Getting On With Things

Early Saturday morning Phoebe walked out of her bedroom and into the busy common room she shared with her family. She stood on the landing and smiled at the sight of Prue and Piper sitting at the counter drinking coffee, while Cole, Leo and Sirius all sat on the sofa reading the daily Prophet together.

Phoebe smiled before doing a double take, 'Sirius? What was he doing here?' Phoebe stepped out of the shadows and walked over to her sisters.

"Morning all." She said smiling.

"Morning, Pheebs." Piper said while Prue waved her hand trying to say she was to busy drinking coffee to respond.

"So..." Phoebe started causally. "I see Sirius is here..."

"Yep, slept here, didn't he Prue?" Piper said grinning madly.

Prue turned away blushing, and Piper and Phoebe bust into a fit of silent giggles. Once they had recovered Phoebe made herself a cup of coffee and sat down in front of her sisters, "Where's Hermione?"

"Draco and Hermione are still asleep." Prue told her while washing up her cup.

"You know I'm still not sure them sleeping together is a good idea." Cole said putting down the paper he was reading.

"Oh come on Cole, they are of age and in love it's completely normal! Plus if my dad thinks their mature enough to sleep in the same room then probably they are." Phoebe said looking at her husband expectantly for him to agree. (Yeah right.)

"Phoebe Halliwell, you and I both know what kind of crack pot ideas your father gets! For all we know he might want them to get up to no good... and if Hermione's anything like you were then-" Cole couldn't even finish that sentence he had paled considerably at the thought of his only daughter being like her mother, or Draco being like him...

"Maybe we should wake them up?" Phoebe suggested thinking along the same lines that Cole was, didn't think it wise to leave them up there alone for so long.

"Phoebe, Cole, don't worry ok? I've known Hermione since she was 13 she's the most responsible which you've ever met, their smart both of them they wouldn't do anything stupid." Sirius told them trying to sound reassuring.

Then suddenly, a loud bang was herd from one of the bedrooms.

"DRACO FRIGGING' MALFOY! I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU!" Hermione's shrill voice followed the small silence that had come after Sirius's speech.

"So much for them not doing anything stupid." Leo said as he followed the whole family up the stairs.

Upstairs Draco was on hands and knees laughing and trying to deflect his girlfriends spells with his wand.

"What did you do!?" Hermione yelled waving her hands in order to freeze him.

"Protecto!" Draco yelled and ducked, at the same time. "It was just a little hex."

Hermione screamed. "Just a little-- I'll just a little you!!"

Sirius was the first to get to the Hermione and Draco's room, soon followed by Prue, Piper, Cole, Phoebe and Leo. All six of them burst through the door, and burst out laughing.

"It's not funny!" Hermione snapped at them.

"Hermione, what happened to your face?!" Phoebe asked between fits of laughter, she took another look at her daughter's face which was covered in multi-coloured hickeys.

"It's some kind of multi-coloured multiply hex." Sirius snorted.

"Nice handy work." Cole observed and Leo agreed.

Hermione huffed furiously. "Come on Hermione, we'll use a concealment charm." Prue told her. But Hermione shook her head. "It doesn't work, I've already tried." She glowered at her boyfriend once more.

"You. Are. So. Dead!" Hermione yelled as she launched more spells at him, one caused his hair to turn a pale shade of blue.

"Mia, chill, I don't think the hex was permanent!" Draco said as he ducked as Hogwarts A History came flying at him, thank Merlin he played Quidditch and had such good reflexes.

"Little help people!" Draco shouted after noticing everyone was watching Hermione throwing things at him.

Hermione rolled her eyes, and stuck her middle finger out at him. Draco sighed and ran a hand through his hair, "Sorry?" He offered.

Phoebe and Prue were in silent fits of giggles, all over again, and Cole, Sirius and Leo rolled their eyes and left to get another cup of coffee.

Piper shook her head at them all. "Where's the Book Of Shadows?"

Hermione stuck out her hands and called out. "Book Of Shadows!" The book appeared instantly in her hands with a loud thud causing Hermione to struggle a bit because of the added weight.

Hermione handed the book to Piper who nodded her thanks and walked over and stood between her two sisters.

They all turned to stare at The Book of Shadows which was exactly as they remembered it. A thick, green, leather book with an embossed red triquetra sign on the cover.

