And yes another update.
Chapter 3.
~Sweet Home, Sweet Manor~
"So you're good to go?" Hermione asked her children as they stood in front of the fireplace.
Both Rose and Hugo nodded, yes they were ready to meet the man who their mother would marry. Rose glanced over to her mother eyeing her stomach as inconspicuously as possible, she could see a slight swell in her abdomen, or it could well be her imagination. Rose sighed. Why didn't Hermione tell them she was pregnant and why did Draco tell Scorpius? All those questions did nothing to alleviate her nervousness. It wasn't because she would meet Draco or that her mother was getting remarried, or expecting a child. None of the above actually, Rose sighed again, he mind was fuzzy, Scorpius was all she could think off.
The auburn curled lady stood in front of a fireplace ready to floo to her future husband and son. The boy her daughter was having a feud with, everything and anything could go wrong at this point, she shouldn't feel anxious her physician told her, stress best to be avoided, she was pregnant at a later age. 40 who had children at forty and to top it off she had a boy aged sixteen and a girl who'd turn eighteen in July a week before the wedding, preposterous the whole thing. And Hermione had never been happier, she was having a baby with Draco Malfoy, the boy who nearly killed Dumbledore, the one that had called her Mudblood, the one who saved Harry at Malfoy Manor, the most gorgeous bloke in the world, he who redeemed himself all that time ago. She didn't want to know twenty years ago and fled into Ron Weasley's arms, a confusing time back then. Her Gryffindor courage had left her but now she was making up for that lost time, falling asleep every night, next to the same gorgeous man. First things first, dealing with what was at ahdn, getting their families together, what could go wrong honestly. Well everything!d
Rose held Hugo's hand as they flooed, Hugo was exited beyond anything an older brother he entrusted would be so much fun, playing Quidditch, exploding snap, talk about man-stuff. Yeay, Rose had cheered him on, she genuinely wanted Hugo to be happy, she really did.
"Welcome." A baritone voice said as they came through the fireplace. A pale slender hand helping Hermione come through.
"Hey..." Hermione sighed as she stepped into a warm embrace. Draco wrapped her in a loving hug.
Another set of grey eyes turned to ice in an instant as Scorpius saw red curls following her mother. "_Rose?!" His voice broke, immediately correcting his posture. "Hello Hugo, welcome let me take bag. Weaselette, you can give me yours as well!" He held his hand out for Rose bag. Which the girl reluctantly parted with, Scorpius eyes where set to cast lighting bolts.
Rose would have gladly for the Earth to swallow her than facing the murderous glare of a certain blond heir.
Luckily Draco cut in before anybody did something rash. "Hello Rose and Hugo, welcome to Malfoy Manor! I'm so glad you're here. Your mother speaks som much love about her children it's an absolute delight to meet you! I do understand it must be an shock to the system."
Yeah, for some more than others Rose mused. Scorpius eyes gave her the creeps, he loathed her with a vengeance.
"Scorpius can you show Hugo to his room, Hermione can you please show Rose her room? The house elf will set the table for lunch." Draco sounded cheerful.
House elf? Rose mouthed to her mother.
Hermione beamed, she taught her daughter well. "Come Rose let's get you settled in, let's humour Draco." She patted her daughters arm, levitating her daughters luggage behind them. They left the drawing room with Hugo and Scorpius. Rose looked around the Grandeur that was Malfoy Manor. The drawing room was pleasantly warm and cozy compared with the rest of the Stately Home. The corridor was light with a marble flooring, luxurious ivory wall paper and numerous paintings with older Malfoys dozing inside their portraits.
"Wow?!" Hugo exclaimed when the approached the large stair case. The bannister were two lady statues holding up pineapples and other exotic fruits, they winked at Hugo and Rose as they set foot on the stairs.
"Mmm, I know_" Hermione sighed. These were on off the traits of Malfoy Manor she really disliked, maybe she could,persuade Draco to replace them with something different and relocate them outside or somewhere else.
Hermione halted at a door at the beginning of the first floor, opening it with a wave of her hand. "This would be you Rose." The older witch invited her daughter in. Scorpius and Hugo went on their way down the corridor. Rose tried hard to hate it, but couldn't fault it, the furnishings were pretty and warm, like her bedroom in Godrics Hollow, reds, golds and lots of books. "I'll leave you to unpack, be down in half an hour for lunch, you can walk down the stairs and go to your right it's the last door down the corridor."
"Thanks mum the room is lovely and I'll try not to pick a fight with Scorpius." Rose hugged her mother, feeling her mother's swelling belly.
"Yes, that would be nice." Her mother sighed as she held her, stroking her daughters red curls, she loved her so much and telling her she was getting married and being pregnant felt too much too share, but she would this Holliday.
Rose waved her wand, opening drawers and what felt like a huge closet, but it turned out to be a walk-in-wardrobe. Yes this was definitely a nice set up, it would be the best if not for one thing. Rose packed her stuff into her closet and drawers, she was even humming to herself, getting into a better mood. She didn't hear her door open and a blond coming in.
