Two Months Later.
" You know that you could come in for awhile." Draco smiled as he held the door opened and allowed me to walk through, carrying a sleeping James in my arms.
" Just for awhile though. I really have to get back home. I still have a lot of explaining to do about why I did all of those things to my parents. They're not to thrilled about all of it." I smiled lightly.
" For good reasons!" Draco laughed as he lead us upstairs and towards James' bedroom.
" Well I had even better reasons to making them like that and you know it!" I smiled back at him as the entered the room and I placed our child into the big boy bed. As he liked to call it.
" Very true." He smiled.
" I really should be going though. I still have a bunch of unpacking to do at the new apartment." It had been hell getting enough money for a two bedroom, magical, apartment.
" No. Stay for a little. Please?" He nearly begged.
" Honestly I can't. Besides James will be waking soon and I really don't want to take any James, Daddy , time away." I smiled as we left our child's room.
" He'll be out for hours if you allow him to." Draco whispered into me ear. " Besides I have a lot to talk about with you."
" Like what? A raise in child support? I'd like that?" I laughed.
" No. You know what. Us." He whispered, as we were on the bottom of the staircase. " You and I, we have not talked about that since before the battle even happened and that was barely even talking about it. All I need to know is where do I stand with you Hermione?"
" Oh. That type of a conversation." I whispered, looking down at my shoes.
" I know that you guys buried Fred and that it took a lot out of you. But I know that you have always had a place for me in that heart as well." Draco went on. " I love you more then anything in the world. I always have and I always will. I just have never been able to show it without being looked down on. But this is a new age, a new place for us to live together. I love you Hermione Jean Granger and I need to know, do you love me back?" He asked, I felt my heart slip to the ground.
" You know that I do." I whispered.
" Then what's holding you back? Fred? You know that most of all he would want you to be happy no matter what happened to him. Hell, I barely knew the guy and I knew that he would want that for you more then anything." He smiled. " He was a good guy. He loved you. He wants you to be happy." He tried to convince me.
" What if it's not that?" I asked, looking into his pale blue eyes. They were always changing, but lately they were always pale blue.
" Then what could it possibly be?" He asked.
" I just worry that I may make the wrong decision. That- that I'll let him down." I sighed.
" You wont. Promise." He seemed to know so many things.
" Why should I trust you?" I asked.
" Because it's never stopped you in the past from going with you heart instead of you head when it comes to love. Allow it to do the thinking for you." He smiled.
" Fine." I smiled back.
" I love you." He whispered, wrapping his arms around my waist. " Do you love me back?"
" Yes." I wrapped my arms around his shoulders.
" Prove it." He whispered. I smiled and leaned in, giving him a kiss on the lips. I felt the fireworks light up once again. The exact same ones that I felt from the highest tower of Hogwarts. Something caught us off guard though, something from the top of the stairs.
" Daddy? What are you dooing to Mommy?" Little James had become an escape artist over the last month with his crib.
" Kissing her." Draco replied.
" Why?" He asked.
" Because I love her." Draco replied.
" As I love him." I smiled back.
" Good." James replied. " Are you and Mommy married?" He asked softly.
" No Sweetheart. We're not." I replied.
" Well when are you gonna be married?" He asked.
" I don't know. When are we?" Draco asked.
" What's that supposed to mean?" I asked.
" Marry me." Draco asked.
" James. What should I say?" I smiled looking up at the boy with curly blond hair.
" Yes! Yes! Yes!" He jumped around.
" He's good." Draco replied. " So is that a yes, Miss Granger?" He said smiling.
" Yes." I smiled and jumped into his arms once again, kissing him.
" Good." Draco smiled. " Now, you are truly the brightest witch of your age."
" Whys that?" I smiled back.
" For picking me to me your husband over everyone else in the world."
" There was never any other choice." I smiled, walking up the stairs behind the Draco and James, who were going to play in James' room. " Well. . . besides one." I smiled as I grasped the locket around my neck and then moved into the room with the other two boys.