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A/N: I love the reviews so keep them coming. For those of you who point out my spelling mistakes I am looking into getting a beta reader as I've heard they are amazing. Also I'd like to point out that my computer completely crashed and I lost everything on it, including Microsoft Word and my best friend, the spell-checker! Oh the inhumanity of it all. So... yeah, please bear with me, slowly but surely I'm getting there.

Chapter Warnings: There is a little time jump in this chapter but only a little one. I just wanted to get to Christmas because otherwise Draco and Elloisa never get there. Also for those of you who tear up easily, watch out for this chapter.

Chapter 4: A Plan For Christmas

Over the next couple of weeks, Draco and Elloisa grew increasingly close. So close that Elloisa had taken to climing into Draco's bed with him when she was scared or sad or if she'd had a nightmare. She was introduced to Draco's parents, who had both fallen in love with her, and were both as equally shocked by what the Ministry was trying to do as Draco had been.

Truth be told Draco loved the little girl so much that when he thought about the Ministry he always went on the defensive. He thought everything over and his father had done some research into the law that stated the Ministry had the right to do that. No loop hole was found and the closer to Christmas it got the smaller the chance of saving Elloisa.

Not that Draco ever let on to her that anything was wrong. She had done what he had suggested and written a letter to Santa, which she had given to one of the nurse's to post for her. Later that night when she was asleep they brought it too Draco who opened it and actually cried because of what was written.

To Santa

My name is Elloisa Cromwell and I am living in Saint Mungo's hospital

on the childrens ward. I was wondering if you would maybe like to

come over some time and have a drink of milk and a mince pie with

me and my really good friend Draco. He was the one who told me to

write this to you. He said that I was special and that you always

have time for special little boys and girls. Don't worry if you don't have

time though, I know your busy right now.

Draco also said that I should ask you for some things for Christmas

but there is only one thing that I want and I know you can't help me

with that. But Draco said to trust you and I listen to him so can I

please have a family for Christmas. My Mummy died of cancer just

before I was bitten by that big, scary dog-thing, and I never had a

dad so if you can do it, please can I have a family for Christmas.

Oh yeah, can I please have a new dolly as well please.

Thank you very much

Love From

Elloisa

XX

After wiping his eyes on his bed-shirt sleeve, Draco found he had a new resolve to help Elloisa.

That night he had fallen into a horrid nightmare where the Ministry came to take her away from him. She had screamed for her daddy to come and help her, to save her from the nasty man, but no daddy had come. Then a particularly terrified scream filled the room in his dream and he looked over to see Elloisa trying to pull away from the nasty man who was injecting something into her arm. The fatal silver injection.

After they had finished pumping her full of the liquid silver, the dream version of himself, ran over to the quietly sobbing girl, and picked her up in his arms and craddled her against his chest, tears spilling down his cheeks and onto her hair. She was almost completely dead, but somehow she managed to looked up into his eyes and with her last breath she whispered, "why didn't you save me daddy?" before life escaped her compeletly.

The next day Draco knew what he needed to do and so he sat and waited for his parents to turn up like they did everyday so that he could put his plan into action.

Finally when his parents arrived he drew the curtains and asked his father to put up a privacy spell. That done Draco returned to his bed and waited patiently for his parents to settle in their chairs before starting what he expected to be a long and tiring argument.

"Mum, Dad, I want to adopt Elloisa." He said simply and instead of regreting his words once they had left his mouth he actually felt better. He was doing the right thing and he knew it.

"Thought you'd say that so I had these made up for you," Lucius said, shocking his son to the core when he placed in front of his the neccessary adoption papers. "They are all filled in a ready to you and Elloisa just need to sign once each and then two independent witnesses need to sign under that," Lucius said confidently pointing to the places where the signatures were needed. "You're mother has already started changing one of the basement rooms, and put wards around it so she will have somewhere to go to transform." Lucius stated and a shocked Draco shifted his shocked eyes from his fathers calm and impassive face to his mothers beaming one.

"Never have I been more proud to call you my son then when I realised what lengths you'd go to just to keep that little girl safe, and she truely is the sweetest little thing in the world." She said as if that was the be all and end all of all or any argument that may be raised.

Shocked beyond all words, Draco gave his parents one more look, before throwing himself at that in a very Elloisa-like guesture of happiness before remembering himself and pulling back with a slight blush on his cheeks.

"I have a few more things to ask of you though." Draco said quietly hoping he wasn't pushing his luck. He reached under his pillow and pulled out a very worn letter to father Christmas from Elloisa and silently handed it to his parents, before sitting back to watch their faces.

Narcissa and Lucius read the letter together and as predicted reacted in totally different ways. Narcissa looked like she was about to start crying and looked behind her chair in hope to see the little girl there so she could hig her.

Lucius on the other hand looked as though he just been sent on a mission as important and as crutial as any the Dark Lord had sent him on. He slowly rose from his chair and took Narcissa's hand to help her rise up to. She looked at her husband questioningly but he simply turned away and addressed Draco. "We have to leave now, son. We have to go shopping for a dolly and find a Santa from somewhere. We should be back again tomorrow lunch time, but if we aren't it is only because Santa is really an elusive old fat man." He said calmly as if this were something he did everyday.

Narcissa looked like she wanted to leap on his and kissing his face all over, but refrained herself much to Draco's relief, and Draco just smiled warmly at his parents knowing that they would make this Christmas the best in histories records for one very speical little girl.

A/N: So.... what do you think? I know it was a little short but I didn't dare carry on when that ending was soooooo perfect. Please leave me an early christmas pressy by pressing that little review button. Go on you know you want to ;-)