Severus Snape gasped at the strong magical bond that clicked into place. The strength took his breath away as he leaned back against the desk and clutched at his chest. There he could feel this irritating boy and his bond with Lucius fluttered back to life. His parental bond to Draco pulsed as it took over the Godfather bond. Completely taking it over. As the magic began to calm he could feel the emotions of the other three. The determination from the brat. The confusion then pride from Lucius and the annoyance from Draco. Severus gasped as his lungs finally took in air as the magic subsided. He looked up to see the brat standing above him. His hand to his chest, a large smile on his face, his head bent back as it seemed to lull back and forth, eyes closed to the world. The boy nearly looked at peace for the first time since he had first seen him.
"What have you done?" Severus asked. Cringing as his voice came out gravelly.
Harry opened his eyes and looked down at Severus with those infuriatingly mesmerizing green eyes. He smiled and kneeled down so he was eye level with Severus. "I am being that selfish, spoiled, insufferable son of my father you have always accused me of being."
"Do you realize what you have done?" Severus asked angrily as he attempted to stand and get away from the boy. Harry simply rolled his eyes and pushed Severus back down to the floor.
"Despite your popular belief, I do think of the consequences before I pull one of my hair-brained ideas." Harry said with a mischievous glint in his eyes. "You told me that Lucius would give me the world if I asked it of him. So I accepted you both. You are done sacrificing your own feelings. I'm not going to let you. You are now stuck with me… and Lucius… and Draco… and I just stuck myself with Slytherins. Bloody hell. You know what… I'm going to blame that one on you. If you had just told me before you allowed me to accept Lucius's contract… this could have been avoided."
Severus looked at the boy in complete shock. Harry snickered and lightly closed his mouth with a finger to his chin. "Eloquent as always, Headmaster."
Severus scowled at him as he was finally able to get to his feet. He quickly turned away from Harry. "I do not understand what goes through that head of yours. At times I think it is full of nothing but air. Why on earth would you choose me? Lucius can offer you everything you could ever want."
Harry tilted his head and took the Headmaster in. He had never seen the man look so venerable. He wouldn't have even known if the feelings hadn't come through the bond. He walked around Severus till he was facing him once again. "He can't give me everything. He will never be able to understand me like you. You know… you always accused me of being like my father… but I hated what he had done to you. Do you know why? Because before I came to Hogwarts… I was just like you. I was still on my summer holidays."
Severus turned and glared at Albus Dumbledore's portrait. Of course the old man wasn't there when he realized Severus would be furious with him.
"He needed you to hate me." Harry said quietly. "But after a while I realized it was an act. If you truly hated me, you wouldn't have saved me as much as you had. You were my constant Severus. You may have been a right git half the time, but you were always there when I needed you the most. So I accepted your damn contract. I chose you, because I still need my constant person."
Severus shook his head and sighed. "The Ministry isn't going to allow this."
Harry lifted an eyebrow at him and snorted. "Boy Who Lived twice. Savior of the wizarding world. Slayer of he who must not be named. Chosen One. Defeater of the Dark Lord. Pick one. I'll use it in my argument on why they will allow it or I'll sick my other husband to be at them. Or I could just use my puppy dog eyes on Kingsley. Either way."
Severus couldn't help himself, he snorted out a laugh. That made Harry smile as he stepped closer to him. "When do you expect Lucius to show up? He seemed pretty proud of my little stunt."
Severus rolled his eyes. "He would be. It was very Slytherin of you."
Harry wiggled his eyebrows at him and stepped away. "You should have a nice little chat with the sorting hat. I'm sure he would have a pretty interesting story about my sorting. I'm off to torture my soon to be step son. He seems a bit agitated."
"Go easy on him." Severus warned. "He had it in his head that Lucius and I would eventually marry. This will come as a shock."
"He should be thanking me then." Harry said with a shrug ad he headed for the door. "You technically are. I'm just a bonus."
Severus pinched the bridge of his nose. "No, Harry. The contracts are for you and him. And me and you. We are marrying you. Not each other."
Harry paused at the door and sent a glare over his shoulder to Severus. "I know what kind of bond the two of you had. I felt it. You need to check it again."
Harry walked out of the office and Severus sighed. But now he was curious. He felt for the bond he had had with Lucius and was surprised to find it missing. But he could still feel Lucius tangled in the bond with Harry. No… not tangled. Braided. Harry had somehow created a spouse bond between the three of them. He no longer had a mistress bond with Lucius. No he had a spousal bond. A spousal bond with his best friend and the brat he had fallen in love with.
"Potter!" Harry cringed at the sound of his name, and had to fight the urge to run for it. He may have told Severus that he was going to go find Draco. But in reality he just needed a reason to escape from all the emotions swirling around in that room. He should have known Draco would find him anyway. So he put on his Gryffindor big boy pants and turned to face the Slytherin.
