Warning: Inuendo and Harry checking Draco out!
Ron walked hesitantly towards the entrance to Jasrene's quarters. If anyone asked he'd tell them he'd wanted to apologise for flying off the handle earlier in the day, although he still thought he'd had every right, she'd killed her father for crying out loud! But that wasn't the reason he was here. He knocked on the door.
After a few seconds the door opened and Jas looked at him in shock.
"Weasley?" she asked incredulously.
"Yeah." He said shortly. "Can I come in?" he said, and not waiting for an answer, walked into the living room.
"Sure." She shrugged and closed the door. "Was there something you wanted?" she asked as he hovered uncertainly in the room, hands in his pockets.
"Is it Harry's?" he asked suddenly.
"You what?" she asked.
"Is. It. Harry's?" he repeated slowly. She frowned at him suspiciously. "We were pretty close this afternoon," he said, "I felt it." He indicated her midriff. "Is it Harry's?"
"No." she told him, eyes glistening. "We're not, we've never . . . no, it isn't." He frowned at her, slightly uncomfortably. She wasn't gonna' cry was she?
"So," he said uncomfortably, "You keeping it?"
"Yeah." She whispered.
"Right."
"What's that supposed to mean?" she demanded.
"I dunno!" he threw his arms up in the air. "I don't know what to say to someone who's pregnant! Especially you! To tell the truth you kinda scare me!" he exclaimed. "I mean, for one you're a sixteen year old Death Eater, so God knows what you've done in the past and today I learn you murdered your own father!" he ranted.
"Maybe I shouldn't keep it." She said quietly.
"What?"
"Well I'm not gonna' make the best mum am I?" she said, almost hysterically. "You're absolutely right, I'm a pathetic excuse for a human being, I've fucked up my entire life, how am I s'posed to create another one!" she wailed, tears running down her face. He stood horror struck for a moment, before moving towards her.
"It'll be okay." He tried to say soothingly, she looked at him incredulously, and to his amazement started laughing.
"Look at me." She half laughed half sobbed. "How pathetic am I?" she sighed, and dropped down onto the sofa. Ron sat down reluctantly next to her. "I can't raise a kid here, like this." she said, mainly to herself.
"Then don't." he said matter-of-factly.
"What?" she looked at him curiously.
"Don't raise your kid here, raise it somewhere else." he said. She smiled at him.
"I knew there had to be a reason Harry liked you."
Harry, Hermione and Ron spent the next few weeks keeping an eye on Hannah and Morton, as Jas had told them what Snape had told her. However, it was more Harry than Hermione and Ron, as after the fateful day of the failed lust curse, he'd finally worked up the courage to ask Hermione out, and they were now in new relationship bliss. It wouldn't last. Harry wasn't jealous, he was happy for them, he just wished he could be normal and find someone too.
Harry was surprised to find that on occasion, Draco Malfoy seemed to be keeping an eye on Hannah as well. He still wasn't sure which side Draco was working for, so he decided to ask Jas about it.
When he knocked on her door and there was no answer he let himself in.
"Jas!" he called. Someone emerged from the bathroom, but it wasn't who Harry had been expecting.
"Potter?" Malfoy asked. Harry didn't answer. His eyes raked down Draco's body, from his face, to his bare torso, down to the towel that hung precariously on his hips. "Potter!" Harry swallowed. "Stop ogling me!" Draco exclaimed. Harry looked at Malfoy's face and laughed.
"You're blushing Draco." He informed him.
"Yes well." Draco sniffed. "Was there something you wanted?" he asked, hands on his hips. Harry raised an eyebrow and smirked.
"You offering?" he asked suggestively. Malfoy blushed again, and crossed his arms self-consciously over his chest.
"No." he snapped.
"I was looking for Jas. Is she here?" Harry asked, leaving the teasing, for now.
"No she isn't."
"Do you know where she is?" Harry asked.
"Take a wild guess." Draco said sardonically.
"Ah. Tell her I-"
"Barged in?"
"Yeah." Harry nodded.
"I will." Malfoy agreed. Harry stayed where he was, despite the cue to leave. "Yes?" Draco asked in irritation.
