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Okay, this is the last chapter of the story. I wanted to get this done before I get into finals week and Graduation. Even after that is over, I'm going to be busy with Holiday things and cleaning out my room to fit all of my school crap. So, please excuse any errors I missed in my one proof reading of this chapter: I wanted to get this to you guys immediately! Thanks to all of you who have stuck with this story to the end, your reviews, alerts, and favorites kept me going!

Wednesday September 19, 2007

"Happy Birthday, Hermione."

Hermione opened her eyes to see Harry and Ginny smiling down at her. She was disoriented for a moment, wondering why her friends were in her bedroom, until she registered the soreness coming from in between her legs. Oh yes, she was in a hospital room. With that realization Hermione took in her surroundings. Draco sat in the chair next to the bed looking completely disheveled and peacefully asleep. On the other side of the bed sat a bassinet that contained the sleeping figure of their newborn daughter.

"We hear you had quite the night." Ginny whispered with a smile.

Hermione nodded her head in agreement, "Are Rose and Scorpius alright?"

Harry nodded, "They're at the Burrow right now. Molly should be bringing them in later. We wanted to be the first to congratulate you and wish you a Happy Birthday."

Hermione smiled, "Thank you."

"We brought you a gift." Ginny said as she held out a wrapped present.

"No offense, but having a baby on my birthday is pretty hard to top, Ginny." Hermione smiled as she accepted the gift. Upon unwrapping it she found a bracelet with three charms engraved with each of the children's names.

"I love it you guys. Thank you."

"You're welcome. Now we'll leave the three of you to rest, you guys had quite an exciting night."

As the Potters left the hospital room Hermione had to agree that the night before had been pretty eventful. She and Draco had certainly not been expecting Madeline to make an appearance for at least another week, but Hermione had received a birthday surprise.

Tuesday September 18, 2007

"So, what would you like to do tomorrow for your birthday?" Draco asked as he slid into bed beside her.

Hermione let out a sigh, "I obviously cannot do much."

Draco smiled, "That doesn't mean you can't have a good time. The kids want to help me bake you a cake."

"And wreck my kitchen?"

"Hey! We could manage it!"

Hermione chuckled, "It would be entertaining for me to watch you try to bake a cake with two little kids more interested in playing with the ingredients than adding them to the mixture."

Hermione had learned that lesson personally only a few weeks ago when she had been craving chocolate cake. Of course, both Rose and Scorpius had wanted to help and she certainly couldn't refuse them when they blinked up at her with those eyes of theirs. After only ten minutes the three of them had been covered in flour and the floor had been littered with broken eggs.

"Hmm, maybe I should just give you your present tonight." Draco stated thoughtfully.

Hermione watched as he reached into the drawer in his nightstand and pulled out a small black box. Her heart skipped a beat as any woman's would at the sight of a small black box. Sure enough, when Draco turned back to her with a smile, he opened the box to reveal a diamond ring.

"I figured it was about time I give you one of these." Draco grinned. "I love you Hermione, and though our marriage was not founded upon that, I want the rest of our marriage to be. So, will you consent to be my wife for the rest of our lives? Will you go through a bonding ceremony with me?"

"Really?" Hermione asked in shock. "You want to be bonded for life like Blaise and Pansy?"

Draco chuckled, "Yes, but I'm going to be fully aware that I am doing so."

"Well, my answer is yes." Hermione replied confidently as she held out her left hand. Draco grinned and slid the diamond ring on her finger to join the band he had given her at their marriage ceremony all those months ago.

After a moment of staring at the rings on her finger the two of them looked into each other's eyes before moving in to connect their lips. As their lips connected the baby kicked, startling both Hermione and Draco, as he was pressed against Hermione's swollen belly.

"It seems our daughter is happy with the turn of events." Draco smiled.

Hermione nodded her agreement and caught Draco's lips with hers once again. This time the baby did not interrupt and the two settled down to sleep holding each other close.

