Hey, thanks again for all the great reviews, and I'm sorry about the grammar and spelling and stuff in the last chapter, but I typed it at school and didn't have a disk or usb and the email system was down so I couldn't send it home so I decided just to upload it at the end of the lesson…if I have time I'll go back and fix it…
Hermione woke late the next morning, not realising where she was. Once she worked out she was in Harry and Ginny's room, she remembered the note from the night before and what someone had done to her room. Then she remembered it was a Tuesday and she had lessons to teach.
She quickly showered and dressed in her friend's bathroom, and as she entered the bedroom, she found Harry waiting in there.
"Harry," she said sharply, "you could have woken me. I've already missed my first lesson."
"Hermione, relax," Harry said, giving her a small smile, "Dumbledore said that after last night, you could have today off."
"Oh," she said softly, "Has…Have you…Does Alex know?"
Harry looked at her and shook his head; "Blaise wasn't sure if you wanted her to know…" he trailed off as Hermione began to speak quickly.
"No I don't, I mean she would just worry. Does Dumbledore know who did it?" she asked, changing the subject.
Harry shook his head again, "No, we've been trying to think of who it might have been, but we don't know who would want to do that to you."
Hermione nodded, unsure as how to reply to Harry, she didn't know who would do that to her now. Sure fifteen years ago she would have immediately said it was Malfoy or any Slytherin, but things were different now, the last she had heard of Malfoy was during the war when he had disappeared, sure his son was friends with her daughter, but Hermione still knew nothing new about the man who used to terrorise her fifteen years ago. And a Slytherin? She had fallen in love with a slytherin and many of them had either disappeared during the war or fought with the order. Fifteen years and a war changed a lot.
Blaise had finished his first lesson of the day and didn't have another until after lunch. He hadn't been able to concentrate in teaching the students, barely having any sleep from the night before, with Snape taking control throughout most of the lesson.
"Why don't you just go and see her?" Snape had told him and pushed him out of classroom before he could reply. Now Blaise's only option was to go see how she was.
He made his way toward her classroom, before remembering Dumbledore had told them it would have been better if she didn't have to worry about classes that day, so instead he changed his direction and began to make his way toward the Potter's rooms.
As he made his way up the steps he heard a familiar voice call out to him, he turned to see his daughter make her way quickly up the stairs behind him, with Nicole Weasley following slowly behind.
"Alex," Blaise said softly, they still hadn't told her and Blaise wasn't sure if Hermione even wanted her to know, "How are you?"
"Yeah, I'm good," she replied, frowning slightly at he formalness of her fathers behaviour, "I was just wondering if you knew where Mum was, she wasn't at breakfast this morning and we had Professor brown for charms this morning. Is she ok?" she said the last part so fast that Blaise could barely make out what she had actually said.
"I'm sure she's fine," a deep voice said before Blaise could reply.
Blaise turned to see professor walker standing at the top of the stairs.
"Yeah, she just had to go into Hogsmeade to organise something for the trip next week,' Blaise added, hoping Alex couldn't tell when he was lying.
"Oh, ok, well if you see her could you tell her I just wanted to talk," she replied, before making her way back down the stairs with Nicole.
Blaise watched them until they had completely disappeared from his view, when he turned he found Professor Walker still waiting for him at the top of the stairs.
"Professor Walker, is there anything I can do for you?" he asked, not sure what the man wanted.
He simply hook his head, "Please call me Ben, I just figured you were going to see Hermione, so I though I'd go with you since I was heading that way aswell."
"Oh," was all Blaise could reply with, he knew they, Ben Walker and Hermione were interested in each other, he had seen them in Hogsmeade, but had cleverly tried to avoid them. He just didn't know how he would feel being in the same room with both of them at the same time.
"Actually, Ben," He began, "I was just going to see Professor Weasley, he's been having a bit of trouble with some of the furniture in his class rooms so he asked me if I knew of a potion to help him. I was just going to have a look at it." He muttered, before walking off in the opposite direction of the other professor.
Harry had left Hermione alone in the room, "if you need anything, I'm sure Ginny will be back before lunch" he had said.
She was startled when she heard the knock on the door, she was sure that since it would have only been Ginny she would have just entered the room. Unsure and still remembering the images of her room from the night before Hermione opened the door only just enough to see who was standing on the outside. It was a grinning Ben Walker; she let out a gasp of relief and moved to open the door wider to let him in.
