Chapter Twelve: I'm Here
A smile fitted onto her lips as her daughter took hold of her hand. She looked down upon the beaming face and then up at her mother's. Her mother's dislike for Draco was showing greatly. Her eyes were burning holes on the wall behind Ginny, which sent shivers down her spine. But, nevertheless, she had work to do and maybe she could move out soon.
"We have to head out soon, Mum," Ginny said as Lillian tugged even harder onto her hand. Molly seemed to force a smile as she bent over to hug Lillian. With a kiss on Lillian's head she rose and leaned over to kiss Ginny's cheek.
"Stay out of trouble you two," she said, scolding them for a moment before smiling, "see you both at six then."
"Bye mum," Ginny said, smiling back, "say bye to Grammy."
"Love you, Grammy!" Lillian said, as she ran over and hugged her grandmother's legs once more before running back to her mother in slight embarrassment.
As they stepped into the fireplace Ginny could hear her mother's laughter before she shouted, "Draco Malfoy's."
Lillian stepped out of the fireplace with her nose wrinkling, when they had reached the Malfoy's by floo. "I don like doing that."
Ginny laughed as Lillian started off to explore, "get used to it," she said before running after her daughter and picking her up and swinging her in the air, causing her to squeal with laughter.
"What's with all the noise?" a voice called out nearby the doorway causing them both to look. Which may have been silly looking because Ginny was sitting cross-legged like an Indian and Lillian was lying on her lap with her head touching the floor. When Lillian looked up to the door, she looked at them upside down.
"Daddy!" Lillian squealed, before taking off towards Draco, who looked rather surprised. Lillian hugged his legs and grinned up at him, "Hi, Daddy."
Ginny, who had stood up, had to look away from their small reunion. Not because it was painful, but because he just…looks too bloody sexy, she thought bitterly. He only wore pajama bottoms, his hair was ruffled from sleep, and, he was smiling.
"Hey Lillian," Draco said as he picked her up, "what are you doing here?"
"Mummy brought me!" she said giggling into her small hand, which caused his smile to grow a bit more.
"Mummy, eh?" he asked before looking at Ginny who was painfully obvious she was ignoring him. "Ginevra," he called out her name and her head snapped up. "I-"
"Ginny!" she turned and grinning as Blaise came in with Kailey right behind him. He looked over at his friend who scowled at his poor timing and back to his daughter's teacher. "Why are you so early? We barely ate breakfast!"
"Well, I was hoping to ask Malfoy to take care of Lillian while I'm teaching Kailey," Ginny said, before turning to Draco.
"Who Malfoy?" Lillian asked, a small hand clutching onto Draco's shoulder. "I wanna be with Daddy! Please, mum?"
Draco shook his head, "I'm Malfoy, Lillian," he said making her grin.
"So I stay with daddy?" Lillian asked before noticing Kailey, "who her?"
"Oh," Blaise said, who had been watching the two Malfoy-Weasley's with a smirk, "this is my daughter, Kailey."
"She pretty," Lillian said, making Kailey blush.
Blaise chuckled and said, while smiling, "yes, she is. Probably takes after the mother more then me."
"I'll take her," Draco said, cutting in the little talk, "for today."
"Alright," Ginny said, as she looked up at the ceiling for a second and breathed a sigh.
"No," Blaise said, now grinning, "can't have you do that. Now, I'll still pay you for today if you take Kailey somewhere educational. Just have Lillian come along. I can't go myself, and having two kids may be a handful, so, why not bring Draco with you? He has the day off."
"I don't know about that-"
"-Stop, lying, Zabini-"
"-Maybe, I should just take both of them alone-"
"-You don't work!"
There was a pause and Blaise just chuckled, "no, not really anyway, but I do have to do plenty today."
"You lying piece of-"
"One more word out of that mouth, Draco Malfoy, and I'll curse you to oblivion," Ginny scolded her hands on her hips as she glared at him. He glared back before looking away, at Lillian.
"Mummy mad?" Lillian asked.
"Yes, mummy's mad," Ginny, said irritably as she tapped her foot onto the floor.
"At daddy?"
"Yes."
"Wait, what did I do?" Draco asked rounding on her. "I'm just as mad as you are about this! Don't have to be a witch with a bloody capital B."
"Don't swear in front of my daughter!" Ginny snapped.
"I'll swear as much as I bloody want! She's my bloody daughter too!"
"You weren't there for her!"
