A/N: I was so depressed over the lack of updates from my favorite stories. So I turned to hours of searching the internet of looking for hints that Dan and Emma are actually together. My cousin is in denial about the fact that the books might have HHr. I love HHr to death but I'm not going to kill myself over something that I know has a miniscule chance of happening though if it did I would be happy. If it didn't I would still dream of Dan and Emma hope and if for some reason they got married to other people screw it all. I'll find a new obsessive paring. Don't mind me I'm just pissed school starts on Monday.

So the next day they visited Grimmauld Place and Gringotts. They picked up most of the items that they thought they would need. While in Gringotts which Hermione decided not to go to Harry basically found a full nursery. They set it up to in hermione's old room and joked about it's multipurposes.They watched as for the second time in four years the padlocks to the outside were closed. The sound of metal clashing could be heard all over. To them it didn't mean a thing. Hopefully it prevented people from getting out and coming in but who knows what they would deal with. Even with all of this going on they found time to hold a short graduation ceremony where they received certificates of completion even for those who might have failed their owls. Hermione and Harry had stepped down in a way but were still in charge of keeping things in orderAll of the complaining they took down the spells that conflicted with use of muggle items so Harry had weekly calls from strangely enough Hermione's mother and father.

"How are you doing?"

"I'm doing pretty good. We're in lockdown over hear so we really can't come over and visit you."

"That's too bad, we were really hoping since its summer that you could come and visit us."

"I don't know if that's such a good idea with everything that's going on over here."

"How's your baby doing?"

"Hermione's fine she's doing really well."

"I mean THE baby." Patricia said clarifying it.

"Ummm. She seems okay."

"What do you mean seems?" her anger even from a long distance shown by the tone rising. "Do you not have a school nurse that can take care of this properly? Do I need to come down there and take care of my daughter myself?"

"I'm taking care of her. I get her any food she wants when she wants it. I comfort her and I think I'm doing a damn good job of it."

"Don't you take that tone with me! What are you giving her anyway."

"Well she mainly has this fixation on chocolate and jelly beans."

"You're undoing all the dental hygiene that I have instilled in my daughter. That stuff gets stuck in teeth and you know how unhealthy it is for her."

"Actually yes I decided that I was learning some basics in healing. You know its best to have some kind of back up."

"At least your doing something!"

"Are you alright? You seemed a little bit stressed."

"Well last this morning I woke up and Joe was in bed and he was a little bit pale. It looks like he has influenza but at this point I don't know what it is."

"Why don't you take him to the hospital?" Harry asked.

"I would but I'm afraid because every few minutes he's over the toilet clutching his stomach."

"It probably is the flu then. You should just take him there to be safe."

"I'll probably going to be okay but you know what I just don't want to have three sick people in the family. Will you do me a favor and tell Hermione?"

"Of course I was planning on doing just that anyway! You should call someone else maybe one of the neighbors if you need help moving him."

"Sure. I'll talk to you later. Good luck to you too I hope you have good luck with everything that you're trying to do."

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"So guy's we're reinstating the movie nights but this time you can stay up as late as you want to. All the old rules are tossed out of the window. You can see any movie as long as the people who supervise you which means your parents or gaurdians approve it. The only thing that I stress is that we are in the Great Hall, this is where we dine, do not disgrace yourselves to the state in which you can't come in here anymore and furthermore don't make us see something that would make us uncomfortable. Oh yeah the last thing is, is that the movies are shown by laptop and projector which are not owned by the school but by Harry and myself so it's not your property don't mess with it. If you do and something is wrong with it you will be paying Harry for a new laptop and projector thank you very much."

"Your mum just said your dad and her are on the way to the hospital."

"The hospital? What happened?"

"Oh he had a really bad case of the flu you know vomiting and what not?"

"Oh don't speak to me about that. Is he okay though?"

"Patricia has full confidence that he will pull through."

"You scared me for a moment."

"Your mum scared me. She started lecturing me on not giving you chocolate and cake."

"Harry you don't give it to me, I ask you for it. Even if you didn't I would have gotten it myself. You're not supposed to tell my mum stuff like that anyway."

