Authors Notez: I would like to deeply apologize for not updating so soon. And Oh this story has a couple more chapters to go before it comes to an end. So don't think its the end yet! I love you all...take care! Bye.
Chapter Thirty One
Draco waited by the stair case for Hermione. He glanced at the clock and then back up the stairs to see if she was coming down. Today was the day he was visiting his mother, with Hermione. He knew better then to invite her along, specially when his mother hates muggle borns but this was necessary. It was part of his plan, part of getting what he deserved. He thought back to the conversation he had with Pansy earlier that week.
Flash Back
Pansy sat by the fire eating cake and watching the fire place. She was the only one in the common room at this time of the night and Draco was glad. He needed to have a word with her. Pansy turned to look at the footsteps walking towards her and slowly got off the carpeted floor.
"I didn't think anyone was here." Pansy said.
"I just came in." Draco replied.
"Oh." Pansy said as she walked over to the couch and sat down.
"I've been thinking ---"
"Sorry about your father." Pansy said quickly.
"It's okay, but this is what I need to talk to you about." Draco said.
"Okay."
"My father can no longer decide for me who to marry, right?"
"Umm..right." Pansy said as she took a bite of her cake.
"And me and you definitely don't want to marry." Draco said watching her.
"True."
"So I have a proposition to make with you. You tell your family you're not getting married and I tell my mother the same. They can't force us, because the only reason we were afraid before is because of my father." Draco said.
"Okay. But how do I explain to my family? I mean their going to get really upset. It's hard enough being called a whore and a slut by my own mother." Pansy said quietly as she set the plate on the coffee table. Draco felt bad to hear someone talk garabage about their own child. But then again he had been exposed to that kind of abuse as well. Draco leaned in and took her in his arms.
"Listen, I promise to be here for you and the baby no matter what it costs. You can live with me in the Manor, if your parents go crazy and try to kick you out. I will help you through this." Draco said. Pansy nodded in return to what he had said.
"Draco.." Pansy said worriedly. "..How are you going to help me financially?"
"Yeah, I know. My father but there will be a way, when I'm eighteen everything rightfully belongs to me. "
"Are you sure? I mean doesn't your father have to be dead in order to do that?"
"He might as well be." Draco sighed. "Well I got to head to bed, I'm going to see mother this weekend."
"Okay, good luck." Pansy said with a smile as Draco got up to leave.
End of Flask Back
"Draco!" Hermione screamed. Draco turned around to see Hermione standing right next to him wearing a pair of blue jeans a purple sweater and a blue cap.
"Sorry." Draco said snapping out of his daze.
"I've been calling your name for a while now, seems like you're in some fantasy world." Hermione said bending over to tie her sneaker laces.
"I was just thinking." Draco replied. Hermione got up and stared at him.
"Your worried too? I don't think your mother will approve of me being there." Hermione said with deep concern in her eyes.
"We talked about this before, you're coming!" Draco said taking her hand in his and walking over to the fire place. "Thank God my father decided to have the Manor on the Floo network." Hermione nodded and held tightly on to his hand, which Draco noticed. "Don't worry. Just be calm." He whispered. He took the Floo powder and threw it into the fire.
"Malfoy Manor!" Draco screamed and the next thing he knew he was pulled into the fire along with Hermione. A second later he fell right in the front gates of his house. Draco looked over at Hermione who bit her lip and glanced around.
"I never knew it was so large." Hermione gasped.
"Yeah, and it will be all mine soon." Draco said with a wink and dragged her along the stone steps that led to the large white front doors. Draco opened them with his wand and entered the house. He watched Hermione's eyes wide open and jaw nearly on the floor. Draco knew his house was beautiful but it was also dark and cold. He walked along the front hall to the large living room. He glanced around the dim room, the curtains were closed and the aroma of water lilies can be smelled. He glanced over at Hermione who was tucking her cap lower to hide her soft brown eyes.
"What are you doing?" Draco asked.
"Hiding my face, what does it look like?" Hermione replied. Draco grabbed the hand that was covering her face and faced her.
"You don't need to hide, Hermione. If you're afraid of my mother I promise you she is harmless." Draco coed.
"But she'll go crazy, because I'm a muggle ---"
"So hiding your self won't change anything. And you're already wearing muggle clothes. Hermione please trust me on this okay?" Draco said.
"Fine." Hermione said quietly.
"What is this?!" Narcissa screamed. Draco winced as he slowly turned around to face his mother. Her mother was wearing a white and black blouse with a matching long skirt. Her face were always pale but that was nothing compared to how white her skin seemed to look at the moment. Her blue eyes were full of hate and anger as she stared at the couple standing before her.
"Hello mother." Draco said sweetly.
"Don't hello mother me, young man! What is this filthy mudblood doing in my house." Narcissa said coldly.
"She is not a filthy mudblood mother. Can you be a bit more nicer to your guest." Draco returned the coldness.
"As long as I live in this house I will not allow this disgusting...thing in my house." Narcissa glared at Hermione.
"I came here to speak to you but obviously all you want to do is talk shit. So I'm leaving." Draco said angrily as he took Hermione's hand and began to walk off.
