The next day, when Harry opened his eyes, he had an incredible headache. He straightened up hardly in his bed and laid his bare feet on the ground, which sent a cold draft into his body and slightly calmed his headache. He rubbed his eyes and jumped slightly when the bathroom door opened and closed abruptly. He opened his eyes at once, ready to violently reprimand the jerk who had dared to make his headache worse. But he was shocked when his eyes fell on Draco Malfoy coming out of the bathroom, only wearing a towel around his waist. His hair was still wet and drops of water were streaming down his finely muscled chest. Harry was staring at the blonde and Malfoy finally realized it. He stared at him too.
"Do you want me to take down the bottom too, Potter?" Harry's eyes widened and he blushed heavily. Why was he fixing him like that? He was not doing well, really. He hurried back to his bed and quickly closed the curtains. He pulled back as far as possible, sticking his back against the wall. He pulled his legs against his chest and rested his chin on his knees. He thought back to the events of the night before and groaned in disappointment as he realized it was clearly not a dream.
Flashback
"It's because they're your children ... Coming from the future" Dumbledore said. His declaration was followed by a great silence. All the students of the present day were wide-eyed. Hermione was the first to reconnect with reality.
"I knew it!" She exclaimed happily. The eleven children from the future laughed discreetly at her enthusiasm.
"Is that why Emett looks so much like Harry?" Ron, who seemed to understand the situation, asked.
"Yes Ron, that's why" The redhead shook his head. Dumbledore cleared his throat, ending the exchange.
"Well, that's a good thing done. But there are other things I need to share with you" Harry sighed slightly. He had just told them that their children from the future were here, and he dared to say that there was something else! As if it was not strange and incredible enough, the Headmaster had to add even more.
"To facilitate your understanding, I must show you. If you please" He said to them, showing the door with his hand. Hermione, Ron and Zabini got up first and went down the stairs. The blond girl then got up and took the little blond boy in her arms, she also grabbed the second boy's hand. She walked out the door, the three little girls following her. The four boys who had knocked on the door of the potion class then got up with a laugh, followed by Emett. The only ones that were remaining in the office were Harry and Malfoy, accompanied by Dumbledore.
"Are you all right, gentlemen?" He questioned them. They both stared blankly, trying to assimilate the news that was falling on them. Malfoy came back to him first and looked up at the director.
"I was wondering something, sir"
"I'm listening, Draco" Dumbledore replied with a benevolent smile.
"Why were we only five to be summoned?" The Headmaster smiled softly.
"These eleven children are yours, so I didn't see any point in warning the whole castle" Draco nodded and the three wizards in the room left to find the others waiting down the stairs. Dumbledore took the lead and they all followed him. Harry had joined Ron and Hermione who were chatting with Nathaniel and his boyfriend. They walked a few minutes before the older one stopped in front of an empty wall. A door slowly appeared on the wall and the Professor McGonagall came out of it. With a wand, Dumbledore showed two statues representing the two founders. He walked over to them and pronounced the password.
"Pacem" The door had disappeared from the wall, leaving only bricks. A rectangle made of several bricks slowly detached from the wall and one by one, the bricks separated to form a passage leading to a room. Professor Dumbledore looked at her colleague and she nodded before leaving.
"Well, let's go" He stepped into the alcove. They all headed at the same pace but it became clear that they wouldn't all enter at once, so they entered one by one. As he entered, Harry's eyes widened and his mouth opened slightly, imitating the carp perfectly. He looked at the room into which they had all entered. It was rather large and square, the corners of the room were rounded and a fireplace took place on a whole section of wall. The opposite side of the fireplace contained a huge library that took the whole wall. Harry imagined the joy his best friend felt at seeing all these books. He went back to watch the rest of the room and he saw a spiral staircase discreetly hidden in one corner of the room. He finally observed the tones of the room, it was in neutral tones. There were different shades of gray, a little black and a lot of beige. In the center of the room were a dozen armchairs and sofas. Harry thought they looked more than comfortable.
"Excuse me, Professor" Hermione began. "Where are we exactly?" Dumbledore smiled gently and cleared his throat.
"We are in your new common room"
"What!?" They all shouted in one voice. Dumbledore laughed softly at their astonishment.
"Following these strange events, which, by chance, brings together the Gryffindor and Slytherin houses, I decided it would be easier to get to know each other if we all lived together" They all stared at him with wide eyes and he smiled amusedly before coming out of the room, leaving them in utter misunderstanding.
