Narcissa and Draco owled back and forth, keeping most everything a secret from Harry, and planned their July Twenty-Fourth wedding. Even Draco didn't know all the details. He did know that his mother had stuck to their guest list and that the wedding would be a beach theme at the manor.
Harry knew that Draco had been planning something, and he assumed it was their wedding, but he was surprised when Draco asked his permission to perform the fitting spell again.
"Mum and I have been planning our wedding for the past couple of weeks," Draco admitted.
"Don't I get any input?" Harry asked.
"Oh you've had plenty of input, you just didn't know it," Draco said with his classic smirk.
He then performed the fitting spell on both of them, and sent the results by owl to his mother.
Harry continued to try and get information out of Draco, but didn't get anywhere for the rest of the term. When school ended, Draco went back to Malfoy Manor and Harry went to Grimmauld Place with his godfathers.
"Do you guys know anything about the wedding?" Harry asked one afternoon.
Remus and Sirius shared a smile. "You probably know more than we do cub," Remus said. "Draco's kept this all very quiet. He wants it to be very special for you. We were both fitted for new robes, but that's the only thing we've heard about it."
"I do have some good news for you from Professor Dumbledore," Remus continued. "I've been asked to return as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this year, and Dumbledore and the school governors, after taking your teaching skills from your fifth year with Dumbledore's Army into consideration, have asked that you do a fast tracked apprenticeship for the next two years, and take over Defense when I'm ready to go back to writing in a couple of years."
Harry was stunned. "Me? Teach DADA? I'd love to! I used to want to be an Auror, but that just doesn't feel right anymore."
The marauders hugged their godson. They both knew that he was thinking about children with Draco, and knew that teaching and living at the school would allow him to spend the amount of time with his kids that both men knew he would insist on having with them, while giving him long summer vacations with them as well.
Draco continued to take his fiancé out on dates and Harry continued to try and get information out of Draco. The only thing Draco would tell him was to write his own vows and remember them.
Harry was unsuccessful in getting anymore information, until July Twenty-Third when he, Remus and Sirius all floo'd to Malfoy Manor for the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.
When they walked into the back gardens, Harry could tell that there were many things disillusioned, because the only things he could see were the aisle runner and the arch where he and Draco would be wed the next day.
Remus and Sirius were to walk Harry, as the younger partner, down the aisle to his groom. Ron, Luna and Hermione would be standing for Harry, while Blaise, Greg and Pansy would stand for Draco, Blaise and Ron doing the ring part of the ceremony.
The group went through the motions of the ceremony, keeping their vows to themselves until the actual ceremony the next day. Once it was certain that no one would forget their part, they headed inside, to the enormous dining room where a feast fit for a society wedding was served to them.
After the meal that started with a fresh green salad and ended with rich turtle cheesecake, the boys were lead to the sitting room where the found a large stack of presents. The boys looked at each other, confused. Presents were usually exchanged between the couple, not given to them by the guests.
"We knew Harry would throw a fit over a separate birthday party, so consider this part Harry's birthday and part house-warming party." Remus explained with a smile.
"We knew a little more than we told you," Sirius admitted, hugging his godson.
The boys sat down on a couch and Narcissa started handing them presents, a small portion addressed to just Harry, but most of them were addressed to both boys.
After the pile of presents had been opened and the boys had said their many thank yous, the crowd began to disperse, heading home to rest before the wedding the next day, which was sure to be a huge party.
Lucius invited Sirius and Remus to his study for a glass of firewhiskey before they headed home. Both boys assumed that Narcissa had forced Lucius' hand, trying to make a friendship between the men before their sons were to marry, but they took advantage of it and went for a walk in the gardens on the west side of the manor.
"Afraid I'll peek at something?" Harry teased his mate.
"Not likely, considering my mother has the best privacy and disillusionment charms on that part of the gardens," Draco teased back.
They stopped under a willow tree in the middle of the garden and Draco pulled Harry close, enveloping his mouth in a warm kiss. "I've missed you so much," the blond admitted.
"I can't sleep at night," Harry admitted. "It's too cold."
"Cold? It's like a hundred degrees?" Draco teased.
Harry smacked him on the arm. "You know exactly what I mean,"
Draco nodded with a slightly sad smile. "Tonight is the last night we have to be apart. Tomorrow we'll be husbands and from the gifts we got, I think my mother has something up her sleeve about where we'll be living."
"Harry!" they heard Sirius call from the manor. "Time to head home cub."
The boys made their way back to the doors, stopping once to share a goodbye kiss in private, where his godfathers whisked Harry back to Grimmauld Place by side-by-side apparation.
Draco and Harry both went to bed with smiles on their faces that night, knowing that there wouldn't have to spend another night of their lives apart, unless they wanted to.
