Jade was released from the hospital the next day and was back at her flat with Draco. Alcaeus was introduced to his newborn sister.
"What do you think Alcaeus?" Draco asked as Alcaeus sat and held the small child.
"She's beautiful." Alcaeus breathed.
Jade took a small break from work and the organization that Draco had started to be a part of. Every day, during his lunch break, the chairman of the Quidditch World Cup would pay a visit to the small organization for children with diseases and disabilities and read for them. Jade and Draco both quickly made the effort to move into their new house as quickly as possible for it to be convenient for the baby and their family.
Alcaeus was more than happy to paint his own room and it took Draco a great deal to accept that. Their everyday lives as a family was something Alcaeus wished would never change. He loved having a mother and father and sometimes, whenever his father would get angry enough to want to hit him, Jade was there to talk him out of it…sometimes scream. He loved having a person in his life that would affectionately hug and kiss him and lull him to sleep. Alcaeus knew he had probably done a good deed to earn a mother like that.
Two years after Jenita was born, Jade found out that she had been expecting again. She told Draco the news and knew that he felt a little nauseous about the idea of her expecting again but he was happy. They never married during the time they had lived together and raised their children. Jade never questioned it and Draco never asked.
He didn't know why and talking with Ron, Harry and Blaise cleared his head. "Unless you don't plan on leaving her for another woman." Harry suggested as Draco shook his head.
"That's stupid, why would I leave her for anything? She's two months pregnant with my third child. She's put up with a lot of crap we've been through all this long, she deserves to be called my wife." Draco said.
"You know what's amazing? That she never brought up the discussion of marriage." Blaise said.
"How do you know that?" Ron asked.
"She never did actually." Draco said shaking his head.
"Wow…do you know how long Ginny had been nagging me about getting a ring for her?" Harry asked.
"Well maybe I should stop being a coward and actually ask her. I've made her wait this long." Draco said seeing the men nod.
When Draco reached home, he saw Jade finishing dinner. He walked in seeing Jenita walk towards him and hug his legs. "Hey honey." Draco said picking her up.
"Oh Daddy!" she said dramatically, throwing her arms around his neck and kissing his cheek.
"Hello Father." Alcaeus said when Draco messed his hair up.
Jade appeared in the living room and smiled brightly at Draco. She had always greeted him every day, unless they had fights of course. Jade walked over to him and kissed him, asking how his day went.
"Lots of thinking." Draco answered.
"About what?" Jade asked taking Jenita from Draco.
"Just a few things." Draco said taking his shoes off.
"Are you worrying about anything?" Jade asked rubbing his shoulders.
"I'm definitely not worried about this." He said softly. He kissed her and steered the conversation around. Jade noted that something was amiss with Draco. He blanked out in their conversations and looked like he had a hard time paying attention to anything.
"Daddy! Listen!" Jenita said pushing her father's arm.
"I'm sorry honey, what were you saying?" Draco asked again. He cringed seeing the look on his daughters face. Her light brown eyes narrowed dangerously and Draco thought he was looking at himself.
"Father can I get a new broom?" Alcaeus asked.
"No." Draco said quickly.
"Mum can I get a new broom?" Alcaeus asked turning to Jade.
"Of course you can." Jade answered.
"Hey, that's not going to work." Draco said.
"He's 10. He's old enough to get a new broom. Besides, I want my son to be in Gryffindor's Quidditch team." Jade said.
"That's never going to happen." Draco said to Jade.
"Why not?" Jade asked.
Draco smirked and fed Jenita a spoonful of Sheppard's pie. "Because he's going to be in Slytherin." Draco said.
"Can I get a bwoom?" Jenita asked.
"Not you too." Draco said.
When dinner was over, Draco and Jade both tucked the children in to sleep and prepared for sleep themselves. Draco waited for Jade to come out of the shower so he could fall asleep. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the small little box that contained Jade's engagement ring. He didn't know how he was going to propose to her and tried to think of a romantic way to actually pop the question.
He heard Jade open the bathroom door and he was so startled, he fumbled with the box and it fell in the small space behind their headboard.
"Oh fuck." Draco said.
He slipped his hand and tried to reach but couldn't find the box. He felt frustrated to actually go under the bed because there was no way he could get the ring by reaching for it from the headboard.
"What are you looking for?" Jade asked near Draco's ear. Draco turned around and saw Jade fresh from the shower. She only wore a T-shirt and her hair was wet, drops of water dripping from it.
"Nothing…what are you looking for?" Draco asked seeing Jade smile.
"Nothing…I already found it." Jade said gently placing a hand on his inner thigh. Draco's breathing shuddered, feeling her unzip his pants and take him in her hands. "You know I love you." Jade whispered against his lips.
"You don't know how much you mean to me." Draco whispered back.
Jade woke up a few times during that night. Once it was to see Draco out of the bed, looking under the bed and making a few angry yells.
"What are you doing?!" Jade asked. She glanced at the clock nearby and read "3 in the bloody morning!"
"I'm just…cleaning stuff all right? Go to sleep." Draco said.
"Why in God's name are you cleaning anything at 3 in the morning!" Jade asked. She slid off of their bed and crouched down near him.
"Jade go to sleep!" Draco said.
"Not until I find out what it is you're looking for." Jade said. Draco pushed himself out from under the bed and pocketed something. "What is that?" Jade asked.
"It's so cold and early…why are you up? Let's go back to sleep and warm each other up." Draco said picking Jade up.
"Why can't you just answer my question and tell me what you were looking for?" Jade asked.
"Because I don't like your question." Draco said cheekily. He set her down and pulled the covers over each other and fell asleep.
Jade woke up in the morning and saw that Draco was already in the shower. Normally, she'd have to wake up first and then wake Draco up from his sleep. She yawned and rubbed her face and ran a hand through her hair and suddenly stopped. She brought her left hand to her face and her eyes bulged, seeing the gorgeous diamond sparkling on the diamond studded band.
Her heart started to beat as loud and fast as it could go. Shock radiated through her body as well as an overwhelming happiness. She wasn't quite sure what this exactly meant but the majority of her mind and body had already decided what it was that this ring meant as soon as she saw it. She never thought she was this happy since she met Draco, Alcaeus and had her daughter. Jade stared at it for a few minutes and looked up to see Draco standing there, staring at her.
"Will you?" Draco asked. Jade ran out of her bed and launched herself on Draco, shaking and crying from happiness.