Sorry for the delay, here I was thinking, "ok so I posted, but no one reviewed? How strange and unfortunate." I get a review from Arcadia and I realized that I had not posted as I originally thought. There was my chapter on the uploader, never actually uploaded. So here is the chapter I thought I posted. Enjoy.

Chapter Sixteen

"Mrs. Weasley?" Draco called out tentatively. He knocked on the door hastily.

The door flew open. "Why Draco, to what do I owe this visit? Where is Ginny? Shouldn't you be at school?" she asked, curiously.

"No, I mean yes. But- I don't know what I am saying. Just come with me to St. Mungo's. Ginny is in labour," said Draco, exasperated. He caught a glimpse of several chickens walking around, and a garden gnome.

Molly's jaw dropped. "What?" she asked.

Draco rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath, "What is it with mothers and wasting time?" He then said to Molly, "Ginny is in la-"

"I heard you the first time!" Molly's eyes widened and she exclaimed, "My little girl! Come on let's go!" She apparated to St. Mungo's with Draco following her. They met up with Narcissa, who was anxiously waiting in the waiting room, along with Ron and a very pregnant Lavender.

"McGonagall told us." Ron explained to Draco, who was looking at them curiously.

"Where is Ginny?" Draco asked worriedly.

Narcissa smiled. "Don't worry; she's in the birthing room. Only her husband is allowed. Or at least that's what the healers told us that she requested," said Narcissa.

Draco rushed away in search to the birthing room. Thankfully, the signs allowed him to find the room without much delay.

He heard a loud cry coming from the room.

"NO! Not until Draco arrives!" Ginny cried loudly.

"Mrs. Malfoy, I insist. You must calm down," a healer said soothingly.

"Listen here," Ginny started, breathing heavily. "I am in pain, and I want him here so I can kill him for getting me pregnant!"

"I didn't know you felt so strongly," Draco chuckled.

"It's not fucking funny!" Ginny shrieked as another contraction swept through her. Draco then made the mistake of taking Ginny's hand. She squeezed his hand so tightly, that he felt his fingers were going to fall off.

"Ow," he muttered.

"That's only a small fraction of the pain I'm feeling delivering your baby," Ginny growled.

"My baby?" Draco asked, amused.

"Yes. Your baby. You got me pregnant, you asshole," said Ginny, narrowing her eyes.

"Well it takes two to tango, love," said Draco, smirking. She responded by squeezing his hand tightly again.

They endured many long and grueling hours in pain. She was in labour, while he suffered the occasional punches, pinches, kicks, and hand squeezes from Ginny as she conveyed her pain unto him. Judging by a particularly painful punch, he was suddenly very grateful that he was not the one knocked up.

"I'll be back," muttered Draco, rubbing his shoulder. Ginny said nothing, so he got up, ran his fingers through her hair soothingly and walked away. He went to the waiting room and found more Weasleys (Bill, Fleur, and the twins) congregated there.

"Did she give birth yet?" Molly asked hopefully, clearly thinking that he was there to deliver news.

Draco shook his head and said, "no, not yet. I just needed to clear my mind and also escape from your abusive daughter." Molly glared daggers.

Ron noticed an angry red mark on Draco's arm. "Blimey, did Ginny do that to you?" he asked.

Draco nodded simply. "She's an angry one normally, imagine when she's in pain." They both shuddered.

"Honey," Ron said, turning to Lavender. "Please don't be abusive while in labour."

Lavender gave him a playful punch on the shoulder and said, "I'm not making any promises. It's your fault I'm knocked up."

"That's the same thing Ginny said," Draco exclaimed. "What is it with women and not taking responsibility for their own actions?" he asked incredulously.

"Well if Ron wasn't so eager to ejac-"

One of the twins interrupted Lavender and said, "thank you, I have heard enough about little Ronnikin's sex life. That is something I had hoped to never hear."

Draco smirked. "I have heard enough about Ronnikin's sex life as well," he said.

Ron turned scarlet. "You never complained all those times we slept together," Ron pointed out to Lavender.

"You cheated on Hermione numerous times?" Bill asked, overhearing their conversation.

"I'm not exactly proud of that, I should have broke up with Hermione and dated Lavender instead of leading Hermione on," Ron explained.

"I hear she's dating Harry now," the other twin said.

Draco, Ron and Lavender all turned to the twin and said, "what?"

The twin shrugged. "Calm down, the lot of you. That's just what I have heard," he said.

"Enough chitchat. Draco shouldn't you be going back to Ginny now?" Molly asked.

"Right you are. I should. If you guys want, you can leave, and I will inform you as soon as the baby is born," he suggested.

"Don't worry about us, you go to Ginevra," Narcissa said to Draco. He nodded and headed back to his wife.

Ginny was lying there gripping the bed sheet. "Where were you?" she demanded.

"Speaking with your family, calm down honey," he said to her.

