Phoebe was sitting on the red sofa on hand twirling Hermione's wand in one hand. She had Hermione's head in her lap.
The young witch was fast asleep, Phoebe looked down at her daughters arm, where the Dark Mark was burnt into her skin.
Draco was laying on the floor with his on the cushion next to Hermione's knees. He was staring at his own Dark Mark eyes slightly glazed over.
Piper came in holding baby Wyatt in her arms, with Leo behind her.
"Hows everything?" Piper asked. She had been away at the burrow for the last few days and has only been told about the meeting with Voldemort the night before.
"Cole's taken Blaise out to the pitch, Blaise needs to clear his head.- Phoebe told her leaving Hermione's wand on the coffee table,- and Sirius is upstairs, trying to get Pansy to relax, its- its been hard."
"To say the least." Prue said walking into the room and taking Wyatt from her sister.
"And Hermione?" Leo asked Snape who was standing in a corner.
"Hermione had to show great strength before Voldemort. She had to become a whole different person, had to be the strongest person in the room. She used great strength more mentally than physically. They both did." Snape added looking at Draco.
Flash back
Severus! I cant please… please don't make me." Hermione had tears in her eyes.
"The Greater Good, Hermione all four of you knew this. It just has to be done."
"No- No please! Draco."
She turned to look at her boyfriend, who had the same dead look Severus had.
"Draco-"
"Hermione we have to. The Dark Lord needs to know we're on his side."
"I cant." She said, tears running down her cheeks. "We cant."
"We have to."
The pulled up their masks. and burst through the door of the suburban muggle home. "Three children away for the weekend. But the parents and two more are still here." Snape told them.
"Oh my god." Hermiones voice was dead, she sounded nothing like the Hermione Draco knew.
End Flash Back
Draco pulled away from the memories. What happend that night was to much for him to remember, the murder of the family of five they had caused burnt into his mind. They were the reason those to children would come home to a dead family. He growled and pinched at the Dark Mark on his arm.
From above him Hermione stared, she whined in her sleep. Draco looked up at her. Her hair was tied back away from her face, which was pinched and colourless, tears where running down her cheeks. Draco silently asked himself what part of that night she was reliving.
3 Weeks later
The Dark Lord had summoned them twice since their initiation each time the same arrangement, planning to take over the world, planning to kill Harry Potter, then off to kill some wizard family who had worked against the dark lord at some point in their lives.
Once the NEWTS preparations started Voldemort had order them to work at the Castle keeping a close eye on Dumbldore. So they were glad to have the time to keep away from him. They were all working hard on their NEWTS, mostly to have a distraction from Lord Voldemort.
Severus Snape watched his 7th year class work diligently on the potion he had written upon the board, a look of amusement upon his face. It was a rare thing to see Gryffindors and Slytherins quiet.
His eyes wandered over the class room, he had allowed the class to sit where they were most comfortable. To be comfortable was one of the key points in creating a perfect potion, and with a perfect potion came a passing grade, and he expected all of the class to pass potions with the exception of maybe three.
From his right he could hear Hermione and Draco speaking in hushed tones.
Snape rolled his eyes and wrote a new potion on the bored.
ingredients:
lacewing flies stewed twenty one days,
leeches
powdered bicorn horn
knotgrass
shredded boomslang skin
a bit of who one wants to turn into
"Miss Halliwell, you can identify this potion I suspect." Snape raised an eyebrow at her.
Hermione looked up from her own potion. "Yes."
"Its Polyjuice Potion, but your missing a key ingredient."
"Pray tell."
"fluxweed picked, at full moon."
"Copy down these ingredients for tomorrows class." Snape ordered, "Class dismissed."
"Draco, stay." Draco looked questionably at his Godfather.
"I'll meet you in charmed." Hermione told him walking to the door.
"No Hermione it wont take long, Draco just has to come to my quarters at 11.30 tonight."
Draco raised an eyebrow. "Why?"
"Your mothers coming to see you. both. Now get to class, Penny hates tardiness."
"But…
"later Draco."
Draco narrowed his eyes at Snape, but left non the less
"insurable git."
"Draco-"
"flaming bastard."
"Draco-"
"Well he is Hermione, come on, she's my mother."
"and his wife."
"But my mother."
"but-"
"whatever Hermione."
They took their seats in the middle of the class and waited.
The charms class was in an uproar, no professors
in sight. "Where are they?" Blaise asked Hermione. Who turned in her seat to look back at him. "I have no idea."
as soon as she said it, Piper and Leo orbed into the classroom, and Penny followed.
"I'll leave you two to it." Leo said to Piper as he handed her the parchment he was holding.
"I'll see you at lunch." Piper told him. as he orbed away.
"Good Morning seventh years." Penny said in her 'sit down, shut up and pay attention' voice.
"I am as you know Penny Halliwell, and this Piper Wyatt-Halliwell. and we are your charms professors till the end of term."
