"Viktor, I'm pregnant."
Hermione had found out that she was pregnant yesterday after feeling rather off for the past week. It had come to her as a surprise, but she was pleased all the more. She had always wondered how her child with Viktor would look like. Will he or she have her eyes? Will he or she have his love for Quidditch?
Viktor didn't answer her immediately and just looked at her rather blankly. This worried her. Was he not pleased? But then came a smile.
"That's brilliant!" he said. He kissed her forehead then her lips. "I didn't think this vould happen!"
She laughed as he hugged her tightly, kissing her neck.
"Hermione... I loff you."
"Me too..."
He kissed her lips again.
"Hermione?"
"Yes?"
"I haff something to tell you."
She felt a sudden panic as horrible thoughts began to possess her. "What?"
"Maria... Ve got difforced."
Hermione's eyes widened. She hadn't been expecting that. "Why? I mean how come?"
"Remember she vent to hospital?"
She nodded.
"She found out she couldn't haff babies." He paused as he thought hard. "Pro-gest-ero-ne deficiency and many other complications. She didn't vant me to feel upset because of that. Also... she said that she knows that I don't loff her and that she also followed her father's orders to marry me too. She thought that she liked me at first. An admiration? That vas all. She feels bad to keep me vith her so she let me go. She told me to go to vhoever the other voman was. You."
Hermione couldn't believe all of this. "Wow."
Viktor gave her a worried look. "You're not happy?"
She shook her head. "It's not that..."
"Then vhat?"
"I'm just thinking how glad I am that I can have you all to myself now... I just can't believe it."
He smiled. "Me too... I vill not need to lie to anyone anymore." He looked her in the eye. "And I can loff you properly now."
He suddenly went down on one knee and took something out of his pocket. A ring with a crest was held between his thumb and index.
"Hermione, vill you marry me?"
She laughed, wondering why he was asking her to. Hadn't they already gotten married?
"But I am!"
"Vizard vay?"
She laughed again. He could be incredibly charming in a very curious way. "Of course I will!"
He stood up and kissed her. "That's great. Ve vill make a big party! Haff people ve loff vith us!" He hugged her. "Thank you ferry much, Hermione."
"For what?"
"For staying vith me and belieffing me. I think if you vere some other voman, you vill haff left me long ago for efferything. I do not deserff you."
She shook her head. "You don't need to say that..."
"Thank you, Hermione. I loff you."
"I love you too."
END
A/N I actually wanted to write something else but decided to end the story differently. If I had chosen the other direction, I think it will end up 20 chapters long! How was it? Too short? I accept flames and reviews.