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Chapter Fourteen
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Chapter Fourteen:
'We used to think it was impossible,
Now you call me by my new last name.
Memories seem like so long ago,
Time always kills the pain.'
WEEK NINE : NINE MONTHS
"You're the one that said you didn't want to know"
"Well, if I'd of known that it would cause this much of a fuss, then I would
have said yes!"
"It's not a fuss...its just a bloody name, Granger"
Hermione sat on the couch in the Common Room.
She was not best pleased.
Three days ago, they had both seen their baby for the first time...and since
then, Malfoy had don't nothing except bloody pester her about their decision
to NOT know the sex of the baby.
HE wanted to know if it was a boy or a girl, whereas she wanted it to be a
surprise.
Needless to say; she won.
But only because they argued for so long that Madam Pomfrey actually chucked
them out of the Hospital Wing!
She knew he only wanted to know so he could gloat.
He wanted to win their silly little bet, and prove her wrong....again.
He had been doing that a lot lately.
Proving her wrong.
She thought he was a complete and utter twat...and then he turns around with
a change of attitude towards their child...and now he was sitting there,
looking for baby names!
So now here they sat, on a dreary early November Friday night...arguing
again.
Malfoy was flicking through the book of baby names that had been delivered
yesterday.
And apparently, he wouldn't pick anything that didn't sound right with his
second name.
"I don't know what makes you think that it's going to take your second name"
She told him matter of factly, writing in her jotter about her day.
Draco scoffed.
Of course it was going to have his second name...was she thick or something?
Draco had tried so hard for so long to fight the feelings that seemed to be
pummeling into him.
But after seeing his baby on that screen...he couldn't hide it anymore.
He suddenly understood what it was all about.
Why all the other lad's were looking so excited...
The thought of bringing a child into the world...someone who looked like
you, looked up to you...loved you.
"There's no way that Ichabod is even entering this name thing"
Draco looked up, her voice pulling him from his thoughts.
"What?"
She was peering over at the book he was looking at on the table.
"Ichabod" She repeated. "Its ghastly"
"So is Desdeminia...but you seemed to think it was absolutely gorgeous" He
smirked at her.
Hermione stuck her tongue out at him.
"You know very well that I like Lily"
Malfoy rolled his eyes.
"Look...i wouldn't call a girl Gerald, so don't expect me to call a
boy Lily."
Hermione sighed.
They were getting nowhere.
He kept looking at horrible old fashioned names, whereas she went for the
more up to date and modern names.
She looked at her watch absentmindedly, rubbing her belly with her other
hand.
She was only a few days away now.
She leaned over and got her reference book from the little coffee table that
their books were placed on by the couch.
She opened the pages and looked for the right month;
....Your baby is practically ready to be born. A few last details to give
him a great start in the world beyond your womb and he's on his way.
In this ninth month, your baby's biggest job is to continue to put on
weight. He needs this extra weight to supply his energy demands during the
first few days while he is waiting for your milk to come in. He is also
working getting his lungs fully mature.
His downy hairs are being shed, and the vernix is wearing off his skin. The
more languor hair and vernix a baby has at birth, the younger his gestational
age. He may have long nails that need to be clipped right away. His eyes do
have color, but it may change within the next six months.
His immune system is still immature, so he is receiving antibodies through
the placenta, and after he is born he will get antibodies through your
colostrum and milk.
At the end of the 38th week your baby will be around 14-15 inches from crown
to rump and weigh about 6-8 pounds......
Hermione snapped the book shut.
For some reason, she didn't really like to think as far as the baby being
born...
Because that would mean that she would have to give birth.
And there was no way that she was ready for that.
She shook the thought from her mind.
When the time came, it came.
And it wasn't just her going through it all...everyone else was as well.
She hoisted herself up from the couch, trying with all her might to keep her
modesty in tact.
But it was useless.
She looked like a fish floundering around with no water...she hated feeling
like a beached whale.
She looked over at Malfoy.
He was smirking at her.
"I'd like to see you keep your modesty when your carrying eight pounds of
weight that doesn't belong to you"
Malfoy raised his eyes at her.
"And I'd like to see you run naked through a field of grenades...but we
can't all have what we want, can we?"
She was going to retort...but she didn't need to.
His eyes told her exactly what he meant by that statement.
He was kidding with her.
She just rolled her eyes at him, a slight smirk playing on her own lips.
She began packing her stuff away.
"Where are you going?" He asked her curiously.
"I'm going to see Harry and Ron" She told him, suddenly feeling very hot.
"Is it just me or is it absolutely stifling in here?"
Draco looked puzzled at her change of conversation.
"Well....I can make a girl grow hot just by being in the same room as
her..."
Hermione glared at him.
"What are you going to see Potty and Weasle for, anyway?"
Hermione started fanning herself, feeling flushed.
She needed to feel the cold air.
"They're moving into their make-shift apartments today with their
significant others" She told him, before taking the hem of her jumper and
hoisting it up over her head.
Malfoy's eyes went wide.
He knew she had a vest top on underneath...but that didn't help the fact
that he saw the size of her breasts...if anything, it made them look bigger.
"Jesus, Granger" He said, startling her. "When did they grow?"
Hermione looked at his eyes, which were slightly south from where they
should have been.
She looked down in the direction his gaze.
And then she blushed.
She kept forgetting that there was a reason for why she kept wearing baggy
jumpers.
"About the same time as your ego" She told him simply, looking in the mirror
behind the couch. She looked at the state of her hair...disheveled.
He was either insane, or completely and utterly in trouble.
For some reason, completely unknown to him...she looked almost attractive to
him at that moment in time.
She was flushed, her hair was a mess...and she looked absolutely ravishing.
'BAD THOUGHTS!' Draco mentally slapped himself.
It was probably the fact that he hadn't had sex in two months...the strain
was taking its toll on him, and now he was getting desperate and decided to
look at Granger.
Shaking himself from his thoughts, he got up from the couch himself and
started putting his own books away.
She looked at him curiously.
"Where are you going?" She asked him.
He smiled comically at her.
"I'm coming with you"
Hermione folded her arms over her chest.
"Are you stalking me, now?"
Draco chuckled.
"Yeah, thats exactly what I'm doing"
Hermione sighed.
