Daddy I Love You
Chapter 6
Summary: 6 years ago, Matt was brought into their lives. But she ran from their life and Draco was left to raise their baby all on his own. Now, she's regretting her decision, but when she spots them one day heading home from work, she freaks out. She had put so much room between them. No way could they be here. Not now, not when she was just returning to normal. Will this send her back to a time she wishes to forget? Will she try to fix her mistake? And if she does, will Draco let her? Or will she just keep running?
Its now Matt's first year at Hogwarts. The hat informs him that his mother was in Gryffindor and that he had met her before. Puzzled, will Matt just leave it all to fate or will he go in search of the mother that abandoned them so long ago? And here's Rae, the best teacher in Hogwarts. She's the go to girl for all teens in trouble at the school, be it male or female. Everyone recognizes something about her, but no one will believe what their hearts are telling them and their heads convince them otherwise. And Draco, what's going on in his head this whole time?
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the plot and characters that obviously don't come from the books.
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Previously:
Draco was doing one last loop around the corridors that Dumbledore had assigned him to check before going to bed. Nothing. He hadn't caught a single kid out tonight. Weird.
As he headed back to his rooms he saw another figure in the distance.
"Draco" Rae greeted.
"Rae" he answered back
"Find anyone tonight?" Rae asked casually.
"Oddly enough, no. Funny too, because I was warned that I would be handing out several detentions tonight. Actually I was kind of looking forward to that. What about you? How many did you find?"
"Well lets see, 3 Hufflepuffs, 2 Ravenclaws, 4 Gryffindors, 5 Slytherins. And all those were first years. And the of course all the Weasley's. They grow each year. It's starting to be insane. Luckily we don't get any new ones next year, but that means we get six the following year, plus the Potter twins. I don't know what it is about them, but the only one so far to have a single child is Ron and that was his first. His next 4 were two sets of twins though. I feel so sorry for those families sometimes. But they sure do love those kids. Even Potter's are treated like family"
"They do seem to keep growing don't they? But what can you do about it right? All you can do is pray that they aren't all in the same house. Now, about these Slytherins. . . "
"Yes, one of them was Matt" Rae cut him off. "You should be proud to know that. You should also be happy to know that he's detention free, they all are. Actually, they're the only ones that are detention free this year. First they weren't going to say anything, then Matt stepped forward and they let him tell the truth. I was quite impressed actually, a Malfoy telling the truth. Haven't seen that for years"
"I'm surprised that you've ever seen it at all. Before my son, few have seen it" Draco looked at her quizzically. Only one person had seen him be completely truthful. Hermione. And there was something about Rae that just screamed Hermione, but he still managed to convince himself that it wasn't possible.
"Remember Malfoy, I know more then you think" and with that said Rae continued her way to her room.
"Yes, you do Miss Zyran. You know much more then you let on" a quiet voice came from in the distance, "Welcome back Hermione"
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When Hermione woke the next morning, an owl was sitting on her desk, waiting for her. She gently got out of bed and walked over to the owl, untying the letter from its leg.
"Here" she handed it a treat before it took off into the sky.
She broke the black wax seal on the letter reading it slowly.
Rae,
Your not the only one with secrets. You certainly are not the only one that knows things they shouldn't. All of your secrets eat away at you now, slowly. They will continue to until you have the guts to come forward and tell the world everything, or at least, tell your son everything
That was it. All that letter told her was to come clean. Well, she couldn't see that happening anytime soon. What was bugging her though, was that the letter was unsigned. Few knew that she had ever mothered a son. In fact, only one knew. Draco Malfoy.
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Draco watched at Rae came into the Great Hall at breakfast that morning. She was in all red today. Looking at her eyes though, he saw the outfit was complete. Her eyes were blazing red.
She took her spot at the table but refused to make eye contact with anyone. Confused, Draco tried to strike up a conversation with her.
"Do not even think about talking to me Draco Malfoy. I wont let you ruin what I have so back off and keep your nose out of my business"
Draco starred at her, stunned. She glared at him one last time and jumped up from the table, making a rather dramatic exit from the Great hall. The hall fell completely silent as the door slammed closed.
Hundreds of eyes glanced from the door to Draco and back again. Several were sending sneers his way. After all, he had just pissed off their favourite teacher.
Draco sighed as he rubbed his temples, a head ache slowly coming on. He pushed his plate away and headed out the side door, not really wanting to walk through a hall of angry students.
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Matt watched as both his dad and Rae walked out. He had seen her get mad at his dad and he really didn't like it. No one got mad at his dad when Matt was present in the room. Sure, the senior Malfoy got mad at people when Matt was there, but never had he seen someone mad at his dad.
He actually dreaded the final class of the day. Transfiguration with the Gryffindors and with Rae. The class came though, and when he entered the room, he saw that Rae's eyes were dancing with amusement. Whatever had taken that morning was tucked away in her mind, for now anyway.
"Welcome to your first class of Transfiguration. Now, my first assignment for you is to go around the class and find out one new thing about everyone in here. Write it all down and hand it in to me. You have 20 minutes. Go"
Matt went around and did as he was told, though he was fiddling with the chain around his neck the entire time. He wasn't nervous though, he was excited. He finally got to meet the Gryffindors.
