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Chapter 3- new plans
Hermione erupts from the fireplace in a nice contemporary apartment. She hears a door burst open, she sees a wand being drawn without thinking she steps out of the fireplace and whips out her wand towards the person who went to get there's out. Hermione sees her wand in between Katie's wide eyes while Katie's wand is barely drawn. Hermione immediately puts away the wand while Katie is clearly still in shock.
"oh merlin Katie I'm so sorry are you okay?"
"..."
"Katie!?"
"huh? What?
"are you okay?"
"yeah... Just shocking to see that it was you that's all. Whats up?"
"we need to talk"
"sure let's sit down"
They both sat down opposite each other in armchairs.
"what's going on?"
"I told minerva that we were paired by the ministry in case there was a problem with it. She came to the burrow later on and said that it's against the rules to date another member of staff and that she couldn't find a loophole..."
"what!? Don't worry hermione I'll go yo hogwarts and quit right now." Katie interrupted
"I already quit..."
"what? Why?"
"teaching isn't what I want to do. After minerva left I went and got another job"
"what aren't you telling me?"
"as of Monday I'm a hit-witch"
"you're a what!? Hermione that's so dangerous!"
"I've wanted this for a while Katie, please? Just try and understand... For me" they're both close to tears at this point.
"hermione I need to process this, can we speak about this later."
"of course" hermione then apparates to her room.
Once there she sees the door is open, tears slip down her face as she walks downstairs. Once there she sees molly and Arthur in a corner of the dining room with bill and fleur looking worried. Fred is in the kitchen standing by the window looking out. Everyone else is in the dining room. She walks to fred without being noticed by anyone. And stands next to him.
"hi"
"hi mione, please stop running off" he says in a quiet voice.
"I quit the hogwarts job"
He smiles and looks at her for the first time "and?"
"I'm a hit-witch as of Monday"
They both start grinning, he swoops her up into a big hug and swings her around whispering "I'm so proud of you!"
Fleur sees the movement out of the corner and says quiet loudly "is that hermione?"
Everyone tries rushing through the doors at the same time. Shouting at each other to move and such however a voice interrupts them.
"silence! Everyone back into the singing room and sit down this instant!" molly shouts. Everyone goes and sits down quickly at the table.
"hermione dear why did you run off?"
"minerva told me that fraternisation is against the rules so I quit and went to the ministry to get a job"
"what department?" bill asks
"magical law enforcement"
"so you're an auror?" ginny asks
Hermione shakes her head in silence while everyone tries to figure it out while Fred is grinning the doorway.
"it's better than that! Go on mione tell them" Fred says beaming
"I'm a hit-witch as of Monday"
Everyone gasps at this. While one voice breaks through
"what!?" Arthur shouts.
Everyone looks at him in shock because he never shouts.
"after minerva told me I went to the ministry and spoke to the head of the department and he gave me the job. I really want this job and I'd really appreciate it if you could all be supportive. Me and Katie just had an argument about this I dont want anymore arguments."
Everyone is in thought before nodding and fleur is the first one to stand up and congratulate her soon everyone follows.
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Time jump- Monday
Hermiones alarm goes off at 7am, she bolts up ecstatic for her first day of work. Over the past week padma had taken the transfiguration job. Her and Katie still haven't spoken she was giving her space. Fred and luna were spending more time together when he wasn't at the shop or luna wasn't travelling for stories for the quibbler before going to school. George and Oliver sent letters but Oliver was busy with his quidditch career same with Harry and cho. Ron still hadn't got his partner and was studying for university most of the time. Ginny was round at dracos quite a bit other than that she was helping luna with the stories. Charlie was back in Romania and his pairing was going okay, they sent letters and met once. Percy Audrey were doing great she worked in the ministry too so it was easier for them. Bill and fleur were loving Paris and their jobs were going great. Tonks still hadn't told anyone about the job yet and teddy was now 4 months old and was staying with Harry or andromada when tonks was working.
