A/N: Whoo! I know, it has been so long since I last updated, I am ashamed of myself. But I have a kind-of-not-lame excuse!I had about three assignments given to me, all to be handed back within the closest time, and my computer wasn't running and all these other really lame excuses. I'm sorry, but I find Italian a hard subject, and HPE (Health and Phys Ed). The HPE one was on the environment! WTF! Anyway, I'll stop my rambleing now, and let you read the story. Love all you guys for staying with this story! Thanks so much!
Chapter Thirty One
The next day was when everything started to get a bit difficult. When Hermione woke up, she realised that she didn't know how to get Scorpius down to the Hospital Wing without being seen with a baby in her arms. She didn't quite want to have to use the story yet, she wanted to tell her friends about what they had thought up for a safety plan first.
She heard Draco stir beside her. They had both been up twice each last night to feed and tend to their child. Hermione didn't know how she was ever going to stay awake in class. At least the teachers would know what was going on if she did and wouldn't punish her for it. She could just imagine them cooing over Scorpius in her head. She didn't know whether to shudder or be proud.
Draco turned over at that moment and wrapped his arm around her middle, kissing her neck, though his eyes were still closed.
'Good morning baby.' He murmured sleepily. Hermione smiled at him.
'Good morning to you, too.' She muttered back. Draco groaned and stretched.
'What time is it?' He asked. Hermione sighed and checked the clock that sat on the bedside table. Her eyes widened.
'Merlin! Its 9 already! We'll be late for class!' She shouted. Draco jumped too and they quickly got out of bed and dressed, with no time for showers. They groomed themselves and went straight over to where Scorpius was sleeping.
'Who's going to take him to the Hospital Wing?' Hermione asked. Draco looked thoughtful.
'Why don't you take him and I'll explain it to Snape. I have more control over the man, even after his little emotional performance the other day.' Draco smirked. Hermione gave him a disapproving look.
'Don't beat him up about that. He wouldn't want people knowing and I'm not about to tell anyone, so neither should you.' She scolded. Draco grinned and took her in his arms.
'Of course I'm not going to tell anyone. I respect the man for showing his deep emotions to us the night before. I won't make fun of him. Promise.' He said, though Hermione didn't know whether to believe him or not because he was still grinning. But, she sighed and smiled.
'Alright. I love you. I'll take Scorpius. You go and sort out Snape.' She kissed him once, and then picked up the little boy out of his bed. Draco took him from her and hugged and kissed him as well, before giving him back and pulling Hermione to him, kissing her passionately. When he pulled away, Hermione looked slightly dazed and unfocused. Draco smiled at her and kissed her lightly once more.
'I love you. I'll see you in Potions.' He whispered, walking out the door and towards class.
Hermione left soon after, when she had gotten her brain back in order and hugged her son to her closely. She dressed him in rather warm clothing for this time in the morning and walked down to the Hospital Wing, thanking Merlin that she didn't meet anyone along the way. And that Snape was her first teacher. He would understand. He was there.
When she entered, she walked right down to the little Nursery that she could see set up right at the back of the Infirmary. As she approached, she could see Madam Pomfrey there, fixing a few last minute things up.
'Madam Pomfrey?' She asked. The Matron turned around and saw her and Scorpius and smiled.
'Good morning, Miss Granger. How is he?' She asked, taking the boy from Hermione's arms and cooed over him. Hermione smiled and rolled her eyes fondly.
'He's doing fine, but Draco and I are another story entirely. He woke us up four times last night. I love him and all, but could he at least let us get some sleep?' She asked. Madam Pomfrey smiled and chuckled.
'Do not worry about it, my dear. He will get better. You just have to wait a while.' She said. Hermione sighed and looked at her little one in the Matrons arms. He was now getting put into the little cot that stood before them.
'You should know, Miss Granger, that I will call you by Floo if and when I need you, alright?' Madam Pomfrey explained, making the still sleeping child comfortable in his blankets. Hermione laughed as he fussed.
'Yes, Madam Pomfrey. He even fusses when he sleeps.' She muttered to herself, still smiling fondly at the child in the cot. Madam Pomfrey chuckled lightly.
