a/n…yikes…sorry guys, I guess I didn't update for a while, but you know how it is with school, exams, boyfriends, parents, homework, basketball games, babysitting, all that stuff, I just really haven't had time to write. I can't promise this chapter will be really long, but at least it's a chapter. Although, you might not like me too much for it. Enough talking, I'm sure you're mad enough already! Onto the chapter.

Disclaimer…if I was JK Rowling, writing would be top on my list of priorities, unfortunately, I'm not.

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A few weeks later, nothing had happened. Special things were done to protect Hermione, Draco, and Haley, and there were no more attacks. Hermione was under a lot of stress though, and with the added stress of the baby, she was almost at her wits end.

Arguments were more frequent between the couple now, and voices escalated enough that if there wasn't a silencing charm on the outside of Haley's room, Hermione was sure they would wake her. But it was Hermione's passion for life, and Draco's rage that got them into the worst argument yet.

Hermione walked out of the bathroom, the mist from her recent shower floated out of the door. She wore the fluffy white robe and towel over her hair. Draco didn't even look up from his reading as she walked into the room. She sighed, she was used to this.

"Draco," she went over and sat next to him on the couch. He slammed his book shut and looked up at her.

"What?" He snapped.

"What is wrong with us? Ever since we came here, nothing has been the same. We don't talk, laugh, hell we don't even make love anymore Draco. We're losing ourselves."

"What do you suggest we do about it!? You're the one, if you didn't have such a stressful job then we wouldn't be in this situation, now would we!?"

Hermione flinched as Draco's words set in. "W-what are you saying?"

"I'm saying that this isn't working out, your job is getting in the way. And unless you quit it and stay in the room all the time with Haley, then we're over."

"What?! Draco, that's totally rash! I'm not going to quit my job just to make you happy. And if our marriage ends, then so be it!"

Both of their tempers were rising as Draco stood up to his full height, towering over Hermione. The brunette stood her ground and glared him in the eyes. "What…did you just say?" He spat.

"I said that I won't quit my job just to make you happy." She said firmly

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"So you don't want me to be happy? Is that it? I know, you're running around with that fool Harry aren't you? I knew you two were too close for your own bloody good."

"What?! Harry and I? That's preposterous! I would never! How dare you even think that! HOW DARE YOU!"

Draco stepped up and slapped Hermione across the face, she gasped and stepped back, clutching the side of her face. "You bastard." She whispered, turning away and running into the room, slamming the door and locking it tight.

Draco looked at his hand and then at the door through which his wife had just ran. Oh damn, he was going to have to do a lot of apologizing to get out of this one.

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Hermione barely spoke to Draco for the next few days, and spent most of the time in her office. So it wasn't alarming when she didn't come back to the room when she was supposed to. Fiona kept watching Haley even though Draco came home.

"Where's your beloved wife Draco?" Fiona asked.

Draco had taken a liking to the woman, but it was when she got nosey like this that he didn't like her so much. "I really don't know Fiona."

"Maybe you should check into that, I have a strange feeling."

Draco sighed, he didn't want to ignore another one of Fiona's feelings. She had had one of those feelings when Haley was almost taken. "Alright, I'll go look."

Draco threw on his cloak and, in much like the manner of Professor Snape, stalked out of the room. Fiona smiled as he left.

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Hermione sat in her office doing paperwork as there was a small knock on the door. "Come in." She called out. There was no answer and no one opened the door. "Come in!" She called a little louder. Still no reply.

She sighed and got up and walked to the door, when she touched the doorknob, it sent a shock through her body and she blacked out. A cloaked figure opened the door, pushing the unconscious body out of the way. It levitated her stiffened body out of the door and threw an invisibility cloak over her and itself. It was later at night and no one was in the halls. The figure had a close call with Ms Norris but got past her.

Hermione was levitated to the secret passage in the trunk of the whomping willow. The figure pushed the button with a large stick and, while the tree was frozen, put Hermione through the trunk and levitated her all the way to the shrieking shack.

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Draco went into the office and saw that the door was ajar. "Hermione?" He called out, his heart beginning to beat faster and faster. He pulled the cord that called for a house elf and momentarily one came up behind him.

"Yes sir?" She asked.

"I need you to send all the available house elves on a search for my wife, immediately!" He boomed, the elf's eyes got wide and she nodded and scampered off. Draco went to the headmaster's office and knocked on the door. Dumbledore opened it, his eyes twinkling.

"Why, what's the matter Draco?"

"Hermione is missing! She didn't come back to the room and she isn't in her office." He gasped, he had had this happen before.

"Now calm down Draco, I'm sure she's fine." He assured him.

The elf came back into the office. "I's is sorry sir, but none of us could find your wife." She said.

Draco felt himself go pale, "No."

"It's alright Draco, we'll find her, I promise."

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a/n…alright folks, cliffy! Sorry about that, no thank you's this chapter, but next chapter will be at least 6 pages, I promise! And a lot faster. Sorry it too so long to update! Please review!

Love and Fluff,
Natalie