HP and Dino King AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)
"So now you have to go home?" Laura asked sadly as Reese got her father back into the house after she got ahold of the teleporter and her sisters Dino Holder, setting it to send the whole house and everyone in it back to where they belonged.
"Yeah… we have to go but don't worry. You both can come visit us at any time. And here… take this." Reese said pressing two small slips of papers into their hands.
"Don't forget these." Harry said slipping two chains with red pendants on them in the shape of a baby Raptor around the children necks.
"These are very special portkeys. If you're injured or need help then they will transport you to our safe house immediately and alert us that something is wrong. If you tug on the pendant real quick or get hit with anything at all, a spell or a wrench or anything, it will transport the both of you to whichever one of us is around those with magic or know of it, or is alone." Harry explained as he kissed Laura's forehead and ruffled Rod's hair.
"And if you ever want to just talk to us you can just hold the pendant and say our names which will connect you to our cells or our own pendants." Reese said finishing up the explanation as she kissed both of their foreheads.
"Thank you so much!" Laura cried as she hugged the two around the neck, her eyes already watering. She didn't want them to leave! They acted like and reminded her of her mommy and daddy! Rod had similar thoughts as he tried to fight back his own tears but a few slipped out as he looked at the ground with clenched fists and teeth.
"Hey now no tears. We can't trust the Alpha Goons to look after you two but we can't take you with us. So Rod I'm giving you a very important assignment alright?" Harry asked gently wiping away the boys tears while Reese soothed and comforted Laura.
"Huh?" Rod asked looking up at Harry who smiled at him warmly.
"Just like you do, I have a younger sibling. You know him actually, his name is Max and I'm more than ten years older than him so I helped mom and dad raise him…most of all though…I protected him. Older siblings exist to protect the younger siblings…that's a creed that I live by. So…while you two have to be away from Reese and I…do you think you can protect Laura? Can you protect your little sister for us?" Harry asked making Rod straighten up and nod in determination.
"Yeah! No problem!" Rod said his face determined and set as he hugged Harry and Reese one last time.
"That's a good sport. See you soon little mechanic, little flower." Harry said ruffling Rod and Laura's hair one last time before he stood up and nearly had to carry Reese into the house with him.
"I'm sorry…I just-" Reese began to apologize as she tried to wipe away her tears, putting on a strained smile as she waved to the two kids just as the house and everyone in it was sent back home.
"No need for apologies and no need for explanations, my dragoness. I know." Harry cut her off immediately, wrapping his arms around her and holding her close. Today had been an emotional roller coaster for them both, but Reese got it twice as bad since it was close to nesting season for dragons…and she is part dragon. That didn't even count in her motherly instincts…
"I wonder what he or she would have been like…blonde? Black hair? Green eyes or purple…boy or girl…maybe even more than one of them…quiet or a hell raiser…" Reese trailed off slowly descending into sobs as she buried her head in Harry's broad chest while he held her closer and buried his face in her hair, the two of them slowly sinking to the floor and neither noticing the confused and worried Drake parents in the doorway.
"It doesn't matter…It wouldn't have mattered if they had been a boy or a girl or if there had been twins or more…whether they looked like me or you or if they cried all the time…what would have been most important was that they were safe…happy…healthy and ours. Always ours, a mixture of me and you made from our love." Harry said gently to his fiancé while the Drake parents looked concerned and even more confused.
"They would have been…no matter what they looked like they would have been beautiful and perfect but I…I messed up and acted without thinking and-"
"You acted like a big sister. You didn't know what was going to happen when you saved Rex and Zoe. You just saw a threat to your baby siblings and reacted by saving them even though you got hurt. And yes…they would have been beautiful and perfect." Harry said trying to hold back his own tears as the Drake parents came closer concerned and beginning to piece it together. The accident a little over a year ago.
They knew something had happened, something more than Reese getting hit by a car saving Rex and Zoe…but they didn't know what. They didn't know why their eldest had locked herself away from all but Harry for at least two months after the accident, or why she sometimes woke up, even now, screaming and crying and apologizing…or why she had suddenly become so cold and distant to most people. They knew it had something to do with Harry though because the Taylors reported that he acted much the same way but was more subtle about it as if trying to be strong.
They didn't know what happened but they knew Zoe, Max, and Rex did as the three teens stayed close to and were all vastly protective of Reese ever since the accident and were only recently starting to go back to normal. They knew Zoe had nightmares where she woke up crying and screaming and ran into Reese's arms apologizing and sobbing and then later in the day would apologize to Harry. They knew from the Taylors that Rex had similar nightmares where he would cry and scream until Max and Harry calmed him down and he'd apologize to Harry and then later on to Reese.
"But I should have thought! I should have used my magic to push them away or the car back onto the road! If I did then maybe…maybe…" Reese was all out sobbing again as she clenched her fists in Harry's shirt.
"It's not your fault. It all happened so fast that you had no time to think." Harry tried to comfort his dragoness as much as he could.
"But I should have! I…I'm the youngest paleontologist and scientist in Japan with record high marks and I finished my training as a Dragon Guardian and Tamer in a fraction of the normal time it takes! I'm supposed to be a prodigy who either always has the answers or always has a solution and yet I…!"
"You aren't a miracle worker, and despite my thoughts otherwise you're not a goddess. You can't take the world on your shoulders Reese. You're strong, the strongest woman I know… but you aren't Atlas." Harry interrupted her broken ramblings and apologies as he closed his eyes to keep his tears at bay. He hated seeing her like this, seeing and hearing her blame herself.
Reese's next semi-hysterical words had her parents gasping wide eyed and torn between shock and horror. They never knew but it explained everything.
"I should have been! I wasn't strong enough or smart enough or fast enough or else I wouldn't have miscarried! I wouldn't have lost our baby!"