'Yes,' she told the younger woman. 'That will happen. Now, off to class with you. Your professor will have your head if you come too late. Now off you go.' Madam Pomfrey shooed her after Hermione had kissed Scorpius on the head.
Hermione hurried down the corridors to class, eventually knocking on the dungeon door and entering quietly, with a look of apology on her face.
'Sorry I'm late, Professor.' She muttered, after having walked up to him through the aisles of desks with cauldrons bubbling on them.
'That is quite alright Miss Granger. Draco told me what was going on.' He muttered back to her with a nod, making sure the rest of the class didn't hear. Hermione nodded back to him and took her seat next to Draco and Harry.
'Miss Granger, the instructions are on the board.' Snape called out lazily from his desk.
'Yes, sir.' She replied, taking out all of her things and getting started on the potion on the board. Draco leaned towards her.
'So, how did it go with Pomfrey?' He asked. Hermione smiled.
'The little boy was out like a light the entire time. Why couldn't he be like that last night? I could've actually gotten some sleep.' She muttered. Draco snorted quietly.
'Of course he wouldn't. Didn't you know? Babies are nocturnal.' He answered, smirking. Hermione shot him a look.
'Ha ha, very funny.' She retorted. Draco just grinned. 'Well, anyway, she said he would be keeping us awake for a while, so we better get used to it.' Draco groaned.
'Why couldn't we have a good child that went to bed when we wanted him to and slept all night?' He muttered to himself. Hermione giggled.
'Because you're the father.' She whispered back. Draco shot her a play-glare and poked her in the side, causing her to squeal slightly and for Harry and Ron to send her funny looks. She just blushed and went back to what she was doing.
'Thank you for embarrassing me.' She muttered at Draco.
'Harry and Ron were the only ones to hear it, why be embarrassed?' He asked. Hermione just shook her head and got on with her potion.
The rest of the day went relatively smoothly. The only interruption was during Transfiguration. Madam Pomfrey's head appeared in the fireplace and instantly Draco and Hermione's heads snapped up to look at her. She smiled fondly at the two and spoke quietly to Pr. McGonagall for a couple of seconds before her head disappeared.
Pr. McGonagall turned around and approached Hermione and Draco's desk.
'Miss Granger, you are needed in the Infirmary.' She told her in a quiet tone. Hermione nodded and packed up her belongings and kissed Draco's cheek, telling him that she would inform him of what was going on when she came back. Draco nodded and looked on concernedly.
'I'll be waiting for you.' He answered in return. Hermione smiled.
'I love you.' She whispered.
'You too.' He answered in reply. Hermione left in a hurry after that and reached the Hospital Wing in no time. She burst through the doors and practically ran straight through to where her son was staying.
'Madam Pomfrey?' She called frantically. The old Matron came around the corner of the curtain with a huge look of relief on her face.
'Thank God you're here. He's been squealing for a good five minutes. I had to put a charm on the curtains so you couldn't hear it on the outside.' She grumbled. Hermione chuckled.
'Is he hungry?' She asked. The Matron nodded and Hermione went into her little Scorpius, squealing up a storm inside of his curtains. Hermione rushed to him and picked him up out of his crib, bouncing the rocking the boy until he calmed down some, before sitting on the chair situated beside the child's bed and feeding him. After burping the little boy, she put him back in his crib and kissed his head, waiting until he fell asleep again to abandon his side.
She met Madam Pomfrey on the outside of the curtain and gave her a quick smile.
'He'll be fine. He's been fed now. I better go back to class, I'll see you later Madam Pomfrey.' She explained. The Matron nodded.
'Thank you, Miss Granger. He really does have a very loud squeal to him. I feel for you at night, my dear.' She said back to her, patting her on the shoulder before turning and walking off to see to another patient waiting on a bed further away. Hermione left the Infirmary and made her way to dinner, which had just stared, and sat herself in between Ron and Ginny, both turning to her in an instant.
'What happened, what was wrong?' Ginny asked impatiently. Hermione smiled.
'The little one was hungry, that's all it was.' She answered, and then saw the relief flooding through her face. She smiled at her and tucked into her lunch. She looked up once to see Draco staring anxiously at her from the Slytherin table. She smiled reassuringly at him and watched as a relaxed expression crossed his face before turning back to his friends. Hermione looked back at her friends and just watched them talking cheerily with each other about the craziest things.
