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~Miss Wright~
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Chapter 9: Another Letter
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Hermione turned to see Draco walking towards her. Ginny was right, she needed to tell him before anyone else did. She stood to meet him away from the bench.
"Hey," Draco said once he was close enough to touch her. He pulled her to him and planted a kiss on her unsuspecting mouth. Hermione willingly complied and tugged on his Quidditch robes so she could be even closer to him. She wanted to savor the moment.
Hermione was unsure about what his reaction to her news would be. It could go two ways; he could either accept it with open arms or never want to talk to her again. She was hoping and praying it wouldn't be the latter of the two.
"Look at their faces," Draco smirked, looking over Hermione's head at his classmates, after breaking off the kiss. "They're completely stunned."
Hermione swiveled, Draco's hands still holding her around the waist, so she could see their faces. Sure enough it was just as he had said, there were a lot of open-mouthed stares. Hermione smiled.
"But they'll just have to get use to it," Draco said smugly. "They'll be seeing much more if it." He gave her a sly grin.
"Right," Hermione smiled at him. "Umm…Can I talk to you for a minute?"
"Aren't you talking to me now?" Draco said, planting a quick kiss on her nose. Hermione gave him an unamused look. "Alright, alright, walk with me."
Draco draped an arm over her shoulder and she put her arm around his waist so they could walk together. He discarded his broom by the bench and they walked away from the pitch back towards the school.
They walked in silence up the hill to the school. Hermione was a little uncomfortable not knowing how to start.
"So what did you want to talk about?" Draco asked looking at her face, which was down cast.
"Let's go back to the room," Hermione said, trying to stall for time while she gathered her thoughts. "I want to get out of these robes and into something more comfortable."
"Alright," Draco raised a blonde eyebrow. "How comfortable are you planning on getting?"
"Draco!" Hermione's eyes widened at his sly comment. She whacked him playfully in the stomach.
"What?" he gave her the most innocent look he could muster. "It's not like I haven't see you before."
"I know," she blushed. "But that was more than ten years ago. Things have changed since then." They were getting closer to their dormitory and Hermione could feel the butterflies starting to rise in her stomach. Draco said the password and they entered the common room with their arms still wrapped around each other.
"Yeah, you got hotter," Draco leaned down and whispered in her ear. He brought his fingers up and stroked her cheek. "You know you're hard to resist?"
"Am I? I don't see how," Hermione scrunched up her nose but it didn't make her look any less attractive. Draco tilted her chin with his fingers, capturing her lips. Hermione melted into his embrace and there they stood, leaning against the portal door sucking face like there was no tomorrow. And in Hermione's mind that was a possibility.
Draco urged her gently to part her lips so his tongue could meet hers. Hermione complied and his tongue entered the mouth it had missed for ten years. Hermione did the same, completely forgetting why they had come back to the room.
TAP! TAP! TAP!
They broke apart and listen for where the sound was coming from. It wasn't coming from the portal door, which Draco had Hermione pinned to. Draco walked into the common room, pulling Hermione along with him.
TAP! TAP! TAP!
The sound came again, this time it was much louder. Then Hermione saw it. There at the window was a large barn owl with a letter, tapping at the window. Draco, seeing it too, crossed the room and opened the window. The owl allowed Draco to take the letter and then it flew away after Draco gave it a treat.
"Who's it from?" Hermione asked taking a seat in one of the leather chairs.
"Doesn't say," Draco shrugged, turning the letter over in his hand. He put it on the coffee table and walked over to her.
"Aren't you gonna open it?" Draco stood in front of her chair, staring at her intently.
He leaned down and placed both his hands on the plush armrests on either side of her to balance himself. "It can't be that important if the person didn't even bother to put a return address on it."
"Draco" but his mouth again on hers cut off her protest.
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Damn!" Draco cursed against her lips. Reluctantly he separated from her and answered the knock at the portal door. "It's for you." Draco came back in the room followed by Ginny. She gave Hermione a small wave.
"Can I talk to you for a minute?"
"Sure, we can go into my room," Hermione ushered Ginny towards her bedroom but paused to face Draco before she followed in. "One minute okay?" Hermione could tell he was annoyed.
"A quick minute. Isn't there still something you want to talk to me about?" Hermione nodded, going up on her tiptoes so she could kiss his cheek.
"One minute." She closed the bedroom door leaving Draco alone in the common room. He sighed, flopping down on the chair Hermione had just vacated. He leaned forward and picked up the letter he had discarded onto the table.
