Chapter 12

The next day she went to her mother's house to tell the news. Jennifer hugged her daughter when she walked through the door. "Hi mum. How are you?" Hermione asked hugging her mother back. "I'm good, sweetie, how are you and baby?" Jennifer was still going with the assumption that Hermione was pregnant. Although Hermione had a bit of a moment in surprise and blurted: "How'd you know?" "Oh, sweetie, I'm your mother, I could just tell." Jennifer replies. "Oh." "So, i think you should make an appointment with my OB/GYN, to make sure that you and the baby are alright." Jennifer says, now businesslike. "I'll give you her number." "Ok." Hermione says. So she leaves her mother's house with a phone number and a firm order to call this woman as soon as possible. She looks at the number once she's arrived back at her house. She sat on her couch and stared at the back of one of her parents business card, where her mother had scribbled "Dr. Amy Bryant, 448-904831"

"Hello, I'd like to make an appointment for myself" She says once a receptionist has answered the phone.
"Which doctor." The receptionist says.
"Dr. Bryant."
After the receptionist has taken the necessary information, and they have scheduled an appointment for the next day, (somebody had just cancelled) Hermione hangs up.
Michael has come inside from work.
"Hi honey. How are my girls." He says in this totally sweet way.
"How do you know its a girl?"
"I just know." Michael says kissing her stomach. A funny little fluttering happens, when his lips touch her stomach. Not the good fluttery kind, but more along the lines of "I'm going to be sick" sort of flutter. (And not the good pregnancy kind)

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The next day, Hermione walks into the doctor's office. She checks in with the receptionist and sits in the waiting room. She nervously rolls a magazine into a telescope shape then flat, telescope, flat.
A tall, beautiful woman in a white lab coat, and her red curly hair tied tightly into a ponytail.
"Hermione Granger?" She asks.
Hermione stands.
"Hello, Ms. Granger, I'm Dr. Amy Bryant." She says.
"Hello" Hermione says nervously.
"Jen Granger's daughter?"
"Yes." Hermione confirms.
"You look just like her." Dr. Bryant says looking at the brunette in front of her.
"Really? I always thought I looked like my dad." Hermione says.
"No, I definitely think it's you and your mother that are more similar."
They walk into a sterilized room, where there is fresh paper on the bench and a clean lemony scent.
"Hermione Granger. What are you here for?" Dr. Bryant asks.
Hermione gives Dr. Bryant an 'are you kidding me?' look.
"Kidding, my dear." Dr. Bryant laughs
"Well, I took a pregnancy test and it was a positive, so I figured I'd schedule an appointment to make sure everything was all right."
"Alright then." Dr. Bryant says cheerfully.
They go through the tests necessary to check things out.
While they wait. Hermione can't stand the silence of the room, so she begins to talk. After a few sentences she continues out into babbling.
"I thought I would become a vegetarian while I was pregnant. I've heard it's healthier for the baby. and I've always wanted to try vegetarianism."
Dr. Bryant waits for Hermione's vegetarian babble to cease when she jumps in with the answer.
"Actually, a meat or vegetarian diet is fine as long as everything is in moderation and you are getting all your other food groups. and Actually Hermione, there is no baby. I'm terribly sorry but you had a false alarm." Dr. Bryant says reaching out for Hermione's hand.
An amazing thrill courses through Hermione's body. She was really happy. She was happy she wouldn't have to take hell from Michael if the 'baby' had turned out to be Charlie's or get some serious grief from Ginny for not telling Charlie she had his baby.
"Alright. Well, it was nice meeting you." Dr Bryant says cordially. and walks Hermione back through to the waiting room.
Hermione bids adieu to the OB/GYN's office, and practically floats while she walks down to her parents dental practice to deliver the news.
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Charlie was in trouble. But first he needed some legal counsel. He was scheduling a meeting with a promising lawyer named Carolina Swift. and for that he was back in England. He probably should have looked in Romania. But he lived in England, he could speak Romanian, but it was choppy and barely enough to have a conversation. And when he listened to two Romanians speak to each other, at most he could only pull apart two or three verbs from the messy flow of words.

Mariella and Andreea (Mariella's girlfriend) were also with him. That had been a surprise for him. He had walked into his room at the Leaky Cauldron and on the couch sat pale, fair-haired Mariella and darker skin and pink streaked brown haired, Andreea.

