A/N: Hi there, sorry it took so long to get this up, I've been trying to lift myself out of a sudden attack of depression. I don't know how or why it came on, but it did. Well it's here now. I love you all so much for reading this; I don't even mind the one bad review I got from an anon called 'Angry'. You are the best! It's still a bit fluffy, but some of the humour crawls back toward the end.

Chapter Fifteen – Sometimes Fingers Just Need To Be Broken

Draco raced into Severus' room and grabbed hold of his father's hand. He couldn't even find words, he stuttered a bit but nothing really coherent appeared. Madame Pomphrey appeared a few moments later, huffing and puffing. She had attempted to keep up with Draco – big mistake.

While Draco had been gone, Severus had helped Lucius change into a simple black robe. Harry was sitting to the side, allowing the lovers to talk about their soon to be born baby. Madame Pomphrey proceeded to examine Lucius. "Another premature birth?" she questioned and Lucius just nodded. "Right, I'm going to have to ask you boys to leave, I'm going to need some space."

Draco looked mortified. Lucius gently squeezed his hand and smiled at him. "I'll be alright, I have Severus with me." But Draco was far from satisfied.

"But I want to be with you."

"I think Harry needs you more than I do. All this has been a bit overwhelming to him, and he was worried about having his baby, your baby, before this happened, I think all this has made that a lot worse. He needs you." He pulled Draco closer to him. "And Poppy is a large woman, she needs all the space she can get! I'm surprised she didn't tell you all to leave."

Draco smiled. "I still don't wanna leave you like this."

"Harry needs you now. I failed you as a father, and I'm sorry. I never want you to make my mistakes. Now I want you to go and help Harry, please at least do that for me."

Draco nodded. "You never failed me as a father. But I'll go, as long as you promise me that you are going to be okay."

"Severus won't let anything happen to me, and Poppy knows what she's doing. I was like this when I had you, and I came out of that just fine... you came out of it even better."

Draco hugged his dad and walked toward the door, pausing when he reached it. "I love you daddy."

"I love you too baby."

"Are you alright honey?" Draco asked, putting an arm around Harry.

"I have a question for you... in fact I have a couple of them." He said prudently, laying his head on Draco's shoulder. "After everything that we have been through... all the fighting, and the name calling, and all the rest... why do you like me? How could you love me?"

"Because I loved you the very first time I saw you. That day that we met in Diagon Ally, I thought that you were the most beautiful thing in the world. But by the time we got to the school you didn't seem to like me, so I kept on fighting with you because it was the only way that I could stay close to you."

"And what about Ron and Hermione? You hated them as much as you seemed to hate me, what changed there?"

"I was only ever nasty to Ron because he took you away from me in the first place. Hermione, I guess, just got caught in the crossfire because she was hanging out with all of you."

"What about you though, you gave me the whole speech about not having any friends, how can that be when everyone sticks up for you all the time. And Pansy used to follow you around on a cloud because she was so in to you."

Draco smirked. "You would have thought, with our fathers all being death eaters, that we would have been friends. No. Their idea of a good time is killing something... I don't think I could kill anyone. They all talk about me behind my back, they're only nice to me because my father is a powerful man."

At that moment there came the sound of feet on the concrete floor, which echoed off the walls of the dungeons. Ron and Hermione appeared round the corner, puffing and panting as if they had just run a marathon... twice. Harry smiled at them. "Where have you two been?"

"I know what they were doing..." Draco said with an evil grin. "Hermione's got a hicky! And Ron, deary, you might want to do something about the lack of underpants and an open fly." He added, averting his gaze.

Hermione pulled her collar a little higher. "We came almost as soon as we found out. What's going on now?"

"Now we just have to wait." Draco said glumly, looking over at the door. "Poppy and Severus are looking after him. He said that he was like this when he had me and there's nothing to worry about... but he just looked so distressed... and I want to know why Poppy looked so worried when she found out that he was have another premature birth..."

"If he said he'd be fine, then I'm sure he will be. He's done all this before, he knows what to expect." Ron said, it what he hoped was an encouraging voice. It was hard to be encouraging when you were talking to your former archenemy.

"I hope you two were careful." Harry said trying to lighten the conversation. "Or you might end up in the same boat as us!"

"Of course we were careful." Hermione said quietly, the red of her cheeks making up for the lack of voice.

Draco walked over and leaned against the door. There was a silencing charm on Severus' room, it had always been there, so he could hear nothing. A tear rolled down Draco's cheek. "Please be okay." He whispered to the door.

Harry walked over and put his arms round Draco, allowing the smaller blonde to cry into his shoulder. The door behind them opened and the two of them fell apart. Poppy was holding a small bundle of blankets, Severus was clutching his fingers. Draco looked at the two of them. "Is he alright?"

"He's fine, but he needs at least a few hours sleep." Poppy said, holding out the bundle of blackest to Draco. "This, I guess, is your baby brother." Draco started crying again when he saw the wonder that was being placed in his arms. He had never seen a more beautiful baby.

Harry looked at Severus, who was chewing his bottom lip while staring at his oddly shaped fingers. "I take it Lucius squeezed you hand a little too tight?"

Severus looked embarrassed. "No. Lucius was fine, hardly needed any help at all actually. It was him..." he said, pointing his mangled hand at the baby.

"How did he do that?" Harry asked, smiling as Hermione started making silly faces at the baby boy. Ron seemed to be trying to ignore it, but he kept glancing over when he thought no one was looking.

"Well, being his father I got to hold him. And the one thing in this whole castle that isn't baby proofed he managed to get hold off. The little bugger was laying on my lap, first he pulled my hair, then he grabbed my wand and did something to my hand with a gurgle! We don't even know what he's done so I get to go and get poked some more up in the hospital wing."

Harry was trying really hard not to laugh... poor Severus.

A/N2: I need a name for 'Baby Boy Snape'. Let me know in your reviews!

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[Harry's Sister14] Luci and baby are all well and good, I'm glad you like it.

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