"Is he really going to let us here?" Malfoy said indignantly.
"Apparently" Harry replied with a sneer. Hermione, who didn't want an argument to break out, asked the children if they could explain the situation to them.
"All I remember is that I was sleeping and when I woke up, we were lying in the Chamber of secrets" The young blonde began.
"Where?" Harry exclaimed, stunned. He had his mouth wide open again and he heard Malfoy sneer in his corner.
"You should shut your mouth Potter, you could swallow something" Harry glared at him and the blonde's laugh redoubled. This little incident made Harry and the others forget what the blonde girl had announced.
"By the way, I'm Lyra" She announced, extending her hand to Harry's. He grabbed it with pleasure as he looked into her eyes, then frowned and glanced at Nathaniel and then back at her. They had the same eyes.
"You're Nathaniel's sister, aren't you?" He saw the green eyes of the girl twinkle.
"Oh yes, he's my little brother. Ezekiel, Emett and Lesath are also my little brothers" She said, each pointing to them. Ezekiel was probably Nathaniel's twin brother and Lesath was the little boy she carried in her arms. She then pointed to Jordan.
"He's Jordan, but you already know him for the most part, the two little redheads are Irina and Isallys and they are Jordan's sisters" She then showed Nathaniel's fourth friend and the little girl next to him.
"They are Alarik and his sister Erika and the youngest is Seth" She finished pointing to the little boy standing with her.
"You really are our children?" Ron asked.
"I know it's hard to believe, but yes" Lyra, who seemed to be the spokesperson for the small group, said.
"Now that we know that" Hermione began.
"You want to know who our parents are" Nathaniel cut her off. The five of them nodded. To relax the tense atmosphere between Slytherin and Gryffindor, Lyra proposed that the parents tried to guess. They all nodded, after all that could bring them closer, all as they were. Hermione began by saying that Emett was Harry's son and Ron's son was Jordan. So they each went to their father, a smile on their lips.
"I think this one is mine" Malfoy said, pointing to Lesath, still in Lyra's arms. This was indeed the case but the child preferred to stay in the arms around him. Zabini frowned as he looked at each person in the room. Then an illumination seemed to be in his mind.
"Oh holy shit!" He exclaimed suddenly. Everyone stared at him, waiting for an explanation.
"Lyra, is that it?" She just nodded, urging him to continue. "Lyra said that Emett, I believe, and that Lesath were his little brothers. But one is Potter's son and the other is Draco's, there's something wrong."
"What's the problem?" Emett, who obviously did not understand why there was a problem, asked.
"You can't be Draco's or Potter's child and be siblings."
"Of course we can!" Lesath shouted. It was then Hermione's turn to have an illumination.
"Would that mean that Harry and Malfoy would be your two parents?" The youngest looked at her jadedly, which seemed to mean 'it's obvious' while Harry, Ron and the Slytherins stared at her as if she had gone completely crazy. The children did not try to deny, the truth being too obvious. Ron blanched as he opened his mouth and closed it again and again. Harry was deep in silence, trying to digest the situation. Hermione and Zabini looked at each other knowingly, not looking particularly surprised. Malfoy was struggling to keep his face blank, even if Blaise could see his eyes sparkle for a moment. Hermione suddenly cleared her throat, ending that particularly embarrassing moment.
"How do you think we are placed?" She thought for a moment. "We should go back to Dumbledore for him to explain the whole situation, don't you think?"
"Aunty, you're the smartest person we all know here" Jordan was now in front of Hermione and grabbed her shoulders with both hands. They looked into each other's eyes and Hermione felt herself blush under the piercing blue gaze of the brunette facing her.
"Actually, I think Elie..." Nathaniel was cut off by a glare from Jordan who promised him a thousand sufferings. Everyone could distinctly hear him swallow.
"Yes you're right, please go on" He gave a small smile to his boyfriend, beating his eyelashes excessively. The latter shook his head exasperatedly but he couldn't help but smile. He turned his gaze back to the brunette.
"We don't need anyone to understand since you've already guessed everything, aren't you?" Hermione looked up at him and nodded slowly.
"So tell us!" They all looked at Malfoy questioningly, his voice had not been aggressive, he had only seemed impatient and curious. She moved and grabbed Malfoy and Harry's wrists and placed them in a corner of the circle that their strange group was forming. As she walked away, she took Ron with her and placed him next to Zabini. She glanced at the children, all gathered between the two duets.