"Hi Charlie!" They chorused.

Charlie was aghast.

"Well, Charlie I remembered that Andreea is a upholder of the laws and stuff in Romania, soo i figured that she could help you with your case." Mariella said.

"Oh, thank you." Charlie said, still startled by the appearance of two women in his room.

"Since I did something for you, can you do something for me?" Mariella asked.

"Suppose" Charlie grunted.

"Could you hang out with Andi, cos since I'm in England I'm obligated to visit my mum, and she's not fond of my partners..." Mariella paused.

"Sure, we'll have a great time. I was going to my own parents house, Andi could come with me."

"THANK YOU!! I love your parents, I'll be at your house in a couple hours. Byeee" Mariella yells as she apparates away.

"Are you hungry?" Charlie asks Andreea.

"Yes, I am." Andreea says, with a lilted Romanian accent.

"What do you want to eat?" Charlie asks.

"I would love some coffee." Andreea replies.

"Coffee, it is." He heads over to the kitchenette in the room and unearths a coffeemaker from one of the cabinets.

"You would think they didnt want us to have coffee." Andreea says watching Charlie from the couch.

"Probably."

A few minutes later, Andreea is holding a large steaming mug of coffee, her fingers wrapped around it lovingly.

"You make good coffee for an Englishman" Andreea says.

Charlie realizes he has just been insulted exclaims "hey!"

"It's true!" Andreea says with a smile.

"My ex-girlfriend was addicted to coffee, needed it with her oxygen, we used to joke." Charlie says "and she was horrible at making it herself so I learned the art of coffee." Andreea sips her coffee.

"When you're done, we can go somewhere. Anywhere you want to visit?"

"Mariella talks so fondly about Hogwarts, maybe we could go there?" Andreea proposes.

"It's a plan, then we'll meet her back at The Burrow." Andreea gives him a questioning look. "My parent's house." Charlie clarifies.

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"Mum, I went to Dr. Bryant today. And I have some major news."

"YOU'RE PREGNANT!!" Jennifer declares happily.

"Actually, no, I'm not. False Alarm." Hermione says gently to her mother.

"Oh, Thank god!" Jennifer bursts out.

"MOM?!?! What the hell?" Hermione yells.

"Well sorry dear, you're 21, you're still a child! To be having your own child!"

"Mom! Twenty-one is considered grownup in most cultures. if this was the 1700's I'd be married and possibly having a third or fourth."

"Or.. burned at the stake for being a witch."

"Mom! Unhelpful!"

"Honey! Honestly. I love you when you have a bad hair day, I love you when you're hair is good. the point is sweetie that I love you, pregnant or not."

"Are you seriously comparing being pregnant with a baby (!) to having a bad hair day?"

"Yeah, kind of"

"...?"

"Oh, I'm happy if you're happy, baby. That's what I mean." Jennifer says giving her daughter a hug.

Only a few more people to tell. Hermione thinks as she apparates to Ginny and Harry's apartment

Harry and Ginny weren't at their apartment. She floos to the ministry to Harry and Ginny's respective offices. Then realizes that they are probably at the Burrow.

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Charlie and Andreea have finished the tour of Hogwarts, hastily, Charlie is saying that Mariella can give you a more detailed tour later on.

"I would enjoy that, and maybe put that requirement room to good use." Andreea says with a suggestive smirk.

"Ok... off to the Burrow. Mariella will surely be there by now." Charlie says uncomfortably, as Andreea grabs onto his arm for side-along apparition.

They get to the Burrow. Andreea, who is clearly unused to doing side-along apparition slams into Charlie and they slam into the ground. On the ground they look like a pair in a tryst. If someone had not viewed the previous event (a bad side-along apparition) it would look bad. Very bad indeed.

The front door opens and to Charlie's horror and disbelief, it was Hermione.

A/N: \

-mwamwaHahahahaha, I'm mean :)

-getting the school routine down and stuff so sorry it's been a while since my last post.

-review and let me know what you think!!

-also I have no idea what a proper Romanian accent sounds like, I was trying out a Viktor Krum type accent but I didn't really like it. Just use your imaginations.

-ok, so i know that I told you Mariella wasn't going to be anything, well i decided to make her something. Or at least make it a subplot or actually not a subplot since this has only just started, but, I couldn't help myself.

yay!!

thank you to my lovely reviewers :)

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