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Chapter 10: Epilogue: Happy Endings

Draco woke up and glanced at the clock. He saw it was three in the morning, and noticed why he had woken up. He was cold. Throwing his arm out, he tried to find his favorite source of warmth. After a few seconds of searching, it was nowhere to be found. Sighing, Draco forced himself out of the bed.

Walking down the hall of his house, he made it to the room he knew she would be in. Once he opened the door he knew his hypothesis was correct. The curly haired brunette he had been searching for was standing in the center of the room.

"What are you doing up? Didn't he just start sleeping through the night?" Draco asked as he wrapped his arms around her.

He felt Hermione shrug, "I'm a mother, I have authority to worry about my baby." She said before turning around and kissing her husband.

Looking into the crib in the center of the room, Draco could help but smile. His ten month old son looked just like his four year old, even though they didn't have the same mother- but none of the adults thought of this fact.

It had been almost a year after the dinner with Hermione's parents that the two got married, Scorpius had been two. According to Hermione, he was the cutest ring bearer any bride and groom could want. Draco had to admit that his son did look handsome in the little tuxedo.

Another year later, a year after their wedding, Hermione had given birth to Draco's second child. They named him Castor Daniel Malfoy. Castor to carry on the Black tradition of a star name, and Daniel after Hermione's father.

Now his second son was ten months old, and finally sleeping all night. Draco was happy with his life.

Eventually he drug Hermione back to their room to sleep for a few more hours.

-.-

The next time Draco woke up he could see the sun coming through the windows. Looking over, he saw Hermione was not residing on her side of the bed like usual. He climbed out of bed looking for his wife for the second time in hours.

Draco walked into the kitchen and found his wife at the stove making pancakes. Scorpius was standing next to her, covered in flour. While his other son sat in his high chair looking at the others innocently.

"Daddy!" Scorpius screamed while getting down from the stool and running to his father. When he made it to his destination, he jumped into Draco's arms.

"Look at you." Draco said, looking down at his now flour covered shirt.

"Mummy let me help with breakfast this morning, and we got a little messy." Scorpius admitted.

All Draco could do was laugh, which in turn made Scorpius laugh.

"Scorpius, go wash your hands for breakfast. Just your hands, we will worry about cleaning the rest of you up after we eat." Hermione said with a very 'mom' voice.

Nodding, Scorpius hopped out of his father's arms and ran from the kitchen and into the bathroom. Draco walked up to his wife and gave her a soft kiss.

"Good morning, love." He said before grabbing the plate of ready bacon and taking it to the table.

Once all the dishes were placed on the table, the family sat down for a quaint meal.

"It sure was nice not having to get up every couple hours last night." Draco commented.

"Mmmhmm," Hermione answered, "Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy! Don't you dare pour that syrup on your brother's head!" She scolded.

Draco could tell Hermione was acting different than usual, but he knew better than to try to get it out of her. So he let it go, for now anyways.

-.-

Hermione watched as her husband put on his coat.

"And where, may I ask, do you think you are going?" She asked surprising him.

Draco turned around to find his wife looking slightly angry.

"I was going to the cemetery for a bit."

Staring at her husband, Hermione wasn't sure why he would be going there. "Why would you be going- oh." She said realizing.

"It was four years ago today." He stated.

Smiling, she stood on her tip-toes and fixed his jacket collar. "Take the time you need. The boys and I will be here waiting for you." She said before giving him a kiss.

Nodding, Draco turned around and walked out the door.

-.-

Acceptance. When you know you can't fight it. What was done, was done. "I can't go back now, I can only go forward."

It wasn't hard for Draco to find the ornate head stone of his first wife. Her parents made sure to give her a large and intricate one.

He stood in front of it for five minutes before he placed the tulips he had brought on her grave. Even after all this time, he still remembered her favorite flowers. He could still remember a lot of things about her.

"Astoria." He said to the head stone. "I know I haven't been here much. I should have been here more, but can you blame me?"

Sighing, he kneeled down. "I loved you, Astoria. It took a while to finally accept the death. Yes, I have moved on physically, and even emotionally, but I still couldn't accept you being taken from me.

"Even now it's hard. I will see Scorpius do something, or say something, and it will remind me of you. You should see Scorpius now. He's turned into a great little boy. But you aren't here to see it.

"As you probably know, I re-married. I did about two years ago, to Hermione Granger. I know you are probably laughing by now, wondering how I could marry the bookworm. But somehow she got to me. And now she and I have another son. Scorpius loves being a big brother, well when he isn't trying to get Castor into trouble. That boy is pure Slytherin, I tell you." He said with a chuckle.

"I loved you so much, a part of me still and always will. But my life has moved on. I guess you could say I came here for closure. Which I guess I did, in a way."

After taking a deep breath, Draco stood up and got ready to apparate. "Good-bye, and I love you." He said before going home.

-.-

Walking into the house, Draco was met with one of the best sights imaginable. Hermione was sitting on the couch with their kids in her lap, reading them a story book. It looked like the dragon book that Charlie Weasley had sent for Castor's birth.

He joined them on the couch, while Hermione finished reading. When she closed the book, he saw that both of his sons had fallen asleep to their mother's soft voice.

Draco picked up Scorpius, and Hermione got Castor. The two made their way to each of the kids' room, and put them in their beds for the nap.

With Scorpius' room being across the hall from Castor's, when the parent's left the rooms, they ran into each other.

Hermione said nothing and walked past her husband. She continued down the hall and into their shared room. Climbing into the bed, she intended on taking a nap of her own. She felt a pair of muscular arms wrap around her torso.

"Is there something wrong, Love?" Draco asked, hoping he wouldn't make her any madder at him.

She shook her head. Draco almost believed it, that is, until her body broke down into sobs.

"Hermione, I know there is something wrong. Will you please talk to me about it?" He pleaded.

"I can't." She stuttered out.

"Of course you can. I'm your husband, you can tell me anything."

Hermione turned around and faced her husband. "You keep talking about how nice it is to sleep through the night, and how great our family is with two kids. That way neither of them will be lonely, but it's still a small family. And I don't have the heart to tell you I'm pregnant again. So that will mean sleepless nights and another baby." She said before burying her face into his chest.

"That's it?" He questioned. "Hermione, I love you. I love you more than anything. And this baby that's growing inside of you is a part of me and you. How could I not be happy about this? Sure it means sleepless nights, but we have already lived through it once together, I think we can do it again. I can't wait for these next few months to go by before I meet this joy. Plus three kids is still a small family, we have a ways to go before we catch up with the Weasley's."

"Do you mean that?" She asked looking up at Draco with her red eyes.

"Of course I do. I love you."

"And I love you."

-.-

Seven months later the couple welcomed Cedrella Jane Malfoy. Draco couldn't be happier.


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