Disclaimer: In case you have been living in a cave on mars with your fingers in your ears for the last ten years or so; JK Rowling owns Harry Potter and all terms and characters associated with the fandom. I only own the story, some characterisations and an occasional OC, I try to limit them as much as possible. Song lyrics which may crop up now and then will be attributed as appropriate.

Summary: The sequel to Twists in the road, set 6 months later, a new challenge has cropped up in Draco and Pansy's life, will they be able to stick together or be torn apart?

Warnings: Rated M because I don't trust myself, expect bad language at the minimum, violence, substance abuse, sexual scenes may turn up, but I'm not promising anything.

For Sugar (Twiist) again, because she's fabulous and wanted a sequel before the first part was finished.

(And to all those who enjoyed Twists, thanks for sticking with me.)

Chapter 1

"There's a new moon rising on the other side
The other side of you
Talk to yourself and someone else
What you tryin' to do
You maybe will, you maybe won't
It's all for you to say
You say you do, and then you don't
It's only you in the way"

Journey - You're on your own

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Draco felt like his ribs were being crushed, the iron like grip around his torso seemed to be growing tighter, the precious air in his lungs had been spent and he could not draw any new oxygen despite how hard he tried. It was no good. He hit his mother's back with an open palm and thankfully, she guessed it was his prompt to release her hug from his body and loosen her arms. Narcissa Malfoy looked at her son's face with a teary expression, salty droplets were streaming down her cheeks smearing her makeup slightly, her mouth twitching as she held a smile that was clearly refraining from bursting into sobs again.

Draco rolled his eyes with a bemused smirk and patted his mother's shoulder gently. "Honestly Mother, please your embarrassing me."

Cissy clasped her hands together in front of her chest, her fingers interlocked tightly before they flung open and her arms wrapped around her son again. "Oh Draco! I don't care, you don't know happy you've made me." Draco's arms became pinned once more to his sides and his eyes bulged slightly as he coughed a little and tried to gulp as much air as he could. If not for the intervention of his father, placing a calm hand on his wife's shoulder, signalling it was time for her to release him, Draco was fairly surely he would passed out.

Sitting Cissy down and placing a rather full glass of Black Vodka into her hand Lucius gave Draco a rare smile and shook his hand. "Without your Mother's enthusiasm, Draco, I must concur. It is about time you made us Grandparents."

While the odd display of Malfoy affection had been going on, Pansy had sat quietly in awe, trying to move herself from Cissy's direct eye line, as well as she got on with her mother in law, she did not feel like a crushing hug would be particularly good for her in her condition. She had only been told by the doctor, which Tracey had recommended to her, the prior day that her suspicions were correct, she was pregnant, eight weeks gone and so far she had, had to cope with three weeks of fairly egregious morning sickness. The morning sickness she could cope with, an over excited hug from Narcissa Malfoy, she wasn't so sure.

Lucius inclined his head slightly at Pansy and gave her the briefest of smiles, "I am glad my dear, that you and Draco have finally decided to produce another heir to the Malfoy line." Pansy smiled slightly in return and then exchanged a look with Draco as his father turned his back on them both to pour out two glasses of fire whiskey, one he kept for himself, the other handing to his son, Pansy would have to make do with the glass of pumpkin juice in her hand.

However, there had been no deciding on the parts of Draco and Pansy when it come to the subject of producing an heir. Something which never be told to there their child was the fact they were only conceived due to a night of binge drinking fire whiskey, reminiscing and a forgotten anti-fertility potion.

Even though Blaise had been gone for longer than Draco cared to think about, he could sense his absence in this scene stronger than the slight ache in his ribs he had still from his mother's over-aggressive hug. Even when sat in the doctors office the day before and he had smiled at the couple and congratulated them on the fact that Pansy was officially expecting a child, it had not completely sunk in that he was unable to aparate straight to Blaise's house and tell him the news first. Though even with his friend gone, he could guess with a degree of certainty what the reaction would have been. Something akin to his mother's only there would have been more fire whiskey at the end of it and Pansy would not have been able to successfully dodge a bear hug from him like she had his mother.

Even now with Narcissa sat babbling to Lucius, who looked like he had heard this excited spiel of random sentences about babies and little socks and cot's and prams before, Draco could not help but feel the gaping hole where his best friend's presence should have been. As if she was reading his mind, Pansy tentatively placed her on top of his and squeezed it slightly. There had been many changes in his life since the fateful day that Theodore Nott had re-entered it, the slight willingness to show a bit more affection had so far been Pansy's favourite, although in many ways, he was still clearly his father's son.

