A/N: Alrite, here it is. Chapter 21. This is kinda jsut a fluff chapter I guess you could say as nothing TRULY important happens... well I guess I shouldn't say that. It kinda just caps up the other 2 big events of the summer. Read and Review as always! Love and cookies
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Ginny rifled through her closet, criticizing every dress that hung on the bar.
"If it weren't for Draco I wouldn't have to be going to a wedding looking like a big pregnant elephant... But then again if Draco wasn't here than I wouldn't be going to Narcissa's wedding, and then again she wouldn't need to be getting married as Lucius would still be alive-."
"Talking to your self again Babe?" Draco asked chuckling as he walked into the room.
"No blaming my life on you. I have nothing to wear. Not one single thing I own makes me look flattering, and all the things that do make me look good- NO LONGER FIT!"
Draco rolled his eyes. He knew what Harry meant about pregnant women being unbearable. "Fine, we'll go into Diagon Alley and get you some maternity robes!" He said before turning to leave.
"Yeah, spend some money on maternity robes. That's good. I wouldn't need them if you hadn't knocked me up!" Ginny yelled at the now closed door.
'I need to get out of here!' Draco thought quickly, before his wife did something stupid.
He knocked on their bedroom door and let her know that he was leaving. He got something in response that sounded like a muffled "Yeah, you leave. Just leave me here, all alone!"
Apparating out of the room he landed in Ron's new flat with a crack.
Cassidy being the muggle born she was, was laying on the couch in front of the telly. She looked up at him from her Soap.
"Hey Draco." She said with a wave.
Alyssa was sitting on the floor playing with a set of blocks. She too looked up at him. "Uncle!" She said raising her arms into the air, enabling him to scoop her up.
"Hey li'l Girl! How are you?" He got a toothy grin in response. "That's what I thought." He said before trying to drop her back on the floor and only managing to find her clinging to him. He chuckled before sitting beside Cassidy on the couch.
"Cass, could you do me a HUGE favor?" He asked desperately.
Cassidy looked away from the telly again. "What?"
"Go to my flat and help Ginny buy some maternity robes for my mother's wedding. I'm afraid she'll hex me if I try to walk in the same room as her. She's apparently in her blaming stages. It's all my fault she's in this predicament, you know."
Cassidy nodded. "My older sister just had a baby, her mood swings were crazy. She hexed me once for saying I liked her top, because she thought I was being sarcastic and calling her fat! I'm taking a big risk here for you Drake."
Draco nodded. "I'll stay here with Alyssa then!" After hearing the crack of his friend disapparating, he flopped on the couch and sighed. Alyssa lay on his stomach and the two took a nap. That is how Ron found them when he walked into his flat later that day.
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"Gin? You here?" Cassidy asked as she landed in her friends's home. Looking around the living room she noted that the place was a mess. Their was dirty dishes all over the table, clothes lay on the sofa and arm chair.
Walking into the bed chamber, she thought she'd had a heart attack. The bed was unmade, the floor was under a layer of garbage, the bathroom was cluttered with wet towels and empty shampoo and conditioner bottles. Toothpaste covered the sink.
"Ginny where are you?" Cassidy called out, starting to freak out a bit.
"In here Cass!" A voice called from the closet.
Cautiously Cassidy opened the door, revealing Ginny sitting on the floor of the closet going through a scrap book of photos.
"What are you doing?" She asked squatting down to look at the book.
"Look how young we are. Jessi! Oh wow, I haven't talked to here since that day back in April you know. Wow. I was thin then..."
Cassidy knocked Ginny upside the head. "I apologize, but SNAP OUT OF IT GINNY! Look around you, your house is a mess. If Mum came in here she would have a fit. Your husband is freaked out, and you are mad about stupid things what is with you."
Ginny ignored her as she read a letter. "Wow, I didn't know I still had this. It's the letter Michael Corner wrote to me over the summer between third and fourth year. Do you remember when I went out with that fool?"
Cassidy sighed, before walking down the hall. Her first attempt was the kitchen. She cleaned up all the dishes and threw out all the old food. It was spotless as she moved onto the living room. She picked up all the clothes and carried them to the bedroom where she threw them in the corner. Pointing her wand at all of them, they cleaned them selves then zoomed to their appropriate places in the room. She made the bed quickly and tidied the bath. Then she returned to her friend. Hoisting her up, she walked her around the house.
