Secrets

Chapter 1

"She's adorable!" cooed Ginny as she rocked the newborn in her arms.
"Thanks Ginny - I'm sure Lilly was cute too - and James and Al," smiled Hermione weakly revealing her bright teeth. Giving birth was real hard and Hermione had lost her
strength to give life to her daughter.
"Have you come up with a name yet?" asked Ginny while giving the bundle of pink back to the new mother.
"No I'm thinking - oh I do wish Draco was here to help me - "
Ginny, in shock, threw a vase onto the marble.
"Draco is a traitor and a betrayer! I promise you that filthy pure-blood is nothing but a piece of scrap!"
Hermione reached out for the girl and kissed her forehead gently. Her beautiful daughter... Constance. Her beautiful daughter Constance Alice Granger... Constance Alice Granger-Malfoy.
"Constance Alice Granger-Malfoy, Draco has always loved that name. Yet I'm sure if he was present he -"
Ginny shook her head, mocking Hermione's cowardice. Draco was with Astoria Greengrass now, and Hermione must be hallucinating and dreaming that Malfoy was back with her.
"I'm sure you can survive without Draco's surname, I think it flows better and besides he isn't here. Stick to Granger." said Ginny, making a bottle for the small baby. Healers had informed Hermione (and Ginny) that Constance will not be able to drink from her mother.
"I'm sorry but I'm starving - I'll pop to the corner shop, do you want anything?" asked Ginny, after all she had missed breakfast to be present at the birth. A best friend was the priority after a husband and as Hermione had lost hers, Ginny was to aid her.
"No thank you, but you don't mind getting me a dummy from the pharmacy?" said Hermione feebly.
Ginny nodded rapidly and strode outwards.

A moment later Ginny reappeared at the entrance of St Mungo's to hear a loud boom:
'All Healers and Doctors to Platform B room 113 for and EMERGENCY!'
Ginny, being herself and quite forgetful, strolled casually on as something much harder that a meteorite hit her.
"THAT'S HERMIONE'S ROOM! 113!"

Picking up speed, Ginny panted as she finally reached the room.
"Hermione!" she screamed as she witnessed something horrible before her. Constance was screeching, clinging onto her dying mother - Hermione had wires, tubes coming from her and loud beeps were sounding from a computer beside her.
"Too late. She's - dead."