Harry sighed when he realized Draco was not alone. Of course the prat would have brought back up.
"We need to talk…" Draco said then glared at his entourage. "Alone."
Harry nodded and gestured for the other boy to follow. He wasn't surprised to find the others were following at a slower pace. Harry snickered when they hit his invisible barrier. Draco lifted an eyebrow in response and smirked. Harry led them to an abandoned class room and placed privacy shields on the door.
"You know… when I mentioned talking to Severus and my father, I did not mean for this." Draco said as he rubbed his chest. He could still feel the bonds pulsing there. No one ever mentioned the strain a child went through when the bonds had not been finalized yet. Magic didn't want the child to bond with a possible parent if the contract fell through, causing the child's bonds to stay open like an open wound.
Harry shrugged. "To be honest, the contracts came as a surprise to me as well. Severus had convinced me to accept Lucius's considering our magic is highly compatible. But when I felt their bond… I ended up accepting Severus's as well. He didn't think it would take. Hey are you ok?"
Draco flinched at the concern in Harry's voice then cringed as he also felt the concern was genuine. Snapping a parental bond in place. He couldn't stop from rubbing his chest. "It's the bonds. Until the marriage is finalized… my bonds stay open."
"That sucks. Is it painful?" Harry asked as he took a tentative step forwards.
"Just annoying. Couldn't you have accepted someone else." Draco groaned and Harry smiled.
"I'm sure you wouldn't have enjoyed my other choice very much. Well there were three… but two of them were a bit cringe worthy." Harry said and Harry snickered as he watched Draco gag a bit.
"Please tell me you are just pulling my leg and my father didn't put a contract down in my name." Draco groaned as he slumped down into an empty chair.
"I believe Severus said his reasoning was I'd appreciate a decent contract from someone my own age." Harry said with a shrug. "The other two were from Charlie Weasley and Slughorn."
Draco gagged again. Harry chuckled. "My thoughts exactly. But I promise. I didn't accept your Father's contract because there were no other options. I chose it because I saw what you both stand for. Even if that caused some horrible choices."
"Oh yeah, and what's that?"
Harry smiled sadly at the other boy. "Family. The one thing I have never truly had. Well not one that cared or wasn't made up of red heads. I mean they tried to bring me into the fold. But who would leave a true family member in a loveless home. Or let them be used as a weapon."
Draco looked up at Harry in complete horror. "A horrible one. Merlin. Father isn't going to let you out of his sight for years. And Severus till his death bed."
"And you?" Harry asked cautiously.
Draco huffed and looked away as his cheeks turned a bit pink. "Thinking of how I could place a tracking charm on you without you noticing."
Harry gave him a triumphant smile. "Why wouldn't I want that?"
Draco glared at him. "Don't expect me to call you father."
"Wait! Why not!" Harry asked with a mischievous grin. "How about Dad?"
"No."
"Daddy? Nope I'm forbidding that one. How about Papa?"
"No."
"Pops?"
"No."
"Pa?"
"Potter!"
"I got it! Pater! Sounds about the same as Potter." Harry said with a huge grin.
"You are begging to get hexed right now." Draco said as he headed for the door a laughing Harry at his heels.
"Hey! You should respect your elders!"
"I am older than you!"
Harry snickered as they headed down the hallway. Draco went to turn to head for the Great Hall but Harry easily guided him in the opposite direction, keeping up his banter till they reached Severus's office.
"Potter! I swear to Merlin! I am not calling you any form of father." Draco huffed as he entered the office and took a seat in one of the chairs not already occupied by Lucius or Severus.
"Just saying, Pater has a nice ring to it." Harry said as he plopped down on top of Severus's desk. "Hey! You could call Severus Pops."
"Ouch!" Harry cried out as he jumped off the desk and glared at Severus as he rubbed his left butt cheek. "You know that is the second time you have used the stinging hex on me. I should file a complaint to the Headmaster."
Severus pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. He then groaned when a house elf popped in and set a hot chocolate in front of Harry and Draco and a simple earl gray in front of him and Lucius. He quickly summoned Harry's hot chocolate to himself before he had a chance to take a drink.
"You are cut off for the night." Severus growled when Harry went to protest. "You are practically buzzing with a sugar high from your last one… and I'd prefer to sleep tonight instead of the wards warning me you are wandering the halls again."
"You know Winky worked really hard to make me that." Harry pouted.
"They spoil you. Don't make me demand that they stop." Severus said as he quickly looked away from the boy and his damn puppy eyes. "They obviously already feel the family bond between us. They've even taken to spoiling Draco."
Draco took a sip of his hot chocolate and smiled. "I am ok with that."
"Perks of being my soon to be kid. See you should start calling me Pater." Harry said with a playful wink.
