Post by Alexa Raven on Jun 8, 2012 8:54:16 GMT -5
Draco was quiet as he seemed to relax a moment. He didn't answer however as he looked at his daughter,then to his son.
He handed her back the handkerchief as he looked back at his desk quietly and silently. He wondered why he was having to deal with all this pain. He nodded slowly as he looked up at his daughter now. He took a calming breath as she ran a hand through his hair.
"Yes Caledonia, I am your Father."
He couldn't lie to her as she nodded looking at him a moment and she relaxed. He noticed that she was studying him. He couldn't blame her.However he was surprised when she hugged him tightly and she began to sob. He didn't know what to do as he caressed her hair and inhaled the scent of Gardenia and baby powder that surrounded his daughter. He hadn't expected that she would hug him.
Draco saw her wipe her eyes and she laughed a moment as she looked at him. She felt like a part of her life was finally there,as if a hole was filled.
"I'm mad at my mother of course for lying to me but what are you going to do about him might I ask?"
Draco was confused a moment as he looked at her. He realized that she was smirking now and saw her eyes as if she was thinking hard. Just like her mother she bit her lip. Caledonia sighed a moment and clarified for him seeing his confusion a moment.
"What are you going to do about Reid, I mean he's not my father. You are right?"
Draco sighed as he shook his head. He caught the last of her statement and looked at her surprised. He wondered what was going on. He saw Caledonia give him a look and she sighed a moment.
"I knew you were alive but mum always told me that you fell out of love with her,that you had gotten your own special friend as she calls Reid. I am not stupid I know they have sex. I know that Reid has asked her to marry him several times but she told him no, told him she was married to the man she loves. So are you and my mum still married after all this time? And what were those papers you gave her?"
Draco didn't know which question to answer first as he looked at his daughter and knew she was exactly like him and Hermione curious like himself of course. He shook his head as he replied.
"Yes until your mother sign those papers we are still married, I still love her Caledonia. I will always love your mother and I never had a special friend,You mother believes that?"
He was shocked as he thought back to this morning and he froze a moment. He took a breath as he looked at his daughter.
"What the hell have I done?"
He heard a sound as he looked up and saw Hermione walking into his classroom. He had seen she was in tears as she approached his desk. She looked a moment at her daughter and threw the papers at him. He looked down at them and he shook his head as he saw the signature.
She had signed them the ink was still drying as he looked at Hermione a moment level and back to the papers. He paused.
"Caledonia could you and Scorpius please let me have a word with your mother? "
Caledonia nodded as she glared at her mother a moment and replied.
"Yes Daddy"
Caledonia and Scorpius went to make her way out of the room and he called out to them.
"Can you please tell the students to meet me in the library and give this note to Madame Pince for me please?"
He asked sending her over a scribbled note. She nodded and left them alone. He waved his hand and the door shut with a bang. Draco turned to look at Hermione. As he did he just for a moment absorbed what was in front of him. Hermione glared hard.
"You should have told me you were going to tell them Draco, I mean I figured we'd tell the children together."
Draco looked at her a moment and he replied.
"Well Callie is alot like you love, She figured it out and asked me point blank. I wasn't going to lie to her you know.
He put the papers down on the desk and then looked at her levely a moment wondering what she was thinking as he saw the papers and he grinned to himself.
"You realize these papers are null and void now am I correct?"
As he asked her this he showed her where a big void mark was appearing and he said in an amused voice.
"You are suppose to be the brightest witch of our age Hermione, It's null and void because you forgot one simple fact my love"
She looked at him confused as she looked at her signature, It clearly read there Hermione Jean Granger. She didn't get it how could it be voided? She wondered this for a moment as he watched her.
Draco lifted his feet on the desk and watched her a smirk entered his lips. He saw her confusion. He decided after a moment to clue her in.
" You see you forgot that you are not Hermione Granger and therefore the papers aren't valid are they Hermione Jean Malfoy?."
She glared at him as Hermione realized the mistake and scolded herself he nodded as he saw she understood.
" So as you see Hermione , you are still my wife and I am still your husband until death do us part. However know I will not make that easy as I have discovered a few things since this morning that enlightened me. You know it would be easy to have more papers drawn up but I don't feel the need to sign them anymore."
