-1Disclaimer I don't own the characters. Except Adrian… And the other ones I made up.

Ginny rushed around the kitchen, frantically trying to find her keys. "The numbers for my work, my cell phone, poison control, the police, 911, the fire department, and his regular day care are all on the refrigerator. I will be home at 5:00; don't worry about dinner, I will make it when I get home from work. Where are those keys!" She said looking in the same place that she had only a few minutes ago. Ginny was nervous, to say the absolvent least, about leaving Draco to watch Adrian while she was at work. Draco had never shown much of a interest in kids, let alone an ability to successfully watch one for more than a few minutes.

"Ginny," Draco said, handing her the keys that had been resting in the fruit bowl, though how they would have gotten there was completely beyond Draco. "Everything will be fine. And if you don't leave soon, you will be late for work."

"Your right." She said, as she started to walk to the front door. "Make sure that he eats breakfast, and if he wants to go to the park, make sure that he wears a jacket. I do not want him getting a cold. And-" She was cut off by Draco opening the door and putting his hand on her back.

"Bye Gin…" He said gently pushing her out the door. He leaned against the door, his arms crossed. Typical Ginny, always worried about every single detail, thinking that everything that could go wrong, would go wrong.

"Why are you smiling?" Came Adrian's voice from out of no where. Draco turned around to see Adrian standing in the middle of the hall in his pajamas, his platinum blonde hair still messy from sleep.

"I was just thinking of when your mom left her old cat with me for the weekend." He said, laughing under his breath. Ginny had went with Granger to some resort for the weekend and she left the cat with him. It ran away only two hours after Ginny had left, the cat never came back, even when Draco tried to conjure it.

"Do you love my mommy?" Adrian asked, tipping his head to the head slightly, a trait that was very Ginny.

"Yes I do, very much."

"Why don't you get married then?"

"I wish that I could but its not that simple."

"Why not?"

"Because there are some people back in England that wouldn't like your mommy and I to be married, let alone be friends."

"Like who?"

"I don't think I should be the one to tell you all of this."

"Why not? You're my daddy, right?"

"Well yes but-"

"Then why cant you?"

"Its not that I cant, its just that I don't know if your mom wants you to know all of it and I don't want to tell you it if she doesn't want you to know."

"Why?"

"Because?"

"Because why?"

Draco was at a loss for words. Adrian looked as if he could go on like that for hours. He may look like Draco, but from what he could tell, Adrian was more like Ginny, personality wise.

"Let's go eat breakfast." Draco said, heading for the kitchen, not waiting to see if Adrian followed.

"Okay!" Was Adrian's cheerful response. "Your name is funny. So is the way you talk. Why do you talk funny?"

The rest of the day went by uneventfully, with Adrian asking Draco something, Draco answering, then they would go back and forth for a while before Draco changed the subject and Adrian would forget it completely. Draco wondered as they colored if it was possible that Adrian had that muggle disease, ADD or something like that.

They were coloring at the kitchen table when Adrian suddenly put down his coloring crayons and told Draco simply: "I want to go to the park."

Draco looked at the clock. "Your mom is going to be home in a little while, don't you want to wait for her before we go to the park?"

"She doesn't like to go to the park. It makes her sad." Adrian said, putting away his crayons and taking his favorite drawing and putting it on the refrigerator next to another picture that he had drawn of what Draco assumed was Ginny, either her or a giant cat with lots and lots of fur.

"Why does it make her sad? Me and your mom used to go a park near my flat all the time. She loved the park." Draco said, looking threw his own pitiful drawings.

"I don't know.. I think its because she missed you." He came back to the table and smiled. "But now she doesn't have to be sad! I have a daddy now! And you can make that man Freddy go away!"

Draco smiled too. "Yes, you do have a daddy now. Go get on your jacket while I write your mom a letter telling her that we are at the park, okay?" Draco watched as Adrian ran into the hallway and got his jacket on, than ran back before Draco had even found a piece of paper to write on. "Where does your mommy keep the parchment around here?"

Adrian looked confused. "What's parchment? Mommy keeps the paper in that drawer over there." He said, pointing to a drawer only a few feet away from where Draco was standing,

Draco walked over to where Adrian had pointed to and sure enough, there was paper and a pen. He wrote out a letter to Ginny explaining that they were going to the park and that they would be home soon, before dinner even.

