The Cake and the Gathering of the Young

A/N: Christina Agulara. Sorry. But anyway, I made this chapter long. Thanks for the wonderful reviews!

Disclaimer: I keep forgetting this but everyone knows the babies were my idea but JKR gets the big people… I feel unloved.

On with the story!

She would never know he listened to Christina Agulara. The few others were harmless to his reputation though. Blink182, Good Charlotte (older stuff, not their new songs.), Green Day, and The All American Rejects. Those were safe but that one Christina Agulara album would get him blackmailed. He threw his laundry in the washer, put an illusion charm on his CD, and went to the kitchen to go have breakfast. When he got there he saw Hermione eating a chocolate cake. His mouth gaped open. 'Where did that come from?'

"Want some cake?" Hermione asked innocently. "I made it yesterday." Blaise looked a little worried because she was starting to perk up from a sugar buzz.

"Um… I'm not really hungry." He said lamely as his stomach growled. Hermione laughed and got another forkful of cake but instead of eating it she used her fork as a slingshot and it hit him square on the forehead. Blaise was so shocked that Hermione got another free shot before he ran to get her. This soon became chase and to Blaise's surprise, Hermione had to be the fastest girl he'd ever seen. Blaise though, was very fast as well and caught her in ten minutes of heavy sprinting on both sides. She was caught in the den so Blaise grabbed her around the waist, spun her around once and threw her on the couch. He was on the side of the couch in a millisecond so she couldn't escape. Then he started tickling her mercilessly. He quickly found out though, that she was only ticklish on her stomach and bottoms of her feet, so he stood there and tickled her stomach for a good five minutes. Then she restrained her laughter just enough so that she could move in more control. Hermione then rolled into Blaise so that they were both on the floor. Hermione soon found out that Blaise was ticklish pretty much every where. She tickled him for only two minutes before she was out of breath and he became tired. She laid her head on his chest and sighed. He risked so much for her. He had no idea. Blaise quickly sat up, causing Hermione to almost fall over.

"What was that?" Blaise asked. Hermione put a spell on her eyes so she could see through everything magical. Spells, cloaks, etc. She looked around the room and then focused on the walls, allowing her to see into the rooms next to them. Blaise didn't ask and just watched the strange behavior. Then Hermione looked up and saw a baby waking up. She took off the spell and looked at Blaise. Blaise… (look in chapter 6 if you don't remember this, it's about in the middle. It's after the "back at the house" line.) …what exactly does stronger than average magic mean? I though it was your magic level but it doesn't look that way. You just heard a baby roll over because it was starting to wake up. That isn't normal dear." Hermione said as she put a hand on his arm.

"Look who's talking. Actually, I just have good hearing from… stuff. It sounded like a bush." Blaise said.

"I didn't know bushes could talk" Hermione said as she lay down.

"Like someone was moving it." Blaise said as he lay beside Hermione. She rolled over to face him. "We've been here for a long time and for all I go through I get one kiss. I don't think that is very fair." Blaise said with a smirk.

"Hmm… I kissed you once when you were asleep actually so that's really-" Hermione was cut off by Blaise's lips. She let her lids fall and she let all her worries float away. Soon the one kissed progressed into many passionate kisses until Hermione heard someone trying to quietly sneak in. Obviously Blaise didn't hear because he looked confused and hurt.

"Quiet and listen." Hermione whispered. Blaise raised an eyebrow but did as told. Then he heard it. Hermione suddenly looked scared and grabbed him and in a matter of a blink they were in the nursery. Hermione mouthed 'stay' before disappearing. Hermione stood tall in the hall where they could see her in almost all rooms. Then she heard footsteps on her right. She turned to see two death eaters.

"What do you want?" Hermione spat. She saw Voldemort lift his hood. She stood, unfazed. He stepped forward, trying to scare her, but anyone could tell it wasn't working.

"I said, what do you want?" Hermione said forcefully yet slower, as if he were stupid.

"Don't think ill of me child-"

"I said what do you want? Answer the damn question!" Hermione said loudly.

"I want to rule-"

"From me stupid! You know what I meant." He glared and finally answered.

"Blaise. Of course you becoming dead is an option too. One or the other. Both would be nice though."

"Never. Leave or die." Hermione said, glaring back.

"You're just a child."

"You are stupid to think something so uninformed. You don't know me. Leave NOW or DIE!" Hermione used mental magic to almost kill his assistant. "First warning. Three more to go. Leave." He stayed put.

"I'll settle for your children." He stated. In an instant his assistant was dead. "Try again. Two more tries." He stood unfazed. Hermione sent a spell at him with her wand and it hit him square in the chest. His mask had disappeared and he was almost to the floor. "LEAVE!" He disappeared in an instant. Hermione sent him the body and then headed toward the nursery. When she got closer she heard Blaise talking calmly. She ran the rest of the way and whipped open the door to find him tied in a chair but the children looked safe. Hermione noticed the two death eaters and stunned them both before they registered she was there. She ran over and started untying Blaise.

