p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Cedric sighed as he sat down on the God-forsaken yellow bed. He loved The-Boy-Who-Lived, but he couldn't love him; Harry was too young. After all, Cedric was an adult, to the wizarding community. Harry was only fourteen. They couldn't do anything romantic in public without being shunned. He didn't want to darken Harry's future because he had kissed an older man. He knew that Harry wanted to be an Auror, but you can't simply pass things like that up. To the wizarding community, an underage Omega could never, ever be in a relationship with an Alpha, though the Alpha would never be blamed./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Ced, bud, whatcha think' 'bout?" Cedric looked up, only to be face-to-face with Ernie MacMillan. "Nothing," He lied. "Well, don't know how he did it, but that Potter's waiting outside for ya'," Ernie said. Cedric sighed. 'How dumb can Harry get,' He thought as he stood up. When Cedric opened the door, he was fuming. His anger didn't last for long once he saw that he'd obviously scared Harry. God, speaking of Harry, he looked particularly delicious today. He didn't say anything, instead, he pulled out his invisibility cloak and draped it over himself. He knew that Cedric wouldn't need it; he had every right to be out at night./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Ceric could just see Harry's fingers poking out of the cloak, and he used them as his guide. They went through twisting corridors and finally arrived at the Prefect's bathroom. Without hesitation, Cedric ripped the invisibility cloak off of Harry and threw it to the ground. Before Cedric could say anything, Harry began to speak. "C-Cedric, I-I'm sorry! P-Please don't be-be angry with me! I-I-" Before Harry could finish, he burst into tears. Cedric wrapped his arms around Harry, pulling him closer, forgetting his anger. "Harry, I'm not angry with you. What's wrong? What happened," Cedric asked as he ran his hands through Harry's hair./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Harry was silent for a moment, and then he began to speak. "Cedric, I don't care if they shun me!" "Harry, I do! We can't keep going on like this. Someone's bound to find out," Cedric said as calmly as he could manage. Then, Harry looked up at him. His green eyes shone with tears. "Cedric, I'm pregnant!" The words felt like a dozen bricks had been dropped on Cedric's chest as he grasped the realization. 'I'm going to be a father, and my Omega will probably get shunned,' He thought as he leaned against the wall./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It was true; Cedric had knotted Harry only once, and that was about three weeks ago. He'd thought that nothing had come of it, but he was wrong. He felt so dizzy like he'd just spun in circles for an hour. He dropped down to the ground, and Harry just watched him curiously. "Ced, you're not going l-leave me, are you," Harry asked. Cedric shook his head, revolted at the thought of leaving his Omega. "No, Harry, never," he said without hesitation. "Promise me." "I promise I won't leave you, Harry," Cedric replied./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""H-How will we keep the baby secret," Harry asked as he sat down next to Cedric. He was stumped but knew he had to come up with an idea. "Towards the end of your pregnancy when the hormones are at their highest and can be smelled, we could use polyjuice," Cedric suggested. "But who would be willing to take the potion?" "Remember when Hermione had the time turner? Does she still have it? She could do it," He replied. Cedric knew that if she didn't, then they would have to come up with a new plan./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I don't know, but I'll ask. I think that the ministry would have taken it away by now, after all, that was a year ago, almost," Harry said hopelessly. Cedric hated to see Harry like this but knew that there was nothing that he could do at the moment. "Do you think that she would be willing to take the polyjuice potion," Harry blurted out after a while of silence. "I don't know, Harry. I don't really know her that well, or at all." Cedric wanted to be reassuring to Harry, but, really, there was nothing he could do about the situation at hand./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Come on, Harry. Let's go back to the dorms," Cedric said finally. Harry nodded and stood up, picking up his invisibility cloak and putting it on. Cedric followed him out and began his way to the Hufflepuff dorms. He was about halfway there when he heard voices. "Hey, you! What are you doing out so late?" Cedric whipped around, only to be face-to-face with a painting. "Just walking, why," Cedric replied as nonchalantly as he could manage. "Because you shouldn't be out so late," The painting replied almost furiously. He sighed and replied, "I have every right to be here. I am head boy."