"Hermione?" Draco's voice called as he knocked softly on the large, wood door. He poked his head in the room and saw Hermione laying on her bed shaking with light sobs as her head was buried into her pillow. Draco let out a deep sigh and walked in the room and closed the door. He took three long strides across the wooden floor and knelt beside the bed and put his elbows on the mattress and pushed some of her brown curls out of her face.
"Love? Talk to me," Draco said softly to Hermione. She turned over and faced Draco and he wiped away some of her falling tears. She sniffled and looked at Draco with water filled eyes. Draco had a chance to look over Hermione while she lay there in tears. He noticed that her shirt clung tight to her stomach and he could see the slight roundness to her stomach and had an urge to put his hand on top of it, and he did. Hermione's eyes glanced down at her stomach where Draco's hand was placed.
"I don't like you fighting with Ron," She said softly and placed her small hand on top of Draco's hand, "I don't want our baby around the constant arguing."
"Neither do I, love," Draco said and looked at Hermione, "Love, you need to know that I don't want to fight with Weasley, he just knows where to push my buttons. I have every intention to make amends with him and Potter before our child is born," Draco said and Hermione smiled a light smile. He looked down at her stomach and rubbed his thumb over it lightly, "There's really a baby in there, isn't there?" Draco questioned looking at their hands.
"Yeah," Hermione said with a smile, "You want to see the baby?" She asked and Draco nodded with a smile on his face. Hermione pulled her shirt up over her belly and lay on her back and Draco sat next to her on the bed. She grabbed her wand and pointed it at her stomach, "Lorem ipsum ex," She said and her stomach glowed lightly before settling on the image that lay beneath her skin. Draco was amazed what that three worded spell could do. He was able to see his child living inside of Hermione's womb. He lightly ran his hand over her stomach and was in such awe of her stomach now.
"Wow," Draco let out after a few moments. He saw that Hermione's letter was correct, the profile of the baby definitely was a Malfoy, "I think it's a boy," Draco said and Hermione rolled her eyes, "Did you find out?"
"I do have the spell, but I think I want to be surprised," Hermione said and smiled at Draco, "The coloring of the spell goes away in thirty seconds so if you want to look while I close my eyes I'll do it."
"I think I can wait five more months. Besides, I like to be surprised," Draco said with a smile on his face and then added, "Most of the time, anyways," He said and Hermione smiled lightly at Draco. He rubbed his hand over her stomach and just watched her stomach the entire time.
"I don't want to leave," Draco said silently, "I want to stay here with you and watch your belly grow," Draco said looking at Hermione. She sat up a little bit and propped herself on her elbows.
"You don't want to see me get any bigger, Draco, I'll look like a fat, pregnant, mess," She said and Draco laughed lightly while looking at Hermione, "What? What could possibly be so funny, Draco Malfoy?"
"You, love," He said with a smile plastered permanently on his face. He looked into her deep, chocolate brown eyes and said, "Love, I want to be with you through everything, even if it is one of the most minor things possible. I want to be there when you're getting strange food cravings, when the baby first kicks, when the baby is born."
Hermione was looking at Draco with tears in her eyes. That was one of the sweetest things she's ever heard Draco say to her. She wants him there, too, but she doesn't know how that would be possible. She too wants Draco to experience all those things with her.
"I want that too, Draco, I really want that, but there is absolutely no way it would ever work," Hermione said. Draco let out a sigh whilst staring at the image of the child that was growing inside of Hermione's womb. Hermione said the incantation to her stomach and the image had soon disappeared just as quickly as the image had appeared to them.
"We'll manage, love, we'll manage," He said and leaned over pressing his thin lips to her soft, plump ones. Draco leaned over the edge of the bed and cupped her cheek keeping their lips combined for a bit longer. Draco climbed onto the bed keeping their lips attached and put his arm on the other side of her waist.
"I don't want you to leave," Hermione murmured against Draco's lips, "I want you to stay here with me," she whispered while looking into his mysterious gray eyes.