"Stuff like what? I didn't say anything offensive!"

"Of course not but when you mention the word cake and candy make sure to add that it's sugar free and you flossed and brushed afterwards."

Months passed by slowly it was very gruesome as they basically did nothing. They played games but it got old fast. It was very strange how at first they loved vacations the thought of sleeping in but there was nothing to do. Hermione was joking around about how it was going to be the most exciting thing this summer to have the baby. It was around September and once again it was getting cold outside. You could practically see the frost coming off of the windows. Hermione was also excited because it was nearing her birthday. She had already gave Harry what he wanted for his birthday he honestly told her that he wanted nothing. That he was happy with nothing and he already had everything he wanted and more. She got Colin and his brother Dennis to find all the photos that they had taken over the years. She had lots of photo books she found a brown leather bound one and put in pictures of Harry, Ron, and herself when they were smiling and their happiest.

It was her way of letting him know that even in the worst of times there were still the times that they could look back on this. Everyone else gave him presents Dobby included who gave him another pair of socks. She never quite understood their exchange of socks, Dobby had always given her a knitted multi-colored scarf. It was their way of friendship and she wasn't about to mess with that.

"Hermione wake up it's your birthday! Happy 18th!" Harry murmured into her ear.

"Thanks." Hermione said turning over and kissing him.

"So how is it turning out so far?" Harry asked pulling back.

"It's great..."

"But..."

"But...I think my water just broke."

"I...uh..what..?" Harry said sitting up.

"Did you take any water to bed with you?"

"No."

"Did you pee in the bed for some reason?"

"That's uncalled for and no."

"Well there's water running down my leg and we need to get down to the hospital wing."

"Okay go get dressed."

"This is some birthday!"

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Harry was walking down the hallway at a rapid pace steering Hermione in front of him.

"Harry I just realized something we never decided on names!"

"Hermione, now is not really the time for this discussion we're trying to get you to the hospital wing."

"I think now is the time. Now what names do you like?"

"Um...Lily..."

"Isn't that a bit confusing?"

"I'll compromise how about the middle name then."

"Okay but that's for a girl."

"First name Hayden?"

"I like it but what if it's a boy?"

"I think that we should name it middle name Anthony."

"You know I've always liked the name Nathaniel."

"Well there we are two names and here we are at the hospital wing!" Harry announced.

Hermione smiled up at him grinning.

"Here we are?" she whispered nervously.

"We can do this!" Harry said.

"No we can't." Hermione said remembering.

"What?"

"Madam Pomfrey's not here remember. She went away to help with the shortage with St. Mungo's remember. We were cautioned today not to do anything dangerous as we didn't have a healer on call."

"Damn that's right. Hermione you stay here I'll go and get somebody."

"Harry did you ever complete that research that you said you would do just incase we needed you to deliver the baby."

"Of course I did why?"

"Just go get Mrs.Weasley to help me through this and you can deliver the baby."

"Are you sure?"

"Harry, it's not the ideal situation but I think that it's a unique experience. You can't say that you weren't there for you own child's birth. You were the one that helped bring them into this world."

Harry burst into the Great Hall and spotted Mrs.Weasley sitting down in the chair eating.

"Mrs.Weasley we need you, right now, it's time and Madam Pomfrey isn't here and I need to Hermione...so I can Hermione...can you please just come?"

"What's wrong with Hermione?" Mrs.Weasley said not getting through his ramblings.

"She's having the baby?"

"Are you okay?"

"No I'm not okay, I feel I'm going to screw up and be a failure as a dad. I never even had a real father figure besides Sirius you know."

"I'm sure you'll do fine."

"Look at me and I'm leaving Hermione up there in incredible pain. She doesn't show it or say it on her face but I know that it's there. It only gets worse until she starts screaming and I don't know if I could take that."

"She's incredibly strong but still at the same time she can't do this on her own so let's get up there. Are you sure you know what your doing?"

"Of course."

