Hi every one, welcome to chapter 20.
Ok, so due to time, which I don't have at the much of at the moment, I had to stop typing at a certain spot. The next chapter will have more of Draco and Ginny's day with Kayla.
I hope you like this, review for me and I will be your bestest friend.
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"Would you stop shaking!"
"I can't I am to nervous" Draco replied as he continued to fidget and move around in his seat. Ginny reached out, and put her hand on his knee, calming him a little. Ginny smiled as the nervous tremors continued to travel through his body. He folded his hands in front of him, and then unfolded them. He locked one of them onto the side of the door, and then moved it again. Ginny moved her hand from his leg and took his fidgeting hands in hers.
"If you keep shaking and acting nervous, then I am going to start shaking and acting nervous, and then I wont be able to keep the car in control, and then we will crash, and if the crash does not seriously hurt me, my dad will for ruining his car. Is that really how you want this day to turn out?" Ginny asked, grinning. Draco chuckled.
"No, I guess not" Draco smiled. He loved the way that Ginny could make him relax no matter what he was going through.
"So relax, take a deep breath, and just calm down." Ginny replied, giving his hand one last reassuring squeeze before returning her hands to the steering wheel.
"Aren't you just a little bit nervous?" Draco asked after a few minutes of uncomfortably nervous silence. Ginny smiled.
"I keep my nerves bottled up on the inside that way I can't cause car accidents" she replied as she turned onto the street that the Warner's lived in. Within seconds, their car was parked outside of the Warner's house. Draco took a deep breath, and hesitated with his hand on the door handle.
"You can't get out of the car with out opening the door first" Ginny told him softly. He smiled at her, but still did not open the door.
"All I have to do is walk up that drive way and knock on the door, and I will finally get to see my daughter" Draco replied, running his hands though his hair "I have never been this scared before in my life"
"Just remember, I am with you. I am here with you. You can do this" Ginny replied. Draco nodded, his heart beating rapidly in his chest. Opening the door to the car, he quickly stepped out, and looked at the house in front of him.
Ginny opened her door as well, and came around to his side of the car. Leaning against the bonnet, Ginny shot him a reassuring smile as Draco turned and moved up the path to the Warner's front door.
He knocked on the door, and waited. Glancing at his watch, he saw that he was about five minutes early, but he hoped that it would not be a problem. Shoving his shaking hands in his pocket, he waited for the door to be opened.
The door opened to reveal Mr. Warner. He didn't look very happy, and Draco really didn't blame him. With out a word, Mr. Warner opened the door a little wider, and Draco stepped in.
"Mrs. Warner is getting her ready for the day, here is her bag of things" Mr. Warner told him, handing over a blue back pack. "She has a few changes of clothing in there incase she makes a mess of one of them"
"Thank you" Draco said, throwing the bag over his shoulder quickly. Mr. Warner nodded.
"You just remember what I told you yesterday about hurting her. If you and your little girlfriend do anything to corrupt my grand daughter..." Jacob stopped speaking when he realized that Draco was not listening to him.
Evelyn was moving down the stairs slowly, with beautiful little Kayla in her arms. She was everything that Draco had ever imagined his daughter to be and more. He could feel tears welling in his eyes as he watched his beautiful blonde haired, grey eyed little girl getting closer and closer to him.
Evelyn paused at the bottom of the stairs and looked at Draco. Draco didn't notice the extra attention that the Warners were paying him, because he was to busy staring at his child. He was to busy taking in every little thing about her, the way her lip curved up slightly in the middle, the way she held her grand mothers neck and buried her face into the her skin.
"She may want to have a nap later on this afternoon. If she does, just lay her down with a pillow by her sides so she can't roll off of the bed" Evelyn told him. Draco nodded, only half taking in what she was saying.
Evelyn shifted Kayla in her arms and then held her out. Draco held out his arms, and for the first time, he knew what it was like to hold his daughter. Kayla whimpered slightly and held out her arms for her grand mother, but Evelyn just kissed her forehead and moved away from them, into the kitchen in the back of the house.
"We expect her back by six" Jacob told him. Draco nodded, and shifted Kayla in his arms.
"Then I will see you at six" Draco replied. Jacob showed him the door, and as soon as it closed behind him, Draco let a tear run down his cheek.
