"Kai, don't run around the diner!" Hermione exclaimed.

"But this is our house." Kai replied, his blue-grey eyes glittering with mischief. As he ran from his mother, his curly brown hair became even messier than usual.

"Not for long. We'll have our own house one day," Hermione told him, "and you'll get your own room."

"But I don't want my own room!" Kai told his mom

"Just your CDs need their own room. And don't even get me started on your books. Now go back upstairs and finish your homework. I'll be up in a minute."

"Fine." Kai said grudgingly, "I'm halfway done anyway."

Harry ducked behind a building and pulled out his two-way mirror. Ron had the other one and they charmed a third to work for Draco.

"Ron, Where are you and Pansy?"

Ron's face appeared in the mirror and told him that he was in India and that he didn't think Hermione was here. Then Ron faded out again.

Harry moved on to Draco. "Malfoy, What about you?"

Draco's face faded in and said, "Brazil, she's not here. Go figure. Where are you, Potter?"

"The U.S., more specifically Connecticut. I've got this weird feeling though"

"Maybe your sick." Draco suggested

"Maybe. I'm gonna go eat something."

"Keep us posted." Then Draco's face was gone and it was a regular mirror again. Harry put the mirror back in his pocket and walked away from the back of the building.

As he passed a building, he looked inside and saw that it was a diner. He decided to go in and get some food.

Harry sat down at the counter and ordered a burger and fries from the sweet, Korean-looking waitress. He put his head in his hands and sighed, thinking to himself that finding Hermione was a lost cause and they should give up. He then heard someone walking down stairs and say, "Hey, Lane. Do you think you could send a salad up for me in about half an hour? Kai's studying and I need to be there to make sure he keeps studying."

"Sure, Mya, no problem."

Through this exchange, Harry thought that woman's voice sounded familiar. He lifted his head up just in time to see familiar curly brown hair round the corner and head upstairs. Harry jumped up and ran after her.

"Hermione Jane Granger!"

The woman stopped and, after a minute, she turned around. It was Hermione! He had found her.

After looking her over and making sure she was okay, Harry exploded at her. "Where the fuck have you been! We've been looking everywhere for you. Ron and Pansy are in India. Malfoy's in Brazil!"

"Malfoy? Draco Malfoy? Are you kidding me! When did he switch loyalties?"

"About a week after you left. He told us why you left too. And stop trying to change the subject!"

"You don't know a thing about why I left!"

"Then why don't you explain it too me!"

Through this whole interaction in the stairwell, Kai was trying to study, and failing miserably. He tried anything he could think of to drown the noise out. Nothing worked. So finally he got up, opened the door, caught their attention, and said "Mom can you please try and keep it down. If Metallica can't drown you out, you're arguing too loudly." Then he shut the door without waiting for a reply

"Was that what I think it was?" Harry asked, a little shocked. Out of the many senarios in his head about why Hermmione left that never even came up.

"And what, exactly, do you think it was?"

"You were pregnant! Merlin, Hermione why didn't you tell us. We could've helped you!" he stopped and took a breath to calm himself down. "It's Malfoy's right? Does he know?"

Hermione just looked at him with an Are-You-Crazy look on her face

"Right, stupid question. He would've tracked you down fasted had he known. Why didn't you tell any one, not even me?"

"Because we are having this discussion in a stairwell, that's why. Because it's affecting you, it'as seeping into your life, and you couldn't afford any distractions." Hermione tried to explain

"Bullocks."

Hermione was getting madder by the second. "Really? Well how about this one? My son didn't deserve to be born in a war. He deserved a clean slate and he couldn't get that in our world."

They just stared at eachother when she finished. Both trying to calm their feelings down. After a few minutes, Harry asked her, "What's his name?"

"Kai. Short for Malakai. Granger."

"Is he a…"

"He's the son of two of the greastest magical minds in Europe, of course he's a wizard."

"Okay, I have to go." With tha tsaid, he rushed through the Diner and out the door. Somehow, Hermione knew he was going to call Draco.

The second he was a safe distance from the Diner he took the mirror form his pocket and called Malfoy. "I've found her. She's in a little town called Stars Hollow. But before you go galavanting off to get her, there's something you should know..."