AN: Hey all thanks for the reviews. Here's Chapter 2…hope you like!
P.S. So sorry for the long update! I finally got my files switched!
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Chapter 2
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Natalie ran down the streets of London, and back to the chimney in the pub in which the Malfoy's had arrived through earlier.
She stepped inside, carefully pulling out a pinch of floo powder from her bag.
"Malfoy Manor." She said before dropping the powder to the ground, a puff of green gas flew around as she apparated away.
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She stepped up the stairs to her bedroom and leaped across her bed, grabbing her phone and punching in the numbers to Taylor's house.
"Hello?" she answered within seconds.
"Hey Tay," Natalie said.
"Hey Naty! So how did the dance thing go?"
"Okay…I got in so that's pretty cool…" Natalie said, twirling a strand of her hair around her finger.
"That's awesome! Does your dad know yet?"
Natalie scoffed, "No…for sure."
"Nat, you have to tell him sooner or later. You know he'll find out anyway." Taylor said.
"Yeah I know." Natalie sighed, "He'll never accept me being in a muggle dance school though."
"You never know, he might." Taylor stated.
Natalie pulled the phone away from her ear and simply stared at it with disbelief at what was coming out of her receiver before putting it back against her ear, "That was um, sarcasm right?"
"No…why?" Taylor asked confusingly.
"Because, my dad would never accept that!" she screeched.
"Okay, okay!" Taylor said letting out small laughs, "I have to go though. Sorry, just don't worry about your dad right now, K?"
"Yeah whatever." Natalie mumbled.
"Okay, bye." She said and hung up.
Natalie rolled her eyes and clicked her phone off and tossed it to the comforter on her bed.
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Within an hour, Natalie heard the sound of her parent's footsteps downstairs.
She sighed and hoped there wouldn't be another fight tonight, it wouldn't help, of course, there was a fight every single night.
"Natalie?" Draco called out.
"I'm upstairs!" she hollered back.
Her parents never stepped foot in her bedroom, thank goodness, her room was filled with posters of muggle superstars with all muggle appliances, television, giant stereo, Apple computer, and everything was muggle.
Pansy had been into her room once and had said "She's just like the Weasley's" now, Natalie had now idea what a Weasley was, but it didn't sound fantastic.
So basically, the only people whoever came to her room were the elves and they never told a soul, they loved Natalie because she was extra kind to them and over summer holidays when she was home she didn't make them clean her room, she would do it herself.
"Well come downstairs!" Draco barked, "Supper is ready!"
"Not hungry!" she yelled back.
"Natalia Narcissa Malfoy! Get down here!" Pansy yelled.
Natalie gulped they never said her real name 'Natalia' and they only used her whole name when they were really mad, which made Natalie desperately wonder why they could possibly mad at her, unless…
Crap. What if they have found out about the dance lessons?
Natalie shivered at that thought before rolling off of her bed and opening her bedroom door. She practically glided down each of the spiral steps on the staircase before entering the dining room where there was a large, long polished oak table. There were ten chairs, each wooden with plush ivory velvet cushions.
Draco sat on one end while Pansy sat on the other and Drake was sitting in a seat between the two so Natalie sat down right across from him.
"Finally." Pansy muttered.
Draco shot Pansy a look of anger and she simply stared down at her plate of food that the elves had delivered.
"So did you have fun with your friend, Natalie?" Draco asked.
Natalie nodded, "Yes…loads. We did a lot of catching up and such, it was fun."
"Catching up?" Pansy asked with a snicker in her voice, "You just left Hogwarts yesterday."
Natalie rolled her eyes, "Is it alright if I got back with you guys tomorrow?" Natalie asked.
Draco nodded, "I don't mind."
Natalie smiled weakly; so far, so good.
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Two weeks went by, every day-save Saturday and Sunday-Natalie would venture to London with her parents, meet up with Hermione, and dance her heart out. She felt as if in that class, she could release whatever was bothering her. Her problems simply rolled off of her shoulders, it made her almost smile.
She was beginning to spend time with Hermione after class as well; they would go out to lunch and discuss each others lives. On one particular day, Natalie brought up a question that had been racking in her brain for the past week.
"Hermione?" she asked over lunch.
"Yes?" Hermione asked, lifting her head.
"Do you have any kids?" she questioned.
Hermione sighed, "About fifteen years ago, when I graduated. I found out I was pregnant with a child, I was very excited but I wouldn't have a father figure for my child, for my spouse was betrothed to another woman. So he decided he would take the egg from my stomach and it would be held by him until he put it in his wife's stomach so they could have a baby...they did eventually, about a year later. But she thinks it's hers."
Natalie spit out her water, "That's disgusting!"
Hermione nodded with a laugh, "Yes…it was."
"Was he magic or something?"
Hermione nodded, "We both attended Hogwarts."
"I go to Hogwarts!" Natalie said excitedly.
"What's your favorite subject?"
"Almost anything, I love learning. People make fun of me because I'm a bookworm, and because I'm from Gryffindor."
"Why would they make fun of you for that?" Hermione questioned.
Natalie shrugged, "Well, the Slytherin's do at least. Because, my whole family is Slytherin's…and yet, I get Gryffindor-it's crazy."
"Not entirely." Hermione said, "I was the only muggle born in my entire class…a few were half bloods but none were muggles except for myself."
"Wow." Natalie said, "I spend time with muggles all the time, my mum says I'm like a Weasel."
"A weasel?" Hermione laughed.
"Somebody who I guess likes muggles."
Hermione's mind flew to Arthur Weasley, "Oh! You mean the Weasley's?"
Natalie grinned, "Yeah, that's it. Weasley! My mum says I'm just like them. What are they?"
"I was friends with their youngest boy, Ron, at Hogwarts. Their dad is fascinated by muggles, I'm sure that's what your mother meant."
"I hate my mother." Natalie muttered bitterly under her breath.
"Why would you say something like that?" Hermione asked.
"Because it's true!" Natalie practically shouted, "My mom just dotes on my brother and she does whatever my father wants. I get like no attention at my house! Besides my teachers and my friend's parents, you're the only adult to give me full attention."
"What about your dad?"
"He's always busy doing something." Natalie said, tears brimming in her eyes, "I can't possibly be a traditional Malfoy, I really can't!"
Hermione's fork dropped on her plate at the sound of Malfoy.
"Malfoy as in Draco Malfoy?" Hermione asked.
Natalie nodded, "I hate my life."
"Why would you hate your life?"
Natalie groaned, "Because, my mom thinks I don't fit in with her family at all and my dad gets mad at my mom constantly because obviously, they're not in love with each other, and all my brother cares about is damn Quidditch!"
Hermione glanced at her confusingly, "You don't fit in with your family?"
Natalie shook her head, "If you knew what the Malfoy's and Parkinson's looked like, you would know they are all tall and skinny blondes with icy blue or gray eyes and cold hearts. And then you get me, I'm a short, fat brunette with in my opinion, a warm heart. The only thing similar about me and the rest of my family is that I've got blue eyes like my dad but unlike his icy ones, mine are colorful. Plus, my family were all Slytherin's and then you look at me, I'm a Gryffindor! I think I was adopted."
Hermione gulped, watching Natalie was like watching herself at the age of fourteen which of course made her wonder.
It was Draco, who had impregnated her, what if the egg that Draco had removed out of her ovaries was sitting right in front of her at this restaurant at this very moment? What if Natalie, was her child?
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Once again…so sorry about the long ass update and I promise you that the next one will be a much quicker update!
Lotsa love, degrassichick