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Chapter Twenty Four
The next morning, Draco awoke to the sweet smell of his Hermione's hair, and the soft feeling of it against his face. He looked down to find her comfortably asleep, looking as peaceful as ever.
He smiled down at her. She would be just fine.
He stroked her hair lovingly until she woke up, and when she did, she smiled at him softly in her half-awakened state.
'Hey,' He muttered to her, still stroking her hair. 'Are you ready to tell everyone today?' Hermione nodded as she yawned and curled up against him again.
'Yes, I don't want to get up yet though.' She murmured. Draco had to laugh at her. She was still so tired.
'Come on, we have to get up. Two more days of classes, then it's the weekend. Come on.' He shoved her. Hermione just rolled over, effectively turning her back towards him. Draco rolled his eyes and wrapped his arms around her stomach.
'Come on. We have to get up and ready for classes. Dumbledore said something about the floo being connected to our Common Room fireplaces, so we don't even have to walk through the halls.' Draco said. Hermione nodded and they both got up, and took to the fireplace.
'Wait a second.' Hermione said, taking out her wand and waved it at Draco, saying the incantation, "Tergeo," then pointed it at herself and said the same thing. Draco looked at her oddly.
'Just so people don't think something inappropriate happened.' She said with a slight cheeky smile. Draco smiled back and shook his head.
'Fine then. Ladies first.' He said, sweeping his arm towards the fire and, giggling, Hermione stepped forward and withdrew some of the floo powder from the side of the fireplace and threw it in.
Hermione stepped up to Draco and kissed him passionately first, before turning her back and walking into the fire.
'I love you.' She whispered. Draco smiled back at her.
'I love you too.' He spoke back. Hermione smiled, one that made Draco go weak.
'I'll see you at breakfast.' She said, before yelling, 'Gryffindor Common Room!' And she was gone.
Draco took some floo powder for himself and threw it into the fire, stepped in, and yelled, 'Slytherin Common Room,' and disappeared himself.
That morning, at breakfast, Hermione smiled at Draco as she sat down at the Gryffindor table with Harry, Ron, Ginny and Neville. Hermione, who was sitting next to Ginny, leaned over to her inconspicuously.
'Ginny, get Harry and Ron to meet me in the Room of Requirement tonight. I have to tell you three something.' She whispered to her and Ginny nodded slightly to show that she understood.
Just at that moment, Hermione heard someone scream her name from the other side of the hall, then a type of muffled sound, as the person tried to keep calling to her. Hermione turned around to see Sierra running towards her. Hermione shot a curious look at Draco, who gave her an apologetic one. Then, suddenly, she felt something slam into her.
'Hermione! I am so happy for you! Congratulations!' Sierra screamed in Hermione's ear. Hermione pulled a painful expression as she pulled herself out of the screaming girls' arms.
'I'm sorry, I only caught about half of that, a crazy girl was screaming in my ear!' Hermione yelled that last part and Sierra was still jumping and laughing and squealing, drawing what Hermione thought was way too much attention.
'Sierra, would you shut up! I haven't told them yet, and I wasn't planning to until tonight!' Hermione hissed, pulling the girl to sit down next to her. Sierra just pulled her into another hug, and Hermione patted her on the back awkwardly.
'Oh Hermione! Have you thought up any names yet? Do you know if it's a boy or a girl?' Sierra started firing off questions in a hushed whisper at Hermione, who was listening, but not answering, not that she got a chance to. The girl wouldn't stop talking.
'Sierra, how about this,' Hermione interrupted, 'you come to the Room of Requirement with me and the others in Gryffindor tonight, bring Pansy, Blaise and Draco with you, and I will explain it all then.' Hermione said. She had taken the girl by her arms and stood her up. Sierra was as excited as puppy being let out to play.
'Sure, I'll bring them all. Straight after dinner?' She asked. Sierra's eyes were so vibrant that Hermione was sure she would never hear the end of her excitement.
'Yes, straight after dinner.' Hermione responded. Sierra nodded happily and ran back to the Slytherin table. Hermione sat back down again and put her head in her hands. Harry looked at her with raised eyebrows and a slight smile.
'What was that all about?' He asked amusedly.
'You'll find out tonight.' Hermione answered vaguely. Harry nodded and went back to his conversation with Neville, Ron and Ginny about Quidditch.
The day passed rather slowly after that. Hermione wasn't nearly as tired as the day before, but she wasn't eating much either, because of the fact that she felt entirely too fat. All of her friends, including Draco, always tried to persuade her out of it, but she would have none of it. The ended up giving up. Hermione would only burst into tears if they contradicted her, of said something that had an ambiguity in it, which she thought that, had the meaning that they were calling her fat. Draco didn't think he could handle it any more, and then Sierra reminded him that it only got worse as the time went on. Draco was not impressed to say the least.
But he still loved her. Merlin, did he love Hermione Granger. To him, even when she was crying and all puffy faced and red, she was the most beautiful creature in the world. He told her countless times, and it was the only thing that seemed to cheer her up. She would give him a watery smile and bury her head in his shoulder and wonder aloud what se ever did to deserve him. Secretly, Draco was asking himself the same thing.