"So, you knew then?!" Rose startled as a voice from her bed interrupted her bliss full moment. Scorpius voice didn't sound friendly at all. "You are breaking up with me then?" He scoffed, kicking his feet against the bed. "You knew, because your mother told you that afternoon we got kicked from our captain position!" His voice really sounded bitter now.
"Please Scorpius don't be like this." Rose folded a jumper, not facing her boyfriend, because she simply couldn't. She would cry if she faced him, seeing his pain, because he knew too they couldn't keep on seeing each other. "I wanted to pretend it wasn't true as long as we didn't discuss it, it wasn't reality, we could keep on seeing each other_"
"So you got to decide when our last fuck took place, oh yes that's all I was then your fuck buddy!" He turned ugly.
"Scorpius..." Rose faced him angry.
"Well because we sure weren't sharing feelings huh?! Sharing Rose is for girlfriends and boyfriends fucking for fuck buddies, I get it now and am happy I'm in the know!" He stood up he grabbed Rose arms emphasising his words.
Rose glared at him;"She hugged me, I could feel our mutual sibling. Tell me how this would be right?" Tears did well up in her eyes. Scorpius words were like knives twisting inside her heart.
Scorpius stared into her eyes, he wanted her to hurt as much as he did, but he knew she al ready did. He wrapped her in his arms nuzzling her curls taking in her sweet cinnamon and green apple scent. "I know, baby and I'm sorry, but you had time to adjust, me I just found out yeah."
Rose sniffled, nodding an affirmative, yes she realised it before he did because he shared his feelings when she just clammed up and kept it to herself, she was selfish.
"I'll try and stay civil, but maybe I will get angry once in a while, because I will miss us." He hugged her tighter. He moved his head to her face, tilting her chin with his index and thumb, leaning forward kissing the temple of her head, before letting her go. He walked out of her room, Rose heart broke in an instant, his shoulders hunched, his majestic poise no longer apparent. She'd broken him.
A few moments later her brother emerged, "Wow, Rose your room is as big as mine! They don't do small around here huh?!" He jumped on her bed. Messing her beddings, the dent Scorpius had put in her beddings gone.
"Yes its imposing 'Hugh', I hope Mr. Malfoy is friendly, although I believe mum wouldn't like him if he wasn't." Rose more or less said to herself as Hugo wandered into her bathroom, making funny echo noises, indicating it was massive. "Come 'Hugh' let's head down."
Rose held her arm around her brothers shoulders as they walked down the stairs, turning left and down the fast corridor, paintings nodded or whispered amongst each other as the pair walked past.
Hugo pushed the swinging doors open, opening a rather comfortable spacious kitchen, modern fittings and fixtures and a breakfast bar with high chairs and a large wooden table where Draco was reading a news paper, he wore a navy blue lamb wool sweater and jeans, his hair casual but neatly coiffed. "Oh, hello you two." Draco stood up, showing them where they could sit. He had a broad smile on his face. "Tea? Coffee? Pumpkin juice? Milk?" He asked them as he walked towards the water cooker and Italian fancy espresso machine.
"Uh, you do that yourself? No house elf?" Hugo asked. He followed Malfoy senior with great curiosity.
The man shrugged, "Yeah, well your mother seems to think I should do stuff myself!" He beamed as he referred to their mother. He brewed a pot of tea and poured a few tumblers juice.
"Yeah she tends to persuade people to do things her way." Hugo said casually, he agreed with Draco wholeheartedly, Hermione was a rather pushy type.
Rose smiled inwardly, Scorpius dad seemed laid back and friendly enough.
"You guys must be hungry." He said as he set the tea and juice on the table, carrying a serving tray.
"Famished!" Hugo said, he really inherited his fathers appetite, he'd shovel anything in.
"Oh, here you are." Hermione said as she walked into the kitchen, Scorpius followed her and sat next to his father.
Rose fidgeted with the hem of her sweater, she didn't want to look Scorpius in the eye. She could feel heat rising up her face as she felt grey eyes trained on hers.
"Scorpius how are you faring on your NEWT- revision?" Draco asked his son.
A house elf appeared and set the table and conjured their meal. There seemed to be an Easter bread tradition in the house as breads were shaped like bunny's and or little chicks, a great variation in egg products also seemed to have made it into the dishes.
Hugo started to pile food on his plate, Rose looked around trying to decide what she wanted and Hermione looked a bit green around the gills.
Scorpius answered his father truthfully, he revised a lot and was right on schedule to sit exams in two months.
Rose had poached eggs Benedict and salmon on a slice of white bread and a glass off pumpkin juice.
"So you're in the same classes as Scorpius, Hermione tells me?" Draco addressed Rose.
"Yes sir, but we differ in two subjects, I take ancient runes and Scorpius takes astronomy.!" Rose answered before taking a bite, she glanced at her mother who only had a cup of tea. "I want to be a healer when I finish Hogwarts!"
"Yes Hermione said as much, you do know she's very proud of both her children!" Draco said, as he cut his bacon.
