A/n: I rewrote this with 4 different scenarios over the last 9 days this was the only one I was some what happy with. I'm sorry it ends where it does and I will try to have the next part up sooner. Thank you for all the reviews and follows. You've all turned a one shot into a something.

Hermione stepped out of the floo network and into a media circus at the atrium people were calling her left and right. She started by telling them she had no comment and to mind their own business. She was staring to get more frantic when she realized there was no way around them or through them. It wasn't until she heard a voice from the other side of the crowd she let the panic slide off her but it was quickly replaced with another sort of fear when she linked who the voice belonged too.

"Get back! Leave the girl alone, need I remind you she is a ministry official and any further pursuit of her will lead to charges, ones I will ensure are carried out to the letter of the law. " Sirius Black's voice carried across the crowd and struck fear in many reporters. He had more than half the reporters scurrying back to where they came from.

"Mr Black." Came a voice Hermione knew all too well.

"It's Auror Black actually or perhaps you'd prefer Lord Black. " he reminded her as he closed the distance between himself and Hermione. "Now my warning extended to you as well. Please let us pass. "

"Just one question, are you upset that Ms Granger is not your daughter?" Rita Skeeter smirked hoping for an outlandish answer.

"Beyond measure, but that is no ones fault but my own for sending her mother away and into the arms of another man. Now leave her be." Sirius let the last sentence roar and directed Hermione towards his office in the Auror department. Hermione started to open her mouth to say something.

"Not a word until we are in my office." Sirius shared an office with Harry whom she knew was gone for the day already. He shut the door and cast a silencing charm. "There are ears everywhere Hermione you should know that by now."

"Sorry, thank you for back there, I'll just floo from here I understand you probably don't want to see me right now. " She stated as she turned to leave.

"The only one I don't want to see is myself and perhaps your father." Sirius chuckled at the thought of referring to Snivellus as the father of this beautiful girl. "I meant what I told her by the way, it is my fault I'm not your father. I sent Marlene away when things started getting rough, I saw how distracted James was when we were out on missions and how he worried for Lily and I couldn't afford to be distracted if he was. I was young and stupid and figured pushing her away was easier than losing her or dieing myself. I thought when it was over we could just pick back up but she went and put herself out there and drew attention to her intelligence then denied Voldemort when he asked her to deflect from the order." Hermione watched silently as Sirius rubbed his hand across his face as he thought back to his actions with Marlene. " You would have made me the proudest father and as much as it pains me to say anything nice about Sni-Snape he would be extremely proud and most probably rub the fact you were his child as oppose to mine in my face as many times as possible at every oppurtinity he got."

"Did you know she had a child?" Hermione asked, Sirius nodded. "Did you ever wonder what became of that child?"

"I assumed she had kept the child, like I told Amelia's niece, I had only seen her the once after you were born and she still smelled of baby. Dog thing you know." He said pointing to his nose. "We avoided each other after the break-up. It was too hard on our friends, not neat like you and Ron made it."

"Harry made it neat, had it been up to Ron it would have been messy and horrible, he has lost enough we couldn't do that to him. If you had known she had hidden me would you have looked for me even without me being yours?" Hermione asked again, her need for answers outweighing her pride.

"Yes, and had I found you I would have kept you weather or not you were Snape's. You are part of her and when Dumbledore announced the massacre of the McKinnon family it was the the first part of my plans for the future. We can't go back and change things though my kitten, the best we can do is learn from the past and ensure we never forget the sacrifices made by those who are gone."

"I.. I'm sorry. I feel like I'm 6 years old and my goldfish died again. I must sound ridiculous." Hermione knew she was oddly out of character almost as if she was going through the motions but not feeling. Sirius knew that's what she was feeling it had bee the way he felt seeing James on the floor and Lily's body crumpled in Harry's nursery. He pulled her to his chest.

"I'll be your father Hermione. I will be your dad. I can't be Richard and I can't be Severus but I can be a parental figure, I can be your safe place to land." As the words left his mouth she broken down, the loss of her parents gollums or not, the shaken state from the press circus, the realization that she, like her best friend Harry, was a war orphan, the fact that she'd never know her parents really, the tears had fallen for all of those emotions as Sirius consoled her. "There, there my kitten, you've got me and your friends we will see you through." He said softly as her sobs lightened. "Now we can deal with the fallout of the press later but you seemed to have been going somewhere earlier."

"Merlin. I was supposed to meet Malfoy, yes incase you hadn't heard we're betrothed, apparently grandmother Snape skipped out on her promise to Abraxas and so here I am stuck to Draco." she chuckled maniacally. "What am I going to do?"

"You're going to meet your fiancé and leave the loop hole finding to Daddy." He smirked kissing her forehead. " plus I get to intimidate him as your pseudo father."

"Are you sure you want me as a daughter?" Hermione asked, he nodded.

" Of course, you are any mans dream child, a beautiful genius." He assured her. " Now off you go."

She smiled at him squeezed him once more and she ran down to the atrium in search of Draco. When he was alone he unfolded the parchment in his pocket once more, Susan Bones had given it to him that morning when he has supplied them with his blood. It had been from Marlene pleasing for forgiveness and begging for him to care for her child if her father was not there to do it. She would be his only daughter, Harry his only son, the veil had taken his ability to have an heir of his own and while Jennifer hadn't cared, he had been dissapointed but now he had one of each and two children he couldn't have been more proud of. Sirius would make it up to Marlene for driving her away and into that greasy git's arms by caring for the child she had only held for a short time and the childish side of him would get the last stab in to that stupid man who couldn't even tell his flesh and blood sat I front of him for six years, it would be him that her children called grandfather.

Hermione had cast a quick notice me not charm over herself before entering the atrium. She searched for the platinum blonde of Draco Malfoy for less than 30 seconds before spotting him lurking by the fire places trying not to draw attention to himself. She made her way over to him tapping him on the shoulder and lifting the charm.

"We had better go quickly, news about my true paternity is out." Hermione told him.

"Give me your hand," he told her extending his to her with a sympathetic smile her pulled her through the nearest floo before anyone was close enough to speak to them.