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Chapter 14
Hermione got up on the 5th of March and sighed.
The girls' dormitory had gotten a lot quieter after both Maya and Romilda had left for St Mungos having gone into labour.
Maya had been gone a few days, and Romilda had left the previous night after an early labour.
Apparently, they would get word on how both girls were doing that morning at breakfast, and Hermione was eager to learn how her friends were doing.
She got dressed into her loose clothing with some difficulty, it was easier when Draco was there, but as it was now Monday, he would be waking up and getting ready for class.
Hermione, as it had become difficult for her to make her way to classes, was instead taking them in her room.
The teachers had agreed to a Partherald spell, meaning a hologram like version of themselves would be displayed in the common room of her dormitory so she could follow the lessons.
She headed into the other room to grab a glass of water before she got her books sorted and made her way down to breakfast.
She smiled at Luna, who (the lucky thing) at just four months gone was barely showing at all.
"Good morning Hermione, you look incredibly uncomfortable today, how are you?" Hermione rolled her eyes and sipped from her glass before they were greeted by their other dorm mate, Tia.
"You guys can go down without me today, I think I'm just going to read up a bit." Tia gestured to the huge pile of pregnancy books stacked up on the coffee table.
"Ok, I'll see you later before you go to lessons then." Hermione smiled, closing the door after her and Luna made their way out and headed down for breakfast.
"So how's Blaise dealing with all this?" Hermione asked as Luna hummed idly to herself.
"He's terribly excited, Blaise just adores children you see." Luna smiled, clearly thinking of her husband that Hermione had to admit, even she'd taken a liking to over the past few weeks.
As they entered the great hall, barely anyone even looked up from their breakfast.
Hermione had discovered that, especially after Parvati so early in the year, people had pretty much gotten used to the fact that several of the Hogwarts students had decided to start a family.
She took her usual seat, at the Slytherin table that day, next to Draco as Luna sat next to Blaise.
Hermione had decided that their children and building their own relationship was far more important than petty house rivalry, and had, much to her surprise, discovered that actually many of the Slytherins were fascinating and friendly people.
She'd made her peace with pretty much all of them, especially the boys but Hermione had her suspicions that was because she'd gone up two bra sizes.
She smiled at Pansy as she took her seat, who immediately shuffled over to her and grinned.
"Hi Mione! I was reading that book you recommended me the other night, Hogwarts a History? Oh my goodness why haven't I read it before?!" Hermione grinned over her pumpkin juice before lowering it.
"I know! I thought you'd like it Pansy, you actually have excellent reading taste." Hermione had practically forgotten the days she'd detested the immature girl who'd followed Draco around like a puppy, she'd discovered from talking to Pansy that the girl was intelligent, and actually planned to do a degree in Philosophy at a muggle university.
"Well, if you're now done stealing my fiancé." Draco teased, putting a hand around Hermione's waist as he kissed her cheek.
An owl came swooping down from the top of the great hall after that, and Hermione gasped and ripped open the letter that came for her, it was from Maya.
"Mione,
Hey! I hope everything back at school is going great, I'm doing a lot better now that my little miracle's here.
Gwendolyn Renae Hooper-Jones was born at 3am this morning, she weighs a healthy 8.5lb's, and you won't believe how cute she is! I really hope you can meet her.
Romilda's doing ok, and Seamus is here with her so I'm sure she'll do just fine.
Apparently, her kid will be born pretty soon, probably in the next 12 hours or so, I'll keep you posted!
Hope you, Luna and Tia are doing ok, see you at some point, hopefully!
Maya xo
Hermione smiled as she folded the letter back up and turned to find Draco looking at her intently.
"What?!" She laughed as he blushed slightly.
"Everything ok?"
"Yes, everything's fine. Maya's had her baby, a little girl. Her name is Gwendolyn Renae, so typically that's two of our names gone." Hermione rolled her eyes as Draco pulled her into his arms.
"Whoa, everything alright?" She asked quietly as he pulled back and kissed her gently.
"I just can't wait until it's us." He smirked as Hermione scowled.
"Yeah well it's alright for you, I'm the one who has to push three damn kids outta my"
Draco cut her off by kissing her once more.
He helped her up, said goodbye to Blaise and walked her up to her dormitory.
"You will be ok today, right? I can't get you anything, damn maybe I should just ditch." Hermione gave him a look and he shrugged.
"Alright, so I can clearly tell from your expression that that's not an option. Just be careful, ok?"
Hermione rolled her eyes and kissed him quickly before saying the password to the statue.
Just before she opened the door, she turned around and smiled.
"Draco, I'll be fine. Work hard!" She teased, and laughed as she heard him grumbling under his breath.
"Women."
Hermione had already finished all the set work for each class she had that day, and she wasn't even halfway through lesson one.
It turned out they were just doing some revision for NEWT's, and Hermione was relieved to discover she knew pretty much all of it without even having to listen to five lectures.
With a sigh, she cast the counter spell on the small hologram of Professor McGonagal, and picked up one of the many pregnancy books Tia had left lying around.
She got bored pretty quickly, having read the majority of them previously in her pregnancy.
She sighed once more and stretched out her tired feet, resting the book on her bump as she dozed off.
LINEEEEEEEE BREAKKKKK
"Hermione? Mione are you awake?" Hermione yawned and rubbed her eyes, sitting up slowly to see Draco standing over her, his usual worried expression clouding his face.