"Fine, but keep your nose out of my friends business"
"I'm not going to see your friends" He told her. "I'm going to see mine"
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"Wow, its really big!"
"It makes me feel like I'm moving into my first home" Harry told her
happily.
Millicent was busy in her room, putting some of her personal belonging in
there.
Dumbledore had informed the other Seventh Year students that due to their
circumstances, that it would be highly inconvenient or them to stay in their
own Common rooms, if their other halves were from different houses.
So he did something that none them had expected.
He had turned the Fifth floor of the Castle into a series of small
apartments where the classrooms would have been.
It reminded Hermione of the living situations that University students would
have in England when they were living on Campus at their respective
Colleges.
The rooms were huge, with three bedrooms and a sort-of living room, much
like the one that her and Malfoy had in their head of year living quarters.
"We've put the babies room in the middle of ours" Harry told her, taking her
hand and pulling her towards it.
Just as they were about to enter, the front door of Harry's apartment burst
open, with a flurry of cursing and shouting coming from the students who had
just entered.
"You're so wrong!"
"I'M WRONG! If you weren't so pig headed, then I wouldn't be shouting at
you!"
"Harry, tell her!"
Ron was red with anger.
Hermione smirked to herself.
So his little predicament was finally taking its toll?
Harry held up his hands innocently.
"Don't involve me, thank you very much" He told the pair. "The last time you
two involved me in one of your petty little arguments, I ended up with a
fork stuck behind my ear!"
Parvati sat down on his couch with a huff.
"I can barely move as it is, and he has me running around after his bloody
pet owl!"
"He would have escaped!"
Parvati scowled at him.
"I wish he would have!"
Harry shook his head.
He saw Millicent come from her bedroom, an angry look on her face.
Then she saw Ron and Parvati, and her anger increased even further.
"Every time I see them, they're arguing" She told Harry.
"She's probably got double the hormones of a pregnant woman" Harry mused.
"What with her having twins and everything"
Hermione rolled her eyes.
She had managed to keep her own hormones in check.
Under the circumstances, she had done pretty damn good, too!
"If you two have quite finished" Millicent shouted. "Would you kindly leave
us, please?"
Ron rolled his eyes before taking Parvati's arm and wrestling her to stand
up.
He didn't know he had the strength in him.
"See you later, Harry" He looked over at Hermione and smiled.
She blushed.
"Bye, Hermione"
She smiled at him.
"Oh no" Said Parvati angrily as Ron made his way out of the door. "You did
not just look at Hermione in that way!"
When the door shut behind them, everyone left inside the room breathed a
sigh of relief.
In what way had Ron just looked at her?
"How've you been, 'Mione?" Harry asked her, motioning for her to take a
seat.
She shrugged.
"I've been ok I suppose"
"And Malfoy?"
For once, she knew how to answer that question.
"Pretty good"
Harry looked startled, obviously not expecting that answer from her.
Millicent looked over at her and smirked.
"So he's finally got his head out of his arse and decided to take some
responsibility?"
Hermione smiled at her and nodded.
She had never really made conversation with Millicent before.
She never felt the need to.
But Harry seemed to think she was ok...
"Tell me everything" Harry asked her with a smile on his face.
Obviously hearing these new turn of events was too good to be true.
This was going to be one long story.
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"Your doing it all wrong"
"You just told me to do it like this"
Pansy shot him a look of utter loathing.
He couldn't even give a good massage!
"Longbottom, you might as well prod her with a knife and fork for all the
good your doing" Blaise told him with a laugh.
Pansy glared at him.
Draco smirked at the scene before him.
He actually felt sorry for Longbottom.
Pansy was a hell hound 99% of the time...but she seemed to be putting out
all the stops to make him as uncomfortable as possible.
"So I take it your speaking to me again, now"
Draco looked over at Blaise.
He smirked.
Blaise smirked back.
They nodded in understanding.
Blaise didn't need to ask if Draco was getting along better with Granger or
not...he could tell by the way he was sitting there...
Call it contentment?
He wasn't too sure, but there was definitely some kind of change to him.
Blaise had told him that she wasn't bad once you got past the fact that she
was a Mudblood...but he supposed that Draco was just too arrogant to want to
listen to what he had to say.
But now he had obviously seen it for himself.
"Where's Lavender?" Draco asked him, looking around at the apartment.
Blaise shrugged.
He couldn't of cared less.
"I think she's gone to that Patil's flat...her and Weasley have had some kind
of argument"
Draco thought as much.
He'd seen them lately...she was too on edge.
Not like Granger.
A fleeting image of the girl in question suddenly came up in his mind.
That vest top that seemed to hug to her curves...that messy hair that was
dying to be tamed by his hand.
'What have I told you about thinking like that?!'
Why was he thinking like that?
He felt no attraction to Granger..apart from the fact that she had something
precious inside of her...
Yes, that was it.
She was attractive to him because she was pregnant...all glowing and content
looking...
When the baby finally popped out of her, he wouldn't feel like this.
He would have no attached emotions to her because there would be nothing
inside of her for him to be attached to.
"How are you and that Mudblood doing, Draco?" Came Pansy's voice in his
ears...purring at him seductively.
Draco shook the thoughts out of his mind.
He looked up at her and shrugged.
"I don't know...it depends on how I feel when I see her"
"I bet she gets on your nerves" She said absentmindedly, still getting a
massage from Neville, whose face was growing angry.
Maybe Pansy had forgotten that Neville was a friend of Granger's.
'Not like you do...no...' Draco thought. "Yeah..all the time" He
lied.
What did it come to when he actually preferred the presence of Granger,
rather than his own house mates?
What was his world coming to?
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"HARRY!"
Harry turned around on the couch, to see Ron standing in his doorway again.
Millicent looked at him angrily.
"I thought I told you to get out?"
Ron ignored her. Obviously they weren't keen on each other very much.
"It's Parvati!"
Harry got up off the couch suddenly, the girls struggling to do the same.
"What's wrong?" Harry asked, hurriedly. "Is she ok?"
Ron's face paled.
He looked at the other two girls.
They read his face like a book.
"Her water broke"
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Hermione watched the scene before her unfold like a story book.
