The Surprise

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Disclaimer: Plot is mine, you might recognize it as a twisted plot of a bunch of other stories but this is different and I am sorry if you think it is too close. If you feel strongly about it, just review and tell me and I'll delete it. JKR owns the characters.

As soon as the last of the students left, besides 6th years, the Great Hall fell quiet. Dumbledore stood and addressed the 48 remaining students. "Your 'surprise' is a project, everyone will have a partner, and there will be three pairs per 'community.' Confused yet? You and your partner, who is chosen by the sorting hat, will be moving into a house. You will have to learn to live on a certain income and cope with life's little surprises. Your communities are also chosen by the hat and same with where you will be living. We trust you, but you are all young so all the stores will be magic and you will only see the people in your community except for at special events that happen once a month. These events are optional. Lastly, probably the most important detail is that you will be taking care of a baby, who within the 10 months your there, will grow at a rapid speed to reach six in the last month. While doing this project we are also promoting house unity so your partner is probably not going to be in your house and no community will be made up of all one house. Oh, to make it realistic, if you haven't already guessed, your partner is of the opposite sex. There are spells to prevent any rule breaking." He took the time to gaze over his spectacles to emphasize his point. "All doors of houses can be locked but you can't lock out your partner. Let the sorting begin."

McGonagoll stood and walked up to the front with a list. "Once sorted, your partner and you shall sit at your community table. Houses are labeled so don't switch. I will read of names until all of that house is sorted, starting with Gryffindor, then Hufflepuff, next Ravenclaw, and Slytherin if necessary."

"Longbottom, Neville." 'Susan Bones, Community 3'

"Brown, Lavender" 'Justin Finch, community 2'

"Finnigan, Seamus" 'Sally-Ann Perks, Community 2'

"Granger, Hermione" Harry and Ron held their breath. 'Blaise Zabini, Community 4'

Hermione sat down and faked indifference. Blaise didn't have a huge bad boy rep. In fact he lurked in the shadows.

"Potter, Harry" 'Padama Patil, Community 4'

Harry was glad he was with Hermione but she wanted away time. At least he wasn't her partner.

"Patil, Patal" 'Vincent Crabbe, Community 1'

She looked a little pale.

"Thomas, Dean" 'Lisa Turpin, Community 3'

"Weasley, Ronald" 'Millicent Bulstrode, Community 3'

Ron cringed.

"Boot, Terry" 'Morag MacDougal, Community 1'

"Brocklehurst, Mandy" 'Gregory, Goyle Community 1'

"Abott, Hannah" 'Draco Malfoy Community 4'

The Hall was drowned in noise and there were quite a few unhappy couples.

Dumbledore stood, silencing everyone. "The vase on your table is the portkey. It will not activate without everyone touching it. Good luck and the activation word is your community number."

Important: We shall be in Community 4 because that is where Hermione is. Understand that other people are doing other things in other communities at the same time and they just aren't important enough to me to risk confusing you even more.

Community 4 all reached for he vase and everyone said four at different times but they all got there in one piece.

At the Community:

The six reached their destination, Harry, Padama, and Hannah all landing on their backsides while the other three landed swiftly on their feet. It was rather odd looking. They were in a huge clearing in a woods with three houses way far apart, a good walk away, with trees in lines separating the yards. True to his word, there were stores with no one working them. They were all crammed together, probably to save room. Lastly, there were signs directing each pair to their house.

"Blaise, we have the house on the right," Hermione stated. It was the nicest of the three, you could tell from far away.

"Night everyone," Blaise said as he took Hermione's hand, making her smile, and led her toward their house.

"Well, Hannah, I believe our house is the one in the middle." Draco said, helping up Hannah in the process. He kept her hand and the walked off, completely ignoring the remaining two who were standing up.

"Guess we're on the left then. Come on." Harry just started to walk toward the house leaving Padama to follow.

! Hermione and Blaise's house !

"It's huge. It has four bedrooms! We only need two. It has a living room, a den, three bathrooms, a pool, a deck, and a kitchen. I love it!" Hermione was so happy it was huge. Plenty of room to live in.

