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The Dragon's Egg
Thats So Raven
Chapter Nine: Happy Birthday, Gin
Draco hadn't spoken to Ginny, or anyone for that matter, in three weeks. He sat at his desk and wrote a letter to Ginny and sent it off with his owl. He looked over at his couch and saw his unopened presents.
He began to open them; Ginny's present was a picture of him, Skylar and her. On the back it said, "Our family, forever and always."
The last present was a card from Ron, wishing him a Happy Birthday and telling him not to hurt Ginny…too late!
~*~
Ginny woke up to the sound of and owl tapping her window. She opened her window and let it in. She took the letter off its extended leg and it flew off.
I left my baby girl a message,
Saying I won't be coming home
I'd rather be alone
You didn't fully understand me
Coz I'd rather leave than to cheat
If you give me some times
I can be the man you need
But there's a lot of lust inside of me
And we've been together since our teenage years
I really don't mean to hurt you
But I need sometime
To be alone
But when you love someone
You just don't treat them bad
Oh how I feel so sad
Now that I want to leave
And she's crying her heart to me
"How could you let this be?"
I just need time to see
Where I want to be
Never did I imagine
That you would play a major part
In a decision that's so hard
Do I leave? Do I stay? Do I go?
I think about my life
And what matters to me the most
Gin the love that we share is real
But in time your heart will heal
I'm not saying I'm gone but I
Have to find what life is like
With out you.
A small tear fell down Ginny's cheek she grabbed a jacket and stomped off downstairs.
"Morning Gin," Ron said
Ginny crumbled the parchment in her hand, "Morning this!" She threw the parchment at Ron and he caught it before it could hit him in the face.
"Gin what's wr…"
She went outside slamming the door on her way.
Ron opened the parchment and read it. He let out a grumble and with a faint *pop* apparated.
He reappeared in front of a house and rang the door bell.
"Hullo, Ron."
"Don't 'Hullo, Ron,' me Malfoy!"
Ron pushed passed Draco and walked into the house, "What did I do?" Draco closed the door and sat on the couch.
"What did you do!?" Ron yelled, "I told you not to hurt her!"
"Weasley, I've got other things to deal with…and I still can't forgive myself."
"Forgive yourself for what!?"
"Letting all of this happen to Skylar. I can't be with Ginny okay? I just can't!"
"Why can't you be with her? No one is stopping you, but yourself!"
"Because this happened while I was with Ginny, if I'm with her again…something else may happen."
"Do you love her?"
"What?" Draco looked up at Ron, who was in front of the coffee table looking down at him.
"Do you love her!?"
Draco stood up and walked next to Ron, "Yes I love her, but that doesn't matter!"
"If you love her, like you say you do, then that is all that should matter. What the hell is wrong with you!?" Ron lowered his voice, "Really Malfoy."
Draco sighed, "I'm just…" He turned around, his back facing Ron, "Scared."
Ron stared at him; he smacked him in the back of his head, "What in the bloody hell are you scared of?"
Draco spun around and glared at Ron as he put his hand on the back of his head, "You right now!"
Ron rolled his eyes, "Why don't you just ask her to marry you ?" Ron never thought he would ever say that to Draco Malfoy about his baby sister.
"Yeah, I should…shouldn't I?"
Ron smiled, thinking he was getting somewhere, "Yes you should!"
"But I can't."
Ron rubbed his temple, "I've got a wife to get home to. Malfoy just think about it. If you love her, and want to spend the rest of your life with her, ask her. But if you'd rather see her marry someone else, and Skylar have a step father…" Ron shrugged, "It's up to you."
Draco nodded, "Since when is everyone's life in my hands?"
Ron shrugged again before apparating home.
Draco did as Ron suggested and thought about it. He waited a few days before going to Ginny's house.
He apperated outside her front door and knocked. No one answered the first time, so he knocked again. This time it opened.
"Sorry, I was in the middle of a shower." Ginny said with her head down so she could wrap a towel around her wet hair.
"It's quite alright." Ginny's head snapped up at the sound of Draco's voice.
"What are you doing here?"
"I need to talk to you and see Skylar."
"Come on in," Ginny said with a sigh, "Skylar's upstairs brushing her teeth. I'll send her down." She turned around and walked down the hall and up the stairs.
