Truth
Ok so Draco's gonna learn things.
"Mr. Malfoy! You cannot come in here this late!" Madam Pomfrey said. Leah groaned and squeezed her eyes shut, hoping to fall asleep again.
"Is she ok at least?" Draco said. Leah opened her eyes and tried to get them in focus.
"She's been unconscious ever since the headmaster brought her in." Madam Pomfrey said. "Although I expect she will be quite upset when she wakes up."
"Why?" Draco asked.
"Didn't she tell you?" Madam Pomfrey asked. Draco shrugged and shook his head. "Why…she was pregnant." Draco froze. Leah sat up quickly then fell back, holding her head. "Miss Black! How many times must you do that before you realize that it's going to give you a head ache?" She headed over to the bed. Draco stayed where he was.
"I'm fine…I'm fine!" Leah said. "I gotta talk to him alone though…"
"Oh…" Madam Pomfrey said. She rushed into her office. Draco slowly walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge. Leah looked at her hands.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Draco asked, finally.
"I was going to…but after that fight with Harry…" Leah said, but died off.
"And now it's…" Draco said. Leah nodded. "Voldemort…" Leah nodded again. He sighed. "God." He dropped his head into his hands.
"I'm sorry." Leah said.
"He did it on purpose." Draco said. Leah looked at him. "Voldemort…he called you didn't he." Leah nodded after a minute. Draco made a noise and stood up. "God! Do you know you could have died! I cared that the baby died but not as much as I'd have cared if you had died! Bloody hell Leah!" Leah looked down again. Draco stood at the head of the bed and tilted Leah's head up with his finger tips. "Do you have any idea how worried I was when I woke up, after you knocked me out, and found that you weren't there?" His voice had softened again.
"I can imagine." Leah said. She looked at Draco's silver eyes then sighed. "There's something else I should tell you." Draco sat down again. "I'm telling you because I hope that you will ask because I think that, somehow, maybe the Death Eaters and Voldemort are getting suspicious."
"Ask what?" Draco asked, looking worried.
"The thing that Hermione and Ginny know about me…" Leah said. She took a deep breath. "It's that…I'm…in simple terms…a protector. I'm bond to those who ask me for protection but they have to ask me directly. Even if they ask and don't know about it."
"So all someone has to do is ask you to protect them and you will?" Draco asked.
"I have to." Leah said. "For up until the time where they say they don't need me to anymore. Anyone, and I mean anyone, can ask me. Even Voldemort. Hermione and Ginny are kinda like my secret keepers. Keeping this secret…well…a secret…it puts them in danger."
"So you're telling me this because you want me to ask you for protection?" Draco asked. Leah nodded. Draco sighed and this time he was the one to look down. "What happens if I do."
"Then I get bond to you. If you are in any danger, then I will feel it and feel the urge to be there and protect you." Leah said. "I will feel a glimmer of whatever pain or danger you feel. Well actually…I don't know what I'll feel."
"I won't do it." Draco said, looking up. "You have no clue what it'll do to you. I'm not putting you in danger like that."
"I don't want you to get hurt!" Leah said.
"And I don't want you to get even more hurt then you already are!" Draco said. "For god's sake Leah! First your grandma dies, then your father, then your grandpa, then your mom…and now the baby!"
"I don't want you to die! That's why I'm doing this!" Leah said. "Everyone else is dying and I wouldn't be able to stand it if you did as well!" They were quiet for a while.
"I'll think about it." Draco said. Leah just nodded. Draco left to give her rest. He knew she was going to ask about Snape and he didn't want feel like talking about it yet.
After a week Leah was let out of the hospital wing on the day that Dumbledore had planned for Snape's funeral. She was glad that Draco had somehow managed to get the body out of…wherever it was they were. She found Draco almost instantly outside and they sat down at the front. Leah's head was on his shoulder because she was still feeling bad.
It was like her grandfather's funeral, except with less crying. No one was happy that Snape was dead, even if they did hate him. Even the Gryffindors were sorta sad that Snape had died. Only Leah, Draco, Harry and Dumbledore knew what happened but everyone had mixed ideas. All involving Voldemort delivering the final blow.
"Leah!" Hermione called, once it was over. Leah turned and watched as Hermione and Ginny ran towards her and Draco. "Are you ok? Harry told us…some stuff. And we joined Hagrid, Dumbledore and McGonagall in coming down to the village to get you two."
