I own nothing, JK owns it all, except for my plot, of course. ALSO, THE LONG AWAITED MYSTERY BEHIND FRED, GEORGE, DRACO AND HERMIONE'S CONNECTION IS REVEALED!

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Chapter 10

Bill smiled sadly and motioned for her to continue. He had a feeling which direction this conversation was going.

"Bill as much as I love you, I'm just not in love with you. I just feel lust towards you and I can't keep going on in a relationship like that. I'd feel like I was using you, and I don't like that feeling. I had a relationship like this with Harry. I loved him, I still do, but he doesn't love me, he only lusted after me. I ended up getting hurt and I respect you too much to do that to you Bill, I'm sorry," Hermione said.

Bill smiled weakly at her and nodded his head in agreement. "I understand, Hermione. Thank you for telling me and not stringing me along like a lovesick fool."

"No problem, Bill," Hermione said, "also, I have a cousin, Mandy, who would probably like to meet you. She's 24 and I think she would enjoy meeting you, and I think you'd like her. She's also a witch, the only other witch in my family. What do you say? Would you like to meet her?"

"That would be great, Hermione! I would love to meet her," Bill said before he got up and gave Hermione a quick kiss on her forehead and left her room. Hermione drifted off to sleep as she saw him leave and didn't see Harry or Draco come into her room.

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When Hermione came to she found Draco and Harry asleep in armchairs. They had conjured up two armchairs, one on each side of her bed, and she must have been out of it for while because they were both asleep. She watched them silently in their sleep and while she was looking at Harry her heart broke again.

"Hermione, move on," Draco said quietly as he saw Hermione stare at Harry longingly.

Hermione jumped when she realized she was caught looking at Harry. "I know Draco, but it's hard. I'm pregnant with his child! I can't just forget that I ever loved him. It's hard Draco, and I can't do it alone," Hermione said quietly.

"Hermione, Tink, you're not doing this alone. You've got me, Blaise, Fred, George, Bill, even Ron! You won't be alone Hermione, ever," Draco said as he reached for her hand and squeezed it to enforce the fact that he was always there for her.

Harry meanwhile heard everything that was being said and couldn't help but feel guilty for making Hermione hurt. He couldn't make himself love her and he felt that he should have suspected something like this. For some reason, that he couldn't explain, his anger flared up.

"Really, Hermione? Is becoming pregnant have some kind of plot behind it; to keep me in your life because you're having my child? I should have known something was up! When you didn't show up at the final battle with me and Ron you knew we would be angry! Is this your way to ensure that you would always have us?" Harry snarled as he jumped up out of his chair.

"Harry you don't understand what happened that night of the final battle!" Hermione said back.

"Really, then, make me understand!" Harry snapped back.

"I can't Harry, it's not that easy," Hermione whispered sadly.

"I should have known, Hermione, I should have known. You don't have a reason, do you? Why weren't you there when I needed you Hermione? Is the only reason you had this relationship because you knew I didn't love you? Were you trying to make up for ditching me when I needed you most?" Harry snarled.

"Harry, you don't understand!"

"You're right, I don't. You are no friend of mine anymore, Granger," Harry snapped back before he stalked out of her room, slamming the door behind him.

Harry felt betrayed. He and Ron had left last August to defeat Voldemort in the final battle. Hermione and he had just started going out a month or two before hand and nothing was really happening between them. They were both 100 virgins at the time of the battle and when he came back they both lost their virginity.

Harry was upset at Hermione last August because she never showed up at the final battle to help Ron and him and that royally ticked him off. He felt betrayal by his girlfriend and couldn't find a reason for her not to be there. When he came home 2 days after the final battle and found her, Draco, Fred and George all passed out in headquarters he got angry. So he had angrily woken them up.

"Hermione!" Harry screamed as he bent down to the couch where she was laying to scream in her ear.

Hermione jumped up and bumped right into Harry's fore-head. She looked around the room and noticed George, Fred and Draco all lying on the floor. She knew that it looked bad.

"Harry, it's not how it looks," Hermione started.

George, Fred and Draco all woke up from Harry's screaming and quickly jumped up to help defend Hermione. They could obviously tell that this argument was going to get out of hand.

"Really, Hermione, how does it look then?" Harry snarled.

"Harry, we helped you more than you know!" Hermione said.

"You weren't even there, Hermione! How could you help?" Harry snapped back at her.

"Harry, I can't tell you! I will when the time comes, but I can't right now. I'm sorry, Harry," Hermione said sadly.

