HP and Dino King AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)
"Shut up Sora." Reese hissed glaring darkly at her laughing familiar…of course the glare was ruined by the bright red blush on her face.
"Cool. A baby dragon!" Laura said her eyes lighting up when she got a good look at Sora who was letting out a hissing laugh while Harry finally managed to clear his wind pipe with an embarrassed blush on his cheeks.
"You know it's bad when the dragon is laughing at us." Harry said glancing at his fiancé who was still blushing darkly as she finished feeding Laura and quickly ate her own plate.
"Shut up Harry." Reese said not even glancing at her fiancé as she took a gulp of her water.
"Yes dear." And the water nearly came back up when Reese choked on it at Harry's words.
"And that just helped prove my point." Doctor Drake said snickering as Reese glared at her boyfriend turned husband to be.
"Shut up dad." Reese said glaring at her dad now who raised his hands in surrender.
"What? By the time your mom and I were your age, you were already on the way." Doctor Drake said looking at his daughter 'innocently' in a way that no one bought at all.
"That might be true but I can do math dad. I was born three months after your wedding." Reese pointed out to her father who shrugged his shoulders but hid a wince. Reese had been seven when she figured that out and had thought that her parents were only together because her mother had gotten pregnant, she had been inconsolable about that until Harry finally calmed her down and brought it to her parents attention.
"So? We were already engaged before we even knew you were on the way." Doctor Drake said giving his daughter a pointed look that she understood and looked away from.
"Just stop arguing about it Reese. Otherwise he'll really get going about grandkids and if either of our mothers hears about that…" Harry trailed off with a shiver, causing Reese to shiver as well. Her mother had been rather excited about the wedding and Reese had overheard her and Mrs. Taylor discussing possible grandchildren once when she was coming back from the bathroom during one of the 'planning parties' as they called it.
"They'd never stop unless Zoe got a boyfriend." Reese said making the knife in her dad's grip bend and break.
"Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. I can accept that you're getting married. You're in your twenties and you've been dating him for at least six years. It was just a matter of time. Your sister isn't dating until she's twenty and I have one of Doctor Taylor's hunting rifles in hand. Unless it's Rex or Max. Those two are good boys that I've already threatened." Doctor Drake said immediately going into protective mode and making Reese smirk.
"And there goes daddy dragon worrying about his youngest." Harry said in an announcers voice that had Reese laughing.
"Well of course I have to worry about my youngest with all those dangerous boys out there waiting to steal her from me! Reese got lucky to find a nice young man like you Harry but there aren't many of them anymore and the only two I might trust with my baby girl are Max and Rex…hm…" Doctor Drake trailed off as if he were struck with a brainwave.
"Dad no trying to play match maker. Zoe's only 13, she has plenty of time to grow up before finding a boyfriend or girlfriend if that's what she prefers." Reese said nipping her dad's plans in the butt immediately and making him deflate.
"But Reese! I don't want any of those nasty boys around your sister! At least with Max or Rex I know they'd treat her right." Doctor Drake whined at his eldest whose eyebrow twitched a bit, much to Harry's amusement.
"Dad no trying to play cupid. You tried that with me and Harry and we didn't speak to each other for a month because you did it after we had started dating and we both thought the other was cheating!" Reese said glaring at her dad, her eyes beginning to turn reptilian until Harry reached over Rod's head and placed a hand on Reese's shoulder. His touch calming her instantly.
"Besides…Reese is already planning on annihilating any boy aside from the runts who shows any interest in her baby sister." Harry teased his fiancé who didn't look bothered and instead nodded proudly.
"…Yeah I should have realized that. Reese is pretty protective of her baby sister. Why for the first two years of Zoe's life she thought Reese was her mama because Reese doted on her so much!" Doctor Drake said grinning and making Reese's face flame red again.
"Dad!" Reese nearly whined at her dad embarrassing her again, making Laura giggle while Rod laughed.
"What? All that means is that you'll make a wonderful mother one day! You're already getting a head-start on it since you've nearly adopted those two!" Doctor Drake said pointing at the two kids, Rod sitting close to Harry and finishing up his food while Laura sat cuddled up on Reese's lap as they waited on the boys to finish eating.
"They're adorable and tiny and I don't see those three doing anything or taking care of them." Reese said holding Laura closer protectively as she glared over at the Alpha Gang that were ignoring everything else as they wolfed down their food.
"I can take care of anything or anyone if that's what you want my angel!" Zander said immediately fawning over Reese, whose eye twitched while Laura and Rod frowned as well. For some reason…they didn't like it when Zander flirted with Reese.
"Why don't you take care of the garbage then? Door's right over there." Harry said icily as he glared at the man who blinked and looked confused.
"What garbage?" Zander asked looking around the room confused and making Harry give a cold smirk.
"I'm looking at it." Harry said bluntly, still staring straight at Zander who blinked and looked behind him before seeming to realize what Harry meant.
