From One Affair

Chapter 8

Hermione didn't go back to work until the following Monday. Draco and Hermione began to work on the cure for lycanthropy that day with the recipes she had tried and almost succeeded with. Draco got frustrated and in his anger he accidentally spilled something into the potion.

Smoke and flames blew up in her face and the smoke filled her nose and lungs. She passed out and hit her head on the table and then she collapsed back onto the floor. Before she hit her head again Draco caught her and yelled at one of the other scientists to send a message to St. Mungo's immediately.

Draco picked her up with one hand under her knees and another under her shoulders. Him without a wand apparated those to St. Mungo's and healers were already ready to get into action. The healers levitated her onto a stretcher bringing her to a room on the third floor.

A healer asked, "What happened to her?"

"We were making a potion and it started smoking and I guess she got some of the fumes in her lungs," said Draco.

When they went into the room a healer told him, "If you're not family I can't allow you to enter until she wakes up."

Draco sat in a chair outside the room for what felt like hours as they did all the tests in the world until they came to a conclusion as to why she fainted. They let Draco come in when they were done doing tests, but they wouldn't tell him what was wrong, patient/healer confidentiality. He sat by her bed and waited for her to wake up. It was almost midnight when she began to wake up.

Hermione looked around and said, "Draco, where are we?"

Draco answered, "You passed out and hit your head when we were making that potion."

Hermione said, "I remember. Can you get a healer?"

Draco stood up and went into the hallway walking down it to find a healer. He grabbed an assistant healer and brought her to Hermione's room.

She turned to Draco and said, "I need to speak to Ms. Granger alone so if you would please wait in the hall and close the door behind you."

Draco looked at Hermione and she told him, "I'll be all right, Draco."

The female assistant healer said, "I think before I tell you that you should probably leave your job as a safety precaution."

Hermione asked confused, "Why?"

She answered, "Congratulations are in order. You are pregnant and despite your ordeal today he is fine."

Hermione covered her mouth with her hand and gasped letting tears fall from her eyes. So many questions ran through her mind. How was she going to tell Draco? Would he stand by her or tell her he doesn't want her to have the half blood child? Would she be a good mother and will he be a good father? The only question she wasn't asking was when and who.

She said to Hermione, "If there is nothing else I can help you with I am going to take my leave."

Hermione asked, "Can you let Draco back in please?"

The healer exited the room allowing Draco back in. He immediately wondered what was wrong because she was crying. He was by her side in three long strides. Her eyes were already red and puffy because in the time span she had broke into choking sobs.

Draco asked, "Is it something serious? Do you have some sort of disease? Will you be okay?"

Hermione calmed down enough to talk and said, "Yes, it is something serious. No, it isn't a disease and I am going to be okay, but will we?"

Draco looked at her with a worried glance, "Hermione, you're scaring me."

She asked him hinting at what she was going to tell him, "Draco, do you want kids?"

Draco said, "Maybe someday why?"

Hermione looked into his eyes and told him, "Before now I didn't know or I would have told you. The healer told me that after they treated my head they discovered that I was pregnant."

He stood up and paced the room. Her eyes followed him around the room. Draco told her, "I need to think. I'll see you in the morning."

He walked out of the room and she went into a fit of hysterical crying. Draco heard her down the hall and even though he wanted to turn around he needed some sleep and time to think.

Draco went through the floo system in to the foyer of the manor and he walked to an unused room on the second floor to talk to Alexander Malfoy. He was in love with a muggleborn and if anyone had the answer he would. As he was walking up the stairs he walked by his parent's room where there was light coming from the bottom. He knocked twice and his mother game to the door in a silk nightgown that when far down her legs.

Narcissa asked, "How is Hermione doing?"

Draco mumbled, "Pregnant."

Narcissa said, "I didn't hear you."

He spoke a little louder and said, "She's pregnant, mother. We only did it once."

She put her hand on his shoulder and joked with him, "Didn't you know it only takes once for this to happen? Why aren't you with her right now?"