"This Ginny, is what your house should look like. Doesn't it look better?" She asked sitting Ginny on the couch after the tour was done.
"It's clean, I see no difference though. What are you doing here. It's so good to see you. I have no idea where Draco went though." Ginny responded cheerfully.
"Bloody mood swings. I hate pregnant women. Look Gin, we're going to go to Diagon Alley to get you a dress ok?" She asked hoping not to set her friend off again, yeah right.
"Why do you think I need a new dress? Oh right because the stupid Slytherin GIT, that I am married to couldn't keep his dick out of me! God he's such an asshole. I could still be skinny and a normal 17 year old but NOOO! I have to be a knocked up, pregnant, maternal bitch!" She shook her head and turned away.
Cassidy could hear her sobbing. Cassidy rolled her eyes as Ginny looked back at her.
"Cass, what's WRONG with me. It's like I can't control it. It's like-."
"Raging hormones Gin, don't worry. It's a normal pregnant thing."
Ginny nodded. "I just hope I don't do something stupid tomorrow, I don't think Draco can take anymore from me."
"Come on lets go get a dress. It'll take your mind off it." She said, walking her friend to the fire place.
"I can't even travel like the adult I am. NO! I'll get splinched, stupid pregnancy." Ginny mumbled taking some floo powder.
"You love Payton, admit it!"
Ginny rolled her eyes, but threw the powder down. When she arrived in Diagon Alley, she waited for friend to appear as well.
"Now what?" She asked already impatient.
"Gin, you seriously need to chill. I'm not moving from this spot until you change your little attitude." Cassidy scolded her.
Ginny sighed. "Sorry, I know. I've just been so ARGH lately, and everything with Carter coming, and Narcissa getting married, I just." Ginny shrugged.
"Lets just say that PMS can be taken any day of pregnancy right?" Cassidy asked grinning like a Cheshire cat.
Ginny nodded. "I can't wait to be my old self again. Only 3 more months." She said as they strolled towards the robe shop.
"Yeah, you hope!" Cassidy said laughing as she held the door open for her friend.
Ginny nodded, "Yeah." She said fingering a green dress. "What color do you think I should go?"
Cassidy sighed. "Chocolate brown." She said suddenly. "Here it's perfect."
Ginny reached out and touched the silky material of the dress.
"Mrs. Malfoy. How lovely to see you!" cried Madame Malkin as she scurried toward them. "How are you and our little angel this very fine day? It was an excellent choice to come in today as we are having a large sale on our baby clothes!"
"No, we aren't shopping for the baby today. It's this dress. Do you think that you could tailor it in so I could wear it to my mother-in-law's wedding on Saturday?" Ginny asked hopefully.
"Of course my dear, and you shall be more beautiful than the bride!" She said as she took Ginny's hand in her own and grabbed the dress, whisking both away to the back room to fit the dress to the girl.
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"Malfoy. What are you doing here?" Ron asked as he nudged the other man with his knee.
Draco stirred and opened his eyes, not expecting to see his brother-in-law's face towering above him. "Bloody hell Weasel!" He said making to sit up, but realizing that Alyssa still lay asleep on top of him. "A little help here!"
Ron stood, frozen, but finally moved and took his daughter into his arms. "You didn't say what you were doing here." He said laying the girl back on the couch after Draco stood up.
"Your sister is five months pregnant and is a monster to live with. I haven't slept, and I couldn't take her constant bitching. SO I came here, and your goddess of a girlfriend took Ginny shopping for a dress to wear to Mother's wedding." Draco answered running a hand throw his hair. "What time is it?"
"Five-thirty." Ron answered after glancing at the cable box that was perched on top of the telly.
"Draco nodded. "Well then I better be heading home. If Cass is there do you want me to send her back?" Draco asked stretching and hearing his back crack.
"Could you. It's almost dinner time, and I can't cook. For Alyssa's sake, you know?" Ron asked goofily.
"Yeah, well I'll see you later." Draco said before apparating out with a pop.
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"Babe, you home?" Draco asked when he arrived at his dark flat. "Ginny? Cassidy? You girls here?"
There was no answer. Shrugging he walked down the café down the street. He ordered 2 burger meals, and a children's chicken fingers before apparating back to the Weasley flat.
"Cass that you?" Ron called from the living room.
