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CHAPTER 37 Clementine

A girl. His child is a girl. His mouth widen to form into a sunny bright smile, and it connects rapidly to Luna, whom nervousness had collapsed once she saw that Draco doesn't have a problem with the gender of the child. He wraps Luna inside his arms, holding the girl without any sign of letting her go. He can already picture it. A little girl with blonde hair as golden as her mother's and a pair of bright eyes as beautiful as again, her mother's. He knows that he would spoil her just like how he was when he was used to be close with his father-when Potter never existed back then. But, he would also teach her how not to be like how he was. The guiding part may not be his forte but to Luna's, so he would give Luna the part where responsibilities and personalities are made. He sucks when it comes to being nice.

"Clementine" Luna whispered, but came out as a gentle squeak. He leaned closer to where her face was, doing it without removing his gaze from the baby. "Clementine. It means merciful" she repeated. Draco turned his eyes to look at Luna while the name kept on ringing inside his head. "It's beautiful" he breathed out to her, kissing her forehead to show his appreciation.

He cannot believe that by the age of nineteen, he had made the most beautiful child in the whole wizarding world. No matter how sappy it is, he knows that it was true. Due to the unbelievable attractive genes of the Malfoy blood and the Lovegood's gentle looks, the baby would no doubt be a heartbreaker. He grinned at the thought as his pride levelled once again, to it's highest.

"What to do you think about Larissa?"he asks, breaking the silence with his husky voice.

Luna turned her head to look at him, smiling bright as the sun with her eyes as calm as the moon. She ventured inside her thoughts, thinking about any information about the name that Draco suggested. "The moon of neptune" she voiced out, raising her light eyebrow. "I figured out thay if we're going to follow the Malfoy traditional namings, I want it to be close to your name" Draco mumbled back, shrugging his shoulders while grinning ar Luna. His eyes lighten up as soon as her cheeks turned crimson, signalling him that Luna liked and appreciated his suggestion.

"It's beautiful, Draco"

He didn't respond. Instead, he moved his eyes to look at the shadow of their child once again. Clementine kept on wiggling inside Luna's tummy; kicking and wiggling both of her tiny arms as if she was a part of their conversation. "She likes it" Luna exclaimed, talking about Clementine and her name. Draco allowed himself to exhale a big puff of air from his slightly nervous system. It was so unreal to Draco. A sudden realization of what was going to happen after three months made him nervous and slightly giddy. He wonders what would happen after those months. Would he be dead? Would he be inside Azkaban? Would Luna be alright? Would Clementine actually love him?. Those were the thoughts that made his smile turn upside down. Apparently, Luna saw it and grabbed his arm gently, squeezing the flesh as he made no hint that he would move.

"Would you like to take a picture of the ultrasound?" The healer said. Luna fake smiled and nodded politely to the healer, making them to turn their back to the couple and started printing a couple of the snapshots by their muggle device.

"What's wrong Draco?" She clasps her hand to his chin, angling his head to hers

"It's nothing Luna"

"But-"

"We can go back to the house when the sun's starting set. Rest now love" he stood up with his eyes roaming everywhere except Luna. He cannot bring himself to call his house a home, especially when there's nothing homely around it. Instead of looking back at Luna, he proceeded to walk away from her, not bearing to look at her eyes that were filled of hope and trust.

He leaned towards the cold wall of Luna's room, not bothering to even acknowledge his father's smirking face that was directed to him. He sighed deeply, closing his eyes as he feared for his sanity. He can't believe that he didn't thought about any consequences when they did it. And he also cannot believe himself for thinkin. that negative thought about his own daughter.

"What? You don't want a girl?" his father's snide comment was playful and somehow, sound like an arse, but he shrugged his shoulders and furrowed his eyebrows, "I love Clementine-" he responded, shaking his head defeatedly as the problem echoed inside his head. "-I just don't want anything to happen to the both of them."

Although he haven't been paying attention to Lucius, he had sensed a different aura, something that made the atmosphere soften and relaxed.

"How was she?" After a few seconds of silence, his mother came with sandwiches inside her arms. She smiled excitedly towardd her son and landed the foods to her husband, and Lucius groaned but accepted his wife's gatherings. Narcissa sighed and run towards Draco, wrapping him inside her arms as the good news was still inside her head.

"Her name's Clementine" a small smile appeared right to his face, his problem became somewhat, a whisper on the background. "Wonderful! Congratulations son! Now let's talk about the marriage" she clasps her hands to each other as if she had just found a christmas gift under her precious tree. Draco's eyes widen in shock. He grabbed both of her shoulders and smiled sheepishly "It's too soon Mum"

"I thought you love her?" His mother raises her eyebrow questioning him

"I do, I love her very much" his mother gasps and he just rolled his eyes in response. His confession made his parents to stop doing whatever they're doing, but he couldn't care any less of what they plan on teasing him. "But what if something happened to them? What if I became someone I didn't want to be? What if hell decided to take me? Luna deserves so much better than a heartless demon" he reacted, feeling almost shameful with his sudden desire to open up; especially when he was trembling infront of his father.

"So what will you do Draco? Are you giving up just like that? For Merlin's sake, you have a family now. You chose to impregnate a woman you love, and now, because of your fears you're leaving them?. I didn't watched you grow to see you suffer from your own shadows Draco. I didn't saw you as a coward-" he stood shocked. He wasn't expecting his mother to loosen her temper just like that; she prefer to do everything as gentle and behaved as she can be, and now, seeing his mother crimson with anger, he knows that his father was smart enough to think that the lesson had pushed right inside the nerves of his brain "-and I know Luna has big faith in you"

He clenches his fists, trying hard to fought back the desperation that begs to appear to his eyes. It was easier said than done. He knows what was right but it was just so hard to do, knowing that lives could be endangered. His name carries numerous of other innocent lives, whoever grows attached to him can't be removed. Almost as if he was cursed, even if he doesn't want to.

"I have to do everything that would make them survive-" as if in the part where heroes would make great sacrifices, he stood there on the spot, but strangely, he was no hero. He turned his back from his parents and smiled to Luna. She smiled back in return, showing off the pendant that he gave her on her eighteenth birthday as if she had just received it. His smile lowered a little bit, making him look distant along with his wandering mind. But in truth, even if there are alot of things that bugs him, there was this only thought that he made himself focus on"-and moving from me as far as possible is the only thing in my mind"

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