There Harry and Ron were, holding onto both of Parvati's arms as she
struggled down the stairs.
She was shouting obscenities at Ron all the way down.
Halfway down the stairs, Hermione remembered that she should get her
pregnancy book, just in case something else happened along the way, before
they could get to the Hospital Wing.
"You lot go ahead" She shouted, turning the corner as they got to the bottom
of the stairs, and started to walk down it.
"Where are you going?" Ron shouted at her.
"To get my book" She shouted back, before disappearing around another
corner.
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To say Draco was perplexed was an understatement.
He was in complete and utter shock.
Upon Lavender arriving in the apartment that she shared with Blaise, she was
not in there for more than two minutes before she started to feel pain...
And then water gushed out of her unmentionables!
But it didn't stop there....
Not two minutes later, PANSY was doing the same!
The boys were flapping around like headless chickens, shitting themselves
because they didn't know what to do.
Draco ran out into the hall, looking for someone who might be able to
help...
When he saw a rush of boys and girls, panicking and running around in the
same manner that Draco and the other lads had been.
He did ponder on what the hell was going on...
And then it dawned on him.
It was happening.
He ran back into Zabini's apartment hurriedly.
"They're all at it!" He told him.
Zabini held Lavender by the arm and lead her to the door, Neville attempting
to do the same to Pansy (even though she was cursing him for touching her).
They lead the girls down the hallway, Draco following behind them; suddenly
finding it highly hilarious.
Then he thought on.
'Granger...'
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Hermione finally got to her Common Room, heading over for the book she was
supposed to be picking up.
'Ouch' She thought.
The baby was kicking her hard.
Then she felt it again.
Only this time, she felt something trickling down her leg.
She looked down.
Here eyes widened.
'Oh no...Please, not now...'
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"Granger?!"
Nothing.
She was nowhere to be seen.
He had asked which room was Potter's, and had almost banged the door down.
But there was no answer.
They must have left for the Hospital Wing already.
Draco took off at a sprinter's pace, not caring that he was barging into
people as he trampled his way down the stairs.
His breath was coming short, and his legs were starting to feel like jelly,
but he had to keep running.
He was not going to miss this.
After running through corridors; with the thought of Granger all alone and
giving birth soundly in his mind, he finally saw the Hospital Wing in the
distance, and his speed sped up.
He barged through the doors, heaving as he did so.
He looked around hurriedly, trying to see her fuzzy head in one of the beds.
He saw no one.
But he did see Potter.
He was holding Millicent's hand.
'Eugh...'
Harry caught a glimpse of a disheveled Malfoy from the corner of his eye,
and looked over at him curiously.
He wasn't with Hermione.
Draco caught his gaze.
Harry thought he saw something there for a moment...
Only fleeting, because as soon as he had saw it, Malfoy had regained his icy
composure.
But if Harry wasn't mistaken...
He saw fear in Malfoy's eyes.
"She went to your common room to look for a book" Harry shouted over at him.
Malfoy nodded to him curtly, and then took off again, out of the Hospital.
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Hermione had made her way down half of the corridor outside of her Common
room, and then had to stop because of the crippling pain.
She knew she needed to make it to the Hospital...
Why did the professors not tell them when they would be delivering?
Now she was alone...
She thought that Parvati was just a one off.
She didn't expect herself to be delivering today, as well.
She tried to walk a few more meters, before she gave up and slumped onto the
floor.
She doubled up and held her swollen belly tight, willing the pain to go
away.
She screamed when she felt white hot pain shoot right through her...she felt
like she was dying.
"GRANGER?!"
She knew that voice.
She had never felt more relieved to hear that voice.
"GRANGER!"
He was closer to her now.
She felt him kneel down next to her....looking at her with a mixture of
emotions in his eyes.
She looked up at him.
Her eyes brimming with tears.
"It's coming" She told him, still crippled on the floor.
Malfoy felt sorry for her.
No one deserved to go through this.
'Natural, my ass' He thought, looking over the pain on her face.
"Can you walk?" He asked her.
She held out her hand to him, and he took it quickly.
He pulled her up to him, keeping her close in case she decided to fall back
and hurt herself.
She took a few steps, but then doubled back over in pain.
He hated the way she screamed.
So much pain and tension there.
He decided to take action.
He did the only thing he could think of to get her to her destination.
"Hold still" He told her, before taking her in his arms and picking her up.
She looked up at him as he carried her.
Why would he do this for her?
He kept his eyes on his destination.
He couldn't look at her.
He would probably regret his actions later, but for now he was doing what he
had to do.
Hermione lay her head on his shoulder as he carried her, her body fitting
snuggly against him.
She just needed the pain to go away....
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Malfoy practically ran with her into the Hospital Wing.
He looked around quickly for a bed to put her in.
He found one at the opposite end of the room...right next to Pansy.
Madame Pomfrey came over as soon as Draco had put Hermione down onto the
bed.
"I take it you have been feeling your contractions for as long as the other
girls?"
Hermione nodded, her face grimaced in pain.
"I thought it would take longer for me to feel them every few minutes?"
Madame Pomfrey looked flustered.
"That would only occur in the natural birthing process, dear"
Draco looked at her quizzically.
"What does that mean?"
"It means" Pomfrey said sternly. "That it is likely that half of these
children will be born within the next hour"
Draco looked around him in a panic.
That was a hell of a lot of screaming.
Then he saw other medi-witches and wizards, all scrambled around the beds...
Obviously Madame Pomfrey was unable to cope with this many students giving
birth at once.
"It hurts" Hermione moaned, biting down on her lower lip.
Draco took the seat next to her bed.
"Look on the bright side" He told her. "An hours pain; for eight months
worth of a pain in the ass"
Hermione looked at him with her tiring eyes.
"Do you mean you, or the baby?"
He gave her a small smile.
"Both"
She laughed.
And the screamed.
He didn't like it.
Seeing someone in pain...it never agreed with him.
Next door to them, Pansy was sat there with Neville....squeezing his fingers
until they had turned blue.
He was so glad he wasn't her partner.
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"Miss Granger" Madam Pomfrey said sternly. "I really need you to push for
me..."
Draco was almost willing her to do it.
