Chapter 13

"You, stay,' Draco pointed at Hermione and said with determination and then turned on Millie, 'You, I want a word!" He charged off towards her and with a horrified look on her face, they both disappeared into the kitchen.

Hermione being Hermione, began gathering her stuff as Blaise and Aidan came up to the table.

"You really should stay," Blaise said, shoving food into his mouth.

"Why? So he can throw me another one of his lies, no thanks!"

"He's not going to lie, I promise,' Blaise stared Hermione down into believing him and it worked. She went in a huff and threw her things on the chair and sat down, folding her arms in front of her in irritation.

"That's like a good girl,' Blaise smirked at her and Aidan laughed at the childish manner. Hermione in return smirked too and picked up his pancake and shoved it in his face, along with the fruit and cream topping of course! She then leant over and with her finger, wiped some of the cream off and popped it into her mouth.

"Mhmm, fruity!" She smirked and went back to being grumpy.

"Oh you should never mess with mum when she's mad!" Aidan stated, matter-of-factly.

"Thanks, anything else I need to know?" Blaise grimaced as he peeled fruit off and wiped his face free of cream.

Aidan began to think whilst the other's heard Draco scream in the background. Hermione leaned forward and acted not interested but clung to each word echoing from the kitchen to the empty café.

"I'M GUNNA KILL HER! AND THEN FEED HER TO THE HIPPOGRIFFS! WHAT IS WRONG WITH HER? THE STUPID, PATHETIC, DESPERATE BIT…'

Not liking where this was going, Hermione and Blaise jumped before Aidan and covered his ears, blocking out Draco's faithful words, startling the little guy.

Seconds later, an extremely pissed Draco walked out and joined them at the table.

"Excuse my words, don't know what came over me.' he muttered and avoided their annoyed, in Hermione's case and amused looks. Draco carried on with taking Blaise's food, ignoring Hermione's irritant behaviour.

"Are you kidding me? You're going to ignore me now?" Hermione slammed her hands on the table, startling the others.

"No I'm not ignoring you, I just need some energy before I encounter you're wrath!" he muttered the last part but Hermione still heard it.

"You git!"

Blaise stared at the two and thought that the two would never learn. Sometimes it was like watching the same thing over and over again. Grabbing a hold of Aidan, they both left the uncomfortable café, "Well, we're off for a walk, see you when you're calm and have sorted some sense into each other!"

Hermione glared at Draco, obviously it was his fault that they were leaving. So being stubborn, she followed after them.

"Wait for me,"

"Oi, you can't just leave in the middle of an important conversation!" Draco shouted after her as he quickly threw money on the table and followed her haste retreat.

"What conversation?!" she shouted back and caught up to Blaise and Aidan.

"What the…what did I just tell you guys?' Blaise shouted at the two as if they were immature children. He crossed his arms in front of his chest and looked at them pointedly. Aidan, feeling in a funny mood, copied him.

"Don't you people listen? And I'm supposed to be the child!" He bantered, copying his uncles posture earning looks from both his parents.

"That's it!' Blaise grabbed Hermione and Draco by the arm and moved them so that they were standing face to face on either side of him. 'Now, were going to carry this on as proper adults and in a civilised manner. No bad language, we have a child present. Understood?"

They both nodded reluctantly and glared at each other.

"I don't even know why he's in such a mood! I'm the one that should be angry!"

"I'm not in a mood! I'm just pis…' Blaise raised his eyebrows, daring him to continue, 'Uhmm, annoyed that you're making a big deal out of this whole thing!"

"Annoyed? You're the one in the wrong and you made it a big deal when you didn't tell us that you were getting MARRIED!"

They were beginning to attract a lot of attention so Blaise took out his wand and pointed it between the two of them, muttering, "Desumo offensus!"

Hermione and Draco both jumped and clutched their arms in pain, rubbing the sore part as the current slowly disappeared.

"What was that for?" Draco grimaced.

"What did I say, civilised conversation. Do it again and the pains going to get worse! Now, shall we start again?" They both nodded again.

"Right, since you can't act as adults, you can be treated as kids. Now, Draco you start off. What would you like to say to Hermione?" All eye's turned to Draco.

"I'm not getting married," he said it slowly, looking pointedly at Hermione, as if trying to etch the words into her head. Hermione glared at him for the umpteenth time that morning.

"Oh I'm sorry it must be your other twin brother whose getting married. My confusion!"

"For God's sake Granger,' Draco seethed, 'Why won't you believe me? I'm not getting married! This is Parkinson we're talking about!"

"And you're point being?"

"Argh! I'M NOT GETTING MARRIED! For a smart with, you're acting like a dumbass!" As soon as he said it, he felt another painful shock go through his body and turned to grimace at Blaise.

"Language."

"What's a dumbass?" Aidan asked, confused.

"You're looking at him," Hermione sneered, pointing towards Draco.

"Oh I give up! It's pointless to talk to you when you're not even in your right mind,' Draco said, flinging his hands in the air as a sign of surrender.

"Wait what? Are you referring to me as crazy? I'll have you know Malfoy, you annoying prat that I'm far from.."

"Bloody hell woman, shut up!"

And then they both screamed as an extremely painful shock cursed through their body again.

"How many times?" Blaise said in annoyance, shaking his head.

"Uncle Blaise, I think we should go home. People are looking at us funny."

"You're right champ, let's go."

They both walked back to the café, Draco and Hermione following and keeping several feet away from each other.

As soon as they entered, Millie noticed the expressions on each of their faces and came bustling towards them.

"Oh Merlin, I'm so sorry for all the trouble I've caused. I need to learn to.."

