Alright here's the first official chapter! I hope you'll enjoy it, the ending is so sweet, I was going to make it longer but my friend told me it would be really sweet to end it that way so I decided to end it there. Chapter three will be up as soon as I can get it, I'm hoping to up chapter 3, 4 and maybe 5 before the spring break ends because after that updates will be a little slow, and I'm also hoping to finish it during the summer break. Anyway I'll let you get to the chapter so enjoy! R&R!
Chapter Two: Return.
Carrie Weasley sat on her bed in the Malfoy House. She was about 5' 5" and had medium brown hair, it had grown a little during the summer and when she had gotten it cut the dresser had done it all wrong. He cut it so it was just around her shoulders, it continuously tickled the back of her neck, which bothered her greatly. He had also layered it a great deal and given her bangs that hung right in front of her eyes, just touching her nose. Carrie had changed quite a lot during the Holiday. She had grown a bit, she had learned many new skills, her new hair cut and she was also six months pregnant. She had gotten that way with Draco Malfoy's child, willingly. Both there families were furious about there choice to keep the child. She was now six months along and getting ready to head back to Hogwarts the following day.
"I can't believe we have to go back tomorrow!" She exclaimed, laying down on the bed.
"I know" Draco replied absent mindedly.
Draco was sitting on the couch in her room. He was ready a violet colored book and was about half done. He gently placed his bookmark on the page and placed the book down on the table beside him. He looked up at Carrie and smiled. She had sat up again and was looking at her chipped nail polish. Draco stood and went to sit next to her. He hugged her and kissed the back of her neck. He took a deep breath in, savoring the smell of roses.
"I love you" He whispered quietly into her ear.
He felt her smile in return.
"I know" She whispered back.
"Don't ever forget" He continued. This was a game they had been playing all summer.
"I wont" She finished.
Carrie turned her head and kissed him. After a moment she pulled away and smiled.
"Don't ever forget" Draco repeated.
"I won't"
"Good" Draco said, more to himself then her.
A little while later Draco returned to his room and went to sleep. Late that night Draco had a strange dream. Carrie was kneeling on the floor of a dark, black room. She was clutching her stomach and mumbling that she was in pain. She looked up and stared Draco in the eye.
"You promised you'd be with me" She moaned.
"I am!" He replied. He tried to step toward her but his feet wouldn't move. Carrie cried out in pain and collapsed to the side. Draco finally forced his feet to move and ran to her side as fast as he possibly could. He held her head up in his hands.
"Wake up, please wake up" He begged. Carrie just laid there motionless. The color draining from her face.
"You have to wake up!" A few tears dropped down his cheeks. Carrie still just laid there, limp and cold. She was dead.
"NO!" Draco yelled as he sat up in bed. His face was covered in sweat. He wiped his forehead and took a few deep breaths. She's not dead. He thought to himself. She's not. She can't be. Draco walked out of his room and into Carries. He kissed her forehead. He watched for a moment to make sure she was breathing and then laid down beside her. And then soon drifted off to sleep.
Carrie awoke the next morning to see Draco asleep next to her. She ran her hand through his hair and his eyelids fluttered and opened.
"Care" He mumbled.
He pulled her head toward him and kissed her deeply. He pulled her on top of him, not breaking their kiss. After a moment Carrie pulled away.
"We can't. You know that."
Draco sighed. "I know, I just need to know you're with me. That you're not dead."
"I'm not" Carrie assured him. "I'm right here" She kissed him and then rolled off him.
"We have to go back today" Carrie sighed.
"I know" Draco replied. There was silence for a moment. Draco turned onto his side and looked at Carrie.
"Stay with me."
"What?"
"Stay here with me. We'll just spend the year here, and…prepare" He placed a hand on her stomach.
"You know we can't do that"
"Yes we ca—"
"No Draco, we can't" She kissed him. "I know you want to, but we can't"
He sighed sadly. "Alright"
"Just think of it this way, we only have one more year, then we can go and do…whatever we want. You can find a job at the Ministry or," She paused. "Or somewhere."