"Come on, Granger" He told her, still sitting by her bed. "Where's that
bloody Gryffindor fighting spirit?"
Hermione was still screaming in pain.
"I can't do it" She kept saying, over and over again.
The pain was excruciating.
For the past hour, she had felt the contractions becoming stronger and
stronger....closer and closer...until there was only this left.
She didn't think she could do it.
She was far too tired, and she just didn't have the will power.
She kept her eyes closed, trying to block everything out.
"Miss Granger!" Pomfrey shouted, pulling her legs open to check on the girls
progress below. "You MUST push!"
"But I CAN'T!"
Draco unconsciously drew himself closer to her.
"You can" He told her defiantly.
She opened her eyes and looked at him.
That familiar lead dropped into his stomach.
He felt for her.
"It hurts too much" She told him, crying.
He looked over at the medi-witch, who was watching their conversation avidly.
"How far has she got to go?" He asked her.
The medi-witch took another look.
"The babie's head will be crowning...another couple of big pushes, and we'll
have the baby out"
Draco nodded.
Then he did something that he promised himself whilst sitting there that he
wouldn't.
He took her hand slowly in his, feeling the smoothness of her fingers, his
thumb rolling over the soft skin in between her own thumb and forefinger.
She kept looking at him.
He smiled at her.
"We'll do this together " He told her.
She looked at him for a moment.
She liked the way her hand felt in his.
It was wrong, and she knew it.
But she didn't care.
Because at that moment, she felt like she could do it.
She nodded slowly.
The medi-witch took that as her cue.
"Right then, come on Miss Granger!"
Draco kept his eyes on her.
"One...two...three..."
She squeezed his hand tight, screaming when she felt the pain shoot through
her again.
"Another one!" The medi-witch told her, looking down to see the baby's head
crowning.
Draco squeezed her hand.
"Come on, Granger...you can do it again"
Hermione drew all of her strength, squeezing Malfoy's hand again as she
pushed.
"OUCH!" He screamed along with her.
He was going to have no fingers left.
"Nearly there!" Madame Pomfrey shouted, getting excited. "The baby is nearly
out!"
Hermione opened her eyes and looked up at Malfoy.
He looked back at her.
He leaned in, close to her ear.
"Your nearly there, Granger....one more push...you can do it..."
He heard her sob slightly; he knew she was scared.
But then he felt that familiar squeeze of his hand...and he knew she had done
it.
Hermione felt the last push go right through her.
She had used all of her strength, and then let her head fall back on the
pillow when she felt movement from where the medi-witch was stationed.
There was a deafening silence.
Draco looked at Madame Pomfrey anxiously.
It was far too quiet.
Did Granger still have one more push to go?
...but he could see the medi-witch fumbling with something...
And then he heard it.
A single cry.
He instinctively looked down at Granger, who was still holding his hand.
Her eyes were closed, but there was a joyous smile upon her face.
Draco looked over at Madame Pomfrey, who was smiling widely.
Then she held something up.
Pink.
Pink and bloody.
And it had one hell of a voice box on it.
"Congratulations" She said, coming over to Hermione's side and handing her a
tiny bundle in her arms.
"You have a beautiful baby girl"
Malfoy looked down at her timidly, not sure what he was wanting to find down
there.
She was tiny.
Her eyes were closed, and she already had small damp, dark hairs on her
head.
Draco leaned in instinctively.
Something inside of him finally snapped.
The last of his resolve had broken, and he knew he couldn't pretend anymore.
This was something that he would remember for the rest of his life...and he
couldn't have shared it with a more deserving person.
This was their baby...
And they would give it a bloody good go to succeed in whatever the next few
months threw at them.
Hermione was captivated.
Her tiny fingers, and her tiny toes.
Her pink tummy, and the way she wriggled about her in arms...
Hermione hesitated a glance at Malfoy.
He looked back at her.
A wide smile spread across their faces.
"Welcome to the family" He whispered, leaning over his little bundle of joy,
hesitantly picking up one of her tiny hands and placing a small kiss on it.
Hermione laughed.
"Our unconventional family"
Malfoy shrugged, still smiling beside himself.
"It's still a family, Granger"
She smiled at him.
"You owe me ten galleons"
He laughed happily.
He hadn't even thought about it.
He didn't need to, because he didn't care anymore.
She was beautiful, and he wouldn't have changed her for the world.
She looked back down, feeling so many emotions for this tiny person now
lying in her arms.
"Baby Malfoy" She said, kissing her forehead.
Malfoy shook his head.
"Nah, she's a Granger through and through"
Hermione looked up at him strangely.
"Why do you say that?" She asked him.
"Have you not heard the lungs on her?"
Hermione looked back at her baby again.
"Baby Granger"
And for some reason;
Malfoy knew it sounded right.
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A/N: Ok...I do hope i have done you all proud....do try not to throw sticks and stones at me if this was all one big pile of shit lmao.
I only did my best, and i tried to do it as realistically as i could...
But i guess that HERE is where the real fun begins!!!!!!
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But i have tried to make the name 'malfoy' associated to Hermione. When she thinks about him, or looks at what he is doing, or when she says his name.
For the simple reason that with most fics, i hate it when they both suddenly start calling eachother by their proper names...that is not who hermione and draco are to eachother, and a name is like a barrier to stop eachother from entering their private space...if you get my meaning.
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Chapter Fourteen:
'We used to think it was impossible,
Now you call me by my new last name.
Memories seem like so long ago,
Time always kills the pain.'
WEEK NINE : NINE MONTHS
"You're the one that said you didn't want to know"
"Well, if I'd of known that it would cause this much of a fuss, then I would
have said yes!"
"It's not a fuss...its just a bloody name, Granger"
Hermione sat on the couch in the Common Room.
She was not best pleased.
Three days ago, they had both seen their baby for the first time...and since
then, Malfoy had don't nothing except bloody pester her about their decision
to NOT know the sex of the baby.
HE wanted to know if it was a boy or a girl, whereas she wanted it to be a
surprise.
Needless to say; she won.
But only because they argued for so long that Madam Pomfrey actually chucked
them out of the Hospital Wing!
She knew he only wanted to know so he could gloat.
He wanted to win their silly little bet, and prove her wrong....again.
He had been doing that a lot lately.
