A/N: Thanks to god-of-all-kicking-things (no, I can't make Harry
die, sorry), yaukira (glad you like it), and Miranda (glad you like
it too) for reviewing. On with the last chapter (of this fic
anyways).
When Hermione went home, she got changed into something comfortable (her pajamas) and got out all her Hogwarts stuff and started to revise for her exams. Like Dumbledore had said, a professor had come to her house twice a week and delivered her school work and she had, up until now, kept on top of her school work, passing in all her assignments on time, but now, she had fallen behind. Her exams were in less than three weeks and they were on everything they had learnt at Hogwarts. Most of it was practical (actually doing the magic). What was she going to do?! Draco had arrived home a few minutes after Hermione. He put Michelle in her playpen and went to look for Hermione.
The first place he went to was her room and sure enough, there she was, flipping through her books furiously.
"Hermione baby, calm down. You're gonna do fine on the exams. I mean, you're the smartest person at Hogwarts. And besides, furiously trying to cram all that information now is only going to make it worst. And most of the exams are practical anyways."
"Draco, I need to study all this. Please don't bother me, you just take care of Meeshca and I'll study."
"Hermione, we can..." Draco started, but was cut off by Hermione.
"Draco, please just leave me alone!" Hermione said.
Draco didn't even bother to try anymore. He just left. Hermione stayed there, continuing to flip through book after book, quill scribbling on her parchment.
And it continued. Hermione hadn't eaten or slept in three days. She was pregnant and skinny as a rake. Draco tried, but to no avail, to get her to eat something. She just kept pushing him out the door without taking her eyes off her book. The only time she had left her bed, was to use the bathroom, and even then, she still had her nose buried in a book.
Whenever Draco had tried to go to sleep at night, she refused to let him sleep in the bed, so Draco was forced to sleep on the couch in the rec. room. Draco wasn't very happy about this.
On the evening of the third day, Draco was tired of it! He went to their bedroom and walked in.
"Hermione, this has got to stop! You haven't eaten in three days, ok? It's unhealthy for you, especially now. I mean, you not eating could cause the baby to die. You can get really sick too. You have to eat something. You haven't even seen Meeshca in three days!" Draco said, walking over to her and sitting next to her on the bed.
"Draco, go away. I need to study."
"Hermione, just her me out. We can study together, you know. I mean, go upstairs and get something to eat. Then, when you come back down, we can sit down and study together. You don't need to be stressing over exams this much. That's unhealthy too. If a pregnant mother is stressed, it can cause her baby to be disabled or even die. Hermione please listen to me," Draco said. Hermione thought about it. She didn't want her baby to die. Draco was right, she needed to eat something and stop stressing over the exams.
"Draco, you're right," was all that Hermione said. She got out of bed and hugged him. He took her upstairs and got her something to eat. And boy did she eat, but then again, if you hadn't eaten in three days and you were pregnant, you'd eat a lot too.
"Feel any better now?" Draco asked.
"Yeah, I should have listened to you in the first place," she responded. "I'm gonna take the rest of the night and do absolutely nothing. I'm gonna relax."
"That's good then," Draco said. "Maybe you could spend time with Michelle. She's been crying a lot lately and I think it's because she hasn't seen you."
Hermione smiled weakly. "I guess I better go see her. Where is she?"
"She's in the family room with your parents."
Hermione walked to the family room and walked in. She walked over and picked Meeshca up.
"Hey sweetie," she said soothingly. Meeshca cooed.
Draco smiled. He was happy that Hermione finally stopped studying, even if it was only long enough to eat something and see Meeshca again.
But Hermione had done more than that. She didn't touch another book the rest of the night. In fact, she and Draco spent most of the night playing with Meeshca. Then, when Meeshca had fell asleep, Draco and Hermione went to bed as well.
The next morning, Hermione had woke up around 10 and went upstairs to surprise Draco with breakfast. When she woke, Meeshca was awake, so she changed her and took her upstairs too and put her in her highchair. When Draco woke up, he noticed that Hermione was in bed, so he went on upstairs to the kitchen and found breakfast already on the table for him. Hermione was sitting at the table eating her breakfast when he came in.
"Morning Draco. Hungry?" she asked.
"A little. Did you make this?"
"Yeah, I was waiting for you to wake up and come up to have breakfast with me. But you were taking too long so I started to eat without you."
Draco smiled and sat next to Hermione. He leaned in and kissed her lips before starting to eat breakfast.
"What was that for?"
"Just because I love you and I haven't kissed you in three days."
"Oh, ok," Hermione said laughing.
"What's so funny?" Draco asked.
"Nothing."
"Tell me or I just might have to kiss you again," he said jokingly.
"Nothing."
"Fine, you asked for it," he said, leaning in and kissing her again.
