Baby mine chapter 14
hey guys sorry i havent posted recently. its because i've had so many exams and work but it's the holidays soon. this chapter is a little bit more happy since i know that the last chapter was extremely dark. i have found quite hard to come back after that chapter and i know that this one might not be amazing because of that so i apologize already if you feel that way once reading it. i just want to say thank you again for all of your reviews. i'm still buzzing that i have over 100. woooo. just because i have over 1000 doesnt mean that you should stop reviewing. reviews are like candy (well cabury's chocolate in my case) they are addictive adn make me happy so please please review. i accept any kind of criticism or ideas that you guys might have for any number of my stories. hopefully i can post my new story the princess royale up soon since you guys voted for the princess idea the most. i just need to finish writing it but the lovely sunshine and my work has been getting in the way. i'm trying to enjoy britain's annual couple of weeks of summer before the usual rain in june july but i still have my fingers crossed that it doesnt rain.
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Miss D Zambini
Draco immediately picked her back up.
"Take her to grimauld place while we finish up the search here. Some of you people go too. Once she's recovered a little she may be able to tell us." Harry then walked over to the blonde and his best friend in his arms. "Hermione whoever did this to you is going to be brought to justice. "Harry exclaimed though oddly calm. Malfoy nodded and went over to the fireplace. He threw in the floo powder and in a whoosh they were gone. Everyone was silent staring at the fireplace and then at the television screen.
"Well go on then get to work. We don't have time to waste. MY BEST FRIEND'S PARENTS AND SISTER HAS DIED AND I WANT TO KNOW WHO DID IT!" bellowed harry. Everyone scattered. The weasleys and Minerva quickly flooed away. Most likely to help Ginny and Malfoy with Hermione while the aurors started their search again. Harry slumped on the sofa, head in his hands. He was in for a long day.
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Draco strode through the floo, past the startled Ginny and into the lounge. Daniel was playing on the rug. He immediately looked up and a large smile plastered on his face when he saw his mummy and daddy, though it immediately faltered when he saw his mummy crying and clinging onto daddy again.
Daniel frowned. Mummy was crying again. Maybe she had spotted the stain on the carpet where he had spilt some orange juice and covered it up before she would find out by moving the rug. Was she upset at him? He walked over to them and clambered up onto the sofa. His mummy was crying really heavily. She hadn't cried like that in a long time. Daniel watched as his daddy kept pushing the hair out of mummy's eyes, kissing her forehead and rocking her in his arms. Tears were rolling down her cheeks. Daniel decided to do the one thing that always made mummy smile whether it was a small one or not. He placed his little hand on hers.
"Don't cry mummy please. I don't like it when you cry. I love you mummy. Please don't cry" he pulled back. His mummy was still crying and it almost seemed to get worse. She must be really angry about the orange juice he thought as he scooted closer.
"Shhh mia I'm here. You safe. I promise. Nothing will happen to us. I promise. I promise. "Draco kept saying softly. Daniel tried to talk to her again through his mind.
"I'm sorry about the mess on the carpet mummy. I won't do it again. Please don't cry. I'll be good" Daniel said pleadingly. The little boy started to cry and sniffled.
Daniel crying brought Hermione out of her state a little. She opened her eyes so to her son looking at her guiltily. She quickly scooped him up into her arms.
"Oh Danny honey. I love you so much" she chocked and clung onto him. Daniel hugged her back she held onto him as tight as she could.
"You're safe."
Draco held the both of them Hermione wouldn't let Daniel go and wouldn't let Draco get up. She wanted them as close to her as possible. Ginny had tried to come in after hearing what had happened to her from the order members who had arrived but the lounge seemed to be the no-go zone and she quickly shut the door reprimanding anyone who tried to get in there to ask Hermione a question. Draco watched as Hermione and gradually fell asleep on him and he quickly shifted so that she and Daniel were lying down on the sofa. She wouldn't let go of her son. He got the blanket at the end and draped it over them before switching the TV on and placing it on some cartoons so that Daniel wouldn't get bored as he couldn't escape from his mother's fierce hold on him. He then quickly slipped out of the room and into the kitchen where the eager faces of the weasleys and Minerva were waiting.
"Well any news? Is she alright?" molly asked she helped Ginny lay the table for lunch. Draco shook his head and slumped down into a chair. He placed his heads in his hands. Why was someone after her? Why would someone want Daniel?
"Draco son it will be alright. How come you were there already?" Arthur asked sitting across from the blonde. Draco had a look of distraught on his face.
