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Orion's Belt	By : dracolover1 Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Sirius/Hermione Views: 6219 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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‘Mione’ he breathed. Sending chills down her spine like only he could. She loved the way he said her name. He said it as if it was made to fall from his lips. She leaned back into his touch as his arms encircled around her. She felt safe, safer than ever before and she realized that she only felt safe in his arms.

She was hiding something. Something that would most definitely change their lives. His more than hers and she had yet to tell him. She was afraid; she couldn’t bring herself to say it. Every time she got the courage, he would look at her with those eyes and she would lose all her nerve. She needed to tell him, and soon. And she would. Someday.

‘Mione,’ he breathed once again, ‘look at me Love.’

She couldn’t bring herself to do it. He knew something was wrong. She had been distancing herself for weeks. Well, two months actually. She had no choice. She had to end it. It was for the best for them. For him. For her. It would be better this way.

‘I’m sorry. I can’t do this anymore,’ she said barely above a whisper. She felt him stiffen behind her.

‘Can’t do what anymore?’ he said almost as low as she did. She could hear the hurt in his voice. She knew that he knew what she was talking about. She had to do it, for his own good.

‘This. Us. I can’t do it anymore. I thought I was strong enough, but I'm not,’ she said turning to face him. She let out a breath she didn’t know she was holding as she looked into his eyes. The look in his eyes told her all she needed to know. He was broken. She had broken him. He had let her in, and this was what she did to him. She had to. It was for his own good, and that’s what she told herself.

Tap Tap Tap

Hermione shook herself from her thoughts and stood to make her way towards the kitchen window. Recognizing the bird immediately, she let him in and offered him some owl treats and water before untying the letter from his leg. Opening the letter she let out a groan.

Ginny.

You are cordially invited to the annual Potter Valentine’s Day Masquerade Ball. Please RSVP by owl no later than 10 February 2003.

‘Maybe I can get out of it this year,’ she whispered, ‘I mean, I didn’t go last year, or the year before, or the year before.’ Hermione’s eyes continued reading when she noticed her best girl-friend’s handwriting towards the bottom of the page.

-Mione, please please please come this year. I would really love it if you did. I sent you your invitation before everyone else’s so you could work out you schedule. Please come. I mean, you really have no excuse not to come. Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday this year, so you can’t use work as an excuse. Also, it’s a Masquerade Ball, they’re will be MASKS!!!!!!!!!!! No one will know you’re there. Please come. Harry doesn’t know that I’ve invited you, obviously, seeing that he doesn’t know that I still talk to you. Please come, I’ll talk to you more when I see you next week.

Love Ginny

“What’s that sweetie?” Hermione heard behind her.

“Oh, nothing Mum. Just something Ginny sent me.” She replied quickly stuffing the invitation in her pocket.

“Hmm, it looked like an invitation somewhere,” her mother replied. “I for one think you should go where ever it is you’ve been invited to. You haven’t been out in years, and I don’t want you to waste your youth at all.”

“No, I don’t think I really want to go this year. Maybe next year.” Hermione replied making her way to leave the kitchen.

“You said that last year, and the year before, and the year before. Sweetie, you need to get out more. You’ve been here nearly back 4 years and you haven’t done anything fun. We love you and we don’t want to see you grow up alone.” Mrs. Granger said softly to her daughter before she could leave the kitchen.

“I’m not going to be alone, Mum. I have Orion.” Hermione replied finally making her way out of the kitchen before her mother could reply.

Walking into her room, she plopped herself onto her bed. Heaving a great sigh she began thinking of excuses she could give Ginny. After about 10 minutes and coming up with nothing, she decided to give it a rest. She would find a suitable excuse by the time she say Ginny for their weekly brunch.

Glancing at the clock and taking note that it was nearly 8:30 am, she sat up realizing that her day would begin in 3…2…1…

“COME FIND ME!!!!!!!!” she heard from across the hall.

“Ahh, right on time,” she giggled as she stood up from her bed and walked across the hall. Reaching her destination, she paused outside the door. Slowly, she stuck her head in taking a quick look around the room. After seeing that the room was empty, she entered. Taking a look around the room, she silently admired it. She admired the soft green walls, the little white animals painted around the room, and the small cot in the far corner of the room. Taking another look around the room, she noticed a pair of feet poking out under the pale blue curtains. Giggling, she began playing his game.