Xxx

Around midnight Hermione was startled awake by an aching in her back that she recognized all too well. Sure enough, that pain only grew into the familiar pain of contractions that she had seemingly forgotten about from Rose's birth.

"Draco." Hermione hissed, with a hand clutched to her lower back.

"Hmm what?" Draco mumbled, his eyes still closed.

"I'm in labor."

"Hmm… that's nice."

"Draco, I am having our baby tonight!"

"Wait…what?" He asked, finally opening his eyes and starting to wake up.

"Madeline has decided she wants me to have pain on my birthday."

Draco's eyes widened, "She's coming? Are you sure?"

"I'm pretty sure what I'm feeling are contractions, Draco. I've done this before."

"Okay."

Hermione watched as Draco processed the information he had been given and sorted out what needed to be done next. In the next moment he was up like a rocket, throwing on clothes, and grabbing Hermione's bag from the closet that they had prepared only a week ago. Then, he was off to the fireplace throwing in floo powder to his mother and then to the Burrow. Before Hermione knew what was happening Narcissa and Molly had arrived via floo network.

"The baby is coming?!" Narcissa asked excitedly as she rushed to Hermione on the bed.

"Yes, mother. Get Hermione ready to go to the hospital while I get the children ready to go to the Burrow with Mrs. Weasley." Draco replied, already headed towards the door with Molly following behind him.

Once the two of them were gone, Narcissa helped Hermione out of bed and went in search for clothes she could wear to the hospital. While she was across the room gathering the warm up suit Hermione had picked for the occasion, Hermione's water broke, starling both of the women in the room.

"Merlin! It's happening." Hermione groaned.

"Draco!" Narcissa yelled. "Hermione's water has broken!"

In the time it took Draco to run from the living room fire place where he had seen Molly and the children off to their bedroom, Narcissa had already helped Hermione change and both stood ready to go to the hospital.

"Don't just stand there and gawk at the puddle, Draco. I'm sure Hermione would prefer to have the baby at the hospital with potions than here at home."

"Yes, what she said, Draco. Let's go." Hermione forced out as another contraction hit her.

What happened after that seemed to blur together. Madeline had come into the world without much difficulty at 3:05 the morning of September 19th, making the two of them birthday buddies. Draco had tried to hide his tears at the sight of his newborn daughter, but Hermione had seen them and smiled through her own tears of joy.

Xxx

Wednesday September 19, 2007

"Rough night?" Hermione asked with a grin as Draco woke up in the chair beside her bed.

"You could say that. Though I'm sure it was worse for you."

"It was worth it." Hermione smiled with a glance at the bassinet.

Draco beamed and quickly stood up to make his way over to the bassinet. He could not get enough of the sight of his newborn daughter. He had never seen Scorpius this young. He had never before experienced a child coming into this world and, though it was graphic, it was beautiful because it was his own flesh and blood. And he was pretty sure nothing could ever compare to the feeling he had when he had held her in his arms for the first time.

"I can't wait to see who she looks like." Draco smiled. "Mother thinks she takes after you with the dark hair and dark eyes, but Healer Watson assured me that those can change over time."

Hermione nodded in agreement, "I don't care who she looks like as long as she doesn't have my ghastly, unruly hair. Rose was spared that, thankfully."

"Your hair isn't that bad, Granger."

"That's because I have products to tame it, Malfoy."

The two stared at each other for a moment before laughing. They hadn't called each other by their last names in a while and it felt good. It was a part of who they were. Of course, it would cause confusion for the children.

"Do you want to hold her?" Draco asked as he moved to pick Madeline up from her position in the bassinet.

"Of course! I barely got a chance to hold her last night before I fell asleep!"

Hermione watched as Draco tenderly picked their daughter up and cradled her in his arms for a moment before carefully transferring her into Hermione's arms. As she settled Madeline in, her eyes opened and she stared up at her Mother wide eyed.

