Author's Notes: SMUT warning. It will be signified by a bolded (*) That is all I really have as far as warnings. Enjoy.


Draco wasn't sure what exactly woke him up. He sighed internally at the light he could feel shining on him from behind closed lids. He should have closed the curtains last night but they had been rather distracted. Draco grinned when he remembered the rushed registration of their hotel. The clerk had barely contained his disgust at their roaming hands and long drawn out kisses. They had answered the bare minimum amount of questions and might have given the wrong name for their room. It was a blur really, how could the employee expect him to speak clearly with Harry's mouth on his neck and his lover's hand on his thigh? The rest of the night flashed just as quickly. It had been a tangle of limbs and thrusting bodies.

He was about to fall back asleep and ignore the sun shining throughout the room but then a warm hand started smoothing sweet circles on his hip. He smiled at the feel of Harry's hand on his body. Draco knew that Harry was aware that he was awake. There was a small amount of humor in the bond, mixed in with a lot of love. This didn't deter him from keeping quiet. Illusions were something he liked occasionally. He wasn't going to break the quiet to speak up.

Harry furrowed his brows when he felt a flash of determination in the bond. He wondered if that was supposed to mean something. That coupled with Draco's odd silence was making him quite curious. Draco wasn't a quiet person, at all. His soulmate was almost always talking. Hell, most of the time he couldn't get the other man to shut up. Not that he wanted that, Harry adored everything Draco had to say, as long as it didn't get them in trouble. Which unfortunately happened a lot.

If Draco was going to remain quiet, then it was up to him to try and get his lover to speak. He grinned when a sudden idea came to him. He knew the exact way to make the blonde vocal. It might be a little unorthodox but certainly pleasurable.

There was only a couple seconds warning for Draco to suspect anything. The blonde felt curiosity, satisfaction and a lot of mischievousness in the bond. The hand that had been on his hip slid down lower and lower causing Draco to suck in a breath. Was Harry going to use sex against him? That would be just plain cruel.

When questing fingers trailed sensuously down his spine and straight to his cheeks, he had his answer. Yes, Harry was going to use sex against him. If he wasn't trying to focus on not paying attention to those wonderfully wicked fingers, he might have appreciated the Slytherin tactic of going right for the jugular.

(*)

The smooth skin of Draco's arse made Harry's eyes go half lidded. This may have started out as a means of making his husband talk but he wasn't going to stop at teasing. He was going to continue this further. Whether he won or lost, his cock was going to be buried inside the man he loved.

Draco couldn't help but melt at the firm pressure to his furled entrance. He willingly leaned back on to the lone finger. A breath escaped him when the digit breached him. He wanted to thrust back but he also didn't want to seem eager.

"You are still a little open from last night." Harry whispered hotly against Draco's ear. He added another finger just to make sure that Draco was stretched enough.

Draco had to bite his lip to stop from crying out and the pleasure of the extra finger. It was good but not enough to make him speak out. He tried to ignore Harry's words. He didn't want to think about last night. He didn't want to remember how good and hard Harry fucked him. He closed his eyes when exactly what he didn't want to think about, flashed in his mind. He almost moaned at the memory of being held against the wall and pounded into relentlessly.

The spike of lust that came a few seconds after his statement, let Harry know that Draco was trying to ignore him. Key word trying. He summoned the jar of lube to his hand as he nibbled lightly on Draco's earlobe.

"Are you remembering last night, baby?" He tongued the lobe before sucking it into his mouth. "Are you remembering how I opened you up with my tongue before using my fingers to stretch you?" He heard a hitched breath and grinned internally at his victory.

He hadn't been remembering that until Harry mentioned it. Harry's tongue was simply divine and should be illegal. He couldn't help it, he thrust back onto those fingers as he replayed the memory of that sinful tongue pushing its way in and out of his arsehole.

