The Werewolf's Daughter

49. Is this the end?

'Are you ready for today?' Draco asked Maya, helping her up from the bed.

Maya nodded. 'I can't wait' she smiled, 'We get to find out the sex today!' she cheered.

Draco smiled back at her. 'What time is the healer coming here?'

'10am.'

'Breakfast first then?'

Maya nodded, taking his hand and following him downstairs. She could now eat without throwing everything back up. Draco made her favourite – pancakes and fruit.

'Thank you; you're the best.' She said, kissing him as he set the plate down in front of her. 'Ooh! Feel, feel!' she cried, pulling his hand to her belly.'

Draco's eyes grew wide 'Are they kicking?' he asked.

Maya nodded, beaming. 'But, does that not hurt?' he asked, worried about her.

'No, it's just a strange sensation.'

Draco kept his hands on her stomach as she ate her breakfast and marvelled every time his baby kicked his hands.

…

'Miss Jones, Mr Malfoy, pleasure to meet you. I am healer Kirk.' The smiling lady told them.

'Now Miss Jones, if you could lie back on the bed, I will perform the check. When I am finished, you will see a projection of such above your stomach – you will see your baby there ok? I also hope to be able to tell you what you're having.'

Maya nodded and settled on the bed, pulling her top up.

'Good strong heartbeat.' The healer said, placing a device on her stomach.

'Ok, now you can see the baby.' Maya gasped as the picture appeared before them. 'Our baby?' she whispered, gripping Draco's hand.

'You definitely want to know what you're having?' she asked them, chuckling when they both nodded back at her.

The Healer did another spell and pink sparks shout out of her wand. 'You are most definitely having a baby girl.' She told them.

Maya started to cry. 'A daughter.' She whispered, looking at Draco, who looked equally as happy.

…

Maya sat in her room on 2nd May 1998, sorting out some new clothes she had been given for the baby. She hummed and smiled to herself as she looked at how cute all the stuff was. So cute and tiny!

'Maya.' Draco said, standing behind her.

'Draco, there you are. Look at these.' She said, holding up a pair of tiny jeans and grinning.

Draco barely looked at them, instead focusing on her face. 'Maya, something's happened.' He said.

Maya's face dropped 'What?' she asked. 'What's happened?'

'We've had news that Harry, Ron and Hermione broke in to Gringotts. They escaped on a dragon.'

'They're alive?' Maya whispered; she knew Harry was alive – if he was dead, they would know about it – but she had wondered about Hermione and Ron.

Draco nodded. 'They're all alive – and they seem to be doing just fine.'

Maya sighed 'Thank Godric.'

Draco walked over and held her. 'Hopefully this war will be over soon.' He whispered, running a hand over her belly.

…

'You can't go!' she shouted 'You just can't! I'm 26 weeks pregnant, with your daughter, you can't leave us!'

'Maya, this is it. The final battle – everything we've wanted since this war started. I need to go and make sure it's all done.'

'No you don't.'

'I do. I have to go.'

Maya turned her back on him, crying. 'Fine, go.' She stuttered, shutting herself up in her room.

'Maya! Maya!' he shouted, banging on her door. 'Please let me in.' Maya ignored him, curling up in bed and hugging her bump instead.

She jumped when he spoke next; he has obviously opened her door with magic as he was right next to her. 'I have to go. I am doing this for you, for us, for our baby.' He whispered, rubbing her back. Maya continued to cry. 'Please don't stress yourself.' He added.

'Stress myself? STRESS MYSELF? My boyfriend, the father of my baby, is running off to war but I can't stress myself.'

'Maya, calm down. You could end up hurting the baby.'

Maya glared at him but stopped shouting.

Draco continued to rub her back as she sobbed. 'Please don't leave me.'

Draco sighed. 'If you weren't pregnant, where would you be?'

'That's not fair. If I wasn't pregnant, we would BOTH be there, but I am, and you are talking about leaving me.'

'To help the war!' he groaned, wishing she would understand. 'My mum and Andy are staying here.'

'Just go Draco. You're not going to change your mind, no matter what I say.'

'You're mad at me.'

'Yes.'

'I love you.' He whispered, kissing her head and walking out.

…

Maya lay in bed, crying her eyes out until she finally fell asleep, exhausted. Her dreams though were filled with nightmares that she never saw Draco again.

'Maya, Maya! Wake up!'

'Wh…what is it?' she asked, groggily.

'It's over – we have to go to the school. Your dad sent a patronus.'

'Draco?' she asked, looking in to Narcissa's eyes; she had been crying too.

