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The atmosphere in the Malfoy sitting room was tense.
You could feel the anger radiate off four wizards in particular towards one specific blonde wizard currently seated in his green armchair. All four wizards had been stunned silent, too angry to comprehend the news that they had been told. Meanwhile, the sound of children laughing joyfully in the play room next to theirs travelled over, created an even stronger striking comparison, making the silence even more unberable.
Unable to hold back his anger, the red-headed wizard finally broke the silence.
"I can't believe you!"Ron exclaimed as his face fumed red, waving his red and blue colored robe-clad arms in the air "What in Merlin were you thinking, Malfoy?"
"Apparently, he wasn't."Blaise growled giving his friend the stink eye while crossing his arms.
"I forgot that today was-"Draco argued, but was immediately interrupted.
"Don't you bloody dare finish that sentence!"Harry growled as he clenched his fists.
"No witch or wizard and I repeat no witch or wizard,"Ron continued to fume, "bloody forgets when the Quidditch World Cup is, especially when we are finally hosting it again this year!"
"Not to mention you had the bloody tickets!"Blaise nodded, trying not to hex his blonde friend.
"And we are in the bloody finals by some Merlin's chance this year!"Harry snapped, his wand hand twitching dangerously close to where his wand was pocketed.
The wizards were all dressed in colors in support of the British team that had made it into the Quidditch World Cup for the second time in centuries and had arrived at the Malfoy Manor, anxious to get to the game when they learnt of the horrible news of how Draco lost the right of the tickets to his wife.
"Ronald,"a shout sounded from the hallways, "do try to refrain from cursing so much in front of the children!" Ginny entered while fixing her scarf that read Harpies.
"You would have been cursing if you had to stay behind from the BLOODY WORLD CUPS!"Ron exclaimed, "there is a reason why it was so difficult to find a babysitter. I thought we had come to the agreement that since we lost the right to see the quidditch finals last time in addition to us agreeing to babysit for the 1 week girls vacation you had, this year it would be us going to the World Cups!"
"Which comes back to our point,"Blaise said turning to Draco, "why on Salazar would you give them tickets when you know that we are finally in the finals and Krum's retiring after this one."
Draco sulked while downing his firewhiskey, "I've been asking myself the same question."
"Honey, do cut back on the drinking. You have to stay sober for the children."A hand reached out to grab the glass from Draco and Hermione came into view placing a quick kiss onto her husband's temple while placing the glass down on the table.
"Hermione, how could you!"Harry exclaimed as he turned to address his brunette friend, "you knew what this game means to us!"
"What do you mean?"Hermione batted her eyelashes innocently.
Ron rolled his eyes, "you know exactly what we're talking about! That is extremely unGryffindor of you! Extremely low!"
"You knew we were all looking forward to this since the last world cup!"Blaise nodded, "you bloody knew Draco is whipped and that's very uncourteous of you to take advantage of that!"
"Hey! I'm not-"Draco argued, but was immediately elbowed by Harry, "you don't get to speak."
"Well, some of the Slytherin traits must have rubbed off me."Hermione shrugged.
"Rubbed off you alright."Blaise muttered, "prick was more concerned about getting laid then concerned about the welfare of his mates."
Draco slapped the back of Blaise's head in protest, but quickly yelped when he was slapped in the head as well. He turned to glare at the ginger culprit.
"Blaise is right."Ron said, "if you had actually been able to gotten ahold of yourself we wouldn't be stuck in this predicament."
"I'm the victim here too!"Draco argued, "You think I want to let her go see the prick's last game? The very prick that had been trying to get into her pants since fourth year?"
"Draco!"Hermione exclaimed.
Draco continued rambling, "She wasn't playing fair! In fact, it was your fault for not being able to convince your wives to stop taking her on shopping trips!" He exaggerated his point while pointing his fingers at the rest of the wizards.
"Don't try to pin this on us,"Harry argued, "it's their freedom to do whatever they please."
"It's on you for not having a silver of self control."Blaise grunted, falling back into the couch, crossing his arms, "You could have just flooed out of the house! To any of our house! We'd understand! Or lock yourself in one of the rooms, or the dungeon! But no! Mr. I'm too whipped couldn't even do that for his mates!"
"They fucking planned this!"Draco argued, "she had Slytherin green lingerie on under MY quidditch jersey, what on Merlin was I supposed to do?"
"Abort mission and Leave!"Blaise exclaimed, while the other wizards nodded, "the red sirens should have been sounding the second you saw even a slip of the quidditch uniform."
"You really should have known since the last time to not trust him with keeping the tickets." Luna said as she placed the twin's bag next to Blaise.
"Well, we really should be going."Hermione said as she checked the time, "the portal should activate any moment." She paused and turned to Draco, smirking, "is that right? My dear husband?"