She was thinking about what they all would have thought if, a couple of years ago, someone had told them that they were going to all going to fall in love with Slytherins, Ron would gone red in the face and punched them, Harry would have looked at them like they needed psychiatric help, Ginny would have laughed and Hermione herself would have rolled her eyes and walked off, shaking her head at their stupidness. None of them would have guessed that said imaginary person was right. Hermione smiled again and shook her head at the thoughts she was having. It was rather random of her to think about stuff like that.
After lunch finished, Hermione met Draco in the Entrance Hall and they both walked to their next class. During said class, Draco asked what happened in the hospital wing.
'He was hungry.' She answered, shrugging. Draco nodded.
'That's good.' He replied. Hermione raised an eyebrow.
'Not for me,' she hissed at him. 'Your son bites.' Draco snorted.
'Just like his father.' He answered with a wink. Hermione glared at him and hit his arm, while he laughed and earned a glare from their teacher. Draco just grinned back to her and went back to working. Hermione sighed and shook her head. She seemed to be doing that a lot.
The rest of the day was spent joking, checking on little Scorpius after dinner in the Infirmary, and talking in the Room of Requirement.
Just before bed, Hermione and Draco walked down to see Madam Pomfrey to collect their son. Finding her changing the little boy, they walked over and Hermione took over from her.
'Here, Madam Pomfrey, let me do it.' Hermione said. The Matron let her take it from her and started to speak to Draco.
'So, how are you going with it all Mr. Malfoy?' She asked. Draco smiled.
'It's been alright. Though, the getting up at horrible hours of the morning is getting ridiculous, and I've only had him a night so far.' He answered. Madam Pomfrey chuckled.
'Of course, you will have to put up with that for a while. Though, he should be getting better within another year or something like that. It depends on the child.' She replied. Draco nodded and looked thoughtful, and then a huge grin broke out on his face.
'Well, he is mine, so, I'm guessing we won't be getting much sleep at all until he goes to Hogwarts and leaves home.' He said, laughing. Hermione groaned, picking up her son and cradling him in his arms.
'That is definitely nothing to be laughing about.' She said. Draco just kept grinning and they said goodbye to Madam Pomfrey before walking out of the hospital wing and heading in the direction of their dorm.
They encountered a minor problem along the way, though.
Lavender Brown and Parviti Patil were walking the opposite way down the corridor. The stopped dead at the sight of Hermione with a baby in her arms that was playing with her hair while laughing, and Draco standing with his arm around her waist, standing on her right. To them, the couple were the picture of the perfect family.
The two girls let their jaws drop, and openly stared at the two. Draco looked back at them with wide eyes for a second, but used his long-abandoned skills of schooling his features, to look like nothing was wrong. He wrapped his arm tighter around Hermione and got her to keep walking.
'Act like nothing is wrong.' He muttered under his breath to her, making sure not to move his lips as he said it. Hermione gave the slightest of nods and gave him a slight half-smile, proving her acting abilities. Draco smiled back.
'Holy Merlin. I knew it.' Lavender whispered. Hermione rolled her eyes.
'No, Lavender, I was never pregnant. This little one was dumped out the front of the school and the Headmaster took him in. He then gave him to me and Draco to take care of him. So, you can take that thought out of your head right now.' She snapped. Lavender and Parviti still stood there gaping for what seemed like hours, even after Draco and Hermione had walked off, then they started gossiping together and made their way to the Gryffindor common room to spread the news of the baby being taken care of by Hermione and her boyfriend.
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Hermione and Draco were once again awoken many times that night to take care of Scorpius. By the time they had to get up for real, they were both absolutely exhausted.
'It's your turn to take Scor to the Infirmary.' Hermione mumbled. Draco just nodded, not up to arguing with her, and picked up the newly awake little baby, who had become conscious at the sound of his parents moving around their rooms/apartment.
Hermione and Draco snapped more alert when they heard someone smartly rapping on the portrait that allowed entrance into their rooms. Hermione went to go get it and opened the portrait hole to reveal a harassed and gasping Ginny. Said girl pushed past Hermione and collapsed onto the chair by the fireplace.
