Together Or Apart - Some Are Never Meant To Be

Chapter 1 – The Wedding That Never Happened

It was two years after seventh year and the war was won, and people were still celebrating. Hermione was standing in the toilet of the burrow. She was wearing a stunning, custom designed wedding dress. Her hair was half up, half down, in loose curls, in short she looked beautiful.

Her wedding was in thirty minutes and she didn't know what to do. She was supposed to be marrying Ron Weasley. He definitely loved her, but she didn't really feel the same way, she loved him as a brother, and kissing him felt nice, but there isn't really anything there. When he proposed she couldn't bring herself to say no too his puppy dog eyes.

Mrs Weasley, Ginny and herself had spent seven months planning the perfect wedding and here it was, today and she was panicking. She also felt incredibly guilty and this was why...

FLASHBACK

'This party is the worst; I don't know anyone here, why did I let Parvati talk me into doing this?' Hermione thought to herself,

She was at a wizarding club called 'Charms'.

Parvati had disappeared with some guy that she didn't know, and had left Hermione on her own.

Hermione made her way to the door, she had had enough. Suddenly someone bumped into her, and threw her backwards onto the floor,

"Sorry, let me help you up," A strong hand stretched out and pulled her up,

"Tha-, Malfoy!"

"Granger! What are you doing here? Didn't think that you were the party type."

He raised his eyebrows at her, she was wearing a pair of white short shorts, with a pink floaty spaghetti strap top (a/n: da top has a strip just below the bust, and stips from the straps down to the other strip. Hopefully you followed that! Lol).

The shorts showed off her shapely legs, and the top showed off her gorgeous figure. Draco had obviously noticed this because he was looking he up and down, and making Hermione feel quite nervous.

"Stop it!"

"Stop what?"

"Stop staring at me!"

"Don't flatter yourself Granger,"

Then he had brought her a drink, they got talking, the rest of the night was a blur, and Hermione woke up in a bed with green sheets, naked, across from a nude Draco Malfoy. As soon as she realised what had happened, she got dressed and apparated to her apartment that she shared with Ron. When he asked her where she had been, she said that she had slept over at Parvati's place because they were both so tired.

END OF FLASHBACK

About a week ago, Hermione had found out that she was a couple of weeks pregnant. She hadn't told Ron yet, because shes worried that it isn't his, she's pretty sure that the baby is Draco's.

She was wondering what to do when she heard a popping noise, she stuck her head out of the bathroom door and almost screamed, Draco Malfoy was standing in the corridor of the Burrow.

"Hello there,"

"What the hell are you doing here!" She yelled at him,

"I am here to talk to you,"

"Do you even realise that it's my wedding day!"

"Of course I do,"

"Then what do you want?"

"Like I said before, I want to talk to you,"

"Fine then, start talking because I have to get married in twenty-five minutes!"

"Calm down Granger! Just shut up for a second and let me talk!" His eyes flashed with anger and Hermione stood still and shut her mouth,

"Look, all I want to do is tell you that I don't regret what happened last night,"

Hermione looked shocked,

"You don't?"

"No, I don't and you know why? Because I think I'm in love with you."

Hermione's eyes grew wide,

"You what! We only slept together!"

"Yeah, but I think in seventh year when we shared the heads dormitory I started to fall for you. You infuriated me and turned me on at the same time! You were always better than me and somehow that made me like you even more. So, Hermione Granger I think I'm in love with you."

Hermione stood in shock watching the man who hated her for six years. She didn't know what to do, they stood there in silence for what seemed like ages.

"Aren't you going to say anything?"

"Well...I...Ummm...I'm getting married in like twenty minutes! Everyone is waiting, we've been planning this for seven months! I cant just walk out because some guy who hates me proclaims his love for me! Are you crazy? Are you drunk? Have you taken any drugs recently!"

"Hermione, I am perfectly sane, I'm in love with you! Don't you like me back?"

"Well, I like you! Of course I like you, but you know I'm getting married, I need Ron, I mean with the baby coming!"

She put her hand to her mouth and cursed silently.

"You- you're pregnant!"

"Yeah, a couple of weeks along, but please, please, don't tell anyone! No-one knows!"

Draco nodded, slightly shocked, she watched as he worked out what she was hoping to hide from him,

"Is the baby Rons?"

"Umm, I don't know,"

Then he asked the question she was dreading,

"Is the baby mine?"

"umm, well, the thing is, it might be,"

He slid down the wall that he was leaning on so that he was sitting on the floor looking up at the woman he loved standing in a white wedding dress, ready to marry one of his enemies.

