Well, its just been brought to my attention that I referred to Hermione as Ginny once or twice in the first chapter (Thanks a lot Betas, jk jk) I apologize, and I hope no one was confused…
Hermione smiled at the work she had done in the guest room. When she head back down stairs and laughed to see Draco had done some nice work too. Her entire living room had been draped in silver and green streamers with a nice Slytherin Blanket covering her couch.
"What, I'm allowed a little house pride, am I not?" Draco smirked when Hermione came down the stairs, "By the way, I want the number of that hot muggle."
Hermione sighed. "Her name's Akane, and if your going to decorate my living room, then I have no choice but to take over the rest of my house." And with the simple flick of her wrist, the rest of Hermione's house became covered in red and gold littered with little lions. "Oh, and by the way, if any muggles besides Akane come, then tell them we are Redskins fans, and you, Draco, are an Eagles fan."
"What for?"
"Those are football teams here. It'll just be easier then trying to explain why 4 of my friends from school just randomly showed up."
Hermione reached down and scooped up the little boy who was now sleeping on her lazy-boy. "I've got a cradle upstairs for him." She began to walk up the stairs, and when she had gotten Alex tucked in; she turned to find her Gryffindor friends had followed her up the stairs. She quickly showed them all there rooms and when she was about to head to sleep, Ron called her from inside his room.
"I just wanted to say how much I love you, I don't think I've said that for over 5 years, or said it to your face at least." Ron smiled, Pulling Hermione into a hug.
"It was always assumed." Hermione leaned up against Ron's body and he gently kissed her on the forehead, "I love you too."
"Well, I suppose we should be getting to sleep, it's late. G'night, birthday girl."
"G'night" Hermione didn't want to leave, or even move, but she slowly left the room.
"I'll always love you." Ron whispered to her back as she left.
End of Chapter! No I'm not that mean...or am I?!?! Okay, I'm not that mean…. geez.
Hermione's eyes flickered open the next morning. 'He's here!' she thought as she flung herself out of bed and quickly ran into the hallway and down the stairs, still clad in her tank top and sofees she had been sleeping in.
"Now there's something you don't see everyday." Harry smiled and Ginny smacked him over the head. "Not like that, my love."
"To what do we owe this viewing pleasure?" Ron chuckled.
"Even, I must admit, The Muggle-born has a nice body." Draco joined in the teasing, while Alex just laughed, sitting on the Kitchen table, pulling Harry's glasses off his face.
"Two things," Hermione joked, unflustered with their teasing, "A) I wasn't sure if you guys were really here or if I dreamed it, and B) I have a job to get to in the next 45 minutes so I'm in a bit of a rush." She pushed past Ron, reaching in for a bagel in the breadbox next to him. Putting it into her mouth, she turned and grabbed some clothes that were lying in a laundry basket. "I shall return!" she called heading up the stairs. In a few minutes, she reappeared at the top of the stairs.
"Do you have any food in this place?" Draco called, his head stuck in the refrigerator.
"Somewhere." Hermione called, leaning to give Ron a good morning kiss, then scooping Alex off the table, where he was happily splashing Harry's glasses into a bowl of milk Harry was trying to eat fruity pebbles out of.
"Messy!" He excitedly cooed. "Lex be messy!"
"That you are." Hermione laughed, managing to reclaim Harry's glasses, and taking Alex back into the living room.
"Chair!" he screamed as Hermione placed him down in the lazy-boy.
"So, what are your plans today?" Hermione called into the kitchen where the other adults were still gathered.
" None, really." Harry came into the room, his glasses much cleaner. Hermione winced slightly as she looked up.
"That arm is going to take some getting used to." She smiled apologetically. They stood in silence for a bit before Ginny entered the room to several coos of 'mummy' from the lazy-boy.
"What is there to do around this lame excuse for a city anyway?" Ginny joked.
"Not that much I guess," Hermione laughed, "I guess, you could either hang out here until I get back, or you could follow me around at work."
"What do you do anyway?" Ron asked as he and Draco entered the room.
" I teach Kindergarten at a local elementary school." She smiled, "And its story day today, being a Monday. You'll never guess what there favorite story is."
"What?"
"Well, they believe that their lovely teacher is a witch in disguise, and when she was 13 years old she had to save her best-friend's godfather from evil soul-sucking monsters." Harry let out a laugh, fondly recalling the exciting adventures they got into at Hogwarts.
"Well, maybe we, or at least one of us should come and share some stories." Ron smiled.
"I'll stay here with the baby," Ginny told the room
"And I don't have any golden trio stories to tell." Draco smiled.
" So, I guess the golden trios next adventure is, Entertaining 6-year-olds. This maybe our hardest task yet!" Ron commented. Everyone except for Ron laughed. "No joke," He glared at the rest of the group, "6-year olds are worse then spiders." Finally, Ron couldn't hide his smile any longer and all of the people in the room broke into laughter. They laughed until Hermione, stood up, started muttering incoherently about being late, and shooed Harry and Ron out the door, complaining about her Teacher review dropping if she wasn't their soon.
" Good to have our 'Mione back." Harry laughed as he was pushed through the door.
"The fun has arriiiived!" Hermione made her presence know as she entered her classroom, greeting her teacher assistant. "Harry, Ron, This is Elizabeth. Elizabeth, Harry is the one without an arm, and Ron the one with the annoyingly bright red hair." Hermione threw her bag on to her desk
"That's offending" Ron sighed, but Hermione just ignored him.
"Please, call me Lizie." Lizie reached forward shaking each of their hands in turn. She had Strawberry Blonde hair that fell past her shoulders. She was kind of short, but had an air of importance and knowing what she was doing. "What do you have planned for today?"
"Well, Story time, and I guess some improv." Hermione shrugged.