"Yes, luv."Draco sighed, "15 more minutes. Remember you promised that you would let Pixie follow you."
Hermione rolled her eyes and nodded.
"No worries,"Lavender smiled as she gestured to Hermione's little baby bump, "we will take care of Mrs. Malfoy here and little Soteira. You guys have fun with the kids!"
"Remember no candies for Albus before bed."Ginny shouted as she marched towards the doorway.
"And have the children in bed by 9PM"Lavender said as she quickly tied up her scarf, "Violet gets extremely grumpy the next day if she goes to bed any later than that."
As the other couples said their goodbyes, Draco pulled Hermione into his arms, his hands covering her baby bump, "Please let Pixie take you home the second you feel nauseous."
Although this was the couple's third pregnancy, this one took the most toll on Hermione.
Hermione smiled as she pecked Draco's lips, "I will, Draco. And do get the twins to bed in time, you remember the horror they will be if they don't."
"Yes, luv."
"And if you behave," she leaned in and whispered into Draco's ears, earning a raised eyebrow from her husband.
"I'll hold you onto that my lioness." Draco smirked and leaned forward for a kiss.
"Mate!"the couple turned to find Blaise glaring at them, "you better not be giving up the tickets to the FIFA World Cup."
"FIFA World Cup?"Lavender turned around in interest, "is that the muggle sport with numerous cute guys?"
Ron sighed and marched over, "Hand the tickets over, Malfoy."
"The amount of distrust in this room wounds me."Draco grumbled as he summoned the tickets and handed them over to Ron.
"I think we've put them through enough misery."Luna said as she attempted the smooth the scowl out of Blaise's face.
The wizards turn to her quizzically.
As if on cue, the floo lit up and in came Narcissa and Adromeda chatting vividly.
"Narcissa and Adromeda decided they prefer to stay home this year,"Ginny explained, "which means a duel for the last two openings!"
The wizards' eyes widened.
"Actually, I think I should stay back. I'm not feeling tired." Hermione said, "my feet feels swollen."
Draco worriedly pressed her to sit down, "why didn't you say anything sooner?"
Hermione smiled tiredly at him.
Draco passed Hermione's ticket over to Blaise, "we'll stay behind."
"Are you sure, you don't want us to stay?"Narcissa asked as they herded the children to floo to Lucius' and her home.
Hermione shook her head, "I just need to rest for a while."
Draco was just setting a glass of water down for Hermione when he felt Hermione's arms slither up his arms.
"I'm sorry you couldn't go to the game." Hermione said.
"To be honest,"Draco said, "I'd be worried the entire game about how you're doing with Soteira."
Hermione smiled and snaked her arms around his waist while planting kisses on his neck.
"Mya-"
"I lied about my feet."Hermione smiled guiltily as she wrapped her arms around Draco's neck, "it's just when you were taking off your gloves earlier with your teeth-"
Draco chuckled as he listened to his wife.
After reaching her second trimester, Hermione tended to get turned on at the slightest of things.
"Well, who am I to deny the great Hermione Malfoy?"Draco smiled as sat down on his green armchair and pulled Hermione down to strap his legs.
"Did you see how Higgins stopped that quaffle?"Harry exclaimed, "what a magnificent play!"
"It's no wonder that it's still ongoing." Blaise nodded, "this is going to be a long game."
The group decided to do a quick check up on the Malfoys before returning to the game.
"Drake? Buddy?"Blaise called.
"Hermione?" Lavender called out, "are you feeling better?"
Sounds of things falling over sounded from the end of the hallways, giving the group a fright.
They were about to check on the sound, their auror instinct acting up when Draco apparated before them with silk robes and tussled hair, "uh… how was the game?"
"it was amazing!"Ron beamed, "shame you couldn't be there mate!"
"yeah, it hasn't ended, we just wanted to pop over and make sure Hermione's alright."Ginny replied.
"fine and extremely fine" Draco replied quickly, "in fact, Hermione's sleeping now, so just head on back to the game."
"no need to rush,"Blaise smirked, catching on what his buddy was up to,"we thought maybe Pixie could fix us some sandwiches?"
"yeah yeah,"Draco nodded, "I'll ask her to pop over just..."
"hold your hippogriffs mate," Blaise said as he headed towards the floo, "we're leaving. And oh…" he stopped midway and turned to face his friend, "you do know that the neck is a bad place to leave a hickey? Many arteries are there-"
"JUST LEAVE!"
"Don't be mad,"Luna spoke up, her eyes twinkling in mischief as she went along with Blaise, "we're glad that despite missing the game, you two are still enjoying yourselves."
Author's Note:
Hi! I hope you're all doing well! This is just a plot bunny that has been around for a while, hope you enjoyed it! Let me know what you think :)
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