Chapter 13: So Many Decisions
A month after the attack, Harry was awoken in the middle of the night by someone's voice calling him from the fireplace. "Mr. Potter, your presence is requested at Azkaban for the birth of your child. Draco has gone into labor." Harry quickly jumped to his feet and woke Oliver, they quickly went to the fire and right into the cell Draco was in. Everytime Harry came here, he had to fight off his feelings of seeing Draco, there was no way Harry could let Draco back into his life, it wasn't safe for any of them, and it wasn't right to Oliver.
"Harry, my Harry, please don't keep our son here." Draco said, they had obviously already given him drugs.
"I won't I promise, our son doesn't deserve to be here. How are you feeling? You aren't in pain are you?"
"No, a little, but not much. Did you hear? I'm getting help, I'm trying to get better." Draco said, completely out of it.
"That's good Draco, I'm glad to see you're getting yourself together." A few hours later, Draco was giving birth screaming and yelling just as much as he did with Dragon. Not that Harry knew that Draco screamed so much having Dragon. A couple more minutes later and Harry and Draco's son was born. "He's adorable."
"When I get better, can I visit him? You and Oliver and the minister can be there, I just want to see him when I get better." Draco asked, starting to cry.
"Of course you can visit him, but you have to get better first. It's time to say goodbye to him."
"Before you go, can you tell me his name? Please." Draco asked, looking hopeful.
"He is your son, it's only fair. Rupert Elias Potter. I'm sure Dragon and them will have him nicknamed in no time, I mean even Chastity's child had a nickname two days before he even got home."
"Bye Elias, never forget that I love you and I'm getting better so I can see you and your brothers and sisters, I'll miss all of you. I have to get better first, I know you know that too. I'll see you when I'm completely better and not a second before that, I promise." Draco kissed his son's head before the Healers took Rupert to St. Mungos. It broke Harry's heart seeing Draco being so nice to their son, 'Draco can not be that bad, something must have happened, something must have been overlooked.' Harry thought, brushing Draco's sweaty hair out of his face, fighting back tears.
"Harry, it's time to go." Oliver said, pulling Harry out of his musings, he hated the look on Harry's face. The look that told Oliver he would never amount to anything that Draco had been, and it infuriated him. "Harry, hun, we really need to get moving."
"Go on, I'll be fine. I just want to make sure that Draco will be okay. It's really hard to have your child taken away from you after birth." Harry said, pulling Oliver aside.
"Fine." With that Oliver left.
"Harry, are you happy? With him I mean, are you happy?" Draco asked, getting up to walk to the shower on the side of the room. the room was just four walls with a tiny window in one of them, so it wasn't like Draco didn't have privacy to shower, but at the same time it was in the open.
"Yes, yeah of course I am." Harry said, turning around to give Draco a little privacy.
"I thought we were going to try to be honest with each other. Isn't that what we agreed on a few months ago, during the last check up when we found out we were going to have another son. I can tell you aren't being honest Harry."
"I am happy with Oliver."
"But." Draco finished, wrapping a towel around his waist and walking up behind Harry, wrapping his arms around Harry's waist. Harry subconsiously leaned back into Draco's arms, feeling guilty, upset, confused, and safe all at the same time.
"I can't Draco. Whatever I'm feeling for you, no matter how persistant these feelings are, I can't. I love Oliver, I am having Oliver's child, and I just can't." Harry said, but still didn't move out of Draco's arms, he just couldn't get himself to move.
"Look at me and tell me you don't love me, and I promise to back off, to let you live whatever life you've made with our children and Oliver." Harry turned around met Draco's eyes for a few minutes before looking over Draco's shoulder.
"I don't love you anymore."
"Then why didn't you inital the divorce papers? You signed the first page, you didn't inital the others. I have them here if you want to, but I can tell by the fact that you couldn't look me in the eye let alone not cry that you still love me." Draco pulled the papers out from underneath his cot, along with aself-inking quill. "Sign if you must, just do it fast, I don't think I can handle anything else." Harry looked at the quill, eyes following from each individual barb, before following it down to his extremely sharp point. 'Sharp enough to puncture, to cut.' Harry though.
"Draco, how long have you had this quill?" Harry asked, still not taking his eyes off of it.
"Since the papers were sent back, about two months ago. Are you okay?"
"Draco, what classes did Oliver enroll you in?"
