Disclaimer: so I still don't own Harry Potter or anything related or from the book….
And to all my fantastic reviewers….than you so much for all your comments…ivek ind of been stuck for a couple of days for ideas…but hopefully this chapter wont be too pointless….
Any way I think there might be a bit of confusion so before the chapter starts:
1. Nicole Weasley is Bill and Fleur's daughter; she has two younger brothers at Hogwarts (but they were only mentioned once.)
2. Yes Malfoy Jr. and Sam are going out… i decided this after I had introduced them but I can't really be bother going back and fixing it up yet.
And 3. Draco Malfoy Jr. is in Gryffindor because that's where I put him (I mean why not?) and decided that he will be Riley's best mate.
Any way heres the chapter…
Nicole walked slowly with her cousin and his two friends in an uncomfortable silence the entire way to Hogsmeade. In a short distance in front of her she could see her new and first real friend she had ever really had walking with her newly found father. She watched Riley curiously as he too watched the dark haired girl, never once taking his eyes off of her. Not even when Malfoy spoke to him.
Nicole grinned to herself when the blonde boy and his girlfriend Sam started to ask Riley all sorts of questions, knowing that he wasn't listening to a word they were saying.
"So Weasley do you agree that your cousin has a slightly unhealthy obsession with our new American friend?" Malfoy asked the red head. She looked at her cousin then at the other two who were wearing the same identical sly grins. She knew riley wasn't listening, he was too busy concentrating on watching the girl many metres in front of them. She nodded slowly, watching, as their grins grew broader.
"Want to help us out then?" Sam asked her, checking to make sure Riley still wasn't listening to them.
"What do you have in mind?" Nicole asked them
Alex walked along side her father in the cool air, it was autumn, and the weather was finally changing from being hot to the cool chilling air.
She pulled her black cloak tightly around her and listened to the rhythmical steps her father made as his feets hit the ground. Neither of them had spoke since they had left Hogwarts and suddenly Alex was feeling a bit uncomfortable.
"I thought we could get some lunch first, then maybe I could buy you a present," Blaise finally said glancing across at the young girl.
She looked back at him and nodded, " okay," she replied before turning to look straight ahead.
As soon as Hermione and Ben had left the Hogwarts ground they apparated into Hogsmeade, this meant they arrived before many of the students as they did not have to endure the long trip walking there.
Hermione looked at her watch, "so do you want me to show you around first, or do you want to grab some food?"
"How about we eat, while you show me around?" he asked her, before walking over to an outside food stall. Hermione followed him and watched as he ordered, they paid for their food, before heading back into the main part of the street.
"So, do you fancy seeing the shrieking shack first?' Hermione asked, and before he could reply she was pulling him off in the direction of the old 'haunted' house.
Blaise took his daughter to his favourite restaurant in Hogsmeade. It was simple and served about anything you asked for, from homemade Italian pizza, to shop-style fish and chips, to eye of newt soup.
The sat in a booth and Blaise watched as the young girl opened a menu.
"Blaise, darling," a tarty waitress drawled as she came over to their table, "who is this?"
Blaise looked at the waitress, she had platinum blonde hair that had clearly been dyed one too many times from the look of her black regrowth, he make up was heavy and Blaise had always wondered if it were in fact some type of mask. In all his years of coming to this restaurant this was the one thing, one person who annoyed him.
"Kelly," he began, smiling sweetly at the waitress, " this is my beautiful daughter, Alex." Alex looked up as he said this and looked at the waitress and they way her father was smiling at her. The waitress was oblivious to the way Blaise was totally fake toward her, although Alex had realized before she even looked up from her menu.
"Your daughter?" the waitress, Kelly, asked looking at Blaise.
"That's what he said didn't he?' Alex said rudely. Only the blonde ignored her.
"You never told me you had a daughter, Blaise," she said, putting her hand on his shoulder.
"Really? I didn't?" he asked, "I guess it could be because I don't really like to share my whole life with people I barely know?" he pushed her hand away.
The blonde waitress stared at him not knowing what to say, "Um ok, Blaise, can I take your order?"
"That's what your paid to do isn't it?" Alex asked coolly, still mad at being ignored by this dumb blonde.
