Hope you liked "Desperate"! Next up in Age Difference – A Trilogy is a story called "Does Your Father Know?" It is largely based upon the remake of the ABBA song "Does Your Mother Know?" as seen in the movie Mamma Mia, sung by Christine Baranski and Philip Michael. The song is about the relationship, or mainly the feelings, between an older woman and a younger man, so I thought it was perfect for this story.
"Does Your Father Know?" is set near Christmas time, and is about Hermione Granger after her husband suddenly divorces her after she agreed to let her daughter date Draco Malfoy, when he was still totally against it. But, she didn't know that she would find solace with the son of that very man. (Rated T)
I hope you all enjoy this one!
Prologue
"But Ron, I thought you were fine with the whole situation!"
"I wanted our daughter to get well, and the only way for her to do that—to get out of the rut that she was in—was to get Draco to bring her out. I was desperate. We all were. We didn't know what else to do."
She planted her hands on her hips as they both stood in the living room, Ron's foot inching into the entryway. "So you're just going to go back to being totally against their relationship? When you pushed them back together again?"
"I was desperate, Hermione!" he bellowed. "You know Rose might've died!"
"I know! Golly, will you stop yelling at me?!"
They both heard footsteps on the stairs and gazed up at their daughter. Tears were in her eyes. "Dad… are you still not okay with it? About me and Draco?"
"I never was okay with it, Rose. Before, you needed help, and he was the only one who could help you. I was hoping that you would all get over it after a few weeks passed. I guess I was wrong."
He cantered towards the front door. He pulled out his wand and muttered a spell that caused a suitcase to fly by Rose's face, almost hitting her in the head. Hermione's heart sunk to her toes at her husband clutching the suitcase.
"Ron… what in heaven's name are you doing? Did you already have that suitcase packed?"
"I had enough of this, Hermione. If you're still going to allow our daughter to be involved with the person who caused so much pain in the past, then I'm not going to have any part of it. I don't want to see it or deal with it."
"Dad!" Rose exclaimed, and went down the stairs and grabbed his arm in desperation. "You have to be joking!"
He yanked his arm out of Rose's grasp, and hot tears welled in Hermione's eyes, then fell. "Ron..." she muttered, her chest tightening into knots.
"Once you both have some sense knocked into you, then I'll think about coming back."
"Dad!"
They all looked up and saw Hugo standing in the middle of the staircase, his hand clutching the railing, and his green eyes red and watery. "Dad, you can't be serious! You've gone mad!"
"No, it's not me who's gone mad, it's all of you! Hugo, try to talk sense into your mother and sister. I'm leaving."
"NO!" Hermione shouted, but Ron was already out the door. She buckled to the floor, and Rose and Hugo quickly came to her side and embraced her.