"Draco Malfoy! You get your ass over here right now!" Narcissa screamed. Draco turned around and stared at her. "Do you have any idea what I am going through? And this...this is what you do." She said as she pointing at Hermione.
"You think you're going through alot? What about me? You know that's why I came here in the first place so I can cancel the marriage with Pansy." Draco said coldly.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Narcissa said with so much anger as she clenched her hands into fists.
"I said I'm not marrying Pansy." Draco said calmly. He watched his mother begin to redden and stare at Draco with so much hate. If looks could kill, Draco and Hermione probably would have been dead.
"Now you listen to me Draco! I am not going to allow you to do that! She will be your wife and you will uphold the family name! I have already gone through enough humiliation as it is!" Narcissa said.
"Well mother! I have had about enough of you and father controlling, threatening and taking away any happiness from me. Pansy and I have come to an agreement. We will care for our child and I promise to be a father to that child, something my father hasn't given me." Draco said angrily. Thinking of all the horrible things his father has done made him become more vexed.
"If you do not marry, then how will you get the family money? It is under your fathers name! And I'll be damned to be poor!" Narcissa screamed.
"I have that covered! The minute I turn eighteen by wizardy law, I am intitalled to everything father has." Draco said confidently.
"Your father has to be dead in order for that to occur!" Narcissa screamed. Hermione had almost been out of the picture throughout the arguement so when she gasped Draco had finally got his nerves to calm down.
"Listen mother, father might as well be dead." Draco said calmly staring straight into her cold blue eyes.
"How could you say something like that? About Lucius? Your father!" Narcissa yelled.
"I can say that because he never was a real father to me! Do you have any idea how many books I had to read to figure out a spell to get rid of all the scars, bruises and marks he had given me? Do you have any idea how much I hate him? And then there's you. He treats you like shit and you take his crap. He's out of our lives mother. So stop defending him!" Draco said. He had let go of Hermione's hand which was the only sorce of comfort while he remembered all the abuse he had gotten from his father. All the taunts and threats to become a Death Eater. His eyes began to water but he closed his eyes to erase that.
"Draco, you don't mean that." Hermione said with a whisper as she held his arm.
"Yes I do, I hate him with a passion." Draco said loudly enough for his mother to hear. She glared at him then at Hermione.
"I want you both out of my sight, RIGHT NOW!" She screamed pointing to the entrance doors.
"Gladly. Mother." Draco said coldly as he began to walk hand in hand with Hermione.
"And don't you dare touch my son you filthy mudblood!" Narcissa screamed.
"Don't you fucking dare call her that! I told you she is not!" Draco screamed.
"So what is she? Your mistress? Your whore?" Narcissa spat as she eyed Hermione up and down. Draco didn't know how Hermione could handle all this verbal abuse but it was his fault for bringing her here. He needed her around when he wanted to tell his mother about canceling the wedding. He needed Hermione's comfort and presence to have the courage to face his mother.
"She is not my mistress and she is not a whore! She is my girl. My life. And I suggest you get use to that idea." Draco said angrily.
"Your father is in Azkaban and you lost your mind. Now I've seen everything." Narcissa said sarcastically. Draco rolled his eyes.
"Don't you dare start with me mother, Now I suggest you speak with Ms. Parkinson on the cancellation with the marriage." Draco ordered.
"EXCUSE ME?!" Narcissa yelled horrified that her son was treating her this way.
"You are excused." Draco said and took Hermione's hand and finally left the living room. He took her up the stair case and into the second living room which had a Floo Network. Hermione had not spoken the whole time until they reached their common room.
"Draco.." Hermione began.
"I know, I shouldn't have brought you." Draco said.
"Draco..." Hermione said again.
"I'm sorry okay?" Draco said as he sat down on the couch.
"DRACO!" Hermione yelled.
"What?"
"Can you shut up and hear me out? I am okay with the fact that you brought me. But I never knew you were in so much pain...I am sorry about your father---"
"Hermione you don't need to be sorry. I just couldn't handle living under my parents orders." Draco interrupted.
"Okay." Hermione said and sat down next to him he shifted his position and lay his head on her lap.
"Did you see the look on my mothers face?" Draco said with a smile.
"Well I was to busy trying to register in everything." Hermione said quietly. Draco took her hand and rested it on his chest.
"Right now I'm the happiest guy alive." Draco said.
"And if you stare at me like that any longer I'll be the happiest girl alive." Hermione said with a chuckle.
"Stare at you like what?" Draco asked curiously.
"Like...you want to do something." Hermione said down to a whisper. Draco noticed her face turning red and chuckled. Sure he could have sex with Hermione right now, but after what sex caused him. He decided that Hermione deserved the best and right now what was best is not to remind her of how she lost her virginity. He was finally glad to have the normal not angry or frustrated Hermione and he was going to make sure she was his for as long as he could.
"The only thing I want to do is this..."Draco said pulled her head down to him and gave her a kiss. Hermione smiled as she let him deepen the kiss. Draco wasn't going to get married, he had Hermione and he was going to have a child. Nothing can get better then this. And he prayed nothing would go wrong.