A/N: Sorry I'm a little late, this has been written a few days now but my grandad was rushed into hospital and basically I have been so busy running back and forth and trying to be there for my nan that I just never found time. I'm working on the next chapter which will answer a few more quesions I know you have. Basically this chapter is for my grandparents, they will never read this but they are honestly the most amazing couple I have ever met. It's because of them I believe in soul mates, because they are like 2 halves of one person, they are so similar yet so different and they inspire me everyday. Thank you once more for reading and being just awesome.

Disclaimer: I own only the plot and Zach.

Trouble in the Sweet Shop

Chapter 35

Hermione was sitting in the waiting room in St Mungo's, she had been there 3 hours and was no longer crying. Her eyes were glazed and heavy, she hadn't slept in what felt like days. She was frozen to the spot and staring in one place, her face full of sorrow and pain and stained with tears. Harry was sitting next to her, he was slumped in the chair, asleep.

"Hermione?" A fellow Healer walked into the waiting area outide the room Draco was in, Hermione turned her head and looked at the man.

"Hermione we'd like to check you over, we think you are suffering from shock and we need to make sure you're OK." She calmly shuck her head and turned to face the closed door.

"Hermione please."

"No, I need to stay with Draco." It was barely more than a whisper, the Healer walked passed her and into the room. She could hear mumbling and another Healer walked out of the room.

"Hermione, please come with me. I know you want to stay with your husband but you need to make sure you're OK for your little boy."

"Scorpius. I need to see Scorpius. Harry...Harry." She had nudged the raven haired man until he woke from his sleep.

"Wha...what? Any news?"

"Can you call Ginny? I need to see Scorpius."

"I don't think that's the best decision right now."

"Harry I need to see my son...NOW" Harry nodded and exited the room, rubbing his eyes. As she waited for her son to arrive the head Healer walked from the room.

"Hermione?"

"Yes? Is he OK?"

"He's stable for now. The blade of the knife had a fatal poison on it but fortunately having the blade, we were able to find an antidote. He is still unconscious but hopefully will awake soon"

"Hopefully?"

"We need to keep a close eye on him."

"But he'll be OK right?"

"It's hard to say. It is unlikely that it was a fatal dosage as we caught it early and implicated an antidote, however you know how unpredictable poisons can be, we are not 100% certain anything else was on the blade or of any past conditions affecting him now, what we need to do is keep him stable and wait to see if and when he wakes."

"Can I see him?"

"If you promise to a check after you've seen him?" She nodded and was shown into the room, a few Healers were just leaving. She very quietly walked over to the bed her husband lay in and sat on the edge. Smiling, she placed her hand on his face.

She kissed him on the head and pressed their heads together.

"Hey...god how this feels so weird, it reminds me of when we first met...not at Hogwarts but when we first really met, when I met the real Draco Malfoy. I asked for a different patient that day, I didn't want to deal with you, I'd deal with anybody but you. But I'm grateful I was made to be your Healer."

Hermione sighed and looked at the lifeless body in front of her, memories of the two of them flooded into her mind, how she did the same thing 5 years previously. Now was so much different, there were feelings and love and dreams involved. It was no longer Hermione; a trainee Healer, sent to talk to an enemy from school, moaning about her pathetic love life with Ron Weasley, checking over his vitals and secretly not really caring who had done this or why. Now it was Hermione Malfoy, the young lady who went on to marry this man, who sat vigilantly by his side, who hoped and prayed with every ounce of her being that this man; her husband, the love of her life, the father of her child to come back to her. To wake up and get better and continue his life with the girl that never gave up on him, despite previously being enemies. Hermione sat for a moment and realised, despite still being young and seeing her old friends party and live a life of fun, she had changed a lot, she had grown up and become an adult, a mother, a wife and she felt whole. Instead of trying to find acceptance, trying to feel like she belonged by over compensating with education, she felt her place was here, by her husbands side. Like she was always meant to be a wife and mother.

"It feels like it was only yesterday that I was talking to you like this, back then it was so much different. I thought...I thought I hated you for all the cruel things you did and said, but I don't blame you for anything. I forgive you Draco, I forgive you for everything that happened and I'm sorry for everything I did and said...But I guess none of that matters any more, even though it hurt being around you at school, that I sometimes cried over you...I wouldn't change a minute of it because I got to see the real Draco Malfoy. I got to see you blossom into the most amazing, caring and loving man I have ever met. The last 5 years have been the best years of my life. Who knew I would fall for the enemy...but they don't know you like I do, you're not evil, you're not mean. You're passionate and soft and loving and family mean everything to you."

