Blood ties chap 3
(A/N ok hey guys I know that Draco isn't on the scene yet but he will be soon. I don't own harry potter but I do own, Ben, Zach and new the arrival of Sebastian who is adorable. I want Sebastian as a brother and I wouldn't mind either Ben or Zach either. Please review! Miss D Zambini)
After being dragged out of the library and shown the chapel, music room, dance studio, gym, indoor pool, art studio, cinema room, family room, indoor quidditch pitch, basket ball court, tennis courts and about every other luxury Hermione could think of they finally came back to the great ballroom.
"Do you realise how big this house is and how easily it will be to get lost?" asked Hermione.
"Well we know it's big. This is the biggest house and so has everything!" replied Zach
"It was the first black manor saffy really what do you expect! Every black was born here. This is our heritage." Said Ben. They walked past the music recording rooms and eventually came back to the great ballroom.
"Right now let's show you upstairs!"
"um guys my feet hurt do you think we could just like sit down for at least 5 minutes. " Hermione said flopping down by the fire again. Ben and Zach laughed.
"Yea sure" they chorused and sat down next to her. Hermione watched curiously as Ben pulled up his jeans to show two metal braces on his legs.
"Dude seriously we know you're the terminator but not now." Zach said cheekily
"Hey at least you don't have to wear them. I'm just tweaking them anyway; I'll be more comfortable then. At least I'm not in a wheelchair all day. "
"Good point. They are pretty cool but it does look a bit freaky"
Hermione stared in curiosity at the metal that wound up Ben's legs.
"You can touch it if you want" Ben said smiling nudging his sister. "It doesn't bite" Hermione nodded and peered at it some more
"That's some good magic. I didn't think I would ever see one of these. It's like my idea."
"We know!" they chorused
"What do you mean you know?" she replied in disbelief
"well apparently when you were 6 you were told about people not being able to walk by however looked after you and because you had just watched Forest Gump you asked your "mother" why the people who couldn't walk didn't have braces on their legs that made them walk and run" Zach began
"so you then spent all day colouring and making some braces out of paper and sticky tape, covering them with glitter which you classed as tinker bell dust, which I think is from.." Benjamin said smiling
"Peter pan." Hermione replied quietly. She remembered that day really well
"Mummy mummy look I made some magical braces for a child you can't walk so that they can run and fly because tinka bell dust is on them!" Hermione declared covered head to toe in silver glitter, paper pieces and glue
"Oh sweetie that is lovely. That child will be very happy that you thought of them."
"Yea and I'm only to send them to the important person who will give them to the child. I asked daddy and he said that the person was called Mr. Black and so I'm going to send them to him!"
"Oh really? Did daddy say that?" Helena replied. Worry tinged her voice. Hermione nodded.
"Yea" the little girl then dipped her head down back to the paper and was writing in crayons to "Mr. Black" in her new found handwriting. She then drew a picture at the bottom of a little boy with metal on his leg and added a pouch of "tinker bell dust" in case it ran out. She then placed it into an envelope.
A couple of hours later Hermione went to find her mother.
"Mummy do you think we could go down to the post-box so that postman pat can send my letter to Mr. Black. It has the braces inside and I want it to get there as soon as possible" Helena sighed and looked down at the little girl who was hold triumphantly a large envelope. She could see where Tim had drawn dots for her to follow to spell out the address. It was to no12 grimmauld place.
"Yes sweetheart of course we can let mummy just finish her letter and we can post them together. Go and get you coat and hat on because it's cold outside." Helena replied smiling.
Hermione nodded and ran upstairs as fast as she can
"Snuggles! Snuggles we're going to go and post my letter. Come on we need to get our coats on" she called as she ran up the stairs. Helena smiled. That toy unicorn went everywhere with her. She quickly signed the letter and got it ready to be sent. It was a letter to bellatrix telling her the story behind the braces.
"so anyway saff we got this letter and it was about Christmas time and mum and dad thought it was one of the sweetest things they had ever seen and two a good idea. At the time they were trying to find any way for me to walk.It was Christmas and they got some goblins to make the parts and mum then cast some spell on them. Your "tinker bell dust" and now I can walk run. I can't fly because I still need a broom for that but I can do whatever a normal person can do and I'm internally grateful to you" Benjamin finished.
Hermione had tears in her eyes and hugged her brother. They broke apart and were laughing.
After two minutes all of their stomachs rumbled.
"Sorry I haven't eaten anything since breakfast and even then I didn't eat breakfast since I had the shock of life this morning. " Hermione said
"Ah don't worry its lunch anyway. We better get going it s in the orangery. We usually have lunch there come on. "Zach said and stood up. Hermione was up next and lastly Benjamin. They walked down the hallway to the left and eventually came to some open double doors which lead into a large room and conservatory.