Their sign.

The sign that was currently on the arm of the young witch that stood covered in multicoloured hickeys in front of them, only then did the three women really understand what this meant. To them, and to Hermione.

"Come on, I know there's a spell that could help make those disappear." Piper said to Hermione who followed after sending one last glare in Draco's direction. (If looks could kill.)

Hermione sat down on one of the armchairs of the common room while Piper stood in front of her flipping through the pages of the spell book.

"Just hold on. I know it's in here somewhere. Aha!" Piper grinned at her. "Sit still." Hermione obeyed and sat completely still, as Piper recited.

"Let the object of objection
become but a dream
as i cause the seen
to be unseen"

Piper smiled to herself as she felt the familiar surge of Wicca magic flow through her. "Perfect." She whispered nodding at Hermione.

Hermione sighed with relief, hugged her aunt and went to look in the mirror, sighing again after seeing her face completely hickey free.

. After Breakfast.::.

They had all had breakfast in the Great Hall two hours earlier than anyone else in the school so that they could all set out to do their own things.

Piper had taken Wyatt to Diagon Alley to pay a visit to an old friend who worked at Gringotts. Then she thought it a good idea to go to the Burrow and visit Molly Weasley who had been one of her best-friends at Hogwarts.

Prue who had met with her mother about planning their Charms lesson plans, had left the castle soon after to meet Piper before she left for the Burrow.

While Sirius had decided to spend the day with his godson, placed himself under a concealment charm and the two of them played 7 games of Quidditch in a row.

Severus had taken Leo to the Halliwell Manor to re-introduce him to Narcissa after telling him his plans of marrying her after the war.

"Narcissa Black? Andromeda's sister? Bellatrix's sister? Sirius's cousin? The same Narcissa that was in Slytherin with Phoebe?" Leo yelled at him.

"Yes! The one and only! The very same!" Snape yelled back.

"Oh. Good! She was nice." Leo said smirking at his old friend, who looked about ready to kill.

While they were off visiting people, Cole had talked Draco into helping him find a new place for all of them to train. Both of them were currently shirtless (wow) covered in sweat, down in the Chamber of Secrets moving, and vanishing any traces of Tom Riddle's essence.

"Was the Chamber of Secrets ever opened?" Cole asked Draco as they climbed down one of the many staircases.

"Yeah, Potter and Weasley opened it and killed the Basilisk in our second year." Draco told him casually.

"And Hermione?" Cole raised an eyebrow.

"Apparently turned into a some kind of large cat." Draco snorted thinking back to when pansy had told him.

"How did they open the passageway?"

"Parseltongue." Draco stated, and Cole nodded knowing it was Snape who had given him most of the information.

"Right then, we're in luck."

"How so?"

"I know parseltongue." Cole told him simply and the two headed off to the haunted bathroom.

And while everyone was out doing their own things Phoebe was levitating in-front of Hermione who was sat with her legs crossed levitating a foot lower that her mother was.

"Concentrate Hermione, Concentrate." Phoebe said hovering right in front of her daughter.

"I'm trying!" Hermione yelled out in frustration, and promptly fell to the floor.

"OW!"

Phoebe smiled kindly at her. "It's all about finding inner peace. Harmony, if you will." Phoebe told her. She lowered herself and took Hermione's hands in her own.

"This isn't about getting it right the first time, gaining house points or being top of the class. It's about self control, learning more about yourself. So relax, breath deep, and let the air take you."

Hermione sighed, and closed her eyes, taking in deep relaxing breaths forgetting about all her problems. Pretty soon she felt the same urge of Wicca magic her aunt had felt only hours before.

She slowly opened her eyes and looked down at herself, she and her mother were still holding hands, but Hermione was now secure enough to do it on her own.

They stayed levitating for another hour, Phoebe showing Hermione different yoga possessions that would help her in battle.

"Do you know Martial arts?" Phoebe asked Hermione suddenly.

"Yeah, I have lessons every summer." Hermione told her.

"What belt are you?"

"Blue."

"Right so we'll have to keep training you, you need to be a black belt. That's really the only thing that I could do every time we had to fight. Your powers aren't the only thing that keeps you alive."

"Draco's a black belt." Hermione told her some what proudly.

"Great so he can help." Phoebe said, already getting some new ideas for their first DADA lesson.