Chapter Thirty-Nine

"What the hell happened?" Harry croaked. Draco started crying and laughing and he launched himself at the Boy-Who-Lived-Again.

Severus turned away as a tear leaked from his eyes. Poppy smiled brightly at the room through a couple happy tears of her own. She glanced at Severus, who looked out of place. The witch pushed him towards the bed containing his lover. The Potions Master looked at her, and she nodded. Smiling slightly, he joined his godson in welcoming Harry back to life.

"Harry, I've missed you so much," Sev whispered into his love's ear. This confused the teenager.

"What happened? Why are you all teary?"

"Harry, do you not remember what happened?" Draco asked. His friend shook his head, his curiosity piqued.

"Harry, you killed Voldemort," Severus told his lover.

"What?" Harry gasped, his voice painfully raspy.

"You killed him, mate and you almost died," Draco explained. "Remember, you had Wizard's Flu?"

Harry nodded slightly, and grimaced when his head pounded.

"When you killed Voldemort, you used so much power, that it sent you into a coma," Severus held Harry's hand and kissed it.

"How... how long have I been...?" Harry was looking very confused.

"A little more than a month," Draco told him, smiling. "I'm so happy, you're awake!"

"I think I remember...Sev locked us in your bedroom..." Harry trailed off, trying to remember. Draco nodded.

"I was trying to keep you safe," Severus said dryly.

"I'm sorry," Harry looked down. Severus lifted his chin and kissed his lips.

"Aw," Draco smiled at the two, and clasped his hands together. Harry looked at his hands and looked in confusion at the ring.

"When'd you get that?" Harry asked his friend as he yawned loudly.

"Fred, Draco grinned. "Fred, George, and I are getting married."

"Congratulations!" Harry yawned again.

"You'll be my best man, of course," Draco grinned.

"Of course I will," Harry smiled at him. "You say I've been asleep for a month? I'm so tired."

"You can go to sleep. You don't need to stay awake," Poppy told him.

"Thank you, Madame Pomfrey," Harry smiled at her. She smiled, nodded, and left for her office.

"If you're tired, get some sleep," Severus whispered when Harry tried to sit up.

"Surely you want to talk. I haven't been awake for a whole month," Harry said between yawns.

"We've waited this long for you to wake up. Another couple hours won't matter," Draco smiled brightly at him.

"Draco's right, love," Severus nodded.

"That, and classes have started. If I miss Divination one more time, I'll be in deep shit," Draco grinned. Harry laughed, but it was weak and raspy.

"You don't need to talk anyway. Your voice hasn't been used in a while, and you might lose it if you talk too much," the Potions Master said.

"All right," Harry rolled his eyes and yawned again.

"I'll be back tonight after your hoard of mutts and Gryffindor are gone," Severus kiss teenager lover.

"Harry glared slightly at the mutt comment, but kissed the Slytherin back.

"Get some sleep, love," Severus whispered before he stood and left the Hospital Wing.

"I'm so happy that you're awake," Draco hugged his friend.

"I guess I missed out on a lot, huh?"

"Eh," Draco shrugged. "Not much, really. You missed Christmas, but that's really it. I've got to go to class, Harry, all right?"

"Sure, Dray. Good Merlin, I'll prolly have to take seventh year all over again," Harry smiled wryly.

"Ron, Hermione, and me'll help you catch up," the blonde smiled.

"Thanks," Harry grinned. "Now, go, so you don't get in trouble."

"All right, Harry. I'll be back when classes are over," Draco nodded and left after Harry bid him farewell.

Harry sighed as he glanced around the now empty Hospital Wing. Minutes later, he was asleep.

***

Draco was grinned ear to ear as he walked into the Divination classroom ten minutes later.

"Draco, you're late," Ron hissed at him. As he slipped past Professor Trelawney unnoticed.

"He's awake, Ron," Draco smiled brightly.

"WHAT?" Ron, Seamus, and Dean gasped loudly.

"Misters Weasley, Finnigan, and Thomas, what is so important that you felt the need to interrupt my explanation on scrying mirrors?" the ol' bat asked.

