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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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Harry walked to her side; “We came to talk to you about the case and needing your help to contact the MacAteers. We’ve all come to a stand still, even the Unspeakables. If we’re going to help the children, we need more information about this curse that is affecting them. You are the only one that can make the difference Hermione.”... Hermione looked over at him with sadness in her eyes. Her hand gripped his once more as she spoke softly, “I’ll do it Harry. What do I need to do to save Scorpius and the others?”
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Draco pulled her to him, “No Hermione! You can’t do this. The last time you almost died. Think about the baby you’re carrying.”

Her lips quivered as she fought back the tears, “Draco, I’m thinking about your first baby that is lying in a hospital bed right now fighting for his life. He needs me. He needs us to do whatever we can to find the MacAteers.”

“You know they’ll set another trap. They won’t stop until you’re dead.” Draco tried to reason with her, his eyes had a haunted look.

Hermione rose from her seat, “That’s the chance I’ll have to take, but we can’t sit around doing nothing. They’ll all die Draco,” she said as she pinned him with her eyes.

He froze at her words. The sadness tore at his chest as he knew she told the truth. If nothing were done, none of the children would make it past a few more days. He felt so torn between the people that he loved. How could he protect them all? They were literally asking him to sacrifice one child for the other, or Hermione for Scorpius? How in Merlin’s name was a man to decide who should be more important to him?

Draco stood and looked over to Harry, who looked more somber than he had when he’d first arrived. The man had to be having the same feelings that were running through Draco’s heart and mind. He had a wife he loved and children he’d die for.

“Where ever she goes, I’m going with her this time. She’ll not be going alone.” Draco crossed his arms over his chest. “There will be no arguments from any of you…including you.” His arms reached out to pull Hermione to him as if this action alone could keep her safe.

Harry nodded in affirmation, “Fine. We need to go to the ministry for any updates from the Unspeakables. Then we need to send out a message to the MacAteers.”

Draco could feel Hermione shiver in his arms and hoped she didn’t sense his own body shaking a little at what would need to be done.
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None of them spoke as they entered the ministry. This wasn’t what they really wanted to do. It wasn’t something that they'd ever dreamed they’d have to do, but they knew it was something that they must do. They had to challenge the MacAteers enough to get them to come out of hiding. If they ever hoped to find out what curse was killing the children they needed to have their enemy here.

Hermione grabbed a scroll, a quill, and a pot of ink. Bending over the desk, she wrote out a note that Draco could only get a few glimpses of while standing behind her. He wanted to see what she was writing and maybe make her change her mind about what she in all likelihood was writing to the scum who'd once again interrupted their lives. He glanced up to see Potter pacing like he always did, and Ron staring at the wall like he had no idea what was going on. Nothing ever changed did it? Then there was his Hermione. She never changed either. She was always the one who had the ideas and carried them through to the fullest. Hermione would once again be the one to save the day…but at what price?

“Ronald, would you please go retrieve a ministry owl? I want to get this sent right away.” Hermione looked up, shaking her hand out from writing so fast.

“Harry, we need to put a trace on the owl before we send this message. They might not want to respond, but even so, we can follow the trace and go to them.”

Draco turned her around to face him, and put his hand out, “I’d like to see your letter to them.”

“No. It’s better not that anyone else read what I had to say.” Hermione held the scroll close to her, her arms forming an X.

Draco tried not to roll his eyes or let his anger explode, “No? I think I have every right to read what you put in that letter.”

“For once, I agree with Malfoy. Anyhow, with me being in charge of the Auror department, that letter is part of this investigation.” His hand shot out towards Hermione, “So hand it over!”

Hermione dropped into the chair and shook her head, “Don’t you two understand? If I let you read this, you both will make me tear it up and write something else.”

Draco stood over her with his mouth set in a hard line, “You are one of the most stubborn women I’ve ever met in my life. If you know I’d tear up the letter, then whatever you wrote must be something bad.”

The two lovers glared at each other in a challenging way. Neither one looked like they were willing to move an inch. Draco stood with his jaw clenched, while Hermione’s cheeks turned red from gritting her teeth so hard.

“Accio letter,” Harry said quietly as the letter came sailing into his hand.

