Chapter Fourteen
Hermione was surprised at how accepting Narcissa was of her, even finding that the more she spoke with the older woman the more she found that they had in common, one of the major things being that where both going to keeping Draco out of Azkaban. Hermione had offered Narcissa her childhood bedroom until things where sorted and they could acquire her a property nearby. Blaise had left around midday leaving the three of them chatting, while Draco cooked a simple dinner for them.
That night after heading to bed Draco wrapped his arms around Hermione who was propped up in bed reading, he rested his hands on her bump enjoying the feel of his daughter moving there,
"Thank you" he whispered, kissing at her neck
"Draco she is your family, I could never turn her away, even if she had hated me" Hermione smiled placing her bookmark between the pages and closing the book.
"I know and believe me I am so happy that she likes you…or at least is pretending to, I should probably check that tomorrow" Draco mused.
"I don't think that even your mother could pretend to accept me," Hermione said flipping her pillow
"Why do you say that? What are you doing?" Draco asked, Hermione look at him,
"I like the cold side of the pillow. And It's very easy to pretend you hate someone if you like them however, I do not believe that if you Hate someone it's harder to keep a smile on and pretend you like someone" She said
"Maybe" Draco mused more interested in her ritual of turning the pillow and deciding to try it himself.
He pulled her into his arms, kissing at her neck, she let out a quiet moan as he moved his hand over her bump and down to her panties gently pressing his fingers against her material clad womanhood
"Draco" she sighed out his name. Hermione was suppressed how her blooming stomach seemed to turn her lover on. Draco pulled the material away from her womanhood letting his fingers move between her sodden folds,
"Mmm, you are a little Minx" he whispered into her ear, Hermione smiled not wanting him to feel left out and brought her hand to cup his erection through his boxers.
The two of them stayed there enjoying the feel of one another's touch.
"Turn over" Draco groaned, Hermione did, turning to face away from him, he moved quickly to spoon his body against hers, moving his erection to penetrate her opening they both let out muffled groans at the connection. Hermione moved against Draco as he grabbed at her leg lifting it slightly allowing himself better access to her opening. He could feel her muscles clamping around his erection,
"Hermione" he groaned her name as he started thrusting in and out of her. Hermione wasn't sure why, but his love making seemed desperate tonight, but the thought was pushed aside as his thrusts brought her to her peak, brining her hand to her mouth to keep from screaming his name. he thrust a few more times before hitting his peak and filling her with his cum! He slipped from her releasing her leg and rolling onto his back.
"I love you" he smiled,
"I love you too" Hermione rolled over resting her head on his shoulder where they stayed for a few ling minutes regaining their breaths. "Draco, you never told me when you trial is?" she asked mused moving to her side in an attempt to get comfortable, Draco lay beside her spooning his body to hers, placing his arm around her swollen belly protectively
"I don't want you to have to worry about that, you don't need any more stress my love" he said, he hadn't been harsh or anything like that when he spoke but Hermione didn't argue with him to give her the information
"Sweet Dreams Draco" she whispered
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Hermione woke the next morning still with Draco's arms wrapped around her, A shrill screech had woken her coming from the other side of her window. Tiredly she yawned before ever so carefully slipping out of Draco's protective arms and quietly making her way the window where she found a familiar looking Owl,
"Oh Shit" she mumbled quietly opening the window and taking the letter the owl had, "I'm sorry Sour-puss, I haven't got any food here," she whispered scratching the owls head. She closed the window and looked down, staring at the envelope addressed to her, her heart was pounding in her chest and breathing suddenly seemed to be a chore. The owl belonged to Harry and Ginny, and owl she hadn't seen since her divorce was finalised and for the owl to have come now, when nether Harry or Ginny had contacted her since divorce over a year ago.
Hermione snuck to the door and out of the room, not wanting to wake Draco, she didn't want him to find out about the letter at all, knowing that it was very likely to anger him. She crept downstairs and sat on the sofa before slowly opening the sealed letter with shaking hands
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/Hermione,
It breaks my heart to hear your news from the prophet, I cannot understand how you have moved on so fast? /
Hermione let out a dry laugh "Fast? You patronising" she hissed, before remembering she didn't want to wake Draco or his mother.
