A/N: Hey guys! Sorry bout late update… I've been visiting family for the last week so not had computer access! Hope you enjoy! And thanks for all the lovely reviews…
Just to clear up something. Someone asked where the Lemon was in the last chapter… what I meant in my A/N last chapter, was I've gone through all my previous chapters to make them more PC in order to stop my story from getting deleted! I haven't got any more Lemons planned for this story at all, unless I add a bonus chapter later…
Anyway, Enjoy!
Kit: Chapter 29
Making Plans
It was the next weekend, and Severus had once again surprised his fiancé with unannounced guests for dinner. Although this time, he doubted his young lover would mind.
"Love, why don't you go get ready for dinner?"
"Ready for dinner? What's wrong with what I'm wearing?" He looked down at his plain jeans and t-shirt.
"Well if that's what you want to wear, nothing. But normally you change before we have guests for dinner."
"Guests! Severus! Again? You can't be serious. Who now?"
"Trust me Harry, you will not mind these guests."
Harry merely glared at his lover, before quickly crossing to their bedroom, muttering about sneaky Slytherins.
Harry came back in 5 minutes later now dressed in loose black trousers (new to accommodate his slowly growing abdomen) and a pale blue shirt. He threw himself on the sofa besides his lover, sighing loudly and leaving an obvious space between the two. He wanted his lover to know he was annoyed.
Ten minutes passed in tense silence, where Severus continued to read his Potions Journal and Harry sighed loudly every couple minutes. There was soon a loud knock at the door, which Severus rose to answer. He returned a few seconds later followed by Remus and the head of Gryffindor Head of House.
"Remus! Hi," Harry exclaimed happily, getting up to give his father figure a tight hug. He then stepped back to welcome his head of house.
"Hello Professor McGonagall."
"Hello Harry. I'm glad to see you well. I think for tonight though you may call me Minerva."
"I, erm, okay Minerva." He stuttered slightly at the idea of calling his teacher by her first name and blushed brightly. She merely smiled at him and gave his arm a gentle pat.
"Tea?" Severus asked their guests once everyone was settled.
"Please Severus." Minerva answered.
Harry and Remus was sat on the loveseat, with Minerva and Severus both on armchairs. Severus poured them all some tea, watching his young fiancé leant on the DADA professor and gave him another hug.
"How have you been Cub?"
"Good. The morning sickness has finally stopped. And Lucius and Narcissa have started planning a nursery for the manor. Narcissa keeps owling me different colour palates for the walls and different wood types for the furniture. She owled me a baby name book too! I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but I can't wait."
"Are you going to find the gender out soon? Or are you going to wait?"
"I don't know," he said slowly as he looked over at Severus. "I think I'd like to wait, but…"
"That's fine. I will not mind either way, as long as our little one is healthy."
Harry shot him a bright smile, "We will wait then."
"So you'll have to choose neutral colours then, for the nursery?"
"Yes, I suppose I will. I'll have to tell Narcissa to stop sending blues and pinks in the colour palates."
"When will the wedding be?"
"I do not know actually. Severus?"
"Hmmmm?" he turned from where Minerva and he were conversing.
"When will we get married? Before the end of term yes?"
"Actually, that was part of why I invited our guests here tonight?"
"How so Severus?" Minerva asked while sipping her now slightly cooled tea.
"I was wondering Minerva, if you would marry us?"
If she had been any less well mannered, she would have spit her tea out. "Excuse me?"
"I did a little research on who was officially ordained to marry people. It is well known that besides official ministers, the minister of magic or the headmaster of Hogwarts can also proceed over weddings. The law states that the headmaster has to accept any marriage requests of any of those who call Hogwarts home. However, it is also stated in the bi-laws, that should the Headmaster of Hogwarts be called into doubt on his ability to act fairly and indiscriminately towards the couple to be wed, the deputy headmaster, or in our case, headmistress, can step in. Since we know that the Headmaster would never agree to marry us, you are legally allowed to. So, would you do us the honour of marrying us?"
"Of course I will. I have no idea what to do, to do so, but I will look it up. Of course, I would love to officiate your wedding!"
"Thank you Minerva." He shared a brief look with Harry, before turning to his colleague again. "In that case, we would like to get married as soon as you feel comfortable with performing the ceremony."
"Oh. Alright. In that case, give me a few days to quickly look it up. I can then see how long I believe I will need and we can book a date, that way you can owl your invites out."
"Invites will hardly be an issue Minerva,"
"We're only inviting the Malfoys from outside the castle. Everyone else we want to come is already here." Harry finished for him.
"Indeed," Severus added.
"You don't wish to make arrangements?"
"The only arrangement we wish is for the headmaster to be off the school grounds so we may wed in the great hall. I'm working on how to achieve that." Severus replied.
"Actually Sev, I have an idea for that."
"Yes?"
"Well, he's looking for me still right? And we want him out the way, preferably for good. Do the ministry have a children social services like the muggle world? If we were to OWL them all our evidence against him, about how he endangers children, including the Boy-Who-Lived of whom he supposed to be a magical guardian, surely they'd start looking into him. And when that happened, he'd go running off straight away to brainwash them into dropping the case. So he'd leave the castle. It'd make it hard to know which day he'd be gone. But we only need to floo Malfoy Manor and get people from the dorms. What do you think?"
The room was in silence. The three adults just stared at the young man.
"It's brilliant, and sneaky. Are you sure you want to do that though? It would likely be in the papers. Everything about your childhood…"
"I know, but it's worth it if it means he can never manipulate another childs life. And anyway, whatever happens I know I have you and Angelica and our little one," *cough*, "and Papa. And our friends. I don't like the idea of it, but it's a necessary evil, and if it means we can get married, I'll do it."
Severus stood from his chair, and squeezed onto the couch between his lover and the arm rest, before picking his lover up and placing him in his lap. He tilted his chin and made him look at him, "You are amazing," he said looking into his eyes, before kissing him gently. He would love nothing more than to deepen the kiss, but knew Harry would not allow that in front of Minerva or Remus.
"Well," Remus suddenly said, "Now that's sorted, shall we eat? I don't know about you, but I'm starving."
