It was another relaxing morning for Hermione to wake up to, with both of her Slytherins cuddled around her. She really would have never guessed them to be the cuddling type, but she would have never guessed a lot of things that have happened in the past few months. Her life had changed dramatically and as far as she was concerned, it was for the better. Yet, her stomach still filled up with butterflies at the thought of her best friend, who she hadn't seen in over two years, Harry visiting. She wasn't even sure if Ginny and the kids were going to visit her as well, part of her wanted to meet them, and part of her wanted time to adjust and catch up with her old friend and commiserate over the loss of their third.

"He's coming over around ten, love," Severus' gravely voice came from her left, although he his eyes were still shut.

"It really freaks me out when you do that!" Luc's voice came from her other side. The bed shifted as he leaned up on his elbow, but he sounded surprisingly awake.

"Do what, exactly?" Severus mustered up the energy to open his eyes and glare weakly back at Lucius, although it was a little difficult and he got sidetracked by a certain part of Hermione's anatomy that was a fair bit closer to his line of sight than Lucius. It helped that her nightshirt had fallen down slightly, giving him a better view than normal.

"Severus?" Hermione jolted him back into reality with a sweet little tone. He looked up at her, but didn't respond verbally. "I'm so glad you found that my eyes are up here, love." She smiled wickedly and he could see Lucius smirk back at him. Severus really had to response, so he did what any rational human being would do: he muttered something about needing a shower and laughed, shutting the door behind him and cutting out the laughter that followed him into the bathroom.

Lucius, however, was quite thankful for Severus' abrupt departure. He kissed her softly on the lips, but deepened it when she tilted her head back and hips forward. He quickly wrapped an arm around her and held her much like he had the previous night. Only this time, he was a little more aware of the certain piece of anatomy that Severus seemed to enjoy this morning. They were actually quite nice while pressed up against him. 'I could get used to this,' he thought.

"Hermione," he started, pulling away, smiling. His only response was a disgruntled noise from the young woman beneath him. "Your friend will be here in a little bit and you need to get ready and we all need breakfast and we can't do that if we're in bed."

"Why can't we just stay here for a little bit more?" she tried to push herself into Lucius' warm body.

"Because, love, if we do, then we'll never get out," he remarked pointedly looking down. She blushed, but nodded and got out of bed, leaving Lucius to run to the bathroom and beg Severus to help him out.

It wasn't until after they had all gotten ready and had finished breakfast that Hermione started to get antsy. It was the weekend, so both Lucius and Severus were there, watching her fidgeting increase as minutes passed. She moved from small task to the next after only a few moments. She couldn't even sit still long enough to read a paragraph in a book, much less a page.

"Hermione!" Severus finally barked out in his 'Professor' voice. Hermione jumped and whipped her head to look back at Sev expecting a detention or some sort of scholastic chastisement, as she hadn't heard the voice since her school days.

"Sev!" she brought her hand to lay over her heart as she realized that she wasn't a student in trouble anymore. "I thought I was going to get a detention!"

"Well, that could be arranged, although I think we would have something a little bit more advanced than scrubbing cauldrons," he shared a smirk with Lucius that was positively lewd before laughing at the shade that Hermione had changed in embarrassment.

"You two! I'll have you kn—" her tirade was interrupted by the sound of the Floo and her long awaited friend.

"HERMIONE!" Harry shouted loudly when he saw her and grabbed her in a huge bear hug, spinning her around and they both laughed together.

"Harry!" she hugged him back just as fiercely before Harry had set her down, keeping his arms on her shoulders and took a good look at her.

"It is so good to see you," he smiled, eyes bright. They went over to the other professors and Harry shook each of their hands. It was interesting for Hermione to see their interaction, there was no hostility and, if she wasn't mistaken, more than just an attention to the social niceties. A lot had changed, she acknowledged for the second time that day.

"We're well, Harry, and how are you and your brood?" Severus responded to Harry's inquiries.

"Well, Gin's about to pop, again. And I have to thank you again for the colic potion. I now can sleep without little Tony wailing every five minutes," Harry smiled tiredly. Hermione smiled softly, although she was more than a little disappointed to not have known who Tony was, other than one of Harry's children. She'd never met them and she never saw Harry grow up and forget about the stupid animosity that he once held both Lucius and Severus at one point in his life. He'd become a father and she wasn't there to see that.

"Not a problem. Can't let you fall asleep while trying to reign in those monsters you've mistaken as children. They do have at least half of your genes and half Weasley, it's a miracle that your house is still standing," Severus joked back while Hermione was once again shocked, she would have never imagined such a friendly conversation between the two.

"Yes, sometimes the house does get close to exploding. Anyway, we'll have to have you over for dinner sometime. All three of you, I could make the pasta you like, Lucius," Harry goaded the man and his stomach before smiling broadly to Hermione. "Come on, love, I think we need to catch up! Would you mind if we took up your sitting room?"

"Go for it, I'll send in some tea before I head over to my office, I know Sev has some brewing to do, we want to give you two some time to catch up alone," Lucius responded.

"You didn't have to!" Hermione immediately started to assure both Sev and Luc that they would be welcome and that she did not wish to kick them out of their own living room.

"Think nothing of it, my dear. We both have things to do and quite honestly are thankful for the time to get those things done!" Severus smiled at her before leaving to his lab to brew while Lucius went to the kitchen and set the kettle to boil and getting a tea tray ready.

After they both had tea before them, something to occupy their hands while they sat quietly, trying to figure out what to even attempt to talk about first. It was Hermione who started first, figuring a lighter topic would be a good place to start.