Draco smiled at her. "Yeah,"
Carrie stared past him at one of the bookshelves. "We could buy a little place, somewhere away from the city. Somewhere with a big backyard, somewhere…safe." She placed her hand on top of Draco's on her stomach. "Somewhere he can grow up happy." She looked at Draco and smiled.
"Is that really what you want?" He asked her after a moment.
Carrie blushed and then nodded.
"Then that's what we'll do."
Carrie smiled and hugged Draco tightly. "Thank you" She whispered in his ear.
Carrie got out of the bed and got dressed. She didn't care if Draco saw her anymore, he did after all, get her pregnant. Draco went back to his room and got dressed as well. They sat in Carrie's room one last time before they would have to head back to Hogwarts. Carrie leaned on Draco and closed her eyes. She sighed happily as they sat there in silence.
"I remember last time we sat here." She opened her eyes and looked up at him.
"When was that?" Draco couldn't remember.
"Last year, during the Christmas break, right before…right before I was in Saint Mungo's."
"Oh yeah," The image of Carrie getting hurt flashed before Draco's eyes. He shook his head trying to focus on something else.
Carrie had put her hand on her chest where her scar was. She ran her finger up and down her scar for a moment, remembering the event.
"I wonder if it'll hurt as much…" She mumbled.
"If what'll hurt as much?" Draco inquired.
"Having the baby, if it'll hurt as much and the cut,"
"Well, maybe it will, maybe it wont, I don't know, I've never had a baby…" Draco said jokingly.
Carrie laughed. "Very funny"
There was a long silence, they were both thinking of that dreadful holiday. Everything had been going great until she got hurt, and then Draco found out her last name, and they were done. Carrie remembered the pain she felt when he broke up with her, how she couldn't understand for the life of her why her name had mattered. She remembered sitting in the hospital bed waiting for him to come in and tell her she was going to be ok. When she was going to tell him what she had seen.
"Do you remember what I told you?" She asked after a moment.
"Mmmm hmmm, you said I brought you back."
"You did," She said quietly. "You saved me so many times last year,"
"No, I didn't." Draco replied.
He looked down at her and kissed her gently. "You saved me."
"Now how could I save you?"
"If you hadn't been so bloody beautiful, so persistent, so amazing and gotten me into so much bloody trouble, I wouldn't have this," He placed his hand on her stomach once again. "I wouldn't have you" He moved his hand up to her cheek. "And I would have been that same old cold hearted bastard I was before."
"I doubt you were ever like that"
"I was…but the second I met you…something in me changed…"
"Oh yeah, like what?" she ran her hand through his hair. "You're hair? You're eyes," She glanced at his eyes. "You're hands" She took one of his hands. "You're lips?" She glanced at his lips and then kissed him.
Just then Draco's mother walked in and interrupted them. She simply rolled her eyes and told them that it was time to leave. She walked out of the room briskly, leaving the door open behind her.
"Come on," Draco said, he pulled Carrie up and led her to the car. They slowly drive to the station and said goodbye to Draco's parents. They walked into the station and slowly onto platform 9 & 3/4. Draco had just given their bags to the man loading them onto the train.
"CARRIE!" A voice exclaimed.
Carrie turned around to see Kim and her friend Lorna running over.
"OH MY GOD! KIM!"
Kim reached Carrie and they hugged each other tightly. First Kim looked at her new hair cut and smiled.
"Oh my god, it looks SO good on you!" She exclaimed.
"Yeah, but it keeps getting in my eyes" Carrie blew upwards, blowing the hair away from her face. It fell back down in the exact same position.
Then Kim looked her up and down and noticed her stomach, it had become quite a bit larger then it was in the last days of the year.
"You're huge" She commented.
"Oh shut up! I don't see you being six months pregnant!"
"Well if you ever do see me I won't be sixteen!"
They both busted into a fit of giggles.
"I missed you so much" Carrie said after she had finished laughing.
"We all missed you, even Ron"
Carrie looked past Kim farther onto the platform, Ron was standing there with Ginny and Harry. "How is he?"
"Ok," Kim replied simply. "He was really mad at you at first, but now…I guess he's had a chance to cool off a bit."
"That's good." Carrie smiled.
"Care," Draco came and hugged her from behind. "Let's get a compartment." He whispered in her ear.
