3. Soundproof rooms sound appealing

Parents Too Young

Disclaimer: As usual, I am not insanely rich which means, I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters..which is a shame coz I would make the books more shippy!

A/N waves me again! Thanks to all my friends leaving me to go on various holidays this coming week, I'm going to have a lot of spare time so I'm going to be writing the chapters fairly fast I hope. Thanks to everyone that reviewed my last chapter! I'm afraid from here onwards there's going to be more fluff!

Chapter 3: Soundproof rooms sound appealing

The next 2 days went by in the same way. Hermione would take care of Ella unless she had classes, which instead she would leave Ella with someone else in the Gryffindor common room. Normally prefects or friends.

Malfoy's role was no existent. He would pretend that Ella and Hermione weren't even there. He would only come to their living area to sleep and wash and if he ever saw them, he wouldn't even acknowledge their presence. But on one night, Hermione was sure to make him take notice.

Hermione was pacing about their room trying to get Ella to sleep. She glanced to the alarm clock on the table and the red numbers told her it was 2.34am. She inwardly groaned and looked over to the dark figure under the bed sheets on the next bed.

Malfoy, like the last few nights, had put a silencing charm on his bed sheets so if Ella deciding to scream at the top of her lungs in the middle of the night, he was ignorant of it.

Hermione kept rocking the screaming baby in her arms trying to get her to calm down but to no avail. It was late, she was exhausted and pissed off so she walked over to the edge of Malfoy's bed, sat on the edge and punched him in the shoulder.

He groaned and his sleepy eyes slowly opened and tried registering what was around him. 'What dya want Granger?' He said, too tired to put a vicious tone into his voice.

'To stop her from crying' She snapped. 'You've got away with it for 2 nights but this is it, I'm too tired. I can't think straight anymore, she won't stop' She said close to tears with tiredness.

Malfoy looked at her strangely for a second, he wasn't used to dealing with emotional girls or screaming babies so he sat up and put his hands in front of him.

Hermione passed Ella to him silently and laid her head in her hands. 'I'm going to the bathroom' She mumbled but Malfoy couldn't hear as the baby was still crying. She padded to the bathroom lazily but when she came back she was greeted with a silent room. No screaming or crying.

She looked towards Malfoy's bed and saw him, clad in boxers, sitting cross- legged with Ella asleep in his arms.

'How?' She managed to mouth at him.

He shot her his famous smirk and looked rather proud of himself. 'She just stopped' He whispered into the darkness.

Hermione nodded silently, crawled into bed and as soon as her head hit the pillow, she fell asleep.

Her eyes fluttered open as beams of light flowed across the carpet of their room hitting her bed sheets. She groggily sat up and looked over at the crib sitting opposite her bed. She got up and wandered over to it while rubbing her eyes but stopped when she saw no Ella.

She spun round quickly and looked over at Malfoy's bed and was a little shocked by what she saw. Malfoy was lying there with his bed sheet covering his waist down with Ella sprawled on his chest sleeping. His hand was lightly pressed against the child's back.

She walked over and studied them more closely. His hair was the very definition of 'bed hair', it was everywhere but with a few strands lying messily on his forehead. He was steadily breathing up and down with Ella moving with his chest, her head was pressed just underneath his chin.

Hermione couldn't quite get over the way Malfoy looked when he was sleeping. There was no smirk, there was a lack of disgust on his features and he didn't look at all vicious.

She very slowly sat on the edge of his bed, being very careful to wake neither sleeping body but she didn't realise Malfoy was a very light sleeper.

'What is it now?' He muttered as his eyes came into focus on Hermione.

'Don't move or you'll wake her' She said softly with a smile gracing her lips.

'Who?' He then looked down and saw his 'daughter' lying on his chest and his mouth formed the shape 'o'.

He then noticed Hermione was smiling at him and became extremely uncomfortable, he started to wiggle which resulted in Ella waking up.

'See what you did?' She said with a smile still there.

'I did?' He snapped at her. 'I think it was you staring at the poor thing'

Hermione sighed and got off his bed. 'She's not a thing'

'Baby then or whatever' he said rolling his eyes. He picked up Ella and moved himself into a sitting up and put Ella back on his chest so her head was resting on his shoulder.

Hermione smirked and raised an eyebrow as he glared at her.

'You're going soft' She stated with her arms crossed.

'I am not'

'You are'

'Am not'

'You know you are'

'I know I'm not' he snapped.

She laughed as she started collecting items from her bedside table. 'Malfoy's going soft' She said in a singsong voice as she headed towards the bathroom.

'Bitch' Malfoy said, even though it didn't have the same venom as usual.

Hermione was way too happy that morning to let a small insult get to her so she turned round and blew a kiss to him. 'Love you too' She said sarcastically as she walked out the door.

She never knew that a good night sleep could really effect her mood this much, she was full of energy and wanted to skip everywhere.

After 'swimming' in the very oversized bath, she wrapped a large fluffy towel around her and headed back to her room. She stopped in her tracks as she got to the door and heard Ella giggling.

Hermione cautiously peered round the corner and saw Malfoy still sitting in bed playing with Ella. He was just above her as she lay on the bed, he was tickling her stomach and pulling faces at the same time.

Hermione's eyes were wide and she was completely shocked. He was being nice to something that wasn't a pureblood and he was...smiling? She coughed loudly and rose an eyebrow.

