A/N: Haha. here I go again. Chapter four ready to come. I posted
chapter three a couple of hours ago. I don't really know when. I don't know
when I'll post this chapter though. I'll be doing a lot now. Easter is
finally here!! Well not yet exactly but almost.
Important Note: I was in no mood to research about London so the London that they are in is completely fictional. That way it's more flexible and I can make it more interesting.
Summary: When Sadie ran off she left something very important behind although she didn't realize that it was gone. Sadie tells Hermione what happened between her and her father. Hermione tells Sadie why he reacted like those. can a fifteen-year-old handle this? It's a little too much to handle. So anyway the next day Hermione has to stay behind in the hotel because she has an emergency conference call meeting over her laptop. or whatever, okay? So Sadie goes sightseeing with her aunt and of course Draco and his friends but what Draco doesn't know is that Harry and the rest of the gang were able to talk to Hermione already.
CORRECTIONS: I was reading my past story and I saw there were a few misspelled words. sorry! And some were in the wrong tense as well. sorry for that too. Now I am warning you I am not going to check the mistakes in this chapter 'til I post it so if there are any errors please just ignore it. I'm human too!!
Special Thanks: To all the girls who have faithfully been reading and reviewing my story. Where would I be without you? (smiles) It's like I'm giving a speech for the Grammy's or something. haha!!
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"When you were a kid you couldn't wait to fall in-love. Now that you have, you realize that wounded knees are easier to heal than broken hearts." - Anonymous
Draco watched as the teenager ran off. He buried his face into his palms. The youngster may have him confused with someone else.
"Who's child could she be?" Draco rubbed his temples. "I've never slept with anyone besides. but it couldn't be. Maybe I look like her father or something but never."
Draco looked at the view that Sadie was looking at a few moments before.
"The poor kid." Draco shook his head. He looked at the watch and realized that it has been time for him to go down already.
Another person stepped out into the dark.
"Sir, I was requested to come up and check if there were people up here. This place is off limits." The boy said respectfully.
"I'm sorry. I'll go now." Draco stepped on something. He looked at his heel but found nothing there. He turned around and headed back to the party.
"Hey Draco. We'll be going up now. Pansy's a little tired, long trip." Seamus reasoned out.
"Okay." He gave Pansy a kiss on the cheek.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Pansy smiled. The couple walked away.
Again Draco felt so alone. He looked at the people in the room.
'After this wedding there are going to be much more of these.' Draco thought to himself.
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The bellboy walked toward the light switch to double check if there was anyone else on the rooftop. He walked toward the place where Draco and Sadie were he saw nothing. As he turned around to leave something flash. There he found Sadie's locket.
"This must be Mr. Malfoy's." The bellboy whispered to himself. He picked up the locket and locked up the rooftop.
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Hermione looked at her daughter with pity.
"He didn't want me." Sadie shrugged.
"How do you know that?" Hermione looked at her child.
"He said he didn't have a daughter. It was as if he didn't know me." Sadie told her and the rest of the crowd in the room.
"He doesn't know about you, baby." Hermione confessed. Sadie shot her mother a confused look. "When."
FLASHBACK:
Draco and Hermione sat there talking about their future together.
"So you want to marry me?" Hermione asked shyly.
"Of course I do, baby just not now."
"When?" Hermione bit her lip.
"A year maybe two from now."
"Oh. what about kids?"
"Not for another ten years." Draco shook his head.
"You're not serious."
"Of course I am. I've got too much going for me to settle down and have a family. You've got to understand I have dreams too."
"I do." Hermione hugged him and stood up. "I need to do something."
"What?" Draco asked.
"Something big." She tried to hide her tears.
"Okay." Draco kissed her on the forehead. "I love you."
"You too." Hermione walked out of the room.
Draco didn't understand why she was acting so strange. And mostly Draco didn't know that just a few moments before Hermione found out she was a month pregnant.
END OF FLASHBACK
"That's why he doesn't know about you." Hermione said sadly. "He wasn't ready to settle down and have a family. He had so many dreams and I just couldn't take that away from him. He had everything made out for him and I didn't want to ruin anything for him. He didn't want a child and I wanted to keep you." She looked at Sadie. "So I left. I left the night that Draco and I talked. That was the last time I ever saw or heard from Draco."
