The Age of Innocence is Over
By Phoebe Halliwell
Chapter twenty five
Draco returned to the house that evening when he knew that Harry would have called down a little, so that he could talk to him without fear that he was going to get attacked by Harry or his new boyfriend. Plus he knew that the twins would be in bed and as much as he wanted to be a part of their lives but this way he would have Harry's full attention.
He tentatively knocked on the front door, although he did this quietly so not to wake the children as he suspected they would be in bed with it being eight o'clock and all but as soon as Harry opened the door and let him in two curious heads were looking down upon them from the landing upstairs.
"Bed, both of you, now." Harry said firmly and both of the twins scurried back to their room without another word. "What did you want Draco?"
"To see you, I'm sorry about earlier, I know it was a bit of a shock, me just turning up like that especially with what's his name, it's a difficult situation and when you said you wouldn't wait for me I didn't doubt your sincerity but somehow I thought that you'd always be my Harry."
"I'm no ones Harry anymore Draco, I have raised those two on my own since they were born and I'll do the same with this one." Harry said rubbing his stomach, "this one isn't yours and I don't expect you to hang around and I don't want David to either come to that."
"I still love you Harry, I met so many people while I was travelling, men and women who would all have given their limbs to sleep with me but all I could think of was you, your beautiful emerald eyes, your gorgeous silky hair, and the great sex that we had, what made Darius and Callie, who are absolutely gorgeous children by the way, you are clearly a fantastic mum to them but I want to be the one standing beside you, I want to be a father to my children and even to the new baby, I'll treat it as if he or she was my own."
"Then that would be cause for concern, seeing as you don't treat your own very well, you leave them for prospects of a better life." Harry snapped at him before realising what he had just said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have snapped, I just can't seem to process the fact that your back."
"Well I am and I'm not going anywhere, I promise you that, I know we can't pick up where we left off but it would be nice to start again, just be together again, and to know the children." Draco said, he sounded so sincere, he was looking right into Harry's eyes, his own were gleaming hopefully, he wanted more than anything to be apart of the family once more.
"David still lives here though, I'm carrying his baby, not that he knows it yet but that is beside the point, how can I raise this child knowing that his or her father never knew it existed."
"Then we will tell him or her that I am its other father, we can forget all about David and that he ever existed, we could Obliviate him from our lives, I'll do anything Harry, please, just let me back in." Draco pleaded; it was so uncharacteristic of him to plead in such a way, he gave Harry a puppy dog look that he could never resist.
"I suppose you want to move back in and everything as well." Harry said, more making a statement of it rather than a question.
"If that's okay with you, I realise this is your house and I realise that you must have struggled to pay for it with the rest of your money not coming in for another year and all but I want to be close to you and the children, as close as possible."
"Everything you've done can't be forgotten with a few apologetic words and a kiss, it isn't as simple as that, before you left I questioned whether or not I loved you but when you were gone I missed you so much, your mother was a constant flow of support, I don't know what I would have done without her, she's great with the twins but she didn't like David in the least."
"I wonder why" Draco said with a smile, "I'm not going to push us Harry, if you want I could move back in with my parents for a while, I think that they would just be happy to know that we're trying to make it work, whatever you want Harry I'm willing."
Harry wasn't sure what he wanted, he knew that he had missed Draco terribly but was he truly ready to accept him back into their lives, he knew that David was only interested in him because he was famous, there was no depth there, he knew he had that with Draco.
Giving in and going with his urges Harry let go of whatever common sense that he had left and just kissed Draco, who was a little shocked but soon began to respond to the kiss. Having two years of sexual tension (he had spoke the truth when he had said that he had slept with no one since Harry) Draco was soon clawing at Harry's clothes trying to rip them from his body.
"We shouldn't …" Harry said as his brain kicked into gear, and it was telling him that he children were upstairs and still wide awake. However even as these words left his lips he was continuing to kiss the blonde who was all too happy to oblige.
It was an hour later when both lay sated and happy on the sofa, Harry was content to lay in Draco's arms and stay there forever. "I didn't expect that." Draco said truthfully as he gently stroked Harry's raven hair.
"Neither did I, I was all prepared to hate you." Harry told him, it was unfortunate that as they continued to talk they didn't hear the key turning in the lock and the front door opening.