The walls were a pale green and there were pictures dotted around the room. Their shoes clicked on the tiled floor. The cream sofas surrounded a glass coffee table and there was a white grand piano in the corner. In the conservatory she noticed muggle and magical plants growing. The doors were open and went out into a small garden there was a gate leading to the outdoor pool. There was an iron table with a tiled top with wrought iron chair with plump cream cushions on top. There was a bookcase along one wall near the door and the sideboards behind the sofas and around the room had family photos on them. One however caught Hermione's eye however as it was an old fashioned telephone from about the Victorian times. This one was a pale green. She had seen them dotted around the house. There was a black one in the foyer, a deep red one in the library. Nearly every room had one but in a different colour.
She sat down at the table in between her brothers and she noticed a tea tray pop up with sandwiches, soup, pate, fruit, crackers, biscuits, tea, orange juice and coffee.
"We just need to wait for Sebastian. He'll be down in a minute."
"Who's Sebastian?"
"He's our younger brother of course. He's 5 and quite the little tyke."
"Oi zachy are you talking about me?" called a small voice as a little boy ran into the room and plonked himself on the seat opposite Hermione. The little boy then whacked Zach on the arm and grabbed a couple of sandwiches. He was stuffing his face with them when he suddenly stopped and looked in front of him right at Hermione.
The little boy carried on eating and finished his mouthful before speaking.
"Who's this?" he asked in the most grown up voice he could muster. "Is she one of your girlfriends?"
Zach and Ben started laughing.
"Ah no little dude she isn't. Not at all"
"She looks like mummy. Is she a friend of mummy's? Maybe she knows saffy!" he started to ramble until Hermione coughed.
"What's your name?" she asked.
"I'm Sebastian "replied the little boy.
Sebastian looked an exact replica to the photos of Benjamin and Zach in the book. He was wearing an orange t shirt and denim shorts. His brown hair fell over his face. He was the most adorable little boy.
"Hi Sebastian. I'm Seraphina." Hermione replied. It didn't feel odd calling herself seraphina and it fact she felt it suited her perfectly. She still hadn't seen her reflection in the mirror and so excused herself to look in the mirror.
There was a large mirror on one of the walls in the room. When Hermione looked at herself she gasped. Staring back at her what bellatrix would have looked like when she was 17. Her once bushy light brown hair was dark and fell into beautiful cascading curls down her back. Her black eyes shown through her porcelain face and heavy lidded eyes. She had her mother's pouty lips which were a deep red. She had curves in all the right places and had a much skinner waist however since she had gotten her jeans magically made they were still snug on her. All of her baby fat had disappeared. She smiled showing of her perfect teeth.
Maybe Seraphina wouldn't be so bad from being boring old me.
She could hear whispering and suddenly there was a tug at her jeans. She looked down to find Sebastian.
"Do you want to meet my sister? Her name is Saffy. She's really pretty. She turned zachy Ben and dray into fishies and here is the picture." Sebastian held up the picture for her to see. She saw a little girl in a purple swimming costume holding a clear plastic bag full of water. Inside the bag were three fish, swimming around almost trying to escape. The little girl was laughing and smiling. Hermione smiled to herself. She had a vague recollection of that day.
"I'm going to help dray find her as tomorrow he sets off to find her. He says that when he finds her has going to bring her home. He knows who she is even though mamma put on a special thing that made her seem different. Do you want to help me?"
"Well Sebastian I think that a good plan but wouldn't mummy miss you if you went away?" Hermione replied. Sebastian thought for a moment and then nodded his head.
"She would miss me. She says she never wants to have one of her children missing again. She misses saffy too much. She's sad when it's her birthday and sometimes when she goes into saffy's home and I try to make her smile but sometimes it's really hard."
Hermione kneeled down so that she was about the same height as him.
"Well how about if I tell you a secret." Hermione said and Sebastian broke out into a smile and nodded. Hermione lent to his ear.
"I'm saffy and I've come home so that I can make mummy smile with you" Hermione whispered. Suddenly she was overloaded with a massive hug from her little brother and was kissed on the cheek loads and loads of times.
"Did you come back to play with me, Mr. Bear, Zach, Ben, dray and daddy too?"
Hermione nodded. Sebastian beamed.
"I love you saffy" she said as he hugged her again. "Let's go and tell mummy and make her smile!" before Hermione could say anything she was dragged out of the room by the 5 year old. All she could hear was Zach and Ben laughing in the background.