Wells thens heres chpaters's 2. Please enjoy and please's revew! Thank you to all that did and please continue to review!

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Chapter 2

Hermione checked the hallways before turning the corner, running on tiptoes all the way to the floor George's room was on. She giggled as she shut the door just as Molly opened the door to her room. George laughed to as she sat next to him on the bed.

"What's this?" she asked pulling out whatever she had sat on. It was turning the color of her hand, even though seconds before it was the color of the bed. "Its just a notebook." He said with a smile, "Scaper Paper, a notebook that becomes the color of its background for girls like Ginny who can't hide their diaries from snoopy brothers, like me!" he smiled.

It had almost been a month now. Mrs. Weasley was back up starting to be a little more like her old self. She was working in the gardens and cleaning a little, though Fred and Ginny had taken to making dinner.

Hermione had been coming to see George for a little longer then a week now, he was just easy to get a long with. He liked to bring up memories of Ron, Fred, and Harry, but never when she wasn't in the mood. Like he knew how she was feeling without asking. "how much is it?" she asked liking the idea.

"For you?" she nodded. "Free, of course. You're the only one that's been able to get Ginny to talk since…a long time."

She smiled, "she probably just needed to girl her age to talk to you know?"

"Its also waterproof." He said.

"Um.. what?"

"The notebook. You wouldn't believe where Ginny would hide things. She was so sick of it once she put a waterproof charm and tried to hide it in the little creek in the backyard but we got it anyway. Needless to say we couldn't read it anyway because only the cover had been waterproof and all the words seeped in."

"How many diaries has she had then?"

"About fourteen. One for every year she had before school and two since then."

"I remember one."

"Mhmm." He said looking out the window at the rain.

"You wanna go outside?" Hermione asked standing up.

"Its raining, isn't it." He said laughing as she dragged him to his feet.

"So? I haven't seen this creek."

"I don't want to go there." He said stepping back.

"Okay," she said looking at him a little worried, "Well we don't have to go there. I just wanna go dance in the rain or something."

She grabbed his hand and creaked the door open checking before running down the last two flight of stairs and out the front door into the front yard. That's the things she didn't miss the most about her house, it had no yard. This place had a front and back yard and not a house within a mile on all sides.

"I know where we should go." He laughed and ran still holding her hand ran to the garden. "The gnomes are hilarious in the rain. The sat in on the garden bench for an hour, the raindrops getting heavier and bigger with every minuet. It was funny, the gnomes seemed to have the same idea as them. They would run out of there holes gallop in little circles and spin until then fell. Then they'd just lay there until they noticed Hermione and George and run back into the holes.

"Listen I was wondering." George started haphazardly. (A/N: dude- I spelt it right the first time!)

"Yea?" she said laughing, a particularly chubby gnome, who had had to squeeze himself out of his home, had just fallen and it was taking two other littler gnomes to get it back up.

"I mean I need a favor."

"Anything." She said glancing at him with a smile and then turning back to laugh as the gnome dove into his hole and got stuck yet again.

"Tomorrow, I want to go to the shop." He said starring off to the side down the long road.

"Oh. Why, would you want me to go along, I mean I'm sure Ginny would go."

"Well, I just think that if you're there, then I might be able to get through it. It would still be the first time I've been there since he died."

She blushed and looked in the opposite direction he was looking. Then she said quietly, "Sure."

"Really, thanks," he said looking at her now, when she turned to face him he said, "I'm glad you said yes cause I wanted to go and if you'd have said no then I wouldn't have."

"Pressure."

"Well you already said yes, other wise I wouldn't have said anything about it."

She forced herself not to smile and looked back at the gnomes.

George stared at the sign, and stared into the windows. Everything was the same. Hermione pushed his shoulder lightly and he pushed open the door to a loud rumbling and shrieking of voices. One of the workers came running forward, smiling big and proud. "Is there anything I can help you find?" she said and then stopped, smiling even bigger. "What and honor." She said putting out her hand.

He took it and shook it, "Hi."

"Hello, my name is Shiela Wonderst. I've been working here a few months now. I am the biggest fan, I thought, what a better place to work, right. Mahaha." She laughed. It was such an obnoxious (O booya got that one right too.) laugh that a few people looked her way. "I assume you know your way?" she giggled.

"Actually, looks a little different from the last time I saw it." George said looking around the room.