"Harry?" David all but whispered, he should have known to keep his voice down but being so intoxicated with various liquor all sense had left his already addled brain. Both Harry and Draco both scrambled up from the sofa and began to pull some clothes on, David however wasn't stupid and when he saw them both pulling on trousers he immediately knew what had happened. "Bastard!" David shouted.
"Please keep your voice down, the children are asleep." Harry said sternly, he knew that this would no doubt progress to a full on argument and there was nothing he could do about that but he would not allow his love life effect that of the twins.
"No, you had no right to invite him into our house, OUR HOUSE!" David said outraged, "I knew he was your ex but this is just too much, your fat and getting more annoying by the minute."
"HEY!" Draco said, now he too was getting angry, no one spoke to Harry like that whether the two of them were together or not it didn't matter, "You no longer live here and you have no right to speak to Harry like that whether you are sleeping under the same roof as him or not."
"And who are you to judge, from what I've told you're no better to him, at least I was there of him, I helped him raise those children and where were you? You had run off to wherever and you never looked back." David retorted.
"Stop it both of you, neither of you have the right to shout and scream in my house, you are disturbing the twins. David, Draco is right, you no longer live here, pack up whatever you need and I will send everything else to you but I want you out. Draco as for you, I can't have you in this house right now, but I do want you in our lives, I need you in our lives."
Draco nodded accepting this decision, David however was not so accepting, he in fact was more angered than he had been a moment ago. "How can you take him back, I thought that we were good together?" He asked furiously.
"We were good together David, we're not any more, you haven't noticed that I'm pregnant with your baby, I'm not getting fat and I'm irritable because of the morning sickness and other symptoms, not to mention the fact that you haven't even noticed that I'm pregnant." Harry told him, "Draco please remove every memory of the baby from his mind and then send him somewhere far away."
"My pleasure." Draco said, even the shocked look of realisation on David's face wasn't enough to save him from Draco's wrath.
It was only one and half months later that Draco was finally allowed to move back in to their house and Darius and Callie got their father back. The day that Samantha was born Draco asked Harry to marry him and he accepted the proposal.
At the wedding Harry and Draco had Darius as their page boy and Callie as their bridesmaid, Neville had been put in charge of Samantha, he and Seamus had even agreed to take care of the three children while they went off on their honeymoon.
When Darius and Callie were five and Samantha was two Lucius finally got the perfect heir that he had been wanting in little Timothy. He was the perfect little boy and as a result of his birth they were all permitted to take the name of Malfoy, double barrelled with Potter of course.
Harry had not been happy about this but eventually he had accepted it as who Lucius Malfoy was, there was nothing he could do about it. After Timothy was born Harry and Draco decided that four children was by far enough of a challenge and enough of a curse on Hogwarts and its teachers.
Just as Harry expected them to be, Darius and Callie turned out to be trouble makers; they were no competition to even the Weasley twins and even excelled past James and Sirius with horrifying ease. The letters upon letters that Harry and Draco received were beyond worrying but Harry was never concerned, they were bright kids and excelled in their examinations as well.
Samantha was unfortunately the rebel, she demanded that she be sent to Durmstrung rather than Hogwarts and then was expelled before she even finished her first year. She had then been sent grudgingly to Hogwarts after Harry pulled a few strings as they were not generally allowed to accept students that had already been expelled.
Timothy was a hard worker, constantly encouraged by his grandfather of course, he was everything Malfoy just as Lucius had wanted him to be and even became head boy and quidditch captain at Hogwarts, he was a seeker just as Harry had been.
They never heard from David again which was fortunate because Draco probably would have killed him on sight, no one really knew what happened to him; he just seemed to vanish from all good society.
Of course Harry and Draco's marriage was never a smooth one, as every couple did they had their ups and they had their downs. But over all they were happy, Draco found it in himself to once again settle down to work and managed to get the balance right most of the time, Harry meanwhile had found a new hobby in writing and published under an assumed name, telling tales of his time at Hogwarts.
What did you think? Yes that was the end, no sequel either, I thought that you guys deserved this chapter as it's going to be hard for me to write for a while as I'm switching to full time work and taking my A-level exams. Wish me luck and there is no better way to get me through my summer of exams than sending me nice reviews, or any reviews to be honest, just review please. Phoebe.