The Baby Project

Chapter Two


'And I'll sail her through the west coast,
through villages and towns.
I'll be on my holidays,
they'll be doing the rounds.
And they'll ask me how I got her,
I'll tell them "I saved my money".
They'll say; "Isn't she pretty?"
That ship called Dignity'

Hermione practically ran into her dorm room.
For some reason this lesson had really excited her.


Maybe it was the fact that she was now able to take on some full
responsibility, and challenge herself physically, as well as, mentally.


Or maybe it was because the thought of being the mother of Ron's baby was
appealing to her.
She knew he was her friend, but being seventeen and not even hearing him
tell her that he liked her, had made her grow quite impatient.


She almost decided to tell him herself.


Almost


But she bottled it when she went to seek him out.
But now they would get their chance...see if they could really stand the
heat.

"Oi!" She heard a voice come from below.


She rolled her eyes.


Malfoy.


Being head girl meant many things..


The first: Responsibility

The Second: Standards to uphold.

The Third: Malfoy.


She could remember the day well.
Standing proudly in front of the hall of students when her name was called.
That was the day she was meant to shine...but it became thwarted once
Malfoy's name came up as head Boy.


She half expected it, if she was honest.
Harry was good...but Malfoy was better.


He was almost as good as her in his lessons.
Sometimes she found it hard to decipher exactly how Malfoy had brains when
he certainly did not show it 99% of the time.


Now, only a few weeks into their new leadership, they found themselves in a
compromising position:


Sharing a common room.


It wasn't too bad.
The common room was situated at the base, and then from there, they had their
own separate doors, which led them to their separate dorm rooms...and also,
had a set of stone steps each which lead to their house common rooms, just
in case they needed to go there.


They hardly saw each other, if she was completely honest.
There was no bathroom sharing, and neither of them really used the common
room much, considering they had friends that they could easily reach if they
climbed the stone steps into their house common rooms.


"What?" She shouted down, slowly descending the steps.
She hated having to go all the way back down when she had just gone up them.


When she reached the shared common room, she saw him lounging on the black
satin couch, with the fire blazing in front of him.


He smirked to himself.
"Nothing, just seeing if you were there or not"


Hermione made an action behind his head.
She strangled thin air, pretending it was his neck instead.


That was the SIXTH time he had done that this week!


Angrily, she marched away and retreated back up the stairs.
He heard her slam her room door behind her.


Malfoy closed his eyes and relaxed.
Pansy couldn't bother him here. He wanted to go and see his friends, but
with her being down in the Slytherin common rooms, waiting to pounce on him,
it just seemed like a waste of his time.


After their 'Life lesson' class this morning, Pansy had come straight up to
him and told him that she hoped they were partnered.
He hoped to god that they weren't.


He might as well be a single parent if that was the way things were going to
go.


He got up suddenly, and made his way to his own dorm room.
Maybe he would get lucky and be put with that Hannah Abbott from
Hufflepuff...she was pretty enough to share his gene pool...

'At least its not Granger... He thought absentmindedly, opening the
door and stepping through to his room.


Now that would be disappointing.



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"Millicent"


She stepped forward, going rather pale.


Hermione watched in anticipation.
She was only tenth in the que, and she was already starting to feel nervous.


She kept stealing glances at Ron.
He seemed completely oblivious, as he sat there reading an article on the
'Chudley Cannons' in Witch Weekly.


He didn't even realize.
Boys were so stupid!

"Luna"

Oooh!
She was getting closer to the front now.


Stealing herself for the injection, she closed her eyes slightly.
There, she could see a faint outline of a small child with Ginger, curly
hair.
She smiled pleasantly.


"Hermione"


She took a deep breath.


She stepped forward, to the desk at the front of the classroom.
Madame Pomfrey waited there for her, to inject her with a child.


'That sounds incredibly weird' she thought to herself.


She saw the point of the needle, and felt quite feint.
Closing her eyes, she felt the medi-witch take her arm.


She felt the point of the needle brake her skin...


' I hate needles...I hate needles...I hate needles....


