Disclaimer: Nope… I mean, Hermione and Draco belonging to JK Rowling, the rest are iffy, I mean JKR did say there was a Mr and Mrs Granger but never mentioned names ya know; and then there's the thing with Hermione's whole family that I'm making up here. This is complicated. Let's just say this: I don't own anything you would recognize.
AN: I suck at making up names. When I have kids – not anytime soon – I'll ask my friends for name ideas. I would update about once every 3-4 days, but since I already pre-written the first 2 chapters, here ya goo.
Heathrow Airport Meeting Point
After many unsuccessful attempts at choosing her clothes, Hermione just decided that she'll just bring everything. Quite literally, almost, because she took half of her "summer" closet, casted a quick diminuendo, and dunked it all in a bag. She was now standing in front of the check-in counter with her parents, Robert and Catelyn Granger.
"Good evening, Hermione, it's been a very long time since you came to one of our reunions," her Uncle, Jack, greeted her. He was wearing a distinctive Armani suit with the logo in white, showing off to the world how rich he was. He had this aura about him, similar to Lucius, which reminded you that you were beneath them. Hermione forced back a snort.
"It's nice seeing you again, Uncle Jack," he nodded, "Aunt Elizabeth," she nodded as well, "Richie and Jake," they gave her a friendly smile. Jack was a surgeon and Elizabeth had owned a medicine company when they met, making them the richest of the Grangers.
Richie was 17 and Jake was 21 and studying to become a doctor. Hermione knew better than to believe their little façade with the friendly greetings. They were as far away from the word "nice" as anybody could get. The fact that they pretended to be nice was even worst.
The rest of her family slowly arrived. Her aunt and uncle, John and Emma Laidlaw, and their twin daughters, Emily and Maddie, arrived 10 minutes later with Hermione's grandmother, Kelsea. The twins were both 22, with one of them in Oxford and the other in Cambridge. The school pride in that house was always tense. John and Emma are both lawyers and Emma was the eldest child of the Granger family growing up. The only reason Hermione's grandma was with them was because they planned on taking more than the fair share of inheritance.
The Grangers were a very accomplished, but they always had tension in the family.
Heathrow Airport Check-in Counter
"Where to?" the lady behind the counter asked.
"Panama," Hermione answered, giving the lady her parents, aunts, and uncle's passports. Even though the Granger family was rich, it was customary for the adults to fly business class and the younger generation to go on economy, something about how they shouldn't be spoiled and all that jazz. But it's not going to help un-spoil a few certain people. Hermione thought to herself.
As Hermione was checking in for her cousins, the least expected people arrived: her relatives from France. They haven't seen her aunt, Alicia, in almost 25 years since she ran away with a French man named Laurent Rosier right out of highschool, she was always the wild child. Now she's back with her husband and 3 children.
They had an awkward phase of introduction with Aunt Alicia, Uncle Jack, Aunt Emma, Hermione's father and grandmother in tears. Aunt Alicia had done well to herself, everyone thought that she ran away with a person who wouldn't be able to support her and her family, but Laurent proved to be a very wealthy and loving person.
Richie, who has studied French since primary school tried to start a conversation with Uncle Laurent. His 3 children were nervously talking to each other behind him.
"Hello, my name is Richie, nice to meet you." Hermione bit back another snort at Richie's accent. It sounded as close to French as it was to Chinese. Uncle Laurent gave him a smile and they talked in French for the next few minutes.
After Hermione had finished all the English books in the Hogwarts library, she had taught herself French to be able to read the French ones as well. Language was not going to be in the way of her and her beloved books. It also didn't help how she thought that Draco speaking French was incredibly sexy, especially when she knew what he was saying.
When they were done with the check-ins, they went to the immigration line and had their formal introductions.
"Hello," Aunt Alicia said sheepishly, "this is my husband, Laurent Rosier, my eldest son, Max," she gestured to the man to her left. He was tall and had light brown hair and blue eyes, "he's 21. And this, is his wife, Ava," she gestured to the women next to Max. She had raven colored hair that came down to her shoulders.
