A/N: Here it is! The much anticipated next chapter... but things get awfully twisted in this and really angsty... the humour has wandered off, but will be back in the next chapter. For now, just go with the flow and love what you know!
Phrase of the week: 'Fuck the scales, the scales know nothing!'
Chapter Twenty Two - Stopping The Unstopable
"Where are you going?" Draco asked softly, making Severus jump. "You're packing stuff, where are you going? Elorah-Dannen is going to miss you." He added, but his tone was serious.
"It's just a short trip. A few things I need to wrap up. I'll be back before she even knows I'm gone." Severus replied, secretly hoping that he would come back at all. The thought of leaving Elorah-Dannen and Kellan alone, along with Draco, Harry, Lucius and the soon to be born children, was eating him from the inside.
Draco glared at him. "You're going after him aren't you. You're going after Voldemort. Don't."
Severus sighed. "Draco, I have to. I don't want our children growing up in fear. Everything has to be perfect for them. I can't control everything, but a life without him threatening it is something that I can begin to control."
"You don't have to, you're just going to. And you're going to get yourself killed, and dad is going to have to look after my brother and sister by himself." Draco's face screwed up in anger. "You don't care about us, you never did." He muttered coldly, turning away.
Severus grabbed his arm and pulling him back, frightening the smaller blonde. "It's because I care about you, all of you, that i'm doing this. Voldemort wants your children. They will be the most powerful witches or wizards in the world, and with a force like that behind him he will be unstopable. Never, ever think that I don't care about you. I do. More than anything I care about you, and ever other member of this wonderfully disfunctional family."
Tears filled Draco's eyes and he pulled away from Severus. "I would rather live with him, than live without you." He whispered as tears rolled down his face and he walked out of the room.
Severus sat down on the edge of his bed and put his head in his hands. Lucius walked in from the nursery and sat down beside him. "Are you alright love? If you don't want to go then you don't have to. Dumbledore will find others." He said, rubbing Severus' back.
"It's not that. It's just i'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. I want to kill him, I want to make the world a safer place for our children, but our son makes a very good point."
"What has he said to you? I have never seen you like this, and I have known you a bloody long time."
"What if I am killed doing this? I couldn't bare to leave you, or them, ever. I don't know what to do any more. I used to just do as I wanted and ignore all else, because I had no one else to think about. But I have a family now, and i've gone soft, i'm not even sure that if I came face to face with him that I could kill him. I just don't know if I have it in me anymore."
Lucius sighed. "If I asked you to stay... asked you not to go on this raid... would you stay?" He asked and Severus looked at him questioningly.
"I would do anything you asked me. If you asked me to jump off of a cliff I would probably do it."
"Then don't go. I want you to stay here. I want to make sure that you are going to be here to see the birth of our grandchildren. I have to know that I can grow old with you. Being without you... it's a life that isn't worth living."
"Um... in regards to grandchildren, we have a big problem." Harry said, liguring nervously in the doorway. "Draco thinks he's in labour."
Instant panic came over Lucius and Severus, and both rushed into Harry and Draco's room, where Draco was curled in a fetal possition on the floor, his hands balled tightly into fists. "Draco, what's the matter?" Severus said, kneeling on the floor beside his, trying to get his to uncurl.
"Hurts..." Draco said through gritted teeth, slowly uncurling. Tears flooded down his face as he finally uncurled himself and Severus pulled him onto his lap. "Somethings wrong... What's wrong with my baby?" Draco cried hysterically. "I'm not due for another two months, somthing is wrong!"
A/N2: A shorter one this time, but that seemed like a good place to leave it for now. Whatever will happen to Draco? And will Severus go after Voldemort? How did Dumbledore know Elorah's name before he was told in the last chapter? The mysteries are endless...