A/N: I am on one hell of a roll with this story! I have been getting all these ideas and the words are just flowing!!!

Reply to a review from BlueberryPancake: You said 'It's odd how you mention the whole mpreg idea as just known and accepted.' (Or something like that anyways...) - The reason for this is because as far as my brain goes, people should just go with the flow. The world is full of bitching and moaning, fighting and all over sorts of prejudice. My general aim is to make gays/lesbians/bisexuals and everything attatched to the subjects seem perfectly normal, because that's just what it is... normal as hell and some people who taunt me daily should remember it.

Chapter Five - Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid

"Good morning Lucius, what's wrong with you now?" Severus said, inviting himself in, almost knocking over Ginny as he swept past her. "It better be worth my while. Your son has begged me to come to a house full of Weasley's for you." He added, walking into the living room and making himself comfortable at the end of the sofa.

Lucius had an internal battle with himself in regards to telling Severus about his condition, but decided against it. The day before he had just felt a little woozy and was sick once. But now his stomach was even bigger, and it was becoming hard to hide it, and he felt tired and sick all day long. "Just a bug, giving me a bad stomach." Lucius smiled. "Maybe I should talk to my son about the meaning of a joke."

"What do you mean?" Severus asked, glancing round the room at the tatty interior and various pictures and paintings.

"Well yesterday I said that I could use one of your miracle potions... It would seem that Draco took me seriously." He said, fighting a laugh. Severus certainly didn't seem happy about having to leave his house, let alone to come all the way here and sit around in a house full of Weasley's.

"How are things between you and Draco? The last I heard, things were not good. If fact, the last I heard, the both of you hadn't been seen for some time, and people were beginning to believe that you had both joined Voldemort."

"Draco and I are going to have another go at being a family... And I would like to make it perfectly clear that my little boy would never join with Voldemort. The boy has a brain on his that could easy challenge that of the infamous Miss Granger."

Severus looked questioningly at Lucius, and then a rare thing occured, Severus smiled. "Oh my god, I don't believe it... You're pregnant again aren't you!"

Lucius dived across the sofa and put a hand over Severus' mouth. "If you weren't my best friend when we were at Hogwarts then I promise you that you would be dead by now!" He hissed. "If you say one word, even hint at it, to anyone... I will kill you, do you understand me?"

Severus nodded and Lucius released him. Lucius pouted in a most un-Malfoy- like fasion and glared at Severus. "And now I need to go throw up again because I moved to fast across the sofa and it's all your fault." He said and made to get up, but Severus put a hand on his shoulder and made him sit down.

Severus handed him and small vial and walked over to the living room door, closing it and putting up various charms to make sure that their conversation wasn't heard or disturbed. "Drink that, it'll help. Now, I want you to tell me what happened. And a good place to start would be: Whose is it?"

Lucius downed the potion and his stomach settled a little. He sighed. Seeing as Severus knew he was pregnant it seemed pointless trying to keep it from him. Severus was getting almost as bad as Dumbledore in regards to working things out before they had happened. "Everything I tell you stays between us. It doesn't leave these four walls. Fair?"

"Yes, yes." Severus said impatiently. "Now tell me what happened."

"After Draco went missing, I went back to him." Lucius said, disappionted with himself for doing it. "Draco was the reason that I left him, and once Draco was gone I had nothing. I suppose half the reason I went back was for company, and I think, to say the very least, I got more than I bargained for."

"How far along are you?" Severus asked, it seemed clear that Lucius did not wish to disclose who the father was.

"Well I got pregnant two days ago, but I look like I've swallowed a whole watermellon. He must have put a spell on me or something." Lucius said, pulling up his shirt and showing Severus his rounded belly. "It's really scary that two days ago I was normal and now I am really pregnant."

Severus hand drifted over and the tips of his finger brushed over the bump. His face softened and he half smiled at Lucius. "We should get someone to check you over... make sure that everything is okay, and find out what happened to you to make you this big, this quick." Severus said, a touch of concern tainting his voice.

"It reminds you of when I had Draco, doesn't it."

"Yeah... being pregnant certainly brings out the best in you Luci. How does it feel to be a mother again?" He paused and glanced at Lucius, whose eyes filled with tears. "What's the matter?"

"I want to have my baby..." He whispered, disolving into sobs on Severus' shoulder. "But I can't... I can't have it and I want it..."

"Why can't you have it? What's wrong?" Severus asked, again being tainted by concern for his old friend.

Lucius suddenly recoiled from Severus, standing up and towering over him. Lucius glare at him and a cruel smile crossed over his lips. "Not to worry Severus. Nithing is going to be happening to either of them. Try and poison them... I dare you to. They can not be hurt."

Severus stood up slowly and grabbed hold of Lucius' shoulders. Lucius past out and fell forward into Severus' arms. Severus carefully lay him back down on the sofa, flicking his wand at the door and unlocking it. "Arthur! Molly!" She shouted and Molly quickly appeared in the room, throwing a hand to her chest in shock.

"Severus! What happened in here?"

"There isn't any time for that." He said standing up, and lifting Lucius in his arms. "I'm taking him to St. Mungo's. Who is his doctor? I think that..." He paused, Lucius had asked him to to tell anyone. "Never mind. Who's his doctor?"

"Sirius." Arthur said, joining his wife in the doorway as Severus walked past them.

Severus paused and raised a disblieving eye brow at the pair of them. "Oh yay." He said sarcasticly. "I get to see Blackie again... I think i'm going to die of happiness." He looked down at Lucius. "If you weren't my best friend when we were at Hogwarts then I promise you that you would be dead by now!"

Molly and Arthur looked at one another as Severus carried Lucius out of the house. Molly smiled at her husband and he glared back. "No! Don't say it! Forget that thought all together!"

"But you know... Maybe if I..."

"Molly, no medaling! Lucius is very unwell, we don't know what's going to happen. Don't get their hopes up."

"What?"

The two of them span round to the expressionless face of Draco. Arthur smiled. "Oh, never mind that. Would you like some lunch? Molly can make you anything you want." He said cheerily, and Molly smiled at his shoulder.

Draco's face screwed up. "My dad is not going to die." He said in a cold voice, and he ran back upstairs. Molly went to chase after him but Arthur grabbed her arm and shook his head.

"Leave him. There is no point in you going up there and telling him everything will be fine, because he will hate you for it if something does happen to Lucius. Remember the incident when you told Ron that nothing bad was going to happen to Percy?"

Molly nodded silently. Arthur pulled her into a tight hug. "Now, try not to think about it, you just worry about looking after them all the way you always have." He said, walking toward the front door. He opened it and paused, looking back over his shoulder. "And no medaling!!"