What Happened After?

Draco Malfoy + an OC

Draco had known Nastia since first year when he had tried to copy her charms work while they were in the library. Needless to say, it had not gone very well for him, and Nastia then was known as one of the only ones who could put Draco Malfoy in his place. She had also become very good at dueling.

Nastia was a half-blood but was raised with her Father who was a very proud pureblood. Her father, Tacitus, considered her a failure for being both have muggle blood (which he looked down upon) and for being a Ravenclaw instead of a Slytherin, which he considered the most superior Hogwarts house. All of this added up meant that he had two modes toward his daughter. One of his moods toward her was as if she did not exist at all, which she preferred over his more verbally aggressive, you do everything wrong, side.

Draco had noticed the front she almost always had up in their third year. When he had questioned her about it, he was almost hit with a Jelly-Legs Jinx. After the winter holiday, and spending an entire two weeks with her father, she had finally cracked.

She told him about how her father was criticizing and critiquing her every move and neglected her. She told him about how she had anxiety and depression and felt she was good for nothing. She told him about thinking about suicide and how she might not have made it through the year.

Draco had been touched that she had trusted him with her lives story. He had made her go to counseling, which she briefly despised him for. After that and up until they left Hogwarts she stayed with him every holiday. Draco's mother had welcomed her like a daughter she had never had while his father never seemed to take notice of her.

When they had entered their 5th year at Hogwarts, Draco and Nastia had developed feelings for each other. During the Christmas holiday, both Draco and Nastia had asked Dracos mum for advice on their feelings for each other. Draco had been told to confess his feelings privately while out on a walk and Nastia had been told that, if by the end of the holiday she still felt the same, she should ask him to go on the next Hogsmeade visit with her.

Draco had confessed while they were on the walk and Nastia had confessed, that she too, had feelings for him. They had then dated peacefully till 7th year when Nastia was hurt both by the Crowes for standing up for other and in the war fighting for Hogwarts.

After they had left Hogwarts for two years, Draco proposed to Nastia. They were married a year later, the day Nastia had originally confessed to Draco about her life. Within a year Nastia was pregnant with their first child, Remus (who had saved her life during the war) Scorpius Malfoy. After Remus, she had twins, Regulus and Vega Malfoy.

"And that, kids, is how you're Mother and I had this perfect life with you, little angels. Goodnight my little stars." Draco finished off his story, smiling to his wife as the three children nodded off to sleep. Nastia smiled back up at her husband and snuggled up to him as they gazed into the fires dying embers next to the giant Christmas tree. The little family of five fell asleep in the living room that Christmas, peacefully and happily, like a family should be.