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Chapter 4 The Bonding
Ron and Hermione hurried together to the Bonding chamber, having gotten separate messages sent to their offices informing them that Harry had requested them both as his Witnesses to his marriage to Draco Malfoy, shock still on their faces as they glanced at each other in stunned-silence.
They entered the room quickly, spotting Harry easily since he wore new robes of white, the color indicating his virgin status.
Most surprisingly, Malfoy to wore white, his pale, delicate-looking hands clutching at Harry's shoulders, the brunette's arms wrapped tightly around his waist as they kissed almost desperately.
Their best friend's full, soft lips were obviously open beneath the blonde's, his tongue buried in the wet, silken-heat of his former enemy's mouth, both of them embarrassed and flushed as Harry shuddered in his embrace, whimpering and tightening his hold on him before moaning faintly in the back of his throat.
"God, Draco..," he panted. "I need you so much… I love you…"
"I love you too, Harry baby. Always have," he promised, his soft voice somehow sounding like a deep, to-the-soul caress, shaking with desire as he leaned their foreheads together and stared into his eyes.
"Harry?" Hermione called as they walked up to them. "Can we talk to you?"
Harry turned at the sound of her voice, smiling contentedly and leaning back against Draco's chest when the other man's arms twined themselves around his hips loosely from behind.
"Of course. Vince and Greg aren't here yet, so we have time."
"Vince and Greg?" Ron repeated in disbelief.
"Alone?" Hermione asked him, ignoring her husband.
"Anything that you want to say to me can be said in front of Draco," he responded sharply, a thin-layer of ice coating the surface of his green eyes quickly.
Hermione flinched, hurt flickering in her brown eyes, looking like she was about to protest before Ron put a comforting and cautioning hand on her shoulder, knowing Harry was just feeling nervous and venerable, even if he would never admit it to them.
"Does he know how you feel?" Ron asked him gently. "How long you've felt it? Does he know about your condition? That's all that we want to know, for your sake, Harry. We don't want to see you be hurt. Teddy needs you."
"He knows," Harry answered softly, his eyes thawing as he relaxed again against Draco. "He knows everything."
"Apparently not," Draco commented, pressing his lips to the shell of Harry's ear as he spoke. "Who is Teddy?"
"My Godson," Harry answered with an embarrassed blush. "Teddy Lupin. He lives with me because his parents died in the war. He's sort of your cousin I guess, which is weird since he calls me daddy. He just turned five about a week or so ago."
"Yes, I guess that is a little weird. So we already have a son?"
"Uh, huh, though I'll leave it up to him whether he wants to call you father. You are the father of his sibling, but that doesen't mean that he'll be comfortable with calling you that. You might not be comfortable with it even, I don't know."
"I'm fine with it as long as he is."
"Shouldn't Teddy be here, Harry?" Ron interrupted them.
"Oh! Of course," Harry answered quickly.
"I knew that I was forgetting something. It was just all so sudden. Could you please go pick him up from Andromeda's, Hermione?"
"Okay," she said with a sympathetic smile before Apparating away.
"Do you have your parents rings, Harry?" Ron asked him next.
Harry sighed and slapped his palm to his forehead before he spoke.
"Yes," he answered, pressing his left hand to his chest as though touching something beneath his shirt.
"I always wear them on this chain around my neck. They're the only possessions I own that I would be grieved over if I lost, other then my wand."
"Well, that, and your locket," Ron teased him with a grin.
"Yes," Harry agreed. "But they're all on this chain so I don't have to worry about them."
"What locket?" Draco asked curiously.
Harry blushed, pink tingeing his cheeks, but he drew the chain out from under his shirt, taking the rings off of it, opening the old-fashioned, oval-shaped silver locket, revealing two pictures.
One was of Draco wearing sky-blue robes, a combination of exasperation, suppressed-laughter and softness in his grey eyes as he smiled a beautiful smile.
"I remember when this was taken," the blonde said softly as he touched the locket gently. "How did you?… Pansy."
"Yes, Pansy sent it to me," Harry admitted. "I have the full-sized version at home, but I always carry this one with me."
"And this must be Teddy?" he questioned, looking to the second photograph with interest.
"Yes."
"Is his hair green?"
Harry winced, amusement filling his emerald eyes as he nodded.
"Yes. I tried to get him to change it for the picture, but he was adamant that it stay. Teddy does not like to look "normal" as he puts it, and since he's a Metamorphosis like his mother was, he never has to be."
Hermione came back with Teddy just then, so he didn't say anything in response, his grey eyes studying the little boy that they had just been discussing curiously.
His shoulder length hair was a soft-auburn today, pulled back into a neat ponytail with a black band, and his eyes were the same shade of emerald green as Harry's, shining as he looked back at Malfoy, studying him as he was being studied.
"Teddy," Harry greeted him, bending down to scoop him up into his arms for a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
Teddy squirmed in his arms a little, but Harry knew that it was just for show, because the little boy had told him many times that he loved it when he gave him affection.
Teddy giggled then, hugging and kissing him back.
"Daddy."
Harry smiled, reaching out with his free hand to take Draco's, shifting closer to him.
"I'd like you to meet someone, Teddy. You know who this is."
Teddy nodded, a grin coming to his small face as he looked at Malfoy.
"Beautiful cousin Draco," he stated. "Daddy loves you."
Harry's cheeks pinkened again with slight-embarrassment at his words, but he nodded in agreement, his green eyes soft as he smiled a gentle-smile at Draco.
