The next two months flew by as Hermione and Kiril planned their wedding, dividing their time between his family and her adopted one but spending a large amount of time just being together in their new home. Hermione couldn't have been more thrilled. Every day with Kiril convinced her she'd made the right choice. She fell more in love with him each day, even the one they'd had there first fight on.

It was over her research with Iliyra. The two girls would be testing their theories, a project he claimed to fully support. What he refused to support was her or Iliyra being there with the werewolves to test it.

"It's to dangerous Amstra. You vill not go!" His accent was heavy with his anger and fear.

"If it works there will be nothing any more dangerous about being there on the full moon than on any other day!"

"if it vorks, if!" He growled. "It is very dangerous to be there even vhen not transformed. They are not my uncle or your friend, they are feral!"

"Just because you don't understand the society doesn't mean they are any less than ours!"

"I understand Amstra! Better than you! I lived there."

"So did Iliyra, she knows how things are done, how we should behave and how not to offend them. We're going to help them."

"Some do not want to be helped!"

"Some do! The ones we're helping!"

"Is to dangerous!"

"What about the treaty meetings? Those are dangerous and you go!"

"Is job! I know vhat doing. Is been my life since before could valk!"

"Well this is my job!"

"Research is job, theory and experiment, not stay vith verevolf!"

"Staying with them is the experiment!"

"Somevon else can do!"

"No!"

"You don't need to be there. Can send them potion."

"It's a combination of spell casting, runic tattooing and a potion. Iliyra and I have to be there!"

"Vhy cannot test on one? Come to you and then he vill be restrain!"

"We are going to test Remus he's agreed to be our first proper test but then we have to go test it on the others!"

They went around in circles for an hour until Hermione screeched at him for being unreasonable and apparated away to find Harry. She was less than pleased when he and Ginny both agreed with Kiril.

"It's hardly the most dangerous thing I've ever done Harry."

"No but you weren't alone and we didn't exactly have a choice for a lot of it."

"Well I wont be alone. Iliyra will be there too and he does dangerous stuff all the time, he just got back from a three day treaty meeting with two Giant tribes and they were bad, two giants were killed and one of the mediators was stepped on!"

"I'm sure takes every precaution though."

Hermione snorted, "Like I wont? He just doesn't trust me to know what I'm doing. Iliyra and I are so close, with just a few more tests we could perfect it! Think Harry! Remus would never have to be chained, he'd never have to be worried about hurting someone and he'd never have to suffer again!"

"I know Mione and I know you're brilliant but couldn't you perfect it without going to stay in a camp with them? A lot of them are more like Greyback than Remus."

"I know that Harry."

"What does Keo say?" Ginny cut in gently.

Hermione snorted, "He's as unreasonable as Kiril."

"There has to be a compromise Mione." Harry tried.

Hermione snorted again, "What? He can risk his life trying to help societies coexist peacefully but I can't do something even a tiny bit dangerous or with just the possibility its dangerous to change the lives of hundreds, even thousands?!"

"Just think if it were him Hermione." Ginny suggested. "He wants to support you, he's just scared for you."

"It's not going to be the full moon even."

Between her and Iliyra they got him to back down though he worried terribly, he felt better with Remus having agreed to go with them and to stay through the full moon so the girls could be home safely. It all went smoothly though she knew he'd been a wreck the entire time he was sorting the dilemma with the Giants out and not with her.

He took her with him when he could and Hermione found she loved helping with is work, meeting the people and trying to help them understand each other but she also loved her own work. The project with Illiyra and her Animagus training.

She was able to complete her transformation after a month living with Kiril and found herself to be a small gray cat.

She discussed a job with Kiril but he encouraged her to continue working with his sister on her research, though he was still worried about her taking any chances until they were sure everything was a hundred and ten percent certain and safe. They didn't need money of her working and she loved what she was doing with Iliyra but Hermione was keen to learn more and with her Animagus training complete she began to go back to Hogwarts to train in Healing with Madame Pomfry, who insisted on being called Poppy by her young apprentice.

Hermione's friends were there but as apprentice she ate any meals at the Head table and her friendship with Lara grew. The relationship between her and Remus hadn't worked out and the Professor would be spending at least part of the summer in Bulgaria with Orin Cassus, Hermione and she made plans to see each other there when Kiril and she went to stay with his parents in July. Her friendship with Remus became very close as well. He was not only her willing guinea pig but happily exchanged ideas and stories with her.

She and Kiril had several smaller fights over the months before their wedding, these were about his seeming inability to put a toilet seat down, her need to have all of their things organized and put away immediately and thus putting away books he left on tables in the library before he was finished with them and who had let the mystery cat into their house that had taken up residence on their kitchen island and what to do with it. Kiril would laugh at her when she forgot she was a witch and started doing things by hand though she disliked them and she would roll her eyes at him and call him a lazy git when he used magic for the most mundane things so he'd not have to get up off the couch.

Hermione had taken to wearing his shirts around the house and Kiril was happy to take advantage of her bare legs. In fact they took almost every opportunity that presented itself to be intimate. Including the woods behind his parents house, the shed at the burrow and every surface in their apartment. Though the favorite seemed to be the kitchen, something about cooking together always heated things up between them.

Finally came the end of May and the last weeks of Hermione's life as a single witch. The wedding was set for June ninth and both of them were looking forward to finally being united completely.

Hermione was running the last tests with Remus on the werewolf issue and Kiril was going with his family on another treaty talk but everything was set and ready, when they returned it would be with only days until the big event.

It was hard to say goodbye. Hermione loved him so much and this would be the longest time apart since the engagement but after this, they would be married, her project with Iliyra would still need some fine tuning but her training with Poppy would be finished. After the summer, which they planned on spending traveling, the newly weds would both be working for the International Council.

"Be well Amstra." Kiril tucked a stray hair behind her ear.

Hermione had noticed that his youth with the elves had taught him never to say goodbye so after kissing him she smiled at him, "I miss you already."

"Are you sure you will not come?"

Hermione blushed, "I have to finish my training with Poppy and I have the potion with Iliyra, one of us has to monitor it."

Kiril nodded and kissed her forehead, "I love you."

"I love you." She hugged him again. "Be safe."

"Always." He agreed, one last kiss and he was gone. It would be the first time she was without him longer than one night since she'd come to tell him she chose him. Hermione sighed and went to leave food for the cat that had adopted them before going to meet Remus to begin preparing for the full moon. This time she'd be staying with him, in the woods and not stay in her Animagus form.

The time would be good for them and when he returned it would be time for the wedding. At least that's what Hermione kept telling herself but she missed him already.