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"Firewhisky?"
"Would I order anything else?" This would be the forth day in a row that Malfoy had walked into the Leaky Cauldron for a drink.or maybe just to see her. Malfoy took his usual seat, in the far corner of the bar. Within three minutes his Firewhisky arrived in the hands of "cheers Daphny"
"That's alright love" she placed his drink on the table "I just finished my shift, can I join you?"
"Sure" he gestured towards the empty seat next to him.
"Last night was fun" Daphny smiled sweetly at him. Malfoy shrugged offhandedly, he felt his cheeks fighting not to go pink (Malfoy's did not go red). "It was no problem, I had an extra ticket."
For a few weeks of avoiding each other's gaze and serious hint dropping, Draco had finally plucked up the courage to ask Daphny out.
Their first date was at a new restaurant in Diagon Ally, called 'The Small Rose Café'. The night had been perfect apart from, when Draco left Daphny's front door step he bumped into Ron. Ron had seen him with Daphny. Both boys had stood motionless for a few seconds before Ron's fist connected with Draco's right cheek "your child will be born in four weeks and your prancing around with some barmaid" Ron had spat at him before storming off.
The second date went off with out a hitch, and then Malfoy returned everyday after work to meet Daphny after her shift.
Every now and then his mind drifted back to what Ron had said, "Your child will be born in four weeks." Hermione. NO he must think about her. She and him where over, the child wasn't his, it would have nothing to do with him what so ever..
"Err.Draco?" Malfoy shook his head, snapping out of his thoughts of Hermi. "Yeah"
"I'm going to Hogsmeade tomorrow," Daphny put her hand on Draco's knee and smiled sweetly "would you like to join me?"
Hogsmeade? Hogsmeade? Isn't there something there I'm supposed to be avoiding.?
"Well?" "Yeah sure, why not" Malfoy shrugged, stood up "if your packed, I'm connected to the floo network"
***
"Ginny!"
"Hermione, oh my god you look great"
"Gin, don't lie I look like I have a beach ball strapped to my front" both girls laughed. "Come on in ill put the kettle on" Hermione flicked her wand towards the kettle, and a jet of steam issued from it, with another flick of her wand, the Tea started making itself.
"So Hermione how are you?" Ginny asked, as a cup of tea hovered by her side. She took it and sat down on a chair, as Hermione took her tea and lowered her self awkwardly into a chair.
"Oh I'm not too bad, just a bit bloated" both girls laughed again "I like your ring by the way" Hermione gestured towards Ginny's left hand.
Ginny blushed. "Oh.thanks" Ginny smiled proudly. She moved her hand so the crystal in the middle twinkled in the light "Harry got it for me." Her grin widened.
Hermione lent, slightly, forwards to get a better look. Leaning to far forwards, was difficult due to the size of her stomach. "You know it kind of looks like a." Hermione looked up at Ginny. Ginny was smiling so badly that her freckles where fighting to hang on to her cheeks. Ginny nodded.
"Oh my god" Hermione squealed, "You cannot be serious"
"Deadly serious" Ginny could seriously not stop smiling.
"When?"
"The other night, when he took me to dinner"
"How?"
"Well..." Ginny lent back on her chair, twiddling with the ring on her finger, "as you already know he came to take me out to dinner," Hermione nodded, also getting comfy in her seat, she placed her hands on her stomach and rubbed softly, while Ginny told her story, " after dinner, he took me back to the burrow, where Mum, with a big grin on her face I might add, gave us coffee, and we just sat for a while with Mum and Dad talking, and drinking coffee. Then Dad asked Harry if he felt like staying the night, and that if he wanted he could share my room."
"But I thought your parents said you and Harry couldn't share a room until you'd left Hogwarts?" Hermione interrupted.
Ginny nodded in agreement, pushing her hair out of her face she continued, "That's what I thought. Dad just said that sometimes rules could be bent on special occasions.
So anyway I go up to my room, Harry tells me that he'll meet me up there he just wants to talk to Dad about spark plugs."
Both girls laughed, Mr Weasley had a strange fascination to muggle artefacts especially those to do with electricity. "Go on" Hermione nodded incorrigibly.