Carrie smiled and blushed. "Ok, I'll see you later ok Kim? Tell Ron and Harry I said hi"
"I will!" She waved to her and then walked back to Ron and Harry. Ginny had left to find her group of friends.
Carrie and Draco found a compartment near the end of the hallway. There were lots of others to choose from but Carrie didn't want to be in the middle of everyone laughing and goofing off. They sat in the compartment and talked about the school year while they waited for the train to start moving.
"I'm so exhausted" Carrie said while she stretched.
"Here" Draco pulled Carrie onto her back so she rested her head on his lap. She stared up at the ceiling and then looked over at Draco who was now reading his violet colored book. Carrie turned her gaze out the window and watched the birds as they flew by. Eventually she drifted off to sleep and was awoken by the train when it had started moving. She looked around to see that she and Draco were no longer the only ones in the compartment. Marcus Flint, Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle were now in the compartment with them. Carrie sat up properly and rubbed her eyes. She leaned over onto Draco who had put away his book and was talking about the coming Quidditch season with Flint. Carrie leaned over onto Draco and he moved his arm around her.
"Whoa girl, you got fat over the summer" Flint exclaimed when he saw Carrie's stomach.
"Shut up Flint, I don't see you having a baby" Carrie shot back. She never really liked Flint. There was just something about him that wasn't right.
"Down Carrie" Draco said calming her. He placed a hand on her stomach. She leaned back and relaxed.
Flint smirked at her, so did Pansy.
"So how do you plan on going to school while being pregnant?" Pansy asked evilly.
"Simple, we have it all planned out, right Draco?" Carrie smiled and looked up at him.
"Yeah, everything's all set."
"But I don't think the Headmaster is going to let you go to school while pregnant." Pansy smirked.
"He already said I could stay, he's actually helping me."
"B-but he can't do that!"
"He already did" Carrie smiled and snuggled into Draco.
"Argh!" Pansy stood up angrily. "This school really has gone to the dumps!" Then she stomped out of the compartment fuming with anger.
Carrie sighed happily. Draco leaned over and kissed her forehead.
"Oh god, I don't want to see this lovey dovey stuff, I'm out of here." Flint stood and walked out, soon followed by Crabbe and Goyle. Since Draco didn't really have a use for them anymore, they followed Flint around.
Draco waved goodbye to him and then picked up his book again. He opened it to his page and began to read once again. Carrie sighed happily and looked out the window. It had started to gently rain and Carrie counted the drops on the window. She gave up eventually and just listened to the sound of the rain splashing against the train. Eventually Carrie scooted back over to Draco and leaned on him. He smiled to himself and put his arm around her waist.
"Do you still like Rose?" Carrie asked quietly after a while.
"Huh?" Draco mumbled. "Oh, Rose?" He smiled at her. "Yeah, I do"
"Ok" Carrie smiled back. "Me too."
They sat there in silence for a while longer before Carrie suddenly sat up and covered her mouth with her hand. Draco put his book down immediately and had his hands at her back and on her stomach.
"Oh god…" Carrie mumbled.
"What?" Draco asked nervously.
"Bathroom" She mumbled quickly.
Draco helped her up and took her to the bathroom in the train. Carrie kneeled down in front of the toilet and threw up the little she had eaten that day. She threw up everything else I her stomach and then collapsed onto the cool tiles on the floor. Draco had been waiting outside for her but when he heard silence he opened the door and ran inside when he saw Carrie's limp body. She was still conscious and breathing but looked very ill. Draco pulled her head onto his lap and let her take in deep breaths. Tears started to flow down her cheeks as he whispered to her.
"I can't do this" She moaned. "I just can't."
"Shhhhh its ok, you can do this, I know you can, you know you can" Draco replied softly.
"No I can't!" Carrie exclaimed. "I just want it to end, I want it to be all over." She started to sob more.
"I know," Draco replied gently. "I know"
"Maybe we should have stayed home" Carrie said carefully. "Is it to late to go back?"
"You know it is, and remember how you had to convince me to be here? Don't change on me now Care."
"I just don't want to have to deal with everyone's questions and looks and…everything."
