Last time:
Draco had received their health records along what few belongings they had, and apparated the children to the gates of Hogwarts, where Dumbledore was waiting. The two men brought the children to the heads dorms and settled them in for the night. The children were excited from the days events and ended up falling asleep on Draco's chest, they seemed to crave the attention they had received today.
Some hours later, Hermione arrived to the heads dorm and gasped at the sight before her.
Now:
Hermione walked slowly over to Draco and tapped him gently on the head.
"Draco, wake up." he slowly opened his eyes and looked to Hermione.
"You have some heavy duty explaining to do Mr. Malfoy."
"Fine, fine, I was expecting as much, but lets get these kids in their beds alright."
"Where are their beds?"
"The girl is in your room the boy is in mine."
She nodded and scooped the little girl into her arms. Draco slowly sat up and and carefully took the little boy to his room.
Once both made sure the kids were settled, they made their way back down to the common room.
"So you ready to tell me why those children are here?"
"Because you and I are their adoptive parents, they live here with us now."
"How did you know about them?" keeping her voice low so not to wake the kids up.
"Can we cut the crap for a minute and let me explain some things to you?" He asked
"Fine, start."
Draco rolled his eyes are her attitude, but he was also half expecting it.
"I came to find you the day we left Hogwarts for break, I wanted to apologize and ask you to take me back. I had been trying for weeks to talk to you but you always seemed to never want to talk or closed yourself up in your room. When you didn't get on the train, I walked back to the castle to find you, but instead I found the potion." He stopped talking to let it sink in that he knew she had taken the potion.
"I took a sample to Snape who told me what the potion did, To say the least I was upset and panicked. Snape and I looked for clues to find you and we landed at the burrow where Ginny gave us your journal. I tracked you to Krum's place and followed you around until earlier today."
"You had no right to follow me or interfere with my life, you gave that up to protect your precious reputation." she spat
Draco placed a silencing charm on the room so they didn't wake the children.
"I was a fucking idiot and I realized that, which is the reason I went looking for you that day. I don't care about my reputation, all I want is to have you back, regardless of who likes it or not." he yelled
"Do you really think it's that easy? You broke my heart Draco, I stood up to my friends and lost them along with the rest of the Gryffindor's over you. For months I have been treated as if I have the plague, getting comments on how I was a slut for a slytherin and how I betrayed everyone. I had no one Draco, I had no one to comfort me when I needed them the most. I didn't betray anyone, you all betrayed me."
"I know what we all did, I am ashamed of myself for treating you the way I did, but I cant take it back, as much as I want to I cant change things."
Hermione rolled her eyes and sat down on the couch, "Draco, I don't want you back, I don't want anyone back but my parents. I just wanted to disappear and leave this miserable existence behind me."
"I want you to take me back, I want to be with you again but if I cant have you then I at least want you to take the antidote for that potion, Those kids connected with you and you know it, they need you, Take the antidote for them if nothing else."
Hermione fell silent as she thought about the kids sleeping in the next room. She knew she would stay alive for them, Draco was right, she needed them like they needed her.
"How did you even get them here?" she finally asked.
"I went to Dumbledore, begged him to let us adopt them and bring them here, I heard what you said about them having magic and you were right. The woman at the orphanage allowed us to be the adoptive parent because she felt they needed to be in the magical world."
"How did she know of our world?"
"She is a squib, she knew of my name and she of course knew you. She felt it in the best interest to allow the adoption. Legally, you are their mum and I am their father."
Hermione sighed and closed her eyes, "Can we talk about this in the morning, work everything out or whatever, I need time to think about all this."
"Fine, but I want to finish this conversation in the morning before we go down for breakfast, the children will have to go with us and I would like to have things worked out before Dumbledore questions everything."
Hermione nodded and went to her room. She stopped by the crib and looked at the sleeping blond haired girl.
"Sleep tight little one" she said as she pulled the blankets securely around the girls form.
The next morning Hermione was woken up by the cries of a baby. She pulled herself out of bed and walked to the crib. The little girls eyes lit up when she noticed Hermione.
"Morning baby" she said as she lifted the little girl from the crib and sat back down on the bed. The little girl fisted Hermione hair and squealed at her.
"I guess I need to figure out what your name is, I forgot to ask last night."
"Her name is Abby" Draco said as he came in with the little boy, "and this is Joey."
The little boy scrambled out of Draco's arms, trying to get to Hermione. Draco sat down on the edge of her bed and watch the kids gravitate towards her.
"Are you ready to talk, because I'm starving and I'm sure the kids are too." Draco asked.
Hermione nodded and made herself more comfortable.
"How are we supposed to do this? What are we supposed to do with them while in class?" she asked
"Dumbledore wants them with us, but said he would care for them during classes like potions and such where its not safe for them. We are supposed to work together and try to raise them as best we can."
"This is heavy duty Draco, do you realize the amount of responsibility this brings?"
"Of course I do, and I'm ready to handle it." he replied.
"Hermione, I meant what I said last night, will you please take the antidote...for the children." he asked, at this point he was willing to pull whatever strings he could.
"I will take the antidote for the children, but I want you to understand that I still don't want you back, not like that again."
Draco nodded but knew he wouldn't give up, as long as she took the antidote it would give him more time to win her back.
"Fine, I agree, just here, Snape brewed this." he said as he handed her the vial. She uncorked it and swallowed to contents down.
"Oh thats awful." she said with a gag "Come on, lets get Abby and Joey dressed, they are probably starving and I need to get the taste of that potion out of my mouth."
Draco stood and went to collect clothes for the kids, "I'll get them dressed so you can get dressed yourself." He said as he scooped up both kids and took them into the common room.
Hermione slumped down to the bed, "Well today is going to be fun, I wonder how many times I'm going to explain that Draco and I have adopted children."
She got herself dressed and met Draco in the common room, Joey had his hands out for her, so she pulled him from Draco and settled him on her hip.
"Ready?" she asked
"Ready"
