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Forever:

Chapter 3:

After seeing Malfoy, Flint and Nott, Hermione's over active brain starts working. She could not imagine how and why those three were in the Ministry, after all, their fathers was charged as being Death Eaters and found guilty. Even Draco was tried in court, although he was acquitted; thanks to Harry and Ron. Still she would think that Minister Kingsley should have more sense in dealing with those lots. She decided that she would ask Kingsley later of what was going on.

She willed herself not to think of them again, until she talked to Kingsley. When she got to her office and saw how much work she had to do, she sighed. After a week off, her desk was full of folders and her in-box was swimming with notes that she needed to attend to. She shrugged off her travelling cloak and draped it behind her desk and started working right away.

The next few days flashed by fast. Ron and Harry had been gone for a week and a half now. Today was Sunday, and Hermione was due to the Burrow soon. She kicked herself silently for sleeping in late. She was supposed to go to her parents' house for lunch before she had to go to the Burrow. She hastily scribbled a note to her parents telling them that she would not able to make it to lunch today.

She called in their owl and asked to deliver the note to her parents house. After a week of her mum staying with her, they both decided that she should go home for a few days and would come back if Ron is still not home in three days' time. After the owl left, she went into the loo and took a shower. She didn't know that being pregnant would sap her energy, she was tired all the time and hungry too. She was only glad that her morning sickness had passed, she hoped.

Hermione was very happy that she and Ron will have their little bundle of joy. She hoped that Ron would come home soon, she missed him very much. The house felt very empty with her the only inhabitant. While she was getting dressed, she panicked at the thought that Molly might notice that she had gained weight and her stomach was a little bigger than normal. She decided to wear loose clothing, just in case.

ooOOoo

Harry, Ron and the six teams of Aurors came back an hour ago. Ron was beginning to get a bad headache; he just wanted to get home to Hermione as soon as possible. But he knew he could not go home just yet. As Harry was their leader and he was Harry's first hand Lieutenant, Kingsley expected them to write a full report regarding the mission. He could smell himself and he felt disgusted. The team hadn't had a shower in three days and was looking forward to a long hot shower. He looked over at Harry's desk and he too looked as dirty as he was.

"Ugh. I want to go home!" Ron moaned and put down his quill. He rubbed his face with his two hands clearly frustrated. "I'm hungry, mate." He said to Harry.

"Sure. Only you can think of food." Harry chuckled. He too, was getting hungry and very tired. He wanted to go home to Ginny and Jamie; he missed them more with this mission. He remembered the two suspected Death Eaters that they apprehended a couple of days ago and the threat one of them uttered before Ron threw the stunnig spell at him. He sighed in frustration and continued to scratched on his parchment; he wanted to finish this report as soon as possible so that he and Ron could leave sooner rather than later. He looked over to where Ron sat, he too was writing rather fast. He smiled and went back to his own report.

"Well, I'm done with my report. I'll just get my stuff and I'm leaving." Ron said to Harry. He stood from his chair, gathered his rucksack and gathered his report from the table. Harry, too, was done and together they left their office. They walked to the lift, and together went to the Minister's office. Harry and Ron smiled at his secretary when they got there. Harry knocked, and they both walked in.

They stopped on their tracks when they saw that Malfoy was in Kingsley's office. Harry's face was passive when Malfoy looked at him with a smirk, but Ron was a different story.

"Hi Kingsley." Harry greeted the Minister, ignoring Draco.

"Ferret!" Ron hissed.

"Weasel!" hissed Draco back.

Kingsley stood up from his chair, and gave Ron and Draco a look that said, do not try something stupid.

"Ron and I are done. We're going home." Harry said simply, and placed his report on his desk, Ron did the same. Then Harry took Ron's arm and stirred him outside. They went back to the lift, and this time they took it to the main floor. He knew his friend was seething and doesn't blame him for that.

They decided to walk home, and maybe gathered his thoughts. He knew Ron was a little strung up after seeing Malfoy at the Minister's office.

"Stupid git!" Ron burst out. Harry remained quiet. He pulled the collar of his coat to cover his ears, it was unusually cold tonight.

"What do you think he wants with Kingsley? And why was Kingsley even talking to him?" Ron seethed.

"I don't know Ron, but I'm going to find out." Harry said. As they turned to a corner he told Ron that he wanted to go home and see his family. At the mention of home, Ron forgot about Draco and got excited of seeing Hermione again. They apparated each to their own destination.

It was 10:00 pm when Ron got home. He first checked the ward before going inside the house. He quietly walked in; he put his rucksack down and took his filthy travelling cloak. He went upstairs quietly to see if Hermione was asleep. He opened the bedroom door quietly and peeked in. She was asleep alright, softly snoring. He went downstairs into the kitchen to get food.

After he ate he went into the bathroom and took a long hot shower. He massaged his shoulders to get his tired muscles to relax. When he was finished he quietly got a pair of pajama bottoms, and got into bed with Hermione.

Hermione woke up groggily and noticed a warm body beside her. Ron's arm was draped over her waist and she smiled. She was amazed at herself for not waking up when he got home. She snuggled closely to his warm body and he did the same unconsciously.

Hermione shivered uncharacteristically and opened her eyes slowly, looked at the alarm clock on the table beside the bed and saw that it was 6:45 in the morning. She saw that their bedroom window was slightly ajar. She got out of bed and closed them. She kissed the sleeping form of Ron on their bed, and rubbed her belly absently and went in the loo to get ready for work.

