The Hardest Things (tentative title)

The Walls of My Life: Like Shattering Glass

Bad Boy vs. Prince Charming

Chapter Five

“What's this about, Ginny?” Draco demanded, note in hand.

The two had met at a muggle park, the very same one that Harry had gone to once he found out Ginny was pregnant. It was twilight on a Thursday evening, and both had agreed to meet after they got off of work.

Ginny said nothing, taking out her wand and pointing it at her uterus, mumbling something Draco couldn't hear. Then, she pointed the wand at him and mumbled, “Encinta.” A puffy cloud that was blue let out from the wand and words wrote themselves in the air.

Status: Pregnant

Mother: Ginerva Weasley

Father: Draco Malfoy

Notes: One healthy fetus; boy, about two months and one week along.

Draco paled. (And as author, I must add that this is quite a feat for Draco, who is about as fair as they come.) “Holy fucking shit.”

“Exactly,” Ginny released the breath she was holding.

Draco swallowed. “Does Potter know?”

Ginny nodded.

Suddenly, it all made sense to Draco. Why Hermione broke up with him. It was obvious that Potter told Hermione who in turn broke up with him. What had she said to him?

“I think that our lives are going to go… in different directions, and that it's better if we separate now.”

Oh shit. She had known. Well, if nothing else, at least it was one less situation he would have to get himself out of. It still hurt, though; he had never felt that way about anybody, except perhaps the Weaslette herself.

“What are we going to do Draco?” Ginny whispered fearfully.

“What are we going to do?” He repeated. “Damn it, Ginny, you know full well what we're going to do. We're going to get married and raise this kid.”

“Oh…” Ginny said in a small voice.

“What? Were you seriously considering adoption? Or… abortion? No son of mine is ever going to be adopted or aborted, you hear me? I made a lot of mistakes Ginny, most of my childhood being the bulk of it, but I am not running from this. And I'm not going to let you run from it either.”

“Oh, Draco,” Ginny sobbed, suddenly feeling like a little girl again. He opened his arms up to her and embraced her, kissing her hair as he thought that even if it wasn't how he wanted his life to go, perhaps everything would be all right.

Now if he could just survive telling her family….

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Note: I seriously considered ending it right there, but I figured that my chapters ARE way too short, and since I'm not willing to post multiple chapters at a time, so on with the story!

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“Hey, you okay?”

Damn it, Harry was home.

“Yeah, I'm fine,” Hermione tried to subtly wipe away a few tears she had spent crying over Draco. After Harry's story, Hermione was postive that Draco hadn't cheated on her… although that meant that they had gotten together roughly two weeks after Draco and Ginny… she didn't want to think about that.

“No, you're not,” Harry sighed. He no longer wanted to live in his old house with Ginny, so Hermione let him move in with her until he could find a flat of his own. “Tell me what's wrong, Hermione. Please? I've had enough secret-keeping for a lifetime.”

“You're not going to like it, Harry,” Hermione whispered.

“As long as it doesn't have to do with Ginny, I think I'm good,” Harry said with a smile.

Hermione flinched. Harry paled.

“Oh geez,” Harry sat down. “What is it?”

Hermione bit her lip. It was now or never. “The night you told me about Ginny and Draco… I knew what I had to do.”

“What did you have to do, Hermione?” Harry asked patiently, but on the inside, he was anxious.

“I had to break up with Draco.”

Harry blanched. “You… you were going out with Draco?” Harry sat silent for a moment. Then, “That bastard! Cheating on you like that!”

Hermione visibly relaxed. “He didn't cheat on me. I calculated it out, and I believe that Draco and I got together about two weeks after he and Ginny…” she trailed off.

Harry leaned back on the couch and closed his eyes in a defeated manner. “Hermione?”

“Hmm?” Hermione asked, wondering whether or not Harry would be angry at her.

“What is it that he has that I don't?” He whispered. “I mean… first Ginny, and now you. Tell me, what's so special about Draco Malfoy? The boy who constantly teased you and called you a mudblood? I know that he helped us tremendously during the war—and he even saved Remus's life—but I never thought of him as a friend. I never thought of him as anything really. When we talk, it's only civilly, and now I never want to talk to that bastard again. But what makes him so special, Hermione?”

Hermione's heart went out to Harry. Here she thought he'd be mad at her—furious even—and no, he was just defeated. Defeated and confused.

“I don't know, Harry,” Hermione whispered. “To be honest? Draco is mostly just the boy every girl wants to be with sometime or another. He's the bad boy you don't take home, but you're attracted to all the same. He's the boy you want to rebel with, even if for only a short time. That was probably why I was attracted to Draco—me who had never rebelled in her life. Sure, he was the bad boy turned good—that's about as bad boy as I'll ever get—but you always want what you can't have, you know?” She sighed. “But…” she looked over at her best friend. “You know what you are?”

Harry opened his eyes and looked at her, curious. “What? The boy that no one can love? The one that will always be alone?”

Hermione shook her head and wrapped her arms around his waist, cuddling up to him while resting her head on his shoulder. “No, Harry,” she whispered. “You're the popular boy—in a way, you're like Draco as well. Seemingly unattainable. Untouchable. In everyone's eyes you're perfect—smart, athletic, nice, kind, funny, handsome. When people are around you, they might think you're too good to be true, therefore they don't know how to act around you. They make fools of themselves, and at the same time wonder why you never tease them about it, like people like Draco might've done. You're the guy that every girl longs to meet, to love… to marry. Draco may be every girl's bad boy,” she made him look her right in the eye as she finished, “but Harry, you are every girl's dream come true.”

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Author's Note: That's what I like to call “fluffy angst”… Anyway, I know that everyone hates Draco and Ginny, but I hoped that you could see that they are both regretting their actions and are willing to take responsibility for what they have done. And with the DHr pairing, that lasted like, less than one chapter so they're just a minor detail in this entire story. It's the HHr that is going to be tricky.

NEXT CHAPTER: The Weasley family finds out. *Rubs hands together* This ought to be fun.

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