"What's up Gin?" Hermione crossed her arms and stood in front of the younger girl who had planted herself on Hermione's bed.
"Sorry, Mione, I know you wanted to talk to Draco about the pregnancy but I had to come talk to you," Ginny looked distraught, Hermione could see it in her eyes.
"What's the matter?" All the annoyance Hermione was feeling about being interrupted was gone. Her friend needed her and that was more important.
"I think I may have lost the baby," tears flooded the younger girl's eyes.
"Oh Ginny," Hermione put her arms around the younger girl, allowing her to sob into her shoulder. "Why do you think that?"
"I've been bleeding a lot lately and…" she stopped, unable to continue because of the tears.
"Gin, that doesn't mean you lost the baby. You should go talk to Madam Pomfry," Hermione suggested, handing her a tissue.
"Harry will be so upset, I haven't told him." This thought brought more tears to her eyes.
"Ginny, listen to me," Hermione ordered. "Harry loves you, he will still love you even if you lost the baby. And you don't know anything for sure yet. Now go to the hospital wing."
"You're right," Ginny said still sniffling but sound much more determined. "Thanks Mione." The two girls embraced.
"Now go so I can tell Draco," Hermione scooted her out the door and back into the common room. She walked Ginny to the portal door and they embraced again.
Once Ginny was gone, Hermione turned to go back into the common room. Draco was sitting in one of the chairs and appeared to be reading the letter he had received only minutes earlier. Hermione sat down on the edge of the coffee table right in front of him waiting for him to acknowledge her.
"What's it say?" Hermione asked, brushing his blond hair out of his eyes. He visibly stiffened at her touch, which startled her a bit.
"That you're a lying whore," he mumbled, not looking up at her.
"What?" she was so shocked that the word came out as a whisper.
"You're a lying whore," Draco snapped his head up to look at her. There was immense anger shining in his cold silver eyes. Hermione brought her hand to her mouth in shock. "You heard me. What else have you told me that wasn't true?"
"Draco, what are you talking about?" Hermione's voice was barely audible compared to Draco's.
"This you stupid bitch," he thrust the letter into her hands. With shaking hands Hermione unfolded the letter. And was horrified to find a picture, obviously taken by a muggle camera, of her in a hospital bed holding a sleeping baby in each arm.
"Wwwho sent you this?" Hermione stuttered.
"It doesn't tell me damn it!" Draco growled.
"Draco listen to me…"
"No you listen to me," he snapped. "When were you planning on telling me about your bastard children? Or was that something you were going to keep from me since it has to do with your happy muggle life?"
"Happy life?" Hermione replied bitterly. "You know nothing of my life."
"Obviously not since you neglected to mention you had kids!"
Hermione shook her head a small smile touched her lips. "Don't you see what's happening? This is exactly what they want."
"Who?" Draco asked curiously, the anger still heavy in his voice.
"The person that separated us back then sent this to you so we would break up again," Hermione said logically.
"Well you sure gave them good ammunition didn't you?" Draco's words were like spikes, they cut deep.
"I suppose I did since I stalled so long in telling you about your children," Hermione answered, her brown eyes glaring at him.
"You expect me to believe those are my kids? Dream on woman."
"Look at the date on the picture, they're not babies anymore. Actually they're almost ten which would mean they were born about six or seven months after we parted," Hermione handed him the picture.
"Why didn't you tell me then?" Draco's voice softened, sounding more hurt than angry.
"I was going to that night after commencement. I wanted to be sure that I really was though before I told you but as you know I got sent home and was never able to tell you," Hermione sighed looking down at her hands resting in her lap.
"But we've been together now for almost a week," Draco pointed out what Hermione already knew.
"That's what I was trying to tell you today but we got distracted and then interrupted." Hermione couldn't help but grin at him and she could see a small smile touching his lips as well.
"So whoever sent the letter obviously knew that you hadn't told me about it yet." Draco reached across the gap between them and took her hand and pulled her onto his lap. He kissed her forehead.
"That makes sense…" The only person at Hogwarts that knew about the children other than Professor McGonagall was… Ginny.
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Dun dun dun…Could Ginny possibly have it out for her best friend? You'll just have to wait and see. Please don't hate me for the cliff, it just worked out that way…honest. Please review and tell me what you thought (other than how evil I am for leaving it at a cliff) Thanks for reading. ;)
~Miss Wright~