He stood up suddenly and walked over to her and gave her a hug. She welcomed the warmth and felt safe in his strong arms. Suddenly she pulled away,

"No, I can't do this, what about Ron?"

"What about him?"

"Well, he's standing at the altar expecting to get married today. What am I going to tell him? What am I going to tell his family! We've been planning this for seven months! I can't just walk out!"

She started to panic.

"Don't worry, Hermione, everyone will understand!"

"Yeah, I suppose..."

That day, Hermione left Ron at the altar, leaving poor Ron heartbroken.

SIX YEARS LATER

She was now living near The Potters; Ginny, Harry, and their kids, Lily and Mathew, they were twins.

She had a steady job as a top journalist working for The Daily Prophet. Hermione loved her job, and had lots of friends there. She also had a beautiful daughter named Louise; she had darkish blonde ringlets, bright blue eyes and slightly tanned skin. She was five years old and stunning.

Hermione woke with a start, Louise was jumping up and down on her bed.

"Ouch, calm down Lu! Why d'ya have to go and do that!"

"Mummy wake up! I wanna go to kiddie camp!"

"Oh, I forgot about that."

She looked shocked,

"How can you have forgot! I've been looking forward to it for weeks!"

"Ok, go and get dressed and meet me in the kitchen when you're down, okay? Can you do that for mummy?"

She nodded and zoomed out of the room.

'Thank God for that,' she thought,

She began to wake up, stood from her bed and walked sleepily to the bathroom; she had a shower and got dressed into a blue top with a white camisole vest underneath, white skinny jeans with black dolly shoes. Sitting down on her dressing table, she heard a yell from the kitchen,

"Mummy, are you ready yet!"

"Coming!" She yelled back,

Deciding she didn't have enough time to tame her hair and apply her make-up, so she fetched her wand, and used it to get herself ready.

Downstairs she made her daughter breakfast and made herself a cup of coffee; she didn't feel like any food.

They were speeding along the motorway on the way to kiddie camp. It was the summer holidays and because Louise was in Reception, she was old enough to go to school. Hermione had signed her up for Kiddie Camp because Hermione still had to work and she wasn't sure what to do with her. But it wasn't as though she was forcing Louise to go, Louise was extremely excited about it, most of her friends were going.

"Are we there yet?" Louise asked impatiently,

"Not yet, there's another half an hour,"

Lu groaned, "But I need the toilet!"

Hermione looked at her daughter,

"Didn't you go before we left?"

"No," she looked guilty,

"What have I always, ALWAYS taught you?" She looked exasperatedly at her daughter,

"'Always go to the toilet before we leave the house'" She frowned at her mother,

"Exactly, so when did that rule ever change?" She raised her eyebrows at Louise.

Louise shook her head and continued to stare out the window. After ten minutes they came across a public toilet, and Hermione pulled over to let Louise relieve herself.

She decided to come with her, you never know with public places! Hermione waited outside though, she hated the smell of the loo's doesn't anyone ever clean those things!

Hermione settled down on a bench near to the toilets and waited. Suddenly someone sat beside her. She looked up and gasped,

"Malfoy! What are you doing here?"

His light blue eyes looked her over and he shook his platinum blonde hair out of his eyes,

"I was going for a walk when I saw a familiar face sitting on a bench,"

Hermione nodded,

"How've you been?"

"I've been alright I s'pose, what about you?"

"I've been good." Their conversation was very forced, and formal.

Louise walked out of the toilets at that moment, she saw mum and walked over to her,

"I'm done mummy, can we go to Kiddie camp now!"

"Alright, bye, Draco,"

"Wait a minute, aren't you going to introduce me to your daughter?"

Hermione inwardly groaned, she was just about to reply negatively, but Louise had already run over to Malfoy and was introducing herself to him,

"Hi, my name is Louise Granger, I'm five. Who are you?"

Draco smiled at the girl,

"I'm Draco Malfoy, so are you going to Kiddie Camp?"

She gave a huge smile and nodded.

"I think I used to go to something similar to that, my parents were always to busy working, is that why you're going? Do your parents work?"

"Well, I just have mummy, and she works,"

Draco nodded, he got the information he needed, she was single, hadn't married Weasel and the child was probably his.

Hermione saw the way that Draco was smirking and had realised that he had worked out that this was the child he had heard about when she told him she was pregnant.

"Come on, Honey, we need to get going so you're not late! Say bye to the nice man, bye Draco."

And they left, leaving Draco sitting on the bench watching after his one true love and his beautiful baby daughter.

a/n: So d'ya like it? X iv been finkin bout dis story 4 a while x glad iv started ritin it! X pls review x x x