In the end, after a very long debate between the two, it had been decided that Draco's parents would be the ones who where informed of the happy news first. Although Pansy had agreed to it, she had really wanted to tell her mother before Draco's, she had tried to persuade him to bring both their parents together but for some reason which remained unclear to her, Cissy had never got on with her own mother. Despite the fact that Cissy had always had something of an affection for her, calling her once; the daughter she never had. All she knew was that it was something to do with the first time they had met and something to do with a misunderstanding about the correct way to address her.

She had been told once by Draco that his mother referred to hers as 'That Parkinson woman'but she really had no desire to probe Cissy any further into why exactly she did so, she'd rather remain on good terms with her mother in law.

Drifting off in her little world of contemplation, Panay found herself nodding in agreement to something before being snapped out of her day dream by a loud clap of exhilaration from Cissy as she stood up and headed to the bureau lifting a quill and piece of parchment starting to scribble down names as fast as they came into her head. She wondered for a moment with a slight air of fear of what she had agreed to, dreading it might actually be the birth for a moment. Before Cissy started chatting to herself as Lucius smirked at his son with a look that said he was slightly amused with what was going on. "Oh! And we'll put an announcement in the Prophet, but we'll be sure to say the party is by invitation only…"

Pansy only had a few seconds to contemplate if the party she had apparently agreed to would see her own mother invited or if the announcement in the Daily Prophet would be out before she had chance to tell her when the deafening sound of the Malfoy's oak front door being blasted open caused the entire room, barring Lucius, to jump.

While the Malfoy family had watched the door fly past the parlour's open ones, on instinct they had all drawn their wands and Draco had jumped out of his seat and was now stood in front of his wife, guarding her as a booming voice echoed through the hallway.

"DRACO MALFOY! Come out and surrender your wand or you will be taken by force!"

In her life, Pansy had never seen Lcuius Malfoy look so angry, she briefly pondered if it was because of the intrusion, the fact that his door had been blasted from it's hinges or someone was apparently calling his son out. She watched as his face twisted into one of anger and he pointed his wand into the space he could see which was the hallway. "WHO do you think you are? What do you want?"

The unknown voice sounded out, closer from what Pansy could hear than before. "We are coming in, lower your wands and there will be no reason for anyone to be hurt." Lucius looked like he was ready for a full on duel with whoever was threatening his family, but a slightly fearful look from Cissy caused him to lower his wand and a nod at Draco made him do the same. "We have lowered our wands…."

At the moment it had passed his lips a slew of Aurors came pouring into the parlour, all with wands pointed at different members of the Malfoy family. Looking like he was about to explode with rage, Lucius was barely restrained as he barked at the one closest to him. "I demand you tell me what this intrusion is all about!"

Shooting a smirking look at Lucius, one which Pansy was sure could earn him a death sentence if there had not been at least a dozen Aurors in the room, the leader of the group looked to Lucius "We are here to make an arrest, we have the correct documents from the ministry should you wish to check it over." Pansy felt a wand being shoved into her hands from Draco while the Auror, smirking, handed a tightly wrapped scroll to Lucius Malfoy, she shoved the wand in her back pocket quickly while he was distracted, she guessed if Draco was being taken in on some trumped up charge, maybe something to do with the match fixing allegations that had been surrounding the quidditch league for the past three months or so, he didn't want them to get their hands on his wand while they were at it.

The leader barely noticed that Draco didn't have a wand in his hands and pulled them together while he whispered a spell which caused a coil of thick green light to bind itself around Draco's hands, keeping them held tightly together, unable to move.

"Draco Malfoy, I am arresting you on behalf of the ministry for magic, to be tried before the wizengamot on the charge of murder." Pansy gasped and Draco looked bewildered, they had disposed of Nott in a suitable way. Surely the ministry wasn't coming after Draco for something that she herself had done.

The lead Auror looked to Lucius Malfoy with another smirk as he pulled on Draco's arm, starting to lead him out of the room as Pansy felt Narcissa's arm close around her shoulders. "The new minister isn't going to be taking bribes on this Mr Malfoy, the murder of Blaise Zabini isn't going to be swept under the carpet and go away, we've got evidence now to get a solid conviction….."

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Author's notes:

If you have come across my story and wonder what exactly is going on, then please read Twists in the road, if you have started this story because you enjoyed Twists and want to hit me for ending the first chapter in this manner, then leave me a review instead. teeheehee

It was actually much easier than I thought to slip back into this world, it only took about an hour to knock this chapter up. And yes for those fans of the twists story, I am starting on the prequal as well, although I can't promise it today, I know some of you really want to know the full story of the formula, etc.

So please R&R guys, first person to do so gets a shiny new donkey…..