Hermione told Draco the next morning, his already pale face going even more pale.

"Are… are you sure?" he croaked.

Hermione nodded, handing him the book she used, "Yes. I used this spell to confirm it last night."

Draco read it quickly and glanced at her, "May I? I just… I want to see for myself," he said.

Hermione nodded and waited while he did the spell. When he received the same results she did, Draco looked at her, his eyes wide. "We're having a baby," he said quietly.

Hermione's eyes watered, "Yes, we are. Are.. are you ok with this?"

Draco rubbed his hand over his face, scratching the one-day stubble, "Yeah.. well, I mean it's earlier than expected, but we always knew we were going to have a baby eventually." He looked at her, trying to read her face, "How do you feel about it?"

Hermione shrugged, slumping down on the edge of her bed, "I'm still in shock, I think. I wasn't expecting this at all. But then Ginny announced she was pregnant and was talking to me about her symptoms and I started wondering if I was too... " She looked at him, biting her lip, "I hope you're not mad that I didn't tell you yesterday. I wanted to confirm before I said anything."

Draco shook his head and sat down next to her, "No, it's alright. What do we do now though?"

Hermione closed her eyes and took a breath, "Well, first things first... I go to St. Mungo's and see a midwife healer to confirm and then… go from there I guess."

Draco nodded. "Do you want me to go with you to the appointment?" he asked.

Hermione nodded and looked at him, "Please?"

He nodded again and put his arm around her shoulder, kissing her temple. A few silent minutes went by before Draco said, "Oh Salazar.. Mother's never going to get tired of saying 'I told you' after this."

Hermione chuckled and nodded in agreement, "She will be quite unbearable to live with after this.".

"When do you want to go to St. Mungo's?"

"Is 'now' too soon?" she said, "I just want confirmation."

"Sure. Let me get ready and I'll meet you back here in a few minutes, ok?"

He kissed the top of her head then left, returning a few minutes later with shoes on his feet and wand in his pocket.

Taking a deep breath, Hermione and Draco floo'd to St. Mungo's (the idea of apparating made her nauseous just thinking about it), and headed to the Obstetric ward.

"Well, good news, you are most definitely pregnant," said the midwife-healer, Susan Bones-McMillan. She had just performed a diagnostic spell, similar to what Hermione and Draco did at the manor. "If it's alright with you, I'm going to see how far along are you. Just lie down here. Have you ever seen or heard of a muggle ultrasound before?"

Draco shook his head while Hermione nodded as she laid down on the table, "Yes, it's where they use a device and send ultrasonic waves to whatever they want to see and an image shows up on a screen. I went with my aunt once to one of hers."

Susan nodded, "I'll be doing something similar to that, but without the use of ultrasonic waves. The images will be shown above your abdomen as I move my wand around."

"So… we're going to see the baby?" Draco asked, slightly amazed.

Susan smiled and nodded as she placed her wand over Hermione. She muttered a spell and soon a blurry image could be seen, projected above Hermione's abdomen, just as she said it would.

"There's your baby," said Susan. A tape measure came flying out from somewhere as Draco and Hermione's eyes were transfixed on the tiny human that was currently residing in Hermione's stomach. The tape measure measured the length of the baby.

"Is the baby really that big?" asked Draco incredulously.

Susan chuckled, "No, this is a magnified image of the baby. Your baby is about 5 weeks old though, so roughly the size of peppercorn."

"Five weeks.." muttered Hermione, still gazing at the tiny human floating above her. It was wiggling around and looked a little like a gummybear. She tried to touch it but her finger went right through the image.

"Let me just check the rest of your uterus and ovaries, to make sure everything is in top shape before I let you go, alright?"

Hermione nodded and watched while Draco moved his chair closer to the image of the baby. A small hint of a smile ghosted his lips as he turned to Hermione, who finally broke her eye contact from the baby as well to look at him. They stared at eachother while Susan did her check when they heard her say. "Oh…."

The two of them looked at Susan. "Is.. is something wrong?" asked Hermione nervously, wanting to clutch her stomach to protect whatever it was that might be harming her child.