Suddenly, the needle was removed and the medi-witch's hand was taken from
Hermione's lower arm.


"Next"


Hermione walked away, quite dazed.


Confused was the word for it.

Was that it?
Was that what it felt like?
To have a child be put inside of you?
To create life?


It was nothing like she had expected.

She sat down next to Harry and Ron, still looking quite dazed.


"How do you feel?" Harry asked her, smiling.


"I'm alright...I've been better" She shook her head to clear the daze.


"Can you feel anything?" Ron asked her, poking her in the stomach.


"Ah!" She said, laughing. "That tickles!"


Malfoy watched them as he sat in his usual place at the back of the
classroom.
Laughing?
What was there to laugh about?


The next ten months were going to be a nightmare!


When all the girls had been 'inseminated', and taken their seats, McGonagall
looked around at her students.


Madame Pomfrey left the classroom quietly.


"Ok" McGonagall announced. 'This should be entertaining...'


"The thing you have all been waiting for...." She smiled to herself.
"...Your significant other halves."


Hermione stole a glance at Ron.
She frowned.
He wasn't paying the slightest bit of attention.


"I will read off the paired partners. When I read out your names, I would
like you to switch seats to sit with them. You will be sat in this pattern
for the next ten months"


Hermione's heart began to race a little bit faster...


"Neville Longbottom...Pansy Parkinson"


The room erupted with laughter.


Draco laughed mercilessly.
Well, at least he didn't have her.


The couple begrudgingly moved and sat with each other, Pansy pulling her chair
as far away from Neville as possible.


"Hannah Abbott...Gregory Goyle"


Hermione smiled to herself.


"Harry Potter...Millicent Bullstrode"


Hermione saw the blood drain from his face.


"Sorry, mate" Ron said apologetically.


Harry slowly made his way out of his chair and moved towards the broadly
shaped girl that was Millicent.


"She'll eat him alive" Ron whispered to Hermione.


A small chill went rushing down her spine as his breath on her ear made her
shiver involuntarily.


"Seamus Finnigan....Julia McCartney"


....The list kept going, and yet neither her name or Ron's name was getting
mentioned...this could only be good news....


"Delilah Montague....Vincent Crabbe"

Hermione smiled.


"Parvati Patil...Ronald Weasley"


The smile faded.


Ron shrugged at her.


"See you later"


He got up from his seat casually and walked over to Parvati, who was smiling
at him shyly.
Hermione felt slightly hurt.
Ron wasn't supposed to act as if he didn't care...he was supposed to feel
bad about the fact that he wasn't paired with her...


Draco frowned.
That was his last bet!


"Dean Thomas....."

Hermione held her breath...

"...Claire Bode"


Hermione began to panic.
Her name had not been called out.


She looked around anxiously at the couples around her, sitting and talking
intently with each other.
There weren't many boys left for her to choose a descent one.


'Oh no' She thought. Dread seeping into her veins as she looked to
the back of the classroom. 'Oh dear god no....no, no, no no no no no
no-


"Hermione Granger....Draco Malfoy"


The classroom held its breath.





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A/N: Ok....first off I really need to thank you all for the reviews, i've actually become quite overwhelmed by the amount i have gotten from one chapter, so i am really thrilled!! :-)

Keep the reviews coming, i really enjoy reading them!!!!

Secondly, i would like to say that this fic is not a repost...as to this day, i have never seen this story, or indeed any sort of story like before (although alot of you have now told me that there are some out there, and i will take my leisure time up by reading them!), and the writing is all mine and i promise i haven't stolen it from anywhere else...if you DO happen to see my name anywhere else on this site, then it is most probably from the Pirates Of The Caribbean section of the site...I'm a Jack/Elizabeth shipper you see :-)


And as for Sam's question;

You asked me why sex would be an issue...
and all I can tell you is that you have just unintentionally brought up a rather large plotline that I am supposed to keep secret until i write it lmao! :-D

I shall say no more, only that sex IS an issue for this particualy project...

*Laughs Evily!*