The New Law

The Suspicion

Here's a new chapter for you. I hope you like it, even though it's not a long one.

Disclaimer: this is queen J.K Rowlings world, I'm just playing in it ;)

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It had been about a month since the wedding and Hermione was sat on the bathroom floor hunched over the toilet feeling absolutely horrendous. She was sure she was about to vomit. She knew what this most likely meant. She had counted back in her head many times to make sure she wasn't wrong.

She knew that this was supposed to happen, this was the reason for the whole marriage law. They were supposed to help the wizarding population rise. Hermione just didn't feel ready, she was scared out of her mind. This was something she really didn't know much about. She'd barely even held a baby, let alone taken care of one.

She knew there was only one way to find out. She was going to take a pregnancy test. She would head to muggle London and get one there. This was something she wanted to do the muggle way first before she would go and see a healer at St. Mungos.

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"Hermione, are you okay?" Draco stood outside the bathroom that was connected to their bedroom. Hermione had suddenly just run in there looking like she was about to be sick and Draco was worried for her.

"I'm fine Draco, just feeling nauseus that's all" she told him.

"Let me know if there's anything I can do."

"I will."

Draco wasn't too sure how to handle a sick Hermione. Up until this point none of them had been sick at all and the only other sick person he had helped care for was his mother, but even then, healers did most of it.

Draco sent for one of the house elves to get some water and toast with butter, it was something he knew to help with nausea so Hermione could have it in bed when she came out.
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It was later that day and Hermione had owled Ginny to meet her in the Leaky Couldron so they could walk out in muggle London and get a pregnancy test. Ginny didn't know that yet though becasue Hermione wanted to tell her in person.

"Hey Mione!" The red head announced her arrival walking up to the table where Hermione was sat drinking a cup of tea.

"Hey Gin." Hermione greeted her friend.

"So what's new with you?" Ginny asked after she had placed an order for a tea of her own.

"Well," Hermione began as she leaned closer to her friend and lowered her voice into a whisper.

"Ginny, don't freak out, but I think I'm pregnant"

Ginny sat there with a shocked expression for a minute. It was clear that this was not what she expected when she met up with Hermione that day. But after a short while she shook herself out of it.

"Okay, well, have you seen a healer yet? Does Malfoy know? How do you feel about this?" Ginny asked in a hushed voice.

"No, I haven't seen a healer yet, that's kind of why were here actually I want to go into muggle London to get a pregnancy test. And no Draco doesn't know and I don't know how I feel about this. I think I'm a little scared to be honest."

"Wow," Ginny whispered.

The two young women finished up their tea before heading out to find somewhere to buy a pregnancy test.
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Draco was sat in the drawing room in the north wing with Theo and Blaise. They had come over shortly after Hermione had gone to meat Ginny at the Leaky Couldron. Hermione had felt alot better after she'd eaten this morning and Draco was glad. He didn't want Hermione to be sick.

"So where's the Mrs?" Asked Blaise cheerily.

"Meeting Ginny" Draco told him.

"Ah, having a girls day out?" Theo chimed in.

"Yup"

The three men sat talking and laughing with eachother and Draco felt happy and he was glad to have a day to catch up with his mates. He hadn't seen them too much after the wedding except for going out to run with Theo and Blaise during the full moon. They had all had things going on in their lives. Theo and Blaise had both had their weddings and life had just been busy as of late with work and things.

"I have to tell you something," Theo said when he was halfway through his second glass of firewhiskey.

"I think Daphne might be pregnant"

"Woah," Blaise uttered.

"You sure mate?" Draco asked.

"Well, she's been nauseaus every morning for a week now and she went to see a healer today and wouldn't say why." Theo explained.

"Merlins beard, that's something" Blaise said.

"Yeah."

The men fell into thought then. None of them really knew what to say. They hadn't really thought about the whole baby part of things yet. They knew it was bound to happen, it was just really strange now that one of them might actually have an actual baby on the way.

And Draco had a thought in the back of his mind. His wife had just that same morning been nauseaus and she had been a little weird as well and she had rushed off to meet her best friend. And as he took a sip of his firewhiskey the only thought going through his head was that he had no clue how to do this.