Disclaimer: Still don't own anything from the book….
Hey…ok to stop the confusion it is Jess Weasley, which is Ron's wife in the story that is the professor Weasley that went to Fascino Quas with them.
The next morning, Hermione woke to the sounds of New York. As she climbed out of bed and dressed she sighed as she remembered her apartment and the things she still had to work out here. Once entering the Croceus common room, she found that many of the third and fourth years had already moved to the great hall for breakfast with the Fascino Quas students.
Remembering that is was infact a Saturday morning, she slowly made her way down the building, admiring the way the interior had been decorated I with both traditional and modern pieces. Final reaching the bottom floor Hermione took her hand off the stainless steel railing and headed toward the equilevent of the Hogwarts great hall.
"Let me get that," Blaise said as he stepped towards her, coming out of a lower corridor, "How are you this morning?" he kissed her gently on the cheek as they entered the hall.
"I'm fine Blaise," she said looking around for her daughter, "you haven't seen Alex?"
"Have I seen her you ask? Not this morning, but I defiantly did hear her, all last night infact. I believe Harry had to go into their common room at least three times to tell them to go to bed," He replied giving her a cheeky smile, "I don't think she gets that from you though,"
"Oh right," Hermione replied, distractedly.
They sat down with Jess and Harry and the other teachers from Fascino Quas. After about ten minutes the headmistress, Professor Dokoft came to talk with them.
"Professor Granger, I believe Professor Dumbledore said that you also have some personal business to attend to concerning your apartment while you are here," As she paused Hermione simply nodded and felt Blaise look at her, "If you like you may attend to it today while the students do not need a lot of supervision, or I can find a time for you later in the week when one of my own teachers will be able to watch your students."
"No, today should be fine," Hermione, replied, finally looking towards Blaise as the blonde woman walked off, 'Blaise could you come with me? I mean Harry and Jess would be fine if the kids have any problems, but I don't think they will."
Blaise nodded in agreement before asking, "What about Alex? Im mean wouldn't she want to go with you?"
"Nah," She said laughing a little, "She packed everything in her room into boxes and tried to talk me into selling the place before we even got to England, I'm sure she won't mind if I don't take her."
Alex and Logan were both sitting on the common room floor, when Riley and Draco woke up. But instead of them going to the great hall for breakfast, they were greeted by Georgie who had an assortment of different food.
"Hey is Jess up yet?" Draco asked as he took some toast from Georgie and sat on the floor next to Alex.
She shook her head and returned to her conversation with Logan, but was interrupted when she realised that he was not actually listening to her, instead he was 'distracted' by the redheaded Weasley girl who had re-entered the common room after going to check on her younger brothers.
Sliding across the green carpet to where Riley was sitting, Alex lay against the bottom of the couch and watched her brother like friend with interest.
"So, do you think they'll have anything planned for us today?" Riley asked, not seeing what Alex was watching.
"Umm…I doubt it, they usually let the students do whatever on the weekends," she replied, looking away from Logan, "why is there something in particular you wanted to do?"
He shook his head, finally catching on to what was distracting her, "You know, maybe you're right, maybe it isn't her vela blood."
"Riley, I'm always right," She said smirking standing up, "it's something all Granger women must be good at."
He grabbed her leg playfully as she went to walk away, wrestling her to the ground, tickling her.
"Oh so you think your always right?" He asked as she tried to crawl away from his grip.
"He nodded, "why do you have a problem with that?" she asked giggling.
"I might," he paused for a moment, giving her the chance to get away.
As he reached out again she threw a cushion that she almost tripped on and hit him in the face.
"Hey," He yelled, faking hurt, which caused the other students to turn and look at them, "I'll get you back for that,"
"Oh yeah? How will you do that Mr Potter?" She laughed as she stepped behind Nicole as a cushion went flying past them
The cushion hit Sam, who at that moment chose to exit the girl's dormitory.
"Ow," She exclaimed, throwing the cushion back towards the boys, hitting Draco.
"Sam!" he yelled back
"Oh, sorry," She replied, not looking as innocent as she sounded.
This time Alex threw another cushion back at riley, hitting him straight in the stomach.
"Oh just wait," He said picking the cushion up and chasing her around the room with it.
Soon they were all in a full fledge pillow fight.
"It's just on the third floor," Hermione told Blaise as they stopped in front of what looked like to be the oldest building they had past so far.
Nodding he followed her up the stairs until they got to room C9.
Surprisingly the inside of the building was quite modern, and Blaise realised that Muggles also lived in this building. He watched with interest a woman who was smuggling a dog in her handbag as Hermione searched her handbag for her keys.
"Ah, here they are," She said finally, putting them in the lock turning them until it clicked.
She pushed the door open, and revealed her home from the last fifteen years.