Proving her wrong.
She thought he was a complete and utter twat...and then he turns around with
a change of attitude towards their child...and now he was sitting there,
looking for baby names!
So now here they sat, on a dreary early November Friday night...arguing
again.
Malfoy was flicking through the book of baby names that had been delivered
yesterday.
And apparently, he wouldn't pick anything that didn't sound right with his
second name.
"I don't know what makes you think that it's going to take your second name"
She told him matter of factly, writing in her jotter about her day.
Draco scoffed.
Of course it was going to have his second name...was she thick or something?
Draco had tried so hard for so long to fight the feelings that seemed to be
pummeling into him.
But after seeing his baby on that screen...he couldn't hide it anymore.
He suddenly understood what it was all about.
Why all the other lad's were looking so excited...
The thought of bringing a child into the world...someone who looked like
you, looked up to you...loved you.
"There's no way that Ichabod is even entering this name thing"
Draco looked up, her voice pulling him from his thoughts.
"What?"
She was peering over at the book he was looking at on the table.
"Ichabod" She repeated. "Its ghastly"
"So is Desdeminia...but you seemed to think it was absolutely gorgeous" He
smirked at her.
Hermione stuck her tongue out at him.
"You know very well that I like Lily"
Malfoy rolled his eyes.
"Look...i wouldn't call a girl Gerald, so don't expect me to call a
boy Lily."
Hermione sighed.
They were getting nowhere.
He kept looking at horrible old fashioned names, whereas she went for the
more up to date and modern names.
She looked at her watch absentmindedly, rubbing her belly with her other
hand.
She was only a few days away now.
She leaned over and got her reference book from the little coffee table that
their books were placed on by the couch.
She opened the pages and looked for the right month;
....Your baby is practically ready to be born. A few last details to give
him a great start in the world beyond your womb and he's on his way.
In this ninth month, your baby's biggest job is to continue to put on
weight. He needs this extra weight to supply his energy demands during the
first few days while he is waiting for your milk to come in. He is also
working getting his lungs fully mature.
His downy hairs are being shed, and the vernix is wearing off his skin. The
more languor hair and vernix a baby has at birth, the younger his gestational
age. He may have long nails that need to be clipped right away. His eyes do
have color, but it may change within the next six months.
His immune system is still immature, so he is receiving antibodies through
the placenta, and after he is born he will get antibodies through your
colostrum and milk.
At the end of the 38th week your baby will be around 14-15 inches from crown
to rump and weigh about 6-8 pounds......
Hermione snapped the book shut.
For some reason, she didn't really like to think as far as the baby being
born...
Because that would mean that she would have to give birth.
And there was no way that she was ready for that.
She shook the thought from her mind.
When the time came, it came.
And it wasn't just her going through it all...everyone else was as well.
She hoisted herself up from the couch, trying with all her might to keep her
modesty in tact.
But it was useless.
She looked like a fish floundering around with no water...she hated feeling
like a beached whale.
She looked over at Malfoy.
He was smirking at her.
"I'd like to see you keep your modesty when your carrying eight pounds of
weight that doesn't belong to you"
Malfoy raised his eyes at her.
"And I'd like to see you run naked through a field of grenades...but we
can't all have what we want, can we?"
She was going to retort...but she didn't need to.
His eyes told her exactly what he meant by that statement.
He was kidding with her.
She just rolled her eyes at him, a slight smirk playing on her own lips.
She began packing her stuff away.
"Where are you going?" He asked her curiously.
"I'm going to see Harry and Ron" She told him, suddenly feeling very hot.
"Is it just me or is it absolutely stifling in here?"
Draco looked puzzled at her change of conversation.
"Well....I can make a girl grow hot just by being in the same room as
her..."
Hermione glared at him.
"What are you going to see Potty and Weasle for, anyway?"
Hermione started fanning herself, feeling flushed.
She needed to feel the cold air.
"They're moving into their make-shift apartments today with their
significant others" She told him, before taking the hem of her jumper and
hoisting it up over her head.
Malfoy's eyes went wide.
He knew she had a vest top on underneath...but that didn't help the fact
that he saw the size of her breasts...if anything, it made them look bigger.
"Jesus, Granger" He said, startling her. "When did they grow?"
Hermione looked at his eyes, which were slightly south from where they
should have been.
She looked down in the direction his gaze.
And then she blushed.
She kept forgetting that there was a reason for why she kept wearing baggy
jumpers.
"About the same time as your ego" She told him simply, looking in the mirror
behind the couch. She looked at the state of her hair...disheveled.
He was either insane, or completely and utterly in trouble.
For some reason, completely unknown to him...she looked almost attractive to
him at that moment in time.
She was flushed, her hair was a mess...and she looked absolutely ravishing.
'BAD THOUGHTS!' Draco mentally slapped himself.
It was probably the fact that he hadn't had sex in two months...the strain
was taking its toll on him, and now he was getting desperate and decided to
look at Granger.
Shaking himself from his thoughts, he got up from the couch himself and
started putting his own books away.
She looked at him curiously.
"Where are you going?" She asked him.
He smiled comically at her.
"I'm coming with you"
Hermione folded her arms over her chest.
"Are you stalking me, now?"
Draco chuckled.
"Yeah, thats exactly what I'm doing"
Hermione sighed.
"Fine, but keep your nose out of my friends business"
"I'm not going to see your friends" He told her. "I'm going to see mine"
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"Wow, its really big!"
"It makes me feel like I'm moving into my first home" Harry told her
happily.
Millicent was busy in her room, putting some of her personal belonging in
there.
Dumbledore had informed the other Seventh Year students that due to their
circumstances, that it would be highly inconvenient or them to stay in their
own Common rooms, if their other halves were from different houses.
So he did something that none them had expected.
He had turned the Fifth floor of the Castle into a series of small
apartments where the classrooms would have been.
It reminded Hermione of the living situations that University students would
have in England when they were living on Campus at their respective
Colleges.
The rooms were huge, with three bedrooms and a sort-of living room, much
like the one that her and Malfoy had in their head of year living quarters.
"We've put the babies room in the middle of ours" Harry told her, taking her
hand and pulling her towards it.
