I am finally finished with this wonderful fic. I cant wait until you all read the ending...it makes me want to upload the whole story in one shot but i shall not do such a horrible thing! hehe but i promise you all will have it soon enough! Now...back to the show!
The doorbell rang. The doorbell rang again and even more frantically. Jade could tell how frustrated he was by the consistent ringing of the doorbell. She sighed happily and turned around, hugging her comforters close to her chest.
Before she fell asleep, she removed her engagement ring and placed it on the side table drawer, reminding herself to give it back to its rightful owner. After a few hours later, Jade woke up to get ready for her art classes and after that was over, she would run over to her small organization for the children she lived for.
Rose and Hugo were dropped off at Jade's daycare because of Hermione's contractions. The baby was scheduled to be delivered a week after but it seemed as if it was determined to get out as quickly as possible. Jade informed Ron that he would have nothing to worry about and that Rose and Hugo were in good hands.
Jade sat the children down to read to them."The Warlock's Hairy Heart." Jade read.
"Oh I don't like this story." A little girl said shaking her head.
"Why don't you like it Winona?" Jade asked.
"Because it's very sad. I don't like the Warlock." Winona said.
"It's all right isn't it? I think you will however, like another fairy tale. It's a muggle fairy tale, one of the most famous stories in the muggle world." Jade said returning the book back to the shelf. She summoned another book from the shelf and showed the cover to the children.
"Cinder-ella? What's that?" a little boy asked.
"The muggle fairy tale, duh." Another little boy said.
"Once upon a time…" Jade read. For the next few minutes, Jade animatedly told the enchanting story of 'Cinderella' while the children all made faces of anger, shock and laughter.
Draco looked around the small square building and opened the door and peeked in to see Jade sitting on the floor, reading to the children in front of her. There was something very warm about this scene. The way she read to them and built up their anticipation, making the children gasp and sit on the edge of their seats or on this case, their toes.
Draco looked down to his son who also watched Jade with a bright smile, clutching on to his hand. He looked up to his father and said with a smile.
"Jade read this to me!" he whispered.
Draco smiled and the two watched Jade finish the rest of the story. "The end! They lived happily ever after." Jade said.
The girls all squealed and the boys smiled at each other, admitting that it was in fact one of the best stories they heard. "All right loves, Samantha bought food for all of you! Go on and no pushing!" Jade said as the kids got up and ran towards the table.
Jade drew up her knees and watched the children grab finger foods from Samantha who tried to be as organized as she could. Rose ran towards Jade and crashed into her, hugging her tightly. Jade tickled Rose and Rose squealed and squirmed in her arms. "Be careful Mum." Jade said as Rose ran off. Jade got up and brushed her pants off and turned around to see Draco standing there with Alcaeus.
"Oh…Alcaeus!" Jade said. Alcaeus let go of his father's hand and ran towards Jade. He jumped into her arms and screamed when she swung him around. "I missed you!" Jade said brushing his hair from his eyes.
"I missed you too." Alcaeus said quietly putting his head on her shoulder. Jade hugged him tightly and waved to Draco who gave her a small nod. "Thank you for coming, and bringing Alcaeus." Jade said setting Alcaeus down.
"No thank you." Draco said seeing her look at him questioningly.
"For what?" Jade asked.
"For not hexing me last night." Draco said. Jade paused for a moment, not understanding what he quite meant. Suddenly the moment of them kissing before he left last night, caused her to blush furiously.
Draco let out a small chuckle and looked down to Alcaeus who still held Jade's hand and watched the kids play together.
"Alcaeus! Come here! Hello Mr. Malfoy!" Samantha said. Draco responded back with a polite hello and encouraged Alcaeus to run to Samantha and play with the rest of the children. Alcaeus walked off to get something to eat and Jade offered a seat for Draco, who took his cloak off and sat down, watching his child associate with other kids. He was aware that Alcaeus didn't have any friends and couldn't make any during his primary school. He was picked on and bullied by almost everyone, causing him to hate each and every single one of them. Now, he saw Alcaeus sit with a group of boys who ate and talked energetically.
