Suicide and Secrets Chapter Two She woke up the next morning to find little Draco clinging to her. She pried him off her and turned the television on, nothing interesting. So she went to have a bath she got some fresh clean clothes and got rid of the robe she was wearing and got out some Muggle clothes. She had a quick shower and got out and dressed she quickly went back into her room to check on Draco, he wasn't there. She began to panic and searched her house to find him in her lounge room looking at the television.

"What in Merlin's name is this?" He said looking at it.

"A television."

"A what? How does it work?"

"I am not sure. But I know someone who does know, we'll go see him later alright." He kept starring at it. "Don't go to close."

"Why not?"

"You'll get square eyes!" She said, he looked at the television then ran away crying and screaming. "Oh Merlin." She sighed and went to calm him down, she couldn't explain to him how it worked or that what she said wasn't true, so instead she made him breakfast. He was so hungry he didn't care that it was Muggle he just began eating and kept asking how everything works.

"Well, look I am going to get you some clothes now come on let's go."

"I can't go out in my night robes!" He yelled.

"Fine, alright look..how about we put your robes on from yesterday? Alright?"

"No!"

"Well go out naked then." He actually thought she was serious for a second then he calmed down and went to put on his robe.

She put him in the car with a little persistence. "Why are we using this?"

"Because we are going to a Muggle not Magical clothing store."

"I am not wearing Muggle clothes!"

"Well your going to have to because you can't get robes around Muggles."

"Why not?"

"Because, otherwise they might attack you and burn you at the stake for being a wizard." Seeing the expression of fear on his face she added, "I'm only kidding. Its just otherwise Muggle's might find out about us and we live in a Muggle neighborhood." He nodded.

"Why can't I go home now?"

"Because no one is there."

"So."

"I also don't have the key to get in there. And no one not even the elves are there."

"Oh, my father didn't give you the key because your Mudblood right?" She just nodded and he looked at the car. "It won't make my eyes square as well would it?"

"No. It's fine now get in." For the whole drive there he kept playing with things in the car, taking off his seat belt and making Hermione drive like a lunatic across the wrong side of the road when he knocked the wheel. Then he did it, he turned on the radio.

He screamed. "Oh no! You got fairies in your box!"

"No, it's a radio. I'll explain later, just listen to the music."

"But it's Muggle!"

"So?" He sat there trying to block his ears, but Hermione could tell he actually could hear and he was enjoying it too.

Finally the reached K-Mart. It wasn't very crowded but the people who were there gave Draco strange looks, Draco remembering what Hermione said before as a joke, stayed close to her. She showed him Muggle clothes and he looked at them weird. Then he ran up to the girl's section and saw a blue dress. "What about this robe-like thing." Hermione smiled.

"Not your color, not for boys. C'mon." He looked back at it and then at her and ran threw the boys section. He kept asking questions like 'Why would people wear this, where would they do in this, how do they make this.' He was driving her crazy but in the end she brought Draco four shirts, three pairs of pants, socks, jumper, underwear and shoes. She was done; she sighed and went to go pay for them. Draco refused to take off one of the tops that said 'born to be bad' so she had to take it out with them, and pay for it at the counter.

"Born to be bad, huh?" The lady smiled. He looked at her and gave and evil grin and a nod.

"Oh you don't know how true that statement is." Hermione said as Draco began fidgeting at her side. She then decided to take him to the park.

"I can't go there!"

"Why not?"

"There are Muggles!"

"So? You were just at a store with them."

"Yeah but I didn't have to play with them or anything."

"Well why can't you?"

"Because-you know my father. He doesn't like me mixing with things like them."

"What do you mean like them?"

"You know-not magical" He whispered. She laughed a little.

"Well he isn't here. And I won't tell him you wore Muggle clothes or anything just go have fun." He nodded and run off actually excited to play.

He was playing on a swing and a bigger kid pushed him off, he didn't cry he just turned around and yelled, "You're lucky I don't have a wand or I'd hex you."

"Really?" The other kid said, Hermione felt like she should go in but he had to learn.

"Yeah I'm a Wizard you know!" He poked out his tongue.

"Really well I'm the King of England."

"Really? You are?"

"No! I was being sarcastic!" He looked a little confused then an older boy came up next to him.

"Well I'm a Wizard too! We Wizards don't like King's so go away!" The boy poked his tongue out and left. She watched as the boy smiled at Draco and asked him to play tag with the others, after explaining the rules to Draco who got it pretty quick he actually began playing with them. He laughed and giggled and ran. Things Hermione never saw the Draco she knew do, he laughed not snickered evilly or make fun, he actually laughed and had fun. When all the other kids had left Draco came back and sat down next to Hermione on the bench.

"You know what they weren't bad for Muggle's." He smiled and looked at her. "I might have to play with some more often when my father isn't around." She smiled. "Better then Crabbe and Goyle, man they can't ran of play that fast!" He laughed.

