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Blinded	By : ssdawn Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 26887 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Blinded Chapter 29
Ugh, was it already morning? Hermione peeked out from under the covers to see Draco standing there with a cup of coffee. The light from the window strained her tired eyes.

“Sorry to wake you up love, but we need to head to the ministry. I’ve already gotten Scorpius up, dressed, fed, and off to the Potters.”

“Wow. You are an amazing father. I don’t know how you do it? Our future children we have together will be so lucky to have you. They may not feel that way about their mum, but…”

Draco interrupted Hermione. “What are you squeaking about? You've already proven time and time again what a loving and kind mum you are to Scorpius. If truth be known, you’ve outshined Astoria in that department in few months' time. I know she loved our son, but she didn’t always know how to show it.”

Hermione smiled up at Draco, “Thank you for saying that. Children have actually always scared me a bit. Being an only child and never having the chance to babysit, well, this has all been so new being around Scorpius. But Draco, he’s so easy to love. If only you’d been that way when you were young I may have fallen in love with you earlier.” She stood up and patted his cheek as she walked by on the way to the loo.

Draco’s arm shot out to pull her back to him, her body curling up against his, “I resemble that remark and I’m glad it’s not still true. I was an idiot influenced by bigotry and you’ve changed me into the man I’ve always wanted to be.”

Hermione reached out to set her coffee cup down on the nearby armoire. “That is possibly the sweetest thing you’ve ever said to me Draco Lucius Malfoy.” Her arms went up to slide around his neck pulling his head down to hers. Her kiss was full of desire as she pressed her body fully against him.

“Does this mean you’ll have wild, passionate sex with me in the shower right now?”

“Only if you can beat me into the bathroom and get the water heated up.” Hermione teased him.

Draco pushed her back with his long arms and ran away from her into the bathroom. “You cheater!” She yelled out at him while trying not to laugh. She heard the water from the shower starting and was glad that Draco was a fast runner.
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As they headed into the Auror’s department, Draco and Hermione came in laughing and chatting away. Harry looked up from the file he’d been reading.

“Do I even want to know why you two are acting like sixteen-year-olds? And what’s with the wet hair?” Harry motioned towards their heads.

“Oops.” Hermione’s wand came out and cast a drying charm on both her and Draco’s hair. “We were in a little hurry this morning.”

Harry snickered, “It looked to me like you weren’t in a hurry at all. You two need to be careful, that’s why Ginny’s up the duff again.”

“Harry Potter! If Ginny heard you right now you’d be swatting bats away from your nose. Shame on you.” Hermione chided him with a smile on her face.

“Contraception Charm Potter. It works like a charm.” Draco and Hermione burst into laughter.

“Have you two been drinking this morning?” Harry asked with a grin.

“No, Potter. We’re just madly in love and trying to forget about all of the nastiness we have to deal with today.” Draco’s honest answer quieted them all down.

“Yes, it’d be nice to have all of this sodding MacAteer crap out of the way.” Harry sighed and picked up the folder he’d previously been reading.

“Have you spoken to Kingsley yet about our plans? I’m hoping he’ll allow more money spent towards this case.” Hermione plopped down in Harry’s chair, while Draco leaned against the desk and peered over Harry’s shoulder reading the file.

“What is that picture? The one under the first page?” Draco tried to turn the page back and Harry smacked his hand.

“That’s evidence, don’t touch.”

“Let me see that Harry.” Hermione grabbed the file from his hands and examined the picture that was being labeled as evidence.

“Look Draco, it’s a knife just like the one that Connall left in Scorpius’s room. Harry, please hand me the rest of the files.”

Harry picked up the small pile, one for each of the children and handed them to her. Hermione flipped through and studied each picture.

Looking up at both men she asked, “What does this mean? Every picture is the same. Every knife is identical that was found in each child’s bedroom.”

