This is definitely my final chapter… mwhahaha… now, seriously… umm… well, I guess this is another story finished, there'll be no sequels… but… mhmhmhmhm… I like to create mystery! Hehe… well… the thing is I'll start writing another Dr/Hr story… but from scratch… Draco will be a complete jerk again… but for how long you will find out in a short time… I hope you all enjoyed this story… and I hope to get more than one review with this chapter! Shame on you to those who read my stories and don't review (except those who are not members of the site…)! Luv, Marety… I'll be back when you least expect it… MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… (smoke comes out from the floor and Marety disappears! Hehe… just kidding… they say geniuses are mad… don't they?)
Chapter 9: "A new beginning"
A Yellow light shone through the woods, no one could see anything. When the light cleared they saw that the spell had taken Salazar's shape, well… at least Hermione knew because of the many books she had read…
"What have you done to me?" Salazar asked horrified.
"What you deserve, and that's not all… believe me… there's much more to come…" Harry said. He looked as if he had been possessed; it was not Harry's voice at all… "For thousands of years, I've been waiting for this! I've been biding my time, until I could catch you red handed. Is this how you honor Hogwarts?"
"Wh… who… who are you?"
"Ha! Don't tell me you've forgotten your best buddy! Wait, I think I remember how you used to call me… Gryffindumb was it? God… things have really changed around here…"
"Godric?"
"No… your grandma… who else could I be! God, I thought thousands of years would make you smarter, but I guess I was wrong…"
"You'll pay! Look at what these Mudbloods you let into the school are doing to us!"
"And what is it that they're doing exactly?" Godric Gryffindor asked in a bored voice.
"She! That Mudblood has captured my heir!"
"Who? Young Malfoy… Harry tells me that's your name isn't it?"
"Yes sir." Draco answered, still confused about the whole situation.
"Well, I don't think Malfoy is stupid enough to let a woman capture his heart that easily…"
"She's threatened him!" Salazar said looking desperately for an excuse.
"I have certainly not!" Hermione said standing up straight and causing Draco to fall to the ground. "Oops, sorry, Draco…"
"No… problem… it's just another bump in addition to the thousands I already have since we started dating… and then they say love doesn't hurt…" Draco said.
"See? Can't you appreciate that? I bet you and Rowena would have loved to have this kind of fire, this passion for each other!" Dumbledore said looking down at Salazar through his spectacles.
"How did you know?" Salazar asked.
"The portraits can be wonderful talkers… they know more than we think about us… sometimes more than we even know about ourselves…"
"Wowowow! Look what I've come to find out after a thousand years! I knew it!" Godric said. "But this is not the time to play truth or dare… no matter how much I'd like to… It's time for you to leave the present and come back to your time, where you belong, istamo actoria tempo!" Godric shouted and for a moment everything fell silent. Then a blue light appeared, it was time for them to go, Godric separated from Harry's body, and Harry fell to the ground. Godric took Salazar towards the blue light and they disappeared in the mist.
"I think we all deserve a good rest…" Dumbledore suddenly said.
"Yeah… Mione… let's… go…" Draco said, but Hermione kept looking to where the blue night had been. "Mione…"
"What?" She asked as if she had just realized Draco was there.
"What… happens?"
"I was thinking…"
"You're… always… doing… that…" His voice was becoming raspier with the minute.
"I don't understand. If it was a spell, why did he act like the real Salazar?"
"Because it was him… well, the imprint he left on this Earth at least…" Dumbledore said from behind, making Hermione jump… and… causing her to drop Draco again…
"Ouch! Ginny… please you help me…" Draco asked Ginny imploringly.
"We'll talk about that later, Hermione, now, go to rest…"
Ginny took Draco and Hermione lifted Harry with her wand as they headed to the Manor.
"Do… you think… it's… safe… for… us to… stay… here?" Draco asked when they got to the main entrance.
"Yes, and some members of the Order will stay with you for a few months just in case." Dumbledore answered.
A year had passed since the attack and Hermione and Draco couldn't be happier with their lives. They had a huge house, they had got married and Draco had finally convinced Hermione to have a dog, it was a Golden Retriever and it was called Abbot.
"Abbot! Come 'ere boy! Let's go inside!" Draco called his dog from the main entrance. Abbot came running happily at him… "No… no… Abbot… ouch!" Abbot had thrown himself at Draco causing Draco to fall to the floor. "C'mon, let's go." He got into the house and went towards the kitchen to grab a bite.
Hermione was sitting alone on the couch looking outside the window… "Mione!" She heard Draco call from the kitchen, but she didn't answer to his call. "Mione!" He called again, this time he was getting nearer. "Mione… what's wrong?" He asked when he saw she was crying. He couldn't figure out why she was crying…
"I didn't mean to…"
"You didn't mean to what?" He asked sitting on the floor next to her.
"I swear I didn't mean to… I… I'm pregnant Draco… I'm so sorry…"
"Are you sure? I mean, are you a hundred percent sure?"
Hermione nodded.
"God…" He sighed.
"Don't… don't worry, I'll tell people it's not yours… and that I cheated on you… and… and that I got pregnant of another man… yes… I'll say that… and you won't have to give me anything…"
"Mione…"
"I'm leaving tomorrow morning… I'll tell my parents I decided to leave… don't worry…" Tears were threatening to come out of her eyes again…
"Mione!"
"What?" She said looking down, waiting for him to help her pack her things.
"You're not going anywhere…"
"Yes, Draco, I can't ruin your life, you're eighteen years old, and you're too young to have a child…"
"Who says I'm too young? I love you, Mione…"
"But… I'm pregnant Draco! This means you'll be a father!"