By the time the end of the day came, and dinner was upon them, Ginny had forced some food down Hermione's throat, threatening to Bat Bogey Hex her if she didn't eat anything. Hermione had slowly complied, then said that she'd have to do some exercise later to burn all the fat she just ate. Ginny nearly hit her with the hex whether she ate or not.
After dinner, Ginny, Harry and Ron dragged the girl to the Room of Requirement. They opened to the door to find Draco and co. already in there.
When they walked in, Draco instantly got up and walked over to Hermione, wrapping his arms around her and walking her over to the sofa. Harry went over to sit next to a bouncy Sierra and Ginny and Ron went over to sit next to Blaise and Pansy. Ginny and Blaise smiled lightly at each other before burning red and turning away. Pansy and Ron snogged for a little as a hello without words and settled back into the couch to hear what Draco and Hermione had to tell them. Hermione took a deep breath before beginning.
'Well, guys, I just thought I might inform you, that, well, I'm pregnant.' Hermione told them that last part really quickly, so most of her friends were exchanging odd looks with each other.
'What was that last part, Hermione? We didn't get it.' Sierra asked, smirking and giggling in a confused Harry's arms.
Hermione shot Serra a horrid look.
'Sierra, you should know not to annoy her better than anyone. Shut up.' Draco chastised. Sierra just smiled and relaxed. Hermione shot a thankful look at Draco and turned back to everyone else.
'I'm pregnant.' She said, though this time it was much slower. Draco and Hermione watched as their friends' eyes went wide at the news, and as Sierra, Ginny and Pansy got brilliant smiles on their faces.
'Congratulations Hermione!' They all yelled simultaneously, and got up to hug Hermione and Draco. Neither of them could hear anything of what was being said to them because of the amount of noise in the room. Draco had to intervene.
'Guys! We can't hear a word of what you're saying, but we get the general gist. Thank you for the congratulations. We have no names yet, we only found out last night that Hermione was in fact pregnant. We will tell you when we have them, but Lord Merlin above, shut up!' Draco yelled. Everyone started laughing and sat back down, the girls still squealing and clapping every so often.
'Oh Hermione, I'm so happy for you!' Ginny squealed. Hermione smiled and put a hand on her stomach, which Draco covered with his own. She smiled up at him and he kissed her softly. There was a resounding sound of sweet noises coming from everyone in the room before they started to laugh.
When they pulled apart, Hermione stuck her tongue out at them. They just laughed even more and Ginny and Sierra poked their tongues back out at her, before giggling themselves stupid.
'So, when are you due?' Sierra asked. Hermione bit her bottom lip.
'Seven months.' She answered. The girls squealed again, this time Harry clamped a hand over his ear that was closest to his girlfriend.
'Would you not squeal so loud? I think I might be going deaf already.' Harry complained, rubbing his ear, miming the word 'ow' and pulling a face. Hermione, Ginny and Pansy giggled at his remark and Sierra smacked him on the back of the head.
'You deserved that one mate.' Draco said smirking. Ron was all out laughing at Harry, who shot a glare back at him. Ron just got up and clapped him on the back.
'Well, this has been fun. Congratulations Hermione, Draco, but I need to get back to bed,' Ron said, stopping to yawn. 'I'm stuffed.' He finished. They laughed at him a little and Hermione got up to give Ron a hug and kissed him on the cheek.
'Thanks for your support, Ron.' Hermione said.
'That's fine Hermione, what, did you think I would hate it?' He asked. Hermione looked sheepish.
'Well, I had my doubts.' She confided. Ron just grinned and shook his head. Just then, Pansy stood up too.
'Well, I think I might go to bed too. Getting a bit tired myself.' She said, eyeing Ron for a second, before going to give Draco a hug and turned to Hermione.
'Congrats Hermione; I'm so happy for you.' Pansy said, hugging her tightly. Hermione broke into a grin and giggled.
'Thanks Pansy. I couldn't do this without all you guys support for me, well, us.' Hermione said. Pansy giggled.
'That's fine, I'm happy for you, all of us are. I'm going to go, I'm really tired. I had a huge day today. I'll see you guys tomorrow.' She called as she and Ron left the room arm in arm and closed the door behind them.
'I think we better head up too Hermione; it's getting late and we have Potions first tomorrow. I really don't want to be late to that.' Harry said, standing with Sierra at his side. Hermione hit herself in the head.
'Of course! Potions! How stupid am I? Well, we better all get to bed then. I'll see you al tomorrow morning.' She said. They all waved and hugged her and wished her and Draco even more congratulations before they left the room and Hermione and Draco were the only ones left.
Draco wrapped his arms around her middle and Hermione rested her head back on his shoulder. Draco kissed her neck sweetly and Hermione sighed.
'Do you want to stay here tonight? We don't actually have to go back up to our dorms. I'm sure Professor Dumbledore won't mind.
'Sure, lets stay here. I really can't be bothered walking up all those stairs to Gryffindor Tower.' Hermione said. Soon enough, the room had changed into the one that they had used last night to stay in and they had changed their clothes and gotten into bed.
Draco pulled Hermione against him and he wrapped his arms around her again.
'I love you Hermione Granger.' He whispered. Hermione turned her head to face him and smiled slightly.
'I love you too, Draco Malfoy.' She said. Draco kissed her softly, and she fell to sleep that night in his arms, with her last thought, Draco will be a brilliant father.
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