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- Chapter 12– To Our Future
The house was ready for the little party, two more weeks after the executions, it was like a traditional, every 7th July, that specific day Harry and Hermione were giving a special dinner for "celebrate" their victory against Voldemort, and remembered the people who died in the effort to. Many mails had arrived in their home that morning, from simple people who wanted to show them that they were still remember and thank Harry for the end of the war, from fan clubs for both of them around the Great Britain sending them wishes for them and their babies, from victims' families and from many other people. The guests would started coming in less than an hour, Harry was upstairs getting ready. There were two cots in the living room, Hermione was sitting on a couch close to them and smiling at her children, both babies were dressed up in beautiful light blue for the baby boy and light pink for the little girl clothes, James was ready to sleep but Lilly was watching her mom with her beautiful chocolate brown eyes, Hermione smiled at her baby and took it in her hug.
"You look like me little princess, that's good, as your daddy keeps saying, you're going to have many boyfriends, quidditch players for sure, like I did…" Hermione smiled at her daughter once more and kissed her forehead. First, Victor (even if they were together just for some months they stood good pen friends after that, until these days), then Ron and then Harry of course. Hermione started stroking her baby's back and thinking what happened to her life all these years, what could happen if that night was going wrong.
FLASHBACK – almost six and half years ago (December 2000)
Hermione was out of Ron's flat, she could felt her self ready to fell apart but she had to do it, she had to gave an end, an end which should had been given months before, she pushed the doorbell, some moments after a sleepy Ron opened the door.
"Baby; what are you doing here?" he asked sleepily.
"Good evening," she chocked out, "Can I come in?" she asked a bit more firmly this time.
"Yeah, sure, come in," Ron said and stepped away, she entered the flat and he came closer for kissed her but she pulled away.
"Uhmm we need to talk." Hermione said.
Ron looked confused, he knew that may be the end, it was about time, all these months of problems brought both in the edge, treating not only their relationship but their friendship also.
"OK, I'm listening." He said and sat on an armchair. She sat on the couch close to him and looked at the floor.
"Come on Hermione, tell me what's wrong, you said you needed time, I gave it to you, now what?" Ron said and looked at her.
"Ronald," Hermione started kept looking down, "My life changed very much, in a few months I'm passing my tests for be an Auror and I decided to take the control of my life, I—" she stopped and swallowed, then took a deep breath and looked at his eyes, "I want to brake up with you," she almost whispered.
Ron kept looking at her socked, "What? I gave you time, I gave you space, you left this flat, we have some troubles but that doesn…" Ron said more to himself, it was the end but he couldn't let it go without fighting about it.
"Ron it's not matter of space, or time… I just can't stand it anymore…" Hermione almost whispered once more.
"You can't—you can't stand my love? That you're saying?" Ron said louder than before.
"No – no your love, it's not your fault, it's me, I don't know what I want, what I need, it's not you.." she said.
"Well, it's affecting me as well!" He shouted and rose from the armchair, she stood steel.
"I know, and I'm so sorry, but I really can't anymore…" she said again.
"Is there any other man?" he asked straightly, she froze, there was another man indeed but they were friends, best friends, for years, except that night almost four years ago… which they became one for first and last time.
"N—no there is not," she said.
"Layer! Tell me who he is, do I know him? We are together since we were twenty and when we were in Hogwarts! I have the right to know!" he shouted and came closer to her.
"I told you there is no other man!" she said louder, trying made her self believe it too.
"Then why? Huh? Why Hermione?" he screamed and gripped her left arm turning her to look at him.
"Let my arm! There is no other man Ron, let my arm, you're hurting me!" she shouted too and tried pulled her arm away but couldn't.
"I won't if you don't tell me his name, I know there is someone, I can see it in your eyes, not just now, for months, you're away even when we are on the same bed!" he whispered angrily to her.
"Let my arm!" she whispered angry too.
"Give me his name!" he shouted and gripped her other arm as well, and started shaking her painfully, tears were running their faces, "He is the one who did it with for first time isn't he? You're still stuck with him right?" he shouted.
"How dare you?.." she started but he cut her.
"How what? Asking for learn the truth? I though you'd be a virgin but you weren't, you never explained your self! You never said who he was… but now is time to!" he said and shacked her harder, she was crying and gasping for air.