Just as they were about to enter, the front door of Harry's apartment burst
open, with a flurry of cursing and shouting coming from the students who had
just entered.
"You're so wrong!"
"I'M WRONG! If you weren't so pig headed, then I wouldn't be shouting at
you!"
"Harry, tell her!"
Ron was red with anger.
Hermione smirked to herself.
So his little predicament was finally taking its toll?
Harry held up his hands innocently.
"Don't involve me, thank you very much" He told the pair. "The last time you
two involved me in one of your petty little arguments, I ended up with a
fork stuck behind my ear!"
Parvati sat down on his couch with a huff.
"I can barely move as it is, and he has me running around after his bloody
pet owl!"
"He would have escaped!"
Parvati scowled at him.
"I wish he would have!"
Harry shook his head.
He saw Millicent come from her bedroom, an angry look on her face.
Then she saw Ron and Parvati, and her anger increased even further.
"Every time I see them, they're arguing" She told Harry.
"She's probably got double the hormones of a pregnant woman" Harry mused.
"What with her having twins and everything"
Hermione rolled her eyes.
She had managed to keep her own hormones in check.
Under the circumstances, she had done pretty damn good, too!
"If you two have quite finished" Millicent shouted. "Would you kindly leave
us, please?"
Ron rolled his eyes before taking Parvati's arm and wrestling her to stand
up.
He didn't know he had the strength in him.
"See you later, Harry" He looked over at Hermione and smiled.
She blushed.
"Bye, Hermione"
She smiled at him.
"Oh no" Said Parvati angrily as Ron made his way out of the door. "You did
not just look at Hermione in that way!"
When the door shut behind them, everyone left inside the room breathed a
sigh of relief.
In what way had Ron just looked at her?
"How've you been, 'Mione?" Harry asked her, motioning for her to take a
seat.
She shrugged.
"I've been ok I suppose"
"And Malfoy?"
For once, she knew how to answer that question.
"Pretty good"
Harry looked startled, obviously not expecting that answer from her.
Millicent looked over at her and smirked.
"So he's finally got his head out of his arse and decided to take some
responsibility?"
Hermione smiled at her and nodded.
She had never really made conversation with Millicent before.
She never felt the need to.
But Harry seemed to think she was ok...
"Tell me everything" Harry asked her with a smile on his face.
Obviously hearing these new turn of events was too good to be true.
This was going to be one long story.
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"Your doing it all wrong"
"You just told me to do it like this"
Pansy shot him a look of utter loathing.
He couldn't even give a good massage!
"Longbottom, you might as well prod her with a knife and fork for all the
good your doing" Blaise told him with a laugh.
Pansy glared at him.
Draco smirked at the scene before him.
He actually felt sorry for Longbottom.
Pansy was a hell hound 99% of the time...but she seemed to be putting out
all the stops to make him as uncomfortable as possible.
"So I take it your speaking to me again, now"
Draco looked over at Blaise.
He smirked.
Blaise smirked back.
They nodded in understanding.
Blaise didn't need to ask if Draco was getting along better with Granger or
not...he could tell by the way he was sitting there...
Call it contentment?
He wasn't too sure, but there was definitely some kind of change to him.
Blaise had told him that she wasn't bad once you got past the fact that she
was a Mudblood...but he supposed that Draco was just too arrogant to want to
listen to what he had to say.
But now he had obviously seen it for himself.
"Where's Lavender?" Draco asked him, looking around at the apartment.
Blaise shrugged.
He couldn't of cared less.
"I think she's gone to that Patil's flat...her and Weasley have had some kind
of argument"
Draco thought as much.
He'd seen them lately...she was too on edge.
Not like Granger.
A fleeting image of the girl in question suddenly came up in his mind.
That vest top that seemed to hug to her curves...that messy hair that was
dying to be tamed by his hand.
'What have I told you about thinking like that?!'
Why was he thinking like that?
He felt no attraction to Granger..apart from the fact that she had something
precious inside of her...
Yes, that was it.
She was attractive to him because she was pregnant...all glowing and content
looking...
When the baby finally popped out of her, he wouldn't feel like this.
He would have no attached emotions to her because there would be nothing
inside of her for him to be attached to.
"How are you and that Mudblood doing, Draco?" Came Pansy's voice in his
ears...purring at him seductively.
Draco shook the thoughts out of his mind.
He looked up at her and shrugged.
"I don't know...it depends on how I feel when I see her"
"I bet she gets on your nerves" She said absentmindedly, still getting a
massage from Neville, whose face was growing angry.
Maybe Pansy had forgotten that Neville was a friend of Granger's.
'Not like you do...no...' Draco thought. "Yeah..all the time" He
lied.
What did it come to when he actually preferred the presence of Granger,
rather than his own house mates?
What was his world coming to?
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"HARRY!"
Harry turned around on the couch, to see Ron standing in his doorway again.
Millicent looked at him angrily.
"I thought I told you to get out?"
Ron ignored her. Obviously they weren't keen on each other very much.
"It's Parvati!"
Harry got up off the couch suddenly, the girls struggling to do the same.
"What's wrong?" Harry asked, hurriedly. "Is she ok?"
Ron's face paled.
He looked at the other two girls.
They read his face like a book.
"Her water broke"
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Hermione watched the scene before her unfold like a story book.
There Harry and Ron were, holding onto both of Parvati's arms as she
struggled down the stairs.
She was shouting obscenities at Ron all the way down.
Halfway down the stairs, Hermione remembered that she should get her
pregnancy book, just in case something else happened along the way, before
they could get to the Hospital Wing.
"You lot go ahead" She shouted, turning the corner as they got to the bottom
of the stairs, and started to walk down it.
"Where are you going?" Ron shouted at her.
"To get my book" She shouted back, before disappearing around another
corner.
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To say Draco was perplexed was an understatement.
He was in complete and utter shock.
Upon Lavender arriving in the apartment that she shared with Blaise, she was
not in there for more than two minutes before she started to feel pain...
And then water gushed out of her unmentionables!
But it didn't stop there....
Not two minutes later, PANSY was doing the same!
The boys were flapping around like headless chickens, shitting themselves
because they didn't know what to do.
Draco ran out into the hall, looking for someone who might be able to
help...