/the prophet did not specify whom the father is, however with your actions not so long ago, I can only assume that Malfoy has slipped you a love potion. /
Hermione bit at her tongue, she was holding back tears of frustration and betrayal
/If you meet me at the ministry this evening, we will fix this situation and remove the spawn from you/
Hermione couldn't breathe, the man she once called her brother was talking about killing her unborn child, her hands screwing the letter as she tried to stop from screaming out
/if he has you held Captive, write back as best you can and I will get Harry and Ron to come rescue you/
She was hyperventilating now, tears freely falling down her cheeks, as the realisation dawned on her, the letter wasn't from Harry, it was from Ginny. She pulled her knees to her chest (as best she could with the baby bump) and began to sob, she didn't care now, if Draco or Narcissa heard her now. She wasn't able to read the rest of the letter her eyes filled with tears. It was as if they felt her pain or sensed that she needed them as both Draco and Narcissa appeared in the doorway
"Hermione" Draco ran to her side, "What the matter" he said pulling her into his arms, she couldn't speak, Narcissa spotted the Letter, she slowly picked it up and read it,
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/Hermione,
It breaks my heart to hear your news from the prophet, I cannot understand how you have moved on so fast? The prophet did not specify whom the father is, however with your actions not so long ago, I can only assume that Malfoy has slipped you a love potion. If you meet me at the ministry this evening, we will fix this situation and remove the spawn from you, if he has you held Captive, write back as best you can and I will get Harry and Ron to come rescue you. Maybe you can apologise for the lies you spread about Ron and get back together and we can forget this whole thing happened
Yours always
Ginevra Potter/
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Narcissa looked over to her son cradling the hysterical woman, she knew he needed to see what was contained in letter, but she as she suspected Hermione also feared it would send him into a rage and cause him to do something stupid that would get him sent back to Azkaban. She slipped the letter in her the pocket of her dressing gown and moved over to help her son calm the young woman; she would show him the letter but only after she had prepared him to do so.
"Shh it's ok sweetheart" Narcissa said kneeling the other side of Hermione taking her hand "We're here" she said, Hermione looked at her, panic in her eyes, Narcissa nodded gently knowing without words that they were both was worried about Draco's reaction "Draco Darling, why don't you go make Hermione a hot honey and milk, it will help sooth her" Narcissa said
"No…I need too" he began
"Draco go, I'll stay with Hermione" she gave her son a gentle smile, Draco looked at Hermione, who was slowly beginning to get her breathing back to normal, she nodded
"Are you sure" he whispered pushing a strand of hair out of her face, she nodded again not trusting her voice "Ok" he said placing a kiss on her forehead before leaving to the kitchen
"We need Mr Zabini here" Narcissa said still holding Hermione's hand
"I…" she sniffed "I don't know if even that will be enough" Hermione managed to get out
"Maybe, but you are heavily Pregnant and are no way going to be able to hold him back if he flips out and I'm not strong enough on my own, Mr Zabini is our best choice to get him under control once he reads this" she said patting her pocket, "We need to get him here fairly quickly because Draco will want to know what is going on as soon as we get your panic attack under control" Narcissa said quietly
"Maybe…maybe I can go for a bath" Hermione said "I can stay in there as long as we need"
"Perfect" Narcissa smiled "Draco Darling bring that upstairs when it's ready, I', taking Hermione up to have a warm bath to help her calm down and relax" Narcissa called as the two women headed upstairs not waiting for Draco to argue, You go for your bath I'll wait for Draco to bring your drink and then I will call for Mr Zabini, I'll tell Draco I need to get dressed, should give us an hour or so" Narcissa gave a weak smiled
"Thank you, Cissy," Hermione sniffed hugging the older woman before opening the door to her bathroom
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Draco sat confused in the front room, Blaise had knocked on the door five minutes ago and Draco was now very concerned for his lover and unborn child,
"Listen Mate, all I was told was that you guys needed me here…Now. Your mother didn't elaborate" Blaise's word's where not helping and caused Draco to worry more about why Hermione had been in such a state this morning.