A few minutes later Skylar came running down the hall, "Daddy!" She jumped onto Draco's lap who was now sitting on the couch.
He hugged her, "Hello Sky."
"Where have you been?" Skylar said looking up at him, frowning.
"I had some things that I needed to sort out. Sorry I didn't come to visit you."
Ginny walked down the stairs fully dressed with her wet hair in a pony-tail. She had on black jogging trousers and a red shirt.
"Sky, why don't you go and get a bag ready so you can come to my house?"
Skylar smiled, hopped off his lap and ran back up stairs.
Ginny sat down on the sofa across from Draco.
"Gin…I'm sorry." Draco said looking at her.
Ginny let out a dry laugh, "You're sorry? That's it?"
"I'm sorry for breaking up with you the way I did. I didn't intend on hurting you."
"It doesn't matter what you didn't intend on doing, it's what you did."
"I really am sorry, Gin. How can I get you to see that I am?"
"I want to forgive you so much Draco, but…what if I just get hurt again."
"I swear to you…I would never do anything to hurt you, intentionally, and for what I did, I am sorry and I promise it will never happen again."
"You can't promise for something like that not to happen again. Today you're asking for my forgiveness, tomorrow you could meet some woman who you think is better than me, and would prefer dating her!"
Draco stood and moved to sit down next to Ginny. He took her hands in his, "Virginia, there is no woman in this world that I would rather be with than you. You and Skylar are the best thing that has ever happened to me. Please don't take that away from me."
Ginny stared at Draco, wanting to accept this, but not saying anything. "How about I take you out to dinner this weekend?"
"What's today?"
"Tuesday, February 2," Draco told her.
"This is just dinner, remember that."
Draco smiled a nodded, "It's a start though. I'll pick you up at 6 on Saturday." He kissed the top of her head and walked upstairs to get Skylar.
~*~
Draco and Ginny went on continuous dates, trying to get things back to the way they were. As of now, they had a pretty steady relationship, everything wasn't back to normal, but life was good.
Tonight was Ginny's birthday and Draco decided to take her out to Covent Garden.
~Ginny's*Birthday~
Ginny was having a good time, shopping in the different shops. As they exited a hat store she saw a man in a funny black suit, and a black top hat.
"Oh Draco lets go over there!" Ginny pointed at the man. "Come on!" She grabbed his arm and pulled him towards the small stage. She was staring at the man as he did something with his hands.
Draco looked up at the man and winked. The man grinned and finished his trick. When they got to the stage the man said, "And for my next trick I will need volunteers from the audience."
"Oh! Draco this is a magician! My dad told me all about them!"
"Aye, how about you two?" He looked at Draco and Ginny. Ginny grinned and walked around to the stairs of the stage, Draco followed her up.
Ginny blushed, she was rather nervous being in front of a large group of people. She looked more at the magician and thought the face looked familiar, but couldn't tell because of the hat and the large moustache.
The magician clapped his hands together and a deck of cards appeared. "Pick a card, any card." He held the deck of cards towards Ginny.
She randomly picked a card and looked at it, "Show it to the audience, but not this young man or me," the magician warned. "Remember that card okay?" Ginny nodded, "Now place it back in the deck." Ginny put the card into the deck.
The magician clapped a hand onto the deck and it disappeared again. "Young sir if you would be so kind as to reach into your back pocket." Draco raised an eyebrow but reached into his back pocket anyway. He pulled out a card and showed it to Ginny, "Is that your card?"
Ginny grinned from ear to ear and nodded, "The Queen of Hearts, yep!" Everyone in the medium-sized audience applauded.
Once the applause died down Draco discarded the card and took both of Ginny's hands in his, "Ginny, we've known each other for most of our short lives and we haven't even been seeing each other for a full year yet." The magician took a few steps back, leaving Ginny and Draco standing, center stage. "I know to some that may seem like a short time, but we have our past." Ginny grinned at Draco and giggled.
"I want you to know that I love you with my entire being." Draco got down on one knee, pulled a box out of his pocket and opened it up to reveal a 14 kt diamond ring, and Ginny brought her right hand up to her face to wipe away a tear. "What I'm trying to say is that you are the Queen of my Heart. Virginia Weasley will you make me the happiest man alive and become my wife?"
