Hey All! Sorry for the time gap...my family's been moving through houses like nobody's business, so basically my life is a suitcase. :P Anyway, here is the promised update! Sorry for making everyone wait so long. That's on me. And I feel really bad. (ows down, begging for forgiveness!)

Disclaimer - All HP Characters belong to the beautiful, the talented JK Rowling. I own nothing but the plot, the orphan girl, and maybe some of the future babies' names. But only some of them. ;)

Half an hour later, they had arrived at the Potters' for tea.

"Herms, how are you?" Ginny asked, trying to hug Hermione over her bulging tummy.

"Gin, when are the twins coming?" Draco joked, kissing Ginny on the cheek.

"Shut up, Drake," Ginny retorted with a grin. "I came round your clinic for the phonogram, so you know bloody well it's just one."

"Sonogram," Hermione corrected lightly, removing her coat. Ginny rolled her eyes and waved her wand, mobilizing the cloaks to hang themselves in the corridor closet.

"Drake, Herms," Harry greeted, giving both his friends heart hugs. "You must see what Gin and I have whipped up for everyone. You certainly won't leave on an empty stomach, even if you intended to." He turned his twinkling emerald gaze on Hermione who stuck her tongue out at him.

Suddenly, to startle the group, there was a loud pop as Blaise, Pansy, Neville, and Luna Apparated into the foyer. Hugs went round once more, as did warm greetings and profuse apologies.

"Sorry we're late, mate," Neville apologized. "I've missed all the teas, so I promised myself I'd get to this one. So I had to take a train down to London from Hogwarts."

"Not at all," Harry replied genially, waving the apology away. "You're actually right on time. We haven't even poured the tea yet."

"All right, Loony?" Draco asked good-naturedly, smiling at the perpetually half-lost young woman.

"Wotcher, Ferret," Luna returned, her usual far-off smile not slipping for even a second.

"Dean and Parvati said they probably weren't going to make it," Ginny said, setting the tea tray down on the kitchen dining table. "But Seamus and Lav should be here soon. Seamus's Patronus told me they should be arriving within ten minutes."

"Back together, are they?" Hermione asked, interested.

"Yes," Ginny answered, using her wand to mobilize a tray of scones from the oven. "They have been for a while. He forgave her for everything my idiot brother pulled her into, and even proposed recently. Where the hell have you been?"

"Up to my bloody forehead in elf-liberation bills," Hermione sighed, taking a scone from the tray and buttering it.

"Ah, Spew lives on!" Harry proclaimed, holding up his tea cup in a mock-toast salute.

"It's not 'spew'!" Hermione shot back. "It's the Society for Protection of Elvish Welfare!"

"We know," everyone at the table groaned wearily. Hermione glared around at all her friends and nibbled her scone self-righteously. Draco chuckled in amusement and put an arm around her.

Just then, another loud pop startled the happy group as Seamus and Lavender Apparated into the kitchen. Thy looked windblown and flushed, as though they had been up somewhere cold.

"Evening, all," Seamus greeted, helping Lavender into her seat and taking the one next to her. "What have we missed?"

"Nothing much," Neville answered. "Herms was just lecturing us on the importance of elvish rights." All the boys laughed at Hermione's offended glare.

"Right, well, nothing much indeed," Seamus agreed cheekily, picking up a warm, fluffy biscuit and beginning to butter it. "You lot won't believe who I bumped into in the market today."

"Who?" Draco asked, taking a sip of his tea.

"Weasel," Seamus answered to the general shock of most. "Wonder what he's doing back."

"Yeah," Hermione laughed nervously. "I wonder what that's git's doing back in town."

"Herms, it's not very subtle when you're acting," Lavender said. "Give it up. Why is the git back? Last I heard, he was making bundles playing for the Chudley Cannons."

As if he had heard them talking about him, Ron Apparated into the kitchen with a startling crack. He stood there, wearing another one of his seemingly endless supply of unbearably orange sweaters and a pair of jeans. He glanced around the hostile group, apparently trying to zero in on Hermione.

"Herms," he said in relief upon spotting her. "I thought you'd be here. I was just..."

"Ronald, why are you here?" Hermione cut him off in a businesslike voice. The smile that was growing melted off of his face in a slow, comical motion, as though it were an ice lolly on a warm day.

"I came by to give you something," Ron answered, approaching her rather demurely. She looked at him warily but expectantly as he pulled something out of his pocket. It was sheet music for "Fur Elise". With a surprisingly slight prick of pain, Hermione remembered trying to teach him how to play the piece on the Black family piano. This sheet music had been his present to her on their first anniversary...which she had returned in her rage, of course.

"You can have it," Hermione replied softly. "I left it with you for a reason."

"I want you to keep it," Ron insisted, thrusting the sheet into Hermione's hands.

"Does he even notice my presence?" Draco demanded, looking round at everyone else. Ron glowered at him.

"Okay, Ron, you've given her what you wanted to," Harry intervened. "So for the sake of a fight not breaking out in my kitchen, can you clear out?"

"Not inviting me in for a spot of tea, then, are you?" Ron asked with a sneer worthy of Severus Snape himself.

"Holy Snorcack, Gin, you've got a puddle of water at your feet!" Luna exclaimed, drawing everyone's attention away from the building tension in the room. Ginny winced and bit her lip guiltily.

"I know," she admitted. "I was trying not to say anything." Harry looked at his wife in alarm, waiting for her to continue. She took a deep breath and spoke again. "I think my water just broke," she declared.

DRAMA with a capital DRAMA! See what I did there? Heh? Heh? (pity applause is okay too :P) Well, I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter - I know I enjoyed writing it. ^_^ Stay tuned for more! I hope to post the next two by tomorrow morning. :D I promise to Write Like The Wind!

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