Blaise looked at his daughter and spoke before the blonde waitress could reply.
"UM…I'll have the burger and fries, with a coke. Alex what would you like/' he watched as she studied the menu again.
"I'll just have the same," she said
"Ok make that two please Kelly," Blaise said smiling sweetly at the waitress as she left their table.
"So I' m guessing she's defiantly not an ex- girlfriend then?" Alex asked her father.
"Huh?" Blaise asked looking directly in the girl's eyes, "I don't have a girlfriend."
Alex sat across from her father in the booth, in complete silence until their meal came out. The blonde waitress kept coming over to see how their meal was going, even before she brought the food out and Alex was clearly pissed off about it.
This day was supposed to be about her getting to know Blaise, as her father, yet they had barely spoke, and kept getting interrupted by some dumb blonde witch.
"Are you looking forward to visiting your old school/" Blaise asked her as they began to eat.
"Yeah, I can't wait to see my old friends, I really miss them…" she began, "But Nicole si so funny, she reminds of my best friend back home, Georgie, only she has red hair and is a bit more shy." She smiled at the thought of the different but similar girls.
Blaise smiled, "so these costume balls they have, do the teachers have to get in to it as much as the students?" he asked slowly, hoping that Alex would tell him that the teachers don't wear costumes.
However she only grinned wickedly ate him, " no…they get into it more than the students do….i remember in my first year my potions teacher went as a tree, but he used a spell instead of a costume to change his look and he messed it up. He had branches and leaves for hair for about three weeks after."
Blaise laughed.
"Hey, do they have a costume shop here?" Alex asked her facing lighting up suddenly "we could go look at costumes…if you want to that is."
Blaise wiped his mouth with his napkin as Alex waited for him to reply.
"Sure…there's actually this really great place, I can't remember what it's called," Blaise said thoughtfully looking at his daughter, "it's just past Weasley's Wizards Wheezees, if it's alright I just have to stop there to see Fred and Gorge quickly."
Alex nodded and they quickly finished their burgers.
Some how Riley had managed to get from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade to his uncle shop with out even remembering how he had got there. Sure he remembered walking there but he didn't really remember the details of anything, such things as what he had talked about on the way there or how long it had taken the four of them to actually walk there.
He picked up an orange box, inside was a bright green toothbrush. He smiled and remembered the year his Uncle's Fred and George had given him this for Christmas. It looked like an ordinary tooth brush and smelt invitingly like mint, but as soon as the tooth brush entered his mouth all he could taste was something that reminded him of pond scum.
He put the box back on the shelf as he heard the jingle from the door opening. He looked up to see Professor Zabini and Alex enter the shop. He couldn't help but notice the way she was smiling when her father spoke to her.
But before he had the chance to speak to either of them he was dragged out og the shop by Draco Malfoy Jr.
'What where are we going?" Riley asked as he pulled his arm free once he was outside the shop.
"No where…we have to wait for Sam and your Cousin first…" Malfoy began.
"Well, why can't we just wait inside?" he asked frowning at the blonde boy, who in return just shrugged and sat on the sidewalk.
Riley looked into the shop window and watched as Nicole said something to their Uncle Fred, who then turned to look out the window grinning at Riley.
Weird he thought to himself.
He turned his attention to Alex and her father who were talking to his Uncle George, who was trying to offer them a canary cream.
Nicole and Sam joined the two boys on the street, Riley looked at them.
"So?" he asked
"So what?" Nicole asked him back smirking a little.
"Where are we going that caused us to suddenly leave this shop?" he asked looking at the two girls.
"No where," Sam said, sitting next to the blonde boy.
"Then why are we outside, sitting on the side walk?" he asked, feeling slightly frustrated.
"Oh, I thought you need some air, you were a bit red…" Malfoy began to say, riley realising his friends were going to make him stay here until they were ready to leave sat down next to his red haired cousin.
He knew they were up to something. Something really weird.
Alex followed her father into he joke shop, where they were greeted with 'Blaise," and "oh and you bought Alex!" and so on from the Weasley twins. She couldn't help but notice how Riley and Malfoy immediately left the shop once they had entered.