"You do this every day?" Draco asked. Jade looked up from her papers and shook her head.
"I'm off on Saturdays. Every other day I'm either here or teaching." Jade said.
"What do you teach?" Draco asked. Jade handed him a sketch of a woman and watched him take in every detail of it.
"This is beautiful." Draco said looking up.
"Grenier Faran, 7th standard. He sketched his mother and wrote that this is what he dreamed of her to be, since she passed away a few months after he was born. There were no pictures of her left behind; no memory of her for him to hold back, just the image he conjured up of what his mother should have looked like." Jade said softly.
Draco silently placed the picture down. "You teach art?" he asked seeing her smile.
"Guilty." Jade said.
"I guess we both have more in common than we thought." Draco said. Jade couldn't help but smile and look back down to her assignments. She felt him watching her and her heart started to soar as she thought about kissing him again.
A few minutes later, Alcaeus walked by with a couple of friends of his and started to draw. Draco watched over Alcaeus's work and decided to draw something on his own. When Jade was finished with her work, she gathered them up and placed them in a folder and stretched. She curiously watched Alcaeus and a couple of other boys drawing and Draco making bold strokes on his paper.
"Are you drawing?" Jade asked. Draco looked up and looked back down again.
"Look closer, I'm dancing." He said sarcastically. Jade shook her head and walked away to see Samantha sit with all the girls and create a play. Rose grabbed Jade's hand and dragged her back to the table and sat on her lap as Rose drew. An hour later, the parents came back and took their children away and thanked Jade once again for taking care of them. Jade bid the last of the children and parents goodbye and helped Samantha clean up.
"Do you think you can come over tonight for dinner?" Jade asked seeing Samantha shake her head.
"I'm sorry Jade but my parents threw a party that I can't refuse. It's bad enough I forgot their anniversary." Samantha said. Jade saw Samantha out the door and turned to Draco who went to say goodbye.
"Do we have to go? Can Jade come to the Manor with us Father?" Alcaeus asked politely.
"Depends what Jade says. Would you?" Draco asked.
"I actually have two kids to look after. Hermione and Ron are having a baby and I have to take them home. Why don't you two come over right now to have dinner with us? If you're not busy of course." Jade quipped.
"I wouldn't want you to go through the trouble with having us over." Draco said.
"No, not at all. I'd actually love to have you both over. Please?" Jade asked.
"Please?" Rose asked.
"Peas! I love peas!" Hugo said.
Jade laughed, properly holding Hugo on her hip. Draco agreed to go and they all apparated off to Jade's flat. Jade opened the door and let the children in, seeing them run in.
"It's the veletision!" Rose said jumping on Jade's sofa. Hugo ran and also jumped on the sofa, watching television with his sister.
"Wow…what is that?" Alcaeus asked eyeing the television with curiosity.
"It's a muggle device. Look." Jade said turning the television on with the remote.
"That's an odd looking wand." Alcaeus said.
"Yes well, it's an essential element in some lives, like the air we need to breathe; some people need the remote to live." Jade said. Alcaeus sat down and watched a program with Hugo and Rose. He had never been introduced to cartoons and found them quite fascinating. Their movement in a flat rectangular thing was something that Alcaeus couldn't understand, but enjoyed it all the same. There was nothing behind it but the picture came out perfectly as if it were alive.
"Where's the bathroom?" Draco asked. Jade led him to the guest bedroom and showed him to the bathroom.
"Enjoy." Jade said seeing him smirk.
"I've never heard of that before." Draco said.
"I'm sure you've heard it many times." Jade said. She left back into the kitchen and started to prepare for dinner. A few minutes later, Draco walked out of the bedroom and near the kitchen to see Jade slicing onions.
"Need any help?" Draco asked seeing Jade shake her head.
"No thank you. I'd hate to see you burn my kitchen down." Jade said.
"You'd lick the food right out of my hands, my food is that good." Draco said.