"Ben…" she began softly, feeling a small amount of disappointment in her stomach.
"Hermione," he interrupted her, 'Are you all right, when Ron told me this morning, I felt so mad, I wanted to come and see you but I had my lesson. I'm sorry I couldn't come earlier."
Hermione shook her head, "it's alright," she began, but was cut off when he kissed her.
He pulled the witch closer, holding her around the waist, as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
They broke apart when Ginny, opened the door.
"Hermione…oh sorry…" she said, quickly closing the door again.
Ben watched as Hermione blushed and stepped back from him. Before she could speak, he had kissed her on the cheek and gone off to his next lesson.
"Hermione," Ginny spoke as she re-entered her room, after watching the blonde man hurry off, "What was that?" She let out a laugh when she saw her friends bright ed face.
But Hermione wasn't listening to her.
What was that? She asked herself silently, before realising Ginny was still watching her.
"Um, Gin, I think I'm going to go see Dumbledore," she said instead of replying to the red-haired witch.
After Blaise had sent he blonde professor on his way to see Hermione, he had every intention of actually going to see Ron Weasley like he had told him, but instead Blaise began to wonder.
Eventually he found himself in the library; in the exact spot he had first kissed Hermione to be exact. He sat in the closet armchair and remembered how things were back in their last year. He remembered the way Hermione used to smell when they would sit in the library, the way their bodies fit together perfectly. Then he remembered how he had ruined everything, that one stupid night, he remembered the way Hermione had looked at Ben when he had seen them in Hogsmeade.
"Blaise?" a soft voice said from behind him.
He turned his head around to see Hermione standing there, looking quite pale.
"Hermione," he said and stood up, "how are you feeling?"
Hermione sat in the chair beside him and waited for him to sit back down again before she replied.
"I guess I'm okay," she said looking only at her hands. When Blaise didn't reply, she looked up to see him nodding. He stoped when their eyes met and quickly looked away.
"Have you been to see Dumbledore yet?" he asked, this time it was his turn to look when she didn't reply. She didn't move or speak, instead she only watched the man.
"What?" he finally asked. Snapping away from her trance Hermione muttered a simple 'nothing' before standing up.
"I guess I should go see Dumbledore then. See you later." She said before exiting the library.
Hermione waited in Dumbledore's office, replaying what had happened with Ben walker in her mind. Sure she liked him, but when he kissed her it had shocked her, and it didn't make her feel anything. Not the way she used to feel something when Blaise kissed her.
Even though it had been fifteen years since they had ever been that close, Hermione could still remember the way her stomach would do a little flip when he pulled her closer, the way his lips would brush softly against her skin, the way she felt every emotion when he held her. She didn't feel any of this with Ben, she only felt safe in knowing that he would look after her, but she had Ron, and now Harry to look after her and Alex now that she had come back.
Sitting in Dumbledore's office Hermione realised she was still fully in love with Blaise, and wanted to be with him.
"Hermione," Dumbledore said as he finally entered his office, snapping her out of her thoughts.
Hermione stood and smiled weakly at the Headmaster.
"I'm sorry, Professor, I've just realised that I have somewhere else to be," She began.
Dumbledore simply nodded with a look of understanding in his eyes, "Hermione, please come see me before nightfall at least."
She nodded, before quickly running down the steps into the great hall.
Hermione rushed into the great hall and tripped over. Feeling two arms grab her before she hit the ground, she let out a gasp of relief and found that it was Ben Walker who had caught her.
"Careful beautiful," he said grinning as he lifted her up, "we don't want you to get hurt now do we?"
He didn't let go of her waist and Hermione looked blankly at him.
"What?" he grinned, '"do I have something on my face?" he removed one hand to touch his face, but by now Hermione wasn't looking at him, she was looking behind him at the man who was standing at the bottom of the staircase. The man she had been looking for.
It was the end of the day and Blaise had not been back to any of his lessons, he knew Snape would understand so he didn't worry about it. After seeing Hermione in the library, he had taken to walking throughout the castle once again, not looking for a place anywhere in particular to go to.
He ran into Ginny Weasley, who although they were friends, was a little bit off with him. After seeing her, he had decided to return to his room in the dungeons.
That was when he saw them, together. He was halfway through walking down the steps into the great hall and she had come out from Dumbledore's office where she had tripped and Ben Walker, the gentleman that he was had been there to save her.
