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Chapter 2

Draco Malfoy jerked awake in the early hours of the morning and sat straight up in bed covered in a cold sweat. Not knowing what was happening, he sent out his senses trying to figure out what caused his distress. Slowly getting up out of bed Draco padded over to his floor to ceiling windows and looked toward where the magical surge came from. Suddenly a brilliant smile could be seen creeping across his chiseled face.

"Finally", Draco whispered to himself, "he has awakened. It is almost time for all of our plans to come to life. Soon, my darling, soon we shall be together and everything shall be explained to you."

Turning from the window, Draco walked towards his wardrobe to change from his black silk pajama pants into something a little bit more appropriate for being in mixed company during daylight time. Staring into his impressive wardrobe of clothes, Draco decided on something that was formal enough to be seen in public with, but casual and comfortable to be with his family in a casual setting. Finally deciding on black robes with Slytherin green embroidery to promote health and protection, he changed and turned to check his appearance in the full length mirror.

Satisfied with the way he looked, Draco turned and left his room in search of his parents to discuss what was to come. Despite it being the middle of the night still, Draco knew that he could find his parents in the family's informal sitting room because they would have felt the magical shock wave like he did.

When he got there his father was pacing in front of the fire place muttering to himself about possibilities, solutions, and the dark lord, while his mother was seated primly on a couch ordering refreshments for them all from a house elf. As Draco stepped into to the sitting room, his father turned to meet his eye. When Draco nodded, a look of relief passed over Lucius' face and he turned to continue his pacing and mumbling. Shaking his head, Draco turned to greet his mother with a kiss to the cheek and a small smile before he turned to take a seat in a centrally located armchair between the couch and fireplace, and with a view of a window.

Getting lost in his own thoughts while staring out onto the manor grounds, Draco wasn't expecting the house elf to pop into the room with a tray of tea, coffee, and finger foods, which caused him to jump in surprise. Looking around, he was glad to notice that neither of his parents had noticed his slip of Malfoy decorum.

Once drinks had been passed around and Lucius had taken his seat next to Narcissa, the three Malfoys turned their attention to discussing the newest set of circumstances that needed addressed. Since they knew what the magical surge meant from earlier they were able to prepare and decide on how to approach the situation in reference to both the dark Lord and the rest of the Wizarding World.

Draco was the first to break the silence.

"It's him. I know it is. I am sorry Father, I know you were hoping that it would be female, but it is not so. It is Harry. It has always been Harry and it will always be Harry. I think I have always known it, even when we were first years and always trying to outdo the other. I hope that you are not too disappointed. And you do know that it is still possible to carry on the Malfoy name despite this turn of fate. The only thing that I worry about is how our lord will react to this news. Do you have a plan Father?"

Lucius sighed audibly before he answered, "I knew that could have happened and I am not upset my son, so worry not. And as for the Dark Lord, I think that he has known as well. A few months back he changed his orders to be capture only, and that no harm was to come to the boy. Now, all we must do is prepare to the best of our abilities, and invite our Lord to stay here soon so that everyone is in one place until a meeting can be set up. The only problem now is locating young Harry."

"If my inference is correct, then with that level of power exuded during his transformation he might be of the ruling class, or even the ruling family. If that is the case then his instincts will have sent him to the palace or the nearest protected location coveted by our people. He is safe for now, and we will find him soon. If he doesn't find us first that is," stated Narcissa confidently.

Getting lost in thought again, Draco slowly sipped his tea, trying to figure out how to move forward with finding Harry. He needed to or he would start to go crazy with inactivity.

Noticing the look in her son's eye, Narcissa turned to her husband and whispered "maybe we need to contact Severus at a decent hour and ask him to come and keep Draco distracted and to help Draco to learn what he needs to know for when we do find Harry. He also might be able to help."

Nodding his agreement, Lucius summoned a house elf to request parchment, ink, and one of the family owls. When the items that he requested arrived, he started writing the letter of request to Severus telling him the situation, but leaving out all names for safety's sake. When it was finished, Lucius sealed it, attached it to the patiently waiting owl with instructions to wait to deliver it until Severus had woken up for the day.

With the owl flapping away into the darkness, the Malfoy family turned to each other to talk about nothing until they could put their plans into motion.

Severus Snape, potions master of Hogwarts and Voldemort's spy, had barely stepped into his house after a long day and even longer night when he turned to see a Malfoy owl pecking at his window. Curious to see the creature at such an ungodly hour, Severus hurried to relieve the owl of its burden with a treat for its hard work. Once the owl had left the house and the window was shut against the slight chill of the night did Severus open the letter addressed to him.

After reading its contents, Severus sat down in shock unable to believe the likelihood of the situations he found himself in the middle of, not to mention the strange situations and circumstances that he found himself in the middle of due to the two boys who he cared about whether they knew it or not.

Groaning as he stood, Severus commenced to call his house elf and order a cup of tea as he made his way to his study to write a reply to his oldest and dearest friends stating that he would arrive in the late morning or early afternoon and that he had news for them as well. After the abrupt reply had been sent, Severus stumbled to his bedroom to try and get at least a couple hours of sleep so as to be able to function the following day.

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A/N: to all those wonderful readers out there, I want to try something a little different with this story. I have the idea and what I want to do with it and where I want it to go in my head, but I want this to be kind of interactive with my readers. So here goes my crazy idea. I will ask a question and you all can make the decision on what direction this story might take by voting through PMs and reviews. And I don't mean simple things. I mean things like should Harry or Draco be the submissive? Should there be more than two people to the mateship of H&D? if so who should also be involved? Should old Voldy be a father figure? And also remember that this will be a creature fic, that there is weasly, mione, and dumbles bashing. And I am leaning towards mpreg, sorry. I am also trying to decide if the twins, bill and Charlie should be with Harry and against their family or not. So there you have it people. You decide I write. Let the voting begin!