"Anger management, something called Living your own life, Alcoholics Anonymous classes, and Drug Abuse classes. The usual according to the guards. Are you going to sign those papers?" Draco asked, sitting on the cot staring at Harry. 'He looks so lost, so...torn? hurt? Broken? Yeah that sounds right, he looks so broken.'
"I'm going to take the papers home and-"
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"Dragin, where Draco?" Michael asked, wondering into the Infirmary with Severus.
"I found this one wondering the halls. It seems that Draco went into Labor last night and Dobby was called away by Professor McGonagall for help on something. Good moring dear." Severus kissed Chastity's cheek, handing her the small but large crate of potions for Mat.
"Hey Mat, you're supply of fun just arrived. " Chastity said, laughing and showing him the crate Severus had handed her, Mat's jaw dropped.
"You're killin me here Chast. First you give me a potion that shocks me to death, and now you're going to drown me in potions. What kind of nurse are you?"
"If I was killing you, you would have been dead by now babe. How's Capucius?" Chastity asked, turning back towards Sev, whom took the crate and set it on the table behind him for her.
"Good, missing his mother terribly. Though I try my best to describe why you're gone, but being so young, he doesn't understand a word I say. He's in your office right now." Severus whispered in her ear, kissing her cheek. They both made their way towards Chastity's office to see Capucius and figure out the next step in Mat's recovery.
"Dragin, you not answer my question!" Michael said, throwing his arms up in the air.
"Sorry M.T. father was bad and is in Azkaban. What to see Mat?" Dragon asked, picking his brother up.
"Hi Mat, you better?" Michael asked, being placed on the side of Mat's bed.
"I'm feel better, but I'm not all the way better. I have a lot of owies. Dragon, can you go get the sore throat potion for me please?" Mat asked, holding his throat. Dragon left quickly and turned towards Michael. "What are you hiding little one? You're a seer, you should know exactly where your father is, what's going on?" Michael started wiggling around a little.
"I know nothing."
"Michael you can tell me it's okay. I won't tell anyone if you tell me, I promise. I'll wait until you tell them yourself, or they figure it out on their own, the only exception to that is if it hurts you or someone else."
"I come back tonight, I sneaky. We talk then. Dragin, I want down! I want down!" Michael called, throwing his arms in the air again. Dragon came back, handed the vial to Mat, before letting Michael down.
"Try Gon instead of gin. Dragon."
"You weird." Michael said, shaking his head and walking towards Chastity's office to get Severus. Mat and Dragon were amazed at how smart and fast learning the twins were. "Try Dragon...that funny."
"I swear he does it just to annoy me, he's been raised by Dobby for way too long."
"Ready for your first batch of morning potions?" Chastity asked, coming back out of the office. Capucius and Michael in Severus' arms.
"None of these are going to send me into shock are they?"
"Nope, I guarantee it's shock free. I mean besides of the shock of it helping you get better, but that's a completely different shock."
"How am I going to take the potions if I'm not allowed to swallow anything."
"That's the fun part." Chastity pulled out three different needles and about tweleve different potions. She loaded up the first needle and Mat's eyes got huge. "Don't worry, it goes right into this little plasitc thing that you have never noticed before because you've been out of it."
"Did you happen to drug her while you were back there?" Mat asked, looking uncertainly at Snape.
"She just gets excited. I better be off, I have a class to teach, Dragon I'll excuse you from this class, but tomorrow I want you there at least half of the class."
"Yes sir. I'll be there...Thanks uncle Sev." Dragon said smiling. Severus nodded his head before leaving the room with the two kids. After Chastity dosed up Mat with potions, they started on some excerices.
"I'm still not letting you walk across the room until tomorrow, cause that would be day three and we won't have to worry about your stomach. So all these great tasting potions you'll get to take by mouth, right now though, we're going to work your leg muscles a little bit. We don't want you to lose any muscles and not be able to walk your buttout ofthe hospital wing. Your parents said they'd stop by today after lunch to check up on you also." Chastity moved to the end of the bed, and placed her hand on Mat's foot. "Just the same as on the train okay. I want to you push against my hand, and then wiggle your toes." Mat rolled his eyes not getting what this had to do with him getting better.
"Mat are you okay?" Chastity asked, noticing him going a little pale.
"My ears are ringing." Mat said, before his head hit the pillow.
"Chastity what's wrong with him?" Dragon asked, looking at the heart machines.