"Hello Kayla" he whispered to the little girl in his arms "I am your Daddy"
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Ginny looked up when she heard the Warner's door shut. Draco was just standing there with the cutest little girl in his arms. Moving from where Ginny was leaning against the front of the car, she ran up the walk way to him.
"She is beautiful" Ginny whispered, running her hand softly over the little girls hair. Draco expected her to flinch away or whimper when Ginny touched her, but she didn't. Kayla just looked at Ginny for a few seconds, and then turned to burry her head into the gap of Draco's shoulder.
That just made Draco cry a little more, a bright smile on his face even though he was crying.
"Come on, lets go" Draco whispered, Ginny nodded, took Kayla's bag, and then went to start the car.
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"Mum, we're back" Ginny called as she opened the door the burrow. There was silence all around the house as Ginny, Draco and Kayla entered. Draco moved to one of the chairs in the corner of the room. He sat, and placed Kayla on his lap. Kayla didn't move, she didn't fidget, and she didn't even try to get away from him.
Draco just held his daughter on his lap, and both of the Malfoy's just silently studied each other. Kayla's eyes were bright with curiosity as she took in all of the little details of Draco's face.
Draco was taking in her face to. She had white blonde hair, just like he did, and baby soft skin. Hesitantly, he brought his hand up to her face and ran his fingertips over her skin. Kayla didn't pull away like he had expected her to. She still sat, silently intrigued as Draco ran his hands over her soft blonde hair.
Kayla took after Draco more in looks, but he knew that she definitely had a lot of Jess in her. This curiosity, this stillness while she investigated, it was all something she had gotten from her mother, the way Kayla curved her lip when she was looking at something, that was almost a mirror image of something that Jess used to do.
Draco pulled his hand away, but did not return it to his side. He held in out in front of himself, Kayla looked at the hand, and then brought her hand up to his, wrapping her whole little hand around his thumb. Draco smiled, and soon Kayla was smiling to.
Ginny, who was standing in the doorway watching them was smiling to. It was so great that they were bonding. She couldn't stop her smile, and the tear that was slowly running down her cheek. Draco was finally able to spend time with his daughter. Ginny could not have been happier.
"What are you looking at?" Ginny jumped at the sound of a voice behind her. Wiping her cheeks quickly and turning to look behind her, she saw that Ron had just come down the stairs.
"Ron, what are you doing here!" She exclaimed, but not loud enough to disturb Draco and Kayla.
"What am I doing here? Umm, I live here, and I have for the last 18 years" Ron replied, moving to the kitchen and getting a glass of water.
"I thought that you said you were going out with Harry and Hermione today" Ginny asked frantically. She did not want Ron there when Draco and Kayla were. Ron didn't know about Draco having a child, and Ginny was not sure if Draco wanted him to know yet.
"Well, you have to go, now" Ginny replied, pushing Ron towards the back door. Ron planted his feet, stopping her from moving him.
"What are you hiding Virginia" Ron asked in a stern voice. "Why are you trying to get rid of me?"
"Because you smell" Ginny replied jokingly, trying to shove him out of the back door.
"Would you stop pushing, I am not ready to go yet, Harry and Hermione are meeting me here" Ron informed her as he moved towards the living room.
"Where are you going?" she exclaimed. Ron shrugged.
"Well, there is a room in our house, and it has the most comfortable chairs in it, maybe you have heard of it, it is called the living room" Ron replied sarcastically. Ginny grabbed his arm.
"Wouldn't you be more comfortable in the kitchen, it is closer to the food" Ginny smiled, Ron just looked at her suspiciously.
"What is in the living room that you don't want me to see?" Ron asked, shrugging his little sister off of his arm and moving to the doorway.
"Draco is in there" she said quickly.
"You were trying to keep me away from the living room because Malfoy is in there?" Ron asked. "I have seen him before you know, and I am ok with you being his friend, nothing that Draco could be doing could surprise me" He replied and then turned and stepped into the living room.
What Ron saw made him stop. He stood, gaping at what he saw. Draco and Kayla were now sitting on the floor. Kayla was talking, having a little made up conversation, mixing real words with baby gibberish. Draco just sat, listening to every single word she was saying.
There was evident surprise in Ron's face as he turned to look at his sister, and then back to Draco and his child. "Malfoy, where did you get that baby?"