"I wish I could, love, but it's not quite possible due to the circumstances with You-Know-Who and the fact that my father is who he is," Draco said and then put his hand on her stomach, "I wish I could stay, love, for our baby," He said with a smile on his face.
"Draco," Hermione said after a while, "Are you able to get something off of Umbridge?" Hermione asked him once the thought of the next day flowed into her head. Draco cocked his head to the side and looked at Hermione curiously.
"What is it, love? What's going on?" Draco asked her laying down on his side and wrapping his arms around Hermione.
"We need that hexagon necklace around her neck," Hermione said and Draco looked at her, "I wish I-"
"It's fine, Hermione," Harry's voice said as he entered the room. Both Hermione and Draco turned towards Harry and saw that he was walking in the room, "Horcruxes, heard of `em, Malfoy?"
"Yeah, You-Know-Who talks of them sometimes, Pot- Harry," Draco said correcting himself, "Why?"
"Her necklace is a horcrux," Harry stated and Draco's eyes widened, "We're trying to kill them so we can kill You-Know-Who," Harry said, "It's the only possible way."
"You have to kill these objects?" Draco asked and Harry nodded, "Why?"
"He's immortal otherwise. Our first year, he wanted the Philosopher's Stone so he could be even more immortal than before. Of course, with Dumbledore being Dumbledore, he had the permission of Nicholas Flamel to destroy that stone," Harry said and then cleared his throat before continuing, "Our second year when I went into the Chamber of Secrets with Ron and Lockhart-"
"Git," Draco murmured at the mention of their ex-Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Hermione lightly shoved Draco to keep him quiet while Harry spoke.
"Anyways, when we were down there, Ginny was barely alive and she had Tom Riddle's diary. The chamber wasn't opened by Ginny, it was opened by You-Know-Who. There was a piece of his soul that he put into that diary and that was how the chamber was opened. Then, Dumbledore had the ring, I believe it was You-Know-Who's mother's ring, and it had dark magic concealed within it. We have two problems, though," Harry said looking at them.
"What? What flaws in your plans could there be?" Draco asked looking at Harry.
"He made seven according to Dumbledore, seven horcruxes. So far, we only know of three. What are the other four? We also need to figure out how to destroy them," Harry said and Draco rolled his eyes.
"You would try and find these without having some sort of way of disposing of them," Draco said and sat up, "I have to say that his giant snake has to be one. It's definitely fair game, she sticks to him like glue. If he has two objects that had belonged to Slytherin, is there a chance the other ones belonged to the other houses besides Gryffindor. No offense, but he would never touch anything of Gryffindor's," Draco said and they looked at each other, "I know for a fact that Hufflepuff has the cup and Ravenclaw, I'm not so sure about."
"Malfoy, thank you so much!" Harry said and left the room. Draco smirked and pressed his lips to Hermione's.
"I should probably get going," Draco said and Hermione let out a sigh, "I'll write to you as much as I can. I also want updates on our baby," He said resting his hand on top of Hermione's stomach. He bid Hermione another goodbye, followed by a kiss, and then with a small pop, disappeared into thin air. Hermione sat up and pressed her hands gently to her bump.
"I love you, baby. Your Daddy and I love you so, so, so much," She said and let a tear drop fall onto her stomach as she wished that Draco Malfoy was still sitting in her presence.
A/N: Sorry that this chapter took so long to update. I was busy with work and was side tracked with reading other fics on here. I also had like no inspiration, but I pulled it off, I finished this chapter!
Did any of you watch The Lying Game? I thought it was really good. The guy who plays Sutten's boyfriend, who is in Switched at Birth, he is my new favorite actor! I love him as Ty in SAB!
Also, I (lamely) dedicate this chapter to Joe Jonas since today is his birthday. I am a Jonas Brothers fan, and have been for about five years now! Harry Potter and Jonas Brothers are my two favorite things! So yes, I am dedicating this chapter to Joe's 22nd birthday!
~Amanda