Parents Too Young
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A/N thanks for all the reviews people! You guys really are great! Ok well...bring on the fluff!
Chapter 4: Daddy's Girl
She knocked on another door. This was the 5th one she had tried.
'Hello?' Harry said and then he saw Hermione. 'Hey!'
'Heya, can you tell me where Ron's room is?'
'You've found it' He said moving to the side revealing a lot of Gryffindors and the odd few Slyhterins sitting in chairs with babies and chatting.
'So how is my favourite girl?' Harry asked as they made their way into the room full of people.
'I'm fi-' She stopped and laughed, he wasn't asking her, he was asking Ella.
Suddenly a petite girl with long brown hair appeared with a wiggling baby in her arms. The baby had dark brown hair and piercing green eyes. 'You must be Hermione Granger' She said with a thick Australian accent.
'Yes I am' Hermione smiled. 'You must be Claire'
She nodded with a grin. 'This is Joshua and you..' Claire said looking at the baby girl in Hermione's arms, 'You must be Ella'
'Yeh she is, So how's Harry as a dad?' Hermione asked adjusting her hold on Ella.
'He's very good, though, he did try feeding Josh a large carrot. He doesn't understand about babies and food' Hermione laughed. 'How's...err Drake Molfoy is it? As a dad?'
'Draco Malfoy' Hermione corrected her. 'He's, well, interesting'
'I haven't actually met him, you'll have to introduce me'
'I would but I think your too nicer person to suffer the wrath of Malfoy' Hermione said with a laugh.
Suddenly a small voice came from below her. 'Dadda' Hermione and Claire looked down shocked.
'Dadda?' She repeated. Ron sauntered over and looked down at Ella.
'Did you just say Dadda?' Hermione said in her baby voice.
'Traitor' Ron mumbled at Ella jokily.
'I better go find Malfoy' She said with a proud smile on her face. 'Be back soon guys'
Hermione breezed out of the room with Claire behind her trying to get Josh to say something.
She didn't know where to find Malfoy at all, she stood in the hall for awhile thinking when fate answered her. She heard a voice coming from around the corner.
'So father said that as soon as he dies, I get everything, the manor, the money-' Malfoy stopped talking as he turned the corner to see Hermione standing there holding Ella. 'What are you doing Granger? Hanging around school corridors trying to look cool again?' Pansy, who was with him, sniggered.
'I was looking for you actually'
'And why would you be looking for me?' He smirked.
Pansy turned around and started walking off. 'Boring conversation, see you later Draco' She muttered.
'So what is it?' Malfoy said leaning casually against the wall and inspecting his nails.
'Forget it' she sighed angrily as she started to turn round.
'Dadda' Ella said again as she held out her arms to Malfoy.
Hermione glanced up to look at Malfoy who actually looked fairly shocked. 'Did you just say Dadda?' Malfoy said picking Ella up out of Hermione's arms and swinging her around a little bit.
'Dadda' She said again with a giggle. This effected Malfoy dramatically as his eyes became soft and he held Ella to himself.
Hermione stood there watching with a smile the transformation that took over Malfoy. A minute ago he was Prince of Slytherin, ignorant and rude but now he had gone into Dad mode, soft and happy.
'She's such a daddy's girl' Hermione muttered from a distance.
'Well out of you and me, I'm the nicest, more intelligent, amazingly good looking, funny and I'm just naturally witty' He said kissing Ella lightly on the cheek. 'And well your bossy, controlling know-it-all and a mudblood'
'If I'm a mudblood, your daughter's not a pureblood, she's a half-blood like Harry' She said hoping to get a reaction.
'She's got Malfoy blood in her, doesn't matter what the other half is' He said softly. Hermione looked at him as if he had just grown some fish gills. He's normally so bothered by blood type, obviously not when it was his daughter.
'Look, everyone is at Ron's place at the moment and I told them I'll be back soo...' Hermione trailed off expecting Malfoy to give back Ella but instead he held onto her.
'Fine, lets go' Malfoy said securely holding Ella. Hermione got worried, Ron would not be at all pleased if Malfoy turned up.
Hermione slowly opened the door to Ron's and noticed it was a lot busier, it seemed most of the 6th years had crammed themselves into the small living room.
Ron's eyes flared with anger when he saw Malfoy walk in behind Hermione. He strode over to them. 'Malfoy' He said coldly.
'Weasel' said Malfoy smirking.
'Ferret' Ron retorted.
'Guys' Hermione said before things got worse but she couldn't stop them when they were already in swing.
'How's your family by the way? Still eating dirt because they can't afford anything else?' He said, Hermione moved forward and took Ella out of his arms and glared coldly at him.