'Ginny, what's wrong?' Hermione asked, going to sit next to her and grabbing her arm. Draco came down the stairs soon after, with a squealing-with-happiness Scorpius in his arms. He creased his brows when he saw who was sitting on his chair.
'Gin, what's up?' He asked.
'I just asked the same thing, but she's yet to answer.' Hermione retorted back. Draco nodded and sat down on the other side of Ginny, passing Scorpius to Hermione as he did so. Hermione took the child into her arms and shushed him, getting him to affectively calm down. Ginny finally caught her breath.
'Lavender and Parviti spread all over Gryffindor that Scorpius is your son. We tried to deny it, but no one was listening to us, they were all spreading it. Not even Harry could stop the rumours.' She explained. Draco and Hermione looked at each other in horror. Hermione gulped.
'Well, we'll just have to talk to Dumbledore and get him to put a stop to it, won't we?' She said, trying to sound brave, hugging Scorpius tight to her. Draco nodded with grim determination.
'I'll have a talk to him during breakfast, this morning.' He said. Hermione nodded and patted Ginny on the arm.
'You tried all you could, Gin. For that, we are thankful.' She told her. Ginny nodded and got up.
'Well, we have to get to breakfast, whoever it is that isn't taking Scorpius to the Infirmary.' The younger girl said. Hermione grinned.
'That would be me. Have fun, Draco.' She chirped, giving him a quick kiss, passing him Scorpius, grabbing her robes off the back of the couch and leaving after Ginny, calling a quick, "I love you!" after her. Draco smiled and shook his head, grabbed his own robes and tucked his son more firmly into his arms.
'Come on you. To the Infirmary we go.' He muttered, leaving the safety of the room and walking down to the Infirmary, Scorpius squealing happily in his arms the entire way.
He saw a couple of people that were making their way down to breakfast that gave him weird looks from having a baby in his arms, but he paid them no mind and kept walking. He looked down at the little boy.
'You know, you really are ruining my image.' He said to him. Scorpius just giggled some more with that big, bright smile on his face and reached up to pull Draco's hair, which was hanging loosely around his face. Draco chuckled and pushed his hair back, making it impossible for the little one to get. He watched the look on the little boys face go from happy to angry was rather amusing to him, so he started laughing, earning more strange looks from the people making their way to the first meal of the day. Draco didn't pay any attention to them, though, and just kept walking to the Infirmary.
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Meanwhile, Ginny and Hermione kept up their walk to the Great Hall for breakfast. Some were whispering as they passed, arms linked and laughing about something, and some obviously hadn't heard about the rumours going through Gryffindor now, so they had no reaction to the two laughing girls.
When they reached the Hall, Hermione took a deep breath, looked at Ginny and nodded, and they both put smiles on their faces and pushed the great double doors open.
They walked down the aisles of seats and tables to Gryffindor table and sat beside Harry and Ron, putting food on their plates and starting to eat. Hermione wasn't as hungry now, after the birth, but she was still rather hungry at the moment.
Just as she was taking a sip from her drink, Seamus Finnegan spoke up.
'Ah, Hermione, I was just wondering, were you pregnant?' He blurted. Hermione choked on her pumpkin juice and nearly spat it out, trying to get her throat to take in air again.
'What?' She asked, still trying to breathe properly. Seamus' cheeks increasingly hotter as he repeated what he had just said.
'No! Where on Earth did you get an idea like that?' Hermione cried, still coughing and spluttering. By this time, half of Gryffindor was listening, and the other half was analysing what Lavender and Parviti had said last night and this morning, compared to what Hermione was saying now, and how she was acting.
Just at that moment, Draco opened the doors to the Great Hall with a flourish and walked straight up to Dumbledore. Hermione noticed and got up off her seat also, meeting Draco in the middle and they made their way to Dumbledore together.
The elderly Headmaster watched as his students walked towards him with a slightly confused frown on his face. Why would they want to talk to him?
Draco spoke first.
'Professor, we would like you to announce to the school the reason for us carrying a child around with us. Some of the students seem to be getting the wrong idea.' He said firmly. Dumbledore nodded in understanding at once and ushered them away to their seats, before standing and calling for silence. Draco and Hermione parted their separate ways with a small smile and a hand squeeze, and sat as the hall quietened.
