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A/N: You may want to take a quick peek at the ending of chapter one just so the ending of this chapter has a little more meaning but you could do without; You'll most likely probably keep reading so I'll just shut up. Here we go... last chapter...
26. This Is Us
ONE YEAR LATER
"Guess what, guess what, guess what" Hermione said as she jumped up and down on the bed waking Draco up.
"Huh? What's going on?" Draco asked as he sat up.
"I have a secret" Hermione said in a sing song voice.
"Oh really?" Draco said looking up at her.
"Yeah"
"Care to share"
"Your hair looks funny"
"So what else is new" Draco yawned before laying back down.
"We're having a baby"
"You know you'd think that – WHAT!" Hermione giggled "What did you just say?" Draco asked almost demanding.
She simply pointed at her stomach "Baby"
"Hermione don't toy with me" Draco said seriously.
"Yes we do need to buy toys now don't we"
"You mean?" Draco said with his eyebrow raised.
"Uh-huh" she nodded.
"Your going to be a-"
"Yup"
"And I'm going to be a-"
"That's right"
"Oh Merlin!" Draco yelled as he got up on the bed and hugged her "This is bloody awesome! We're having a baby!" he said as he began jumping on the bed with joy along with Hermione as they held each others hands while Draco babbled on about how life was going to be with children.
"... And we'll take him or her to the park to play and she or he will have lots of friends. Wait! Stop!" Draco yelled stopping her from jumping.
"What?"
"Shouldn't you be, you know, not jumping up and down"
"I don't know, it's only been a week. I guess I shouldn't though, right?"
"Yes! No more waking me up by jumping on the bloody bed"
"No!" Hermione said depressed.
"Oh yes!" Draco nodded happily.
Hermione sighed "Well... I guess there's always water" she said with an eyebrow raised before she dashed like mad out the door.
"HERMIONE! Get back here!" he chased after her.
Hermione raced downstairs and crouched down on the floor in front of the couch.
"Hermione get your arse over here!" Hermione heard Draco yell as his feet pounded on the stairs as he rushed down the steps "Hermione!" she heard his footsteps fade away and she waited a few minutes before peeking over the couch.
She quietly creeped out from the couch and went out into the downstairs hall.
"Gotcha!" Draco yelled as he grabbed Hermione by the waist "Now what were you saying?"
"Nothing" Hermione said with an innocent smile playing on her face.
"Oh yeah, sure it was" Draco said sarcastically before turning Hermione around to face him before kissing her.
Shortly after they went to eat breakfast.
"Here's your paper sir" Mimi said as she handed him the paper and then the house elf started pouring him his coffee.
"What do you say?" Hermione said looking over at Draco.
"Oh, um, thank you" Mimi smiled and nodded before she left to the kitchen. Draco opened the paper and looking at the front page. He reached down for his coffee only to find that it wasn't there.
"Where's my-?" Draco began as he looked up and saw Hermione holding his coffee cup with a slight smirk on her face.
"You never give up do you?"
"Nope" Hermione grinned before she was about to take a sip.
"Wait!" Draco yelled.
Hermione stopped and looked at him "What?"
"It's not exactly healthy to drink coffee while your pregnant"
"Really?"
"Yeah" he nodded. How in the bloody world was he supposed to know if coffee was good for a pregnant women! His guess was that it wasn't and whatever helped Hermione from going crazy was good enough with him.
"That's so suckish! I can't jump on the bed and I can't get hyper; Oh your so gonna pay!"
Draco was almost scared for himself! As if Hermione wasn't scary off alone, now she was scary and pregnant! What a great nine months this was going to be!
Though he hid it well.
"It's not as if it's the end of the world" he said as he took his coffee cup back.
"Still not fair" Hermione mumbled.
"Oh zip it"
"Not to worry Draco, I won't harm you" Hermione said with an evil grin "Oh no, my mood swings will be enough to drive you nuts" she smiled.
"Not funny"
"Not meant to be. Thank you Mimi" Hermione said as Mimi put Hermione's breakfast plate in front of her.
"Will Miss and Sir need anything else?" Mimi asked.
"No" Draco replied.
"Milk please" Hermione replied.
"Sure thing Miss" Mimi said before she went off into the kitchen.
NINE MONTHS LATER
"Hi sweetheart" Draco greeted his wife as he gave her a kiss over the counter.
"Hi" Hermione smiled "Donut?" Hermione said as she took out a box of donuts already half finished.
"No thanks. So your ready for lunch? If you have stopped eating" Draco smirked.
Hermione looked down at the donut box "Obviously not but I'm craving a sandwich, some ice cream, fruits with some yogurt, cookies and apple pie with some milk. Ooh! And more donuts" Hermione added as she smiled.
"Wonderful" Draco said sarcastically.
"I know delish huh?" she said as she quirked her eyebrow "Just let me tell Marlie to take over the shop" Hermione stepped out from behind the counter with the box of donuts in hand. She handed Draco the box revealing Hermione's grown tummy.
"Ow" Hermione said as she put her hand on her stomach.
"What? Are you okay?" Draco asked going on alert mode.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I've been having these pains all morning. It's nothing"
"Nothing my arse. You wanna go to the doctor?"
"Draco, it's nothing" Hermione laughed it off "I'll go get Marlie" Hermione said as she turned to leave.
"You sure your okay?"
"Yes"
"Really?"
"Yes"
"Are you positive?"
Hermione turned around "Draco I said I was- ow!" Hermione yelled as she squeezed her eyes shut as she held her stomach.
Draco quickly rushed to her side "Are you alright?"