Hermione went down to the kitchen and made herself some breakfast and sat at the dining table with a newspaper. While reading she hadn't noticed someone had come downstairs.
"hey mione good luck today" Ron said gloomily, he wasn't impressed with the decision.
"thanks Ron, I hope you will see this is a good thing"
He grunts and goes to the kitchen to eat, hermione finishes her food and newspaper and cleans up before going up stairs. She gets to her wardrobe and gets out her work uniform that was delivered yesterday via owl, it's a pair of black leggings and a navy blue long tee with a leather jacket that's been charmed to be stretchy enough for work. After she changed she's got five minutes till work, she walks downstairs and everybody except for Charlie, percy, tonks, Bill and fleur are there. Good lucks and hugs are passed around before she walks to the fireplace smiles and floors to the ministry.
Once she arrives she goes to the elevator and gets on with about 5 people that she doesn't recognise and gets off on level 2. She walks to the receptionist and explains that it's her first day and she tells her where to go. She walks to her left where these big doors are and opens then inside she sees cubicles in the centre of the room and lots of offices around the edges of the room. It was a very big room. She looks around for tonks office and sees it, as she's walking towards it everyone has stopped and is looking at her. She knocks on the door and hears tonks say "enter".
She walks in cloclosing the doors after her and stands in front of the desk.
"so am I allowed to call you tonks in work or is it something else?"
"tonks is fine, we have to call people by their last name, so I'll be calling you weasley. We are just waiting for your new partner he shouldn't be too long"
They wait in silence before they hear gasping and muttering outside of the doors the both look slowly towards the doors before they open pridefully and a young man walks in. Hermione would've recognised him anywhere. Draco malfoy.
"malfoy right on time. I'm sorry if they gave you any grief."
"it's okay tonks, I need to earn their trust and respect. That's what I plan to do."
"alright let's get down to business. These are your badges and some forms to fill out when we get to your office, you two will be working side by side, I know there's been an uncomfortable past between you two I won't accept any arguing about the past. I believe you two can challenge each other and maybe become friends especially since you'll be in-laws within a year. As a hit-witch or wizard you are assigned an office that you share, you will go out on assignments and you are assigned someone in a cubicle who will take the reports you do and go through them to make sure everything is okay and files them, they also get reports of criminals and you get the reports and go out to the destination where the incident occurs. Now let's go introduce you to your hit-witch or wizard assistant."
Tonks stands up and walks out of her office with draco and hermione on her tail. She reaches the back right corner.
"malfoy, weasley this is Dennis Riley. Riley these are your new hit-witch and wizard, draco malfoy and hermione weasley."
He stands up and shakes their hands.
"its a pleasure to meet you both I look forward to working with you however I must get back to this report." Dennis says smiling
"thank you Riley, let me show you two to your office (they start walking to the office at the back of the room), each assistant has 3 pairs of hit-witches and wizards, so some days you may not go out on assignment a lot, however we do get requests to be security. The only time you'll be pulled from that duty is in the event of someone like voldemort threatening national security. This is your office, since you don't have any assignments as of yet, get to know each other better, you can call each other by youryour first name as long as there's no one else around if that makes you more comfortable, there's also training grounds and arenas if you want to train just let Riley know if you're going somewhere so he can send you reports"
Tonks turns and leaves, hermione and draco look at each other and enter the office, they see two desks pushed together so they'd be facing towards each other hermione chooses the one furthest from the door. They both sit down placing the files and badges down. Hermione starts filling out the forms while draco has a conflicted look on his face and keeps glancing at her.
"I'm sorry for what happened" draco says sadness evident in his voice.
Hermione stops writing and puts down the quill before looking up at him, her face unreadable.
"it wasn't your fault draco"
"I could've done more"
"you did what you did to survive and help us at the same time, you could've told them it was harry but you didn't. You risked them finding out and being tortured... Thank you."