"Draco, you should eat your breakfast. It'll soon get cold."
He nodded and ate his breakfast.
"Are you going to continue studying today?" Draco asked.
"I think so, if you're gonna study with me this time."
"Of course I will. That was the plan wasn't it?" Draco asked.
Hermione smiled. "But I don't think I am going to study all day. I think I might start when I get this cleared up and then probably go until supper, cause after supper I was going to go to the mall and pick up some things that we need for the baby."
"OK," Draco responded.
Hermione and Draco finished breakfast. Hermione fed Meeshca and Draco had done the dishes while she was doing that.
When Meeshca was fed and the dishes were done, Hermione went to find her parents and ask them if they could watch Meeshca while he and Draco were studying. Her parents told her it wasn't a problem so Hermione passed Meeshca to her mum.
"She has already been fed and changed. We're gonna be studying until supper. Then we are going to go and pick up some things for the new baby if you want to come."
"Sure dear," her mum said.
Hermione went downstairs and started studying with Draco. They had been reading over some books for 2 hours and then asking each other questions.
"What does the Engorgio spell do?" Draco asked Hermione.
"It's the spell that enlarges something," she answered. "What does Relashio do?" she asked Draco.
"Relashio, umm...that scares away grindylows, right?"
"Yeah. Professor Lupin taught us that," Hermione said.
"OK, umm..." said Draco, flipping through his text book of spells, trying to find a hard one. "What is the spell used for showing the prior spells done by the wand?"
"Showing the prior spells? Did we learn that one?" Hermione asked, not knowing the answer.
"Yeah, we learnt every spell in this book," Draco said, pointing to the book.
"Umm...lemme think," Hermione said, thinking really hard. "OH! That's Prior Incanto, isn't it?"
"Yeah."
They continued to ask each other spells for about an hour and then they went to Potions for another hour. Then, they just went over some other things when Hermione's mother came downstairs, holding Meeshca who was bawling her eyes out.
"Hermione, you have to take her. I know you guys are supposed to be studying, but Michelle won't stop crying and I've tried everything!" she said, handing Meeshca to Hermione.
Hermione started rocking Meeshca, "Shh...shh...shh..." she said. Michelle still kept on crying, so Hermione decided to sing her a lullaby. "Hush little baby don't say a word, momma's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mocking bird won't sing, momma's gonna buy you a diamond ring..." she continued to sing until Michelle stopped crying.
Meeshca curled into Hermione and fell asleep. Hermione's mum was about to take Meeshca again, but Hermione stopped her.
"Mum, it's ok. We're done studying for today. Meeshca can stay here with us."
"OK dear. Supper should be ready around 5 if you want to have supper with your father and I."
"OK. After supper, Draco and I are going shopping. Are you coming with us?"
"Of course dear," her mother said, leaving.
"Draco, would you mind taking Meeshca for a second, I wanna go and get something that I have to show you," Hermione said.
"Sure," Draco said, taking Michelle from Hermione.
Hermione ran in and got that pregnancy book and went back out. She sat on the couch and flipped to a page entitled, "Speeding Up Your Pregnancy."
"Draco, this spell is, well, I guess self-explanatory."
"You really want to speed up your pregnancy Hermione?" Draco asked, shocked.
"Well, I wanna get it over with. If you were in my position, you would want to. But there's a spell here to make you pregnancy 9 weeks instead of 9 months. So that means, that every week, it will seem like you are another month pregnant."
"Hermione, do you really think that's safe?"
"Yeah Draco. These spells have been tested and approved by medi-witches and medi-wizards in 10 countries."
"Well Hermione, if you really want to," Draco said.
"I do," she said, muttering the incantation. Her stomach started to get bigger and bigger. When her stomach stopped growing, it looked like she was 8 months pregnant!
"What the..." Draco said.
Hermione thought for a minute.
"Draco, when I cast the spell, I was 2 months pregnant, so if you change that to weeks, I was 8 weeks pregnant. This spell changes you from the amount of weeks pregnant to that month. So, now I'm 8 months pregnant."
"Oh," was all Draco could say.
"Maybe we should go upstairs for supper," Hermione said.
"Yeah, I guess." They walked upstairs and when they got up, Hermione's mother almost dropped the plate of steaks that she was holding.
"Hermione! You're stomach! What happened to you?"
Hermione explained to her mother about the spell. Her mother looked shocked and surprised.
"Well, supper is ready. I'll go get your father. You two can dig in." Hermione's mother went to get her father. She explained about the spell Hermione cast so that Hermione's father wouldn't be so shocked.
After supper, Hermione had offered to help her mother with the dishes, but her mum said that her father would do it.
"Well, we are gonna go shopping," Hermione said.
"OK dear. I'll be with you in a minute," her mum said.
