Authors Note: There you go folks. I tried to give a little Hermione-ness.

Chapter 10

"Luna, what the hell is this?" screamed Hermione.

"I think you startled Pansy, her tea is all down her shirt," said Luna while taking a napkin to help Pansy wipe down her blouse.

"What the fuck is your problem Granger?" Pansy grabbed a hold of a waitress that was walking by and slipped her a hundred pounds, "There's a maternity shop just a few stores down, a would like something purple. Surprise me, and keep the change." In hushed whispers she looked at Hermione and said, "If we weren't in a Muggle community Granger, I would hex your ass so bad, Merlin help me."

"Yes Hermione, what is wrong?" Luna asked. "And Pansy you shouldn't be carrying The Quibbler around, what if someone saw it?"

Pansy replied first, "I have the damn thing charmed to look like the Times magazine, or whatever the bloody thing is called."

"What's wrong? You tell me," Hermione grabbed The Quibbler from Pansy's lap, where the side was getting soggy and pointed to an article.

"Vampires, Zombies, and Doppelgangers! Oh My!" Pansy said. "Oh my! Is that Mike?"

"I don't know, let's ask Luna," Hermione turned to said woman waiting for an answer.

Peering over Luna said, "Well now that you mention it, it does look an awful lot like him."

"That's because it is him," angered, "What did you think you were doing when you put this in there?"

"Excuse me Hermione, but until you pointed it out I wasn't aware that it even looked like Mike until you pointed it out," Luna tried to defend herself.

"Hermione, Pansy, Luna," Kissing each girl on the check, "I'm sorry I'm so late, I couldn't find Blaise for the life of me in that stupid Ministry. Pansy! What on earth happened to your shirt? What did I miss, tell, tell."

"Ginny, finally someone sane!" bellowed Pansy. "Let's go to the washroom, that waitress just walked in with my new shirt, I'll fill you in on everything, while these two work out their problems."

The two whispered to each other.

"I'm so glad!" Pansy exclaimed.

"And why is that?"

"Draco's doing something about this marriage," squeals and lisps came from Pansy's mouth.

"Dear Merlin woman, tell me what the hell is going on," Ginny grabbed Pansy's arm to make her come to her senses from the deep happiness high she was in.

"Luna let an article print totally bashing Mike! It's glorious, I only read the title and saw the pictures so far, but still, now it can be a fairy tail ending for Draco and Hermione. It'll be so romantic, He comes to save her from the evil monster… oh Ginny, won't is be beautiful?"

"Well he is a little odd - Pansy do you need help?" Ginny asked unsure of what her friend was trying to do with her pregnant belly and a shirt.

"Thank you Ginny, that woman got me something stupid… Harry usually has to help me dress. It's a little sad, but he's such a dear. I don't know what I'd do without him." Pansy continued to daydream about her husband as Ginny helped her.

"Luna, honestly, Mike isn't a thing like this," Hermione tried to keep her temper in check.

"Hermione, honestly, I did not notice that it was Mike."

Slightly taken back, "Are you mocking me?"

"Hermione, would I ever mock you? You should get your ears checked, Red Eared Snorkles happen to mess around with, well ears."

"Tell me about the article Luna, I don't have the heart to read it," Hermione said while trying to calm down as she took her seat.

"Well, an anonymous source from… I can't tell you where they work. Well they pointed out that the Quidditch murders started… a long time ago, and this person noticed the likeliness between a murdered Quidditch seeker and a man walking across the street, and he just took a picture," Luna tried to explain without giving certain details about where Draco found this information.

"How long ago Luna?" Hermione was never the one to miss a beat, and when Luna hesitated, even for a moment she caught on.

"Urg.."

"Luna?"

"Mhhmmm hmm mhhhs mhmm."

"What was that?"

"Seven hundred years ago."

"What!"

"Hello girls, we're back!" Pansy's overly cheerful voice came out of no where as she lacked herself onto the two girls. "Did you have a nice chat without us? We missed you dearly."

"The only person that could get into files like that would have to be in the Ministry," Hermione completely ignored Pansy as something dawned on her. "You knew what you were doing, you always do Luna. I can't believe you'd sink that low, how much did he pay you? How much did Draco pay you to write that article?"

"Hermione what are you talking about?" This time it was Ginny talking.

"How everyone is going behind my back to ruin my wedding, my married life. You are all happily married, why can't I be?" Hermione said in a hushed whisper.

"Hermione, first off we never approved of Mike, but you didn't care, you've always done what you wanted. You and Draco were together for the first two years after the war, you raise Cal together, but one day you just stopped loving him. Now why the hell did you do that?" Ginny waited.

There was a long pause.

"For once someone has made you speechless Hermione. You were happy Hermione. You were so bloody happy, we were all expecting the two of you to get married, or elope, you were just that happy with each other… but that never happened. You just quit. For the longest time you did nothing with us, you shut us all out. You didn't tell anyone anything." Ginny said.

"I… there were problems."

"Like what? Because he was a Death Eater, and it's burned into his flesh?" Pansy winced as Ginny's words that made her remember a darker time in her history. The words also stung Hermione, as they were close to home. "Get over yourself, so what he made bad choices, he made up for them. Obviously they don't bother you that much seeing as how he's at your house all the time anyways."

"Like I said, there were problems that you don't know about." By now the café had cleared out from the scratchy arguing from the group of girls.

"You really don't think I know? Who on earth thought that Draco would be more of an open person than you. So guess what, Draco came that very night that you left him, he told Harry everything. So what there was a miscarriage, you work out those problems together. But I can't believe you told him that you couldn't be together because he was a Death Eater." These words shocked Pansy and Luna, seeing as how it was the first time they heard about this. "You selfish bitch, you can forget it if you think we're going to stand by your side at this wedding, anymore." Hermione's mouth was open, but words did not come out and she closed and then opened them again.

Ginny started to storm out, Luna was getting up. Pansy seemed to be lost on what to do until Ginny took her hand and guided her in there storming out.

What have I done? Hermione put her head in her hands trying to think on what her next move should be. This is far too fucked.

"Miss, uhm, here's the bill," said a the unlucky waitress that got suckered into giving the stressed woman her bill.