Morning crept over the windowsill to illuminate the faces of two sleeping wizards curled against each other. It was a hazy day, fog rolled over the lake in billows and wispy clouds filled the sky. It looked like it might snow again… February was just around the corner bringing around Valentine's Day and "The Day the Music Died" anniversary.
Ginny sat up and for once didn't feel a wave of nausea. She sighed heavily. "Thank you god…" she said and went to her closet to pull out a clean pair of her new Slytherin robes from the closet. She looked over at Draco and smiled at how innocent he looked as he slept.
Draco awoke to the sound of a bath running… she was still alive. That was a relief. He stood up and stretched before pulling off his robes and changing.
Ginny walked out to find him half naked. "Oh I—"she turned and walked back into the bathroom.
Draco turned toward her as he pulled on the rest of his robes. "You know, you needn't be so prissy. We're married Ginny and just because I'm not taking my benefits now doesn't mean I won't."
Ginny walked out with her face beet red and her hands on her hips. "You want to sleep with me?" she asked half-angry, half-surprised.
"Why not? You are my wife after all and you aren't all that bad looking." He said with a shrug.
"Not bad looking, is that some sort of compliment?" she asked heatedly.
Draco sighed. "What do you want me to do Ginny? Get down on me knees and beg you for sex and tell you how pretty you are and how I want you to have my baby?" he retorted.
Ginny stopped and studied him. "No, but maybe not telling me to go on a diet and insinuating that I'm slightly attractive would be good. Why are we even having this conversation?" she snapped.
"You're beautiful Ginny…I just don't deal with this well but I'll work on it, okay?" he went to the mirror and slicked back his hair. "We're having this conversation because you want me."
Ginny folded her arms. "Oh give your ego a rest or it'll pop." She chuckled and pulled up her book bag. "By the way, thank you for getting me this morning sickness potion… I feel so much better."
Draco smiled and handed her his comb so she could do her hair. He stood behind her as she pulled her hair back into a high ponytail. He was unaware of how intimate this gesture was.
Ginny wasn't blind to the gesture and found when she turned; Draco was standing right in her face. Her warm green eyes met his cool grey ones and then traveled down to his pale lips. Her tongue darted out to moisten her bottom lip as she recalled the kiss they had shared before the trip to Hogsmeade.
Draco looked down at her and felt his body start reacting to her. He stepped away. "Let's go down to breakfast… you've got to be hungry."
Ginny felt her hope dashed as he stepped away. She grabbed her heavy book bag and tore off after him. "What the hell was that?" she asked and tried to keep the hurt from her voice.
Draco turned and grabbed her book bag. "You shouldn't carry heavy things."
"And you shouldn't lead on your own wife and then leave without a word edgewise." She sneered at him. She folded her arms and looked over at him. "Well?"
"Lead you on? I did no such thing…" he answered calmly as he could.
"Are you lying to me or are you really stupid?" she didn't wait for an answer as she strode into the Great Hall and took a seat next to Pansy instead of Draco.
Draco frowned and sat down. He spent the entirety of breakfast trying to get her attention but Ginny was engrossed in her meal and talking about Pansy's new boyfriend: Edgar Something-or-other.
For the rest of the day it became cloudier and by 4pm the snow was falling quickly. It was a blizzard out there and most students had retired to their rooms… but not Ginny; she had been avoiding Draco all day and planned on continuing. Pansy had invited her to come up to her room for a "makeover" or something like that.
Pansy's room had been infested with some first years. Pansy's roommate Millicent Bulstrode couldn't find many friends in her own year so she depended on the younger kids. To avoid the firsties, they went to the dungeons where the empty classrooms were airing out.
Ginny sat in a large, old chair, "Are you sure about this Pansy?" she asked as the girl began powdering her nose and applying lip liner.
"You're going to make your own husband jealous." She said with a smirk.
Ginny watched her use a different pencil on her eyes. She pulled out a little metal object and began plucking her eyebrows… she winced at each pluck and felt as if her skin was coming off with each pick. She was thanking her lucky stars when Pansy finished up and put some emerald green eyeshadow on her eyes and some light pink lip gloss on her lips. "I'm just going to let your hair down and you'll be done."
She nodded and waited as Pansy brought her a mirror. She gasped… she was beautiful. Green made her skin look pure and unblemished and her lips looked positively kissable. Even the pain she suffered from the eyebrows paid off. "I look great… thanks Pansy!" she stood up and arranged her hair on her shoulders.
"Knock him dead Ginny." She said with a smile as she packed up her makeup kit.
Ginny nodded and walked from the musty room. Well if Draco didn't want her before, he would now.
Draco had paced for more than an hour when Blaise entered. "Where the hell have you—oh it's just you." He said with a heavy sigh.