He stopped smiling immediately and fixed a glare on his face. 'Didn't here you come in'

'Obviously, you were smiling'

'I was not'

'You were playing with Ella' She stated as she started brushing her hair.

'I was not' He repeated as he tried to look cool by moving further away from Ella and combing his hair.

'I saw you!' She exclaimed with a smile.

'No you didn't mudblood' He said threatening her as he pulled out his wand.

'Wow, for a moment, I actually thought there was a heart in your body' She said standing up and loosing her good mood.

She suddenly heard him mutter something and felt her towel being whipped off her by an invisible force.

She yelped, turned around, grabbed a sheet and pulled it to her body. 'Pervert!' She yelled as she looked at Malfoy who was holding his wand.

'Don't flatter yourself, you think I wanted to see your mudblood body?'

'Why did you do it then?' She said her face growing with anger.

'It was funny to see you panic'

'Your insufferable'

'I try' he smirked. Ella suddenly made a noise and rose her arms upward towards Malfoy.

'She wants you to pick her up' Hermione said as she waved her wand and got dressed.

Malfoy looked down at Ella for a second with a questioning look, he shrugged and picked her up. She gave out a giggle and smiled at him.

That lunchtime Hermione finally met Ron and Lavender's baby as she sat down at the Gryffindor table with Ella.

'Meet Alexander' Lavender said as she smiled and cooed to the baby in her arms, Ron seemed equally taken with him.

'He's so lovely, Ella meet Alex' Hermione said putting Ella in front of Alex. They simply peered at one another for a while and then Ella let out a giggle and looked towards Ron instead.

'I don't think they'll be falling in love anytime soon' Lavender laughed as she kissed Alex on the nose.

Hermione suddenly saw Ella's face screw up and knew what was coming; she was about to cry. Hermione excused herself just as Ella started crying. She calmly walked over to the Slytherin table, where the boys were discussing the lack of good looking females in Hogwarts, and handed Ella quickly over to Malfoy before she started screaming her head off.

They had worked out that sometimes when Ella cried all she wanted was to be with Malfoy, so she always tried to make notes of where Malfoy was, just in case.

Malfoy without even a glance at Hermione took the child into his arms while the Slytherins all starting cooing noisily at Ella.

Pansy, who was holding her and Neville's baby, spoke up over the cooing and shouted at Malfoy. 'Your going to be a brilliant father when me and you have children'

Malfoy stared at her for a second and then burst into laughter. 'I would kill myself before letting you mother any child of mine!' Many of the Slytherins sniggered while Pansy sat there looking hurt.

Hermione was still waiting for Malfoy to give Ella back now he had stopped her crying but he didn't and she was getting annoyed. She starting tapping her foot loudly behind him and he looked around impatiently.

'What you still doing here Granger?' He said as Ella put the palm of her hand up against Malfoy's face.

'Waiting to have Ella back'

'She's good here, aren't you?' He said to Ella and turned round to face his friends again and ignored her.

Hermione let out a disbelieving smile and trudged back to Lavender and Ron.

'Err Hermione, where's Ella?' Ron said looking around.

'With Malfoy' She said looking quite disgusted.

'What if he kills her? Or asks her to join the death eaters? He's going to turn her evil' Ron suddenly exclaimed.

'I don't think he will somehow, there's not an evil bone in her body'

'Err Hermione, she is Malfoy's daughter'

'Yes well, I don't think there's as much evil in Malfoy as he leads people to believe' Ron and Lavender suddenly got interested,

'Go on' Ron said with a twinkle of mischief in his eyes.

'Well I caught the oh-so-hard Malfoy playing with Ella this morning and he was smiling'

'That's so sweet' Lavender said glancing over to the Slytherin table.

'Did you get a picture? We could blackmail' Ron said looking extremely eager.

'Oh Ronald! Blackmail is very low'

'Yeah but he's such a little brat, you know you want revenge'

Hermione sighed and looked across the tables to Malfoy who had Ella sitting on his lap and was holding her hands.

Lavender followed her gaze. 'He doesn't seem to be hiding the fact he's actually liking having a daughter'

Ron looked over and sighed. 'Got anything else on him? Does he wear anything embarrassing? Pink boxers...tell me he wears pink boxers with fairies on them, his reputation would be ruined'

Hermione and Lavender laughed while Ron was still thinking.

'Where's Harry? I haven't seen him in awhile'

Lavender and Ron looked at one another with a grin. 'He's having some family time with his partner and baby'

'His partner? The new girl?' Hermione enquired.

'Yeah, she seems really nice. What's her name again?' Lavender asked Ron.

'Claire Trender' Dean said with a smile sitting down. 'Not bad to look at'

Both girls rolled their eyes. 'Yeah apparently there having a lot of fun behaving like mum and dad, Harry wants to teach his son to swim so I think that is what he's doing'

'We have a pool?' Hermione asked.

'Well...bath, pool, same thing' Dean said eating a sandwich.

'Ok I'm off to bug Harry, oh tonight at about 7pm come to our living area Herm with Ella. We're trying to get people together and have a chat considering all of us have been a bit preoccupied and separated from one another because of this experiment thing' Ron said getting up.

'Ok, see you there'

'Don't bring Malfoy'

'Wouldn't dream of it' She said smiling.

A/N. I preferred writing this chapter, I'm looking forward to writing a Hogsmead trip...but that could get rather fluffy! Anyway, review review review review, the more reviews I get, the faster I'll write or type or whatever! Btw, next chapter gets more flully ands shippy gives out brownies