"Draco, could you run down stairs and grab my purse and my cell phone? It should be on my chair in the bedroom," Hermione asked.
"Sure sweetie," he said, walking downstairs and grabbing her purse and cell phone. He ran back upstairs and Hermione and her mum were just getting ready to leave. He handed Hermione her purse and phone. They got in the car and drove to the mall. They walked to the baby store and started browsing.
Hermione came across an oak crib that she loved.
"Draco, what do you think of this crib?" she asked.
"I like it," he agreed.
"OK, well, we'll get that crib," she said, continuing to look around the store. She picked out another high chair (for later) and some toys/stuffed animals.
Then she started looking at outfits.
"Hermione, how do you know what gender the baby is gonna be?" Draco asked.
Hermione whispered to him, "I've done a gender spell from that pregnancy book."
"Oh, well, that was a good way to find out," he responded.
"Oh this is so cute," Hermione said, pointing to a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with a baseball on it.
"Whatever you want to pick out Hermione," Draco said.
So Hermione picked out some cute outfits.
Then they went home.
"Draco, maybe I should tell Harry and Ron that I'm now 8 months pregnant. I think they would like to know," Hermione said.
"Yeah, I guess you're right," Draco agreed.
Hermione quickly scribbled a note to Harry and Ron and sent it with Draco's owl.
"So, what should we do now?" Draco asked.
Hermione yawned. "I'm gonna go to bed, I'm tired. Night." She kissed Draco on the cheek and went to bed.
The next morning, Hermione and Draco ate breakfast together.
"What do you wanna do today?" Draco asked.
"I dunno. I haven't seen my Muggle friends in a while. You wanna go see them?"
"Not really."
"Well, what did you want to do?" Hermione asked.
"Umm, you can't Apparate cause you're pregnant, but maybe we could take the knight bus to Diagon Alley? Or take the Muggle bus to London and go through the Leaky Cauldron."
"Yeah, I guess. I haven't been to Diagon Alley in a long time."
"OK, well, do you want to take Meeshca with us?"
"Sure," Hermione said. She went to the family room, where Meeshca was in her playpen and picked her up. She took her downstairs and Draco changed her.
"Ready?" she asked.
"Yep," he responded.
"Knight Bus or Muggle Bus?" she asked him.
"Well, Knight Bus is faster, but the Muggle Bus is safer for someone in your condition," he stated.
"OK, Muggle Bus it is."
So they went to the bus stop and a few minutes later, the bus came. When they got on the bus, "Hermione!" could be heard throughout the bus. Hermione noticed that all her Muggle friends were there. So she went over to sit by them.
"Hey guys," she said.
"How have you been? We haven't seen you in...Hermione, what happened to you?" Oliver said.
"I'm pregnant again," she said with a smile.
"Wow, congratulations!" they all said.
"So, is that Michelle?" Bre asked, pointing to the baby in Draco's arms.
"Yeah, haven't you seen her before?"
"Only at the wedding," Bre said, gently taking Meeshca from Draco. "She's getting so big."
"Yeah, she is. So where are you guys going?" Hermione asked.
"Sheffield," Matt answered.
"Why are you going to Sheffield?" Hermione asked.
"Kat's grandmother lives there and she wants us all to go and visit her."
"You should come," Oliver added.
"No, I can't. We got stuff to do. Right Draco?" Hermione said. Draco nodded.
"Oh, well, maybe some other time."
They continued to talk until the gang got off. Then Hermione and Draco were talking until they reached their stop and got off.
They walked through the Leaky Cauldron and out back to the Diagon Alley entrance. Draco took out his wand (which he had in his pocket) and tapped on the wall. They walked in.
They went from shop to shop just looking at things. Draco, of course, had to stop in the Quidditch shop. He was looking around for a new broom. He spotted the Firebolt II and went over to check the price. Hermione followed him.
"Draco, that's an expensive broom," Hermione said.
"Hermione, it's the best broom since Potter's Firebolt. Plus, I can afford it," he said, kinda snobbishly.
"Draco, that's so typical of you. Thinking you can afford everything," Hermione laughed.
Draco ignored her and went to pay for the broom. On the way out of the shop, he noticed a miniature broom. He went over and read the little description. It read: Does your child want to fly but is too small for a broom? Here's the solution. This broom hovers a few feet in the air and flies in circles for children to get a feel for flying. Not for children under two years old! 10 Galleons, 6 sickles, 9 knuts ($50 US)
"Aww...Hermione, this is so cute. We should buy it for Meeshca. I know she won't be able to use it yet for a while, but by the time she is, they might not be on the market anymore," Draco said.
"Draco, I don't wanna argue with you, so go ahead and buy it."
So he did. He went to the checkout and paid for it. Then they left.