'Stop being an ass Malfoy' She said walking over to Harry who was now, like the rest of the room, watching.
'At least my family aren't death eaters' Ron said moving forward.
'You know nothing about my family' Malfoy said dangerously as he pulled out his wand from his pocket.
'And you know nothing about mine!' Ron shouted taking out his wand.
'Stop it Ron' Hermione said putting her hand on his shoulder.
'Oh, you going to get the mudblood to defend you?' He sneered.
'How dare you!' Ron said as he inched further toward Malfoy with his wand outstretched.
'It's strange the way you always defend her Weasel-bee, maybe, just maybe you have a little crush on mudblood Granger?'
Ron remained silent and his eyes drifted to the floor. Malfoy knew he had hit a string of truth and started circling him. 'Wow, I mean look at her, you must be desperate to fancy something that horrible' Malfoy said glancing at Hermione who flinched. 'She's grotesque!' He said to Ron with a smirk.
Hermione suddenly ran from the room almost in tears and ran to her room without stopping, Ella was in her arms and she was desperately trying not to cry until she was in her room.
She got to her room, put Ella in her crib and fell onto her bed as the tears began to fall. She didn't understand him, one moment he was being a loving parent, next minute he was embarrassing her friends and being insulting towards her. And Ron...Ron fancied her? When did that happen? she thought.
She heard a knock at the door and assumed it was Harry. 'Come in' She mumbled. The door opened and she looked up and instead of Harry, saw Malfoy.
'What do you want?' She said coldly
'Well, I was kicked out of weasels place and I couldn't be bothered to go and find Pansy or Blaise so I thought I'd come here.' he said emotionless.
'God forbid you should be here coz you were worried about me or anything' She mumbled softly to herself as she put her head into her duvet. Malfoy heard and raised an eyebrow as he watched her lie on her bed clutching her duvet.
He didn't care basically, well that wasn't completely true. He didn't want to care but for some odd reason, he did. He picked up Ella and played with her for a bit before going to sleep early.
He got up and very shakily put some faded jeans on and a blue shirt. He walked into the living room and sat himself down on one of the big comfy chairs. Something was bothering him, he didn't know what it was but it was like he had a permanent black cloud hovering over him and he didn't know why. He sighed and ran his hand through his hair.
He heard the bathroom door open, looked over and his mouth fell open.
Hermione had straightened her hair so it was long and sleek instead of bushy and wild, and she was wearing hip hugging jeans and a white turtle neck sweater which showed off her curves.
'Morning' She said with a smile as she watched him move his eyes up and down her body. Try calling me horrible now Malfoy, she thought to herself with a smug smile.
She sat down with Ella on a big chair, pulled out a spoon and a little pot and started feeding her. Malfoy still had not uttered a word as his mouth continued to remain open.
'You ok Malfoy? You look a little...perplexed' She smirked. Malfoy stood up and then sat next to her on the other sofa, a little closer than was needed, and helped Hermione by holding Ella on his knee as she fed her.
'Soo' Malfoy said trying to think of something to say. 'You've changed'
'Indeed' She said smilingly.
'Is it because I called you ugly?' He said raising an eyebrow.
'Oh yes, because the only reason I would change is so I could impress and seduce you Malfoy' She said sarcastically. 'No, I did it for me'
'You look...' Malfoy thought and thought, he wanted to compliment her but his reputation was on the line 'OK'
'Thanks, I suppose that's an improvement from grotesque' Hermione said folding her arms.
'I didn't mean that'
'Whatever Malfoy' Hermione said taking Ella out of his arms and sitting on the floor. 'Come on Ella' She said kneeling on the floor near the fire and helping Ella stand up. She couldn't quite stand up but could crawl.
'Well done Ella!' Hermione squealed as she crawled from Hermione to the bottom of the sofa.
Malfoy watched from the sofa as Hermione continued to play and help Ella walk. There was something about watching her, he couldn't pinpoint it, but the idea that she was the mother of his child made her more appealing to him and it made her glow.
'Who's that?' Hermione said to Ella pointing at Malfoy.
'Dadda' Malfoy smiled and knelt on the floor with Hermione and picked up Ella and sat her on his lap.
'Who's that Ella?' He said pointing at Hermione. Hermione shifted uncomfortably as Ella looked blankly.
'That's mummy' He said softly into Ella's ear and then kissed her on the cheek.
There was a knock at the door and Hermione went to answer it. She opened it slowly to reveal Harry. 'Hey Her...' He looked at her new look and smiled. 'Mione, You look nice'
'Thanks, wanna come in?' She asked opening the door further.
