Hey, you have to use the link (or at least on my comp you do anyways,) to view this chapter, otherwise it skips what is now chapter eleven. I went back and put in the apparently missing chapter as ten, so now 'A Tortured Mother, A Tortured Son' should be eleven and this should be 12 but things are acting screwy so IDK. But yeah, the apparently missing chapter is labeled 'The Apparently Missing Chapter' and should be #10 now.

By the time that Adrien was eight years old he had been in child psychiatry for four years, it hadn't helped. He had entered a muggle elementary school and was giving Draco hell. The boy was a prodigy and other students seemed to like him but he was prone to lashing out and was no longer allowed recess at the school.

"Adrien, come here," Draco told his son.

"Sure," he replied, monotone. "What's going on?"

"I'm taking you out of muggle school."

"What?!" he yelled. "Why?"

"Because you're out of control, Adrien! You lash out at your teachers, your peers, you hardly have any friends! You've had to switch schools twice! And you're refusing help from your psychiatrist!"

"I don't need a psychiatrist!" he roared back.

"Then what do you need?"

"I need my mum!" he screamed; a window in the living room exploded before Adrien ran off to his room.

"Adrien come back here!" Draco yelled after his son's retreating back.

He did not turn around so Draco ran after him.

That night Draco and Adrien had a long talk, a long emotional talk and by the end of it Adrien told his father he would start accepting help from his psychiatrist before he was sent to prison.

And as the months went on Adrien seemed to get better, his temper was under control, and he started to attract friends. Within two years he seemed like a normal ten year old boy.

Then one day Draco got a message from St. Mungo's, Hermione was gone. He rushed to the hospital, not believing that she could be dead, she had held on for so long it couldn't be possible. When he ran into her room a shock met his eyes, she wasn't in her bed. When a healer came into the room he grabbed him by his shirt collar asking where Hermione was with the fervor a crazy man.

"Where is she?"

"We told you, she's gone."

"But where's her- where's her b-"

"Oh, no, Mr. Malfoy; she's not dead! We just came in here and she was gone," he explained.

"Well then where is she?"

"Well, she's probably wandering around the hospital, we've got all the hospital guards looking for her."

Draco rushed out the doorway. "Where are you going?" the healer asked.

"To look for Hermione," he answered as if it was obvious.

Adrenaline pumped through his veins as he rushed around the hospital looking for Hermione. He found her alone in the elevator, sitting on the floor, weak but awake.

"Hermione?"

She looked up at him and gave him a hazy smile. "Draco," she whispered.

He nodded tearily and picked her up and kissed her.

After taking her back to her room and having the healers give her potions she was alright to go home, where Adrien was waiting for his dad. With a shriek he ran to his mum and hugged her. The tearful reunion lasted for hours, the family was glad to be back together. After a few hours of crying and hugging and talking Hermione asked Draco if he could owl Harry, Ron and Ginny, he did so and they were there in about half an hour.

The lot of them were up all night until Adrien fell asleep in his mum's arms.

Over the next few months they got Hermione reentered into normal life again, Adrien's temper went down and he started to cooperate with the healers and psychiatrists. Hermione also started going to therapy, after all she had been through when Gregory Burns kidnapped her and the Death Eaters had tortured her, try as she might she wasn't ready for a full relationship with Draco. It was too hard for her to get intimate without having some sort of flashback. But Draco was patient, and years later, they married and thanks to all the therapy she went through, they were able to consummate the marriage.

Within one year after the marriage, Adrien had a little brother. A few years later, Hermione got a job at the ministry as an unspeakable, she was used to keeping secrets.

And while they didn't live absolutely happily ever after, the scars healed and Hermione and Draco's common tragedy became a part of their past.