Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, isn't that obvious by now. It's only been what, 37 chapters that I've said that.

A/N: I have a few things to say before you read this chapter.

Hannahxxxx was the FIRST out of 500 or so reviews to ask me about the plums. If you haven't noticed in about every chapter since Hermione got pregnant there has been mention of plums. To answer your question, it has nothing to do with the plot line, I just really like plums.

Oh, and the comment about cigarettes and porn, I don't smoke (I actually can't stand even being close to cigarette smoke)and I don't look at or watch porn. I read it! Duh! But that's what everybody always says when they turn 18.

And all of these are comments to reviews on chapter 35.
SlyherinBeauty: I meant from 38.
Badgurl13a: Yes, all of your questions will be answered later.
DanRadcliffe5666: Too many questions...they will all be answered soon enough. And yes, I do live in your school district. I go to Central.
Okay to wash it: To tell you the truth, I forgot about Cho. But I hate her, so she doesn't matter.
Zoey: You can have sex when your pregnant until your about 6 months or so, after that it's just because the guy might...um...smush it.

But on we go...

Enjoy!

Chapter 37

Present Predicaments and the Sister She Never Had

"HE WHAT?"

"He likes you, Pansy," Blaise smiled.

"Why would he tell something like that to you?" Pansy screamed.

"Because he's my friend, can you just talk to him?"

"No, I can't be seen talking to him."

"Pansy, you slept with the man. What more can it hurt?"

"My parents would kill me, I cannot date Harry Potter," she said.

"Pansy, at least give the man a chance, he needs someone to spend Christmas with," Blaise said desperately.

"No, I cannot date him. I'm still trying to get over Draco leaving…"

"Pansy, Draco never liked you! He is in love with Granger. I'm sorry."

"He did too like me; why else would he go to the Yule Ball with me?"

"For the same reason that you are avoiding dating Harry: parents."

"It's not just my parents, I don't like Harry. It would never work."

"You do to like him Pansy. You know just as well as me that you were not drunk when you took advantage of him. You can fool him into thinking that it was a mistake, but you know that you wanted it, otherwise you wouldn't have done it."

"I…I…fine, I like him. But it wouldn't work, my parents would kill me."

"Not if they didn't find out," Blaise said softly.

"But they will."

"Lucius never found out about Draco and Hermione dating. I promise that your parents will not find out about you dating Harry if you date him."

"How can you promise that?" she asked suspiciously.

"I have my ways," he said mysteriously. "Just do it, you know you want to."

"Fine, but he has to come to me, I'm not begging anyone to date me."

"I'll tell him," Blaise walked away in search of Harry.

"So, only a few more days until Christmas, what are you getting your lovely girlfriend?" Velvet asked Draco in a singsong voice.

"You'll see when she does. On Christmas."

"Come on Draco, you can tell me. I promise I won't tell her."

"No Velvet, I know that you two are becoming friends and I know you better than you would like to think."

"And I know you better that you would like to think, little brother. What if she doesn't like your gift? She probably isn't going to like getting sex for Christmas."

"I'm not giving her sex for Christmas, though it's not a bad idea," Draco said thoughtfully.

"So what are you getting her?" Velvet insisted.

"I'm not telling you, so stop pushing it."

"Fine, I'll find out in a couple days anyway," she said huffily before turning from his room and walking to her drawing room.

"She wants to? Really?"

"Yes, but you have to ask her out, because she doesn't want to beg you," Blaise smiled.

"So you're saying that she likes me too?" Harry asked eagerly.

"Yes, she's liked you for a while. Parents just get in the way of some relationships from happening."

"I wouldn't know," Harry said sadly.

"It may be for the best that they aren't alive Harry, I'm glad that my parents are gone."

"Yeah, but at least you got to know your parents."

"Some times I wish I didn't though," he said.

"So about Pansy, should I do it soon, or should I wait a little longer?" Harry asked trying to change the subject.

"I say, as soon as possible," Blaise smirked.

"He didn't fall for it," Velvet said angrily.

"He won't tell you?" Hermione asked.

"No, but that's okay, I'm sure we can find something perfect for you to get him."