"I have something to give to you. (he pulls out a piece of parchment that's been ripped from a book.) I think this is the curse she used on the dagger, I found it in the black library and it sounds like it, I thought you'd like it."
"thank you draco..." she says with tears in her eyes.
Hermione takes the parchment and puts it in her extendable bag before carrying on with the forms. Draco soon joins her in doing this with a light smile on her face.
"so does ginny know you are a hit-wizard?
"no... Not yet. She wanted me to get a job. I applied for loads of jobs but this place gave me an interview nowhere else did. I didn't want to tell ginny and then fail at getting a job. I got this job yesterday I'm telling her tonight, I'm going to hers."
"we can apparate back to the burrow together if you want?"
"that'd be nice hermione"
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Time jump- one hour later
They had both finished their forms and were talking casually and laughing, they had agreed to forget the past between them. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Draco stands up and answers the door.
"Katie... Bell? Right? From hogwarts?" draco says
"Katie?" hermione whispers in shock and happiness. "
"hi malfoy is hermione here?"
"yeah, hermione I'm going to do some training just going to tell Riley quickly, nice to see you again Katie"
He let's Katie come into the office and then walks out. There's a moment of silence
"hi" hermione says standing up.
Katie hugs her fiercely causing hermione stumble slightly before returning the hug.
"I'm so sorry hermione"
"I'm sorry too I shouldve talked to you about it beforehand"
They stop hugging and katie looks at hermione smiling.
"I'm so proud of you for this hermione, it shows you are a true gryfinndor. I actually came here to apologise and ask you something..."
"what were you going to ask me?"
"will you go on a date with me?"
"of course silly"
Katie smiles and kisses hermione's cheek.
"I've got to go plan this date then, I'll owl you" Katie says before apparating
Hermione walks out of her office to Riley.
"hey Riley..."
"weasley! I was just about to send you this report! I've just sent it to malfoy." he interrupts her
She quickly scans the file, a dark mark appeared over hogsmeade. She closed the file and apparated immediately.
She appears in hogsmeade and looks for draco, she sees him by zonkos and quickly walks to him
"malfoy. Have you seen anything unusual so far?"
"I only got here a minute ago, shall we split up and look for something, if we find anything send the signal (the signal was decided to be a red flare for body found and green flare for chasing someone.)"
They both went opposite ways entering different shops. Hermione entered the three broomsticks and asked the bartender if anything had happened, she responded with "nothings happened here. I heard that someone shot a dark mark into the sky, if I hear anything I'll let you know" she thanked her and walked out. After looking into more shops, she's close to giving up when she sees something in an alley. There's a woman standing in the alley over someone on the floor, hermione takes a step forward trying to get a better look. There's blood by the man on the floor, she sends a red flare up and then points her wand at the person leaning over him.
"step away from the body! And put your hands up slowly."
The person slowly raises their head and hermione realises that age knows who it is, someone who plagues her dreams, who's meant to be dead. Bellatrix lestrange...
Bellatrix grins at her before grabbing the dead man's wand and standing up facing hermione laughing hysterically.
Hermione relies on instinct and cast a silent stupefy which misses bellatrix because she apparates.
Draco runs up to her.
"weasley? Why do you have your wand out?"
"malfoy... There's a body down there, I need to have a meeting with a few people, I'll explain later, this is really important just make sure that the body arrives at the ministry autopsy."
"of course"
She apparates to the lobby of the ministry and runs to the elevator, once it gets to the second floor she runs out to the receptionist.
"is Martin in a meeting?" she asks out of breath.
"no?"
"Tell him I need to speak to him. Its a matter of national security."
"just go in then"
"thank you"
She barges through the doors, slamming them behind her, she suddenly notices that tonks is in the room too.
"hermione?" "weasley?" they both say at the same time with worried expressions
"we need to put Britain on alert"
"for what?" Martin asked
"bellatrix lestrange..."
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