"You- weren't a virgin—either…" she managed to said, trying avoided his question and gasped for air again, her arms started numbing from Ron's power on them.
"YES! And I told you about it! But you… you didn't say a word! Tell me his name! It was Krum right? When you left for months, right?" he shouted again.
"Please let me go…" she pleaded.
"His name! or you're not leaving this bloody flat! It was Krum isn't it?" he shacked her more.
" IT WAS HARRY! IT WAS HIM, A NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE! I WAS WITH VICTOR JUST FOR SOME MONTHS BEFORE YOU." she screamed and regretted the same moment.
Ron paled and then became more red than ever could Hermione remembered, he let her arms and pulled away.
"You—you are a liar, Harry; he would never did that to me… he knew I liked you since then," he said paralyzed, disgusted.
"He is your friend, he loves you, I do too, but—we loved each other, I don't know for him anymore,-- but then, we did, and—" Hermione said between sobs.
"SHUT UP!" Ron screamed and came closer to her again, unable to hit or harmed her in any way, he was trebling.
"I'm so sorry Ron, I loved you, I loved him, I know I shouldn't, I'm so sorry.." she started crying hysterically like before.
"You—you…" he tried controlled himself, "You screwed up with him for first time… you lost your virginity from him… FOUR YEARS AGO!... YOU DIDN'T SAY A BLOODY WORD ALL THAT TIME! YOU WERE WITH ME AFTER TWO YEARS BECAUSE YOU WERE TRYING GOT OVER HIM WITH ME? BECAUSE KRUM DIDN'T MAKE IT FOR YOU… WE WERE TOGETHER IN HOGWARTS AND YOU SLEPT WITH HIM… and YOU'RE SORRY…" he screamed.
"I know it's hurting, it's not his fault, I swear, he is not with me anymore… it's not Harry's fault… it's mine." Hermione whispered desperate.
Ron rose his hand but lowered it again without touching her, he came closer to the door and opened it. "Out…" he said, she looked at him.
"Hermione, get out now! As I can still control it." He said scaring calmed.
"Ron, please.."
"GET OUT! NOW!" Ron screamed on the top of his voice, Hermione rose, looked at him, she mumbled she is sorry once more and then disappeared with a pop. The next moment she was out of another apartment, she was crying, couldn't stop her self from trebling, she pushed the doorbell and some moments after an awaken Harry opened the door and gasped.
"Oh good Merlin! 'Mione, what's wrong, what happened?" Harry asked socked of her sight.
"I'm so—sor—sorry for disturbing… I didn't—know where—to go—and I couldn't—return home." She said between gasps and sobs.
"It's ok Hermione come in," he said and made space for her to passed in, she stepped inside and he pulled her in his hug, her head arresting on his chest, she was still crying and gasping.
"You want to talk abo—"
"I broke up with Ron… I couldn't—stand it anymore." Hermione said and kept her head lowered.
"Oh, well it must be in the day, I broke up with Ginny some hours before and as you can see around you, the match took place here…" he said and started stroking her back. She looked around and many things were broken into pieces on the floor.
"I'm sorry Harry," she said and gasped again.
"No 'Mione, don't be, she slapped me and left, I'm fine, but you, on the other hand…" he said and took her coat, exposing the red marks from Ron's hands on her arms.
"What the.. did he hit you or something?" Harry asked and pulled her a bit away for looked at her crying chocolate eyes.
"No no, he just gripped my arms," she said shyly.
"JUST? Look at your arms Hermione. I'll kill him." Harry almost screamed.
"Please Harry, I need you here, and please don't yell. My head is already killing me from sobbing." Hermione said more calmed.
"OK, this is the plan, we are going upstairs, falling both asleep, and tomorrow, we are cleaning the mess here and I'm killing Ron, what you think?" he smiled at her.
She gave him a weak smile and nodded, he led her on his bedroom, taking her shoes and clothes up and gave her a shirt of him, she wore it, he laid first and then she laid in his hug, he was a bit afraid of touching her but he wanted to so much, he wanted to made her his, once more, he had missed her, her sense, her voice their next morning. Even if he had tasted these things just once, he touched her back and started stroking it again, he didn't want to do something more, he was afraid she could scared her, Hermione rose her head and kissed his lips, waiting, he responded after some moments of sock, he kissed her passionately and then they broke the kiss and looked at each other.
