Not my best chapter I'd say not sure if I'm happy with what I've got written down but hey you'll be the judges of that.
Cots and Colours
Nine weeks into her pregnancy and Hermione had decided that she didn't want 12 children if this was how she would feel for 9 months. Morning sickness was possibly the most horrendous thing she had been through for so long. It would start precisely at seven o'clock in the morning and she'd continue to feel ill for 2 and a half hours. The sickness would then leave her body till half past 7 that night and would last until half 11. This had been the pattern ever since she had seen Madam Pomfrey for the ultra-sound three weeks ago. At first she was worried but her mother had only laughed and said that she was lucky that she didn't suffer from it on and off throughout the day.
"You can plan your day that way Hermione, just don't do anything from half 7 at night to half 9 in the morning other than sleep." Draco laughed as he listened to Hermione tell him about the conversation she shared with her mother.
"I see what she means; at least you can do things throughout the day without the worry of bringing everything back up from your stomach." Draco told her.
Hermione sighed and leaned back in to Draco's warm embrace they sat like this while watching the television. It was 8.45, her stomach was turning she had learnt very early that she couldn't eat anything till the morning sickness had passed.
"Draco I've been thinking about what we should do today. How do you fancy going into the Muggle World and purchase some baby furniture, we're going to need two of everything and it's going to be quite expensive, so we may as well start now." Draco listened quietly and nodded.
"What we going to need then babe?"
"We're going to need 2 cots, 2 wardrobes, 2 chests of draws, a light for the room a carpet; we'll need a rocking chair, maybe two changing tables. We're also going to need nappies, clothes, baby food, bottles, dummies, toys…"
"Bloody hell, and we're going to need double of all the clothes and stuff, it's a good job we can afford all this." Draco exclaimed shocked at the amount of stuff they were going to need. "We definitely need to go shopping; I'm not doing it all when you're heavily pregnant." Hermione laughed the image of walking around the shops heavily pregnant with Draco and Blaise stressing over everything.
"What are you two laughing about?" Blaise asked as he walked into the living room hair damp after getting out of the shower.
"I've just informed Draco what we are going to need for the babies; he is defiantly up for an afternoon shopping trip."
"Don't fancy shopping while she's heavily pregnant when we've to buy so much!" Blaise chuckled and nodded his head.
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"What do you think to this one?" Hermione asked rubbing her hand over the wooden crib. The engraving was the first thing that had attracted Hermione to it; swirls were carved along the top of the cot down on to the back and front panels. It came in three different styles of wood: pine, mahogany and beech. Each of the three cots had different coloured bedding, the pine was pink, mahogany was green and the beech was blue. Hermione continued to rub her hand along the pine cot; it was pine that had attracted her attention.
"I like it," Draco said smiling rubbing his hand over the cots top. "Is this the one you want for the twins?" Hermione nodded she didn't think she'd find another cot that would attract her attention like this one had.
"£169.99" Blaise said looking at the price tag.
"That's not as bad as I thought," Hermione admitted smiling at Blaise and Draco. Draco disappeared from view heading over to the woman at the cash tills, he stopped and spoke to her for a few minutes and then returned with the woman following him.
"So it's two pine cots at £169.99 each?" asked the woman, the trio nodded. "We've only got one of these in stock, are you wanting to take this one with you now are you wanting to pay for the two and we can have them delivered for you free of charge to your address?"
"Erm yeah we'll pay for them both now, I'll have them delivered to my parents' house as we are in the process of moving into a larger house so all deliveries are going to my parents." Hermione explained to the woman who nodded her head and turned back to the till.
"We're not moving house though Hermione," Draco whispered confused.
"I know but if I told her to deliver it to Hogwarts she'd look at me like I was talking Spanish. Muggles don't know about Hogwarts remember, I'll give my mother and father a phone call once we leave and explain what's happening. Once it's at my parents we can shrink it and take it home."
"Okay," Blaise and Draco said as they walked to the woman.
"So that'll be £339.98 then please," Blaise handed over the money and was given a receipt that Hermione took from him. They said goodbye and left the shop.
Blaise and Draco had been in the Muggle world many times before but would still stick close to Hermione who walked along the streets without caring about the traffic on the roads or the people brushing past them getting on with their daily business.
They walked into another shop a little down the road, there was a large paint tin with red paint spilling out, and the flowing paint spelt the words of the shop. Pushing the door open the bell announced the owner to their entrance. The elderly man smiled and nodded to the trio as they looked around the shop, the colour was important to Hermione, she wanted it to be the correct shade, not too pale but not too heavy. She knew if it was to be a boy then it should be blue if it was to be a girl then it would be pink. She hadn't informed the guys this as she walked along the rows of colour strips, looking at the different shades of pink. Because it was twins she was hoping for at least one girl but she doubted it, with being married to both Blaise and Draco each one would needed a boy to continue the Malfoy and Zabini name. Even though the twins surname would be Malfoy-Zabini it had been agreed late one night that one of the sons would inherit the Malfoy fortune and the other son would inherit the Zabini fortune if the twins turned out to be boys. Placing her hand on her stomach she sighed wishing she knew the sex of her unborn children already. Just then she heard bickering coming from the other side of the row.
"We should paint the room blue,"
"No Green,"
"Blue,"
"Green"
"Blue,"
"Listen Malfoy my son will have a green bedroom!"
"What if it's a girl then it should be yellow!"
"Yellow are you out of your mind if they are girls then it'll be pink what person choses a yellow room for a girl."
"I'd go for a yellow room for a girl, pink is so original and my daughter will not have an original room!"
"Your daughter last time I checked it was to be our daughter, and the room will be pink."
"Listen Zabini you are being ridiculous blue and yellow work well together if one is a boy and the other is a girl and if they are sharing rooms when they are born then the room will look normal!"
"Green and Pink work perfectly fine Malfoy and I doubt they'd be sharing a room as we have two perfectly good ones that they can use,"
"If the child is a boy it'll have a blue room if it is a girl then it'll be a pink room. Now will both of you shut up before I make you!" Hermione snapped scowling at both of the two men. "Until we know the gender of the babies we will not pick the colour for their rooms now c'mon that poor man does not want to be listening to you two squabble." Hermione bid the elderly man farewell as they left the store and remembered that she had to inform her parents of the deliveries they were going to receive in the next few weeks. As Hermione spoke on the phone to her mother Blaise and Draco walked beside her.
"Okay I told mum that the deliveries will be arriving at hers, she says that it is okay. She'll let us know when they've been delivered." Blaise and Draco nodded
"Are you ready to go home Hermione before your morning sickness starts again?" Hermione nodded and the trio disappeared down a dark alley and making sure nobody was paying attention apparated home.
What do you think? I've had a few people mention to me that they wanted to see a closer connection between Draco and Hermione, how do you feel this chapter went on their connection let me know if you feel it's improved a little or I'm way off. Please review guys!