20 minutes later Rae told them all to come and hand in what they had found out then to continue mingling with each other.
Matt was the last to hand his in and she smiled at him as she took his paper, but he saw her freeze for a moment when her eyes landed on the pendant that was on his chain.
"Miss Zyran? Rae? Are you okay?" he asked her
"Yeah. Yes I'm just fine. Go on, go get to know the students" she sent him off.
He shrugged it off for the moment, filing it away to analyse sometime later. He walked over to a group and joined in with their conversation until Rae called the class to silence.
"Everyone, grab your bags and make your way to the back of the class." The class groaned. They had heard that a few times today. She was going to put them into a seat arrangement.
She grinned at them. "Ok, I'm going to do something that none of the other teachers do. I'm going to get you guys to choose your own partners. Wait" she said at the class started to move. "On one condition, you have to pick someone that you think is going to be the best partner for you based on what you learned about them today"
The kids stared at her for a moment but started moving again. Like every year, she was pleased to find that most of them had chosen someone in the other house. There was only one Gryffindor/Gryffindor pair and one Slytherin/Slytherin. But three stood at the back, trying to figure out what to do. Matt, Victoria Bensil and Derryck Selenise, a Gryffindor.
"Hmm, seems we have a problem here. Now, is this a case where you all have nothing in common with anyone, therefore have this similarity or do you all have the same thing in common?" Rae questioned them.
"The second one" Derryck said. Matt and Victoria nodded.
"Tor, Derryck and I are all only children" Matt informed her
"We also only know one parent" Victoria finished the explanation.
"Well, what to do then? I haven't had a situation like this for a little while. So I'm going to leave the decision up to you. You guys can either sit together at the back or two can sit together and the other can sit by themselves" A knock sounded on the door and Draco's head appeared though the crack.
Rae's eyes flashed a light red colour just upon the sight of him. "Excuse me students, I'll be right back and I trust that you three will have made your decision by the time I get back"
The class watched as she went out into the hallway. Each hoping that she would forget to close the door so they could hear what was going on. Much to their disappointment though, Rae made sure that the door was firmly closed behind her.
"Rae, I feel this need to apologize you, though I don't know what I'm apologizing for. From the day you and I met, you've treated me with nothing but hostility. So, I thought I would come here today and apologize for whatever it was that I did to you" Draco looked into her eyes, pleading for forgiveness. She had seen that look only once before. . .
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"Draco" Hermione yelled up the stairs. She had been waiting for him for over two hours and she was getting impatient. "Draco, come on we're already late" she waited for some kind of answer, but received nothing.
She sighed and headed up the stairs. Hermione was three months into the pregnancy, but no one could tell that anything was wrong. Besides her weird eating habits over the last little while, nothing had really changed with her that would set off alarms for anyone around her.
Reaching for the door handle, she hesitated for a moment. Last time she had walked in without knocking he had thrown an absolute fit. Now that she was there, she wasn't so sure that this would be a good idea.
She knocked lightly on the door, deciding that this would get her out of any trouble. If he was in there then she could just throw in that defence. Once again, she got no answer from him.
Hermione turned the door handle and lightly pushed open the door only to find standing topless in front of a mirror, studying his left forearm.
"Draco?" she asked quietly, startling him. He turned to her, eyes wide. Hermione's eyes fell down to his forearm, to see what he had previously been studying. Her complexion paled considerably upon seeing what was there.
"You. . . Your. . . Draco?. . .I-I cant breath" She felt as if she had just been winded.
Draco rushed to her side, "Here, I'll help you" he tried to lead her over to the bed.
Hermione pulled out of his grasp. "Don't-touch-me" she snarled at him, regaining some of her composure.
"How long? How fucking long have you been hiding this from me?" she screamed at hom.
"Hermione, please, I can explain. Just listen to me" he pleaded with her. The ice in his eyes melted as they begged her for forgiveness.
""Why? I don't see any reason for me to stay here and listen. You lied to me Malfoy and you had no right to do it. I don't see why you think you should deserve forgivness. My child, our child, does not deserve to have a death eater for a father" she raged at him.
"Hermione, listen to me, that's all I ask"
"No" with that, she turned on her heel and walked out and down the stairs. She turned back for a second to see him leaning against the railing, his face completely emotionless again.
"Just thought you might like to know. . . we're having a boy"
Hermione spent that night in the Gryffindor common room, crying. No one could get her to tell them what was wrong. Over and over again, she just refused.
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Rae looked at Draco. "Malfoy, I know something you can apologize for. Never going to look for her that night. And never explaining to her why you did what you did"
He sent a confused look at her. What did she mean by all that?
"Think Draco, think really hard and you'll come up with the answer eventually. Come and talk to me when you do. For now, I have a class to attend too. Good day" she gave him a slight nod and slipped back into her classroom.
Rae looked around to room to see that Matt, Victoria and Derryck all seated together. She smiled to herself. Apparently this one wasn't entirely Malfoy. He just couldn't stand to see anyone alone.
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