"Oh yea, it's me!" Draco called out. "Girls weren't there, but I'm starved so I brought us food!" He said and carried the food to the other two occupants of the living space. "Burgers and fries work?" He asked as he set the items on the coffee table.
"Of course!" Ron said grabbing his and taking a bite. "This for Lyssa?" he asked pointing at the cardboard box containing the chicken.
Draco nodded, his mouth full of beef, cheese, ketchup, mustard, mayo, lettuce, onion, and pickle (That's what I calla burger!)
Ron chunked up the pieces of chicken and fries into small pieces and sat Alyssa in her booster seat at the table. "Let's eat in here, if Cass finds out we ate in the living room she'll have a cow." Ron said moving the rest of the stuff to the dining room.
Draco nodded. "Pop in the fridge?" He asked opening the muggle appliance. He took out two Cokes.
The three sat at the table, the men talking Quidditch, and Alyssa happily popping the pieces of food into her mouth.
"Babe? We're back." Voices called from the living room.
Ron swallowed extra hard, as he had just shoved the remaining third of his dinner in his mouth. "In the dining room." He replied.
"Hey!" Ginny said surprised to see her husband sitting next to her brother at the table. She walked over to him and stole the fry he was about to eat out of his hand. "Thanks! Oh I found the most PERFECT dress today."
Cassidy cleared her throat. "Excuse me? Who found the dress?" She asked wiping Alyssa's mouth. "I believe that was me."
Ginny smiled. "Yeah, but still, it's beautiful."
"Did you eat?" Draco asked slapping her hand as she moved to take another fry. "Don't eat those, they're bad for you."
"I need salt, and besides, you are!" Ginny said sitting on his lap as he scooched away from the table.
"Yeah well." He said eating the fry she fed him.
"Please, it's bad enough knowing how you got pregnant. I don't need to see the mushy stuff!" Ron called covering his eyes.
"Oh please Weasel." Draco responded before sighing. "I guess we better be going." He said helping Ginny to her feet so he could stand as well. "We'll see you on Saturday then?" He asked as he cleaned up his trash.
"I'll get it Draco, don't worry about it, and yeah. Did you ever hear from Hermione if they were going?" Cassidy asked grabbing the trash from Draco's hands and depositing it in the trash can.
Ginny thought for a second. "She said that they might stop in. Being almost full term and all she doesn't wand to be out for long in case she goes into labor."
Cassidy nodded. "I know what you mean. I'd freak if my water broke at someone's wedding that's just so embarrassing. Alright then, I guess we'll see you then!"
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"Holy shit my feet hurt." Ginny whined as she sat down on the bed later that night.
"Do you want me to rub them?" Draco asked as he entered the room clad only in his boxers.
Ginny nodded, a smirk plastered on her face.
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"Ginny! You look beautiful!" Narcissa complimented as Ginny entered her bedroom.
"Thank you." Ginny responded shyly. The dress fit her curves and showed her growing belly. Draco liked it that much she knew.
"What do you think of mine?" Narcissa asked standing up. "It was my mother's. I never was able to wear it to my first because my mother-in-law, Elizabeth Malfoy threw a fit about me wearing her's, and as I was petrified of her I did so. Now I get to wear this one."
Ginny smiled, "It's beautifull." She whispered, fingering the train of the skirt.
"Wear it for your's." The older woman instructed.
"What?" Ginny said dropping the material in shock. She looked up so as to better look at the woman.
"When you and Draco go through with your wedding wear this dress." Narcissa stated simply.
"Could I?" Ginny asked in a voice no more than a whisper.
Narcissa nodded. "Of course."
Just then the door opened and Draco's head popped in. "Mum, they're ready for you. Come on Gin, let's get a seat." He said holding his hand out for his own soon-to-be-bride. . . again.
Ginny nodded, and with a wave to her mother-in-law walked out with Draco. She followed him to a row of chairs where Ron, Cassidy, Hermione, and Harry already were sitting. "Hey," She whispered, as she sat.
Soon the room was filled with the wedding march. Ginny looked sideways at Draco to see him tense, he was staring at Frank, his eyes never moving from his almost step dad.
"Baby, chill out." Ginny breathed in his ear. "Just let it happen."
Draco nodded stonily, but still didn't take his eyes off his mother and her groom.
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"Draco, I swear, you act as if change is bad for your health!" Ginny said as they sat at the dinner that night.
Draco shook his head. "I never said it was bad for my health, I said it was lethal." He joked kissing her cheek.