When he saw a rush of boys and girls, panicking and running around in the
same manner that Draco and the other lads had been.
He did ponder on what the hell was going on...
And then it dawned on him.
It was happening.
He ran back into Zabini's apartment hurriedly.
"They're all at it!" He told him.
Zabini held Lavender by the arm and lead her to the door, Neville attempting
to do the same to Pansy (even though she was cursing him for touching her).
They lead the girls down the hallway, Draco following behind them; suddenly
finding it highly hilarious.
Then he thought on.
'Granger...'
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Hermione finally got to her Common Room, heading over for the book she was
supposed to be picking up.
'Ouch' She thought.
The baby was kicking her hard.
Then she felt it again.
Only this time, she felt something trickling down her leg.
She looked down.
Here eyes widened.
'Oh no...Please, not now...'
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"Granger?!"
Nothing.
She was nowhere to be seen.
He had asked which room was Potter's, and had almost banged the door down.
But there was no answer.
They must have left for the Hospital Wing already.
Draco took off at a sprinter's pace, not caring that he was barging into
people as he trampled his way down the stairs.
His breath was coming short, and his legs were starting to feel like jelly,
but he had to keep running.
He was not going to miss this.
After running through corridors; with the thought of Granger all alone and
giving birth soundly in his mind, he finally saw the Hospital Wing in the
distance, and his speed sped up.
He barged through the doors, heaving as he did so.
He looked around hurriedly, trying to see her fuzzy head in one of the beds.
He saw no one.
But he did see Potter.
He was holding Millicent's hand.
'Eugh...'
Harry caught a glimpse of a disheveled Malfoy from the corner of his eye,
and looked over at him curiously.
He wasn't with Hermione.
Draco caught his gaze.
Harry thought he saw something there for a moment...
Only fleeting, because as soon as he had saw it, Malfoy had regained his icy
composure.
But if Harry wasn't mistaken...
He saw fear in Malfoy's eyes.
"She went to your common room to look for a book" Harry shouted over at him.
Malfoy nodded to him curtly, and then took off again, out of the Hospital.
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Hermione had made her way down half of the corridor outside of her Common
room, and then had to stop because of the crippling pain.
She knew she needed to make it to the Hospital...
Why did the professors not tell them when they would be delivering?
Now she was alone...
She thought that Parvati was just a one off.
She didn't expect herself to be delivering today, as well.
She tried to walk a few more meters, before she gave up and slumped onto the
floor.
She doubled up and held her swollen belly tight, willing the pain to go
away.
She screamed when she felt white hot pain shoot right through her...she felt
like she was dying.
"GRANGER?!"
She knew that voice.
She had never felt more relieved to hear that voice.
"GRANGER!"
He was closer to her now.
She felt him kneel down next to her....looking at her with a mixture of
emotions in his eyes.
She looked up at him.
Her eyes brimming with tears.
"It's coming" She told him, still crippled on the floor.
Malfoy felt sorry for her.
No one deserved to go through this.
'Natural, my ass' He thought, looking over the pain on her face.
"Can you walk?" He asked her.
She held out her hand to him, and he took it quickly.
He pulled her up to him, keeping her close in case she decided to fall back
and hurt herself.
She took a few steps, but then doubled back over in pain.
He hated the way she screamed.
So much pain and tension there.
He decided to take action.
He did the only thing he could think of to get her to her destination.
"Hold still" He told her, before taking her in his arms and picking her up.
She looked up at him as he carried her.
Why would he do this for her?
He kept his eyes on his destination.
He couldn't look at her.
He would probably regret his actions later, but for now he was doing what he
had to do.
Hermione lay her head on his shoulder as he carried her, her body fitting
snuggly against him.
She just needed the pain to go away....
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Malfoy practically ran with her into the Hospital Wing.
He looked around quickly for a bed to put her in.
He found one at the opposite end of the room...right next to Pansy.
Madame Pomfrey came over as soon as Draco had put Hermione down onto the
bed.
"I take it you have been feeling your contractions for as long as the other
girls?"
Hermione nodded, her face grimaced in pain.
"I thought it would take longer for me to feel them every few minutes?"
Madame Pomfrey looked flustered.
"That would only occur in the natural birthing process, dear"
Draco looked at her quizzically.
"What does that mean?"
"It means" Pomfrey said sternly. "That it is likely that half of these
children will be born within the next hour"
Draco looked around him in a panic.
That was a hell of a lot of screaming.
Then he saw other medi-witches and wizards, all scrambled around the beds...
Obviously Madame Pomfrey was unable to cope with this many students giving
birth at once.
"It hurts" Hermione moaned, biting down on her lower lip.
Draco took the seat next to her bed.
"Look on the bright side" He told her. "An hours pain; for eight months
worth of a pain in the ass"
Hermione looked at him with her tiring eyes.
"Do you mean you, or the baby?"
He gave her a small smile.
"Both"
She laughed.
And the screamed.
He didn't like it.
Seeing someone in pain...it never agreed with him.
Next door to them, Pansy was sat there with Neville....squeezing his fingers
until they had turned blue.
He was so glad he wasn't her partner.
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"Miss Granger" Madam Pomfrey said sternly. "I really need you to push for
me..."
Draco was almost willing her to do it.
"Come on, Granger" He told her, still sitting by her bed. "Where's that
bloody Gryffindor fighting spirit?"
Hermione was still screaming in pain.
"I can't do it" She kept saying, over and over again.
The pain was excruciating.
For the past hour, she had felt the contractions becoming stronger and
stronger....closer and closer...until there was only this left.
She didn't think she could do it.
She was far too tired, and she just didn't have the will power.
She kept her eyes closed, trying to block everything out.
"Miss Granger!" Pomfrey shouted, pulling her legs open to check on the girls
progress below. "You MUST push!"
"But I CAN'T!"
Draco unconsciously drew himself closer to her.
"You can" He told her defiantly.
She opened her eyes and looked at him.
That familiar lead dropped into his stomach.
He felt for her.
"It hurts too much" She told him, crying.
He looked over at the medi-witch, who was watching their conversation avidly.
"How far has she got to go?" He asked her.
The medi-witch took another look.
"The babie's head will be crowning...another couple of big pushes, and we'll
have the baby out"
Draco nodded.