"What's with the bubble?" She asked. Blaise shrugged.

"Michelle I think created it. When one of the two eaters went to pick her up it appeared. When he tried to pick up the other two it covered them. I guess she thought I could handle it." Blaise explained. Hermione laughed as she pulled the rope off of him.

"Well I faced little Tom Riddle. It was very fun." Hermione said as she sat down on his lap. Blaise looked shocked before he remembered how powerful she was.

"Did you kill him?" Blaise asked.

"Nope, I'm not going to until after my birthday. I also have to make it look like Harry Potter did it. Even more fun!" Hermione said sarcastically.

"Oh yes, but let's get back to now. What do we do with them?" Blaise asked, gesturing to the death eaters. Hermione waved a hand at them and they were gone.

"I'm going to take a nap. Coming?" Hermione said as she got up.

"Sure." Blaise said. They walked into Blaise's bedroom and they both fell asleep in an instant.

Hermione woke to an owl attacking her. She quickly sat up and took the letter off its leg. It perched itself on the dresser and Hermione glanced at the clock. It was eleven in the morning. She opened it and immediately knew it was McGonagal's hand writing but Dumbledore was saying parts of it. Two lines caught her attention. One that said she could say and one that said that they had to walk for five minutes to get to a port key that would take them to the reunion that started at one. Hermione wiggled a bit to wake Blaise up. Blaise didn't wake. She glanced at him and noticed that he was dead.

"Shit shit shit. Damn it. Who did this." Hermione cursed as she immediately ran to her room. She grabbed a vial of clear liquid and ran back. She tilted Blaise's head just so and fed him the vial's contents. Two seconds later he was coughing like there was no tomorrow.

"Where am I?" He asked. Hermione just hugged him so tightly he couldn't breath. "Get off you filthy mudblood, people will see and it will kill my rep." Blaise said as he pushed her off. She started crying and two seconds later she felt arms around her. "What's wrong, what happened?" Blaise asked.

"You called me a Mudblood even though you know I'm not. For some reason you came back to life the old you and then changed into the new you." Hermione said. For some reason he only could pick up you came back to life like it was a hard concept to grasp.

"I was… dead?" Blaise asked. Hermione looked at him.

"Yeah." She shrugged it of as nothing. "I was trying to wake you up to ask if you wanted to go to the reunion thing. It's in two hours and we get to bring the babies. Want to go?"

"I was brought back to life and all you have to ask is if I want to go. Don't I feel loved." Blaise said.

"You get used to it. But you did get me to cuss. Happy? Can we go? Please?" Hermione asked.

"No, I'm not happy. No, I don't want to go." Blaise said like a four-year-old, arms crossed pouty lip and all.

"Please?" Hermione kissed him deeply for almost a whole minute. "For me?"

"Why do women always get what they want be using their sexuality?" Blaise asked.

"So we're going?" Blaise nodded. Hermione kissed him again and was almost out the door. "Because guys are horny and it works." Hermione said with a smirk. Blaise rolled his eyes and smiled. God, he loved her. He was actually going to a reunion. She had no idea how badly he would get ragged on if he didn't though.

Hermione got the babies ready and was ready to go so that they would get to the port key on time. She banged on the door and Blaise came out of the laundry room in still warm robes. He looked to find Hermione wasn't playing her part. He gave her a questioning look.

"We aren't in school. This is what I wear when I go out to meet my muggle friends. Stop looking at me like that." Hermione said. Blaise wasn't really questioning her look; he was just putting on a mask so he could stare shamelessly at her. She was in a tank top that stopped at the top of her belly button and in really short shorts that were low hip huggers. The tan top and the black shorts left little to the imagination and it even exposed a tattoo on her lower back that looked as if it went down to her… he mentally slapped himself and turned on heel, toward the door.

"Nice tattoo." He commented and Hermione looked shocked and started looking all over her body.

"Where?" Blaise touched her lower back and went wide-eyed. She dashed up stairs and into her room. She was hardly there for a minute before she came down and it was fading.

"Is it gone now? The potion shouldn't have worn off until tomorrow." Hermione said. Blaise opened the door and told here that it was fading to get her to calm down. Hermione got into the driver's seat and Blaise hopped into shotgun. Hermione glanced at the three asleep babies and started the engine. All was silent in the car during the very short drive. Hermione popped open the twin stroller and Blaise loaded it with the two girls. He scooped up Damien and took the two steps to the port key. They all felt the familiar pull behind their navel and landed with grace. They looked to see people appearing right and left. Hermione immediately spotted the day care center and walked over to it. She dropped off the two babies and stroller before heading back to Blaise. Then a hand stopped her and a cape was ever her within a matter of seconds. She turned to see Ron and Harry.

