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A/N:

I re-edited the other chapter and the most changes were made to chapter 4 or the ball chapter. Nothing significant was changed.

I'm not 100% confident with this chapter but I hope you like!

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Flashbacks are in italics.


Draco was extremely tired. His new medical company was draining him as decreasingly increasing rate. MMMA was open for about four years now and since it became the 'best private magical association' but Which Healer magazine the private practice was now demanding more of everyone especially its CEO. The patients coming to the private practice was doubled as its only competition was St. Mungo's.

After washing his hands he made his way to an easy looking Hermione in the kitchen. He wanted to ask about it but he thought against prying.

"It's time for dinner. I'm hungry what about you?" Draco asked sounding more uneasy than he would have liked.

She nodded and gave a small smile. "Sit I'll bring you your dinner. You look incredibly tired."

"I am but really I can get my own food. You don't have to." Draco insisted.

"I will get it just sit at the table Malfoy." She said and pushed him toward the dining room table.

Draco took his regular seat at the head of the table and waited for Hermione. When Hermione entered; she smiled and placed an empty plate in front of Draco as they sat down to eat. "There's no food on this plate" He said.

She gave him smile and placed a small green pea in his plate.

"What are you doing?" He asked as he watched the pea on the empty plate.

She leaned closer to him and whispered into his ear; "That's how small our baby is right now."

Draco eyes widen in amazement. "What? Are you telling me that you are pregnant?"

"I am pregnant." Hermione said the same time as Draco asked "you are pregnant?"

He got up and picked her up and twirled her around his smiles getting bigger by the moment. He stopped twirling her and embraced her in a tight embrace. He pulled away from her a little and looked at her in the eye. He didn't know what came over him but he kissed her and she kissed back.

He pushed the thought out of his mind as he watched the gifts of his secretary in front of him. He had gotten her a grey traveling crib which doubled as a baby bag with ample space for diapers, wipes, bottles and everything else you would keep in a baby's bag. The bag was filled with everything that it could hold and a small blanket for the crib. The gift had been all Hermione's work and he had to admit he liked what she chose.

He returned the gift back to its original shrunken size and held it in his hands and then placed his hands behind him. He walked out of his office and made his way to Amanda.

Amanda was a five foot two inches woman with an extremely small built. She had dark brown hair she dyed red. She was no more than ninety-five pounds tops. Despite being his secretary the pair had quickly become friends and Draco knows a lot of his success was due to her organization and skills to keep him and at ease.

"Amanda." He said as he reached her desk.

"Yes Mr. Malfoy?" She said briefly looking up from the financial year end report she was preparing on his behalf.

"Could you stop for a moment?" She nodded and complied. "Well I am extremely pleased you are starting this chapter of your life as a parent. My wife and I want to give you a little something that we hope will come in handy when you do give birth." He said and took the gift out from behind him and rested it on her desk and enlarged it. "Plus it's a bribe. Please don't go next month. I can't run this place without you." Draco added quickly as she watched the gift in amazement.

"Thank you so much Mr. Malfoy! I've been wanting one but I wasn't sure if it was worth the money. Thank you so much you didn't have to!" She said and gave him a quick hug.

"Don't be silly! I had to! You're more than an employee you're like a friend."

"Thank you Mr. Malfoy." She said again and smiled at the gift on her desk. "I've been looking into my replacement. I have a few good persons who can hold the position but I will pass that on to the hiring department. Trust me those six months will go by so quickly."

"I hope so!" Draco sighed. "Go home. Relax, you're carrying a baby for crying out loud."

"I am aware and that doesn't make me incapable of my job."

"I know. I'm sorry if I made it seem like I was implying that." Draco quickly responded. "I just know how excited and my wife was when she was pregnant. I'm sure you want to go home and work on the nursery or eat ice cream?"

She giggled at his suggestion. It was true but she didn't want to indulge. "I have this report to finish sir."

"Finish it tomorrow. Go home." Draco ordered. She smiled and started to put her things away as Draco turned back to his office.

Draco sat in his office reading over a text on Memory Potions and making notes trying to think of a new way to produce them same results without using such expensive ingredients. He was failing.

He looked up from his work and thought about her- Astoria Greengrass the love of his life. His forbidden fruit. She never judged him for his involvement in the war she treated him like a person. A real person. That's what he loved about her the most.

There was a small knock on the Mahogany doors of the office at the manor. Draco stared at the door. "What the hell does mother want now, at this hour?" He wondered as there was another knock a little louder.

"Come in and stop knocking. You're going to give me a headache mother." He said loud enough so that she could hear behind the door.

The door opened to show a small female frame. Defiantly not his mother or mistress; it was his wife. Her hair was pulled into a braid down her back and she wore a big plain grey t-shirt and black loose pants.

"Granger, what is it? I am working." He coldly asked.

