Chapter Five; Pet Plaza
The next morning Hermione woke up and showered before she had a bit of breakfast and quickly grabbing the car keys off the counter headed out the front door with a proud grin on her face. "Good luck today Hermione!" Heather called just as soon as she had disappeared.
"Hermione's so lucky! I wish that I had a job as wonderful as hers!" Eve cried.
"You're only thirteen years old, you're way too young to have a job." Her father told her.
"I still don't understand how they can start their own pet rescue center when they don't even have a building to do it in." Teddy said.
"Teddy, they're witches remember? They can do a lot more advanced magic than we can." Heather told him.
"You can't do any magic yet." Eve pointed out.
"Yeah huh! Just last week I made Teddy lose his voice when he wouldn't let me have a turn on the waterslide at the waterpark." Heather told her.
"Well yeah but that was accidental. You can't learn to do magic on purpose until you go to Hogwarts." Eve told her.
"It seemed like it was on purpose to me." She muttered under her breath.
"Alright girls that's enough, why don't you just go outside and play?" their father suggested.
"Because I'm a teenager now. I'm not a kid anymore and I haven't played with any of my toys since I was nine or ten years old." Eve told him.
"I liked you better when you were a kid. At least you were fun back then!" Heather yelled at her before she turned her back angrily on her sister and folded her arms.
"I'll play with you Heather." Tobey told her.
"Thanks Tobey, what do you want to play?" she asked him as he smiled at her.
"Anything you want to little sis." He told her.
"Do you want to dress up and have a tea party?" she wondered as Teddy snickered. Heather narrowed her eyebrows and glared at her twin brother.
"It would be my honor." He told her.
"Good luck." Teddy told with another snicker before he turned around and started walking down the hallway having personally been to way too many tea parties to last a lifetime even though he wasn't even eight years old yet. "I'm going to go play videogames." He said as Eve quickly hurried after him.
"I'm coming too!" she hollered.
"No you're not! No girls allowed!" Teddy yelled back at her as they both raced to the bedroom.
"If you children don't learn to behave yourselves nobody is playing any videogames because I am going to unplug the Television set!" their father screamed at them before he heard them slam the door behind them and then simply rolled his eyes. "I miss Hermione already. And of course I've already been missing Harry like crazy. And I suppose Weasley." He said.
"What about Mummy?" Heather asked him.
"Of course I miss her. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her for the rest of my life." He replied. "But I just can't do this on my own anymore."
"But you're not on your own, Hermione will be back. And so will Harry and Ron." Tobey told him before his father took a deep breath and sighed heavily. "That's not what I meant son. Harry Ron and Hermione clearly have their own lives that they want to live and deserve to live." He said as a few moments of silence fell between them.
"So what are you trying to say?" Heather asked him.
"I think it's time to get you children a new mother." He replied before he turned around and walked away while Heather glanced up anxiously at her big brother.
"C'mon Tobey, let's go play." She said while breathing a sad sigh before they both turned around and walked into the opposite direction.
….
"Wow Hermione, I've got to say that the place sure looks great." A tall woman with dark ginger hair tied up into a ponytail and bright blue eyes and freckles on both of her cheeks and down her neck like her brother Jerry's said with a grin as all three ladies strutted the building together side by side.
"Yeah, you sure do that conjuring charm pretty well." Luna said as she smiled at her friend.
"Now all we need is an animal to rescue." Hermione said and suddenly as if on que the phone started to ring. Hermione quickly rushed over to it to grab it. "Hullo Pet Plaza this is Hermione Granger speaking how may I help you?" she inquired. "Uh huh. Uh huh right." She began with a nod. "Alright then, we're on our way!" she exclaimed before she hung up.
"Alright ladies, we need to go rescue a kitten out of a storm drain." She told them as she and Luna walked over to the wall to grab their broomsticks.
"Uh hullo? Muggle? I can't fly remember?" Julie questioned them as Hermione grinned at her and nodded.
"Oh yes you can. If your brother can do it then you so can you." She told her while Luna hurried over to towards the front door. Hermione walked over to her and the two witches mounted their brooms. "Alright Julie, just sit down and grab on tight. It's going to be a bumpy ride." Hermione told her as an eager and excited grin grew onto her face while Julie sat down and wrapped her arms tightly around her middle before both of the broomsticks took off like a rocket and shot up into the great blue sky.
Next Time; While Snape starts going out on tons of dates with different women trying to find the perfect mother for his children, he also has to plan Teddy and Heather's eighth birthday party. Meanwhile Eve's horse Harmony starts going into labor.