He knew he had her and he hoped he could convince her to not run away this time. The door was locked as he got up and walked over to her and he stood looking down at her. He caressed her face a moment. As he did he searched her eyes trying to figure out from their depths her feelings. He saw confusion.
"After this morning I thought I made how I feel about us very clear, I mean did this morning mean nothing to you at all Hermione?"
He began as he leaned down and he kissed her lips a moment gently. He pulled back seeing her looking lost at him. She was crying softly and he finally noticed how hurt she looked,how sad it hurt his heart to watch her like that.
"Don't cry Hermione,Please it hurts me to see those tears and know I caused them."
"What? Draco why huh?" She whispered hoarsely as he just caressed her hair and tried not to upset her any more. He knew he would always love this woman and her pain was his pain too, He just replied however.
" Because when you ache I ache, Thats what people in love do,"
Hermione gave him an incredulous look a moment but didn't say anything except.
" I don't have the strength to fight right now Draco, Rain check?"
She said as she then looked tired. He nodded as he replied in her ear. " Oh yes defiantly because I'm not letting you walk away this time, You can't leave again and disappear on me Hermione Malfoy"
He just wrapped his arm around her tighter.
"Is it so bad being married to me really? I mean sure we had our differences but to this day I have no idea why you left me except, maybe we both were just so pig headed and stubborn"
"It was you who cheated on me"
" I've never cheated on you, I swear by Merlin's balls, Look I don't know where you got that idea from but I never. You walked out on me sweetheart remember, You left me and I didn't know why, But not only did you leave me."
He sighed a moment. He looked sad as he looked at her and looked into her eyes. Hermione froze a moment as she looked into the eyes of the man she loved, into the eyes that gave her daughter her own.
She looked at the face that all her dreams conjured for so long and she wondered why in the world he would continue to lie even now. She noticed his lips moving and focused on his words.
"You took our Daughter and left, I didn't hear anything from you for three months then I received divorce papers . You know I never signed them that is until I saw him today yes dammit I am angry that you took a lover while I have mourned you all these years.
I never took a lover. I never will and so my dear get used to the idea that as long as we both live I am your husband."
He told her as she just glared at him. He shook his head. He knew telling her what to do would get her fired up but he needed to know if she still loved him, he needed to have at least a shred of something to keep believing in them.
"I mean it hurt like a jagged knife plunged and turned in my heart, But it hurts worse that your lover is here,that he grinned and smirked and it took all my strength not to hit him this morning. If it wasn't for the children I would be in Askaban right now for murdering your boyfriend."
He spat out as she turned her eyes on him and then she replied.
" I loved you I trusted you and you killed our love and trust when you slept with that bitch.Draco you really jurt me. How can you say that you love me?"
She said as he looked at her confused.
" I have never cheated on you, I never once even since our separation have even looked at another woman I have lived my life as a widower because I still love you Hermione. Dammit woman I still love you and it's damn hard to move on when my heart still lives for you.
I know that whatever cold comfort that gives you, whatever happiness it makes you feel to kill me inside. Damn I didn't realize what a cold hearted bitch you became. What happened Hermione, did you just decide that loving me was too much and having someone love you back was what exactly a joke? I worshiped the bloody ground you walked on and damn I still do" He then sighed
He tried to relax and not yell anymore as he looked at her. He just shook his head.
"I've missed so much.She's brilliant our Callie. You've been a very good mother to our daughter."
He told her as he lifted her a moment and sat her on the edge of his desk and he flicked his wand making a love seat and he sat her on his lap. He just wondered why it was so difficult. He felt her struggle to get up so he wrapped his arm around her waist and then looked into her eyes looking for the truth in their depths.
"Tell me that you don't love me and that this morning meant nothing to you and I'll have those papers drawn up right now, I will even give you away to Reid myself at your wedding."
"I've already forgave you for walking out on me but just never knew why, I never and have never taken anyone else as my lover, Only you and I know that I have nothing to gain by lying and I never have nor will I start now."
She looked down a moment as she replied.
" I heard you talking to your Father that night Draco in your study."
She said as she looked at him. He raised an eyebrow. For a moment they went into memories of that night.
"Legitimens" Draco said as he then entered her memory and was very surprised at what he saw there.