Unknown Love

Chapter 9 Burned Letters

Draco had left work early after Aurora left; he just couldn't pay any attention to anything he was doing. When he arrived home he saw an envelope addressed to him on his kitchen table. When he was done reading it he was shaking with fury. Never mind that he had held his identity a secret from not only her, but all of America. She deliberately decieved him. GRANGER deliberately decieved him. He had fallen in love Hermione Fucking Granger. Where had the world gone?

Later that night he fell into his bed in a drunken stupor not having a clue how he got home. In the morning he dragged himself to work where surprisiongly he was able to get more done than he had the previous day once his hangover potion had taken effect. He needed something to distract him, and he decided that work would be it.

The weeks, then months passed in slow succession. Five months later and he was still torn over a month with the woman. His mind kept changing between the thought that he should go to her and explain about himself and tell her that he loved her as well. The other side of him said that she had lied to him. Decieved him. She didn't have a reason like being sent halfway across the world to excape Death Eaters as an excuse. She just wanted some fun. He was sure that wherever she was she was having a great time laughing it up at his exspence. No, he decided. No matter how much he wanted her, even knowing that it was Granger, he couldn't get over her deception and so he burned every letter she sent to him before even opening the envelope until the letters stopped coming.

Eventually he decided to go back out there and put himself on the market. He wouldn't put himself in a place where he risked the chance of falling in love again, but some meaningless sex couldn't hurt anyone.

That was what he thought. Three weeks later he was proven wrong when once again he couldn't stop comparing any one night fling to his first night with Hermione, as she had slowly become in his mind. It was ruining his mind having her there all the time and he went back to work with a new rigor once again.

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After the reunion Hermione got herself set up in a rented house in a lovely muggle neighborhood near where her parents lived. She had missed them quite a bit and thought that it would be nice to be near them. She turned the basement into a potions lab for her working convience and talked to the Ministry about steady job within their ranks. She was going in as a secretary since it was the only availability, but she intended to work on her potions for extra cash. After, renting a house was rather expensive.

It was six weeks after her return when Ginny told her that she didn't think Hermione had the flu that was going around.

Hermione went to a Healer, who confirmed the women's suspicions. She was two months pregnant. She held herself in well until she got back to her new home. Once she arrived she went straight to her room where she changed into her pajamas and went to bed, crying under the covers.

Once she had had her good cry she got up and made some tea. She had a lot of decisions to make. The first one was a given: she was going to raise her child. She was more than happy that she now had the secretary job as she wouldn't be able to make even half the potions she had been doing.

It was that night that she wrote her first letter about the baby to Jared. In it, she told him that she hadn't done anything to try and trap him and if he wanted to stay out of their lives it was fine, she just wanted him to give her a yes or no. She also apologized profusely about lying to him but that she genuinely did still love him. When there was no response in three weeks she wrote again. The cycle continued until she was in her seventh month when she finally gave up thinking that he had chosen to not even acknowledge that she had existed rather than respond.

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The labor went on for almost two full days. Ginny and Jess were by her side the whole time. She was still good friends with Jess; she just made sure to never be in the presence of the woman's brother who apparently thought she was now some street whore or something. She had almost gone to smack him silly over that one but they had convinced her that he wasn't worth even one of her thoughts.

By the time the baby was born Hermione was so tired that she passed out before even seeing her son. When he was brought to her the next day she held him in her arms and pulled the blanket back to look at his face, revealing tufts of white blond hair and steel grey eyes set in pale skin. Her eyes opened wide and she fainted straight away.

This time when she came to the baby was back in the nursery and Jess was sitting by her side; Ginny had had to go home to her own family. She looked over to her friend and gave a weak smile.

"So, the baby's not what you were expecting?" Jess asked.

"No, not really. I don't know where he gets any of the coloring. Obviously not from me, but his father didn't look anything like him either."

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It only took her a few weeks to decide that since the only people she had ever seen with such looks were Malfoys that Jared must be a Malfoy. It took another few weeks to decide that he was Draco Malfoy and yet another couple of weeks after that going through Ministry files to find the proof. When she found it she almost broke down. She had known that it was the truth in the back of her mind but it was going to take some getting used to.

She was in love with a Malfoy. Though it had only been a month that she had been with him and it had been a full eleven moths before, she could not deny that there she still loved him and that there was still a pull to him. After much deliberation she had come to a decision. She was going to bring her son to meet his father.



a/n avanell, that was my orogional plan but then i decided to go this way!