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He took the chance and ran off. When he reached his bed, he laid down. He couldn't fall asleep; he was too engrossed in his thoughts about Harry's pregnancy. He wanted Harry to have the baby so badly, but he knew that it would cause so many problems that probably weren't worth it. Cedric couldn't just get rid of it; he knew that Harry would murder him before he could even get halfway there. At the same time, Cedric wanted to take Harry elsewhere; run off with him and the baby, but he knew that he could never do it./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Cedric knew that if anyone caught them doing anything romantic, Harry would be shunned, only interacted with to be called a slut or a whore. Of course, Cedric would never be blamed for dating Harry; he was an Alpha, and Alpha's are considered first class humans, while Omegas are considered to be third class, with Beta's being middle class. He didn't want that for Harry, but Harry persisted, anyway. Cedric had been trying to avoid him for the longest time, but he always failed; Harry would pop up by the Hufflepuff's dorm rooms, or outside of Cedric's classrooms./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Ced, bud, whatcha think' 'bout?" Cedric looked up, only to be face-to-face with Ernie MacMillan. "Nothing," He lied. "Well, don't know how he did it, but that Potter's waiting outside for ya'," Ernie said. Cedric sighed. 'How dumb can Harry get,' He thought as he stood up. When Cedric opened the door, he was fuming. His anger didn't last for long once he saw that he'd obviously scared Harry. God, speaking of Harry, he looked particularly delicious today. He didn't say anything, instead, he pulled out his invisibility cloak and draped it over himself. He knew that Cedric wouldn't need it; he had every right to be out at night./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Ceric could just see Harry's fingers poking out of the cloak, and he used them as his guide. They went through twisting corridors and finally arrived at the Prefect's bathroom. Without hesitation, Cedric ripped the invisibility cloak off of Harry and threw it to the ground. Before Cedric could say anything, Harry began to speak. "C-Cedric, I-I'm sorry! P-Please don't be-be angry with me! I-I-" Before Harry could finish, he burst into tears. Cedric wrapped his arms around Harry, pulling him closer, forgetting his anger. "Harry, I'm not angry with you. What's wrong? What happened," Cedric asked as he ran his hands through Harry's hair./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Harry was silent for a moment, and then he began to speak. "Cedric, I don't care if they shun me!" "Harry, I do! We can't keep going on like this. Someone's bound to find out," Cedric said as calmly as he could manage. Then, Harry looked up at him. His green eyes shone with tears. "Cedric, I'm pregnant!" The words felt like a dozen bricks had been dropped on Cedric's chest as he grasped the realization. 'I'm going to be a father, and my Omega will probably get shunned,' He thought as he leaned against the wall./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It was true; Cedric had knotted Harry only once, and that was about three weeks ago. He'd thought that nothing had come of it, but he was wrong. He felt so dizzy like he'd just spun in circles for an hour. He dropped down to the ground, and Harry just watched him curiously. "Ced, you're not going l-leave me, are you," Harry asked. Cedric shook his head, revolted at the thought of leaving his Omega. "No, Harry, never," he said without hesitation. "Promise me." "I promise I won't leave you, Harry," Cedric replied./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""H-How will we keep the baby secret," Harry asked as he sat down next to Cedric. He was stumped but knew he had to come up with an idea. "Towards the end of your pregnancy when the hormones are at their highest and can be smelled, we could use polyjuice," Cedric suggested. "But who would be willing to take the potion?" "Remember when Hermione had the time turner? Does she still have it? She could do it," He replied. Cedric knew that if she didn't, then they would have to come up with a new plan./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I don't know, but I'll ask. I think that the ministry would have taken it away by now, after all, that was a year ago, almost," Harry said hopelessly. Cedric hated to see Harry like this but knew that there was nothing that he could do at the moment. "Do you think that she would be willing to take the polyjuice potion," Harry blurted out after a while of silence. "I don't know, Harry. I don't really know her that well, or at all." Cedric wanted to be reassuring to Harry, but, really, there was nothing he could do about the situation at hand./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Come on, Harry. Let's go back to the dorms," Cedric said finally. Harry nodded and stood up, picking up his invisibility cloak and putting it on. Cedric followed him out and began his way to the Hufflepuff dorms. He was about halfway there when he heard voices. "Hey, you! What are you doing out so late?" Cedric whipped around, only to be face-to-face with a painting. "Just walking, why," Cedric replied as nonchalantly as he could manage. "Because you shouldn't be out so late," The painting replied almost furiously. He sighed and replied, "I have every right to be here. I am head boy."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He took the chance and ran off. When he reached his bed, he laid down. He couldn't fall asleep; he was too engrossed in his thoughts about Harry's pregnancy. He wanted Harry to have the baby so badly, but he knew that it would cause so many problems that probably weren't worth it. Cedric couldn't just get rid of it; he knew that Harry would murder him before he could even get halfway there. At the same time, Cedric wanted to take Harry elsewhere; run off with him and the baby, but he knew that he could never do it./p