"I want to make sure its perfect, and I only have a couple of days to figure out what its going to be."

"I know, I'm going into Diagon Alley tomorrow, I'll look around for you," Velvet said with a smile.

"Thank you so much Velvet, you have no idea how much this means to me."

"You're welcome, Hermione."

"Come on, Blaise said that you would say yes," Harry begged.

"Well, he shouldn't have been so sure of himself," she said, pointing her nose in the air and crossing her arms over her chest.

"But I want to date you, Pansy."

"Why, what is it about me that you like?"

"You're different. I don't like all the boring Gryffindors. I want you Pansy."

"Do you only want to date me because I slept with you? I'm not usually such a slut. No matter what rumors say. I haven't even slept with Draco."

"It has nothing to do with that. I'm attracted to you, Pansy. Whenever I close my eyes, all I can think about is you," he said.

Pansy huffed. "I know that I should be saying no, but I'm going to say yes. But only as a trial type relationship. If things don't work out, then I want it to be over, no forcing anything. Okay?"

"I completely agree with you," he said with a huge smile on his face.

"I saw a couple things, but I'm not sure how much he would like them."

"Like what?"

"Well, there are potion sets and stuff. But he has enough of those. There was a book about Dragons that he would like. He's fascinated by Dragons."

"That sounds like something good," Hermione tried, but Velvet was shaking her head.

"I have something he would like much better," she smiled wickedly.

"What?" Hermione asked excitedly.

"Come here," Velvet said, and whispered in her ear.

All Hermione could do was gasp.

"Now that I'm dating her, I need to get her something for Christmas," Harry explained to Blaise.

"I know, that's why you and me are going to Hogsmeade to get our girl's presents," Blaise said.

"I have no idea what she likes though, what am I supposed to get her?"

"You just have to trust your instincts, and if you see something that she might like, pick it up and give it to her."

"So what are you getting Ginny?" Harry asked Blaise.

"That's for me to know, and her to find out."

"Bastard," Harry smiled.

"I don't know if I can do that," Hermione said after Velvet had explained the present to her.

"Come on, Hermione. He will love it," Velvet begged.

"I don't want to. Plus, I'm not that good at that...stuff," she said.

"He doesn't care, I know he will appreciate it if you just try," Velvet smiled.

"Fine, but I get to do it my way!"

"I don't know what to get her, Blaise. She is a complicated person and I have only been dating her for," he paused as he looked at his watch. "Twelve and a half hours."

"That's okay Harry; you just need to look around. Lets go to Honeydukes, all girls like chocolate."

"Are you sure that she does though?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, I heard that chocolate makes girls horny."

"Really?" Harry asked, this was new news to him.

"I don't know if it's true, I read it in a magazine once."

"I don't think that's true," Harry mused as he set off towards Honeydukes.

Draco was sitting in the library reading when his lovely girlfriend came in, pulled the book out of his hands and sat on his lap.

"May I help you?" he asked.

"I was just wondering if your mother was joining us for dinner on Christmas," Hermione asked.

"I don't know, probably not. She usually goes to visit her friends for the holidays," he said. "Why?" he asked suspiciously.

"No reason," she said happily as she got off of his lap and set his book back down on it in her place.

"You are a devil, woman," Draco said as Hermione left the library, discretely acknowledging his words.

"Is this good?" Harry asked as he showed Blaise the crystal bowl that he saw.

"Why would she want that?" Blaise asked seriously.

"I don't know, to put stuff in," Harry said desperately.

"No," Blaise said. "You need something more romantic. I am getting Ginny something that she will cherish. Something that she doesn't just put stuff in, something that she will enjoy for a very long time."

"What are you getting her?" Harry asked.

"That is none of your business," Blaise said as he walked further along the shops, helping Harry find something for his new girlfriend.

"He said that she probably isn't coming," Hermione said to Velvet when she walked back into the drawing room.

"That's what I figured. Okay, that means that you have the entire night…"

"Will it take that long?" Hermione interrupted.

"Well, plan on it, just in case," she said with a smirk.

"Okay, fine," Hermione said.

"How about this?" Harry asked.

