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Chapter Five: No Longer a Weasley, pt. 1
Stepping into the room, Ginny froze in shock when she heard the words and more importantly, the tone of tenderness exchanged between Hermione and Draco. She remembered all the times Harry had discussed with her how he deep down wished that Hermione would end up with someone like Draco and not Ron. Ginny smiled at how she used to always disagree with him, but now she could see that maybe he was right. Stepping further into the room, Ginny cleared her throat to get Draco's attention.
Draco had to practically slap himself to get his self to turn away from Hermione. When he saw it was Ginny, he turned back to Hermione and said, "I'll be right back Mya." He kissed her on the only not bruised part of her face, a patch on her forehead, and made his way to Ginny.
Approaching her, he was sad to see that she didn't have any potions with her and didn't bother to keep his disappointment hidden. "So I take it that you don't have any potions or anything," Draco said with a slight chill to his voice. Ginny raised her eyebrows at him, to which Draco gave a quiet "Sorry."
Ginny then looked at Draco and said, "Unfortunately, we don't have any healing potions left. The last time Harry came home from one of his Auror missions, he was badly hurt and we used up our stock and haven't had the time to restock." Draco nodded his head, remembering when that had happened.
"But, I did call my brother George's wife Katie-"
"Katie Bell, from the Gryffindor Quidditch team?"
"Yeah, that's her. Anyways, she's a healer at St. Mungo's and she is going to come over here to check on Mione."
"Can't we just take Hermione to St Mungo's and have Katie meet us there?"
"No. Katie said that if we move her before she examines her; we could do more harm than good. Katie is also calling a family conference to discuss what happened to Hermione," Ginny said, while placing a hand on her stomach to try and sooth her very active child.
That did not go unnoticed by Draco, who grabbed Ginny's arm and led her to the nearest chair. "You need to relax, Little Red." Ginny punched him in the arm.
"OWWWW! What was that for?"
"I told you in school to never call me that unless you wanted to be punched. But you are right, I need to relax." Taking some deep breaths, Ginny felt her baby start to calm down. She looked at Draco and said, "Katie said to take her to one of the spare bedrooms upstairs so that when she is done examining her, Hermione can get some sleep."
Draco frowned a little and said, "I thought we weren't supposed to move her."
"Katie meant we aren't supposed to move her too much through Floo-"
"Oh shit, I brought her here through Floo. I hope I didn't hurt her more."
"It's alright Draco. One time was fine. Anyways, if you are gentle with her-"
"Like I would be anything else, Gin."
"Interrupt me one more time and you will have one very pissed off pregnant witch on your hands. Now, if you are gentle with her, it shouldn't be too much of a problem."
Draco nodded his head at Ginny and went to Hermione. She seemed to have slipped into unconsciousness but awoke quickly when Draco picked her up to move her. She just looked at him, smiled and closed her eyes again.
Almost as soon as Draco laid Hermione on the bed in the room down the hall, a woman, who Draco figured was Katie, came in and nodded to Draco.
"Hello Malfoy."
"Hello Bell, or should I say Weasley," Draco said to her with his trademark smirk in place. Katie just smiled at him, shook her head and went to work. Draco stayed by Hermione's side the entire time, even when Katie had to set Hermione's broken arm before she could heal it by magic. After doing that, Katie looked up at Draco and said, "I can take it from here Draco. Why don't you go on downstairs?" Draco nodded, kissed Hermione on the forehead, and made his way into the nearest bathroom.
Upon entering the bathroom, Draco promptly locked the door and then threw up. After a few heaves, Draco sat back against the wall and started crying. He couldn't believe that the woman he loved was in a room a few feet down the hall covered in bruises and in such pain. He mentally berated himself for not protecting her and that only made him cry harder. After a few minutes, he heard someone knock on the door and Harry's voice call out to him.
"Draco, come on out. Everything's going to be ok."
Wiping his eyes, Draco reluctantly opened the door. Harry was standing there with a vial of a greenish potion in his hand. Draco looked at him with a confused expression on his face and Harry explained. "This is a calming potion. I figured you needed one." Draco accepted the potion and drank it in one quick swallow. "Thanks mate. I needed that."
"No problem. Come one, everyone is in the drawing room waiting for us."