Harry moaned lowly, straight into Draco's ear at the thrust. He loved it when Draco showed how much he was enjoying himself. "That's it baby." He praised as he slicked up his throbbing erection. He quickly withdrew his fingers and immediately thrusted inside Draco's body.

He couldn't stop the loud moan if he tried. Draco arched his back and let out a deep guttural moan as he was filled. "Harry." He cursed his inability to keep quiet but quickly lost focus when he felt Harry withdraw before sliding back in and hitting his prostate spot on.

A grunt escaped Harry's mouth at his name falling from those tantalizing lips. He didn't even care that he had technically won this silent challenge. Nothing else mattered except for Draco's tight heat and the pleasure that was mounting.

Draco panted harshly at the next deep thrust. He tried thrusting back, to get Harry to go harder but his lover wasn't doing what he wanted.

"No." Harry told him firmly. "We are going to do it just like this." His hips were moving slowly but with a mission. Each aim of his cock was deep and right at Draco's prostate. "I love it when we go rough and hard but also slow and deep." He punctuated the last word with a deep piston of his hips.

Draco might have protested but another jab at his prostate had him gripping the sheets while his mind blanked in its ecstasy. "Mmm. Whatever you want Harry."

Harry almost stuttered to a stop once Draco's words registered. He knew that his lover wasn't even aware that he had spoken. Words like that didn't come out of the blonde… ever. This was almost a historic moment. One that he would demand recognition for… after they were done.

Draco let out a keening whine when Harry's already slow thrusts seemed to drag down. Why was Harry torturing him? What had he done to deserve such teasing? He opened his mouth to demand that his husband pick up the pace but before he could utter a word, the previously slow thrusts picked up pace, causing Draco to let out a choked moan.

"Yes." Draco moaned out. "Just like that." He praised when his prostate was pinched particularly hard. He loved how full he felt with Harry's prick inside him. Loved the way he felt empty when Harry slid out but had no time to miss it before he was being filled again.

Harry closed his eyes when Draco's already tight arse tightened further around him. "I always forget how good you feel until I am in you."

"Maybe you- fuck- should fuck me- right there! - more often." Draco meant it too. He didn't mind how they had sex. He loved being inside Harry just as much as he loved Harry fucking into him.

"Maybe I will." Harry was panting now, trying to keep up the slow pace as he drew closer to completion. It was harder than he thought it would be. His dick was telling him to just thrust into the willing pliant body.

"So good." Draco panted out as his eyes closed. "I'm not going to last." He warned as he clenched around Harry. He was trying to speed things along, to get Harry as revved up as him.

The half dying choked noise that escaped his mouth was not something that Harry was proud of. Damnit. He reached out a hand to grab Draco's prick in retaliation. He smirked briefly at the loud groan that echoed off the walls.

"Fuck Draco." Harry could feel the dripping precum making his grip slick and slippery. "You are so wet."

The pleasure in the bond spiked. Draco couldn't tell what was his and what wasn't. It didn't matter, it felt too good. He might have been embarrassed at the amount of precum if Harry's cock wasn't inside of him but he just couldn't muster up any shame or embarrassment. Definitely not when everything felt so pleasurable.

"I love it." Harry elaborated. "I love how much you are enjoying yourself. Love how tight you are. Love how wet your dick is getting." The closer Draco got to climaxing, Harry could feel more precum coming out. It was intoxicating to think that he was the cause of this.

"Nngh." Draco wasn't sure if that was a moan or a him attempting to respond to Harry. "Love you." That was all he could manage to get out before he was thrusting back onto the thick cock inside him.

"Draco." Harry moaned. He felt his balls tighten and his muscles clench. "I'm going to..." He trailed off right before he slammed into Draco hard, burying himself in the impossibly tight heat and coming in thick ropes.

Draco's eyes rolled into the back of his head when he felt the warm splashes of Harry's come. He ground against Harry a couple times before he seized up and spilled all over Harry's hand with a shout of Harry's name.