When they got back up to the room Harry started laying out everything that he needed. Hermione was already scrunching up in pain every now and then gasping out in pain and it started to get louder and come more frequent. He started laying out towels on one of the standard beds and a bucket at the foot. He moved her over to the prepared bed and found some gloves. There was a wizard way to do this and a muggle way he figured that the muggle one was easier and had less risk of a mishap. Mrs. Weasley was holding her hand and guiding her through it as sweat ran down her face.

"Just breathe."

"What do you think I'm doing!"

"Calm down."

"This...is..about as a calm, as it gets."

"Honey are you ready?" Harry said interrupting them. Taking the small nod from her head as a yes he sat down in the chair at the foot of the bed and placed his hands on her still skirt covered knee. "Now when I tell you too I want you to push using all your stomach muscles!"

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"Sweetheart meet Hayden."

"It's a girl?" Hermione asked still tired.

"Well I hope so I don't see.."

"Can I hold her?"

"As soon as you drink this potion and I wipe her off, but then after that we have to get out of here."

He took the baby out of his hold and placed it into her hands

"What does this do?"

"It flushes out all your insides and resets all your organs."

"Which means its going to taste horrible."

"So how are you feeling?"

"Incredibly tired but I still have to take care of this one here so I got to stay awake."

"You want me to take you back up to the room."

"Sure."

Harry lifted her while she was carrying the baby.

"I didn't know you where so strong!"

"I didn't know either but Quidditch helps you know."

"I see."

Harry placed her on the bed.

"Do you need anything?"

"Yes, would it be a problem to move all the stuff in here."

"No, I shouldn't have put all the stuff in the other room in the first place."

After an hour of moving things around Harry decided that he was going downstairs.

"Are you hungry for anything?"

"If they have any porridge yes."

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"Hey Ron."

"Don't 'Hey Ron' me what happened? I saw you running through here like a madman."

"Oh Hermione had the baby."

"Really? So what'd you name it?"

"We named her Hayden Lily Potter."

"So it's a girl there goes our chance at another Quidditch Player."

"They wouldn't be playing Quidditch anyway if Hermione has any say in it. She would go into detail about all the possible injuries along with all the injuries that I've obtained. Even if she likes to watch a game I don't think she'd be pleased watching her play one."

"So I'll stop by the hospital wing later then to see her."

"Actually no she's in our room I moved Hermione afterwards seeing as Madam Pomfrey isn't here."

"How did you manage that one isn't she supposed to recuperate?"

"Well Ihad to give her this potion to do it because we couldn't leave her there forever. I can't be there all day even though I wish I could and everyone in the castle once they heard would probably be through there if they knew about it."

"I'm surprised mum didn't say something. She says she's completely against that potion something about it's not natural and an insult to motherhood."

"All it does is readjust the insides and cleanse everything out. Besides I only gave her a little bit."

"You know what you're right. I'm worrying over nothing my mum probably said nothing because she knows how Hermione is over things like that."

"Anyway you want to sneak out with me?" Harry asked.

"I can't mum would kill me! Where are you going?"

"I think I'm going to the muggle world to pick up some clothes. We only picked up furniture and the things that we needed which was really all in the vault."

"You don't know how to prepare for a baby do you?"

"No, and why should I know something like that."

"You're going to need Hermione there with you."

"You're right. She's not even dressed she's wrapped in a pink blanket and that's all we have right now. Hermione will want to go and see her father since he's under the weather we'll probably do that first."

"Well it was nice seeing you mate."

"Yeah, I'll see you at the end of the day."

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"Hermione?"

"Yea, Harry, I'm changing I'll be out in a second."

"I was thinking that we could go over and see your father on the way to pick up some clothes."

"Sure. We have to do it at some point right. How are we going to get out?"

"That's the magic of the map. McGonagall closed off all the entrances that she knew of but not the ones that I know."

"Okay, let me just call mum."

She pulled out the cell phone that she had in her hand and dialed the number while adjusting the shirt.

"Mum." she said walking out the bathroom.

"Hermione?"

"Yes. I was wondering if you could tell me what hospital dad is in."

"We're at Allocata Memorial you remember where that is?"

"Sure."

"I thought Harry said you weren't going to be over this way anytime soon."

"He decided to break out because we need to do some things and of course we're coming to see him. I miss you guys it's been almost a year."