Draco answered, "I acted totally pathetic and mean. I don't want to be like father. I don't know how to be a parent."

"Nobody does, Draco. Your father loved us, but he had a terrible way to show it. He acted by his young life experience with his father, but you are not your father. You aren't going to be like him," Narcissa told him truthfully.

Draco said, "She is probably so hurt right now. Hermione will probably never forgive me thinking I walked out on her."

Narcissa pointed a finger at him and forcefully told him in a stern voice with her eyes narrowed at him, "She is the best thing that ever happened to you and you will have to charm your way for her to forgive you. Promise that in the morning you will go to the hospital."

Draco sighed, "I promise, mother."

Narcissa scolded, "Don't talk to me in that tone of voice, Draco."

He apologized to his mother and she gave him a kiss on the cheek. Draco left the room so she could sleep while Draco went to go see Alexander still. The door opened with a creak because of the rusty hinges and because the door hadn't been opened in a while.

Draco cast, "Lumos."

The room lit up in a flash and the portrait came into view. The light had woken Alexander from his slumber.

Alexander asked, "What can I do for you, Draco?"

Draco told him, "My muggleborn girlfriend Hermione Granger is pregnant. My mother tells me I should apologize, but I don't know how to get her to forgive me for walking out of her hospital room the way I did. I don't need to think anymore about her being pregnant. I need her in my life as the mother of my child and one day my wife."

Alexander said, "You just answered your own question, Draco. You need to tell her what you just told me."

Draco told Alexander, "She told me that she saw you in a dream last week."

Alexander laughed, "I am sure I would meet someone in their dream if they were important in the Malfoy future."

Draco said, "Thanks, Alexander. It was just the answer I needed."

He went to bed with the idea that he was going to save his relationship with Hermione. Even though he was terribly tired he slept and woke up just when the sun came up to get to the hospital when it opened for visitation and check out. Draco took an elevator to the third floor, took a left, and went down a few rooms and walked in.

Draco sat by her bed waiting for her to wake up. She was still in a deep sleep rolling around on the bed. He got on the bed and held her in his arms and she cuddled into his warmth. Draco fell back asleep and was awakened two hours later by a whack to the head by Hermione.

Hermione asked him with fury and her arms crossed in front of her chest expecting a good answer to her question, "What are you doing here?"

Draco got off the bed rubbing his aching head and said, "Last night when I went home to think I realized with the help of my mother and Alexander I had nothing to think about. If you hate me that's fine, but I just wanted you to know that I want you and that baby in my life forever. I'll spend every waking moment of my pitiful life to prove it to you."

Hermione asked, "Why did you leave last night then?"

Draco answered, "I had a terrible father and I didn't want to be like him. I thought that you and our baby deserve better than the life of being associated with a death eater's son."

Hermione told him, "I don't want anybody, but you Draco."

He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her with all the fire burning in his soul from hearing her angelic voice say that. Draco knew that he would die for this woman. He would jump in front of an unforgivable for her. One of his hands met hers to rest on her currently flat stomach.

Hermione's eyes glistened with happiness. She wanted to save the surprise for a while that she knew it was a boy. Hermione knew that since she was carrying his child he would want to name it after a star or a constellation so she decided right then it wouldn't be something strange.

Hermione told him, "We are not naming the baby something weird so don't even start with the weird names."

Draco said, "But my family has traditions."

Hermione responded, "They also have traditions of not having kids with muggleborns."

Draco laughed, "Let's just go and say that I am like Alexander, but I am not going to lose my head over you. If it came to that I would because I love you."

Hermione asked, "You love me?"

"I wanted to save you from the nightmare that occurred in the manor, but I would be branded as a traitor and my family murdered. You saw how my father was already and how I was sixth year," admitted Draco, "I made fun of you to hide my undeniable feelings for you so nobody would suspect anything plus my friends were stupid."

Hermione questioned him, "Were you really going to kill Dumbledore?"

Draco sighed knowing she would ask this one day, "I am not a killer, Hermione. I admit I was a foul, loathsome, evil, little cockroach but I am definitely not a killer. I would kill for you, but it would be safer to fight for you. I am going to marry you someday, Mya."

