Chapter 12: Shopping Trip

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Hey guys! Thanks for all the reviews and alerts. I saw that some of you guys thought that Draco and Hermione were rather childish in their bickering and they are basically rambling…whoops… I normally write these at like 1am and that's why it's bad sometimes. This is also my first fanfic and I'm still getting used to writing the characters; that's why they're a little out of character. So thanks for all the reviews; they're gonna help me write this chapter.

I hope you all had a great holiday and for those of you who have started school again! Oh Man it sucks to be you! I still don't start for two weeks. So without further ado here is chapter 12 xx

This is now many, many weeks after I said this ^^ and now I am in the 7th week of school but yay almost holidays again!

Okay now I am back on holidays and can update for you! Yay! This chapter is dedicated to Tish who constantly has been telling me to update and has help me figure out what Hermione is giving Draco in this chapter! xx

Last Time:

"Hermione, do want to go to Hogsmede with me next month? We can go shopping for the babies!"
He put his and on her belly and rubbed small circles on and placed a kiss or two on their as well.
"Sure, Draco! I can't wait. How are you feeling now?"
"Yeah I'm fine. I'm going to go have a nap."
"A nap! You were unconscious for 3 hours!"
"Yeah well, there's nothing else to do."
"Well, do you want to go for a walk?"
"Where?"
"Down to the lake?"
"Sure, we'll do that."
The pair exited the Common room saying goodbye to Anastasia and Arthur as they walked past holding hands.
"Arthur, look at them. They're perfect together."

Now (A month later):

"Hermione, come on are you ready yet? You've been up there for half and ho –"

Draco stopped halfway through his sentence as he saw Hermione descend the staircase that led to their room. She looked amazing. Her hair was in a ponytail with bits framing her face. She was wearing a green t-shirt with black trimming and black jeans. Her robes were flung loosely over her shoulders and her baby bump was very prominent being just about 3 months pregnant. It was simple but she pulled it off.

"Wow! Hermione you look beautiful." Draco said as he walked forward to give her a peck on the cheek.

"Really? I didn't know what to wear; the weather is being unpredictable. It's almost winter." (A/N I'm from Australia and I haven't really been counting how many months it's been so…eh!)

"Well, you look beautiful either way." He flashed that charming smile that made Hermione melt. She smiled in return and they exited through the doors for their first official date.

At Hogsmede:

Hermione and Draco walked hand-in-hand through the busy streets of Hogsmede! They hadn't found anything they particularly liked. Although they had found a few items they liked. Hermione chose a couple of neutral coloured outfits as they still didn't know whether the twins were going to be boys or girls. Draco had chosen the best baby cot that his money could buy, so basically it was the best that ANY money could buy. It was a gorgeous white painted cot to fit the twins in until they were at least 18 months, maybe longer, with shelves underneath to place all the essential baby needs times two! They had also gotten the essentials, diapers (A/N in AUS we say nappies but diapers sound better), bottles, dummies/pacifiers, etcetera, etcetera.

The babies had started playing up with Hermione's bladder and after giving Draco a quick peck on the cheek she ran off into the Three Broomsticks to go to the bathroom. Draco saw this as he chance to get Hermione something for Christmas which was approaching in the next few days. He slyly slipped into the local jewellery store a couple of doors down from The Three Broomsticks and next door to Zonkos Joke Shop. He went up to the counter and asked for assistance in an item that he was hoping could be made for Hermione by Christmas Eve. The old lady at the counter smiled at him, "Hello dear, what can I help you with."

"Good morning, I'm looking for a gift for my girlfriend. Do you do custom orders?"

"Yes dear, we certainly do, but it does cost quite a bit…"

"Money isn't an issue."

"Fair enough… what can I get for you?"

After a few minutes of explaining what Draco wanted he paid the lady and asked for it to be delivered to Hogwarts Castle for Hermione Granger on Christmas Day. He then left the shop with a large and satisfied smile on his face just as Hermione came out of the Three Broomsticks.

"Wait a second Mione, did you want to go back inside and have something to eat?"

"Yeah, okay. Draco why are you smiling like you just got a dozen presents for no reason?"

"No reason" he said and leaned in and gave her a quick kiss.

The pair went inside the Three Broomsticks and sat in a free table towards the back of the room.

"Can I get you anything?"

"Yeah, could we please get two butterbeers, Mione do you want anything else?"

"Yes, could I have a little bit of ginger in my Butterbeer and could I please get a Shepard's pie please?"

"Sure dear, what about you sir?"

"The same please minus the ginger in the Butterbeer."