“Now, where could he be?” she asked. “Could he be under the bed?” she heard giggling as she walked towards the bed and looked under it. “No, not there. Could he be in the closet?” she said making her way towards the closet. Upon realizing that there was no one in the closet, she shut the door and sighed. Walking back to the middle of the room, she said, “Well, I guess there’s no one else in this room. I guess I’ll just have to eat all this ice cream by myself then.” As she turned to walk out the room a small form wrapped their arms around her legs.

“Mummy, here I am!!!!!!!” the little boy exclaimed.

Looking down at the child, Hermione’s breath hitched. “Merlin, you look so much like your father,” she said before picking him up.

As he settled himself on her hip, Hermione grunted. “You’re going to be too big for me to carry around pretty soon, maybe I should start now.” She laughed as he tightened his grip around her neck when she bent down. “Oh, don’t worry, Love. I'm not letting you go.”

As she made her way back to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, her thoughts began to travel back to the day she told Ginny about their break-up.

‘Mione, you can’t be serious. Two years and you just end it like that? With no reason what so ever?’ Ginny all but screeched when Hermione told her about the break-up.

‘Oh there’s a reason, I just didn’t tell him.” She replied looking everywhere but at Ginny.

‘Mione, what happened?’ Ginny said genuinely concerned. The look on Hermione’s face told her there was indeed something wrong and she was determined to find out.

Hermione let out a sigh, ‘I’m pregnant.’

“Mummy, can I have cereal?” she heard as she was brought out of her reverie.

“May I have cereal, sweetie.” She said correcting him, pausing so he could repeat the sentence correctly. Once he repeated the question she answered, “Sure sweetie, anything for you.”

Two days later found Hermione and her son sitting in their usual booth at their favourite restaurant. When the clock struck noon, she heard the door chime tinkle, and she looked over her shoulder and smiled.

“Sweetie, do you see what I see?” she asked her son, who was busy coloring in his coloring book. His face lit up as he realized who walked through the door.

“Auntie Ginny!!!!!!” he called hopping down from the booth to run into the witches outstretched arms.

Scooping the handsome toddler up, she peppered his face with kisses. “How’s my favourite god-son doing?” she said as she let him drag her back to the booth where Hermione sat watching the exchange.

“Auntie Ginny guess what,” the hyperactive toddler squealed, “Mummy said I look just like my father. Is it true?”

Ginny shot a look at Hermione, who looked like she had seen a ghost, and lifted her eyebrow slightly. Looking back at her God-son, she answered the only way she could. With the truth.

“Of course you do. Would your Mummy ever lie to you?” she asked. When the toddler shook his head, she continued, “You’re just like him, only more handsome.” She laughed at the beaming child beside her and ruffled his hair, which he quickly fixed to fall back into place. Rolling her eyes, just like him, she thought before turning back to Hermione.

“You know if you don’t want him to ask questions, you can’t say things like that Mione. He’ll piece things together one day and find him on his own,” said Ginny as the waitress came over to take their order.

“I know. I don’t even think about it when I say it, it just comes out. I think I said that to him two days ago. How could he remember that?” Hermione replied.

“With you for a mother? Seriously Hermione.” Ginny laughed. “So about this Ball, are you coming?” Ginny added looking at Hermione hoping that she would come back to the Wizarding world.

“I don’t know Gin. It’s been a long time since I was there last. I don’t know how people will react so seeing me back. I don’t know how I would react to being back.” She said with a small laugh. “Besides,” she added, “I don’t think Orion’s ready for all of that.”

“As much as I want you to come back, Mione, I only asked about the Ball. Not coming back for good. I know you’re not ready for that yet. I understand that. What I don’t understand though, is why you won’t come to a ball where there will be masks and no one would know you were there. Well, besides me of course. Come on Mione, it’s just one night. You’ve been blowing it off for 3 years now because you claim it would interfere with work. Now it’s on a Saturday, you have no excuse not to come.” Ginny said trying her hardest to get her best friend to come. “Besides, he’ll be there. You can dance the night away with him and he won’t even know it’s you.” Ginny knew she had Hermione right where she wanted her after that statement.

Hermione sighed, Ginny was right. Just one night, that’s all she would give herself. What could go wrong? There’s no way that he could find out about Orion if he didn’t know she was there. Giving in to defeat, Hermione slumped her shoulders. “Alright, I’ll go.”

A/N

So what do you think? This story is not beta'd at all, so if there are any mistakes let me know and i'll fix them. I wont post the rest unless i know people like it so please review. please. I was going to enter this into the GrancerEnchanted challenge thats going on now, but i cant find a beta. i seem to have a problem finding one. I need one. But anyways, please review and rate, but more importantly review please =)
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