Own Nothing
Chapter Nine.
Maria, Hermione and Sarah Jane was having a girl's day, a day without the boys and without Aliens. They were browsing the shops, for some news clothes for Maria, and stopping in a few books stores along the way for Hermione and Sarah Jane.
"I don't see why your mum couldn't take you?" Hermione glanced over her shoulder at the young girl. Maria has been spending more time over at Hermione's house when she and Teddy were out Alien hunting with Sarah Jane.
"Mum doesn't like you and I spending so much time together." Maria replied, pulling out a dress for Hermione. "This color would look good on you. You could wear it on your next date with dad."
Hermione smiled, rolling her eyes, taking the dress from Maria. "Smooth move, changing the subject. It does so happen, that I look good in green." She walked over the dressing room. She closed the curtain behind her, Maria and Sarah Jane standing by the door.
"So how are you and Alan, Hermione?" Sarah Jane smiled down at Maria as they waited for Hermione to finish trying on the dress.
"Oh, we're doing good. I have another Mission tomorrow. I have to go after some criminal who killed a bunch of Muggles. Nasty stuff. But afterwards, Alan was thinking about taking a family vacation, the four of us."
"Have you and Dad did it yet?" Maria asked, checking her phone.
"Do what?" Hermione pulled open the curtain to reveal her dressed in a dark green dress, off the shoulder and a inch past her knees.
"Have sex yet?" Maria blushed, watching as both Sarah Jane and Hermione raised the eyebrows. "You've been dating for almost a year now."
"A little less then a year actually." Sarah Jane stated.
"Still," Maria glanced up at Sarah Jane then back at Hermione. "You two aren't getting younger, and you really love each other. So Teddy and I believe you must have already."
Hermione smiled, pulling back the curtain to change into her other clothes. She sighed, unzipping the dress. "Yes, we've done it." Hermione shrugged into her pants. She pulled on her jumper and slipped on her shoes.
"So you might be pregnant?" Maria asked, she glanced up at the curtain, waiting for Hermione's reply. "Hermione?"
Hermione sighed, placing the dress on the hanger and open the curtain. "Maria, I wont be getting pregnant."
"Maybe not this time around Hermione, but maybe if you two get married." Maria shrugged as they moved to the cashier.
"Maria." Sarah Jane's warning tone stopped Maria from saying anything else. They stood in silence as Hermione paid for the dress and exited the shop.
"Maria." Hermione stopped on the side walk, turning to face the younger girl. "What I mean when I said, I wont be getting pregnant. Is that I can't."
"What do you mean you can't?" Maria looked up to the woman she has been thinking of as a second mother.
"I can't have children, thats why, Teddy is with me. He was originally in his Uncle Harry's care. But when my first marriage was annulled, because I couldn't have children, they gave me custody."
"You were married before?" Sarah Jane looked at Hermione as they began to walk again, this time to the restaurant they were meeting Luke and Alan at.
"Yes, to my long time boyfriend. We were friends since we were 11, but now he's married and has kids to his new wife, a girl he dated before me." Hermione shrugged.
"Okay." Maria whispered, her happiness from before turned into guilt for bugging Hermione about it. She teased her dad about children with Hermione several times, now she understood why he was so annoyed with her.
"Hey." Hermione smiled, wrapping her arm around Maria's shoulder. "It's okay to ask. It hurt to talk about it when I was younger, when the wound was still fresh. But now. Now, I have Teddy your father and you." She gave Maria a squeezed like hug. " As well as Sarah Jane and Luke, and I guess even Clyde." She smiled up at Sarah Jane.
They laughed as they entered the restaurant to see the guys already seated. They placed their bags on the floor and sat down to eat.