Hermione sighed from across the table. "I'm due in a week exactly. Why can't this baby just come out already?" she asked, rubbing her stomach.
Ginny smiled.
"Because, he doesn't want to see the world for what it is. It's safer in there, than out here with the two of you." Ron said taking a swig of champaign.
Cassidy hit him in the arm. "Stop it!" she scolded. "I'm sure he'll come when he is ready." Cassidy assured her friend.
"Yeah, sure. He better come soon. I don't think I can handle the pregnant wife thing anymore." Harry said stretching his back.
Hermione glared at him, but Ron laughed again.
"You? Malfoy bailed on Ginny, said eh couldn't take it anymore." He said taking a bite of his fish.
Draco scowled, but again Cassidy jumped to the defense of the one Ron offended. "Don't believe him." she said, throwing daggers at him with her eyes. "I went there and was ready to kill her. Frickin' mood swings."
Harry nodded. "Yeah, those are the worst. However, I sympathize to you Malfoy so much more. Ginny has a temper when she is in control of her hormones!"
Ginny sat back in her chair watching the exchange. Tears welled in her eyes.
"Gin, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it in a bad way, I'm just saying-."
"Harry, it's okay. That's not it. I'm just so happy that all of you are getting along. It's everything I have been hoping for."
Everyone at the table smiled. "Yeah," said Draco. "Thanks."
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Draco lay in bed, Ginny sleeping soundly next to him about a week after the wedding. Even though ten days had passed, he couldn't stop thinking about it. His mother on her honeymoon, and having a new father, someone who would hopefully treat his mother right.
Then he heard a sound. Standing up, he walked to the living room and realized that there was someone in the fire place.
"Malfoy!" The voice called, causing Draco to jump.
"Potter." He said in greeting.
"Look, Hermione's in labor over at St. Mungo's. She wants Ginny. Could you get her over here?"
Draco nodded. "Of course." He said before turning around and walking to their bedroom.
"Gin, Ginny wake up. Hermione is having her baby." He said shaking her slightly.
A hand came up to Ginny's face. "No I'm not, it's too early. Not until October Draco." She said readjusting herself.
"Ginny not you! Hermione!" Draco said flicking on the light. "Get up, get up, get up!"
Ginny scowled. What time is it?" She asked looking at the alarm clock. "Draco are you crazy it's 2:00 in the morning!" She said taking his pillow and putting it over her head.
"GINNY! Hermione is in labor, as in having her baby. She wants you." Draco said as he shoved his legs into a pair of jeans.
Ginny finally understood. "Oh!" She yelped jumping out of bed, grabbing a pair of jeans herself.
In 20 minutes they were at St. Mungo's. "Hi, looking for Hermione Granger?" Ginny asked the receptionist.
"Third room on your left." The night lady told them.
Ginny nodded and taking Draco's hand lead him to the room.
"Ginny thank Merlin." Harry said, rushing towards Ginny and hugging her. He didn't let go for a long time.
"Harry, you okay?" Ginny asked holding him at arms length.
"What do you think. Hermione is in labor with my first child. She's-."
"Harry," Hermione groaned from the bed at the far end of the room.
Ginny felt her stomach do a flip flop. Was this how labor was? Would she be like this with Payton?"
Draco rubbed the small of her back. "Don't be scared. This isn't you." He said as he lead her toward Hermione.
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Ginny smiled as she held her little God-son. "Hello Carter." She cooed.
Draco watched her from the seat on her left. It had been a long night, Ginny having fallen asleep on him sometime around 5. Carter had been delivered at 9 that morning, July 29th 2006.
Harry at that moment could be found with Hermione, who was asleep after a sleepless night of contractions.
"What do you think Draco?" Ginny asked lifting up the little mans head so Draco could see his face. "You ready for ours now?"
Draco smirked. "I've always been ready for ours." He said kissing her on the nose.
Ginny smiled, "Good, because she's coming whether you like it or not!"
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"And don't fall in love with any of the other girls. Be careful, they were a flirty bunch. And be careful with Tyler, don't treat him differently."
Draco nodded. "I know Ginny, I did teach last year too!"
Ginny smiled as he walked out of their Hogwarts flat again, the new school year started.
A/N: There you gots it! Ok just chill, write a review, and you'll have chapter 22 in NO time! lol ok off wyou go, to review! Love and cookies!
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