'Students, I would like to inform you on some happenings within the school. A couple of nights ago, a small baby were left on our doorstep. I took him in and left to the charge Miss Hermione Granger and Mr Malfoy. To take care of this child during the night without the hassle of different dormitories, they have been allowed the freedom to share a room for the child's sake, and it will be taken to the Infirmary in the mornings, and brought back to their shared common room at night. No, the rumours about Miss Granger being pregnant are not true, and if I hear them repeated again, you will have a detention with Mr Filch every night for a week. I'm sure he would enjoy that, even if you don't. So please, do not spread such things. Thank you.' He finished. The students went back to muttering over breakfast.
Lavender and Parviti came up to Hermione and apologised for starting the rumours, and hoped that that was enough for her. Hermione smiled, nodded and accepted their apology.
Draco was better off. None of Slytherin wanted to ask him about it. They all knew they wouldn't get an answer anyway. Blaise, Pansy and Sierra told him that they had already quashed any rumours through threats, typical Slytherins, and that had stopped it spreading through them. Draco thanked them, but hoped that they hadn't actually had to hurt anyone.
The rest of the day was spent fending off questions about the little boy and trying to get some work done, they were seriously getting annoyed.
By the end of the day, they had Scorpius back in their room and were tucking him back into his cot, making him sleep and getting changed to go get in bed themselves.
Once in bed, Draco pulled Hermione back against him, spooning her and wrapped his arms tight around her waist, breathing in the scent of her hair.
'Hmmmm. I love you.' He muttered. Hermione smiled and turned over in his arms, so she was facing him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned her forehead against his.
'I love you too.' She murmured, kissing him lightly on the lips. Draco responded with much more vigour than she was expecting, so she pulled back suddenly. He looked at her disappointingly.
'What was that for?' He asked. Hermione smiled sheepishly.
'Sorry, I just wasn't expecting it.' She said. Draco just smiled and kissed her hard again, this time with her responding.
Hermione quickly found her shirt being tugged over her head and hands making their way down her shorts. She moaned.
'Don't tease me.' She muttered. Draco snorted.
'Not likely.' He muttered, claiming her lips again. Hermione pulled away for a second time and Draco groaned.
'What now?' He almost growled. Hermione laughed softly.
'Wait a second.' She said, muttering a charm over her lower stomach with her wand, before putting it back on the bedside table. She smiled.
'I'm not quite ready for another child yet.' She said. Draco rolled his eyes and continued the wandering of his hands, as did Hermione, before getting down to business, and not wasting much time about it.
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The next month went by in much the same way, and it was now mid April. Everybody had gotten used to having Hermione and Draco walking around the school with Scorpius and the Weasleys now knew the truth about what had happened. Molly had sent a long congratulations letter, hoping that she would get to see the little boy soon and wishing them well in school with him around.
Taking Scorpius up to the Infirmary in the morning and then bringing him back just before they left for bed was now part of their usual routine, and they were getting more and more used to having very little sleep at night and then going to classes during the day. Contrary to what they and Madam Pomfrey had thought, Scorpius was getting better and better at waking up at more normal times of the morning and demanding food and to have his diaper changed. For this, the two students were increasingly grateful. Draco kept joking that he took too much after Hermione, simply because he wasn't being a trouble maker.
Madam Pomfrey still needed to bring Hermione out of some classes to feed the boy, and then would be shipped back to her classes after saying a quick goodbye to him.
Draco and Hermione would have their separate turns in the morning and evening, depending on whether or not Draco had gained himself a detention, and then they would swap the next day.
'Draco?' Hermione mumbled one morning, listening as Scorpius started whining. It was her turn to sleep in.
'What?' He muttered back, wrapping his arm tighter around her naked torso. Let's just say their sexual activities increased with their own rooms.
'It's your turn to get Scorpius up.' She mumbled. Draco groaned and turned over, muttering something about the kid being annoying and getting him up way too early in the morning. Hermione chuckled sleepily and drifted back into unconsciousness.
