When Draco came back from the game, he was extremely pleased. He walked in the tent with Alcaeus in his arms and saw Jade pacing back and forth, clutching a pillow close to her chest.
"Hey…is something wrong?" Draco asked setting Alcaeus down. Jade snapped towards Draco and gave him a nervous smile.
"No! No…We're, I'm fine." Jade said mentally beating herself for not acting calm and collected.
Draco gave her an odd look and walked up to her. He stopped a few inches away from her and touched her shoulder. "Something's the matter." Draco said.
Jade took a deep breath and felt the stress in her mind slowly settle. "I'm just still in shock about the whole tribute thing." Jade said.
Draco grinned and let out a laugh. He hugged her and Jade hugged back tightly, not wanting to let go. She hoped he felt it right now, that she was carrying a life inside of her that had something to do with him. She loved him deeply right now and didn't care if he would respond or be feeling uneasy if she told him, so she did.
"I love you. I love you very much Draco and I just wanted to tell you that right now." Jade mumbled. She felt him hug her even tighter and let out a deep breath, rubbing her back. Jade let go and smiled at him before leaving to get Alcaeus ready for bed.
Throughout the whole night, Jade thought and thought about how she should approach the subject to Draco. She couldn't even sleep properly, feeling paranoid that she'd sleep on her stomach. She placed a hand on her stomach and turned around to Draco who slept on his back with a hand on her arm.
A few hours later Jade got up from not being able to sleep to make breakfast. As she started on breakfast, she saw Alcaeus walk into the kitchen, rubbing his eyes, his hair a mess. "Hey sweetie, did you sleep all right?" Jade asked seeing him nod. Jade picked him up and placed him on the counter."What do you want to eat today?" Jade asked.
"The pancakes…with strawberry and banana toppings with whipped cream. Will you make hash browns too?" Alcaeus asked.
"For you, anything." Jade said quickly summoning the whipped cream. She topped his pancakes with the strawberry and banana topping and told him that she'd be sending the hash browns.
"Thank you." Alcaeus said as Jade set his breakfast on the table in front of the television. Jade went back to making breakfast and saw Draco walking in, smoothing his hair back.
"It's so early." Draco said crossing his arms, watching Jade mix a batter of pancake mix. Jade couldn't help but smile seeing him look so sleepy.
"It's only 8 in the morning." Jade said.
"I don't have anything to do but to show up in the game today. So I'm going to sleep." Draco said tugging Jade along.
"Sweetie, you can go and sleep, I'm not coming." Jade said.
"Why not?" Draco asked.
"I couldn't sleep last night. Still don't feel like sleeping." Jade said.
"What's wrong?" Draco asked. He walked close to her and ran his hands through her hair.
"Nothing…I just couldn't sleep…that's all." Jade said.
"Well if you don't want to tell me that's fine. But I just wanted you to know that I'm not an idiot. I've been noticing you acting strange since yesterday. You don't have to tell me but don't lie to me. All right?" Draco asked.
Jade was silent. She opened her mouth to counter his argument but closed her mouth again. Draco sighed, turned around and left. Jade stood there knowing that he wasn't making things any easier for her to tell him. In a couple of minutes she saw him wear a shirt and leave to go outside.
"Wait! Draco, where are you going?" Jade asked.
"Check on the schedule and see if anything is wrong." Draco answered.
"What about breakfast?" Jade asked.
"Eat without me." He said leaving the tent. Jade suddenly felt incredible anger for him leaving like that. She threw the metal spoon as hard as she could against the wall and knocked down the bowl of pancake mix. She closed the stoves and walked out of the kitchen leaving behind a bewildered Alcaeus Malfoy. Jade sat on her bed, sobbing quite hard. These extreme mood swings felt horrible yet relieving all at the same time. The rage she felt, along with the stress and worry about having a child had started to itself from these sudden outbursts.
The door creaked slowly and Jade turned around to see Alcaeus watching Jade fearfully. Jade quickly wiped her eyes and told Alcaeus to come in. "Are you all right?" Alcaeus asked standing in front of Jade who nodded.
"I just think I'm crazy but this is completely fine. I'm actually all right." Jade said. Alcaeus wrapped his arms around Jade and hugged her until she calmed down. After a while, Jade went back to the kitchen and fixed something to eat. After eating, Jade went back to the kitchen and went to clean the mess she made on the floor.
