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Chapter 8: Getting settled in and hearing the plan

Severus was carrying Harry down to their quarters when he decided that he was going to swing by the kitchens to let the House Elves know to send down some food. " What would you like for dinner?" he asked.

Harry thought for a few seconds before he made up his mind. " I can have anything that I want right?"

Severus smiled. " Yes anything that your heart desires."

" Two peanut butter and blackberry jam sandwiches with cool whip on it." He said with a huge grin on his face. " And some hot chocolate with the tiny marshmallows."

Severus laughed at this " And here I was thinking that you were going to order a huge seven course meal." He said sarcastically.

They finally made it down to the dungeons after being accosted by Dobby and only getting away with a promise that he would bring Harry back down to the kitchens before school started. Harry had sat down on the couch and was happily eating away at his sandwiches when Severus thought that now would be the opportune time to ask him about Draco. "You know that those
sandwiches are my godsons favorites?" he said knowing that if him and Draco were close he would know that he was his godfather.
" Yeah I know he is the one that got me hooked on them." Realizing what he had just said he clapped his hand over his mouth.
"Shit, Draco is going to fucking kill me." He said his eyes wide.

" Ah, so its Draco now and not Malfoy huh." Severus said laughing.

" God, no one was supposed to find out. He doesn't want Lucius to find out that he is gay. Merlin I did it again, please just kill me now at least you will have mercy on me." Harry mumbled in the pillow that he had dived under.

This made Severus laugh even harder. " Harry its alright I promise not to say anything, besides I already knew that there was something going on between you two. I saw you meeting out by the lake one night."
Harry looked at his father astounded. "And you don't mind, about me...uh…being gay?" he asked timidly.

Severus saw that Harry was very insecure about this, " Harry I could care less, all that matters to me is that you are happy. That's what counts. Plus you will find out that the Wizarding community is not as biased as muggles when it comes to relationships, whether it is with a man or a woman. I would be a rather large hypocrite if I was angry for you being gay." He saw Harry's eyes widen in realization and what that comment meant. "Now, I have only one question, does Draco make you happy?" he watched as Harry got a sappy look on his face.

"Yeah, he does." He said with a goofy grin plastered on his mouth. " Do you think that there is any way that he could come here and visit?"

"That I don't know about. But you just reminded me about what we are planning on doing about your safety. We are basically
going to say that Harry Potter died after being in a coma for several weeks from injuries that he received from his uncle while at his aunt and uncles house. And then you will be starting this fall as my son; we will tell people that I wanted you to attend here because I wanted you closer to me with all that has been going on. If you want to be resorted then Albus said that was not a problem. And we need to come up with a new name for you." Severus said summing up what Albus had talked to them about before Harry had woken up.

Harry sat there for a couple of minutes before he said anything. " Can Draco know the truth? I don't think that I could keep
something like this from him."

Severus was silent for several seconds and Harry was afraid that he was going to say no. "I'll see if I can arrange for him to come here for you birthday, do you want him here for when the charms where off?" Not really sure if he wanted Draco here just yet or not.

Harry shook his head vigorously, " Yes, I would really like for him to be here. Do you think that he is going to flip when he finds out that you're my father?"

Severus laughed, " Oh most definitely, I have been trying to find out from him for months now what had been going on between you two. How long have you two been sneaking around seeing each other?" he asked teasingly he figured that they had probably started seeing each other some time this year. But when Harry answered him he was shocked.

"Since the end of our third year. I had been sitting near the lake the day after the Quidditch game where I fell off of my broom,
going over and over in my head my mom's voice pleading with Voldemort not to kill me. I had been so absorbed in my own
thoughts that I didn't hear Draco come up behind me. He put his wand up to the back of my head and said, " I could kill you right here and no one would know who did it."

"I turned and looked at him and told him to do it because it would serve people right for putting the fate of the Wizarding world in a child's hands. He sat down next to me and asked me what had happened on the Quidditch pitch and I told him. He offered to call a truce for when we were alone because in public we both had to keep our acts and masks up. From then on we got to be really close friends and by the end of the year a lot more. We came up with code names so that we could write to each other without anyone becoming suspicious. During our fourth year he was the one that helped me find the ingredients to make the Wolfsbane potion and he was the one that borrowed them out of your stash. I made sure that I gave him enough money to replace them before you noticed that they were gone." Harry said not realizing how thoroughly shocked his father was.