"Draco told us that Harry's awake," Dean grinned.

The Gryffindors broke into whispers, and the Slytherins began mumbling a plot amongst their selves.

"That's great news; you may see him after classes," Trelawney nodded, not happy that her death prediction hadn't come true.

***

"Now, he might be asleep. He was pretty tired," Draco told the two Gryffindors.

"Has anyone told Remus and Sirius yet?" Ron asked as they neared the Infirmary. His question was answered when the canine couple ran past them.

"Prolly shot right through the grapevine," Hermione said with a bit of distaste.

"Well, come one! Let's go before everyone else fills the Infirmary!" Ron tugged on Hermione's sleeve.

"Race you there!" Hermione yelled before taking off down the hall.

"No fair!" Ron and Draco yelled.

***

The doors burst open loudly as Hermione ran through them with her boyfriend and friend behind her. She looked embarrassed as Remus, Sirius, and Harry looked at her strangely.

"Sorry," he blushed, just as Ron and Draco slid to a stop behind her.

"Harry! It's about damn time you got up, mate!" Ron grinned, trying to not get emotional. When he said this, Hermione burst into tears, ran over, and hugged Harry.

Harry looked at the other men in the room with a plea of help on his face. But they grinned at him, and then Remus and Sirius started mocking Hermione and fake-bawled and hugged their godson.

"Sirius! Remus! Hermione!" Harry groaned. "I know you're happy to see me, but don't you think you're over doing it?"

The three looked at each other and shook their heads, and immediately went back to crying. Except now, Hermione wasn't really crying anymore.

Harry sighed deeply and his friends and family laughed at him.

***

"So, has your bloke been here to see you?" Sirius grinned at his godson.

"He was here when I woke up," Harry smiled.

"That's sweet," Remus said.

"I wish you would tell us his name," Sirius fake-pouted.

"Sorry, Padfoot," Harry grinned as Remus glared at his husband.

"C'mon! What are you afraid of?"

"We're not afraid of anything. It's just hat we're not ready for everyone to know," Harry explained.

"You know, Rita Skeeter was fired from the Daily Prophet, if you're worried about the press," Sirius tried again.

Harry tried to think quickly. "We just want our privacy a little while longer."

"Do you love him?"

"Absolutely," Harry smiled.

"All right. I'll leave you alone then," Sirius smiled at him. "Well, does he love you?"

Harry smiled dreamily and nodded. Sirius was slapped upside the head when he sniggered at Harry's dreamy expression.

"Oh, shut up, Sirius," Harry glared at him. The three looked up when the doors opened. Hermione, Ron, and Draco walked in with a bag. Hermione dumped it on the bed and enlarged the items. They were Christmas presents.

"Okay, I accio'd all of the presents you had hidden," Draco grinned. "So you don't want to hide presents in any of the spots you had these in."

Harry glared at him slightly and picked up one of the presents. He turned it over and found the name tag. "Ron, this is yours."

The red head grinned and tore open the gift. Harry handed out gifts to the others.

"Harry, this is awesome!" Ron smiled as he pulled out a miniature Quidditch stadium. The Chudley Cannons flew around in it, throwing a tiny Quaffle around and dodging bludgers.

"You can get another tem to go with it, and they'll play together," Harry grinned. "The rest of you, open yours."

"Harry! Draco blushed as he pulled a pink negligee.

Everyone burst out laughing.

"That's really for FrednGeorge," Harry laughed. Ron blanched and Draco glared at Harry, but it didn't have much effect with the blush.

"Harry! I've been wanting these books!" Hermione squealed as she took out two books. They were titled Pendragon.

"I know," Harry smirked slightly. "Remus, Sirius open yours."

The two opened the present and gasped when they opened the leather bound book. The canine couple looked up at Harry in shock.

"This is the Marauder's Prank Scrapbook!"

Harry smiled. "I know. Aunt Petunia had some things in the attic and found that when she was moving everything out. She has lots of mum and dad's things."