Draco went over to the crib and picked up his whimpering son, sighing and frowning down at his cute little pouty face. Draco couldn't stay annoyed at him when he pulled that face. He hushed the little baby boy in his arms by bouncing him around, while trying to figure out what the problem was. He didn't stink, and he'd been fed only an hour ago. Didn't Madam Pomfrey say he should be fed every two hours? Yes, that was right, so he couldn't be hungry. Maybe it was just a bad dream? Draco decided on the affirmative and pulled a pair of boxer shorts on before bringing little Scorp over to his bed with Hermione and laying the little boy in between himself and his fiancé, and wrapping his arm around both of them. Hermione turned over and snuggled closer to both of her boys subconsciously, before settling again and falling even deeper into her sleep.
Draco's last conscious thought for the rest of that night was that he might not be able to wake Hermione up in the morning. Luckily it's a Saturday.
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Later that morning, at a very normal time to be out of bed this time, the little family was awoken by people out the front of their portrait hole. Draco groaned and rolled over, trying to ignore the noise. Hermione mumbled something also and snuggled further down into the covers. The rapping on the door got louder and soon they could ignore it no longer, because Scorpius was awoken by the loud noises.
With Hermione completely naked, Draco got up and walked over to the portrait hole, opening it slightly.
'Who is it?' He asked, sleep ridden throughout his voice.
'Who do you think it is git?' He heard Sierra's voice float through the crack in the door. Groaning even more, he opened the door fully and let them in, closing the door behind him.
'Wait a sec, I'll go get Hermione.' He said, walking back up the stairs and leaving them to sit down on the couches.
Draco walked into the bedroom, took Scorpius into his arms and kneeled down by the bed. He touched Hermione's shoulder and shook it lightly.
'Love, come on, we have visitors.' He murmured to her. Hermione just grumbled and rolled over. Draco sighed; a slight smile played on his lips and looked down at his son.
'Do you want to have a go?' He asked the little boy. Scorpius just gurgled and waved his arms and fingers in Draco's face. Draco laughed and caught the little boys' hands in his.
'What are you going to do now, hey? I've got your hands.' Draco teased. Scorpius laughed as Draco rubbed his nose against the smaller boys'. They heard Hermione groan again and turn over to face them, her eyes opening slightly. Draco smiled at her as she smiled lightly at her son and reached down to gently stroke his face. Scorpius grabbed onto her fingers and started playing with them as Hermione started waking up more.
'Good morning, love.' Draco muttered, leaning forward and kissing her lightly on the lips. Hermione directed her smile and eyes towards him for a moment before looking back at her son.
'Good morning to you, too. Now what was that you said about visitors?' She asked in a whisper.
'Sierra decided to bang on our door early this morning. I tried ignoring it, but soon this little man woke up,' Draco explained, bouncing the little boy up and down and grinning at him. 'So I couldn't really ignore it any longer.' Hermione nodded and yawned, pulling her fingers out of Scorpius' grasp and getting up. The little boy didn't seem to like this though, so he nearly started crying, but luckily Draco saw his eyes starting to tear up and his bottom lip wobbling and quickly gave him his fingers to play with.
Hermione went to the bathroom and looked at her face in the mirror before walking out again and getting dressed into whatever she could find.
'Who else was with her?' She asked as she put on her pants. Draco didn't look up as he answered her.
'The whole troop.' He replied. Hermione groaned.
'What do they want this early in the morning?' She grumbled. Draco chuckled.
'Love, it's 10. It isn't that early.' He told her. Hermione rolled her eyes.
'Well, I was enjoying my sleep.' She muttered. Draco smiled up at her.
'Don't worry; we'll get them back tomorrow.' He promised. Hermione grinned and laughed, pulling her shirt over her head.
'Well, put a shirt on you, I'll take Scorp and we'll meet you down there.' She said, smiling at him. Draco nodded and pulled hr into a breath taking kiss, leaving her gasping, and smirked at her, turning and going to his closet.
Hermione gave him glare behind his back before turning to the door and walking down to see the others, who were all crowded on the couches.
'What are you lot doing here?' She asked as she walked down the stairs. They all turned to face her and smiled.