"I'm fine." Leah said.
"Does…" Ginny said, looking at Draco.
"He knows everything." Leah said. Ginny and Hermione both nodded. Draco left the girls alone and the three of them sat by the lake with their feet dipped into the water. Leah told them everything that had happened.
"So you were pregnant and didn't tell anyone?" Hermione asked. Leah nodded. "Oh my god." She wrapped her arms around Leah in a hug and Leah was grateful for it. "Have you seen Harry since?"
"No." Leah said. "I've been in the hospital wing the last week." Hermione and Ginny just nodded and the topic was changed to what Hermione and Leah were going to do after June.
"I'm thinking of cutting out of the music business." Leah said. "I'll still write songs but maybe I'll get different witch bands to play them."
"Or you could do some part time." Ginny said. "I don't think the songs will sound as good with someone else singing them." Leah just shrugged. "What about you Hermione."
"I'm thinking of helping the order out." Hermione said. She shrugged. "I don't know."
"That's what Harry and Ron are doing." Ginny said.
"I might come back here and teach." Leah said.
"Really?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah…teach DADA properly so that the kids that come here know how to protect themselves if they run into Death Eaters." Leah said. "Or, if Remus is still here, then I might just start up some kind of club."
"Like the Dueling Club." Hermione said. Leah laughed, remembering back to their second year when Lockhart made the dueling club. It was the stupidest thing in the world for it only lasted one day and Lockhart was an idiot.
"God…I have to come back some time. I just can't imagine life without this place." Leah said.
"I know what you mean." Hermione said. "I wonder who's going to teach Potions now."
"My bet is Slughorn." Leah said.
"Who?" Ginny asked.
"The guy who taught potions back when our mums were here." Leah said.
(((AN: If that's not actually his name then someone please correct me!)))
"Would he still be up to doing it?" Hermione asked.
"I don't know. Dumbledore will have to persuade him somehow." Leah said. "And he has favourites. My mom, Lilly, a few Slytherins and Hufflepuffs were part of the Slug Club or something. Top students in his classes. He's also supposed to be somewhat insane." The other two giggled.
Leah got up to her dorm late. She had gone to the Great Hall with Ginny and Hermione….Harry and Ron weren't there. Then she and the girls visited Hagrid and Leah told her story to him…well…the baby part anyways.
By the time she got to the dorm, it was to find all the lights out. She made them go on dimly and found the common room, kitchen and workroom empty. She slowly climbed the stairs. Draco wasn't in his room. She went into her own room and found him, fast asleep, on the bed. Leah figured he slept in her room while she was in the hospital wing because Draco's room was clean, where as her room was slightly messy. She closed the door loudly and Draco jumped before sitting up, rubbing his eyes.
"Hey." Leah said.
"Hey." Draco said. Leah stayed by the door, not really sure what to do. Draco yawned before raising his hand and motioning for Leah to join him. "Come on…it's late. And I know you're tired." Leah walked over to the bed and knelt on it next to Draco. He looked at her. Leah put her hand on Draco's cheek before leaning in and kissing him. He kissed her back softly. Leah pulled away with a small smile. "Sleep time. Under the covers."
"Am I child now?" Leah asked.
"Yes." Draco said, climbing out of the bed and standing next to it. Leah just rolled her eyes but got under the covers. "Night."
"You're leaving?" Leah asked, sitting up.
"Maybe." Draco said. Leah whined and pouted. Draco laughed, pulled off his shirt, then got back into the bed next to Leah before pulling her close to him. She snuggled up to his with her hand on his chest.
At the hospital wing, Leah had been giving a potion for dreamless sleep. This was the first time she'd sleep and have dreams, but she wasn't too worried about what the dreams would be.
"Hey Leah." Draco said. Leah made a noise to let him know he was listen. "Can you sing something?"
"Like what?" Leah asked.
"Anything." Draco said. Leah thought and then smiled and started singing softly.
Red and yellow and pink and green,
Purple and orange and blue,
I can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow too
Listen with your eyes,
Listen with your ears,
And sing everything you see
I can sing a….
She never finished because she fell asleep.
Leah looked around before her eyes fell on a door that just opened at the other end of the room she was in. People were coming out of it. First was James, then Lilly, then grandma, then Sirius, then grandpa, then Sabrina…holding something. Leah gasped when she realized that this was the order that they had died in, and that Sabrina was carrying the baby. They all walked over to Leah with smiles and Leah smiled back.