"So, you married Ginny?" she smiled at Harry, inviting him to take the conversation where he wanted. It was from this that she found out that Harry and Ginny had gotten married a year after she had left school, two years after the war. They bought a place an hour or so outside of London in a small wizarding village. They had only child, Andrew at home and one on the way. Hermione was shocked to discover that Harry was the primary caretaker, with Ginny working as a solicitor in the legal department of the ministry. Although, when she would think about it later, it wasn't really that much of a shock, Harry always seemed like a hands-on parent, which would make him a great Dad. She really couldn't wait to see him. Ginny was apparently over the moon to find out that Hermione was alive and well and has been telling their nearly two year old so many stories about their Aunt Hermione despite not really being able to understand what she was talking about half the time. They decided that they would have a dinner at some point, so that she could meet her nephew and catch up with Ginny. It was unfortunately time that they moved onto harder subjects to talk about. They cried together as they told stories of some of their exploits and anecdotes of Ron. Harry explained how he killed Voldemort, how he and Dumbledore hunted Horocruxes together for two months and how he killed him in an all out battle that had destroyed half the castle. He told her stories of how he helped to rebuild the castle and through that time became friends with Severus and Lucius who were there helping as well. Many people from the Order wanted to help and so the castle was restored in only a few months for the next school year. Severus and Lucius both had been dealing with the press, people who don't believe their story, yet they had been bending over backward to try to make up for their own pasts. It was when Ginny had fallen ill while carrying Tony that Severus and Lucius had worked non-stop for two days to help get her better. It was at that moment that Harry had cemented their tentative truce into a true friendship. She learned that they frequently have each other over for dinners and that Tony's godfather was Lucius with the plan to have Severus be their next little one's godfather. She, in turn, told Harry about the developing relationship with the two men and the surprise visit from Draco. Harry for his part, accepted readily and just snorted at hearing Draco's antics.

It was when Harry was telling Hermione a rather amusing tale of Tony learning how to climb up stairs without magic when Severus interrupted them.

"Harry, are you staying for dinner? Albus wanted to know if there should be an extra place at the Head Table or not."

"Yeah, that would be fun, Gin and Tony are visiting Molly and Arthur until tomorrow. I wonder what the students are going to do," Harry was still the celebrity, although he's learned to have a little more fun with it, now that he wasn't constantly the media's whipping boy.

"Great Hall? But I thought I wasn't suppose to be up there," Hermione said confused, it had been a while since her return but she wasn't completely sure she was suppose to be up in the Hall yet.

"Surprise, love. We're hoping that with Harry's celebrity wonder status that it will overshadow the attention on you, but it's time to let you out of the dungeons."

"Come on, Mione! It'll be fun. I haven't been at dinner in over a year, but last time the first years couldn't decide between nearly fainting, asking for my autograph, and just staring stupidly. It's always great fun!" Harry promised. It was his overeager smile, she believes, that convinced her to go with them in the end.

Getting ready for dinner never seemed like such a big deal, but with her first visit to the Great Hall, Hermione was running about her room making sure she had her hair done nicely, there was nothing odd on her face, and that her robes were wrinkle-free. The men were waiting for her in the sitting room, listening while amused by the random crashes and harried noises from the young woman. Harry had just stood up to knock on the door after a particularly loud bang when Hermione glided out of the room without a hair out of place.

"Er, Mione? You okay?" Harry asked, only to elaborate. "We heard a really loud crash."

"Oh that? That was just the bed, no worries," she responded without noticing the incredulous stares from the room's occupants as she made her way to the door. She only paused when she realized that they were not following her, but with a pointed stare, they quickly fixed that. As they made their way to the Great Hall it was decided that they would let Harry go first, then Hermione could slip in after, hopefully the attention would be focused only on Harry. They were sure to get a lot of attention after all, as they were late.

With more awareness and dramatic flair then Hermione had ever seen in her life, Harry pushed his magic at the gigantic doors that lead into the Great Hall effectively pushing all the attention on himself.

"Hello, Headmaster! Sorry, I'm late. We had a bit of an issue, but it's all cleared up now. Oh! They're serving drumsticks, I love drumsticks, did you have the House-Elf staff make this tonight because I was visiting?" Harry kept talking up until he reached the Head Table allowing Hermione, Severus, and Lucius to scoot around him and seat themselves before he finished his little nonsensical speech. Luckily, Albus understood and returned the conversation, just to give the students something to talk about.

"Ah, Harry, you always were one of my favorite students, taking care of a little Dark Lord problem. But it wasn't me who picked the menu. I believe it was your old Head of House who alerted a particularly over eager band of House Elves of your visit. They really do seem to love you. As I recall many of them wanted to leave Hogwarts to work for you." Harry was finally seated between Albus and Hermione, with Severus on her other side and Lucius to his right.

"Well, Headmaster, they seem to take a liking to really cool people, and I am pretty cool!" Harry smirked before lowering his tone so that the entire student population could no longer hear their conversation. Hermione looked out on the students, relieved and thankful that the attention was off of her for her first meal.

"Hermione, it is lovely to have you back," came the soft voice of Minerva McGonagall on the other side of Lucius. Hermione returned her comment with a smile and a promise to meet her old Head in her office for tea before Severus swept her up in conversation about potions. Hermione barely had time to worry about if the students had noticed her through out dinner as both Severus and Harry had made it their mission to keep her mind occupied with various tangents in conversation being taken over by Lucius and Albus. It wasn't long until desert was over and Albus was inviting them up to his office for tea.

A/N: I am sooo sorry that I haven't posted in so long. I know this is short but I just wanted to get something put up for you guys for being so patient. I've started the next chapter, but I can't promise when I'll be able to update it as I'm doing my semester abroad starting next week! But hopefully I'll be able to keep things going! Thanks for staying with me! Please review! I want to hear your comments on my story! :D