Previously:

As she watched Hedwig fly off in the direction of Seattle she looked down and saw a pair of beautiful chestnut eyes staring at her. At closer look she realized that it was a russet colored wolf. A giant wolf but a wolf nonetheless. Before she could think more on it. He quickly ran into the foliage of the surrounding woods.

Hermione's dreams were filled with witches, wizards, vampires, and now pretty russet colored wolves.

Now:

"Wow. Did you guys see how pretty Hermione looked in that moonlight?" asked Jacob excitedly

"Saaam!" whined Paul,"He's doing it again."

"Damn. I am doing it again. But she looked so pretty!" Jacob agreed annoyed at himself for his inner monologue.

"Imprinting will do that to you Jake. And as for you, lay off him Paul. Can't wait to see what your imprint has to deal with." muttered Sam unfortunately for him it didn't stop the others from hearing.

"You mean if I ever find my imprint." Paul said, "You said it yourself imprinting is really rare."

"Yeah. And that's why two of us already found our imprints." answered back Jared jumping into the conversation for the first time.

"Enough. We have leeches to kill."

…

"A witch?" asked Rosalie to her parents as all of the Cullens were seated in their living room.

"A really powerful one according to your siblings." answered Carlisle.

"Hermione Granger. She's from England and really, really powerful." said Alice

"But she might not even realize she has powers. Nor can we even be sure they're awakened.. It's really rare. The last witches known to exist were during the Civil War." spoke Jasper.

"Trust me she is fully aware of her special abilities." said Alice a shiver passing through her.

At Emmett and Rosalie's confused looks, Carlisle waved them off, indicating he would be explaining the situation to them later.

"Right now all we have to worry about is abiding by her rules, and not bring harm to Charlie nor Isabella." spoke Carlisle quietly, the father of the large coven choosing to ignore the rare snort that emitted from Edward and take in his other children's reactions.

"Then after she's revealed us to the humans, will we have time to kill her before the Volturi kills us?" hissed Rosalie harshly

"Babe." warned Emmett pulling the blond to his side quickly.

"No it's true. This is even worst than Bella knowing our secret." said Rose maneuvering out of Emmett's grasp.

"Rose, Hermione might actually keep to her word." tried Esme delicately

"Oh please, when has our luck ever been that good?" retorted the blonde causing smiles to appear on all of the vampire's faces.

"On to better news!" exclaimed Alice though her voice lacked its usual enthusiasm, "I finally picked out a present for Bella!"

…

Hermione awoke the next morning thankfully before Bella this time and quickly made her way towards the bathroom to bath and change. After showering and dressing she slipped back into the room to notice that it was only 6:00 a.m. Quickly writing two notes one for Bella and another for Charlie, she left the house and entered her truck.

It took merely a couple of hours before she descended Cougar Mountain looking for a manor that would hold two of her closest friends. Another half hour later and she found it. It was a very beautiful manor. White bricks with green shutters on the windows, not surprisingly the same green of Harry's eyes. There was a chimney she noted vaguely. And a CR-V on the side of the house.

'Mustn't have had time to magic a drive way.' Hermione thought as she reached the emerald door that would hopefully lead her to her friends. Just as she was about to knock the door swung open and a scarlet blur rammed itself into her all the while carefully avoiding the large bump that was now her stomach.

"Thank Merlin. I'd thought you'd never get here!"

…

Bella was in a very rotten mood.

First she awoke to realize her favorite little cousin woke up before her. No doubt by now already in Seattle reading through that book she no doubt bought at one of the book stores. Or maybe even that Café she told her about.

Either way Hermione was not there. Bella found out last minute and there was nothing she could do about it but wait until she came home later that evening after she returned from her birthday party.

Which brings us on to the next reason Bella was highly pissed. Alice in all of her Alice-ness decided it would be a wonderful idea to throw her a birthday party. Discretely of course. Edward said he didn't even know about it until Carlisle opened his mouth by accident.

So of course every time Alice would see Bella she would rush up to her, at a human standard, hug her then wish her a 'Happy Birthday' before walking off with Jasper who would smirk that damn smirk of his do his little vampire thing and Bella would have to wait to be pissed until he and Alice left her presence.

So you can just imagine how more pissed she was when she realized this. But not as much as when she voiced this particular complaint to Jasper about using his powers unfairly he laughed and then had the nerve to almost wish her a 'Happy Birthday'.

'Lucky for him that 'Happy Birthday' turned into 'Happy Bi- never mind. Stupid cocky vampires.' thought Bella as she sulked in her seat as Edward tried to comfort her and not laugh at the same time.

'I never realized how awfully good they are at being annoying and jack-assey at the same time.' After this thought Bella looked up towards her boyfriend who kissed the side of her temple then offer her a soft smile which she was quick to return.

'Thank God he can't read my mind. He'd probably tell me some assey things.' and Bella laughed quietly to herself before pecking her now confused boyfriend on the lips.

'Assey indeed.'

…

"Are you sure?" asked Hermione quietly as the tea she held shook along with her hands. She barely noticed Ginny rubbing comforting circles on her back.

"Yeah. We couldn't believe it either but what reason does Shacklebolt have to lie to us? Especially about this." asked Harry not expecting an answer.

Hermione sighed before nodding in agreement. "And the dementors are probably thrilled not following either side."

"That's another thing we wanted to talk to you about. They've taken to hiding out in caves, forests, mountains, and other dislocated areas where humans are known to wonder off in."

"Here?" asked Hermione shocked, "They have dementors here?"

"They're not interested in our pain anymore. The remaining Death Eaters control them to attack muggles directly now. Forget the Muggleborns and Half-breeds, they're saving us for themselves and the Cruciatus, I reckon." said Harry taking the cup from her shaking hands and cast a warming charm on it before handing it back to Hermione.

"Thanks." she mumbled taking a sip.

"We need to set up another time to speak of this. I'll apparate here as soon as I find a way to break the news to Uncle Charlie and Bella. But until then, if you just want to talk or hang out I'm pretty sure you've already figured out where I'm staying." trailed off Hermione.

Ginny hugged her to the best of her abilities then moved so Harry could do the same while she spoke, "The same for you Hermione. If you ever need us."

Hermione nodded and released Harry, "I know and thanks."

With that Hermione walked towards the door leading back to her car. She shook her head fondly when she thought she heard Ginny yell out something about Northern stuffed Crab Cakes with Chocolate Frogs, followed by a familiar popping noise.

…

'Finally!' thought Bella relieved as Edward drove her home to get dressed for the party at his house. 'Maybe if I stall long enough he'll just leave me alone. Ha that's real wishful thinking. He watches me while I sleep. Wait does he still do that now that Hermione's here. Oh I'm gonna kill him!' thought Bella with a new goal in mind.

She hurriedly dressed in the little black dress Alice got for her early birthday gift and made her way down stairs looking for Hermione but when she couldn't find her shouted her good-byes to Charlie.

And entered what she knew would start a very bad night.

…

Summary: Hermione could not believe how she got conned into going to visit her relatives in the states after the war. There were only three things she knew for sure. First she was a very tired and exhausted warrior from war not yet ready to move on like her parents were forcing her to do. Second she was not allowed to use any of her magic. And third Hermione knew irrevocably and without a doubt that if nothing interesting would happen in Forks, Washington something or someone is going to get blown up.

Pairings: Hermione Granger x Jacob Black

Rated: M+

Edited: 05/07/12

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