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What He's Always Needed


Chapter 6


He woke up to a sharp pain in his abdomen. Oh lord did it hurt. He cursed silently to himself at Draco's sleeping habit. That habit being sleeping harder than a rock. Harry gave up on shaking him and just swung with all his might at the platinum haired Veela in bed with him. That seemed to work, Draco looked around groggily then focused on Harry and saw pain in his eyes.


Draco flew into action and called for Carrie to come in while he did his best to comfort the raven-haired teen. Draco reached a hand down and laid it on Harry's tummy and was shocked when he'd noticed it was hard and screamed once more for the nurse who had just walked through the door. Carrie ran when se noticed the panic on Draco and the pain on Harry.


"OK, Harry I need you to breathe for me, nice deep breaths, I know it hurts but trust me." Harry nodded and Carrie started to breathe like he should be doing and he mimicked her actions. Harry's eyes registered shock when it actually helped take the pain away slightly.


Draco looked at Carrie long enough to ask with his eyes what was wrong and to voice his concerns with the same look to Carrie. She smiled at him.


"Lets just wait it out, if it's what I think it is it's perfectly normal. There isn't anything I can do until I check him out thoroughly." She tried to reassure the part-Veela that his pregnant mate was all right. Draco nodded curtly and went back to trying to talk to Harry.


Harry finally took in a great big breath and exhaled with a sigh of relief. Carrie quickly magicked off his bottoms so she could examine him. She reached down and found that the canal hadn't formed yet, she was correct in her assessment. She rested a hand on his belly and felt the twins moving then she cast the spell to check on the children. They were fine.


"Well Harry" Carrie started while cleaning her hand and putting Harry's bottoms back on. "Do you want the bad news first or the good news?" The tone in her voice told both that Harry and the babies were fine, and she'd explain.


"Umm, lets go with the good news I guess." Harry replied hesitantly casting a quick glance at his husband who had sat on the bed next to Harry's head. Draco, Harry noticed, looked decidedly nervous.


"OK, the good news is, you're not in labor, and you and the babies are fine." Harry and Draco both breathed a heavy sigh of relief. Carrie smiled at the young couple. "The bad news is, you can expect more of those. Those are called Braxton Hicks contractions. Basically what that is, is your body practicing for labor." She looked at them nervously before carrying on. "Draco, I'll need you to time them sporadically throughout the day and night when I'm not in the room, Harry, you'll have to come up with a signal to let Draco know what's happening, when they start, especially the ones that hurt." She stopped to watch them soak in what she'd just said before continuing. "If and when they get closer then ten minutes apart you need to let either me or Poppy know so we can call Herman. Ok?" Both boys nodded to her. Just as she finished Harry's eyes got really big and he started the deep breathing again. Carrie looked at her watch and noted it had been thirty minutes since his last one, which was fine. She understood they were hurting the poor dear but there was nothing she could do about it.


The following morning Herman came in and it was decided that between Carrie, Draco, Sirius and Remus that Harry was going to have to be watched around the clock. To make sure the babies were healthy they needed a minimum of four more weeks in Harry, but Herman preferred to try for six weeks. They had decided to do six hour shifts that way they wouldn't tire out before the six weeks were up.


There was a spell for timing things like this, but with a male pregnancy it was always easier to concentrate on things other than the pain when someone was with you, so they did it that way.


The week went by and Harry was still having the Braxton Hicks once every thirty to sixty minutes. Harry and Draco were both anxiously awaiting the birth of their children. Harry still did his best to remain calm and as rested as possible, but it was really wearing him down. He needed to get out and do something before he went insane. He didn't want to risk his children's lives but a nice walk in the school's garden's would be a great treat. He's love to go flying but didn't want to risk it.


Fafner sensing what Harry wanted to do cast a sleeping charm on Carrie and then flung his tail into Harry's hand and led him off to the gardens. On the way out, they stopped by the kitchens and had a small rest and a snack before continuing out. The house-elves packed a small basket of healthy treats for Harry before letting them leave the kitchens.


Fafner flicked his nose as he always did when casting a spell and cast a warming spell on Harry as they neared the doors. It wouldn't do to have Harry going out in early January only to freeze to death. Fafner kept a very close eye on his bond-mate as they finally made it outside. Harry and Fafner slowly made their way to the gardens and when they got there Fafner stopped in front of a bench and urged Harry to sit down and rest. Fafner was going to go along with getting Harry out for a bit, but Harry was going to do as Fafner wanted or he'd go get Draco or Sirius to drag him back inside.


Fafner already knew Draco was going to have a conniption fit with Harry going outside alone, especially this far along in the pregnancy. It was dangerous, and not to mention cold. But Harry didn't mind. The gardens were in full bloom like they always were with the ever-bloom spells cast on them.


After about half an hour of sitting silently in the gardens contemplating everything that was going on in his life Harry spoke.