"Harry, you should keep this. It belongs to you," Sirius told him. Harry shook his head stubbornly.

"I had Colin Creevy make me a copy of every picture in that book. The original is yours."

"Harry..." Remus started, but his godson cut him off.

"No, you keep it," Harry glared at them until they nodded and accepted the gift. Harry smiled and handed another gift. Draco squealed when he opened the envelope.

"Oh my god! It's a three hundred pound gift certificate to a muggle mall!" Draco shrieked and threw himself on Harry, hugging his best friend.

"You can use it in any clothing store," Harry grinned at him.

"A muggle mall?" Ron asked.

"Yeah, Bill and Cody took me during the summer, remember?" Draco nodded, his brain already imagining what he would buy. The blonde sat up and handed a brightly wrapped present to Harry. As the raven-haired boy pulled it out of the box, Draco grinned. "That's more for your lover than for you."

Harry scowled and stuffed the green thong back into the box. Sirius was rolling on the floor laughing. Ron and Remus were sniggering and Hermione giggled slightly. The only Slytherin was standing there with an angelic smiled on his face. He gave his friend another present. Draco hadn't been able to spend much on presents, as he no longer was a Malfoy, and no longer entitled to the vast wealth. The second present contained several things. The box held several muggle pens and pencils and lined notebook paper.

"You said you liked it better than ink, quills, and parchment, so Hermione's' parents helped me get it for you," Draco explained to him. Harry smiled luminously at him.

Beneath the notebooks, a book laid. It was ridiculously thick, and the title read The Last Herald-Mage.

"Where did you find this? This is all three in the series combined!" Harry's grin nearly split his face.

"I looked everywhere for it" Draco beamed. "It was actually Bill who found it. He saw it at a bookstore, tucked away in back."

"God! I love this book!" Harry grinned again.

"Harry, you've haven't even read it," Draco raised an eyebrow at him.

"So? I still love it," Harry smiled happily.

"Well, with that reaction, I doubt any of our presents will receive the same," Hermione smiled at the two 'brothers'. She handed a present to him, which was undoubtedly a book of some kind. Harry had to laugh when he opened it. Hermione had given him one of those muggle self-help books, 'Magic For Dummies'.

"I knew you'd get a kick out of that," She grinned at her friend.

"Thanks, 'Mione."

"Mine next," Ron handed him two gifts. One was a box of chocolate frogs. At Harry's look, he said, "I ate the ones I had already for you while they were still good. I got those about half an hour ago."

Harry snickered and unwrapped the second gift.

"I think Mme Pince was angry because you made a mess of 'Quidditch Through the Ages', so I bought a new one for you," the redhead grinned. Harry grinned back.

"Last but not least," Remus said. "We owe you years' worth of presents."

Harry groaned in protestation, but Sirius held up a hand.

"Here we have the newest racing broom," Sirius presented his with the present. "The Lightning Bolt."

Draco, Ron, and Harry went wide-eyed in perfect unison. The other two boys helped Harry tear off the wrapping. They stared in awe at the sleek broomstick in the saviour's hands. Draco and Ron held their hands above the broom, hesitant to touch the cherry wood.

"Oh my god," Harry finally managed to gasp out. His godfathers grinned at the expected reaction.

Remus picked up a smaller package. "This is the jinx proof, Quidditch League regulation Golden Snitch."

Harry carefully laid the broom down and reached for the prezzie in the werewolf's hands. He placed the gold ball next to his broomstick and accepted the third gift.

"A new broom servicing kit."

And the next: "Marauder's Prankster's Kit."

The final gift was given to both Harry and Draco. It was a manila envelope, clearly full of papers. Together, the Gryffindor and Slytherin read the papers.

"'Sirius L. Black and Remus J. Lupin-Black on the release of Sirius L. Black, request custody of Harry J. Potter, godson,'" Harry read.

"'Sirius L. Black and Remus J. Lupin-Black have placed a request for adoption forms, pertaining to Harry J. Potter and Draco I. Malfoy (disowned),'" Draco read further down.