"He's fainted. Look, we're going to have to flush his system now. The potion we gave him yesterday isn't working, you know how dangerous this is, Lucius told me he gave you your father's records. Look, I need you to do everything I tell you to at exactly the moment I tell you and not a second before or after. Go into the bathroom over there, wash your hands twice, then put on these." Chastity handed him gloves and a white jacket thing, before washing her own hands and preping Mat. "You'll make it through this I promise you." She quickly took out the IV's before putting in a pain medication one. Dragon came back out ten minutes later. "Dragon you have to promise me, no matter what happens, you will not touch him, or stop anything that goes on."
"I promise." Dragon shook Chastity's hand and they went to work. They qucikly intibated Mat so they could control his breathing, before rolling Mat on his side. Chastity took out a huge needle, the needle being about 5 inches long and filled it with a mild version of wizard's speed. Before injecting it right into Mat's back, along his spine, right into his central nervous system and blood stream. They quickly put him back onto his back and restrained him as he went into seizures. The whole time Dragon held his breath, knowing he couldn't touch Mat.
"Why can't I touch him?" Dragon asked, trying to restrain himself.
"The stuff I just injected into his back, when he starts sweating will come out in the sweat, if we touch it, it'll hurt us more then it's hurting him. Now, look we need to catheterize him, and I'm sure he doesn't want me to go looking at his bits and pieces, so you're going to do it."
"I've never done one before." Dragon said scared, taking the tube from Chastity's hands.
"Look, we have to pull the blanket up anyway, I'll stand behind the blanket and walk you throw it. You can do it, you just have to believe in yourself." Dragon pushed the blanket up a little, to where Mat's knees kept it up without showing anything. "Okay, I know you've had one of these before. Since Mat's bladder is empty you won't have to worry about anything coming out, now there's lubricant there on the table, put that on top of the plastic tube okay?"
"This looks just so wrong in so many ways Chastity!"
"Exaclty why I am having you do this, and not myself. Now take Mat's thing in one hand at a 90 degree angle if not you'll injure him a lot worse, and gently and slowly push the tube in 3 to 4 inches."
"It's in, and I so hate you. He better never get sick again, now what?" Dragon asked, looking up at Chastity.
"Connect this bag to the end of it, and pull the blanket back down." Chastity handed him an empty IV bag. "You did a great job and just made everything ten times easier for us. Now all we have to do is force these twelve potions down his throat and hook up the seven IV's behind me up and he should be flushed in about two hours." Chastity hooked up the IV's, since Dragon had no clue how to, while Dragon force fed Mat the potions trying not to touch anything but his throat. "Now we wait."
"Chast, he isn't going to die is he?"
"Of course not, it's not exactly like Draco's, Draco had to die so there was more of a complication then this. This one we just have to flush his system. When he gets up he'll be extremely sick because we had to get those potions in his stomach before it was ready for anything. It'll speed up his progress, instead of three months, he'll be out of here in a month, maybe even earlier,and only have check ups for another month. I just wanted to take my time so he wasn't in pain and there were no side effects. Now, he might just get really tired at any time for no reason. The Mcguires should be here soon, maybe you should head them off and explain the situation." Chastity helped Dragon out of his cloth coat thingy, while Dragon took off his gloves.
"How did you deal with stuff like this everyday?" Dragon asked, having a whole new respect for Chastity.
"It was part of my job, I had to. Go on, they should be in Albus' office." Dragon hugged Chastity before leaving the room. "So Mat, you aren't in any pain are you?"
"How did you know the pain medication wore off?" Mat asked, opening his eyes.
"I saw your face screw up in discomfort when Dragon was putting the cathator in, but think about it this way, he did everything he could to make you better. He loves you, you just need to decide if you love him just as much. This fell out of your cloak when we rolled you." Chastity said, handing Mat the box with the Malfoy ring inside. "Think things over, everything will end in the best possible way."
"Some how I think you know more then you let on."
"Ah, but that's part of being a Malfoy." Chastity said before going into her office to clean up.
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"Mr. Malfoy, to what do we owe the honor?" Dumbledore said, opening the door for Dragon.
