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Tetsumaru: Typos? My brother proof-read it and the computer didn't pick up any. I would appreciate if you could point out what they were so I could change them.
Alliance Webb: Dray says: Yes, I, being a gay man, know that we can't reproduce. It's fiction and in being fiction, anything can happen. Lucinda says: I leave my computer for one minute, ONE bloody minute and you …grrr.. I hate you, brother of mine. Yes I know Gay men can't produce. It's an M-PREG story. That tells you that men have babies in this story.
Chapter 3: A Visit to the Infirmary
"Harry?"
He smoothed back his son's hair before turning around. "Why are you here?" He asked watching as the other man took a hesitant step forward.
"I brought them here. They were in my class so it was my responsibility."
"You're Snape's alternate." Draco nodded.
"You're the new defense professor."
"Yeah, I am. Please leave, Malfoy." He didn't want his ex-lover to leave but the man had hurt him too much in the past. For the sake of his son, Harry didn't cry. Inside, Harry was torn between running to him and kicking his ass. But something wasn't right. Harry had never seen Draco look so incredibly…heartbroken.
"Dad, are you okay?" Lucian asked, his big, green-grey eyes looking up at Harry.
"Yeah, um, listen, I'm going to go find you professor. I'll be right back. You two will be alright?"
"Harry, sir, we'll be fine." Shane said shooing the older Potter from the room.
'Please leave, Malfoy.' Those words echoed in Draco's head as he left the infirmary. He leaned against the cool, stone wall next to the infirmary doors and slumped down with his arm folded on top of his knees, sobbing silently. 'How could I have been so stupid? He'll never take me back now.' He hoped no one would see him in this state. Eleven years ago, back when they were in their seventh year, they had been so happy. Draco loved him but would never admit it. Love was a weakness, it made you vulnerable. That was what Draco had been taught. 'Eleven years ago? He had been with Harry then. The boy looks an awful lot like me. What am I thinking? I'm just being hopeful.'
He stood up only to be smacked in the face with the heavy door. There was a sickening crack as Draco's head smacked against the wall. "Fuck! That hurt." He groaned pinching the bridge of his bleeding nose.
Harry spun around and caught him in his arms. He lifted him up and carried him into the infirmary. 'He's so thin.' He thought as he laid him on a bed with his head propped up.
"What is it with you Potter boys?" Poppy asked as she handed Draco a potion to stop his nose from bleeding. "What happened?"
"Harry hit me in the face with the door." Harry stood looking guilty near Draco's bed.
He left Draco's side and sat by his son. "How are you feeling, kid?"
"I've got boils. How do you think I feel?" Lucian snapped.
"Sorry, do you two want anything?" He asked. The two shook their heads and Harry laughed as they attempted to not touch the slowly disappearing boils. "No touching!"
"Dad?" Lucian whispered.
"Yes?"
"Professor Malfoy is my father, isn't he?" He asked, noticing his father glancing over to the other injured blonde. "He was the one who left you when you were pregnant with me?" Harry nodded. "It's okay, dad. You have me and Shane and Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione and Oliver and everyone else. He's sorry, dad. I could tell. The way he looked at you when you told him to leave. He was sad. I think he still loves you. I know you still love him."
"Anyone ever tell you that you are far too insightful?"
"I just know what I see. Talk to him." He smiled.
"Luke, your father never loved me. I was a foolish teenager. I'm not stopping you from getting to know your father but I am telling you not to get your hopes up that we'll be one big happy family. Get some rest, sweetie. I'll bring your homework to you two later on." He kissed the top of his head and pulled the curtains around Lucian's and Shane's beds.
Nervously, Harry played with his cufflinks, pacing around, deciding whether he should go talk to Draco or not. When he had held him in his arms, Harry felt like he was seventeen all over again. He wanted to give his son the family he deserved with both of his fathers.
Sure, he had dated since Draco left him but none of the men he went out with or slept with were what he was looking for. Yeah, some of them would have been great to have around for a while but they just couldn't make him happy the way Lucian's father used to. There was nothing between him and those other guys. They just didn't do it for him. None of them were Draco.
Over the years, Harry had desperately wanted to seek out Draco and tell him about their wonderful son but he was always reminded of the way Draco had just broken up with him because Harry happened to fall in love. That was something Harry found hard to over look.
"You're making a trench in the floor." Draco laughed from his bed.
