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For The Sake Of A Name	By : Bickymonster Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female Views: 52498 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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AN: I present to you all, chapter 18, enjoy.

I MIGHT not update next week, because I have coursework and exams coming up, but my last exam is on the 3^rd, So I will definitely update on the 4^th/5^th. I am still progressing with writing this story though, so once I am done with exams there should be no more interruptions :D

This is un-beta-ed so (as always) do let me know if you spot mistakes.

Warnings and disclaimers apply as always.

Previously:

"About two months and we will have a baby," Harry said slowly and quietly, as if in dawning realisation, "one who relies on us for everything."

"You guys will be fine." Blaise reassured, "Besides if that baby is half as cute as the pair of you, then everyone is going to want to help out."

"I'm not cute!" Both Harry and Draco insisted in sync, glaring at the Slytherin boy across from them.

This however didn't have the desired effect as all their friends burst out laughing and after sharing a amused expression with each other, the young couple gave in and laughed with them.

- #-

"Are you sure you should be walking around down here, Mrs Potter?" Pansy sneered, "I didn't know Mr Potter's leash stretched this far; you should run back to the Gryffindors before something unfortunate happens."

"Seriously, Pansy, what the HELL is your problem?" Draco yelled; both her and Blaise turning on the spot to glare at Pansy.

"It isn't like you are really even a Slytherin anymore; just a pathetic tiny little girl who doesn't fit in anywhere." Pansy said with a smirk as she approached them, looking down on Draco to emphasis the half a foot height difference between them.

"Not a Slytherin?" Draco laughed, throwing Blaise an obviously amused look and taking a mental note of the other students that had begun to gather around them, having heard raised voices. "You are kidding right, Pansy?"

"Not at all, Draco, all you are now is a Gryffindor's little pet." She declared loudly.

"Oh Pansy..." Draco said with a sigh full of sympathy for the other girl’s ignorance. "One year ago I lost everything, my friends, my family, my future; but, despite being left with nothing, I am now married to a man most women would give up their magic to be with, eight months pregnant with his heir and have friends who have my back.” She pointed out proudly and somewhat snobbishly. “What is your future, Pansy? Have your family managed to find you someone else to marry, given that the Draco Malfoy you were promised to doesn't even exist anymore?"

Pansy had paled slightly and had her fists clenched; Draco smirked at the sight, he was right, the Parkinson family had failed to find a new husband for their daughter. The students all around them were whispering and muttering; Draco Potter humiliating Pansy Parkinson, this was going to be the talk of the school. At least Draco hoped it would, she was tired of being looked down on and was going to take back their respect.

"That's what I thought.” Draco said; wearing the smirk she had so little use for in recent months. “So in one year I have become a better woman that you have managed to learn to be in the last fifteen years; I have managed to restore my place in society from the nothing I was left with and you still want to tell me you are the better Slytherin?" Draco chuckled and shared a look with Blaise, who was leaning casually against the wall of the corridor a few paces away.

Draco let her eyes scan the crowds with a smirk, but it faltered when she met the eyes of Ginny; her red hair making her stand out in the crowd and a look of anger and triumph on her face. She gave Draco a small devious smile before turning and disappearing into the mass of students.

"Shit." Draco mumbled, shoving passed Pansy and rushed after Ginny, as much as her heavily pregnant body would allow.

"DRACO!" Blaise yelled after her.

The crowds parted allowing Draco to make her way surprisingly quickly; she was vaguely aware of Snape clearing people from the corridors, sending them on their way and of Blaise jogging slowly to catch up with her.

"Where are you going?" Blaise asked as he caught up.

"Ginny." Draco said, not slowing her pace and hoping it was enough for Blaise to understand.

"Shit." Blaise whispered, taking Draco by the elbow to make sure she didn't trip in her haste.

-#-

"Harry!" Ginny called out as she rounded the corner and spotted him walking down the corridor.

"Ginny?" Harry turned and looked at her curiously. "You okay?"

"I knew she was up to something." Ginny told him as she caught up with him.

"What are you talking about?" Harry asked with confusion written all over his face.

"Draco; she is playing you, Harry." Ginny practically spat at him.

"Don't be stupid, Ginny; that's my wife and the mother of my child you are talking about, tread carefully." Harry warned, his eyes flaring with annoyance.