"Draco, do you wanna stop and get an ice cream at Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour?" Hermione asked.
"Sure Hermione," Draco said.
So they went and had an ice-cream and continued to walk around Diagon Alley. As they were about to walk into Gringott's to get some more money, they heard a voice call out.
"Oy, Draco!"
Draco turned around to see Blaise Zabini (guy in my fic) walking towards him. Draco didn't really like him, so he tried to be as mean to him as possible.
"What do you want Zabini?" Draco asked in a cold voice.
"Man, who pissed in your pumpkin juice?" Blaise asked. "I just came to ask you why you haven't been in the Slytherin common room or dorms lately."
"Why do you care?" drawled Draco.
"Just wondering, that's all."
"Well, if you must know, I've been with my daughter."
"Daughter? Who the hell would have your daughter?"
Draco, who had been unnoticeably standing in front of Hermione, moved out of the way.
"Granger? You screwed a mudblood and got her pregnant? Man, you got it bad," Blaise said, shaking his head.
"No, I don't have it bad Zabini. Hermione and I are married, just to let you know," he said coolly.
Blaise looked at Hermione, "Yeah, it don't seem like you mind too much cause you got her knocked up again."
"Listen Zabini, fuck off somewhere and get the hell out of my way," Draco said, giving him a death glare.
"Listen Draco, your glares may work on any other house, and even some of the younger Slytherin's, but you don't scare me," Blaise said, walking pass Draco bumping shoulders with Draco, hard.
"C'mon Hermione, lets go. Hermione?" Draco said, looking around. Hermione was no where to be seen. "Hermione?" he continued to call.
He started to panic and started to look frantically around Diagon Alley. He finally found her. She had went to Gringott's without him.
"Hermione, what did you run off for?" he asked.
"I just went to get some more money while you finished talking to Zabini. Nothing to worry about."
"Well, I was worried," Draco said seriously.
"Well, I'm fine, Draco."
They finished shopping, Draco not taking his eye off Hermione and then they went home. There was a letter on the table for Hermione, so she read it.
"It's from Harry and Ron," she said. "Dear Hermione, what made you do that spell? You could have killed your baby! Anyway, we forgive you. Did you want us to come and stay with you? Dumbledore is allowing everyone who is done their exams go home early this year. So, just let us know if you want us to come to your house and we'll just write mum and tell her that we won't be coming home right away. Write back ASAP with your answer."
She quickly wrote back and told them to come to her house. She then sent the letter with Draco's owl and she and Draco went upstairs to have supper. About an hour later, Harry and Ron Apparated to the rec. room and seeing that Hermione and Draco weren't downstairs, Harry and Ron walked upstairs to find them.
They found them in the family room, playing with Meeshca and watching TV.
"Hey Hermio...you've gotten HUGE!" Harry said.
"Well, this is what most people look like when they are 8 months pregnant."
"8 months? You're 8 months pregnant?" Ron asked.
"Didn't I say that in the letter?" Hermione asked, confused.
Ron thought for a minute, "Oh yeah, sorry."
"It's OK."
Ron went over to play with Meeshca.
"So, Dumbledore let you guys out early this year?" Hermione asked Harry.
"Yeah, he said that in Muggle schools, when you are finished your exams, you are allowed to go home and you don't have to go back to school."
"Oh."
"Yeah, but it's a good idea really. Now Ron and I can be here for the rest of your pregnancy," Harry said.
"What did Mrs. Weasley say when you told her that I was pregnant again?"
"She said she was happy for you and congratulations and all that stuff," Harry said.
"OK."
1 Week Later in St. Mungo's
"Hermione you have to push," Draco instructed her. Hermione was sweating a lot and she was in a lot of pain. Harry was sitting next to Hermione and Draco was sitting on the other side of Hermione, holding her hand and coaching her. Ron was downstairs because she was only allowed to have 2 people with her.
"I'm pushing as hard as I can Draco! It's not as easy as it looks you know!" Hermione yelled.
"I didn't say it was easy, Hermione. But you have to calm down. You don't need any extra stress right now."
"I see the head Hermione, breath and then push again as hard as you can and that should be it," instructed the medi-witch.
Hermione pushed like she was told and the baby was out. "Congratulations, you have a little boy," said the medi-witch, who immediately took the baby and washed him off, even before Hermione got a chance to see him.
Hermione fell back on the pillow in relief.
"I'll go downstairs and get Ron," Draco said, kissing Hermione's forehead and walking out.
"Congratulations Hermione," Harry said.
The medi-witch came back with the baby wrapped up in a blanket. She handed the bundle to Hermione and Hermione smiled. But she noticed something was different. The baby looked like...
A/N: Cliffie! If you want to find out, you're gonna have to read the sequel which is coming extremely soon. Sorry for those of you who hate cliffhangers, but I just had to leave it like that. It gives you a reason to read the sequel. Read 'n' Review!
