Unfortunately, everyone who died in the stories is dead in mine as well... So Fred is dead =( As is Cedric, though Edward does look like him. We are Four reviews away from 200 though! I'm very excited and I'm sure I'm annoying my husband lol. He should be getting me The Evil Within soon for reaching the 150 goal =)

And this may upset a few people... But I thought I would go ahead and let y'all know that they won't be finding out about Hermione being a witch until Umbra...

And about Teddy, I would like him to be able to transform and be able to run around with Hermione, but it takes a lot of hard work to become an animagus and most can't even do it at all. So I'm not sure if I should have Hermione attempt to begin to train him as he gets older or not. We'll see. But I hope you guys like this update.. Only two more after this... Review and let me know what y'all think =)

Chapter Twenty-Four

A day later they were sitting in a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, where Bella and Renee had lived before moving to Florida. Hermione was lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling hoping that everyone was safe. She had been bored for a while, and while she had her enchanted purse in her jacket pocket, it's not like she could start pulling tomes out of it and hide them.

Hermione got up and walked into the front room and sat down in the chair that was facing the couch, where Alice and Jasper were sitting.

Alice was the first to speak, "How you holding up, Bella?"

Hermione let out a sigh. "Well I'm trying not to have a panic attack about leaving Teddy and Charlie behind, but other than that I'm holding up pretty well."

"We promise you nothing will happen to either of them." Jasper said, trying to ease her mind.

Hermione smiled at them both, "Thank you guys for everything. This means a lot."

Jasper and Alice smiled back at her, "Anything for you, Bella. You're part of the family now." Alice replied.

They sat in silence for a while until Alice stood and asked, "Are you hungry, Bella? I can go get you something to eat and Jasper can stay here with you, if you would like."

"No, thank you though. I'm a little too anxious to be eating anything for the time being. But I am a little tired so I think I'm going to try and get some sleep. I'll see you guys in the morning." Hermione said as she stood up to make her way to the bedroom.

"Okay then, goodnight." Alice said cheerily

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Hermione woke the next morning, quickly showered, got dressed, and made sure her glamour was in place for her hair and her scars.

When she was finished she walked back into the front room to find Alice and Jasper once again sitting on the couch, staring at the

TV. "Good morning." Hermione said as she sat down on the chair.

"Good morning Bella, there is some food by the door if you are hungry."

Hermione was very hungry, she stood up and looked at the food, pancakes, eggs, sausage, oatmeal, and bagels. She ended up grabbing some of everything and began to eat. Once she was done she looked to Alice, "Have you seen anything?"

She shook her head, "Nothing yet, not exactly anyway. The tracker keeps changing his mind so far."

"Don't worry Bella, if we find anything out we will tell you." Jasper said while sending out a small wave of calm.

Silence engulfed them as Alice began to look at possible outcomes, when she froze and sat up straight, once again, Jasper was immediately by her side, but unlike last time when she came to with a smile, Her face became grim as her eyes became focused. "He figured out what was happening in Forks and now he isn't following them anymore. James is undecided right now as to what he wants to do."

Hermione stiffened and squeezed her eyes closed. "Alice, may I borrow your phone? I need to call Charlie."

Alice nodded and handed her a yellow nokia. Hermione walked back into the bedroom and dialed Charlie's home phone. After a few rings he answered. "Hello?"

"Charlie it's me."

"Her-Bella?"

"Yes, I need you to get ahold of Kingsley as soon as possible. Tell him there is a nomad that is tracking me, he'll know what to do."

"Are you okay?" Charlie asked, he sounded worried.

"I'm fine for now; this is no different than when I was eighteen, really. How is Teddy?" Hermione asked.

"He awoke a few minutes after you left the house pretty upset. He's been upset ever since but Jakes been coming by and keeping him company."

Hermione sighed, "Thank you for watching him Charlie; I couldn't put either of you in the middle of this."

"It's fine, don't worry you just need to focus on yourself right now." Hermione heard crying in the background and tears came to her eyes. "He's crying right now, so I should go check on him. Please try to come home soon if it's safe, and I'll get a message to Kingsley."

"Thank you Charlie, and give my love to Teddy."

"I will." Hermione hung up so she didn't have to hear more of Teddy's crying, it was breaking her heart.

She was about to take the phone back to Alice when it rang, hoping it was Edward, she answered.

"Bella? Bella? BELLA?" She heard from the other side of the line.

"Hello? Renee? Is that you?"

"You truly did not go through great links to hide you whereabouts," A cold masculine voice said, replacing the frantic woman.

"James." Hermione simply said, but how did he get Renee?

"Yes, it was very easy to find your previous address in Phoenix, and who did I find when I came to your home? Your mother, and when I told her that I was looking for her daughter she seemed all too willing to help me."

Hermione couldn't be sure if he was telling the truth, Renee could have come back to Phoenix, but she wouldn't have tried to help him.

Hermione decided not to chance it, "Leave her alone!" She growled out.

"Now, now there is no need to get angry. I propose an exchange, your life for hers. How about it? Well you don't really have a choice do you. Could you live with knowing you caused the death of your mother?"

Hermione winced and forced the lump in her throat down, she had caused the death of both of her parents. "Where do you want me to meet you?"

"Very smart of you Bella, meet me at your old ballet studio in three hours, or your mom's dead." Then he hung up.

Hermione sat on the bed and began to cry. After a few minutes, she cleared her face with her wand and after securing it back on her wrist, she walked back into the front room.

Alice and Jasper sat over a drawing, discussing something and when they saw her they stopped. "Hello Bella, everything go okay with Charlie?" Alice asked kindly.

Hermione nodded, "I told him I just needed time and would be back eventually and I wanted to check on Teddy. He hasn't been doing well since I left, he misses me." She sat down on the couch and put her face in her hands.

Alice sat up and put her hand on Hermione's knee, "It will be okay, I saw that Edward and the others are on their way here, the tracker seems to be in Phoenix, and will be here." She held up a drawing that looked familiar.

"That's a ballet studio," She said, slight fear in her voice. Charlie had shown her a picture of Bella and Renee in the studio once and told her about Bella's small ballerina phase.

"You know where this is?" Alice asked while Jasper grabbed his phone.

"Yes, it's here in Phoenix, I took a few lessons as a child."

They both looked to Jasper who had just hung up his phone. "The rest of the family is on their way, we need to pack."

Alice blurred around and a second later she was in front of Hermione with her bag in her hand. Hermione grabbed the bag from her hand and looked to Alice and Jasper, how was she supposed to get away now?

"We need to check out," Alice said as she grabbed her car keys and they all three walked out of the room and to the front desk.

While Alice and Jasper were talking, Hermione took her chance to run. She jumped into the first cab and mechanically said the name of the studio to the driver. She was going to face the tracker on her own, or at least stall until the Cullens got there, and she was determined not to lose.