Blaise felt a stab of both anger and sadness as he watched Hermione being held by the other Professor, he knew he hadn't been seen, and he tried to quietly move down the stairs and pass through the great hall down in to the dungeons as if he was unnoticeable.
"Blaise," a soft voice came as he tried to go unseen. He didn't look up, preferring to pretend he did not hear his name. Next he heard footsteps come toward him, before they stopped, this time he did look up to see that Hermione was halfway across the great hall, but had been stopped by the other professor, when he had talked to her. Blaise didn't stop to listen or even to wait until they had finished talking, instead he continued on his way down to the dungeons and into his own room.
Hermione had tried to talk to Blaise, but it was impossible with him ignoring her when she called out to him and stupid Ben Walker not letting go of her.
After watching Blaise disappear into the dungeons, she realised that Ben was still talking to her.
"So, I was wondering if you wanted to go to the first quidditch game with me this week end. I believe it's between Ravenclaw and Slytherin." He asked her.
Hermione frowned and tried to step away from his hands, which were on her waist.
"I can't Ben, I have things to organise for the trip." She lied, as he grabbed her hand.
He dropped her hand and looked at her coldly, "ok, maybe another time then." He replied, before stalking off.
Hermione watched him leave, unsure as wether to follow him and say that she would go or just leave it. She decided to leave it.
Instead she began to make her way down into the dungeons, she knew it was probably a bad idea considering they still didn't know who left the note yet, but she needed to see Blaise, and she needed to see him now.
She quickly walked to the potions classroom, knowing that Blaise's office and bedroom was near by.
She came to his door and went to knock, but stopped herself when she heard tow voices coming from inside the room. They were muffled so Hermione could not hear what they were saying, but she could recognise Blaise's voice immediately, as the second voice belonged to a woman.
Blaise had returned to his room, to find he had been flooed by none other than his best friends wife, Lydia Malfoy.
"Ah, Blaise, finally, I've been flooing in and out all day but you never seemed to be here," the voice from the blonde woman came from the fireplace.
"I've been busy," he simply replied, sitting in the chair opposite so that his view into the fireplace was not obstructed, "What can I do for you?"
The voice from the fireplace began to talk, "Well you see, Narcissa wants us to join her for Christmas this year, but Draco kind of told her we were staying with you with the kids, so now she wants to know if she could use the manor over Christmas and Draco had no choice but to tell her yes. Which means we have no where to stay with the kids for Christmas…" she trailed off.
"And you want to know if you can stay at my place?" Blaise finished off for her and she nodded.
"Well, Lil, I don't actually know if I'm going to stay at Hogwarts this year, but yes I guess you could stay at my place over Christmas," he said, suddenly feeling very tired.
"Oh Blaise, thank you, I swear one day I will kill Draco for doing things like this, but you would have to be there too. I mean it wouldn't be right if we stayed there without you," she looked at the man from the fireplace, "Blaise what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I'm fine," He replied.
"Blaise you can't lie, but if you don't want to talk I'll leave it."
"Thanks Lil, oh can you tell Draco I'll probably be around after Halloween, we can talk more about Christmas then." He said and watched as the Blonde head disappeared.
Hermione disappeared out of the dungeons and back into Dumbledore's office after hearing the voices in Blaise's room, sure she hadn't heard what they were talking abut, but it was a woman's voice she heard and she didn't really want to know who it belonged to.
"Ahh, Hermione, Back so soon?" Dumbledore asked as he entered the waiting room to his office.
Hermione simply stood and followed the headmaster into his main office, choosing not to reply to his question.
"Well, Hermione," Dumbledore spoke as they both sat at his desk, " I think that until we can figure out who it is that is sending you theses notes. Yes notes, two more turned up in your class room today, causing Professor Brown to cast charms on both her classes, you will need to stay in a room where we can watch you. Obviously our wards have been broken and that is how the intruder managed to get into your room in the first place, so I think that it would be better if you shared a room with another teacher."
Hermione stared at her teacher, "Professor, I can't share a room with Harry and Ginny, it isn't fair on them."
Dumbledore laughed and shook his head, "no, I wouldn't want you to share a room with them either, I am still yet to run this idea past the professor I have in mind, but once I have I will let you know straight away."
"Now I believe it time for diner, would you like to escort me to the great hall Professor Granger?" Dumbledore asked, standing up, motioning for Hermione to do the same.
A/N: ok there's the next chapter, once again I though it was a bit boring and hopefully next chapter I'll more of Alex and her friends aswell as Blaise and Hermione…read and review…
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