Another Chance At Love?

Chapter Six:Admitting The Truth


Draco was quiet as he seemed to relax a moment. He didn't answer however as he looked at his daughter,then to his son.For a moment it was if he couldn't say a single word and he sighed and let out a breath he didn't realize he had been holding.

He handed her back the handkerchief as he looked back at his desk quietly and silently. He wondered why he was having to deal with all this pain. He nodded slowly as he looked up at his daughter now. He took a calming breath as she ran a hand through his hair in an atempt to try and comfort him.

"Yes Caledonia, I am your Father."

He couldn't lie to her as she nodded looking at him a moment and she relaxed. He noticed that she was studying him. He couldn't blame her as he then was surprised when she hugged him tightly and she began to sob. He didn't know what to do as he caressed her hair and inhaled the scent of Gardenia and baby powder that surrounded his daughter. He hadn't expected that she would hug him.

Draco saw her wipe her eyes and she laughed a moment as she looked at him. She felt like a part of her life was finally there,as if a hole was filled.Scorpius looked on a moment in surprise then he bit his bottom lip and realized.

"Professor Granger is my Mum?"

He smiled despite feeling a little bit hurt with the situation. His mum was there, he had met his mum and he had a sister.. He looked at Draco a moment in question but didn't speak.

Draco nodded as he looked at both of them a moment.

"Your twins,both born on Febuary 12th,Yes Hermione Granger Malfoy is your mother."

Scorpius had to take a seat as he continued to try and process all of this. After a moment he smiled.

Caledonia looked at Draco a moment in deep thought on how to place and say what she was about to say.She had to know what was going on.

"I'm mad at my mother of course for lying to me but what are you going to do about him might I ask?"

Draco was confused a moment as he looked at her. He realized that she was smirking now and saw her eyes as if she was thinking hard. Just like her mother she bit her lip. She then clarified for him seeing his confusion a moment.

"What are you going to do about Reid, I mean he's not my father. You are right?"

Draco sighed as he shook his head. He caught the last of her statement and looked at her surprised. He wondered what was going on. He saw Caledonia give him a look and she sighed a moment.

"I knew you were alive but mum always told me that you fell out of love with her,that you had gotten your own special friend as she calls Reid. I am not stupid I know they have sex. I know that Reid has asked her to marry him several times but she told him no, told him she was married to the man she loves,So are you and my mum still married then after all this time and what were those papers you gave her?"

Draco didn't know which question to answer first as he looked at his daughter and knew she was exactly like him and Hermione curious like himself of course. He shook his head as he replied.

"Yes until your mother sign those papers we are still married, I still love her Caledonia. I will always love your mother and I never had a special friend,You mother believes that?"

He was shocked as he thought back to this morning and he froze a moment. He took a breath as he looked at his daughter. "What the hell have I done?"

He heard a sound as he looked up and saw Hermione walking into his classroom. He had seen she was in tears as she approached his desk. She looked a moment at her daughter and son who opened his eyes wide and looked at her and then smiled quietly.She however was distressed and her eyes were leveled on Draco,her face twisted in anger and her eyes soft and full of pain. Hermione threw the papers at him. He looked down at them and he shook his head as he saw the signature.

She had signed them the ink was still drying as he looked at Hermione a moment level and then to the papers. He paused.

"Caledonia,Scorpius could you please let me have a word with your mother? "

Caledonia nodded as she glared at her mother a moment and replied.

"Yes Daddy"

She went to make her way out of the room and he called out to her. "Can you both please tell the students to meet me in the library and give this note to Madame Pince for me please?"

He asked sending them as he waved his hand and wandlessly flew over a scribbled note. Caledonia nodded and left them alone. He waved his hand and the door shut with a bang. He then looked at Hermione. As he did he just for a moment absorbed what was in front of him. Hermione glared hard.Her hair was wild as was her eyes and he bit his inner cheek a moment as his grey eyes matched and held her brown ones.

"You should have told me you were going to tell her Draco, I mean I figured we'd tell the children together."

Draco looked at her a moment and he replied.

"Well Callie is alot like you love, She figured it out and asked mt point blank. I wasn't going to lie to her you know.Scorpius was surprised though since he thought his mother was.. I never told him you were dead in fact your absence I just couldn't.."

He put the papers down on the desk and then looked at her levely a moment wondering what she was thinking as he saw the papers and he grinned to himself.

"You realize these papers are null and void now am I correct?"

As he asked her this he showed her where a big void mark was appearing and he said in an amused voice.

"You are suppose to be the smartest witch of our age Hermione,if not since Morag LeFay herself. It's null and void because you forgot one simple fact my love"

She looked at him confused as she looked at her signature, It clearly read there Hermione Jean Granger. She didn't get it how could it be voided? She wondered this for a moment as he watched her. He then put the paper on his desk and he lifted his feet on the desk and watched her a smirk entered his lips. He saw her confusion.He waited for her to work it out for herself and after a moment she gasped and stared hard at him.

" You see you forgot that you are not Hermione Granger and therefore the papers aren't valid."

She glared at him as Hermione realized the mistake and scolded herself he nodded as he saw she understood.

" So as you see , you are still my wife and I am still your husband until death do us part, However know I will not make that easy as I have discovered a few things since this morning that enlightened me. You know it would be easy to have more papers drawn up but I don't feel the need to sign them anymore."

