A/N: Holy crap, I just took a look at the reviews, almost 90! Wow...I'm kinda in shock and this is the tenth chapter so 87 reviews for 10 chapters...wow...that's a lot of reviews...
Thank you everyone!
Responses to the Reviews:
colorguard06: If we could put music to chapters then "dun, dun, dun" would defintely be in it.
dramaqueen72: I'm sorry that you were confused! But yes, Harry and Ron know but does everyone else in the school.
hufflepuffgirl88: Thank you for putting this story on your favorites! I'm glad you didn't see it coming, because then I know I'm doing my job as a writer!
sakura-asuka2005: I stopped there because as you said, I am evil...lol, no, I stopped there because I love writing cliffhangers! Mostly because I know what's gonna happen! Hermione will tell them...but who knows about marriage?
Silver Hanyou: Harry and Ron might understand, they might not...
wrc g-rp: I loved how you used the different symbols. he he. Yes sleeping in and the fun is really a gift.I bet your teachers are just fine. Trust me, I've had some of the toughtest teachers, all you need is a comedian in the class and a couple good jokes and your good to go. (Trust me on that one.)Thank you!
Thank you Broadwaybrunett, HgBookworm, kat6528, and larkfan!
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It wasn't like Draco had just told Harry and Ron the story. Draco wasn't an idiot. Draco was now a bit scared of how Hermione would react. He looked at the woman he was starting to fall for and looked at her best friends. He wanted to help her so much but he knew this was between them. He knew the truth would come out sooner or later. But better now.
Have you ever had a moment where people were just pissed at you and you were angry and you accidently said something? You know in the heat of the moment?
Well Draco had that moment.
Hermione wasn't sure to be mad at Draco or to run from Harry and Ron. She would've liked to be able to do both. Harry and Ron definetly didn't take the news gladly. They felt betrayed and crushed, thinking that everyone knew and that they were the last ones to know. She looked to Draco for support, but he couldn't since Pansy seemed to be up to her old tricks. Draco gave her a pleading look but she instead sent a death glare. Just great. Just freaking great. Hermione thought it would be better to stay where she was for the moment at least, since it was in public, they wouldn't at least hurt her.
"Harry, Ron, I know you mad-"
"MAD! WE'RE FURIOUS!" Ron yelled. Hermione was a stronger woman than most. She could take her one of best friends yelling at her. It seemed that just her not reacting just pissed them off more.
"Please, let's not talk about it here. Your causing a scene." she pleaded with them. Harry took a look at the people who were staring at them and nodded. Ron and Harry walked in front and Hermione looking sad at the back. It was as if a sign of their trio being broken. It seemed like history. They had always walked together in a straight line and now because of Draco's bad timing, she could lose her best friends.Hermione sent Draco a look that said she was going to send him to hell when she came back.
"Well I think you owe us an explanation Hermione." Harry said once they got to Hermione's room.
"A HUGE one." Ron corrected. Hermione sighed.
"You want me to start from the beginning?" They nodded. "Cliff notes or the long story?"
"Cliff notes would help." Harry answered. Hermione took a breath.
"At the end of the year ball in Fifth year, Draco asked me to dance. Then afterward, since we were always working together on school business it just, I dunno, it happened so fast, we started to go out. Then early in Sixth year I became pregant." she said in a rush.
"Wait, hold on, you were PREGANT!" the boys said at once. Hermione nodded.
"How did we not see that?" Ron asked Harry.
"Ron, we're in the wizarding world. Spells." Hermione answered.
"But Hermione you could've known Draco THAT well to have his child. It would be what? Seven, eight months?"
"People do crazy things when they're in love." she answered softly. "Yes, I loved him, Ron." she said when she noticed Ron's mouth was hanging open.
"Before Seventh year, I gave birth to twins, two girls, Aimee and Danica." I threw them the locket. "Have a look if you want."
"They're beautiful." Ron and Harry commented, looking at the pictures. Hermione smiled a bit.
"Thank you." She took a breath. Explaining the past three and half years of your life in the cliff notes verison is never easy. "Draco proposed to me on Valentine's Day of that year also." The boys' eyes got wide. "By then as you remember, the threat of war breaking out was getting realer and realer each day. More spies.." she stopped."Then Lucious found out, he broke into our dorms and in the process killed Aimee." Harry and Ron looked at her, shocked. "Then he took Draco away, that's why he was missing for the rest of the term. Lucious rid Draco's memory of me and Aimee and Danica. Now here we are a year later and I hope to cure him." She stopped. "Any questions?" The boys turned to anger again.
"Why didn't tell us?"
"Think about it Ron, how badly did you want Draco dead?"
"Very much so."
"Do you think I didn't want to tell you? I wanted to tell you EVERY DAY, but your two were too caught up in your hate, I was SCARED to tell you. I knew that if I told you, you would drop me. Do you think I could've handled that?" she asked them.