"She practically just yelled it at Parkinson in front of half the school; bragging about how she had managed to get you and how she was pregnant with your heir." Ginny said, her nose screwed up in distaste.

Harry laughed, "Grow up, Ginny; and stay the hell out of other people's business. I thought Draco was exaggerating when she told me you had some issue with her." Harry said as he shook his head with disappointment.

-#-

As Harry and Ginny's voices came into ear shot, Draco and Blaise stopped at the corner, wanting to hear what they were saying before barging in.

"... was exaggerating when she told me you have some issue with her." Harry was almost growling.

"She is just with you because you're Harry Potter...!" Ginny yelled

Harry was having none of it though and interrupted, "Draco loves me, and I am secure enough in my marriage to know that for sure."

Draco smiled, she had been worried that Ginny would recount what she had yelled at Pansy and Harry would take it the wrong way; she felt kind of stupid for ever doubting Harry's faith in her.

"Of course Draco is going to play it up to look like she seduced me for a place in society and for my name; that is all that many of those Slytherins would be able to understand." Harry's voice was tense as he tried not to yell, "Don't you go thinking that you could ever possibly know my wife better than I do, Ginny."

Ginny gaped, "She really has you wrapped around her finger."

Harry laughed again, "Yes, she does; but because we love and trust each other and not because of some daft scheme you have dreamed up in your own imagination, Ginny.” Harry told her, his patience clearly wearing out. “You need to either get over this or stay away from us, Ginny. This pathetic attempt to damage my relationship just proves to me what a child you are; I am really disappointed in you. Your family would be too and hope you never give me cause to tell them."

"Harry." Draco greeted as she stepped around the corner; Blaise following a few paces behind.

Harry looked up, the intense look on his face fading to a smile at the sight of her, "Hey, Love." he greeted; "Hi, Blaise." he added when he spotted him.

Draco made her way over to them and gave Ginny a victorious smirk when Harry pulled her against his side and kissed the top of her head. "Is everything okay?" Draco asked, allowing herself to lean casually against him, his arm around her back.

"Everything is fine, Draco; Ginny just misunderstood what you were saying to Miss Parkinson." Harry assured her, whilst still staring at Ginny with distrust. "No harm done, I clarified everything for her."

"Oh, okay. I am tired; you want to join me for a nap?" Draco asked him, her smirk growing at the disgusted look on Ginny's face.

"I’m not tired, but I will happily keep you company." Harry offered, "Later, Ginny. I suggest you have a think about what I told you."

Harry, Draco and Blaise left a rather stunned and upset looking Ginny standing in the corridor alone.

"Thank you for trusting me." Draco whispered when they turned the corridor.

"Always." Harry promised, "You had already warned me about Ginny and I know you have been looking for a chance to restore your place with the Slytherins again; I assumed this was related to that."

Blaise chuckled, "That you figured that out so quickly shows a surprisingly Slytherin side to you, Harry."

"I was nearly sorted into Slytherin, you know." Harry told them with a wink; laughing at the disbelieving looks of shock on their faces.

-#-

Draco walked into their room and leaned on the back of the sofa, where Harry was sitting, peering over his shoulder to see what he was reading; it looked to be a book on defence of some kind. Draco rolled her eyes; of all subjects, that was the one Harry didn't need to do additional work in.

"You okay, Love?" Harry asked casually, not even looking up from his book.

Draco chuckled softly, placing a kiss on her husband's temple. "I was thinking we should sit at the Slytherin table tomorrow."

Harry turned to look up at her in surprise. "I am assuming this is part of your 'prove I am still the greatest Slytherin' plan?" he asked.

"Of course; sitting at the Gryffindor table doesn't exactly send the message I am going for." Draco told him with a devious little smirk. "Besides, getting Harry Potter to sit at the Slytherin table will make them think twice about questioning me again."

Harry looked thoughtful for a few seconds, before nodding, "Sure, I don't see why not. Hell maybe we can get Ron and Hermione to join us too; they will never question your Slytherin powers again if you can get a Weasley to sit at their table."

Draco laughed, "I will let you make that request." She told him.

"Coward." Harry said with a mock horrified look on his face.

