All I Need To Get By
Chapter Sixteen: Couldn't Get Me Away
"Dr Malfoy, no!" bellowed the nuse standing at the other end of Hermione Granger's bed, "What if it's contagious?"
"If it's contagious," the blonde answered most scathingly, "I would have caught it by now."
The nurse, a mousey Hufflepuff with a tiny nose, sighed despairingly, and waved her hand in awknowledgement of his point. The two medical personal were standing at opposite ends of the white linen covered bed, arguing loudly. Draco Malfoy held his five week old baby in his arms, as she smiled and waved happily at the sunlight streaming through the windows. The nurse was trying to brandish a clipboard menacingly, and failing because of the look of pity spreading across her face.
"What do you think, boo-boo?" Draco held his daughter up to his face and blew a raspberry at her nose, "Save mummy, or don't save mummy? A difficult choice, eh?"
"That baby can not speak yet," Narcissa Malfoy, regally sitting in a large chair in the window, "and, honestly, save the sarcasm. You," she gestured towards the nurse, "leave us."
"I'm not leaving until Dr Malfoy promises not to put that baby anywhere near Miss Granger."
"Yes, yes, he promises," Narcissa waved the nurse out of the room, and turned to her son.
He was standing over her, looming rather menacingly until she poked him in the arm and took the baby deftly from his grasping arms.
"I didn't say anything about not doing this," she reminded him sagely, "I think that Gryffindor's been addling your brains, Draco."
With Draco hovering anxiously about the pair of females, Narcissa planted a kiss on the baby's head and moved over towards the bed. Very carefully she placed the baby in Hermione's arms, arranging her so that she held the little girl securely. 'Boo-boo' chuckled to herself, and smiled at her grandmother and father.
"What if this hurts Baby?" Draco asked anxiously, backing away from the bed, eyes fixated on his daughter.
Narcissa sighed and grasped his upper arm, steering him towards the bed. Automatically Draco reached his hands out for her heart, hesitated, and placed them firmly over her skin. Narcissa deftly moved the tiny baby's hands onto her mother's bare skin, and finally placed her own on the girl's face.
"Do it, Draco," she snapped, and he began to whisper.
The six hands began to glow a ghostly blue, and with a wrench, they tore them away before their magical powers were drained. The result was almost instantaneous. Hermione's breathing quickened until she was almost panting and she thrust her upper body up, seeking the healing magic all Malfoys pocessed. Dropping back down to the bed, her arms closed tightly around her daughter's plump body and she shuddered. Her eyes blinked twice, and then opened blearily.
"Dr Malfoy!" came a shriek from outside the room as the nurse tore into the room, feeling the magical energy, "I thought I asked you not to do that!"
"Draco?" Hermione whispered, and tears dropped from her eyes onto her pillow.
Draco Malfoy felt as if he was about to levitate, but cried instead, dropping to his knees by the edge of the bed and desperately kissing her face.
"Good gracious Merlin," cursed the nurse softly, and Narcissa turned on her.
"Do go away, you frightful girl. It's all alright."
"Yes m'am," whinged the girl, and slunk away as Hermione lifted the baby up to her face and gazed at her seriously.
The beautiful litle girl regarded her seriously, and then, suddenly, smiled like a rainbow across a dismal sky. Hermione crushed the baby to her chest, and started cring earnestly, rolling over to face Draco and meeting his lips with her. Their kiss was like their first; desperate and assuming, loving with a gentleness that surprised Narcissa. Their lips danced carefully, tongues strokuing and caressing.
"I thought you were dead," Draco whispered finally, gathering his tiny family into his arms.
"I could never leave you," she said very softly back, breath tickling his neck, "you could never get me away from you."
"This is our daughter," Draco said moments later, slightly breathlessly with swollen lips.
"I know," Hermione replied, kissing the dimpled fist held up to her, "Gabrielle Narcissa. Mummy's here now."
Narcissa gave Draco a very satisfied look over the top of Hermione's head, and nodded emphatically. The Healer laughed a litle hysterically, and went back to kissing the Unspeakable he loved. The door burst open quite suddenly, and Healer Nott stormed in, robes whirling around him.
"What?" he bellowed, "What?"
"Shut up you odious man," Narcissa pushed him out of the door, and shut it firmly behind her back, whereupon she gave the slytherin a piece of her mind her would never forget, and would make him a much pleasanter person in the furture.
Gabrielle Narcissa wailed loudly and briefly, a warning shout to her parents, who seemed to have forgotten their precious bundle while their mouths ground together. Hermione broke the kiss off and smiled at Draco and Gabrielle.
"An angel, a goddess and a dragon," she mused softly, "and a love that is never Unspeakable."
Their lips touched again briefly, and Gabrielle smiled again from her warm place nestled between them.
"Hermione," Draco said softly, accompanied by the dulcent tones of his mother's screaming, "I do love you very much you know."
"I know."
"I think we should ask mother to come and live with us."
Hermione gave a quick glance to the reverberating door, and then gave an incredulous look to Draco. Seizing her daughter firmly to her chest, she looked at him seriously and said: "Not until you ask me to marry you."
Apology section:
Good morning/afternoon/evening to yu. I have to apologise for the huge delay between this posting and the last. I have been very busy, and it's been difficult to finish this off to my satisfication. However, on a more positive note, I am thinking of a more humorous sequel. Who knows if that will happen…
Apologies also for any spelling mistakes.
Thankyou to everyone who reviewed, especially ckrfan, who reviewed me yesterday and reminded me about getting this done indirectly. Also, special thanks to the regular reviewers who have contributed so much to this fiction.
