The Fire Tells All

Chapter five

R

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The next day, Harry was surprised to receive a summons to the Headmaster's office.

"Come in." Harry went in and was surprised to see him looking unusually grave. "Please sit down, Harry."

Harry sat, aware of a feeling of dread in the pit of his stomach.

"Lucius Malfoy has found out."

Harry felt cold. "How?"

"We're not sure. What we're going to do, however," here the twinkle began to reappear, "is that you need to tell all your friends and we're moving the date up to Friday."

"But that's in three days!" Harry exclaimed incredulously.

"Would you please go fetch Severus?" Albus requested.

Harry nodded and left. Albus watched him go with a satisfied twinkle.

About ten minutes later, Harry returned with an annoyed Severus Snape. "Albus, what is so important that you have to interrupt my third year Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff class?"

Albus told them to sit down, with that annoying sparkle.

"Severus, did Harry tell you what's going on?"

Severus shook his head, still annoyed.

"Well, the reason why I have summoned you here is that Lucius Malfoy has somehow discovered your relationship. We've moved the date up to this Friday. Neither of you are to leave Hogwarts grounds. I have already contacted Sirius and Remus. Because of the most recent. discovery, they will take up the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts."

That 'discovery' was made during Harry's sixth year. The Defense teacher was a Death Eater, who just so happened to be Peter Pettigrew in disguise. They couldn't find another DADA teacher so the times when they had DADA were spent as Study Hall.

With that information, Harry put his head in his hands. "What am I going to tell them?"

"The truth?" Severus suggested.

Harry looked up and glared at him. "You think Sirius will believe the truth?"

"Gentlemen!" Albus interrupted. "Perhaps it would be best if I talk to them before Harry explains to his best?"

Harry nodded vigorously.

"There!" Albus beamed. "You both have the day off."

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Severus led Harry to his room and excused himself to dismiss and cancel his classes.

Harry looked around at everything since both days that he had been here he had never paid attention to anything except Severus.

While he was looking at some trinkets by the fireplace, a wave of dizziness and nausea washed over him, so he stumbled over to the bed. When he was lying down, Severus returned.

"Get up, Harry, we need to talk."

Harry moaned and waited for the dizziness and nausea to pass before he sat up in the middle, Severus at the foot.

"Black and Lupin are coming tomorrow. You might as well write a speech. Harry? Are you all right? You are a bit pale."

The nausea had returned full-force and he scrambled to the restroom, where he was violently sick. After about five minutes, he felt Severus come in and start rubbing his back.

After about half an hour, when Harry was sure he was done being sick, Severus helped him stand up and gave him a glass of water. He led Harry to the bed, where he tucked him in, despite Harry's protests of "but I feel much better now". Before he could go call Madame Pomfrey, however, Harry scooted over, grabbed him, and pulled him down to bed with him, saying, "If you're making me stay here, I might as well return the favor."

"I'm going to get Poppy," he told him, trying to get up again. But Harry's grip was too strong, especially when Harry cuddled into his chest.

"I'll go see her tomorrow if I don't feel any better. But I don't think I'll have to, because I already feel better."

So Harry snuggled into Severus and fell asleep, Severus a bit annoyed that they didn't get to have the conversation he wanted.

(A/N: I was planning to leave off here, but it's way too short. Also, I have never been pregnant, so excuse any mistakes a I haven't exactly done extensive research.)

The next morning, Harry woke up and immediately went to the bathroom to throw up. When he was finished, he heard a silky voice behind him gloat, "You said you would go to Madame Pomfrey if you didn't feel better today. Come on; I'm going to personally drag you down there."

Harry groaned and turned around, whether from the sickness or the impending visit with Poppy Pomfrey, one couldn't tell; most likely the latter. He stood up and got dressed after brushing his teeth and told Severus as he dragged him out the door, "I feel much better, so, why should I go see Madame Pomfrey when it's most likely just something small!"

"You promised," Severus said, smirking, "and I know that Gryffindors never break their promises." Harry was glad that everyone was at breakfast; he was probably making a big scene with his whining and struggling. "Oh come on, Harry, it's just a visit to Poppy and I'm already tempted to stun you."

"But she'll probably keep me for like a week!" Harry whined, sounding VERY childish at that moment.

Severus growled in frustration and hauled him up the last set of stairs before dragging him into the Infirmary. "Harry, you're acting like a four year old going to get his shots!"

"Shots?" Harry whimpered. (A/N: Do wizards get shots? I don't care whether they do or not. Sorry if Harry's OOC, he's having a mood swing.)