"Let's go to the doctor" Hermione nodded as Draco held her arm.
"Yeah" Draco nodded "Marlie! Take over the shop Hermione and I are going to the hospital!"
"Yeah sure" Marlie nodded as she came out from the back "Wait, what!"
"Hermione and I are going to the hospital"
"You mean it's time?" she asked wide-eyed.
"Oh my god" the idea just hit Draco "It's time! It's time! Hermione it's time!" Draco yelled bugging out.
"Tell me something I don't- ow"
"I'm a father!"
"Not if you don't take me to the bloody hospital!" but apparently that went unnoticed by Draco.
"I can't believe it's time. Nine months of mood swings, getting up at 4 in the morning because you feel like you want taco's and then deciding you want marshmallows covered in chocolate, shopping for baby clothes and for clothes that fit you and-"
"Draco, shut-UP!"
"Just saying that it's been-"
"Can't you see I'm having a baby over here!" Hermione yelled.
"Oh right, sorry"
"Good luck with your baby Hermione! And congratulations to the both of you!" Marlie yelled before Draco and Hermione stepped into the fireplace.
"What do you mean good luck?!" Hermione yelled but next thing she knew she was being flooed off with Draco to St. Mungo's.
Hermione and Draco smiled at their newborn baby, Violet Malfoy.
"She's so cute" Ginny said as she looked at the tiny baby in Hermione's arms.
"Yeah she is" Harry said as he took hold of the little baby's hand and kissed it.
"Hi little baby, I'm your uncle Ron"
"And I'm auntie Ginny"
"Don't forget uncle Harry" Harry spoke out before speaking directly to Violet "Guess what? I'm going to teach you how to fly"
"Get your own baby Potter!" Draco said "I'm teaching her how to fly"
"I'm teaching her how to fly" Ginny replied.
"Me too" Ron added.
"Nobody's teaching her how to fly!" Hermione yelled out.
"WHAT!" everyone in the room yelled.
"Shush! She has sensitive ears" Hermione said stubbornly as she covered her baby's ears from the loud outburst.
"No daughter of mine is not going to know how to fly" Draco replied to her earlier comment.
"She's not even 24 hours old and you guys are already deciding on who's going to teach her how to fly. It's unthinkable! Not until she's old enough anyway"
"Fine, but I'm getting her her first broom" Harry said.
"Oh no your not" Draco said as he took out a small broom from a bag he had beside the bed "Baby's first broom, says so on the label"
"Baby's first broom?" Hermione asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Yup, from the makers of the Firebolt"
"Oh bloody hell no, she's not riding that thing"
"It's not a thing, it's a broom" Draco retaliated.
"I am not going to watch my baby get lost up in the clouds at an amazingly fast pace" Hermione said sharply.
"She's not going to get lost in the clouds"
"Fine then, I'm not going to watch my baby fall out of the skies from her broom"
"It has a safety belt"
"Oh get that thing away from me" Hermione bit back.
"Fine then" Draco said as he put the broom back in the bag.
Someone knocked on the door and then opened to somebody carrying a big box "We brought gifts" Mrs. Weasley said as she lowered the box down from her face.
"Charlie and Bill are coming in an hour" Mr. Weasley said as he shut the door.
Mrs. Weasley looked at the baby in Hermione's arms "Oh, would you just look at her" Mrs. Weasley said as she smiled warmly "She's just adorable"
"Thank you" Draco and Hermione said at the same time.
"Violet, meet grandma and grandpa" Hermione said to the baby in her arms.
Since both Hermione and Draco's parents were dead they had decided on letting Mr. and Mrs. Weasley have the honor of being the baby's grandparents.
"I'm a gramie" Mrs. Weasley said proudly.
"Do you want to hold her?" Hermione asked.
"Oh I'd love to" Molly took the baby into her arms and Violet looked up to her and then to Mr. Weasley and gave something that could've been labeled a wave. Everyone smiled and gave warm laughs.
"My baby's so smart" Draco said happily.
"Where do you think she got it from?" Hermione said with her eyebrow raised. It was only natural that Violet came out smart, not to mention cute according to who her parents were.
They each watched Violet and her little baby wonders and welcomed her into the world with love... on second thought make that lots of love, laughter and joy. They were, I guess you could say complete. One perfectly happy family... it was about time don't you think?
A FEW MONTHS LATER
"Wake up, come on Violet tell daddy to wake up" Hermione whispered to Tasha who was in the middle of their bed, happily crawling around. She crawled over to Draco and grabbed his arm with her tiny hand.
"Huh?" Draco asked groggily as he turned around.
"Morning" Hermione asked happily "Looks like somebody else wants to wake you up in the morning"
"As long as she does it in a nice, quiet way" Draco joked around as he took baby Tasha in his arms.
"Hey, I woke you up now didn't I? So it did it's job" Hermione smiled.
"You can be such a pain" Draco smiled.
"I know" Hermione said happily.
"But I love you anyway" he said as he leaned in and kissed her.
"So, are you happy?" Draco asked as they broke apart.
"Very. You?"
"Definitely"
Finally Draco had all that he wanted. He had a beautiful wife, a beautiful daughter, he no longer had to serve for the dark lord, he had some new friends and was part of the family he had always missed out on.
His dreams of having it all and being out of the Dark Lord's grasp had been complete. He was happy and he could tell Hermione was happy too.
Evil didn't rule this world, love did.
A/N: Unfortunately this is the end, sad but true. Thank you to all of those who have reviewed this story, you have no idea how much your reviews mean to me. Also thank you to all of my readers because I'm not writing this for nobody.
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