"Hey I am not garbage!" Zander exclaimed yelling angrily while Reese sighed at her fiancee's actions while Laura and Rod laughed.
"Harry don't be so mean in front of the kids. You'll set a bad example and they already have enough of those." Reese lightly chided her fiancé, who had the grace of looking sheepishly apologetic and also amused as Reese pointedly looked at the Alpha gang.
"Yes dear." Harry said obediently and making Ursula glare at Reese in jealousy while Zander was glaring hatefully at Harry from behind his dark glasses.
"Since you cooked. I'll do dishes. Why don't you go watch a movie with the kids? I don't think they've ever heard of classic Disney or most of the animes but keep it appropriate." Reese said taking up all of the dishes and kissing Harry's cheek and both of the children's foreheads.
"Sure thing dear. Doctor don't you have three little Dino's that need their shots?" Harry asked looking at Doctor Drake who blinked before nodding with a grin.
"You're right! I'll go get the needle and cure." Doctor Drake said taking off for the clinic, the Alpha Gang being dragged along for the ride.
"You and Ms. Reese sure love acting like parents don't you?" Rod asked as Harry carried him and Laura into the living room over his shoulders and dropped them on the couch before tickling them both a bit playfully. Harry froze at that though.
"Well…there's a good reason for that…but very few people know…only our younger siblings know but not our parents." Harry said looking a bit upset as he remembered why he and Reese were so…parental to their siblings and little kids, especially recently.
"Huh?" Laura asked confused and making Harry smile sadly as he looked through the doorway at his fiancé who was frozen as well, clearly hearing every word. Turning to look at him, Reese gave a small watery smile and a nod, showing that it was alright for him to tell them.
"You see about a year ago…Reese got pregnant. We were both so happy to learn that we were going to be parents. We told Zoe, Max, and Rex immediately but we didn't tell our folks because we wanted to surprise them." Harry said softly making Rod and Laura look happy for a second before frowning at how upset Harry looked. If he was happy to be a dad then how come he didn't look it now?
"When Reese was about two months pregnant…she was involved in an accident. She and Zoe were walking home one day with groceries, Max and Rex were with them since the three runts didn't want Reese to overexert herself. We were all so protective of her, she threatened to hit me multiple times if I didn't calm down or at least call off the Chibi patrol as she called them then." Harry said with a brief smile of amusement but it was mixed with pain.
"A man had apparently lost his job earlier that day though and had been drinking steadily all day to try and forget…he…he ran off of the road onto the side walk. He would have hit Zoe and Rex who were closer to the side walk than Reese and Max were but Reese…she reacted faster than anyone else could have and pushed the two of them out of the way but she…she got hit head on by the car." Harry said making the two kids gasp horrified, they had seen some cars whenever they were out in the present day world and those things were heavy looking and made of lots of metal.
"Thankfully her Dragon Guardian abilities protected her a good bit from the crash, she only had a few broken ribs, a broken leg, and a concussion instead of being dead like anyone else would have been. She had been transported to the hospital as fast as possible without magic but…when I got there from work…I ran into her room just as a nurse was leaving with a sad face. Reese…was crying, all out sobbing and it wasn't from her injuries. Being hit head on like that…it caused a miscarriage." Harry said making the two kids look a bit confused, what did that word mean?
"She…she had lost the baby." And now the two kids understood.
"It took months for her broken bones to heal…but the loss of our baby…neither of us healed from it. Did we go on living? Yes. But…we both now have a void in our hearts from that loss…and nothing and no one could ever replace our lost baby." Harry said running a hand through his hair while Reese was doing her best to do the dishes and drown out the memories.
"Before the accident Reese was almost always smiling and would often help me play pranks on people who deserved it. After though…we both changed. She became more emotionally distant from everyone except me and the runts…she become more serious, she stopped playing pranks at all, and now she's more protective of me and our younger siblings than ever. Me…I became more serious and protective, distanced myself from most of my co-workers…my pranks are less frequent than they ever were…and both of us…" Harry trailed off for a moment, smiling sadly as he looked at the two kids who were crying by now.
"Both of us are parental to every little kid we meet and often times to our siblings too. We…We just can't help ourselves but to act…well…motherly for her and fatherly for me…those instincts had only started appearing when the accident happened…but they never disappeared." Harry said bending down and hugging the two as they cried into his shirt about the sad tale.
Reese came into the living room after setting the last dish in the drying rack and quickly gathered the two kids into her arms while Harry wrapped his arms around all three of them, but not before gently wiping the tears from his fiance's face.
Reese only said one thing as she laid her head against Harry's shoulder, hugging the two kids close while Harry kissed her forehead.
"Especially since Dragons…and Dragon Guardians, are some of the most parental creatures in the world, especially the mothers. There's nothing more dangerous than a mama dragon protecting young, whether it be her young or another's."