"Mom." Sadie walked over to her mom and wrapped her arms around her.
Hermione wiped her tears. "I'm sorry. I just thought that what I was doing was right. I tried to be both paternal and maternal but now I realized that you can't be both."
"No, mom. You are an amazing mother." Sadie smiled at her.
"Yeah, Herm. And an amazing woman to be able to walk away and bare a child and still rise victoriously. I mean look at you, you're successful, in shape and plus you've got an amazing daughter. I don't know anyone who's raised a child better than you have." Pansy pointed out. "And you're right. I've known Draco since we were babies. He wouldn't have wanted the baby then at least. I'm sorry Sadie."
"It's okay. I know he didn't want me. You should've seen his eyes when I told him." Sadie shook her head. "It was full of anger and frustration. It was horrible."
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"Ashley, Draco. dance." Gracie ordered more than requested.
The two looked as each other uncomfortably and stood up.
"Look I know you don't want to marry me as much as I don't want to marry you but we've got to come up with a way out of this thing." Ashley looked at Draco.
"Excuse me?" He asked.
"I'm in love with someone else. He's not here right now but he will be at the wedding I made sure of that."
"Okay." Draco nodded his head.
"I was thinking I could like pass out or something that way it would be a good excuse. Or I could hire someone to protest or something."
"We'll find a way." Draco assured her.
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The group finally left the room at around two in the morning. And the party ended a little earlier than that.
The next morning.
The telephone began to ring.
"Now I know why mama gave me this side of the bed." Sadie said groggily. She looked at the clock.
"It's nine." Hermione walked passed her. "Hello?" She picked up the phone. "I can't go. I've got a meeting. no it's really important. okay. I'll join you all tomorrow. I promise."
Sadie pulled the covers over her face.
"Up my little grouch." Hermione tapped her head. "GAG wants to take you around to go site-seeing with all the other "witchy" people. They've never really seen London so now is there chance."
Sadie just groaned and sat up.
"The princess looks like a gremlin in the morning." Hermione laughed she was already dressed for the day.
"Mom." Sadie's voice was raspy.
"Yeah?"
"You're up so early and we're supposed to be on vacation." Sadie shut her eyes.
"I've got a meeting and you're going site-seeing." Hermione pointed out.
Sadie lay back down. "Later." Hermione walked to her daughter and lifted her.
"Be nice to the old lady let her have fun." Hermione kissed her forehead. "Now, to the bathroom and fix yourself up like the princess you are and I'll tell K what you'll be doing today, okay?"
Sadie nodded her head and scratched her scalp. She walked to the bathroom groggily.
"Now I will follow you to wherever after lunch, okay?" Hermione passed the bathroom.
"Yup." Sadie closed her eyes as the warm water fell on her body.
Sadie got dressed and as she was tying her hair there was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it." She fixed her ponytail. "Oh, hey Ryan."
"Well being the youngest in the group I was ordered to come up here and fetch the 'princess'."
"One sec." Sadie kissed her mom and the cheek and got her backpack. "Let's."
"Where's the princess?" Ryan looked confused.
"Funny." Sadie glared. "Don't use that nickname on me, it doesn't go."
"Sure it does, princess." He smiled sweetly.
"Ugh!?" She rolled her eyes. She put her hand on her chest. Then she remembered that she had lost her locket last night but it didn't matter anymore. As far as Sadie was concerned she didn't have a father.
"I need to call K."
"See the princess has her own bodyguard." Ryan laughed.
"And this princess is going to have him shoot you if you don't stop teasing." Sadie glared. "On second thought. I'll kill you."
K stepped out of his room and trailed behind the two teenagers.
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There was a small knock on the door. Draco stood up from his seat and trudged towards it.
"Can I help you?" Draco looked.
"Sir, I believe you left this when you were up on the rooftop last night." The lad handed him something he hadn't seen in so many years. He had completely forgotten that it had even existed. The boy handed it to him and left. Draco with shaky hands slowly opened it.