Jade grinned and lifted a hot pan. The pan's handle gave away and the pan fell, going straight to Jade's foot. Draco quickly grabbed the pan from falling on Jade and threw it aside, jerking his hand.
"Merlin, give me your hand." Jade said taking his hand. She walked him to her bedroom and sat him down as she fetched the salve for burns and a bandage for his hand. She opened the jar of the yellow salve and applied it on the burn marks. She blew lightly, cooling the working salve and seeing the relief on his face.
"It works right away." Draco said.
"I'm so sorry. I couldn't have been any stupider to use that useless piece of crap to cook." Jade said wrapping his hand in bandage.
"It's not your fault." Draco said.
Jade finished wrapping his hand and had her hands on it. He reached out with his free hand and touched one of her hands with his. He intertwined his fingers through hers and leaned in kiss her as gently as she healed his hand and heart. Jade twisted her body on her back and felt Draco break the kiss looking deeply into her eyes. Jade's hands traveled to his neck and her thumbs rubbed against his jaw and a sensitive part under his ear, making him smile.
"Ticklish are we?" Jade asked tracing her fingers from his neck down to his shoulders. Draco kissed her again and this time, he applied a bit more intensity, causing Jade to reel in madness. The small sighs she made in between kisses, the small moans she made got Draco to adore her more. Her responses made every part of his body light up and prepare to take everything to the next step. He slipped his hand under her shirt and caressed the smooth and flat skin of her stomach. Jade's stomach couldn't help but flutter as he gently stroked it. The two stared at each other, as their hands worked themselves, not bothering to look where they were going. Draco leaned down and kissed her stomach as Jade covered her face with a hand and smiled. It tickled, every time he kissed her stomach. She giggled as he did it and Draco made her scream and laugh when he pressed his mouth on her stomach and blew. "Draco!" Jade yelled. The two burst into laughter before returning back to the living room to check on the children.
Jade was halfway done with dinner until the doorbell rang. She opened the door to an excited and glowing looking father. "Ron!" Jade said.
"It's a boy! A boy!" Ron said hugging Jade.
"Congratulations! How's the baby and Hermione doing?" Jade asked as Rose and Hugo greeted their father.
"They're both doing amazing. There were no complications and the baby took no longer than an hour to slip right out." Ron said hugging his kids.
"What did we get?!" Rose asked.
"You both have a new brother." Ron said. Rose and Hugo celebrated, extremely excited at the fact that they had a brother. Ron stood up and saw Draco Malfoy, sitting on the sofa, next to him a dark haired and pale child.
"Malfoy?" Ron asked. Jade turned around and turned back to Ron.
"Oh yes. I'm sure you both remember each other from Hogwarts. Draco this is Ron Weasley, Ron this is Draco Malfoy and his son Alcaeus." Jade said pointing to Alcaeus.
Draco stood up and shook hands with Ron. "Congratulations." Draco said seeing Ron nod, still a bit uncomfortable that Draco was in their midst.
"Thanks." Ron said.
"All right, sit down; I'm almost finished with dinner." Jade said leaving.
Ron sat down with Draco and the kids and the two slowly started to talk to each other about post Hogwarts life.
The doorbell rang again and Jade went to open it to see Ginny and Harry standing there. "Oh hi. Come in." Jade said.
"Hi, we're here to pick Rose and Hugo up." Ginny said standing outside Jade's door.
"No it's all right, they're fine over here." Jade said as Ginny shook her head.
"We don't want you to take the trouble of handling two kids. I'm their Aunt, Ron is my brother, and I can take care of them with Harry." Ginny said.
"I know you're their Aunt and Ron is your brother but Hermione and Ron are my best friends and I'm their Godmother." Jade said.
"Are you cooking?" Harry asked.
Jade looked at Harry and nodded. "Yes, would you like to have dinner here?" Jade asked.
Harry went to walk in but Ginny pulled him back."I'd appreciate it if you gave me my niece and nephew." Ginny said firmly.
"Ron, would you please come here and see who came to see you?" Jade asked. She didn't want to fight Ginny Weasley. She had no reason to. Ron stood up and went to the door to see Ginny as Jade opened the door wider.
