metal to connect with her flesh. As ever, it did. She whimpered, as he beat her with it over and over again. She could feel her scars re-opening. As he whipped her over and over, the leather and friction making her back hot and sore. Then the occasional sting of the cold metal buckle.
She seemed to have to wait for an eternity for him to wear himself out. Though he eventually did, he kicked her face first into the sharp remains of the top of the coffee table. He then slumped onto the couch. Hermione sat there her eyes closed, waiting for his drunken snores to fill the room. She opened her eyes every now and again just to keep herself awake. She knew if she fell asleep she wouldn't be able to get away before Christmas day.
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She could hear her dad's snores from her bedroom. She crawled her way upstairs and shoved all the wrapped present in her trunk, along with the shrunken dog. She reached up from the floor to her dressing table, she had her bag and wand in one hand and her trunk in the other. it was 11:23pm. With a pop she just managed to apparate. She ended up in the living room of Sirius and James flat. She closed her eyes and apparated to Draco's she was so confused. She didn't know where to go. She laid on the cold marble floor of Malfoy manor, and everything turned black.
There was two loud pops about five minutes later at 11:28.
"Shit padfoot, holy fucking shit!" James said,
"DRACOOOOOOOOOOO" Sirius screamed from the stairs, "DRACO, QUICKLY IT'S HERMIONE!" Draco ran down the stairs,
"What the fuck?" He said, he was wearing all black, and he stared at Sirius and James. "You're dead?"
"No, we're not, it's a long story, we were in hiding. But we need help look at Hermione!" Sirius said,
"Fuck!" Draco said, "We need to revive her, find out what happened, PUCKYYY!" He screamed,
"Yes master," Said a small house elf with a mushroom like nose,
"Get me some healing potion, and be sharp!"
"Of course master" Pucky said, at the same time James revived Hermione,
"And a revival potion, go... NOW" Draco said,
"Where am I?" She asked, opening her eyes slowly. Immense pain hit her and she shut her eyes again,
"Stay with us Hermione, don't go back to sleep" Sirius said, "Open your eyes,"
"Sirius? James?" She said feebly, "Draco? How did I get here?!" James was knelt beside her, having shoved her trunk out of the way, her bag and wand were dropped not he floor as she appeared after apparating.
"Where's that fucking house elf?" Draco said,
"He's going as fast as he can" Sirius said, "Come on Hermione just a little longer"
It was 11:34, and flakes of snow started to fall outside the manor.
"Your potion sir!" Pucky said,
"Thank you" Drab said and took them both, "Hermione I have some potions for you to take,"
"Prop her head up Sirius" James said, and Sirius gently held her head up, Hermione winced in pain,
"Sorry if it hurts" Sirius said,
"Here" Draco said pouring the potion into Hermione's mouth. Hermione wouldn't fall back asleep, but her mugginess had gone making all the pain more clear, she'd never been smashed around that much. "And again 'Mia" He said, she swallowed the healing word, and the pain was temporarily gone.
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The four of them moved into Draco's lounge. Hermione stared into space. Draco muttered a spell, and the fire was roaring.
"I suppose you want to know what happened?"
"Well, yeah, I think we do" Draco said, "But you don't have to say until you're ready," The three wizards were chalk white,
"I'll tell you now. Get it over with"
"Are you sure?" James asked,
"Yes, and then you can explain to Draco about how you're alive" Hermione said,
"Ok" Draco said,
Four glasses of hot chocolate appeared on the coffee table. Sirius looked at Draco quizzically,
"House elves" He said shrugging, "Must remember to give them extra pay"
James took two cups and passed one to Sirius, who was sat beside him on the black leather couch. Draco took two, and passed one to Hermione who was sat it her knees upto her chest on the edge of the sofa opposite James and Sirius'. Draco sat beside her. Hermione was wondering why she came here, she nor Draco had never even said they loved each other, not like Luna and Harry, and Blaise and Ginny. It wasn't love, it couldn't be love, could it?
