A/N: I'm so sorry I waited so long to update but I was on vacation and was busy with choosing from all my options of classes to take for my Freshman year of High school. Please forgive me and read on.
Disclaimer: I keep forgetting to put these things in oh well I'm pretty sure you all know I'm not J.k. fulfilling my DMHG writing urges. Also I don't own the name of the chapter it's the title of a movie which I'm also sure you all know
Hermione's P.O.V. , like always ( or most of the time at least )
I was just waking up and was not too happy about it. I was exhausted from the lack of sleep I had gotten last night due to being extremely nervous about today. Today was the day Draco and I would meet each others parents. I begrudgingly groaned and pulled myself out of bed. I searched threw my drawers looking for something classy, sophisticated, and pretty but not too uptight. I really wanted to look presentable and make a good impression today.
Finally and with triumph I pulled a pair of brown khakis and a light pink V- neck shirt with a brown jacket to match the khakis out of my seemingly bottomless drawer. Then I moved over to the closet approaching it with caution, shoes always took me the longest to pick out. I rummaged around in the closet for a while before pulling out a pair of brown high heels with a pink bow on the side, it was a dainty bow, and not a big and gaudy one. I also pulled out a pair of lacy panties and a bra to match.
I walked into the bathroom and turned on the shower letting the drops of water race down my skin as I washed and started to let my mind wander. I wondered what it would be like to see my real parents, I mean I had never met the people before. How would they act? How would I act? How would Draco act? Most of all would the meeting in the end turn out okay? So many questions were running through my head. Then I remembered that I wasn't just meeting my family I was meeting Narcissa, Draco's mother as well.
Okay, I told myself you need to think of something else, this is far too stressful. At that thought I remembered the prophecy and the part that said Draco and I would create a light of our own. I still wondered what that meant but I would postpone asking Dumbledor till I got back from the meetings with my parents and Dracos' mother.
I stepped out of the shower, dried off put deoderant on, and got dressed. I looked at myself in the mirror as I slipped the heels on, my hair was no longer frizzy or bushy but fell down my back in sleek cascading waves and my teeth were now perfectly straight. I smiled at the way I had changed over time. I wondered what married life would be like with Draco as I brushed my teeth, with a minty toothpaste.
He had been quite nice and caring towards me lately, and I believe him when he says that the hatred he had for me and my friends was all an act to please Lucius.
I really am starting to like him or as absurd as it sounds maybe love him. I don't really know what I'm supposed to feel right now, he went from enemy status to fiancee', practically overnight. Well I thought I better get to the Great Hall for some breakfast before Draco and I leave, all I'm doing here is confusing myself even further. I opened the door and then walked towards the Great Hall, as I was walking I saw Blaise and walked up towards him.
"Hi Blaise I said, he answered with a friendly hello, are you almost ready to meet mum and dad. I'm really nervous but I'm ready except I haven't eaten breakfast yet. That's okay he said you don't need to we're all going to eat breakfast at the Zabini Manor, you'll love the manor it's about the same size as the Malfoy Manor. I gasped in surprise I hadn't thought that the manor was going to be that grand. Blaise smiled and said follow me I'll take you to the carriage".
He led me outside to a magnificent purple, yellow, green, and red carriage ( Blaise said the Zabinis were from all different houses which explained why we were twins yet he is in Slytherin and I am in Griffindor.) I also noticed that Draco was already inside waiting for us. I climbed inside and Blaise and I exchanged hello and other such pleasantries with each other. A minute later I felt the carriage lift from the ground and as Blaise and Draco told me I had failed to notice the wings attached to it.
I didn't like flying usually but I guess why it seemed quite pleasant to me now is because I wasn't flying on some type of magical creature. I smiled as I remembered flying on the hippogriff with Harry and Sirius then teared up as I remembered Sirius falling back into the veil and how destroyed Harry, Ron, and I had been, but most of all Harry. Draco and Blaise seeing me tear up immediately asked what was wrong.
I answered that "I was just remembering Sirius's death at the hand of Bellatrix. Draco nodded knowingly and said my mother isn't anything like Narcissa. I had made a confused face and he said oh you don't know Bellatrix is my mother's sister, my aunt. I said oh I knew but I had just forgotten. Blaise announced that we were preparing to land on the gargantuan Zabini lawn. I smiled and said time to meet the parents".
We landed gently and Draco held the carriage door open for me to climb out along with them. I walked across the freshly mowed and sloping lawn with Blaise and Draco and then proceeded to head towards the house, if you could call it that, it was more like a mansion. Blaise held the heavy oak doors open for us to step inside, after we were in the mansion Blaise led us to what I later found out was the dining area.
I looked inside the spacious white room and found a man with brown hair and blue eyes and a woman with black hair and brown eyes. Blaise announced Draco and I as if we were royalty he said "Sir Draco Malfoy of Slytherin house and Lady Hermione Zabini of Griffindor house". We all laughed at that and then Blaise bowed. It appeared that my brother and Draco's best friend was a comic.
