Draco paced back and forth between his bedroom door and his window. He knew that it was wrong for him to leave her all alone again while she was carrying his baby, but he had to do it for his own and her safety. Especially for hers, considering that she was having his baby. He also knew that she loved him and that she would never say goodbye. They would be together forever, even though they were miles apart. Draco promised himself that he would find his way back to her but for now he had to meet with Dumbledore so that they could plan.
Hermione sat on the edge of her bed and was silently crying into Draco's shirt. She had no clue why he had to leave after everything seemed like it was going to be okay between them. He always had a knack for fucking things up didn't he? He always had to ruin a good thing? He always had to make her cry! Enough is enough! Hermione decided. He had to prove that he was really going against his own will in order for her to let him back into her life for a third time, She was tired of being heartbroken the morning after.
She slowly got up off the bed and threw his shirt into the back of her closet. Then she proceeded to walk into her living room where she sat down on her couch and called Ginny. Where she knew that she was sure to reach her three best friends.
"Hello!" Came Ginny's voice from the phone that Mr. Weasley had gotten installed the previous summer.
"Ginny! I am so glad to hear your voice. He came back to me last night and once again in the morning he was gone. I have no clue what to do. Every time he leaves he takes another part of me. He is going to leave me one too many times and I am going to die. I mean there are only so many times that a person can be let down by the one that they love right? I –"
"Hermione, slow down and breathe! I know how you feel but you need to just calm down! He will come back!" "I hope" Ginny muttered to herself after reassuring her friends that her one true love will come back to her.
"Thanks Ginny! You are always a big help! You are always there for me! I just hope that things work out with you and Seamus. You guys look so cute together!"
Ginny rolled her eyes from the other side of the phone. Hermione could never know that Ginny liked Draco because if she did then her life would crumble faster than fast and nobody really wanted to see Hermione worse that she already was. Once again Ginny had to take the backseat and comfort Hermione because she didn't get her way. Ginny remembered back in Hermione's 6th year: Hermione was crying again because Harry was ignoring her and paying attention to another girl. A girl from another house, none the less. Hermione went straight to Ginny. Ginny already felt like Hermione was only her friend so that she could have someone to talk to when the boys could not understand her problems. Ginny soon found out that that was exactly why Hermione was her friend even though Hermione did not believe it. Ginny did though, and that was all that mattered to Ginny. Her opinion, nobody else's, hers.
Ginny snapped back to her feelings in the present and sighed into the mouthpiece.
"Listen, Hermione, Malfoy will be back okay. Don't worry I am sure that something just had to come up. He is on the side of the Light in his heart. He wouldn't hurt you intentionally. So please just calm the fuck down!" Ginny slammed the receiver into the cradle and ran out of the back door with her face in her hands.
Meanwhile…
Draco was sitting in Dumbledore's office with his head in his hands. He had just explained his relationship with Hermione to the Headmaster twice. If he had to explain it again he felt that his head was going to explode.
"Draco, we need to go over the plan now. I know that you must be getting tired of hearing my voice but we need to make everything almost fool proof. Especially if you and Hermione are expecting. Now I need you to show me the Mark on your arm."
Draco stood and pulled up his sleeve. He knew that he disgusted the Headmaster but this was no time for disgust. His baby's life was on the line. He could never let his father get his filthy hands on Hermione or his little one.
"Okay, you may sit back down now! Here is the plan. You are to attend normal Death Eater meetings…
Meanwhile…
Hermione sat crossed legged at her Expecting Mother's Class. It was almost over and people were getting packed up to go home to their loved ones but Hermione wanted to sit here forever. She no longer wanted her baby to come. All she wanted was to be with her Draco, to feel safe in his arms, but he kept taking that from her. He kept making her feel like shit. He kept making her cry.
She sighed and got up from her position on the floor, once again, ignoring the tears that silently fell from her cheeks. She was used to them by now. She had learned to let them go and had learned to accept them for what they are and let them help her define who she is. It seems that she cries more than normal, but she has to cry that is the only way that it seems that Draco really loved her. Hermione gathered up her stuff and slung the bag around her shoulder. Taking careful, easy steps, because of the tears clouding her eyesight, Hermione slowly made her way to the door.