Draco looked up from the conversation he was having with his daughter, Kayla must have saw that Draco looked away, because she turned to the doorway and looked at Ron and Ginny also.
"Are you insane Weasley, I thought it would be obvious. Kayla is my daughter" Draco replied proudly. Ron looked like he was about to faint.
"I need to sit, umm, daughter. Malfoy has a....wow, umm, ok" Ron mumbled as he sat down on the nearest chair. Draco smiled.
"I get that reaction a lot" Draco replied. Ginny entered the room and sat beside Draco on the floor. Kayla started talking in baby gibberish again.
"How old is she?" Ron asked, still trying to wrap his mind around what he had told him.
"About 14 months" Draco replied. Ginny and Kayla were still having their little nonsense conversation then suddenly, Kayla stood up. She pushed her weight up using the coffee table, and then she took a few steps towards Ginny.
"Draco, look" she smiled, Draco looked at his little girl who was slowly, taking baby steps towards Ginny. Kayla stopped in front of Ginny, and grabbed the end of her hair, not tightly, and she did not pull on it, Ginny smiled.
"Red" Kayla mumbled.
"Yes, red, my hair is red" Ginny smiled, Kayla giggled. Draco was still sitting silently, watching as Kayla played with Ginny's hair. After a few minutes, Kayla moved away from Ginny and crossed the room to where Ron was sitting.
Kayla slapped the palm of her hand against Ron's knee lightly. "Red"
Ron, who was watching her with wide eyes, only nodded dumbly for a while. Then, he scooped Kayla up and sat her on his lap. "I have red hair to, don't I?"
"What did I tell you?" Ginny whispered to Draco "A big softy when it comes to babies"
Draco nodded, and watched as Kayla took two handfuls of Ron's short red hair, and twisted painfully.
"Ahh, already injuring the Weasley's, you are definitely a Malfoy" Ron smiled. Almost as though she understood what Ron had said, Kayla began to giggle. "Luckily enough, you are so much cuter than your father, you must have gotten the better Malfoy genes."
Ginny smiled and moved across the room to sit beside her brother. She got Kayla's attention, and then pointed to herself. "Ginny"
"Gin-ny" Kayla replied, Ginny smiled and clapped for her.
Ron smiled, and then pointed to himself. "Ron"
"Red!" Kayla replied happily. Ron groaned.
"No, Ron" he repeated.
"Red!"
"Ron!"
"Red"
"Ron"
"Red" Kayla giggled. Ron just rolled his eyes.
"Fine, red" he replied.
"I think that one is going to stick for while, uncle Red" Draco smiled from the other side of the room. Ron just laughed.
"I don't mind, I think you are the only one who will ever get away with calling me Red" Ron replied. Kayla giggled again and took another handful of hair.
Suddenly, the fireplace erupted into green flame, and Harry and Hermione came tumbling out. They stood, dusted themselves off, and then stopped.
"Ron, whose baby is that?" Hermione asked surprised. She rushed to Ron's side and immediately began playing with her. Ron, who was still holding Kayla on his lap, just smiled at him.
"Ron why is there a Malfoy in your Living room?" Harry asked, looking to where Draco was sitting on the other side of the room.
"Potter, good to see you again" Draco said as he stood and moved to Ron. He scooped his daughter up off of his lap. Kayla smiled and wrapped her little arms around Draco's neck.
Hermione stood "whose baby is that?"
"What, cant you see the family resemblance?" Draco asked. When Hermione looked at them, studying closely, she could see that they both had the same facial expression, the same slight smile on their lips.
"She is yours?" Hermione smiled. Draco nodded. Harry's jaw dropped to the floor "She is gorgeous"
"Thank you" Draco smiled. Kayla lifted her head from Draco's neck and smiled at Hermione.
"Well, hate to break this up" Harry said when he finally got his ability to talk back "We have to get going, right Hermione?"
Hermione didn't move, she just stood and smiled at the baby who was still in Draco's arms. Ron came up by her side and started making faces at her, Kayla laughed.
"Ron, Hermione, I am sure Draco wants to spend some time alone with his....child" Harry replied, then he finally realized what was really going on. "Malfoy is a father"
"What's the matter Potter? it is not so fun when the arch nemesis has a child?" Draco asked. Harry laughed.