When Hermione went home, she got changed into something comfortable (her pajamas) and got out all her Hogwarts stuff and started to revise for her exams. Like Dumbledore had said, a professor had come to her house twice a week and delivered her school work and she had, up until now, kept on top of her school work, passing in all her assignments on time, but now, she had fallen behind. Her exams were in less than three weeks and they were on everything they had learnt at Hogwarts. Most of it was practical (actually doing the magic). What was she going to do?! Draco had arrived home a few minutes after Hermione. He put Michelle in her playpen and went to look for Hermione.
The first place he went to was her room and sure enough, there she was, flipping through her books furiously.
"Hermione baby, calm down. You're gonna do fine on the exams. I mean, you're the smartest person at Hogwarts. And besides, furiously trying to cram all that information now is only going to make it worst. And most of the exams are practical anyways."
"Draco, I need to study all this. Please don't bother me, you just take care of Meeshca and I'll study."
"Hermione, we can..." Draco started, but was cut off by Hermione.
"Draco, please just leave me alone!" Hermione said.
Draco didn't even bother to try anymore. He just left. Hermione stayed there, continuing to flip through book after book, quill scribbling on her parchment.
And it continued. Hermione hadn't eaten or slept in three days. She was pregnant and skinny as a rake. Draco tried, but to no avail, to get her to eat something. She just kept pushing him out the door without taking her eyes off her book. The only time she had left her bed, was to use the bathroom, and even then, she still had her nose buried in a book.
Whenever Draco had tried to go to sleep at night, she refused to let him sleep in the bed, so Draco was forced to sleep on the couch in the rec. room. Draco wasn't very happy about this.
On the evening of the third day, Draco was tired of it! He went to their bedroom and walked in.
"Hermione, this has got to stop! You haven't eaten in three days, ok? It's unhealthy for you, especially now. I mean, you not eating could cause the baby to die. You can get really sick too. You have to eat something. You haven't even seen Meeshca in three days!" Draco said, walking over to her and sitting next to her on the bed.
"Draco, go away. I need to study."
"Hermione, just her me out. We can study together, you know. I mean, go upstairs and get something to eat. Then, when you come back down, we can sit down and study together. You don't need to be stressing over exams this much. That's unhealthy too. If a pregnant mother is stressed, it can cause her baby to be disabled or even die. Hermione please listen to me," Draco said. Hermione thought about it. She didn't want her baby to die. Draco was right, she needed to eat something and stop stressing over the exams.
"Draco, you're right," was all that Hermione said. She got out of bed and hugged him. He took her upstairs and got her something to eat. And boy did she eat, but then again, if you hadn't eaten in three days and you were pregnant, you'd eat a lot too.
"Feel any better now?" Draco asked.
"Yeah, I should have listened to you in the first place," she responded. "I'm gonna take the rest of the night and do absolutely nothing. I'm gonna relax."
"That's good then," Draco said. "Maybe you could spend time with Michelle. She's been crying a lot lately and I think it's because she hasn't seen you."
Hermione smiled weakly. "I guess I better go see her. Where is she?"
"She's in the family room with your parents."
Hermione walked to the family room and walked in. She walked over and picked Meeshca up.
"Hey sweetie," she said soothingly. Meeshca cooed.
Draco smiled. He was happy that Hermione finally stopped studying, even if it was only long enough to eat something and see Meeshca again.
But Hermione had done more than that. She didn't touch another book the rest of the night. In fact, she and Draco spent most of the night playing with Meeshca. Then, when Meeshca had fell asleep, Draco and Hermione went to bed as well.
The next morning, Hermione had woke up around 10 and went upstairs to surprise Draco with breakfast. When she woke, Meeshca was awake, so she changed her and took her upstairs too and put her in her highchair. When Draco woke up, he noticed that Hermione was in bed, so he went on upstairs to the kitchen and found breakfast already on the table for him. Hermione was sitting at the table eating her breakfast when he came in.
"Morning Draco. Hungry?" she asked.
"A little. Did you make this?"
"Yeah, I was waiting for you to wake up and come up to have breakfast with me. But you were taking too long so I started to eat without you."
Draco smiled and sat next to Hermione. He leaned in and kissed her lips before starting to eat breakfast.
"What was that for?"
"Just because I love you and I haven't kissed you in three days."
"Oh, ok," Hermione said laughing.
"What's so funny?" Draco asked.
"Nothing."
"Tell me or I just might have to kiss you again," he said jokingly.
"Nothing."
"Fine, you asked for it," he said, leaning in and kissing her again.
"Draco, you should eat your breakfast. It'll soon get cold."
He nodded and ate his breakfast.