He opened it and saw the picture on the left was a picture of him and Hermione laughing happily then it would fade and a picture of Hermione smiling while she was pregnant. On the right side was a picture of a baby girl and one by one it would fade as the girl got older. It was the Sadie girl Draco had spoken to last night. (IF YOU GUYS WANT AN EXACT IMAGE THINK TREASURE PLANET)
Draco stood there in shock. The girl was his child. right? Why else would she have this locket.
'I don't have a daughter' The words kept replaying in his head. That's why the girl had reacted so violently. She was telling the truth but why hadn't Hermione said anything about her? Why did she hide this from him?
"Draco?" A small voice came from behind the door as someone began to knock.
He opened the door. "Hi, Ashley."
"My mom sent me here. I decided to play along in this little drama that I call life." She smiled at him. Let's make it more realistic then Draco put out his hand. Ashley shot him a confused look but finally took it.
"Mom's definitely going to enjoy this." Ashley shook her head.
The two adults made their way to the elevator and down to the ground floor to meet up with Draco's friends and Ashley's mother and niece.
"You'll adore my niece." Ashley said proudly. "She's quite the charmer."
Draco smiled at his "so-called" fiancée.
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"Yeah right!" Sadie rolled her eyes as Ryan told her about the house gnomes that they still had. Of course Ryan and his parent's didn't live in the Weasley house anymore they had a small cottage right next to it though.
"It's true." Ryan nodded his head.
"I'm sure it is." Sadie nodded her head. She had never been to the Witch World but her mother told her stories about it. Secretly Sadie had been practicing with her powers only without using a wand. Sadie didn't know that it was a big deal to be a "Wandless Witch."
They approached the rest of the group.
"Hi Sadie." Hermione's friends greeted her.
"Hi." She smiled at them.
"Where's Hermione?" Harry asked curiously.
"Oh. mom has a meeting with some director dude." Sadie shrugged it off.
"Really? Who?" Ryan's eyes got big.
"You probably don't know him." Sadie began. "He's kind of old. Steven Speilberg?"
"No way!" Ryan said in disbelief.
"You know who he is?" Sadie laughed. "Then you must really want to become a director."
"Correction, I want to become a producer."
Sadie kissed Gracie and Andy.
"What are we waiting for?" Sadie questioned.
"Your aunt and the groom." Gracie smiled.
Sadie's eyes got big. Was she going to spend the whole day prancing around London with her. ugh. father.
"Speaking of the two love birds here they come now." Andy pointed their way.
"Oh look. They're holding hands. Isn't that sweet?" Gracie beamed.
'Yeah, sickeningly.' The thought of Sadie's aunt marrying her father was nauseating.
"Hi you guys." Ashley smiled then turned to Sadie. "What no kiss?"
Sadie gave her a weak smile then kissed her on the cheek then gave her a small hug.
"Sadie, I'd like you to meet my fiancé Draco." Ashley introduced.
"We've met." Sadie said politely.
"I love your jacket." Ashley complimented.
"Thanks. I've got another one in like purple or pink or something. You can have it, I'm not fond of those colors anyway." Sadie tugged her blue cotton jacket.
"I'll keep you up on that." Ashley smiled. "What are we standing around here for?"
"Ashley darling. We need to go fix something with the front desk. Andy you need to come with us." Gracie instructed. "We'll just be a moment."
The three walked away from the group. Draco spoke to his friends for a brief moment then walked towards Sadie. Sadie eyed K as if to tell him to watch the man who was going to speak to her. her own father.
"Sadie." Draco looked at her.
"What?" She snapped. She was still angry for the way he treated her last night whether or not he knew.
"I." He began to put out his hand to touch her.
Sadie quickly backed away and coughed. It was her code with K when she didn't want a certain person to touch her. K stood in front of her.
"What?" Draco looked at the big guy confused.
"K here is my bodyguard. He had strict orders to kill or beat up anyone who tries to do anything to me when I am uncomfortable." Sadie glared behind K.
"Look I can bust this guy out of the world in a second if I pleased. So he can just back off." Draco said. Sadie knew exactly what he was talking about.
"Step away, K." She looked up at her bodyguard.
"You sure?" He asked worriedly.
"Positive." She nodded. She turned back to Draco. "What?"