"Oh that's right, it's quite interesting actually. Mr. Jordan couldn't get a hold of you, but we were running out of room. So the place had to expand a little. He worked on it for a few days and they were able to get the neighbors to sell but he didn't want to do anything without you permission so instead he just used an enlargement enchantment. You left the place in good hands while you were away." She told them as she steered them into the corner of the place.

"Looks like I'm not the only one who stopped taking owls." Hermione cooed.

"But this half hasn't changed, he left the offices and the backroom just as they were." She smiled and knocked on the door not hearing Hermione's comment.

"Yea." Said a cheery male voice from the room.

"Its Mr. Weasley and Mrs. Granger."

"Oh. Come in come in." But before they could reach out to open it someone pulled it open. Lee Jordan pulled George into a hug. "I can't believe it man, glad you came. I had a little vacation in three days and I was gonna come visit you."

"You don't have hours, we told you that when we gave you the job."

"Yea well, this place is better then home, she drives me up the walls, she does. Rather be here any day."

"Who was it you were going out with again?"

"It was Brown, but I ain't talking about her, I broke up with her a while back. I'm back to living with my mom now. She hates it and so do I. Rather be here any day. Hope you don't mind but a few days I stayed up stairs, couldn't stand going home to that hag."

Hermione and George laughed at his excited talk. "Oh that's right you've been livin' with your mom too. How's that been?"

"Its' cool." George admitted laughing again.

"Yeah but your moms cool isn't she, my mom refuses to even try to be cool about work. She hates it, she thinks it's a waste of time. I tried explaining it to her that it was something like my passion and she just tutted. Well grr her." He said and the two others laughed again. "Oh that reminds me, as soon as you come back to work and feel like it, I have things to tell you. Some of it you may have already noticed."

"A lot of it Shiela told him." Hermione added and her and George laughed again.

"Oh Hermione, didn't see you." He said noticing her for the first time. He pointed his wand at the corner of the room and a the wall turned red the yellow. A red chair was visible only for seconds against the yellow wall before it turned yellow too. "Pull up a seat. I liked your idea of the Scaper Paper so much that I decided to make a little Scaper line. Don't be mad, I tried to owl the idea a few times and got nothing so I just went with it."

"You were with us from the beginning Lee, this place is just as much yours as it is ours… mine." He said and the after a second smiled. In fact how would you like partial ownership?"

"Really, that would be awsome. Does it come with appartment permission?" he asked hesitantly.

"You can have the appartment. I don't think I'm gonna stay there anymore, but I will be coming into work a lot more."

"Can I keep the Manager job too? I really like it."

George laughed, "Your gonna have to pay yourself a lot."

"No I would do this job for us for free."

He laughed again, "You got it. And I'll come in tomorrow to talk about the plans, is the neighbors place still for sale?"

"Sweet, yea, I think I can re-convince him." Lee said looking through all the papers on the table and pulling out a folder that was big and falling apart. "He threw this at me enough to know what it looks like."

The other two laughed and there was another littler knock at the door. "Come in." lee boomed.

"Mr. Jordan sir." Came a voice from outside, they need you in the hospital wing.

"Right, another thing ill have to tell you about later, just a little addition for those less fortunate to try the products here and backfire. Oh, Nibs why don't you come in a second. Hermione I think you'll like this."

The smallest house elf Hermione or George had ever seen walked into the room and bowed. "How do you do." She said smiling at the three.

"Nibs here was sacked a month ago, and came looking for work." He said smiled nodding that she could leave now. After she had gone he turned to Hermione and George. "They are much better workers, actually Shiela is our only remaining human worker, if you can call her that, she never sleeps that woman. She thinks were going to fire her, but I know how much she loves this job."

"Do you pay them?" Hermione asked.

"The ones that want it."

"How many is that?" she asked.

He pulled out another folder, "Shiela and four of the twelve elves."

"Are they pa-"

He cut her off, "The same as Shiela of course." She smiled, "I suppose I have you to thank for that. They came in talking about having a friend who worked at the Hogwerst who was being paid, and how maybe they would just go work there."

Hermione and George laughed again and the two of them stood to leave. As soon as they walked out the door George turned to Hermione smiling. "Thanks again, I didn't know if it was going to be hard or what but I knew I couldn't do it the first time alone. And now that I've done it I know that it was a good thing, something about being back in there and thinking about all the good times we used to have, well it made me happy, you know?"

No, she didn't

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ummers pleaze dont forget to review. And i think this ones a little less depressing, i was a littlebit on the 'three days grace' listening depresness when I was writting it soI tried my best to pick it up.

Cee