Author's Notes: I received this back from my beta a bit earlier than anticipated! Enjoy! Next chapter will be dramatic. It's already written.

Thanks to Menecarkawan for beta reading!

Chapter 12

Cravings!

One week later Larissa was out of the hospital wing. She was still suffering from pregnancy sickness and would suffer from it until at least twelve weeks into the pregnancy, or so Madam Pomfrey said. It was awful, but at least it seemed to have subsided a little. The girl was able to eat and keep her food in her body. According to Madam Pomfrey, the baby's due date would be by mid November, if everything went fine. That meant Larissa would be able to finish school relatively 'problem free' plus she would be able to keep the pregnancy a secret from the rest of the students easily.

By mid April, Larissa thought she was going mad. She started to get hungrier and devoured her breakfast in the morning and seemed to want more, sometimes getting seconds that Hermione didn't seem to approve of. The brown haired girl kept telling Larissa that other students might find her sudden appetite strange, but Larissa didn't care. Hermione was also worried about the sudden augmentation in Larissa's already well endowed chest. It made 'Mione almost jealous.

One day, by late April, Larissa was spending some time with Draco when she suddenly gasped.

"What's wrong?" Draco seemed worried.

"I must eat watermelon! I have this sudden urge to eat watermelon!"

Draco blinked several times before adjusting to what his girlfriend was stating. "It's not summer yet, Sa. Can't you just make the urge go away?"

The girl shook her head. "I think that I will die if I don't eat watermelon now!"

"WHAT?" Draco was horrified, but quickly stood up. "Stay here. I'll go to the kitchens and check if they have some."

Draco ran towards the kitchens and asked the house elves there if, by any chance, they had a watermelon, but they all shook their heads. Dobby told the blonde boy that they would stock the kitchens with the fruit by late May or the beginnings of June. "But I need a watermelon now, Dobby!"

Dobby gave Draco a look of disgust. "Dobby doesn't serve the Malfoys no more!"

"You ungrateful... I mean... Dobby... Please?" Draco had started in an angry way, but had tried to change his manners.

"Dobby is sorry, sir! Young Malfoy will leave the kitchens now!" Draco's ex house elf was in a bad mood and started pushing Draco towards the kitchen's door.

"Wait Dobby! It's not for me! It's for Potter!"

Dobby looked at Draco incredulously. "Harry Potter wants a watermelon?" The tennis ball looking eyes opened wide with delight, but suddenly the gaze went stern. "Young Malfoy is a liar like his father!" At this Dobby started to hit his head with a plate he grabbed, shattering it.

"I'm not lying, Dobby!" Draco stopped the house elf from grabbing another plate. "Harry... Larissa is pregnant, alright? She says she wants a watermelon now!" Draco exclaimed in a pleading tone.

Dobby looked carefully at Draco and there was a sudden 'crack.' After only a minute Dobby reappeared with a watermelon and handed it to Malfoy. "Dobby will ask Miss McGonagall later if it was all true. Good day!"

Draco mumbled a 'thanks' that surprised the house elf and came out of the kitchens. He ran with the watermelon around the corridors, gaining strange stares from many students. He finally got outside to the area where Larissa was seated under a tree. "Here it is!"

Larissa's green eyes could sparkle at the sight of the fruit. Draco summoned a knife and cut a piece for Larissa, who ate voraciously. Draco was quite taken aback by the sight, but he warmed up as he thought that Sa was happy.

During the night, Sa got up at 1:45 AM and started walking through the corridors. Soon her face was illuminated by a wand and she could see Snape's triumphant smirk. "Going for a night stroll, Potter?"

The girl shook her head. "I was heading for the kitchens. I wanted to eat mandarin oranges."

"Do you think I was born yesterday to lie so blatantly to me, Potter?"

Larissa gave the Potions Master a curious look. "I wasn't lying. I have a sudden urge to eat mandarin oranges."

"At 2 in the morning?"

Larissa was already regretting not using her invisibility cloak, but she didn't expect teachers to be patrolling at that hour. "Are you going to let me head for the kitchens?"

"Twenty points from Gryffindor and detention tomorrow. Oh! I mean tonight after dinner actually. Now you will return to Gryffindor Tower, Potter."

"I really need to eat some mandarin oranges, sir! If I don't eat them now I'll go insane!"

The girl was suddenly dizzy and placed her hands against a wall for support. Snape rolled his eyes and started to help her to go to Gryffindor Tower, but Sa started to fight back. "No! I need to eat some mandarin oranges first, sir! The baby needs them! I think..."

