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Hey, Thanx for all the great reviews, I'm really glad you liked the plot, it took me ages to think of, and I was nervous no one would review, or if they did they would say it was crap. Thanx again…from me
This chapter I kind of got stuck, so even though I don't really have characters main POV, I decided to change so that different parts were what one character was thinking, etc…tell me what you think.
Blaise had been standing in the entrance hall for at least ten minutes now, he turned around and looked into the mirror, his black curls falling over his eyes.
What am I doing? He asked himself I should just go back to the dungeons he sighed, turning back towards the passages to his room.
"It's just near the library," he heard Harry's voice say. Blaise turned back around and saw his good friend move toward the stairs, a witch was following closely behind, but slowly. He recognised her, it was the face he had seen so many times in his dreams, his dreams where he stopped her from leaving. When he stopped himself from getting drunk. When he stopped himself for breaking her heart.
"Hermione," Blaise said so quietly it was almost a whisper. He watched her freeze and never took his off her as she slowly turned around to face him. She didn't look at him though, keeping her eyes at her feet.
"Mum, Fred and George said they'd show me all the secret passages," a black haired girl said coming into the hall. Blaise watched Hermione as she raised her eyes and looked at him.
He looked at the girl, she was exactly like Hermione, around 15, but her hair was different, it was black and had soft curls.
Just like mine he thought oh my god, she is mine.
He looked back at Hermione, meeting her eyes. He watched as tears began to form.
He stepped forward, and watched as she turn and ran up the stairs. The girl began to follow. Blaise put a hand on her shoulder and she yelled something out to her mother.
"I'll find her," he murmured, not looking at the girl.
He made his ways up the stairs, trying to think of where she would have went.
Flashback
It was after midnight, but Blaise couldn't sleep, in fact since he had joined the order he had barely slept. He had taken to wondering the school at nights, he couldn't stand sleeping in the slytherin dorm's, not with Draco and his friends continually talking about the death eaters and 'he-who-shall-not-be-named'.
Suddenly he found himself in the school's library, for some reason, he had never some here at night, he found it too…weird…but tonight I guess it didn't feel strange.
It's probably empty, anyway he thought to himself as he opened the door. Hermione was in there, but she didn't see him. She hardly saw anyone, behind her wall of books.
"Hermione?" he asked, walking over to her desk. Hermione sat up suddenly, knocking over a pile of books. Her eyes were red and puffy.
"Hermione? What's wrong?" he asked, genuinely concerned, she just continued to sob. Blaise didn't know what to do, he had never been good with girls, especially when they were crying.
"My…. parents…they. they" she sobbed before bursting into tears. Blaise just hugged her, he understood.
"Hermione, I'm so sorry.." he began as she sobbed into his chest. She sobbed harder.
"i..i should go back to my dorm" she choked out before her legs gave way.
Blaise picked her up and lifted her over to the arm chairs in front of the fire.
"Wait, I'll go get Ginny," he said she'd know what to do he thought to himself.
"No, please don't leave me," she said her eyes pleading with his
he sat next to her and stared uncomfortably into the fire. She began to cry harder as Blaise put his hand around her shoulders, surprisingly though he found he was not uncomfortable and glad that he was here to comfort her.
They fell asleep there together, waking only when Ginny came, searching frantically for Hermione.
Hermione," She said hugging her older friend, "Dumbledore told us, we've been looking for you everywhere, I'm so so sorry," Hermione hugged her friend back as Blaise stood up and began to exit the library.
"Blaise," she whispered, her voice almost gone from crying so much. The slytherin turned around.
"Yea," he said turning around.
"Uh, thank you…for you know …everything" she said, ignoring the stares from Ginny.
"Uh, anytime," Blaise replied, turning around as Harry and Ron entered the library.
Blaise and Hermione spent nearly every night they and left of the seventh year together in library. That's where he fell in love with her.
The library Blaise thought, as he made his way along the corridor.
He got to the library and found that it was where Hermione had come, although there was already some one else with here. Some one else Blaise knew.
(A/N: ok, I kinda got stuck so I decided to change to a new character, then I decided to introduce the a new character, so it's from his point of view.)
Riley had been sitting in the library all night. There was a party going on in the great hall, but he hadn't felt like going.