"Are you going to continue studying today?" Draco asked.
"I think so, if you're gonna study with me this time."
"Of course I will. That was the plan wasn't it?" Draco asked.
Hermione smiled. "But I don't think I am going to study all day. I think I might start when I get this cleared up and then probably go until supper, cause after supper I was going to go to the mall and pick up some things that we need for the baby."
"OK," Draco responded.
Hermione and Draco finished breakfast. Hermione fed Meeshca and Draco had done the dishes while she was doing that.
When Meeshca was fed and the dishes were done, Hermione went to find her parents and ask them if they could watch Meeshca while he and Draco were studying. Her parents told her it wasn't a problem so Hermione passed Meeshca to her mum.
"She has already been fed and changed. We're gonna be studying until supper. Then we are going to go and pick up some things for the new baby if you want to come."
"Sure dear," her mum said.
Hermione went downstairs and started studying with Draco. They had been reading over some books for 2 hours and then asking each other questions.
"What does the Engorgio spell do?" Draco asked Hermione.
"It's the spell that enlarges something," she answered. "What does Relashio do?" she asked Draco.
"Relashio, umm...that scares away grindylows, right?"
"Yeah. Professor Lupin taught us that," Hermione said.
"OK, umm..." said Draco, flipping through his text book of spells, trying to find a hard one. "What is the spell used for showing the prior spells done by the wand?"
"Showing the prior spells? Did we learn that one?" Hermione asked, not knowing the answer.
"Yeah, we learnt every spell in this book," Draco said, pointing to the book.
"Umm...lemme think," Hermione said, thinking really hard. "OH! That's Prior Incanto, isn't it?"
"Yeah."
They continued to ask each other spells for about an hour and then they went to Potions for another hour. Then, they just went over some other things when Hermione's mother came downstairs, holding Meeshca who was bawling her eyes out.
"Hermione, you have to take her. I know you guys are supposed to be studying, but Michelle won't stop crying and I've tried everything!" she said, handing Meeshca to Hermione.
Hermione started rocking Meeshca, "Shh...shh...shh..." she said. Michelle still kept on crying, so Hermione decided to sing her a lullaby. "Hush little baby don't say a word, momma's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mocking bird won't sing, momma's gonna buy you a diamond ring..." she continued to sing until Michelle stopped crying.
Meeshca curled into Hermione and fell asleep. Hermione's mum was about to take Meeshca again, but Hermione stopped her.
"Mum, it's ok. We're done studying for today. Meeshca can stay here with us."
"OK dear. Supper should be ready around 5 if you want to have supper with your father and I."
"OK. After supper, Draco and I are going shopping. Are you coming with us?"
"Of course dear," her mother said, leaving.
"Draco, would you mind taking Meeshca for a second, I wanna go and get something that I have to show you," Hermione said.
"Sure," Draco said, taking Michelle from Hermione.
Hermione ran in and got that pregnancy book and went back out. She sat on the couch and flipped to a page entitled, "Speeding Up Your Pregnancy."
"Draco, this spell is, well, I guess self-explanatory."
"You really want to speed up your pregnancy Hermione?" Draco asked, shocked.
"Well, I wanna get it over with. If you were in my position, you would want to. But there's a spell here to make you pregnancy 9 weeks instead of 9 months. So that means, that every week, it will seem like you are another month pregnant."
"Hermione, do you really think that's safe?"
"Yeah Draco. These spells have been tested and approved by medi-witches and medi-wizards in 10 countries."
"Well Hermione, if you really want to," Draco said.
"I do," she said, muttering the incantation. Her stomach started to get bigger and bigger. When her stomach stopped growing, it looked like she was 8 months pregnant!
"What the..." Draco said.
Hermione thought for a minute.
"Draco, when I cast the spell, I was 2 months pregnant, so if you change that to weeks, I was 8 weeks pregnant. This spell changes you from the amount of weeks pregnant to that month. So, now I'm 8 months pregnant."
"Oh," was all Draco could say.
"Maybe we should go upstairs for supper," Hermione said.
"Yeah, I guess." They walked upstairs and when they got up, Hermione's mother almost dropped the plate of steaks that she was holding.
"Hermione! You're stomach! What happened to you?"
Hermione explained to her mother about the spell. Her mother looked shocked and surprised.
"Well, supper is ready. I'll go get your father. You two can dig in." Hermione's mother went to get her father. She explained about the spell Hermione cast so that Hermione's father wouldn't be so shocked.
After supper, Hermione had offered to help her mother with the dishes, but her mum said that her father would do it.
"Well, we are gonna go shopping," Hermione said.
"OK dear. I'll be with you in a minute," her mum said.
"Draco, could you run down stairs and grab my purse and my cell phone? It should be on my chair in the bedroom," Hermione asked.
