Ch. 10
Draco pulled away from her and looked Hermione dead in the face.
"You're not serious?"
"Draco, I'm not kidding, I haven't gotten a test yet, but I certainly think I am."
"Well maybe you're just sick… I mean do you need to lay down or anything?"
He put his arm around her waist and slowly sunk to the ground of the bathroom, steadying her.
"Well, that's the thing, I'm fine now, I just threw up everything I've eaten, and now I feel fine."
"Ok, well I'm worried about you Mione…"
He had a deep expression on his face, sad and distraught.
But then, suddenly, it turned bright and he cracked a grin as he looked up at Hermione.
"I want it."
Hermione was confused; she stared into his face with irritation.
He continued.
"If your really pregnant, I want you to have the baby, I want it." He repeated.
She had stopped crying and smiled, her face tear streaked and her eyes watery.
"Me too."
"Hermione, I love you with all my heart, and I know its taken a lot for us to be together, but if you are pregnant, I cant wait to be a father, I mean, sure, its really soon, considering we are thirty years in the past…"
Draco chuckled and put his hand on Hermione's stomach.
She smiled, but immediately stopped and her eyes got big, "DRACO!"
"What are you going to be sick again?"
She shook her head vigorously and blurted out.
"We can't have it!"
"What the hell are you talking about, 'we cant have it' of course we can."
"No, If I have a child here, now, then no one in the future is going to know, and they will wonder where a baby has come from, when we get back, I will be the same as when we left, and it definitely is obvious I haven't been nine months along around anyone at Hogwarts, so what are people going to think?"
"I don't care what people think."
"No Draco, I'm being serious, we could get into serious trouble, and we aren't supposed to use the time-turner for a group of teens to go back in time, Dumbledore's orders or not-"
Draco stared at her.
"Don't you see? If we go back to our time with a child, someone will find out…"
She paused.
"Using an unauthorized time-turner is just as bad as killing someone, because we are altering the future, everyone's future, and they can't determine if we are doing good or bad; we would be put in Azkaban."
"Surely not."
"Draco, it isn't like Muggles, there isn't a place for juvenile death eaters only because they are a lot younger than the rest, they are still criminals, and we would be put there."
"But, we are saving everyone, we are HELPING their futures."
"Helping their futures or not- they have no way to determine what we have done when we get back, imagine what a time turner would do in the hands of a death eater, or worse, Lord Voldermort."
"Ok, so what do we do about the baby, I'm not going to give up MY child because of some stupid law."
"Draco, listen, I would never suggest giving up our child, but we need to figure out how we can keep him without anyone knowing."
"So, you're saying 'him' now huh?"
Draco smirked and Hermione scowled.
"Well I'd much rather say 'him' or 'her' than 'it' as you like to prefer."
"I'm just joking, but let's go see the others."
Draco helped Hermione off the floor of the lavatory and followed her out the door.
Harry, Ginny, Ron, Daphne, Cissa and Luke were waiting for Hermione and Draco when they rounded the corner.
Hermione looked nervous and spoke directly to Harry, Ginny and Ron.
"Hey you guys, can we talk?"
Draco had put a protective hand on Hermione's stomach as he hugged her from behind.
Cissa started to get up, but Luke held her back and looked at Draco with a serious face.
"I think we should stay Draco, there's something we need to tell you as well."
Cissa threw him an apprehensive look, but then nodded and smiled.
Draco sat down on an arm chair and pulled Hermione onto his lap.
"Ok, so why have you been getting sick?"
Harry looked at his girlfriend amused, God she is blunt.
"Well I was going to tell you guys that Draco and I think we are pre-"
"Your not."
Everyone turned to Ginny but she looked confused.
It was Cissa that had spoken, not Ginny.
"Cissa? What are you talking about?"
Hermione was annoyed that Cissa ruined their deliverance of news.
"I didn't meant to ruin the moment or anything Hermione, but your not."
Hermione's eyes grew bigger and she cocked her head to one side.
"How do you know?"
"Pull out your wands."
"What?"
"Just do it."
Hermione pulled out her wand and so did Draco.
"Ok, now touch the end of each other's wands together and if you have a child or child in question, it will emit gold sparks."
They touched their wands together.
Nothing happened.
"See?"
"How did you know WE weren't?"
It would start emitting sparks within five days before you get pregnant, and you two have been practicing in class lately, and have touched wands with nothing happening."
Hermione immediately turned to Cissa, "How could you know how to determine that?"
Cissa smirked and raised her wand and held it out to Luke, and then Luke raised his and held it to hers.
Gold Sparks emitted from the end in a dazzling shower to the floor.
Draco fainted.