"Well... It started at summer. I got off the train said bye to Harry and Ron. Remember Draco, you asked where my parents were, and I brushed you off and said they must be caught in traffic not that it was any of you business. You may have helped in the war, but I didn't trust you back then." Hermione breathed, "I took a taxi home and my house looked deserted. I went in, it was a mess, so I tidied it up thinking my parents must have got caught up at work or something. I noticed that it smelt different, usually my mum was cooking something or had something prepared but there was nothing. I sat up until 11 o'clock and my dad got home. He was drunk. He told me to go to bed, so I did. And the next day when I woke up, he'd gone. He often came back drunk, and after a few days I found out mum had left. Dad always blamed me when he was drunk. I met you Sirius, and Oaky one day. And you were like saviours. People I could talk to. People I could laugh with. When I was with you whatever happened at home I forgot about. One day, my dad slapped my face. It wasn't that bad," She took a sip of hot chocolate, willing herself not to cry. It was 11:45. "It got worse and worse from then on, the more drunk he was, the more he blamed me, the more lonely he was, the more he was violent. He used his fists, and his feet. And then one night he used his belt. A few days after that, when I came back from Oaky's, instead of using his fists, or his feet, or his belt, he used his dick" Hermione stared into the chocolatey liquid in her black hexagonal cup. A tear dropped in it. She hugged her knees with the hand that didn't have the hot chocolate in. She stared at the cuts on her knee caps, the shards of glass in them. It was now 11:48, the snow was falling much heavier, it was becoming a blizzard. "He raped me" She said, looking back up and staring at the stony faces of the three wizards. "It carried on like that, I left in September. When I saw Draco and got on the train. I changed so much no one knew who I was. Then I got back, today, and no one was sin. Alarm bells was going off in my head but I ignored them. I heard three knocks on the door and ran downstairs leaving my wand on my bedside table. The he blamed it on me, everything. He punched me so hard my head slammed against the wall. Pushed me into the coffee table" Fat tears rolled down her cheeks, but she carried on, they needed to know it all, "Which was glass, so I got glass on me, and then he kicked me so I rolled in the glass. And told me to get up. Then he... He... Well" She stopped and a sob echoed around, the wizards looked at each other, waiting for one of them to saw their worst though,
"He raped you?" James asked, and Hermione nodded her head hung down in shame,
"Then he told me to get up, and he took my T-shirt off," She plucked at the T-shirt she had put back on, "And he used his belt again, then he kicked me back onto the pile of glass. I had to lie there until her fell asleep, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get out. I crawled upstairs got all my stuff together, and I was so confused I apparated to your house, then to Draco's" She sighed, her tears were still flowing, "I'm never going back" Hermione said, "I transferred all my money to gringotts. And I am never going back"
"Ok" Draco said softly touching her arm,
"Would master be wanting extra food, tomorrow for his guests?" Pucky questioned,
"Are you staying for Christmas?" He asked Sirius, James and Hermione.
"Yes, of course we will" James said for him and Sirius,
"Yes" Hermione said, looking at Draco's hand which was still touching her arm,
"Yes, so they'll be five of us, and all the house elves" Draco said nodding, "You couldn't fix up, the three bedrooms on my wing could you? Sirius, James, you might one to apparate home and get stuff for tomorrow. Some new posh clothes or something. Can you do the bedrooms? Or is it too much to ask?"
"Of course we coulds Draco sir" Pucky said smiling broadly, Sirius and James understood Draco probably wanted them to get dress robes,
"Thanks so much" Draco said,
Pucky left the room, and Hermione held Draco's hand,
"I need a hug" She said pouting, James and Sirius laughed,
"Ok" Draco said, and pulled her gently so she was on his knees she hugged him tightly, almost as if she thought if she let go she would be put back in the clutches of her father,
"Tell him how you're still alive" And at 11:56 through to 12:34 the story of how Sirius and James was still alive was told, and why they didn't tell Harry, and how they were going to tell Harry.
"Well I think it's time I went to bed" Sirius said, "Don't want to be grouchy on Christmas day, do I?"
"No, you don't padfoot, nor do I, therefore I will go to bed too" James said, "You coming you two?"
"I'll just fix Hermione up a bit" Draco said, "QUIBBLES!" Draco shouted, a hunchbacked house elf walked in,
"Yes master Draco" The house elf said,
"Could you escort these two to the bedrooms I have asked to have made up on my wing of the house" Quibbles nodded, at Draco's request,
"This way sirs" James and Sirius raised eyebrows at each other and headed off behind the small hunchbacked house elf,
"We're going to have to get the glass out of the cuts, and then I'll heal them"
"OK" Hermione said feebly, "Just do it,"
"I think we should go to my bedroom you'll get some privacy there"
"Oh yeah, I'll have to... Oh Ok" She said,
"Are you Ok to walk?" Draco asked,
"Sort of" She said,
"Come on then, your trunk will be outside" Draco said, he got his wand that was made out of black ebony from his pocket, and they left the room, leaving the empty cups of hot chocolate on the coffee table. Draco shrunk the trunk quickly and slipped it into his back pocket. He then put Hermione's wand in her bag and they made their way up the stairs. They went down long corridors, twisting and turning every now and again, until finally they went down a long corridor, with dark emerald green carpet, and dark, forest green walls with silver candle brackets on them. With cabinets with swords in, and other interesting items. They passed three doors, then reached the end of the corridor, to a black ebony door.