"Sure sweetie," he said, walking downstairs and grabbing her purse and cell phone. He ran back upstairs and Hermione and her mum were just getting ready to leave. He handed Hermione her purse and phone. They got in the car and drove to the mall. They walked to the baby store and started browsing.
Hermione came across an oak crib that she loved.
"Draco, what do you think of this crib?" she asked.
"I like it," he agreed.
"OK, well, we'll get that crib," she said, continuing to look around the store. She picked out another high chair (for later) and some toys/stuffed animals.
Then she started looking at outfits.
"Hermione, how do you know what gender the baby is gonna be?" Draco asked.
Hermione whispered to him, "I've done a gender spell from that pregnancy book."
"Oh, well, that was a good way to find out," he responded.
"Oh this is so cute," Hermione said, pointing to a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with a baseball on it.
"Whatever you want to pick out Hermione," Draco said.
So Hermione picked out some cute outfits.
Then they went home.
"Draco, maybe I should tell Harry and Ron that I'm now 8 months pregnant. I think they would like to know," Hermione said.
"Yeah, I guess you're right," Draco agreed.
Hermione quickly scribbled a note to Harry and Ron and sent it with Draco's owl.
"So, what should we do now?" Draco asked.
Hermione yawned. "I'm gonna go to bed, I'm tired. Night." She kissed Draco on the cheek and went to bed.
The next morning, Hermione and Draco ate breakfast together.
"What do you wanna do today?" Draco asked.
"I dunno. I haven't seen my Muggle friends in a while. You wanna go see them?"
"Not really."
"Well, what did you want to do?" Hermione asked.
"Umm, you can't Apparate cause you're pregnant, but maybe we could take the knight bus to Diagon Alley? Or take the Muggle bus to London and go through the Leaky Cauldron."
"Yeah, I guess. I haven't been to Diagon Alley in a long time."
"OK, well, do you want to take Meeshca with us?"
"Sure," Hermione said. She went to the family room, where Meeshca was in her playpen and picked her up. She took her downstairs and Draco changed her.
"Ready?" she asked.
"Yep," he responded.
"Knight Bus or Muggle Bus?" she asked him.
"Well, Knight Bus is faster, but the Muggle Bus is safer for someone in your condition," he stated.
"OK, Muggle Bus it is."
So they went to the bus stop and a few minutes later, the bus came. When they got on the bus, "Hermione!" could be heard throughout the bus. Hermione noticed that all her Muggle friends were there. So she went over to sit by them.
"Hey guys," she said.
"How have you been? We haven't seen you in...Hermione, what happened to you?" Oliver said.
"I'm pregnant again," she said with a smile.
"Wow, congratulations!" they all said.
"So, is that Michelle?" Bre asked, pointing to the baby in Draco's arms.
"Yeah, haven't you seen her before?"
"Only at the wedding," Bre said, gently taking Meeshca from Draco. "She's getting so big."
"Yeah, she is. So where are you guys going?" Hermione asked.
"Sheffield," Matt answered.
"Why are you going to Sheffield?" Hermione asked.
"Kat's grandmother lives there and she wants us all to go and visit her."
"You should come," Oliver added.
"No, I can't. We got stuff to do. Right Draco?" Hermione said. Draco nodded.
"Oh, well, maybe some other time."
They continued to talk until the gang got off. Then Hermione and Draco were talking until they reached their stop and got off.
They walked through the Leaky Cauldron and out back to the Diagon Alley entrance. Draco took out his wand (which he had in his pocket) and tapped on the wall. They walked in.
They went from shop to shop just looking at things. Draco, of course, had to stop in the Quidditch shop. He was looking around for a new broom. He spotted the Firebolt II and went over to check the price. Hermione followed him.
"Draco, that's an expensive broom," Hermione said.
"Hermione, it's the best broom since Potter's Firebolt. Plus, I can afford it," he said, kinda snobbishly.
"Draco, that's so typical of you. Thinking you can afford everything," Hermione laughed.
Draco ignored her and went to pay for the broom. On the way out of the shop, he noticed a miniature broom. He went over and read the little description. It read: Does your child want to fly but is too small for a broom? Here's the solution. This broom hovers a few feet in the air and flies in circles for children to get a feel for flying. Not for children under two years old! 10 Galleons, 6 sickles, 9 knuts ($50 US)
"Aww...Hermione, this is so cute. We should buy it for Meeshca. I know she won't be able to use it yet for a while, but by the time she is, they might not be on the market anymore," Draco said.
"Draco, I don't wanna argue with you, so go ahead and buy it."
So he did. He went to the checkout and paid for it. Then they left.
"Draco, do you wanna stop and get an ice cream at Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour?" Hermione asked.
"Sure Hermione," Draco said.
