Hermione landed with a thud and felt her contraction kick in. She bit her bottom lip until she felt her teeth sink into it. She couldn't scream out, not until she knew where she was. When the pain passed she looked around her and saw very familiar things. If she was correct in her assumption, she was in the hosptial wing in a backroom they reserved for isolation patients. She heard someone humming and hid under the bed, the best her large belly would allow her. Madame Pomfrey came into the room and Hermione let out a sigh of relief. When she stood she scared the mediwitch so badly that all the towels she had in her arms ended up flying through the air. She immediately recognized the student in front of her and ordered her into the bed.

"Miss Granger, I am going to floo the headmaster, keep up with your breathing. If memory serves me correctly you were just about ready to give birth." The mediwitch ran off and was back before Hermione knew it. She had been pushing for only five minutes when the doors burst open and in ran a rather large group of people. At the front of the group was a red headed, green eyed woman.

"LILY?" No, that couldn't be her, she was supposed to be dead in the future.

"The one and only!" The two embraced and wept together until Hermione groaned and once again began to push. She felt the bed dip down and then felt a calming presence beside her.

"Hello love, about time you came back to me. Now lets finally bring this child into the world, I have been waiting 20 years to meet them!" Hermione bore down two more times until Madame Pomfrey told her to stop and Lily took over. She instructed her like a professional and everyone soon listened to the cries of a small infant. Everything was so surreal. Hermione looked at her child and then to Remus, who was beaming down at her.

"Good job, Mi. You are my hero. Gods, you're so beautiful." Remus then kissed her on the mouth in front of everyone, whom Hermione had forgotten was there, that is until she heard wolf whistles and catcalls. She looked around at the group and saw many familiar faces, including ones that were supposed to be dead.

"So what did you have?" Hermione was so shocked at being back that she forgot to check her child's gender. She looked at Remus and asked, "What names do you have picked out for our child?"

"If it's a boy I wouldn't mind the name Athan Leonidas and for a girl I wouldn't mind Calliope Isadora?" Remus waited for Hermione's reaction at his unusual choice in names.

"Immortal one who is bold like a lion and a beautiful voice a gift from the moon. Very interesting choice of names. I love them both, they both seem very appropriate. Everyone, I would like you to meet Calliope Isadora Lupin, Calli for short."

Remus stared at Hermione and then asked, "I have a daughter?"

"Well if it was your son, I think he would have a rough time going through life with a name life that," Hermione told him seriously.

Remus jumped off the bed and enveloped Sirius and James in a hug and was jumping up and down shouting, "I have a daughter!"

"Yes Moony, we heard, congratulations, you have finally joined the rest of us in fatherhood." James patted his back.

"At least now I won't have to go looking very far for a match with my son," Sirius told his friend.

"Padfoot, if your son so much as comes near my daughter, the Black line will end at him," Remus growled out.

"Easy you two, why don't we let them grow up and decide for themselves who they want to marry." Lily was always the voice of reason. Hermione was looking very confused and Lily noticed.

"Sirius got married to a muggle girl a few years back and they had a son. He is almost two, unfortunately Michelle was killed in a car accident a few months later. A drunk driver came into her lane and hit her head on. They say she died instantly, that there wasn't any pain. I gess that's one thing we can be grateful for. Sirius took it pretty hard and if it wasn't for Caelum, I think Sirius would have completely given up." On seeing Hermione look at her confused for a moment, she quickly added, "Caelum is Sirius' son's name."

"What is it with that family and naming their kids after stars and consellations?" Both women laughed and Hermione looked down at her daughter who was stretching with her tiny hands in the air. Everyone left the new parents to get to know their new child better and the room was soon silent.

"I don't know anyone! Well I do, but so much is different than what I remember it to be. Please tell me what I've missed? Is Voldemort dead? How are James and Lily still alive? How is Professor Dumbledore still alive? Did Sirius have to go to Azkaban? Did they catch Wormtail? Please, you have to tell me!" Remus chuckled at all her questions and told her to take a deep breath.