Harry continued to glare at Hermione and Hermione sighed in defeat. She couldn't tell Harry what was going on, or what happened so she did the next thing she could think of. She took Harry up to his room and gave him what he wanted the most; to lose his virginity. Harry wanted to know what was going on but gave into Hermione right away and let the final battle slip away until a later time.

As Harry thought about it, he was furious with himself. He shouldn't have let Hermione use sex on him to make him forget about what happened and why not only Hermione but Fred, George and Draco weren't at the final battle. Harry stupidly let his hormones get in the way of what he wanted and he swore that he would never let that happen again. They were gradating in a little over three weeks and he wouldn't talk to Hermione until he got some answers. Pregnant with a child of his, or not, he would get his answers.

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Draco had tried to comfort Hermione after Harry left but she just kept crying. He didn't know what he could do for her so he crawled into bed next to her and cradled her in his arms. He knew what really happened the night of the final battle, he just wished that Hermione was ready to come out and tell everyone.

Once Hermione stopped crying she started thinking about the night of the final battle. She knew why Harry was mad, and she knew that he had a right. If only he really knew what happened. That was when Hermione made her choice, she would tell Harry, the whole school at the graduation feast. She would tell everyone together. That night was stilling playing in her head over and over again and all she could do was cry. Harry had no idea how much Draco, Fred, George and herself really helped him.

Draco, Fred, George and Hermione had been working hard ever since April, only five months before the final battle occurred. Professor Snape was helping them, mainly because it was his job as a 'grounder' for them. Neither of the four of them were ready for what was about to be bestowed upon them, but they did it anyway. They were the only hope the wizarding world had.

They were all sitting in Headquarters, Snape included, when Harry got a blast of pain through his scar. Harry immediately rushed to Dumbledore at Hogwarts and when Harry came back he grabbed Ron and Ginny. He attempted to drag Hermione, Fred, George and more or less Draco and Snape with him, none of them would go. Harry was furious and stormed out of the house with Ron and Ginny, whom both glared at the five of them before they left.

Once they were gone all five of them took a shot of fire-whiskey and flooed to Hogwarts. Dumbledore was waiting for them in his office and when they arrived he quickly briefed them on where Harry and Voldemort were battling. All five of them apparated themselves through Hogwarts wards to the battling ground.

When the world stopped moving they found themselves in front of a large mansion that was dark and gloomy. They all shared a look before they started to head towards the front doors. Hermione reached the door first and sighed. She didn't want to go in but she knew she had to. She waved her hand around the door handle and it opened with a click, everyone followed her in.

All five of them found a room to get ready in so once they were ready they could just walk out and be in the middle of the battle. They were preparing for the right time to walk out and confront Voldemort; they were waiting until they could go without anyone realizing who they were.

Once Hermione saw Ginny and Ron fall to the ground, luckily only hit with a minor curse, she looked around the room nervously before she nodded to them. It was time to go. Hermione was in a baby blue, silk gown, which hugged her body in all the right places. Her hair was cascading down her back in soft curls. Draco was wearing a pair of black pants with a brown button-up shirt, with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. Fred had on a pair of navy blue pants and light blue button-up shirt. His sleeves were also rolled up to his elbows. George was wearing a similar outfit, only his pants were a blood red and his shirt was a deep red, that almost looked black.

All four of them nodded to each other and Hermione opened the door and stalked out of the room, George, Fred and Draco all following her; Snape would go back to Headquarters and wait for them. Once Hermione stepped into the room everybody stopped moving and Voldemort stared at them in wonder.

Ginny's leg was bleeding and Ron was holding his arm to his body as blood gushed out of a gash on his arm. Harry was lying on the floor, panting when Hermione walked in. Harry looked up in wonder, he couldn't quite make out the faces because he had lost his glasses some time during the duel between him and Voldemort, but something looked oddly familiar about the shapes of them.

Hermione, Draco, George and Fred all positioned themselves according to directions on a compass. Draco was placed at the North point, representing Earth; Hermione was at the East point, representing Air; George was at the South point, representing Fire; Fred was at the West point, representing Water. Hermione, Draco, Fred and George were all elemental wizards and together they were the most powerful witch and wizards in the whole wizarding world. Well, except for their wonderful Grounder, Snape, he was their only tie to this world.

Once they were all situated Draco started at the North point. He placed his feet at shoulder width and faced his palms towards the ground, grabbing the power the Earth was giving him. He started to glow a deep, emerald green. When Draco started to glow green Hermione started to spin in her place. Once arm was above her head and the other was wrapped around her stomach, she was grabbing the power from the wind. Once she stopped in place her hair was whipping around and she started to glow a soft, pale blue.

