Defiant Destiny

Chapter seven

Draco had rushed up to the hospital wing after he had heard that Harry had been admitted there only moments ago. He didn't ask for any explanation to why Harry was there, all he seemed to be concerned about was whether he was alright.

Already present at Harry's bedside was headmaster Dumbledore and the strange girl that Draco had seen with Harry a day or so ago. "Is he alright?" Draco asked as he approached.

"Oh yes, everything is quite alright, Harry just fainted." Dumbledore explained as Poppy bustled over and muttered a spell, very slowly Harry opened his eyes and sat up.

"Where am I, what's going on, what happened?" Harry asked, his questions coming fast from his mouth as he looked around confused.

"You fainted Harry; you're in the hospital wing." Dumbledore explained Poppy left as they had no more need of her.

"Okay, this may be a silly question but why did Harry faint, I mean he isn't exactly the easiest wizard to shock, quite resilient I'd say." Draco said, he looked expectantly at the headmaster who sighed.

"I think it is time that we explain everything to Mr Malfoy here; he is the other party in this after all, although I don't think that Harry should explain, he still appears to be in shock."

"Explain what?" Draco asked but before his question could be answered the young girl who was present flung her arms around his waist and hugged him, Draco didn't really know what to make of this, he looked to Albus for an explanation.

"I would like to say congratulations on your relationship with Harry Mr Malfoy, but I need to explain that as a consequence of your actions last night Harry is pregnant."

Draco looked like a fish out of water, he was speechless and that was one for the history books, "Excuse me, what did you say?"

"I believe that you heard me correctly Mr Malfoy."

"But … isn't it too early to know?"

"Exactly what Harry said, I will tell you exactly what I told him, if he were not with child then that girl, her name is Emerald, would not be with us right now."

"What does Emerald being here have anything to do with Harry being pregnant?"

"You see, Emerald is your daughter from the future, Harry has just conceived her."

"Okay now I'm confused, I think I need to sit down."

Dumbledore conjured a chair and Draco sat down, Harry was looking at Draco as if he expected the blonde to suddenly bolt despite what Emerald had told him. Dumbledore, sensing that Harry was feeling this way he spoke.

"I know that this is a lot to take in but there is something else that you will need to know and I think I will let Emerald tell you."

"Tom, well Voldemort to you, he wants to take you away from Harry because he can't handle the pregnancy alone, he needs you there with him. However he won't kill you if he manages to capture you, Jarrod made sure of that." A tear slipped from her eye at the mention of his name, the pain still fresh in her mind and heart.

"Who's Jarrod?" Draco asked.

"He was Tom Riddle's son but he failed to be conceived last night so he no longer exists, he did however manage to send one final letter to Emerald before, well I'm not to sure how it happens really."

"We fade away," Emerald said and everyone looked at her.

"But your okay" Harry said to her, "That's what matters." He was trying his best to comfort her; Emerald crawled onto the bed with Harry who then hugged her.

Draco smiled at them, they were his family, or would be in the future, just looking at them both made him sentimental, he had never been fully appreciated at home, he served the purpose of an heir and nothing more, he wasn't a son, he had been raised by a magical nanny, unfortunately she wasn't exactly Mary Poppins.

Harry smiled and beckoned him over, Draco joined them on the bed but hesitated before he was pulled into the hug, he wasn't overly confident that becoming a parent was the right path for him, what if he was exactly like his father. He didn't however voice his concerns to Harry, especially since the headmaster was present.

"Dumbledore can we go now?" Harry asked, Emerald sat up, she had now stopped crying and was looking at both her parents admiringly.

"I shouldn't think that that will be a problem." The headmaster replied, he was so happy that both teens had excepted this is readily, he knew that they had the next nine months to get through, a period of time that was likely to hold many difficulties but this was a good start for all of them.

Voldemort was not happy; he was in fact in a towering temper. Jarrod had disappeared, he assumed that he had gone to Hogwarts, to seek refuge from him, he didn't like it and wanted him back.

