"We want to make sure that people see us" I said the next morning as we prepared to get dressed into our Mya and Daniel persona's and stroll down diagon alley

Draco had changed into a pair of black jeans, worn out boots and a grey polo that would have brought out his eyes, had he left them their original colouring. Now he stood with his brown eyes and copper brown hair and slightly tanned skin, with the silver wedding ring on his left hand. Normally I would look over him appreciatively, but it just wasn't the man I was in love with. Sure this guy had the appeal factor, he just wasn't- Draco

Sighing, I slipped on my black sandals, with gold spikes around the straps. I was wearing black, high waited shorts, with a red corset, that showed off my mid section, finished off with a small fur jacket that went over my shoulders. The plan was for us to act like a normal couple walking down Diagon Alley. Except, we had an act to play. We were dressed so that people would be sure to recognise us, we would act like we were superior to other people around us, with the old pureblood behaviour. People would look and they sure as hell would stand back, not daring to approach us.

"Ready?" I asked, slipping on the diamond wedding ring

"Lets go" was all he said, grabbing my hand and apparating to an side alley off the main road. I could see people walking past, families, parents. All of them none the wiser to the threat of the death eaters around England.

"They'll probably get scared at first" I said "they only associate us with fighting, so they think there will be some sort of threat around here" I said quietly and Draco nodded. We left about a foot of space in between us, to give of the colder demeanor. People didn't notice us at first, but after a minute people froze, and the whole alley went silent. Everyone was looking. Excellent

We walked through although nothing was happening, stopping at a few stores and walking in. After visiting Madame Malkins, we walked out and saw about three photographers in the stores across from us, which is exactly what we wanted. We walked down to the potions shop, taking a particularly long time in their, looking over each and every ingredient

I pull out a piece of parchment and a quill, taking down what we need back in the warehouse and walk up to the owner, who was standing behind the counter looking very pale. When I approached he stood straight and barely moved

"You don't have anything to hide?" I asked in a posh yet disconnected voice. Jerkily he shook his head "then you don't have to be scared" I said, putting the list on the counter.

"How long would it take you to get all these ingredients?" I asked and he looked over them, his eyes flicking from the list to me

"I can nearly everything tomorrow, except for the hair of a merman. That only works if taken on a full moon, which isn't for another three days. I can have it to you by then" he stuttered over it slightly

"Excellent. Im going to need all of that then"

"Where shall it be delivered to?

"Send it to the minister of Magic, he'll know where to send it" I smiled coyly

"That will be fifty galleons" he says. I pull out a coin bag and up end it over the counter, gold coins going everywhere. There had to be at least twenty five more than he asked for

"Keep the change" I smiled and backed out of the store, Draco following. Once we were out back in the street, people gave us a wide berth, then looking back at us. Someone even walked into a pole, I had to chuckle at that.

I looked up and saw Harry and Ron watching on from afar. They were in casual clothes, but I knew they were working.

"Lets have some fun" Draco teased, catching my line of sight

"Well well" Draco called out as we approached them "If it isn't our little wannabe's"

"What are you doing in Diagon Alley?" Harry asked

"Why? Can't we enjoy a stroll in the street, we needed some supplies"

"You never went into the street to get stuff before" Rn stated

"No one knew who were were before, and besides, we have people that can do the job as well. We could get you lowly peasants to get stuff for us and you would have no idea who or what its for"

"We know every potion in the books"

"Not the ones that we invented. Theres a lot of stuff out there that we invented, and could make your skin crawl just from the mention of it"

"Just ask your sister" Draco smiled evilly to Ron, who growled under his breath

"Well anyway, as always your useless presence has annoyed me to my limit so I shall be off"

As we turned and walked away, I felt a sort of prickling at the back of my neck. One of them was going to attack. I looked at Draco and saw he was feeling the same. We continued walking, ignoring the feeling. We got about twenty meters before I saw a purple light head towards us. I turned, just as it hit me. It did nothing, as usual. Except absorb into my skin.

I started to yawn mockingly, covering my mouth with the back of my hand as Harry looked at Ron with wide, disbelieving eyes. I started to laugh slowly.

"When are you going to learn?" I asked. Draco stepped forward with a sly grin on his face. He stood directly in front of Ron, maintaining constant eye contact.

If we looked directly in the eye of a person we can inflict any sort of pain on them we wish through our imagination. If we wanted someone to sprout boils on their face, they would sprout boils on their face, if we wanted someone to blow up into a million pieces, they would blow up into a million pieces. Normally a victim would be so scared of us, they would maintain eye contact with us, so it wasn't hard. I stood behind Draco's shoulder, my eyes wide with excitement and my mouth turned into a dark smirk.

Ron's skin was slowly turning very red. He was breathing heavily and sweating profusely.

"What are you doing to me?" he gasped out, pulling his shirt away from his skin.

"Boiling your blood" Draco said nonchalantly. Ron's legs weakened and he started sinking to the ground, Draco crouching down with him to maintain eye contact.