"No you weren't." She said as she moved into the office and sat down across from him. "We've been married for about five years now and well I think it's time we start to be real friends." Draco watched her in confusion as she stumbled over the words. "The media is hammering me about childr-."

"Oh you just want me in your pants. I understand." Draco smirked. This was a conversation he knew was coming and he was going to tease her endless.

"Malfoy don't flatter yourself. We need to have a child. I mean the Malfoy line needs an heir and well the public need to see a baby."

"Granger I know for a fact that only selected few get me to grace their kickers though so many want me to. I'm not flattering myself."

Hermione rolled her eyes and looked at him uninterestingly. "I'm serious Draco! Deflate your blasted ego for a second."

"Wow calling me Draco and no one else is around to hear. I can imagine how much you probably want to scream it." He was enjoying this more than he should.

Hermione got up and started to make her way to the door.

"I'm sorry Hermione. I will be serious. Let's talk about it." Draco said quickly before she reached the door.

Hermione sighed and turned to walk back to her seat.

"We can monitor your cycle and just have sex the moments you're ovulating. So you don't have to spend any more time with me than you want to." Hermione was extremely quiet to Draco's suggestion. "Don't like my idea?"

Hermione sighed and softly said; "No it's a good idea. The most logical but-"

"Don't tell me you're a virgin?" Hermione gave a small nod and Draco sighed. "This changes everything." He thought as he watched the witch in front of him. "I'll be gentle then." He reassured and then she quickly left.

Draco looked down at the documents in front of him again. The same moment he heard his words in his head; "There will come a time when she wants to be real friends with you or maybe have a child. If I know her the two will come about the same time. I ask you please stop your affair with Astoria at that time because she will give you everything she has she deserves you to at least be fully on board with her."

Draco forced the memory out of his mind. That was the start of it all; the start of his heart becoming Hermione's. He turned the page looking for what the muggle had written on the way nerves travel through the brain when he heard a small pop in Malfoy's Office at MMMA.

"Pansy what are you doing here?" he asked in confusion.

"Well I needed to talk to you." She answered. "Your wife said you were still here so I came looking for you."

"Oh great you spoke with my wife. Is she upset that I am not home yet?"

"Oh no. She offered me wine and told me I could talk to her if I really needed a friend."

Draco laughed. "Sounds right. She knows how much you fancy a good merlot. What's wrong?"

"I still haven't told Theodore about the pregnancy."

"Don't you have female friends to do this with?" he questioned.

"No. If I talk to most of those women the press will know before Theo."

"It's been a full three weeks. Why not just tell him?"

Pansy smiled. "I know Theo wanted a child so badly for the last six years. Now that it's happening I just feel so overwhelmed. Like will I even be a good mother?"

"You will be. I just know it." Draco reassured.

Pansy gave him a look of disbelief. "I'm not Hermione, who is patient and gentle and children love her. I'm not that. I will be a horrible mother."

"Pansy, that's not true I have seen you with Scorp you're amazing with him. You will be an remarkable mother. Just relax, tell Theo and enjoy this." Draco said soft to her.

"So how do you want to tell him?"

"I have no idea. That's what I wanted to talk to you about."

"How about a shirt that says best dad?" Draco asked as he started to clear his desk.

Pansy laughed. "That's a bit tacky and cliché. Don't you think?"

"That's true. What about a gold baby rattle?" Draco suggested.

"It sounds like me! Or a diamond encrusted pacifier."

Draco laughed. Pansy was always a bit extravagant with these kinds of things. "Save that for when the baby is actually born."

"Now I am excited. I have to go shopping." Draco gave her big smile. "What about you and Hermione? I mean the press is waiting for you to announce a pregnancy."

"We're working on it."

Pansy laughed loudly. "So you're not having any sex."

"No." Draco answered defeated.

"I thought by now the two of you would not be able to keep your hands off each other. I remember how the two of you couldn't stay off each other a few years ago.

"Well the hormones from the pregnancy made her very horny."

"You messed up didn't you?" as she poured herself some orange juice at the minibar in Draco's office.

"There she goes finishing my chaser and expecting the worst from me."

"You drink way too much anyways."

"Oh Pansy you sound like my mother now. Stop" Draco teased.

"Oh Draco we only care about you." Pansy said and finished her juice. "I better get home to Theo. I'll see you later Draco."

"Bye Pansy!" with that she popped out of the office. Draco sighed. His entire day seemed to involve pregnant women, who seem to force all these memories of Hermione into his head. The way she head he stomach or turned into a sex goddess it was all beautiful. It was a good period of time for the pair.

He suddenly felt the urge for more children. He did love Scorpius maybe having more children wasn't a bad idea. He sighed. There was no way he would get into an intimate relationship with Hermione now that she was with Harry. He packed up his things and went home. It was time to have this talk baby talk again just not tonight.

He pushed her out of his mind and tried to figure of the diagram from the muggle book in front of him.