Ginny had tears streaming down her face and the audience stared in anticipation. Ginny looked into Draco's eyes before nearly shouting, "Yes, yes, yes!" The crowd gave them another round of applause. Draco slid the ring onto her finger; stood up wiped the tears anyway and kissed her, hard. Their lips were connected for what seemed like an eternity but was really thirty seconds or so.
When they pulled apart Draco hugged her, "I love you Ginny." He kissed her on the cheek and pulled back.
"I love you too." She stepped back and marveled at her new engagement ring. "I love this too. Do you think I should write with my left hand now so everyone can see it?" she joked. Ginny turned to look at the magician as he took off his hat and removed the moustache, "Ron!"
"Congrats Gin!" Ron gave her a hug.
"Thanks, you bugger. I didn't know you were in on this."
"If you knew I was in, it wouldn't have been a surprise now would it?" Ron said patting the top of her head.
"So, Draco…what are we doing next?"
Draco held her left hand, "Whatever you want Gin, whatever you want."
"Whatever I want?" Ginny asked with an evil grin.
"Except elope," Draco turned Ginny so she was facing him and he put his hands on her hips.
Ginny sighed, "Okay I really don't know what I want to do. I just feel like shouting to the world that I'm engaged to the most handsome man in all of Europe."
"Well, almost everyone here at this moment knows that we are engaged." Ginny turned to look at the forgotten crowd and grinned.
"Thank you!" She shouted to them as they told her congratulations.
"Hey Gin, Draco, Congrats again but I have to go now." Ron kissed Ginny and nodded towards Draco before turning to walk leave.
"Hey Ron, hold on a minute," Draco gave Ginny a quick kiss and caught up with Ron. "I know we don't have plans for the wedding or anything yet, but would you be my best man?" Ron looked at him and grinned.
"Of course I will." Ron then shook his head, "Who would have thought? Ronald Bilius Weasley, being the best man at Draco Malfoy's wedding?"
Draco immediately began laughing, "Bilius!"
"Well, what's your middle name!?"
"Xavier, a lot better than Bilius."
"At least my name doesn't start with least used letter of the alphabet."
"Your middle name, sounds like a disease you would catch from kissing a toad!"
Ron glared at Draco, "I'll take my leave now." Ron felt a tug at his waist and jumped back.
"What's wrong with you?"
Ron began to breathe really quickly, "Hermione…baby…now!"
"How do you know?"
"Spell," Ron whispered, leaning on the nearest thing he could touch, "Sharp pains! Don't ask questions! We have to get to the hospital now!"
"Ginny!" Draco yelled at Ginny who was sitting on the edge of the stage, staring at her ring.
"Yes."
"Hermione's going into labor. We have to go now!"
Ginny's eyes opened wide in surprise and she hopped off the stage, following them as they made their way out of the mall. "We have to apperate!"
"There are Muggle's all around us, do you realize how big a fine we could get!?"
"Just do it!" Ron yelled, as he closed his eyes and apperated to St. Mungo's, Draco and Ginny following.
They arrived in the waiting room; Ron ran to the Front Desk and asked, "Where is the delivery room?"
"Fourth floor, third door on you right. Mr. Weasley." Ron raised an eyebrow, "You've been expected."
They all found the stairs and ran up to the fourth floor, then to the third door on their right. Ron stopped to catch his breath and started to turn to the door knob but was stopped by a nurse holding out a blue suit of some sort.
"You are required to put these on. All three of you," She handed them the suits and they ran into the bathrooms to change.
They all came out at the same time and ran back to the third door. "Ready?"
"Just hurry and go in before Harry and Hermione both kill me!" Ron pushed the door open.
They all walked in and heard an ear piercing scream. "Hermione are you okay?" Ron asked.
"Look at me Ron. Does it look like I'm okay?" She shouted.
"Sorry," He walked to the side of the bed by Harry and said to him, "Harry I'll kill you for putting that spell on me!"
"It was the only way I could be sure that you knew."
"Harry get me a god dammed potion!" Hermione yelled.
"Ginny!" Harry screamed as Hermione squeezed his hand. Ginny made her way through all the commotion to Harry, "Get a pain reliever potion for Hermione."