"Are you allowing to have animals in class?" Ron asked, giving Harry a sly smile.
"Well, I guess there is no rule about it. Why?" Lizie asked.
"We'll… be right back" Harry smiled, following Ron out of the room. Before they could return, the students began to file into the room.
"Okay, well everyone gather around, we are gunna a have surprise today, I think?" Lizie gathered the kids on the carpet while Hermione stuck her head out the door, curious to where he best friends had gone.
"Oh my goodness…" Hermione sighed as she saw Harry walking down the hallway with a sweet orange cat. When they got close enough, Hermione scooped the cat into her arms. It was vivid orange from head to toe, except over his nose he had several brown spots, almost like freckles. "Ron?" she softly laughed. She could have sworn she saw the cat wink. "Let's call you Rover today." Harry chuckled, following Hermione into the classroom.
"Look here kids, we have a surprise my good friend Harry brought us." Holding the kitten out for everyone to see. Most of the children ran forward eager to see and touch the cat.
"Oh how exciting!" a young girl with bright blonde hair was now jumping up and down, reaching for the cat over the heads of the other children.
"Hold it, guys, don't you want to see Rover here do his tricks?" Harry smirked. 'Rover' let out a sharp meow as if someone had stepped on his tail, but Harry promptly ignored him. "Come on Rover." Harry laughed taking him from Hermione and holding him expertly with one arm. "All right boy. Jump." Rover jumped from Harry's arm to Hermione's shoulders and then softly landed on the floor. He performed a series of other jumps and a few tricks where he was walking on his back legs, as Harry gave the orders. Then, they began a game where the kids would tell Harry their names while Hermione covered Rover's eyes, then Harry would whisper something to Rover, then Rover would expertly seek out the owner of the name and sit on there lap for a minute or two. Rover had just gotten up from Jessie's lap when Lizie announced it was time for music class. All the children said goodbye to Rover before trekking out the door behind Lizie.
"Tricks!" Said the now reformed Ron. "Tricks! You are so dead Harry. I'll give you one day to say goodbye to your wife and child, but after that!" Ron made a rather violent slashing motion with his hand.
" I thought it was cute." Hermione giggled.
"Just wait until this twerp has you parading around like a circus animal in front of a bunch of six year olds. It wont be all that funny for you." Ron rounded on Hermione. Hermione let out a laugh before falling to the floor.
"I…forgot how…silly and…cute you…look when your…ears turn pink." Hermione choked out between laughs.
"It's not that funny, Hermione." Ron looked embarrassed, causing his ears to turn redder, therefore causing Hermione to laugh harder.
"You do look quite silly mate." Harry patted Ron on the back.
"Oh yeah, well, you…have one arm!" Ron snapped obviously lost for something to insult Harry with.
"And you both should come help me with these papers. I have mountains of them to get done before the afternoon class gets in." Hermione said, having recovered from her laughing fit, slamming a stack of papers on one of the tables. The papers were covered with the straggled writing of kindergarteners trying to make their letters perfect.
Harry and Ron spent the remainder of the day correcting Hermione's students papers with help of Lizie, since Ron Blatantly refused to do more tricks. Hermione instead covered the time by telling an oddly detailed story of a group of three friends plunging deep into a hidden dungeon to rescue a stone that created unlimited gold from the grips of evil. Ron loved the way that Hermione brought the words to life when she told her story, sitting, unlike most teachers, cross-legged on the floor with the students all around her. In fact, she was such a good story teller that after she talked about Joey, a boy who, as she said, bravely risked his life so that his two friends could continue on the search, Ron almost asked if he lived, before realizing that Joey was him.
After the children had all left and Hermione and driven them home, they found Hermione's house in a deep state of panic.
"Alexander! Come out from where ever you are hiding right this instant." They heard Ginny yell, almost exactly as her mother would have, through the door as they walked up the porch.
"Good god," Harry muttered, pushing his way into the house passed Hermione.
"Oh Good! You here! Now get that son of your to come here!" Ginny snapped towards Harry.
Harry sighed and let a stream of hissing and spitting sounds emerge from his lips. Seconds later, a semi-scared very sorry looking Alex crawled out from under the couch.
"From now on you listen to your mother!" Harry scolded the small boy, "Say you sorry."
"I sowwy mummy." Alex bowed his head and turned to his mother.
"That's okay Hun, Lets just not do it again." Ginny scooped up her son and headed upstairs, saying something about his afternoon nap.
"So, he's a parselmouth too." Hermione headed into the kitchen.
"Yeah, but I only speak to him like a snake when he's in trouble, so generally he doesn't think he'll get in trouble with his mom, but he always gets in trouble when I get home so, yeah. Unfortunately, we think he inherited the Fred and George gene." Harry smiled.
Hermione looked up, wincing slightly about his arm again. "How did you lose that anyway?"
Harry sighed, "Well, I…" Harry started was to be a long-winded explanation, thought better of it and just said, "Long story short, Voldie." Harry gave a weak smile, obviously pained at the memory.
"Do you want me to get it?" Ron asked
"If you don't mind." Harry smiled, and Ron was gone with a pop.
"Get what?" Hermione asked.
"Pensive," Harry smirked slightly, "Dumbledore gave me one after the battle. I used it to empty my mind when I needed to, and to show everyone else what happened, I still can't tell it with out shaking. Its much easier just to show it." Hermione nodded and Ron reappeared in her kitchen. Harry poked the contents of the pensive with his wand a few times before looking to the others. "Ready?" The others nodded and they all held hands. "If you want out, just let me know okay?" Hermione nodded, and Harry leaned into the pensive.
Oh my goodness! I'm sorry it took so long to get this chapter out I was absolutely mobbed, and then got hit with a spot of writers block…But I promise to write quicker from now on : )
BEK