The sound of footsteps caused Draco to look up to see his mother entering the room,
"Draco darling, can you make me and Blaise a coffee?" Narcissa smiled,
"No! Mother what the hell is going on!" Draco was getting frustrated with the smoke and mirrors,
"Draco!" she said sternly "Please Make us a Coffee and we will explain everything when Hermione comes back down" Narcissa put her hand on his shoulder, "Please"
"Please, I need to know is Hermione ok…The baby" Draco begged
"We're both fine" Hermione said appearing through the door her hands resting on her bump, "Please Draco, make your mother a drink and come back and we will explain everything" she gave a small smile. Draco relented moving to the kitchen quickly and as quietly as possible Narcissa gave the letter to Blaise who began physically shaking with anger as he read the letter.
"You see why we need you here when we show this to Draco" Narcissa whispered, Blaise nodded
"I may need to jinx him" Blaise whispered, "But I know if I was in his shoes, that wouldn't hold me"
"Blaise please, I don't want him thrown in Azkaban, I need him here to rase his daughter" Hermione said her hand on her friends
"I know" he reassured the pregnant woman, "how are we doing this" he breathed.
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Draco entered the room to find all eyes on him
"I'm not going to like this am I" he said placing the two mugs on the coasters,
"Draco, please sit down" Hermione patted the sofa beside her, the space between her and Blaise
"Bit claustrophobic don't you think" Draco said. He looked into Hermione's eyes and could see she was worried, letting out a sigh he took the seat, "I'm really am not going to like this" he repeated,
"I received an Owl this morning…" Hermione began, "It was from, Ginny Potter"
"And that upset you?" he asked, Hermione nodded, Narcissa withdrew the letter from her pocket before passing it to her son. The three in the room held their breath as Draco digested what he was reading. Narcissa could see the rage rising in her son,
"Draco, don't give them the satisfaction" she said,
"Satisfaction!" he yelled "I should rip that…" he was shaking "That BITCH"" he said almost ripping the letter in half
"Draco" Blaise placed a hand on Draco's arm, "We have to let this go for now, we can't risk giving them the ammunition" Draco glared at his friend
"Ammunition, she wants to kill my Daughter!"
"Draco, I have a plan, but it means telling everyone about your relationship" Blaise said, knowing the response he was going to receive,
"No! No that is not happening!" He snapped
"Draco, please" Hermione's voice came scarcely above a whisper "I know you think keeping our relationship and out pregnancy a secret is to protect me, but I don't care who knows." He placed her hand on his, "If we don't do something, I believe Ginny will follow through with her plans to have Harry and Ronald kidnap me and" her voice caught in her throat "and"
"And Kill our baby" Draco snapped angrily; it came out harder than he meant it to; Hermione nodded weakly.
"My plan is to do an all access interview with the Prophet…preferably with Susan Bones, she's a neutral in this story, not really friends with any of you but not an enemy either. I do want to keep this location hidden you need a safe place to ride out what ever fallout is to come!" Blaze said,
"where can we do the interview if not here, I'm not allowed to leave?" Draco said balling his hands in fists digging his own nails into the palm of his hands
"Not quite, you're allowed to your lawyers Offices…I will contact Susan when I leave here and hopefully arrange something for later today"
"What about replying to this they won't wait until tomorrow to read the papers they will come and find Hermione tonight" Draco hissed throwing the crumpled letter on the table in front of them.
"I'll reply to her" Hermione answer quietly "And I will make it crystal clear that our relationship and our child not the result of potions, and what I write is not coerced out of me. I know of a spell that's infuse a drop of blood in a finger print. But I think it best if Blaise, deliver the letter along with a restraining order, they work so much better in the Wizarding world" she sighed, she hadn't never wanted things to spiral so out of control, the anger was gone now, she just hurt the nagging pull of betrayal, the most important thing now was her new family.