"Oh nothing is wrong, it's just.. well, if you take a look here..." she indicated to another gummybear-like blob that was out of view when Susan had initially did her scan.

Hermione gasped while Draco frowned, "What does that mean?" he asked.

"Well Mr. Malfoy, what it means, is that your wife is carrying twins," said Susan.

Draco's eyes widened in surprise, "Twins?" he whispered, looking back at the projection.

Both Hermione and Draco had gone pale and quiet. Sensing they might want some privacy to talk about this new information, Susan stopped the projection and said, "I'll leave you two alone for a few minutes while I get some pamphlets and get your prescriptions ready." She quickly and quietly slipped out the room.

Hermione sat up, her face furrowed in concentration.. "Five weeks.. twins…" She buried her face in her hands, "Oh Merlin, I'm never drinking and shagging ever again."

Draco hadn't moved, still staring at where the images of his children were at. When Hermione spoke, he shook his head as if trying to focus then looked at her, "What did you say?"

Hermione removed her hands and sighed, "Five weeks… that was roughly the time I got drunk off my arse and sauntered in your room and throwing myself at you. I'm pretty sure that's when the baby, er, babies, were conceived."

Draco moved his chair so that he was in front of Hermione and took both her hands in his. He saw all the worry lines on her face and asked "Are you alright?"

She looked at him, her eyes welling with tears, "Am I alright? Am I alright?! No, Draco, I'm not," she said. "I… I was just starting to be ok with finding out I was pregnant, but to find out there are now going to be TWO of them. I.. I don't know if I can handle it. I know newborns don't sleep and I'll be dealing with twice the sleep deprivation. Two sets of nappy changes, two screaming babies wanting to eat.. Merlin, I was planning on breastfeeding but I don't know if I can do that with twins, and-"

"Sh…. sh… calm down, Hermione," said Draco, trying to sooth her. He was rubbing his thumbs along the tops of her hands, "It'll be ok. We'll get through it. You won't have to do everything alone either, you know."

Hermione glared at him, "If you think for one minute that I'm going to have house elves raise my children for me, you better think again Draco Malfoy."

Draco glared back at her, "I wasn't talking about house elves. I was talking about me."

"I.. what?" asked Hermione, her anger dissipating.

"I want to help. I will help. I'll be there for all the midnight feedings, nappy changes, burpings. My own mother did everything by herself and when she was exhausted, that was the only time she let a house elf watch over me. My father wasn't really involved until I became older, but I don't want to be like that. I want to be involved, helping out, from the very beginning. Got it?"

Tears were running down Hermione's cheeks as she flung her arms around Draco's neck, "Thank you," she whispered.

He hugged her back and they embraced for a moment until Hermione pulled away. She gave Draco a watery grin, "So.. twins." she said, her excitement starting to bubble over.

Draco smiled, a wide, true smile and he leaned forward and placed a quick, chaste kiss on her lips. Susan peered in and saw them smiling at each other and knew it was safe to come back in again.

She gave Hermione pamphlets on pregnancy in general, some prenatal vitamins, anti-nausea potions, and book recommendations that deal with having a twin pregnancy.

"Now, as your doctor, I won't say anything about your pregnancy to the public, but just to warn you, the Prophet usually has reporters who hang out around here to get inside stories. If you're seen walking out of this department, then it'll be splashed all in front of the morning paper tomorrow."

Hermione groaned, "I hope we can avoid that so we can tell our families and friends before the paper does."

Susan smiled, "Don't worry, you can floo directly from my office which is right through that door." She indicated to the door that led to her office. "Take one of the antinausea potions so you don't get sick though. You'll want to keep apparating to a minimum, and only do it when it's absolutely necessary. Now, as a reminder, I want to see you again in three weeks. Eat and drink plenty of food, take your vitamins, and if you're tired, you need to rest. Growing a baby is exhausting work, but growing two is even more so. If you have any concerns, come straight here."

Draco and Hermione nodded and thanked Susan, then she left to see another patient. Hermione dug through the bag she was given and drank the anti-nausea potion, then Draco and her floo'd back to the manor, where they talked about how and when they were going to tell everyone about the twins.

A/N: Ok, so who all saw THAT coming? Next up.. telling the family!