"Okay, I'll just be a minute and come back with your drinks."

"Thankyou" both Draco and Hermione chorused.

As the waitress left Draco reached over the table and held Hermione's hand.

"I'm really glad that you came with me today."
"Aww, Draco I'm glad to. You're going to be a great dad and our children are going to be spoiled rotten. No doubt about that."
"Of course, they're Malfoys after all." He said with a smirk that then changed into a large, cheeky grin on his face.
".ha!" Hermione said sarcastically as the waitress came back with the drinks and left to get their food.

"I propose a toast to my beautiful girlfriend and our no doubt gorgeous babies."

"Hahaha, to us!"

They both took a swig of their drinks while the waitress came and placed the food on the table in between them. They ate in silence for a while making small talk about the babies and the things they bought today. At the end of the day the pair travelled back up to the castle and went to the head dorm. They placed everything in the spare room that had appeared in the head dorm and went to their room. After changing into their pyjamas the pair read their books while cuddled up in bed until the late hours of the night when they decided to get some sleep; the students going home for the Christmas holidays would be leaving tomorrow and then it would be Christmas the following day.

The next day:

Draco's POV

I said goodbye to Pansy and Blaise as we stood outside at the Entrance hall where all the students going home for the Christmas break would wait for the no-so-horseless carriages to take them to Hogsmede station. Pansy was staying with Weasley and the Weaslette was staying with Blaise over the Christmas break. Hermione and I decided to stay at Hogwarts where we could prepare for the upcoming term when students began returning to school.

"Have a great Christmas you guys and don't piss off the Weasleys too much…you know how their anger can …Ow… Pans what the hell was that for?"

"Don't insult Ron and Ginny! They're family now so shut up!"

"Sorry…"

"Jesus Christ Dray, Granger's made you a softy! It's nicer"

"Thanks mate! I'd better get going. Have fun and Owl me anytime!" He gave Pansy a kiss on the cheek and a hug while he gave Blaise a very "manly" hug slash handshake and walked off to figure out where his Hermione had gotten to.

Hermione's POV

"Ron, Harry, Ginny! Have a fantastic holiday and promise to Owl me! OKAY!"

"Of course Herms, we will."

"Good boy Harry. By the way are you staying at Lavenders or is she staying with you?"
"Neither, we're both going to Grimmuald Place and she's going to help me figure out some stuff with the house."

"Oh, Harry that's great news! Ron, try not to kill Pansy and let her get used to all those siblings of yours and their kids running around the house!"

"I warned her that it would be a full house but she insisted that she come see what a Weasley Christmas is all about. It's gonna be strange without you their Hermy and even weirder without you there Gin, have fun with Zabini."

"Blaise, Ron his name is Blaise. We're going to come visit I think maybe after Christmas when everyone leaves, that way we won't have to worry about the house caving down on the practically hundreds of us there."

"Hahaha! Oh, I'm going to miss you guys. Be safe and boys don't do anything stupid!"

"Mione, I don't think that can be guaranteed from those two, a voice said from behind her as strong arms wrapped around her waist.
"Weasley, Weasle…Zabi…Ginny, Potter." Draco said as he nodded in acknowledgment to his girlfriend's best friends.

"Draco, don't sneak up on me! … OMG guys that's the last carriage to take you to Hogsmede, you'd better hurry before you miss it!"

"Shit!"

"Crap"

"Bloody Hell!"

"Quick go!" Hermione sad as she frantically hugged them all and practically pushed them onto the last of the carriages.

"That was lucky that I showed up huh? If not they would've missed their carriage!"

"Yes, thanks Draco…"

"What? No reward?"

"Oh fine, jeez, who can say no to you" she said with a smile and leaned up to give him a small kiss on the lips. It wasn't a good idea to have a full on make out session in the Entrance hall of Hogwarts. They had a dorm room for that! Draco picked up Hermione, she was still as light as a feather even though she was heavily pregnant and took her to their room where they cuddled in front of the fire place and gave sweet kissed to each other. And of course they did what they always do before going to sleep. They read their books.

The next day:

"Mione, Mione, HERMIONE!" Draco screamed as he tried to awake his sleeping girlfriend. In order to do so he did the next thing that came into his head…. He jumped on her!

"Draco what the bloody hell do you think you're doing!"

"Mione, its Christmas common let's go downstairs!"

"Oh, okay…I'll be down in a minute, meet you down there." She said and met his lips in a passionate Happy Christmas kiss.

When the pair broke apart they smiled at each other and parted their own ways, Draco downstairs and Hermione into her closet to get a little something she had bought Draco for Christmas. She pulled out the package wrapped in blue wrapping paper with a silver bow around it.