"Well, this is it," she said as she put her handbag on the kitchen counter, watching Blaise's reaction.
In all, Hermione was proud of her apartment. In a way it showed her personality, with it's many bookshelves covering the walls, however on half of them were filled with books, with he other half being occupied with photo frames taken from the last fifteen years. Many were of herself and her daughter as Alex grew, but there were the few odd photos of them with Ron, Jess and Paul, and the occasional photo of Alex with Georgie and Logan and her other school friends.
Above the mantle piece, was a plaster of Alex's hand with the words Happy mothers day inscribed into it, which she had received the first year Alex had gone to kindergarten.
Finally Blaise reacted.
"Its very you," He said looking at the photos of when his daughter was a small child.
While Hermione had exposed Alex to the muggle world, she had always kept her magical culture with in the house; so many of the pictures were moving.
Moving in the lounge area, Blaise picked up the closet frame which showed his daughter, and as Hermione moved closer to him, she saw that it was of Alex just after she had lost her front tooth, grinning widely with a gap at the front the six year old Alex was giggling and holding her tooth up. Blaise smiled, but Hermione could still see the sadness in his eyes for not being able to be there.
"Blaise, I'm sorry,' she whispered taking his hand.
Tearing his attention away from the other photos, he looked at Hermione and frowned slightly.
"For What?" He asked, taking her hand.
"For not letting you have the chance to see your daughter grow up," she said, avoiding his eyes.
"Hermione," He said, taking her in his arms, "you did what you thought was right, if I have to blame anyone I have myself to blame." He kissed her forehead lightly, "I have her in my life now, so I can just look forward to watching her future."
Snuggling close to him, Hermione suddenly remembered all the home made video's Ron had insisted he make of Alex, even though he had no clue as to how to use a video camera, which left Hermione making most of them.
"Blaise, sit down, I'll be back in a second," She let g of him and headed toward her bedroom, where she knew the boxes were since Alex had put them in there before they had left.
Curious to what she was doing Blaise did not sit down, and followed her to her bedroom instead. Watching from the door way as she ripped open a box that read 'me', he spoke to her.
"Hermione, what are you doing?" He asked as she pulled the box toward the door.
"I'm showing you our daughters life," She answered, pushing the box into his arms.
"How?" ha asked, eyeing the black plastic tapes suspiciously.
"These are videos', there a muggle thing, you watch them on T.V, you remember TV from Muggle studies right?" She said quickly moving back into the lounge room, "Ron made me make them, I think I know why now," she gave him a small smile and slipped on labelled 'Alex, 8 months' in the VCR and switched on the TV.
Pulling Blaise on the couch with her, they watched as the picture on the screen focus on a pregnant Hermione, fifteen years earlier.
"I guess Ron labelled this on, I was actually 8 months pregnant," he said as Blaise leant forward to look at the screen better, "I'll just change it."
Still fascinated by the way the pictures appeared on the screen, Blaise did nothing as Hermione ejected the tape and Ron's voice stopped, and ejecting a knew tape. As they waited for the picture to appear on the screen, Hermione joined Blaise again on the couch.
"This one isn't as old," she said as the picture of Alex appeared on the screen.
It seemed to be only a couple of years ago, and was taped by Hermione, as Ron was in the picture as well. They both standing in the apartment they were in now, standing in front of a door that had a plaque that read 'ALEX'. As Ron knocked on the door, Hermione's voice came from the TV.
"A Letter from Fascino Quas has just been sent here, addressed to Alex,"
Finally the door opened, to reveal Alex in yellow pyjamas.
"What?" She asked sleepily, "Uncle Ron?" she then asked as she realised he was there
Without saying a word, Hermione handed her a thick envelope, before following her into the room.
The camera then zoomed in on Alex as she sat on the bed and read the letter. Finally after five minutes Ron's voice filled the picture.
"Well, what does it say?"
Alex looked up to the camera/ her mother, "I got in she said slowly."
"That's fantastic," Hermione's voice exclaimed as the camera went out of focus. From Hermione hugging her Blaise guessed. The screen went black, before the tape began to rewind.
"She didn't want to go," Hermione said as they listened to the whizzing noise coming from the VCR, "It took me ages to convince her I would be alright on my won while she was at school. It wasn't until she fund out Georgie and Logan were going there instead of Salem, that she finally agreed."
Blaise watched her as she stood and removed the second tape from the VCR.
"Thank you," he said as she put the third tape in.
"For what?" she asked as she sat back down with him.
"For this…" he replied motioning toward the TV.
Entwining their hands together, they spent the rest of the afternoon in the small apartment watching the homemade videos.
During the pillow fight, Logan had disappeared without anyone noticing. Leaving her Hogwarts friends with the other Fascino Quas students, she slowly began her search for him. Knowing that Georgie had gone to their practise room to meet Charlie, she figured he wouldn't be anywhere near there, so instead she thought of anywhere else he might have been, and then she remembered the roof.
