Special Delivery
Does anyone happen to know Ms. Rowling's personal number? Perhaps I can convince her, with my terrible skills of persuasion, that I should have at least some rights to her great imagination! Still, I repeat that I sadly do not own her Harry Potter characters (;_;)
Anyway...on to Hermione and Lucius's tale...they don't want to hear about anything else besides themselves...gosh they're being so conceited right now...Oh! And I also do Not own When You Wish Upon a Star...I forgot who owns it, silly me..
"She needs the Healer," Harry tried not to look worried. Everyone was up from the table in a flash.
"Draco call Doctor Bennett," Narcissa ordered. "Lucius, Harry carry Hermione carefully upstairs. I'll pull down the sheets." Narcissa was gone in a flash. Leaving Lucius and Harry to carry Hermione. She was light enough for one of them to carry up the stairs, too bad they didn't figure that out till she was safely tucked away in bed.
lOvE*LoVe*lOvE Is There a Doctor in the House?! LoVe*lOvE*LoVe
"Miss Granger you are the most difficult patient I have ever come across! If I have to come back here one more time, for any reason other than your daily check up, I will use a sticking charm to confine you to your bed!" Doctor Bennett gave Hermione his most stern look and tone of voice. Unfortunately he may have to end up looking up some very difficult sticking charms very soon. "Miss Granger will have to stay confined to her bed for an additional two days." Doctor Bennett informed the room.
"We should set him up with Madame Pomfrey," Harry muttered under his breath. Draco heard him- and smirked.
"Thank you Doctor, for taking time out of your busy schedule to help Hermione," Lucius said.
"You are welcome...and please do not hesitate to call when you find Miss Granger is not following orders," the doctor glared at Hermione as he left thru the floo.
"Yes, we should," Draco agreed with Harry.
Lucius set his face to hide his evil grin, "That would not be a very good idea, you two."
"Why?" Harry and Draco asked. Lucius had to work extra hard to hide his grin.
"You would not want them swapping tips now would you?" Lucius asked before he walked out to truly let his grin show. Harry grinned.
"Your funeral Potter," Draco smirked.
"You know what some circles call me...The Boy Who Just Won't Die...I'll gamble."
Draco chuckled. This was going to be great!...Or so they both thought.
HeArT*hEaRt*HeArT We'll Do It For Love, Love, Love hEaRt*HeArT*hEaRt
"She really left?" Hermione asked. "I wish we could have spent more time together."
"Cissa had to get back to set her affairs in order, and settle her estate," Lucius explained.
"I'll be leaving soon too you know, I have to find my parents," Hermione looked forward to finally being able to leave bed.
"Hermione..." Lucius hesitated. "Hermione, I hadn't any communication with you for over a year. I do not want you to leave my side again," he tried to explain with very little words.
"I will be back, it's just a short trip. I will probably find them by the third day I am there," Hermione smiled.
"No, Hermione," Lucius looked into her eyes. "Please, let me come along with you?" He pleaded with his eyes. Hermione could feel her resolve crumbling.
"Lucius..." She tried to explain. She closed her eyes, but his pleading grey eyes were burned there. Finally she opened her eyes, "Thank you Lucius. Yes, you can come along."
Lucius smiled his most charming smile meant only for Hermione, "Thank you love," He said before he kissed her. "You are too tempting in this bed witch," Lucius breathed.
"What do you want to do Lucius?" Hermione purred in his ear.
"We can't," Lucius tried to tone it down.
"I'm in bed, resting. Relaxing is a part of resting, is it not? Help me relax Lucius," Hermione whispered with her lips brushing against his ear.
Lucius growled, "You'll be my undoing witch."
"Then undo me first," Hermione whispered softly in his ear.
Lucius wandlessly undressed the both of them. "What do you want?"
Hermione blushed, "You," she whispered, making Lucius growl once more.
"Then you shall have me."
Hermione pulled his upper half down to her and held him, breathing in his scent of spice and chocolate, and looked straight into his steely grey eyes. "I love you Lucius Malfoy," she whispered.
Lucius's eyes widened, "Truly?" He whispered.
Hermione smiled softly, "Truly."