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Hermione smiled as she entered the Leaky Cauldron to meet; Luna and Pansy for tea. She was having a terrible morning- week more like it. Since they got back from Peru, Draco had been activity avoiding her. Now she barely even saw him at breakfast and dinner. He said he was working on something he thinks could change Magical Medicine and was putting all his effort into that.

Even Harry was not around. He had been sent on a top secret mission while the children stayed with Molly. She found herself being annoyed that he was out in the field again and not pushing paper as the Head of the Auror Department.

Hermione forced a smile on her face and pushed the thoughts of the men in her life behind her; as she spotted the girls sitting already sipping in tea.

"Luna! Pansy!" Hermione said talking off her jacket and placing her purse on the empty extra chair and sat down. "How are you girls?" She asked as she settled into her chair.

"I'm quiet alright the wottlespracks aren't attacking my pumpkins. So naturally I'm terribly happy."

"They never do." Pansy interjected.

"Wonderful." Hermione said in delight. She turned to Pansy waiting to hear how she was doing.

After watching the girls for a long moment not wanting to say anything she said "I'm great!"

Hermione and Luna exchanged glances and they both plastered a smile on their face. "Well dears I asked you here to ask for some her with the Malfoy Christmas Eve Dinner and New Year's Social Event. I hate being a Malfoy all these functions. I'd rather just stay home with my family in the silence of the manor. Any ideas? What haven't I done yet?"

"Oh! Just so you know; Theo and I will not be in attendance. We're going down to Italy at Mrs. Zabini's Mansion."

"Ron and I want to take the kids up to Romania. Hugo wants to see a real dragon, so that's our gift to him for Christmas." Luna said taking a sip of her tea.

"That's what I want; a private family affair. Do you think the Malfoy's would mind a quiet season?" She said as she motioned for a waiter to come to her table.

"Mrs. Malfoy? I don't think she knows the meaning of quiet season." Pansy teased.

"I don't think she would like that but I guess you could bring it up to her.

The waiter came over and Hermione ordered a peppermint tea. The cold air of December had crept into the pub.

"They're wizards you would think they could cast a warming charm on the place." Pansy said seeming to have read Hermione's mind.

"I don't think the cold bothers them." Luna said.

"Oh my gosh guys I have gift from Peru! I almost forgot." Hermione reached over and grabbed her purse.

"I was at your house last night! You could have given it to me then." Pansy reasoned.

"You left so quickly." She said and pulled out a gift box with pansy written neatly on the top. She handed it to her and another gift box with Luna on it. Lastly she pulled out two other boxes one with Ron and the other labeled Rose. "The one for Rose is from my son."

Luna's eyes widen. "Great my daughter will be a Malfoy!" She joked.

"Iloveit!" Pansy squealed.

Hermione and Draco had gotten both women handmade jewelry. Pansy's necklace was silver necklace with a small hand painted peacock pendant. Luna's piece was a simple silver chain with a blue panpipe attached to the bottom. On each of the seven small pipes had a stone the color the rainbow.

"It was inspired by your patronus." She said with a smile.

"Thank you Hermione I quiet like this piece I have a pair of ear ring that will match it perfectly." She said in her usual dreamy voice.

"So," Pansy smirked as the women put their gifts away. "Tell us about Peru."

Hermione blushed and quickly took a sip of tea.

"Can't you see she doesn't want to talk about that?" Luna sweetly interjected.

"It's alright Luna. I don't mind Peru was beautiful Draco and I had a wonderful time."

"That's what the prophet says." Pansy teased.

"Or shows us." Luna found herself joining in on teasing her friend. "I mean that kiss on the beach was not children friendly."

Hermione found herself going crimson. She didn't have a comeback.

"And the excessive public display of affection at the private beach dinner. You would think they just got married." Pansy laughed.

"Well they are working for their second child after all." Luna joked. The girls both let the table get quiet. "I need to use the lady's room. I will be right back." She said and left the table.

Pansy looked Hermione dead in the eye and said, "He wants another kid. Start sleeping with him. Whatever he did I'm sure he's sorry for it. Plus, the media is waiting for one. You have three months tops before they start the rumors of him cheating, an unhappy marriage and all that rubbish."

Hermione watched her in shock. "I beg your pardon?"

"I went to see Draco and he didn't tell me but I think he really wants another child and please give him one."

"I want another child too. But it just doesn't feel like the right time. I mean he's always working plus his life line at the office, Amanda is going on Maternity leave and He's just so stressed out."

"Oh darling, you sound like Narcissa. She said the same thing about her husband. Well it was more along the lines 'When our name gets cleared at the Ministry. When he isn't so busy at work. When the Dark Lord has risen to power again.' That's what mother told me anyway." Pansy rambled.

Hermione sighed. "Did Draco really want more children? Was she becoming a true Mrs. Malfoy?" the thoughts raced her mind. "I'll speak with him." She replied quickly as Luna reached the table.