"I know what it means, hon, but, I wouldn't mind having a kid! It's a by-product of our love… in fact, I'm getting kind of excited about the idea of having a baby in the house, he'll be my boy…"
"I didn't say it was a boy…"
"What do you mean?"
"I went to the muggle doctor, but he said it was too early to know the gender… (A/N: she's two months pregnant.) so I went to a healer and he told me it was a baby girl…"
"Then there's the door… I need an heir, you know?"
"I'll be leaving in the morning…" she said lowering her head.
"I'm just kidding, Mione! She'll be my princess… I already have a queen…"
"Really?"
"Yes… and we'd better go shopping tomorrow morning… if this girl is like you, she'll need lots of outfits… and we can decorate one of the rooms… We have five hundred… we use only fifty… we have four hundred and fifty to choose from…"
"I'm glad you're happy… but I can't help thinking you're doing this because you feel the obligation to take care of the child…"
"Mione… during my high school years, each and every single girl in the common room claimed to be my girlfriend or at least seen me naked… they were lying and if I had left any of them pregnant, I would have left her… believe me… and maybe I wanted it to happen somehow… it'd be cool to have a child cheering up the house a bit… don't you think?"
"I guess you're right…" She said looking up and smiling.
"We're going to have a baby!" Draco exclaimed hugging her and lifting her from the floor.
"I have a check up today… wanna come?" Hermione asked Draco while eating breakfast. "I know you have to work, but I scheduled it at six o'clock, you can make it, can't you?"
"Yes, of course I will make it! I wouldn't miss this for anything in the world." Hermione had been pregnant for four moths now. When she told Harry and Ron, they were really happy for her, and Ginny and Luna promised to spoil their child as much as they could.
At five thirty, Draco hadn't arrived at the Manor to pick Hermione up, and she was starting to freak out… Suddenly she heard Draco's car parking hastily in the entrance door.
"Am I late?" He asked as soon and Hermione opened the door.
"No, don't worry… you're not late, but we'd better hurry if we want to get there on time…"
"Sure."
When they arrived, Draco got really nervous… he hadn't given too much thought to the fact that he was going to have to look after a life… it was a huge responsibility…
"Are you coming or what?" Hermione asked. She was getting moodier with the day since the third month of pregnancy…
"Yes… sorry…" He answered clumsily and got out of the car.
"Are you all right?"
"Yes, I'm… fine."
The healer's office was all painted in bright pink, which Draco thought was a truly horrible colour… 'But women love pink' He thought. 'I bet it's a she… women are so predictable…'
"You don't like the colour, do you?" Hermione asked looking suspiciously at him.
"Not really… but how did you know?"
"God Malfoy! Your disapproving face is so obvious… I bet you were thinking that it's typical of women to paint their rooms in pink…"
"Ok, you're starting to freak me out…"
She smiled. "I know you, Draco… and I hate the colour too, as a matter of fact… pink is so girlish it reminds me of Umbridge's office…"
"I knew this colour reminded me of someone! God, I need to get out here!" He said jokingly.
"Miss Weasley will see you now…" An old woman said from the entrance desk. "You're the Malfoy family, aren't you?"
"Yes." Hermione answered, not disturb by the fact that the woman had mentioned Weasley…
"Did she say Miss Weasley?" Draco asked.
"Yes, I forgot to tell you, Ginny is the healer… I'm sorry… I truly forgot…"
"It's ok… I'm glad it's not Ron…"
"Yeah, me too." She answered amused.
Waiting for them inside the office was red haired woman in a white suit. "Hi guys!" She greeted them as they entered. "Hi daddy…" He added to Draco.
"You never change, do you?" He answered hugging her when Hermione let go of her friend.
"Some things never change, ferret…" she said laughing and then added to Hermione. "Lie on the stretcher, and let me see our girl."
Hermione did was she was told, and let out a sigh… she didn't know why, but she had a strange feeling… as if something was out of place… she had the feeling there were more things than she had expected…
"All right, let's see you…" Ginny said pointing her wand to Hermione's belly… "Oh… my God… Mione…"
"What!" She said trying to see what her friend was talking about.
"Draco, you have to see this…"
"What?" He asked curiosly. "Oh My God!" he said and looked at Hermione.
"What? Can somebody tell me what the hell is happening?"
"There… there are two… I think we'll be both happy… there's a boy and a girl… Mione! They are twins!"
"What!" She said surprised. "Oh God… Draco don't be mad…"
"Why would I be? I have a princess and an heir!" He said jokingly.
"C'mon! Really? Aren't you mad at me?"
"Of course not!" He exclaimed hugging her. "We have twins Mione!"
"Congratulations… well… now we only have to pray for them not to be ferrets like their father…" Ginny said and hugged Hermione.
Draco clicked his tongue laughing and hugged Ginny too.
"We're going to have a party tonight at our place… tell Potter and your brother… and of course, tell that Loony girl…" Draco told Ginny. "Oh! And tell Longbottom too, and Black!"
"I will… and it would be good for you to start calling them by their names…"
"You know I can't… it goes against my principles…" He said laughing.
"Bye! See you tonight!"
"Bye!" Hermione answered.
When they got into the car, Draco turned to look at Hermione.
"Why don't we go shopping for the babies… and for the party tonight…" He said.
"Draco… you hate shopping…"
"I know, I'm just too excited about the babies… and we can't have a party without food and something to drink…"
"All right, let's go… Let's go to Diagon Alley…"
"Sure." He said and drove all the way thinking about all the new things he wanted to buy for the babies.