"What are doing dressed like that?" Ron said in rage. He wasn't very loud though. Hermione saw Harry's hand and realized that's why he wasn't yelling.

"I came to see my friends and this is all I own besides robes. You're really lucky Blaise is my partner or I would probably have scared you more. Oh, guess who I saw today?" Hermione ignored their shocked faces. "Tom. He was nicer than usual too. Of course being meaner than Tom is hard. I probably shouldn't have had that cake and nap because now I'm a hyper." Hermione said so fast that neither understood it. She quickly handed the cloak back while they were confused and darted towards Blaise. He found Blaise with Damien and quite a few girls. He was stuck like a caged animal but he was faking enjoyment quite well. Hermione came through the crowd with tons of effort and once she finally got to him she told the group that she had to tell him something without an audience. Blaise looked at her gratefully.

"Having fun?" Hermione asked with a smirk that challenged Malfoy's.

"No and you know why I'm not. Because I was seduced into coming here." Blaise said quietly. Hermione shushed him.

"Are you trying to 'kill your rep?'" Hermione said with finger quotes. Blaise held in his laughter but Hermione saw it in his eyes. "Ron and Harry thought I was dressed inappropriately so I'm warning you in case they try to blame you. Just say that all my robes were dirty or something. They'll say something stupid. Don't say anything about 'us' because they haven't thought of it… yet." Hermione said in one breath. Blaise took a second but nodded but grabbed her hand. Hermione looked at him shocked.

"Where are Michelle and Emily?" Blaise asked.

"In the day care, on the other side of the park." Hermione said as if it was obvious. Blaise looked up and you could tell he was fighting a blush. "Bye." She said as she took back her hand. He nodded and headed in the direction. Hermione ran into Neville almost a second after she turned around.

"Hello Hermione." Neville said cheerfully.

"Hi Neville. How are you and Susan?" Hermione asked, mirroring his cheerfulness.

"Good. She's so nice and smart. It's like having you there except different. Susan doesn't like reading as much. She's a bit taller. She dresses like you usually do though. Why are you dressed like that?" Neville asked, finally looking below her eyes.

"It was what I had besides robes. Well I'm glad you're having fun. Oh, if you see Ron and Harry please don't tell them where I am. I think they're mad at me." They said their farewells and Hermione went over to Hannah. They talked and told stories. Finally, Hermione spotted Blaise again. She saw him talking to Draco and you could tell if you looked hard enough, the strain of lying. Hermione said good bye to whomever she was talking to and walked over to the two.

"Draco," Hermione said with a nod before turning to Blaise. "Blaise, I'm finished talking to everyone, well besides Ron and Harry. Come and get me when you're ready to go, okay?" Hermione said indifferently. Blaise nodded before responding to what Draco must've said before she had interrupted. It seemed like a strange answer though. "I'm fine at my house, you should be the one with the problem." "You have Granger, I have Hannah." Hermione made a mental note to ask later and headed toward the day care area. She hopped the sides and was surprised to find fifth years working the day care. She wondered why she hadn't noticed before.

"Hey Hermione." Se heard from behind. She turned to find Ginny with a baby in her arms.

"Hey Ginny. How are you?" Hermione asked as she watched Ginny feed the child.

"Fine. Roamer has it someone has triplets. I feel sorry for them. I came to see if I could find out who because now that gossip central is down everyone comes to me."

"Gossip central?"

"Blaise. Seems as if all the other houses besides Gryffindor relied on him. Now they rely on me. So is the triplet thing true?"

"Yes, Blaise and I have them. Michelle, Emily, and Damien. Blaise is fine. Can you believe your brother and Harry snatched me at the beginning and tried to put a cloak on me?"

"Yes. How is Blaise anyway? Seems like Draco but he's never seemed… real." Ginny said.

"He's nice unless someone else is around. Shame. Can you keep something to yourself?" Hermione said. Ginny nodded. "I keep getting attacked because of you-know-why by you-know whose followers and Tom visited today. I had to tell Blaise everything and also Blaise is like highly magical. Obviously when two magical people have a baby they become… Michelle."

"Michelle isn't a moon being? They died out!" Ginny whispered. Hermione trusted Ginny and she was the only one who knew the whole story that Dumbledore didn't know did. (Sorry if that last sentence gave you a headache.)

"She is and she's showing too. I had to tell Blaise about her too. Also the unthinkable happened and your brother and Harry will kill me." Hermione said even softer.

"You didn't…" Ginny started.

"No." Hermione said. "But I actually like him and he knows. It'll never happen again. Oh, here he comes, I have to go. Only the things before the keep the secret question are okay to tell. Bye Ginny." Hermione said hu1rridly. Hermione scooped up her two charges and had them in their stroller before Blaise came to help. Blaise picked up Damien and they started for the port keys. Just as they felt the tug behind their belly button Hermione saw Harry and Ron spot her.

A/N: Happy Early Father's Day! Please review!