(*)

"What a way to start the day." Draco tried catching his breath as he listened to Harry's erratic breathing in his ear. Harry placed an open mouth kiss to Draco's sweaty shoulder as he cast a cleaning charm on them.

"I agree." Harry continued placing kisses along Draco's body, much to the blonde's pleasure. "Should we stay in bed all day and keep up this great start to the day?"

"As tempting as that option is." Draco began, tilting his head further up so that Harry could have better access to it. "I would like to show you the city. Paris has a lot to offer."

Harry lifted his head. "So I have my very own sexy tour guide?"

"I will be whatever you want me to be." Draco offered with a sly smirk. He got off the bed and swayed his naked hips in a way he knew Harry would like. The flash of desire in the bond was proof of this. "Get ready, love." Draco told him over his shoulder as he made his way to the bathroom.


They were standing at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower a little distance away debating if they would eat dinner at one of the restaurants inside or if they would go somewhere else.

"It will no doubt be ridiculously expensive inside there." Harry pointed out as he watched a bunch of people rushing around taking pictures. He loved people watching, it was interesting trying to understand the minds of bystanders.

"What do I care about trivial things like that?" Draco distractedly asked as he tried finding where he placed his muggle wallet. He would need it if they were to go inside. He really wished muggles weren't so difficult and that their money wasn't so odd.

Harry rolled his eyes as he finally looked to his husband. He almost snorted at the frustrated man. How hard could it possibly be to keep track of muggle money?

"Money isn't trivial." Harry chastised. He knew that they both had a lot of money in this lifetime but that hadn't always been the case.

Draco paused in his quest to give Harry a searching look. He remembered how hard it had been for Ethan to care for the both of them during their last life. Money had been tight and something that shouldn't be taken for granted. "You are right." He admitted with an apology. "It is easy to get lost in this lifetime, I overlooked what it was like when we didn't have this."

"It's alright." Harry pulled Draco into his arms and pressed a gentle kiss to his nose. "Did you decide if you want to eat inside or not?"

A pale eyebrow arched in response. "Why is it that I always have to be the deciding factor? When will you be the decisive one?"

"Let me get back to you on that when I have decided." Harry retorted with a cheeky grin.

Draco let out a long drawn out sigh. "Why did I not see that coming?" He held up a finger when it looked like Harry was going to reply. "That was rhetorical, angel."

As Draco began his search for his damn wallet again, he felt a pleased tingle in the bond. He smiled softly when he realized that it was over the endearment. Draco knew that Harry hadn't had much love or comfort growing up, in any of their lives, not that he had that either. So, it wasn't a surprise that Harry loved it when he called him pet names.

Harry decided that he would go back to people watching, he figured it would take his lover another five minutes before he found his wallet. He thought about telling Draco that he remembered seeing him place it in his back pocket but thought that it was much more fun to have the blonde panic in his search. Oh yes, being half a Slytherin had its perks.

There was a little old lady sitting in a walker not too far from Harry, he tilted his head to the side as he watched her watching an older gentleman who was tending to the grass. The man must be a landscaper. He smiled when the older man gave her shy looks.

"Draco?" Harry asked, not taking his eyes off the endearing older people. "What do you think their story is?"

"Hmm?" Draco asked as he looked to where Harry was pointing. He took in the odd flirty smiles and shy gazes. "I say that she is a five-time widower looking for another husband."

"What?" Harry choked out in surprise. Leave it to Draco to ruin his cute imagination. He felt amusement in the bond and scowled. "I think they are just lonely and never found the right person. Maybe they have been looking for love and just never got it. Perhaps they can find love in their old age."

"You are a sap." Draco said fondly, kissing Harry's cheek. "I like your theory better. Although, mine is just as likely." He added as an afterthought.

Harry rolled his eyes before placing his hand in Draco's back pocket.

"What are you doing? If this is your way of saying you want to go back to the hotel room, then by all means let's g-" Draco stopped talking when he felt something being pulled out of his pocket.