I can't wait for the term to start, he thought, then can finally see my mates and get away from my bloody family.
Riley sighed, banging his head against the table, he had never felt more bored in his life, then suddenly a witch, possibly one of his new professors, coming running into the library. Riley sat up, putting his glasses back on, she didn't notice him though, she was crying to hard.
His green eyes followed her as she went and sat on one of the armchairs near the window, she was strangely familiar looking, although riley knew had never meet her. She had brown bushy hair, was medium height and small, she looked around the same age as his mother.
Riley stood up and began to leave the library, not wanting to disturb the witch., but she looked up as his chair scraped the floor.
"Sorry," he said, turning to leave. The woman sniffed and watched as the boy got up and left. As riley left the library and pretty much ran into his mother.
"Riley, I thought you were going to the party, with your dad.." Ginny Weasley said to her son, slightly frowning.
"Well, yea it's not like I don't see them all enough," the boy muttered
Ginny ignored her son hormones, she thought rolling her eyes, 'Well, what were you doing in the library?"
Riley looked at his mother blankly, suddenly remembering what had just happened, "Oh, I was just, you know reading, when…when this women came in crying, I thought it would have been better if i you know left her alone."
Ginny looked at her son, disbelieving him. "uh, ok, if you see your dad, tell him I'm in the library.", she said going into the library.
(Hermione's POV)
Hermione watched as the strange boy left the dorm, she knew who he was. Ron told her that Harry and Ginny had a son a couple of months after she had Alex. But it wasn't just that, he had Harry's eyes, and while his hair was an ash red, the trademark Weasley red was still clearly visible.
By now she had stopped crying, but she didn't feel like going back to the party, she knew they'd be looking for her, she just hoped he wouldn't remember where she went she was upset.
After a minute or two while Hermione was calming herself down, a small witch entered the library, and Hermione's heart dropped lower, she felt as if she was going to be sick. Ginny Weasley looked at her, in what appeared to be shock. Hermione stood up and went to leave.
"Hermione, please stop," Ginny Weasley begged. Suddenly Hermione's anger that she had fifteen years ago, how could I ever have forgiven her? She asked herself angrily.
"What?"She spat at her former friend, not stopping.
"Hermione, please...I just...I just want to say...I'm sorry.." Ginny sobbed as she grabbed her older friends arm. Hermione pulled her arm away and glared at the other witch.
"How dare you ask me for forgiveness…after everything you did…" she began to say as the tears began to fall again.
" I know…. I don't know…what happened…you know how me and Harry had been fighting and i...i…" Ginny began, stopping when she saw the look in Hermione's eyes.
"I don't want your explanations… I saw what happened..." Hermione almost shouted.
Neither witch saw Blaise, Harry or Alex enter the library.
Ginny just stood there "what do you want me to say…" she said quietly.
"I don't want you to say anything…" Hermione screamed back at her " I just want you to know how it feels, to have your heart ripped out by the people you loved. I had no-on after Voldermort killed my parents, you knew that, until I met Blaise, I had him, everything was perfect…until you...you…. how would you feel if..if ...it were you walking in on me and Harry...would you really want me to say sorry?" Hermione asked...her voice breaking now. She looked at Ginny, who just stood there, then suddenly she noticed her Blaise and Harry and her daughter standing there.
"Mum," Alex said stepping forward as Hermione collapsed "come on…"
"Here, I'll help you take her to your rooms..." Blaise began to say.
"No, I think we'll manage" Alex said as Hermione stood and began to pull her toward the door. Blaise stood there watching them as they left, he went to follow them.
"Blaise," Harry said, " I think maybe you should just leave them, for tonight, anyway." He hugged his wife, but she pulled away. "Ginny," he began, but he knew it was no-use.
Almost a week later
It was only a few days' left until the start of term and for some reason, Alex couldn't wait for it to begin. Her mother had barely come out of her room, not even to eat, since the argument in the library. Alex was sick of the castle...it wasn't like the castle at her school in New York, plus she didn't have any friend here – only Paul, but most of the time he was busy at his grandparents house or out of the castle with his mother.
She sighed as she stared out from the top of the astronomy tower. She had found this place a couple of days ago and was surprised by the view it gave.. it helped her to think better.
