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Ready
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Sixty seconds.
Sixty seconds and she would know if her life was about to change forever. Was she ready? Was Draco ready? He told her often enough that he wanted to be a father, but did he want it now? Did he want it in eight months time? Telling her what he would do, how he would be different to his father, and how wonderful his life would become when he had a child of his own. It was a huge undertaking, a big responsibility. Were they mature enough to cope with what was coming?
Fifty seconds.
They had only been married for six months. It seemed too soon to be starting a family. Hermione had always imagined that she would spend the first few years living with her husband and then they would think about starting a family. It may sound a little selfish, but she wanted to have that time to relish her newlywed status till they encountered all that came with children.
Forty seconds.
It was a scary thought in a way to think that there was quite possible a baby growing inside of her. Granted it wouldn't be bigger than a grain of rice at the moment. It was still there. Soon she very well could be responsible for another little being. Gone were her days of irresponsibility! She giggled at that thought. She had never been irresponsible. This was a huge thing, she knew Draco would be ready, but was she?
Thirty seconds.
Why did this thing take so long? She should have got a test done at St Mungo's. That would have told her instantaneously if she was or not. But then it would have spread through the Wizarding world in a heartbeat that Hermione Malfoy was pregnant. And this was something she needed to tell Draco in person if she was. It would not do for him to find out from someone else.
Harry and Ron would more than likely not be happy about this. The hints that it was now possible to divorce in the Wizarding world had not gone un-noticed by her or Draco. It hurt her for Draco to have to deal with their feelings towards him. Old feelings die hard he told her constantly. Hermione surmised that they would have to put up with their attitude towards him forever. Maybe if she was pregnant, they would finally accept that Draco was a part of her life now, and they would need to get over their differences sooner rather than later. She could only hope that that would happen.
Twenty seconds.
The Wizarding community seemed to have moved on from the fact that Draco' father was a Death Eater. After Draco stepped up beside her at Order headquarters, it had been the beginning of a long path towards him being accepted as a part of the light side in the war against Voldemort. Some right up until the end didn't believe that he was on their side, they expected him to jump ship towards the end, laugh and say 'fooled youse all'. But he didn't, not that Hermione ever expected him to.
Twenty seconds.
She could see the sincerity in his eyes when he spoke to her about why he went their way. There was no chance in her mind that he would change his mind, or be fooling them. The way he spoke about life with his father, what it was like to grow up with your father as a devoted follower one of the most evil wizards to ever walk the earth, well when you saw the pain in his eyes. There was no doubt that he wanted nothing to do with his father.
Ten seconds.
This is it. Time to find out if she is pregnant.
Hermione turned the stick over that she had placed on the bathroom counter, taking a deep breath and squaring her shoulders she looked down at it.
"Oh my Merlin…"
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