"We'll keep her safe sweetie." Sabrina said.
"Her?" Leah asked.
"Your daughter." Sabrina said. "Until you're ready." Leah looked confused.
"You should have seen Snape when he showed up." Sirius said. "He was confused…it was funny."
"Be nice." Grandma said. "You too James."
"Hey, we've been nice." James said. Leah just rolled her eyes. "So…how's things?"
"Well…confusing." Leah said. Sabrina had handed the baby over to her and now she was looking down at the face of her would-be daughter. "Namely with the thought of, what I'm going to do after school."
"You could always work at the ministry." Grandpa said.
"No thanks. I don't want to be that close to Percy." Leah said. "He's still minister and getting cockier by the day. I feel like slapping him very hard."
"Whatever you chose…we'll be happy." Sirius said. "So long as you don't chose being a Death Eater."
"Ew!" Leah said.
"Speaking of." Lilly said, slowly. "What about Draco?"
"What about him?" Leah asked.
"We're just worried about him." Sabrina said. "None of the Death Eaters, so far as we know, have any suspicions about him. But there's still need to worry. They all think he's doing the job that Voldemort assigned to him."
"Which was get close to you." Sirius said.
"Which, by the way, he's not doing for Voldemort." James said. "He really is in love with you."
"Just…tell him to be careful." Sabrina said. Leah nodded.
She slept dreamlessly for the rest of the night. Draco woke up first and slipped out of the bed before going downstairs and into the kitchen. He jumped when there was a pop and Dobby appeared standing on the table. Dobby screeched but Draco slapped his hand over the elf's mouth.
"Shhh!" he said. "Leah's asleep! No screaming." Dobby nodded and Draco released him. "Why are you here anyways?"
"Dobby has come to visit Leah Black." Dobby said. "Dobby likes her and wants to wish her well. He brought flowers." He pulled out five flowers, each of a different colour, and seemed to change colour every few seconds.
"Who doesn't like her?" Draco muttered, smiling.
"Kreature does not like her." Dobby said. "But Dobby and Kreature have obeyed her and have stayed away from each other." He nodded his head.
"Oh. Ok." Draco said. "Well…I was gonna make her breakfast…" Dobby looked surprised. "What?"
"Nothing." Dobby said, quickly. He looked like he was expecting Draco to hit him or something.
"Oh." Draco said, suddenly remembering. "Look, I'm not gonna hit you or whatever you're expecting me to do."
"You…aren't?" Dobby asked. Draco shook his head and turned around to start cooking. Dobby jumped off the table and walked slowly over to him. "Do you want help?"
"Umm…sure." Draco said. "Just…put the flowers in a vase first." Dobby nodded and found a vase, put some water in it, then dropped the flowers into it before helping Draco cook up breakfast.
Once the meal was done, Dobby ran ahead of Draco up the stairs and opened the door. Draco thanked him and Dobby, truly surprised by the niceness that his former owner was displaying, went very red and said he had to be back in the kitchens. Dobby vanished with a pop. Draco walked into the room and put the tray of food down on the bedside table before looking at Leah. She was fast asleep and looked peaceful. A bit of his old self came out and he started shaking her with a smirk on his face.
"I dun wanna go to school." Leah mumbled, waving her hand at Draco.
"Come on!" Draco said. "You're already at school. Time for food."
"Dun want food." Leah said.
"You're awake!" Draco said.
"No I'm not." Leah said, her eyes still closed.
"Are too!" Draco said.
"Are not!" Leah said.
"Are too!" Draco said.
"Are too!" Leah said.
"Are No…HEY!" Draco said. Leah laughed and rolled onto her back, opening her eyes. "Quit doing that."
"I've only done it five times." Leah said. She sat up and leaned against the headboard of the bed. "So what ya bring for food?"
"A whole lot of breakfast stuff." Draco said, nodding at the tray on the table. While Leah was looking over the food he suddenly noticed how pale she was. Last night be couldn't tell because it was dark and he hadn't been paying attention much this morning. "You ok?"
"Yeah why?" Leah asked, looking up.
"You don't look ok." Draco said. Leah looked away from him. "Hey…" Draco grabbed her chin gently and turned her head to face him. "What's wrong?"
"It still hurts." Leah said quietly.