They walked to the park that was just down the street. Everything is just down the street in this town.. Draco thought as they walked across the street and over to the park. Draco noticed as they walked, that he got many stares. That's because they think that you are kidnapping Adrian.

When they reached the park, Draco took one look at the children's play area and was shocked. There was only one slide, that had about 5 kids waiting in line to slide down it, two swings, with at least 4 kids waiting in line for each swing, and a marry go round like thing, that had tons of kids on it. And that was not the worst of it, the swings had only two of the four swings, the slide had missing steps, and the merry go round was rickety.

"It's pathetic isn't it?" A woman in a dark blue sweater asked. Draco observed the woman carefully, she was somewhat young still, about 35 he guessed. Her brown hair was up in a high pony tail and her hands were in her pockets.

"Yea, its terrible that the kids only have this to play with." Said another woman who had heard there conversation as she ran past them after a little girl.
"This can't be the only park in the whole town?" Draco asked, shocked at the state of the otherwise perfect park. There were beautiful flowers in bloom, the grass was green and cut, and there was almost no trash anywhere that Draco could see.

"Yea it is, and the sad thing is that the city won't do anything about the park. They don't have enough money to "waste it on children who don't know the difference anyway,'" She said the woman with the high pony tail and brown hair. The other woman, who had been chasing her daughter, came over and stood next to Draco. The two woman were shaking their heads in dismay.

"So, which one is yours?" The first one asked, referring to the children that were running and swinging and playing all around them and the other parents.

"He's that one right there." He pointed to Adrian, who was currently sitting on the ground petting a big bushy brown cat, one that seemed very pleased to be receiving attention. He waited for the woman to say something, but neither of them said anything, they just kept looking at each other nervously.

"Umm.. I suppose then, that you would be…" The second woman said, wringing her hands and looking back at the woman next to Draco.

"What Jenna here is trying to ask is, well, is… Your Adrian's father?" The first woman inquired.

"Well, normally I go by Draco but you can call me that if you want…" He replied. Word sure gets around here fast… He thought. But before either of them could say anything, Adrian started motioning to him wildly.

"Dad! Come look! A kitty!" He said stilling motioning like crazy to Draco, who was walking over to him. Adrian picked and ran towards Draco, who was amazed by his amount of energy. The cat did not look too happy about this. Adrian brought the cat over to Draco and began to play with it. "Why aren't you petting the kitty, Daddy?" He asked, pouting just the slightest.

"Cats don't really like me…" Draco said kneeling down by the cat and petting it. The cat looked annoyed that Draco had began to pet it. There's something weird about this cat… Draco thought as he pet its bushy brown fur. Brown, bushy fur… It seems very annoyed that I am anywhere near it… Big brown eyes, and equally large front teeth… That sounds a lot like…

"Granger.." Draco said aloud, the cat looked up, strait at Draco, it seemed to be… well, glaring at him. Draco knew at that moment that his assumption was correct.

"What?" Adrian said, looking at Draco curiously.

"Nothing.. This cat just reminds me of your mothers friend back where I live." Draco said standing up and wiping off his knees and praying that the dirt would come out of his expensive black slacks.

"Mommy doesn't have friends where you live!" Adrian said with a laugh. Draco laughed too. "Daddy! Can I keep this kitty?" He added a pout to the innocent face and Draco couldn't say no any more than he could say no when Ginny asked him to watch that damned cat.

Draco didn't know what to say. He didn't mind, as long as it stayed a cat. "I don't care, but you'll have to ask your mom." He had a sudden mental image of Granger eating from a cat bowl full of disgusting cat food. Draco could hardly suppress a smile.

"Can we go ask her now?" Adrian said, looking extremely excited.

They walked back to the house, with the cat following them. "If mommy says I can keep it, I'm going to name it Granger! Like Mommy's friend!" Adrian said, swinging his arms happily. Draco once again, tried very hard not to laugh. He didn't know whether Ginny would make the connection but he hoped she wouldn't, just to torture Granger.

They walked into the house and smelled the sweet aroma coming from the kitchen. Draco bent down so that he was at the same eye level as Adrian. "You stay here with the kitty for a few minutes. I will try and butter your mom up so that she cant say no, okay?"

