Together Or Apart, Some are Never Meant To Be
Chapter 3 – A relaxed dinner?
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He left the room and returned a couple of minutes later followed by his friend.
He had platinum blonde hair, was around six foot, and was very handsome, that friend was exactly who Hermione was trying to avoid,
"Malfoy!"
"Hermione!"
They stood staring at each other in shock.
"What are you doing here?!"
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Draco answered first, Hermione was still in shock,
"Well, I'm here to babysit James, and James friend. What are you doing here?"
Hermione glanced at Tom, who was looking inbetween them,
"You two know each other?"
"Unfortunately yes,"
Hermione replied through gritted teeth, Draco frowned,
"C'mon Hermione, I couldn't have been that bad,"
Draco smirked at the look on Hermione's face, she looked furious,
"This may be a wild guess, but do you not like each other?"
"No, we just don't like each other," Hermione said quickly, before Draco had time to respond.
Tom nodded, "So Draco, do you want to go upstairs and check on the kids?"
Draco nodded, then stopped,
"Kids, as in Hermione's child aswell?"
"Yes, I thought I told you that?" Tom frowned,
The blonde smirked,
"Umm, I'm not sure about leaving Louise alone with," she sniffed, "Him,"
Draco's smirk quickly turned to a frown, his face betrayed his emotions,
"Afraid to leave me alone with OUR daughter, Hermione?"
Tom who had just conjured a drink, spat it out,
"What?! First, I find out that you two know each other, but Louise is yours?!"
Hermione nodded gravely, "unfortunately yes,"
"Were you going out, or what?"
Draco answered quickly,
"Well, it all happened rather quickly, we were both drunk on fire whiskey."
Tom nodded, still in shock about what he had just heard. Draco was watching Hermione intently, she didn't seem too sure about leaving Louise, with her dad. It would have seemed odd to anyone else, but Draco knew the situation, and, if it had been him, he wouldn't have left a five year old girl alone with a man like Malfoy.
He looked towards Hermione, his voice serious,
"Are you alright with me looking after the kids tonight? They will only be upstairs."
Hermione looked at him, he seemed so serious and serene she couldn't help but trust him. Even though she knew how untrustworthy he was but there was a certain look in his icy blue eyes that made him sensible.
"Yes, I suppose that would be alright, I don't want to destroy our evening over such a petty thing. But could I come up and check on the children every hour or something?"
Draco smiled, she had agreed to let him stay. He nodded.
"I think that I must go and see how the children are doing." Hermione said,
"I shall come too," Draco said sternly,
"I would love to come too, but I have to keep an eye on the cooking."
Tom said, still frowning slightly at the fact that they knew each other. He left for the kitchen and Hermione and Draco went upstairs, looking for the right room in which the kids were, was completely silent. Hermione was ahead trying to keep away from Draco, she finally found the right room. She entered the pale blue room to find Lu and James sitting on his bed playing a musical instrument, the bed was huge, it was bigger than a King size.
Lu jumped off the bed and ran to her mother, who scooped her up in her arms. Draco entered the room about five seconds later and Lu tilted her head to the side and whispered to her mother,
"Who is he? I recoccnise him."
Hermione smiled at her daughters inability to pronounce 'recognise'.
"Honey, you remember this morning, when we stopped off at the toilet on the way to kiddie camp? He was the man you said hello too."
Louise nodded, Draco smiled at her,
"Hello, you remember me?"
"Yeah, you're the man my mummy knows,"
"That's right, having fun playing with Jamie?"
"We were playing the xylophone, did you hear us?"
Draco grinned at her,
"Yeah, I heard it, what where you playing?"
She smiled mischievously,
"You have to guess!"
"Alright.., how about hot cross buns?"
Louise shook her head with a twinkle in her light blue eyes,
"No! Guess!"
"Umm, what about Three blind mice?"
Louise gasped,
"How did you know? You ruined the game! I don't like you,"
She buried her head in her mother's chest. Hermione laughed at how spoilt her daughter was, in any other circumstances she would have scolded her daughter and made her apologise, but seeing as it was Draco... NO!