"That's right, Teddy, I love him, so we are going to be Bonded together now because of that love."
"Oh. So Cousin Draco loves you too, Daddy?"
Harry nodded, and Draco squeezed his hand in his gently.
"Yes, I do. I love your Daddy very much, so I hope that you will not mind that you'll have to share him from now on."
"No, I don't mind, Cousin Draco, because you make Daddy happy. Besides, I already had to share him with your memory anyway. Daddy never forgot you. Not ever since Hogwarts. He told me that he never would either. You're the only one besides me that can hold Daddy's heart."
Harry flushed again, his cheeks turning deep-red as he looked at Draco, shrugging his shoulders in a helpless gesture, his thumb caressing the back of the blonde's hand that he still held firmly within his own.
"So is Cousin Draco going to be my Daddy now to, Daddy?" Teddy asked as he spoke up again.
"Yes, Teddy, he is," Harry answered, finally releasing Draco from his loving-gaze as he looked at his son.
"But you do not have to call him Dad unless you want to, though you'll still have to listen to him the same way that you listen to me, okay?"
"Okay, Daddy, I will."
"Good boy," Harry said, smiling and kissing his little forehead. "Will you bring us my parents rings during the Ceremony?"
"Sure. Of course, Daddy."
"Thank you, Teddy," Draco said, moving to enfold them both in his arms tenderly, pressing his lips to the boy's soft-auburn hair.
The Bonder arrived just then, so Harry set Teddy down and watched him go and stand next to Hermione and Ron after handing the little boy the rings.
Then he took his place next to Draco, raising his left hand and placing his palm flat against the blonde's right, signifying the fact that, well they were both equals, Harry had chosen to take the place of the Submissive in their relationship, symbolically taking the place of the female in regards to taking his Dominant's name and Child-Bearing.
The man looked surprised at this, since of the two of them, Harry appeared to be the stronger one, but he nodded his head and drew his wand, placing it above their clasped hands.
"Do you, Draco Malfoy, promise to take care of, to treasure and protect, to provide for, Harry Potter? To do the same with any and all offspring that may or may not result from your union?"
"I do," Draco answered, his voice firm with commitment and love.
A wide strip of Slytherin green silk ribbon came out of the tip of the Bonder's wand, magic guiding it down to their connected hands, wrapping it around their wrists tightly, but not to tight, flaring brightly for a moment as the two ends connected together seamlessly.
"Do you, Harry Potter, promise to care for and to treasure, Draco Malfoy? To do the same with any and all offspring that may or may not result from your union?"
"I do," Harry promised, smiling at Draco over their hands as a second ribbon, this one Gryffindor red, came from the wand-tip and twined around their wrists the same way that the first one had.
"Then by the power taught to me, I now pronounce you Draco and Harry Malfoy. You may now kiss your Beloved."
They both moved closer to each other, their hands still bound by the ribbons as their lips met in a tender-kiss, feeling a sudden, soothing-heat on the skin where their palms touched, pulling back reluctantly to watch the ribbons magically sink beneath the skin of their wrists, leaving green and red tattoo-like markings on their flesh, the marks of a Bonding.
Teddy brought the rings forward as they each let go of the others hand, and Draco took them with a smile and a soft 'thank you' to the boy, slipping the former Gryffindor's mother's ring onto his finger and pressing a gentle-kiss to his knuckles.
Harry blushed, smiling as he handed him his father's ring, placing it on Draco's finger, surprising the blonde when he lifted his hand up until it was level with his face, closing his eyes and lowering his head to press his forehead to the back of his hand in a gesture of Submission, kissing his fingers when he raised his head again to stare deep into Draco's stunned, grey eyes with a soft smile.
"I love you, Draco…" he said quietly, his green eyes gentle.
"And I love you, Harry."
Harry smiled, moving to put his arms around him, laying his head on his shoulder.
"I want you to take me home, Draco…"
"Of course, Harry love. Um, where do you live?"
He blinked, perplexed when Harry laughed softly, lifting his head to look up at him.
"I meant your home, baby. Our home."
"You mean Malfoy Manor?" he asked in some surprise.
"Yes, unless you'd rather us not live there. I do have four houses, including the one that me and Teddy have been living in together."
"No, I'm perfectly fine with you living in the Manor, Harry. Both of you. It's not like there isn't plenty of space. Especially since you'll be sharing my room, and my bed. You have four houses? Why?"
"Potter Manor, my father's home, where me and Teddy have been staying since his parents died, the Evan's house, my mother's parents home before they passed, Black Manor, (Grimauld Place) that my Godfather Sirius Black left me before he was killed, and the Lupin's small house that they left me before they were killed. Teddy doesen't know about that last one, but of course it'll be his when he comes of age."
"Wow."
"Yeah. Um, just give me a sec, then we can go, okay?"
"Alright."
Harry beckoned to Teddy, Ron and Hermione, scooping the little boy up into his arms when they came over and kissing his tiny cheek.
"Teddy, I'm going to go home with Draco now, okay? I'll be staying the night with him so that we can talk, then we'll come and pick you up from Andromeda's in the morning before my ultra-sound appointment so that you can be there with us to see the baby."
"Okay, Daddy. Have fun talking to Cousin Draco."
"I will, Teddy, thank you."
Hermione and Ron congratulated them, Draco said goodbye to Teddy, and they all left, Ron back to work, Hermione taking Teddy back to his Grandmother's and then to work, and Draco and Harry to Malfoy Manor.