Oh, so 2 children and an in-law, Hermione thought, unsurprised by the marriage age since she herself was already engaged at the age of 20.
This was met by a round of gasps.
"Married at 21? That's barbaric!" Hermione wasn't really sure who it was but it sounded an awful lot like Aunt Emma. "Is he even studying? Undergraduate? Anything?" She seemed to be in shock with the thought of marriage before finishing college.
"He seems to take after you, Alicia," Uncle Jack snidely remarked.
Oh, if they knew I was engaged, Hermione thought. I'd be slaughtered on the spot. Not to mention that fact that I'll be getting married in a few months.
"Yes, yes, he does take after me a lot," Aunt Alicia stood her ground against her brother. Hermione was starting to like this aunt of hers. "Ah, yes, this is my younger daughter, Louise, she's 20." Aunt Alicia gestured to the girl that looked like the female version of Max.
"Now don't tell me that she's married as well," Uncle Jack was trying to outsmart Aunt Alicia at this point, trying to make her look bad to their other relatives.
"In our culture, we usually get married younger, to ensure that there will be an heir to the family," a cool voice interjected. Hermione realized that this was Uncle Laurent. Surprisingly, he didn't have an accent at all and seemed to natively speak English. Richie looked sheepish at this. Max, Ava, and Louise were glaring at Uncle Jack furiously. But, before Uncle Jack can shoot out another repartee, they were at the front of the line.
Past the Immigration Line
And this, Hermione thought, is why I avoided reunions like the plague. She took out her IMO (Instant Messaging Owl, aka phone) and started texting Draco.
Mione: Hey
Mione: Hows the meeting going?
Draco: Wud be btr if u were sitting here nxt to me ;)
Mione: -.-
Mione: Love u too 3
Draco: Hows the reunion going?
Mione: I just met my aunt tht I hvnt seen bfore in my life and now the rest of my family is questioning her life choices about getting married before the age of 20 and hving her son married at 21
Draco: Sounds fun…
Mione: Very
Draco: Or I cudve gone there with u so u wont feel bad for hving ur family question ur aunt ;)
Mione: And they can question us instead?
Draco: Ofc y not?
Draco: Erm… btw is it too late to go with u?
Mione: Yes, yes it is
Mione: My 21 y/o cousin is married and the whole family is about to explode
Draco: And you don't want me to go and detonate it
Mione: Exactly
Draco: Don't forget to tell me where the reunion is and send me some pics of u in the green bikini ;)
Mione: *insert google maps here*
Mione: Didn't bring tht one… grandma will hv a heart attack
She quickly put her IMO away, aware that muggles would just think that it was a normal phone at first glance, but they would see that it had an enchanted keyboard with closer inspection. The IMO was one of the products from Malfoy Industries, where muggle items were being adapted for magical use. Malfoy Industries were also famous in the muggle world as the owner of many expensive hotels; The Malfoys were now one of the most influential and famous families in both the muggle and magical world.
Ava saw her put her phone away and gave Max a jab in the ribs.
AN: I have put in sooo many hints. Please tell me you at least caught on to one of them?
*Hint hint look at the description of the story* *hint hint reread a few parts of the story*
Yes, I'm bad with humor but bear with me, I swear it gets better. This is just the build up to the rest of the story. Sorry this isn't one of those "all of Hermione's cousins are ugly rich snobs that hates Hermione and is in love with Draco Malfoy and then they find out that Hermione and Draco are together and get totally burned" kind of story. I'm taking the idea of a reunion and mixing it with another idea that I had. Sorry if that's not what you're looking for, but I haven't seen any other fics with this idea yet, so it worth a read?
At first I was thinking that I'd get this done in about 5 chapters, now I have no idea how long it would be. Since I'm on winter break next week (yaass) I can be writing like 24/7 so the story might be longer but, as I said, would be finished next month.