Moving Forward (Drastoria Fanfic)

Chapter Six

A/N: I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to update! I had horrible writer's block and tried working on a new original story that I have had stuck in my head for years but can't decide where to go with it.   Anyways, enjoy and review...

Chapter Six

Astoria's POV: Pregnancy/Christmas

I stir awake feeling Draco press a kiss to my head and turn further away from him to feign sleep as I feel him get up from the bed guilt swimming through my insides. I shudder and pull the blanket up more around my shoulders one of my hands brushing my stomach that I have noticed through the past week has started to protrude just slightly. I hear the shower turn on and my body curls up a bit more picturing my husband's routine just as clearly as my own. I shake my head and know that I have to tell him that I'm nearly twelve weeks pregnant but every time I attempt to, I get scared that he will either a) be angry that I've kept such a big secret from him or b) tell me that we aren't ready for this in our first year of marriage and I'll be doing everything on my own. I slowly open my eyes to see the silver frame sitting on my nightstand the picture of Draco and I standing in the garden on our wedding day making me wish he'd react with all the happiness we had on that day in mid-July. I smile as the picture shows him standing to my side and his arms come around my waist tightly as he kisses my cheek.

"There's that smile I wanted to see last night." Draco says and I turn my head to see him in the open double doorway just in his usual black pajama pants coming over to sit on the edge of the bed. "How are you feeling this morning?"

I shrug a shoulder as I watch him slowly sitting up to rest against the headboard and I take his hand. "I just woke up."

"Do you think we should reschedule tonight?" He asks and laces our fingers together looking at me. "I sent a note to the hospital to let them know you're sick."

"No, we need to have our first family Christmas. I'll be fine." I say and give his hand a squeeze the guilt making me squirm on the inside taking a deep breath as I look at him. "We've had this planned with our families since the beginning of the month."

"Are you sure?" He asks looking at me his eyes full of concern and I lean forward to cup his cheek gently. "Maybe we could ask Mother to host this year."

"I'm fine now, love." I say and remember how just the sight of the raw fish that I had planned on cooking for us brought on the sudden nausea last night. "The potion you gave me really helped."

"What do you think it was?" He asks and brushes my hair back from my eyes his hand falling to rub my arm.

Pregnancy sickness. I wanted to say but shrug leaning my head back on the headboard.

"Well, hopefully you're okay now." He says and leans forward to kiss my forehead pulling back to look at me. "I'll go make you a cup of tea and you rest."

"Draco, I can get up. We have a lot to get ready." I say as he gets up from the bed and sigh when he presses a few kisses to my head watching as heads for the door.

"It's fine. We have time to relax for a bit, darling." He says with a wink making me sink further down in the bed with a soft groan and I grab his pillow from beside me to hug it my chest.

I sigh and look up to the vaulted ceiling of the bedroom that we claimed as ours just days before the wedding here at the Manor. The two and a half months that we were engaged was a whirlwind of parties, showers, planning, dress fittings and so much more that is now all a blur but I wouldn't have traded any second of it. I bite my lip closing my eyes as I remember how beautiful the Manor looked when the day finally came and we both have never been happier. After hours of celebrating with our closest friends and family, Draco surprised me with the beginning of our honeymoon where we spent the first week in the same house where we had our first vacation and the rest of the two weeks were in Rome, Italy. By the time we returned to the Manor, Lucius and Narcissa(they insisted I call them by their names days after our engagement) had moved into one of the smaller Manors owned by the Malfoy family giving us the larger one to make it our own and even redesigned this bedroom the way I described as a surprise.