Lucius's lips crashed upon hers, his white-blond hair mixing with her curly wheat brown. "I love you too," he whispered.
hEaRt
"That is love Potter," Draco whispered. Harry and himself quickly shut the door as they tried not to blush. Harry rolled his eyes and walked away wondering if he should stop the event that was about to happen.
lOvE*LoVe*lOvE Baby Seeley In All His Wonderful Glory LoVe*lOvE*LoVe
Harry and Draco were panicking.
"He won't be quiet!" Draco started panicking while rocking a crying Seeley back and forth in an arm chair in the private upstairs drawing room.
"I don't know what to do! Why do you think I chose Hermione to raise him?!" Harry asked rhetorically.
"Oh I don't know maybe because you're a bastard," Draco answered sarcastically but seriously. "Maybe he needs a nappy change?" Draco suggested before Harry could reply to his comment. Harry looked at him.
"I think I'll go for a walk," he said hurriedly.
"Chicken," Draco drawled.
"Then you change his nappy, as you are the one who suggested it!" Harry hissed.
"What is going on here?!" Lucius Malfoy demanded. "All this racket is going to wake Hermione!"
"You should change his nappy!" Harry childishly pointed at Lucius. Draco gladly placed Seeley in Lucius's arms.
"Pardon me, but what is wrong with one of you changing him?" Lucius asked, hoping to talk his way out of this predicament.
"I have never had a baby," Draco pointed out. "Therefore I have no experience changing a nappy, and seeing as you are the only person in this room who has actually had a baby before, you are the best candidate," Draco smirked at his father. Lucius's pale cheeks turned a light pink.
"I have never changed a nappy before," he admitted foolishly. "The house elves or Cissa have always taken care of that," he stated almost proudly. Draco and Harry chuckled behind their palms at the elder Malfoy. "Speaking of house elves-"
"Do not even think about it!" Hermione exclaimed, entering the sitting room.
"But surely-"
"No!" Hermione interrupted Lucius. "Every interaction with Seeley will be with humans," she ordered the three men. "That includes changing nappies, feeding, putting him to sleep, dressing him. The only time we will require the assistance of a house elf is when a baby-sitter is needed and a human is not available," Hermione laid out the rules while transfiguring a changing table and laying Seeley on it.
"The elves are not going to be happy with that," Draco whispered to Lucius and Harry. They silently agreed.
"Who removed Seeley from the nursery?" Hermione asked the wizards.
"I did," Draco said. "He was awake, and starting to complain," he explained.
"Then you will be the first to learn," Hermione said pulling Draco over to the changing table.
"P-pardon?" Draco squeaked. Lucius and Harry looked relieved. Hermione ignored him and proceed to instruct him as he changed Seeley's nappy.
"How did you learn this? You knew next to nothing just days ago," Draco complained as he powdered Seeley's bottom. "What the?!" Draco yelled and tried blocked the stream of yellow liquid as it splashed him. Hermione quickly pinned up Seeley's nappy while Lucius laughed at his son and Harry snickered behind his hand.
"You took too long," Hermione explained. "He was cold. You have to change him faster next time."
"Next time?!" Draco exclaimed. Hermione just rolled her eyes.
"You!" She pointed at Lucius. "You will change his next nappy for laughing at Draco." Draco smirked triumphantly at his father. "And don't think I didn't catch you snickering Harry, you are after Lucius!"
HeArT*hEaRt An Hour Later hEaRt*HeArT
Lucius sighed in relief, and congratulated himself that Seeley did not pee on him for taking too long to change his nappy, and he covered every inch of his bottom in baby powder so he would not get a rash.
"You put his nappy on backwards," Hermione informed him. Harry and Draco hid their smirks. "Fix it," Hermione ordered. Lucius fought with himself not to growl at her, and promptly fixed Seeley's nappy.
"He's soiled another nappy," Lucius smiled triumphantly and pushed Harry forward. "Harry's turn!" He exclaimed all too happily.
HeArT
"Why won't this powder come out?!" Harry asked the inanimate bottle, banging it against the changing table.
"Harry," Hermione warned backing away.
"What?!" He demanded, involuntarily squeezing the bottle of powder and instantly covering himself in white talc. Seeley chose that moment to show how cold he was all over Harry. "Bloody hell!" He yelled. Hermione couldn't help it...she laughed along with Lucius and Draco.
hEaRt*HeArT*hEaRt Let's Take A Little Walk, Out On The Town HeArT*hEaRt*HeArT
"Lucius, I need to travel," Hermione sighed. This was not going to go over well.