Hermione said, "Who says I want to marry you?"

Draco smirked, "Malfoys always get what they want because our charm and cunning."

"A Slytherin through and through," said Hermione, "but our child will definitely be in Gryffindor."

Draco argued, "No Malfoy child has ever not been in Slytherin."

Hermione questioned, "How many Slytherin boys procreated with witches from the other houses?"

He was dumfounded so all that was left was silence. They just sat there holding hands until the Potters walked in.

Draco said, "Hello, Potter family."

James ran to Hermione and asked, "Aunty Mione okay?"

Hermione responded kissing his forehead, "I am alright, James."

Harry said, "We read in the paper that you were admitted yesterday. What's up?"

Hermione answered, "It was a potions accident like the ones Neville used to have but much different."

Ginny asked, "Why is it different?"

Hermione laughed, "Well, Neville was never pregnant."

Ginny squealed causing Draco and Harry to cover their ears. Ginny kicked all the boys out of the room.

Harry looked at Draco and said, "You did this didn't you?"

Draco admitted, "Yeah, Potty, it's my baby. I am not going to say it was a mistake because it isn't and I am terrified."

Harry grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and told him, "You better stand by her or else you'll deal with my wrath. She is like my sister and she can be quite terrifying so be careful what you say to her later on because she'll flip out going from mad to upset in fits of tears."

Draco told him, "I am not going to leave her, but yeah she can be scary."

James asked, "What mean, Daddy?"

Harry got down as far as he could go to be almost face to face with James and said, "Aunty Mione is going to have a baby."

James tugged on Draco's pant leg and asked, "Is you the baby's daddy?"

Draco nodded and James put his hands into fists, "No hurt, Aunty Mione."

Draco whispered in his ear, "I'll protect her for you."

James wrapped his arms around Draco's shoulders and he immediately felt weird that Potter's son was hugging him.

In the room

Ginny told Hermione, "Spill, I want the details."

Hermione said, "Remember how Draco and I got into the fight and had sex?"

Ginny answered, "Yeah."

She said, "That's when I got pregnant because we haven't had sex since then."

"Was he any good?" asked Ginny like a conversation that would happen in the Girls' rooms.

Hermione told her, "He was good, but I am not telling you anything else."

Ginny asked, "Are you excited about having a baby?"

Hermione replied truthfully, "I am terrified. My mother had a few miscarriages before she had me."

Ginny said, "You should go to a healer and tell them about this. They can help prevent that with a potion you take once a week."

Suddenly James came running into the room and jumped onto the bed almost right on Hermione. He touched her stomach and Hermione looked at him.

James asked, "I be the best friend."

Hermione laughed, "If you want to, but the baby won't be big like you."

"Yay!" yelled James happily.

Hermione asked Harry, "Can you tell Andy that Draco and Narcissa would like to visit and see her and Teddy?"

Harry nodded his head and looked to his wife, "Let's leave them alone. We'll see you when you get out of here, Hermione."

James told her, "Wove you, Aunty Mione. Bye Draco."

Hermione told James, "I love you too."

They left and Draco sighed when they were all gone. Hermione hit him for sighing in relief that they were gone.

Draco asked, "What?"

Hermione told him, "They are my best friends. You'll have to get used to them."

Draco said, "I think James has a crush on his, Aunty Mione."

Hermione hit him and ordered, "Go get a healer so I can go home."

He mocked her, "Yes, mam."

He came back momentarily with a healer carrying a clipboard with release papers. She hurriedly filled them out and handed them back. He gave her a name of a healer specifically for pregnant women. Draco didn't like the idea of someone besides him looking at his girlfriend's vagina, but what could he do?

Soon after they went to her flat through the floo network and she went to her queen sized bed to get more sleep because the pain potion they gave her for her headache made her sleepy.

Draco said before she passed out, "Maybe you should move into the manor."

She sleepily said, "Mm."

Sorry for the long wait. Writer's block. Read & Review please