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Thank you to my beta reader luvtheheaven.

Chapter 1

It was in the midst of post-coital orgasmic bliss that Draco turned to Harry, his boyfriend of five years, and said "I heard something interesting at work today." Draco was a prominent healer at St. Mungo's Hospital who specialized in spell damage. In fact, that was how he and Harry had reconnected; Harry had come into the hospital after being hexed multiple times during a particularly nasty work incident. Harry worked as an auror. Draco, being the best healer in the spell damage specialty at St Mungo's, was personally told by the hospital director that he was to treat the legendary Harry Potter. Draco was hesitant due to the nature of his relationship with Harry during their Hogwarts years, but the hospital director had insisted on only the best for such a famous patient.

While Draco assessed the damage, Harry told him all about being an auror. Draco was impressed with Harry's bravery. He also mentally noted, while he was looking over Harry's back, that Harry had a great arse. After the exam, Harry admitted to Draco that he had been nervous about being treated by him because of their past, but he'd been impressed with Draco's professionalism and how the exam had not been awkward. Draco then wrote down his address on Harry's discharge instructions in hopes that Harry would contact him. Worst case scenario, Harry would ignore the invitation.

Draco wasn't worried that Harry wouldn't be gay. It was well known that Harry was gay thanks to the press and its never-ending interest in Harry. Two years after the war ended, Harry was caught by a photographer snogging a fellow wizard outside of a gay nightclub in London. The press had a field day. What made it all the more interesting to the press was the fact that Harry had been engaged to Ginny Weasley at the time. There was even an interview where Ginny had revealed that while she and Harry had broken up due to Harry's homosexuality, they remained friends. She was a firm believer that gay people were born gay and had taken being-cheated-on surprisingly well.

Honestly, though, Draco had been shocked when Harry had contacted him through the fireplace the very next day. He had been busy cleaning up the breakfast dishes in his flat when he heard some coughing in the fireplace behind him. He turned around and there was Harry! When Draco asked Harry why he contacted him, Harry had shrugged and said that Draco was cute and he hadn't gotten shagged in a while so why not?

Draco, unfortunately, had to go to work that morning, so he asked Harry to come over that evening. They spent the night talking, wanting to get to know each other better before sleeping together. After that, they couldn't get enough of each other and spent as much time together as possible. The rest was history.

"What did you hear?" asked Harry, bringing Draco back to the present.

"I heard that they're doing some new study where they are seeing if they can make a baby from two men," answered Draco.

"I thought we had decided that was too risky," said Harry.

While male pregnancies weren't entirely unheard of, there had only been three male pregnancies in the past century where both the pregnant father and the baby survived the birth. Harry and Draco agreed that while it would be nice to have a child that was biologically both of theirs, it wasn't worth the risk. They had talked about adopting, but unfortunately most of the adoption agencies were quite homophobic. In fact, they had only found one adoption agency that wasn't homophobic. However, that particular agency had a strong equal opportunity policy meaning that they wouldn't tell adoptive parents if the child they were interested in was magical, muggle, or squib. They knew for sure that they wanted a magical child. While they felt bad for all the muggle and squib orphans out there, they felt that a non-magical child would most certainly feel out of place with them. So, as much as they both wanted children, they had resigned themselves to a life without them.

"No, I'm not talking about male pregnancy," Draco clarified. "I'm talking about taking sperm from two men, making an embryo out of the sperm, and then using a surrogate mother."

"Huh?" was Harry's response.

"Well, the procedure is really just in the trial stages, but I can't stop thinking about it. This may be our way of getting a child!"

"That would be wonderful!" said Harry, before kissing Draco firmly on the mouth.

"Besides," added Draco, "if we do this, perhaps my father will finally get off my back about the Malfoy line dying out."

"He may get off your back about that, but you know he'll always be on your back about something," commented Harry. "Besides, would he really accept a child that's part mine since it wouldn't be a pureblood?"

While Lucius Malfoy tolerated Harry, Draco suspected that the reason that he didn't openly voice his displeasure about the relationship was that they couldn't, as far as Lucius knew, produce biological offspring. Draco's homosexuality was another story altogether. Lucius had found out that Draco was gay in one of the worst possible ways. The day after their fourth date, The Daily Prophet had published an article in their gossip section about Draco and Harry possibly dating, complete with a photograph from the night before of Harry and Draco in a restaurant together, smiling and holding hands. To make matters worse, Lucius apparated to Draco's flat to confront him about the article and found him and Harry in bed together.

"I don't care what my father thinks," said Draco adamantly. "The way he should look at it is that he's lucky that he's getting a grandchild at all."

Harry still looked concerned, so Draco gently kissed him on the forehead and said "Just let me handle it. Okay, love?"

"Okay," said Harry. "What's the next step?"

"I don't really know. I'll look into it more tomorrow at work."


Draco wasn't scheduled to go into work until 11:00 the next morning. However, he went in an hour early so that he could talk to Georgia Davis, the healer in charge of the fertility center at St. Mungo's. When he arrived, she was busy with a patient. Draco waited about ten minutes until a pregnant woman walked out of her office and then knocked on the ajar door.

"Healer Malfoy!" Healer Davis said in greeting. "To what do I owe this pleasure?"

"Please," said Draco, "call me Draco. I'm here on a personal matter." He stepped into the office and closed the door behind him. "I would like more information on the new trial program that I hear is starting. The, er, one where you make a baby from two men and use a surrogate."

"Have a seat, and please, call me Georgia," said Healer Davis warmly.

"Thank you, Georgia," said Draco as he sat down.

"Well, as you know," she began, "it's a new program, still in the trial stages. So far, though, we have successfully achieved two pregnancies. We have yet to have a live birth for two reasons. One reason is that the program is so new. The other reason is that the legalities of the program are rather complicated."

"How is it complicated?" asked Draco.

"It's complicated because surrogacy is illegal here in the UK. Well, it's not technically illegal, but there would be absolutely no way to get both fathers on the birth certificate and therefore it is complicated in regards to the surrogacay portion of the program and both of the fathers being the legal parents."

"So how have you managed to do it?" asked Draco.

"Well, one of the couples involved had a cousin in in the US who they brought here for the embryo transfer. The laws in the States are much more favorable toward surrogacy. The other couple did some legwork and found a surrogate on their own in the States."

Draco sighed. Neither he nor Harry had any relatives in the States so that ruled out the family member option. He would have to talk this over with Harry.

"Georgia, how did the second couple find a surrogate in the States?"

"I believe they used an agency, but I am not completely sure."

"Thank you very much. I still have to talk to my partner, but I'm pretty sure that he would be interested."

"If you would like, why don't you and your partner meet with Healer Webb. Healer Webb is the healer in charge of this particular program and knows more specifics than I do."

"That would be great!" Draco replied.