"I'm not gonna have to do it with you too?" They all nodded, and Jordan grabbed the hands of his two sisters and led them to Ron and Blaise. Lyra, meanwhile, stood next to Harry and Malfoy and only one of her glare was enough to make his three brothers join her. All that remained was Seth, Erika, and Alarik.
"I think Seth is Remus's son" The boy's eyes lit up at the first name deal, proving that Hermione was right. She then stared at the two remaining ones for a long time.
"I have no idea who your parents are to be honest." Alarik nodded with a smile.
"It's normal"
Nathaniel yawned for the fourth time in a row.
"What if we go to see the dorms now?" He asked. So they went up the stairs and came down a long corridor. They advanced to a dark door on their left. They stopped and looked at the door. It was a simple black door where two names were inscribed. The letters were silver and it was written 'Malfoy-Potter'. Zabini chuckled.
"If we had doubts about your story, we have no more" Malfoy glared at him.
"Blaise, shut up" They continued to move forward and met a door on their right, this time, where it was written 'Zabini-Weasley'
"We have no more doubt now, do we?" Harry laughed. Ron was white as a towel and Hermione wondered if he would be distinguished if he stood in front of a white wall. She chuckled at this thought then stopped when they looked at her strangely. They wanted to go on to find the other doors, but the children stopped them.
"There may be some other names that are a little shocking on the other doors, so you'd better not move on." They all ended up shrugging and turned around, returning to the sort of common room. The five teenagers of that time went to sit on sofas. Harry, Ron and Hermione on one and facing them, Malfoy and Zabini on another. The children tried to slip away quietly but their plan failed miserably and they all had to shake in the third couch present. Malfoy decided to speak, which he had not done in a while.
"So you five are our children? To Potter and me?" Lyra smiled at these words, if her father already thought of them as their children, it meant that he was not really against ending up with their other father. And it was a huge positive point. The five children nodded. Lesath was snuggled in his sister's arms and began to fall asleep.
Harry disconnected slightly from reality to detail them more closely.
Lyra was rather tall, had long blonde almost white hair. Her hair were perfectly smooth and it came to her waist. Her eyes were the same green as Harry, Emett and Nathaniel's. He then looked at Nathaniel's brother, Ezekiel, and he noticed that he looked exactly like his brother, except for his hair that was a little longer, reaching him at the base of the skull. Harry finally looked at the smaller one, his hair was blond and his eyes were closed, but even so, he knew they were the exact color of Malfoy's. He frowned at this thought, how was it that he knew the exact color of Malfoy's eyes? A metallic gray that could look as warm as it could be iced. A gray in which Harry could immerse himself for hours without ever getting bored or tired. He shook his head to get those thoughts out of his mind. He finally smiled, already loving the five children in front of him. Harry continued his observation of the children and studied his best friend's children. He frowned, this situation was really strange. He did not detail Jordan, whom he had already observed earlier in the day. He looked at his two sisters. The two girls looked a lot alike and Harry thought they were probably twins. They had long red hair but their eyes were different, one had blue eyes and the other had brown eyes. Alarik and Erika had black hair, as well as their eyes. And Seth looked metamorphic, from what Harry saw. The boy was brown and had brown eyes when Harry had met him, but now his hair pulled on the chestnut with very blond locks and his eyes were blue. Harry thought of this member of the order, Tonks, he knew that she liked Remus a lot. Maybe the latter had arrived at his ends with the auror. Harry let his gaze wander after finishing his observation.
Then all of a sudden he stopped when he met two gray eyes staring at him. When Harry looked down into Malfoy's eyes, Malfoy seemed to realize that the brunette had surprised him so he looked away, his cheeks flushing red. Hermione stood up next to him, forcing Harry to turn his attention back to her.
"It's getting late, we should all go to bed" They all nodded and started to get up.
"But where are you going to sleep Hermione?" Harry asked.
"I have no reason to stay here, I'm going back to our dorm and we'll see each other in the Great Hall tomorrow." Harry nodded and hugged her before letting her go.
"Well, let's go" And with these words, they had all gone to the bedrooms and gone to bed without anyone saying a word more.
End Flashback
Harry looked up from all this and sighed heavily. The next day was going to be long, he felt it.