I wasn't sure if I was going to post this as Hermione didn't want to cooperate but here it is none the less.

A/n I own not the wizarding world of Harry Potter.

A woman with wild chestnut curls pushed through the pain one final time, her mother had warned her of the risks of doing this alone but she just couldn't chance more people knowing where she had planned to hide the child. She knew he was coming for her, for her and her family, for her friends, for them all in reality. He could take them as long as the child survived. She didn't care that the circumstances around her conception had been less than desirable, a simple break up fling for her and a revenge driven affair for the father. No she loved that child much more than she had ever thought it possible to love before in her life and so she had it set in place, humanoid highly intelligent gollums for parents, a home, a backstory and her legacy would live on even if only she knew this. She cradled the child and preformed the necessary spells to sever the cord and clean the child ensuring its health.

"I love you my little Hermione," she whispered softly to her daughter. "Mummy loves you, I'm sure your father would too, all he has ever wanted was somebody to love. You are so loved." She nursed the baby but once befor returning to face her fate.

Hermione sat quietly at her desk in the department of mysteries. Two years had passed since the end of the war and though she tried to stay the same girl she had been changed. She returned to Hogwarts alone as Harry and Ron had chosen to pursue their Auror training and while others had done it that wasn't the most conductive way to nurture an already volatile relationship by christmas she and Ron had called the whole thing off. Harry and Ginny seemed to be fairing slightly better but she thought it was only because Gin was gone so often with the Harpies. She and her desk mate Jennifer had successfully made the first veil retrieval bringing back Harry's godfather Sirius Black, over six months ago and since then she had been working to re-establish the time room. Jennifer however had taken a particular interest in the returned Maurader and spent most of her time conducting research on the after effects of the veil. At least that was the going joke between the two girls. She was happy to see Sirius with a bright spot in his leg upon his return. She was however pulled from her reverie when she received an inter ministry memo, they usually had much better aim but this one had crashed right into her hair.

"Granger, you ought to pay more attention." She heard Adrian Pucey call from down the hall.

"Whatever," she mumbled, opening the letter.

"Well, what is it love?" Jennifer asked looking up over the divide between their work stations.

"I'm being summoned to the department of Magical Bloodlines, something about a will contestment and two sealed wills. " she scrunched up her face.

"You look like Crooks, when you do that Kitten." Sirius laughed as he walked passed her over to Jenn planting a quick kiss on her cheek. "Time for lunch, I'll bring her back this time Hermione. I promise. "

" I doubt that very much," she smirked waving them off before gathering her things and heading up to the designated floor.

She smiled at Susan Bones as she entered the doors.

"Oh good you got my memo, the wards in your department always do crazy things with our memos but they are faster than sending an owl to your flat. " she smiled meeting her and steering her towards an empty office. Just before she arrived to the room someone else burst through the doors, in dirty sweaty Auror robes she spotted the usually perfectly coiffed and poised Draco Malfoy.

"Just one moment Mr Malfoy I'll call you in when we are ready. " Susan said.

"Just tell me you found her?" He interupted as Susan pushed Hermione forward.

"We believe so, Draco." Susan said shutting the door.

"What was that about?" She asked Susan knowing the answer would be beyond her ability to explain, bloodlines and wills were becoming as secretive as her own.

"All in due time, first I need a small sample of your blood in the cauldron on the left please." Susan had become more professional and less the girl she had butter beers with on Saturdays while the boys chatted about quidditch. Hermione nodded and drew her wand with a quick slicing charm she dropped the red liquid from her index finger into the cauldron it bubbled than turned pink.

"Hermione I think you should sit." Susan said motioning to a chair as Hermione closed the cut.

"Why do I feel as if I'm not going to like what you are going to say?"