"So any how. I walk into my room and turn on my light, and find. that my room is covered in white roses." Hermione gasped. Ginny grinned. "Yeah I know. There where petals on the floor, and bed sheets and then, there where actual white roses dotted all around my room. It looked gorgeous." Hermione stared at Ginny. Ginny's eyes were glazed over and dreamy, she appeared to be glowing.
"And.?" Hermione urged her on.
"And." Ginny looked back at Hermione, still grinning and still glowing, "and in the centre of my room, floating in mid-air was." she wiggled her hand slightly, so the ring twinkled in the light.
"Oh my god" Hermione sighed "how.."
"Yeah I know," Ginny continued interrupting Hermione "and then Harry came in behind me, put his arms around me, kissed me on the cheek and" she sighed even more deeply "asked me to marry him"
Hermione and Ginny sat in silence for a few moments, thinking about the proposal. Hermione felt a twinge, of pain as she thought of Draco, and how she wished he was hear right now, with her, and the baby. She looked down at her stomach, she wondered if she hadn't gotten pregnant would Draco still be hear, and would they be getting married. Tears were forming in Hermione's eyes, she quickly wiped them away, and she didn't want Ginny to see her upset. "So when are you getting married?" she asked quickly "obviously not strait away, your still in school after all" yeah your one to talk, you got pregnant when you where still in school, shinning example
"Yeah, we're going to wait until I finish at Hogwarts."
Hermione smiled at her, and then "OW" she placed her hands over her stomach, and screwed her face up in pain. Ginny immediately jumped up and rushed over to her side.
"Hermione, are you okay? Is the baby okay?" Ginny blurted out her hand on Hermione's shoulder the other gripping Hermione's wrist. Her face was white and she was panicking. "Should I call the doctor?"
Hermione looked up at Ginny, the pain in her stomach began to lesson, "no" Hermione was breathing heavily, her face relaxing, " no, its ok, I'm fine, the baby was probably kicking" Hermione laughed slightly " I'm probably going to end up being a soccer mum" Ginny stared at her, she looked utterly confused, Hermione laughed again.
"Firewhisky?"
"Would I order anything else?" This would be the forth day in a row that Malfoy had walked into the Leaky Cauldron for a drink.or maybe just to see her. Malfoy took his usual seat, in the far corner of the bar. Within three minutes his Firewhisky arrived in the hands of "cheers Daphny"
"That's alright love" she placed his drink on the table "I just finished my shift, can I join you?"
"Sure" he gestured towards the empty seat next to him.
"Last night was fun" Daphny smiled sweetly at him. Malfoy shrugged offhandedly, he felt his cheeks fighting not to go pink (Malfoy's did not go red). "It was no problem, I had an extra ticket."
For a few weeks of avoiding each other's gaze and serious hint dropping, Draco had finally plucked up the courage to ask Daphny out.
Their first date was at a new restaurant in Diagon Ally, called 'The Small Rose Café'. The night had been perfect apart from, when Draco left Daphny's front door step he bumped into Ron. Ron had seen him with Daphny. Both boys had stood motionless for a few seconds before Ron's fist connected with Draco's right cheek "your child will be born in four weeks and your prancing around with some barmaid" Ron had spat at him before storming off.
The second date went off with out a hitch, and then Malfoy returned everyday after work to meet Daphny after her shift.
Every now and then his mind drifted back to what Ron had said, "Your child will be born in four weeks." Hermione. NO he must think about her. She and him where over, the child wasn't his, it would have nothing to do with him what so ever..
"Err.Draco?" Malfoy shook his head, snapping out of his thoughts of Hermi. "Yeah"
"I'm going to Hogsmeade tomorrow," Daphny put her hand on Draco's knee and smiled sweetly "would you like to join me?"
Hogsmeade? Hogsmeade? Isn't there something there I'm supposed to be avoiding.?
"Well?" "Yeah sure, why not" Malfoy shrugged, stood up "if your packed, I'm connected to the floo network"
***
"Ginny!"
"Hermione, oh my god you look great"
"Gin, don't lie I look like I have a beach ball strapped to my front" both girls laughed. "Come on in ill put the kettle on" Hermione flicked her wand towards the kettle, and a jet of steam issued from it, with another flick of her wand, the Tea started making itself.