Narcissa shook her head 'I don't know. He's fine though, I'm sure of it!'

Maya nodded and Narcissa helped her out of bed. Maya washed and dressed quickly and then made her way downstairs – the three women used the floo and made their way to the school. Maya gasped as she stepped out of the classroom she had flooed in to; the school was falling apart.

'Be careful Maya – watch your footing.' Andy said to her as she started to step over bricks and debris.

'Maya?' A voice said. Maya blinked and then blinked again.

'Hermione?' Maya burst into tears, rushing to hug her friend. 'I was so worried about you!' she cried.

'Maya, look at you!' Hermione said, tears in her eyes. 'You look amazing!' The girls hugged each other for what seemed like hours and then Hermione took Maya to the Great Hall.

'Do you know where he-'

'Draco!' Maya shouted, seeing his blonde hair down on a stretcher. 'Oh my god, Draco!' she shouted again, running as fast as she could over to the body on the ground.

'I'm fine, I'm fine.' He said, trying to get up.

'Mr Malfoy, stay still!' A sharp voice said as he winced.

Maya crouched down next to him. 'When I saw you lying there, I thoug-'

'I know, I'm sorry. It's just my leg – a brick landed on it. I need it strapped up.'

'I'm so sorry about last night.'

'No. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left you. Not when you were begging me to stay.'

Maya cried, silently, holding Draco's hand. 'I love you.' She whispered, leaning down to kiss him. 'Thank you for coming back to us.' Draco nodded and groaned as he finished getting his leg strapped up.

'You are staying in the temporary hospital wing tonight Mr Malfoy.' Madam Pomfrey told him. Draco nodded and looked at Maya. 'Stay with me?'

'I'll be with you soon; I need to check on dad and Tonks ok?'

Draco nodded and pointed over to the corner of the hall; Sirius was hugging Narcissa while Remus held Tonks and Teddy close. 'Thank Godric' she whispered.

…

7th August 1998

'Draco, Draco!' Maya whispered, shaking him awake.

'I think my waters have broken.' She said, terrified.

'Ok, up you come.' He said, helping her out of bed. He grabbed her overnight bag and helped her down the stairs. They had agreed not to wake everyone else if this happened, so they made their way to the floo and over to St. Mungos.

'My girlfriend is in labour.' Draco said to the receptionist who pointed them in the right direction.

'owwww!' Maya yelled, bending over and gripping Draco's fingers. 'Fuckkk!'

'Ok baby, you're ok.' Draco soothed, rubbing her back.

'No I'm not. You did this to me.' She groaned.

Draco chuckled. 'Sure did. Come on, your rooms down here.' He said, helping her walk down the corridor.

Her labour was long; at least 13 hours but eventually she held her baby girl in her arms. 'You were amazing.' Draco whispered in her ear, kissing them both.

'Sorry I shouted at you.' She responded, sheepishly.

'And just about broke my hand.'

'Not sorry for that, you broke my vagina.' She quipped, laughing at his reaction.

'Do we have a name?' the mediwitch asked them as she came in to check on Maya and the baby.

'Not yet, we are going to discuss that now.' she said, smiling at Draco.

'Do you have any ideas?' she asked, as she handed their daughter over to Draco.

Draco just smiled at his little girl, placing a soft kiss on her forehead. 'Whatever her name is, she will not be a Malfoy.' He said quietly.

'What? Of course she will! That's your name.'

'Actually it's not; when Mum and Sirius got married last month, I legally changed my name to Black.'

Maya gasped. 'Really?'

'Yes. I hate that name. It's not me. Now, it has died with him.'

'Draco..'

'No, Maya. I won't change my mind.'

Maya nodded and looked at him. 'Arya.' She said, smiling up at him.

'Arya Lupin-Black.'

Maya nodded, I like it. 'Are you sure you don't want Jones in there?' he asked, worried she was forgetting her past.

'I will never forget my mother, but Jones doesn't mean anything to me now I'm afraid. I am a Lupin through and through.'

…

'She's the most beautiful baby ever, isn't she?' She whispered to Draco, as they stood watching over her cot. Draco nodded. 'She's just as beautiful as her mother.' He responded, stroking his 3-day old daughters head.

Maya smiled up at him, kissing him before heading to bed. Arya may have been beautiful, but she was sure to be up in the next few hours for a bottle. Draco made Maya get in first. 'I'll get up with her tonight, ok? You're too tired! You can't do everything.'

'Thank you.' She smiled sleepily, curling up in his arms and falling asleep almost immediately.