They were all waiting. It would be any minute now, and she would come through the door, and all would be how it should be once again. Everyone would be together for Christmas for few days, and they would be a family again.
Harry looked to his Godfather,where he stood looking out the window, then he paced around the room, then he would sit back down. He had done this five times in the course of half an hour. Harry shook his head, wondering if Sirius even realized he was doing it. Then there was a sound in the front hall.
Harry and Sirius were out the library door, just as Ginny and Ron were coming from the stairs. Molly and Arthur were in the kitchen. Hermione saw them all standing there, in the hall waiting for her, and she smiled "Hello." She said with a chuckle "Meeting in the hall are we?"
Harry was the first to reach her, and he pulled her into a hug "It's good to have you home Hermione." Ron reached forward and patted her on the back "It's just not the same without you around Hermione, we all miss you when you're gone."
Hermione had taken a job at Hogwarts after she finished her seventh year four years ago, after the war was over. She was now the new transfiguration's professor. Harry and Ron had become Aruors, and Ginny was running a book store in Diagon ally.
Hermione finally turned to Sirius, and she smiled once more. Sirius, after the war was over, he took a job at the ministery. He has been finding new and better ways to guard the departments. New spells and enchantments, that he himself had invented.
"Sirius" She said, as she took a step towards him. He smiled back and wrapped his arms around her. She closed her eyes and breathed him in. Even after all these years, it was still the same smell of peppermint, and leather. The firewhisky came and went, and right now, it was faint, but still there.
He pulled back "Welcome home 'Mione." he said, and her smile widened like it always did when he used her nickname.
Harry watched, his arm around Ginny, as his friend and his godfather, forgot everyone else in the room. He smiled a little to himself, and wondered when they would finally get around to telling the other how they feel. Harry leaned a little closer to his wife "Do you think they even know?" Ginny looked at her husband and smiled "She does." Ginny said, knowing just what it was Harry was talking about. He looked at her and raised his brows "Really? Since when?" Ginny chuckled quietly "Since she was sixteen." Harry chuckled "Maybe someone should tell him then, before he's to old to do something about it."
Ginny chuckled and lightly slapped his arm "Don't you dare. I think maybe you should talk to her though, I'm fairly sure, one reason she's never said anything, is because of how it might make you feel. He is your godfather."
Harry nodded "I'll talk to her while she's here, let her know it's alright with me. A little odd, but alright."
Sorry it's been soooo long. lol! I'll try t have the next part up soon, I think maybe two or three more chapters until the end. Thanks for reading, please let me know what you think. :o)