TITLE: Fairy Tales and Dragon Scales

RATING: M

GENRE: Romance/Drama

WARNINGS: Slash (don't like it, move along), mpreg, strong language, scenes of a sexual nature, mentions of child neglect and abuse, implied rape and incest, creature fic, bonding, probably more if my imagination goes really crazy lol!

SUMMARY: Harry Potter has been missing for five years while his lover has become more bitter and cruel than ever while caring for their young child. Life is hard enough and Severus is reluctant to even offer aid to his troubled godson…But when Draco Malfoy's condition starts mimicking the same symptoms Harry Potter was showing before his disappearance, helping him might help Severus, and the rest of the world, answer the question that has plagued them all for years: just what happened to Harry Potter?

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PROLOGUE

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"Once upon a time, in a land that is not as far away as one might think, there lived a hero with black hair and green eyes. Before he was even born a very bad man wanted him dead. His Mummy and Daddy went into hiding and they were very happy when the hero was born. When he was just a baby the very bad man found his family and killed them and he tried to kill the hero, but he couldn't because his Mummy's love made him safe. The bad man left a scar on his forehead, though, like a lightning. Then the hero was sent to live with very bad people who hated him and who hated magic! They were Muggles, you know.

"Then, when he was eleven, he found out he was a wizard and was sent to Hogwarts! At Hogwarts he saved a magical stone and fought the bad man a lot and he watched people die and he saved a bunch of people and he fought in a magical tournament and all sorts of stuff! He had a very hard, very sad life. He fell in love when he was in school with his teacher. The teacher was very mean, but the hero saw that he was truly a good man. Then they made love one night and magic created a very beautiful baby for them! The teacher never knew, though, because the hero got caught up in fighting a war. He spent a long time hunting down objects that would help kill the very bad man and one day, the hero had a baby girl! He couldn't take care of her, though, so he left her with a very nice lady while he fought the war.

"While the hero fought, the teacher who was also a spy helped take care of Hogwarts. One day the lovers were reunited, but only for a little bit. The very bad man tried to kill the teacher and the hero ended up killing the very bad man…But the hero disappeared after the very bad man died. The teacher ended up surviving and was very sad that he couldn't find the hero and he wasn't happy when he found the baby. He never liked the baby very much, but only because he misses the hero who loved him so much. And the teacher and the baby can never be happy until the hero comes back to save them both from their sadness."

A young girl with dark red curls and bright green eyes looked to her audience expectantly. Young Teddy Lupin rolled his eyes and shook his head, but said nothing more. He had learned after all this time spent with Addie that it would not do well to argue with her. His grandmother, Andromeda Tonks, smiled sadly at the young girl. The five year old seemed to know much more about the story than Andromeda would have expected. Severus Snape went through all of the trouble of keeping his daughter under glamours to keep people from seeing the truth of her parentage in her physical appearance….Only Andromeda had sensed them one day and had removed them, quite surprised to see such notable almond shaped emerald colored eyes. She had somehow inherited her grandmother's beautiful dark red hair and the eyes shared by her grandmother and birth father. Andromeda might have questioned Severus's claim on the girl at all if not for the fact that she shared his ears and his thin lips and his long fingers and a few other less notable features. She looked more like a Snape all covered up in stringy black hair and the awful nose her father deemed it necessary to curse her with. And those eyes…The blue Snape gave her was a lovely color, but not nearly so striking or perfect as their true emerald shade.

"The hero sounds an awful lot like Harry Potter," Andromeda commented as she always did.

"I know!" Addie exclaimed merrily, beaming up at the older witch.

"A lot of people say he died," Teddy said quietly. Andromeda might have reprimanded him if not for the sad look the boy carried. Andromeda frowned and wrapped an arm around her grandson and beckoned with her free arm for Addie to join them. The young girl frowned at Teddy and jumped to her feet, running to the couch where the pair sat and jumping onto the cushion Teddy was on instead of Andromeda's lap, as the woman had intended.

"Don't worry, Teddy Bear!" Addie exclaimed, throwing her arms around him. "I'll tell you a secret, okay?" she whispered, giving him a kiss on the cheek. "The hero is Harry Potter and I'm the baby! Well, I'm not a baby anymore…But…You know…He is alive! He's out there and he'll come back one day…You'll see!"

A loud banging on the door caused the children to jump and Andromeda turned to the clock. Right on time, just like always. She turned to Addie who was frowning deeply and hugging Teddy tighter. "Just don't tell my Father…He gets mad whenever I mention Daddy."

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A/N: My first story! Yay! This is just something to start it off with! I'm hoping to get the next chapter up asap and it'll have more to it!