She soon watched as Nicole and Sam left the shop, without talking to her, too busy whispering to each other. She was concentrating on watching the four out the front that she almost accepted the canary cream when Fred offered it to her for the second time. Luckily Blaise stopped her and gave Fred a dirty look, who was just laughing.
"Alex," Blaise finally turned to her, "why don't you go talk to your friends while I sort some things out with Fred and George?" Alex nodded and made her way outside.
"So George, it seems as if our little Nikki was right," Fred said and he motioned toward the five teens just outside their shop window. They watched as Riley stood up immediately and smiled as Alex went over to them.
"Right about what?" Blaise asked, turning to look at what they were watching.
George looked at him, "Well it seems that our little nephew Riley, has a thing for your daughter," he began.
"And by the looks of it she has a thing for him." Fred finished off, grinning at the slightly horrified look on Blaise's face, who was watching Alex talk to Riley and Nicole. He could clearly see both Alex and Riley blush as they talked to watch other through the glass.
"Ahh, parental worry sets in so quickly," Fred said as Blaise turned back toward them, "you've just got your little girl, now I bet your scared your going to lose her some boy who isn't good enough for her?"
"What…she's only fifteen, besides I'm not worried about her…" he trailed off, hoping he sounded convincing.
"Sure sure, you seem to forget hat you and Hermione weren't much older then them," George pointed out.
"Yeah and looked what happened to us..." Blaise pointed out back, "we didn't exactly have the romantic story did we?"
"Um, yeah…Sorry Blaise…You never know Hermione might still come around…" Fred put in, who clearly saw Blaise's hurt and discomfort at what his twin had said to him.
"After fifteen years? I don't think so." Blaise replied bitterly, "anyway for this trip to Fascino Quas, Dumbledore asked for me to organise a few Halloween tricks or something for their ball. He asked me to give you this," he handed George a letter.
"Dumbledore said if you don't understand his request, contact him, don't make up your own," Blaise continued, "I guess I'll see you guys soon," the twins grinned as the y ripped the letter open and Blaise exited the shop.
Hermione and Ben walker were walking extremely close down the main street og Hogsmeade. Being with him somehow made Hermione to forget everything, all her problems, especially her problems with Blaise.
Until she saw Blaise and their daughter walking down the street toward them.
"Ben," she said quietly, "Why don't we have a drink," she stated before pulling him into the three broomsticks.
She hoped neither Blaise nor Alex had seen them. Suddenly she didn't know why but she felt guilty, it wasn't as if she had done anything wrong.
"What will you have my lady?" Ben asked her in a posh voice. Hermione giggled, "Ah just a butter beer," she said, before finding a table.
She sat and watched as Ben talked with the other customers in the pub, before he came back with their drinks.
"So Hermione…please tell me why you made a beeline for the indoor as soon as we saw your daughter and Blaise? Hwy is she here with a Professor anyway?" he asked her. Hermione noticed they were sitting extremely close, so close their knees were brushing against each other's. She did not feel uncomfortable.
She shrugged, before sipping her drink, "Alex is with Blaise because they're having a father daughter day out…their first day out together actually. I guess I pulled you in here because I didn't want to interrupt them." She lied in the last pat and hoped she sounded convincing.
"Oh, right" Ben said before leaning forward towards Hermione. He didn't want to press the topic; she clearly did not want to talk about it, at least with him anyway.
She put her hand on his and smiled, "I like it here though," he said looking around briefly, before smiling back at her,
Alex saw her mum disappear into the three broomsticks with Ben walker closely following behind. Too close Alex thought. She wasn't sure if her father had noticed them, but it appeared he was too bust looking into the shop windows as they passed them and Alex decided not to ask, incase he didn't and she had to explain it to him.
Soon they came to a brightly painted shop, across its windows was written, Hidden Identies: A costume for everyone. In white cursive writing, before it changed to a different font in capital letters, moments later it changed again to resemble something which looked like a child's hand writing.
Blaise took her into the shop and they began to look around.
"So what kind of costume are you looking for?" Blaise asked her looking at a gorilla's costume. Alex shrugged.
"I don't know, usually me and Georgie go in matching outfits but this year I guess we'll have to be different." She said as she picked up a clown costume.
After they had been looking around for at least ten minutes and not finding anything that either of them agreed on for each other, a young lady with bright green curly hair came over and asked if they needed help.
