Chapter Fourteen: The Perfect Meeting, Third Date and the Festivities
They students finished up their NEWTs and wait for their results. The results will come in Wednesday morning. Bill Weasley walks up to Hermione and Ginny talking outside of the dungeons. "Ladies. Ms. Granger, I have enjoyed having students in dentition. My office and room is ready. Fleur has even added flowers. By the way Ms. Future Potter you were right it is a little odd being the only married teacher at the school. However, Charlie has a date for the dance, Emily from Romania." Ginny grins. "Do you know how many seventh years have a crush on Charlie? They will be heart broken." Hermione laughs. Draco and Blaise come walking out of the Slytherins portrait. Both boys nod at Bill. Draco slides his arm around Hermione's waist. "Professor Weasley. I need to steal these lovely ladies away from you. We have a meeting with the prefects." Bill watches Draco but nods and walks off. Draco frowns and looks at Ginny. "Does he still blame me for…?" Draco motions to his face. "I let the bastard into the school." Ginny pats Draco's face. "He just doesn't know what to think of you. He doesn't hate you. Hey it made me like his wife a little better." Draco made a face. Ginny explained as they walked to the prefects meeting.
Harry and Ron had to go to Hogwarts to speak with the Heads and prefects about the safely of the students and review the rules in place. Harry and Ron appeared at the apparition site at the edge of the forbidden forest. Ginny, Hermione and Draco were their waiting to meet them. When Harry arrived Ginny threw herself into his arms and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron rolled his eyes and made a gaging sound. "Can you stop kissing my sister with me standing right here?" Ginny pulled away and hugged Ron. "I missed you too Ron." Ginny kissed his cheek. Hermione hugs Harry and then awkwardly hugs Ron. We have the meeting set up with breakfast in the room of requirements. Draco took Hermione's hand as they walked up to the castle. "So Weasley…I heard you have been on a few dates with Pansy." Ron stares at him. "Yeah…When the hell did this happen?" Ron motions to Hermione and Draco's hands. Hermione just looks at Ron and rolls her eyes. "Last week Ronald. Right before you started dating Pansy." Harry and Ginny eye each other wearily. Ron's face reddens. You were mad I got with Lavender again and you were fucking a ferret? That is just rich!"
Hermione stops and spins to face Ron. Draco steps back, Ginny and Harry stop too. "How dare you Ronald! Firstly, Draco and I have not slept together. Second, I didn't start dating him the night we broke up. Third, I am a student here. I am head girl and you will respect me or I will request a different Auror to replace you. Is that understood?" Ron opens and closes his mouth like a fish. Hermione turns and takes Draco's arm and starts walking to the room of requirement. Harry just looks pleadingly at Ron. Ginny rolls her eyes. "Oh calm down Ron. How you asked Pansy to the dance?" Ron pouts and follows Draco and Hermione who are talking quietly. "No…I didn't want Hermione to be mad if no one asked her…" Ginny, Harry and Ron talked and walked. Draco and Hermione disappeared ahead of them.
Draco and Hermione walked into the room. The other students were not there yet. Hermione apologizes to Draco about Ron. Draco strokes her cheek. "Hermione it is okay. I know you and Ron fight that is what your friendship is like."
Hermione smiles, looks to make sure no one is there and kisses him lightly. Draco pulls her closer to him and deepens the kiss. Hermione returns the kiss and leans him into the wall. Blaise and Luna walk through the door. Luna smiles "How sweet." Hermione pulls away and blushes. "I…we…I…" Draco smirks at her. "It is okay love." The door opens and Harry, Ginny and Ron walk in. Luna runs over and hugs Harry and Ron. "I want you to meet my boyfriend." She pulls Blaise to her. "This is Blaise Zambni." Ron's jaw drops. "Aren't you a Slytherin?" Harry rubs his head. Blaise looks at Ron and raises an eyebrow. "Yes, I am and I am dating Luna who is a Ravenclaw." Ron nods and walks to the table to fix a plate. Hermione rolls her eyes. The other prefects come in and the meeting is held. At the end of the meeting Draco tells the student's that if any of their dresses or robes need to be altered Pansy Parkinson will be here tomorrow to help with sizing. The door opens and Pansy is fuming followed by Astoria. Astoria pushes past Pansy and throws herself in to Draco's arms she starts to sob. Draco looks at Hermione, Ginny, Harry, Ron and Pansy and raises an eyebrow. Astoria looks up at Draco with big tears running down. "Draco I need to speak with you…" she glares at the others "alone…please…" Draco rolls his eyes "What do you want?" Astoria frowns. "Do you want me to tell you now then?" Draco nods. Astoria glares at him. "I am pregnant…and it is yours." Hermione's eyes widen. The other students gasp. Draco pulls Astoria to the side of the room. "What the hell are you talking about?" Astoria smirks. "I am pregnant…I am having your baby…so you are going to want to end things with the mudblood and marry me or do you want to disgrace the Malfoy name more by having a child out of wedlock." Draco stands there staring at her. "You can't…I…we don't…I am with Hermione…I…" Astoria throws her arms around his neck and kiss him full on the mouth. Draco eyes widen and Hermione runs out of the room. Ron storms over to Draco spins him around and punches him in the face. Draco falls to the ground and Ron pounce on him and starts slamming his fist in to Draco's bloody face. Harry and Blaise pull Ron off of him. "Let go of me! That bastard just kissed another woman in front of Hermione! Let me kill him." Ginny and Pansy move to check on Draco and Astoria stands to the side watching. Ginny starts healing Draco's bloody nose and busted lip. "What the hell Ginny! Why the fuck are you helping him!" Ginny glares at Ron. "We don't even know what happened! It could all be this slut's fault." Ginny glares at Astoria. Ron stops struggling with Harry and Blaise. "I am going to check on Hermione. Stupid ferret." Draco sits up and touches the back of his head, winces in pain and looks at the blood on his hand. "I need to talk to Hermione…" Draco's eyes roll into the back of his head and he faints. Pansy ask Harry and Blaise to take Draco to the hospital wing. Pansy rounds on Astoria. "Are you really pregnant? Are you sure that it is Draco's?" Astoria rolls her eyes and follows Draco to the hospital wing.