Then he did something that he promised himself whilst sitting there that he
wouldn't.
He took her hand slowly in his, feeling the smoothness of her fingers, his
thumb rolling over the soft skin in between her own thumb and forefinger.
She kept looking at him.
He smiled at her.
"We'll do this together " He told her.
She looked at him for a moment.
She liked the way her hand felt in his.
It was wrong, and she knew it.
But she didn't care.
Because at that moment, she felt like she could do it.
She nodded slowly.
The medi-witch took that as her cue.
"Right then, come on Miss Granger!"
Draco kept his eyes on her.
"One...two...three..."
She squeezed his hand tight, screaming when she felt the pain shoot through
her again.
"Another one!" The medi-witch told her, looking down to see the baby's head
crowning.
Draco squeezed her hand.
"Come on, Granger...you can do it again"
Hermione drew all of her strength, squeezing Malfoy's hand again as she
pushed.
"OUCH!" He screamed along with her.
He was going to have no fingers left.
"Nearly there!" Madame Pomfrey shouted, getting excited. "The baby is nearly
out!"
Hermione opened her eyes and looked up at Malfoy.
He looked back at her.
He leaned in, close to her ear.
"Your nearly there, Granger....one more push...you can do it..."
He heard her sob slightly; he knew she was scared.
But then he felt that familiar squeeze of his hand...and he knew she had done
it.
Hermione felt the last push go right through her.
She had used all of her strength, and then let her head fall back on the
pillow when she felt movement from where the medi-witch was stationed.
There was a deafening silence.
Draco looked at Madame Pomfrey anxiously.
It was far too quiet.
Did Granger still have one more push to go?
...but he could see the medi-witch fumbling with something...
And then he heard it.
A single cry.
He instinctively looked down at Granger, who was still holding his hand.
Her eyes were closed, but there was a joyous smile upon her face.
Draco looked over at Madame Pomfrey, who was smiling widely.
Then she held something up.
Pink.
Pink and bloody.
And it had one hell of a voice box on it.
"Congratulations" She said, coming over to Hermione's side and handing her a
tiny bundle in her arms.
"You have a beautiful baby girl"
Malfoy looked down at her timidly, not sure what he was wanting to find down
there.
She was tiny.
Her eyes were closed, and she already had small damp, dark hairs on her
head.
Draco leaned in instinctively.
Something inside of him finally snapped.
The last of his resolve had broken, and he knew he couldn't pretend anymore.
This was something that he would remember for the rest of his life...and he
couldn't have shared it with a more deserving person.
This was their baby...
And they would give it a bloody good go to succeed in whatever the next few
months threw at them.
Hermione was captivated.
Her tiny fingers, and her tiny toes.
Her pink tummy, and the way she wriggled about her in arms...
Hermione hesitated a glance at Malfoy.
He looked back at her.
A wide smile spread across their faces.
"Welcome to the family" He whispered, leaning over his little bundle of joy,
hesitantly picking up one of her tiny hands and placing a small kiss on it.
Hermione laughed.
"Our unconventional family"
Malfoy shrugged, still smiling beside himself.
"It's still a family, Granger"
She smiled at him.
"You owe me ten galleons"
He laughed happily.
He hadn't even thought about it.
He didn't need to, because he didn't care anymore.
She was beautiful, and he wouldn't have changed her for the world.
She looked back down, feeling so many emotions for this tiny person now
lying in her arms.
"Baby Malfoy" She said, kissing her forehead.
Malfoy shook his head.
"Nah, she's a Granger through and through"
Hermione looked up at him strangely.
"Why do you say that?" She asked him.
"Have you not heard the lungs on her?"
Hermione looked back at her baby again.
"Baby Granger"
And for some reason;
Malfoy knew it sounded right.
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A/N: Ok...I do hope i have done you all proud....do try not to throw sticks and stones at me if this was all one big pile of shit lmao.
I only did my best, and i tried to do it as realistically as i could...
But i guess that HERE is where the real fun begins!!!!!!
WINTERWATER:
Thankyou for your fantastic comments! I really love that you think i have written the characters how they should be!!!
JAYNEA, EXTRAHO, SESSH'S SANGO, MEGAN, PICKLES87, ROBYN3091, SKYLARSCHAEFFER, KIMBERLY, DRACOLUVAH, BUFFYXO, TANK, FORGETFUL LOVE, PUMKIN, SAM, HEAVENLEIGH, WRITERCHICK, MISSY2, LOLLY, WICRAVEN, VIC, CATYSMOM and ANGELPIPHI:
All i can say is thankyou for all of the mssive support you are giving me, and it means so much that you are all still continuing to read and reply to this fic!!
THANKYOU SO MUCH!!!!!
GUARDGEEK:
I wish there were more books too...have your read any more of his other books????
EMMALOUISE:
I can understand that it can be annoying to read Draco being refered as 'Draco' one minute, and 'malfoy' the next.
But i have tried to make the name 'malfoy' associated to Hermione. When she thinks about him, or looks at what he is doing, or when she says his name.
For the simple reason that with most fics, i hate it when they both suddenly start calling eachother by their proper names...that is not who hermione and draco are to eachother, and a name is like a barrier to stop eachother from entering their private space...if you get my meaning.
Hope that has cleared up any missunderstandings!!
Thankyou for reviewing, all the same!
JAMIEBLYE:
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!!!
I also like 'without me', that discribes Draco. The song is by eminem, and the video is absolutely hilarious!!!
APPLEBLOSSUM:
As always, i LOVE reading your reviews! You are very thoughtful, and you take your time in letting me know what you enjoy, which is always nice to read!!!
Just wanted to say a big thankyou, because it is reviews like yours that keep me writing!!!
LEXY MALFOY:
What can I say?
I LOVE YOU GIRL!!!!!
That banner is amazing, and i feel so priviledged that you would do something like that for me! So THANKYOU!!! And i shall try and use it at quiet_ones, because i sadly don't have a LJ :-(
I LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!! So thankyou from the bottom of my heart for making it for me!! A lovely gift!!!!!!!!!
Your my number one, hun! hehehehe!!!!
PLEASE keep reading and reviewing...my life now practically depends on it lmao!
THANKYOU!!!!!!
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