"I found Hermione in diagon alley last week. She was attacked. I'm presuming by the same people from that DVD since he mentioned it. I took her back to my manor where she and Daniel stayed there since then. "
"I see. That's where she's been hiding. She usually brings Daniel round to the burrow or her while she gets a couple of hours of work done. Well thank you for taking care of her and Daniel. We appreciate it. She's family. We'll do everything for her" molly replied sadly.
"That not the only thing she's hiding." Ginny declared leaning up against the counter. She then looked at Draco with an arched eyebrow.
"Well we know that Ginny otherwise she wouldn't be in danger with her parents dead." Molly said sternly. Draco looked at the red read for a couple of moments before sighing.
"That isn't the only secret. "Everyone looked at him. "It wasn't really a secret but mine and Hermione's relationship has evolved into something more than just being friends. For Christmas Daniel and I gave her a house for all of us to live in. You see Daniel, is actually my nephew and when I found out I vowed that I wouldn't let Daniel be brought up in a broken and unhappy home. I wouldn't let Hermione either. It was my duty to make things right and..."
"Wait is you telling me that your Daniel's uncle?" asked Ginny confused
"Yes I am. My half brother Taurus is his father"
"I thought he was your cousin"
"No he was bellatrix's and my father's son. No one would understand our family arrangement so Taurus was proclaimed my cousin at school. Taurus raped Mia when she was held captive at malfoy manor. He was killed the same night since he helped her to escape. "Draco replied calmly. "That is why I am Daniel's uncle. However I want to change that hopefully someday. "
"I see. Well at least we now know whose Daniel's father is and that part of the story. I was starting to think that Daniel's father had come back to haunt her. "Minerva declared sipping a cup of tea. Draco rubbed his eyes and sighed.
"Now we just have to wait and see if she will talk at all" he mumbled. He then abruptly stood up and left preferring the company of mia and Daniel any day to the curious and questioning griffindors that were the weasleys and McGonagall.
When he returned to the small living room he smiled. Hermione was curled up on the sofa where he had left her. Daniel was sitting next to her his little hand on her cheek. Draco went over and placed Draco on his lap as he perched on the sofa, he stroked Hermione's hair in reassurance more for him than anything else.
"Daddy can I show you what I was showing mummy?" Daniel's voice echoed through his head.
"Sure Danny" Daniel smiled and placed his hand back on Draco's. The blonde was immediately transported into Hermione's mind.
Draco could see himself standing on a beach holding a baby with curly blonde hair, in a pink swimming costume.
"Look penny, look at Daniel snorkelling in the sea" he heard himself say, the baby giggled and clapped her hands. Draco then looked out at the sea and saw an older version of Daniel snorkelling holding up the shells he caught before swimming to the saw and placing them in a bucket he looked about 8. Draco could feel himself walking up to the edge of the waves and holding the baby so that her feet touched the sand. The little girl clapped and giggled, writhing as the waves lapped at her feet.
"Wee! Penny what are those naughty waves doing. Let's see if we can chase them and then run back up before they catch us." Draco cooed. The baby giggled and started to move her little feet. Draco led her down to the receding waves. Penny giggled and clapped her hands in joy and roared with laughter when Draco started to move back and then picked her up throwing her into the air before repeating it again.
Draco couldn't see mia anywhere until she rose from the waves laughing, her arms out wide. She was wearing a black and white polka dot bikini showing off her toned body.
"Penelope baby" Hermione cooed.
"Ah penny look there's mummy. Doesn't she look like a pretty princess just like you" Draco replied kissing the little girls golden curls.
"Let's see if my little moonpie can walk to mummy." Draco placed the little girl back in the same position holding her little paws. Hermione had her arms wide encouraging her on making funny faces and penny roared with laughter even more at her mother.
"Mammmmmmm, mmmmmmm." Penny gurgled trying to form the word mummy but not quite making it.
"Come on baby a couple more steps for mummy. She wants to give you the biggest kiss and cuddle in the world. "Hermione called. Daniel had stopped snorkelling and was now sitting next to Hermione on the sand, the waves lapping around there legs.
"Come on penny you can do it" he declared. Draco in the dream didn't take any notice of it but the actual Draco was shocked that Daniel was talking normally.
Penny took the last couple of steps before she catapulted herself into her mother's arms to be met with a flower of kisses.
"You are mummy's little baby girl aren't you." she then turned to Daniel and also brought him into her arms. "And you my little man are my baby boy. "She kissed them both on forehead holding them tight. "Mummy's babies"
"How about me?" Draco said as he sat down opposite them.
"Well you aren't a mummy's baby dad" replied Daniel.