They entered and in it was Draco's grand room, it had a granite balcony, overlooking a huge garden. It had the same emerald green carpet, a desk, bookcases. It was huge.
"Well, leave yourself in your underwear and lie on the bed, I'll do your back first." Hermione just stood there looking uncomfortable, "It's nothing I haven't seen before"
"It's just, it probably looks awful"
"I know. But I'll just have to brace myself. We'll get through it together"
"Ok" Hermione took off her T-shirt, and her skirt. She laid face down on the bed. Draco walked over to the dresser and pulled some tweezers out, then went into the bathroom and came out with a jar full of bright blue cream.
"It won't hurt as much as it normally would because of the potion. But it will still hurt a lot." Draco said, as he kneeled, with on knee on each side of her. He put her hair to one side. And one by one, pulled the fragments of glass out of her neck. He then went onto her back. Every now and then she would gasp, as silent tears streamed down her face, she clutched on to Draco's pillow so tight her knuckles were white. After a while, Draco had done her whole back he rubbed the blue cream over each cut and scrape, it soaked in to the skin quickly . Draco stopped half straddling her, then rolled her over.
"It hurts" She said, clutching onto his arm,
"I know but if we don't get them out, they'll get infected" Hermione nodded and let go of him,
He started to pick them out of her collarbone, and shoulders. She winced as he pulled out a particularly big one from her stomach. He worked on her arms, and she was crying again, it hurt her so much she bit her lip so hard it bled. Soon Draco was rubbing the blue cream over the cuts at the front of her.
"I'm going to take a shower and get to bed," Hermione said. "Night" She said giving him a quick kiss on the lips,
"Night" He said he passed her, her trunk and her bag. "Come in here tomorrow morning, and I'll get you something to wear" He said, "James and Sirius will probably wear dress robes, as will I, so I'll get you a dress." Hermione nodded, gave him one more kiss on the lips, gathered her clothes in her arms and left. She dumped her clothes and trunk and bag on the bed in the room next door and ran herself a bath.
She was glad to see there was plenty of hair potions and shampoo and conditioner for her to use. She got into her bath. She washed her hair and conditioned it using some toffee smelling conditioner and shampoo and laid in the tub for about twenty minutes. She got out, it was 1:23, and dried herself. She then used some sleekeazy's on her hair and went back into her room with he towel wrapped around her. She unshrunk her trunk and got out a black nightie that reached about 5 inches above her knees. She put on some over the knee black socks and put her trunk on the floor along with her bag. She shut the black curtains and blew out the candles. She got into her bed, that was also black. All she'd seen in Draco's house was black, green and grey/silver. She lay awake in her bed, wondering what Draco thought of her dad.
Draco was taking a quick magical shower. He washed his hair, and conditioned it using some minty shampoo. He dried himself, and then put some green boxers on. He shut looked out at the balcony which was covered in snow. He decided to go out in it. He put on some black slippers and a black dressing gown and opened his balcony doors. He was a hit by a freezing cold wind but he shut the door behind him and looked out across the garden below him. Wondering why Hermione hadn't told him about her dad. He stood there for about half an hour, before he had to go in because he thought he might die of pneumonia. He took off his snow covered dressing gown and put it in the washing basket in the bathroom, he put his slippers back in the wardrobe. He blew out his candles so the only light was the fire. He sat in a black overstuffed armchair and stared out at the snow covered world outside.
::Draco's POV::
It looks so perfect outside. A white Christmas for us. It looks like what you see in fairytales. Then tomorrow we'll be sat around the table one big family, everything perfect. But nothing's perfect. When I saw Hermione today, I thought I was going to die. If she goes I have nothing left. I've never even told her I loved her, nor has she told me. I won't love her, I can't love her, can I?
::End of POV::
Soon it was 2:34, everything was silent, the house elves were sleeping, the turkey's for tomorrow were cooking on a low heat. James and Sirius had finished wrapping presents and were asleep in there separate bedrooms.
"Couldn't sleep?" Draco asked, he was laid in bed and Hermione had just crept in. She nodded and Draco patted the bed beside him. Hermione walked over and got in. She had used a spell to cover her cuts and bruises. Draco ran his hand through her hair as she wrapped her arms around him and rested her head on his chest. She listened to his heart beating, and soon, they fell asleep together.