"I just wanted to give you this." Draco handed the locket to Sadie. She was completely lost for words. "I just want you to know that I do understand now and I'm sorry."
"What you said last night can never be erased, not now, not ever." Sadie looked him fiercely in the eyes. "You can never take away the pain you caused less than twenty-four hours ago. You can never undo the mistake, the words that came from your very mouth. And mostly you can never take away the painful memory of those five words, five words that tore my heart apart." Sadie didn't turn away.
"Why aren't you looking away?" Draco asked.
"A wise person once told me that looking away from a person you made eye contact with is a sign of weakness and I refuse to be the weak one."
Draco looked at the little girl for another moment then finally turned away.
"Well we should get going." Ashley's voice joined the crowd again.
Draco walked back to his friends.
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"She's a feisty one isn't she?" Draco looked at his friends.
"She got the stubbornness from both her parents." Ginny's words cut Draco like a knife.
"She doesn't even know the entire truth." Draco explained to his friends as they left the hotel. "Hermione never told me about her."
"She knows everything but you just turned away from the truth and whether you had the knowledge or not the words you told her hurt her, a lot. You broke her heart. She had the perfect little world and by saying those words you took everything away." Pansy told Draco honestly.
Draco looked behind him to find Sadie wearing a cap and shades walking beside Ryan and Ashley with K following right behind.
"She's hurting right now Draco and I hate to tell you this but she's hurting cause of you." Harry tapped his friend on the shoulder.
"You guys don't have to rub it in." Draco looked at his friends then back at Sadie who was now smiling a little at the boy beside her. "She looks exactly like her mother of course she's more on the softer side (features)."
"You missed a lot in her life." Seamus looked at Draco.
At that very moment Draco realized how much he had missed in Sadie's life. "I just meant to help make her."
"Don't; say that Draco." Ginny said harshly. "She's a wonderful little girl. You should really get to know her, you're missing a lot."
"And how would you know that?" Draco asked sarcastically.
"We were with her and her mom last night. You should see them together, they definitely make one great team."
"You spoke to Hermione?"
"Yeah, Draco and she's so proud of that little girl and honestly I fully understand why." Harry nodded his head.
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"Oh my god! I think I need a manicure the sun I swear is bleaching out my hair." Sadie chanted quietly as they walked through yet another museum. "B- O-R-E museums really bore me (I got that from my sister)." A small giggle came from beside her. "You think that's funny don't you? Dorky clothes, goofy hair you must be named Ryan. (Doesn't that part so remind you of Draco? "Think my names funny don't you? Red hair, hand-me-down robes. You must be a Weasley.)
"Yeah sure, Sadie." He crossed his eyes. Sadie let out a small giggle.
"The adults are way ahead of you." K whispered from behind. "Besides your mother sent me a message saying that she would meet you at the Lafayette Gardens."
"Cool." Sadie beamed.
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Back at the hotel Hermione grabbed her things and left. She knew she was up for a long day of just sight-seeing but what she didn't know was that Draco was going to be there.
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A/N: Yey! Chapter four down!! All in one day! Yipee, yey for me!" I hope you all understand why Sadie is treating Draco that way. I let Harry and everyone else explain why she was like that. I needed a little more. oomph for my story. I hope you guys noticed I didn't mention any sites except of course for the Lafayette Garden, which by the way is a completely fictional place. So in case your wondering what it is I'll describe it in the next chapter. the fifth one!!
If you guys liked my story please let me know. Can I ask for a least ten reviews before I post my fifth chapter? Come on I've been very faithful to my writing. now all you have to do is scroll down a little and voila. review made for me. Let me know if you appreciate my writing or if you think I should just go back to playing the guitar.
Oh and when you review kindly answer the following questions:
What do you think about Sadie's character? And can you honestly say you want to be her? And lastly what else do you want to add about her?
Should I put some parts between Harry and Ginny?
And for my last question. how come no one is wondering about Ron? I'll let you all in on what happened to him in the next chapter.
Oh. sorry. I could use some names so I'm copying my sister. If you want your name mentioned as either Sadie's or people that Draco went out with for the last fifteen years. let me know..
Sorry for all the requests. but I promise as soon as I get all my reviews I'll put up chapter five. I'll be working on it already.
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God speed!!