"I know, darling, I must look horrid right now." Hermione chuckled. "I promise Mummy doesn't look this scary normally."

Draco laughed from his position next to the bed, "You look beautiful, Hermione."

"Thank you, Draco, but I just gave birth to a baby, so I do not look the greatest right now."

"Excuse me for sounding cheesy, but the fact that you gave birth to my baby is what makes you beautiful to me."

Hermione smiled, "That does sound pretty cheesy."

"Is Draco being sentimental?" Blaise asked from the doorway.

Hermione and Draco looked up to see Blaise and Pansy in the doorway with an arrangement of pink roses.

"We wanted to come see the newest edition to the Malfoy family." Pansy smiled as she and Blaise entered the room. As Blaise set down the flowers, Pansy immediately moved to the side of the bed to get a look at Madeline.

"She is precious, Hermione."

"Thank you, Pansy."

Blaise moved closer as well to get a better look at the baby. "Beautiful, Hermione, simply beautiful. Brilliant work, mate." He finished with a slap on the back to Draco.

"Should we tell them our news?"

"Don't tell me that you're expecting a baby?" Draco groaned.

"Actually, we are." Blaise nodded.

"What?!"

"Happened in Greece."

"What about your year trial?" Hermione asked worriedly.

Pansy and Blaise shared a look, "I think we're okay with being bonded for life."

"Speaking of which, Hermione agreed to a bonding ceremony for the two of us last night." Draco grinned. "We had such an exciting night, I almost forgot!"

"Me too! Obviously we'll have to wait a bit."

"Brilliant! Congratulations you guys. On the baby and that as well!" Blaise smiled.

"You too. I can't wait to see your face when you change your kid's nappy for the first time." Draco smirked.

"I wouldn't be so smug, Draco. Madeline could use a change right now." Hermione stated with a look that clearly stated he would be the one doing it.

Blaise grinned, "We'll leave you to it then, mate."

Eleven Years Later

Saturday September 1, 2018

Today was a bittersweet day to be sure for Draco and Hermione. Today they would be sending all three of their children off on the Hogwarts Express. It had already been eleven years since Madeline had been born and the two of them had gone through with the bonding ceremony. Since then they had enjoyed a peaceful, simple life, full of love and laughter with their children.

Hermione could sense that Madeline was very nervous despite the brave face she put on for her older siblings. For the last three months Rose and Scorpius had talked about how much fun she would have at school and how different it was to be away from home for months at a time without Mom and Dad around. However, the eleven year old wasn't so sure how she felt about not having her Mom and Dad around. Madeline enjoyed the nights she spent with her Father on his lap reading the paper with him and the days when her Mother took her into the office with her to help sort her files of law cases.

The only comfort she had was that her best friend, Katarina Zabini, would be at Hogwarts next year with her. Until then, all she had were her brother and sister. However, that wasn't much of a consolation given their ages. Rose had blossomed into a beautiful sixteen year old. In fact, both Draco and her Uncle Harry spent loads of time worrying about her and the troupe of boys she had drooling after her. Thankfully, she had her Mother's brains and didn't seem to have time for boys outside of her studies. As a Ravenclaw, she was very involved with her schoolwork, and that was something Draco was thankful for every day.

As for Scorpius, he was fifteen years old, and was already quite infamous in the Slytherin house for being a ladie's man. Madeline was sure that he would have no time for her given all the girls she spotted staring at him at the train station. She could understand why, though. Her brother was rather handsome. Her Mother often said he was a spitting image of their Dad at that age, and judging from how handsome her Father was now…things with girls were only going to get worse.

"Don't look so worried, sweetheart, you're going to be fine." Hermione whispered down to her daughter, who gripped her hand tightly.

"I'm afraid I'm not going to make any friends and be all alone because Rose and Scorp are too busy for me!"

Draco, who had been lecturing Scorpius on the importance of contraception, happened to overhear his daughter's worries and abandoned his lecture to turn and kneel down to her level.

