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Once Remus had been woken up, they all tried to eat breakfast; Remus and Charlie had a better time of it than Harry and Sirius did. Sirius made a run for the bathroom twice more before the end of the meal and Harry had refused to eat anything but toast after almost sicking up again. Both of their mates were very solicitous toward them and tried to help as best they could. For the most part, though, Remus just spaced out in between bites; Charlie was curious as to what was making him do that; finally he got up enough nerve to ask.
"Remus, are you alright? I know I'm supposed to be asking them that, but there's something wrong."
Remus blinked several times before answering. "I was told that I probably would never father or carry a child; the lycanthropy doesn't allow much in the way of reproductive success."
Sirius cocked his head to the side. "Why not, Love?"
"The constant monthly change is torture; it's like having your entire body ripped apart for one night and then put back together the next morning. Now do that once a month for the last...oh...thirty years. Granted, it has gotten easier since Severus started making the Wolfsbane potion for me; but the transformation is still horrible."
"So, theoretically, you wouldn't be able to carry a child, if you were the one to get pregnant." Sirius was learning something about his mate that he had never known.
"Actually, the transformations stop if I'm the one to carry; but that won't happen."
"Why not?" Harry had stopped looking so green and was taking an interest in the conversation. "Why won't it happen, Remy?"
Remus sighed heavily. "I've always known that wizards can carry a child, especially if they're mates of some sort...like you and Charlie, me and Sirius and like Severus was with Lucius." The other three men looked at each other fleetingly...they needed to get to the Manor, so that Remus could be told. "I honestly never thought that I would ever become a father, except by adoption. Several years ago, right after Sirius was cleared, I had a healer who specialises in lycanthropy do a detailed examination of me; she told me that, because of the damage done to my body from the changes and years of just barely making it, my body wouldn't be able to handle carrying and my...erm...my sperm count was rather low." Remus flushed; he hadn't ever shared anything quite that personal with anyone other than Sirius. "So, Sirius is the only one of us who can carry...and that wasn't guaranteed because of the years in Azkaban."
Harry's eyes grew wide at the implications of that last statement. "Oh God, Siri! You're going to have to take it really easy now, aren't you?"
"Yes, Pup, I am. I'll have to resign from the Aurors completely now. I'll have to go see Kingsley tomorrow. I'll have to see if there's anything Minerva will allow me to do around here; maybe I could do theory for Transfiguration or DADA, just skip the practical stuff."
Charlie nodded in agreement. "Well, I'm going to be taking back CoMC from Hagrid this year, so maybe you can help there; I'm not known for the dangerous stuff like Hagrid is. I've had several complaints from students who've been injured during his classes; they all want to know when I'm coming back."
They all laughed and relaxed after everyone had eaten their fill of breakfast. Charlie helped Harry get ready for the trip to Malfoy Manor; he was going to carry Harry through the floo, so that his chair could be shrunk down. As Remus was holding Sirius throughout the trip, a thought occurred to him; what if this had something to do with the magic released the night of Harry and Charlie's bonding?
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Inside a very lopsided house, in a small town in the English countryside, a middle aged man was holding on to his wife, comforting her as she did something he hadn't seen her do in almost sixteen years. The wife was bent in half over the toilet, heaving up whatever she had eaten the night before and that morning.
The middle aged man was confused; his spouse hadn't been sick like this in years. He went back over what they had eaten and done for the last few days, but there was nothing that stuck out as being the cause of this episode. He summoned a cool, damp cloth and bathed her face and neck with it; as he did this, it struck him as to when the last time was that she had been sick like this...his only daughter had been born eight months later.
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Narcissa Malfoy and Severus Snape were hovering over the body of Lucius Malfoy. The blonde was currently lying on the floor, unconscious; Narcissa was calm as she slowly scanned his body; Severus was quietly freaking out.
They had been having a perfectly normal breakfast, prior to receiving guests for the day; today they were going to let Remus Lupin in on the secret of Lucius and Narcissa being alive. When Lucius had stood to go to the sitting room, he had turned ghostly white and fell to the floor. Draco sat on the floor next to his father, gently running his fingers through the long blonde hair; he looked up at Severus as they heard the sound of the floo activating in the next room.
"Draco, please go see to our guests; inform them that we will be with them shortly, but do not tell them that your father is unconscious."
"Yes, Mother." Severus took his son's place next to Lucius.
Draco walked into the main sitting room, where the floo was located, only to find all four men either on the floor or on the sofa. Harry and Sirius were lying on the sofas and their mates were kneeling on the floor next to them; Draco was eerily reminded of his father's condition in the next room.
"Is something wrong? Are you all alright?" Draco began to panic slightly; what if something had happened to everyone? A thought struck him just then...he didn't know about Remus and Sirius, but he did know that Harry and his father were the submissives in their relationships; could they be pregnant?
Charlie looked up at the younger man and smiled. "They're fine, Draco." Draco watched as Remus gently rubbed a hand over Sirius' abdomen and noticed the Charlie was doing the same to Harry.
"Are they...are they pregnant?" Draco's breathing halted momentarily as he thought about his father; could Lucius be pregnant again? Charlie and Remus nodded in unison, proud smiles wreathing their features. Harry smiled even though he looked rather pale; he motioned to Draco to join them.
"We are happy to inform you that we are going to have a baby."
Draco's eyes widened and he looked at the two older men. "Sirius, too?"
Remus' answer was interrupted by Severus' entrance into the room. Everyone took in the Potion Master's dishevelled appearance and the petrified look in his eyes. "Draco, come!"
After Draco ran out of the room, Charlie quickly re-enlarged Harry's chair and they all went to see what was going on. Sirius held Remus back and began whispering into his mate's ear, causing the werewolf to stare at him in shock.
"Lucius and Narcissa aren't dead? How?" As they joined everyone else in the dining room, Sirius continued to explain what had happened at the end of Draco and Harry's fourth year.
Draco was kneeling on the floor next to the chair Lucius was now sitting in; Severus was on the other side and Narcissa's hand rested on Lucius' shoulder from behind. Charlie and Harry looked at each other and grinned...it looked like there were going to be three babies born at about the same time. As Severus' hand caressed Lucius' flat belly, Harry's mind leapt back to the night of his inheritance...Severus, Sirius, Remus...and Molly and Arthur had been there. Was there going to be a fourth baby?
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"Arthur, I can't cast the spell on myself, you're going to have to do it."
Arthur nodded hesitantly; he didn't want to make a mistake. "Conceptus Indicia"
A light glow hovered over Molly's belly and they could both see a bubble in the centre of the glow. "Love, does that mean what I think it does?"
Molly nodded, just staring at the glow. Oh Dear Merlin! Her baby was fifteen; how were the others going to take this news?
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A/N- Sorry that it's such a short chapter, but I realised that I hadn't updated in almost two weeks and I felt horribly guilty...I promise the next one will be longer!
Now...sexes and names? Hints or suggestions anyone?
