Here's the next chapter. I appologize for taking as long as I did to get this to you, but this was actually a really hard chapter for me to write. You'll understand when you read it.

Warnings: Character death and the usual

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter

Chapter 21: Hello and Goodbye

Draco and Harry stopped in front of their hotel room. Draco searched his pockets for the key to the room, muttering profanities under his breath when he had to re-check his pockets. Harry smiled at him lovingly. Finding the key, Draco stuck it in the door. Just as they were about to step through the threshold, a pained moan came from the room across from theirs. Harry whipped around and knocked on the door. When he didn't get an answer, he knocked again, louder.

"Hermione?" Harry said loudly when no reply came from his second knock. After a few seconds, the door opened and Harry and Draco rushed in. Hermione was laying on her bed, holding her belly with a pained expression on her face.

"H-Harry….the baby….it's…c-coming!" Hermione panted out. Harry's eyes widened and he and Draco rushed over to her.

"We have to get you to a Wizarding Hospital, I don't know how to deliver babies," Draco said in a slightly hysterical voice. Hermione shook her head.

"There's no time…..Besides, we don't even know where the Paris Wizarding Hospital is!" Hermione said. Just then, another contraction started and she bit her lip to stop herself from crying out. Draco winced slightly, knowing that Hermione was right.

"Harry, go downstairs and see if the person behind the desk can get us a ride to the hospital." Draco said. Harry nodded and left the room. Draco tried to soothe Hermione as best he could through her contractions. After a few minutes, Harry ran back into the room.

"Some lady is letting us use her limo, it's waiting outside for us right now." Harry said after he caught his breath. Draco nodded and helped Hermione to stand. Harry and Draco walked on either side of her, making sure she didn't fall. They made it to the limo and had Hermione in it before another contraction hit her.

The limo sped through the crowded city streets, making it to the hospital with Hermione only having one more contraction while in the vehicle. Harry jumped out of the back and ran up to the entrance. He grabbed a wheel chair and pushed it back to the limo. Draco helped Hermione out of the limo and into the wheel chair. Harry wheeled it through the entrance and straight up to the desk. Draco spoke rapidly in French to the woman who sat behind said desk and almost immediately afterward, Hermione was rushed to a delivery room. Draco and Harry were told to stay in the waiting room.

Draco went into the bathroom where he sent a patronous message to Fred, Pansy, George, and Sora. When he was finished with that, he went back out into the waiting room and pulled Harry into his arms. Harry rested his head on Draco's shoulder, fear eating away at him for Hermione. Harry buried his face into Draco's chest when he heard Hermione's screams coming from her hospital room.

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"Harry, please…I want you to be the godfather of my child!" Hermione whispered through clenched teeth. Harry nodded, feeling tears in his eyes. "Thank you, Harry!" Hermione said before the doctors rushed Harry out of the room.

Harry stared at little Ronald and Karin Weasley, his thoughts replaying that scene over and over again. He couldn't believe it. He could NOT believe it. Harry kicked the wall under the glass window that allows visitors to see into the nursery.

"Harry," Pansy said softly, placing a hand on his shoulder. He looked up and saw tears in her eyes. "This isn't your fault. No one knew that Hermione was pregnant with twins, or that she'd d-" Pansy stopped. She couldn't bring herself to say it. Harry nodded, knowing she was right.

Fred and George paced the hallway while Draco sat in the corner. Sora stared after George, unsure of what to do.

"This is so unfair!" Harry managed to squeak out before uncontrollable sobs shook him. Draco jumped up and pulled Harry into his arms, tears running freely down his cheeks. Pansy's tears began to flow freely too. Fred went over to her and pulled her into his arms. George pinched his nose, a pained expression on his face. Sora walked over to him and wrapped her arms around him, resting her head on his shoulder. He wrapped his arms around her waist and held her close.

"Damnit…" Fred said softly. He glared up at the ceiling. "Why the fuck do you have to do this!?" Fred demanded the air.

"Why did you take our little sister from us now?" George said softly, also looking up at the ceiling.

"First you take Ron…and now you take Hermione! What more do you want from our family!" Fred said harshly to the air.

Harry shuddered and clung to Draco even more tightly. Pansy buried her face in Fred's chest. Sora kissed George's neck, rubbing small circles on his mid-back in a soothing manner.

A nurse walked out of the nursery and stood there for a moment. Harry looked up an her inquiringly.

"I need to know which of you is the legal guardian of Ronald and Karin Weasley." The nurse said gently. Harry pulled out of Draco's arms and muttered an 'I am'. The nurse smiled slightly and beckoned him over to her. Harry obliged and walked over until he was right in front of her.

"Sir, the twins are in perfect health. You can take them home this time tomorrow."

Harry nodded and thanked her before walking back over to Draco. Draco hugged him tightly before letting Harry move back over to stand in front of the nursery window. The other's looked up at Harry, a little curious.

"Dear Merlin, why do we have to say hello to two beautiful little babies and goodbye to their mother in the same day?" Harry asked softly, placing his hand on the window.

"Death and life co-exist. One cannot happen without the other. That's the way things work. That's how I go each day without Ron. I know that if he hadn't died, then a little baby wouldn't have their life. Everyone deserves to live Harry, you of all people know that." Hermione said, smiling sadly at him. Harry looked up, tears in his eyes. Hermione gave him a one-armed hug before going over to the counter in her bookshop.

"Just remember Harry, not a single one of us blames you for Ron's death."

"Come on, it's been an extremely long night. We should go get some sleep," George said softly. Everyone nodded and headed towards the elevator to take them to the hospital entrance. Harry turned around slowly and walked over to the stairs instead. Draco followed him after assuring the other's that they'd be fine. Draco caught up to Harry and walked beside him, grabbing his hand comfortingly.

They walked back to the hotel they were staying at. Despite the physically and emotionally exhausting day, no one got very much sleep that night. And Harry didn't sleep at all.

Normally, after a person's Bonded dies they soon follow. Unable to live without their Bonded, they usually kill themselves or die mysteriously. No one has been able to pinpoint the cause of death if the other Bonded chooses to try and live without their Bonded.

Of course, Ron and Hermione were perfect for each other. Everyone knew it, everyone saw it, well…except for them. But, when they finally did see it, it was the most beautiful love between two people that the Weasley clan had ever had the privilege of seeing. McGonagall was the one who married them, and when they said their final vows a beautiful glow emanated around the two. Everyone assumed that it was something that happened normally at Hogwarts' weddings. Hermione knew that it was really telling them that her and Ron were Soul Mates.

Author's Note: I'm sure a lot of you are probably wondering why I didn't just let Hermione live, but I thought it truely horrible of me to even consider it. In my mind, I've always imagined Ron and Hermione being soul mates; so of course, if you go with the story and the Vinculum Animus theory, Hermione was destined to die. That's why I ended this chapter (sorry for any confusion!) the way I did, and I hope that it makes sense to you all. Thank you for reading. There's only about two or three more chapters plus the epilogue!