"Merlin! Don't start that again!" he said, looking annoyed.
"Again? Again? Malfoy, when have you ever for once been there for her!" she shouted, her hands flying around to every word as she glared at him.
"I'm here now!" he shouted back, he looked down at Lillian who stared quietly at the fighting couple with her eyes slightly wide. Her cheeks were stained with tears and he reached up and wiped them off, "I'm here now."
"That's not fair," Ginny said, shaking her head as her own tears came. Maybe it was because of anger or sadness that she made her daughter cry, she didn't know. "You weren't there when she was born, you weren't there when she first laugh, smiled, talked. You weren't there! You were never there!" she said as her body shook. She leaned heavily onto a chair nearby and clutched onto the arm of it. Tears spilled down her cheeks, marking her shame, as she stood there, crying in front of her enemy, lover, and her daughter's father.
In a few steps Draco gave Lillian to Blaise and muttered words Ginny couldn't hear. Blaise and Kailey left with Lillian and shut the door in their wake before leaving the two alone. He watched her for a while. Took in her shorter red hair, her reddened cheeks, and her hand that covered her mouth as tears kept coming. "What do you want me to do?" he asked. "Just leave and pretend you both don't exist? Live my life feeling guilty?"
"You always do that!" she retorted her hand flying out to point at him, "you always put your self before everyone!"
"Stop lying!" he shouted back. "Stop making it as if I had a choice! Didn't you get it? Didn't you fucking get it? Do you really think you're the one who's been in pain? Are you blind? Are you fucking blind?"
"What are you talking about?" she asked shakily.
"Get out!" he shouted, his breaths becoming uneven as he glared at her. "Get out!"
"Tell me what the hell you're talking about!" she snapped back.
"Fuck you, Weasley, I fucking hate you!" he shouted his voice even louder then before as he kicked the chair nearby causing it to clatter forward and hit the ground.
"You're not making sense!" she shouted as well. "Give me a damn clue already!"
"I love you, damn it! I still love you after all these fucking years!" he shouted. Walking quickly he reached her in a few steps and grabbed her shoulders. "You don't know how bloody hard it was to see you that night. You don't know how many fucking times I tried to ignore you. You don't know how many damned letters I wrote to you but never sent because we had no damn chance of being with one another! You don't know how many times I thought I was crazy!"
"Maybe, I fucking was. I was there when you had Lillian! I was there," he said his voice softening as she shook under his soft touch as he wiped away her tears. "I was always there. You don't know how many times I wanted to rip Potter limb from limb because he got to hold my daughter." He paused before leaning forward ad pressing his lips against hers.
Her eyes fluttered shut and her hands crawled up his chest, maybe, to push him away, maybe, to pull him closer, maybe. All she could think about was how good it felt, how good it felt for him to love her. He pulled away when she didn't kiss back. His hands went down to her side and took her hand in his. He brought it up to his face and kissed it, before leaving out of the room in a hurry as if she would get him for even touching her. She looked down at her hand as she breathed in and out shakily. It was the gentlest thing he had ever down for her.
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She sat there, on the porch; Draco had apparently disappeared off with Lillian and said he wouldn't be back until a good hour or so. Probably, just to ignore her. She sat there and thought, her mind shifting to memories about them. Had he really told the truth? She would think over and over again.
Sighing, she leaned back onto the swinging sit and relaxed onto it. She closed her eyes and let the memories drift to her slowly…
He raised her chin higher so they could meet eye to eye. Her lips quivered as he leaned forward, their noses barely touching, "why were you crying?"
"None of your damn business," she said, although, it came out slowly as if she wasn't sure of the answer.
His regular smirk came as he leaned forward even more. She stared into his eyes and she could feel his lips brush hers just barely, but still touching. She breathed in quickly and noticed how light his eyes really were. When she let out a breath and inhaled again she could smell hints of mints and for some reason it caused her head to get light. She shouldn't let him do this to her, but she was, and how she loved it. "I'm going to kiss you," he said, his lips slightly touching hers after every other word.
"Hmm," she answered back before his lips touched hers. Soft, his lips are so soft, she thought as his lips pressed a bit harder against hers as if asking permission that he didn't need to ask she kissed back.
She opened her eyes with a slight smile upon her lips as she remembered that, their first kiss. A loud crash came from nearby and Ginny smile widened a bit as she looked up into the night sky. The moon danced around the clouds as it escaped from them. Breathing in the cooling air she said to no one at all. "They're back."