Hermione cut her off, 'It's okay, you're not the one in the wrong," She stared accusingly at Draco who rolled his eyes in frustration.

"Let's drop them off home Blaise before I end up committing suicide!"

Hermione huffed and grabbed onto Aidans hand as they flood home to Grimmuald Place. Draco, annoyed followed behind and as soon as he stepped out the fire, he bumped straight into the three as they stood rooted to the spot.

"HERMIONE GRANGER, HOW COULD YOU…Oh hello!" Sara stopped shouting as she noticed the handsome Italian standing there, only a few feet away from her. She grinned at him and then suddenly her attention went back to Hermione.

"Where the hell have you been? We've all been worried sick! God's sake woman, you do not just run away like that!" She strutted towards Hermione and engulfed her in a tight hug. "Are you okay?" She whispered more calmly and watched Hermione closely as she nodded meekly.

Just then, Harry, Ron and Ginny walked in and when noticing their best friend standing there, they rushed to her.

"Oh Merlin, are you alright? You didn't come home last night, where have you been?"

They all hugged her one by one and asked her questions, interrogating about her whereabouts.

"Guy's I'm fine, I just stayed over at Malfoy's." They all looked at her confused and she remembered that they didn't know about her father. "My father passed away last night, I'm sorry I didn't tell you, I was a mess and wasn't thinking. Sorry to have you worried all."

"Oh Mione, we're so sorry. How you holding up?"

"Wait, where does Malfoy come into this?" Ron being the silly oaf he was, missed the important point.

"He was the doctor,"

"Hold it, you were the doctor?" he stared at Draco incredulously.

"Yeah,"

"At a muggle hospital?"

"Yeah,"

Obviously not getting it, he asked the same again, 'You were a doctor at a muggle hospital?"

"For the love of Merlin's balls Weasley, YES!"

Everyone began to laugh as quietly as they could, but all failed. Ginny took Hermione to the kitchen table and sat her down and as she let the others fawn over her, Sara walked over to where Aidan was standing, coincidentally with Blaise.

"Hey sweetie, how you doing?"

Blaise being the charmer he was answered instead, 'I'm great, thanks for asking," he grinned at her and Aidan rolled his eyes.

"I was talking to my godson but thanks for clarifying,' she smirked at him and bent down low so that she was level with Aidan, 'Hey gorgeous boy!" she hugged him tight, 'You've been having all this fun and taking me!" She joked with him and ruffled his hair.

Aidan grinned at her and began telling her what he'd been up to, "Aunt Sara, it was so much fun. We all slept in this big bed,' and to emphasise, he stretched his arms as wide as he could, 'And I met uncle Blaise in the morning and he's really cool,' he grinned again.

"That I am," Blaise basked in the glory.

"And what else did you do?" Sara asked him, ignoring Blaises inflating head.

"Uncle Blaise told me the ferret story and then dad chased him around until they were all huffing and puffing. And we had PANCAKES!!'

"Really? Well I know they're your favourite, did you have fruit this time or chocolate?"

"Both!" Aidan shouted excitedly and then ran off to play when he saw the kids and their toys.

"Bye uncle Blaise!" He shouted behind him, 'Bye aunt Sara!"

"Bye champ!"

"Bye sweetie!"

They both stood their as they watched him join the others and as Lily tried to hug him and Aidan trying to push her away.

"He's a brilliant kid," Blaise said and turned to face Sara.

"Yeah he is," Sara agreed. She turned to look at him and smiled sheepishly, "I'm sorry for the outburst earlier, I was just a bit worried,"

"Oh don't worry, you were looking absolutely cute with your bright rosy cheeks and your static hair!"

She looked at him in horror and then realised he was joking. "Not funny,"

"No but at least I got to see what your smile looks like,"

She unconsciously smiled and looked elsewhere.

"And you have a beautiful smile, always wear one," he winked at her as she looked up at him and walked away to find Draco.

"Hey Draco, we need to go," they were all sat at the table and from the looks of it Hermione and Draco still hadn't said a word to each other.

"Yeah, hold on. Hermione we need to talk, now would be really good." he added when she hadn't made a move.

"Look now's not a good time, I've got loads to do what with the funeral and everything."

"Fine, but you can't ignore me forever," he said in anger and surrender and left without another word.

Blaise followed suit but came back and stood in front of Sara, "Any chance I can see you again?" he asked her hopefully.

"Yeah, maybe." She said looking him straight in the eyes.

"Maybe's a good start," smiling at her, he followed Draco out leaving Sara to ump in joy.

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"Hey can I come in?" Ginny popped her head through the door and walked in when Hermione nodded her head, Harry following behind her.

"What's going on between you and Draco?"

"Nothing," Hermione replied briskly and carried on with her arrangements.

"Well it's not nothing. Seriously Hermione, give the guy a chance. He's trying his best," Harry said surprising Hermione that he was defending his long time enemy, "He has changed a lot since the last time you saw him."

"Well his lying hasn't changed a lot," Hermione muttered angrily.

"Merlin's sake Hermione, stop making a big deal out of everything. You haven't listened to a word he's said, he's NOT getting married. He broke things off when he found out he had a son. And plus, things were rocky with Draco and Parkinson years ago, she just didn't want to admit it. You're crazy if you believe that he doesn't care about you or Aidan. He loves you both with his life and you're too stupid to see that. Listen to him this time or you'll end up exactly where you were all those years ago."

Hermione stared at Ginny's back as she left the room with an apologetic Harry behind and let the words sink in.

What an idiot she'd been, a complete idiot.

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