OMG! It's almost been a year! I am so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, SO SORRY! Really, really sorry! Thank you so much for the reviews! And once again, so sorry that it took me almost an entire year to update this thing, I feel so horrible now:-(
Sorry, still don't own Harry Potter or the song Part Time Lovers that would be owned by Stevie Wonder…or if you watched American Idol last season (or this season for the matter, (SOUL PATROL! LoL…sorry, major Taylor Hicks fan here! Oh, and Chris Daughtry and Kevin Covais…well, more Chris than Kevin, though!) Nikko Smith sang it too! Okay, well there are a lot of songs in this chapter that are not mine, obviously!
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Lotsa love, degrassichick
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Chapter 6
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Hermione ran all the way back to the dance academy and got into her car that was parked on the side of the street, driving off down the road, crying to herself.
She had just witnessed one of the most heartbreaking moments possible, moments that she had hoped would never happen, seeing Draco. It killed her.
She flipped through radio stations before she found some old song that sounded as if it were from the seventies:
"Call up, ring once, hang up the phone
To let me know you made it home
Don't want nothing to be wrong with part-time lover
If she's with me I'll blink the lights
To let you know tonight's the night
For me and you my part-time lover
We are undercover passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it's so wrong, but feeling so right
If I'm with friends and we should meet
Just pass me by, don't even speak
Know the word's discreet when part-time-"
"Oh dear God." Hermione said and changed the station, that song reminded her of her and Draco, they were part time lovers. Well, pretty much. Their relation ship was a secret to everybody but themselves, and Blaise Zabini and Ginny Weasley, who had both found out on their own terms. But they had trusted them, for they were their best friends.
She eventually landed on some alternative song, it was about scars and how they are a reminder of how the past is real…unless Natalie was the scar, reminding her that she was really her and Draco's baby.
"Damn it!" Hermione exclaimed and switched the station once again.
"If you wanna be my lover, ya gotta get with my friends…"
Hermione groaned and changed it yet again.
"And I'm…I'm really falling for you. I…hate what you're putting me through. What have you done to me? I just can't sleep at night…"
"Oh my God!" she exclaimed, changing it once more as she continued to drive.
"I won't talk, I won't breathe. I won't move til you finally see that you belong with me."
"Oh forget it!" she exclaimed and turned off the radio, switching to her CD player, a song called Let Me Go by 3 Doors Down came on.
She sighed and began to sing along to it, "You love me but you don't know who I…shit." She groaned and simply turned off her radio and drove in silence.
Just then a car drove by her, "I think I love you! So what am I so afraid of? I'm afraid that I'm not sure of, a love that there is no cure for…"
She sighed and turned a corner as quick as she could and made sure that all of her windows were rolled up.
Love was definitely in the air, and after seeing Draco, Hermione was definitely not in the mood for any.
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Draco and Natalie finished up their meal and left shortly after, walking down the streets in silence.
"Dad?" Natalie finally asked.
Draco looked over at her, "Yes?"
"Why were you crying?"
"When?"
Natalie glanced over at him knowingly, "At the restaurant, after Hermione left. You were crying."
"Nothing but allergies, Natalie. I guess I forgot I'm somewhat allergic to Italian." Draco replied.
Natalie glanced down at the sidewalk; that answer wasn't very satisfying but it was probably close to the best that she would get out of her dad.
"Okay." She replied quietly as the two continued their walk of silence.
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Blaise was sitting on the large couch in the Malfoy manor by the time that Draco and Natalie had gotten back.
"Hey mate, hey there Natalie" Blaise said, smiling at the pair, "Where did you two run off to?"
"We had lunch with my dance teacher." Natalie said, beaming.
Blaise's brow furrowed, "Dance teacher? You're in dance class?"
Natalie nodded, "Daddy let me join, can you believe it?" she asked with a grin before pecking her dad on the cheek and waving to Blaise before running upstairs, she paused and turned back to smile at Draco, "I think Hermione really liked you, Dad. But she had to leave, so you didn't get to know her that well. Sorry!" she said.
Blaise's eyes widened as Natalie hurried upstairs before he turned to Draco, "Hermione as in, Granger?"
Draco nodded.
Blaise let out a nervous laugh, running a hand through his dark hair and shaking his head, "You haven't seen her since, what? The end of seventh year?"
Draco, once again, nodded. Only this time, more regretfully.
"Well how was it?" Blaise asked, "You know, seeing her again."
Draco let out a breath of a laugh and shook his head, resting his forehead into the palm of his hand before slowly letting his hand drag down his face, "I cried."
Blaise shot him a blank expression, "You cried?" he asks flatly.
Draco, embarrassingly, nodded his head. The two of them sat down on the couch and Draco rested his head in his hands, as if he had a migrane.
"You, the Draco Malfoy, cried at the sight of his ex-girlfriend?"
"Not at the sight of her, when she left."
Blaise let out a faint chuckle, "She left you again?"
"The first time wasn't her fault, Blaise."
"Draco, mate, I may have never been a big fan of the little Gryffindor, but you were absolutely smitten with her and-"
"Smitten?" Draco cuts him off.
Blaise narrows his dark eyes at him before continuing, "you were in love with her and she left you. How is that not her fault?"