Taking a turn she headed into the main hallway and spotted them both. Draco stood there looking exhausted as Kailey and Lillian talked while holding hands. Blaise clapped Draco on the back, grinning, causing Draco to look up at him, glaring. Lillian spotted her and ran over. "Mummy!" she called out, stretching 'mummy' for a while as she ran into Ginny's arms.
"Hey baby," Ginny said, grinning as she held onto her daughter tightly, she had to admit…she was worried.
"I no baby!" she said, pouting as she crossed her arms while pulling away from Ginny. Her pose of anger died as she grinned again. "Kailey say I sleep over! I sleep over?"
"I don't know," Ginny said, making her daughter's face crumble.
"No! I wanna sleep over!" she said, her eyes welling up with tears, "please," she continued, stretching out the 'please.'
"Well," Ginny said, pursing her lips, she didn't like Lillian to be alone with other people. It had been hard enough with the day care, which she gave up on when they let Lillian wonder. Meaning, she fell right into her father's arms. "I'll think about it alright?"
Lillian nodded happily and gave her a nosy kiss on her cheek, "love you, mummy!" she said before struggling to get down. When she got down she ran over to Kailey, "I sleep over!"
Kailey grinned and grabbed her hand, "come on! Let's head to my room!"
"Wait!" Ginny called at the rushing girls, but it was too late. She sighed and leaned against the wall and watched the spot they had been at.
"Let them," Blaise said making her head snap back over to him. "If anything happens I'll call for you, I promise."
"I don't know," Ginny said, giving him a slight smile. "Trust a Slytherin?"
Blaise grinned and with a wink he left without another word. Ginny looked to the floor as a heavy silenced filled the room for the final occupants. She shifted on her feet before feeling a hand on her shoulder. She looked up and met his eyes. How can he move without ever making a sound? She thought as she stared into his eyes.
"Follow me," he said, before dropping his hand and walking in front of her. She followed moments later.
He led her into a small room. A baby's bed that was lined with pink was placed in the corner. Toys were scattered onto the floor, untouched. The wall was decorated in pink with white lining as small bunnies hopped a crossed it. Draco stood in the room and looked awkwardly big and manly for the room as he looked at her. "My mother made this room," he said, before pointing to the bed. "I was five when she was pregnant with my baby sister."
"Sister?"
"When she found out I had gotten you pregnant she bought more toys and more sheets of quilts and blankets." He said, ignoring her last statement. "Then she heard it was a girl and changed the room to match the new Malfoy perfectly. She told me over a hundred times to see you, to at least let her see her grandchild for a split second." He laughed, almost bitterly. "It was her only wish you know, to have lots of children and grandchildren. But, a wife of a Malfoy can only have one child. My sister was killed the second she was born."
"Can you believe it? Born into this world only to die," he paused and turned to look at her. "My mother promised me to never let that happen to Lillian. You know my father's been rumored to be dead? I don't believe it."
"He- he might come for Lillian?" she asked shakily as cold sweat clung to her in a flash. Her baby girl, her little girl, she could be in trouble.
"I don't know," he said, quietly before reaching out and touching the bed gently as if it might break under his touch. He looked back at her and she walked over to him, her knees shaking with each step. She tripped on a small toy and he caught her.
"Why didn't you write me?" she asked, tears prickling her eyes. "Why didn't you at least come and see her? Don't you see how much she could've love you?"
"I tried," he said somewhat harshly, "don't you ever listen?"
She looked up at him, "I should hate you, and I should've kept away from you-"
"But you didn't," he said, his tone softer. He ran a finger down her cheek and she shivered under his touch as her heart started up. "You stayed with me that night." She nodded. He kissed her then, his lips lightly touching hers. Her hands snaked up his arms and into his hair as the kiss deepened. He pulled away, "I want you," he said hoarsely, "I want you so bloody badly."
She shook her head and pushed him away before walking near the door, "no, no, not again."
"Stop walking away from me!"
She turned her with a lump in her throat as he went over to her. "How do I know you won't do it to me?"
He gripped the bottom of her chin and kissed her, she allowed it. He pulled away and caressed her cheek with his thumb. Merlin, she would be lying if she said she didn't want him as well. "I'm here," he said softly, "I'm here now."
She whimpered and he kissed her again, she gave in. The kiss deepened even farther as he led her into another room.