"You want to adopt us?" They asked together. The animagus and werewolf nodded. Harry and Draco launched themselves at the two, hugging the professors tightly.

***

"Since you're both above sixteen, your signatures are required," Remus told the two.

Draco nodded, and turned the page in the document he was reading. "This says it has to be signed by the next of kin or guardian."

"Yeah, that's not a problem since you were disowned," Sirius nodded.

"You'll have to get Professor Snape to sign this," Draco mumbled around a chocolate frog. "He's my godfather."

"He'll sign it, won't he?" Harry asked his friend.

"Yeah, he'll sign it," Draco nodded, as Harry reached for a chocolate frog. "An if he doesn't, I have a way to make him sign it."

Harry groaned at the gleam in his eyes. "This can't be good."

"What?" Draco looked at him.

"You," Harry shook his head as he picked up the chocolate frog card. "Holy shit!"

"What?" Sirius asked, looking over at his godson.

"Bloody hell! They've got me on a bloody chocolate frog card!" Harry turned the card over and read the back. "'Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Saved-Us-All, defeated You-Know-Who as a baby, and killed the Dark Lord at seventeen. Harry Potter was the youngest Hogwarts Seeker. He likes playing Quidditch and pranks.'"

"Bloody hell! You'd better hide that card from Ron, or he'll be after you for it," Draco told him.

"They just had to come up with another damn name for me, didn't they?" Harry scowled and threw the card down.

"You know, kids in a few decades will look at that card and say, 'Who the hell is You-Know-Who? We don't know who!'" Remus tried to make Harry smile. The green-eyed boy gave a small one and shook his head.

"You didn't do anything to get your fame the first time, Harry, but you deserve it now," Sirius told him.

Harry shook his head in disagreement. The other three glared at him.

"Harry, does Dumbledore deserve the fame for defeating Grindelwald?" Draco asked him.

"Of course," Harry answered.

"Then you deserve it for defeating Voldemort," Draco crossed his arms, daring the Boy-Who-Lived to argue with him.

"Fine," Harry huffed.

***

An hour later, it was almost curfew, so the three left Harry to get some rest. Harry read, instead. The raven-haired teen instantly opened up The Last Herald-Mage and began reading. He had gotten to the part where Vanyel had gone to Tylendel when he fell asleep.

Severus found his lover with his head pillowed by his hands, which lay on top of the book. The Slytherin had to smile at this. He carefully pulled the book out from beneath the boy and marked the place. Then he picked up Harry and turned him so that he was lying with his head on the pillows. Sev pulled the covers over him and sat beside Harry.

"You can take him to your room," a whispered voice said. Mme Pomfrey stood beside him. "He's well enough that I don't need to watch over him."

"Are you sure?" Severus asked, covering his startled look.

"Yes. Take him to your rooms so you'll both get a good night's sleep," Poppy nodded.

"Thank you, Poppy," Severus told her.

"Take good care of him. I don't want to see him in my Infirmary for the rest of the school year," The medi-witch told him. "He can even go to classes tomorrow, but he can't over exert himself. He probably needs to catch up on his work, though."

Severus nodded and cast an invisible spell on Harry and himself.

"Thank you again," he said as he walked past her with Harry in his arms. Poppy nodded silently as the Infirmary doors opened and closed, seemingly with no one going through them.

***

Severus carried his small lover into his rooms, where the Invisibility spells instantly shut off. The Slytherin carried the Gryffindor into their bedroom and laid him down on the bed. Harry hadn't awoken from the trip. Severus pulled off the flimsy Hospital gown and left Harry in his boxers.

The Potions Master stripped himself and lay down beside his love. It had been almost two months since they had laid together, and Severus felt like the emptiness he'd been feeling had never even been there at all. Severus pulled the covers over the two of them and wrapped his arms around the man he loved.

The ex-spy kissed Harry's temple, cheek, and shoulder before laying back into the pillows. He quickly drifted off into sleep, holding his Harry in his arms as he did.

End Chapter Thirty-Nine

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