Epilogue

"Miss Granger! Miss Granger!"

Hermione stopped suddenly, her wand hovering over the dusty curtains. A little boy, waist high, came charging up to her from the grand staircase that led up to the boy's west wing. She smiled kindly at him as he stomped up to her.

"What's the matter this time, Nate?"

"Bale lost it again! He broke my glasses!" He held up his round spectacles as proof. Indeed they were cracked in both lenses.

"It's not too bad," she assured. She remembered fixing Harry's glasses many times during their childhood. She tapped them with her wand, fixing them up as good as new. She placed them back on the boys nose.

"I don't want to stay in the same room with him! He's a bloody disaster!"

"Watch that mouth," she warned sternly. "You will stay in the room with him. He's young and has a temper. It's expected that his magic will get out of control. I will talk with him."

"Talking never does any good," he muttered gravely.

The front door opened, the rain echoing louder. Theo shook off the water from his cloak and hair. He caught sight of Hermione and Nate. "Hello. What's the matter this time, Nate?"

"Bale!"

He exchanged a look with Hermione and they both attempted to hide their smiles behind their hands. It wasn't all that funny, except that Nate complained frequently.

"Fine! Be that way! No one cares!" The small boy stormed back upstairs.

She sighed feeling a bit guilty. He needed more care than the others. "I should talk with him."

"He'll be fine, but perhaps we should separate those two. Preferably before Bale blows up the manor." He kissed her. "Where are the girls?"

"Harry and Ginny took them out."

"The rest of the boys?"

"Neville and Luna."

"Mmm," he hummed in her shoulder sending delicious chills through her system.

She tried to concentrate, mostly because it was wrong to do that when there were two children in the house. "I wished Bale and Nate could have gone, but that fight was unacceptable! They broke every dish there was!"

He laughed, coughing to cover it up at Hermione's glare. He swung her around and nibbled the lobe of her ear playfully, an obvious attempt to make her forget his lack of composure.

A year and half had past since her death. Everything came in clarity after she was brought back, her feelings, her acceptance, and what she was going to do with her inheritance. Of course, it had a lot to do with the book as well. There was no pressure, no worries. She could see clearly, make Harry see that Ginny was the one for him, and acknowledge that Theo was the one for her. Not because they healed each other, but because they always felt something for the other. Because they walked out of hell hand in hand. They proved they were strong enough.

A few months afterwards she began to fix up the Malfoy Manor to make it into a home for orphans of all ages. Most of the orphans had lost their parents in the war, like Bale and Nate.

Those two were going to cause her a second death, she just knew it. Trouble-makers, the lot of them. She loved them though, every single one. Theo and her wouldn't have moved in there together if they didn't.

She bit his lip, both of them moaning. "I have to finish this," she mumbled escaping his embrace to return to the curtains. He watched her with boredom, but once curtains were dust-free, she moved onto the mantle of the fireplace. She carefully swept, especially over the picture.

It was a picture no one saw, but Theo had finally found at Draco's old house, the one he was looking for when she attacked him. Something he didn't let her forget.

In the frame Draco stood behind her, his arm around her waist, Theo holding her hand. They were a trio of their own, the trio no one knew existed, but always had.

Theo came up to her then, slipping his hand into hers. "We're safe now."

"Finally," she breathed curling into his side.

They were safe.

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