The top of the building that the school occupied had been turned into a courtyard like area for the students to go to when they need time out to relax or whatever. But when she went here, both she and Logan went to the roof to think, either by themselves or sometimes they would meet each other up there. That's what drew Alex to the astronomy tower at first; it reminded her of the time she spent with Logan on the roof.
As she pulled open the door, which led to the roof, she was met by the crisp cool air, which caused her to tighten the belt on her red coat. As she entered the courtyard, she drifted around the corner to where they used to sit and watch the lights of New York.
Logan was sitting on the bench already, his black notebook lying on the cement.
"Hey," She said softly, as she sat next to him.
"Hey," he replied, glancing at her as she sat.
They sat in silence, each remembering the countless times they had sat here together.
"Georgie thinks I hate Charlie now," he finally said.
"I know," Alex replied, still watching the view in front of her, "you need tot ell her you don't."
"Yeah…I know…wait how did you know I don't hate him?" he questioned her.
She turned to face him, "Logie, you've know Charlie for almost as long as you've known me and I can tell that deep down you know he's good enough for her, but because she's your sister you're doing the protective brother thing."
He nodded, "I know…I just don't want her to get hurt."
"You really think Charlie would hurt her?" Alex questioned him this time.
He shook his head in reply, "He better not."
"He won't, but if he does, I'll make it my personal business to come back and hurt him back myself, so you don't need to worry about it," she said seriously, which caused Logan to laugh.
"So, you think you'll stay in England?" he asked changing the subject.
Alex nodded, "I like it there. I mean it's different from here, but different is good right? Plus I think my mum and dad still have a thing for each other."
"Oh," He replied, looking out at the city gain.
"But you know, the only bad bit is not being able to see you or anyone else that's here everyday," She smiled as he turned back to her.
"I'd miss everyone too if I moved to a foreign country," he stopped as Alex grinned, "what?"
"Well, I just figured that since you liked all my friends so much, you'd want to visit me there anyway," She replied.
"What Draco and Riley? I can just see myself hanging out with them," He rolled his eyes back.
"Hey, Riley's not hat bad," she said, defending him, "Besides I meant Nicole,' she watched him blush slightly.
"So you really like him then?" he said, trying to change the subject.
"Don't try to change the subject, you wanted me to introduce you to my 'hot' friends, now I have and you really like her," she said, poking him playfully in the side, "Admit it Logan or I'll tell Georgie."
"Alright, I like her. She's not like any girl I've ever met before and I didn't actually think she'd be so…" he trailed off.
"Nice? Fantastic? Gorgeous?" Alex suggested, "Would I be right in saying she's nothing like Amelia?" she finished off referring to his previous, long-time girlfriend, who broke his heart.
At the sound of her name, Logan's eyes darkened slightly, "Nothing like her" he admitted.
"I know, but let me warn you, Mr. Protective brother, I know that even though they aren't close, riley would probably hurt you if you hurt her,' she added, "plus I might have to let him hurt you too."
At the mention of Riley's name again, by Alex, Logan grinned.
"So you really like him, then?' he asked, using he question.
"What, no…. we're just friends." Alex replied, avoiding his eyes, looking out to the city, it was hard for her to lie to Logan.
"Lex," He said, turning her to face him, "I was kidding before, riley seems like a good guy, but you know me, I'm the protective brother. I have to hate anyone that shows interest in you or Georgie like that."
"I really have missed you,' she said hugging the boy, as they both began to walk toward the door to re-enter the building.
As they entered the building, Logan glanced at his watch, realising he was meant to be somewhere else.
"Hey, Lex, you'll be all right by yourself, I'm late for something," he asked her, stopping g halfway down the corridor.
"Yup," She replied, "I'll be fine." She watched him walk off in the opposite direction.
It was dusk, when Hermione and Blaise, finally left her apartment, finally as the street lamps came on, they neared the school. Stoping, Blaise took the witch's hand and turned her towards him.
"Hermione," He began as she wrapped her arms around his neck, "You and Alex, you don't have to stay at the castle for Christmas. I mean if you want, you could stay at the manor with me."
Gently tracing hi collarbone with her fingers, Hermione leaned in and kissed him gently.
"Blaise that would be fantastic." She whispered against his cheek.
"You don't have to decide straight away, I mean you didn't even give me the chance to tell you the Malfoy's will be there." He said slowly.
"I don't care Blaise, just as long as we can spend it as a family." She replied, looking into his eyes, giving him a smile.
He pulled her in close, kissing her forehead lightly.
A/N: o.k. I think that maybe I'm in a bit of a writing rut…..everything just seems a bit boring to me….if anyone has any ideas that they think might help me they would be greatly appreciated….anyway please review!
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