It could have been over if Ron looked away. But he didn't, he kept looking into Draco's eyes.

"I think that enough" Draco said, standing up abruptly and turning away. I followed after him, the both us wearing smirks

"Maybe you might have learned not to mess with us by now" he threw over his shoulder as he walked. People backed away fearfully now. As we got closer to the brick wall that lead to the leaky cauldron I heard a whimper. I frowned and kept walking. We walked past a small alley and I heard it again, although this time it sounded more like a strangled cry.

I stopped walking and cocked my head to the side. Draco stood next to me, looking at me questioningly

"Lo senti?" I asked

Just then there was another cry and I walked slowly down the alley, looking behind each crate box that there was. The sounds were getting louder as I moved further down. Draco stayed at the top of the alley looking at me strangely

I got to the end and gasped violently at the sight of a man and woman. They were huddled into the corner, trying to shield themselves from the breeze that was very strong down the alley that we were in. They had heavily tattered clothes, dirty skin and their hair wasn't in a much better shape. The only thing was, these two people were dead, and had been for a few hours now.

"Daniel!" I yelled and he hurried down the alley quickly and got to my side. Looking at the pair with frowning and sorrowful eyes. The pair were obviously homeless, and hadn't made it through the night. They were extremely malnourished, the wrists that were peeking out from the edge of their too small clothes, was only bones. My heart broke for them

But the crying was still there. The was a large dumpster that they were hiding behind being the source of that. I walked over and opened the lid. I moved a few pieces of flat cardboard and saw a baby wrapped up in old blankets, insulated by old newspapers. I gasped out

"Get Harry" I said to Draco and he looked at the baby in the dumpster. He backed off and walked up the street, before jogging back to where we had left them before. Carefully I took the baby out of the bin, getting rid of the old blanket and producing a new one. I didn't really know much about babies, but I could tell that this baby was small and a little underweight.

Harry and Draco turned down the corner, bringing a few unwanted eyes with them. People stood at the top of the alley looking down trying to catch a glimpse at what was going on.

"Hold the baby, and make sure people don't see" I said, handing the baby over into his unsuspecting arms. As soon as I did the baby started crying. He ignored it and moved a few large crates to obscure people's view.

I pulled some dragon hide gloves out of my bag for both me and Draco and transformed my clothes into something move practical. Now standing in jeans, jumper and boots, I crouched down and looked at the bodies by pulling them out and straightening them out. Which was a hard task, seen as though they seemed to have near frozen into that state.

They had a small backpack that was falling apart at the seams. I opened it up and saw a few pairs of old, but clean underwear in the bag, a can of soup and a jar of some mixed nuts. A coin bag with three sickles in it. At the bottom, wrapped around in plastic, to protect it from the weather I presume was a few pieces of paper and a couple of cards. Identification. I walked over to the crates that were about waist high and spread the papers over them

I looked up slightly and saw a few people gathered at the top of the alley. They must have gathered that there was someone that had died down here as there were a few sad looks.

The first document was a certificate of completion from Hogwarts for Emily Sebastian. There was the same for a Harrison De Luca. Next was a marriage certificate for the same two people and finally a birth certificate. Brady Robert De Luca. He was only two months old

De Luca wasn't a name we were unfamiliar with. They were originally a Pureblood family that was loyal to Voldemort all throughout the war. Although after they were interrogated, they gave in and gave up names, locations and objects that helped them reduce their sentence and gave them the respect in the wizarding world. After their son Harrison married a muggleborn, the De Luca's disowned their son, stripped him of all his money and sent him to live with his wife's family. The Sebastian's, like the Weasley's weren't wealthy at all. Her father could barely keep a job due to his daily intake of alcohol while her mother had stayed at home as a housewife. Eventually, they lost their home after payments weren't made.

I yelled out in agitation and kicked the crate.

"This could have been prevented" I whisper yelled to Draco

"Why?"

"The De Luca's" I said and his face brought on a look of understanding.

"Am I missing something here?"

"We've been looking for them for a while now" I said "they helped us with something and we owed them. When we found out that Emily was pregnant we searched for her, traced their magic into a forest, only to find that their wands had been snapped. You can't look for people that have no chance of accidentally using magic and have no money" I said

"Kingsley's on his way" Draco said

"Can you do anything to bring them back?" Harry asked

"No, once you're dead you're dead" Draco snapped quickly

Kingsley apparated into the alley and took in the scene before us.

"The De Luca's" I mumbled

"Shit" he rubbed his hands over his bald head. He took a look at the baby in Harry's arms "such a shame"

"Should we take the kid to Harrison's parents?" Harry asked. Both me and Draco chuckled

"They would never want him, and even so, the parents signed over their legal rights when they disowned Harrison. They have no legal connections to him, even if they are blood related" Draco answered

"Who's going to take the kid then?"

I looked over at Draco, questioning him and he looked back at me

He looked over at Harry "Granger and Malfoy" he said and I smiled.

