Warning: The following chapter has been censored. If you wish to read the uncensored version, you can find it on AO3.
When the final task began, I entered the maze and immediately shot up red sparks from my wand, giving up. I failed. Fleur made it through first, grabbed the cup, and nothing much happened, except for the cheer and roar of the crowd as we had our victor. Krum was right behind her and touched it only seconds later, so of course there was a fight between Karkaroff and Maxime about who really won. Fleur had the worst score going in, so if it was a tie, Krum's higher initial score should break it.
I didn't pay much attention to that. I'd taken my seat next to Draco before Fleur was even in the maze. So when Lucius Malfoy showed up to escort Draco away, I followed.
"What's going on, Father?" Draco asked as Lucius ushered us into an abandoned classroom and warded it with spells stronger than anything I'd ever seen.
Lucius answered by pulling up his sleeve to show his dark mark: dark, enflamed, and fully back. I'd overheard a secret conversation between Karkaroff and Snape about their marks, so I knew they were coming back. I'd also asked about it and was told it was a sign of Voldemort growing stronger.
"We need to go into hiding. Everyone knows you are dating Potter. The Dark Lord is coming back and he will be after me, for deserting him, and you, Draco, for fraternizing with the enemy. Our whole family is at risk. I've turned one of our properties into a safe house. I require you to go with me, no arguments," he said.
"I need time to pack. And time to say farewell," Draco answered, eyeing me.
"Make it quick," Lucius replied.
Lucius released the locking spells and the three of us made our way down to the dungeons. Snape intercepted Lucius there and directed the wizard into his office to talk. Draco and I continued on, to Slytherin.
Draco led me into his dorm room. It was a single room, with only one bed, but larger than the room I shared with four other boys in Gryffindor Tower. It even had an attached loo. The accommodations were clearly the best part about Draco's condition. I wondered then if Gryffindor had an unused dormitory just waiting for a Fairy. But I couldn't dwell on it, because Draco was leaving and he needed me.
Draco pulled out his trunk and then stood frozen in front of his wardrobe, the weight of the situation coming down on him.
I came up behind Draco and wrapped my arms around him. "It'll be okay," I said softly into his ear.
"He's going to kill you. He's going to come back and finish the job he started when you were a baby. How is that going to be okay?" he asked, turning around in my arms.
I could see that his eyes were shining with unshed tears. I brushed his hair out of his eyes and then one of those tears fell. I pulled him in tighter, into my body, and felt sobs wrack his chest.
"Tell me what I can do to make this better? How can I make it okay? You're going to a safe house with your parents. That should keep you safe. You'll be okay," I said.
"You won't be." His voice was broken with emotion.
"I have the protection of my mother's blood. That has kept me safe all these years and it will continue keeping me safe until I come of age. I'll be fine," I promised, remembering how Voldemort hadn't even been able to touch me first year.
"I want you to make love to me. We might never see each other again. I love you. I want to show you how much, before you die, Harry."
"I'm not going to die, Draco, I promise. But if you want to make love before you go into hiding, and you're sure about this, then we better do it before you father comes back." I was thinking with my little head by then and couldn't come up with a single reason why this might be a bad idea.
"I'm sure. Strip," he ordered.
I did as told and he stripped too. Then he was kissing me so forcefully that I kept having to take a step back to maintain my balance. He must've been doing it on purpose, because soon my knees hit the back of his bed. He kept right on pushing me down, until I was flat on my back and scrambling to get further onto the mattress, so that my legs wouldn't dangle so uncomfortably. As soon as I managed to scoot back, he climbed on top of me and straddled me.
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We lay there and cuddled when it was over. It was a glance at the clock and a realization of how late it was that had us moving, getting up and dressed and spelling away the mess. Draco was supposed to be packing and his father or Snape might walk in on us at any moment. We threw his things into his trunk as fast as we possibly could, summoning his possessions from all over the room.
Snape and Lucius both came in, when we mostly had everything, but couldn't possibly shut the trunk, because he hadn't packed it neatly.
"Draco, I've made an important decision," Lucius began.
"Yes, Father?" Draco asked.
"I am going to report to the Dark Lord with Snape, after everyone else has left. I am going to become a spy, to protect you. You and your mother will go into hiding without me," Lucius announced.
"Father! No, it's too dangerous! Mother and I need you," Draco pleaded.
"I will be more valuable on the outside. I will sacrifice myself, so that you and your mother will live," Lucius replied.
"But why?"
"I don't want either of you around the Dark Lord. You, because of Potter. Your mother, because the tapestry has been growing again. There is a fruit growing next to yours, Draco, and since it is too soon for a marriage fruit to start growing, we suspect she is pregnant. I don't want to risk anything happening to this baby. She can't lose another one," Lucius said.
Draco looked torn, unable to decide what to do.
"The Dark Lord has called his Death Eaters. Karkaroff has fled; didn't even bother to finish his fight with Madam Maxime about who won. Soon Lucius and I will report late and announce that we have both worked our way into positions to be of aid to him, with regards to capturing you, Mr. Potter. For now, the two of you need to stay in the castle. Narcissa will be traveling here too, to keep her safe. Later, when we return, Lucius will escort his family into hiding, where they will stay without him for the duration of the war. Our Lord is back and he is not a benevolent lord," Snape said.
And so it was. Snape and Lucius left. Draco and I pulled everything out of the trunk and set about packing it the right way.
After a good ten minutes of silence, I asked, "What are you thinking about?" assuming he would be worried about his parents and the possibility that he was getting a brother or a sister.
"Us. What we just did," he added, cheeks turning red.
"Do you regret it?" I asked.
"No, but I feel like everyone who looks at me is going to know," he admitted.
"How could they know? Nothing's changed about you, Draco."
"I feel different. I have this fluttery feeling, in here," he said, hand moving to his lower abdomen, where he'd said he'd felt full before.
"That's probably just that spell encouraging your vagina to grow. It's on the inside. No one can see it. No one will know; trust me," I said, gripping his hand reassuringly.
"But what if the fruit growing on our family tree isn't because of my mother? What if our having sex qualifies as marriage under the old laws and our tree is drawing you, next to me?" he asked, seeming upset by this. "My mother will be so disappointed if she thinks she's pregnant and she's not. Do you know how many babies she's lost?" he asked.
"No," I answered.
"Too many. I was four months early; only magic saved me," he answered.
I wrapped an arm around him in support, not knowing what to say. After several minutes, I finally asked, "Could we be considered married, though, under the old laws? We didn't make love until just now, after your father came. All we did yesterday was fool around."
"The tapestry has psychic abilities. It always starts before it happens. If my mother is having a baby, I wouldn't be surprised if the baby is conceived tonight. Although now that the plans have changed and father isn't going with us…" he trailed off.
"The future can change?"
"It's changed before. So many fruits have begun to grow next to mine and they have all shriveled up and fallen off the tree," he revealed.
I hugged him tighter. "Whatever is happening, we are going to be all right. I'll be safe under my mother's protection and you will be safe, with your father watching out for you. When things settle down, you'll come back to school and we'll be together again," I insisted.
He nodded into my embrace.
After a few minutes more, he got up and went back to packing and I joined him.
Soon his mother was there and shepherding us off to Snape's office to wait. It was late when Lucius and Snape came back; so late, that Draco and I had fallen asleep entwined on the sofa.
Author's Note: I would prefer for them to be older for the first sex scene, but with Voldemort coming back and Draco going into hiding, it had to be now.
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