Chapter Four - The World Sends Miracles To Believers

Draco woke slowly in the hospital wing with many people looking down on him. On his left was Harry, behind Harry was Sirius and next to them was Molly. On the other side of the bed was Severus and his father, Lucius. Draco sat up, his head spinning a little as he did so. "Are you alright?" Lucius said, pulling his son into a much needed hug.

"I'm fine now." Draco said shakily, looking around at the group of people. "What happened?" The last thing he remembered was feeling really ill and running out of the council meeting. After that everything was a blur or otherwise inconsistent.

"You passed out." Said Tonks, pushing Harry aside to get closer to Draco. She placed her hand on his forehead. "Well at least you've cooled off a bit, you could have filled a swimming pool with the way you were sweating." Tonks looked at the people around the bed. "You lot have things to be doing, and i have to be finding out what is wrong with him so off you all go."

Draco looked confused for a moment so Sirius explained. "Madam Pomphrey is away on holiday for a couple of weeks, the poor woman hasn't had a single days rest for the last three years. Tonks has had a good enough level of medical training to fill in while she's gone, so Tonks will be looking after you for a bit." Draco nodded and managed a painful smile as everyone left the room.

The Next Day

Harry was sitting in transfigurations class the following morning and for the first time in a long time he was actually listening to what Professor McGonagal had to say. It was kind of boring without Draco there to distract him, he had seen Draco briefly that morning but all they knew was that Tonks wanted to consort her medical handbook just to be sure. The handbook was around 197,348,852 pages long so it might take a while.

Just as he was thinking about it Tonks walked quietly into the room and up to McGonagal, tugging on her sleeve like a little child. McGonagal turned round and Tonks whispered something to her. Harry was sitting on the edge of his seat, hoping that his precious Draco was alright.

McGonagal looked over to him, then back at Tonks, then at Harry again. "Mr Potter you will proceed to the hospital wing immediately, take your things with you." Now Harry was scared. McGonagal looked worried, so did Tonks. He quickly gathered his things and ran out of the classroom after Tonks.

As the walked up the many stairs and down many corridors Tonks was continuously talking almost incoherently to herself about how it was impossible and it hasn't happened for hundreds of years and how did it happen. All Harry wanted to know was what had happened, he didn't care how it had happened or when the last time was that it had happened. He just wanted to know what it was that was keeping his Draco in the hospital wing.

When he got there Draco was in his own private room, Lucius was already with him and Draco was snuggled up on his fathers lap. He had been crying, his eyes were bloodshot and his cheeks were pink. Harry wasn't sure what to do. He was nervous around Lucius, so for a moment he just stood in the doorway, hardly daring to ask what was the matter.

Feeling the tension, Lucius stood up and left the room. Draco ran over and threw his arms around Harry and Harry hugged him tightly. "What's going on? What's the matter?" Harry asked as he led Draco back over to the bed. Both sat on it and Draco let out a long breath.

"Okay, um, this is kinda hard to say." Draco said softly, not looking at Harry. He took another deep breath and let it out slowly, suddenly very interested in his feet. "I'm, um, I'm pregnant." Harry stared at him for a moment, this was a joke, Draco couldn't really be pregnant, but even Draco wouldn't joke about something like this.

"But how can you be? It's not possible, is it? I mean, you don't have the right, you know, equipment." Harry said. He was amazed at how quickly he was accepting the idea that Draco was pregnant, as weird as it was. Draco remained silent and Harry put an arm round him. "What's up?"

Draco sniffed and a tear ran down his cheek. This was a side of Draco that he had never seen before. Draco had never cried in front of him before, in fact, Draco never talked about his feelings or anything that might allow Harry to get to close to him. "I'm really scared." Draco whispered and he curled into Harry's chest. "What if something goes wrong? What if something happens to her?"

"Her?" Harry said, looking down at the blonde in his arms. "Do you know it's going to be a girl?" A daughter. That was an amazing thought to Harry. He was going to have a baby girl.

"I don't know for sure, but I just have this feeling deep down that it's going to be a girl. It's weird. But what if something does happen to her? I'll be utterly crushed, I don't know if i can do this." Draco said quietly into Harry's chest.

"She will be fine, as far as I can tell she is practically invincible." Tonks said, joining them and sitting down on a chair next to the bed. "Also you won't be pregnant for very long and you will start to show very quickly. She's already about the size of a coffee mug. From all recorded pregnancies of this nature that I have read about, of which there are only five, all say the same thing. The pregnancy is about six months long and when the time comes to give birth, it's a bit of a nasty business."

She stopped dead and Draco looked petrified. Harry looked at Tonks, equally as scared as Draco. "You mean he will have... have to give birth through... oh my god." Suddenly he was very queasy.

"But it will be all right, everything will return to normal after the birth. Like a woman when she gives birth it all goes back to it's original shape a few weeks after. And I'll be here all along to help you along with Bill who has studied this kind of thing in depth and will be able to help us an awful lot in keeping the two of you healthy."

Harry and Draco looked at one another as Tonks left the room again. Harry opened his mouth but closed it again. Draco lay back on his bed and rolled his fingers over his stomach. Harry lay down on Draco's stomach, amazed by the life that they had created; now growing in Draco's belly.

Draco smiled at Harry and Harry glanced up at him. "What?"

"I was just thinking." Draco said. He playfully glared at Harry. "You're going to be spending the rest of your life in cold showers and sleeping on the sofa."