"I am allowed to be, Love; that is why I keep my brave Gryffindor husband around to protect me." Draco told him with a huge grin, kissing his temple again quickly and heading back into their bedroom before Harry could come up with a retort.

-#-

"Your letter gave me a good laugh, mate." Ron told Harry the next morning, as they all walked down for breakfast.

Draco tried to hide her smirk and noticed that Hermione was doing the same; it seemed she may have understood that Harry had been serious about his request, even if Ron had not.

"It was not intended as a joke, Ron." Harry told him, sounding somewhere between annoyed and frustrated, "I am going to sit with Draco and Blaise at the Slytherin table; we would be grateful if you would join us."

Ron looked horrified.

"But if you are going to react like that, then by all means sit at the Gryffindor table." Harry said with a frown, "Last thing we need is your half hearted attempts at loyalty." He told him, turning his attention to Draco, more to ignore Ron than anything.

Ron audibly sighed, "Okay, fine; point taken. Slytherin table it is."

"Thanks, Ron." Harry said with a smile, glad that it hadn’t taken much to sway him.

"What's going on?" Blaise asked as they reached where he was waiting for them at the bottom of the stairs.

"We..." Draco indicated their small group, with a pleased grin "... are going to have breakfast at the Slytherin table."

Blaise's eyebrows practically disappeared into his hair in surprise, "Really?"

"Really." Ron mumbled under his breath, sounding quite depressed and defeated over the whole matter.

"Come on, I'm hungry." Hermione told them happily and linked arms with Draco, practically dragging her into the great hall.

Harry and Blaise trailed a few paces behind them; Ron seemed to be struggling not to stamp his feet as he reluctantly followed.

"Thanks for doing this." Blaise whispered to Harry.

"Was Draco's idea." Harry told him with a shrug.

"But you didn't have to go along with it." he countered.

Harry shrugged again, "I don't know if you've noticed, but I am not exactly very good at telling her no."

Blaise laughed loudly, taking a seat opposite Hermione and Draco, next to Harry; Ron taking the seat on Harry's other side. None of them were oblivious to the looks they were receiving but were pointedly ignoring them in favour of helping themselves to generous servings of the meal in front of them.

"Ouch!" Draco exclaimed suddenly, a hand pressed against her belly.

Harry was already half way to his feet when she indicated for him to sit back down. "Are you okay?" he asked with concern.

"Yes, fine, if your son would quit his vendetta against my kidneys." Draco said as she threw him a mildly annoyed look.

Harry got up and moved around the table behind Draco; squatting down behind her he began to massage her back. "Now, come on, Son; leave your mother's kidneys alone, she needs them." He whispered, only loud enough for Draco and Hermione to hear, making them bite their lips to restrain their giggles.

"Honestly, Potter, this is a dining hall; people are eating and how are we supposed to able to keep our food down with such a sickening sight right in front of us?" Pansy's droll voice announcing her presence. "And I suppose that you think that just because Draco and Blaise are Slytherins that we will allow you to sit here?"

"Honestly Pansy, we don't care what you will or won't allow." Blaise told her with a roll of his eyes.

Harry stood up; "It isn't up to you Parkinson; Draco and Blaise invited us to sit here and so here we are." he threw her a smirk as he kissed the top of Draco's head, moving back around the table to retake his seat.

"Do you have nothing you want to say, Draco?" Pansy grinned, "Or have you gone back to hiding behind your husband?"

Draco chuckled quietly and when she looked up, she was wearing the most victorious of smirks. "Oh, Pansy, you do think so very much of yourself; don't you? Just because I had nothing to say to you doesn't mean I am hiding behind anyone." She spoke slowly, clearly and with an air of perfect calm, "Now why don't you be a dear and eat some breakfast; I would hate to think you would have to go hungry till lunch."

Draco turned her attention back to her own food, starting an easy conversation about study practices with Hermione. Pansy stared, blinking slowly, unable to take her eyes from the small blonde, who had so easy and casually dismissed her; how had she come to matter so little to Draco that she was no longer even considered worth arguing with.

She took a deep breath to stop the tears that were threatening to form and moved down the hall to a clear seat. She ate in silence; several other Slytherins sat and spoke at her but she could not have told anyone what any of them had said.