So they went and had an ice-cream and continued to walk around Diagon Alley. As they were about to walk into Gringott's to get some more money, they heard a voice call out.
"Oy, Draco!"
Draco turned around to see Blaise Zabini (guy in my fic) walking towards him. Draco didn't really like him, so he tried to be as mean to him as possible.
"What do you want Zabini?" Draco asked in a cold voice.
"Man, who pissed in your pumpkin juice?" Blaise asked. "I just came to ask you why you haven't been in the Slytherin common room or dorms lately."
"Why do you care?" drawled Draco.
"Just wondering, that's all."
"Well, if you must know, I've been with my daughter."
"Daughter? Who the hell would have your daughter?"
Draco, who had been unnoticeably standing in front of Hermione, moved out of the way.
"Granger? You screwed a mudblood and got her pregnant? Man, you got it bad," Blaise said, shaking his head.
"No, I don't have it bad Zabini. Hermione and I are married, just to let you know," he said coolly.
Blaise looked at Hermione, "Yeah, it don't seem like you mind too much cause you got her knocked up again."
"Listen Zabini, fuck off somewhere and get the hell out of my way," Draco said, giving him a death glare.
"Listen Draco, your glares may work on any other house, and even some of the younger Slytherin's, but you don't scare me," Blaise said, walking pass Draco bumping shoulders with Draco, hard.
"C'mon Hermione, lets go. Hermione?" Draco said, looking around. Hermione was no where to be seen. "Hermione?" he continued to call.
He started to panic and started to look frantically around Diagon Alley. He finally found her. She had went to Gringott's without him.
"Hermione, what did you run off for?" he asked.
"I just went to get some more money while you finished talking to Zabini. Nothing to worry about."
"Well, I was worried," Draco said seriously.
"Well, I'm fine, Draco."
They finished shopping, Draco not taking his eye off Hermione and then they went home. There was a letter on the table for Hermione, so she read it.
"It's from Harry and Ron," she said. "Dear Hermione, what made you do that spell? You could have killed your baby! Anyway, we forgive you. Did you want us to come and stay with you? Dumbledore is allowing everyone who is done their exams go home early this year. So, just let us know if you want us to come to your house and we'll just write mum and tell her that we won't be coming home right away. Write back ASAP with your answer."
She quickly wrote back and told them to come to her house. She then sent the letter with Draco's owl and she and Draco went upstairs to have supper. About an hour later, Harry and Ron Apparated to the rec. room and seeing that Hermione and Draco weren't downstairs, Harry and Ron walked upstairs to find them.
They found them in the family room, playing with Meeshca and watching TV.
"Hey Hermio...you've gotten HUGE!" Harry said.
"Well, this is what most people look like when they are 8 months pregnant."
"8 months? You're 8 months pregnant?" Ron asked.
"Didn't I say that in the letter?" Hermione asked, confused.
Ron thought for a minute, "Oh yeah, sorry."
"It's OK."
Ron went over to play with Meeshca.
"So, Dumbledore let you guys out early this year?" Hermione asked Harry.
"Yeah, he said that in Muggle schools, when you are finished your exams, you are allowed to go home and you don't have to go back to school."
"Oh."
"Yeah, but it's a good idea really. Now Ron and I can be here for the rest of your pregnancy," Harry said.
"What did Mrs. Weasley say when you told her that I was pregnant again?"
"She said she was happy for you and congratulations and all that stuff," Harry said.
"OK."
1 Week Later in St. Mungo's
"Hermione you have to push," Draco instructed her. Hermione was sweating a lot and she was in a lot of pain. Harry was sitting next to Hermione and Draco was sitting on the other side of Hermione, holding her hand and coaching her. Ron was downstairs because she was only allowed to have 2 people with her.
"I'm pushing as hard as I can Draco! It's not as easy as it looks you know!" Hermione yelled.
"I didn't say it was easy, Hermione. But you have to calm down. You don't need any extra stress right now."
"I see the head Hermione, breath and then push again as hard as you can and that should be it," instructed the medi-witch.
Hermione pushed like she was told and the baby was out. "Congratulations, you have a little boy," said the medi-witch, who immediately took the baby and washed him off, even before Hermione got a chance to see him.
Hermione fell back on the pillow in relief.
"I'll go downstairs and get Ron," Draco said, kissing Hermione's forehead and walking out.
"Congratulations Hermione," Harry said.
The medi-witch came back with the baby wrapped up in a blanket. She handed the bundle to Hermione and Hermione smiled. But she noticed something was different. The baby looked like...
A/N: Cliffie! If you want to find out, you're gonna have to read the sequel which is coming extremely soon. Sorry for those of you who hate cliffhangers, but I just had to leave it like that. It gives you a reason to read the sequel. Read 'n' Review!