"It is just strange" Harry replied. "I just never expected you to have a child. Well, Umm, come on Ron, Hermione, we really should leave them alone"
Ron nodded, and took Hermione's arm, dragging her away from the baby. Hermione made a whimpering sound as they dragged her to the fireplace and forced her to use the floo system. Harry then moved into the fireplace and left the burrow.
"Bye bye Kayla" Ron smiled, waving at her from across the room.
Kayla waved her little hand at the three of them as they moved into the fireplace. "Red"
Ron laughed, and then left.
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The blanket was spread out across the fresh grass, they had all kicked off their shoes and were stretched out under one of the big trees in the back yard of the burrow. Draco was on one side of the blanket, laying on his side and watching as Ginny and Kayla played with a few of the old toys they had found in the attic.
"I am amazed at how smart she is" Draco smiled "I mean, you only had to tell her your name once and she has been saying it all day. And she can walk already, and she has already started teasing Ron"
"Well, little kids start learning really fast, I mean, by about her age, a child can say simple words, can imitate what other people do, can open and close doors by themselves, can feed themselves, making a mess of course" Ginny explained.
"I wish I hadn't missed so much of her life. Now she is beginning to recognize things, and she knows what things are, I just wished I could have been there for her first steps, and her first words. I wonder what he first words were" Draco sighed.
"You may not have been there for all of those firsts, but believe me Draco, you will be there for the rest of the firsts in her life. Her when she loses her first tooth, you will be there, you will be there when she starts school, and you will put her on the train to Hogwarts. There will be plenty of events that you will be there for" Ginny replied, Draco smiled.
"I know" Draco replied, running his hand Kayla's back, Kayla smiled, and then continued to play with her things.
"Has she called you Daddy yet?" Ginny asked. Draco shook his head sadly.
"She will" Ginny replied.
"Bear!" Kayla said suddenly, tears welling in her eyes. "Bear, bear, bear"
"What bear honey?" Ginny asked, but Kayla just started crying. "Oh, don't cry"
Draco sat up quickly and reached for Kayla's bag which they had brought outside with them. He opened it, and began digging through it's contents, hoping that the Warners had packed a teddy bear. His hand came into contact with the something fluffy, and Draco's hand closed around the leg of the toy, pulling it from the bag.
"Bear, bear, bear" Kayla cried happily as she saw what Draco was holding. Draco handed it to her, and Kayla took it, wrapping it in her arms. Her tears stopped flowing as she buried her face into the bears fluffy skin.
Draco's smiled as he realized what she was holding. It was the teddy bear that he had sent her for Christmas. And from the way that Kayla held it, the way that Kayla hugged it to her, he could tell that she loved it. Draco remembered that at one point during the court case, Mr. Warner had said that the bear was her favourite.
Kayla rested the bear in her lap and went back to playing with the other toys. Ginny smiled "Is that the bear you gave her for Christmas?"
"Yep" he smiled. Ginny laughed at the look of pride in his face and then went back to playing with Kayla. Draco smiled and let his thoughts wander for a little while.
As he watched Ginny paying attention to Kayla, he could not help but wonder about the future. Ginny had said that she would wait for him, and that held a little bit of promise in it. Draco wondered if he would ever have a child with Ginny, a little brother or sister for Kayla. Would he ever have the chance to help raise a child from birth?
"You would make a great mother one day" he smiled. Ginny looked up at him suspiciously until she grinned at him.
"I know what you are thinking, and don't think it, children with you is a long way off" She replied. Draco smiled.
"Am I that predictable?" He asked, Ginny just laughed.
"I just know you to well" Ginny replied "Plus, I am not even finished school, and you already have one daughter, concentrate on getting this one properly before you start planning the next one"
"I guess that makes sense then" Draco laughed. Kayla turned to look at him and smiled her brightest smile. Draco smiled back.
"Daddy?" Kayla said, and there was question in her voice, almost as though she had understood what they had been talking about, and wanted to know if it was true.
"Yes, Sweetheart, I am your daddy" Draco grinned.
Kayla slapped Draco's chest with her tiny little hand "Daddy"
Draco just grinned again, and pulled Kayla into his arms.
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Ok, hope you like this chapter, I thought it was cute. The next chapter will be more about Kayla's day. I might even have her meeting Charlie and Bill and the twins, oh, that will be fun.