Harry smiled. Draco melted inside. Harry felt like he was thirteen and was trying to talk to his crush. His hands were sweaty and shoved in his pockets. He walked over to Draco's bed and started rocking back and forth on his feet. "Um, sorry I hit you with the door before." He muttered, looking down at the stone floor.
"It's alright. You didn't know I was there. I shouldn't have been sitting there in the first place." He heard Draco take a deep, calming breath then say something he wasn't expecting. "I'm sorry for leaving you all those years ago."
"I have to go." That was all Harry could say before he hurried towards the exit. Four words stopped him.
"Harry, I love you." Draco was sitting up in bed, his head throbbing from where it connected to the wall.
"You don't love me." Harry didn't even bother turning around. "I have to get to my classes."
"Poppy told Severus to cover for you. I always loved you Harry."
Harry sighed in defeat and turned to face the concussed blonde. He walked back and sat in the chair beside Draco's bed.
"What made you name him Lucian?" Draco asked as he lay his head back down on his pillow. "He's a beautiful child."
"Lucian means light. It seemed appropriate. He was my light when my life was going to hell."
"What do you mean?"
"His father had left me a few days before I knew I was pregnant. His pregnancy was not easy to say the least. There were problems, complications with his delivery. I almost died. For the first month or so after he was born, Lucian was very sick. He was also nearly a month premature. He was born December 12th. The medi-witch who helped deliver him didn't think he would make it to his first birthday but he did." As Harry was speaking, Draco's hand had slipped onto the other man's thigh in a comforting gesture. "Don't touch me. Of course he's beautiful. He looks just like his father. His father was the most gorgeous person I'd ever met. I was a stupid teenager and didn't know any better. Lucian was one of the best mistakes ever. If I hadn't been a stupid teenager, I wouldn't have the most amazing son."
"He's mine, isn't he?" Draco asked.
"Of course he's yours. He looks exactly like you, you stupid git." Harry spat, crossing his arms.
"Every day I regret leaving you. I was scared."
"You were scared? You were SCARED? What the fuck were you scared of?"
"Keep it down, Harry." Poppy chided from her office.
"I was afraid you would leave, the way my mother did. I thought that if I left, it would hurt less than if you left me one day. I know it makes no sense to you but in my head it does. Leaving you was the biggest mistake I ever made. I've been miserable without you. I'm so, so, so sorry that I broke up with you the way I did. You have no idea how many times I wanted to go back to your flat and act like nothing ever happened. I followed your career and went to as many matches as I could, hoping that I might get a chance to speak to you and tell you how sorry I was. You're everything to me. I was crushed this morning when I saw you had a son. I though that you had found someone else and had a child with that person." He reached for Harry's hand, half expecting him to pull his hand away but he didn't. Draco's thin hand rested gently over Harry's, the contact making Harry's chest tighten. "Come here." He patted the space next to him on the bed and sat up.
"It won't be easy getting me to fully trust you again. I never told Luke you were his father. He only found out he was a Malfoy yesterday. I sold our flat after you left. I just couldn't bear being in that place anymore." Harry slid onto the bed and ran his fingers through Draco's hair.
"Do you still love me?" Draco asked. He bit his lip and worried what the other man's answer would be.
"I never stopped. I may have been mad at you and wanted to kill you at some time but I never stopped loving you."
"Will you take me back?" Harry nodded. "This time, when I say I won't leave you, I mean it. I'm sorry I broke my promise to you last time. This kind of thing only happens in children's stories. It's too perfect." They smiled at each other and Harry's grip on Draco's hand tightened. "Will you kiss me already?" Harry smiled and shook his head. "Why not?"
"I want to wait. Draco, don't make promises you can't keep. Get some rest, baby. You hit your head pretty hard." He ran a finger along Draco's jaw and over his eyelids. "This whole thing with us, it's going to take a while for me to get used to. I just got used to you not being in my life and here you are a part of my life again." He tried to get off the bad but Draco's arm around his waist stopped him. "You have to let me go. I'm just going down to the kitchen to go get something to eat and perhaps bring the boys their homework. Want anything?"
"Want you." He smirked and Harry fought the urge not to kiss him. "From the kitchen I don't know. You can decide for me." Harry nodded and walked towards the door. "Hey, I love you."
"I know."
A/N: Sappy, I know. ::Sigh:: Sometimes we all need a little romance. My co-author is reading what I write over my shoulder and is laughing hysterically. I blame the silly girly movies I just watched for all the fluffiness in this chapter.
Next Chapter: How Draco and Harry got together. Lucian and Draco have a chat. More fights between student!