"Calm down? Are you telling me to calm down? When you lie on a hospital bed for many long hours and feel my pain, then tell me to calm down," she retorted. She grabbed his hand and continued to squeeze as another wave of pain shot through her. She shut her eyes and dug her nails in Draco's hand.

"Merlin's balls Ginny. That hurts!" Draco said, gritting his teeth.

Ginny gave him a "don't you dare complain" look which shut him up immediately.

More long hours of pain passed as Ginny experienced more and more contractions.

"Can we check to see if you are ready to push?" a kind healer asked Ginny.

Ginny reluctantly allowed her to check. "I thin k you are ready to push," she informed Ginny as another contraction overcame Ginny.

Ginny looked at Draco fearfully.

"You can do this honey," he said soothingly. He pushed her hair out of her face and squeezed her hand encouragingly.

After what seemed like hours later, Ginny was holding their new baby in her arms. She kissed the baby's forehead and said, "You are the cutest baby I have ever seen. I can't believe we made a baby." She directed that last statement at Draco who was also stunned. He couldn't believe that the little newborn bundled up tightly in a blanket was his child. He was a father.

"Merlin," Draco exclaimed. "I'm a father. Can you believe it? I'm a father."

He jumped up and ran out the room towards the waiting room. Despite the fact that Ginny was in labor for over 20 hours, her family stayed there the whole time. The only addition was Ginny's father. He had been in work when Draco first told Molly that Ginny was in labour, so he was unable to go to St. Mungo's at the time.

Everyone looked at him expectantly. He took a deep breath and looked at everyone. "I am a father," he announced.

Everyone cheered. "I take it the baby is fine?" Molly asked with a look of happiness on her face.

"My child was born healthy and perfectly normal at six pounds seven ounces," he said excitedly.

"Merlin, how does it feel? Being a father?" Ron asked curiously.

Draco laughed internally, if anyone would have told him a year ago that he and the Weasel of all people would be perfectly civil to each other, he would have pulled out his wand and hexed the person. "It's a great feeling. I am still trying to process it. It means a little person depends on you, it means that you have to think about someone's welfare above yours until the day you die, it means that you have someone who loves you to love you back. It means that no longer can I fool around because someone is dependant on me and I have to see to it that no one ever hurts my child."

Lavender 'awed' as she heard Draco's little speech.

"Who would have though that you of all people would become a family man?" Narcissa joked.

"Hey!" Draco said. "I'll have you know, mother, that I have always put the welfare of my family above mine. Now I just have a different family to think about."

"Now when can we see our grandchild?" Molly asked impatiently.

"Calm down, Ginny is just spending a little of time with the baby. She spent nine months with the child in her womb, the least we could do is allow her time to spend alone with the baby," Draco said.

"It's because she spent nine months already, that we should be allowed to see the baby," Bill said grinning.

"Fine, one by one," said Draco.

So the next couple of hours were spent with the Weasley clan and his mother entering one by one to see the baby. Molly, the ever impatient one, was the first one to see the child followed by Narcissa, then Arthur. The rest of the Weasleys took turns entering.

"The baby has your hair," Narcissa gushed.

And this much was true, the baby had a lock of blonde hair.

"Thank Merlin the Weasley trademark wasn't passed on," Draco joked.

Narcissa suppressed a smile, but she was hoping that the baby inherited Draco's hair and eye colour.

"So did you two decide on a name?" Narcissa asked.

Draco nodded and said, "yes, we did. We both decided to continue the tradition of naming the child after a constellation."

"Draco," said Lavender.

Draco turned towards Lavender. "Ginny wants to see you now," she said.

Draco excused himself and went inside the room. There was Ginny still holding the baby, who was currently fast asleep.

"Would you like to hold your child?" Ginny asked quietly.

Draco's eyes widened slightly. He nodded, went to Ginny and held out his arms. Ginny carefully placed the baby in his arms. "Careful, don't want to hurt the baby's head," she said softly.

Draco held the tiny child in his arms, still unable to believe that he was a father. "Your mother is right," he said to the baby. "You re the cutest baby. You might even be cuter than I was when I was your age, love," he joked. He kissed the baby's forehead softly, who proceeded to make a small sound. The baby grabbed Draco's finger. Draco smiled.

"I guess the saying is true. Love at first sight does exist," Draco commented. He kissed the baby's forehead once more before whispering, "welcome to the world, Sagitta Nicole Malfoy."

So, there we have it. Also, according to several friends who study latin, as well as online dictionaries, etc, Sagitta is pronounced with a 'j'. I spent a long time trying to decide whether the baby would be a boy or a girl. In fact, I didn't even know until the final sentence. I had decided a while back though, that the name choices were Sagitta (female) or Asterion (male, also an obsolete costellation). I hope that wasn't disappointing. Please tell me what you think. Also, only 6 - 7 chapters left.

-Cadi