Now, if you will excuse me, I have a date with Legolas! (Yeah, I wish, I am going to go and see TTT again)
Ok, so due to time, which I don't have at the much of at the moment, I had to stop typing at a certain spot. The next chapter will have more of Draco and Ginny's day with Kayla.
I hope you like this, review for me and I will be your bestest friend.
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"Would you stop shaking!"
"I can't I am to nervous" Draco replied as he continued to fidget and move around in his seat. Ginny reached out, and put her hand on his knee, calming him a little. Ginny smiled as the nervous tremors continued to travel through his body. He folded his hands in front of him, and then unfolded them. He locked one of them onto the side of the door, and then moved it again. Ginny moved her hand from his leg and took his fidgeting hands in hers.
"If you keep shaking and acting nervous, then I am going to start shaking and acting nervous, and then I wont be able to keep the car in control, and then we will crash, and if the crash does not seriously hurt me, my dad will for ruining his car. Is that really how you want this day to turn out?" Ginny asked, grinning. Draco chuckled.
"No, I guess not" Draco smiled. He loved the way that Ginny could make him relax no matter what he was going through.
"So relax, take a deep breath, and just calm down." Ginny replied, giving his hand one last reassuring squeeze before returning her hands to the steering wheel.
"Aren't you just a little bit nervous?" Draco asked after a few minutes of uncomfortably nervous silence. Ginny smiled.
"I keep my nerves bottled up on the inside that way I can't cause car accidents" she replied as she turned onto the street that the Warner's lived in. Within seconds, their car was parked outside of the Warner's house. Draco took a deep breath, and hesitated with his hand on the door handle.
"You can't get out of the car with out opening the door first" Ginny told him softly. He smiled at her, but still did not open the door.
"All I have to do is walk up that drive way and knock on the door, and I will finally get to see my daughter" Draco replied, running his hands though his hair "I have never been this scared before in my life"
"Just remember, I am with you. I am here with you. You can do this" Ginny replied. Draco nodded, his heart beating rapidly in his chest. Opening the door to the car, he quickly stepped out, and looked at the house in front of him.
Ginny opened her door as well, and came around to his side of the car. Leaning against the bonnet, Ginny shot him a reassuring smile as Draco turned and moved up the path to the Warner's front door.
He knocked on the door, and waited. Glancing at his watch, he saw that he was about five minutes early, but he hoped that it would not be a problem. Shoving his shaking hands in his pocket, he waited for the door to be opened.
The door opened to reveal Mr. Warner. He didn't look very happy, and Draco really didn't blame him. With out a word, Mr. Warner opened the door a little wider, and Draco stepped in.
"Mrs. Warner is getting her ready for the day, here is her bag of things" Mr. Warner told him, handing over a blue back pack. "She has a few changes of clothing in there incase she makes a mess of one of them"
"Thank you" Draco said, throwing the bag over his shoulder quickly. Mr. Warner nodded.
"You just remember what I told you yesterday about hurting her. If you and your little girlfriend do anything to corrupt my grand daughter..." Jacob stopped speaking when he realized that Draco was not listening to him.
Evelyn was moving down the stairs slowly, with beautiful little Kayla in her arms. She was everything that Draco had ever imagined his daughter to be and more. He could feel tears welling in his eyes as he watched his beautiful blonde haired, grey eyed little girl getting closer and closer to him.
Evelyn paused at the bottom of the stairs and looked at Draco. Draco didn't notice the extra attention that the Warners were paying him, because he was to busy staring at his child. He was to busy taking in every little thing about her, the way her lip curved up slightly in the middle, the way she held her grand mothers neck and buried her face into the her skin.
"She may want to have a nap later on this afternoon. If she does, just lay her down with a pillow by her sides so she can't roll off of the bed" Evelyn told him. Draco nodded, only half taking in what she was saying.
Evelyn shifted Kayla in her arms and then held her out. Draco held out his arms, and for the first time, he knew what it was like to hold his daughter. Kayla whimpered slightly and held out her arms for her grand mother, but Evelyn just kissed her forehead and moved away from them, into the kitchen in the back of the house.
"We expect her back by six" Jacob told him. Draco nodded, and shifted Kayla in his arms.
"Then I will see you at six" Draco replied. Jacob showed him the door, and as soon as it closed behind him, Draco let a tear run down his cheek.
