The Assistant ✔️

62- "It's all ok!"

Blaise, Scorpius And Draco has fallen asleep.
Hermione, not so much.
She groaned, mumbling in her sleep, thick glistening sweat glazed her skin, and her breathing accelerated, her chest rising and falling.
Her clothing was drenched with cold wet liquid, and her hair was damp.
She shook and shivered in the bed, the covers thrown off, windows open, and she began to cry, yell, scream with excruciating pain and torture.
Jaqueline began to wail in her crib as Hermione Yelled in pain.

Suddenly, in the hallway, the lights switched on, and in burst Draco, in a pair of dark red boxers and a silver dressing gown.

"Hermione!"He Yelled, grasping her by the shoulders as she sobbed, uncontrollably shivering.

"Hermione! Hermione wake up!"he bellowed, shaking her awake.

She eventually awoke a screaming mess, and burst into more tears, sobbing into his warm chest as he held onto her soaking ,jittery body.

"Sweetheart its all okay!"he ushered, stroking her hair, as she sunk into his body warmth, her skin like ice.

"It's all ok it's all ok! Everything is alright,"he whispered to her.

Blaise ran into the room, a lamp in the air, holding it as if an intruder had bundled through, and sent Draco a confused expression, Draco looked over at Blaise and frowned mouthing the word NIGHTMARE, and receiving an understanding nod back.

Draco turned back to Hermione, who cried into his bare chest, mumbling and murmuring, and kissed the top of her head.

                                    + + +

Hermione sat at the breakfast table, swallowing her pills and the vile of medication before turning back to her toast and getting strange looks from the other side of the table.
She sighed and put the toast down, and getting up, before walking away and up the stairs.

"Granger! It's ok! I get them too!"Yelled Blaise, leaning back into his chair.

Scorpius frowned and dropped the spoon into his bowl of coco pops.
"Why was Hermione screaming last night?" He asked, in a small voice.

Draco walked out of his study and looked around the room, to find a seat untucked and a plate full of food, left untouched.
"Where's Hermione?"He asked.

Blaise groaned and pointed up the stairs, before turning to Scorpius and beginning a lecture on Nightmares.

Draco leaped up the stairs, two at a time, and made his way towards Hermione's bedroom.
He knocked three times, and heard a tiny
"Come In,"

He opened the door, and saw her sitting on the floor, breastfeeding Jaqueline, with a towel draped over her shoulder to cover it up.
Draco sighed and crouched down in front of her, his elbows propped on his knees, looking up at her with sorrowful eyes.
"What happened..?"he whispered.

Hermione looked down at him, and patted her daughters back.
"I keep having theses terrible nightmares, it's the same one all the time, you know when me, Ronald and Harry are in the Manor, w-with.."she sucked in a shaky breath and gazed into Draco's eyes.

"How long?"

"Years And Years, But when I first slept with you, not sex, but slept, they stopped, until we, Uh, broke up and they've been carrying on ever since"

Draco looked down at his shoes and sighed, running his fingers through his hair.
"Well, what if you stayed with me tonight, we can sleep apart, but it might help?"

Hermione scoffed and rolled her eyes, tears glistening within them.
"But wouldn't that become. . . . hard?"

Draco chuckled "hard? Weren't we supposed to be having sex yesterday night anyway,"
Hermione laughed, and tutted Draco, scolding him.

"You are just trying to get into my knickers, aren't you?"

Draco grinned and shook his head, placing a hand on her knee.
"I'm just trying to help you cope"

Hermione placed the baby in the crib again, and sat down in front of Draco, both hands on either side of his cheeks.
"I love you,"she whispered, smiling at him.
"I love you t-"
She pressed her lips gently against his own, mouth moulding against mouth, and hummed softly, before pulling back and grinning widely, tears pooling in his eyes.
"I'll think about it, but I think you should keep Jaqueline in Blaise's room for now, she seems to have taken a liking to him, and if I'm.. the way I am, she will, you know"Hermione laughed.

                                      + + +

It was late at night, The nightmares had just started, and Hermione sat up straight in bed, tears in her eyes, and her lip trembling.
She climbed out of bed, and trundled towards Draco's bedroom, and climbing into bed, wrapping up in the warm covers, pressing her freezing body against Draco's chest.
"Goodnight Darling,"he whispered into her hair, snaking his arms around her body and kissing the top of her head, before they drifted off into a wonderful dreamless sleep.