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Both Draco and Severus looked at the young woman as she walked in. It was the woman that they both where trying to hide that they had fallen in love with far too quickly. She was dressed in a beautiful blue dress that made her eyes standout, her reddish blond hair was pulled back off her face.

"Hello; your father said you wish to talk to me." Isabella told them.

Draco looked at Severus with a mixture of fear about what she would say and annoyance that his father had said anything till they were ready to talk to her themselves, before he turned back to Isabella.

"Well, yes; we do. I, or well rather, we" Draco indicated that he meant both Severus and himself, "are just not sure how well you will handle what we want to talk to you about."

She looked at both men expectantly, waiting for them to say what they had to say. Severus knew how she hated to have things kept from her but still his apprehensions held him back.

"I would like you to just come right out and say it, so that I can take it and deal with it in my own way, please" Isabella told them somewhat snappishly when neither of them started talking.

"Sure; well you see..., Draco and I, are well..." Severus braced himself before finishing his sentence, "...in love with you."

Isabella could only stare.

"Say what now?" Isabella tried to calm herself, dropping into an empty chair as her legs were feeling slightly shaky. "Please repeat what you just said because I don't think I heard you right." she requested, a little in shock.

"Bella it..." Draco started but before he could finish his response she seemed to almost explode in rage.

"DO NOT CALL ME BELLA! That was the name of the BITCH that killed my Godfather!" Isabella yelled, her hands tightly gripping the arms on her chair.

Draco and Severus jumped both at the anger in her voice and out of shock that she even swore.

"I'm sorry, Isabella; we will never call you that again."Draco responded in an attempt to calm her, his hands held up in a show of surrender. He moved over to her, taking her hands in to his. Isabella leaned forward and rested her head on his shoulder as she had let a few tears fall down her face.

Even though Severus had his reasons for hating her godfather, he knew how much she loved him, when she was Harry and likely just as much now that she was Isabella. He got up with a sigh and took a seat on the arm of the chair Isabella was satting in, gently rubbing her back as she tried to calm herself. "But sweetheart what Severus said is the truth; we both are in love with you, my dear" Draco told her softly, sitting her back into the chair so he could look her in the eye as he spoke.

"Why me why would you even love me? I though you hated me. You hated me when I was just Harry." she said to them both.

Both of them looked at her and could see the hurt in her eyes that they had caused her.

"It was not that I hated you Isabella," Severus tried to explains, "it's that I had to play two parts. One for the light, then second for the dark lord. But then you also looked so much like your father that I was, well, blinded, I guess you could say. "

Isabella looked at Severus, taking in what he had said to her, then she turned to Draco wanting an explanation from him too. It took Draco a few second to answer the question and he was starting to act less like a Malfoy, as his hands started to get all clammy.

"My sweet Isabella, I never hated you;" Draco stated, "I just so wanted you to be my friend in first year but then you turned me down; I just was hurt and felt that it would be better to be a jerk then try to be nice, that way I could at least still be around you."

Isabella looked between them, trying to take in everything they were telling her, trying to understand how in such a short time, everything could be so different."So you would rather me be Harry over Isabella?" She asked nervously.

Draco and Severus shared a look. "No dear, no; we want to be with you. We want you to be the one to have our children. That can't happen if you are Harry." Draco told her.

"How can that be? If you can make potions to change me from a male to a female how come you can't do that to help men become pregnant?" she asks Severus whole heartedly.

Severus took her hand so she would look at him.

"Well, Isabella, while the potion to change a person's sex has been mastered, the ones to allow same sex couples to have children are extremely dangerous and unreliable."

"This is all a bit much," she told them both, "I suppose will allow you to court me, a chance to prove your words." Isabella took a deep breath, was she really ready for all this? "If you can, in time, truly prove to me that you want me for me, that you love me; then I will consider your requests."

She needed space to think so she pushed herself out of the chair, moving quickly around the pair of them and leaving the room.

Left alone once again, both men pondered what to do to court the sweet young woman who as captured both their hearts in a way no other woman had. Not even Lilly was able to get a hold of Severus' heart like Isabella has.

Both started to come up with ideas but both knew they would need help to capture Isabella's heart, to prove themselves to her and the best people to turn to where the older Malfoy's. Draco headed to find his mother and Severus went to find his good friend, Lucius.

Draco found his mother in the garden, reading a book in the swing. "Mother can we talk?" he asked her.

"Sure, Draco. What seems to be bothering you?" she asked

"Well, you know how both Severus and I wish to marry Isabella?" Draco took a seat next to his mother as he spoke. "Well, she told us both that she would consider it but that first we had to court her and well I just don't know what to do."

His mother smiled softly, closing her book to give him her full attention before she started to give him ideas.

Meanwhile inside the manor, Severus had found Lucius, who was far too amused by the whole situation to initially be of any great help.

