Author's Notes:

I said that I would start this chapter immediately and that is what I'm doing, well not immediately, I had to get some toast and orange juice, but right after that I was right back to work So here is chapter four, Meeting the Future.

Taking a deep breath, Draco began to walk towards the door that led out of his bedroom; he was full of a new sense of confidence, as if anything were possible.

"Draco," Narcissa called out, Draco looked back towards his mother to see her holding up a pair of black ballet flats. "You forgot your shoes, sweetie," and he began to blush. "I got you flats because I didn't think that you would be able to pull heels off," she said with a laugh and she could see that Draco was disappointed with himself for forgetting the shoes and for his mother thinking that high heels would be too much for him.

As a child, Narcissa had never told Draco that anything was too far out of reach and when he was a child that was the truth, once he had told his father that he wanted a star and his father had found a way, of course, the spell didn't last long, but neither did his want for the star. And now, now, he was told that high heels just wouldn't do, how's shoes for a first thing to be told you can't do, it made him feel pathetic.

"Draco, don't worry, you'll be able to wear them someday, just for such a tiring day it's been, I don't think that you would have enough strength and balance to not eventually fall. I'll tell you what, I'm going to take off my shoes and put on some flat sandals," she said raising the hem of her dress and taking off her shoes. "Now I have to go to my room and get ready, we still have a half hour until we have to meet you're father in the dining room, so stay here until I get back.

Draco sighed and nodded as Narcissa walked out of his room and headed for her own, it was going to be a long night.

"Harry, come on we are going to be late," yelled Remus Lupin up the flight of stairs were Harry's bedroom was located.

"How am I supposed to get ready if I don't know where we are going?" he yelled as he came running down the stairs.

"We said formal, isn't that enough, or do you have formal clothes for every occasion?" Sirius Black asked as he entered the room.

"I don't see why you are keeping so many secrets from me, I'm almost an adult." Harry said as a matter of fact-ly.

"That's the key-word isn't it, Lil' Prongsy." Sirius said ruffling the boy's raven patch of hair.

"Sirius! Don't do that, the boy has bad enough hair as it is," Remus said scolding Sirius.

"Hey, it's not that bad!" Harry yelled as he tried to flatten his hair down, but he knew that it was futile.

"Oh, don't take it so hard, your father had the same hair and I made fun of him for it too," Sirius said smiling.

"That's until James broke his nose and Sirius never mentioned it again." Remus pointed out laughing.

"Hey, that's right, I forgot about that. That bloody bastard broke my nose and it hurt." Sirius said angrily.

"Oh but don't you remember Padfoot, I'm the one who made it feel all better," Remus whispered into Sirius' ear trying to calm him down.

"Yeah, I remember that very well, you made me stay in your bed for three days," he whispered as he began to nip at Remus' ear, who then began to purr.

"Hey, hey, not, here, remember we have someplace to be," Harry said trying to stop the two lovebirds from going all out on him right in the living room, though, it wouldn't be the first time. It seemed that most "family" activities seemed to end all the same and although Harry was glad to finally have two loving guardians and he didn't mind that they were both men, it just didn't favor seeing two older men, well older in his mind, jump each others bones.

"Yeah, yeah, are you ready?" Sirius said eyeing Harry up and down, shrugging as he looked at Remus who frowned.

"Accio bowtie" he said waving his wand.

"See, I can't properly dress myself if I don't know where we are going," Harry said defending himself.

"That is why," Remus said reaching out for the floating bowtie, "you have us," he said as he put it on Harry's neck and straightening it. "Okay, now you are ready."

"Finally," Sirius said sarcastically, "why can't you do it right to first time." Harry didn't say a word he just huffed a little, he liked the playful banter, but it took sometime getting used to. He was much better now at taking it as a joke then when he moved in at the beginning of the summer.

When he had first moved in, in June, they would joke about something and he would go off, wandless magic all over the place, it reminded him of the how the Dursleys had treated him he just couldn't separate the two. But over the last month, he had gotten used to it. He could hear the affection in their voices and he could tell they didn't mean what they said, but it was still hard.

"Okay, everyone grab onto this bottle of wine," said Remus. Harry looked curiously at the werewolf, "hey we needed a gift, so why not use it as a portkey." Harry just looked away and Sirius started to laugh, until there was that familiar tug at the navel and everything went blurry.