'Well, we didn't have anything better to do, and you guys weren't up yet, so we decided to come see you.' Ron explained, the others nodding in agreement. Hermione rolled her eyes.
'Well, no thanks to you, but I was having quite a peaceful sleep until you lot came.' She replied. A couple of them laughed.
'Well, it was about time you got up.' Ginny retorted as Hermione hit the bottom of the stairs and came over to sit with them.
'You could have given us some warning.' She scolded. Ginny just rolled her eyes.
'None of us wanted to see you two lying naked in your bed, thank you very much.' She replied. They turned as they heard Draco laugh from the top of the stairs.
'And how did you know we were doing that, Ginny?' He asked as he jumped to the bottom step and picked up Hermione from her chair before sitting down himself and plonking her on his lap, jostling the little boy sitting on her knees. Hermione scowled at him, but he just smirked back and kissed her quickly, effectively wiping the scowl off her face.
'Would you two stop, and I know that because you weren't at breakfast this morning. That's a dead give away.' She explained. Draco just rolled his eyes and wrapped his securely around Hermione, resting his head in between her shoulder blades.
Just then, a rather disturbing thought entered Hermione's mind.
'We still haven't told my parents anything, about the pregnancy, the engagement, or the baby. How are we going to tell them; and when?' She asked with worry evident in her voice. Draco's eyes went momentarily before he slapped himself in the forehead.
'Shit! We forgot to tell them! What are they going to say when we go back and you have child in your arms and an engagement ring on your finger! Shit, crap!' He cried, continuous hitting himself in the forehead.
Hermione grabbed his hand and pulled it away from his face.
'Stop swearing in front of our child, and hitting yourself isn't going to solve anything, that will just give you a headache and I don't need to look after you as well as the baby. Now, what are we going to do?' She asked, turning back to everyone else in the room with a pleading look on her face.
It took them a few seconds, but Harry suddenly started and piped up.
'Well, what about Draco writes a letter to them now, asking to marry Hermione? If they say no, well, just say explain that it won't be happening immediately, but later on in life, but you just need to pronounce this last statement of affection for her. As for Scorp, show them the letter your mother sent you. That should make them understand.' He explained.
Everyone mulled over the words for a second, thinking that it could possibly work.
'I like it, but it still leaves too many loop holes for me to be killed in.' Draco grumbled. Everyone in the room laughed at him and Scorpius clapped his hands together with a bright, happy smile on his face, his eyes shining with happiness and childish exuberance. He looked around as everyone smiled at him and chuckled.
'He really is very cute Hermione. He'll grow to look exactly like Draco; I can see it now; except he'll have your eyes.' Sierra said, smiling down at her little nephew. 'Can I hold him?' She asked. Hermione smiled and nodded at her, holding Scorpius out for Sierra to take.
'Now, back to them main problem, I really don't want to die right at this moment in time, so what are we going to do?' Draco asked the room at large.
'I think Harry's story has some merit, but I think that we should tell them the whole pregnancy part face-to-face. It'll be easier and more respectful to my parents. I mean, we told Narcissa to her face.' She appealed. They nodded and murmured in ascent.
'I think so too, but can I wait outside during all of this and only come in when I know something isn't going to be thrown at my head?' Draco asked. Hermione rolled her eyes as everyone else laughed.
'No one is going to hurt you Draco. Now, we'll just have to wait until the end of next month, when we go home. Draco, tell your mother that you're coming home to stay with me for a little while, explain the situation to her, she should be fine with it, and then, if things go badly, we can stay at your mothers' house. I'm sure she'd love to have Scorpius around.' Hermione explained. Draco nodded in the affirmative.
'Alright sounds like a plan. What about the engagement?' He asked.
'Keep to Harry's plan with that. Ask first, it won't seem too weird. I've explained to them already that the coming of age thing is a year earlier for witches and wizards.' Hermione answered.
'Good. That should make things easier. Come on, let's get out of here, I'm starving and we need to drop Scorpius down at the Infirmary to let Madam Pomfrey take care of him while we have the day to ourselves.' Draco sighed, leaning back against the couch, pulling Hermione with him before putting his hands behind his head.
'Alright, let's get going then.' Blaise spoke up and they left the couple's common room to go have a relaxing day outside.
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