"You probably won't." Susan sighed. "Let's start with this cauldron before we do the one on the right. " Hermione nodded. " You know that with the two wars things were lost and misplaced and people tampered with files on both sides, making people and things disappear. It seems that the last will and testaments of the McKinnon family had been placed under enchantment until such a time as the death eaters and Tom Riddle had been defeated, for the last two years we have been researching where to start looking for the heir to the house as it had seemed they were all wiped out in October 1981. When you and Jennifer brought Sirius back we spoke to him as it was the understanding of some older members of the order that he and the youngest daughter Marlene had been an item. However Sirius told us they had broken things off shortly before James and Lily's marriage in June 1979 the last time he had seen her before her untimely end was in March 1980 and she smelled of breast milk and fear. Animagus thing I suppose." Hermione looked puzzled.

"You are telling me this why? My birthday is September 19th 1979. My parents are muggles they are currently housed in St Mungos." She was relaying this somewhat for Susan but mostly to figure it out herself.

"Actually we did the calculations from data we had when you borrowed the time turner, you were born March 11th 1980. The potion confirmed that you are the last known heir of house McKinnon. Your mother is Marlene. " she let Hermionr take it in for a moment but before the girl could speak she began again. "The reason you couldn't remove the oblivate charm from your parents was because of all the other magic coursing through them. Marlene created them they are highly functioning gollums she embedded them with the characteristics and emotions she would have shown towards you had she been able to raise you herself. Brilliant witch if you think of it a small wonder you are as talented as you are. "

"My father, who is my father?" Hermione was on edge was her desk partner dating her father how incredibly awkward or worse was it a death eater who had raped her. Horrible scenarios rushed through her head.

"I think you should drop some blood in the cauldron on the right then read the will. After we shall ask Mr Malfoy to join us. "Her friend Susan who had peaked out during the explination had disappeared again dissapointing Hermione. She wouldn't like the answer of that she was sure. She did as she was asked however and sealed the cut again before Susan handed her a roll of sealed parchment.

"Go ahead then, only the heir of house McKinnon can open it." Susan encourage after a few moments. Hermione's hands trembled as she broke the seal and and a smaller parchment fell out of the scroll, she picked it up and held it a moment before reading it.

My dearest Hermione,

Should you recieve this letter it means that my arthimancy calculations were correct and you are the last of the McKinnon line, while we are not pure we are noble and ancient, prideful and surviving true Gryffindors, which I hope you are too. It also means that I never had the chance to retrieve you from the care of my gollums. I am so sorry to have had to leave you in the first place and falsify all your records but it was unsafe for you in any world to be who you truly are, a child of both sides. Your father for all his faults, was a kind man to me while we were together and you should know it was I who broke his heart when I told him we couldn't be together without risking both our lives. I won't romanticize our affair it was just that a brief moment in the grand scheme but it gave me you. Something that brought me hope. I do hope you have done amazing things even if the only one was survive you will have done both of us proud.

Your father knows not that I had you, so please if he is still among the living don't hold it against him. Severus Snape wanted nothing but to be loved and I do believe the only person he could have truly loved after Lily would be you. Forgive him his misguided choices he only ever wanted to belong somewhere, the death eaters gave him that when no one else would. He was intelligent and driven. I hope these are things you received from him.

You are now the sole heir of the McKinnon house, serve it well my darling.

Your loving mother

Marlene McKinnon

Hermione's jaw was slack as she looked up to Susan.

"Snape? I'm a Snape?" She asked still in shock. Susan nodded.

"Also the heir of house Prince, and Severus Snapes estate save a few items to go to his godson. The potion on the right confirmed it. Because of the timing between your birth and the break up between your mother and Sirius we needed a blood confirmation but you are indeed his daughter. Would you like to go over the McKinnon will with us or the goblins? If you chose the later may we invite Mr Malfoy in the rest of the meeting concerns him as well. " Hermione nodded signalling she'd prefer the goblins and her mother's estate resolved at a later time. Susan opened the door and notioned for Draco to join them.

"Granger?" He asked puzzled sitting in the chair pulled beside hers.

"It's Snape, I guess or perhaps McKinnon, my father didn't know about me. " she corrected.