"Well, we better get home now. It's getting dark." He sighed and went with her back to the car. He feel asleep in the car trip home, so Hermione carried him to bed. "So lucky, it seems I got to you before your father poisoned your mind to much."

She put him down in her bed and closed the door then went to sleep on the coach. When she woke up the next morning Draco had figured out how to turn on the television and was watching it, he had played with everything in the house. She even heard the bath running. "Oh Merlin!" She whispered. She went around and saw that Draco had ransacked the house, turning on all the taps and pulling everything out in the kitchen, she saw water over flowing and watched as the food floated past. She went to the bathroom, each room was the same, water ruined everything in her house, he destroyed the fridge even by playing on the door because she found it in another room, and he even tried to hide it under her bed. She sighed.

"Draco can you please come here." He came in all puppy-eyed. "What do you have to say about all this."

"I am really-really sorry but I played with them, I tried to make breakfast."

"I can see that has got to be the worlds largest cereal." She said looking at the kitchen. "Look, Draco you can't do anything like that." She had kept fairly calm, kept reminding herself that his parents were gone, yet she still wanted to kill him, she also found it hard to speak calmly. "You've broken everything."

"I'm sorry." He said looking at her with tear filled eyes. "I was trying to make you breakfast." He said and then he looked at her again. 'Little bastard is playing games is he. Oh well looks like we're going shopping today.'

"Alright well help me clean up." It took them a while to drain the house of all the water then turn of the taps and throw everything out. When they finally cleaned everything Hermione wondered how she was going to get all the furniture out of the house, that's when she knew she needed help. She needed a lot of people, and they had to be fairly strong, also good at keeping a secret. That's when it struck her, the twins! She sent them an owl with help written on it and they showed up in one hour.

"Wow, Hermione you're not a very good decorator." Fred said looking around.

"Didn't you hear, wet is the new fashion." George said looking at the carpet.

"Look guys help please. I need to have everything moved out of here. There is no way any of this stuff is going to dry, some of it is completely soaked threw."

"Well at least nothing electrical was on." Fred said looking around.

"What happened?" George asked.

"Oh, well this kid I am looking after he is magical and he 'played' with everything, while trying to make me breakfast." She sighed.

"Really what kid?"

"Me." Draco came away from behind Hermione, Fred and George just starred at him.

"Who are you?"

"Draco, Draco Malfoy." They almost died with laughter. Hermione calmly explained to them what happened at that she needed confidentiality. She made sure Draco didn't hear by keeping him by the television.

"Please don't treat him differently. He doesn't understand his not evil yet." She said. They took the new pretty well.

"Oh, and he is such a cute baby." Fred cooed then he caved in with laughter.

"Alright let's get to work."

"By the way he doesn't know so..you know secret. Also don't tell Ron."

"Oh we won't. We wouldn't want the little ankle bitter to be killed now would we George?"

"Nah, we'll wait until they turn him back into an adult for that." They smiled. It took them most of the day to clear the house, it was funny watching Draco boss Fred and George how to get the coach out, but he wouldn't let them anywhere near the television. In the end all Hermione had were her clothes, Draco's clothes and the television, which Draco refused to give away.

"Well what are you going to do about all that stuff?"

"I've rung the council I'm going to have it all picked up and taken to the tip."

"Well you can't sleep here tonight, Herm. Come with us, Mum would love to have you there, especially having little Draci." He said giving Draco a hard rub on the head.

"Yeah, also we can tell him all about us Weasley's seeing how he doesn't know about us yet."

"What are you talking about, Fred?" Draco asked looking up at him.

"Oh you haven't heard? You see us Weasley's are kings, we live in a place far away." Draco looked at them and laughed.

"Yeah right!" He said.

"Seriously." Said George. "Ask Hermione." Draco looked up confused at Hermione.

"Leave him alone you two. Well I guess I have no choice but to come over." She said, they got there via floo powder; Draco luckily didn't get hurt in the process.

Hermione said that she was renovating her house and needed somewhere to stay for a few days. "Why of course you can stay here! Who is this little one?"

"Oh this is a friend's kid."

"Really what's your name young fella?" Arthur asked him. Hermione froze with fear; maybe this wasn't a good idea.

"Draco, Draco Malfoy." They looked at him and laughed. Luckily they didn't notice the way he looked, or the sincerity. "What are they laughing at."

"Oh, old people do that." Fred said.

"Next they start eating little kids!" George said. Draco clung to Hermione and backed away from them.

"Oh never mind dear, here let me fix you something to eat." Molly said walking off into the kitchen.

"I know Draco, why don't you ask Mr.Weasley if he can show you how Muggle things work?" She watched as Draco and Arthur's eyes lit up. They spent the next few hours downstairs playing downstairs with Muggle objects while Hermione got everything ready with Molly upstairs.