FlashbackAlex went to put the key in the door of the apartment she lived in with her mother.
"Hermione," she heard her uncle Ron's voice say, "think about it, please just think about it" then she heard the faint, almost silent, yet familiar pop of a witch or wizard apparating. She entered her home, with no trace of her Uncle ever being there.
"Hey, Mum, I'm home," she called out. She stopped at the mirror and pulled her hair back off her face.
Hermione hurried into her bedroom, holding a letter.
Ok, weird, Alex thought to herself. They had always had an agreement between each other, tell them whatever was troubling them, but now it seemed as if her mother was hiding something from her.
"So, what's in the letter?" Alex asked as she climbed on top of her mother's bed
"Uh, what? Nothing" Hermione replied looking at her daughter
"ok," Alex said pulling at face at her mother, it was the face she always gave into
"Alright, I give in" Hermione said sitting on the bed next to Alex. "it's a letter."
"Well duh." Alex said
"Alex…do you want me to tell you or not…?"Hermione looked at daughter
"Ok, ok…sorry"
"You don't really sound like you mean it"
"Alright, im sorry, I promise I wont interrupt you again with any sarcastic comments.'
Hermione smiled, only slightly.
"It's a letter, from Albus Dumbledore…he want's me to teach at Hogwarts next year as the charms professor…he said if I accept then you can be transferred ther, or you can stay at your school and visit during the holidays." Hermione waited fro her daughter's reaction.
"Well?" she asked
Alex looked at her, unsure what to say. She shrugged "wow" she whispered.
"Yeah, wow," Hermione agreed, "but I won't accept it if you don't want me to go, I'd rather stay here with you." And never have to see any of them except for Ron again she added silently.
Alex turned around and looked at her mum while playing with her hair, "so, if we go...does that mean...I'll get to meet everyone you grew up?" she asked.
Oh no, I didn't think SHE would want to go Hermione thought desperately.
"So does that mean, you want to go?" Hermione asked
Alex looked back at her mother, "only if you want to…" she replied, but Hermione had already seen the emotions in her face. She knew how hard it was for Alex to grow up with only her and Ron as her family, sure she thought of as Ron's wife as her aunt and Paul as her cousin, but she hardly got to see them.
Hermione knew that even if SHE didn't want to go, she had to, for Alex.
End of Flashback
Alex sighed again, if it wasn't for her then her mum wouldn't have been back stuck in this mess.
"Whats wrong?" a voice asked. Alex jumped, slowly she turned around to see a boy, the same age as her.
"Excuse me?" she asked
"Well it's just, I've only been here five minutes and you;ve already sighed twice. Usually that means you have a problem…" the boy said his green eyes searching her face, "I'm riley by the way," he held his hand out.
"Alex," she replied, not taking his hand, "I've just been thinking…about stuff" she decided not tell him what had happened, she didn't even know this boy, besides it wasn't anyone's business but hers and her mums.
Riley sat down on the stone floor next to Alex.
"This, is here I come to get away from my family. their so dumb they don't even think to look here" he said staring out the window. Alex looked at him curiously, noticing his hair was neither black nor red.
"You think you families dumb/" she asked
"He looked at her, his glasses a bit crooked, "it's not that their dumb, they just annoy me, they wont ever leave me alone…it's always riley go help you grandma or riley I told your uncle's you'd help them out in the shop this week…i never get time to myself' he said slowly.
"Really...it's like the exact opposite in my family...it's just me and my mum and that's it…sometimes I find myself bored,' she said laughing a little.
She looked down at her watch, it read 6:45, "oh, crap, I have to go," she said "I told my mum I'd help her with some stuff." She stood up. Riley stood up too, "yeah me too, I'm meant to go flying with my dad." He rolled his eyes a little.
"So, maybe I'll see you up here again sometime…we could talk more…' Riley said as they walked down the stairs.
"Maybe…" Alex replied, she looked at her hands ' I guess I'll be seeing yo around school, though if I don't see you up here."
"Yeah," Riley said, "Well…Bye," and they both walked off in different directions.
A/N: Ok so that's the end of the second chapter. I know no big cliffie..But I'm too tired and be bothered going back and thinking of a different ending…any ideas of what you would like to see happen in the next couple of chapters? REVIEW (again)
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