When things were finally clear, Harry began to take in surroundings that were very distinctively Malfoy. They could have been anyone's house, but the sheer elegance of it made him think of the Malfoy's. Everything sparkled and looked expensive, like a museum that he had once been to in primary school, everything was in place, but had no purpose other then to look nice and flaunt the owner's wealth.

"Ah, I'm so glad that you could make it, Mr. Black and Mr. Lupin. I pray you are doing well," a familiar voice said cordially. Harry turned to see Lucius Malfoy shaking hands with his godfathers.

"As best that can be expected and I'm sure that you have already met my godson, Harry over here," Sirius said pulling Harry closer to himself and Mr. Malfoy. Lucius extended his hand to him and hesitantly shook it and looked at a Sirius and Remus who said nothing.

He had known something was up, why else would his godfathers not tell him where they were going, there were never any secrets between them, but he hadn't expected to end up at Malfoy Manor shaking hands with the once right hand man to the late Dark Lord, it just wasn't one of the things that had crossed his mind and even now he couldn't believe it.

"Now, Lucius, the terms that you described in your letter are a very interesting, Sirius and I would like to further discuss the details with you in private so that we may make a decision before dinner," Remus said with a fake smile plastered on his face.

"But of course, Bibby," the blonde called as a house elf appeared.

"Yes, master?" the house elf that reminded Harry of Dobby before he discovered clothes anxiously asked.

"Take Mr. Potter into the sitting room, his godfathers and I have important matters to discuss and take this wine that our guest brought us into the kitchen" Bibby nodded and motioned for Harry to follow it. Harry looked back at his guardians but they were talking with Lucius in what looked to be a very important conversation, so he followed Bibby, seeing it as the only thing he could do.

"So, Lucius what the fuck was up with that letter, you don't have any daughters." Sirius said as soon as he was sure that Harry couldn't hear.

"Oh, but that is were you are wrong, I didn't have a daughter, but now I do. You see, it's not a hard thing that grasp." Lucius said.

"I'm still not following, did you adopt someone?"

"No, I didn't adopt anyone; they were born to Narcissa and I almost seventeen years ago and have bore the Malfoy name since that day," Malfoy said being very cryptic.

"Draco has a twin, why didn't they go to Hogwarts?" Remus questioned, this was just getting more and more confusing by the minute, he didn't know why he and Sirius had agreed to come to dinner, why they had been so interested in the proposition, oh yeah, Harry. They did it for Harry; Harry had been different since he defeated Voldemort. He hadn't spoken to Hermione or Ron in weeks, he stayed in room a majority of the time, he just needed something more.

Then they had received the letter from Lucius Malfoy, claiming that he had a female heir that he wanted to marry to Harry and they thought what their luck. A companion was what Harry needed, someone that was guaranteed to be there and then the children would help bring the old happy Harry back, well, it seemed like a good plan.

"No, Draco doesn't have twin," Lucius said a little aggravated. "You see it all started a couple of days when I found my only son receiving sexual gratification from a muggleboy that lives in the city and although I would accept his sexual preference it does me little in the area of an heir," Lucius looked at his guest, he didn't want to offend them because they themselves were gay, but he had to explain why he now had a daughter, seeing no expression, bad nor good, he decided to continue. "So, I decided that if he wanted to be with another male, then I would help him do just that and thus now I have a daughter."

Sirius and Remus just didn't know what to think. One hand Lucius was a complete and totally bastard, but on the other hand this being Lucius Malfoy he seemed actually think that he had done his son a favor, that wasn't known of Lucius and they could slightly see where he was coming from.

"Ah, well, can Sirius and I have a moment to talk about this," Remus said leading the other Marauder over to a corner out of Lucius' hearing range. "So what do you think?"

"I think in some sick twisted way, he means well, I just don't know if we should be doing this without including Harry in on this," Sirius whispered.

"I'm sorry, Padfoot, but how do you think that Harry will react, since Voldemort he hasn't been himself, I don't think he knows what to do. I think that Harry needs something resting on his shoulders, he's been so used to Voldemort hanging over his head that now that that is gone, he doesn't know what to do with himself." Remus whispered solemnly.

"Moony, I don't agree with the method, but I think this could be for the better. Harry's always wanted a family and I know we try, but as much as it pains me to say, we aren't enough." Remus nodded as Sirius continued to speak, "I think that we should listen to Lucius' conditions, but decide now that unless they are ridiculous that we are going to go through with it." Lupin said nothing, but Sirius knew that they were in agreement, this was their godson, James and Lily's only son, he deserved to be happy and locking himself away wasn't going to cut it. Walking back over to Lucius, Sirius and Remus nodded for him to continue.