" Are you telling me that all of fights that you two have had have all been staged?" he asked impressed with both his son and godson.

"Yep, and I'll tell you a secret do you remember when the fake Moody turned Draco into a white ferret. Well after I was bit he
decided that he wanted to become an animagus, and guess what his form is." He asked laughing.

"A white ferret." Severus said laughing so hard that he almost fell off of the couch.

" He actually has two forms. The other one is a pure white Abraxan." Harry said still laughing.

" You never did tell me what you look like when you transform." Severus said when he thought about what Harry would look like.

Harry smiled smugly, " And you'll just have to wait until tomorrow night."

"Alright, alright do you want me to show you your rooms?" He asked knowing that Harry would be very surprised.

Harry stood up shakily and slowly followed after his father. They passed by what looked like a storage room that had cauldrons and potions equipment everywhere. When they came to the end of the hallway Severus turned around so that he could see his sons face when he saw his room.

Harry walked passed his father and looked into the room. It was incredible.

The bed was huge and had a forest green and black satin comforter and pillows that matched. There was a beautiful desk that had all of his schoolbooks and other books on the various shelves. Rolls of parchment were slid into slots under the books and a full inkwell along with several different types of quills was there as well.

He saw that Hedwig's cage was hanging on a decorative stand but what was the best was the closet. It looked like it was as big as the room and it was full of different color and style of cloaks and robes as well as an assortment of muggle clothes. It was amazing. He was so used to having cast- offs from Dudley that he didn't know what it was going to be like to wear clothes that fit him and ones that he likes. He turned back around and saw that his father was still standing in the doorway. He ran over to him and threw himself into his arms.

" Thank you so much. You have no idea what this means to me."

Severus smoothed his son's hair down " You have no idea what it means to me to hear you say that. It's all yours and you deserve it. You didn't even finish looking around the room." He teased. " The fireplace is over there," he said pointing at the wall opposite of the bed. " And you have your own bathroom."

Harry walked over to his bed and flopped unceremoniously onto it. "Have you thought about my name yet?" he asked wondering what he had come up with.

Severus walked over and sat down on the bed beside his son. "Your mother and I had talked about names for when we decided to have kids. We came up with Lucian Salazar Snape, that can be yours if you want it to be." He said quietly. He remembered Lily talking about names a lot the week before he was given the mark. Looking back now he knew why.

Harry thought this over for a few minutes and tested saying it. It rolled off his tongue. He knew that was the name that his mother had picked out for him when she first found out. He just knew it was, it felt right. "I want it changed as soon as possible. Now are you going to tell me how you are going to get Draco out from Lucius's grasp so that he can come and stay here?" He asked hopefully. He really missed him and he needed to talk to him. Plus it would be great to see his reaction to who his father is.

" Yeah, I guess that I could go fire-call Lucius and tell him that I need his help brewing some sort of dark potion; you said that you and Draco have code names. What are they so that in case I need to use them to get Draco to agree to come here?" He said knowing that he would have to use them in order for Draco to come willingly to brew potions.

Harry nodded his head, " Ok, mine is Onyx and Draco's is Dragon. His is rather obvious but mine was the one that needed to be totally unable to trace back to me." He said laying his head on his pillow and closing his eyes. Tomorrow night was going to be hell. He was already exhausted, more so than he was normally.
He had so much pent up anger and hatred that he was afraid that the Wolfsbane wouldn't work. That was why he wanted Draco here for tomorrow night. He needed Draco there to ground him, if not all hell could break loose.

Severus slipped out of his son's room and quietly closing the door behind him. He walked into his own room to make the fire-call, that way if Harry woke up there was no danger of anyone seeing him here. He picked up a handful of powder and threw it in the flames. "Lucius Malfoy's Study, Malfoy Manor." A few seconds later Lucius's head appeared in his fireplace.

"Ah, Severus I was just thinking about contacting you. I wanted to know if there would be any problems with Draco staying the rest of the holiday with you. Narcissa and I have been called out on urgent business." Lucius said smoothly.