Pansy managed to force herself not to watch Draco and friends as they ate their breakfast, but watched somewhat sadly as they left the hall together twenty minutes later talking happily. She looked down at her plate on which there was two pieces of toast and scrambled egg; she didn't even like scrambled egg and there was just a single bite taken out of one of the pieces of toast.

How was it that Draco's complete dismissal had hurt so much? She was over him... no... her; she wanted to be over Draco and Pansy Parkinson was a girl who got whatever she wanted. Draco was a woman and a married, pregnant one at that; her father would find her a new man soon.

Pansy took another deep breath when she felt her stomach clench; Draco was a thing of the past, something that was never meant to be and so it was impossible for her to understand how she had come to be sitting there, alone, on the verge of tears.

-#-

"I have been impressed, Draco. You seemed to have managed to restore your reputation somewhat." The potion master admitted. "How have the other Slytherins been treating you?"

It was a few days later and Draco was to be found sitting in Snape's office; she had been called to talk through the essay assignments she had been set, in the place of the practical potions work she could no longer do.

Draco smirked, "Much better; Blaise and I were able to study in the common room yesterday. Sure we got a few looks from people but they were wise enough to hold their tongues."

"You do seem more like yourself these last few weeks." Snape told her.

Draco nodded somewhat solemnly, "I think I was just so anxious before we got approval from the ministry; it was all I could think about and I wasn't ready to fight back against those who were putting me down. I guess I was happy to just hide in Harry's shadow for a while." Draco sighed and hung her head. "I got kind of used to playing the weak little girl role."

Snape snorted at that, "Indeed, though how you ever managed to convince anyone of that I will never know."

"I just needed to not be noticed for a while, it was the only way I could think to keep myself from ending up the victim of every Slytherin prank and joke for the rest of my time here." Draco looked up and managed a half smile, "Besides, it won me Harry."

"Surely you are not actually stupid enough to believe that Harry married you, believing your innocent girl in need of a hero act?" Snape asked with expression of disbelief.

"Of course not." Draco told him with shake of her head, "But it wasn't a complete act; I really did need help and we both know Harry will never be able to resist helping someone when they are truly in need." Draco said with a chuckle, "I love him, but Hermione is right when she says he has a 'saving people thing', no matter how much he denies it."

Snape narrowed his eyes making Draco rolled hers.

"No, I did NOT really trick Harry into being with me. I am a good Slytherin, but not actually that good; it was simply a turn of events that happened in my favour."

Snape snorted again, "Apparently so."

"You make it sound so sordid." Draco told him with a smirk.

"I dare say that there are many who would insist that being changed into a girl and then marrying and becoming pregnant by your former rival IS rather sordid." Snape pointed out as he leaned forward, linking his fingers and resting his elbows on his desk. "That isn't even mentioning how quickly this all happened or your age."

"Well when you put it like that..."

"Indeed." Snape said rather seriously.

"You really think that badly of me?" Draco asked, hoping her nervousness did not show in her voice.

Snape watched her carefully, leaning back in his chair. "Truthfully, I do not; I meant what I said, I am impressed by you. You have been through a great deal and yet you have managed to find yourself a family and happiness; which is a good deal more than some people ever manage."

Draco couldn't hold in her smile, joyful tears threatening to make an appearance; she was happy with her life and didn't regret the path that had led her there, but it still made her feel overly emotional to have someone she respected so much say such things.

"Thank you, Sir." She told him, and she was glad when he didn't comment on the tears she wiped away with her sleeve.

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Review responses:

Gruffard – Lucius definitely isn’t done yet, though his options are being rapidly limited.

Luminari – You are right, I don’t think Draco (or Harry for that matter) would be able to handle losing the baby, especially not to Lucius of all people.

Delia Cerrano – Indeed, he still has a few plans to put into motion but no, no-one was messing with the potions, but they are still learning about the effects that the combination of potions may have caused, though Snape believes he has figured it out now and that no further harm will come from them, even though he can’t undo the changes.

Nari-chan – Yes, they get to keep the baby, and yes Lucius is pissed, though he suspected this would happen from the moment that he found out Madam Bones was on the committee. As for what their son will look like, you will have to wait and see. :P
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