A massive thankyou to Rose Davis yet again on helping with this chapter:) enjoy my lovelys:)

Hermione was writing to Eden, as she was thinking of how to word the letter as to not let on about the baby and upcoming nuptials of her and she slipped into a thought. She started to remember how she came from wanting hex him straight to hell to now wanting nothing more than to be his wife. She remembered the day she slapped him in the library for his 'mudblood' comment and how at that moment she wanted nothing more to do with him.

"Hermione what did he say."

"Oh nothing much. His mother set up an account in my name for all of my and the babies expenses and that we couldn't tell anyone just yet that he is indeed the father of the Golden princess child. Oh and that he in no uncertain way would ever marry a Mudblood."

"He could you a mudblood. I will kick his ass. That conceded dick. Does he really think that every girl is beating the door down to become Mrs. Draco Malfoy."

"I really don't want to talk about right now. Can't get all worked up over Malfoy. Besides if I am angry it will only get the baby riled up and I won't get any sleep." That night she cried herself to sleep. The next three weeks were spent avoiding Draco like the plague. The end of term was coming up and all she could think about was that she wouldn't have to worry about seeing him unless she wanted to. The week of the end of term a 7 month pregnant Hermione received an letter from non other than Narcissa Malfoy insisting that Hermione come and spend two weeks with her at their summer home in Tuscany. "Hermione, you are not seriously thinking about going are you. You will be locked away with Narcissa and Draco for two weeks. That doesn't even sound like a lot of fun."

"Ginny, I will be dealing with her from now on. This is her grandchild, and who knows maybe Draco won't be there. Maybe he will be off with his precious Astoria. I really hope he doesn't show up I maybe forced to do something drastic, hex his balls off or use the imperious curse on him and make him act like an actual human being instead of some little spoilt brat. Maybe I should talk to Harry and see what he thinks."

All the goodbye's were said and done, Harry met his two favorite ladies at the train station. Hermione filled him in on what the letter said and she asked his opinion on the situation.

"You should write her back and ask her if her ferret of a son will be joining you and then make your decision from there." Hermione always thought that if she would have had a brother she would have wanted him to be just like Harry. As soon as they arrived at 12 Grimauld place she sat down and wrote Narcissa a letter asking if Draco would be joining them and then telling her, her reasoning about not wanting to be around him at this time. A return letter came back.

Hermione,

I do apologise for Draco's behaviour. I did not raise such a child. I assure you that if and when Draco joins us he will be on his best behaviour. What he fails to realize is that this is something that he can't throw a tantrum and get out of. Rest assured that when I am through with him you will think he is a different person. I will await your arrival two days from now. I am looking forward to getting to know the mother of my grandchild.

Narcissa

Hermione sighed and rubbed her belly, she picked up the letter from the table and struggled to get out the chair and onto her swollen feet. she wobbled out of the living room and into the kitchen to find Harry and Ginny playing wizards chess. "Harry, I wrote to Narcissa and I got this back" she handed the letter to Harry and Ginny climbed over the table to read it as well. Harry scanned the letter before handing it to Ginny. "Well, 'mione I suppose you'd have to go and don't give me that look. Do it for your daughter if you don't want to do it for yourself. its just two weeks and Narcissa has mentioned she's going to be there as well so its not going to be just you and Draco is it" Harry held up his hand and gave hermione a stern look. "Let me finish, Mrs. Malfoy has said she's going to have a word with him has she not? Then I think he'll be on his best behaviour. You should go 'mione it'll be ok" Hermione sighed and with a great amount of effort finally sat down opposite her best friends. "Fine, I'll go but if I don't like it I'm coming back" Harry shot her a smile and kissed her hands "that's my girl" before getting up to look in his fridge. "Hermione it says here that she'll' await your arrival' but where does she want you to go?" Ginny shot Hermione a puzzled look. "Errr I suspect Malfoy Manor" Hermione looked over at harry who shrugged to say 'probably' before walking back over to her and setting a massive pot of nutella with a spoon. Hermione smiled and began dipping the spoon.

The next two days seemed to fly by much to Hermiones dismay. She was currently waiting by the front door for harry who was bringing the last of her luggage down. "All set?" He asked Hermione who looked slightly nervous but nodded all the same "you'll be fine I promise" harry pulled her into a quick hug, he released her and grabbed her hand. "Kreacher" and old house elf appeared with a crack. "Master called" he bowed low towards harry. "Kreacher would you kindly take Hermiones luggage to Malfoy Manor for me?" Kreachers huge golf ball eyes lit up as he staggered forward to the bags. "Kreacher would be delighted Master." He said with one last bow and dissapeared with the bags. "Ginny she's leaving!" Harry shouted up the stairs, Ginny came walking down the stairs and hugged hermione tightly. "Have fun" she winked as she moved towards harry for a kiss. Harry looked over at hermione who nodded slightly before she felt harry turn beside her and then suddenly appear in front of a great black door that opened a second later to show a beautiful women with long blonde hair and pretty features. Harry kissed her on the forehead and let go of her hand. "You'll be fine 'mione. I'll see you in two weeks ok" Hermione smiled and watched him dissapear before turning her attention back at the women at the door. "Please hermione come in, your luggage has already arrived" she said softly as she lead hermione to a sitting room. She gestured hermione to sit as she handed her a cup of tea. Hermione watched as she sat down elegantly with her own cup. "I'm sorry Hermione I haven't introduced my self, I'm Narcissa, Narcissa Malfoy" Please hermione come in, your luggage has already arrived" she said softly as she lead hermione to a sitting room. She gestured hermione to sit as she handed her a cup of tea. Hermione watched as she sat down elegantly with her own cup.