She was preparing breakfast when Ron walked in the kitchen. He had a big smile on his face when he saw his wife.

"Hey beautiful." Ron said and walked to her and gave her a kiss and a hug. He lingered with her for a few minutes before looking at her proper. Then a silly grin pure of love registered in his freckled face.

"Hello my son." He whispered as he bent down and kissed Hermione's belly. He also noticed that she was showing a little bit already. Hermione giggled at him.

"Son?" Hermione asked smiling wide.

"Yes. He was going to be Gideon Bilius Weasley!" Hermione looked scandalized at the name Ron came up with. Ron was grinning wickedly when he saw his wife's reaction.

"Oh Ron. That is the most…I don't know stupidest name. I mean…I love your middle name, but Gideon Bilius? Plus we don't know yet if it's a girl or a boy, and even if we have a boy I'm not sure I would want to name him that." Ron pretended to looked hurt and clutched his chest.

"Hermione! I thought it was the most endearing name and manly name." They both knew he was joking and they laughed so hard together, Hermione was clutching her sides. When they sobered up. Ron asked her if she had already seen a healer.

"Mum and I went last week. We went to a Muggle doctor. I asked her to." Hermione added when he saw the look on Ron's face.

"Why?"

"Because I don't want anyone to find out yet, that I'm pregnant until us- you and I announced it together to your family." Hermione said.

"Okay, then." Ron replied and kissed her.

"Did the healer tell you how many months are you pregnant?" Hermione nodded and said,

"I'm almost thirteen weeks pregnant."

After they had discussed how they're going to tell his parents, Hermione left for work.

To Hermione's opinion the week crawled as slowly as a snail's pace, but the flurry of activities at her work made Hermione even more temperamental. Some of the potions they were analyzing were either had lack of ingredients or too much.

She snapped at one of her assistants for a reason she couldn't even remember. After that incident, she had trouble concentrating on what she was doing; it also didn't help when just this morning she snapped at Ron as well for making too much noise while eating breakfast. Her mum said that, her being snappy and irrational is sometimes part of being pregnant because of the raging hormones.

She sighed and was glad that it was already Friday; she had a week-end to make up with Ron and to just relax. She felt awful all day, having too much work to do. She was glad two of her reports that was due next week was done, and she had only need to write the report on the Potions that they had received two days ago from the Ministry of Magic in Romania.

Hermione was concentrating writing on a parchment when she heard a knock. She looked up and asked who it was. Her assistant poked her head in.

"This just came in. It was delivered by owl." She said.

Hermione's eyes furrowed and took the note from her. They usually don't let an owl delivered notes. The note was sealed on what looked like blood? Curious, Hermione slit opened the enveloped and read the contents. She gasped and dropped the notes on the table. She balled her fists to prevent them from shaking.

She took a deep breath and with her wand she levitated the note in front of her so that she could read it without touching it again.

'This is your warning:
Do not poke around where your Mudblood nose was not concerned'

Then She remembered that day more than two weeks ago when she saw Marcus and Thomas talking with Draco. She would bet her galleons that those men had something to do with it, she just was not sure who would send such a note and how did it pass through security. Kingsley assured her that Draco was not doing illegal; in fact, he had told her that his family and Astoria's are planning to donate galleons to St. Mungo's. He also assured her that he would look into it why Flint and Nott was in the vicinity to which he said concerned him very much.

She had forgotten about that day and his conversation with Kingsley. She should have followed up with if he did indeed looked into why the sons of convicted Death Eaters were at the Ministry that day. She remembered Professor Moody's mantra of constant vigilance, and felt a wave of shame.

Hermione knew that there were still witches and wizards out there who still support Voldemort, they may not be in the open, but she knows they were out there. She thought for a long time what she would do with the letter and the threat. In the end she decided not to tell Ron and the family, until she had more solid proof that it is indeed a threat.

Hermione decided to leave early, her head beginning to ache. She gathered her notes and her bag and walked out of her office, telling her assistant that she was leaving when she passed her desk. She walked to the lift and took it into the Atrium lobby, from there she went to the apparition point and apparated to their house.

Ron stumbled into the living room of their house exhausted after a grueling training he and Harry taught that day the new Auror recruits. Harry did the dueling techniques and he did the tactical techniques. Hermione poked her head out from the kitchen door and saw her husband wiping the soot's off his robes.

"Hey sweetie." Hermione greeted him with a smile. He walked over to her and gave her a kiss and then bent down to do the same to her belly. "Hello there, Bilius." Hermione giggled and smacked him playfully on his arm.

"I will not have you call our baby Bilius." Ron kissed her full on the mouth chuckling.

"Dinner will be ready in about fifteen minutes. You can go and freshen up if you want." Hermione said putting the last minute touched on dinner.

They went to bed that night discussing what they should name the baby. Hermione reminded him that they had an appointment to a healer in St. Mungo's next week. Ron was excited to tell everyone that he will be a dad soon. And proceeded to tell his wife that his brother's and Harry are not the only one how to make a baby. This earned him a smacked on the arm. He chuckled and gathered his wife into his arms and kissed her. They made love that night and fell asleep in each other's arms.

A/N: Chapter three's done. Thank you all who read and left reviews. Special thank you shout out to: Galatea Black, rhmac12 and NazChick. Please if you are reading this…would you mind if you maybe, a leave a review? No flames though. If you don't like it, I ask you politely to not read it again. Happy reading! Cheers!