Hermione ran to the girls' bathroom and sits on the windowsill, pulls her knees to her chest and cries. Moaning Myrtle watches Hermione. "What is wrong…does no one love you….boo hoo hoo…no one loved me either…" Hermione wipes her eyes. "Please leave me alone Myrtle…" Ron walks into the bathroom and Myrtle flies into the bathroom stall throwing water all over the floor. Ron shakes his boots off and walks to Hermione. "Hey…" Hermione looks up at Ron. "I don't want to hear I told you so Ronald…just let me alone..." Ron sits next to Hermione on the windowsill. "I am not going to tell you I told you so…I just wanted to check on you…I…am probably going to get in trouble." Hermione looks up at him. "What did you do Ronald?" Ron looks at the floor. "I may have beat up your boyfriend a little…" Hermione's eyes widen. "Ron…I….oh Ron…." Hermione hugs Ron. Ron rubs her back. "Ginny seems to think it is a trick that Astoria is trying to pull or something. Myrtle wails again and water floods the ground. Hermione grabs Ron's hand and pulls him from the bathroom.
They run into Seamus. Hermione and Seamus tumble to the ground. "Sorry…Seamus." Seamus grins. "Hermione…hey…I thought you only wanted that to be a onetime thing?" Hermione looks at him funny. "What are you talking about?" Seamus helps Hermione stand up and looks wide eyed at Ron. "Oh…nothing…I have to go…"Seamus runs off down the hall. Hermione and Ron exchange a puzzled look. Ron takes Hermione's hand. "Come on we will go find the ferret….yes I am going to call him that…but you like him for some stupid reason. So we will find him and you will talk to him." The two of them headed back toward the room of requirements. Ginny walks up to Hermione. "Hey I dismissed the meeting. Draco is in the hospital wing." Ginny glares at Ron. "He had a large laceration on the back of his head, a broken nose, and busted lip. I fixed his lip and nose. He lost enough blood to pass out. Astoria is with him…" Hermione smacks Ron's arm. "You could have really hurt him. He hadn't even eaten breakfast." Hermione starts toward the hospital wing. Ginny and Ron walk behind her arguing about how Ron had behaved. Hermione smiles at how much Ginny sounds like Molly.
Hermione walks into the hospital wing to see Astoria yelling at Draco. "How can you not believe me? Madam Pomfrey just told you that I am pregnant." Draco rolls his eyes and tries to sit up, Harry puts his hand on his shoulder and stops him. Draco glares but leans back. "If you are positive the child is mine then I don't see why it is a problem." Hermione walks into Draco's view. Draco sits up before Harry can hold him down. Draco gets off the bed and walks toward Hermione. "Hermione…I didn't know…She…" Draco stops and sways Hermione rushes to his side. "Sit back down…" Hermione takes him back to the bed. Astoria growls "Stop touching my future husband, you filthy mudblood." Draco growls Hermione stops him. "Astoria…I am his girlfriend. How do we even know that the baby is his? Madam Pomfrey could you give a paternity test?" Madam Pomfrey looks at Draco and Hermione then to Astoria. "If there is a question as to the father then yes." Draco nods and Madam Pomfrey hurries off to get the potion. Hermione sits beside Draco on the bed, Astoria snarls. "I can't believe you are toughing such filth Draco." Ginny steps in front of Astoria. "Your face is not pregnant…if you insult my friend again…I will make it so no one will ever want to touch you again. Do I make myself clear?" Astoria and Ginny glare at each other not breaking eye contact until Madam Pomfrey comes back carrying a potion bottle.