Blaise looked at the woman, "tonks" he exclaimed, "we need some help, Alex here needs a costume for a Halloween ball and I agreed to help her look for it…"
"Alex, as in your daughter Alex?" The woman with green hair asked, a bit shocked. Alex had stopped listening by know, this woman was obviously one of her fathers friends, until she heard the women make one simple remark.
"She looks so much like Hermione…" she said and suddenly Alex gave her, her full attention.
"You know my mum?" she asked the women who her father called "tonks" she nodded, "we were in the order together…anyway about this costume... what were you looking for?'
"I'm not sure, but my dad needs a costume too," she added slyly looking at her father.
He began to protest, before tonks interrupted him.
"Don't worry I have the perfect costume of reach of you," she said excitedly, "I'll bring them into the dressing rooms, ones still out the back, it's only just come in" she was basically jumping up and down. As she pushed the two toward the dressing rooms.
"Gee Thanx Alex…just what I wanted a gorilla costume," Blaise said sarcastically as a handful of costumes was handed to him.
"Don't worry, you'll thank me later," she said as Tonks bought her only one costume. Alex took it into the change room and quickly got changed.
Once dressed again she looked in the mirror and was surprised at how great the costume was. She had on a simple white and gold silk dress, that reached just above her knees, a pair of angel wings, the proper kind made of feathers and a thin piece of gold rope for a halo (A/N: think Juliet's costume from Romeo and Juliet, but better), she smiled as tonks and her father called her out.
She stepped out behind the curtain and heard the two of them gasp, suddenly self conscious she looked at them.
"What do you thin?' she asked before laughing at her father who was dressed as clown now.
"I think…I think…" he began
"It's perfect!' Tonks squealed, cutting him off. Alex looked at her father and he nodded and smiled.
"I like your costume too," she added, giggling again.
"Yeah it's the only one I like" he said.
"So the clown and the angel?" Tonks asked, ushering them both into their own change rooms, "I'll just go get the boxes."
"Tonks…how do you know I'm going to buy either of them?" Blaise called out from his change room.
"Well first of darling Blaise you looked ridiculous in all the costumes, but you do need one and I don't know how you could say no to your daughter after she looked like she just did," tonks called back.
Alex went back into he main part of the shop, to find Blaise paying for the wrapped costumes. She looked at her watch and realised it was time she headed back to Hogwarts, Blaise realised this too.
"Well Tonk's you should come visit us soon, I'm sure Dumbledore won't mind," Blaise said as he picked up the bags that held the boxes "unfortunately now though we have to go back. I'm sure Hermione will be worrying about where I've taken Alex to all day."
The green haired woman nodded, "it was great meeting you Alex, I'm sure I'll see you some time soon." She said as Alex andBlaise exited and Alex waved back to her.
Soon Alex and Blaise were back at the castle.
"Thank you so much for buying this for me," Alex motioned toward the bag as he walked back to the Gryffindor common room.
He shrugged, "just think of it as one of the many Christmas and birthday presents I am yet to make up for…" he trailed off as Alex stopped walking.
"You don't have o buy me stuff because you feel guilty for not being there, I'm not made at you because you weren't there when I was growing up." She said.
Blaise looked at his daughter and she suddenly reminded him more of Hermione than ever, "I'm mad at myself Alex, for not being there when you were growing up."
Alex looked down at her feet, before realising they had actually stopped in front of the portrait of the fat lady.
"Password," she said to them. Blaise told her the password and the portrait swung open, Alex however did not enter.
"I still have some growing up to do…" she began looking at her father.
He smiled, "I know and at least I'll be there for that…"
"I'm really glad you came with me today," he said and Alex nodded.
"yeah it was fun" she began to climb through the portrait hole and Blaise began to turn to leave.
"Hey dad…" she said and Blaise turned back to face her. "thanks…" she finished off before climbing through to her common room.
Blaise walked back to his room, with a broad smile on his face, and didn't even notice when Hermione and Ben entered the castle together as he made his way back to his room in the dungeons.
A/N: ok there's chapter 8…hope u liked it…if anyone has any ideas at all about what they would like to see in the stories NEAR chapters pls feel free to tell me when you REVIEW!…..
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