"Oh, he is a such a cutie. He is also a very good actor. A very believable Draco indeed." Hermione smiled. "Well you can have Ginny's room, seeing as she is out for a few days." Hermione relaxed at that. At least she didn't have to tell anyone else. "I only have Fred and George with me and Arthur for the next few days, so it's good you brought the kid to keep Arthur company." Hermione smiled again. "So he'll share a bed with you did you say?"

"Yeah, you know he doesn't know this house."

"I understand." The next few days were fairly quiet Draco learnt all about Muggle things, and yet his interest didn't seem to die, Molly was forever cooking and Fred and George were always tormenting poor Draco, they said it was revenge for Ron. That's when she worried when would the others come back, what if they visited. She decided she better start to fix her house soon.

"Look today I am going to go shopping for new furniture, want to come Draco?"

"No." He said. "I'll stay here with Arthur." With that his little head disappeared back downstairs. She was glad that Molly and Arthur didn't notice anything odd about him, though they never did know Draco very well so it helped. Also Molly was blinded by the fact of having another young kid in the house again, and Arthur loved to have someone interested in his 'findings' and 'fact's' about Muggle appliances, at least Draco could now use a toaster properly.

Hermione left and was walking down looking at furniture when she spotted Ron, she was going to go over to say hello but saw he was with someone, April, his partner and by the looks of things he didn't want to be disturbed. He watched them smooching and managed to make it past. 'Oh well, at least he didn't play the cat and mouse game much longer.'

She ordered her furniture to arrive to her house in two days time enough time for her to paint her house. She rather paint it Muggley, she didn't want to abuse her magic. So she brought a few cans of paint and left to go get started painting her house, she didn't know why but she was filled with enough energy to do the job. She managed to finish the job late that night, but thinking it was too late to go back to the Weasley's she just went to sleep in her pant smelling house. She started to wish she left it for airing because the wet carpet smell didn't help much.

The next morning she went back to the Weasley's, she returned to go to the kitchen and see Arthur and on his lap a sleeping Draco. Arthur woke up and looked at her. "Thank Merlin you're here! He was crying, he was so worried, he tried to stay up and wait for you but he couldn't." He whispered. "I told him you'd be back but he refused to listen, he said Death Eater's killed people like you, he knew because his father does." He looked at Hermione worried. She couldn't lie to them anymore. They'd been so nice to her, so nice to him. But she couldn't, her duty prevented her, also her not wanting to see this Draco harmed he was innocent. But she ended up telling Molly and Arthur anyway, in the end they just looked at her in shock. Molly walked away and closed the door to her bedroom.

"Please don't treat him any differently, he doesn't understand, it's not him he didn't kill Albus not yet."

Arthur looked at Draco, confused and upset. "You let me love a murderer how could you?"

"But-his not I swear." Arthur just stood up and walked away. Hermione couldn't help but cry, she went and had to pry Draco away from the downstairs door.

"No, I want to stay! Arthur! Arthur!" He started crying she took him the twins watched them leave.

"Poor kid, cheer up we'll see you another day trust me." He said.

"Good-bye Arthur!" He cried, and then they left. Hermione began airing the house and put the suitcases down and began weeding the garden with frustration, at her and others. 'How dare he called Draco a murderer. How dare he, it's no fair this Draco is innocent. Why should he be punished for crime he didn't commit.' She watched as Draco sadly sat on the steps. "Why didn't they say good-bye?" He said more to himself then to Hermione.

"Don't worry, they were just busy. That's all." He nodded his head.

"I thought they were different then my parents." With that he walked inside and in the house, Hermione furiously attacked her front garden until she realized she pulled every weed, and every plant out of her front garden. She went inside and found Draco in the back yard; it was a tiny yard with no plants just over-grown grass, Hermione watched as Draco used the manual lawn mower. She smiled at him, he saw her and called out, "Arthur taught me how to use it!" She turned away and couldn't bear to watch him, knowing that his father, someone whom he trusted, took his innocence away from him. She went to sleep when she woke up, she couldn't find Draco anywhere. She ran, she looked in the backyard, he had finished mowing the back and front, that's when she realized the whole street had been mowed. 'How long did I sleep?' She thought she followed the trail down to the other block where he was asking an old man if he could mow his lawn.

"No thank you son." He said and went back in. Draco smiled when he saw Hermione and he went up to her.

"Do you think my Dad will let me keep just this one Muggle thing? I got these for it." He showed her the few coins in his tiny fist.

"Oh. Draco! You scared me half to death, I thought something happened to you! I would kill myself if anything ever happened to you!" She said grabbing a hold of him and holding him tight.

"Don't worry. I'm fine. You can stop crying now." But Hermione couldn't, because she knew, that the Draco she knew was going away. She had to find a way out of it. The next day the furniture was delivered and Hermione set it up in her house, while wondering what to do with Draco, how she could stop him from turning back into an adult. That's when she thought of it, she would run away with him. So she packed their things and locked her house, and left not knowing if she would return.