As Jade picked up the mess, Draco walked in the tent and stopped to see the batter of pancake mix all over the floor. "How did this happen?" Draco asked.
"I think it fell." Jade said blandly.
Draco picked up on her dark humor and knew that she was angry. He after all, heard her throw down the spoon and deliberately knock down something else from outside of the tent. He quietly watched her throw the pieces of the bowl away and mutter an incantation to clean the floor.
Jade felt her stomach bubble with the breakfast she had just moments before. "Oh no, not again." Jade whispered. She quickly walked towards the bathroom and threw up in the toilet. She heard the quick footsteps from Draco and heard him open the door. Without a word, Draco gathered her hair and held it away from her face as she felt everything in her stomach move out of her and into the toilet. When Jade was finally done, Draco helped her up and washed her face. He gently helped her to the bed and sat her down, wiping her face.
"What did you eat?" Draco asked. Jade looked up and felt horrible seeing him look so concerned and worried about her.
"I just want to sleep." Jade said. He nodded and placed pillows behind her back so she would be comfortable. Jade lied down and felt Draco pull the covers on her. He sat next to her, watching her close her eyes and drift off to sleep, wondering what was wrong with her.
After a few hours of sleep, Jade ate to her heart's content and prepared to leave to go home. Draco asked if she was all right and Jade assured him that she was quite fine, receiving a few glares from Hermione.
"Why can't you just tell him the truth?" Hermione asked.
"I don't know honestly. I will though. I will tell him soon, just not now." Jade said. The way Jade and Draco hardly ever spoke to each other made things harder for her to tell him. They both knew that they were still angry at each other, but Jade's grudge couldn't hold for long.
After coming home and working two straight days without hearing or seeing Draco, Jade couldn't go on another day without breaking the cold shoulder.
"Name?" Draco's secretary asked.
"Jade Harper." Jade answered. Draco's secretary leaned a bit forward and gave Jade a top to bottom look.
"He's out of his office; he'll be back in a few minutes. Why don't you come back another time?" her secretary asked.
"I'll sit and wait for him." Jade said sitting down. The secretary looked away distastefully and went back doing her work. Jade waited for about a half an hour until she heard Draco coming back.
"Done with the files?" Draco asked his secretary who shot up and nodded vigorously. She handed him a red file and smiled mercilessly, scaring Draco a bit.
"Oh and you have a visitor." The secretary said.
Draco turned around to see Jade stand up and smile nervously. "Hey." Jade said seeing Draco lower his folder.
"Hi." Draco answered.
"Can we…talk?" Jade asked.
Draco turned around to see his secretary frown at this moment. "Hold all calls and appointments." Draco told her.
"Yes…sir." His secretary said.
He nodded towards his office and Jade followed him into it. She had never been to his office before. It was so clean and stylish with modern looking lamps, desks with a small painting hanging on a wall. "Have you been busy?" Jade asked seeing him nod hesitantly.
"A bit here and there." Draco said.
"Oh…well I was walking by and thought I'd just drop in and say hi since I haven't seen you for a few days." Jade said feeling her cheeks grow warm.
"Thank you." Draco said seeing her nod.
"And that I missed you. And that I wanted to apologize if I had said or done anything stupid to anger you. Whatever it is we're not talking about…I hope we can just forget about it...or maybe talk it out." Jade said seeing him stand there silently. "You know, you can just tell me that you've ended this relationship. I wouldn't have been here wasting your time by trying to fix things." Jade said starting to feel extremely upset.
She looked up to see the amusement on his face and thought it was best for her to leave. Jade opened the door to leave but felt Draco grab her back and lock the door.
"You are one strange woman. You just stand there, not even letting me explain myself. You thought I'd end whatever we have just because over a stupid breakfast spat? Jade, you were sick that day and I didn't want to stress you out anymore than you had been that day. I wanted to give you space to breathe for a few days so you would calm down. I never ended anything." He said kissing her temple.
"Well you could have at least sent me an owl! Bloody jerk." Jade said hitting his arm. She hugged him tightly and pulled back, kissing him. It felt like forever since they had last touched each other so intimately. Jade smoothed her hands behind his hair and felt him place her on his desk. "Here? Now? On your desk?" Jade asked.