"Nice way to treat your best friend." He said with a shrug, "Why are you acting like a prefect waiting for kids to come back to their rooms so you can bust their asses for breaking curfew?"
"Shut up Blaise…I'm worried about my wife." He snapped. "Classes ended hours ago and she's not back."
"Well we all heard about your little row… maybe she's leaving you." He said with a smirk.
Draco stopped dead. "That's not funny… not funny at all." He looked toward the door as if he expected her to come through it any second.
"You used to think I was funny, tell me what's going on." He said and took a seat on the bed. "She's not sleeping with you, is she?"
"Oh please, Blaise… life isn't all about sex." Draco snapped.
"Mine's not but yours certainly is. You have a tally sheet in our old room that could be used as terrible as blackmail. The "virgin's bedded" column is a number greater than your age." He said with an air of dignity.
"Fine Blaise, you're right about me being experienced but she's not denying me my marriageable rights." He said and sat down next to the bed.
Blaise nodded. "I see… well you come to me when you want to tell me. Do you mind if I use your bathroom? Goyle clogged ours again."
"Knock yourself out." Draco said and leaned back on the bed.
Ginny walked in quietly and set her book bag. "How was your day?" she asked casually.
Draco sat bolt upright. "Where the hell have you been?" he studied her for a moment. "And what the hell is that all over your face?"
"I was with Pansy and this is makeup… I've trust you've seen it before. She did a great job, don't you think?" she said with a smile.
"No I don't like it… you can't wear makeup! You're my wife!" he yelled.
"Just because we're married doesn't mean I can't wear makeup… your mother wears makeup!" she snapped.
"Besides you can't wear makeup in your-your… well you know!" he snarled.
"This is because I'm pregnant? Draco, makeup can't hurt the baby!" she cried.
Blaise banged the door open and got an earful. "Well, this is awkward." He said as he dried his hands on a towel.
Draco turned to Ginny. "See what you've done? You told Blaise…"
"I told Blaise? You drove me to it Draco… 'You can't wear makeup in your-your'!" she mocked him in a cold, biting voice that really sounded nothing like him.
"I won't tell anybody." He said to calm down two very angry people. "You have my word on that."
Draco nodded. "Blaise you should leave." He said firmly.
Blaise walked out and several moments there was a loud: "Guess what! Draco got Ginny pregnant!" That rang through the entire Slytherin common room.
Ginny collapsed on the bed. "Oh god…" she pressed a hand to her abdomen.
Draco rushed to her side; "Are you okay?" He asked frenetically.
She sighed heavily. "What have I done? Oh god what have I done?" she rolled over and buried her face.
He sat down and took her into his arms. "Stop that, you did us a favor. Now everyone will know and it'll get back to our parents."
"Your mother already knows." Ginny said quietly.
"What? How does my mother know?" he growled.
"She figured it out at the wedding… I was getting sick and she said she had the same symptoms when she was pregnant with you. I just didn't bother to correct her because she was right. She obviously hasn't told anyone, especially not your father." She reassured him as she leaned against him. "Why do we always end up like this? I'm never this weepy…"
"You're pregnant… hormones, remember?" he said coolly.
"Have you been reading my book?" she asked with a sly smile.
"No, I bought a book for myself." He confessed and reached over to the nightstand. He cleared a few things and showed her a yellow book. "What to expect when your wife is expanding."
Ginny laughed heartily. "Oh god that is funny." She said and sat up slightly. "It's sweet that you care." She leaned in and gave him a chaste kiss on the lips.
Draco looked into her green eyes and felt his whole body tense up. "Don't do that."
"Why not? Am I really that repulsive to you?" she asked as she felt pain shoot into her heart.
"Repulsive? Are you bloody daft? You are so beautiful that all I want is to touch you…I just don't trust myself to be in control." He said fervently.
"You know that we can—you know… have sex, while I'm pregnant Draco." She said tentatively, "Just after the first couple of months."
He looked into her eyes. "Are you sure?"
Ginny nodded. "I've read it in two different books… its okay. They say it's comforting to the baby and it won't hurt me at all." She lowered her voice.
Draco leaned in and captured her lips. "I can wait a few months." He said breathily as he examined her body that had begun to change a small bit. The breasts were definitely bigger and it seemed as if her belly had become a bit softer.
Ginny giggled slightly. "We sure go from hot to hotter quickly."
"Well I think that keeps a marriage interesting." He said with a smirk.
"Are you speaking from personal experience Mr. Malfoy?" she joked and ran her fingers through his blonde hair which was surprisingly soft and thick despite all the gel and products he used on his hair.
"Of course not, Mrs. Malfoy…" he said and kissed her again. " You're my first legal wife."