"Hello Kayla" he whispered to the little girl in his arms "I am your Daddy"
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Ginny looked up when she heard the Warner's door shut. Draco was just standing there with the cutest little girl in his arms. Moving from where Ginny was leaning against the front of the car, she ran up the walk way to him.
"She is beautiful" Ginny whispered, running her hand softly over the little girls hair. Draco expected her to flinch away or whimper when Ginny touched her, but she didn't. Kayla just looked at Ginny for a few seconds, and then turned to burry her head into the gap of Draco's shoulder.
That just made Draco cry a little more, a bright smile on his face even though he was crying.
"Come on, lets go" Draco whispered, Ginny nodded, took Kayla's bag, and then went to start the car.
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"Mum, we're back" Ginny called as she opened the door the burrow. There was silence all around the house as Ginny, Draco and Kayla entered. Draco moved to one of the chairs in the corner of the room. He sat, and placed Kayla on his lap. Kayla didn't move, she didn't fidget, and she didn't even try to get away from him.
Draco just held his daughter on his lap, and both of the Malfoy's just silently studied each other. Kayla's eyes were bright with curiosity as she took in all of the little details of Draco's face.
Draco was taking in her face to. She had white blonde hair, just like he did, and baby soft skin. Hesitantly, he brought his hand up to her face and ran his fingertips over her skin. Kayla didn't pull away like he had expected her to. She still sat, silently intrigued as Draco ran his hands over her soft blonde hair.
Kayla took after Draco more in looks, but he knew that she definitely had a lot of Jess in her. This curiosity, this stillness while she investigated, it was all something she had gotten from her mother, the way Kayla curved her lip when she was looking at something, that was almost a mirror image of something that Jess used to do.
Draco pulled his hand away, but did not return it to his side. He held in out in front of himself, Kayla looked at the hand, and then brought her hand up to his, wrapping her whole little hand around his thumb. Draco smiled, and soon Kayla was smiling to.
Ginny, who was standing in the doorway watching them was smiling to. It was so great that they were bonding. She couldn't stop her smile, and the tear that was slowly running down her cheek. Draco was finally able to spend time with his daughter. Ginny could not have been happier.
"What are you looking at?" Ginny jumped at the sound of a voice behind her. Wiping her cheeks quickly and turning to look behind her, she saw that Ron had just come down the stairs.
"Ron, what are you doing here!" She exclaimed, but not loud enough to disturb Draco and Kayla.
"What am I doing here? Umm, I live here, and I have for the last 18 years" Ron replied, moving to the kitchen and getting a glass of water.
"I thought that you said you were going out with Harry and Hermione today" Ginny asked frantically. She did not want Ron there when Draco and Kayla were. Ron didn't know about Draco having a child, and Ginny was not sure if Draco wanted him to know yet.
"Well, you have to go, now" Ginny replied, pushing Ron towards the back door. Ron planted his feet, stopping her from moving him.
"What are you hiding Virginia" Ron asked in a stern voice. "Why are you trying to get rid of me?"
"Because you smell" Ginny replied jokingly, trying to shove him out of the back door.
"Would you stop pushing, I am not ready to go yet, Harry and Hermione are meeting me here" Ron informed her as he moved towards the living room.
"Where are you going?" she exclaimed. Ron shrugged.
"Well, there is a room in our house, and it has the most comfortable chairs in it, maybe you have heard of it, it is called the living room" Ron replied sarcastically. Ginny grabbed his arm.
"Wouldn't you be more comfortable in the kitchen, it is closer to the food" Ginny smiled, Ron just looked at her suspiciously.
"What is in the living room that you don't want me to see?" Ron asked, shrugging his little sister off of his arm and moving to the doorway.
"Draco is in there" she said quickly.
"You were trying to keep me away from the living room because Malfoy is in there?" Ron asked. "I have seen him before you know, and I am ok with you being his friend, nothing that Draco could be doing could surprise me" He replied and then turned and stepped into the living room.
What Ron saw made him stop. He stood, gaping at what he saw. Draco and Kayla were now sitting on the floor. Kayla was talking, having a little made up conversation, mixing real words with baby gibberish. Draco just sat, listening to every single word she was saying.
There was evident surprise in Ron's face as he turned to look at his sister, and then back to Draco and his child. "Malfoy, where did you get that baby?"
