Defiant Destiny

Chapter five

Where Voldemort was never one to be denied what he wanted Jarrod was the opposite, he didn't have his fathers temper and did not force his will upon others, he knew what he had to do and he was prepared to do it for Emerald, he may have been young but had recognized his chance.

He had failed to tell his father that the future did not fare him well, he had failed to tell Voldemort a lot of things, one of his many talents was lying and whereas Voldemort could tell when he was lying in the future he couldn't in this time and Jarrod was glad of it. He knew perfectly well who is other father was and he also knew perfectly well that in the future he was dead, that was the reason he had been brought up by Narcissa Malfoy.

Emerald on the other hand had been told that she would have to stay in the hospital wing as there was no where else that Dumbledore thought appropriate to house her, he certainly couldn't ask Harry to take full responsibility for her as he didn't know that she was his daughter. He was therefore stuck with what to do with the ten year old girl, although one thing he knew that he wanted was the name of her other father, he didn't like not knowing, it wasn't a nice feeling.

Harry was now pacing his room nervously, it was the Saturday morning and he was due to meet Draco after breakfast in the entrance hall and currently he was still fussing with what to wear. Hermione, Ginny and Parvati were all sat on his bed giggling and trying to help him chose what to wear, they knew he had a date but not who it was with.

"So are you going to tell us who the lucky girl is?" Ginny asked and then added, "or guy for that matter." Just for good measure. Most of Gryffindor tower knew that Harry was bisexual; it had been a cause of celebration in the gay wizarding community.

"If I tell you, you have to promise me that you won't freak out or anything." Harry said still pacing, he was wearing nothing but emerald green boxer shorts and the girls were certainly taking the opportunity to admire the view before them. A lot of people would have paid big money to be where they were now and they planned to take advantage of the situation, especially if Harry became serious with this mysterious boy.

"We promise" Hermione answered for them all and they all now looked expectantly at him, waiting for the name he was about to tell them, it was almost like a over dramatic soap opera with a cliff hanger the amount of time that it took Harry to answer the question.

"Alright, it's Draco Malfoy." Harry said, he had actually stopped still to say this but now resumed his pacing, now with added nail biting. "Now will you help to pick out the perfect outfit?" Harry begged, the girls had all squealed in delight when he had said Draco's name.

"Oh wow, Harry, he's gorgeous, who asked who?" Parvati asked.

"He asked me I guess."

"Is he a good kisser?" Ginny asked.

"Yeah … I guess."

"Better than Cho?"

"Yes, better than Cho."

"Better than … who else have you been out with?" Parvati asked, she hadn't heard of him dating any one else after Cho Chang, who in her mind hadn't been nearly good enough for Harry,

"No one" Hermione answered for him, "He hasn't dated anyone."

"Then he must look positively ravishing." Ginny proclaimed standing up and beginning to rifle through Harry's entire wardrobe.

Draco waited patiently in the entrance hall waiting for Harry to appear, he hadn't been in the great hall for breakfast and Draco was anxious to see him. When three giggly Gryffindor girls came down the stairs pointing and muttering at him he grew very nervous and for a split second thought that Harry had stood him up, that thought very quickly fluttered away as he saw Harry standing at the top of the marble staircase.

He was breath taking, dressed in a pair of tight fitting black slacks that left just enough to the imagination and a deep, almost blood red shirt, before this moment he hadn't known what nicely muscular biceps Harry had, it was clear that Harry was training very hard.

He descended the steps in an agonizing slowness, Draco watched every move that he made, each step that he took was memorized in his mind.

"Are you ready?" Harry asked as he reached the blonde who was now practically drooling over the Gryffindor.

"Oh yes, I'm ready." Harry giggled and so did his friends who were still watching them with interest.

Draco took Harry's hand within his own and led him out of the castle, another who watched from a top of the marble staircase was Emerald Malfoy-Potter, she wished that they would hurry up; she had precious little time left.

Besides her worry about herself she was also concerned for Jarrod, she wanted to contact him but had no idea where he was, it wasn't as if she could stroll into Voldemort's lair and speak with him. Emerald didn't think that Voldemort would be so willing to understand and hated the idea that Jarrod was hurt.

She decided that going to see Dumbledore was the only way that she was going to be sure, the headmaster it appeared had been expecting her, she had never quite understood how the headmaster knew everything that went on inside this castle, however she never questioned it.

She entered his office, sat down and excepted a lemon drop, "I assume that Harry and his mystery date got off to Hogsmead alright."

"Yes Granddad but I am worried about Jarrod, we share a birthday and I am worried that he won't be conceived, Tom isn't exactly the kind of person that lets anything as silly as destiny stand in the way of what he wants."

"That is true but there is nothing that we can do, I am sure that Jarrod is aware of the time limits and will take necessary measures to assure that he is conceived."

"In the future it isn't Harry and Voldemort that are the key focus in the war, it's myself and Jarrod that are being forced to fight and I'm scared that he won't want to be conceived. We have talked on many occasions and he always tells me that he would do anything to leave Tom and come to us and if he cannot then nothing is worth it."

"He sounds like a good child, we will do what we can to save him but apart from storming into Tom's hiding place there isn't much that we can do."

"Can we storm into his hiding place?"

"No"

"I can, I'm really powerful."

"I do not want you endangering your life, you are too young."

"You don't say that to me in the future my parents do but you encourage me to fight, encourage me to be like Harry when he was at Hogwarts, you've all changed so much in the future."

Jarrod paced the room that he had been allocated and then locked in, he was worried about Emerald and how she was getting on, he hoped that she was having abetter time of it than he was right now. He looked down at his hands and realised that they were becoming a little faint, nothing more drastic than what he could notice under close inspection but he knew that he was running out of time.

Emerald had noticed this as well, Harry and Draco were not yet back from Hogsmead, she was praying to whatever god would listen that they hurried back and did what they had to so that she was conceived.

The couple in question were currently snogging over cups of coffee in Madame Puddifoots tea room, Harry was beginning to feel very reckless and the side of him that told him to take a chance was rearing it's ugly head.

"It's late, we should be heading back." Draco said as the two of them parted, he could see pure lust in Harry's emerald eyes, there was no confusion now, no nervous, just lust.

"Yeah … lets head back." Harry said with a suggestive tone to his voice, Draco caught on immediately and paid the bill before practically dragging Harry out of the shop.

Emerald saw them return and with glee noticed that they were kissing and holding hands, in fact practically groping each other in the hall way. In the general direction that they were going she assumed that they were heading to the room of requirement.

She looked down at her hands and whereas before they had been getting steadily transparent now stopped and after fifteen or twenty minutes they began to get clearer until they were back to normal, Emerald whooped and cheered for hours after that.

Jarrod however remained in his room getting steadily more transparent, he watched in the mirror as the furniture behind him was able to be seen through him. He stood there quietly not making a fuss, he wanted to rub it in his fathers face but if he did that then no doubt Tom would rape one all of his deatheaters until Jarrod was conceived and he wouldn't have that.

Instead he wrote Emerald a letter, it included a note to Harry as well, he told her not to cry, that this was what had to be done but the damage that had been done already couldn't be reversed. The note to Harry warned him not to let Draco out of his sight no matter what. And at the end before he signed his name he wrote that love isn't just a feeling it shapes who a person is.

He tied the envelope to the leg of a barn owl and watched it out of sight before he too vanished into thin air.

I am so sorry that it took so long to update this … in fact I am so sorry that I haven't updated any of my stories but between college work and socialising I really haven't had time and now on top of that I am applying for University but I will hopefully update again soon, don't forget to leave a review.