Ginny nodded and left the room.
Ron was handed a wet towel by one of the nurses, "What do I do with this."
"Wipe the perspiration off my forehead you idiot!" Hermione glared at him as she felt another contraction.
"Sorry Hermione." Ron began to pat her face in various wet spots.
"Malfoy don't just stand there like a dope! Help me!" Hermione yelled and then pushed as the doctor told her to.
"What do you need me to do?" Draco asked.
"I swear men are so fucking stupid!" Hermione yelled again.
That was the first time Draco had ever heard Hermione swear. He went to the opposite side of the bed and held Hermione's hand.
If Lucius could see him now, in a hospital bedroom with Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Mudblood Granger, and his fiancé, Ginny Weasley. At least he wasn't there to disown him.
"We don't mean to be stupid, but none of us have been through this before."
"What about Skylar's birth?"
Draco's mouth got dry, but thankfully the doctor chose now to speak,"Come on Hermione, give me another push." The
Hermione pushed and squeezed Draco's and Harry's hand. If possible, Draco's face got paler and Harry's grew red.
"I don't know how Ginny put up with this! She was younger than me, and still developing."
A look of sorrow flickered through Draco's eyes but disappeared as he looked up to see Ginny enter the room with a potion.
"I've got it Hermione!"
"Tell us Ginny, how you got through this."
"Keep thinking of the wonderful child you'll be having and everything you think he or she may be interested in. Just concentrate on happy thoughts."
"Now Hermione, the baby is ready to come out. We are going to have to go through a series of pushes, just as we practiced before."
Hermione nodded, "Alright."
"Push," The Doctor said and Hermione gave a big push and began breathing in and out very quickly.
"Push," The Doctor yelled again and again and every time Hermione would give a big push.
"I see the head!" The Doctor shouted. "Okay Hermione, we're almost done!"
Hermione smiled up at Harry, "You know I still love you right?"
Harry nodded and kissed Hermione's sweaty cheek.
"Push," The Doctor said until the baby was all the way out.
Once the umbilical cord was cut, the baby was taken and cleaned up before being handed over to Hermione. "He's beautiful." Hermione said as she looked at the crying baby.
A nurse came over to the new parents, "Do you know what you want to name him?" Hermione looked at Harry.
"How about Harry?"
Harry shook his head, "Not a junior, what about Remus James-Sirius Potter?"
"Harry listen to yourself…that doesn't sound right and it's too long, Sirius James Potter?"
Harry smiled, "Yeah………That's great."
The nurse began to write "So, Remus James Potter was born on March the 12th at 8:30 in the night, to Hermione and Harry Potter."
Harry and Hermione grinned as she said that.
"Harry look!" Hermione said the Sirius had begun to open his eyes; they were the new-born-baby grey.
Harry picked up the baby and instantly he stopped crying and locked eyes with Harry. Harry smiled and kissed his son. "I love you, Sirius."
~*~
Once Draco and Ginny had congratulated Harry and Hermione they walked outside the room, "Gin, I'm so sorry."
Ginny took off her gloves and threw them in the bin, "For what?"
"Not being there for you." He looked at her sadly, "After seeing Hermione, I know you must have needed someone and I don't think I can be forgiven for that."
"Draco you didn't even know, it's not your fault."
"No, no, Gin whatever I can do to make this up to you, just let me know."
"Nothing as of now, Draco. Let's just go home and figure out this wedding."
Draco laughed, "It's not going to be that easy. We take one night and get the whole thing planned out?"
Ginny nodded, "Merlin, you have a lot to learn about us female Weasley's."
Draco smirked, "I'm not in the mood for learning. I know what I am in the mood for though." He bent down and placed a chaste kiss on Ginny's lips. He then scooped her up in his arms and apperated them to Malfoy Manor
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Chapter Nine! Drawing close to the end! Two more chapters, I think! Actually, 3, or…something like that! Ah! Fluffy!Draco attacked me as I rewrote this! I just needed some excitement! My *special friend* is gone! Out of this country! He'll be back soon though! =D Yay! Anyhoo, I hope you liked this chapter, I'll try to get the next one out faster, as I am on Spring Break!
As always, Petunia, best beta ever! =D
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