Severus knew what 'urgent business' they were being called for. They were being sent around the country to try and locate Harry.
He thanked Merlin again that Harry was safe with him in Hogwarts. And this definitely would work in his favor. "I was just calling you ask you if I could take young Draco, I need someone that is as competent in potions to help me make some 'important' potions." He knew that if he doubted on whether it was a good idea or not to let him take Draco, hearing that he was making the potions would smooth things over.

"Yes, that would be good. I think that you may need to persuade him though. He is quite adamant that he is staying." Lucius said smirking.

Severus knew that Lucius thought that he would never get Draco to leave the house. But he did not want Draco to be anywhere near Lucius or Voldemort when they find out that Harry Potter died and not by their own hands. A couple minutes later Draco came into the room.

"And I suppose that you are going to try and convince me that I really want to come and spend the rest of the Holiday with you." He smirked wondering what in the world he was up to.

" Well Dragon, I need your help on a certain potion and I found a particularly interesting Onyx that you left at school. I put it on the bed in the spare room." He said trying not to laugh.

Draco stood there stunned. He quickly composed himself and stood up. "I just need to grab a couple things and I'll come through now." He said and then practically ran out the door.

Lucius looked at Severus astonished. "What was that all about? He told me that he was not going with you no matter what."

"At the end of the term I told him of a potion that I had just come across, one that was particularly illegal and highly dangerous. I told him that I wouldn't be able to get a hold of the ingredients until the beginning of the school year. But I got them early." Severus lied smoothly.

" I am glad to see that you haven't stopped practicing your 'Art' while you are teaching under that muggle-loving old fool." Lucius said as Draco came walking back in slowly but it was obvious that he had ran to his room and ran back. "Do be on your best behavior Draco, you know what will happen if I find out otherwise."

Severus saw Draco stiffen with that underlying threat, something else that he needed to find out when he had his chat with Draco.
He'd be damned if he would sit back and watch Lucius do the same thing to Draco as what his bastard of a father did to him. Not if he could prevent it.

"Well let's go Draco. We need to get started on this Potion as soon as possible." Severus went back through the fireplace and few seconds later Draco joined him. Draco was about ready to dart out the door toward Harry when Severus stopped him. "Before you go in and see him there are some things that you need to know. The first thing is that Harry has been in a coma for the past two and a half weeks. He just woke up this evening." Draco interrupted him.

"What happened, how did he get here, is he ok is there anything wrong with him. Who did it to him, I swear to god if it was that good for nothing fat fucking bastard of a muggle that has the gall to call himself his uncle I will kill him. I knew that if Harry went back there this summer something would happen." Draco stopped his tirade and buried his head in his hands, "Merlin Sev, I don't know what I would do without him. I don't think that I could handle loosing him."

"You are going to loose him, in a way, but I need to wait for Harry to wakeup before I say any more. It is up to him on what he tells you." He said wondering when Harry would hear Draco and wake up. "Now, I have some questions for you. What is going on between you and Lucius? And don't give me that bullshit that it's nothing because I know better."

Draco sighed and slumped down on the floor "he keeps threatening to make me get the mark now instead of waiting until after I graduate. But I don't want it period. I can't do what he does to people. And on top of that if he ever found out that I was gay he would kill me. Not to mention that my boyfriend is number one on their 'who needs to be killed at all costs' list. Honestly I don't think that I would have lasted against Lucius as long as I have with out Harry." He finished quietly.

" Draco, you don't have to go back there you know. You are always welcome to stay with me." Severus told Draco.

"Please Draco don't go back." Harry's voice came from the hallway.

Draco jumped up and launched himself into Harry's open arms. And for the first time since he had left school he felt like he was home. Draco looked at Harry and stared awestruck.

"My god Harry you look totally different, you hardly look like yourself anymore and what happened to your voice?"

Harry laughed and looked over at his father and he shook his head. "Well Father," he stressed the father part. "I see that you have left a lot of news out."

Draco looked at Harry and then to his Godfather, and them back to Harry, "Did you just say Father, as in he is your Dad?"

Harry saw his father's body shaking with silent laughter, "Yep. We found out when he had brought me back to the school from the Dursley's.

Draco glanced back at Harry and promptly passed out. Harry caught him before his head hit the ground.