It was 8:35am the next morning. Hermione woke up,
"YAY!" She cried out, Draco stared at her from the chair he was sat in, "It's CHRISTMAS" She said, and got out of bed, "I'm going to go wake James and Sirius up!" She ran out of the room, and Draoc followed her, she rna into Sirius' bedroom, "WAKE UP!" She shouted, Sirius opened his eyes,
"It's CHRISTMAS!" Sirius bellowed, "Woohooo!" He punched the air and leapt out of bed, revealing red boxers,
"Gryffindor all the way" Draco muttered, laughing,
"It's CHRISTMAS!" James shouted running in, "AND IT SNOWED!" He shouted, he was wearing black boxers,
"Ok, so now we're all clear it's Christmas! We'll go check out presents and shit" He said waving his arms, "Down in the lounge, in ten minutes" He said,
Hemrione ran to her room, gave her hair a quick brush and got James', Draco's and Sirius' presents and her wand. She then muttered a quick spell so the gigantic dog was back to his normal size, it looked exactly the same as Sirius. She then muttered a spell to wrap it and some silver ribbon shot out of her wand and wound it's way around the huge present. She hitched the dog onto her shoulder, and grabbed the other small black presents. She started to make her way down the corridor and James got out of his room,
"Merry Christmas 'Mione" He said,
"Same to you" She said smiling,
"HUGE fucking present there!" James said, He had a bag full of red and gold presents, "For Draco right? You guys make a good couple" He smiled, exactly like Harry,
"Not necessarily for Draco. You know, you remind me so much of Harry" Hermione siad shaking her head, "If I wasn't with Draco, I would be with Harry..." Hermione said, "He's super duper!" She giggled, "Christmas-ness going to my head"
They were walking down the stairs,
"It's for Draco! Isn't it?" He asked,
"Wait and see"
"It is" He said and they entered the lounge, there was a huge christmas tree covered in white baubles, and white acessories in the corner of the room where the black armchairs were. Hermione and James threw all their presents underneath,
"Now we have to wait" James said,
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"Hey Sirius" Draco said, running up to Sirius who had two bags of brightly wrapped presents. Draco had a black box in his hands, with a pearly emerald green ribbon on,
"Sorry, I haven't got a present for you" Sirius siad, lookign a bit ashamed,
"Forget it, I haven't got one for you either. Remember until yesterday I thought you and James were dead men" Draco and Sirius laughed,
"I'm sorry I judged you before Draco, I can see you really have changed... Except for your anoyying slytheirn sarcasm"
"Ahhh, you'll never get rid of that. But yeah, I'm glad i've changed and Hermione well she's super... I'm so glad to have her, If I wasn't with her i'd be stuck with some weirdo I was betrothed to"
"Nasty" Sirius siad, "I was betrothed until I ran away from home"
"You were from long line of slytherin's weren't you?"
"Yeah, things change though" Sirius shrugged, "I don't care about my past, I jsut care about now. And that's all I have ever done"
"Same here. If people judge me on my past, then they can have a one wya ticket to go see my father in hell!" Sirius let out his bark like laugh, they were going down the stairs now,
"Happy Christmas," Draco siad,
"Merry Christmas to you to," Sirius replied,
They entered the lounge and headed over to the Christmas tree,
"FINALLY" Hermione and James said,
"Not Happy Christmas then" Draoc siad smiling, he put the box under the tree,
"Sorry, I haven't got you a present Draco" James said,
"You know, I wish I had bought you two presents jsut so I could see your guilty faces" Draco said, "But yet again, Draco cocks up, I ahven't got you a present either. So I suppose we're even" Draco said potuing.
"PRESENTS" Hermione cried,
"I want to give them out first!" Sirius exclaimed,
"Ok" James said, sitting patiently,
"Hurry up then!" Hermione said,
"This is your bag Prongs" Sirius passed James the abg, "And this is yours 'Mione"
"Oh a Christmas card, you shouldn't have!" James said, He opened the envelope and then looked at the card, James opened the card, and yelped in pain, "Sirius!" He whined, "Why do you always get the crad's which bite your nose?"
"Because you fall for them everytime, and it's so funny" The rest of the gorup were wiping tears from their eyes, after watching james get his nose bitten by a christmas card. Hermione and James emptied the bags out on the floor. Hermione grabbed the smallest present, that was a little box, she opened it, and inside was a belly bar. She looked at it, and inside the little jem there was a small picture of a black dog.
