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Warnings: R. M-preg. Slash. (My mind cheers at warnings like these. )

Authors Note: Hello peoples! Long time, no update! I'm sorry about that. School work sucks. But rather than complain, I'll get right to the writing portion. K? Cool. I'm looking forward to seeing your reviews!

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Special Thanks To: Julie! My dearest beta that makes life easier for those who can't stand my mistakes!

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Chapter 5- The Talk

"Is it mine?" Severus asked tiredly leaning against the door frame of his office.

"What?" Harry asked taken aback by the bluntness of the question.

"The child you are holding. Is he mine?" Severus clarified.

"Of course he is. How could he not be?" Harry asked shifting Andrew a bit to give Severus a better look.

Andrew had a full head of straight red hair. The majority of Andrew's facial features were reminiscent of Harry, but the telling parts were his milk white skin and the black eyes that gazed at Severus. Without a doubt the eyes belonged to Severus

Severus curled a lip. "For all I know it's a Weasley child."

"You know me better than that Severus. I view the Weasley's as family and nothing more. The only person I've ever been with has been you," Harry said. "I really don't care whether or not you want Andrew in your life. He's your son. Like it or not."

"Well I don't like it," Severus said dryly.

"Fine. Then pretend he doesn't exist. As far as I'm concerned, he'll be safer that way," Harry said walking towards the door.

"Just what do you mean by that?" Severus demanded blocking Harry's exit. "I wasn't the one that put him in danger in the first place by not informing anyone about the pregnancy. I wasn't the one that let the level of abuse in my own home possibly affect the conditions under which my child was born and possibly kill the child. I didn't leave the child in a cupboard while I went about my day. From the information I have right now, you are the one is making the child unsafe. You are an unfit parent, and as such I should inform the ministry of what you did and let them do with the child as they see fit. You aren't going to trap me in role I do not wish to place myself in. That is not my son, and he'll never be. Just like you will never be my lover," Severus said lifting Harry's chin and gazing into his tear filled eyes.

"What do you want from me Severus?" Harry asked brokenly, allowing a few tears to fall from his shining green eyes. "Why would you take Andrew away from me? Don't you think he at least deserves one parent, if not two?"

"He deserves someone who will take care of him Potter. Not someone who will kill him before he reaches the age of one. He definitely doesn't need a whore such as you as a parent," Severus said. "And as for what I want from you, I don't want to be connected to this child at all. Not a word Potter. You wouldn't want an unexpected visit from the ministry would you?"

Severus turned abruptly and left the room, leaving a shell shocked Harry behind.

Harry didn't know how to handle this. Severus was right after all. He was the one who would have been at fault if something had happened to Andrew. He was the unfit parent. And above all else, he was terrified Severus would have the baby taken away from him. Andrew was his anchor. If he lost Andrew, he knew that he wouldn't be able to go on living. Shaking, Harry cradled Andrew against his chest gently as if he was afraid he would break, and left the room, hoping to find some peace and a place to think.

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The night sky was a clear midnight blue with billions of little lights shining above. The air carried the sweet scent of plants and the usual chirping of crickets. Harry was out in the gardens, still trying to wrap his mind around the conversation he'd had with Severus earlier that day. He'd decided a few things. The first of which was that he had no worth. Andrew deserved so much better than him, but he couldn't bear to give him up.

Another was that he had to avoid Severus. Even though the moment he'd had with Severus that morning wasn't a tender one, he couldn't help but allow the feel of his fingertips on his chin remind him of better days spent in the mans arms. He couldn't help but breathe in the man's scent, because he was all but addicted to it. There was an easier way to phrase it. No matter how hard he tried to make the emotion die, he couldn't.

He was still in love with Severus.

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"Harry, answer me. Please. What's going on? Why won't you tell us who did this to you?" Sirius asked the next afternoon.

"None of your business Sirius," Harry said walking away quickly trying to avoid the unanswerable question.

"You are my business Harry. Or have you forgotten you're still a minor and that I'm still your guardian?" Sirius asked.

"Fine. Then as a minor I have the right to be unreasonable, and you still won't have the answers you're looking for," Harry said walking as fast as he could to Remus' rooms to collect his son from the werewolf baby sitter. And hopefully hear exactly what had been done about the Dursley's.

"Harry! Come on! I'm not asking for much! I need to know!" Sirius said and was momentarily surprised when Harry stopped mid step and turned around and walked right back to him.

"Why do you need to know Sirius? So you can kill whoever it was that got me pregnant? Hmm…I don't think so Sirius. I was a willing participant in conceiving Andrew, even if I didn't know I could get pregnant. Thus half of the blame goes to me. And I'm not going to force someone who doesn't want Andrew to take care of him. So now, tell me. Can you give me a viable excuse for why the hell you need to know my business?" Harry asked.

Sirius was silent. He thought hard, but couldn't come up with a damned thing to say.

"I thought so. Now leave me the hell alone," Harry said turning around and taking the last few necessary steps to Remus' rooms. Drawing in a deep breath, he knocked.

"Come in!" Remus called out.

Harry was greeted by the sight of his son giggling happily as Remus made faces at him. "Remy, you are a wonder. Thanks so much for watching him," Harry said as he picked Andrew up and resumed the funny face game.

"It's not a problem Harry. Andrew enjoys it almost as much as I do," Remus said.

Harry let out the first real grin anyone had seen for a while. "So, you never did tell me what happened with the Dursley's. Nothing too extreme I hope."

"Well…I did make sure they suffered a bit. Gave them boils all over and made them do some serious exercise. Then they each had to face their worst fear…which in the end turned out to be turning them into fruit bats. Now, they get to spend a few months in a low level cell of Azkaban. What do you think?" Remus asked.

"I think you are immensely creative. But… did you really have to be so harsh?" Harry asked.

"I swear I wasn't harsh Harry. They got what they deserved. They even got off light. If I had it my way, they'd have gotten the kiss for what they did to you,' Remus said.

Harry shivered. The Dementor's kiss wasn't anything anyone ever wanted to so much as witness. Being nothing more than a shell sounded worse than anything imaginable. And Harry had a pretty good imagination.

"Thanks Remus," Harry said quietly, but sincerely. He picked Andrew up and carried him back to the hospital wing, where they would be staying the night again. Hopefully Dumbledore would have arranged actual rooms for him in the morning. And maybe Severus wouldn't arrange to have Andrew taken away.

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A/N: Dun dun dun. Okay. It sucked. So sue me. I think next chapter I'm going to devote some time to the almighty flashback…so we get to see Harry while pregnant, and when he realized it and stuff. Yay! This is why I hate being on a schedule. If I had time, I could write a decent chapter, but with my rushed schedule of late, it's all about completing some miscellaneous assignment for one of my stupid classes. Or studying for a test. Or memorizing oxidation rules. I hate Chemistry… Well…I'm done complaining for now. I'll get around to another chapter eventually! I promise I will not abandon this fic or any of my other ones! It just takes some time is all…

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