"Thank you Sir!" Rose said politely.
"Please do call me Draco, Sir is for strangers and I would very much get to know my future wives children." Draco said as he patted Hermione's hand.
"Mum, you're not eating?" Hugo asked his mother.
"No, I'm sorry 'Hugh', I'm not feeling well, there is something I need tot tell you both." Hermione grabbed Draco's hand tighter. "I haven't felt good a couple of months now." She looked down to the table before facing Rose and Hugo. "I er, well, Draco and I well, I'm pregnant_" Her eyes filled with tears. "It's not something we planned, well you know, but we're happy it sort of happened."
Hugo's eyes turned into big saucers, "Oh, that's gross mum!" Somehow his brain adapted to the picture of how it happened. "Spare me the details. I get it." He squished his eyes shut. "Anyway, congrats I guess, I think it will be fun having another sibling, what do you think Rose?" He stuffed his mouth with a club sandwich.
"Yes, yes, congratulations, mum and Draco." Rose said awkwardly. Standing up as she hugged her mother and offering her hand to Draco, which he gladly shook.
"Yes congrats to both of you." Scorpius smiled now, he sat there quietly. "I love having a half sibling." He was genuinely pleased.
Hermione had a small bowl filled with broth as she really couldn't digest any egg related food. The smell alone enough to empty what little was inside her stomach.
"Scorpius why don't you take Hugo for a flying session around our lands after lunch and Rose can have a look in our library and scout the house?" Draco suggested, Hermione told him her daughter loved books and to keep her not to close to Scorpius as they surely would squabble later on. They behaved perfectly well as far as Draco was concerned, he wondered what brought that about.
Rose wandered into the library as Draco told her where to find it, the room was big and library wasn't an understatement, so many tomes and series, Rose took a closer look, all kinds of subjects. She loved books dearly, but her curiosity of what could be found in the rest of the building got the better of her, leaving the library, wandering around the corridors. A large empty room, could be a BallRoom, an inside green house with various exotic plants, some sort of sun room at the back of the house next to the kitchen where Draco was working on some documents.
"Your mother has gone up to take a nap, the pregnancy is wearing her a bit out!" He said with a somewhat concerned face. He clearly loved her mother, Rose could see that.
"Thanks Draco for trying and make Hugo and me feel welcome." Rose thanked him, which wasn't difficult Draco was friendly and inviting, not too mention very handsome, She could see what attracted Hermione to this man, probably the same thing as why she was attracted to Scorpius, if he looked like this when all grown up than he would be a lucky boy. Rose walked out of the room leaving Draco looking at her with puzzled thoughts. She shouldn't dwell on Scorpius and how he'd look in twenty years, she passed that station.
Draco watched the girl walk out of the sun room door, her scrutiny and contemplation of his face had somewhat left him thinking, she'd beca,e silent and he felt she checked him out, he'd seen her steal glances of Scorpius, he'd ask Hermione if she thought something was there?
Rose roamed the second floor, the landing opposite her corridor harboured identical sets of doors, one of them was slightly ajar, she didn't want to be to nosy but couldn't help herself, pushing the door open, her mother stood there in a morning robe, two cots occupying the room, a nursery in the making as boxes stood everywhere. "Mum?!" Rose reluctantly said.
Hermione turned around facing her eldest, "Oh, hey baby!" She smiled, serenity shining from her face as she had her hand over her stomach.
"Two beds?" Rose said baffled.
Hermione held her arms open for Rose to step in as she did, placing her head on her mothers chest. Hermione stroked her hair gently. "Yes two cots, I'm having twins, that's why I don't feel too good, they are draining their old mother already, never mind how they are once they're out." Her mother still had not lost her sense of humour.
"Oh, there you are!" Draco opened an adjoining door what had to be the master bed room. "Hermione, please lay down a bit you really need your rest!" He came over, took her hand and brought her back to their bedroom, "You can discuss the infants room later with Rose, maybe she wants to help decorate?"
"Yes, mum have a nap, you look like you can do with one." Draco was very caring and sweet in offering her to assist her mother, which she wanted very much.
Draco helped Hermione out of her night gown and into their bed. He snuggled next to her on top of the coverings. "Hermione did you see how Rose and Scorpius behave? Scorpius looked quite angry at first but became calmer as our meal progressed, I didn't sense any aprehension between them, on the contrary there was calmness."
"Mmmm, my sweet Draco you want this so badly, you might even wish they were friendly with one another." Hermione managed to bring out before she drifted off in a peaceful slumber. Draco was definitely on to something, but she didn't have the strength to contemplate this.
Rose was inside her room, looking out at the back of the property, seeing Scorpius and Hugo playing with a quaffle in the grounds, wishing she was out there with them, but deciding she wouldn't, Draco's scrutiny had warned her off not too, she heard him and her mother talk in their bed room. She had to be careful around him he wasn't a powerful wizard and businessman because he wasn't paying close attention to what was going around him, she would have to watch her behaviour.
Sweet homely blisss...
And this will change but not as you might think.
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