"So let me get this straight; she is making you court her." Lucius tipped his head back and laughed again. "I am actually starting to like this girl already. Well, old man, you better start courting." Lucius responded. "Do not forget my son is competing for her affections, should he make her fall for him first, they may decide they are better off without you." Lucius warned, an amused smile on his face."Oh, do shut up and help me decide what to do!" exclaimed Severus.

"Ok, oh don't hex me." Lucius chuckled, knowing full well his friend would do no such thing, "First you should send her flowers, and maybe have my wife find out for you what kinds she likes. Then the next thing I would do is take her to her favorite places or you can find out where she always wanted to go and take vacations to those places."

They each spent several hours creating lists of things to do for Isabella to show that they really wanted to be with her and that it was not a joke. What both men didn't know was they both had a lot of similar things on their lists.

Up in her room Isabella had showered and was ready for bed. She had been sitting on the window seat looking out at the night just thinking, Hedwig was sitting on her arm as she loved to do letting Isabella pet her.

"Girl, what am I doing this is crazy. Why did I do this to myself?" Isabella pondered out loud.

Hedwig looked at her curiously and Isabella turned back to looking at the darkness outside. Draco's mother was listening from outside her door. She didn't want to upset the girl by saying she had overheard her talking to her owl but at the same time she also knew the young girl needed someone to talk to.

Narcissa waited a second before knocking firmly on the door, waiting for Isabella to call out for her to enter before she pushed the door open. "Hello, dear. how are you doing?" she asked with a soft smile as Isabella turned to face her.

"Okay, I think, Mrs. Malfoy…" Isabella told her.

"Isabella, I didn't mean to eavesdrop but I heard you talking to your owl and, to be honest I am worried about you." Narcissa explained.

"Why would you be worried about me, Mrs. Malfoy?" Isabella asked.

"Please call me Cissy; I consider us family, that will not change whether you marry my son or not."

"Ok, Cissy, but why are you worried about me?" she asked again.

"I can see in your eyes that your starting to question your choice to change from who you were to who you are now." Narcissa moved over and stood close to Isabella, taking her hand gently.

"It is just confusing and I can't help but wonder if either Severus or Draco even really remember that I am still Harry inside." Isabella told her. "Well, how would you feel if you were one person and then just gave it all up to be someone different?"

"Well, dear, I am sure I would not have done it." Narcissa said decisively "however, you are not me and I know you wanted to do this for many reasons. Maybe you should send letters to the people who you really felt were your friends, so that you have more than just us in the manor to talk to, so that you can have a piece of who you used to be."

"But they will never understand and they are going to be so mad at me for doing this," Isabella tears up. "For lying to them about my death, how would they ever forgive me for that."

"Isabella, dear, if they are truly going to be mad over this choice, or any choice for that matter that you have chosen to do for yourself, then they were never your true friends. If they truly love you then they will let you explain and, if not straight away, then in time, will forgive you." Narcissa spoke sternly, knowing how important it was the young girl in front of her understood. "Now where they?" she asked. "I guess you're right," Isabella conceded with a sigh, "I guess I can start with Hermione first and then go from there."

"There you go, dear, it will all work out the way it should," Narcissa used a finger on Isabella's chin to make her look up. "But, Isabella, don't hurt my son in the process, please; that is all I ask."Isabella gave a small nod, "I will try not to hurt him; I promised him a fair chance, but I am not making any guarantees about what my final decision will be; I am nowhere near ready for that yet." she confessed.

"That's all I can ask." Narcissa responded. "Oh and try not to hurt Severus either; he is a sweet man who has been hurt too much in his life. He really needs to know what love truly is." Giving Isabella another smile Narcissa bid the young woman goodnight, leaving her to her thoughts. Isabella walked over to her desk and sat down to write to her once best friend; she just hoped Hermione won't hate her and could accept the choices she had made. Flattening a piece of parchment, Isabella picked up a quill, dipped it in ink and started her letter.

'Dear Hermione,

Before you freak out or do anything else, please read this letter from top to bottom, and give me a chance to explain. Hedwig will stay with you until your done reading and wait for your response. I must say this I am not dead, well not physically; you see after everything in my life had become too much and I needed a change, a fresh start.

I don't know if you will believe me or truly understand, but I just wanted a new me. So, a month before the battle at the Ministry, I went to ask Professor Snape to help me with something. I asked him to help me change my sex from male to female. I know it sounds crazy but for once in my life I am happy.

Oh Hermione, it's not easy to be who I am now but I am free of the demands and pressure of being Harry. I think I can be happy. I hope you can forgive my deceptions, I wasn't sure you would understand but I think I need my friend still. Please write back and let me know I still have you by my side.

Love always,

Harry/Isabella (I am now and forever will be Isabella, from this time on)'