Miracle Child
Summary: She was born like others of her year in a time of war. She was brought up in the shadows of the chaos. Her parents loved her...that was all she knew and all that mattered. She didn't care if they were killers or if they had tortured ten or twenty witches and wizards, she just knew love.
Anime/Book/Movie: InuYasha/Harry Potter
Pairing: Kagome/?
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Rated: M for Mature Content
R.I.P – Alan Rickman
(Severus Snape)
Remember
The Half-Blood Prince
~ALWAYS~
-x-x-x-
February 14th, 1988
On this day, Draco and Kagome found themselves racing on their Nimbus 1700's, gifts from Draco's father once they'd outgrown their learner brooms. Flying over top a tree and swirling back around, they tried to outrace the other but were mostly neck and neck. "Oh, Draco, look! Your father's home early!"
"Ah!" he flew down and quickly landed before taking off in a run towards the front of the Malfoy Manor. Kagome would follow, of course. Though, unlike him, she chose to stay on her broom and beat him to his father by a good couple of minutes.
"Uncle Lucius!" Kagome called out, landing just in front of the front door where she walked the rest of the way to her Uncle. "Good afternoon, Uncle Lucius." She curtsied gracefully and smiled when he placed a warm hand on her head. Her eyes took in the long box he was holding carefully under his arm. A white ribbon wrapped into a bow around its middle.
"Good afternoon to you too, Kagome. Draco?" He turned his head to see his son finally standing beside him. "I see the two of you have been out flying, make any progress since I last watched the two of you?"
Draco frowned, "considering you haven't watched us in about five months; I'd have to say 'yes.'"
"That tone...what is it?"
Blushing, Draco quickly shook his head and apologized, "um, why are you home so early?"
"Ah, days like this...are always best spent with someone you care for. You and Kagome will be-"
"Spending the day with Severus?"
Lucius raised a brow at Kagome, who rolled her eyes, "what makes you say that?"
"It's Valentine's day, you sent us off with Severus last year and the year before that, not that I'm complaining. Severus doesn't get all mushy and gross," she crossed placed the broom across her shoulders with both arms hanging over the shaft of the broom. "Last year was so..." she shivered, "...waking up to weird-looking roses..."
"Weird looking words?!" He laughed, "those were Juliet Roses, a dozen of which costs thirty-one million galleons..."
Kagome's eyes widened, her broom hit the ground, the silence was louder in the shock of her Uncles words. "You...spent thirty-one million galleons on a dozen roses?!" Her legs felt like noodles as she tried to step away from the two Malfoy's, but only managed to stumble a bit.
"That would be incorrect," Lucius fixed the cuffs of his sleeves before he stared down his nose at her, "I bought her thirty-six Juliet Roses..."
"Why, thirty-six?"
"...the flowers you choose are just as important as the number you give..." he said, walking towards the door as he spoke. "On our first Valentine's day, I gave her one single rose, which symbolized love at first sight. It was the first Valentine's Day we spent as a married couple."
Draco stared curiously at the box in his fathers' arms, listening to him talk in a soft tenor that he knew to be reserved for his mother.
"On our second Valentine's Day together, I gave her two...Juliet Roses...two symbolized mutual and requited love. A shared commitment in the future..." He closed his eyes and turned around, sitting down on the front steps of the Malfoy Manor, he watched his son and niece-in-law take a seat on either side of him. "Our third valentine's day, I gave her three roses, one for each word in the phrase "I Love You"..."
"Then, you gave her four roses?"
"No," Lucius chuckled, "I gave her five on our fourth valentine's day, five beautiful Juliet Roses, and the meaning of those five roses...deep love and admiration for a special someone...to explain that I love her more than words alone can describe."
"Wow..." Kagome twiddled her thumbs in her lap, "you really love Aunt Cissy, you put so much thought into things like this..."
"What about the rest of them?" Draco asked curiously, having never heard these details from his father before.
"The fifth Valentine's Day that we shared, I gave her six roses, they told her how much I always wanted to be hers. On our sixth, I gave her seven...when you feel a love for someone, and it cannot be contained, seven roses tell just how smitten you are with them, how...you can't stop thinking about them. It lets them know that there is no doubting your feelings. Our seventh Valentine's Day, we spent it with Draco..."
"Me?"
