Sacrifices

Chapter 1

October 16, 1997

"You are pregnant! Am I right?" Ginny sighed and looked at me knowingly. We were sitting silently in our common bedroom. My hands were trembling.

I couldn't deny it any longer.
It was a bloody fact.
Hermione Granger became a pregnant 17 years old witch.

"Yes. I made a muggle pregnancy test after my periods was already late for days..." I whispered. I was quite terrified but my motherly instincts had already appeared in my soul. "I am circa two weeks old now."

"Does he know yet, that he will be a father?" my red hair friend asked quietly after she hugged me tightly.

"No, he doesn't know it and he won't." I said firmly. "You have to promise me, that you won't say a thing to him!"

"But why?" Ginny gasped. "He has a right to know it! He loves you all his heart, Mione!" she protected him. "He will be responsible for his child!"

I sighed. I had to tell someone what happened with me yesterday after curfew when I made my nightly patrol round.

"Professor Trelawney had a prophecy yesterday..." "What? You, don't even believe in Divination, Mione!" Ginny looked at me skeptically. "No... I didn't believe, but yesterday... You didn't see the professor's face, Gin! She totally turned out of herself! Her eyes bacame misty and her voice was scary, she screamed in high pitch.

"She said, that Draco will suffer much and the Dark Lord will use him for his dark cases in this year..." my voice got stuck. "He seems different now, I see it too, but I don't know what happpened to him. He keeps his secrets... I love him with all my heart, but I can't let that he will be threatened with our innocent child, Ginny! I sobbed.

My salty tears started to flow throught my face... "I can't let this innocent baby to suffer from the Dark Lord either! I have to do something!"

Our secret relationship had started in our fifth year. We studied together at the private corners of the library and somehow we started to talk with each other. He told me his deepest secrets and I said mines to him too. We agreed that he have to continue to insult me in front of the others for the sake of his parents and his slytherin friends. After some weeks later we started to allow to our deepest desires for each other.

"We love each other but this prophecy and this pregnancy made things difficult for us..." I whispered brokenly.

Ginny waved her wand and she dried my tears.
"You are Hermione Granger! You are bloody brave and smart! And you have me! I will help you, Mione! I swear it!"

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"How are you? You ran out from the Potion classroom, forenoon..." I heard his velvet manly voice from behind. I was studyig in the library later that afternoon, where he found me.
"I felt suddenly ill. Nothing major, just a little stomach bug. Madame Pomfrey already treated me." I lied at him smiling, but he grabbed my arm and pushed me softly but firmly at the nearest bookshelf.

"Silencio!" He waved his wand and looked deeply and curiously into my eyes, and he suddenly put his hand on my flat belly.

"Hermione, are you... are you with my child?" he whispered when my eyes opened widely.
How the hell does he know?!

"W... what?!" I shattered and tried to free myself from his strong grip.

"Are you pregnant with our baby?" he demanded the answer from me. "That's why you felt ill and ran out from class today?"

I just stared in his eyes and faintly nodded.

His beautiful grey eyes closed and his lips ran to a smug grin.