"Hermione, we were the last to know!" Ron accused.
"If you thought this was some kind of fun game for my sick pleasure, think again. New flash, your not the last ones to know. Draco accidently told you, before I could tell you. No one else knew until now." she explained. Harry looked at her in surprise. "And if you want any pay back then consider what I'm about to say, as your krama for me not telling. I've had to deal being a young single mother, whose other daugher was killed because she couldn't see the signs. I saw my own dead child, I swear herblood on the cradle.The father of them doesn't remember them as I know, and I've been struggling to make my life seem as perfect as it sounds. Every time I'm around you guys, I have this guilt above my heads because I've had to hide a child from you for two years." she sighed and slid down the wall."Do you hate me?" she said in a small voice. Harry looked at her. Harry couldn't believe this was HER they were talking about. He looked at the locket. Then at Hermione, all the pieces were together now. But he saw her in so much pain because of telling them, he couldn't bear to see her like this.
"I could never hate you, you should've told us. We could've helped you." Harry said.
"Oh, killing him, that would've REALLY help." Harry glared at her. Ron looked at her.
"Why would you go hanging around Malfoy?" he asked. Hermione knew he was battling between emotions. Ron was trying not to hateher but yet try to understand.
"I was alone." she said. "I mean I had you guys I know, but a person can be in a room of people and feel alone. I would sit in the Great Hall, and everyone would have their friends or that one person who really got them. They would have inside jokes that if I heard they look at me gulityly and say "Oh, it's an inside joke, sorry." I still felt alone with you two. You just seem to be better friends compared to me. I needed someone who just got me. Draco got me." she explained a bit. "I didn't know I would still be in love with him, now. That's why I came here, I want Draco to remember. I know in my heart, we're meant to be together forever." She looked at the boys. "I dunno if you get what I'm saying, but just trust me okay? I've survived more than I should for my age, I'll be okay." She looked up to them.
"Does he make you happy?" Ron asked her.
"Yea." Hermione said softly. Ron nodded.
"I don't agree with it, but I want to see you happy more than anything else. I'll go with it if Harry is." Harry nodded. Hermione went up and hugged the boys. It wasn't a warm hug. The hug felt a bit hallow. She knew that their trust for her had been broken and it took a lot for them to look like it was okay when it wasn't. They would need time, and she would let them come up with their own opinons. And as she hugged them, she hoped it woundn't be the last time either.
"Why the hell did you tell them?" Hermione yelled at Draco later. "Did it ever occur to you that maybe I wanted to tell them?"
"Harry and Ron cornered me, and in the heat of the moment it slipped." Draco lamely explained.
"Well good one, now my friends probably won't trust me again. I'm just grateful they understood."
"They understood?"
"Harry and Ron don't like it, I can tell, but they want to see me happy. I knew it took a lot for them to act like it was okay when it's not. I expect their thinking about it." she commented. "I can not tell you how pissed I am at you right now. You've gone and ruined it now. I'll have to explain it to everyone. And the SCHOOL knows. Nice going Draco."
"Oh, and WHEN were you going to tell them? You can't hide everything forever Hermione, no matter what you hope for."
"No need to tell me that Draco, YOU taught THAT lesson long ago." she looked up at him with sad eyes. She was tired, and she truly was sad."Look Draco..I really don't want to fight, not when I've found you again. I'm cold and I'm tired. I just...wanted to tell them you know? It sounds like they were the last to know. I didn't want it to be that way." she tried to explain. "I just not sure of anything any more." she looked out the window. "Is it okay to feel like this? To feel sad, like there is nothing good in the world?"
"Of course."
"Why do I feel this why NOW? Why aren't I yelling at you and why aren't I STILL fighting with Harry and Ron?"
"Because your too good of a person. We know that you didn't mean to hurt anyone. We couldn't stay mad at you if we tried. Your love for us is too deep to keep fighting with us. Love against Love, it can never equal hate." he said, looking at her. She was a bit surprised by what he said.
"You love me?" she asked.
Instead of saying any words, they looked at each other. Just looking into each other's eyes. Just that alone, it was enough for Hermione.
It was enough.
The next ones are prob gonna be song fics, I dunno why I just think songs can help explain the story, don't worry they are gonna be good songs. I think the last line really means something, the whole keep fighting thing..if you don't get it, it's okay...
I made the fighting scene a bit nicer, just because of later and such. If you really came down to it, you can't have a screaming match over it. It might seem a little bad, but trust me, better this way then for them to reject her right?
I'm so glad everyone is excited about the sequel! But I do need help in a name for the sequel, if you have any ideas please tell me! All I can say is that the story will have Hermione and Danica, but they will be older. And they will come full circle with a family secret. So if that should inspire any title ideas, I would be forever grateful!
Okay we're THIS close to 100...come on everyone! But right now, I'm gonna celebrate 10 chapters of work. But it's a labor of love of course!
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