"Your mother was about five or six months along at the time. I gave her nine Juliet Roses, the meaning of which, told her that I wanted to be with her forever...that my lover for her was, is, eternal. I included a single Everlasting Charmed Daisy, for the innocence, a purity that was the bundle of joy she carried. She has it to this very day. Come to our eighth Valentines together, and I brought her ten beautiful Juliet roses, the perfect ten...for someone who is more beautiful to me than anything else in the world."
"Dad...you are kind of a hopeless romantic, you realize that?"
Lucius smirked, "only with your mother. I do not privilege the world outside my home to the romanticisms of my love life."
"Keep going!" Kagome said, hushing Draco up before he could add anything to his father's comment.
"On our ninth Valentine's Day...I bought a dozen, Juliet Roses. A dozen...to tell her of my limitless love, infinite...cosmic...eternal. Then, I bought her thirteen roses on our tenth Valentine's Day together. This one was quite different, as thirteen roses, rather than the infinite love of twelve...thirteen suggests the classic idea of an eternal friendship, and never dying trust. By our eleventh Valentine's day, I presented her with seventeen Juliet roses, Love Never Changing, and on our Twelfth Valentine's Day, I gave her a bouquet of twenty-one Juliet Roses. I'm dedicated to you, and only you, that she will know where my heart always is..."
"Uncle Lucius, does Aunt Cissy know the meanings behind all of your flowers?"
He smiled, "when I present the flowers to her, I make sure to tell her clearly, so she knows..."
Draco grinned, "on your thirteenth Valentine's day?"
"Twenty-four Juliet Roses, to let her know…I belonged to her."
"And on your fourteenth?" Kagome asked, her eyes curiously lingered on the box he still held.
"As I told you, last year I bought her thirty-six Juliet Roses...the meaning of which...I'm head over heels for you...and she knows I'd do anything for her."
"So... can we watch you give her those?" Kagome asked, her eyes were lit up at the prospect of seeing something so romantic play out in front of her. "We will stay out of the way, please!?"
"Hm...I suppose," he sighed, "I was going to wait till Severus came to pick you two up, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to let you watch." He stood up and turned, the doors opening on their own to his magical signature.
Both Draco and Kagome watched as he waved them up the stairs and out of sight. Quickly, running, they hid so that they could see into the foyer and yet still wouldn't be seen by Narcissa. As she was called into the foyer, Malfoy fixed himself subtly and smiled charmingly as his wife walked up to him, moving into an open arm and kissing him sweetly on the cheek.
"Dear, Severus isn't here yet..." she frowned, eyeing the box as he held it out. She even had the decency to blush as she looked around the house to make sure neither children were watching.
"I perish the thought of waiting, my love."
She smiled softly and gently she pulled at the ribbon, drawing from the long box the lid, her eyes looked ready to water as she took in the familiar roses. "Tell me, Lucius...what love do these represent?"
"Fifty beautiful Juliet Roses, to show that my love for you knows no bounds...this love without barriers, will last forever."
"You never cease to amaze me..." she stared up into his eyes for a moment before she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. He was hers, and she was his, the flowers told her the story of his heart. "I'll have to make room in the garden for these too, won't I?" She asked with a soft titter after pulling away.
"I shall find time to help you, for now...should we retire for some tea while we await Severus for the children?"
"Sounds lovely,"
As the two adults vanished further into the house, Kagome turned away from the foyer. Sitting with her back to the stair rails, she sighed, "...those sure are expensive flowers...and he bought her fifty this year."
Draco smirked, "well, that only means my father's love for my mother is priceless."
She grinned, "you are just as cheesy as your dad! I guess you'll be buying your future wife Juliet Roses all her life too?"
"..." he blanched at the idea of spending that much money on a flower. Even if he were rich, he'd much rather splurge on quidditch equipment and the works. "...um...that's too far away to think about. Let's go fly!" He took off running, and Kagome chased after him, the two ran outside, and she picked her broom up off the ground but, didn't get too far. "..."
"Miss. Lestrange..."
Kagome looked up at the heavily cloaked figure of Severus Snape. Straitening up with her broom in hand, she placed it over one shoulder and cocked her hip as she sighed, "Severus, my name is Kagome. You don't have to call me Miss. Lestrange for like...three or four more years."
"Counting down the days till school starts already, Miss. Lestrange?"
"Kagome, and no...Draco is."
"I see," Severus started towards the Malfoy Manor, and Kagome and Draco followed him inside. They could already tell it was going to be a long day.
-x-x-x-
Me: Here is chapter six, and I hope you all enjoy it!