Pulling on a robe she made her way downstairs where Draco was standing next to the fabulous Christmas tree that had put up a couple of weeks ago. It was a green fir tree with gold, silver, red and green ornaments. Hermione skipped her way over to Draco and gave him a hug before thrusting the present into his hands.

"Merry Christmas Draco!" he looked down at his hands and smiled.
"Thank you gorgeous! What could this be?" He said turning the package around in his hands.
"It's a Christmas present. A little something I picked up for you while I was 'in the bathroom' at Hogsmede!" A cheeky grin spread across Hermione's face as Draco looked at her with a smirk on his face.
"Are you sure the hat put you in the right house, you're sounding like a Slytherin more and more each day."
"Well, I am the fake wife and girlfriend of the Slytherin prince himself! Open it!"

Draco obliged to her wishes and was surprised at what was inside the blue packaging. He reached inside with his left hand and held up a golden snitch. He turned it in his hand and saw that on the side a dragon had been engraved on it. As he put it in his right hand a small compartment opened and a piece of parchment was inside.

To my Dragon,

Merry Christmas.

This is the first Snitch you caught at Hogwarts
on the Slytherin Quidditch team.

I love you.

Hermione 3 xx

He placed the parchment back inside the Snitch and brought Hermione to his chest in a bone crushing hug. When he pulled back he had a giant smile on his face which Hermione couldn't help but reciprocate.

"Hmm… wonder how you were able to retrieve this particular Snitch…actually I don't want to know. Thank you 'Mione I love it so much and I love you even more. There's an owl tapping on the window over there do you want to go get it?"

"Sure!"

Attached to the owls leg was a small box with a piece of parchment attached to it.
She read this first.

To my beautiful Hermione,

Merry Christmas.

I hope we get to spend many more Christmas' together
Love forever and always

Draco xx

By the time Hermione had finished reading the parchment she was in tears. She looked up at Draco who was standing behind her looking over her shoulder. He looked down at her and swept in for a peck on the lips before he broke the kiss.

"Open the box." Was all he said.
Hermione did that exactly. When she lifted the lid on the box she gasped. Inside was a gorgeous silver necklace with a lion and a snake facing each other shaped like a heart. There were small diamonds above the lion and snake. Inside the gap was the letters "H" and "D" linked together with a plus sign. Hermione couldn't believe her eyes. She didn't say anything but turned around and captured Draco's lips in a kiss so fast that he was caught off guard. Soon he reciprocated and his hands found their way into Hermione's hair. She had placed the box on the window sill next to her where the owl had been before she wrapped her arms behind Draco's head and they had made their way over to the couch where they fell back onto it; Hermione landing on top.

All of a sudden Hermione broke the kiss; sat up and was breathing heavily with a bewildered yet slightly terrified look on her face.
"'Mione what's the matter?"

"I…I think the babies just kicked!"
"Wait, are you serious?"
"Yes, I'm sure put your hand on my stomach!"

Draco placed his hand on her stomach but nothing happened he looked quite upset too.

"Nothing's happening…"
"Maybe…try talking to them. I read that they're supposed to know our voices by now. They are due ne… Oh my gosh they're due next month!"
"Wow! The time went so fast! I can't believe it!"
Draco looked down at his hand on Hermione's stomach and slowly etched his face down to her stomach, looking a little nervous.

"Hey babies…ha… I'm your dad; I can't wait to meet you two. I…ow!"
"What, what happened?"
"They KICKED me!"
"Really! See all you had to do was talk to them!"

Hermione got up and turned to Draco.

"By the way hun, if you didn't realise I love your present. Thank you."
"You're welcome beautiful; go grab it so I can put it on for you."

Hermione reached over and took the box with the necklace inside and sat on the couch next to Draco where he took it from her hands and fastened the clasp of the necklace at the nape of her neck. She gave him a peck on the cheek and went over to sort out the rest of the presents that were under the Christmas tree.

From Harry she got a photograph of Ron, Harry and herself. A new quill and parchment set from her parents, fudge and a knitted scarf from the Weasley clan and lots of thousands of books. A Wizarding picture of Draco and herself from Ginny that was taken from their date at Hogsmede. From Ron she got the new revised version of Hogwarts: A History which now included details on the war and the new Life class which Hermione was eager to read about. A list of the participant's names and their partners were there. At the very top were Draco and Hermione as head boy and girl. A small asterisk lead to small print at the bottom of the page.

