A/N: I made up the spell Ginny uses… you will know what I mean when you get there… it's the best I could do… I hope it translated out right lol… I cant really update every day but I wont be waiting a week to update anymore. I wasn't able to have my laptop with me so that I could write the last chapter so I am sorry about that :P holls190 I like Voldy as well… Im not sure what im gonna do with him yet… and I would never kill fred! That's a crime…
Chapter thirty-one: Hermione did you know…
Hermione walked back to her room from the bathroom. She had put on her pajamas and was ready for bed. It had been a long day and she still felt a little sick to her stomach. Her room was on the third floor of the big house of Black.
The halls were the most interesting part of the entire house. The walls were covered in a green vine pattern wall paper that complemented the dark oak floors. Shelves made out of a dark material also covered the walls. The shelves were filled with various artifacts such as shrunken heads, skulls, potion bottles, goblets and silver trinkets. Along the hall ways were pictures of all of the past Black's who had lived in the house. They were all staring at her and whispering amongst themselves. It was as if they were in on something that she wasn't.
"Oh how interesting." She heard one portrait say and she turned quickly to face it. She saw the nameplate that said 'Vega Cassiopeia Black.' She was a petite looking woman wearing an old fashioned dress made of emerald green and silver fabric. She had brown hair that was so dark it almost looked black and her eyes were a piercing shade of deep blue. She was simply put, beautiful.
"May I ask what is so interesting…Vega?" She asked as politely as humanly possible.
"How old are you dear?" She asked in wonder.
"Seventeen." Hermione said in confusion. She hadn't the slightest clue as to what her age had to do with absolutely any thing. "What does that have to do with anything? She asked.
"Oh, how young you are!" The woman said, "You are married to my great, great, great, great granddaughters son, am I correct?"
"If you mean Draco then yes." she was becoming more confused as the seconds ticked by.
"Hmm, well goodnight." Vega said suddenly without answering Hermione's question smiled and then walked out of her picture leaving Hermione alone to stare at the empty picture frame.
"Oh no that wasn't weird at all." She said to her self as she continued walking to her room, that she would share with Ginny. "That lady has lost her mind…Ron has lost his mind. it isn't like we cant sneak into another room if we wanted to." She continued to talk to herself. "Oh great I'm going insane." She said when realized she was talking to herself. She wondered if insanity was a trait of all Riddle's, or well decedents of Salazar Slytherin. Maybe it was all Purebloods and decedents of Slytherin… she finally amended seeing as she wasn't a pureblood.
"Ginny," Hermione said as she walked into the room a few minuets later. "The paintings in this house are weird, I swear they have been alone in this house to long." Ginny laughed at her.
"I heard that!" Phinius Nigellus said from down the hall.
"Sorry, I didn't mean you." Hermione said quickly as she sat down on her large full sized bed. "So what have you been up to Gin?" Hermione asked her sister who still hadn't looked up at her from her book.
"I have been talking to Taylor. She says that the Death Eaters are searching our houses now." Ginny sighed, "They really want us found." Ginny finally looked up and her expression changed a little.
"What?" Hermione asked as Ginny looked at her in an appraising way. "You are starting to act like Vega…"
"Stand up." Ginny said cutting off what Hermione had been about to say. When Hermione didn't stand Ginny said it again only louder.
"Why?" Hermione asked when she finally stood up like Ginny had told her to.
Ginny didn't answer her. "Turn." Was all the girl said and Hermione did. "OH MY MERLIN!" Ginny said with a funny look on her face.
"What?" Hermione asked in fear when Ginny got that crazy look on her face.
"Hermione, are you late?" Ginny asked grinning like a leprechaun who just found the key to Merlin's vault in Gringgots. It took Hermione a few minuets to realize what Ginny meant and then her confused expression turned to shock.
Hermione counted in her head and re counted and re counted again. She was almost two months late. She didn't know how she could have missed that, but then she decided that she did know. She hadn't paid any attention during all of the chaos.
"OHMYMERLIN!" Hermione screamed and her hands went to her stomach in shock. "Ginny what's the spell, the pregnancy test spell." Hermione asked frantically as she rolled her shirt up a little.
Ginny pointed her wand at Hermione and said "Conceptuspericulum"
(how Ginny knew this spell I don't know) and a few seconds later Hermione's stomach started to glow pink with a little plus sign in the center of her stomach. She mostly payed attention to the pink.
Hermione got a big grin on her face, she was going to be a mommy. She was going to have a daughter, well according to that pink tint…
"Ginny, I'm going to be a mommy." Hermione said with tears of happiness in the corner of her eyes. She was so happy, she didn't think about how young she was or even that there was a war going on. All she thought about was her family that was only just beginning.
OoOo Draco oOoO
Draco was about to fall asleep when he heard her scream. It took about an eighth of a second for his brain to register what he had heard. He jumped out of his bed and run out of the door of the room him and Harry were sharing. He reached the room quickly considering that he tripped over his own feet five times in the process.