So far, only Draco, Hermione, Ron, Pomfrey, and Dumbledore had known about Larissa being pregnant. Snape looked shocked and then paled. "You are pregnant?" The man was suddenly angry at the old headmaster for not having informed him of that detail when he had been working so much on a potion to return Potter to normal form.

The man suddenly summoned two mandarin oranges. "Here! And return to Gryffindor Tower at once!"

Larissa looked at the Potions master strangely. "Thanks, but... Why are you being so nice? Normally you would have wanted me expelled."

"Just return to your dormitory, Potter!" The man had a dangerous glare, so Sa, removing the first mandarin's rind, strolled happily towards Gryffindor Tower.

XxXxX

Larissa went to her detention with Snape that evening. After a few knocks he told her to enter and she stared at him as she got inside the office. There were no barrels with ingredients waiting for her, the shelves were organized, and scanning the room, she couldn't see anything that needed to be arranged. She looked at the teacher that was seemingly grading papers. "So... What do I have to do?"

Silently Snape summoned another chair and indicated with a gesture that she should sit in front of a small desk next to his. Sa sat down and looked at the teacher waiting for her task to be assigned. She didn't have to wait long. "You will do lines." A notebook, quill, and ink appeared on the desk with a flick of the wizard's wand. "You will write 'I won't take strolls after curfew' one thousand times. Start."

Sa blinked in disbelief, but started to write the line over and over and over. The silence was getting on her nerves, as the only sound was their breathing and their quills. "You've never given me lines," blurted the girl. The professor ignored her. "Are you ill?"

At that, Snape stopped and glared at the girl. "I am not ill, Potter. Thank you for your concern. What did you expect other than lines?"

"Does dealing with some nasty ingredients that stink like hell plus having to sort them without gloves sound familiar?"

Snape took a deep breath. "In case you have forgotten, Mr. Potter, you have irresponsibly gotten yourself pregnant. If I made you sort ingredients, you would have ended up vomiting and making a mess in my office. I do not want that. There is also the possibility of an ingredient being harmful and I will not tolerate Mr. Malfoy's bickering if something happens to you and the little freak inside you. Now continue with your lines in silence!"

"Fine!" answered Larissa rolling her eyes and continued writing, but after a while she asked: "Can I have some vanilla ice cream?"

Snape almost ruined a paper with his quill and glared at the girl.

XxXxX

Two days later, Sa was again suffering from extreme cravings, but this time she wanted chocolate frogs and sugar quills. Draco looked mortified. "You do know that means I have to ask for some special permission to go to Honeydukes in Hogsmeade, right?"

"Can you do that?" Larissa asked almost begging. Draco wanted to cry, but gave her a quick kiss and went running to his Head of House.

Draco entered the dungeon and looked for Severus Snape. The man gave the student a stern look. "Sir... Can I get a special permission to go to Honeydukes in Hogsmeade?"

Severus sighed annoyed. "Don't tell me. She wants sweets from that place now."

Draco blinked. "How do you know that?"

"Forget it. I don't think I can provide you with such a permission, Mr. Malfoy."

"Please sir!"

"She will not die, Mr. Malfoy."

Draco still gave Snape a pleading gaze that made Snape ask in a defeated tone: "What is it that she wants?"

Draco quickly filled in Snape on what Sa wanted, but before Snape left, he stopped the older wizard. "Sir?"

"Yes, Mr. Malfoy?"

"Can you give me advice?"

Snape raised an eyebrow. "Advice?"

"Yes, on how to deal with a pregnant girlfriend... I don't know what to do. She changes moods abruptly. Yesterday she suddenly started to cry telling me that she thought she might lose the baby. She even told me she had a nightmare about it. Today she is suddenly bouncy and happy and wants sweets. I feel that I don't know how to deal with this. Tomorrow she might even be depressed like she was suddenly a week ago... Do you have any experience of the sort?"

Snape looked mortified and paled. "I don't know how to help you in this situation, Mr. Malfoy. Will you let me go and buy Potter what he wants?"

"Yes sir. Thank you."

XxXxX

In May, the 7th year students were going mad studying for their N.E.W.T.s. Larissa even went to Dumbledore preoccupied about the exams. She asked if the exams were going to be credited to Larissa McGonagall or to Harry Potter. Dumbledore assured her that the results would be credited to both. Even if the results were the same, no one would ask questions. This seemed to at least calm the girl on that matter.