"Awww, that's so cute!" Hermione said, "But I haven't got my belly pierced,"
"Look under the little foamy thing" Sirius said, and Hermione looked underneath it, and there was a little piercing voucher. Which Hermione thought was a bit weirdly sick but also funny,
"Awww! Thanks Sirius!" She said, meanwhile James was on his last present and was surrounded by a mountain of pearly blue wrapping paper, the last present was his biggest, he opened it and inside was a clay model of a dog and a deer, the dog had it's paw on a sign that said 'Prongs, Padfoot 'n' Moony- Marauder's forever.' It had been painted appropriate colours. Hermione had opened the rest of her presents, she'd got loads of clothes, some lip studs, and an anklet with a bone, a crescent moon, a snake, a lion, and an antler on it.
"It protects you. Whenever you're in trouble, just rub one of the charms and it will signal to the person holding the other anklet with the charm on. I've got one, I'm the bone, James has an antler one, then in the other compartment of the box there is the moon one, I thought you could give that to Remus, the snake to Draco, the lion to Harry. They can also rub their one when they need you too."
"Aww Sirius! Thank you so much!" She gave him a hug, and rolled her left legged sock down and put the anklet on, she thenpulled her sock back up over her knee.
"I want to give mine out next!" James said, and looked in his bag, he got a red and gold one out and passed it to Hermione, then passed one to Sirius he then passed Hermione another two and Sirius three.
Hermione got a necklace with a gold lion on it. A lion teddy bear, and a nightmare before Christmas shoulder bag. She gave James a hug and thanked him. She hugged her lion. Sirius got a locket on a long chain, that had a picture of Sirius and James normally in it, but then after 10 seconds it switched ot a picture of them as animagus' then after 10 seconds it switched back. He got a bottle of muggle whiskey, some new bed covers, which James said, Sirius had needed for a long time, and a hat.
"Okay, me next because I only have a few" Draco said,
"Ok" Sirius said,
"Here we are" He said as he passed Hermione the big black box with green pearly ribbon on.
"Slytherin all the way" James said,
"At least I didn't do both my house colours" Draco replied, and the two laughed,
"Oh my God!" Hermione said, "That's what you meant last night when you siad about soemthing to wear!" She alguhed, "It's beautiful"
"For a beautiful girl"
"Corny!" Sirius said,
"But it's the truth!" Draco said laughing,
"It is a beautiful dress though" James said, looking at the silver satin dress,
"It's charmed to cling to the body that's wearing it"
"Wow" Hermione breathed out, she laid the dress out, and then took out a small green present, that had black ribbon on it, she unwrapped it carefully, and looked inside a small jewellery box, there was two shiny silver earings shaped like a star, a ring that had a star shaped diamond on it and a necklace with another star on it, but inside the jem there seemed to be a stemy mist,
"The milky way" Sirius said,
"Wow!" Hermione breathed out and laid the present on top of the dress, she then took out a book like object and ripped the packaging off,
"Limited edition" Draco said,
Hermione stared at the front cover of a silver copy of Hogwarts: A history.
"You'll never get her to shut up about it now" Sirius said, and Draco laughed,
"Indeed" Draco said,
"Thanks!" Hermione said and gave Draco a kiss on the lips, "Well the final presents!"
She leaned over and go the two small boxes, wrapped in black paper, with silver plastic-like ribbon she passed them to James and Draco,
"See you were wrong James!" Hermione said and stuck her tongue out, she passed the big parcel to Sirius,
Draco opened his present first, and inside was a silver ring, on a small silver chain, Draco looked inside the ring and it said, 'Differences are everything, Hermione and Draco forever'.
"Wow" Draco said he gave Hermione a kiss on the lips, "Thank you so much"
Then James opened his, he took out the antler on the chain, and put it around his neck.
"I love it! Thanks Hermione!" He gave Hermione a hug and she grinned,
"Sirius!" Hermione said, and giggled,
"Ok, this is huge!" Sirius said, He opened the wrapping paper and looked at the dog, "Oh my God! It's like me!"
"I know!" Hermione said, staring at the dog which was sat on it's backside looking cute, and doing the puppy dog eyes, "and I got the collar and the disc thing inscribed!" Sirius looked at the Padfoot, inscribed on the silver metal.
"Thanks Hermione!" He said and hugged her,
"This is one of the best Christmases ever!" Hermione said,
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Well, 5,000 and something words, you can't complain about the length! Well, I hope you enjoyed, please leave a review. It's great to know what everyone thinks.
::Hands out muffins, as always::
Love much,
-P.C