Draco looked up from the conversation he was having with his daughter, Kayla must have saw that Draco looked away, because she turned to the doorway and looked at Ron and Ginny also.
"Are you insane Weasley, I thought it would be obvious. Kayla is my daughter" Draco replied proudly. Ron looked like he was about to faint.
"I need to sit, umm, daughter. Malfoy has a....wow, umm, ok" Ron mumbled as he sat down on the nearest chair. Draco smiled.
"I get that reaction a lot" Draco replied. Ginny entered the room and sat beside Draco on the floor. Kayla started talking in baby gibberish again.
"How old is she?" Ron asked, still trying to wrap his mind around what he had told him.
"About 14 months" Draco replied. Ginny and Kayla were still having their little nonsense conversation then suddenly, Kayla stood up. She pushed her weight up using the coffee table, and then she took a few steps towards Ginny.
"Draco, look" she smiled, Draco looked at his little girl who was slowly, taking baby steps towards Ginny. Kayla stopped in front of Ginny, and grabbed the end of her hair, not tightly, and she did not pull on it, Ginny smiled.
"Red" Kayla mumbled.
"Yes, red, my hair is red" Ginny smiled, Kayla giggled. Draco was still sitting silently, watching as Kayla played with Ginny's hair. After a few minutes, Kayla moved away from Ginny and crossed the room to where Ron was sitting.
Kayla slapped the palm of her hand against Ron's knee lightly. "Red"
Ron, who was watching her with wide eyes, only nodded dumbly for a while. Then, he scooped Kayla up and sat her on his lap. "I have red hair to, don't I?"
"What did I tell you?" Ginny whispered to Draco "A big softy when it comes to babies"
Draco nodded, and watched as Kayla took two handfuls of Ron's short red hair, and twisted painfully.
"Ahh, already injuring the Weasley's, you are definitely a Malfoy" Ron smiled. Almost as though she understood what Ron had said, Kayla began to giggle. "Luckily enough, you are so much cuter than your father, you must have gotten the better Malfoy genes."
Ginny smiled and moved across the room to sit beside her brother. She got Kayla's attention, and then pointed to herself. "Ginny"
"Gin-ny" Kayla replied, Ginny smiled and clapped for her.
Ron smiled, and then pointed to himself. "Ron"
"Red!" Kayla replied happily. Ron groaned.
"No, Ron" he repeated.
"Red!"
"Ron!"
"Red"
"Ron"
"Red" Kayla giggled. Ron just rolled his eyes.
"Fine, red" he replied.
"I think that one is going to stick for while, uncle Red" Draco smiled from the other side of the room. Ron just laughed.
"I don't mind, I think you are the only one who will ever get away with calling me Red" Ron replied. Kayla giggled again and took another handful of hair.
Suddenly, the fireplace erupted into green flame, and Harry and Hermione came tumbling out. They stood, dusted themselves off, and then stopped.
"Ron, whose baby is that?" Hermione asked surprised. She rushed to Ron's side and immediately began playing with her. Ron, who was still holding Kayla on his lap, just smiled at him.
"Ron why is there a Malfoy in your Living room?" Harry asked, looking to where Draco was sitting on the other side of the room.
"Potter, good to see you again" Draco said as he stood and moved to Ron. He scooped his daughter up off of his lap. Kayla smiled and wrapped her little arms around Draco's neck.
Hermione stood "whose baby is that?"
"What, cant you see the family resemblance?" Draco asked. When Hermione looked at them, studying closely, she could see that they both had the same facial expression, the same slight smile on their lips.
"She is yours?" Hermione smiled. Draco nodded. Harry's jaw dropped to the floor "She is gorgeous"
"Thank you" Draco smiled. Kayla lifted her head from Draco's neck and smiled at Hermione.
"Well, hate to break this up" Harry said when he finally got his ability to talk back "We have to get going, right Hermione?"
Hermione didn't move, she just stood and smiled at the baby who was still in Draco's arms. Ron came up by her side and started making faces at her, Kayla laughed.
"Ron, Hermione, I am sure Draco wants to spend some time alone with his....child" Harry replied, then he finally realized what was really going on. "Malfoy is a father"
"What's the matter Potter? it is not so fun when the arch nemesis has a child?" Draco asked. Harry laughed.