A few days later, a Saturday, Sa looked strange in the girls' dormitory. She and Hermione were alone there and Hermione seemed worried. "You look a bit red. Do you have a fever?" The bushy haired girl planted her hand on Sa's forehead. "You are a little warm. Maybe you should rest."

Sa shook her head and moved nervously on the bed. "I need Draco."

Hermione blinked several times registering what the other girl had just said. "You must definitely have a fever. What you need is rest."

Sa flushed and repeated. "I need Draco now, urgently." She started squirm on the bed and then stood on it putting hands against the wall.

"Are you okay? You don't look so good. Should I get McGonagall? Do you want me to accompany you to the hospital wing?"

"I simply need Draco now!" Sa jumped from the bed and ran out of the dormitory leaving a very confused Hermione.

Ron called after Sa when the girl ran out of the common room and raised an eyebrow as the girl completely ignored him. Ginny giggled at Ron's face before also leaving through the portrait to spend the day outside with some friends.

Sa was desperately looking for her boyfriend. She was so horny she felt she could climb walls. Panting and breathing hard she finally saw him in the middle of an aisle speaking to none other than Pansy Parkinson. He looked furious with the girl. "I am telling you that you are mad, Pansy! You can give me some of the stuff you've been smoking if I ever need to get high!"

He was just leaving the Slytherin girl when he saw Larissa. His angered features quickly changed to concern. "You look sick. Are you alright?"

Pansy made a gruesome sound of disgust and left the lovebirds, but not before saying: "I will prove it! You'll see I will! Even if it takes me a year!"

Draco turned to her. "Just disappear Pansy!" He turned back to Sa. "Don't tell me you have another urge. Last time you made me beg Professor Snape to get you some Muggle candies called M&M's. Don't tell me you want another Muggle candy, please don't tell me that. I implore you! I haven't been able to sleep well with the fact of you being pregnant and your cravings!"

"I... I'm sorry about that... This urge is different... I want something else."

"What do you want to eat?"

"You."

"What? Now you even crave human flesh?" asked Draco horrified.

Sa looked at Draco all of a sudden as if he were the dumbest person alive. "Just come!"

Draco let the girl drag him through corridors and staircases until he knew where she was taking him. "Why do we need the secret room?"

Sa pushed Draco inside and locked the room, and then she placed lots of silencing charms and made the walls ghost/poltergeist proof just in case. She started to kiss Draco fiercely and pushed him onto a bed that had appeared in the new version of the room. "Whoa! Whoa!" Draco had broken the kiss. "What's wrong with you?"

"I want you now!" The girl attacked him again and started to kiss and touch him everywhere. In seconds, her hand was in his pants.

"You are going too fast!" said Draco surprised and horrified, but his eyes started to get glassy as he felt himself getting aroused. "Oh gods! You are going to drive me mad!"

"That's the idea," whispered Sa. He started to kiss her back wantonly.

"I think I like this new craving of yours..." He kept kissing her and removing her clothes, but as soon as they were both naked, Sa stopped him. "What?"

She admired the Slytherin boy's naked form. "I didn't see your body last time. Nice!" Draco could see the desire in her eyes and that made him feel too hot. "I want you."

"I want you too." Draco embraced the girl and put his face between the curves in her chest, inhaling her scent. "You smell so good." He resumed kissing her and soon had her on the bed, making love to her. She moaned and squirmed under him. "I love you. I really do," Draco whispered, eliciting more moans from the girl.

A while later they were both panting, exhausted. Sa took refuge in her boyfriend's arms. "That was so good," she whispered.

"Do you still want to go back to being Harry Potter?"

There was silence for what seemed like an eternity, but the girl replied: "I'm not sure... At least, now, I can't because I'm pregnant... If I am to return back to being a boy it must be after the birth."

Draco nodded, but he was deep in thought and suddenly said: "I wouldn't mind if you stayed like this."

"I... What if I don't?"

"I already told you once that I will not care, but I'm also being honest when I say I wouldn't mind if you remained a girl."

"Draco? What will be the baby's last name?"

"Malfoy of course."

"Why can't the baby be a Potter?"

Draco blinked and then replied as if it was only logical: "I am the father and you are the mother so the baby will obviously be a Malfoy."

"If I go back to being a guy I will be a father too..."

"Let's just drop this and we'll discuss it later, alright? I... I don't want this to end in a stupid quarrel." Draco smiled at her and the girl nodded. Sa didn't want a quarrel either when things were going so well.

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