When he opened the door to the room he didn't know what to expect, but it hadn't been expecting what he saw. Hermione was hugging Ginny and they were jumping in excitement.
"Draco!" Ginny said excitedly when she opened her eyes and saw him (he looked like him not Drake Malory.)
"What was all of the screaming?" he asked in a groggy voice and Harry joined him at the door. What about, Ron, you ask? Well Ron was upstairs sleeping like a rock. A cold dead rock that was oblivious to the entire world. A Death Eater could have been killing them all and he would never know.
Ginny spun Hermione around so that he could see the pink glow and plus sign emitting from Hermione's stomach.
A million thoughts ran through his head as he looked at her pink stomach. A big grin spread across his face and matched the on that was plastered on Hermione's face. He was happy beyond words and he didn't even care about the war that was going on, or that his father wouldn't be please. Honestly he could care less about what his father thought..
"Draco, you're going to be a daddy." She said softly, she still had tears in her eyes. "I'm going to be a mommy." She said and then Draco quickly walked over to her and hugged her tightly.
"Congratulations." They heard Harry and Ginny both say from behind them.
"Thank you Harry, you too Gin." Hermione said looking over Draco's shoulder, Ginny had walked over to stand next to him.
Harry smiled, "Hey how about Ginny and I give you some privacy, What Ron doesn't know wont kill him, I'm not really surprised that he slept through this." Harry said shaking his head and Ginny quickly agreed with him.
"Yeah I like that Idea. It's not like we couldn't have snuck into different rooms anyways." Draco pointed out and then Harry and Ginny went upstairs.
"Exactly what I said to myself earlier." Hermione said laughing. "I cant believe we are going to be parents." she squealed in excitement a few minuets later. "Oh I cant wait to see her. My small beautiful baby girl." Hermione said looking up into his silver eyes. "I hope she looks like you." Hermione told him, "I wouldn't wish my bushy hair on anyone."
"I cant wait either, and for the record your beautiful and she would be lucky to look like you." Draco said and Hermione kissed him, "What are we going to name her?" He asked when she pulled away. They turned out the light and got in bed.
"I don't know." Hermione said burying her head in his chest. "I like the name Lyra ." She was trying to stick to his families tradition of naming children after stars, constellations and other celestial bodies.
"I like the name Lyra but I think we should think about other names." He told her after a few minuets.
"Well what do you suggest?" She asked rolling her eyes at him.
"Well we could come up with a unique name that's a mixture of our mothers names. Like that Bella girl did in that one book." Hermione laughed at him, had he really read that one book.
"You actually read that?" Hermione asked in disbelief.
"Absolutely not, My cousin Aries did. It's all I heard about for a year." He told her.
"Ah I see."
"How about… Amacissa, or maybe Narcissyst." he laughed after saying the last. It sounded to much like Narcissist.
"Well the last would be fitting for a Malfoy." She joked through her laughter, "But the first one sounds better."
"Amacissa Isalie." He said thinking about the name. It wasn't bad but at the same time it wasn't nice. "So maybe their names don't mix as so well."
"You think?" Hermione asked sarcastically then yawned. She was completely exhausted, it had been a long day.
"Well we still have months to come up with a name." He said when he realized that Hermione was only half awake.
"Mmm," She mumbled and she was out like a light.
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Hermione woke up the next morning to beams of sunlight pouring onto her face from the open window. It was a beautiful and sunny day; which had become really rare considering the increased amount of Dementors.
"Draco," Hermione whispered as she tried to wake him up. She was still wrapped in his arms, her hands were on his bare chest. "Draco." She said a little louder and when it didn't work she decided to try a different tactic. She pressed her lips against his and kissed him. He quickly began kissing her back. He pulled away and rolled on top of her.
"Well good morning, beautiful." He said before pressed his lips back onto hers. The kiss intensified quickly but then suddenly Hermione pulled away.
"Draco, what if Ron were to walk in on us?" She asked, "He would see Draco Malfoy on top of one of his best friends." She honestly didn't care if Ron saw, but it would be hard to explain.
"No, he would see Drake Malory." Hermione became confused. "I changed the spell around a little so that every one who doesn't know about us sees a different person."
"Oh, that was a good idea." She said grinning and since she didn't hear someone calling her name, she pulled him back down to her and kissing him passionately. They held the kiss like that for a long time. He kissed the base of he neck and the Devil himself walked in.
"Impedimenta!" Ron shouted sending Draco flying across the room. "What the Hell!" He shouted and soon every one was in the door way, wands out. Hermione hid her face in her hands. Ron approached Draco and looked as if he could kill the boy.
"Ron," Harry said trying to stay calm, "step away from Drake and drop your wand." Harry didn't want to have to use a disarming spell on his best friend.
"The little cretin had his hands all over Hermione!" He shouted "Why shouldn't I hex away his…" Ron started but Ginny cut him off.