"Mr Malfoy and Ms Granger now Malfoy having the rare occurrence of twins not like the rest of the students. Their marriage papers were switched causing this to happen which is unlikely to happen to any other couple in the future."

Hermione stopped dead in her tracks and turned to Draco who was checking out his own presents which included a new watch from Pansy, from Blaise he got a new black winter robe which had pockets with undetectable extension charms on them. From his parents he got sent a new broom cleaning kit and a new dragon skin gloves for Quidditch. He also got some sweets from Crabbe and Goyle and was happily munching on them until he looked up and saw the petrified look on her face.
In an instant he was at her side checking to see if anything was wrong.

Hermione's POV.

I can't believe it they stuffed up our marriage papers. What the hell is wrong with our marriage? It's supposed to be fake?. Why do we have twins?

Draco's POV

Holy crap! Why is she freaking out? He wrenched the book from her frozen hands and looked at the page that she was currently on. What the bloody f***? Why the…? Who the? WHAT…?

Normal POV

At the same time Draco and Hermione whipped out their wands and stormed to Dumbledore's office hands intertwined with faces of determination and bloody murder.

Dumbledore was sitting at his desk sucking on a lemon drop when the Malfoy's burst into his office; as if he somehow knew they were coming.

"Professor Dumbledore, I demand this instant you tell us what is wrong with our fake marriage!"
"I swear, if you don't answer her I'll jump over that desk and…"
"DRACO! Calm down."

Draco visibly calmed down at Hermione's request but still looked at Dumbledore waiting for his answer to the question.

"I will answer your question in one moment Mrs Malfoy. I first need to contact Professors McGonagall and Snape before we continue this conversation."

He threw some floo powder into the fireplace and "phoned" McGonagall and Snape who stepped out of the fireplace in their casual robes; being Christmas.
"Albus, what is the meaning of this?"
"Well, Severus this has to do with the glitch in the spell where the young Malfoys come in."
"The marriage papers!" both Professors gasped at the same time.

Draco and Hermione shared a look of horror at their comment.
"Professor, what is wrong with our marriage papers?"
"Well, Mrs Malfoy as you probably figured out when we married the students together we used replicas of official marriage documents. These were duplicated with a special spell which made the marriage fake. But being the old man that I am lost the original documents somewhere along the line. I thought that it shouldn't make be a bother just as long as they weren't in the pile of replicas I had created."

Draco glare became more furious with every word that came out of the Professors mouth.
"Are you trying to tell us that we're ARE ACTUALLY MARRIED!" he all but screamed at the headmaster. Hermione turned a very pale white and was leaning against Draco for support.
"Well, Mr Malfoy that is one way of putting it. After we discovered that you two were having twins we figured that something was wrong. When you get married to someone normally you love this person with all your heart. And because your marriage papers were real the spells results changed as it thought that you married willingly and were in love. In other words were and are soul mates."

Draco and Hermione were gobsmacked they said nothing and had nothing to say. They sat in one of Dumbledore's arm chairs; Hermione on Draco's lap as the Professors went over ways to try and dissolve the marriage between the head boy and girl. They pair still did nothing but sit there. When the Professors had finished discussing Professors McGonagall and Snape escorted them back to their dormitories where they returned some-what back to normal. They tried their hardest to try and have a great Christmas. They had dinner together which Hermione had prepared and went to the Great Hall to supervise some of the activities being carried out by the younger years.

Returning back to the dormitory they sat in bed reading. When the silence couldn't be taken anymore Hermione turned to Draco.

"What are we going to do about this?"
"'Mione, I honestly have no idea. Is there anything we can do?"
"No, there's no divorce in the Wizarding world. I guess…"
"We can't do anything…"
"Right."
"You know I still love you right?"
"What, Draco of course I do. I love you to!"
"Good, then I hope you won't mind me doing this."

He captured her in what seemed like the ten millionth kiss they shared that very day. As Draco started to move over Hermione she broke the kiss off.

"Nah-uh not till the babies are born."
"Awww… fine."
"Hahaha"

The pair settled down in the bed and Draco turned off the lights. Just before drifting asleep Hermione said.

"Merry Christmas Draco, I love you."

"Merry Christmas 'Mione, I love you to."

Yay! I finished. Sorry I've had really bad writers block. It took me months to figure out Draco's present. My friend Tish had to help me… Thank you.
Also I want to thank you all for you're really, really kind reviews. I thought I might clear a few things up:

No I haven't given up on this story

I don't plan to start another until I finish this one

This is rated M just in case it's mainly for language.

I'm not yet comfortable writing smut so it's not that kind of M

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