"Hey! There it is!" He grinned at the sudden appearance of his wallet. "I will never understand why muggles put back pockets in things." He narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "Wait a minute. You knew it was there the whole time, didn't you?" He didn't need to feel the amusement in the bond to know this, he could see the way Harry wouldn't meet his eyes.

"You dirty rotten sneak." Draco couldn't hide the pride in his voice if he had tried. "Here I was searching all over and couldn't find it. I thought that maybe I dropped it or even left it behind in the room. I was going to suggest we go back and look."

Harry bit his lip a little guiltily. He hadn't wanted Draco to think that he had lost it.

At the guilt, Draco rolled his eyes. "I take back all my pride. You can't be so Slytherin and then ruin it by being guilty." He tsked softly as he shook his head. "That would be the horrid Gryffindor in you."

"You like the Gryffindor in me." Harry pointed out with a grin as the guilt slipped away.

Draco scrunched his nose up in thought. "No, that isn't it." He argued. "It isn't necessarily the Gryffindor that I like. It is just you. I love everything about you. If you were a Hufflepuff instead of a Gryffindor, I would love that just as much." He tried to explain. "I just love you."

There was a flash of love before Draco was nearly tackled in a hug. "I. Love. You. Too." Harry kissed every inch of Draco's face and relished in the light laughter that followed each kiss.

"Excuse me."

Harry and Draco broke apart at the new voice. They looked down to see a small boy, about four or five. The child had dark black hair that reached his shoulders and large eyes that seemed way to big for his face.

"Hello." Draco started kindly before kneeling in the grass, so that he was eye level with the little boy. "What can I do for you?"

"Master Draco, it is Kreacher."

The surprise in the bond was enough to move Harry into a kneeling position too. What the hell was Kreacher doing here and why was he looking like that?

"Kreacher why are you in a glamour and what are you doing here?" Draco wondered the exact same thing Harry had. He had never seen a house elf in a glamour before, it was distracting him.

Kreacher's hands shook nervously. He shouldn't have come, he was breaking rules by apparating to his Masters' side without being called. "Mister Malfoy told Kreacher to tell Master Draco that it is urgent that he fire call. He did not know which country you would be in. Mister Malfoy said that an owl would take too long and he needs to talk to you at once."

Draco and Harry shared worried looks and an uneasy feeling in the bond. If Lucius was sending Kreacher after them, then it didn't sound good. Harry was worried that it had something to do with Remus and Teddy.

"Thank you, Kreacher." Harry told him with a small smile. "How is Sephtis and Azad?"

Kreacher scowled. "The snake is fine." He said with a fake smile that fooled no one. "He is just annoying Kreacher and Kreacher can't even make him into stew." He mumbled under his breath.

Draco grinned widely. So it would seem that the feud between Sephtis and Kreacher is still going strong. "Have patience." Draco tried reasoning, it was a false reassurance. He doubted any amount of patience would help those two. "We will go back to our hotel and call father. You can go back home." They waited until Kreacher walked away before they turned around.

They made their way to some buildings near the attraction and delusioned themselves before apparating right to their room.

"What do you think Lucius wants?"

Draco bit his lip as he dug around his bag for floo powder. "I am not sure. I don't think it is good though." He paused to give Harry a worried look. "He wouldn't interrupt our honeymoon for no reason."

As soon as Draco found the powder, he was at the fireplace. "Malfoy Manor." He waited with baited breath until the face of his father appeared.

Lucius sighed in relief when his son's face appeared in the fireplace. He had been worried for hours. "Where is Harry?" He demanded to know.

Harry kneeled down next to Draco and tried to get his face in there too. "I am right here. Are you okay?"

Lucius laughed a little shakily. "It is funny you ask me that when I should be the one asking you that."

Draco and Harry shared a look as they both felt confusion in the bond. "I am afraid we don't understand." Draco finally said. "Has something happened?"

"I don't know. How about you tell us."

Harry arched his brows at the sound of Severus's voice. "Is the whole family there?"

