Flashbacks
Another hour had passed, since Hermione went in to surgery. Everyone was sitting in the waiting room, even Ron and Lavender. Everyone was looking very down in the dumps; Harry and Ginny were sitting on the sofa cuddling, Ginny was crying quietly and Harry had his arms around her cuddling her and every so often he would kiss her on the forehead and look down and rub her huge bump to feel the baby kick, this made Draco feel very uncomfortable as he wished he could do that to Hermione right now. Blaise and Pansy were talking, just talking about anything trying to keep they minds of things. Narcissa was pacing up and down in the hallway, shouting at anyone who walked her way. It was kind of quiet apart from the sudden wail that came from the corner of the room, where Ron and Lavender were. Lavender had her head buried in to Ron's chest and Ron was rubbing her back, but anyone would have thought Lavender had been strangling a cat with the way her wails sounded. Draco was deep in his thoughts, thinking about the first time he and Hermione meet after the war:
It was a cold, snowy December morning and Draco was going to the book shop to get money for his father, as his father couldn't be bothered to go himself. Draco normally did this; it was nothing new to him. His father had said it was punishment for not doing as he was told after the war, work that was done by servants or house elves.
When he walked in to the warmth of the book shop, the bell rang as the door opened and closed and as he wiped the snow of his boots on the door mat, he looked over towards the counter to see wavy brownie golden hair behind a pile of books. The person behind them stuck her head out, but still didn't look at the door. He could tell she was new.
"Be with you in a minute" she said before picking up some books from the pile and placing them on the shelf behind the counter. As soon as he saw her face and hair, he knew who it was.
He politely answered "No need to hurry, just here to pick up some money for my father….. Granger" He said this with a smirk on his face.
Hermione froze as soon as he spoke. It was about 2-3 minutes before she did move and turn around.
"You" she snapped "If I had known who I would be working for. I would have never even come near this place" With that she grabbed her coat from beside her on the coat rank and stormed towards the door, putting her coat on as she did. Draco stepped to the side as she stormed out, slamming the door behind her, she slammed it hard enough that a couple of books fell off the pile on the counter.
"Granger….wait" Draco called after her.
"What Malfoy, did I leave with my proud…." Hermione snapped, now walking ten times faster.
"Granger…Wait please…. just wait" Malfoy begged now grabbing her sleeve.
"What do you want Malfoy" Hermione said, stopping and turning around to face him, with a scowl.
"I just wanted to know if you, are going back to Hogwarts, this summer to re-take year 7" Malfoy asked calmly.
"Really, that is all" Hermione said now a bit calmer and a bit confused. "I thought you would have some mocking to do, or something"
"I've changed you know" Draco said
"Ok, show me then" Hermione said with a smirk on her face.
"What do you mean, show you"
"Well if you really have changed, prove it by doing something the odd you wouldn't have done" Hermione said still smirking, but Draco looked very confused. "Well you have made a start to that by calling me Granger and not mudblood"
"Yeah, I am really sorry about calling you mudblood, I was a naïve little boy then, who didn't know better, than what his father told him to do and it was the way I was brought up" He said looking in to her eyes. "Are you alright" He asked as Hermione looked like she was going to faint.
"Yeah…yeah fine…..just shocked is all, Draco Malfoy, thee Draco Malfoy apologizing" Hermione smiled.
"Shut up" Draco snapped laughing
"So what made you change then?"
"You"
"Me"
"Yes, ever since you were being tortured, it opened my eyes, I wanted to help you but I felt like a scared little boy and my father would have killed me." Draco said now looking down at his feet
"Really because of that really, thank you for saying that." Hermione said moving slowly towards him.
She broke the lovely moment by throwing a snowball at him; hitting Draco square in the face.
"Oh you've done it now, Granger" Draco laughed picking up a snowball and throwing it at the back of Hermione's head as she bent over the make another one.
"Oh same odd ferret always getting people when their backs are turned" Hermione joked.
They spent a good hour laughing and joking and just forgetting things about their passed, becoming friends.
Afterwards they went back to the book shop and had coffee; something Draco was trying for the first time and sat in front of the burning fire.
"You still didn't answer my question" said Draco
"What" Hermione said forgetting what he had asked her.
"What the great Hermione Granger forgot a question" joked Draco "It was are you going back to re-take the year?"
"Yes" Hermione answered quite simply.
"Good, good" Draco said smiling
They sat there for a good 3 hours or so just talking, before Draco had to go and get the money back to his father, who was probably stressed out about it as Draco did go like 3 hours ago.
Draco snapped out of the flashback when Pansy came over to give him a cup of coffee from the muggle machine in the hallway. Draco looked up at the clock, only half an hour had passed but it felt like forever. After Draco had finish his coffee he went back in to his thoughts, now thinking about 2 weeks before the start of the new school year:
"Draco" Hermione said rolling on to her side to face him as they lay under a tree, by the river near the book shop.
"Mmmmm" Draco hummed, still lying on his back with his arms under his head, looking up at the clear blue sky with a genuine smile on his face.
"Um…..Well….I was just wondering what are we going to do when we go back to school?" Hermione asked a little worry in her voice.
"What do you mean?" Draco said puzzled, now turning on his side to face her.
