Baby mine chap 7

hey guys sorry its taken so long for me to update. i've had so much work, been ill and so havent found the time though so may thoughts about the story ahve been whizzing through my head so i have them all down to post soon. will try adn make the next updeate shorter. please review!

Draco was worried. After carrying Hermione to her room and giving her a sleeping potion to calm her down her was pacing outside the door.

"Why did she run off like that?" he muttered to himself. He didn't want to go to the ball. The only reason why he was going was because it was a family thing which is was forced to and because she was going to be there.

"Draco?" he turned to see Ginny holding Daniel's hand.

"Oh Ginny. Here let me take Daniel. You're probably worried aren't you little man" Daniel ran over to the blonde who knelt down to be at the same height as him. "There is nothing to worry about Dan. Mummy is going to be ok. She's just a little tired. I'm making sure she's alright. Didn't I promise you that I would take care of her?"

Daniel nodded. Draco gave him a weak smile.

"now why don't you go and get into your Jim jams and get that book we were reading and then we will read it together okay?" draco then stood up to face Ginny while the little boy ran down the corridor.

"Why are you doing this malfoy? Why are Daniel and Hermione staying here?" Ginny asked curiously. Draco didn't know what to say. It seemed like Hermione didn't want them to know of her attack.

"I'm helping a friend Ginny is that wrong? And anyway its mia's business not mine to discuss with you" he replied. Ginny sighed.

"Fine then malfoy but we are staying over to make sure she's alright." Draco nodded

"Sure I'll get the elves to set up a suite for you in the guest wing" he replied. He wanted to somehow be able to get to her first if she needed anything.

Daniel ran up to him carrying his book on cars in his dinosaur pyjamas.

"Ah Danny what have you got there sweetie" cooed Ginny ignoring Draco. Daniel showed her the large book which had fast cars zooming round.

"Come on then Dan lets read you book. Say night to aunty Ginny" Daniel waved at the redhead as Draco picked him up and headed for a bedroom down the corridor which so happened to between his and Hermione's. Ginny eyed the two curiously. She watched as Draco shut the door. She wanted to check on mione but knew that Draco probably had the room under lock and key. She wondered what was going on and decided to wait till morning to get it all out.

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Hermione woke up to find her staring at the ceiling of her bedroom. She couldn't remember a lot from last night but she could see that her red dress was draped on the chair in the corner and her shoes by the closet door.

She felt refreshed which she wasn't expecting after a ball but she shrugged it off. It seemed it be a beautiful day as the light shone through the frosted windows, icicles dangling over the door. She turned over and found Draco and Daniel. The little boy was lying on Draco's chest; both wore the same peaceful expression on their faces as they slept. Hermione slowly wiped the hair out of Daniel's face and smiled.

"Mia is you alright?" she tilted her head to see Draco's eyes still shut but he was smiling. She could feel his free arm wrap around her waist and pull her in so that her head was in the crook of his neck.

"Mhmmm"

"Go back to sleep for a couple more minutes since you'll be interrogated by potter and the redhead if they are awake." Hermione did as she was told and closed her eyes again.

"Are they still hear then" she whispered dreamily. She didn't want to wake the slightly snoring dinosaur pyjama clad 4 years old. Draco nodded.

"They wouldn't leave and so they stayed over the night to make sure you were ok. Dan and I snuck in after they fell asleep. We wanted to be close" he mumbled stroking her hip.

"That's nice" Hermione yawned back and snuggled in further a smile plastered on her face.

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Ginny slowly crept down the corridor. She had found after Draco had placed Daniel into bed that he and Hermione had been staying at the manor for a couple of days now after her attack from narcissa. She was determined to see her friend before malfoy got the change be all "heroic and police officerish. She was going to talk to her friend about last night and this attack. She malfoys and Daniel have closed doors. She knew that her little godson would probably be up and playing with some toys, however she couldn't hear a sound.

Ginny decided to see what Daniel was up to and so slowly opened his door to be met with darkness and an empty bed. There was no little boy in that room.

"He must be in mione's room" she whispered to herself and she quickly shut the door carrying on down the corridor to the large double doors at the end of the corridor. They were ajar and Ginny could see the outline of Hermione's duvet covered frame. She looked behind her once more to check that the coast was clear before opening the door further. However she got the shock of her life.

There was Hermione snuggled into no other than Draco malfoy like her and harry did when they had first got married. Daniel though was firmly planted on Draco's chest. His heavy breaths could be heard throughout the silent room. They looked happy, almost like a proper family. Ginny smiled faintly hoping that Hermione was happy but was also worried that something bad would happen and that her best friend would have a broken heart and Daniel would be broken.