"You'll want me to come to work every single day." He said helping her out of her shirt.
"No…yeah…no way! Oh my God! She said that….shit, I have to go, my boss is coming." The secretary said putting her phone down. It had been nearly an hour since they were in there and they looked so happy together, she wanted to puke.
"I'm taking the rest of the day off Anne; go home after finishing processing my files." Draco said leaving with Jade.
"Yes…sir." Anne the secretary said.
Jade and Draco reached to Jade's flat and the two spent their time together, talking. Jade watched Draco talk to her, looking extremely relaxed and happy to be there with her.
"Jade?" Draco asked. Jade blinked and shook her head, apologizing for losing focus. "It's all right." Draco said. There was a pause and Jade cleared her throat.
"Draco, I've been meaning to speak to you about something for a long time now." Jade said seeing him look up.
"About?" Draco asked.
Jade steadied herself and clutched the sheets so she wouldn't be so anxious. "I'm pregnant."
Draco's face fell, feeling his heart sink down to the pits of his stomach. "When did you find out?" Draco asked quietly.
"The night before the argument." Jade told him. She at least wanted a reaction, but he looked stone cold.
"How far along?" Draco asked.
"I'm not sure…a month perhaps." Jade said.
Draco only sat there, looking incredibly pale and shaken. "Draco?" Jade asked. Draco stood up and ran his hands through his hair. Jade got up and placed a hand on his shoulder, trying to calm him. He turned around and hugged her tightly.
"I don't want you to have this child." He said after a long moment.
"What?" Jade asked pulling away.
"I don't want you to have this child." Draco repeated.
Jade let him go and stepped back. "Why not?" Jade asked.
"I don't want a child. We don't need a child." Draco said.
"Wow…you just gave selfish another meaning didn't you? Just because you don't want this child, you think I'll jump right on that and cut him out so easily yeah?" Jade asked heatedly.
"You don't understand me." Draco explained.
"I think I do Draco. You're telling me to abort this child because we don't need it. We probably don't need this child but it needs us." Jade said.
"No it doesn't! It doesn't need you if it's aborted before it's born! I'm not asking you…I'm telling you Jade, to get rid of this child." Draco said sternly.
"Get lost. Don't tell me what I can do. I'm giving birth to this child whether you like it or not." Jade said.
"I lost Pansy after Alcaeus, Jade. And I'm not losing you. I don't want anything to happen to you." Draco said hoping that she'd understand. He was telling her how much he meant to her and hoped that she would change her mind.
"Is that what this is all about? Draco, nothing will happen to me, I promise." Jade said seeing him shake his head.
"I'm not a five year old kid that you can fool Jade. You don't know what'll happen to you and you can't tell me what you think can't happen because it will." Draco said.
"Draco, you don't even know what will happen to me! You're getting paranoid! There are a lot of women out there that do have children you know." Jade said.
"And a lot of them die right after!" Draco countered. Jade let out a deep breath and shook her head.
"Draco, will you please listen to me-"
"I can't do this Jade. I can't fight with you. Not anymore. I've lost my wife right after she gave birth to Alcaeus and I don't want to lose you now. I don't want to be by myself again. You don't know how hard it was for me to open back up and try to trust someone else again. Now that I have someone I care about, I'm going to full measures to stop anything from happening." Draco said.
"I've said it a hundred times Draco and I will say it again. Nothing will happen to me! Do you want to visit a Healer? We'll make an appointment tomorrow and see if there will be any complications with me. Just please don't do this to me Draco. I'm carrying your baby…our baby, please don't tell me to-"
"I'll give you a choice. Think carefully about it…" Draco said shakily. "If you decide to keep this child, you'll never see or hear from me again." Draco said.
Jade was extremely caught off guard by his threat. Anger quickly spewed throughout her body and there was only one thing that Jade did. Jade slapped Draco across the face. She stood there knowing that he probably might charge at her full throttle, slap her back, throw her out of the window, choke her to death but he only glared at her before leaving.
Jade stood there for a few seconds, realizing that she had done something incredibly stupid. She ran out of her flat towards Draco and begged him, pulled him, apologizing profusely. "Draco, please don't leave! I'm sorry! Draco!" Jade screamed seeing him rip himself off of her. He billowed out of the building and left Jade kneeling on the floor, begging for him to come back.