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Chapter 11- money over powers love
"Draco, I can't believe you, how long have you know about this?" Hermione screeched as she walked into the living room from the kitchen. Draco sighed heavily and folded his newspaper up and placed it on the living room coffee table.
"I forgot to mention it to you, ok?"
"How could you forget to tell me that your leaving in 2 days to go to America and that you wont be back until after the baby is born"
"I've been busy Hermione" he shouted back "its easy to forget things when your stress levels are high than you are tall"
"But this is something very important, I cant believe you wouldn't tell me"
"Its not that I wouldn't, I just didn't"
"Your so selfish"
"What do you want me to do about it?" Draco snapped
"Your going to cancel the trip, stay home and help me have your baby"
"My baby is it now, last I knew it took two to tango, and by the way I wont cancel the trip, I wont let the business down and I will be going to America in 2 days time, ill only be gone a few weeks"
"So you wont be here for the birth"
"I cant be here, look Hermione" his voice softened as he walked to her. He placed his hands on her shoulders and she seemed to relax "I love you and the baby but I also love my job and you know that I've made a hell of a lot of sacrifices in the last few months, my job been at the bad end, I've missed the opportunity of a life time and a few major clients, I cant miss this opportunity"
"But the baby will be die soon"
"I will try to be back, maybe get a few days off, but I need to go"
"You can't leave me, the last few weeks are the most venerable, if anything goes wrong this is the time we need to be together"
"I'm going to America" he raised his voice and Hermione jumped out of his arms
"You're putting your job before me and the baby, your family, your future"
"We don't have a future with out my job hermione, don't you get it?"
"Its not about your job, its about love"
"Its about money, you see this" he walked over to a lamp that he bought Hermione, it was a silver stemmed flower lamp with the leaf past made out of frosted glass "You went on about this for days telling me how much you wanted it, do you have any idea how much it cost?"
"No"
"One thousand pounds Hermione, I got it for you because of my job, it get paid a lot of money, most of which you spend and we will need more money for when the baby comes"
"We can manage"
"No we cant, I need to take this job" he continued to yell
Hermione had lost her patience "Fine, Draco just don't expect me to be here when you get back" and with that said she stormed to the front door, walked out and slammed the door behind her. Draco sighed heavily again and slumped into the chair. He couldn't believe how unreasonable she was being, he needed this job to keep his job and they could do with the extra money now the baby was nearly here.
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Later that day Hermione came back to the house, but only to get her things, she told Draco she was staying with Ginny and Harry. Harry seemed to like the idea that Hermione and Draco were going through a rough patch and if he did leave her to have the baby alone then in her opinion it was over for good. Ginny on the other hand knew how Hermione felt, she was so lucky to have Harry and count imagine not having him there when she was having the children so she was determined to be there for Hermione, someone who she knew and not just a random midwife who was holding her hand.
"Are you still going on the trip?" she asked Draco. She was at the door with her bags packed, Draco was just sat on the sofa surrounded by his paper work. He looked up and saw her standing there.
"Yes I am" she nodded
"Goodbye Draco"
"Hermione, don't go"
"No, you don't go" she said and left the building.
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A week later
"I miss him so much Ginny" Hermione said as she helped Ginny with getting the dinner ready for when Harry and the children came home
"Hermione, you need to relax, stop thinking about him and think about you and the baby. Maybe when Draco gets back you can talk to him, or like he said he might be back for the baby"
"He wont Ginny"
"Maybe he will" she said and walked over to the other end of the kitchen to get a dish for the casserole they were cooking
"No he wont" Hermione said more stubbornly
"How do you know Hermione?"
"Because, he's not here right now" Ginny stopped what she was doing and turned to look at hermione, who was hanging on the kitchen sink
"Hermione" Ginny yelled and ran over to her "Come no we have to get you to the hospital, you can apparate right?"
"Yes, but I want to go to a muggle hospital, its all arranged" she cried through the pain.
"Ok, ill get Harry, he knows the muggle world more than I do"
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"Maybe we should get Draco" Ginny said as she held Hermione's hand in the delivery room of the hospital Hermione had been going to, she was all ready and just waiting for the doctor to come
"No, he left and I don't need him"
"Hermione, listen to me, this is going to be very hard and painful, you might need him"
"Ginny, you listen to me, I don't want nor need him here ok?"
"Ok?"
"Hermione, I need you to push now" said the doctor. Hermione nodded and pushed like she had been taught in the classes. "Ok, you can rest Hermione" and she did
"Just a few more pushes and it will be all over" said a nurse to Hermione who just nodded and pushed again.
"Aggggg" screamed Hermione and tightened her grip on Ginny's hand
"Good girl" she was told, she wasn't sure by who because the pain was getting to her. She even wanted Draco there now, over the course of the last few hours she had been resilient about Draco been there, but now she wanted him there. Minutes passed and all she could think about was how she wanted Draco there, but on the other hand after he left her for his job, should she really forgive him, in the end she came to the conclusion that he didn't just leave her, he left the baby too, so no she wouldn't be forgiving him so soon.
"You have a little girl Hermione" she snapped out of her thoughts to hear the words from the nurse "a healthy little girl"
"Well don't 'Mione" Ginny said and kissed her forehead
"Would you like to hold her?"
"Yes" and the nurse placed the baby, who had been cleaned off on Hermione's chest. The baby was wrapped in a pink blanket. Hermione looked down at her daughter and saw that she had a few light blond hairs on the top of her head, she did look a lot like her father, but as she stopped crying the she opened her eyes and Hermione saw they were a chocolate brown colour, obviously her eyes.
"Have you got a name for her hermione?" Ginny asked
"Isabelle"
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