RP: Manor-born and Muggle-born

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Characters: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger
Location: Malfoy Manor
Date: 14 March 2000, after their appointment
Status: Private
Summary: Draco takes Hermione for a tour and some reassurance after Meeting The Parents
Completion: Complete

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"I wasn't," he said, just on the verge of sullen, because he had been a little bit and she'd caught him out at it. "You are beautiful, and you look especially lovely today. Not that you don't look lovely every day, but you look extra lovely today, it's pretty obvious you took some effort. I mean, not obvious, not to anyone but me, and for god's sake, shut up, Malfoy." Draco sighed and let go of her hand to rub his forehead, cursing himself silently.

"Library. Yes. Definitely. We can take a walk if you like, though I do intend to hex any peacocks that get within thirty feet of me, thank you very much." He didn't press too hard on the snippishness of that from her. She was anxious and upset, and she deserved to be a little bitchy at her uncommunicative boyfriend. She was very anxious if she was encouraging him to have a cigarette. Draco spoke to the air, demanding their wraps, and a house-elf appeared instantly. It handed him their garments and disappeared just as quickly, and Draco tossed his cloak on a decorative side

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Draco chuckled quietly, not especially amused, but it was laugh or let the anger come back. "I couldn't protest either. Considering my alternatives were a hell of a lot worse than accepting the Mark, it would not have been a good idea to try and refuse."

He didn't much like the emphasis she put on 'required', and Draco leaned back to look at her face, trying to read her feelings in her eyes. "That's ... far less important to me now than it is to them, Hermione. I'm not going to-to resent you. Or them. I'm looking forward to children, with you. Half-blood means nothing next to having them with you."