Once Hermione started to glow blue, George started his. He placed his feet at shoulder length and started to rub his hands together. Once George had enough friction in his hands he spread his hands apart and a ball of orange light was in his hand, representing fire. Then when the ball was done collecting the power from fire, George started to glow a beautiful, soft orange. Once Fred saw George begin to glow orange, he placed his feet just like his brother. He turned his palms upwards, opposite of Draco, and started to concentrate on the water in the air. Once his power started to grab the power the water was giving him he started to glow a bright white.

When all four of them were glowing they all turned to Voldemort who was in shock. Harry was lying on the ground, trying to figure out who these people were, trying to find out who just saved his life. He could recognize that there was one girl in the group; he could see the long beautiful hair whipping around. She was the closest to him so he couldn't tell what the other people looked like.

Hermione started spinning again and she collected George, Fred and Draco's powers from their hands and combined them with hers. Once she was done combining them she molded them into a ball and faced Voldemort who was slowly creeping towards the wall.

"You can not run, Tom Riddle," she said, her voice echoing off the wall.

Voldemort's eyes widened but before he could do anything Hermione threw the ball of light at him and he screamed a noiseless scream as his body burned on the spot and only a pile of ashes was left. Lord Voldemort was gone, never to return.

Hermione turned to look at the room and saw Ginny on the ground hurt, Ron lying next to his sister, trying to protect her, hurt. Harry was the closest to her and she could see the blood streaming down his face, he was hurt too. All three of them were pale and looked like they were losing a lot of blood, so Hermione did the only thing she could think of, she collected the rest of her power and threw the rest of her power, draining herself, towards the three, healing them.

Hermione collapsed onto the ground and before Harry, Ron or Ginny could realize who they were, George grabbed Hermione's body and apparated out of there; Fred and Draco following along. Once they got back to headquarters Snape was sitting on a couch in the living room, waiting for them. Once he saw George holding Hermione's body, he could only think of the worst.

"Is she dead?" Snape asked slowly.

"No," Draco answered, "she drained herself to heal Potter and the two Weasley's. They were dying, could you expect her to do anything less than save their lives?"

Snape just smirked and took her body from George. He laid her down onto the couch he just got off of and checked her vitals. "She will be fine, she just needs to rest. I suggest all of you rest too; she probably used a good bit of your power too. This witch is one powerful witch, and you're lucky she didn't kill herself saving them. If she had, all three of you would have lost a good deal of power without your fourth point."

They all nodded and Snape left to go inform Dumbledore of everything. Hermione was left lying on the couch and Fred, George and Draco all fell asleep on the floor next to the couch, making sure that when Hermione woke up, they would know. Unfortunately, this was how Harry found them; they all knew it looked bad.

Hermione started to cry as she finished the flashback. She knew Harry had a reason, she wasn't doubting that, she was just upset that he would think she purposely got herself pregnant so she could always guarantee him her life; it was nothing like that. Hermione was 18, she didn't want a child at this age but she wasn't going to shun her child, she just wished Harry could accept what happened last summer, but she knew that wasn't going to happen. Harry wanted to know and she knew that he was stubborn and he wouldn't stop until he told her.

It wasn't that she didn't want him to know; well it was, only a little bit though. She didn't want the publicity and she didn't want Harry to feel weird around her, she felt that he would have felt threatened to have a girlfriend, or even a best friend, more powerful than him. She never thought to consider that Harry would accept that and still be her friend even if he did know. He would have gladly given her some of his publicity, if only to get rid of his ridiculous name he had gotten.

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Severus was sitting by his fire, nursing a glass of fire whiskey, thinking about Hermione. He didn't want her to get hurt, ever. He swore to himself that he would never let her get hurt again. This brought him to his next problem; would he tell her he loved her? He figured he should, hoping that maybe, just maybe, she could give them a try. After all, she did give Bill Weasley a try, and he figured, why not him?

That's it Snape, you will tell her you love her after graduation.

He threw back another shot of firs whiskey and got up to go stalk the halls, he needed to think.

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A/N: Ok, here's chapter 10, and I hope you like it! I'm sorry I took so long, but I had midterms the last two weeks, and I for once actually had to study. One of the colleges I'm applying to is going to look for my midterm grades. Heh, not to mention I got in a bit of trouble with my parents on New Years, heh if you would like to know, I shall tell you. My boyfriend and I finally talked out our problems (smile, I'm happy). I hope you liked how I broke Bill and Hermione up. I didn't want to completely break Bill's heart, so I figured 'Why not set him up with someone else?'

Thank you for all your wonderful reviews, and if I may, I shall advertise my other story. 'The Forgotten Child' it's a GeWeasley/HeGranger story…check it out!

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Also, next chapter, we find out where Sphinx has been this whole time!

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