"I just came from the Infirmary, Chastity sent me. Liza, Luis, I need to explain a few things to you before you go to see Mat, see the resistance potion that Chastity gave Mat yesterday didn't work very well, we had to push the flush of his system up to today. We just got finished, he's hooked up to a bunch of IVs, and no one is allowed to touch him because one of the potions we had to give him will sweat itself out of his system, but it's harmful to anyone who touches it that way. He's hooked up to other machines also, and once he wakes up he'll probably be in and out of sleep. Tomorrow he's going to be really sick to his stomach because we had to feed him potions even though his stomach wasn't ready for it. He's done a really great job at recovering and once these two days passes, his recovery will speed up a whole month, maybe even earlier. The only side effect is that he'll get tired just all of a sudden for no reason, that doesn't necessarily mean that he will fall alseep all of a sudden out of no where, it just means that he'll be tired and weak every once in a while. Do you want to go see him, we can go walk around the castle for another hour, by then his system will be flushed and he won't be hooked up to any of the IV's anymore."
"We can go visit Hogsmeade and come back. Please take care of our son." Mrs. Mcguire said, kissing Dragon's forehead.
"I will. I promise. Are you sure you don't want me to accompany you?"
"Positive, Mat needs you."
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'I know I love him, and he has been by my side through all of this, but how do I know he won't just leave me. What if someone else comes along and he loves them more then me? Would I be willing to give him up, I mean he did say that the rings won't come off until both people believe that the relationship won't work.'
"True, but you have to remember, you two are soulmates. You were destined to be together, there is no one better then you, just as there is no one better for you then him." Severus said, walking into the room and checking Mat over.
"You know, a person in this family is never allowed to have thoughts of their own are they?" Mat snapped.
"Ah agitation, side effect number one. Let's try another, the only way I know this is because Michael has a big mouth about you two being soulmates. Second, nope, not one person that has a weak occlumens shield can have thoughts to themselves, and yours were weak even before you were poisoned."
"Shut up! Why are you checking me over isn't this suppose to be Chastity's job?"
"Anger, another side effect. Yes, Chastity is suppose to be checking you over, but since Michael decided to stick a Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes enlarging marble up his nose, she is currently otherwise engaged. Michael thought it would be funny to watch me react to his nose becoming the size of his head. Here take this." Snape handed him a vial.
"I can't take anything by mouth."
"Take it before I force it down your throat. You won't be sick until tomorrow, you're systems still shocked. Tomorrow you won't have your head out of the toliet for a good six hours. So now that you've calmed down want to think out loud, I do know Dragon better then you do." Snape sat down in a chair next to Mat's bed.
"I just don't know if I should accept the ring or not. I don't want to tie Dragon down."
"Now you're not being honest with yourself. You are afraid that putting something Malfoy on with change your life, and your afraid of change. The only thing that will change is how you are treated in public. People won't call you names, or look at you funny, or treat you badly because they know it will land them in Azkaban for a few days. That and lose their business a lot of money. Other then that just think about it this way, this is practically like you are marrying Dragon, you get to live with the love of your entire life for the rest of it, and I know that seems like a scary thought right now but it is the best feeling in the world. Plus, if you both decide later on in life that you want children, it is, the feeling of it, it's mind boggling and amazing. Even if the child has a different father, I owe Sirius a lot for getting Chastity pregnant with Cap, he will never know just how much I am in his debt. Now, it seems like your side effects have gone away, and you're more concious then you were half an hour ago, Mr. Mcguire I believe you will live." Severus said, clapping. "However, if you tell anyone about this touchy feeling conversation we had, I will deny it all and label you so insane you'd need to be admited into the Psycho ward at St. Mungos."
"My lips are sealed." Mat said laughing, going back to staring at the ring and thinking. "I hope you're right." Mat said, watching Severus leave the room.
"Of course I am." Severus called back. 'That guy is just creepy.' Mat thought taking the ring out of the box and placing it on his ring finger. Ten minutes after Severus left, Chastity and Dragon came back in and Mat pretended to be asleep, knowing that the cathator would have to come out.
"Here, we'll clean your hands this way. Lavioshia." Chastity said, waving her wand over Dragon's hands, and then again over the end of Mat's body, over the blanket. "We don't want there to be an infection, now this is going to be different then putting it in, don't forget to put your gloves on." Chastity said, getting a hazardous trash bag.
"Ah!" Dragon gasped, about to pull the glove onto his left hand.
"Are you okay?" Chastity asked, moving over towards him. He held up his ring finger to show the other Malfoy ring. "You did give it to him, what's so shocking?"
"The fact that he accepted it, I was afraid he wouldn't." Dragon put the other glove on, bending down to kiss Mat's forehead before Chastity stopped him.