Lucius snickered and quickly hid his amusement behind his tea cup. Which was a bad idea, because the next words out of Harry's mouth nearly caused him to spray the liquid across the room. Severus on the other hand was not so lucky.
"So how soon can we finalize this wedding thing." Harry handed Severus a handkerchief with a slight smirk. Severus took it with a scowl.
"Why in such a hurry?" Lucius asked with a raised eyebrow. Harry simply pointed at Draco.
"Our uncompleted marriage is causing Draco discomfort." Harry said simply as he took a seat on Severus's desk once more. "I am sure there is a lot to talk about. But I've watched him rub his chest about twenty times since I noticed it."
Lucius's eyes lit up as he watched Harry. He had always known there was more to him than what Severus had told him or that he had seen for himself.
"The earliest would be tomorrow if I could pull a few strings." Lucius replied in his silky calm voice. "But I do not think you comprehend what it means for us to complete the marriage."
Harry's eyes darkened as he met Lucius's ice blue ones. A slight thrill ran through him and he could feel the same from Severus as they both realized that Harry did in fact know what it meant.
"Oh Merlin gross." Draco said as he set his hot chocolate down and got to his feet. "Occlude all three of you. I'm already mentally scared. I'm going to the dungeons and brain bleaching my mind."
"Sorry Draco." Harry said with a slight blush.
"It's alright Draco. Potter throws up if he thinks of you in any sort of lude act." Severus said with a smirk as he sipped at his tea.
"Hey!" Harry protested as he leaned back and smacked Severus in the arm. "I told you that was my first wet dream! All I remembered from it was blonde hair. Of course I'd wake up puking. I was twelve!"
Draco turned a shade of green and headed for the door. "I'm out. I at least can't hear anything in the dungeons."
When the door snapped shut Severus leaned back into his chair with a chuckle.
"You had a wet dream of my son?" Lucius asked as his face paled a bit.
"Severus! You've already broken him!" Harry protested. "No! It was of you. But I didn't realize that till later. I couldn't sleep for a week after that because I kept gagging."
Severus was nearly rolling out of his chair at that point with silent laughter. He wiped away a tear and cleared his throat. "So… tomorrow. Or do you think we should wait a bit?"
Lucius's eyes landed on Harry once more and he started to squirm under the intensity. "That is up to our little Minx. Severus still needs to accept my contract. And I am not sure the effects that will have on Draco."
"Tomorrow then." Harry said confidently. He then turned to Severus. "Accept the damn contract."
Severus rolled his eyes and brought the contract out of his desk drawer. He glanced up at the two men one more time before he took a deep breath. "Accept."
The magic hit all three of them simultaneously. They could feel the slight annoyance from Draco. Their own bond seemed to braid itself tighter as it snapped into place. It hadn't been as strong as when their bond formed. But it was enough to have all three men panting by the time the magic settled.
"Bloody hell." Harry said, breaking the silence. His voice coming out in a near breathy whisper. "Is it going to be this intense tomorrow?"
"Even more so." Lucius replied in a silky voice. He reached out for the youngest soon to be husband and brought him down into his lap. Unable to hold back from touching him any longer. Harry let out a surprised squeak, but settled in Lucius's lap quite easily. Lucius placed a hand behind the boy's head and pulled him down till their lips nearly touched. He wasn't surprised to feel Severus behind him as he ran a potion stained hand down his chest. His other hand assisting to bringing Harry the rest of the way to his lips. The kiss was hot and full of pent up passion. Something he and Severus had avoided to explore all those times they had been together in the past. He left Severus's hand dip lower and let out a groan of protest when Harry's lips where ripped away from his own. He felt Severus guide Harry to him over Lucius's shoulder. The blonde let out a moan as Severus's hand found its target and Harry ground his hips down into it.
They all abruptly stopped at the feel of Draco's overwhelming disgust. Harry giggled as he placed his head on Lucius's shoulder. "I guess we will have to save the rest for tomorrow."
Severus took his hand away and Lucius groaned in protest. Severus smirked and placed a light kiss on his lips. The first one they had ever shared. "Tomorrow, loves. Tomorrow we officially become husbands."
Lucius huffed and hugged Harry close to him. He wasn't ready to leave them yet. Severus seemed to scene it, or Maybe he was feeling it too, because he ran a hand through Harry's hair and lightly kissed his cheek. "It has been a long day, and we need to get some sleep. My personal quarters are open to the both of you. And the bed is big enough for all three of us."
Harry smiled contently and nodded against Lucius's shoulder. "Bed sounds amazing."
Severus chuckled as he walked over to the door and held it open so Lucius could carry Harry to the bed. With no more words shared between them, they got into the bed and gravitated towards each other. Harry in the middle and both older men cuddled up to either side. Tomorrow would start a new day of chaos.
AN: I didn't think I would have another chapter done so soon. I hope you enjoy!