--- guitar-goddess
Important Note: I was in no mood to research about London so the London that they are in is completely fictional. That way it's more flexible and I can make it more interesting.
Summary: When Sadie ran off she left something very important behind although she didn't realize that it was gone. Sadie tells Hermione what happened between her and her father. Hermione tells Sadie why he reacted like those. can a fifteen-year-old handle this? It's a little too much to handle. So anyway the next day Hermione has to stay behind in the hotel because she has an emergency conference call meeting over her laptop. or whatever, okay? So Sadie goes sightseeing with her aunt and of course Draco and his friends but what Draco doesn't know is that Harry and the rest of the gang were able to talk to Hermione already.
CORRECTIONS: I was reading my past story and I saw there were a few misspelled words. sorry! And some were in the wrong tense as well. sorry for that too. Now I am warning you I am not going to check the mistakes in this chapter 'til I post it so if there are any errors please just ignore it. I'm human too!!
Special Thanks: To all the girls who have faithfully been reading and reviewing my story. Where would I be without you? (smiles) It's like I'm giving a speech for the Grammy's or something. haha!!
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"When you were a kid you couldn't wait to fall in-love. Now that you have, you realize that wounded knees are easier to heal than broken hearts." - Anonymous
Draco watched as the teenager ran off. He buried his face into his palms. The youngster may have him confused with someone else.
"Who's child could she be?" Draco rubbed his temples. "I've never slept with anyone besides. but it couldn't be. Maybe I look like her father or something but never."
Draco looked at the view that Sadie was looking at a few moments before.
"The poor kid." Draco shook his head. He looked at the watch and realized that it has been time for him to go down already.
Another person stepped out into the dark.
"Sir, I was requested to come up and check if there were people up here. This place is off limits." The boy said respectfully.
"I'm sorry. I'll go now." Draco stepped on something. He looked at his heel but found nothing there. He turned around and headed back to the party.
"Hey Draco. We'll be going up now. Pansy's a little tired, long trip." Seamus reasoned out.
"Okay." He gave Pansy a kiss on the cheek.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Pansy smiled. The couple walked away.
Again Draco felt so alone. He looked at the people in the room.
'After this wedding there are going to be much more of these.' Draco thought to himself.
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The bellboy walked toward the light switch to double check if there was anyone else on the rooftop. He walked toward the place where Draco and Sadie were he saw nothing. As he turned around to leave something flash. There he found Sadie's locket.
"This must be Mr. Malfoy's." The bellboy whispered to himself. He picked up the locket and locked up the rooftop.
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Hermione looked at her daughter with pity.
"He didn't want me." Sadie shrugged.
"How do you know that?" Hermione looked at her child.
"He said he didn't have a daughter. It was as if he didn't know me." Sadie told her and the rest of the crowd in the room.
"He doesn't know about you, baby." Hermione confessed. Sadie shot her mother a confused look. "When."
FLASHBACK:
Draco and Hermione sat there talking about their future together.
"So you want to marry me?" Hermione asked shyly.
"Of course I do, baby just not now."
"When?" Hermione bit her lip.
"A year maybe two from now."
"Oh. what about kids?"
"Not for another ten years." Draco shook his head.
"You're not serious."
"Of course I am. I've got too much going for me to settle down and have a family. You've got to understand I have dreams too."
"I do." Hermione hugged him and stood up. "I need to do something."
"What?" Draco asked.
"Something big." She tried to hide her tears.
"Okay." Draco kissed her on the forehead. "I love you."
"You too." Hermione walked out of the room.
Draco didn't understand why she was acting so strange. And mostly Draco didn't know that just a few moments before Hermione found out she was a month pregnant.
END OF FLASHBACK
"That's why he doesn't know about you." Hermione said sadly. "He wasn't ready to settle down and have a family. He had so many dreams and I just couldn't take that away from him. He had everything made out for him and I didn't want to ruin anything for him. He didn't want a child and I wanted to keep you." She looked at Sadie. "So I left. I left the night that Draco and I talked. That was the last time I ever saw or heard from Draco."
"Mom." Sadie walked over to her mom and wrapped her arms around her.