"Hmmm no he isn't but certainly is my man" Hermione replied smiling. She pecked Draco on the lips. "My very gorgeous handsome man"
"I wouldn't have it any other way. Now who wants to see if they can bury daddy in the sand?" replied Draco cheekily stealing another kiss from Hermione. Daniel squeal of "ew" could be heard in the background making Hermione chuckle. Draco noticed the wedding ring on her finger as they watched up to the sand. It was the malfoy wedding ring. Daniel grabbed the spades and penny held tightly onto her mother though every now and again trying to grab the bucket in her mother's hand.
Draco could feel the dream go hazy as sand started to cover his body.
When Draco returned to his own mind and body he felt strange. Daniel had lifted his little hand off his own and was smiling up at him. Draco could see that Hermione had a smile on her face as she dreamt of the beach.
"Look Danny you are making mummy smile by letting her have nice dreams." Draco whispered. Daniel smiled even more gleefully. Draco wanted that dream to come true and it was amazing to think that that little boy had such a big imagination although the beach they were on looked the same as the one at winnards farm and neither Daniel or Hermione had been down there yet and he knew that the wedding ring Hermione was wearing was in the malfoy vault and hadn't been out of it for about 50 years. Unless the dream that Daniel was giving his mother was actually a prediction of the future. Draco frowned. It wouldn't really surprise him that Daniel could see the future but he almost didn't really want to be so because he didn't want the little boy seeing anything bad. No wonder whoever it was after Daniel. He must know of the little boy's power.
"Come on Daniel lets get some lunch and leave mummy to sleep." Draco said picking up the little boy and carrying him out of the door.
Hermione had woken up hours later from her peaceful dream. She stretched and opened her eyes to find herself in harry's and Ginny's living room. She frowned. Suddenly the memories came back to her. Where was Draco? And Daniel? She quickly jumped off the sofa and out of the living room towards the kitchen where she could hear laughter.
"Right Danny helps me ice these snowflake cookies so that we can give them to mummy later when she wakes up." That was Draco's voice. The door was pulled to but she could see Draco and Daniel sitting at the kitchen table holding icing tubes.
"You two better not be making a mess in my kitchen. "Declared Ginny though she had a large smile on her face as she wiped down the counter.
"Don't worry red we won't. We will clean up after ourselves. Do you think she will be alright?"
"I don't know really. Hermione is strong. We both know that malfoy. This has happened at the worst possible time however and it was her parents. I would be inconsolable if I had seen my parents die"
"I know. We need to bring whoever is behind this to justice. "
"You have just repeated what harry has been saying all day. Everyone is on the case. All you can do now is be there for her and Daniel"
Hermione listened closely. Ginny and Draco were getting along better than she had hoped and she could see Daniel getting icing and sprinkles everywhere. She slowly opened the door.
"Um..."
"Oh mione you're awake come and sit down" Ginny declared hugging her friend tightly. Well as tight as it would go with a large bump in the middle that would be baby James potter. Hermione nodded her head and sat down opposite Daniel and Draco. Draco immediately took her hand and rubbed little circles. Daniel meanwhile was smiling as he showed his icing covered hands to his mother.
"Oh Danny what are you doing there."
"He's making christmas biscuits for father christmas tonight. I hope you don't mind mia. Danny told me you and him did it every year" Draco replied quietly.
Hermione gave a weak smile. "Thank you" tears started to form in her eyes again as she remembered making the same biscuits when she was little.
"Mia do you think you could answer some questions? I know it's hard but harry needs some information to go on" Draco asked pleadingly. He took Daniel off his lap and went round to sit next to her. When she nodded tears, falling again he hugged her tightly.
"Ginny go and get harry and the others from the dining room please" Ginny hurried away bringing back harry, molly, Arthur and Minerva.
"Thank you mia. I know it's hard but we are going to bring that man to justice. I will not stop looking for him. I want you to be safe" Draco whispered into her hair. Everyone sat down at the table as Hermione wiped her eyes and took Draco's warm hand again. She leaned against his broad shoulder.
"Right mia do you think you could tell us if you have any idea who the masked figure was." Hermione looked down at the hand in her own before running a hand through her scraggily hair.
"Um well... where do I begin" she whispered almost to herself.
"You are going to have to speak up mione" harry said. Hermione nodded.
"Well..."
opps i left it on a cliffhanger.. oh well i hope it leaves you with the my possibilities of why simmering in your mind. please review. i know its not the best chapter (well i dont think it is) but it was really hard trying to come back from the last one and i know that some people wanted a little bit of happpiness cute daniel fluff again. i really cant get enough of him. PLEASE REVIEW! xxxxxxx