'Nah, I've got to go meet Claire in a few minutes. I just wanted to tell you what Snape apparently said to Parvati' He said looking glum.
'Go on' Hermione said getting curious.
'Well Snape apparently is arranging a trip to Hogsmeade for Wednesday so we miss classes but he said he's still going to give us a essay to write anyway, joy of joy, and he is forcing us to go with our partners'
Hermione sighed. 'But we can still shop together can't we as long as we are with our partners?'
'Yeah I suppose so' Harry said cheering up slightly. 'But is Malfoy really going to let you? Anyway, better go, I'll see you at lunch in about 1 hour?'
'Yeah see ya then' Hermione walked back into the room to find Malfoy on his back a hand behind his head and Ella on top of him crawling around.
'You look ridiculous' She said smiling.
'That is my aim, are you still mad at me for last night?'
'Yes'
'OK'She had spent the day with Ron and Lavender and had travelled down to show Hagrid their children and then everyone had met up in the great hall for Dinner. She had had many glances from the male population of Hogwarts and was enjoying the attention quite a lot.
It was 8pm and she had just put Ella down for the night and was writing an essay for McGonagall in the living room in front of the fire. Malfoy sauntered in looking extremely bored, he collapsed on a chair next to Hermione and looked over her shoulder.
'That's not due till Tuesday Granger' he said giving her a look.
'I like to get things out of the way' She said not even glancing up at him.
'Teacher's pet' he mumbled as he played with a lose strand of hair on his forehead. He sighed heavily with boredom.
'Granger, give me something to do'
'Shoot yourself' She said with a smile twitching at her lips.
'Should have expected that'
'Why don't you go find Pansy? Or Goyle?'
'Pansy is currently sorting out a problem in her living area because that Longbottom fellow set the crib on fire'
'With the baby in it?' Hermione said shocked.
'Nope, the baby was elsewhere'
'Oh good'
'Goyle is probably trying to work out which way to hold up his kid and I don't really feel like talking to someone with the same IQ as a peanut' he said sighing dramatically.
'Well, go entertain yourself because I need to concentrate'
Malfoy smirked. 'Can't be bothered, I think annoying you is more fun'
He moved himself so he was sitting right up close next to her. 'Go away' she mumbled.
She could feel his breath on her neck as he looked over her shoulder at her work.
'You spelt conscientious wrong' he said.
'No I didn't, now please go away' She said moving her head up to look at him.
He rose an eyebrow and looked at her, he could see the reflection of the fire in her eyes and smiled to himself.
He could hear a little voice in his head that told him to move away right now or he might do something stupid. He ignored this voice and carried on staring at her as she looked back down to her work and carried on scribbling.
He clicked his fingers noisily and leant his head on her shoulder. She shrugged him off as her anger increased.
'Granger' he said waiting for her to look at him. She didn't.
'Graaanger' He moaned. Still nothing.
'Hermione?' He said, it worked.
'Did you just say my first name?' She questioned looking slightly wary of him.
'Perhaps'
'What do you want?' she said irritably. Suddenly, he leant forward and pressed his lips to hers, it had only lasted a split second before he felt his cheek sting.
'You slapped me?' He yelled standing up putting his hand to his red cheek.
'You kissed me!' She shouted as she stood up and faced him.
'How does kissing you earn me a slap?'
'Last night you told Ron I was grotesque and horrible to look at and now your kissing me, do the math Malfoy' she said bitterly as she took her parchment and quills and headed to their room.
'Don't you dare walk away from me Granger'
'So we're back to Granger then?' She said coldly as she walked into the bedroom where Ella was sleeping.
He stood in the doorway and looked at her. Why the hell did he kiss her? He wanted to take Hermione's advice and go shoot himself.
'Stupid Mudblood' he muttered as he walked out of the bedroom.
'Oh he did not just say that!' She grumbled angrily as she stomped back in the living room, shutting the bedroom door behind her.
'Malfoy!' She shouted as he turned round.
'Oh what dya want mudblood? Going to try and find a sensitive nerve in my heartless body?' He sneered.
'You are such a jerk' she muttered shaking her head. 'You just kissed me out of no where!'
'Don't get under the illusion it was because of your personality Granger, you looked better than normal, I'm a guy, do the math' He said imitating her.
'You spineless little ferret' Hermione said clenching her fists at her sides. 'I need to relax, I'm going to the library' She muttered and walked out.
A/N Now, because I'm weird, I don't like relationships that just happen, so im gunna draw the process out a little ...ya know denial, jealousy, lust, the usual!! Anyway review! hands out biscuits