"Ron, I think that Hermione can take care of herself!" It was clear that the girl was angry with him. Every body there knew that Draco and Hermione were married and that they had an intimate relationship, so it didn't surprise them. However, Ron was a whole different story. "She wouldn't have let him do anything she hadn't wanted him to do." Hermione began to blush even more.
"Mione…" He said looking at her with hurt filled eyes. Everyone could tell that he loved her more than he ever let on. "Why?" He asked.
No one saw that Hermione had her wand gripped firmly in her hand. She was going to take away his pain, she couldn't see one of her best friends in this state. His eyes grew wide when she pointed it at his head and said "Obliviate!" And he flew back into the wall with a glazed over expression.
She had taken away his memories of this whole incident and had even taken away the hate he had for Drake, so that at least they would get along.
"Hermione…" Someone said and she cut whoever it was off.
She held her hand up "I don't want to hear it. It is better off this way; without him knowing." She got up out of bed and walked past all of them and into the nearest bathroom.
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When she finally made it into the sitting room an hour later, Only after taking a long hot shower, Ron and Draco were talking animatedly. She smiled when she saw how well her spell had worked.
"Hi guys." She said sitting down in the chair next to the couch.
"Hey Mione." They said together. She smiled.
"So what were the two of you talking about?" She asked curiously, she was really interested to hear what they had been talking about.
"Quidditch." Ron said happily. "Drake isn't such a bad guy." Ron admitted and Hermione almost thought Hell had frozen over. She nearly choked on air.
"Whoa, breathe Mia, breathe." Draco said trying not to laugh. He had figured she would react that way.
"Oh, sorry." She coughed, "I just wasn't expecting that." She told them as she regained her composure.
"I understand." Draco said with one of his rare smiles that were reserved mostly for her.
"Hey, I'm just glad you two are getting along." She smiled. "And I thought you two would hate each other." She joked.
"I could never hate Drake, he's flippin awesome." Hermione tried not to laugh but she failed big time.
OoOo Draco oOoO
Draco and Ron continued to get along as the days went by, to Hermione's delight. They seemed like they could be the best of friends. Ginny was the most shocked, mostly because she had never though to tamper with Ron's memory before. It would have saved her a lot of pain and suffering.
They were sitting in the sitting room talking about school when Ron brought up the topic of Hermione. Draco instantly thought that the spell Hermione had cast was wearing off, but he knew that was insane. He knew that she was smart enough to cast a strong lasting spell.
"So what do you think of Hermione?" Ron asked just as Draco was taking a drink from his cup. He nearly spit it out. Afraid of an accident he sat it down on the floor next to him.
"Oh uh she's okay. She's my best friend, I mean…" Yeah he was failing miserably at keeping calm. He had no clue what Ron was thinking.
"You know, I haven't ever told anybody this before, but I love Hermione." Draco's hands balled up into fists. He so didn't want to discuss his wife with Ron.
"Oh really." He said trying not to punch the boy in front of him. He knew that Ron had been drinking a little, meaning that he probably didn't even fully want to tell Draco this. "I didn't know that."
"She has changed a lot since first year." Ron continued. He told Drake what he thought of Hermione and Draco took a big drink from his cup. He didn't know how much more of the madness. He had started to consider Ron his friend, but now he just wanted to punch the jerk.
"OKAY STOP!" Draco said what seemed like an hour after ron had begun which was only about three minuets.
"What's wrong?" Ron asked, he was confused.
"I don't want to hear it." He said without hesitation. "I wish you the best of luck." He said knowing that Ron didn't stand a chance with Hermione.
"Do you think she would ever go out with me?" Ron asked and Draco felt sick.
"To be honest… No. I don't." Draco said finally exploding.
"Why. Why not?" Ron was crestfallen.
"Because I know for a fact that she loves someone else and that he loves her more than air." Draco said getting up off of the floor and abandoning their card game.
"Loves him?" He asked taking a big drink of fire whisky. "Oh Merlin." He said, It looked like he was trying to Drown himself in it.
"Ron, there is a girl out there for you it's just not Hermione. Have you thought about Lavender… Or Maybe Asroria, maybe Pansy… If you had a lot of Felix Felicis." Draco said harshly and left the room. He didn't plan on talking to him again for a while. He had a new opinion of Ron and it wasn't a very good one.
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A/N: Poor Draco has to put up with Ron… I made this chapter a little longer… I hope that its okay… okay so here are my questions… 1. Am I the only person who dislikes Ron? 2. Any Name suggestions for the baby… I'm not promising to use them in the end… but they might show up as suggestions… 3. Who is your favorite character? 4. Whats your favorite horcrux… 5. Should I change the Horcruxes and make them different objects then they are in the books? Like instead of the cup it could be a doll or something that belonged to Ginny or Hermione…I got this chapter done a whole two days ago… I'm ahead of schedule… Okay now click the Green/ blue button and review please : ) ~Taylor (Slytherin at heart)