AN: Okay, once again I am so totally sorry for the long update on this story!

Thanks for reviewing everyone!

Strawberrylemonade520: He-he, awesome connection…lol. I've had ones like that before…thanks for reviewing and please update soon on your story-it's awesome! And I'm sure my friends will like that you thought they were hilarious, maybe I shouldn't tell them, because then my friend Brandon will get all cocky and be like well duh but lol...thanks for reviewing!

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SpikesEgg: Yeah, whenever I was writing about the egg thing I was insanely confused and I was like dude, am I going delusional? But I wanted to make Natalie Hermione's daughter so I cam up with that. Thanks for reviewing!

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And thanks to everybody else: Crest Fallen Angel 63, FaErIexFaItH, Looby Lou, and ScaryChick. And from chapter 1: AZNstargazer, frostlily, Nicole, dmhg, blaisezabiniismine (I wish they'd mention him more in the books and show what he looks like! I hear so much about him in these fan fiction's but I only remember him from that one paragraph in the first book when he was put into Slytherin), bLu-baBeE, outlawed-little-angel, OTHlover04, plus everybody from chapter two who reviewed on chapter one as well!

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NOW ON WITH THE STORY!

Draco is definitely kind of OOC in this chapter for some odd reason just because I was just typing up whatever I was thinking at the moment but I'm going to try to work it out so it doesn't seem as if he is someone totally other than Draco Malfoy (because who would want a story about Draco to not have Draco in it? lol), so yeah.

Anyways here's Chapter 3, hope you like!

R&R! Lotsa love, degrassichick

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Chapter 3

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"Well, I guess I should get going." Natalie said, glancing at the clock hanging on the wall of the restaurant she and Hermione were seated at.

Hermione nodded, "Alright, so I guess I will see you tomorrow?"

"10:30 on the dot." Natalie grinned, sliding her hobo bag over her shoulder and getting up from the booth.

Hermione smiled, "Okay, bye Natalie." She said.

"Bye Hermione." Natalie smiled back and turned, walking out of the restaurant.

The sound of bells jingled, signaling that she had exited.

Hermione rested her left palm on her forehead and sighed, twirling her red stirrer around in her coffee before getting up, dropping enough money on the table to pay for the meal and the tip, and leaving the restaurant as well.

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Natalie apparated into the Malfoy's fireplace and began to walk through the family room, only to see her brother sprawled out on the couch, flipping through a magazine.

"Hi." She said shortly.

Drake muttered back a "hey" before turning back to his article on some famous Quidditch player who had recently survived an attack with death eaters-something that Natalie knew Drake would become some day.

She wasn't sure if her father had ever become a death eater, but she was pretty accurate that he had, one day she had walked by him and he was wearing a tee shirt and she saw the Dark Mark on his arm, she had practically choked.

Just then she saw her dad walking out of the kitchen, "Oh, hello Naty."

"Hi daddy," Natalie replied with a small smile, "how come you're not at work? You came with mom and me this morning…"

"Well I got to work and for some reason, I just didn't feel up to going today. I just wanted to go home, relax with my kids." He replied.

Natalie glanced at him in confusion; He wants to relax with his kids? Who are you and what have you done with my father?

"Uh…okay." Natalie awkwardly noted.

"So would you like to go outside with me, we could toss some burgers on the grill." Draco said.

"What grill? We have a grill? Since when?" Natalie fired all three questions at once.

"I picked it up on my way home." Draco said.

Why would he buy a grill? Oh God, what if he knows about the dance class and this is how he is punishing me? Staying here all the time so that he'll be able to force me into not going?

"Dad, what's going on?" Natalie asked.

Draco shrugged, "Nothing. I just felt like taking a break from my day job. Your mother practically controls my life."

"No she doesn't." Natalie said, "You always scold her."

Draco let out a dry chuckle, "Well regardless to that, would you like to help?"

Natalie shrugged before following her dad through their large house, "Sure."

"Drake are you coming?" Natalie asked.

"No. You guys should just let the elves do it!" Drake called back.

"What's the fun in that?" Draco laughed before stepping out onto their large deck.

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"Now just be sure to take it off before it catches fire." Draco said.

Natalie nodded, "Yeah, dad. I know." She said, watching the burger on the grill suspiciously.

"So, how is your friend?" Draco asked.

"My friend…" Natalie said confusingly.

"The one from London." Draco said.

"Oh, right! Her! She's fine." Natalie said, slapping herself in her mind.

"That's good…"

Natalie nodded, "Yeah…"

"Natalie, there's something I need to tell you…" Draco said.

Natalie glanced over at him suspiciously, "What?"

"I'm thinking about divorcing your mother."

Natalie gulped, her spatula dropping onto the floor of the deck, "Why?"

"I don't think I was ever really in love with her."

"Dad…" Natalie said, "What are you talking about? You married her, how could you have not been in love with her."

"It was arranged." Draco said, "There was someone before her, someone who I still think about often."

"Oh…" Natalie said, "Is she nice?"

Draco nodded with a smile playing at his lips, "Yes…very nice."

"Well, you can't divorce mom, what about Drake and I? Are you splitting us up or what?" Natalie asked.

"We might just switch off and on each weekend."

"Well could I just like stay with you all the time or something? I don't really think mom will care if she never gets to see me."

"Rubbish Natalie, of course she would!" Draco said.

Natalie shook her head, "I doubt it, I don't even look like her in the least bit…you either actually."

Draco glanced at his daughter nervously, "You have a lot of our characteristics, Naty."

"I don't think I do, I mean, I'm short, I'm fat, I have brownish blonde wavy hair, blue eyes, I'm in Gryffindor, and you think I'm just like you and mom?"

"Well for one thing, Natalie," Draco said, "You're not fat, no matter what anyone says to you. And not all kids have to look like their parents."

"Well dad, hate to break it to ya, but I think I'm adopted."

Draco shook his head, not adopted, per se…you have switched birth mothers but you weren't adopted, "You weren't adopted Natalie."

"Anyways, moving back to the subject of divorce…you know I'll take this way better than mom or Drake would, so I feel free to ask questions."

"And you should." Draco nodded.

Natalie nodded as well, "Okay, then when are you telling her?"

Draco shrugged, "Possibly tonight, I don't know."

"Okay…then after you guys divorce, isn't it going to be a bit weird to work with her at Malfoy Inc?"

Draco let out a long sigh, "That's the thing Natalie. The reason I came back today wasn't because I didn't feel like working, it's because, I traded Malfoy Inc to a friend, so technically it is now Zabini Inc."

Natalie's mouth dropped, "You quit your job!"

"Don't worry, Natalie. I'll get a new job somewhere close by home or in London…I always have wanted to design Quidditch brooms…"

Natalie glanced up at the blue sky that suddenly seemed to grow grayer as storm clouds formed.

This is just great, Natalie said to herself, my parents are divorcing, my dad has no job, so technically no family member of ours has a job since dad is divorcing mom, and…

"Natalie, the burgers…" Draco said.

Natalie glanced over to see her burgers torched in flames.

The burgers on fire!

Natalie began to blow out on the burgers as rain began to fall from the sky rapidly.

Draco closed the top on the grill where the burnt burgers lay and led her inside.

"Maybe firing up the grill wasn't the best idea." Draco said as they stood in their large kitchen.

Natalie began to blow out on the burgers as rain began to fall from the sky rapidly.

Draco closed the top on the grill where the burnt burgers lay and led her inside.

"Maybe firing up the grill wasn't the best idea." Draco said as they stood in their large kitchen.

Ya think?

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I know! It was definitely different/weird...

R&R (please no flames)

Lotsa love, degrassichick