"Well, your gonna have to learn too, seeing as I'm going to be babysitting you tonight, while your mummy goes on her, umm, date,"
Hermione looked up just in time to see how much pain it caused him to say that simple sentence. She looked to the floor slightly confused, but remembering what he said on the day of her wedding, "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." She wondered if he had moved on, maybe he had a girlfriend, or maybe he was single.
Mentally she hit herself, she was on a date with this guys best friend, she shouldn't be thinking about if he was single.
"Mummy's gonna have to go downstairs now, so be as nice as you can to Mr Malfoy, okay? I'm just downstairs if you need me, have fun with James,"
Louise nodded and bounced back onto the bed rejoining the small clumsy boy, and began to play three blind mice – the duet!
Back in the kitchen Hermione started to help Tom make the lasagne, she was washing up the dirty dishes and she layed the table.
"So, how do you know Draco?"
Hermione sighed,
"I went to school with him, lets just say we didn't get on well. Then there was a mistake, I don't want to go into details,"
Tom nodded, he didn't mind not knowing everything, there were a few things he didn't want to share with Hermione.
"So what kind of journalism do you do at the Daily Prophet?"
"Mainly intellectual articles, but sometimes I do relaxed pieces, about different types of animals. I'm quite high up in my office so I'm hoping to get promoted once more and become the boss."
She smiled to herself at her hopes. The times suddenly went off startling Hermione, she looked over and breathed in the cheesy goodness of fresh baked lasagne. Tom walked over, picking up his blue checked oven gloves on the way and took it out of the oven. Slicing it on the counter he asked Hermione to get the plates out of the cupboard,
"Sure, where are they?"
"The cupboard just behind you,"
She nodded and turned around opening the cupboard she found the plates stacked neatly beside the glasses, she took out three and handed them to Tom. She leaned in and smelt the tasty lasagne,
"Mmm, smells good, maybe it might out-do my mothers!"
"It just might,"
He scooped portions onto the plates and set them on the table. Pulling out Hermione's chair she laughed at him,
"Quite the gentleman,"
She picked up a bit of the lasagane,
"Oh, this is delicious!"
"I can be quite the chef,"
"Obviously,"
They continued eating dinner when Draco came down proclaiming that both the kids were asleep and that he may as well go home, he'd set up almost like a video camera in the kids bedroom and connected it to the large screen t.v in the living room.
"I'll see ya then Tom," Draco nodded goodbye to him, then he looked over to Hermione, she looked awkward, as if she didn't want to be there.
"Here, I'll take you to the door," Tom said quickly to Draco,
They left the room, walking down a corridor Draco spoke,
"Not like you, wanting to walk me to the door,"
"I didn't want to walk you to the door I just wanted to talk to you about Hermione,"
"Thought as much,"
Tom grinned,
"Well, I don't know what happened between you, but I know one thing, I wanna nail her tonight,"
Draco's face turned from soft to complete anger, he shoved him against the wall,
"Don't ever, EVER say that again!"
Tom a bit knocked out frowned,
"Whats up with you, all I wanna do is get laid tonight,"
At this remark Draco punched him, he howled with the pain of being struck, and fell to floor, unconscious. Hermione having heard all the noise came to find out what was going on.
She gasped,
"What the hell happened?!"
"Get Louise and come with me," Draco said hurriedly,
Hermione frowned,
"Why should I listen to you?"
"No time to explain, just get Louise and come with me!"
He seemed so anxious that Hermione listened to him, she ran upstairs picked Louise from out of the bed and brought her downstairs, thankfully she was still asleep and didn't ask any questions.
"Take my hand, and you'll be alright, quickly before he wakes up,"
She took his outstretched arm and felt the familiar tug at her belly button and she fell to the floor with a crash.
a/n: ok! X phew I finally got that chappi written! X pls review and keep on reading!! X x
jolielf x x