A few days after the two battles it was Valentine's Day, and everyone was ecstatic about it, even Adele because even though she was not celebrating, everyone else was which meant she had the three children to care for. Hermione had fallen to the ground laughing when Eric had come over the day after Hermione's rescue to ask her permission to ask Luna out for a date, which earned her a glare from the tall Swedish vampire.

As everyone was coupled off and going out for Valentine's Day, they all came to the consensus that it would be a large group date but also separate ones at the same time. It had taken some finagling and a bit of money, but Hermione hired out an entire restaurant in New Orleans that was willing to cater to vampires.

It was just sunset and the girls had already been going at it in the basement rooms of the Potter house, Godric had stayed with Bill during the day. Lafayette had also decided that he would join the ladies because, as he put it, he was the ho between him and George.

"Bitch, I ain't doing that to my fucking hair!" Tara yelled at her cousin, who was wielding a pair of scissors in his hands.

"Why the hell not? You'll looking like sex on fire for your wolf, might even get somewhere with him."

Hermione rolled her eyes, she loved them both to death but Lafayette and Tara were grinding on her last nerve about how to get ready, "Alright, both of you sit the fuck down please. Lafayette, Tara obviously doesn't want to do that with her hair, and I don't blame her, so leave her be and get yourself all slutted up for George."

The other women threw her a grateful look before going back to getting finished themselves. Hermione was already done, her outfit was simple enough to have only taken a few minutes to throw together, so was now working on Sookie's hair, "Mia thank you for getting this all sorted out. I cannot believe how evil some people are towards vampires and the people who fall in love with a vampire."

"Sook, there will always be evil in the world, we just have to keep fighting to hold it back from overwhelming our little part of utopia," Hermione explained to her older cousin, "Are you sure you want this all done up? Last time I did your hair, I found the bobby pins crushed from Bill's enthusiasm."

"MIA!" The blonde chastised as she blushed a deep red, "It won't happen this time because I won't take my hair down."

"TMFI Sookie," Pam groaned from her place, "We so don't need to hear about Mr William Compton and his vigour in the bedroom."

Luna banished a pillow at the vampire, "Mentally scarring my innocent mind Pam will only end badly for you. Mione, where are we going anyway?"

"Ahh my dear sister, that would be telling," Hermione teased before ducking quickly at the projectiles aimed her way.

Up the road at Bill's home, all the men were sitting around the renovated living room, all having put a hand into the renovations. Each of them had a drink in hand, Tru Blood and beer, and were impatiently waiting for the alert to say they were allowed down to the white house.

George sighed irritably again, "Why the hell did Lafayette have to go down there? He's a bloke 99% of the time."

"99% Georgie? What about the last 1%?" Remus questioned.

"Well we did experiment with my Polyjuice Potion supply…" the redhead saw the looks and explained, "He wanted to know what it was like to be a girl."

Sam shook his head, "Who did you use?"

That had the wizard blushing and going evasive. It was only after everyone badgered him did he respond, "See we had to use a human, couldn't risk it being a vampire or anything, and I only had access to a few women who are totally human, and there was no fucking way I was using Mione or Luna, so very wrong, so Lafayette supplied the hair of a female."

"Who was it?"

George got up and moved slightly away from the men, wand in hand, "I didn't know until it was too late, or I never would have agreed to it, I swear. It was, well, Tara."

"TARA?" Remus screamed, forgetting about his wand and leaping at his friend.

The wizard was very quick to put up a ward and keep it up while the other men got the werewolf under control, "I swear we didn't do anything Remus, I am gay, I couldn't even if I'd wanted to, which I definitely didn't want to after Lafayette finished changing. Just don't kill Lafayette, please, I do like him."

It took a while before Remus' breathing calmed enough for the other men to get off of him; they had been sitting on every part of him, bar his face, to keep him down. As he lay there on the ground, the man settled his anger and allowed the words that George said to come through, knowing that while a prankster, he wouldn't lie about something like this.

Getting onto his feet, the werewolf walked over and slapped George upside the head, "No more Polyjuice Potions for either of you."

"Trust me; that was just way too weird to ever do it again, well while we're sober anyway," George joked.

Once they were all seated once more, Bill asked, "Godric, do you know why Hermione has had the goblins around lately?"

The oldest vampire present shook his head, "No, she will not tell me anything more than it being a surprise for the family. I was personally zapped when I tried to take a look at the paperwork she has been perusing but you have my permission to try and see for yourself."

"No thank you, I think I will wait with everyone else"

Their drinks finished, Bill was about to get more when a silvery otter came sweeping through the room, smacking through Godric before dissipating, "I think that was our cue."

Instantly all the vampires got to their feet and shot off, while Remus and George grabbed hold of Jason and Sam respectively and apparated them to the front porch of the house, not beating Godric. Every male checked to make sure they had the corsage for their dates, and checked over their suits, before Godric knocked on the front door.

Hermione opened the door and smiled pleasantly at her love standing there in a black suit and tie, a rose boutonniere in his jacket, "You do wash up nice Godric."

"As do you my love," the vampire was grateful he did not need to breath, seeing Hermione in a floor length deep red halter neck gown with a slit up to her hip on both sides, 5 inch heels and ruby jewellery, it was enough to take all breath away from him, "May I?"

"Of course," Hermione held out her left hand, and smiled as the corsage was slid in place, then linked her arm with her dates, watching as everyone else did the same, though Remus was shooting Lafayette glares, "What did you guys talk about up there?"

Seeing what his love was looking at, Godric chuckled, "Potion induced sex changes. Lafayette had best run for the hills should his cousin ever find out what he and George did."

It took a second but the witch soon shuddered heavily, "Oh that's just gross."

While the pair laughed, Isabel asked politely from Sam's arms, "Hermione, where are we going tonight?"

"We are going to Sous le Clair de Lune, or Under the Moonlight, in New Orleans."

Everyone did the math and groaned, "5 hours away?"

The witch chortled at their reactions, "Yeah, now everyone please pile into the van so we can get going."

Only the magical of the group, and Godric, knew that they could all fit easily, but that didn't stop them all from happily sitting on their dates' laps. Once everybody was seated and the doors all closed, Hermione kissed her love while tapping the steering wheel with her wand. Earlier in the day, the witch had turned the car into a Portkey, and laughed as even the ancient vampire clutching her hand gave a slight shriek in fright when they were transported away.

When the car landed heavily, and they had all caught their breath again, Hermione was bombarded with angry comments at her actions, while she laughed. Godric gave a chuckle and whispered into her ear, "That was not nice my love."

"When have I ever claimed to be nice? Alright everyone, hang on, we've still got a drive before we're there," Hermione gave them all a second before squealing out of the abandoned parking lot they had arrived in, hooting at the swearing coming from the seats behind her.