"You bet your small little arse we are." Fred and George spoke up at once.

"My arse isn't small, is it?" Harry turned to Draco who rolled his eyes.

"Harry love, I think your arse is fine. That is not the point." He gestured back to the fireplace. "What is going on?"

"Yes. What is going on?" Remus asked from a chair near the fire. He bounced Teddy in his lap as he looked around. Lucius had firecalled them this morning and said that Harry and Draco might be in trouble. It was a good thing it was the weekend or they wouldn't have been able to come in such short notice.

"I second that." Pansy and Blaise said in unison. They had been given a family special circumstance exception to be able to leave Hogwarts. When Lucius had said that something happened to Harry and Draco, they panicked.

Harry scrunched up his brows. "Can someone start at the beginning." He asked, things were going nowhere.

"Please tell us why you were seen by a hospital in Paris." Narcissa was barely keeping her emotions in check. After everything with the Flamels, she wanted to make sure her family was safe and sound. "We had to find out from a bill that you were even seen!"

Everyone in the Manor narrowed their eyes when Harry and Draco adopted sheepish expressions.

"Fuck." Harry and Draco uttered at the same time. They hadn't thought that the family would find out about it so quickly. They had only gone to the hospital last night.

"Harry. Draco." Severus began in his no nonsense, answer me now tone of voice.

Draco rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "We may have run into some Partales yesterday."

There was a stunned silence before all hell broke loose.

"What do you mean you may have?" Severus asked.

"What were they like?" George wondered.

"Was there really two of them?" Pansy whispered.

"Are you alright?" Narcissa bit her lip in worry.

"How did you get away?" Lucius demanded to know.

"What kind were they?" Blaise asked fascinated.

"Did they do anything to you?" Remus tried looking at their faces to see if they were harmed but the damn fire wasn't showing anything.

"Where did you find them?" Fred whistled lowly. He couldn't imagine coming across Sinister Fairies.

Both boys sighed heavily as everyone spoke at once. This is why they hadn't mentioned anything to them. They didn't want everyone to worry.

"We were in Sicily."

Everyone gasped as one.

"What on earth would possess you to go there?" Lucius asked harshly. Sicily of all places. "It's not exactly honeymoon worthy."

Draco felt a wave of guilt from Harry and he kissed his husband's cheek. "It's not your fault. You didn't know."

Harry took a deep breath and looked at the now curious gazes. "I got a letter from Blaise's mum. She said that her summer home was being remodeled and that we would be welcome to join her in her new home in Sicily."

"Mum has a home in Sicily?" Whispered Blaise. His mother hadn't told him anything of the sort. It wasn't like they were particularly close but he thought a new home would be something that would have been brought up. He was worried. Nothing good came out of being there. Blaise worried that his mother was into something that she shouldn't be. Had she chosen to get involved with the politics down there?

Severus and Lucius shared a confused look. Belinda Zabini was not known for making political statements. Getting a home in Sicily was doing just that. That meant that she had chosen a side.

Lucius looked to his son. "That doesn't explain why you went there. You know better."

Harry bit his lip. "Well it was my fault. I had set up a portkey and it went off right as Draco told me to drop it. He tried to warn me. I didn't know that Sicily wasn't a place that we should go."

The twins broke out in identical grins. "You set up an illegal portkey?"

Harry couldn't see them but he could hear the pleased surprise in their voice. "That is neither here nor there." He pointed out with a shake of his head.

Narcissa shared a long and considering look with her husband. "What happened while you were there?" She asked as she knelt down next to her husband.

"Her home is under the protection of the Goblin Cosa Nostra." Draco looked right at his father when he said this.

Blaise leaned back in shock. His mother actually chose a side. This was hard for him to understand. His entire life his mum had told him how important it was to never pick a side. She always told him that only idiots burned bridges by picking one side. Staying grey kept open all options. He couldn't help but wonder what made his mother pick a side.