"It is just strange" Harry replied. "I just never expected you to have a child. Well, Umm, come on Ron, Hermione, we really should leave them alone"
Ron nodded, and took Hermione's arm, dragging her away from the baby. Hermione made a whimpering sound as they dragged her to the fireplace and forced her to use the floo system. Harry then moved into the fireplace and left the burrow.
"Bye bye Kayla" Ron smiled, waving at her from across the room.
Kayla waved her little hand at the three of them as they moved into the fireplace. "Red"
Ron laughed, and then left.
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The blanket was spread out across the fresh grass, they had all kicked off their shoes and were stretched out under one of the big trees in the back yard of the burrow. Draco was on one side of the blanket, laying on his side and watching as Ginny and Kayla played with a few of the old toys they had found in the attic.
"I am amazed at how smart she is" Draco smiled "I mean, you only had to tell her your name once and she has been saying it all day. And she can walk already, and she has already started teasing Ron"
"Well, little kids start learning really fast, I mean, by about her age, a child can say simple words, can imitate what other people do, can open and close doors by themselves, can feed themselves, making a mess of course" Ginny explained.
"I wish I hadn't missed so much of her life. Now she is beginning to recognize things, and she knows what things are, I just wished I could have been there for her first steps, and her first words. I wonder what he first words were" Draco sighed.
"You may not have been there for all of those firsts, but believe me Draco, you will be there for the rest of the firsts in her life. Her when she loses her first tooth, you will be there, you will be there when she starts school, and you will put her on the train to Hogwarts. There will be plenty of events that you will be there for" Ginny replied, Draco smiled.
"I know" Draco replied, running his hand Kayla's back, Kayla smiled, and then continued to play with her things.
"Has she called you Daddy yet?" Ginny asked. Draco shook his head sadly.
"She will" Ginny replied.
"Bear!" Kayla said suddenly, tears welling in her eyes. "Bear, bear, bear"
"What bear honey?" Ginny asked, but Kayla just started crying. "Oh, don't cry"
Draco sat up quickly and reached for Kayla's bag which they had brought outside with them. He opened it, and began digging through it's contents, hoping that the Warners had packed a teddy bear. His hand came into contact with the something fluffy, and Draco's hand closed around the leg of the toy, pulling it from the bag.
"Bear, bear, bear" Kayla cried happily as she saw what Draco was holding. Draco handed it to her, and Kayla took it, wrapping it in her arms. Her tears stopped flowing as she buried her face into the bears fluffy skin.
Draco's smiled as he realized what she was holding. It was the teddy bear that he had sent her for Christmas. And from the way that Kayla held it, the way that Kayla hugged it to her, he could tell that she loved it. Draco remembered that at one point during the court case, Mr. Warner had said that the bear was her favourite.
Kayla rested the bear in her lap and went back to playing with the other toys. Ginny smiled "Is that the bear you gave her for Christmas?"
"Yep" he smiled. Ginny laughed at the look of pride in his face and then went back to playing with Kayla. Draco smiled and let his thoughts wander for a little while.
As he watched Ginny paying attention to Kayla, he could not help but wonder about the future. Ginny had said that she would wait for him, and that held a little bit of promise in it. Draco wondered if he would ever have a child with Ginny, a little brother or sister for Kayla. Would he ever have the chance to help raise a child from birth?
"You would make a great mother one day" he smiled. Ginny looked up at him suspiciously until she grinned at him.
"I know what you are thinking, and don't think it, children with you is a long way off" She replied. Draco smiled.
"Am I that predictable?" He asked, Ginny just laughed.
"I just know you to well" Ginny replied "Plus, I am not even finished school, and you already have one daughter, concentrate on getting this one properly before you start planning the next one"
"I guess that makes sense then" Draco laughed. Kayla turned to look at him and smiled her brightest smile. Draco smiled back.
"Daddy?" Kayla said, and there was question in her voice, almost as though she had understood what they had been talking about, and wanted to know if it was true.
"Yes, Sweetheart, I am your daddy" Draco grinned.
Kayla slapped Draco's chest with her tiny little hand "Daddy"
Draco just grinned again, and pulled Kayla into his arms.
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Ok, hope you like this chapter, I thought it was cute. The next chapter will be more about Kayla's day. I might even have her meeting Charlie and Bill and the twins, oh, that will be fun.
Now, if you will excuse me, I have a date with Legolas! (Yeah, I wish, I am going to go and see TTT again)