Ginny punched him playfully on the arm and rolled out from under him. "I'm starving." She said and pulled her jar of malted milk balls from Honeydukes. "You want one?"
Draco shook his head. "Are you ready to tell everyone? You know it's all over the school by now…"
"I think I should have a formal appointment done by Madame Pomfrey soon. We don't know what is growing inside me." She said matter-of-factly.
Her frankness scared him… how did they even know that the baby was human? What if this was some horrible hoax and she was pregnant with a demon or something! They had never even stopped to do a preliminary test; sure the mediwitch had said everything was fine… but Ginny wasn't sure she ran an actual test. "Are you sure you're pregnant with a—"
Ginny stopped for a moment. "Pretty darn sure Draco…there's no other explanation." Suddenly all the things she had counted on were in question. "Let's go… now!" she grasped Draco's hand and pulled him past lookers on into Madame Pomfrey's office.
Madame Pomfrey was filling out some paperwork when 2 students burst in. "Ah Draco, Ginerva… it's nice to see you. How can I help you?"
"I'm pregnant Madame Pomfrey; we need a test as soon as possible." Ginny said. She was borderline hysterical as Madame Pomfrey sat her down on an examination table and pulled out her wand. "What are you going to do?"
Draco grasped her hand and watched as Madame Pomfrey began a complicated spell that he could not possibly recall if his life depended on it. He said nothing; he didn't want to break her concentration.
Ginny gasped as her abdomen began to glow a deep purple. "Why is it doing that?" she asked affrightedly and gripped Draco's hand tighter. She suddenly remembered how the medi-witch had confirmed the suspicion earlier… and it had glowed the same color. Relief washed over her body in one large wave.
"Well you're pregnant alright but it looks like you're having multiples. I can't how many there actually are because that was just a pregnancy test; I'll have to use some muggle machines to tell. Would you mind waiting?"
Ginny felt her breath catch in her throat as she nodded; she looked at Draco who was positively freaked out. "Oh my god…"
"You can say that again." He said and kissed her hand lightly and sighed. "Must've been that fertility potion."
Ginny nodded but wasn't really listening; she was going to be carrying the Dark Lord's babies. She would be huge… she'd seen pictures of her mother while pregnant with Fred and George and they weren't flattering. In fact, by her mother's 8th month she could barely get up to use the bathroom. She suddenly felt very self-conscious and placed her free hand on her stomach which had already started to expand.
Madame Pomfrey wheeled over a large, bulky computer-like machine over. "This is a muggle sonogram machine… I'm going to put some gel on your belly and we'll be able to see inside your womb." She picked up a white container and pulled the shirt of her robe to allow access. "Watch out its cold." She warned.
The gel was like ice and Ginny flinched; "You weren't kidding…" she muttered and looked down at her belly. She wished she could bury her head under her pillow and snap at Draco to leave.
He stared at her abdomen… he couldn't imagine her becoming large with child or caring for twins at 17 years old. He looked at the screen as Madame Pomfrey moved a small white object across Ginny's belly; it was making a strange noise. "What is that sound?"
Madame Pomfrey smiled. "The heartbeat… strong and steady." She said with a wide smile. "It's still very early but I think its twins. Then again there could be a third baby hid behind the other two fetuses." She pointed out 2 peanut shaped beings that were the babies.
"They're beautiful…" Ginny said as her eyes filled with tears. They were her perfect, beautiful children even if they were just two blobs on a screen.
Draco smoothed Ginny's hair gently. "Can you tell the sexes?" he asked.
Madame Pomfrey shook her head. "Not right now. I could do it magically but that process takes hours."
Ginny shook her head. "It's alright; I want to be surprised anyway." She said and winced again as Madame Pomfrey wiped the gel off. She suddenly felt very protective of her belly and the children growing within her.
"Have you been experiencing any morning sickness?" she asked as she rolled the machine away.
Draco scoffed. "God has she ever." He replied.
"I took a morning sickness potion though and I haven't had any since." She added.
Madame Pomfrey nodded. "Alright, I'll see you back here in a month unless you have any problems. We'll start doing every two weeks once you hit the 4th month; twins have a way of being premature and I want to make sure everything is alright."
Ginny scooted off the table with Draco's help. "Thanks for all your help Madame Pomfrey."
"Congratulations and I'll be informing the headmaster immediately." She said as she walked off.
"Well its official… we're pregnant." Draco said and put his hand on the small of her back. He didn't even know how to begin… twins. It wasn't truly real before but seeing them on the screen and hearing their twin heartbeats was like a bucket of cold water on his head.
A/N: Did everyone like that? There are lemons in the next chapter… and as a huge spoiler, the Spring Ball is coming up. Who will Ginny take?