"Is she alright?" Blaise asked worrying his lip.

Harry looked to Blaise with a small smile. "Her and her husband are alright."

Blaise arched his brow. "So she got remarried?" There was no surprise in his voice. Just curiosity. "I wondered how long she would wait since Richard."

"Richard was two husbands ago." Pansy spoke up. "I thought her last husband was Enrique."

Blaise furrowed his brows. "Are you sure? I could have sword Richard was the last one." He thought back to the few letters he received from his mother and tried to remember which one was which. The only letters she sent him were when she remarried. Which happened to be a lot.

Pansy and Blaise looked to each other as they both thought back. "Fuck if I know." They uttered together before looking back to the others.

"I haven't received a letter about her new marriage." Which was odd, Blaise thought. "Did she seem okay?"

"A bit rude but otherwise okay." Harry told him honestly.

Blaise, Pansy and Draco snorted. "Rude is my mother's only attitude, I am afraid."

"How did you come across Partales?" Severus demanded to know. He always hated how easily distracted teenagers could be.

Draco ignored Severus's tone and looked to Blaise. "Your mother's new husband is a part of the Cosa Nostra." He heard a few gasps and nodded sagely. "We saw the insignia on his skin."

Blaise leaned into Fred as he tried processing this. He wanted to know what the hell is mother was playing at. He would have to send her an owl later and figure this all out.

"The man insulted Harry and I may have implied that I would be doing business with the Dwarves if this was how a representation of the Goblin Cosa Nostra was going to talk to my husband." Draco heard a couple snorts and he grinned despite the situation.

"When we left their property, we were taken by the opposition."

Remus felt a little dread at the statement. He couldn't imagine how scary that would have been. They were so young to have to go through so much.

"They asked me to break into Gringotts." Harry grinned at the stunned expression on Lucius's face.

"Tell me you didn't." Remus begged. "Tell me you didn't break into Gringotts… again."

"Why is it that everyone seems to forget that I didn't do it alone?" Harry was pretty sure that he would be saying this for the rest of his life.

"No, I didn't break into Gringotts." Harry sighed heavily. "I told them no."

Draco snorted loudly. "No. He went off on the third from the top."

Narcissa gasped. "What?" She couldn't believe they had even met someone that was third from the top. When she was younger, in her early twenties, she had met a dwarf that was 15th from the top in Venice. It hadn't been the most pleasant experience but it had been interesting.

"When you say he went off…" Lucius trailed off.

"I mean he went off on the guy. Told him it was wrong of them to kidnap us, told them they were pretty much crazy for even suggesting that he would break into Gringotts. If it hadn't been the Cosa Nostra in front of us, I would have cheered him on." Draco admitted.

Severus and Lucius sighed heavily. Telling off the Cosa Nostra, that would be a foolish thing that Harry would do. Gryffindors.

"I imagine that they didn't take that very well." Severus quipped.

Harry winced slightly. "No. They didn't. That is when the Partales came to play."

Draco nodded along. "They were body manipulators."

Remus sucked in a sharp breath.

"What kind of body manipulator?" Pansy asked, biting her lip. Were they talking blood manipulators, or even respiratory manipulating?

"One manipulated the toxins inside the body while the other one could take things out of the body, like vitamins and oxygen." Draco explained. He wanted to skim over the details so that no one became too concerned.

Lucius narrowed his eyes. He could read between the lines. Things must have been bad. "How did you both make it out of there?"

Harry and Draco shared a look. "We don't know." Harry admitted, he saw the disbelieving looks being shared around the room. "It was pretty grim. Our breath was running out, we had one bubble charm between us." He ignored the startled looks. "There wasn't much more that we could do. I-I thought it was the end." Harry admitted before he buried his face in Draco's neck.

Draco pulled Harry into his lap as he sat fully on the floor. He ran a hand up and down Harry's sides. "I've got you." He whispered as he placed a kiss on the messy hair. Draco looked up into worried eyes. "Something saved us. I don't know what it is but we were saved by someone. They didn't show themselves. We only got a cryptic message saying, 'Until next time'."