"Well, guess it's time to go back and get an earful of words on how irresponsible I've been with the pregnancy by going out 'alone'." Harry sighed when he'd finished. As much as he loved his family, they were annoying and extremely over protective. Harry noticed that he'd not had one of the Braxton-Hicks contractions since he'd left the sanctuary of his and Draco's rooms. He'd have to ask Carrie about that when he got back, after he apologizes for Fafner casting a sleeping charm on her.


Little did he know back in his rooms there was pandemonium going on. Draco was yelling and screaming at Carrie for sleeping on the job despite the fact he knew she'd been put under a spell. Sirius and Remus were pacing. They had all decided they'd give Harry one hour from the time they noticed him missing before they'd go looking for him. Draco ranted on and on about inconsiderate Gryffindor's not letting anyone know where they'd gone. Just as everyone was getting ready to leave to go look for the wayward lad. Harry entered with bright red cheeks looking more tired then any of them had ever seen him.


Harry entered the room and had been ready for the words that were sure to be waiting for him. What he got was six arms around him carefully and one of them sobbing. After a few moments when Harry relaxed only slightly the yelling began. All four adults in the room started in on him.


"Harry James Potter-Malfoy, how DARE you leave and not leave any kind of note! Do you have ANY idea how worried we were about you?" Draco huffed out. If he wasn't so relieved that Harry was all right and if he didn't know Harry was pregnant he'd have hexed him six ways from Sunday, but as it were he would settle for yelling at the dark-haired boy.


"Harry what the hell were you thinking taking off like that, you know how dangerous male-pregnancy is and you left without leaving anything to tell us where you were, we thought you may have been kidnapped!" Sirius retorted.


"Harry," Remus started off slowly, he'd been mad, but he also knew the fragile state of Harry's pregnancy at the moment. "What were you thinking Bambi? Any one of us would have gladly gone with you."


"That's just it!" Harry exploded at the group making all of them flinch back slightly, they'd never seen him so mad before. "I wanted to be ALONE and I wanted to be OUTSIDE. Fafner was with me. I'm not stupid enough to endanger the lives of my children or myself." Harry took a deep breath trying to calm down before he stressed himself into labor. "We went slowly, stopped by the kitchens for a snack there and a small rest before getting more food to take with us. We walked slowly and Fafner remained by my side, cast a warming spell on me so I wouldn't get cold then I sat outside in the gardens for about half an hour then we made our way back up here...SLOWLY" Harry again breathed in deeply feeling himself calming down even more. "You should know me, all of you, well enough by now to know I'd NEVER do anything to harm my children or myself, if anything had happened Fafner would have come and gotten one of you to help me, but nothing happened because we took it very slowly and I rested several times on the way out on the way back and while I was there, and I realized something while I was out there, I didn't have a single Braxton-Hicks contraction the whole time." Harry finished and went to his chaise lounge and laid down putting his feet up as his ankles were beginning to swell. Fafner showed up with a drink and a banana for Harry. Harry smiled down at the pseudo-dragon while the other four people in the room looked gob smacked. Harry after his rant and he'd laid down had never looked as relaxed as he did now. Maybe the fresh air had done him some good but that didn't excuse the fact that he could have left a note. Draco recovered first and voiced his concern.


"Harry you could have left us a note at the very least." Draco spoke earnestly.


"Not really Draco," Harry sighed and closed his eyes before continuing. "Now tell the honest truth, if I had left a note saying I was going to go to the school gardens and had Fafner with me what would you have done?" Harry watched as Draco thought honestly about the question. Sighing Draco realized the answer, and Harry was right.


"I would have come to get you or at the very least stay with you to make sure you were all right." Draco understood and that's what Harry had wanted.


"I do love you Draco, I love you very much, but I do need some time to myself occasionally, just like you do as well. I promise I won't do that again until after the babies are born, I'm so tired now I'll sleep very well tonight I think." Harry said with a slight giggle in his voice. Draco relished the sound He'd been missing that for the last couple of months. This pregnancy wasn't easy for him and Draco knew it.


"All right sweetheart, you rest, do you want some music?" Draco asked, simply too happy that Harry was all right to argue much more, Sirius and Remus watched somewhat amused, They'd heard Harry's question and even they had to admit to themselves that they too would have gone after Harry. They were glad that he'd at least been in the right frame of mind to take Fafner with him on his walkabout so that if anything happened he'd be able to get help quickly.


"No, I'm just going to take a short" Harry yawned breaking up his sentence, "nap."


Draco Sirius Remus and Carrie all chuckled at the pregnant boy and then went into the private garden so they could talk without waking the boy up.



#$#$#$#$ A/N:OK, well, I can end this on chapter 7, I really could and I should, I start school on the 26th of November and it's will be tough for me to update as often. I do want this done, but I need some ideas as to what's to happen, the twins are born in the next chapter and have already been named. I have not seen ANY of the names I've used for the kids so you're in for a treat. I'm still not done with chapter 7 yet, I'm about ½ way through it. It will be ready y next week even if I have to force it, I'm running out of steam on this fic. I really am. OK, I'm off, hope you enjoyed, don't forget to hit the little button!!!