"I did it for you and this is the only thing I don't regret," she whispered and kissed him again, "I hurt him very much and he didn't deserve it, I told him the truth about us but I did it for you and I don't regret it." She said and kissed him.
"So, I lost my best mate but I have the love of my pathetic-until-now life back, I don't regret it either." He smiled at her and made her sweet, desperate love after four cursed years of waiting and thinking that it would never happened again.
Harry woke up first the day after, sun was dawning, he looked at Hermione, her head was arresting on his chest, her bushy hair was all around her, making her more beautiful than she was, she was half laid on the bed and half on his body, her foot between his own feet, just like four years ago, they were just 17 and he had woken up with her, been laid exactly like now, but then he was about to face his worst enemy, not his best friend…
Four years away of each other, the whole famous- pain- recover- confusion thing made them apart for four entire years, making them take the wrong paths, making them say the wrong words, making them think wrong, making them.. be apart as a the couple they always wanted to be and letting them as friends, friends who were in pain when they were watching each other with others beside them.
He started playing with one of her curls, he looked at her brushes on her arms Ron had made them some hours before, Harry felt his blood started boiling inside of him, he hurt her, just because she wanted them to be apart, he had joked about killing him but he really wanted cast him some pain as an answer for those marks on his Hermione's arms, he didn't want to wake her up, he didn't want to do nothing else than stay there and be with her, he didn't know what he had to do, she gave up everything for him, her boyfriend and best friend, his family, her friends, her harmony. She opened her eyes and kissed his chest, rose her head and looked at him, they didn't talk for awhile, they were just looking each other, searching, understanding, so much lost time, so much pain, so much confusion.
"I love you," he chocked out and broke the silence.
"I love you too," Hermione said and he embraced her tighter, wanting to save all that in his mind, four years away from her, after that night, their first-but-thank-Merlin not last one.
"What now?" Hermione made the question Harry didn't know the answer for.
"Being together, away from anyone who doesn't want us like this, just you, and me, it won't be the first time we'll be in our own." Harry answered some moments later. Hermione was ready to talk but the doorbell rung, they looked each other.
"Stay here, I'll open," Harry said and woke up and dressed in his boxers and his t-shirt, Hermione gripped her blouse and her skirt.
Harry opened the door, and without have the time to react Ron punched him straight to his face, Harry's head fell back with his one hand covering his bleeding nose, Ron pushed him and he fell with him on the floor, they both started hitting each other, Hermione run close to them trying stop them, she couldn't pulled none of them away from the other, she finally though about her powers and used her wand, making them apart, they both stood up and she stood between them, their noses were bleeding, (Harry's worst cause it was broken). Ron tried hit Harry again but Hermione covered him and Ron slapped her buy accident, her head fell on her right side and Harry burst on him again while he was in sock by his fault, Hermione tried pulled them apart again and faced Ron, Harry was trying hit Ron again by pushing her without want to, his blood was running down his face and fell on Hermione's hair and blouse.
"For Merlin's sake!!" Hermione screamed breathless.
"We broke up just yesterday and you are here with him already!" Ron shouted and both Hermione and Harry released he had consumed lots of alcohol the last hours.
"Ron please, leave," Hermione said as soft as she could, her cheek was scarlet red.
"Don't even think come back here again!" Harry shouted and Ron tried hit him.
"I won't! It doesn't worth it anyway, don't even think come close to my family!" Ron screamed and tried hit Harry again. He tried too but Hermione rose her hand and stopped them.
"You're a traitor! And you.. you're-are a Mudblood!" Ron screamed, Harry pulled Hermione away without letting her protest again and punched Ron once more breaking his nose as well.
"Say that again for her, and you are dead!" Harry screamed but before hit him again Ron disappeared with a "pop". Harry turned around and looked at Hermione crying and brushing her cheek.
"He hurt you didn't he?" Harry asked as he pulled her in his hug, he just then released he was tasting his blood all this time he was talking, his face, blouse and Hermione's hair and blouse were in his blood too, the pain started appearing and Harry touched his mouth for take the blood away from it.
"You're kidding me? Your nose is broken, who is more in pain?" She said and rose her wand for help him, he was fine after some moments. She started crying heavily in his hug.
"I can't believe he called you like that…" Harry said trying calmed his self and started stroking Hermione's wet from his own blood back and hair.
