After Draco left the next morning, Hermione was confused and worried that she had given in too easily. She couldn't help but wonder if his apology and everything thing else was nothing more then a plot to get closer to Donovan. He was a Slytherin after all and in a very Slytherin family at that.
Deciding she couldn't change what happened, she sat down at her desk and wrote a letter to Donovan, she wanted to tell him that she and Draco had worked some of their problems out.
Oooooooo
Donovan was having the time of his life during an outing at Hogsmeade. He loved everything about the magical world and no matter how many times he had seen everything, it still gave him a thrill to know he was part of it.
He walked down the street, humming to himself and not paying the slightest bit of attention to the people around him, because if he did, he would have noticed the short, black haired woman coming towards him.
"Aren't you a cute one." The woman said while she flashed an overly friendly smile.
Donovan looked up and raised an eyebrow. He had no idea whom she was and why she was so happy, as a matter of fact, he found it to be unnatural for a person to be as happy as she was.
"Err, thanks… I guess." Donovan replied and started to walk away again.
"Umm, Your name is Donovan, correct?" the woman asked
"Yes, and you are?"
"Oh, pardon my manners. My name is Sally Tasic and I believe I went to school with your mum."
"Wow, I don't think she ever mentioned you." Donovan replied with a touch of an attitude. The womans happiness was really starting to bug him.
"You have your mothers eyes but you have your fathers attitude." The woman half laughed.
Donovan looked up at the woman with wide eyes, Did this woman really know about his father? Would she be able to tell him thing about him?
"You knew my dad at school too?" Donovan asked quietly
"Oh, heavens no dear. Your father was much, much older then your mum."
"No he wasn't!" Donovan corrected the woman with a scowl. Maybe Ms. Happy face, didn't now very much about his father after all.
"Sweetie, Lucius Malfoy was a great deal older then your mum." The woman stated.
"Lucius Malfoy is my Grandpa, not my father."
Grandpa and mum… gross."Draco Malfoy is my father, not Lucius."
The woman turned a pale shade that clashed terribly with her hair. Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger had a child? The papers and Rita were going to love this.
"Oh, well I'm very sorry. I didn't realize Draco was your father."
Donovan sighed, "Look, its no problem but I really need to get going."
The woman nodded, gave Donovan another cheesy grin and walked away in a hurry.
Oooooooooooooooooo
Draco went back to the Manor feeling like he was on top of the world. He finally had her back, after all these years and he wanted to announce it to the world. She was everything he remembered. Everything that turned him into a pile of Slytherin mush and he couldn't be happier.
"I take it things went well?" Lucius asked as he looked up from behind his paper.
"Very well." Draco stated with a smirk, "I have a feeling we will be getting back together soon and finally be the family we should have been years ago."
Lucius smiled, he wanted to tell Draco it was a sure thing, but Hermione was not the same girl he had fallen in love with all those years ago. She had been hurt deeply, enough to where she faked her own death and even years later she never dated or allowed anyone to get close. He knew Hermione had serious trust issues and it probably wouldn't be as easy as Draco was hoping.
"It won't be easy, but I hope you two will find each other again."
Lucius let out a sigh and placed the paper down.
"Listen, Draco, We have all changed over the last 11 years. At the time everything transpired, I would have never claimed Donovan as a Malfoy in private or public… but now and for a while now actually, I consider the child my family and will openly admit to it."
He paused for a quick minute to think of how to word things.
"Hermione is different then she used to be. She had to grow up faster then you did and at her young age made the decision to keep her child and raise him by herself. I just don't want you to get any false hopes that she is going to be trusting and loving towards you very easily."
Draco just nodded, he had already figured out that part.
"I'm willing to work for it." Draco replied after a moment of silence. "I didn't think she was even alive until recently and I know it is going to take time to get her back to how she was."
"If that's even possible, Draco."
"It is, father, and I don't plan to give up hope otherwise."
Lucius nodded, Draco was a determined little bugger.
"Then I hope for your sake and hers that you get it right this time."
"That's the plan." He said, "But for now I am going to work on getting her to move back to England so we can try to work on us easier."
"She may have one of the houses. Just tell her to pick one out and its hers." Lucius stated. He wanted to help his son but what was more is that he wanted to help Donovan and he honestly felt that two parents were better then one if the situation allowed.
"Thanks you, father, I'll let her know when I go back to see her."
Lucius nodded once again and picked his paper back up. Draco was going to have to work for this one and do most of the work himself.