“Harry!” Hermione yelled at him and tried rushing to get the letter back, but she rebounded off of the shield that he’d put up around himself.

“Good one Potter,” Draco said with a plastered on smile. Harry nodded back at him while still reading the letter.

Harry reached through his shield and pulled Draco through, “Here, you need to read this.” Hermione’s eyes sent daggers to both men as she glowered at them. Her face got redder as each second ticked by.

Draco couldn’t believe what he was reading. His eyes shot up and his brows furrowed looking at his fiancé. His hands grasped the scroll in a tight grip.
“Are you truly serious? Really?” His voice yelled at her across the room.

Ron came through the door and immediately noticed the tension in the room.
“What did I miss?” he asked as he held a ministry owl on his arm.

“Listen to this,” Draco said as he began to read the letter out loud…

“To the MacAteers; specifically Connell MacAteer. I know whom you really want. You must give us the counter curse to whatever is killing the children. They have done nothing to you and it’s time to leave them out of this. If you come or send the counter curse, I am yours. I will come willingly in place of the children. If any of the children die, the whole of our Auror force will come after you.
There will be no place to hide; this I promise you. It’s time to end this game we’ve been playing for so many years. I will give you two hours from receiving this letter to respond back to me. If I don’t hear from you, your time is up. You will not be getting any second chances with me, or at getting your revenge. There will be no mercy whatsoever.
~Hermione Jean Granger

“Woman! Have you lost your fucking mind?” Draco shouted at her.

Ron and Harry stood speechless as they watched what was playing out between Draco and Hermione. Draco was glad that they were not interfering, because he was more than likely to punch one of them instead of screaming and pounding his fists against the wall. He wanted to hurt someone and anyone would do; even one of Hermione’s friends if they got in his way.

Hermione stood staring at him as if she were watching a play. How could she want to do this? How could she just sacrifice herself like this when she had so much to live for?

“Hermione? Why?” Draco couldn’t say much more as he tried to temper the rage that was coursing through him. He closed his eyes so he didn’t have to look at her while he was still so angry.

His eyes opened as a cold hand smoothed up his cheek. He knew her touch instantly, as well as he knew his name. She gently pulled his rigid body against hers.

“It’s not what you are assuming, “ she said in a soft voice, “ It’ll not be like last time where they planned the whole time to take me. This time we will have it all planned out.”

All three men stood still as they listened to the woman who had been so important in all of their lives. They all trusted her and knew they needed to give her the chance to explain.

Her eyes blazed with fire, “It’s our turn to set the trap. I have no intention of going anywhere with them. We’ll draw them in, trap them, and then haul them into the ministry. Then we’ll take, yes I said take, the information from them.”

“Blimely! That’s our brilliant Hermione.” Ron said brightly, while Draco and Hermione both turned to stare at him. Draco wanted to remind him that she didn’t belong to him anymore, but before he could Hermione turned him back towards her.

“I haven’t lost my mind, and I don’t like you insinuating that I have,” she patted his cheek and then gave him a quick kiss. “How soon do you think we’ll hear back from them Harry?”
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Draco sat by Scorpius’s side. He watched his small chest rise and fall with a slow rhythm. He couldn’t believe he was back here at St Mungo's once again hoping and praying that a loved one wouldn’t die. His hand reached out to smooth down the tiny curls that lay lackluster around his face. They'd come through so much, to only be back here in such a sad place.

Hearing the door open he stood up to see Hermione walk in. “The owl was sent thirty minutes ago, but nothing has returned.”

She walked up next to the bed where the tiny boy lay. Leaning over the bedrail, she kissed his forehead and looked down on him with a frown crossing her face.

“Draco, this is going to work,” she said still staring down at Scorp. She stuck her hand behind her back and waggled it, and he grinned grabbing ahold of it.

Draco’s arms went around her middle as he pulled her up against his chest. “Before we do anything else, I want you checked again to make sure the baby is OK.”

She twirled around in his arms and looked up at him in surprise, “What for? We just saw an early scan of the baby not 48 hours ago. I’m sure our baby is dealing just fine with all of this stress.” Hermione smiled up at him her eyes searching his face.