Draco shook his head, "He found out but it was too late, it was my fault he couldn't take you and run he had already promised my mother my protection and he couldn't save us both. I'm sorry Hermione I stole what time you could have had with him. Add it to the long list of my misdeeds towards you. "

At first Hermione thought he was being his usual prat like self then her eyes met his and her sharp witted retort died in her tongue. He had made amends with Harry but not Ron and she had refused to believe the letter she had received asking for forgiveness, but there in the board room his eyes were something she rarely saw on him, genuine.

"We don't know if he would have acknowledged me, he was not my biggest fan." She told Draco. "Perhaps we can discuss your opinion on my father's live for me after Susan finishes with us." Draco nodded.

"Right then, Hermione can you?" Susan passed her the next scroll. "Same as the last one."

"Here in is the last will and testament of, Severus Snape, to my daughter Hermione Granger, should I have not had the chance to publicly recognize you I first bequeath you my most sincere appoligies, you have made me proud and envious, continue to do so with your achievements. All matters of house Prince are yours including all wealth and properties. All my possessions and the property at spinner's end save what I have left my godson are yours as well. You will find in my vault at Gringotts a more detailed letter for you.

To Draco Malfoy, I clear you of your life debt pledged to me after the night of Albus Dumbledore's death, I also leave you the second copy of my grimoire, the first shall be left to my daughter. I leave you the rights to the potions which you apprenticed on while in hiding and all items in my trunk at Hogwarts. I also enturst you with my daughter, do not fail me Draco keep her safe." Her voice had choked a couple of places and a single tear rolled down her cheek Draco wiped it with a silk handkerchief. She smiles tightly at him. "I absolve you of the last bit Draco. You don't have to care for my safety."

"I do, he tasked me with it long before the will." Draco committed "He wouldn't tell me who you were, just that he had found out he had a daughter and that when the time came I was to ensure her safety at all costs if he could not. I asked him who often but he would never say that my knowing alone would be a safety risk. "

"He does for other reasons as well, reasons that will answer your initial reason for seeking us out Mr Malfoy you aren't going to like the answer as there is no way out of it except death." Susan replied.

"Oh Merlin what now?" Hermione sigh, Draco took her hand and gave it a squeeze.

"I came to find a way out of my betrothal to Astoria Greengrass, only to find out it hadn't been validated because they were waiting to see if there would be a female Prince this generation." Draco told her delicately.

"It seems Hermione's grandmother was to wed your grandfather before she ran off with the muggle Tobias Snape. Needless to say the parents were furious and wrote and iron clad betrothal that the next female Peince decendant of magical ability would wed the next Malfoy heir. It was nullified the last generation due to two male heirs but you both fit the contract, due to it being a blood vow there is really no way around it. I'm sorry Hermione perhaps you should start with a butter beer to talk things over." With that Susan left the office before she could be on the recieving end of a famous Hermione hex.

Draco turned to her taking her in for a moment the subtlest were there she had his eye shape, his quick wit and dry sense of humour, his drive and his ambition, from what he'd heard either of her parents could have boasted higher than average NEWT marks.

"Why poor me? Why not sorry Draco?" She interupted his musing.

"Two reasons, one I grew up knowing I would not marry for love, two you are clearly getting the short end of the wand. You get a former death eater people hate. I get the beautiful, crusader who is a war heroine and a genius to boot. Poor you."

"You aren't so horrible, you head up a special task force at 20 you had amazing NEWTs and don't tell me you don't notice the way witches swoon for you."she argued.

"I try not too. Most just want to tame the bad boy or a key to the Gringotts account. " he shrugged.

"I have my own apparently, plenty at that. I would like to know more about my father and if we are undeniably out of options best you start wooing me now as it may take awhile. " she cracked a smile and a small laugh at him after.

"I have elf made wine and perhaps we could stop for some take away if you'd like to come to my flat when you are done work. We could discuss our options and I can help you with the legal side of the wills. " he offered befor getting up and holding his hand out for her.

"I have to get to Gringotts now but yes. I'll meet you in the atrium at 5 pm. " she told him as they walked out towards the lifts. As they went to board separate ones he looked over to her and smiled.

"I'm glad it's you Hermione."