Draco Malfoy: A Hogwarts Professor

Chapter 12: Christmas

Hermione's POV

I woke up early on Christmas morning, like I always do. Draco was still sound asleep next to me, so I played with his hair. It was so soft and smooth, and he looked so peaceful as he slept, I couldn't take my eyes off him. He started to stir, so I moved a little. His eyes fluttered open and he looked over at me.

"Good morning, early bird, Happy Christmas." He said sitting up.

"Good morning, sleepy head. Happy Christmas!" I said. I got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower. I let the hot water run down my skin and I relaxed. When I was done, I put a red jumper on and some white ripped shorts. The jumper was so big, that you could barely see I had shorts on, but I didn't mind. I walked out of the bathroom and saw Draco standing with just his boxers on. "Oh, sorry." I said as I covered my eyes. His six pack looked great, but I didn't want to get caught staring. I went back into the bathroom and waited. Soon, I heard a knock at the door.

"You can come out now, Hermione." I could almost hear his smirk. I walked out of the bathroom and his smirk turned into a smile. "You look really cute." I could feel heat rise to my cheeks.

"Thanks." I mumbled. "Come on, let's go open our presents." I took his hand and pulled him downstairs. Narcissa was sitting on the sofa by the tree, reading The Daily Prophet. "Good Morning, Mrs. Mal- I mean- Narcissa." She said as she sat down next to her. "Happy Christmas."

"Happy Christmas, Hermione, and Draco." She said looking over to me. "Come on, let's open some presents."

We all exchanged gifts. Narcissa and I both got each other gifts, I gave her some muggle jewelry, and she got me another jumper. Draco and Narcissa also exchanged gifts. Now, it was mine and Draco's turn.

"Okay, here's mine." I said to Draco and gave him the box. He opened it torturingly slow, but he finally opened it. It was a box of tons of muggle candy.

"Whoa." He said as he searched through the box. "I've never seen any of this candy before, where did you get it?"

"It's all muggle candy. They're all my favorites."

"Awesome! Now open mine." He sounded nervous, but I ignored it. He pulled out a huge box from behind the tree. He looked pretty happy with it. I was very confused. I opened the box, and there was a smaller box in it. It opened that one and there was another one inside. I did that three more times, and I was nearly crying with laughter about how hard he must've worked to get all these boxes. Finally, I got to the last box, and it was very small. I opened it up and I almost dropped it when I saw what it was. I covered my mouth with my hands and I looked over at him. He was on one knee, and he took the hand that wasn't holding the box.

"Hermione, Jean Granger, I have loved you since I saw you this year. I'm not very good at this stuff, so I'll just get straight to the point. Hermione, will you marry me?" I was almost crying. "It doesn't have to be soon, we can wait months, years, decades, I don't care, as long as I know you're mine, so will you?"

I could barely choke out the words, "Yes! Yes, a million times, Yes!" I gave him a bone crushing hug and started crying even more. This was so surreal. I couldn't believe it.

"I couldn't ask your parents permission, but I asked all of the Weasleys, and Harry."

"That's so sweet of you. You didn't need to do all that."

"It doesn't even compare to what I get in return."

Draco's POV

*Flash back*

I walked up to the burrow very nervously. I knocked on the door and waited for a bit, then I heard some shuffling noises and the door opened. Mrs. Weasley was standing there with Mr. Weasley right behind her.

"Hi. I was wondering if I could talk to you and your family about something."

"Oh, of course. Come on in." She said, she ushered me in and patted me on the back. She was so welcoming. "So who do you need to talk to?"

"Well, I was hoping everyone."

"Oh. Is there something wrong? Is Hermione okay?" She started getting really worried.

"Oh, no! Nothing like that." She let out a sigh of relief. "I just need to talk to everyone, that's all."

"Okay." She called up the stairs and soon, I was standing in front of everyone. Some were scowling, some were smiling, some had no expression. This is going to be very difficult. I thought.

"So, I think you all know, I'm dating Hermione. We've only been together a couple months, but, I was wondering, since she doesn't really have any parents anymore, if maybe, I could ask all of you for permission to take Hermione's hand in marriage." Everyone was so shocked, except for Ginny. She was squealing at the top of her lungs.

"Awww!!! That's soooo sweet!!" She said.

"Of course you have our permission!" Mrs. Weasley said.

"So, is everyone okay with this." They all nodded eventually. I sighed in relief. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. "Thank you so much everyone. I guess I'll go now." I left the burrow feeling really excited. I couldn't wait until Christmas.

*End of Flash back*