Hermione finished up her conversation with her mum.

"Harry when did you make the decision that we weren't going to visit my mother."

"I thought we wouldn't be able to with everything going on around us."

"It's my family we're talking about."

"It's my family now too."

"I'm sorry I just don't know what I'd do if I lost him."

"What did you dress her in I shrunk down my Weasley jumper until we get her something else as warm and we need diapers, and wipes, and well everything. While we're at the hospital we might as well get her registered it would seem suspicious if she exists in Britain but isn't a resident wouldn't it."

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Hermione and Harry arrived at the hospital around four o'clock.

"Welcome to Allocata Memorial how may I help you?"

"We need to register our daughter here as a citizen!" Harry said.

The desk clerk quirked an eyebrow as Hermione stepped in.

"What he means is that we decided to homebirth the baby and we came here to register her."

"How long ago was she born?"

" A few hours."

"What are you doing standing up!"

"I feel perfectly fine."

"Okay, just fill out these forms and we'll put them through."

"Thank you."

Hermione moved over to the couch and watched Harry fill out all the information. After a few minutes they passed back in the papers getting directions to a local baby store as well as to the room of her father. Arriving on the fifth floor Hermione spotted her mother and the rest of her family.

"What's the rest of the family doing here?"

"When someone's sick they have people visit and apparently everyone picked today to visit."

Harry walked over to her mother and asked her why everyone was here.

"Well my sister's husband helped me get him over here, but my sister had to come over with him because they were on the way to some event and the children had to come along to. I'd tell you how everyone else got here but it's a long story. So where is Hermione?"

"I think she went to go talk to one of the nurses about child caring."

"What do you mean I can't wash her for a month!" they head someone who sounded like Hermione exclaim. Followed by that were the sounds of a screaming baby. Harry walked over to her helping her by picking her up.

"Hermione you gotta stop yelling like that." Harry said talking hold of her.

"I'm sorry it's just it's so wrong not to be able to wash her properly."

"It's nature."

"..."

"Come on I think your mum wants to say hello."

"Oh...hi mum."

"Don't hi mum me why didn't you tell me over the phone that you had the baby already."

"That isn't news that you tell over the phone."

"How old is she?"

"Not very...a few hours at least."

"No wonder she's so small...and pink..wait, why would you bring a newborn out in the cold."

"Mum, it's not that cold outside."

"So how many layers are you wearing?"

"Jeans, long sleeve under short sleeve, denim jacket, scarf, maybe it is a little bit cold but not as cold as it is in Scotland. She has nothing over there so we had to get some clothes and other necessities but don't worry about that."

"What's her name?"

"Hayden Lily Potter."

"That's nice. Your father he's doing fine but the doctor's are in to see him now and it will be a while. Why don't you sit down and talk to some of the people. Or you can announce the new addition to the family."

"Hey Everyone!" Hermione said over everyone in the waiting room.

There were murmurs of hey Hermione and hi Harry.

"So I have some exciting news to tell you guys, we have a new addition to the family, Hayden."

"Who's Hayden? Was anybody pregnant?"

"Okay I have some old news to tell you, I'm married, to Harry."

Everyone's mouths where wide open in shock.

"I think that you should also know that Hayden is my daughter."

"Well, that leaves it to the next generation to end the family curse."

"You know what Uncle Al, you should stay out of it. You shouldn't even be talking. It's not a curse, sure our family has a history of getting married and pregnant to young. It's not exactly the best life choice but it is one. We have things that we want to do and we are going to do them. I will not have you look down on me like I have my ancestors and the people before me including my mother. They did what they believed was right whether it was the heat of the moment or because they knew it was the love that they wanted for the rest of their lives. You notice that even if we did have one mishap that estranged our family we still have gotten back to civil terms. All of those people that you look down on are people that had happy long lives filled with children and if you want to look at me and call me what everyone else thinks of every other woman before in this family, a slut, a whore then go ahead, but then again that means you don't know me."

A/N: For some reason I felt like posting again .So here it is and good luck to everyone at the beginning of school. Look on the bright side everyone is coming back from summer vacation and have time to write stories and read them.