"You are confined to bed rest, and are not allowed to travel," Lucius drawled.
"Then you and Draco hop in bed and we will turn it into a portkey," Hermione tried not to snap. She was getting a headache. "Owl Doctor Bennett Harry. Tell him it is an extremely important matter, I need to return home, I can and will turn my bed into a portkey if that is what it takes. Now Harry!" Hermione was getting impatient.
"Be careful Mister Malfoy, she's getting snappish which means she has a headache and a short temper right now," Harry whispered.
"I can hear you. I'm right here, and I can assure you I am not deaf Harry!" Hermione snapped at him. Harry left a trail of dust as he ran from the room and decided to wait downstairs for the doctor to reply. Draco smirked at his exit.
At baby Seeley's wail, Hermione absent-mindedly started rubbing soft circles around his belly and humming. After a few minutes Lucius chanced a question, "What is that you are humming? I don't believe I have heard it." Hermione smiled and started singing:
When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you
If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do...
Lucius and Draco silently sighed as they laid on Hermione's bed and listened to her soft sweet voice sing.
"That was lovely, you have a beautiful voice," Lucius whispered when she finished singing the song.
"I know you're there Harry," Hermione called softly, startling the three men. Harry had been listening outside the doorway to Hermione's room.
"Hermione...you can do this way better than I ever can," he looked ashamed.
"Just give me one good reason why you wanted me to be his mother Harry," Hermione said softly. Harry knew he had to appeal to her logical side.
"I have no natural feel for this like you do," Harry tried not to cringe when he said that.
"You realize I could blow that statement all out of proportion, don't you?"
"Yes, but you also know I don't mean it the way it sounded."
Hermione took a deep breath. "Harry, you have to realize...you are not your Aunt Petunia or Uncle Vernon. You won't make your son sleep in a cupboard under the stairs for the first eleven years of his life, you won't make him your personal slave, or follow in your cousin Dudley's footsteps and go 'Harry Hunting' and proceed to use him as your personal punching bag. You know better Harry, I know you know better."
"Hermione," Harry crawled into her bed and cried, completely forgetting about Lucius and Draco. Hermione began to hum again rub comforting circles into Harry's back while the grown man cried. After a few minutes, when Harry calmed, Hermione asked her next question.
"Give me one solid reason why you should not do this Harry."
"Because right now...what he needs more than anything is a mother...not just any woman off the street, but a mother who will love him whether he is hers or not."
Hermione smiled, "Spoken like a true parent Harry. You just have one problem."
"What is that?"
"What about when he needs a father?"
"When he starts asking for me I will do my best to love him like a father should."
"You do know you can't pretend to love, don't you? If you just plan to make believe later then I do not want any part in your scheme."
"I promise you as his mother and Seeley as my son, with my heart, Hermione, that I will do my best to truly love him as a father." As soon as Harry finished speaking those words a golden glow passed through him. "What was that?" Harry asked.
"You just made a life binding promise to your son and Hermione that you would do your best to truly love your son as a father," Lucius waved his wand over the sleeping baby and his birth certificate floated in mid-air. "In your words you have officially made Hermione his mother so she is now recorded as such." Hermione snatched the Birth Certificate out of the air before the wizards could read it.
Birth Certificate
of
Seeley Nataniel Bellamont-Potter
Son of
Harry James Potter and
Hermione Clarise Bellamont
"Can I be his Godfather?" Draco smirked.
"Sure Malfoy," Harry said sarcastically. The birth certificate glowed blue. Draco Malfoy was now listed as baby Seeley's Godfather. Harry looked gobbsmacked at the glowing parchment Hermione was holding out of everyone's view.
"I suggest you be more careful with your words Harry," Hermione said. "Did you really want to be his Godfather?" Hermione asked Draco. Draco looked at the baby and carefully cradled him.
"Wow," Draco looked at everyone, and back at the delicate bundle in his arms, "I'm a Godfather!" He smiled. Lucius made the birth certificate disappear before Harry could say anything else.
"I think I'm going to need a few books on parenting," Hermione remarked thoughtfully while gently rocking her son. She was already used to having him in her arms. "I don't know how the wizarding world does this," she said softly but I do know a little about how muggles raise children. Unfortunately, we don't have any more baby powder on hand, or baby wipes for that matter. I can transfigure a nappy," Hermione mused, and while transfiguring a tea towel into a nappy and changing out Seeley's soiled one for the clean. "I need to go to the grocery store."