“Ron and I think that it may be some kind of a portkey that was used to get Connall into each child’s bedroom. The knives have all been sent down to the lab to be thoroughly analyzed.” Harry pulled his glasses off and rubbed at his eyes. Between this case, dealing with a very pregnant wife, and two rambunctious sons, his nerves were shot.

“How long did they say it would take to look over them? This could be crucial to the case. The longer we have to wait, the more chaos the MacAteers will cause.” Draco’s hidden temper at most times was now coming to the surface.
Hermione reached out and laid her hand on his arm. “We all know that bothering them in the lab will only delay them. I hate to say it, but we need to be patient for now and look at other evidence.”

“What if there is no other evidence? The only thing we found at your townhome was the knife. Am I right Potter?”

“Huh?” Harry looked up as his mind was trying to process everything.

“The evidence Harry. Are the knives the only evidence we have to work with?” Hermione looked up at him with concern.

“Yes, just the knives. The rotten bugger popped in quickly, did his dirty business and was out of there. As I said before he…”

“Harry! Harry!” Ron came running down the hallway towards them. “She…needs…you…now.” Obviously out of breath he bent over while Harry looked alarmed.

“Ron, she as in…?”

“Ginny you arse. She’s in labor. You need to head to St. Mungos now” the news seemed to startle Harry for a moment.

“I’m leaving.” Harry ran to the lift without saying goodbye.

“Whose with the boys Ron?” Hermione asked.
“Mum’s there, but you two might want to head there so she can go be with Ginny. She wants to see her granddaughter born.”

“Come on Draco. I’m not doing this by myself. Anyhow, it may be several hours before the evidence is done being analyzed.”

“Ron, you need to stay here and hold things together while Harry is out.” Hermione dropped all of the files in his arms. Draco just smirked at the man as Hermione grabbed his hand and dragged him towards the lift.
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Several hours later, after five games of hide and seek, keep your feet on the ground Quidditch, six stories, and one batch of chocolate biscuits made by all, they finally heard some news.

Ron came through the floo laughing as he saw the mess that three rambunctious boys could make. “What tornado hit the house?”

Hermione looked up with disheveled hair and chocolate on her cheek. “We’ve been having fun, Ronald. This is called playing. We used to do it a lot when we were in school.”

Draco walked in, with a boy stuck on each leg and neither Scorp nor Albus would let go. Their giggling showed they were having fun. “I’ve grown boys on my legs and they won’t come off. What am I to do?” The boys kept laughing as they still clung to him.

Ron smiled when he saw how Draco’s hair was mussed up and he also had chocolate stains all over his person. “We may have to get you to St. Mungos and have them sawed off.”

The two little boys started screaming and jumped off and ran and hid behind Hermione. “Ron, don’t tease them.”

“I don’t want to be sawed off at a hospital,” Scorpius stood there with tears rolling down his face.

Draco reached down and gathered his son into his arms. “Ron was only joking right?” He looked over at the redhead.

“Yeah, mate, I was just teasing you,” and he picked up Albus and hugged him.

“Mum would be mad at you Uncle Ron if you did that,” Albus said very seriously to him.

“You know, I think you’re right. But now I came to tell you something exciting.” Ron said enthusiastically.

“What? What?” Albus was yelling so loud that James came running into the room.

“Hi, Uncle Ron? What are you doing here?” James went up and gave him a hug.
“I came here to tell all of you that your mum just had the baby. You have a new sister named Lily. She has lots of red hair and blue eyes.”

The boys started jumping up and down and running around the room, “Yay! We have a sister!”

Draco and Hermione smiled at each other, especially when they saw Scorpius running, jumping, and screaming right along with them.

“Can you imagine how he’ll react once we have one of our own?” Draco asked Hermione.

She turned and looked at him giving a great big grin. “It’s really going to happen, right?”

Draco’s hands came up to cup her face, “Yes, love, this will really happen.” Naturally, they were drawn together as their lips met, forgetting anyone especially Ron, was in the room with them.

“Ahem,” the sound broke them apart. “I think we need to get to the hospital with the boys.” Ron stood with a flushed face trying not to look at either of them.