Adrian smiled and tickled the cats stomach as Draco went into the kitchen. When he walked in, he saw Ginny by the stove, stirring something with a wooden spoon with one hand and opening the oven and checking on whatever was in there with the other hand. She seemed very busy, but did that stop Draco from interrupting what she was doing? No way!

"Hi Gin!" Draco said as he walked over to the counter that was by Ginny and leaned on it. He took a large whiff of what she was cooking and smiled, Ginny was an amazing cook.

"Hi." Ginny muttered as she flipped through the pages of a cook book, while still stirring what Draco could now see was soup of some kind. Draco didn't know what to talk about first, the cat, or the fact that everyone in town knows that he was Adrian's dad and he was here for the first time in five years.

"Ginny.. Remember how you used to have a cat." He started, obviously starting with the cat.

"You mean before it ran away when you were watching it?" She said, reading her cook book.

"Yea…" Draco said, wishing that the whole world would just forget about that one blunder, "Don't you remember how much you LOVED that cat? How much you loved having someone to be with you in the middle of the night when you were afraid? Someone to love you no matter what?" Ginny was not paying attention, she was too busy stirring the soup and flipping the pages of the cook book.

Draco took out his wand and said a spell, the spoon started to move by itself. He said another spell, and the cook book went flying out of the room, landing in the middle of the living room.

"DRACO!" Ginny yelled in frustration.

"What?" He said, putting on an innocent face.

"That is one thing that I do not miss about magic. Now what were you saying?" She said, sitting down at the table. Watching the doorway to the living room carefully, hoping that Adrian didn't walk in anytime soon.

"I was saying about how much you loved having your cat before you gave it away!" He said taking the seat across from her at the table, hoping that she would not bring up that it ran away.

"You mean before it ran away." Ginny said, smiling.

"Same thing. But don't you remember how much you loved it? How you loved how it always loved you no matter what? And how whenever you were scared at night, you always had that cat to sleep with?"

"Draco.. I think that the last five years may have warped to your memory."

"Why do you say that?" He said looking confused.

"Draco.. I only kept that cat because Hermione got it for me because she thought that I loved cats.. I cant stand those beasts. And besides, that cat was evil. Remember when it tried to climb up my leg? I don't know what Hermione was thinking when she got me that horrible beast. Well, obviously she wasn't-" At that moment, the cat ran through the room and jumped on the counter, Adrian followed close behind it.

"No no no! Bad kitty cat! Very bad kitty cat!" He said taking him from off the counter. He was holding the cat awkwardly, with his forearms on the cats back, forcing its legs to be dangling in mid air. He buried his face in the cats stomach, as the cat squirmed, trying to get away from him.

"What… Where did you get that cat?" Ginny said, looking from Draco to Adrian back to Draco.

"We found it at the park mommy! Daddy said that I could keep it!" Adrian said, but it can out muffled because he had his face buried in the cats fur.

"He did, did he?" Ginny said looking angrily at Draco. Draco contemplated disappearing so that he would escape Ginny's wrath.

"Well, yes I said that I didn't mind if he kept it but I told him that if you didn't mind, then we could keep it! It would sure be nice for Adrian to have something to play with instead of going to the park and waiting forever to play on those terrible swings or that slide." Ginny didn't look angry anymore. Which Draco figured was a very good thing, as Ginny was scary when she was mad. Hot, yes, but also very, very scary.

"We could keep it?" Ginny said as Adrian plopped the cat on her lap.

"Pet it mommy! It likes you! I have a name for it too! Want to know it mommy? Wanna know the cats name? I named it myself! Its name is Granger! Daddy said that it reminded him of your friend but I told him that you didn't have friends." He giggled at his little joke and continued to pet the cat lovingly.

"Okay.. Okay.. You can keep the cat. But first we need to go and get some cat food and a litter box and all those things that cats need." She said, warming up to the cat quickly. "Is it a boy or a girl?"

"It's a girl." Draco answered, smiling.

"Okay! Well I am going to go to the store and get all that! Draco will you watch dinner? It should almost be done."

"I want to come with mommy! I want to come with!" Adrian begged, pulling at him mothers shirt. "I wanna get the kitty a fun toy to play with! Can we mommy? Can we please get the kitty a toy?"

"Okay Adrian, you can come. But no candy. I mean it this time too. Your cute little puppy dog eyes wont work on me this time..." Ginny said as they walked out to the car. Draco knew that those cute little eyes of his would work on Ginny, no matter how much she said otherwise.