“Please? Do this for me? I want to reassure myself that both of my babies are still breathing with beating hearts.” Draco pleaded with his puppy dog eyes he used when he really wanted something from her.

Her laughter filled the room, “Fine. I’ll have another scan done, but we should probably do it now before the excitement begins.”

“You really think this thing you are about to do is exciting? Maybe you've lost your mind, Granger.” He winked at her while her mouth opened in protest.

“Come on you, and no more calling me crazy, or I’ll show you what I really look like when I am crazy. You might want to ask Ron about what ‘Crazy Hermione ’ looks like,” she said as she gave Scorpius a parting kiss and then trailed her fingers along Draco’s back as she sauntered out the door. Damn! Now she had his curiosity up and he’d be forced to converse with Weasley.
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Lucky for them Healer Montgomery was on duty. After explaining about their situation, she gladly agreed to do another scan for the couple.

Neither one of them was as nervous this time since they knew there really was a baby growing there. But the anticipation of making sure everything was all right kept some tension in the room.

As like the first time, Healer Montgomery waved her wand over Hermione’s abdomen and her skin turned the beautiful pink color. Draco watched Hermione as she lay on the bed biting at her lip. He knew she wanted to ask something but was hesitant until she looked up at Draco and he nodded his head.

“I know that you said in four weeks we could do the scan to hear the heartbeat, but is there any way that you could perform it right now?” Draco could have predicted that she was going to ask that question because if she hadn’t, he was going to ask the same thing.

The healer looked between Draco and Hermione and grinned, “Yes, let’s give it a go.” Raising her wand again, she spoke another spell that produced a glowing circle around Hermione’s stomach. They held hands tightly as they waited for any sound and then they heard a tiny beating sound. Draco beamed at once having gone through this when he and Astoria were pregnant with Scorpius.

“Oh my! Draco that’s our baby!” Hermione squealed with happiness. “This makes it so real.”

Draco was glad to hear those words from her. This was exactly the scenario he’d hoped for. Maybe this would make her be extra careful with the new mission she was setting out to fulfill.

“Hi little guy. We love you already,” Draco said to the baby as they heard the heartbeat increase in speed.

“Maybe, “ Hermione said, “Our little girl is happy to hear how excited we are about her.”

Healer Montgomery chortled as she listened to the joyful couple. “You have a little under seven months to debate about the sex of the baby unless you want to find out early in a few months.”

“Yes!” Both Hermione and Draco said at the same time.

“Then we will plan on it. Have you heard enough?” Healer Montgomery asked.

Hermione sighed, “I don’t think I’d ever get tired of listening to that beautiful sound. Yes, we’re done, right Draco?”

He nodded, “We have somewhere else we need to get to.” He didn’t think he could love Hermione anymore than he did at this moment. The spell faded out and Draco helped her sit up. Putting his hand on her stomach he leaned in, “This is what we’re fighting for.”

“Yes, we are,” she said putting her hand on top of his.

Thanking the healer they left the room hand in hand. Looking up they saw Harry running down the hallway with the receptionist right behind reprimanding him about disturbing patients.

Draco heard Hermione take a deep breath next to him, while he felt like he could hardly breathe not wanting to hear what Harry had to say.

“Our owl came back with an answer,” Harry said as he jammed his hands into his pockets, “You might not like what the MacAteers had to say.”
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I know, another evil cliffy, but I couldn’t help myself. Things have been busy at work, so I’m sorry this chapter is late coming out. I also almost have another chapter ready to post for my story Living, (Snamione) which has been neglected for several months because of severe writer’s block. So if you are following that story, you’ll see an update soon. I’m also itching to start publishing my new Fredmione story that I’ve started writing, but I wanted to finish one of these other stories first, but just when you think you are almost done, something else comes up. What do you think? Is anyone interested in a new Fredmione story? If there is enough interest, I’ll go ahead and start posting that story. Let me know in your comments.

Also, have you gone onto Pottermore and found what your Patronus is? I did and mine was a White Stallion. What was yours? Thanks again for all of you that are reading and reviewing and I’d love to hear back from more of you. Please just leave a tiny review and make my day!
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