Hermione wiped her tears. "I'm sorry. I just thought that what I was doing was right. I tried to be both paternal and maternal but now I realized that you can't be both."
"No, mom. You are an amazing mother." Sadie smiled at her.
"Yeah, Herm. And an amazing woman to be able to walk away and bare a child and still rise victoriously. I mean look at you, you're successful, in shape and plus you've got an amazing daughter. I don't know anyone who's raised a child better than you have." Pansy pointed out. "And you're right. I've known Draco since we were babies. He wouldn't have wanted the baby then at least. I'm sorry Sadie."
"It's okay. I know he didn't want me. You should've seen his eyes when I told him." Sadie shook her head. "It was full of anger and frustration. It was horrible."
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"Ashley, Draco. dance." Gracie ordered more than requested.
The two looked as each other uncomfortably and stood up.
"Look I know you don't want to marry me as much as I don't want to marry you but we've got to come up with a way out of this thing." Ashley looked at Draco.
"Excuse me?" He asked.
"I'm in love with someone else. He's not here right now but he will be at the wedding I made sure of that."
"Okay." Draco nodded his head.
"I was thinking I could like pass out or something that way it would be a good excuse. Or I could hire someone to protest or something."
"We'll find a way." Draco assured her.
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The group finally left the room at around two in the morning. And the party ended a little earlier than that.
The next morning.
The telephone began to ring.
"Now I know why mama gave me this side of the bed." Sadie said groggily. She looked at the clock.
"It's nine." Hermione walked passed her. "Hello?" She picked up the phone. "I can't go. I've got a meeting. no it's really important. okay. I'll join you all tomorrow. I promise."
Sadie pulled the covers over her face.
"Up my little grouch." Hermione tapped her head. "GAG wants to take you around to go site-seeing with all the other "witchy" people. They've never really seen London so now is there chance."
Sadie just groaned and sat up.
"The princess looks like a gremlin in the morning." Hermione laughed she was already dressed for the day.
"Mom." Sadie's voice was raspy.
"Yeah?"
"You're up so early and we're supposed to be on vacation." Sadie shut her eyes.
"I've got a meeting and you're going site-seeing." Hermione pointed out.
Sadie lay back down. "Later." Hermione walked to her daughter and lifted her.
"Be nice to the old lady let her have fun." Hermione kissed her forehead. "Now, to the bathroom and fix yourself up like the princess you are and I'll tell K what you'll be doing today, okay?"
Sadie nodded her head and scratched her scalp. She walked to the bathroom groggily.
"Now I will follow you to wherever after lunch, okay?" Hermione passed the bathroom.
"Yup." Sadie closed her eyes as the warm water fell on her body.
Sadie got dressed and as she was tying her hair there was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it." She fixed her ponytail. "Oh, hey Ryan."
"Well being the youngest in the group I was ordered to come up here and fetch the 'princess'."
"One sec." Sadie kissed her mom and the cheek and got her backpack. "Let's."
"Where's the princess?" Ryan looked confused.
"Funny." Sadie glared. "Don't use that nickname on me, it doesn't go."
"Sure it does, princess." He smiled sweetly.
"Ugh!?" She rolled her eyes. She put her hand on her chest. Then she remembered that she had lost her locket last night but it didn't matter anymore. As far as Sadie was concerned she didn't have a father.
"I need to call K."
"See the princess has her own bodyguard." Ryan laughed.
"And this princess is going to have him shoot you if you don't stop teasing." Sadie glared. "On second thought. I'll kill you."
K stepped out of his room and trailed behind the two teenagers.
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There was a small knock on the door. Draco stood up from his seat and trudged towards it.
"Can I help you?" Draco looked.
"Sir, I believe you left this when you were up on the rooftop last night." The lad handed him something he hadn't seen in so many years. He had completely forgotten that it had even existed. The boy handed it to him and left. Draco with shaky hands slowly opened it.
He opened it and saw the picture on the left was a picture of him and Hermione laughing happily then it would fade and a picture of Hermione smiling while she was pregnant. On the right side was a picture of a baby girl and one by one it would fade as the girl got older. It was the Sadie girl Draco had spoken to last night. (IF YOU GUYS WANT AN EXACT IMAGE THINK TREASURE PLANET)
Draco stood there in shock. The girl was his child. right? Why else would she have this locket.