Draco waited until he could no longer hear the cars engine. He got off his chair and stood in front of the cat, who was rolling around, enjoying all the attention that it had been getting.

"Okay Granger, their gone. You can stop being a damn cat." As soon as he said that, the cat began to transform into a human. The pointy "If you wanted to come with me to see Ginny you could have asked. You didn't have to pretend to be a cat." He said, looking amused at her ruffled hair and equally messy clothes. "Granger, why are you here? And why didn't you show yourself to Ginny?"

"I didn't want to be on the bad end of Ginny's anger! Besides, someone had to watch you and make sure you didn't kill that kid." She said, pressing her hand on her hair trying to flatten it.

"Oh please! Like I would kill Adrian!" Draco cried in protest.

"I didn't say that you would do it on purpose." She said, walking to Ginny's bathroom and using her brush to comb out her hair which was even more bushy and untamed than usual.

"I am not that stupid Granger! It was only a few hours! You seriously underestimate me." He said, following her into the bathroom and sitting on the toilet, thankfully both lids where down.

"You made Ginny's cat run away in less than that." She muttered cleaning spell on her teeth and her clothes. Draco cursed the day that Granger ever got Ginny that stupid cat.

"Why does everyone keep bringing that up? It was a cat! Not my son!" He said standing up and pacing.

"WHAT?" Hermione yelled looking like someone had just said that the earth was made of ketchup or that Voldemort was really a fluffy chicken.

"Keep your voice down Granger! We don't want the neighbors to hear you!" He said as he walked over to the chair where Ginny had been sitting when he found out about Adrian.

"Did you say your son?" Draco nodded. "But.. I thought you said that you guys never.." She was sitting in the seat that Draco had been sitting in. That's a funny little coincidence… He thought, as he noticed their seating arrangements.

"Yea… when I was talking to you, you looked angry that we had been dating and she hadn't told you and I didn't want you to curse me. And it was only once so I figured that there was no reason for me to be castrated if it was only one time..." He replied nervously.

Hermione looked awestruck. "Is that why.." She asked, and Draco nodded.

"She was afraid of how everyone would react. She didn't want you all to hate her like you hated me." He retorted. Hermione was silent. Draco was looking at her pointedly, knowing that she was feeling bad about driving Ginny to moving because she was afraid that they would hate her.

Suddenly she brought her head up and sniffed. "Do you smell something burning?" Draco swore under his breathe and rushed to the stove to find a charred chicken resting in the middle of the stove.

"You wouldn't happen to know any spells to fix this would you?" He asked the witch standing behind him.

"Kind of.." She said with a smile.

When Ginny and Adrian got home they put the bags full of the things for Hermione in animagus form on the couch next to Hermione, who was laying on the couch, soaking up the sun rays from the window. Ginny called out that they were home, then went into the kitchen to find Draco.

"Draco, you didn't burn dinner did you? Because that-" She stopped when she saw that the table was filled with food, food that she had not cooked. Food that she hadn't had in 5 years. "Draco… How did you…?"

Draco stood up and put the cat on the floor. "Well, I accidentally burned the chicken and I didn't want you to have to make dinner again. So I tried to remember a… umm… recipe that my mother used to use to make very good food and here it is!" He announced.

They ate their dinner, Ginny more than Draco and Adrian combined, while the cat ate cat food from its brand new bowl. Karma is so sweet, isn't it Granger? He thought as he watched her eat from he bowl. Despite the enjoyment he got from watching Granger eat cat food, he had promised that he would save her some food for her to eat later on while Ginny and Adrian were sleeping. But the way that Ginny way going it looked as if he would have to conjure more food if he wanted at least one pumpkin pasty saved.

"Ginny, I think you might want to slow down. You don't want to get a stomach ache." Draco insisted, sometimes Draco marveled at how nice he was. He didn't even like Granger and he was making sure that she didn't have just cat food for dinner. He had gotten soft.

Adrian giggled, "Yea Mommy! Don't want to get a tummy ache." To this Ginny smiled and put down the pumpkin pasty that was in her hand.

"Your right, I should stop being such a pig. But this food is so good! It tastes just like my mothers cooking!" Ginny responded, looking a little home sick. "Well, Adrian, why don't you go play with Granger. And don't feed it any scraps from the table!" Draco smirked at Ginny's last comment.