Lucius sighed, "Draco can stay here with Seeley, and I will take you to a muggle store."
Hermione changed, and met Lucius outside, "Lucius? Does this..." Hermione couldn't bring herself to finish her question.
"Hermione, if you are asking what I think you are asking then this is my answer." Lucius pulled Hermione close, and kissed her, making the kiss deeper every second. Hermione moaned into his mouth. Lucius wanted to be closer to her, but their bodies were already moulded together. "I do not plan on ever letting you go love. Ever!" He growled softly.
LoVe*lOvE*LoVe I Love Shopping!...Especially for books ;-) lOvE*LoVe*lOvE
Lucius looked around at the shelves and tables of books, noticing how everything was more organised then Flourish and Blotts. "Why did we need to come here?" He frowned, looking at all the women batting their eyelashes his way. He placed his arm around Hermione's waist to discourage any more of the obvious flirtations.
"I need to buy baby books. It would be nice to research what stages Seeley will go through as he grows. It would be useful to learn what to do and what not to do," Hermione said while looking over tittles of baby books.
The books What to expect When you're expecting, What to Expect the First year, What to Expect the Second Year, and What to Expect the Toddler Years caught her attention. "You can go look over in the literature section, if you are bored," Hermione pointed out said section of the book store. Lucius looked around at the few women still trying to get his attention.
"I would rather be here with you," he said pulling Hermione into a kiss. "Besides, I have to get you home. The doctor said you must rest, and I will not continue to go against his orders," Lucius said sternly. "I have already made concessions for the breakfast and this outing," he sighed at his weakness in giving this witch whatever she asked for.
"Hmm, well after this I have to buy a few essentials for Seeley. Then I will rest," Hermione said, oblivious to the jealous glares of the women around her.
"We can just order everything he needs, I will owl for catalogues," Lucius said dismissively.
"No," Hermione said. "I want to buy everything personally in person at a store, not through catalogues."
Lucius fixed Hermione with an impassive mask on his face, "You need rest," he drawled. "Order what he needs through catalogues."
Hermione looked straight back at Lucius with a stern mask, "No." Then her facial features and voice softened. "It has more sentimental meaning, to buy everything he needs personally Lucius." Lucius's face softened in understanding. He pulled Hermione into an embrace and sighed.
"Stubborn woman!" He exclaimed. "Fine, but the moment you even look exhausted, I'm taking you home!" He said, fixing her with a stern gaze of his own.
Hermione narrowed her eyes at Lucius, "Fine!"
hEaRt*HeArT*hEaRt I'm Freaking Out! Where am I Now? HeArT*hEaRt*HeArT
Hermione wandered through racks, and shelves of baby clothes, little socks, bibs, toys, bottles, bathroom essentials, at Babies R Us and wondered if there were a store of this magnitude back home. Lucius stuck close to Hermione in this store. There were pregnant ladies everywhere!
If there was one thing he was afraid of, other than the Dark Lord, it was a pregnant woman...or women in this case. So he busied himself looking at the 'onesies'...odd name for the one-piece suits. Hermione noticed Lucius looking thoughtfully at a soft pink coloured 'onesie' that read Daddy's Little Princess with a diamond tiara.
"Did you ever want a little girl?" Hermione asked Lucius carefully.
Lucius smiled, "Actually I still do." He pulled Hermione into an embrace and ground his hips against hers making her gasp.
"Get a room!" A woman glared.
Lucius fixed her with a cold mask. "I beg your pardon?" He asked, his voice dripping with ice. The poor woman scampered away. Hermione giggled.
"We are in public," she smiled. Lucius kissed her forehead.
"Be that as it may, she should still mind her own business. I need to get you home now Love, All this exercise is starting to take it's tow on your precious body," Lucius smirked and laid a kiss on Hermione's lips.
Oopsy..did I make a mistake on Seeley's birth certificate?
Only one chapter left to this short tale, but honestly, Hermione and Lucius will not shut up! They're still talking in my head! (Okay, now that just sounds like I need a little help from some men in white coats...hopefully they're hot men in white coats (~.-) )