"Now, the only thing that I want of the happy couple is that their first born son will bear the Malfoy name, after that their children can have whatever surname they please, unless, by some mishap the young Malfoy heir would pass or anything else that would cease the future of the Malfoy name in which case it would go to the next available heir. Understood?"

"Surprisingly, Lucius, I expected something more, so what's up?" Sirius asked curiously.

"Nothing is up, I just need a new heir and I understand that things between our families haven't been the best. I was actually surprised that you decided to show up today. I thought I would have to tug at the Black-Malfoy agreement to even get you to hear me out, what a pleasant surprise it didn't come to such." Lucius spoke his voice distinctively full of arrogance and money.

"Ah, well, if that is it, I think that Sirius and I will agree that a marriage between the families would do very nicely." Remus said.

"Yes, very nicely indeed," Lucius said with a smile. "Now, if you excuse me I must check on my wife and daughter, make sure that she passes inspection." Lucius said excusing himself from the room.

"So, that's it."

"That's it," Remus flatly said back. "Now who is going to tell Harry?"

"I vote Lucius, all in favor say "I""

"I"

"I- All opposed say "neigh""

"..."

"..., so there we have it Lucius wins by a landslide." Sirius said kissing the tip of Remus' nose.

"I just hope that Harry can find that happiness that we have."

"Knowing Harry, he will but it'll take a while. I predict that he will fall head over heels for Malfoy, but it'll take a while for Malfoy to except him," Sirius said in a matter of factually voice.

"When did you become a seer?" Remus questioned raising his brows.

"I didn't, but remember that is what happened to James. He was partnered with Lily in potions, he hated it, then he fell in love and then eventually she accepted."

"Accepted? Way to cheapen it."

"You know what I mean. Let's just hope that Harry will."

Back in the sitting room Harry was bored out of his mind, the only magazines that they Malfoy's kept were Wizard's Digest and a witches version of Oprah's magazine except it was called Z for Zelda. He briefly looked through them and found nothing that remotely interested him.

He sat in there for what seemed like forever before his godfathers returned.

"So how was the meeting with Mr. Malfoy," Harry asked with a little jealousy in his voice.

"Good, very good," Remus said patting Harry on the back.

"Yes, now what have you been doing to keep yourself busy," Sirius asked looking around the room. He hadn't been in their since he was seven, but the room had remained exactly the same.

"Dying a slow and painful death, seriously what do people do in here?"

"Drink and talk, and seeing as you are underage and alone I can see where that did create a problem." Sirius said in a playful manner.

"Yes, it does, fortunately for you, we are here now and there is now reason for you to go through with that slow and painful death, unless you really want it. You know that we are behind you 110, although damn, using our common sense we might call a doctor to save to you." Remus said shrugging and Sirius smirked while Harry just stood there.

Meanwhile, back in the dining room:

"Yes, this will do very nicely." Lucius said as he looked over Draco. "You my child are a very pretty prize and I have no doubt that you will please your new husband." Draco remained silent; he didn't want to say anything that would anger his father.

"Now, I will go get our guests and you will stand here until I return." Narcissa stood tall and nodded; Draco imitated her and did the same. Lucius left the room and made his way to the sitting room that Sirius, Remus and Harry had been occupying. "Dinner is now ready, follow me," he almost commanded.

As the follow Lucius through the Manor, Harry really started to realize how much money the family truly had. He had thought that foyer had been impressive, but it couldn't hold a candle to rest of the house. Just making it to the dining room the passed at least two other sitting rooms and three dining rooms, for what purpose Harry couldn't for the life of him figure out, but finally they made it to a large wooden door that looked to be from the Middle Ages and honestly he wouldn't doubt it.

Lucius grabbed the handle and tugged and as the door opened, Harry was in awe. This had to be the most beautiful room that he had ever seen. It wasn't as big as the others, it's table only holding about ten whereas the others were made for people in the hundreds maybe thousands.

Looking to where Lucius was now standing he saw Narcissa, the perfect trophy wife, but what was standing next her made his jaw drop, Malfoy in a dress!
So there you have it chapter four, and it's more twice as long as my other chapters, I just couldn't find a good place to stop and I'm sure that you won't mind. I'm going to continue working right now though, cause it's 5:45 in the morning and what else am I going to do? Review