Hermione started up her car and placed her gears in drive. She then proceeded to slowly drive to her doctor's appointment. Thinking, once again, that if Draco had stayed he could have experienced this as well. However, Draco was not here.
Hermione sat in the waiting room and waited patiently for her name to be called. Sweat dripped down between her breasts every time a nurse would walk out of the swinging doors. It smelt like sex throughout the place and Hermione began thinking that her morning sickness was starting because she felt like she wanted to throw up.
Finally Hermione's name was called.
"Granger, Hermione" said a blonde nurse who was wearing pink scrubs. Hermione got up from her chair in the back of the waiting room and walked slowly to the nurse. Hermione smiled at the women who were staring at her enviously because of her figure. The nurse led her down a long hallway and turned right. They walked along that hallway until they reached a baby blue door. The nurse pushed it open and stood aside allowing Hermione to enter the room.
"The doctor will be with you momentarily." The nurse said and left the room.
Hermione sat on the examination table. Her hands were trembling and her knees were shaking her brow was sweating and all she could do was cry.
A loud crack sounded from behind the examination table and Hermione jumped. She was about to scream when large rough hands closed around her mouth. She inhaled deeply and tried to move her lips in order to expose her teeth do that she could bite the hand imprisoning her voice. Hermione shuddered as rough skin brushed her pale cheeks.
"Abort the baby!" said a drawling voice much like her Draco's but not quite. "Abort the baby or you both die! I will kill you both! Do not test me! I am a man of my words. If I let go of your mouth you will not turn around or scream. If you do I will kill you right here in this waiting room. I will spill your guts and leave them for the nice doctor to find. I will kill you Hermione Ann Granger, and you will die for many reasons. One, for making my son stray from his priorities. Two, for being a good-looking Mudblood. Three, for dribbling my family line with your dirty blood.
"I know your weakness, you are afraid to be left alone. Oh yes, Hermione I have been monitoring you very closely. And yes, my son has been reprimanded for fooling around with you once again that night he went out with Blaise. Don't think that I don't know about almost everything that you do. Although, there is a long period of time when you drop off my radar. I will find out where you are. I am going to let go now."
He dropped his hand from Hermione's mouth and she began gasping for breath. When she had calmed down she squared her shoulders and looked forward at the breech position poster.
"It seems funny to me that you, a man who prides himself on being brave and proper, would attack a young lady and scare her. You are vile and a coward. I have not yelled and I have not turned around to look at you Lucius Malfoy, so please just leave me alone. Please just go." Hermione slowly closed her eyes and sighed.
"Just remember my warning. I want you to abort that child."
"Abortion is a Muggle method, something that you are supposed to despise. Why is it that you are so keen on me using the method to get rid of your grandchild?"
Hermione squealed as the rough hands gripped her hair and pulled her against his chest. He licked her skin from the base of her neck to her ear. "How dare you speak that way to me? Don't you ever associate that mistake with my family? We are pure and you are filthy! Although I can see now why my son liked you. You are kind of nice to look at and one could lose themselves in your almost innocent quality."
The tears started to fall silently down from Hermione's eyes as Lucius Malfoy slid his hand up the back of her shirt and unclasp her bra. She felt completely violated when he placed his rough, guilty of crime hands, on her breast. Hermione really felt like crying when he moaned into her ear. Although, she knew that if she made one wrong move he would kill her and her baby. Scared to death Hermione let Lucius fondle her. She could not move her hands to clear her damp face.
"I think that we will finish this at a later date…" Lucius said roughly into Hermione's ear as he heard the click of women's high heels. Lucius disapparated and a few seconds later the doctor walked into the room.
"Good afternoon, Hermione! How is the pregnancy going?"
Hermione wiped her eyes and took in a deep breath. "It's going fine. I am just coming in for my routine check up. Then I have to go into the umm…office for a couple of hours."