"Now, lets begin, Piper?"
"I will not lie to you, I am a strict witch when it comes to magic. I expect every one of you to pass charms this year, and I wont take lightly to people who fail. Death, as you know is among us. and now more then ever you'll need your magic." Piper tuned her back on them and pulled a rectangular box from her bag, she opened the box and lifted her wand from it.
"I haven't actually used a wand since my own Hogwarts years." she added. "But since your all wand forward, I'll have to get mine out." She looked around the class, highly bemused they were all so quiet. "Your wand, is the best hope you have of staying alive, so for this I recommend knowing it fully, as it knows you. if the wand chooses the wizard, I think its only right you show your wands that it made the right choice. don't you think?"
She paused again, then held up her own wand. "Cherry wood, dragon heart string core. Thirteen inches, capable of every type of magic, yet loves to dabble in Charms and jinxes, and never seemed to like jinxes. there is so much you can learn from your wand, all you have to do is practice a few spells then, flick and say 'praesto.'
Penny snapped her fingers in at the bored behind her. She willed the chalk to write down what Piper was telling the class.
Charms.
"'Alohomora Charm, Banishing Charm, Braking Charm. Bubble-Head Charm.
Colour Change Charm, Confundus Charm, Drought Charm, Engorgement Charm.
Fidelius Charm, Flame-Freezing Charm, Freezing Charm, Growth Charm, Homorphus Charm.
Hover Charm, Imperturbable Charm, Locomotion Charms, Memory Charm, Muggle-Repelling Charm, Patronus Charm, Scouring Charm, Severing Charm, Shield Charm,Silencing Charm, Substantive Charm, Unbreakable Charm… etc…etc.'" Penny read out loud.
"These are the charms will be concentrating on first, I expect you to practice every day at least three charms." Piper finished
"Class dismissed." Penny waved them away.
"Piss off Myrtle." Draco growled.
Classes had ended and the quiddich match would start in an hour, Hermiones second time as Seeker for Slytherins.
but before they could mount their brooms, Hermione found herself being dragged up to the second floor. Girls bathroom.
"Oh...Hermione 'Know-it-all-Halliwell, Up to no good no doubt, and Draco Malfoy." an insanely annoying whine came from above Draco's head. She said Dracos name as if the word itself was a treasure only she could hold.
"Myrtle." Draco growled warningly. Myrtle looked indignant, and floated off grumbling about how Draco preferred a know-it-all to her.
Draco leaned against the the sink "Open" he hissed. Hermione looked on in shock as the chamber of secrets opened before her eyes.
"Since when do you speak parseltongue?" Draco smirked. "Magic."
They climbed down into the chamber, the room had been cleared of all the rubble and dead basilisks, everything had been changed into the perfect martial arts training room. The walls where painted in a bright Green, with the Slytherins beaners all around the room. "Draco this is amazing! You did this?" Hermione asked completely baffled.
"Cole and I have been working on this for months." Draco told her. "Wow." Was all she said. "You ready?" Draco asked. Taking a place in the middle of the mat. Hemione nodded, and the two teens lunged for each other at the same time.
An hour later..
"And Weasley blocks the Quaffle thrown by the Slytherins Captain Draco Malfoy..." Dean continued. "And there goes Ginny... Ohhh, hit by a Bludger from Crabbe, and Zabini has the Quaffle. He's heading for the goalposts and... Whoa! He made it !That's not right." It was only 25 minutes into the game, and Hermione noticed a skirmish going on below. It appeared the Gryffindors had fouled and were arguing their case. Madam Hooch was trying to calm the team down. There were more shouts from down below, but Harry and Hermione were still keeping their eyes out for the snitch. Draco decided to go investigate the problem. Harry was tempted to do so too but thought better of it.
And then all hell broke lose.
The next thing Hermione saw, Crabbe threw a punch at Ron who, fortunately, dodged it. Then Ron seemed to try to tackle Draco, and all the while Madam Hooch was trying to tear them apart. She succeeded, but in doing so Ginny drew her wand from beneath her robes and cast a spell to Ron. It accidentally hit Madam Hooch in the back, and she almost fell off her broom. Harry could tell the spell had really hurt whatever it had been. She turned on Ginny, and more shouts came. Hermione sighed joined the outskirts of the huddle that surrounded Draco and Ron, Ginny and Blaise. Madam Hooch was saying, "...off the field, now! I have never seen such behaviour." The Gryffindors all moaned. "Now move, or else I'll drag you off by the ears." With a disgusted look on his face, Ron turned his broom and headed, furiously, back to the changing rooms. "The rest of this 'FRIENDLY' match," continued Madam Hooch, "has just been forfeited to Slytherin for your sour behaviour." The Slytherins broke out in hysteria. Madam Hooch blew her whistle and left the Slytherin team as happy as anyone had ever seen them. Hermione gave a small smile and shook her head. Then headed to the ground. "We won." She said to Draco as she landed beside him. "Yeah, but its not that much of a game if we win by forfit." Draco smiled at her.