"Ron?" Ginny asked hugging her brother.
"We had a boy." Ron told them. Harry grinned and clapped his best friend's shoulder, congratulating him.
"What did you name him?" Ginny asked as they all walk inside and sat down, greeting Rose, Hugo, Alcaeus and Draco Malfoy. "What are you doing here?" Ginny asked.
"I followed you both here because I couldn't get enough of you all in Hogwarts." Draco said.
Ron snorted and Harry chuckled making Ginny giggle. "Well that's the sweetest thing I think anyone has ever done for me." Ginny said.
"I heard there were a few problems going on in the Quidditch playoffs this season." Harry said to Draco who nodded.
"The Holyhead Harpies and Chudley Cannons may not be qualified for this year's World Cup." Draco said.
"Blimey! Why not?!" Ron asked.
"Excuse me, but I'm going to go home." Ginny said getting up.
"What? Why?" Ron asked.
Ginny flashed her brother a look, but being Ron Weasley, Ron didn't get it. "What?" Ron asked.
Harry turned to Ron and explained quietly what she meant. "She doesn't want to see Dean." Harry said.
"Gin, will you get over it? He's marrying Jade. You're going to marry Harry one day, everyone moves on." Ron said.
Draco stood quiet. He wasn't still sure where he stood with Jade but he was hoping that Jade was in fact not marrying Dean.
"All right so I'm done with dinner and…where are you both going?" Jade asked seeing Ginny standing next to the door, her hand on the doorknob.
"I just have some work to do." Ginny said twisting the doorknob.
"Liar." Ron said.
Ginny threw him a glare and tried to unlock the door. "When does Dean usually come home? Perhaps we'll leave before then." Harry said.
Jade looked at Ginny who fiddled with the doorknob. Jade sighed and threw her head back, closing her eyes. "He'll never be home." Jade said returning to them.
"Huh?" Ron grunted.
"I'm not seeing him anymore." Jade said looking at Draco who watched her with a glint of nervousness playing in his eyes. When he heard those words come out of her mouth, he felt a great relief washing through him. Everyone stared at Jade, with their mouths hanging open.
"How…how did that happen?" Ginny asked.
Before Jade could reply, there was a ring from the doorbell. Ginny opened it and paled to see Dean Thomas standing there, who look extremely surprised and caught off guard to see her. Ginny walked away from him and sat next to Draco who was on the farthest side of the sofa from Dean.
Dean looked around to see Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Draco Malfoy and three kids sitting there, including the one that gave him that head butt that knocked the wind out of him. Right now, he didn't seem so pleased to see him but just glared dangerously at him.
"What do you want?" Jade asked.
"Babe you haven't opened the doors or answered my owls." Dean said walking in.
Jade stopped him from walking in. "Wait right there." Jade said. She walked off to the bedroom for a second and walked back into the living room, towards the door. She handed Dean the ring he gave her and told him to leave.
"For what?!" Dean shouted.
"You should know perfectly well." Jade hissed. "You have always treated me like scum Dean. You could have cared less about me. You made me wear that disgusting thing to a party where you permitted anyone to maul me over. If Draco wasn't there, I wouldn't know where I would be right now." Jade said.
"Oh…I see. It's Malfoy isn't it?" Dean asked.
"Is it Dean? Was it Draco when you told your best friend to put his hands all over me? Was It Draco when you wouldn't spend just one day with me, instead go around club hunting with that fucked friend of yours?" Jade asked.
Dean grabbed Jade's throat and squeezed it tightly. As soon as Draco saw this, he sprung from his seat and flew towards the door towards Dean, who threw Jade down and started to run.
Harry and Ron also ran out to help Draco track down Dean and beat him to a bloody pulp.
Alcaeus went to see why his father, ran out the way he did but felt Ginny hold him back. "Sweetheart, will you please keep an eye on Rose and Hugo?" Ginny asked. Alcaeus nodded and Ginny ran outside to help Jade.