A/N: Chapter three! HOORAY
Disclaimer: Everything's J.K. Rowling's…though, I would love it if it were mine sighs sadly
Arriving in her new home Hermione found the living room to be empty, looking around Hermione saw her little brother who was just staring at her. She smiled shyly and he said totally in awe, "Are you my big sister?"
Chapter 3: The Manor
"Yes I am," Hermione said to the little boy.
"Are you going to be staying with us?" Zachary asked again, smiling slightly.
"Yup, I hope that's alright with you," Hermione replied.
Zachary suddenly ran at her and gave her a huge hug, almost causing her to fall to the ground, all the while yelling, "Yay, I'm so happy, I have another friend to play with! I love you already! Please stay with us forev-"
"Zachary, at some point she needs to breathe," Blaise said laughing. Hermione's twin had just entered to see Zachary squeezing Hermione tightly.
Hermione grinned as he said this. Zachary loosened his grip but didn't let go of Hermione's waist. "But I don't want to let go of her!" he said.
At this, Hermione couldn't help smile and she picked him up. Although Blaise was surprised, he smiled widely at them while Zachary clung onto Hermione saying, "You are definitely the bestest person I ever met!" Hermione blushed as he said this, causing Blaise to chuckle.
Since the three of them had made quite a lot of noise, both parents walked into the room and smiled widely at the sight of their two youngest children.
"Mommy, Daddy! This is my sister!" Zachary said, as if he were introducing them.
Everyone in the room chuckled at this and Jonathon said, "Luciana, do you want to see your room?"
"Um, sure…dad," Hermione said weakly. She was completely comfortable in front of her brothers since one was in about first grade while the other she had known since she was eleven, but around her parents, Hermione didn't know how to act, or even what to call them.
Since Hermione's dad seemed like the world had gotten ten times better when Hermione called him dad, she assumed she'd made the right choice by not calling him "sir."
When a house elf came to get Hermione's stuff, both Blaise and Zachary decided that they wanted to come too. Hermione followed the elf while holding her baby brother.
Walking into the room, Hermione gasped. The room alone made her old house seem no bigger than the shrieking shack. The walls were a pale blue and the curtains were a beautiful gold. there was a king sized bed in the middle of the room with a huge comforter on it that looked like the most comfortable thing Hermione had ever seen. Over to the right of the room, there was a small loveseat and two chairs, all pointing at a fireplace. Much to Hermione's delight, the entire left wall was filled with books.
Blaise, seeing where her gaze was headed as she stared at the bookshelves, grinned. "A Gryffindor bookworm through and through." Hermione couldn't help smiling and chuckling a little.
Apparently, The Zabinis were unaware that their Luciana was placed in Gryffindor. "Gryffindor? No one in the Zabini family has ever been sorted into Gryffindor before. Since you were so smart we all assumed that you were in Ravenclaw!" Hermione's mother said, a little distressed. "Uh…we'll let you kids explore around for a bit. Umm… bye." On that last note Hermione's parents left the room quickly.
She sent a puzzled look over to Blaise who shook his head and mouthed "Later." Giving a slight nod, Hermione noticed that Zachary had fallen asleep in her arms. "uh…Blaise, where's Zachary's room?"
As Hermione said this, Blaise saw that their little brother had fallen asleep and grinned. "Come on I'll show you and than we'll start the whole tour."
Blaise led them to the end of the hall, which was actually quite long, and he opened the door to the left. They dropped Zachary off and tucked him in (Hermione giving him a small kiss on the forehead, much to Blaise's delight) and they exited the room quietly.
Looking at Hermione, Blaise grinned (something that Hermione made him do a lot) and said, "The entire manor is very nice. Basically, we have a quidditch pitch, a swimming pool, a back yard, a small pond, and than a bunch of rooms. But you probably won't spend any of your time there," Hermione stared at him and he chuckled. "You'll probably spend all your time in here."
As he said this, Blaise stopped walking and opened the door on his right, revealing a huge library. Hermione squealed in delight and ran over to the nearest shelf, running her fingers along the binds of the books, examining all the titles.
"Before I loose you in the world of books, there's something I need to talk to you about." Detecting the urgency in her brother's voice, Hermione looked at him.
"I have two things I need to talk to you about. First, you're probably wondering why now of all times you're meeting the rest of your family and why you were given up in the first place. Well, since both of our birthdays are in one week, and since we're both coming of age there is going to be a huge ball held in honor of us. I've always known I had a sister and that her name was Luciana Amadora Zabini but I never met her since my, well, our parents were ordered to put you up for adoption and we were supposed to find out who you really were a week before your 17th birthday because of some tracking spell." Hermione was about to ask who had ordered them to give her up, but Blaise started talking again.
"The second thing that you should know is kind of about the whole Gryffindor thing. You see, I didn't tell them that you were in Gryffindor since I knew that they wouldn't be happy. The Zabini family follows Voldemort and we are very high up in his ranks. We keep it quiet though because we feel no need to show it off since we know that that would get us lots of enemies." By this point, Hermione was horrified. "Don't let mom and dad know that you're best friends with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. Even though they seem like a perfectly normal family, trust me, don't ever do anything to disobey them. They are not good to be around when they're mad."
Hermione took his warning to heart and decided that she wouldn't be completely truthful with her parents.
Seeing that Hermione wasn't furious, just surprised, Blaise continued. "Just so you know, I'm not a deatheater. I pretend to be one so mom and dad don't punish me. I also don't hate muggleborns." Hearing this, Hermione smiled at Blaise. If he wasn't here she didn't know what she'd do.
"Come on, I wanna go swimming." Hermione said as she dragged Blaise to where she remembered her room being. Making Blaise go change, she went inside her room. Seeing that the house elves had put all her clothes into the closets already, she looked through the drawers and found a cute green bikini. After putting it on. Hermione went outside her room to find Blaise already waiting for her wearing his swim trunks.
They walked quickly to the pool and it was even bigger than Hermione had imagined. She said, "Wow, I knew the Zabini's were rich but not this rich!" Blaise chuckled.
"Wait 'till you see the Malfoy's pool." Blaise replied.
"It can't be bigger than this!" Hermione insisted. Blaise just laughed again, but before he could say anything Hermione ran at the pool, jumped off and yelled "Cannon ball," completely soaking Blaise.
Laughing, her brother followed suit, they played around in the water for about half an hour before Hermione decided to sun bathe. Ten minutes later, they were interrupted by someone approaching them.
"Hey Blaise!" Draco Malfoy called.
Both of the Zabinis stopped what they were doing and looked up. Malfoy was standing so that his back was to Hermione and he was facing Blaise who was still in the water.
"Oh, hey Draco. Remember how last summer I told you I had a sister?" when Draco nodded Blaise continued. "Well right now you're giving her a nice view of your ass."
Draco spun around quickly to see Hermione in her green bikini lounging on a chair. Malfoy could not help but check her out, there was no doubt about it but she, was hot.
Blaise had already gotten out of the water and was drying himself off when he saw Draco's eyes slide over his sister's curves. He and Hermione exchanged a glance and burst out laughing.
Although Malfoy was puzzled, he was still very polite and said, "um, hi. I'm Dra-"
"-co Malfoy. I know," Hermione said, cutting Draco off, making Malfoy even more confused. Hermione giggled as she said, "My name is Luciana Amadora Zabini, but, I was called Hermione up until yesterday."
As she said this, her and her twin started laughing hysterically at Malfoy's black expression on his face. When he suddenly realized who was sitting in front of him, sun bathing in a green bikini, he jumped three feet in the air and shouted, "GRANGER?"