“Gentlemen! Head on down we’re going to meet Miss Lily,” Draco yelled up the stairs.

Within seconds all three boys came stomping down and soon they were all off to St. Mungos.
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“Where is she?” James asked as soon as they walked in the front door.

“I don’t see her Uncle Ron? Did she leave?” Albus tugged at Ron’s arm with worry.

“Boys we need to go to another floor to see Lily.” Ron took each boy by the hand and started walking to the lift.

Hermione and Draco both gave each other a surprised look at how good Ron was with his nephews. “I think he’s finally growing up,” Hermione mouthed to Draco who nodded his head.

As they stepped off of the lift and on to the maternity ward, the boys went running when they saw their Grandma and Grandpa Weasley sitting there by Uncle George, Aunt Angelina, Uncle Bill, and Aunt Fleur.

“Grandma! Grandpa!” the boys jumped into the laps of their grandparents.

“We came to see Lily the baby,” Albus beamed up at them.

“Where is she? Does she really have red hair like all of you and mum? Can we kiss her?” James rattled all of his questions off in one breath.

George laughed, “In the other room. Yes, she does and no probably not right now.” He winked at the boys.

“Huh?” Albus wrinkled his nose with squinty eyes. The funny face made everyone laugh.

“So will Harry bring the baby out?” Hermione asked.

“He was out earlier with her. But I think they want the boys to go on in the room now that Ginny is ready for visitors.” Molly said. “You and Draco are also expected right now, so all of you go along.” Her arms waved towards the hospital room labeled ‘Potter’.
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Draco knocked and then pushed the door open hearing a voice say to come in. As they entered the room they saw Ginny in the bed holding the small, red-haired baby, with Harry sitting next to her with his arm around his wife.

“Oh, my word! She is beautiful!” Hermione squealed out before anyone else could react. Draco just smiled at his fiancé as she cooed over Lily. He had never loved her more than at that moment. In his mind, he saw Hermione holding a brand new baby, but one created by them. Was he really getting chills from this whole scene in his mind? He was turning into a girl. Gods! He was not sharing his thoughts with anyone. But, even then he couldn’t erase the smile off his face.

“Look, boys. This is your little sister, Lily,” said Harry. Both boys softly climbed onto the bed and peered down onto the tiny face. Instinctively it was as if they knew they needed to be gentle with her.

“Uncle George said we can’t kiss her face,” Albus said.

“He’s right son, but you could kiss her head,” Ginny pointed to a spot on the top of her head.

“Why would I kiss her head? That’s weird.” Albus scrunched up his nose.

Scorpius had his arms around his father’s neck. The toddler was mesmerized as he peered down at the Potter family. He whispered in Draco’s ear, “Can we buy a baby like that? I think Herminee really likes her.”

Draco had to stop the laugh that wanted to burst from his chest and breathed slowly, “Scorp, I think Herminee wants a baby, but you can’t buy them at a shop.” He waited for the next question that he knew was coming.

“Where can we get one then?” Scorpius whispered loud enough for Hermione to hear his question. She watched Draco, trying not to laugh, as she waited to see how he’d answer.

“How about we talk about this when we get home?” Draco answered.

Hermione shook her head while her hand went up to cover her eyes. Draco could see her shoulders shaking as she was trying to cover up her laughter.
“Care to share with the class, Miss Granger? Ginny asked looking at the couple.

Draco answered since Hermione was still trying to control what would otherwise be a full-on laugh. “Scorp wanted us to buy a baby at the shop for Hermione, but I told him we can’t get one there.”

Harry’s eyes twinkled with mirth, “So Draco, where did you tell him he could get one?”

Scorpius jumped in to answer, “Papa said we’ll talk about it when we get home.” His answer made all of the adults in the room start laughing, which in turn startled the baby who started crying.

Albus put his hands over his ears, “Tell her to stop. She’s too noisy.”

