DRACO

I'm sat in the St Mungo's maternity waiting room, bouncing my feet, nerves running through me. Padma was late. How could you be late for an appointment like this?

I'm getting odd looks from everyone else in here. Everyone else is with their partner and here I am the only male on his own.

I stand up and start looking around, there are posters dotted all around the walls. I start to read a few and regret it quite quickly. Each one is either about breast feeding or giving birth, a lot of them having graphic pictures. For almost the first time in my life I wished I was in a muggle hospital with unmoving pictures. The ones with the women giving birth were going to be etched in my mind for some time.

I'm almost ready to leave the nurse had been out twice now looking for Padma. My anger was starting to subside slightly and worry taking its place. Padma wasn't usually late at least not the thirty minutes I'd been waiting. I head over to the receptionists desk to tell her that she can give our appointment away when Padma walks in. She's breezes in like there isn't a problem and just like that my anger reappears.

"Sorry I'm a little late." She says to me and the receptionist earning her a look of distain.

"I'll let the nurse know you are here, see if she still has time to fit you in." She said with a tight smile before leaving her desk.

"What the fuck Padma?"

"I said I was sorry. I got held up at Lavender's." She said slowly rubbing her hand over her belly.

"I hope it was damn important. I've been here looking like an idiot for almost half an hour." My hands were clenched at my sides. What was I ever thinking getting involved with her?

"Her boyfriend broke up with her." She shrugged. "She needed consoling."

I ran my hands through my hair frustration getting to me. "Seriously?"

"I couldn't just leave her. She's in a right state she really liked him."

"I had to leave work early for this Padma. This is meant to be important. Maybe you need to decide where your priorities are." The look of shock on her face was a picture. Before she could reply though the nurse came out.

"Lucky for you two my next appointment cancelled." She said ushering for them to follow her.

I watched from the edge of the room as Padma and the doctor talked. The nurse asked Padma questions about how she had been getting on. I listened as she talked. Most of these things I hadn't thought to ask myself. I felt bad now listening to her. Everything was fine but I'd been so concerned about all this was affecting my life I hadn't thought about Padma.

I watched as she got herself comfortable on the bed and exposed her belly. I got nervous then, started shifting from foot to foot.

"Calm down Draco." Padma laughed at me.

I plant my hands in my pockets and try to calm down. This was so unreal. I'm still pretty much in shock with all this happening.

"Ok. So I'll explain to dad what will be happening since he hasn't seen this before." Wait, what? Dad? My face dropped, I could feel it. No one had ever said that to me before. My stomach flipped. The nurse never seemed to notice though. "So we use the same machine the muggles do for these scans, with a few magical enhancements of course. What we do is place this little scanner over the baby and we check if everything is ok. Seeing as this is you twenty week scan we can check the sex as well. Do we want to know?"

"Yes please." Padma grinned.

"Ok, let's get started then."

I watched her ready her computer and scanner. My heart was pounding. She tells Padma the gel will be cold and then she grabs her scanner. She spreads the gel then stops in one spot. I look at the screen and I see the baby. My once pounding heart skips a beat. That's my baby right there on the screen. I can see their head, I can see their hands, their feet. The nurse points out other things. The baby's heart beat which I know realise is that fast beating I can hear. She talks to us as she clicks some things on her computer. She makes all her checks.

"Ok let's see if baby will let us see." The nurse smiles.

She moves the scanner around and eventually gets the right angle to see. "Looks like baby doesn't want to play." She laughs. The baby has their legs closed. But just as she's about to move away the baby moves and we can see. "Congratulations. It's a baby girl."

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I'm sat in the apartment afterwards, waiting for Hermione, just staring at the picture I have in my hands. The picture of my daughter. It all seems so surreal. I look at the picture, look at the baby wriggling around. It had brought a tear to my eye when I had first taken the time to look at the picture when I was alone.

I notice the fire light green and look up to see Hermione step through. She smiles at me. "Hey. How did it go?"

I'm still speechless. I stand up and hand her the picture. She takes it and runs her eyes over it. She bites her lip and hands it back to me. "Beautiful." She whispered.

HERMIONE

I look at the picture of Draco's baby and a shot of pain quickly shot through me. I wasn't sure how I would feel when all this came about. It shocks me that the main emotion I'm feeling is jealousy. I want this to be Draco and me. Not right now, we're nowhere near ready for children, but I wanted to be the one to give him his first child and any others. I plaster on my fake smile.

"Are you ok?" He asks and I can hear the concern in his voice. I don't want to ruin this day for him.

"Of course. I'm happy for you." I can't look him in the eye properly.

"No you're not, but thank you for trying." He wraps me up in his arms and I breath him in. "I don't know what I ever did to deserve you."

We stood like this for a few minutes, his arms wrapped tightly around me while I gathered myself together. I look up at him not moving too far away from him. "I'm sorry. This is huge for you. You're going to have a daughter."

He couldn't help the small smile that formed on his lips. That small smile put a sliver of glass in my heart. This was something I wouldn't be able to enjoy with him. Something I would be on the side-lines for. I wouldn't show him this though I refuse to. I'll rant to someone else. I take a deep breath. "We should celebrate." I say removing myself from his arms and digging out the bottle of champagne I had in my bag.

He leaned in and kissed me, gentle at first then growing. "I love you." He said against my lips. We ended up drinking the champagne in bed.