"Well….I meant you and me…..what will we do when people realize we are dating and start to say things" Hermione said now a single tear running down her cheek.
" Hey look at me " Draco said softly wiping the tear from her cheek "I promise it will be ok, if anyone tries to hurt you, in anyway, I'll kill them" Draco said not so softly, and wrapped his arms around her.
Hermione giggled and kissed him
They started to make-out for about 5 minutes, until Hermione broke away and yelled "Oh shit"
"What" Draco said worrying he bit her lip or something
"I'm going to be late; my lunch break finished over 10 minutes ago."
"Oh we can't have the great Hermione Granger, being late" Draco smirked as they stood up.
"I'll meet you here, after work" Hermione said before kissing him on the cheek and running up the bank out of sight…..
Draco snapped out of it again, this time because Lavender's wails had now become cries that sounded like a fog horn, it didn't help matters much when she blew her nose.
"Hey, how you holding up" Ginny said now waddling over to him and started to try and sit down. She was huge she must have been about 8 months gone now.
"Um…yeah...was just thinking" Draco said sadly, looking at her as she sat down finally.
"About what" Ginny questioned
"Oh just about Hermione and the things we have done together" Draco answered starring at the door and then clock.
"She will be ok you know, this is Hermione we are talking about" Ginny comforted, putting her arm around him. "Hermione, the girl who set fire to Snape's cape in her first year at school and the girl who cursed Eden Beaufort when he told you, you were a 'blood traitor'." Both Ginny and Draco shudder at the word, but the rest made Draco smiled a bit. While talking Draco thought back to the time when the whole school found out about him and Hermione dating and the first time they told each other they loved them:
They were both heads, which meant they could find an excuse to spent time with each other without people being suspicious. The only to people knew about them, Ginny and Blaise as they were their closest and most understanding friends.
Draco and Hermione were walking down to the library holding hands, laughing and talking, when Pansy came over. Draco and Hermione broke hands straight away as they were not ready for more people to know just yet, especially not Pansy.
"Hey" Pansy said wrapping her arms around Draco and went to kiss him, but he pushed her away before she could.
"Get off Pansy" Draco snapped pulling her arms off him.
"What why" Pansy said looking sad pouting.
"You know why, we broke up 5 months ago" Draco snapped turning around to walk away with Hermione.
"Yeah….but I thought you loved me" Pansy yelled running after him
"No, I did but now I love Her….." Draco stopped just before he said Hermione. As he knew Pansy would go straight to his father and that was the last thing he needed.
"Who Draco, who do you love now" Pansy yelled grabbing his hand and pulling him round to face her. Draco didn't answer "Who!" Pansy screamed, so loud that some people from the library came running out to see what was going on. Draco still didn't answer "Draco who!" Pansy screamed again now pointing her wand at him. "Who!"
"Hermione alright there I said it!" Draco yelled right in her face, holding her wand out of the way.
Everyone gasped, even Hermione
"What" Hermione said smiling.
"I love you, Hermione" Draco said lending in to kiss her, but was stopped by Pansy yelling
"What…that filthy mudblood" Pansy was now rougher red in the face.
"Don't you dare you her a mudblood you little bitch!" Yelled Draco
"I'll call her what I like and as she is one, than I can call her a mudblood all I like" Pansy said sounding like a child with a childish smirk on her face.
"Don't you dare, you filthy…" Draco yelled, he would have continued but was stopped by Hermione yelling
"Pansy, you think you so smart" She yelled this with a smirk on her face too "Tell me what do you get when you think you can get away with calling me mudblood?"
"What?" Pansy said still smirking
"This" Hermione yelled, slapping her right across the face, the creak of the snap echoed around the hall way.
A combination of ohhhhs and awwwws came from the crowds around them.
As Pansy walk away rubbing her cheek, she shot a bolt of lighting at Hermione, it hit her hard, causing her to flop in to Draco's arms.
"Hermione…..Hermione come on wake up, I love you" Draco pleaded as Hermione had been out cold, in his arms for about 3 minutes now.
"Hermione" called Harry, Ginny, Blaise, Ron and Luna. They all ran over to them.
"Mmmmmm….Draco" Hermione uttered weakly "Mmmmmmm Draco I love you too" Hermione said smiling and opening her eyes. Draco lending down and kissed let there was no tomorrow.
"Draco…. Draco…..Draco" It sounded like Hermione at first, but it soon became Ginny voice's.
"Draco, the healer wants to talk to you" Ginny said softly shaking him; he had fallen asleep in the armchair. "Sorry to wake you, but the healer needs to talk" Ginny said now helping him sit up as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.
"Mister Draco sir, it's Miss Granger" Healer Eldest started " She is out surgery now, it went well, it was a bit touch and go in some places, but she and the babies are fine now, she is still unconscious she should be coming around soon"
"Wait what" Draco said now very alert "Babies"
"Yes, sir she is having twins" Healer Eldest said smiling at the younger man.
"Twins" Draco uttered smiling and having to sit back down in the armchair from shock.
Hermione was having twins….
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Lexie182 x
p.s love all the names i have heard so far, but still would love to hear more as i cannot decided yet :) x