"No, girls do not want anything that has to do with quidditch," Blaise said. "Unless of course they are on the quidditch team," he added.

"Well, I don't know what to get her," Harry said.

"Well, I give up on you. Why don't you try asking some of her friends what they think she will like. Eh?" Blaise asked, walking back out of Hogsmeade and towards the castle.

"I guess I could do that," Harry said sadly, not knowing a single one of her friends that he could talk to secretly.

Draco woke up to an owl tapping on his window. He had been asleep by the fireplace in the library. He didn't know when he had fallen asleep or what time it was now, but he knew that he had to let that owl in before he killed it for making too much noise.

He opened the window and a white owl flew in. It was Potter's owl.

He took the letter off of the owl's leg and looked at it, it was addressed to Hermione, so he set off to find her.

Harry had sent a letter to the only people he knew could help him. Hermione was a girl, so she knew what girls liked for presents. And Draco was a Slytherin and had known Pansy for many years, so he might know what she might like.

He still had no idea what to get Pansy and he was running low on ideas to bring to Blaise. He had to do something soon though, he only had two days until Christmas.

Hermione was sitting on the floor with a piece of parchment in front of her and she was writing something on it, but Draco could not tell what it said from here. He stood in the doorway, waiting for one of the two girls to notice him.

When Velvet did, she automatically snatched up the parchment.

"What are you doing in here, Draco?" Velvet asked nastily. Draco just held up the hand that contained the letter to Hermione.

"Letter came from Potter," Draco said. Hermione jumped up off the floor and seized the letter from his hand. She tore it open and looked it over.

"He and Pansy are dating now," Hermione said as she read it over. "And he doesn't know what to get her for Christmas. He wants our help," she finished, putting down the letter and shoving it in a pocket.

"Well, any ideas?" Draco asked.

"I don't even know Pansy, I hate her in fact," Hermione said huffily.

"Well, Pansy doesn't like a lot of things, but one thing that she loves is Vampires. She also likes pictures of random things, and she loves gossiping. She likes cats and candles, she loves any form of body lotion or some sort of beatification product…"

"Draco, wait. Let me write this down," Hermione said, as she grabbed another piece of parchment and started scribbling down the things that Pansy liked.

Hermione dictated for Draco for another 20 minutes or so before she finally had a complete analysis of Pansy's life. She folded the parchment up and sent it off with Draco's owl.

"Well, I hope he can find that of some use," Hermione said.

"Well, yes. Enough about him, what were you writing before I walked in here?" Draco asked, and the two girls' faces immediately looked guilty.

"Nothing…" Hermione said.

"I know when people lie, Hermione. Tell me."

"No, you'll find out in two days, okay?" she said, pushing him back out of the drawing room and getting back to work with Velvet.

Christmas Eve was upon him and Harry still had not heard from Hermione. He hoped that he would be able to get the letter back before Christmas so that he could get Pansy something that she liked.

He was about to mope a little more when a dark owl that he recognized as Nikolai flew in through his open window.

"Thank Merlin," Harry said, grabbing the letter out of his talons and scanning through the thorough list. "This is perfect," Harry said happily before running out of his room to find Blaise.

"Is everything ready?" Hermione asked Velvet.

"As ready as it will be, you better get it ready. Mum just left and we have a couple of hours until dinner," Velvet said.

"Just don't hate me if I screw this up," Hermione said.

"I could never hate you," Velvet said, giving Hermione a hug. Hermione already felt like Velvet was the older sister that she never had and she had come to admire her more every day.

"This one is great, isn't it?" Harry asked Blaise.

"Yes. Now that is something that she would like. I say grab it a go, we need to leave and get ready before the feast," Blaise said as Harry paid for his purchase and left the store.

Draco sat on his bed, playing with the small velvet box in his hand. He flipped the lid up for the hundredth time, looking at its contents.

He just hoped that she would like it.

A/N: Ohh, cliffy. Next chapter is my favorite in the entire story! Can you guess why? I'll give you a cookie if you can guess. I'll give you a clue, it's not what you think it is.

And I know there are a LOT of unanswered questions in this chapter but they are all answered in the next chapter or two.

Love and Lemons

Brittany