Upon entering the room, Draco was greeted by an explosion of red. Sitting around the room, was Bill, his wife Fleur, Charlie and his boyfriend Oliver Wood, Percy and his wife Penelope, who was holding a tiny newborn in her hands, Fred and his fiancée Angelina, George, Neville and Luna, and finally Molly and Arthur, who was currently trying to control a very active Victoire. Upon seeing Draco, Arthur passed his granddaughter over to his wife and went to Draco, and extended his hand.
Surprised, Draco shook the elder man's hand. "What you did for Hermione is probably one of the best things you could have ever done in my book," Arthur told him honestly. "You have officially earned my respect son."
Draco nodded his head and said "Thank you sir. I really appreciate this."
Arthur smiled at Draco and clapped him on the back. He then turned to his family and said, "Does anyone have a problem with Draco being here?"
Bill rolled his eyes and chuckled. "Dad, if anyone of us had a problem with him, we would have all hexed him the moment he entered the room." Bill did however look at Draco in his eyes and said, "If you hurt Mione however, you will have all of us hexing you."
Draco nodded his head and said, "I completely understand. I expect nothing less." Draco noticed that there was an empty chair by Ginny and went and sat in it. Harry frowned and said, "That was my seat Draco." Draco smirked at Harry and said, "You have a wife mate. Just have her get out of her chair and sit in your lap."
"But I want that chair."
"People in hell want ice water but that doesn't mean that they are going to get it now does it."
Harry went over to Ginny, who promptly got up and allowed Harry to sit in her seat and then settled herself in his lap. Harry glared playfully at Draco.
"Ferret"
"Scar-head"
"Albino"
"Four Eyes"
"Enough! Christ you two sound like a pair of spoiled two year olds," Katie said upon entering the room, looking thoroughly exhausted. She immeadiately made her way to George who stood up and put his arms around his wife. Katie sighed into George's shoulder for a moment before turning and looking at the room. She was mentally preparing herself for what she knew she had to tell them, when Arthur spoke up.
"How bad is it Katie?"
Sighing, Katie glanced at Draco before she started talking. "The extent of her injuries are pretty bad. She had about three broken ribs, an arm so badly broken that I had to set it before I could heal it, and…" Katie had to blink back her tears before she could continue. "And, there was damage to her reproductive organs to the point that it would be extremely hard, if not impossible for her to get pregnant."
There was a collective gasp from the room and all the women, and Oliver, burst into tears. George wrapped his arms around Katie, knowing that it hard to be hard for her to tell the family this, especially so soon after announcing to the family that she herself was practically barren.
Unable to handle it, Draco simply got up and walked out of the room. He went down the hall to where he knew Hermione was and just stood in the doorway, watching her sleeping form. He felt tears well up in his eyes and did nothing to stop them from falling.
From the bed, Hermione watched, from under half closed eyes, as Draco began crying. For some reason, she felt a surge of love and an urge to call out to him so strong that she could not repress it. "Draco, come here."
Draco instantly went to her and slipped onto the bed with her. Hermione immeadiately wrapped her arms around Draco and allowed him to cry to his heart's content. She heard him mumble something about him being sorry for not protecting her, and she instantly lifted his face to look at him.
"Draco, this is not your fault. You had no idea of knowing that Ron would do something like this. But rest assured, I will personally see to it that he is never able to have children since he took away my ability to have them." Hermione broke down in tears and this time, it was Draco's turn to hold Hermione until she had cried her heart's content.
Draco could hear a commotion down the hall and turned to Hermione. She had fallen asleep in his arms, and Draco hated to disturb her. So, he gently unwrapped her arms from around his waist, kissed her forehead, and went into the drawing room.
"What is with all the…YOU!"
Upon seeing Ron in the room, Draco instantly launched himself towards him. Unfortunately, Draco was caught by Charlie, Oliver, and Neville, who all had to fight as hard as they could to hold Draco back. Ron was being held back by Bill and Percy. Ron and Draco were shouting obscenities at each other and did so for about twenty minutes until, all of a sudden, Ginny dropped to her knees with a cry of pain and her arms wrapped around her stomach.
"Oh my god. Something's not right."
A/N:Finally, here is the first part of my next chapter to all my faithfull readers. I hope you enjoy it and don't bash me too hard for making Charlie gay. Please, please, please, leave some reviews people.