"Didn't expect it not to." Draco said. He thought for a while. "I got an idea. Eat your breakfast." He put the tray in front of Leah then went through the door leading to the bathroom. Leah wondered what his idea was but she sat and ate the breakfast anyways. By the time she was done, Draco had returned. "Done?"
"Yep." Leah said.
"Ok…come with me." Draco said. He took the tray off the bed and Leah pushed the covers off and slid out of the bed.
Draco had done to the bathroom, what Leah had done to his room on his birthday. There were candles around the whole room, the tub was filled with very nice smelling bubbles.
"Surprise." Draco said. "I figured you needed someway to relax…and what better way then a nice bath." Leah sighed and smiled. She should have know he would do something like this
"Ok...tell me your biggest secret." Leah said. They were sitting in the tub with Leah leaning back against Draco. She was playing with the bubbles as well.
"My biggest secret..." Draco said. "There's a lot of them. I'm trying to think of one you don't already know." Leah smirked. "Ummm...ok...when I was seven, my mom signed me up for dancing lessons."
"Seriously?" Leah asked, turning slightly to look at him. Draco nodded. "Man...that sucks."
"Ok you're turn." Draco said.
"Up until last week, the biggest secret was the baby and the protector thing." Leah said. "You know both of those." They were quiet for a while. They could hear the doorbell ring and looked at each other.
"Oh right!" Draco said, hitting himself on the forehead. "I was supposed to meet Blaise and the others." Leah giggled.
"Go." She said.
"You sure?" Draco asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Totally." Leah said, nodding. "I'm not keeping you from your friends. I could always hang with Mione and Gin." Draco still seemed hesitant. "I'm fine...Madam Pomfrey healed me up properly so I have no major pain...still that sence of lose but it's always gonna be there. You need guy time. Get lost!" She moved away from Draco and watched as he finally got out of the tub, got dressed, then left. Leah stayed in the tub for a while longer before getting out and getting dressed. She sat in the workroom, playing different songs on the piano. When someone did visit, Leah was surprised to find Luna and Neville standing on the other side of the statue door. She hadn't really talked to either of them all year. She hung out with them at the club in Hogsmeade. They found Hermione and Ginny there and eventually Neville drifted away once the girls started talking about girl things. Luna had gone down in the Looniness quite a bit. It was partically good but at the same time bad because it semi ruined Luna's uniqueness.
"She looks ok." Blaise said, watching Leah dance with Ginny and Hermion. "I mean...she doesn't look like she's sickbut she doesn't look like she used to. Did that make any sense?"
"Sorta." Draco said. They were sitting at the bar of the club.
"She looks paler." Crabbe said.
"You've said that already idiot!" Draco said. He honestly couldn't figure out why he was still hanging around the idiots, besides the fact that it kept his parents from being suspicious.
"Dude you must have some kind of effect on her." Blaise said.
"Why?" Draco asked.
"Because...have you ever seen her look more calm or relaxed? I doubt if she wasn't with you, then after what happened, she wouldn't even be out." Blaise said. Draco had told him about what happened...but not about the baby. It was weird how he seemed to be able to have this conversation with Blaise, seeing as how Leah dated Blaise.
"What I can't believe is that she actually feel safe around me." Draco said. "Even before when she 'hated' me." Blaise didn't ask any questions. He looked around and spotted Harry and Ron. He elbowed Draco and pointed. "So?"
"Why are they all the way over there when their girlfriends and friends are over there?" Blaise asked.
"I don't know." Draco said. "You'd think Potter would be friends with Leah again after what happened." He shrugged and sighed. Harry was stubborn, that was obvious. Draco wondered if he and Leah were even going to speak to each other before the end of the year. That was three weeks away. He then wondered why he cared. Harry was an asshole for giving up Leah's friendship just because of who she dated. It was then that Draco realized that they never really have been on a date. Well that would have to change, and before they left school because he wasn't sure when he'd see her again after school.
Hermione and Ginny hung out with Leah in her dorm for a few hours before they left for dinner. A few minutes later Draco showed up. Leah looked at him and instantly knew he had something planned.
"Don't ask anything." Draco said. "I just wanna know one thing."
"Ok."Leah said.
"What would you rather have, Breakfast, lunch or dinner?" Draco asked.
"Umm...I guess dinner." Leah said. "But why..." Draco just shook his head. Leah sighed and decided to trust him.
Draco got a plan. It's gonna be soooo nice. I know this seems like Leah's too fine too quickly but she's just, as always, keeping things inside.