After summoning people to take the bodies away, Draco and I apparated back to his house, with Brady tucked into my arms.

I entrusted Draco with looking after Brady while I drove to the closest department store for some baby supplies. I grabbed a trolley and headed straight to the baby department. I grabbed a large box of nappies, three packs of wipes, creams, powders, dummies, bottles, baby formula, blankets, cot sheets, pillows, toys, jumpsuits and clothes, hats, socks. I was receiving a few strange looks. People were bound to recognise me soon.

I asked helpful worker to help organise me to pick up a white cot, a changing table, a car seat and a bassinet from the back dock. I walked to the counter so that I could pay for my full trolley of stuff. The checkout girl that served me was a teenager that didn't look like she wanted to be there and lazily scanned the items

"Thats $3060" she said and I handed my card over. She swiped it in the machine and then handed me a slip to sign, while she checked to see if my signature matched.

" " she said slowly as I started to fill the trolley back up again.

"Yes" I smiled tightly

"That name sounds familiar"

"Mmmhmm"

"Oh my god, your the girl dating Draco Malfoy" she said a little on the loud side making a few people turn my way

Before she could ask anymore questions I pushed my trolley away from the counter and out the front doors. People looked at me and a few even snapped photos with their phones. I packed everything in the car quickly, putting the trolley back and driving to the pick up area.

Half an hour I was driving home when my phone started to ring

"Hello?" I asked, putting it on loud speaker

"Hermione?"

"Mum! whats up?"

"Oh, nothing, just haven't heard from you for a while. I see you and Draco finally got together"

"Im sorry, work's just been really crazy lately" I said. My parents didn't know what I did, they new that I worked as an investigator in the department of mysteries, but that was it

"I understand, it just would have been nice hearing it from you"

"Im sorry" I say again

"So" she says "I was looking on twitter" I frown. Since when does she tweet? "Did you and Draco know you have your own fan page?"

"What! no I didn't" I said

"Yes ell, the most interesting picture just popped up" she said "your leaving the shops with a trolley of baby stuff, do you want to explain?"

"We found a baby"

"You found a baby?"

"Yes"

"And what about its parents?"

"Unfortunately they died. They were homeless, but they put the baby in a bin to protect it from the cold. You know those people I told you we were looking for. The De Luca's"

"I may remember something like that" she said

"This is their child. I found them down an alley" I said sadly

"Oh Hermione" she sighed

"He doesn't have any family"

"Its ok sweetie, I know you'll take good care of him, until he finds a nice home"

I pulled int the undercover car park at Draco's penthouse

"We'll see, I gotta go mum, I'll call you back later" I hung up quickly and moved to the boot. I made everything smaller and carried it all in one regular sized shopping bag up to the apartment.

Draco was sitting on the lounge nursing a crying Brady. He was still wrapped in the blanket I had him in earlier.

"Lets give him a bath" I said, upending the bag on the large dining room table and fixing them to their normal size. I grabbed the light green baby bath and moved into the downstairs bathroom and filled it with warm water.

We washed him, removing the coat of dirt and grime on his skin, his skin that had been slightly blue from constantly in the cold turned red from the warmth of the bath. We took him out and dried him off, setting him down on the lounge so we could put a nappy on him and dress him in a light blue jumpsuit. I got a bottle ready for him, while Draco looked through all the stuff I bought. While I fed Brady, he lugged the cot and dressing table up to the room just across from his. I could hear as he used magic to put everything together.

"What are we going to do with him?" Draco asked later as I rocked Brady to sleep. He started crying not long after I fed him, I think it was because he wasn't used to so much.

"I don't know, but he has no where to go. His family won't want him, we're all he has at the moment"

"Foster parents?" he asked, running his hand hesitantly over the side of his face

"No one knows about him"

"Do-" he stopped and thought for a second "Do you want to keep him?" he asked softly and quickly, that I almost missed it. I looked down at the baby in my arms. He looked so calm and content. I loved him already

"Yes" I whispered looking up at him. He looked slightly scared. He didn't know what to do.

"I don't think I'll be a good-"

"Don't" I said strongly "you are nothing like your father Draco. You can't let him control you anymore, he's gone. He treated you wring and you understand that. You know what not to do. I don't know what Im doing either, but thats what every parent has to go through. They don't have any idea what to do, they make mistakes and they learn from them" I said "But you will not be a bad father, I wouldn't let you"

"I believe you" he smiled "we can't take him out in public. What we did today was to get the attention off us, if we take him out in public we'll never see the end of it"

"People saw me at the supermarket" I said "but we don't have to say anything about that, people can come up with whatever they want about that"

"Ok" he nodded "I love you" he whispered

"I love you too" I smiled, kissing him softly on the lips

A/N

Ok so the baby wasn't originally in the plan, but it just sorta happened. It was a random idea that I had and I just wrote it down. But I think that Brady will be what others see as Hermione and Draco, and how serious they are for each other.

So I can guarantee you that he will be asking her to move in soon, and we'll see what happens from there.

Any suggestions? PM me

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