There was a silence that followed Draco's explanation. Everyone was lost to their own worried thoughts.

"Do you have any thoughts on what it could be?" Remus asked worriedly. He was grateful that something or someone had saved them but he was suspicious at the same time. Why did their rescuer have to remain a secret? Why not come out and say who they were? This didn't sit well with him.

Draco wrinkled his forehead in thought. "There isn't much to go off of to be honest." There was several things that their mystery hero could be and that was saying it wasn't some kind of illusion brought upon by a spell.

"What did the hospital do?" Severus wondered with narrowed eyes. "Did they give you any potions?"

Draco winced as he shifted his eyes towards the floor. "Yes, I checked them over before we took them." He knew that Severus wouldn't be happy about them taking potions he didn't make himself.

Severus shook his head. "Draco, taking potions you don't make yourself is never a smart plan." Honestly, he thought he had trained them better than this. It was common sense when it came to survival.

"I know that." Draco bitterly spat out. This wasn't his first potion. "I was a bloody potions master in my last life." He knew he was taking his frustrations out on Severus but he couldn't help it. The situation had been stressful enough, he didn't need to be told that he made a mistake. "I needed a professional opinion and I checked the potions twice before we took them. Hell, I took them first, just in case something was wrong with them." If they had been messed with, it would have hit him and not Harry.

"What?" Harry asked, cutting off any scathing reply Severus could have come up with. He lifted his head to search startlingly beautiful grey eyes. "Draco, when are you going to get it through your head that we are in this together?" He sighed heavily. "We should have taken them at the same time. We are equals in this marriage." He reminded him with a frown. "I need to know that you won't make decisions like that without me."

Draco searched the bond to understand just what it was that Harry was feeling. He didn't feel anger just frustration and a lot sadness. He hated knowing that he was the cause of any amount of sad emotions. He was having a hard time understanding why it was a big deal. Draco just wanted to protect Harry from the whole world if he had to.

By the expression on his husband's face, Harry knew that he was getting nowhere. "Let me ask you this." Harry began. "What if I suspected that our waitress poisoned our food? What if instead of telling you of my suspicions, I ate the food before you could? That way if something was wrong with the food, it would only affect me."

Draco tightened his hold on Harry as he thought over the example. He didn't like it. He would want to be notified before Harry would just eat the food. Surely, there would be other options than just eating potentially deadly meals. Suddenly, he understood. The fight went out of him immediately. He tilted Harry's chin up so that he could look into those green eyes he loved so much. "I'm sorry."

The apology combined with the regretful emotions in the bond let Harry know that Draco understood. He nuzzled Draco's jaw before placing kisses against the smooth skin. "It's okay, my love."

Draco didn't think so but he would make it up to Harry anyways. He tilted his head to the side, indicating that Harry could continue kissing him. He felt a smile in the side of his neck, causing his own smile to blossom. Draco jolted when Harry kissed over a pulse point. He placed his hand on the back of Harry's head, keeping his lover in place. "Oh." Draco breathed out.

Several loud coughs brought them back to reality.

"Now that you have both settled a lover's dispute." Severus's sarcastic voice popped the bubbling lust that had started to settle. "Are you both alright?"

Harry looked to Draco and smiled softly. "Yeah, we are alright." He pressed one last kiss to Draco's neck before he looked back to the fire. "What about you guys? How are you all? How is Hogwarts? The board? The Manor? Do you miss us?"

Lucius chuckled at all of the fast-paced questions. "Yes, we miss you." He ignored the quartet's, 'Not really' reply, everyone knew how despondent the quartet had been without Harry and Draco.