"You are going to make loads of friends, Madeline." He assured her with a smile. "And if your brother and sister ignore you, tell me and I will take care of them personally."

Rose rushed over at those words, "We're not going to ignore you, Mads! You're our sister! Right, Scorp?"

"Of course." Scorpius grinned. "If you have school and friend problems go to Rose. If you have problems with bullies and boys come to me: I'll take care of them."

"Scorpius." Hermione scolded.

"What Mum? I will. No one picks on Mads, but us."

"Oh, that's such a lovely sentiment." Draco rolled his eyes. "Anyway, you'll be fine. Tonight you will be sorted into a house and I'm sure you'll make friends in whatever house you're in. And remember: We don't care what house you are sorted into. Although, I do hope it is not Hufflepuff."

"Draco!"

"Come on, Granger, you know you don't want your daughter to be in Hufflepuff. Anything but that." Draco smirked and exchanged a high five with his son.

"You two are insufferable." Hermione huffed before turning to Madeline. "There is absolutely nothing wrong with being in Hufflepuff, Madeline. Your father and brother are being idiots."

The two Malfoy males were cut off from their protestations by the train whistle.

"Well, this is it, Mads." Draco sighed as he stared down at his baby girl.

Eleven years had passed too quickly.

"I love you, Dad." Madeline smiled before throwing her arms around Draco.

Draco felt his eyes start to water, but held it together in case anyone happened to be watching. It just wouldn't do to have people see Draco Malfoy crying over sending his daughter off to Hogwarts for the first time.

However, Hermione didn't make any effort to conceal her tears. As Madeline turned to hug her Mother, Hermione enfolded her in her arms and placed a kiss on the top of her head.

"Okay, Mom, let go of her now, we need to go." Rose stated, pulling Hermione away from Madeline.

After the older children made their goodbyes to their parents, they led their little sister to the train and Hermione and Draco watched as their three children disappeared inside.

The two of them stood there in silence until the train pulled out of the station. Then, once the scarlet engine had completely disappeared they turned to each other with shaky smiles.

"How do you think our marriage will do without children running around?" Draco asked curiously.

"I think it's going to be nice once we get used to it." Hermione replied.

"Yeah, like having sex whenever and wherever we want. I'm looking forward to that the most."

Hermione smacked his arm, "Of course you are. However, what if I told you that we aren't completely childless?"

"What?! Are you pregnant!?"

Hermione started laughing, "Just thought I would test you. No, I'm not pregnant. We decided years ago that three children were more than enough for us, remember?"

"Yes, I do. That's why you had me in a panic there with that little joke."

Hermione smiled, "I think we have done a rather good job considering how everything came together."

"Yes, we did, Granger. We did, indeed."

Later that evening, after a lovely evening without the children, Madeline's new owl arrived with a letter tied to its leg. The couple exchanged a look before Hermione reached out and took the letter. Then after sitting down, the couple read the letter from their youngest together.

Dear Mum and Dad,

First of all, let me say that I was not sorted into Hufflepuff. However, I met a girl on the train who was a Hufflepuff and rather nice, so I'm going to ignore what you said about them, Dad. Anyway, Mum you will be happy to know that I was sorted into Gryffindor! The sorting hat was amazed that I was a child of both Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy. In fact, at first he thought he would put me in Slytherin simply because my last name was Malfoy. However, then he realized that Hermione Granger was my Mother and started to reconsider his decision. Finally, he decided on Gryffindor. Not only because he said I had the courage and strength of character, but because he wanted to make history by sorting a half blooded Malfoy into Gryffindor house!

I love the tower, Mum! And I have already made friends with two girls in my year in our dorms! Plus, I'm already infamous for being Rose and Scorpius' little sister! All the girls want me to introduce them to Scorp and all the boys want me to introduce them to Rose! I won' t though.

Well, I better be off to bed now. I'll write you after the first week of classes are over.

Love,

Madeline

The End