Ginny didn't know whether to alert the sleeping forms of her presence and demand what was going on or silently exit the room. She decided the latter and slowly shut the door behind her. Lots of the pending questions were answered in her mind.

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Hermione had kept herself mostly to herself that day after the ball and the incident. Draco had told her what had happened and she was internally grateful that he had picked her up and taken her to bed quickly. Every time she saw harry and Ginny advance for her she quickly excused herself and hid in the library or gave the excuse that she was busy with Daniel. In the end she had spent a lot of time holed up in the malfoy library looking over the malfoy family.

"Hermione I've brought you some lunch" narcissa called. She found the young woman surrounded by stacks of books. Ink on her fingers and her hair was in total disarray. She was biting her lips. She looked like a wild creature as she was still in a thin nightdress and silk nightgown, her brown eyes wide as she absorbed information. Narcissa walked over to the girl and placed the tomato soup down.

"I see you're researching the malfoy family" the young girl nodded and then scribbled down some notes.

"Yes pureblood families are so complex" Hermione replied. "Oh thank you for the soup. Sorry lady malfoy I'm not helping at all. Daniel must be getting a handful. I just..."

"Cant face them?" Hermione nodded narcissa smiled and sat down. "You know you should call me cissy. I'm not lady malfoy that much anyway after all. I was more Mrs. Snape than anything else. "

"Mrs. Snape? I never knew that..."

"That Severus and I were together." Narcissa smirked as Hermione blushed. "My dear Severus and I had been together since we were 14. My marriage to lucius was arranged. Being the second daughter you were told to have a good marriage and then produce grandchildren. It was Andromeda who was allowed to be more of a rebel. "

"I see. Why didn't you divorce lucius though you could have stopped this mayhem" Hermione said determined, the older woman sighed

"Hermione it isn't that I didn't want to it is because I couldn't. It was frowned upon and we were good friends. We cared about each other. Severus and I were soul mates and we were always together and had an everlasting bond until we died. Lucius was soul mates with my sister bellatrix's. When Draco was born and he was done very quickly we allowed each other to see our soul mates."

"I see."

"Yes. Not many people know of the relationships and not many know of the son lucius and bellatrix's had. I think his name was Taurus." Hermione looked at her wide eyed. "Yes the image of lucius I remember, one of the sweetest little boys. Shame he became a deatheater. Isabella and he would have made such a match."

"Isabella?"

"Well you see Severus and I had a daughter Isabella." The older woman then took out the large locket that was around her neck and opened it showing two pictures. One was of a baby Draco that was for sure. The other was of Severus holding a little baby girl.

"She's beautiful" Hermione gushed. She had never realised that Draco had half siblings. Maybe she could meet them somehow.

"Yes my little girl. She passed away when she was 9 in a potions accident. Severus never forgave himself. She had such a love for that art and they both thrived off it" narcissa said sadly.

"I'm so sorry narcissa."

"I got over it years ago. It was a shame for Taurus though. He wanted to marry her since they were the same age. At 9 declaring his love for her imagine that. Of course we didn't say anything about their parentage. When Isabella died he seemed to lose a part of himself. Followed his parent's footsteps in following the dark lord. He did some horrific things. I believe to escape at the end though he changed back to his normal self. The Taurus I knew. But he died on the night you were here during the war. Apparently he hadn't obeyed orders. "Narcissa had a look of disgust written across her face. "He was ordered to rape and kill muggle women as many of them followers did. You couldn't stop it. Their screams still haunt me. I believe that he didn't kill her and so was executed. I personally don't know the full details but it is a terrible waste. All of that bloodshed."

Hermione nodded. Shocked. Taurus. She remembered him. He was in Ginny's year. She remembered all of the girls talking about him. He like Draco was the slytherin prince. She never really talked to him though.

"Do you have a picture of Taurus?"

"Why yes of course he is in the family painting over there." Hermione stood and walked over to the large painting that covered part of the wall. There was lucius, bellatrix's, narcissa and Severus standing tall holding each other's hands smiling. Isabella was between narcissa and Severus in a pink dress, her black hair falling prettily around her face with her mother's striking blue eyes. Draco was in the middle smiling happily. He looked innocent as he stood next to his brother and sister. Taurus was last between his mother and father. He looked the splitting image of lucius almost a clone with the same long blonde hair, slytherin smirk. He looked almost older than the other two. It wasn't that though that unhinged Hermione as she stared at the portrait it was the piercing grey eyes that the shone out from Draco's and Taurus's eyes.

Flashbacks of that night started to rush through Hermione's head and she quickly clung to the table to give herself some support.

"Hermione are you alright?" Hermione tried to get her beating heart under control and her breathing back to normal.

"Yes yes everything is fine"

Dun Dun Dun Dun... the plot thickens. would love to hear your thoughts!