(A/N): This fic comes from a challenge: Write a Draco/OC fic where Draco has an affair with the OC and gets her pregnant. Astoria is perfectly justified in leaving him. The OC is unsure if Draco really cares about her at all. Then write a sequel showing how the affair affects Scopius to go after Rose Weasley. I decided to write a short, two chapter fic. The first chapter is Draco/OC, the second is Scorpius/Rose. I actually got over half way through with the first chapter when my computer when BSOD and wiped all my progress away. If it does it again the computer's getting chucked out the window.
He wasn't sure why he thought it would all just work out. For seven years he'd had a wonderful loving family. He and Astoria Greengrass had made a great match. He started dating her simply because Daphne set them up in an attempt to make Pansy understand that he was just not interested. None of them really expected it to turn out in a marriage.
Tori, Astoria was a beautiful girl in a delicate kind of way, with her thick pin straight black hair and her lovely blue eyes. He'd noted her beauty while they were still at school, but only in passing. When she was actually old enough to be interesting to him he'd been too busy being afraid of his life and the life of his family.
She was a Slytherin, like him, all the way through. Slytherins were ambitious and cunning; everyone knew that. Astoria was cunning in her ability to stretch a dollar. Her father would have bankrupted the family five times over if her mother hadn't been so good and hiding funds from her husband and his excesses. Astoria was ambitious in only one area, but in that area she excelled. She wanted to marry a rich man, a man with titles, a man with exceptionally pureblood. He'd thought it was charming when she told him. At the time she'd seen him only as a friend, not a boyfriend even though they were dating. She'd known about the plan to get him free of Pansy as well.
The marriage wasn't expected or planned. Neither of them were who the thought they'd end up with. In many ways it made logical sense. Astoria was a pureblood who could help Draco run the Malfoy finances. She was also friends with him in a way he'd never been able to have with Pansy. For Astoria, Draco was exactly the type of man she's planned to marry. The difference was that he was also her best friend.
It was that friendship that made the betrayal hurt all the worse. Draco has gone to the United States to manage some of his accounts. While he was there he came into the acquaintance of Marissa, a witch from the Salem Witches Institute. The school had been created to teach witches how to protect the innocent. Now it was little more than a debutant school. Rich American wizards sent their rich witch daughters there to train to be proper wives fro rich American wizards. Marissa was very much a product of the school.
American wizards didn't take much stock by being Pureblood, wealth was much more important. They were, after all, still Americans. Touching Marissa felt so base, almost like touching a muggle. She was very beautiful, and not at all in the way Tori was beautiful. Tori had feather light looks. Marissa was the earth. She was all thick curves, curly brown hair and brown eyes. They started dating, and then they started sleeping together. His business trip lasted a month, and Marissa made the trip very enjoyable. When the trip ended he returned to the loving arms of his wife and three year old son.
Draco never regretted the affair until three years later, when Marissa showed up at his door step, a little girl at her heels. Emily looked just like him. Like Scorpius the Malfoy blond had shown through. How could she not be his? He could have paid them off to go away. Marissa had been thrown out of her home when her family found out she was pregnant. She was so desperate for money to survive that she would have gone away and never bothered him again if he'd paid her. Yet he couldn't just send her away.
When he saw the two of them standing on his door step he could only think of two things: how much he hated his little girl looking at him like he was a terrifying stranger, and how much he'd enjoy the base feeling of touching Marissa. He bought her and Emily a flat in London, one that he visited multiple times a week. He didn't know why he ever thought he could get away with it and not get caught.
His little balancing act lasted for six months. It would have been over a lot faster if Astoria hadn't been so afraid of destroying the life she loved so much. Tori ran the Malfoy manor, but she also had access to all of their accounts. Her father's excesses and taught her to keep a careful eye on all of the family money, which meant that she knew almost instantly about the flat in London. She simply hoped that her husband would eventually stop. Then she found out about Emily.
It was easy to pretend that the nameless, faceless mistress was just a midlife crisis on the part of her husband. His father's hair was still lush and full, but Draco's had started receding the year before. The affair was just his way of feeling masculine again. Draco was her best friend. He made mistakes but he'd eventually end the affair and tell her everything. But then she noticed that Draco was spending money at toy stores and not coming home with gifts for Scorpius. Then she saw that he spent a lot of money at a little girl's boutique. That's when she knew it was all over.
It wasn't just an affair, never could be just an affair when a child was involved. That night she confronted her husband. That night she packed her and Scoprius's things and moved out. She began divorce proceedings in the morning. She hoped that maybe Draco would tell her she couldn't go, or that they could try counseling. She knew neither would work, but she just hoped. Instead he let her go. He signed over half his accounts to her, and gave her half his properties. He kept the manor, but she had a nice house outside of London. He'd been her best friend… she thought he'd been her best friend, but he didn't even try to fight for her to go. The divorce broke her and she never dated again, instead focusing on her son and trying to raise him as best as possible with little to no contact with the boy's father.
Draco, on the other hand, moved Marissa into the manor. A month after the divorce ended he married the American girl. Marissa had been ignorant when she'd started her affair with Draco Malfoy. She had little common sense, but having to raise a daughter on no money had made her stronger. Draco was no fairy prince like she'd imagined him to be when they'd first met. She never felt comfortable with him once she moved into the manor as his wife. Astoria Malfoy had been a beautiful woman, a talented witch, and a good business woman. Marissa was beautiful. In comparison Astoria was the better catch.
Marissa was sure that Draco would start an affair with another woman someday. She didn't want to be around for that, yet she stayed. Draco loved Emily, and Emily loved Draco. Whenever Draco got to see Scorpius Marissa was sure that he loved the boy as well. Marissa didn't want to deny her daughter a good home and a loving family. She stayed with Draco, but eventually the only love she came to feel for him came only form the fact that he was her baby's father.