'I don't have a daughter' The words kept replaying in his head. That's why the girl had reacted so violently. She was telling the truth but why hadn't Hermione said anything about her? Why did she hide this from him?
"Draco?" A small voice came from behind the door as someone began to knock.
He opened the door. "Hi, Ashley."
"My mom sent me here. I decided to play along in this little drama that I call life." She smiled at him. Let's make it more realistic then Draco put out his hand. Ashley shot him a confused look but finally took it.
"Mom's definitely going to enjoy this." Ashley shook her head.
The two adults made their way to the elevator and down to the ground floor to meet up with Draco's friends and Ashley's mother and niece.
"You'll adore my niece." Ashley said proudly. "She's quite the charmer."
Draco smiled at his "so-called" fiancée.
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"Yeah right!" Sadie rolled her eyes as Ryan told her about the house gnomes that they still had. Of course Ryan and his parent's didn't live in the Weasley house anymore they had a small cottage right next to it though.
"It's true." Ryan nodded his head.
"I'm sure it is." Sadie nodded her head. She had never been to the Witch World but her mother told her stories about it. Secretly Sadie had been practicing with her powers only without using a wand. Sadie didn't know that it was a big deal to be a "Wandless Witch."
They approached the rest of the group.
"Hi Sadie." Hermione's friends greeted her.
"Hi." She smiled at them.
"Where's Hermione?" Harry asked curiously.
"Oh. mom has a meeting with some director dude." Sadie shrugged it off.
"Really? Who?" Ryan's eyes got big.
"You probably don't know him." Sadie began. "He's kind of old. Steven Speilberg?"
"No way!" Ryan said in disbelief.
"You know who he is?" Sadie laughed. "Then you must really want to become a director."
"Correction, I want to become a producer."
Sadie kissed Gracie and Andy.
"What are we waiting for?" Sadie questioned.
"Your aunt and the groom." Gracie smiled.
Sadie's eyes got big. Was she going to spend the whole day prancing around London with her. ugh. father.
"Speaking of the two love birds here they come now." Andy pointed their way.
"Oh look. They're holding hands. Isn't that sweet?" Gracie beamed.
'Yeah, sickeningly.' The thought of Sadie's aunt marrying her father was nauseating.
"Hi you guys." Ashley smiled then turned to Sadie. "What no kiss?"
Sadie gave her a weak smile then kissed her on the cheek then gave her a small hug.
"Sadie, I'd like you to meet my fiancé Draco." Ashley introduced.
"We've met." Sadie said politely.
"I love your jacket." Ashley complimented.
"Thanks. I've got another one in like purple or pink or something. You can have it, I'm not fond of those colors anyway." Sadie tugged her blue cotton jacket.
"I'll keep you up on that." Ashley smiled. "What are we standing around here for?"
"Ashley darling. We need to go fix something with the front desk. Andy you need to come with us." Gracie instructed. "We'll just be a moment."
The three walked away from the group. Draco spoke to his friends for a brief moment then walked towards Sadie. Sadie eyed K as if to tell him to watch the man who was going to speak to her. her own father.
"Sadie." Draco looked at her.
"What?" She snapped. She was still angry for the way he treated her last night whether or not he knew.
"I." He began to put out his hand to touch her.
Sadie quickly backed away and coughed. It was her code with K when she didn't want a certain person to touch her. K stood in front of her.
"What?" Draco looked at the big guy confused.
"K here is my bodyguard. He had strict orders to kill or beat up anyone who tries to do anything to me when I am uncomfortable." Sadie glared behind K.
"Look I can bust this guy out of the world in a second if I pleased. So he can just back off." Draco said. Sadie knew exactly what he was talking about.
"Step away, K." She looked up at her bodyguard.
"You sure?" He asked worriedly.
"Positive." She nodded. She turned back to Draco. "What?"
"I just wanted to give you this." Draco handed the locket to Sadie. She was completely lost for words. "I just want you to know that I do understand now and I'm sorry."