"We always wondered why you never liked Peter. Yes, he was caught and is still spending time in Azkaban for it. I think it still bothers James because he was our friend and he felt that he failed him, we all felt that way. It was worse for James because as an auror he was the one who arrested Peter and he had to testify against him at his trial. The headmaster showed us all a penseive of your memories that he had collected before you left. He figured it would be easier for us to expain things to you if we knew what kind of world you came from. Some things are the same, others as you can see are different. Is Voldemort still around? Yes, but we have a couple of very powerful allies in very high positions in his ranks."

"Who?"

"Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy."

"MALFOY?"

"Yes, Lucius was affected by you while you were here and belive it or not he does posses a heart. He found out Severus was a spy and he asked to help out. Naturally at first we were weary, but after a few years he proved himself, especially when he almost exposed himself to come and warn us about the attack on James and Lily. Severus couldn't leave as he was locked in a room brewing potions for Voldemort. Lucius apparated in front of Godric's Hollow and even though we weren't able to get Harry, Lily and James out in time, we were able to transfigure some objects around the house to look like all three of them and Voldemort killed them thinking he had gotten James and Lily. The only thing we can figure is the mirror we used to look like Harry reflected back the killing curse onto Voldemort and destroyed him. As he fell to the ground his wand flung back and came through the door of the closet Lily and Harry were hiding in and it struck Harry on the forehead, leaving a nasty scar. Albus thought it would be best if James and Lily went away, and that they would be able to hide better without the responibility of a baby. He thought that if Harry went to live with muggle relatives, there would be no way Voldemort could track him. Since Lily was the only one to have muggle relatives and her sister had recently had a child they thought it would be best if he went there. They returned when Harry was 10 and they were all reunited just before he went off to Hogwarts. That was the hardest thing James and Lily ever had to do. Harry was estatic to have his parents back, but we still had to keep everything hushed. He still has to go home each summer to his aunt and uncle to keep up appearances; he hates it though. As for Dumbledore, Severus and Lucius were assigned a task to kill him. We all came up with a plan and it went by without a hitch. That was about 6 months ago. He has been staying in the castle ever since." Hermione looked at him puzzled.

"Wouldn't other people see him and report back to their parents that he is still alive?"

Remus laughed and hugged Hermione. "It still astonds me how smart you really are. You are referring to Malfoy Jr, aren't you?" Hermione nodded her head.

"He is just as loyal to our side as his father, he has to keep up his pureblood ranting to keep their cover, but he has managed to be the uncontested ruler of Slytherin because of it. No one questions him and he rules them with an iron fist. No one farts without his express permission." Hermione laughed at this. "You will have to pretend to hate him in public, but in actuality you two are quite good friends in private."

"Am I still friends with Ron and Harry?"

Remus hugged her tightly and said, "You three are inseparable. Sometimes we wonder if you don't share a body. You, of course, acquired all the brains." Hermione smacked Remus' arm and went to smack him again, when they heard a wail from beside them.

"See, my daughter is protecting me, she sees her mother abusing her father. What kind of example is that to set?" Remus eyes held a humour and Hermione knew he was teasing her. Remus lifted up his daughter as if she were the most precious thing in the world, which to the two people in the room, she was.

"Come on mum, my daughter is hungry."

Hermione looked at him through a raised eyebrow and asked, "Your daughter?"

Remus gave her a sheepish grin and asked, "Haven't you heard of the term 'daddy's little girl?'"

"I am going to have to be the heavy in this family, aren't I?"

Remus gave her a heart stopping smile and said, "Well I can't very well go and punish or say no to my little pricess can I?"

Hermione sighed and placed her daughter to her breast. Remus sat there staring at the two. It was probably the most innocent thing he had ever seen, yet he had never seen anything so erotic in his life. He felt dirty; like someone like him, or anyone for that matter, was never meant to see something this pure and here he was, having fantasies about Hermione while she was like this. He really needed to have a cold shower, preferrably one that would freeze his bits off. He watched as his daughter ate and then as Hermione burped her. She was a complete natural. Was there nothing she could fail at? She handed the sleeping infant to her father and he held her close to his chest. Hermione scooted over and patted the bed beside her. Remus crawled in and settled himself and arranged Calli on his chest. Hermione snuggled into him and just as he drifted off, he thought there was no other place in the world he would rather be and no other people he would rather be with. How could someone like him deserve all this happiness, people like him weren't meant to be this happy. He pushed his thoughts aside and kissed the top of Hermione's head and then Calli's and closed his eyes.