"So Hermione how are you?" Ginny asked, as a cup of tea hovered by her side. She took it and sat down on a chair, as Hermione took her tea and lowered her self awkwardly into a chair.
"Oh I'm not too bad, just a bit bloated" both girls laughed again "I like your ring by the way" Hermione gestured towards Ginny's left hand.
Ginny blushed. "Oh.thanks" Ginny smiled proudly. She moved her hand so the crystal in the middle twinkled in the light "Harry got it for me." Her grin widened.
Hermione lent, slightly, forwards to get a better look. Leaning to far forwards, was difficult due to the size of her stomach. "You know it kind of looks like a." Hermione looked up at Ginny. Ginny was smiling so badly that her freckles where fighting to hang on to her cheeks. Ginny nodded.
"Oh my god" Hermione squealed, "You cannot be serious"
"Deadly serious" Ginny could seriously not stop smiling.
"When?"
"The other night, when he took me to dinner"
"How?"
"Well..." Ginny lent back on her chair, twiddling with the ring on her finger, "as you already know he came to take me out to dinner," Hermione nodded, also getting comfy in her seat, she placed her hands on her stomach and rubbed softly, while Ginny told her story, " after dinner, he took me back to the burrow, where Mum, with a big grin on her face I might add, gave us coffee, and we just sat for a while with Mum and Dad talking, and drinking coffee. Then Dad asked Harry if he felt like staying the night, and that if he wanted he could share my room."
"But I thought your parents said you and Harry couldn't share a room until you'd left Hogwarts?" Hermione interrupted.
Ginny nodded in agreement, pushing her hair out of her face she continued, "That's what I thought. Dad just said that sometimes rules could be bent on special occasions.
So anyway I go up to my room, Harry tells me that he'll meet me up there he just wants to talk to Dad about spark plugs."
Both girls laughed, Mr Weasley had a strange fascination to muggle artefacts especially those to do with electricity. "Go on" Hermione nodded incorrigibly.
"So any how. I walk into my room and turn on my light, and find. that my room is covered in white roses." Hermione gasped. Ginny grinned. "Yeah I know. There where petals on the floor, and bed sheets and then, there where actual white roses dotted all around my room. It looked gorgeous." Hermione stared at Ginny. Ginny's eyes were glazed over and dreamy, she appeared to be glowing.
"And.?" Hermione urged her on.
"And." Ginny looked back at Hermione, still grinning and still glowing, "and in the centre of my room, floating in mid-air was." she wiggled her hand slightly, so the ring twinkled in the light.
"Oh my god" Hermione sighed "how.."
"Yeah I know," Ginny continued interrupting Hermione "and then Harry came in behind me, put his arms around me, kissed me on the cheek and" she sighed even more deeply "asked me to marry him"
Hermione and Ginny sat in silence for a few moments, thinking about the proposal. Hermione felt a twinge, of pain as she thought of Draco, and how she wished he was hear right now, with her, and the baby. She looked down at her stomach, she wondered if she hadn't gotten pregnant would Draco still be hear, and would they be getting married. Tears were forming in Hermione's eyes, she quickly wiped them away, and she didn't want Ginny to see her upset. "So when are you getting married?" she asked quickly "obviously not strait away, your still in school after all" yeah your one to talk, you got pregnant when you where still in school, shinning example
"Yeah, we're going to wait until I finish at Hogwarts."
Hermione smiled at her, and then "OW" she placed her hands over her stomach, and screwed her face up in pain. Ginny immediately jumped up and rushed over to her side.
"Hermione, are you okay? Is the baby okay?" Ginny blurted out her hand on Hermione's shoulder the other gripping Hermione's wrist. Her face was white and she was panicking. "Should I call the doctor?"
Hermione looked up at Ginny, the pain in her stomach began to lesson, "no" Hermione was breathing heavily, her face relaxing, " no, its ok, I'm fine, the baby was probably kicking" Hermione laughed slightly " I'm probably going to end up being a soccer mum" Ginny stared at her, she looked utterly confused, Hermione laughed again.