He had therefore gathered his best deatheaters together and was planning to attack the school so that he could gain his son back. He wanted more information about the future and what it entailed for him and the put come of the war.

Lucius Malfoy was to lead the attack on the school, his orders were to capture both Jarrod and Draco and to bring them back to him unharmed, they were both to go into the dungeons until further notice. Among the others were Voldemort's most lethal and violent followers who took pleasure in maiming and killing innocent people.

Hogwarts castle was unprepared, no one had predicted what the disappearance of Jarrod would lead to, that the deatheaters planed to attack that night as they all slept.

Harry had left Emerald and Draco in the rooms they had now been given to share; he had gone to Gryffindor tower to announce that he was pregnant to his best friends who had yet to be told how the date had gone.

Ron, Dean, Seamus, Parvati, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Lavender gathered in Harry's old dormitory, he was yet to tell them that he was moving out of the tower, that he was effectively leaving their company for the foreseeable future. By the look it, his announcement wasn't the only one that the Gryffindor's had received that day, Dean and Seamus were holding hands as were Ron and Hermione, however the latter had an engagement ring on her finger, Harry assumed that Ron had proposed to her.

"Thank you for coming to talk to me, there are a few things I need to tell you and they are of great importance so I would appreciate it if you didn't interrupt."

They all nodded in agreement and allowed Harry to speak. "Well, to start off with, I won't be living here anymore, I have been given my own rooms by the headmaster and for good reason." Harry began; it was as good a place as any to start. "That is because Draco and I are, well, we're having a baby."

The girls squealed in delight as did all the gay men present, Ron and Neville smiled and congratulated him while the others giggled. "But Harry, you only went on a date last night, how do you know?"

"It's a long story but it's happening and although I'm really nervous I don't think that I could ask for much more. Draco is going to stand by me and we're going to be a family."

"Are you getting engaged?" Hermione asked as if this was something that she expected to be happening. Everyone was a little shocked when he shook his head.

"We've only just started dating, it would be some kind of record if we got engaged after only being together twenty four hours, we haven't really discussed it but I want to wait, but I see a congratulations are in order for you and Ron."

"Yeah, he asked me yesterday evening, it was so romantic, remind me to tell you about it one day."

"Definitely, I'd love to hear all about it, and how about you to" Harry said now addressing Dean and Seamus who were smiling happily, "I assume that you two are going out now."

"Yeah, we didn't want to say anything before now but we have been for about a week now, we couldn't be happier."

"I'm so glad that your all so happy, I just hope that it can stay this way, I have a feeling that something bad is going to happen because that is the way it's always been. If anything does go wrong, promise that you won't do anything to risk your lives, I want you all to live and be as happy as I hope to be one day."

Later that evening when Harry had returned to Draco and Emerald when they were all relaxed and curled in front of the fire, Emerald was reading a book that looked as if it had been written in parceltongue whereas Draco and Harry were cuddled together, their hands on Harry's flat stomach, they could hardly believe that there was life there.

The peaceful surround was suddenly shattered by the sound of high pitched alarms that Harry had never heard before but his instincts told him that something was very wrong; they froze, not daring to go any where.

As if expected Dumbledore burst into the room looking frantic, "You are all to stay here, deatheaters are attacking, I think they want Draco and Jarrod … they don't know that Jarrod is gone."

"I can help" Harry said at once but the headmaster shook his head.

"We cannot risk you having a miscarriage; we cannot allow you to fight."

"I can" Emerald said, "I have more power than you all."

"That may be so but I don't want you out there," Harry said at once, "No daughter of mine will be a child of war."

"You don't have a choice."

"No" Dumbledore said, "You cannot fight, you cannot change the course of history, you are not meant to fight in this war."

With those final words Dumbledore was off, shutting the door behind him, Harry, Draco and Emerald remained where they were, scared of what was about to happen and Emerald, who knew what happened and who was about to die began to cry … she knew who Harry was about to lose.

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