She sighed and propped herself up on the cushions of the sofa before rolling her eyes.
"Well I am now idiot." She muttered as Draco smiled slightly.
"An owl came for you earlier, I was wondering if you wanted to," He passed her the note slowly, and Hermione froze when she recognised the hand writing and return address immediately.
She dropped the letter as quickly as if it were on fire, and stood up as fast as she could.
"No. I don't want to speak to either of them." She snapped, trying her best to make a hasty escape as she held her stomach.
"Hermione, maybe it would be for the best to hear what they want to say, they deserve to know. They're going to be grandparents, don't you want our children to have their grandparents?"
Hermione spun round, furious as she glared into his eyes.
"Oh really? Well then why don't you call up your daddy dearest and let him know he's about to be a grandfather." Hermione snapped, and immediately knew she'd said the wrong thing.
Draco pursed his lips and tightened his jaw, looking away angrily.
"Fine. I'll leave you to it." He muttered, slamming the door on the way out.
With a sigh, Hermione sank back down before the fire, and put her head in her hands as she lifted the note from the ground and laid it out on her knee.
She looked down at the familiar looped hand writing, and then to the fire.
"I knew you'd be here." She said softly as she slowly closed the door to the owlery behind her and made her way slowly to stand near the tall muscular ash blonde boy by the far wall.
He barely moved, and just continued to stare out over the grounds.
"You shouldn't be here, it's dangerous you could fall." He muttered as Hermione sighed and came to stand next to him.
"Draco I'm sorry, I didn't mean what I said, and I hope you know that." He shrugged, still not turning to face her.
"I also thought I'd let you know that I read the letter, I sent the response a few hours ago." At this he spun round, surprise and confusion lit up his eyes.
"What?! What changed your mind?" Hermione smiled and tentatively put an arm around him.
"You did. You were right Draco, I want our children to have their grandparents. I agreed to meet, they're coming to the school tomorrow." She smiled sadly as Draco hugged her close.
"I'm proud of you." He whispered into her hair as she smiled wider.
"And of course I want them to meet you, the father of my children." Draco laughed.
"Yes I'd guess your father has quite a few things he'd like to say to me." He grinned, and wound his Slytherin scarf around her neck before taking her hand and helping her down the stairs.
"Y'know green looks good on you."
"Shut up."
Hermione brushed her hair for the fifth time that morning and adjusted her elasticated jeans.
In all honesty, she'd never felt quite as nervous as she did that morning.
"Everything will be fine," She muttered, trying to convince herself she was talking to Draco and not herself.
He smiled nervously from the bed, and helped her up out of her chair as they headed into the common room.
"Professor McGonagal said she'd bring them over around now, halfway through second period." Hermione began, once more nervously running through proceedings.
She was interrupted by a sharp rapping at the door, which riled up her nerves even more.
"They're here. I haven't spoken to them in almost a year and now they're here." She whispered as Draco put an arm around her comfortingly.
"It'll be ok." He whispered as McGonagal entered, smiling as Mr and Mrs Granger followed her in.
"I suppose I shall just leave the four of you to it, Mr Malfoy I expect you in lessons as soon as period 4 starts at the latest." She added, giving Draco a stern look before she left the room.
"Hell Mr and Mrs Granger, I'm Draco Malfoy, it's great to meet you." He smiled charmingly and extended his arm as both Hermione's parents shook it.
"Hello mum, dad." Hermione said quietly, still not meeting her parent's eyes.
"Hermione I just wanted you to know that we really are sorry." Carol Granger said quietly as her husband nodded.
"I just wanted you to know that I only said what I said because I just wished I could have saved you, not the other way around." Daniel continued as Hermione brushed the tears hastily from her eyes.
"You look amazing sweetie, The Headmistress told us about the surprise, the Granger triplets." She grinned, as Hermione smiled slightly.
"I'm really sorry about what happened between us, and I know I should've made contact sooner, but I just wasn't ready to talk. But now, with the babies and our engagement, I just knew I needed my parents again." Carol smiled and hugged her close and kissed her cheek.
"I am sorry Hermione, for everything."
Hermione spent the rest of the day with her mother, chatting about names, details about her pregnancy and the beautiful expensive ring Draco had given her.
Surprisingly, he and Mr Granger got on surprisingly well, and had been discussing various muggle and wizarding sports.
Even though Hermione had tried to avoid her parents for as long as she could, talking to them once again was a blessing, and she realised just how much she'd missed them.
"So, we're coming up to April, you must be getting pretty nervous?" Carol asked as she grabbed her and her husband's coat and made her way to the door.
Hermione nodded.
"Yeah I guess so, we've opted for as natural birth as possible so it's going to be a lot of work."
Carol shook her head in amazement.
"You bet it will be! And hun? Don't you worry about that spell nonsense, I'm sure the three of them will be perfectly fine." She smiled, touching Hermione's cheek before she left.
"You call me if you need anything now!" Mrs Granger called out as she joined Professor McGonagal in the corridor.
Hermione waved goodbye before closing the door and turning around to see Draco sitting in one of the armchairs by the fire.
"Draco? Don't you have to go to period four?" There was no reply, and it was then she noticed a discarded envelope on the floor.
As she walked over she inspected it, it was from the ministry.
"Draco? Draco is everything alright?!" She gasped, rushing over to him as she shook his shoulders and he raised his eyes up from the letter in his shaking hands.
"It's my father.
They've got him."
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