"The Board of Governors is just as boring as it ever was." Lucius wasn't exactly lying. The School Board of Governors had always been tedious, which hadn't changed. Only… with everything going on at Hogwarts, things had been tense during the meetings. He was the only one who was voicing an opinion on the matters of the Slytherins. He was having a hard time getting anyone else to recognize the ongoing problems stemming inside the school. He needed teachers to admit what was going on.

"The Manor is the same as usual." Narcissa added when it seemed like Draco might have some questions. She wasn't a big supporter of keeping things form her son but everyone else had already backed the plan. Even she had to agree that their honeymoon deserved to be uninterrupted.

"What about Hogwarts? How is school?" Harry asked. He was wondering what it was like now that the war is over. He was curious to go back but not enough to end their honeymoon. He adored every moment he got to spend with Draco that was just with the two of them.

Everyone in the Manor looked around helplessly. No one knew what to say. They didn't want to flat out lie but they also didn't want to tell them what was happening. "School is…" Pansy trailed off uncertainly.

"School." Blaise finished for her firmly.

Draco arched a brow at the vague statement. There was something more to it than that but he wasn't sure what. He looked to Harry and noticed that his soulmate had furrowed brows.

"School is school?" Harry asked, not sure what that even meant. "Does that mean it is the same as it always has been?"

Remus bit his lip as he shared a 'what do we do?' look with Severus. Teddy, who had been looking around the room contently, must have picked up on Remus's tension as he let out a sharp cry.

Harry smiled softly at the sound of Teddy. He wished he could hold his godson, he was missing the sweet baby.

"I am going to take care of Teddy." Remus jumped on his golden ticket out of the room. "Severus and I need to get back to the castle anyways."

Pansy and Blaise sprang up. "They are our chaperones, so we have to go as well." Which was true. The only reason they had been granted a way out of the castle was for them. They had previously been denied due to their horrible 'student record' for the year.

Fred and George stood up as well. "If they are leaving, then we must get back to the shop." The six of them didn't even wait for a goodbye, they just booked it out of the room.

Harry looked startled at the sudden departure. He looked to Draco and then back to the expressionless Lucius in the fire. "Is it just us or was that odd?"

Lucius was proud of his ability to show nothing on his face. "It is just you." He almost snorted at their incredulous expressions. "I hate to follow suit but we must depart as well."

Draco dropped his mouth open in surprise. What the hell was going on? Everyone was acting odd and he didn't like it one bit.

Once goodbyes were said and the floo was shut down, Harry turned to Draco. They both were of the same opinion that something wasn't right.

"They are hiding something from us." It was a statement not a question.

"Oh yes." Draco agreed. "We will get to the bottom of this."

Harry watched Draco summon a piece of paper and a quill curiously. He would ask what the blonde was doing but he knew that Draco would tell him in his own time. He leaned against the wall, still on the floor and watched the elegant way his lover wrote.

"Kreacher." Draco summoned. He could feel Harry's curious gaze on him and moved till he was sitting in front of his husband. He smiled when Harry's arms came around his waist and the weight of a head was on his shoulder.

The light flickering in the distance made the name the letter was addressed to, stand out.

Theodore Nott


Author's Notes:

Okay, another chapter where not much happened. I chose to write out the recap instead of just summarizing it because I felt like this type of situation would need to be talked about. Also, I liked adding in the other characters! It was about time my lovely side characters made an appearance.

I sincerely apologize that there was hardly a single thing to Paris. I chose Paris because I previously mentioned that the hospital was in France. No matter which city I had chosen for the city to house the hospital, there would have been next to nothing of the actual city. Paris was just the unlucky one to house the hospital. They did more than just explore the Eiffel Tower, but that was all I was able to put in the actual story.

I don't have much to say on the smut or the recap. That was all pretty explanatory.

Does this count as a cliffhanger? I do not know, let me know what you think.

Okay. Theodore Nott. I am introducing another character. I can't exactly say he is new since he was a part of the books, but he is new to my story. I would love to hear what you think Theodore will add to the mix. Any thoughts on this or what you think will happen?

Let me know.

-XxTheDarkLordxX