Draco jumped up from the couch, "Because of my father, that's why!" he suddenly burst out.
Blaise was taken aback, "What the hell did Lucius have to do with any of this?"
"Lucius had to do with all of this!" Draco exclaimed, punching his fist against a pillow that is sitting on the couch, "Hermione and I would be married now if it weren't for that ass!"
"I thought you two were forced to break up because you were betrothed to Pansy?" Blaise asked awkwardly.
"Exactly." Draco seethed, "He lied to me. He told me that our betrothal had been since birth, it hadn't. It had been since the moment he found out that Hermione was pregnant."
Blaise's jaw dropped, "Wait a minute…"
"When we found out Hermione was pregnant, we were beyond excited. We were finally going to have a family, Blaise, a real family."
"Well what happened?" Blaise asked confusingly.
"Lucius told me that I was betrothed to Parkinson, and that I would have to leave Hermione. I objected, immediately, and told him about Hermione being pregnant. And he threatened to hurt both Hermione and the unborn child unless I married Parkinson." He paused to check and see if Blaise was still listening; his best friend eyed him intently, giving him the signal that, yes, he was still listening. He continued, "I told Hermione that I would have to leave her. Her face," Draco paused, recalling the doe-eyed, heart-shattering expression that had been in Hermione's face when he had told her the horrible news, "held an expression that I will never forget. She cried for what felt like hours, and I couldn't do anything but cry right along with her. I held her and she clung to my chest until three in the morning, and by that point, my shirt was soaked with her tears. So I got up, kissed her on the forehead, and left. When I got back, Lucius told me that I would have to impregnate Pansy. So that next night, I did. We were married the next day, and I've hated it ever since."
Just as Blaise opens his mouth to insert a comment, Draco cuts him off.
"About three or four weeks into Pansy's pregnancy, I realized that I couldn't leave mine and Hermione's baby fatherless."
"So what did you do?" Blaise asked.
"I showed up at her doorstep. She nearly fainted when she saw me and actually began to cry. I explained to her how I couldn't leave her baby fatherless, so we decided that we could magically remove the egg from her, store it, and when the timing was right, I would insert it into Pansy's ovaries."
Blaise nearly gagged, sticking out his tongue and cringing, "Like a surrogate mother?"
Draco's eyes widened, "You've heard of surrogate mothers?"
"Terra's best friend is muggleborn, and she tells all about the muggle world."
Draco shrugs, "Well, yes. I guess that Pansy was kind of the surrogate mother then..." he said confusingly, "So after I retrieved the egg, and was getting ready to leave, I turned back and looked at Hermione. She had tears glistening in her eyes and a heartbroken expression on her face. So I hurried to her, grabbed her, and kissed her."
Blaise's jaw dropped, "You cheated on Pansy?"
Draco nodded, sitting back down on the couch, "Hermione cried and wrapped her arms around me and one thing led to another and we wound up on her bed."
Blaise chuckled and shook his head, "So you still wound up leaving a baby fatherless?"
Draco eyed him confusingly, "What? No. Hermione didn't get pregnant again."
Blaise sighed, "And thank God for that."
Draco rolled his eyes, "That was the last time I ever saw Hermione Jane Granger. Well, until tonight, that is."
Blaise shook his head in disbelief, "So what happened with the egg?"
Draco's eyes shifted to the ground just as Blaise's eyes widened, "You mean, Natalie-"
Draco cut him off, "Pansy Parkinson is not Natalie's mother. Hermione Granger is."
Blaise's eyes widened, "Does Pansy know?"
Draco shrugged, "I honestly have no idea. She's more than likely to dense to notice that Natalie looks nothing like her, and hardly like me."
Blaise chuckled and nodded, "I'll never look at that girl the same way again."
"Who? Hermione?"
Blaise shook his head, "Natalie."
Draco let out a sigh and ran a hand through his hair as he and Blaise sat in silence…a million thoughts running through each of their heads.
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Natalie Malfoy stared into the living room in shock.
She had never gone upstairs to her bedroom; she had been leaning against the wall to the kitchen the whole time.
She had heard everything.
She had tears glistening in her eyes as she looked in at Blaise and Draco.
Blaise glanced over first, noticing that his goddaughter was in tears, "Oh shit." He murmured, "Natalie-"
As soon as Natalie's name dropped from Blaise's lips, Draco's head whipped around to his tearful daughter. "Nat," he began.
Natalie shook her head at her father in disbelief before taking off up the stairs and slamming the door shut behind her.
She looked over at the photo sitting on her dresser, a photo of her family, before taking the entire photo (frame included) and hurling it out of her open window. She could hear the glass shattering as it the cool pavement that circled their house.
She then leaned down onto her bed, and cried.
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Ta da! Once again, I am beyond sorry about how long this update took!
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Lotsa love, degrassichick
¤Songs¤
Part-Time Lover by Stevie Wonder...and Nikko Smith...well, Kevin Covais too...ah! LoL
Wannabe by the Spice Girls
Falling for You by Busted
Scars by Papa Roach
True by Ryan Cabrera
Let Me Go by Three Doors Down
I Think I Love You by David Cassidy...and re-recorded by his daughter, Katie.