Siren's Call
Previously: Hermione emerges from the ROR with her mates. Has a hard time concentrating on her schoolwork. Harry obsesses over Malfoy being up to something. Hermione talks, nay demands Harry ask Cho to Hogsmeade.
Chapter 11
The weekend was upon them, and Hermione could not be more excited. She was going to see Cedric today, and then together with her father they were going to Apparate to Diagon Alley to see Fred and George. It had only been a few weeks since she saw them last, but it felt like months to her. She turned over and looked at the clock. It was still early, too early to get up. Ginny certainly wouldn't be willing to get up this early. rolling back over she thought about trying to fall back asleep.
Sitting up she suddenly remembered she could just go to the owlery and send a letter or two. it was 7 am, Viktor would be awake.
My dearest love,
I long for your touch. My days are filled with naught but longing since we last parted.
How are you? I miss you every second of the day. What are you doing?
Yours forever,
Hermione
She sealed up the letter and decided to take a walk to the owlery.
Ginny was taking forever to get dressed, of course, Hermione had already been up and ready to go since sunrise. It was 9 o'clock. "Ginny," Hermione said, "aren't you ready yet?"
"We're not all like you Hermione," Ginny complained, "Give me a few moments to wake up. Besides Cedric isn't going to meet you till after breakfast anyway. That's not for another hour yet."
"You're right I'm sorry," Hermione said, "but I don't know if I can wait another hour."
"Sure you can," Ginny said. "You can do anything."
"I'll wait for you downstairs in the common room." Hermione said, "I'm sure Harry is already down there, Neville too."
"Tell them I'll be down shortly," Ginny said with one last stretch before getting up out of bed.
Hermione laughed lightly before turning and heading down to the common room.
When she entered the common room it was as she hoped, everyone was sitting around waiting for the girls to come down. There were a few that had left already by the looks of it.
"Good morning," Harry said, "Sleep well?"
"Yes," Hermione said.
"Anxious?" Harry asked.
"Just a bit," Hermione said, "I'm going to go ahead to breakfast, I'll see you there."
"Ok," Harry said with a smile as she hurried out of the portrait hole.
…
Hermione was having her second glass of Pumpkin Juice when Harry and the rest of their friends walked into the Great Hall. Hermione watched curiously, as Harry walked over to the Ravenclaw table and sit next to Cho.
"Ready to go already I see," Ginny said from behind her. Hermione hadn't seen her come in, as she was busy watching harry's interaction with his girlfriend Cho.
Hermione laughed, "I can't help it," she said taking a sip from her cup, grinning, "I want to see Cedric and the twins."
"But not Viktor?" Lavender asked curiously, as she was sitting down on the bench, before asking Hermione to pass the Pumpkin Juice.
"I want to see him too," she said with want in her eyes, before turning to Lavender and saying, "but he couldn't make it today."
"Aww," Ginny and Lavender said with sighs.
"But he's promised to send a picture, and I planned to reciprocate," she said trying to brush the blush away from her cheeks.
"Mmm," lavender said between bites, "You better share with the rest of us."
Hermione laughed, "We'll see."
The conversation flowed like this the rest of the morning. it wasn't long before they were able to head to the carriages. Neville, Ginny, and Harry watched as a giddy Hermione ran to the carriages. She was so quick, they almost didn't make it to the carriage before it took off towards the village.
"You, are in a hurry, aren't you Hermione?" Neville laughed as he put his arm around Ginny.
"Yes," Hermione admitted, "but only because Cedric is waiting for me."
"How do you know he's waiting for you?" Harry asked.
"I just know," she said with a smug smile.
Ginny had a sudden thought, she was hiding something from them. Ginny decided she would wait until they were back in the privacy of the girl's dorm to pester her friend with questions.
As they came closer to the village Ginny noticed Hermione was right, Cedric was there waiting for her. Hermione bolted from the carriage before it had the chance to properly stop. Cedric caught her and twirled her around until they were both dizzy and practically falling over. Most of Hogsmeade ignored them and continued with their business. Those who noticed wrote it off as young love and went about their business before smiling and remembering when they were in love.
"Ah, young love," one of the shop ladies could be heard saying as she put out her signs.
"They're talking about us, love," Cedric whispered into her ear.
She laughed lightly at her mate's humor, "I'm sure once something better happens, they will forget about us."
"I wish I could pull you into a dark closet and kiss you properly," Cedric whispered into her ear.
Hermione blushed before leaning into him and kissing his cheek. "Where should we go first?"
"That's up to you love," Cedric said.
"How about the bookstore then?" she asked.
"I should have known," he said, before taking her hand in his and pulling her into the store.
The Aurors watched on and stood guard from their many hiding places. With all that had gone on in the last year, the ministry was taking no chances when it came to the younger generations still in school.
Other more mysterious people watched on from the shadows. One must watch its prey before pouncing after all.
It didn't take long for the others to catch up to Hermione and Cedric. Somehow, he had gotten her into the Quidditch supply store, where they were looking at brooms. It wasn't that he needed a new broom, it was that he wanted a new broom.
"But you already have a broom," she said hands on her hips.
"But I don't have one of these," Cedric said while attempting to make puppy dog eyes at her.
"You've been spending too much time with the twins," Hermione smiled, "Oh if you must."
"Thank you," he said giddily.
"You know you don't need my permission," she said leaning into his shoulder to get a better view. It was an attractive broom.
"Do you like it?" he asked, "Do you want one?"
Hermione shrugged off his questions with a nod of her head, "I don't want one; but I wouldn't go near Fred and George with one of those, they might snatch it from under your nose."
"Point taken," he said placing the broom back up on the shelf.
"Aren't you getting it?" she asked.