"We have met informally." Hermione said remember what happened to her in the household not so long ago.

"Well, I can't say that, that wasn't one of my families finer moments but I am putting forth an effort to make the future brighter for all. We will be leaving shortly but I want to ask you a few questions before we leave."

"Go ahead."

"Were you and Draco romantically involved when this happened?"

"No, we had just started being civil with each other and at the ball we both had a little too much to drink and now here we are."

"Do you have any romantic feelings towards my son now?"

"No, even if they were laying dormant somewhere in my brain, the way he has acted through out this whole ordeal makes me not even see him as a man."

"Are you after the Malfoy fortune?"

"No offense, but I don't want anything to do with the Malfoy's. If it wasn't for this baby I am carrying I would pretend like you don't exist."

"Well I am glad we got that out of the way. Well dear, I am in love with you already. Now we will be leaving in a few minutes. Draco will join us in a couple of days and I have instructed him to leave Ms. Greengrass were she is." They sat in silence and finished there tea just then before they could leave Draco comes through the door.

"Mother do I really have to go. Haven't we done enough, she is already eating into my inheritan..." Draco stopped his sentence as he noticed Hermione sitting there. She had drawn her wand out so fast that Narcissa didn't even notice.

"Oh, Granger how lucky to see your hear already. Mother you should have warned me." He sneered, Hermione didn't respond all she could think about was could she be charged for using the unforgiveable curse on such an ass during her pregnancy. 'Well I am quite emotional' No she wouldn't do it for Harry's sake because he did tell her he would handle it if need be.

"Draco, have we not spoken about this before. You made your bed now lie in it."

"My apologies' mother. I will talk with you later on the subject." He turned and walked out. They left the manor and arrived at the summer home in Tuscany. It was beautiful. Hermione loved everything about it. She was given a room that was the size of he childhood home. She and Narcissa hit it off well. Everything went smooth for the first two days then in popped Draco.

'Keep cool Mione. Don't upset the baby' is the chant that Hermione kept repeating in her head. It was dreadful the first few days. They didn't speak while the other was around and they were rarely in the same part of the house together. By requirement of Narcissa they had to have all of their meals together. How awkward. Hermione sent several messages to Harry begging him to come and rescue her but he keep telling her that it would be the best this for the baby. If only she would have come to her senses sometime during their encounter this would not be happening, but she couldn't think like that because she has come to love the life that is growing inside her. One night at dinner Narcissa broke the ice.

"So have you thought of any names for the baby?"

"I have narrowed it down to five. Rose, Angelica, Antoinette, Evangeline, and Eden."

"All of those are wonderful names don't you think so Draco."

At first he said nothing then Narcissa shot him a look and he spoke up. "All of those names are stupid. No child of mine will ever be named Rose that sounds like a Weasley, Angelica yea right, Antoinette don't make me laugh. We are not even going to comment on Evangeline. None of those would sound right with Malfoy attached to them."

"Who said I am giving her the surname Malfoy. As far as I am concerned she is a Granger."

"Not if I have anything to do with it."

"Well that can be arranged."

"Granger, are you threating me."

"Malfoy I don't make threats, that is a promise." They gave each other death glares and neither had notice that Narcissa had left the room. Hermione was furious, she felt like she could stab him to death with her butter knife then all of a sudden she had a sharp pain and she grabbed her stomach and let out a low wince. Draco was immediately at her side.

"Hermione, are you alright?!"

"What did you just call me?"

"I called you by your name." He had placed his hands were she had hers and he felt his baby move for the first time. "Is that the baby doing that?"

"Yes. She doesn't like it when I am angry. So she give me a little kick to let me know to stop it."

"Oh I see" he removed his hands and gave an awkward laugh. Hermione smiled but it didn't reach her eyes.

"I do like the name Eden" Draco said quietly a little while after. Hermione didn't say anything but flashed his a ravishing smile that he could only return bigger. " Granger I don't want to fight with you anymore.." Hermione raised her eyebrow at him obviously not believing a word of what he was saying. Draco noticed the look on her face. "You must understand that I have to get use to the idea of being a father at such a young age. As you know its a lot to take in " Draco said hesitantly as if to think he was going to put hermione in pain if he made her angry again. Hermione said nothing but gave Draco a smile in which to say 'I understand'

"Hermione have you finished the letter" hermione snapped back to reality to find that actually she hasn't wrote anything at all. Hermione sighed and twirled the quill in her fingers. Draco who was stood at the door way walked in and sat down beside her. "Here, I'll write it" he gave hermione a small smile before taking the quill from her hands and muttering something like 'women are useless' he began scribbling down on the paper for a couple of minutes before dotting the paper and throwing the quill back on the table while shooting hermione a smug look. Hermione huffed, picked up the parchment and scanned it over.

' Eden we are very excited to have you back for christmas. Me and your father have missed you very much and have some very important news to tell you. We will see you next week.

Lots of love,

Mother and Father

X'

Hermione kissed Draco on the lips before putting it into an envelope and labelling it 'Eden' and tied it to an already waiting owl. She gave it a soft rub before watching it disappear into the darkness. She turned back to Draco who still had the smug look on his face. "Go on say it" hermione looked at his puzzled. "Say what exactly?"

"Well Granger, looks like I out-smarted you again!" And with that Draco lept from his chair and ran out the room laughing "I am smarter you see" he shouted as hermione ran after him "you're a dick Malfoy!"