My parents as they obviously were came over to me and said "Hermione it has been so long and you have grown into a beautiful young woman. at this I smiled and said thank you while blushing at the attention I was receiving. My father asked if Draco and I had already heard of the prophecy concerning us. I answered yes we have Dumbledor informed us of it. Even before I could get the words out of my mouth Draco spoke them for me when he asked what does it mean in the prophecy when it says we will create a light of our own"?
At this question my mother and father exchanged glances. They answered by saying "well... um... you see it means you and Hermione will create a baby together. Draco and I exchanged glances of our own. I was the first to speak and said is there any more to this?I figured that I wouldn't get just half of the information but all of it. My mother said yes, in fact, there is you must conceive this child by a certain time".
Draco asked for me "when specifically is the time we have till to conceive a child?
By Valentines Day" my father answered. When Draco and I heard this both our jaws dropped considerably. The wedding was October the 31st and we had to conceive a child by February the 25th. That only allowed us less than 3 months, which was definitely not a lot of time. I couldn't quite grasp the idea that I would be a mother in a few months. I'm so young, I'm only 17, I thought to myself.
Draco's P.O.V.
I'm I'm going to be a... father. I've always liked children and wanted to have some one day, but I never thought that that day was only months away. I've learned to get to know Hermione and ended up falling for her but ... children so soon. I vowed to myself right then and there that I would never treat any child of mine like my father treated me. Also I vowed that I would try to be the best husband to Hermione and the best father to our soon to be conceived child.
Then I suddenly thought of something and voiced it aloud. "Why are we still getting married if Voldemort was the cause of our betrothal and he is now dead I asked?
Hermione's mother was the one to answer this question and she said yes he was the cause and he is defeated now, but there are still evil forces rising that are most likely his deatheaters but could also be something else".
"The reason we know there will be a Final War is because many seers, psychics, tarot card readers, and tea leaf readers all have predicted it along with the rising force. Also a prophecy about it was made and was recently discovered, it said an evil of the century is struck down by the most obvious, but a dark, ominous force is rising and when it collides with the light, pure magic there will be war".
"It also states that among the fighters will be a young man and a young woman wise beyond there years that will determine the outcome of the Final War that decides everything". I looked out a large window that was pouring sunlight into the mansion and saw the clear, blue sky and I knew then that this was my destiny and I was dreading it yet looking forward to it. At least this would make life a lot more interesting than the humdrum of daily life.
I would never be bored again who could be when they would become a father at 17 and fight in a Final War between Light and Dark and completely effect the outcome to change the wizarding world for the better or for the worse. We all sat down as Hermione's mother announced Breakfast. I looked at the fruit and muffins on my plate longingly before devouring them quickly.
Hermione looked over at me and I could see she was trying to not spit the orange juice she had in her mouth everywhere from laughing. I really couldn't keep the thoughts of our predetermined destiny from my head but that was fine, I enjoyed those kind of thoughts. After we were done eating Mr. and Mrs. Zabini told stories of Hermione as a baby, informed her on what she had missed, and she informed them on what they had missed.
It was really nice to this happy reunion. I was happy that my soon to be bride was happy if that makes sense. Oh well I thought, love never makes sense. I can't believe at the age of 17 I'm in love, but I'm certainly happy about about it now. I asked what time it was and Mr. Zabini said that it was 11:45. I said to Hermione "we have to go my mother said for us to meet her at 12:00".
She asked if she could bring her brother and parents along, as well. I said sure our parents are friends, anyway. We exited the house and walked back across the lawn and into the carriage. In a short while we had arrived at the magnificent Malfoy Mansion. We entered the house and said hello to mother. She offered us some tea and we all sat down in the foyer.
She said to Hermione how beautiful she was and other such comments. Hermione being the polite person she is responded with a thank you and compliments in my mother's direction. From the looks of it we would all make a nice family, everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves.
My mother eventually got down to business though, and explained to Hermione that she was in no way a supporter of the dark side. She also said that the only reason she married Lucius was because she was forced to be her parents, but she did make sure to include that he was nice when the dark arts were not involved and she truly was in love with him. Though she wished she wasn't sometimes.
Hermione seemed okay with my mother and her situation with my father. I think that this whole thing has taught us that you can fall in love with the most unlikely people. Hermione and my mother started talking about wedding plans. The only part I caught was that the Brides Maid's dresses were to be lilac in color and she wanted the flowers to be roses and casablanca lilies.
I didn't much care about the wedding arrangements I figured that to be the brides area. I really couldn't have ever imagined Hermione and I loving each other as we do before this whole ordeal. Maybe just maybe it was our destiny to be with each other I thought.
Hermione's P.O.V.
I love him I really do I thought to myself as we left the Malfoy Manor maybe just maybe it is our destiny to be with each other like no one has been before or ever will be. Love such a simple notion yet such a complex thing in the tangible world I thought before drifting off to sleep later that night to dream of my future with Draco.
A/N: Next chapter will be out as soon as I can manage with my recently more hectic life. It won't take forever though I promise. The next chapter will contain an angry red head, a smitten blonde, a confused black haired boy, and a brunette caught in the middle.