"Just admiring the view." Harry smirked. Draco growled in annoyance and stormed back into the bathroom, slamming the door behind him. Harry walked out laughing.
It seemed like half the school (including Malfoy, Harry had discovered from Jas) were now watching Hannah and Professor Morton, but nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary. Ron and Harry were now taking a break from the spying game.
It was the Easter holidays and Harry and Ron had been enlisted by Mrs. Weasley to help moving some of their things from The Burrow to Grimmauld Place.
"Why are we doing this again?" Ron grumbled, as he opened another box and began unpacking it's contents.
"Because it's safer here than at The Burrow." Harry said, for what seemed like the hundredth time today.
"Couldn't they be doing it by magic?" Ron asked.
"They're busy." Harry murmured as he finished his box. Ron shook his head and peered inside his box.
"This is all kitchen stuff." He told Harry. "I'm gonna' take it downstairs." He said. When he reached the kitchen he found it was occupied.
"Heya Ron." Jas said, drawing her eyes away from her mug of what smelled like hot chocolate to smile at him.
"Hey. What are you doing here?" he asked as he deposited the box on the table.
"There's an Order meeting later. Severus has come early to have a chat with Lupin." She told him.
"About what?" he asked curiously as he carried some plates over to the cupboards.
"Damned if I know." she shrugged. "He told me to stay put, stay out of trouble, and avoid the Gryffindors." She grinned at the last comment.
"You're not doing to well with that last one are you?" he said.
"It's not my fault, it's not like I went seeking you out." She defended, he laughed.
"So . . . how're you doing?" he asked, nodding his head into the general direction of her stomach.
"Good, thanks." She smiled, running her hand over her stomach.
"How far along are you?" he asked, taking a seat at the table.
"Six months." She told him. He frowned.
"Why aren't you showing?"
"Concealment charm." She told him. "Wanna see?" she smiled.
"Sure." He said. She waved a hand over her abdomen and it was suddenly larger than a second ago.
"She's moving around a bit, wanna feel?" she asked. He looked at her hesitantly and she nodded reassuringly. He reached out a tentative hand and placed it on her swollen stomach. He jumped when he felt movement and mouthed a silent 'wow'.
"You said she?" he asked as he withdrew his hand.
"Yeah, I don't really know, it feels like a girl though." She shrugged, and waved her hand again and her stomach was flat again.
"Is it safe to do that?" he asked.
"Yeah, I've got to be careful with my magic though. It gets a bit temperamental when you're pregnant." She explained. "It's not too bad yet, but give it a month . . ."
"What are you going to do?" he asked, concerned.
"No idea." She shrugged. "I'll think of something."
"You still going away?"
"When we finish school, yeah, I'm not due til' a few weeks after so I should be okay." He nodded.
The front door slammed shut loudly and she and Ron stood up and walked into the hall. Standing by the closed door were Dumbledore and Tonks, who has holding a very irate looking Draco Malfoy by the collar of his shirt. Dumbledore was smiling.
"Draco?" Jas asked incredulously.
"Tinkerbell, a hand?" he asked struggling against Tonks' grip.
"Tinkerbell?" Ron whispered in confusion.
"Bellatrix, Bell, Tinkerbell." She responded.
"It's from a muggle book." Tonks said, frowning at Draco as she let him go. "You've read Peter Pan?" she asked.
"Yes." He sniffed, brushing off his robes.
"Mr. Malfoy will be needing a room to reside in." Dumbledore interrupted. "Tonks could you possibly take Draco upstairs and show him to an empty room? When you've chosen a room Draco, perhaps you could help Harry and Ron with the unpacking." Dumbledore said kindly, but with no way of refusal. Draco nodded reluctantly as Dumbledore swept past them down the hall to the study.
"What are you doing here?" Jas asked.
"Followed you." he replied shortly.
"C'mon, Dumbledore said Harry's upstairs, I'll show you." Tonks said.
"Do I really have to be alone with Potter?" Draco complained.
"I was under the impression you and Harry were on friendlier terms." Jas said, Draco scowled and didn't answer.
Mwah I've updated really quickly go me! Thanks to captain oz for reviewing chapter 25, the longest chapter ever! yey! Anyways REVIEW this chapter pwease! X THANKS X