"Love if I purchased every broom I looked at with longing eyes, we would need a larger shed," he said with a laugh.
"Very true," She agreed.
They wandered from store to store, before picking up some trick chocolates for the twins. They met Remus and Tonks at the Hogs Head.
"Was there any trouble?" Remus asked.
"No Sir," Cedric replied.
"Are you ready to go see the meddling pranksters?" Remus asked amused.
"Yes," Hermione said with a laugh,
The small group apparated to Diagon Alley, where they proceeded to WWW meet the twins. When they go to Diagonally, it seemed to be a baron wasteland of sorts; but the joke shop was busy to their surprise.
When they entered they were greeted by Lee and Verity a girl that Hermione wasn't quite familiar with was running the register and trying to stock at the same time. Hermione giggled before pitching in to help Lee with the product in his hands.
"Thanks," he said cheerfully, "the Twins are in the back."
"Would you like some help?" she asked, "you seem a bit busy."
"Nah," he said shrugging his shoulders, "this is normal."
"Alright," Hermione said before ducking into the back workroom behind the curtain, pulling Cedric along.
For Hermione, the twins were a sight for sore eyes. It had only been a couple of weeks since she had seen them, but it had felt like much longer. Suddenly she wanted nothing more than to sift her fingers through both of their hair. She sighed longingly as she watched them work on potions. Diligently running back and forth as they went. Handing each other what they needed and stirring at the appropriate times. It was quite fascinating to watch.
Hermione waited till they were finished with their potion before announcing herself. She wanted to commit to memory the vision before her.
"Hey Beautiful," Fred said snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Hey," Hermione smiled reaching out to him.
George came from behind and wrapped his arms around her waist, kissing her neck gently. Fred motioned for Cedric to join them. He took two steps and joined them in pleasing their mate.
Hermione was in pure bliss, the only thing that was missing was Viktor. She sent happy thoughts to him; even if there wasn't any proof that he was receiving them. She would send him a detailed letter later, and maybe they would spend some of their winter holidays together.
Sometime later the shop closed for lunch. The whole group went to the Burrow for lunch, where Mrs. Weasley had lunch waiting for them. After lunch was finished, they did a little more visiting and then the twins kissed Hermione goodbye before the twins, Lee and Verity returned to the store.
Hermione sat in her bed writing letters at the end of the day, first to Viktor then to Fred and George, and finally to Cedric.
She laid in bed and daydreamed about the four of them together before falling asleep.
Hermione's mates dreamed of her too that night. The dreams weren't as strong as they were before the mating, but they were still very vivid.
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After the trip to Hogsmeade, Hermione could concentrate a little bit more on her studies. Harry and Cho seemed to be spending a little more time with each other but not much because between Quidditch and spying on Malfoy he didn't seem to have as much time for anything else.
Some days were quite comical, Malfoy could be seen racing around secretly and Harry could be seen racing after him only to lose him. The chase reminded Dean Thomas of the Tom and Jerry cartoon, started a comic strip that he would illustrate and share with Neville, Ginny, and sometimes Hermione when she was in the common room. They would have a good laugh about it but vowed to never show harry because he would get upset with them about it. And they couldn't show Ron because he would show Harry.
Dean was explaining the Tom and Jerry Cartoon to Neville one afternoon in the common room after classes when Harry and Ron walked to the portrait hole. "Wait so the mouse does more damage to the cat?" Neville asked confused.
"Do I even want to know what you're talking about mate?" Ron asked announcing his and Harry's arrival.
"Harry," Dean said, "I'm trying to explain Tom and Jerry."
Harry let out a laugh, "Oh wow," Harry said still laughing, "Think of Hermione's cat Crookshanks and Ron's pet Rat in third year, minus all their yelling and screaming at each other. More things scattered around and missing, and mayhem caused by two pets."
Neville, Dean, and Ron started laughing loudly.
While Harry is meeting with Dumbledore the rest of the crew that accompanied harry in 5th year to the ministry of magic to rescue Sirius learn how to become an Animagus by professor McGonigal. Hermione lounges around in her flying Pegasus form with Sirius and her father on the full moon at Christmas. After which he tells her that he's asked Tonks to marry him and she's said yes. Hermione is delightfully happy.
Hermione gets to spend part of the holiday at the cottage with her mates where they lounge around, make love, eat like crazy, have more sex, and come up with an escape plan and a safe place to meet should things get hairy. After their plan is set in motion they return to the burrow for the rest of the holiday.
Ginny spends her time gushing to Hermione about Neville and how she's sure he's the one. Hermione is happy for her and tells her to tell him. Ginny caught Neville's eye across the common room and decided that she would tell him right then and there. Hermione watches as Ginny stands up and marches across the room, walks right over to Neville, and sits in his lap. This causes him to ignore everyone else, and he is soon snogging her in plain sight of everyone in the Gryffindor common room. "Neville," Ginny whispered in his ear, "Am I your witch?"
"I'd like to ask you that Gin," Neville whispered, "will you?"
"After that kiss," she whispered slyly, "I'd be a fool not to."
After a few more kisses, the pair moved to the corner and continued to talk and kiss the night away. Hermione laughed, before saying her goodnights where she went to her room and owled her mates with the owl she borrowed from the owlery.
A/N: Updated 6/5/21, I combined a couple of the smaller chapters and added something new to the chapter.
I want to thank everyone who has been following this long. I know that the grammar is terrible, and while I like to think that I have gotten a bit better since I started this story, I know it has its problems. While it has Crack Fic-like qualities I do not consider it one no.
Also, I have heard you ask not to pair Remus and Tonks and so I won't.
I know I just updated this chapter but a reviewer mentioned it felt rushed so I tried to make if a little less rushed.