A single tear rolled down her face and she pressed her lips to his.

"I need you Draco, I need you to wake up and come back to me, come back to your son. He has no idea what is going on and I know it's scaring him...it's scaring me too, not knowing what is happening. You are still the 18 year old boy I fell in love with, still look exactly the same as you did all those years ago when I was telling you all of my troubles about Ron, as if any of that mattered...I gave up everything for you Draco, I gave up my friends, my career, my second family to build a life with you...but I wouldn't change any of it. I don't regret not telling Harry and Ron about us. We have had the most amazing 5 years Draco...but this can't be it."

She paused a sat in silence for a few moments, looking at her husband and the four walls surrounding him, through the small window in the door, she could see Ginny sitting in the waiting room, a small blonde haired, mini version of Draco sitting on her lap smiling and giggling away. He was always a happy child, until recently he hadn't a care in the world, but now something was wrong, like he sensed the awkwardness in the air. Like he knew his parents were worried about something, hopefully it would soon be over so she could get her happy little boy again.

"I think we'll take a trip, just the three of us, somewhere warm and by the sea. Somewhere Scorpius can play in the sand and we can swim in the sea. Somewhere we can go without being disturbed and where we can be together without a care in the world...But I need you to work with me baby. I need you to wake up for me and get better so we can spend the rest of our lives together, so we can grow old and watch our boy grow up. I need you with me when we send him off to school for the first time. I need you Draco...you're my weakness, and I can't do this without you."

She was crying harder now, leaning into his chest, struggling to catch her breath.

"Draco please wake up, I need you. I'm not ready to say goodbye, baby please wake up"

She felt the body underneath her twitch...

"Draco? Draco baby can you hear me?" She rose from the bed and held his hand, putting her other hand on his face. She smiled as she felt his hand twitch in her own. Draco opened his eyes and silver met brown as he recognised his wife. He tried to make an effort to move and talk but found himself very weak and over come with emotion.

"Shhh, don't talk. It's OK. It's OK, I'm here and every thing's going to be fine."

"Sc...Sco..."

"Shhh, Scorp is with Ginny in the waiting room, Draco calm down you can see him soon. Oh I'm so glad you're OK..Draco? Draco? Can you hear me? OK stay with me baby, hold on I'm gonna go fetch someone."

As she was talking to her husband, his eyes started to roll back in his head and he completely blacked out, the last thing he remembered was his wife screaming for someone to help. He knew she was in pain and all he wanted to do was jump up and hold her, to tell her everything would be OK, he could barely move at all and slowly everything went black.

Hermione was pulled from the room, the moment the Healers arrived, she was almost thrust into the waiting area as they worked on her husband, shutting the blind on his window. Tears once more falling, she turned to see a very scared little boy, holding on tight to the ginger haired woman in the waiting room.

"Hermione what happened?"

"I don't know, one minute he was waking up and the next he was blacking out again...Hey Scorpy, come here." She held her hands out and lifted the boy who clung onto his mother, she got some comfort just holding him, he could definitely brighten any situation. He slowly looked at his mother and using his hand, flat against her face, wiped the tears.

"It's OK mummy, I can look after you until daddy's better." She smiled and clung to the boy. The minutes ticked on as she held onto her son who slowly drifted off to sleep in her arms, she was lightly stroking his hair and smiling at his angelic face when the door opened and she was snapped from her thoughts.

"Hermione?" The voice was almost a whisper to try not to wake the boy.

"Hermione you can see him now." The Healer showed Hermione into the room, where a pale looking Draco was sitting up in bed, smiling as his beautiful wife walked into the room holding their sleeping son. Placing him on the bed next to his father, Hermione walked over and pushed the hair from his face, bending down to kiss him passionately.

"Hey"

A/N: So basically I wanted to focus on Hermione in this chapter, I felt she needed to express to Draco her feelings, feelings that she may have never told him but she wanted to in case it was too late. Something I have come to appreciate so much these last few months. My grandparents inspired so much of this because I feel like they think this is the end and they are constantly telling each other how much they miss and love each other even when they have been upstairs taking a nap. It's so sweet and heart-breaking at the same time that I knew they needed to be reflecting in Hermione and Draco. So once again thank you for the support and I will do my best to have a new chapter up within the week.

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