“Buddy, you haven’t heard anything yet.” Harry gathered his son in his arms.
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Hermione finally had her turn to hold the baby and Draco could see she was almost melting into the floor. Her sighs and loved filled eyes, made Harry and Ginny grin just as much as Draco was doing.

She could hardly believe how tiny Lily was. She hadn’t been there when any of her friends had started having kids. Her small frame almost made her nervous, but she just held the baby close to her chest, which felt natural. She had told Draco a few weeks ago that she didn’t want a baby for a while, but holding Lily right now was changing her mind. She glanced up at Draco and could see by the look in his eyes, that her man was reading her mind. The kind smile coming from Draco made her realize that he felt the same way. Scorpius looked like a giant next to Lily. Even the toddler seemed to be enchanted by the new baby.

Someone knocked on the door to break the peaceful silence in the room.

“Come in,” Harry said quietly as Albus had fallen asleep in his arms, while James was curled up against his mum.

Dean Thomas poked his head in the room, “I’m so sorry to interrupt…blimey, look how beautiful!” His eyes were drawn instantly to the baby.

“What’s up Dean?” Harry asked.

“The lab personnel sent me here to let Harry and Hermione know that the results from the knives are back.”

Hermione, Draco, and Harry all looked from one to the other with uncertainty. Hermione gently handed the baby back to Ginny; running her hand one more time over the soft, pink cheek of the sweet baby.

“I’ll head to the lab Harry, and then I’ll send an owl to you with what they’ve found.” Hermione smiled as she looked at the picture perfect family that Harry Potter now had as his own.

Draco, Hermione, and Scorpius left the room. They walked quietly down the hallway, saying goodnight to the various Weasleys’ that were still out in the waiting room. She saw Molly heading back into the room excited to see her new granddaughter again.

“Why don’t you take Scorpius home Draco?” Hermione patted Scorp’s back who was soundly sleeping on Draco’s shoulder.

“It’s fine. We’re all going there together.” Draco replied firmly.

Hermione started to argue back when she stopped herself and then nodded yes. “Fine, we’ll go together.”
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Draco found a spot in the corner of the lab to lay Scorpius down. There was a cot that workers used at times for a quick nap while working on a hard case. He was within watching distance, so both he and Hermione felt fine letting him sleep there.

“So Carson, let’s hear the results,” Hermione said with some resignation. Draco stood by her with one hand running up and down her back in comfort.

“Ms. Granger, we found something inside each of the knives that was very surprising. In each knife was hair from each individual child. So Scorpius’s hair was inside the knife the Aurors’ found at your home.” The couple looked at each other in shock.

Carson continued, “We found the hair of each child in the knife that was left in each home. We believe that somehow this gave the criminal the ability to apparate in each home, even with the wards in place.”

“Is there any way of telling what kind of spell may have been used along with the hair?” Draco asked.

“We have some of the Unspeakables from the Department of Mysteries that are working with us and they are now analyzing the hair specimens and knives.” Carson stopped to gauge their response.

Draco gave a huge sigh and ran his hands down the sides of his face. “So we know a little, but not enough to help stop them from trying something like this again.”

“The only good thing we have going for all of our families is the charm that was placed,” Hermione spoke softly to Draco, so even Carson didn’t hear her words.

“Please let me know when you hear anything from the Unspeakables. Thank you, Carson.” Hermione walked towards Scorp and picked him up in her arms and left the lab with Draco following close behind.

Draco caught up and put his arm around her shoulder as they walked down the hallway. “It will be Ok.”

“No, it won’t. It’ll never be Ok until every member of that evil family is caught and put away.” Her face looked so different now from how it had been earlier and so filled with joy. It hurt to see her feeling so hopeless.

Draco didn’t respond, because he knew any words he could say in response would just be that: words and words weren’t going to be the thing to solve this case or bring them peace of mind.
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So we went from light and fluffy, to the dark part of this story: anything having to do with the MacAteers. I would say that we are about ¾ of the way done with this story. So the MacAteers need to be dealt with, then the wedding and then a fun epilogue that is mostly already written.
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