"Come here a second, will you. I think we need to read this." Blaise called to her from the kitchen.

She walked over to see him holding a letter in his hand. "What does it say?"

"Baby gets here in three days, says we get money each week in that cookie jar." He gestured to the jar, "no one works, that's good, oh, we don't have to do anything until the baby comes besides get settled in. Our stuff's upstairs already."

"Well, let's go get unpacked then." Hermione and Blaise went up to find their stuff in the hall. "Do we pick our rooms?"

"No," Blaise said, "I thought that the letter said our stuff was going to be IN our rooms."

"This stuff is all yours, mine isn't here." Hermione said looking for her trunk.

"Great, go look for it." Blaise said as he hauled his trunk and bags into the closest room. The room was black with a queen-sized bed. It reeked Slytherin.

Hermione found a baby blue room with a queen sized bed. It had all her stuff, strangely enough, all put away. She blew it off and went to the connecting bathroom with her P.J.s, a tank top and pajama pants, ready to shower. As she was showering, Blaise was unpacking. He finished and being a male teenager, was hungry. So he went downstairs.

Hermione got out of the shower and was thirsty and went down to get some water. There she met a puzzled looking Blaise sitting at the table. "Hello, what's wrong?" she asked, noticing his expression.

"There's no food, none at all, only dishes." Blaise said. Hermione laughed. They had to buy food. So she decided to go grocery shopping.

"I'm going to go get food," she said as she walked over to get about fifty pounds out of the jar and proceeded to slip on some flip flops.

"In that?" Blaise didn't think she would go out like that. Who would?

"No one is going to be there, except for our classmates."

"But it's a long walk." She jingled some keys in front of his face.

"Car." She went and hopped in the car.

It takes about 3 minutes to get to the store. Amazingly convenient. She picked up eggs, milk, bread, syrup, mixes, sauces and even some ice cream. Bananas and other fruit and vegetables were included as well. She paid for it all and loaded up the car, about to drive home when she saw Harry walking over. She decided to wait and talk to him.

When he got over the first words out of his mouth were, "Are we alone? Nice clothes."

"Yes, and have already showered and Blaise discovered our lack of food so I came, I'm not trusting him with money."

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? BLAISE IS A SLYTHERIN! HE'S EVIL! WHY AREN'T YOU MAD OR UPSET?"

"Harry, calm down! Blaise is not evil. Not all Slytherins are. Why don't you just use a car?" She asked, the walk probably took a lot longer then the drive.

"We live in a tiny house and we have BICYCLES!" Harry was mad.

"Well excuse me," Hermione said as she got in. She wasn't going to listen to him if he was going to scream. She backed up and drove home thinking of what Harry could be so mad about.

She put away the food and climbed the stairs. Noticing Blaise's door was open she snuck a peek to see that he was asleep. She headed to her room and fell into a light sleep.

? A little after midnight ?

Rain was pouring. Lightning was flashing, lighting up the whole sky. Thunder was louder than drums. Hermione woke, shaken by her dream and the weather didn't help. Usually she would just go do something because it was normal for her not to get much sleep. But tonight she was in a strange place and the only other person was Blaise, so she went to see him.

He was still asleep so she just crawled into bed next to him trying not to wake him up. She snuck a glance and saw he was wearing only boxers. She cuddled up next to him and fell into a deep sleep.

Blaise had heard her. Her footsteps had woken him but he pretended to sleep thinking she was going to the bathroom or something. He was pretty shocked when he felt something warm cuddle up to him and fall asleep. When he opened an eye to see what it was he saw Hermione sound asleep. He had no idea why she was there, but he was too tired and fell asleep.

? Morning ?

Blaise woke up with someone in his arms. He felt so comfortable he didn't want to move, but she started to stir. He opened his eyes and saw unfamiliar surroundings. He panicked mentally until yesterday hit him. All of yesterday. "Good Morning Blaise." Hermione said softly. Although she couldn't see him, she could sense he was awake.

"I don't want to get up. Go be perky some where else." Blaise mumbled. Why should he wake up, it's not like they had school.