Severus sighed in exasperation and dragged Harry through the Infirmary doors. He eventually go tired of it and stunned him, levitating him to the bed. He sat there, waiting for Poppy.

Soon, the door opened and Poppy came into the main Infirmary. "Severus!" she was clearly surprised. "What are you doing here?"

Severus pinched the bridge of his nose and shook his head, sighing. "Mr. Potter here," he gestured to Stunned Harry, "has been ill lately and I had to literally drag him here then stun him. I would have been easier to just stun him and then bring him."

Poppy chuckled in amusement. "We might as well give him his own room in this Hospital; he's here enough he deserves it."

"Yes, well." Severus moved away from the bed so that Poppy could have full access to her patient. She enervated him, which was a mistake. He took one look at her and buried his face in the pillow, muttering about how he was going to kill Severus.

"You're welcome," Severus deadpanned sarcastically.

"Yeah, yeah, sure, thanks," Harry mumbled angrily into his pillow.

"Severus, could you wait outside for a minute? You're presence here is merely distracting and annoying my patient."

"Right." Severus nodded curtly and left.

"So, young man, what seems to be the matter?"

Harry turned to make eye contact. He glared at her, thinking, 'If I can't glare at Sev right now, it's going to be her.'

"Well?" she prompted, sitting on the chair Severus once occupied.

"I've been sick, only not," Harry replied vaguely.

"How so?" Poppy asked, her brow furrowing.

"Throwing up, very tired, whenever I don't feel sick I have a bigger appetite," Harry listed.

Her brow furrowed even more. "When did all this start?"

"About two days ago with the tiredness and appetite, yesterday with the sickness," Harry answered without hesitation.

"Hmm." she hummed to herself, looking pensive.

Harry was becoming nervous. Madame Pomfrey almost never looked like that, and it couldn't be a good sign.

"Are you sexually active?" she suddenly asked.

This caught Harry by surprise that all he could do was blink stupidly for a moment. Then, what she said registered and his only response was "WHAT? Why would you ask something like that?!"

"It'll all be answered in due time."

"Okay. what if I am?"

"Is this person your soul mate?"

"Um. yeah." Harry wondered where she was going with this line of questioning.

She stood up and walked into her office without another word, bringing that tool-kit like thing with all the equipment for when they take a sample of blood. As she began to ready everything, Harry sat up and asked, "Um, Madame Pomfrey? What are you going to do with that? And why did you ask all those personal questions?"

"I'm simply going to take your blood, then test it for something. As for the questions, they will all be answered in due time."

She wrapped the tourniquet around his arm and told him to make a fist. She then found a vein. "This might hurt," she warned him before sticking the needle in. Harry cringed.

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It had been almost an hour since she went to put his blood sample to a couple tests and he was almost asleep. Just the time she decides to waltz in with a slight smile on her face. He looked at her oddly before asking, "Well? Are you going to tell me?"

"Congratulations, Harry, dear. You're pregnant."

For a moment, Harry just stared at her dumbly. Then, "WHAT? For how long?"

"About a month."

'Oh gods, what am I going to tell Severus?' was his last thought before he fainted.

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When Harry came around an hour later, he heard Dumbledore and Poppy conversing quietly above his head.

"Are you quite sure, Poppy?"

"Of course I am, Albus! I've done numerous tests!"

"I was not doubting your competence, Poppy, my dear. I was only questioning if you were positive."

"Yes, Albus, I'm sure."

"Well, until he wakes up, go on back to your office. I have a lot of work to do myself."

"Good day, Albus."

"Good day, Poppy."

What sounded like two sets of footsteps retreated separate ways. Harry blearily opened his eyes and looked around. He froze. In the corner, unnoticed by both of them, was a black, grim-like dog, looking angry as hell. Harry gulped.

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A/N: I have some more of it done, however, I would like everyone's opinions on how Sev should react. Also, nobody is updating much, so I decided to update since I promised an update a couple weeks ago, but never got around to it.

Saavik: Thank you for the advice, and I hope this chapter flows better. It was about two in the morning on a school day when I wrote that chapter, but not posted.

Lady Lupin: Same here. Thanks for reviewing, and I have no idea if there are any sites for this thing. I have the same problem. someone mentioned an MPREG archive, but there's never any url. If anyone is reading this and can send me a url via review or something, please do so.



Sorry to those of you I didn't put but it's late and stuff. But keep reading and reviewing. Besides, I have to worry about two other stories I'm writing at the moment, not HP/SS sorry, but one's titled "The Ring of Slythin" and the other is "Descent to Darkness", which is a Tom Riddle fic. The Ring of Slytherin is a Harry fic, only Harry no pairings. I'll post them soon.