"What you said last night can never be erased, not now, not ever." Sadie looked him fiercely in the eyes. "You can never take away the pain you caused less than twenty-four hours ago. You can never undo the mistake, the words that came from your very mouth. And mostly you can never take away the painful memory of those five words, five words that tore my heart apart." Sadie didn't turn away.
"Why aren't you looking away?" Draco asked.
"A wise person once told me that looking away from a person you made eye contact with is a sign of weakness and I refuse to be the weak one."
Draco looked at the little girl for another moment then finally turned away.
"Well we should get going." Ashley's voice joined the crowd again.
Draco walked back to his friends.
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"She's a feisty one isn't she?" Draco looked at his friends.
"She got the stubbornness from both her parents." Ginny's words cut Draco like a knife.
"She doesn't even know the entire truth." Draco explained to his friends as they left the hotel. "Hermione never told me about her."
"She knows everything but you just turned away from the truth and whether you had the knowledge or not the words you told her hurt her, a lot. You broke her heart. She had the perfect little world and by saying those words you took everything away." Pansy told Draco honestly.
Draco looked behind him to find Sadie wearing a cap and shades walking beside Ryan and Ashley with K following right behind.
"She's hurting right now Draco and I hate to tell you this but she's hurting cause of you." Harry tapped his friend on the shoulder.
"You guys don't have to rub it in." Draco looked at his friends then back at Sadie who was now smiling a little at the boy beside her. "She looks exactly like her mother of course she's more on the softer side (features)."
"You missed a lot in her life." Seamus looked at Draco.
At that very moment Draco realized how much he had missed in Sadie's life. "I just meant to help make her."
"Don't; say that Draco." Ginny said harshly. "She's a wonderful little girl. You should really get to know her, you're missing a lot."
"And how would you know that?" Draco asked sarcastically.
"We were with her and her mom last night. You should see them together, they definitely make one great team."
"You spoke to Hermione?"
"Yeah, Draco and she's so proud of that little girl and honestly I fully understand why." Harry nodded his head.
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"Oh my god! I think I need a manicure the sun I swear is bleaching out my hair." Sadie chanted quietly as they walked through yet another museum. "B- O-R-E museums really bore me (I got that from my sister)." A small giggle came from beside her. "You think that's funny don't you? Dorky clothes, goofy hair you must be named Ryan. (Doesn't that part so remind you of Draco? "Think my names funny don't you? Red hair, hand-me-down robes. You must be a Weasley.)
"Yeah sure, Sadie." He crossed his eyes. Sadie let out a small giggle.
"The adults are way ahead of you." K whispered from behind. "Besides your mother sent me a message saying that she would meet you at the Lafayette Gardens."
"Cool." Sadie beamed.
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Back at the hotel Hermione grabbed her things and left. She knew she was up for a long day of just sight-seeing but what she didn't know was that Draco was going to be there.
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A/N: Yey! Chapter four down!! All in one day! Yipee, yey for me!" I hope you all understand why Sadie is treating Draco that way. I let Harry and everyone else explain why she was like that. I needed a little more. oomph for my story. I hope you guys noticed I didn't mention any sites except of course for the Lafayette Garden, which by the way is a completely fictional place. So in case your wondering what it is I'll describe it in the next chapter. the fifth one!!
If you guys liked my story please let me know. Can I ask for a least ten reviews before I post my fifth chapter? Come on I've been very faithful to my writing. now all you have to do is scroll down a little and voila. review made for me. Let me know if you appreciate my writing or if you think I should just go back to playing the guitar.
Oh and when you review kindly answer the following questions:
What do you think about Sadie's character? And can you honestly say you want to be her? And lastly what else do you want to add about her?
Should I put some parts between Harry and Ginny?
And for my last question. how come no one is wondering about Ron? I'll let you all in on what happened to him in the next chapter.
Oh. sorry. I could use some names so I'm copying my sister. If you want your name mentioned as either Sadie's or people that Draco went out with for the last fifteen years. let me know..
Sorry for all the requests. but I promise as soon as I get all my reviews I'll put up chapter five. I'll be working on it already.
Peace and again, Happy Easter. and God bless to all those affected by SARS and the war in Iraq (well it's not really a war anymore but there are still people getting hurt and soldiers are still missing so please pray for them as well)
God speed!!
--- guitar-goddess