"True."
"Piper!" Prue burst into piper and Leo's bedroom. The place was empty, Prue sighed and sat down on their bed. Eyes wondering to Wyatts crib in the corner. The room was a weird silvery blue instantly calming not like her own room witch was a mix of Reds.
"Prue?" Piper walked into her room to find her older sister lying face down on her bed.
"Prue?" She said again. "What's wrong?" Phoebe asked seeing her sisters face.
"I need help." Prue told them. "I-I…" Barely even breathing enough to get the words out, she closed her eyes and took in a few deep breaths, leaning her head on Phoebes shoulder.
"Prue, hunny, what's wrong?" Piper sat down to her sisters right and Phoebe to her left.
Piper brushed the hair out of Prue's face, "She's burning up." She said to Phoebe.
"Prue, what's wrong with you?" Phoebe asked worriedly
"I-I think…" Prue started, she took a deep breath, "I think I-I'm *gasp* I think I'm Pr-pregnant." She said the last word as if she barely even knew it existed.
Piper and Phoebe stared at each other in shock.
"Wait.-" Phoebe started.
"What?-" Piper finished.
Prue rolled her eyes at her sisters, she breathed again, "I think im pregnant." she said again more comfortably this time.
"But…" Piper started.
"Who…" Phoebe finished for her.
Again Prue rolled her eyes at them, "Sirius."
"Oh." The girls said at the same time.
"…"
"…"
"…"
"Prue, that's great! really really great!" Phoebe who was the first to recover hugged her sister.
"Yeah… So great! Oh Prue!" Piper hugged both of her sisters.
"How far gone are you?"
"Does Sirius know?"
Over excited Piper and Phoebe said at the same time. Prue laughed, I think maybe about two months gone, and no Sirius doesn't know."
"Oh…" Phoebe said, unsurprised
"I should tell him." Prue said, more to herself then to the girls.
"When your ready." Piper told her.
Phoebe was about to speak when a loud bang came from downstairs, followed by a loud scream.
The girls got up and ran down to the common room. Pansy was on the floor at the demons feet and he was about to strike her again.
"Hey!" Phoebe ran up to kick the demon, but he grabbed her leg and threw her to the floor.
" Phoebe!" Piper yelled. She tired freezing him. Every time he froze, he unfroze within seconds.
" Nice try." he replied. He grabbed her and threw her to the ground with Phoebe.
"Hey! back up off my sisters." Prue stepped froward She waved her hand and threw the demon into the staircase. The demon got up and formed an energy ball in the palm of his hand. He raised his arm to throw it.
"No." Phoebe ran and jumped levitating and kicking the demon's back.
"Piper blast it!" Phoebe yelled.
Piper mover her hand, and managed to blast away one of the demons arms.
"Its to strong!" Piper yelled back.
Piper picked up an athame from the common room table. " Prue!" She threw the athame to her.
Prue caught the athame and threw it at the demon, using her power to astral project, she appeared behind the demon and It hit him right below his heart.
"Now!" she yelled as the demon screamed.
piper blasted the demon and the sisters watched as it turned into dust.
"What the hell was that!" Leo orbed in, in time to see the last remains of the demon.
"demon." the charmed ones said together.
"Leo! Pansy!"
Leo dropped to his knees to heal Pansy. "Nothing much just a scratch" He said, indicating the grase on Pansy's forehead. As he helped Pansy up, Draco and Hermione came in, they stopped at the sight of a destroyed common room.
"What happened?"
"demon." Piper told her handing out coffees.
"You too?" Draco asked, shocked.
Prue spun around to face him. "You where attacked?" She asked panicking slightly.
"Yeah, as we came back from training. some demon I'd guess." He told them
"Slimy looking skin?"
"Red eyes?"
"Athame wealding?"
"Kinda-cocky look to him?"
Hermione and Draco looked at each other, then to the charmed ones, "That's the one."
"I'm going to talk to Albus about this." Leo said.
"Good idea, could you bring Wyatt back with you?" Piper asked.
"Sure. Want me to take you back to your dorm?" Leo asked Pansy, who was still pretty shook up.
"Please."
"Back soon." with that they both Orbed away.
Prue sat down with Phoebes head on her knees. And Piper curled up on the other end.
"You three OK?" Draco asked, looking at them worriedly.
"We're weak." Piper said. "And just emotionally and physically-
"tired." Prue finished for her.
Hermione came down from her bed room, dressed in ripped jeans and one of Dracos Green t-shirts.
"Where you two off to?" Phoebe asked her.
"Narcissa should be here, and we're off to meet her." Hermione told them.
"Say hello from us." Piper pitched.
"I will." Draco told her, smiling.
"Uh, Mya. Can we tall, when you get back?" Phoebe looked to her daughter.
Hermione looked back at her questioningly, "Sure, wait up for me." replied. and followed Draco out.