Hermione turned to face him and snuggled closer because she was freezing. His room was like Alaska! She smiled when she felt his warmth. "They have things called blankets if you're cold." Blaise said when he felt her shiver.

"I'm fine. Getting up anyway." She moved to get up but he held her in place. "Blaise…I'm trying to get up."

"No." He sounded like a spoiled brat not wanting to give up his teddy bear.

"Blaise…" Hermione warned.

"Nope" Blaise was smiling now. "I want my Hermione."

"That's great but…"

"No." Hermione caved. She didn't want up that bad. But the doorbell rang.

"I've got it." Hermione said. Blaise let her up and started moving himself.

Hermione walked down the hall to the door and opened it up to see Draco. Hermione's eye's widened a tad when she noticed her attire and said pretty loudly to a closed door down the hall, "Blaise, door's for you."

She turned and moved to let him in. Draco stepped in and started looking around as Hermione closed the door and went to get Blaise. She opened his bedroom door and slipped inside to see a clean and dressed Blaise.

"Draco is out there for you." She said, as she left into the bathroom to get to her room. She got dressed and brushed her hair. When she went to the kitchen for breakfast she saw Draco and Blaise immediately shut up when she came into their sight.

"What are you doing here this early?" she asked Draco.

"Came to talk. What's it to you?"

"I had to get up because of you." She started making French toast and handed Draco and Blaise a plate before sitting down with her own.

She then noticed Draco looking at her and Blaise looking at Draco. "What now?"

"What is this?" Draco asked, gesturing to the plate.

"It depends if you eat it or not."

"What is it if I eat it?"

"Your breakfast."

She finished and went out on the deck with a cup of tea. If they weren't going to talk in front of her so be it. She watched the clouds go by and watched the wind make ripples in the pool, all while listening to the buzzing of the voices of the two males occupying the house.

She got cold and went inside to the empty kitchen. She washed the dishes they left; both licked clean, and went into her bedroom to read. She didn't know where they were, but she really didn't care much until it was lunch. She made herself a sandwich and seeing no one else, went back to reading with a nagging feeling that Blaise had been gone an awful long time. Then the doorbell rang.

She found a worried looking Hannah. "Have you seen Draco, I haven't seen him all day. Harry is missing too. Left right before lunch. Padama doesn't care much though because she thinks Harry is rude and spoiled but Draco has been gone all day." She rambled on.

"I have seen Draco." This shut Hannah up. "They probably got Harry after they left. Come have some tea and we can decide what to deprive them of as punishment for leaving without telling."

The two girls had tea and laughed and Hannah left, saying she had to go cook in case Draco showed up. Hermione smiled at the nice girl and bid her ado. Blaise was in so much trouble for causing Hannah to freak.

Hermione had dinner all alone and she wrapped up the leftovers and stuck them in the fridge. She went back to reading but this time in the warm den. Around midnight she heard the door quietly open. She went over and cut Blaise off before he could get to his room. "Blaise, where have you BEEN?" Hermione said, trying to keep calm.

"Out" he said trying to push past her. That was not a good answer though.

"No, you three worried Hannah so much she came here SHAKING. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" She had lost it.

"We were at the shops all day seeing what there was." he confessed.

"How much money did you spend of ours?" She had calmed down a little and would be fine if the answer was zero.

"I spent no money of ours, didn't even bring any." 'Trick answer' Hermione thought.

"Was any of our money that was in the cookie jar spent? Yes or no."

"No"

"Did anyone spend money?"

"Yeah, Harry."

"How much?"

"Don't know."

"Guess."

"Hundred?"

"WHAT! THEY DON'T OWN A CAR. THEY NEED THAT MONEY!…"

"Padama can return everything, I made sure of that."

"Okay." Hermione's emotions were drained. Blaise gave her a hug and went to bed. She practically collapsed on her bed, but she couldn't fall asleep. She waited until she couldn't stand it and then snuck into Blaise's room surprised to find him awake.

"I can't sleep." she stated as she crawled in next to him.

"Really? Or did you miss me?" Blaise asked. It was too late. Hermione was already asleep.

A/N: There you go! Please review!