"He- he was drunk… he didn't mean to…" Hermione said between sobs.
"It's OK, please calm down…" Harry said and kissed her head's top.
"I love you." Hermione whispered.
"I love you too 'Mione, none and nothing did or will change that." Harry said and kissed her scarlet cheek and her trebling lips.
END OF FLASHBACK
The familiar cry of her son and the sense of her Harry's cologne brought her back to reality. Harry took James in his hug and looked at Hermione.
"Are you alright baby? I talked to you and you were just looking at nowhere… is everything alright?" Harry asked and placed his free hand around her waist and kissed her on the lips.
"Yeah, I'm fine, I was just thinking… things… They're soo beautiful," she smiled and looked at their babies in their arms.
"Oh yeah, they are, more beautiful then I could imagine." Harry smiled and felt his daughter's little head.
"I have anything I wanted, you, these two little miracles, us… And I'm happy we won that night, you deserve so much…" Hermione smiled and kissed him deeply, but get busted by Minerva who came first through the fireplace.
"Hello, oh I'm sorry for disturbing you lovebirds," she smiled, Dobby showed up and she handed him a box with chocolate cake.
"How are the little, future, Head Boy and Girl?" she asked and got closer for hugged Harry and Hermione and for looked at the babies.
"They already are in the list of the school, I checked it later today, that means they are not Squibs, they couldn't of course, you are both powerful but I wanted to be sure." she smiled at them.
One after the other Arthur, Moly, Bill, Fleur, Hagrid, Tonks, Remus, Fred and George, Ginny with Nevile, and last Ron and Luna with their son arrived. They all sat in the living room, Christina and Sofia were running around and looking at the three little babies every once in awhile and playing with Crooshanks, Luna and Hermione were talking with Moly about the babies and took advices, the rest were talking about the Quidditch World cup which would happen in almost a month.
"My 'Mione gave me a great gift for Christmas, except the new alarm clock, tickets for the pre and the final match." Harry smiled and the rest of the men started clapping for Hermione's choice. She smiled blushing a bit.
"We'll search for find tickets, we really want to watch it." Arthur said and smiled at his sons and his future-son-in-law.
The women started talking about the new restaurant which would be open in a few days, Parvati and Lavender were the owners of the "Delicious Witches", it would be the only good restaurant in the small village and the two women were really excited as Ginny informed the rest of the women. After almost an hour of random talking Moly, Hermione, Fleur, Luna and Ginny went to the kitchen for prepare the dinner with Winky and Dobby, Minerva was ready to follow but Harry challenged her for another chess match for try beat her this time, she accepted and she won again…
The dinner was served, everyone was around the table and Harry on the head of it, Hermione on his right side, they all ate the delicious meal and started talking again, after some minutes, Harry stood up and everyone looked at him.
"Thank each and everyone of you for coming tonight, one more time, this is a happy day for the rest of the wizarding world, but for us is a day of relief and memory, the rest can't understand how it was in Godric's Hollow graveyard, the rest don't know how is to losing friends or family members just because you didn't have the time to save them. I'm not good at speeches at all, but I want to thank you all for standing by my side all these years, and especially to Ron who was my best mate all these years and made me part of his family and life and.." Harry took Hermione's hand on his, "To you Hermione, you were always there, with me, even when I was bad or cruel or stupid at you, you were always there, and you made me understand how is to love another person with your life, you gave me two wonderful kids and I just wanted to thank you in front of all our friends." He smiled and kissed her, then rose again and took his glass of wine,
"To the memory of the lost people, to us and; to the future." Harry said and all rose their glasses and drunk.
The dinner kept more than three hours, Minerva asked Harry and Hermione to come to Hogwarts before they leave for the World Cup in Scotland for made a security control in the school before the new year, but most of because she was feeling alone in the school at the time of the summer so she wanted to have company, they both accepted and Moly offered to keep the babies, Hermione wasn't sure but Harry forced her a bit to come out and take some fresh air after their babies' birth, so she accepted. It would be great to have some hours or even days in the school, when it's empty, after all those years, ten years… it would be great to be back without the studying, the curious students around and the ultimate evil haunting them...
A/N : I hope you uderstand Hermione's atitude about Harry,Ron and Krum, when a woman is desperate made many mistakes so please don't think she is cheep or something.
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