"Well, don't work yourself too hard. I mean in your condition it is clear that you do want to be independent but you should take advantage of your mate. He or she should be there to help you and I would like you to take advantage of that."
Hermione looked into the doctor's face and began to cry.
"I know, Hermione, those damn hormones."
Hermione cried harder at this because the doctor was so naïve. It wasn't the hormones. It was all the stress piled up on top of stress. How much did she have to take before she broke down and hurt herself? She did not know how much she could take before she finally broke down.
Hermione walked into her living room and put down the pamphlets from the doctors office on her couch. She then proceeded to take off her shoes and her Muggle clothing and walk to her bathroom. There, Hermione slid into the shower and then after quickly got dressed. Locking her door from the inside she disapparated to Dumbledore's office for the meeting.
Hermione was the second from the last to arrive. She sat down in one of the two empty chairs and looked around for Harry and Ron. They were seated beside Mr. and Mrs. Weasley; she smiled and waved to them. They waved back and turned forward and waited for the last person to arrive. Green flames whirled up inside the fireplace and a man dressed in all black stepped out. Hermione immediately scanned the room for Snape but he was seated next to Professor McGonnagall.
Hermione was confused did this mean that the Death Eaters were invading the school? Were they all going to be dead? Nobody else seemed to mind that a current Death Eater just entered the meeting. So, Hermione just calmed down and waited for the stranger to speak. It never crossed her mind that Draco was the man in the mask.
When Draco stepped out of the fireplace Hermione was the first person that he noticed. She just seemed to glow with innocence. How he wanted to hole her and love her for the rest of his life. However, because of his father he could only love her from afar. She looked shaken up about something and he longed to find out what it is that is bothering her. Draco started to take a step towards her and then remembered himself. He quickly turned back to Dumbledore and stood by his side.
"I will now call this meeting of the Order of the Phoenix to order." Dumbledore began, "I would like to introduce Draco Malfoy for you all today." Dumbledore pointed to Draco and Hermione caught her breath in her throat.
Draco pulled off his mask and tossed it into the side and nodded to Hermione pleading with his eyes for her to understand. He saw the tears in her eyes and his heart reached out to her. What had he done to her? Why did he always have to hurt the ones that he loved?
"I know what you all must be thinking. Draco is working undercover along with Professor Severus Snape. They are both here to help the Order obtain control of the Wizarding World. I know that you may not trust them both but you will in time. I know that I have. I have put my trust and faith in them both and they haven't proven me wrong yet."
Draco stared down at his feet as he tried to hold back the tears that had started to fall from his eyes. He was in a room full of people that were judging him and he did not want to show him that he was weak. Why would he want them to believe him weak? Then they would not trust him and Hermione would not love him any longer. He looked up into her eyes and saw the tears in her eyes; he then smiled apologetically at her and told her to hold on after the meeting.
Hermione nodded and stayed in her seat when she wanted to hug him when she saw the tears in his eyes. Hermione just kept fidgeting until the meeting was over.
"Oh and before we all leave one of us has to lay low and not participate in many of the activities. You know exactly who you are and I will not say your name to save you the embarrassment. Have a good day"
Hermione walked out of the room and into the hallway. She did not see Draco so she disapparated to her apartment. Once again she stripped off her clothes in the living room and sat on her couch in her undergarments. If only she had known why Draco told her to wait after the meeting.
Draco searched the room after the meeting was over and could not find Hermione. Fear settled deep inside his heart as her remembered the Death Eater meeting. As he remembered his father's promise. He glanced at his watch and disapparated as quickly as he could. He had to get to Hermione before his father. He had to stop his father before she got hurt. He would never forgive himself if Hermione was harmed in any way.
Hey guys, this chapter was supposed to be longer but I have to run because I have to get ready for Track Practice. I hope that you all like it and that you can be patient for me to get the next chapters up. Ummm…..I guess that this is all that I have to say for now!!! I hope you all had a happy holiday!!!! I love you all!!!!! You guys are great. I will give a personal review to all of you who reviewed at the end of my story.