He knew he had her and he hoped he could convince her to not run away this time. The door was locked as he got up and walked over to her and he stood looking down at her. He caressed her face a moment. As he did he searched her eyes trying to figure out from their depths her feelings. He saw confusion.

"After this morning I thought I made how I feel about us very clear, I mean did this morning mean nothing to you at all Hermione?"

He began as he leaned down and he kissed her lips a moment gently. He pulled back seeing her looking lost at him. She was crying softly and he finally noticed how hurt she looked,how sad it hurt his heart to watch her like that.She had still worn her heart on her sleeve after all this time and he could see her anguish in her eyes.It hurt him inside deeply to see tears in those eyes he so loved to gaze into and know he caused them.

"Don't cry Hermione,Please it hurts me to see those tears and know I caused them."

"What? Draco why huh?" She whispered hoarsely as he just caressed her hair and tried not to upset her any more. He knew he would always love this woman and her pain was his pain too, He just replied however.

" Because when you ache I ache, Thats what people in love do,"

Hermione gave him an incredulous look a moment but didn't say anything except. " I don't have the strength to fight right now Draco, Rain check?"

She said as she then looked tired. He nodded as he replied in her ear. " Oh yes defiantly because I'm not letting you walk away this time, You can't leave again and disappear on me Hermione Malfoy"

He just wrapped his arm around her tighter.As he held her she was shaking and he for a moment just caressed her hair and tried to comfort her,despite the fact he was truly angry with her.

"Is it so bad being married to me really? I mean sure we had our differences but to this day I have no idea why you left me except, maybe we both were just so pig headed and stubborn"

"It was you who cheated on me"

" I've never cheated on you, I swear by Merlin's balls, Look I don't know where you got that idea from but I never. You walked out on me sweetheart remember, You left me and I didn't know why, But not only did you leave me."

He sighed a moment. He looked sad as he looked at her and looked into her eyes. Hermione froze a moment as she looked into the eyes of the man she loved, into the eyes that gave her daughter her own. She looked at the face that all her dreams conjured for so long and she wondered why in the world he would continue to lie even now. She noticed his lips moving and focused on his words.

"You took our Daughter and left, I didn't hear anything from you for three months then I received divorce papers . You know I never signed them that is until I saw him today yes dammit I am angry that you took a lover while I have mourned you all these years I never took a lover. I never will and so my dear get used to the idea that as long as we both live I am your husband."

He told her as she just glared at him. He shook his head. He knew telling her what to do would get her fired up but he needed to know if she still loved him, he needed to have at least a shred of something to keep believing in them.

"I mean it hurt like a jagged knife plunged and turned in my heart, But it hurts worse that your lover is here,that he grinned and smirked and it took all my strength not to hit him this morning. If it wasn't for the children I would be in Askaban right now for murdering your boyfriend."

He spat out as she then turned her eyes on him and then she replied.

" I loved you I trusted you and you killed our love and trust when you slept with that bitch.Look he's not my.. He's, Why do i have to justify anything to you Draco?"

She said as he looked at her confused.

" I have never cheated on you, I never once even since our separation have even looked at another woman I have lived my life as a widower because I still loved you Hermione. Dammit woman I still love you and it's damn hard to move on when my heart still lives for you.

I know that whatever cold comfort that gives you, whatever happiness it makes you feel to kill me inside, Damn I didn't realize what a cold hearted bitch you became. What happened Granger, did you just decide that loving me was too much and having someone love you back was what exactly a joke? I worshiped the bloody ground you walked on and damn I still do and it pathetic isn't it? All these wasted years hoping you would come back to me, that love could survive despite everything?" He then sighed

He tried to relax and not yell anymore as he looked at her. He just shook his head. she felt like he had slapped her when he called her Granger and for a moment she just glared. She heard his words and saw the truth in his eyes. He thought what he was telling her was the truth,but she knew better. Didn't she?

"I've missed so much,Not a day foes by that I didn't want you here with me. Not a moment you weren't in my thoughts Hermione."

He told her as he lifted her a moment and sat her on the edge of his desk and he flicked his wand making a love seat and he sat her on his lap. He just wondered why it was so difficult. He felt her struggle to get up so he wrapped his arm around her waist and then looked into her eyes looking for the truth in their depths.

"Tell me that you don't love me and that this morning meant nothing to you and I'll have those papers drawn up right now, I will even give you away to Reid myself at your wedding.Whatever you decide I'll accept but don't come to me acting like your a victim when we both know who the guilty party in this is."

He took a calming breath and tried to keep his temper in check.Blowing up at her would not help matters he knew this.

"I've already forgave you for walking out on me but just never knew why, I never and have never taken anyone else as my lover, Only you and I know that I have nothing to gain by lying and I never have nor will I start now."

Draco said,quietly with a bit of hurt in his voice but also conviction and he for a moment just fingered on of her loose curls and let the silken strand move between his forefinger and thumb.

She looked down a moment quietly not sure what to say to him.

" I heard you talking to your Father that night Draco in your study." She said as she looked at him now. He raised an eyebrow. For a moment they went into memories of that night.

"Legitimens" Draco said as he then entered her memory and was very surprised at what he saw there.