"You won't have too, I promise, just ignore it all, and if people start to bother you, come find me." Draco stroked her hair gently, this made Carrie feel somewhat better, and she started to sit up. Draco helped her stand and they slowly walked back to the compartment. Carrie saw Ron standing near their compartment and slowly walked over to him, leaving Draco behind her.
"Hi Ron," She took a deep breath in.
"Carrie…" Ron looked her up and down. He stopped at the large bulge in her stomach. "Bloody hell"
"I know" Carrie said, faking a laugh. "I'm huge."
"Carrie?" Hermione had walked out of the compartment and was staring at Carrie in disbelief. "Oh my god…"
"Hermione!" Carrie went over and gave her a big hug.
"Can I feel?" Hermione asked after Carrie had let go of her.
"Yeah, sure"
Hermione gently put her hand on Carrie's stomach and moved her hand around. She pulled away after a moment, absolutely amazed. "Wow…"
"I know, it's really amazing. I can't wait until he starts kicking"
"He?" Hermione asked.
"Well he or she, we don't know yet, I wanna wait til it's born"
"That's cool" Hermione said.
Carrie yawned and then she soon found herself back in her compartment, almost falling asleep on Draco. She closed her eyes and let sleep envelope her. She was awoke what seemed like second later by Ron's voice. Carrie looked around to notice that Ron wasn't in her compartment, she was hearing him through the open doors. And what he was saying, wasn't pleasant.
"She's such a bloody idiot!" he yelled.
"Ron, it's her choice, if she wants to have this baby there's nothing you can do to stop her, it's her choice!" Kim shot back.
"I have to agree with Kim Ron," Hermione added. "It is her choice, but I do think it's a stupid one, she's throwing her life away."
"Thank you!" Ron exclaimed. "Besides she only sixteen! And you know what people think of her know? Do you!"
"Well they—"
"They think of her as a stupid, moronic, slut!"
The room was silent for a moment.
"Is that what you think of me?"
Carrie had walked over to Ron's compartment and was leaning on the door frame, looking at Ron, feeling completely hurt and betrayed.
"Carrie…you heard that—"
"Is it?" Carrie demanded.
"Well I…I.."
"IS IT!" Carrie yelled.
Ron hung his head low. "I'm sorry sis."
Carrie turned to Kim. "Kim?"
Kim wouldn't look Carrie in the eyes.
"Harry? Hermione?"
Harry looked down at his feet in shame and Hermione shook her head and mumbled that she was sorry.
"Oh…" Carrie turned, wiping the tears from her eyes and started to head out. But before she got two steps she collapsed onto the train floor.
"CARRIE!" Ron jumped up and was at her side, even before Draco was. Carrie slowly opened her eyes and sat up, and then she gently stood, clinging to Draco. She looked sadly at Ron, her hurt and pain obvious in her eyes. Draco took her back to the compartment and laid her down. She gently fell asleep. Draco awoke her later on to put on her robes, they would arrive at the castle soon. Carrie started to change into her robes but when she was putting on her skirt a sob emitted from her lips.
"It won't fit!" She complained.
"Don't worry." Draco said helping her. "It'll fit."
"No it won't!" Carrie cried after a few minutes. "Nothing fits anymore! Not even those top I bought that are two sizes too big! I've gotten so bloody fat and so bloody ugly!"
"You are not!" Draco fought. He pulled Carrie around to look at him. "You're gorgeous, you're beautiful, and you're amazing. I wouldn't trade you for anything or anyone."
"You wouldn't trade me before," Carrie said sadly. "But would you trade me now?"
Draco pulled her so close to him that almost every part of their bodies were touching. His hand found their way onto her now curvy hips. He slipped one hand all the way up her back and under her hair on the back of her head. Draco had grown a lot during the summer as well and now the top of Carrie's head barely reached his chin. He tilted her head upwards so that her lips gently opened slightly. She looks so sexy. He thought happily. He pulled her head, still tilted gently toward him and kissed her. His tongue gently slipped through her lips while they kissed. It was like an intense dance between them and when he finally let go she was lost for words. He still held her head slightly tilted upward and then whispered in her ear.
"Not now, not ever."