As they began to clear the table, Ginny hummed and Draco watched Ginny. She was just as beautiful was she was 5 years ago. She looked pretty much the same, but her hair wasn't as long and she looked older and more mature.

"Ginny, I know I've brought this up before, and you said that you didn't know, but I really think that you should go back to England for a little while. Not forever, but long enough to see your family and friends. And for them to meet Adrian. I don't think that anyone would care about me if they saw you again! And who couldn't love Adrian? " Draco suggested again.

"Draco, do you really want me to take Adrian to my family? There is no way that they won't know that you are his father. Do you really want them to know about what went on between us? Ron would kill you." She said as she turned on the water and began to rinse off the dishes, then load the dished into the dishwasher.

"That is a risk I am willing to take." He said, taking some dishes off the table and setting them next to the sink. Ginny turned around and looked at him.

"Are you really okay with that? That no one is going to like it? Ron and Harry are going to try to beat you up. And my mom will cry and my dad will shout at you. The twins.." Ginny cringed, just thinking about what the twins might do to him. "Draco this is exactly what we were trying to avoid."

"Ginny, I don't care about any of that. Your family and friends miss you! And they have a right to know about Adrian and about what happened between us. I can't just disappear without a trace like you did. And I will not leave you and Adrian. I want to be with you and I want to be with Adrian. And if that is the only thing that is keeping me from knowing my son then it is a risk that I will take. And besides, its time that we take responsibility for our actions. We are older now, we don't have to be afraid of what other people will think!"

Ginny stood in front of Draco and stared into his grey eyes. She felt herself lean in to kiss him. Their lips were only centimeters away from each other when Adrian came running into the room with the cat.

"Mommy! Look what I taught it!" He said, turning to the cat and saying: Dance. The cat stood on all fours and moved back and forth and bobbed its head. Ginny laughed and so did Draco. Granger, I am going to have one hell of a time with you when we get back, he thought as he watched the cat dance.

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Two days later, Ginny, Adrian, and Draco were on a plane heading for England. Draco was sitting between Ginny and Adrian, who was taking a nap on Draco's lap. The seat that he was supposed to be sitting in had a coloring book. a box of Adrian's color crayons, a toy truck, and a small pillow that one of the stewardesses had given him to use. They all lay forgotten, almost as forgotten as Granger who was either holed up in a cat carrier in the back of the plane. Unless of course she had brains and apparated out of it.

"I still don't see why you wouldn't let me apparate us there." Draco muttered, trying to get comfortable, which was impossible with the way that Adrian was laying on him.

"Adrian has never side along apparated, let alone see any magic. I didn't want him to get afraid. Besides, this way we get to enjoy a nice movie while we fly." Ginny said smiling.

Draco rolled his eyes and tried to fall asleep but soon found that he could not fall asleep without waking up Adrian. He leaned his head over to watch the movie with Ginny, who was completely engrossed in it. Before he knew it, Ginny was asleep on his other shoulder. Draco looked around the plane and saw that there weren't that many people on the plane. Probably because Ginny insisted on it being the one at 2:00 in the morning.

There was an elderly woman that was sitting across the isle, smiling at Draco. "What a cute young family!" He heard her whisper to her husband that was sitting on the other side of her. He smiled and looked at his son and the woman that he wished was his wife. It was the perfect family. Mother, Father and son. Draco wondered if it would ever be that easy for them.

Draco put his head on Ginny's and closed his eyes, within a few minutes he was asleep fast asleep.

A few hours later he, Ginny and Adrian were getting on the plane and getting directions to a train station so that they could take a train to where Ginny's parents lived. The train ride turned out to be a lot like the plane ride, Ginny and Adrian both fell asleep on him.

Hey guys! Sorry that it took so long to update! I was experiencing some major writers block and could not think of anything to write. And when I did I didn't have time! But now that it is summer there will be chapters coming out more often! Thanks for all the reviews! Hope you liked this chapter!

HAHA.. That was such a LIE! I am sorry btw.. For like totally stopping the whole story. BUT! I only have ONE more chapter to rewrite before a NEWWWWWWWWW chapter comes. Before I leave you all I must ask you something: WHY DOES CHICKEN SOUP MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER!?!?!? I must know. Someone tell me.