"The poison remember? He still needs a shower to wash it off, but we have to get on with this first. Go on, I'll walk you through it, pinch the tube first before slowly and gently pulling it out. Very good, now you're going to throw the whole thing in that hazardous bag and then into the red garabage can. Now you're going to rub this potion on his penis to make sure it doesn't become infected." Chastity said, turning her head to look at Mat's face, which went from uncomfortable to smiling. "Now we wait five minute for that to dry and Mat to stop giggling, and then he can take a shower. For fake sleeping the whole time, you sure can't contain laughing can you? And here you were being such a nice patient I gave you a little treat, he didn't have to do that you know." Chastity said, watching Dragon's face go red in embarrasement.
"I know, it was just so weird, I mean think about it." Mat said bursting out into laughter again.
"Just calm down before you start wheezing and coughing. I'm going to go check on Michael's nose, make sure it's deflating."
"You accepted the ring." Dragon said, taking off his gloves and washing his hands before sitting down next to Mat's bed.
"Yes I did, about twenty minutes ago. I love you Dragon, thank you for staying with me, staying here with me through all of this."
"I couldn't think of anywhere better to be." Dragon got up and unhooked Mat from the machines and IV's. "Come on let's get you into the shower so I can kiss you."
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That night, Michael snuck out of the nursery and into the Infirmary. Dragon had been sent to sleep in Harry's rooms until Mat could introduce him in a non viloent way to the Ravenclaws. "Mat I can't get up on me own." Michael said, shaking Mat's arm. Mat woke quickly, looked down at Michael and helped him up on the bed.
"Now, what is this secret you're harboring inside your little self." Mat asked, wrapping his arm around Michael's shoulder so he wouldn't fall off the small hospital bed.
"Why Draco in Azkaban? Tell truth Mat." Michael said, a mad pouting look on his face.
"He hurt your brother, he was mean to him. He hit him Mike, he wasn't nice." Mat didn't know how to describe it so a two year old would understand.
"Not huh! He not do that! He father, he loves us, all of us."
"Mike, he admitted it."
"No. No he not, no. That wrong. Cab admit, not daddy, daddy not there. Daddy at cab manor."
"Cab? Your parents don't know a cab." Mat said, trying to think of everyone he met.
"Yeah you know the animal cab, it's red. Cab! Cab!"
"Do you mean Crabbe? As in Vincent Crabbe?"
"Yes CAB, that's what I sayin. Mat you losing it too."
"Are you telling me Draco was held as prisoner at Vincent Crabbe's house, while Crabbe pretended to be married to Harry?"
"Yes!"
"For how long? Michael this has been happening since Dragon was seven."
"Not huh. Fake, Dragon losing it member, Dad crazy member? MEMBER?" Michael said with huge gray tear filled eyes.
"The memories are fake? Is that why you've been calling them crazy?"
"You member! You memeber!" Michael said, clapping his hands. "You help now?"
"How long has this been going on?"
"Twee month, twee."
"Is it really Draco in Azkaban."
"Yes, cab itched places with daddy while under the ineripious curse for a month, that how daddy got preg ant wit upert. Now daddy in zakaban."
"We won't tell anyone, but we need to get your daddy out of there."
"Crazy loliver in on it too."
"Oliver is in on it too! Great! You go back to bed okay, and be quiet, we'll come up with a plan okay? We'll save your daddy."
"Ok, thank you Mat." Michael kissed Mat's cheek before being helped down. Mat feel back to sleep.
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D/N: So...Hows everyone doing? How's the twist so far in the story? By the way the name chosen was Bit Cake's choice for a name. Anyways, how is everyone? What's going on? sings I'm promised to Mat...I'm promised to Mat. ON with the reviews! Almost everyone reviewed this time..Not to drop names, but where's Bitcake?
Sarahamanda: Glad you enjoyed it. Have fun with babysitting.
Orlin: She hasn't died yet so don't go getting all excited! lol. Of course I would stay by Mat! What do you think, I'd throw him to the side? Mat: Thanks Orlin, I'll get better soon. Glad you liked the well written chapter. Get me whatever you like, perferably something having to do with Dragon and I...Whistles innocently
Heather: it's okay don't worry about it. Glad Melissa must die, but no Melisssa was only a month pregnant she didn't need glamours or anything. Oliver isn't pregnant Harry is! So right now at this moment Harry and Melissa are the only ones pregnant. Glad you enjoyed the last chapter :).