Chapter 13: Revelation
"I really need to tell you something" he called back after a few minutes, "What if I told you, I know how you can get a divorce?" he tugged at the collar of his shirt, realising that despite the temperature outside he was considerably warm.
"I don't know how better to say this, but she's pregnant"
... There was no answer, before a sudden crash had him sprinting into the room. Hermione nowhere in sight, he began his frantic search of the room, before finding her sat on the toilet seat in the bathroom, her arm elevated, as she held it over the sink. Blood drops dropping from her clutched palm periodically, avoiding the silk negligee she had changed into.
"Silly me," she said as she made a move to switch on the water to the basin, "Dropped the cup and tried picking it up by hand."
"Why didn't you use magic?"
"You know I don't like using magic for every little scrap of my life, but my mind wasn't on what I was doing."
He nodded as he entered the room, taking his wand out as he strode towards her, holding gently onto the appendage he tapped his wand on the palm muttering an incantation as he went. The result was the skin sowed back together, as if nothing had happened.
Muttering a small thank you Hermione stood from her seated place to busy herself with fixing the broken glass and pouring herself another drink of water. When she walked past Draco without saying another word he furrowed his brows before following.
"Are you alright?" she nodded, "Are you sure? I know it might have come as a bit of a shock"
"It was but my body coped, I'm really alright Draco" he glanced at her to see her eyes down cast.
"If you need someone to cry on the shoulder of, you know where I am" he said as he began walking to the door.
"Yes I do, and should I feel the need to cry I'll come to you Draco" she laughed lightly, and when she said nothing else he left the room.
'That was very strange as if she hadn't heard me, maybe she's in denial' he thought as he walked away.
'Draco Malfoy is by far the strangest enigma I have ever come across' Hermione thought as she switched off the light at the side of the bed, plunging the room into complete darkness.
Hermione woke to a cold breeze down the length of her back, sending a chill up her spine. Rolling over she realized during her restful night's sleep she had inadvertently thrown the covers off her body, and with the Wizarding world having never thought of the concept of central heating she was left to blindly find her wand to start the fire in the room.
Once the room had heated enough for to walk about without the chances of catching a chill, she stretched and got out of bed. After a brief shower and changing into a suit she found on the bed when she left the bathroom she ventured down stairs for food, hoping Draco had told his parents that she had once again spent the night.
When she entered the breakfast room she was surprised to find it empty except for Narcissa Malfoy.
The older woman acknowledged the younger woman with a smile, as she sipped her tea, with a copy of the days 'The Prophet' neatly folded on the table at her right hand side.
"Morning Narcissa," Hermione greeted as she sat on the seat closest to Narcissa her back to the door.
After a half an hour talking whilst eating their breakfasts, Narcissa broached a subject that most women wouldn't have dreamed to bring up with their best friends let alone a woman they hardly knew. "So how are you holding up?"
"I'm fine," the brunette answered "I've hit what you would call a dead end in my quest for a divorce, but I hope to get over it soon enough." She stirred her cereal around in her bowl, "It's just proving to be a hard task, that's all."
Narcissa furrowed her brows "I thought it would be simple, you have the proof now all you need to do is tell the Minister."
A silence soon washed over the pair, and Hermione curiously glanced sideways to the older woman, the look on her face made Hermione drop the spoon she was holding, the clinking of metal on porcelain harshly breaking the silence.
"What do you mean, I have the proof?"
Narcissa paled slightly realising she had just put her foot in it, as the Muggle saying goes, "I think you need to speak to Draco about that."
Hermione was up in a flash, the force of her standing knocking her chair to the floor with a loud echoing thud. But she was long out of the door before the sound reached her ears. Taking the stairs two at a time to reach Draco's office she was there in no time. She opened the door without knocking and found the blonde in question perched at his desk, parchment cluttered around him.
He glanced up through the curtain of hair which had dropped into his line of sight, to see who had disturbed his scheming, to see Hermione fuming. He immediately sat straighter in his seat, to look at her closely, through a clear line of vision.
He could instantly tell by her posture that she was fighting the tears that were threatening to fall, the small droplets pooling in the corner of her eyes, giving the rest of her eyes a glossy sheen. "What did your mother mean?" it was said just above a whisper not because she was upset, but because she was angry.
"What did she say?" Draco ventured.
"Proof Draco, she said I had proof. What proof?"
"I told you yesterday" when she furrowed her eyebrows he began to explain, "Last night, I told you... that well, you know about the p-r-e" every letter of the word caused Hermione's eyes to get bigger and bigger and Draco noticed. "Shit" he swore before finishing his sentence, he knew that she didn't know, and he found it hard enough to tell her once he couldn't do it again he thought the reaction the previous night was a good sign, he couldn't deal with- well what he was about to go through.
He stood from his desk round to the other side to be stood directly in front of her, and when he grabbed her hands she withdrew them like a whipper-snapper, as if burnt.
"Pre- Pregnant?" she stuttered.
A/N: Right theres chapter 13, I know its short but I wanted to get another chapter up, and this seemed the most logical place for me to cut-off where I'd wrote upto at the moment.
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How Do I Say?: Based on Draco proving his love for Hermione, AND
Lovers Embrace.
Until next time; Scorpio219 -x-