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Chapter 9

"I would have expected more from you Draco Malfoy!" Narcissa said.

"And I too Jade!" Said Hermione's mother from behind Mrs. Malfoy

"Mum?!" Hermione shrieked from behind Draco.

"Hi dear."

"Where the fuck do you get the right to tell me how much you expected from me when you were never there for me! When did you get that right? Huh mom? I don't remember exactly. Were you there for me when I received my Hogwarts letter, the time I broke my arm, my first heartbreak, and my first home? No! So don't you even dare get on my case about how you 'expected more' from me!" Hermione screamed.

Draco pulled the now trembling Hermione away from the scene that was happening in they kitchen. He didn't know what to do, after all, a Malfoy never cared... What was happening to him?

"Hermione, what was that back there? That was your real mother, the first time you saw her since you were a young child, is that how you're going to treat her?"

"Yes Malfoy, I am going to treat her like that! She was never there for me like I said back there! Then she think she has the right to yell at me and she doesn't even know me! How could she 'expect more' from me?"

"I don't know 'Mione! Just try and give her a small chance... let her explain herself, maybe she had an extremely good reason to do what she did. Just let her explain."

"No."

"For me?"

"I wouldn't turn the channel for you, what makes you think I'm going to act like nothing has happened just so I can get on the good side of my mother?"

"Because I'm so devilishly handsome, witty, and your husband to be."

"So ya got me there!"

Draco was about to defend himself when he realized what Hermione had said to him. It took him a few moments to let it sink in and come up with a question that wouldn't sound self-conceited.

"Where do I have you? Devilishly handsome? Witty? Or because I'm your husband to be?"

A/n: It didn't work!

"Malfoy, just stuff it! It's because you're going to be my husband in a few short months... I suppose we ought to start agreeing on things... like... how we run our lives... together."

"Wow Hermione, I'm glad you think that, I'm also glad your warming up to being my wife! Means we get to have sex faster!" Draco said wiggling his eyebrows up and down.

"Malfoy, I'm almost glad your going to be my husband... you make me laugh! Harry doesn't... oh Gods! Harry!"

"What about Potter? Why did you need to bring him up in this bonding moment?!"

"I need to bring him up!" Hermione said showing him her left hand.

"Oh... I see... I suppose that changes almost everything...but yet nothing."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, that it doesn't matter if you are engaged to Potter, you are still betrothed to me! I don't even know how he got that engagement ring on your finger! Your body should have rejected it, it knows that you are bound to me as I am bound to you."

"Well, it isn't an engagement ring...it was a promise ring he gave me our last year in Hogwarts... he said he was going to save up money so he could buy me a real ring. That was right before he left for the war... I haven't seen him since... I've gotten several letters..."

"Did he turn out to be one of the few that couldn't return because of all of the death eaters still roaming the planets?"

Hermione slowly nodded her head, tears falling. She didn't want to show this side to Draco. She wanted to be strong in front of him, yet the way he started to put his arms around her made her just want to melt and cry her eyes out like she has wanted too the day Harry left her.

"Malfoy, why are you being so nice?"

"Just because we Malfoys seem like we have no emotions, we do! It's almost a rule, a wife must always be cherished, for she can never be replaced, she will be your one and only." Draco quoted with his eyes closed, stroking her back, everything seemed just right... but it wasn't. Harry was still in the picture

"Why did you say 'almost a rule'? Is it not a rule?"

"Its sort of complicated Hermione, its not a rule, its sort of unwritten, all Malfoy men know them. It's the first thing a Malfoy father tells his son, we all know it, we all go by it. Most women don't even know it... because most of us have been cold, unfeeling, no hearted bastards. So why we even say it is almost beyond me... I suppose just an old family tradition that was carried on for the sake of tradition."

"Are you like most Malfoy men?"

"If I was would I be here holding you right now and telling you?"

"No, I suppose not. Mal- Draco..."

"Hmm?"

"I'm ready."

"I'll go upstairs and get my room ready!"

"Pig! I didn't mean it like that! I meant I'm ready to go face my mother again! Gods! Do all Malfoy men think like you? With their lower head?"

"No, not Malfoy men."

"So just you?"

"No, all men."

"Oh..."

"Mrs. Verona." Hermione said firmly.

"Jade! I'm so sorry for being so harsh! You were right I shouldn't have done that."

"My name is Hermione now Mrs. Verona, not Jade. And you are right, you shouldn't have done that."

Madison moved closer to Hermione to hug her, but Hermione stepped away. She was in no way ready for this 'mother-daughter' relationship so soon after the Grangers' death.

"Well! Lets go into the living room and discuss our wedding together along with the slight problem of the Potter boy?" Draco said trying to clear the air of all of its tenseness.

"Yes, lets" Hermione said wrapping her arms around Draco's waist.

"What about this Potter boy?" Jayden said.

"Oh... well... you see... Father... I'm still engaged to him..."

"...this is going to ruin everything Jade... I do hope you know this..."

"No, I don't know that... and would you stop calling me Jade! My name is Hermione! Oh yes and I'm sorry for being in love with the wrong man! Because all of my life I never knew I was betrothed to Draco!! You were never there! Never!"

"Y-you... just called me Draco..."

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