Chapter 16: Teaching the Triplets.

"Otay ou two. Ou's both old eough now to do magic. Tink of a spell and move your hand ike this." Michael showed the triplets what he was talking about. He made a feather float in the air. "ow you try." The triplets all moved their hands but the feathers wouldn't move.

"Try 'gain." Elizabeth encouraged, showing them how to do it again. "Pretend it fly."

"Yeah!" Michael said,nodding his head.

"I thought I told you two that the triplets can't learn magic yet because they aren't as powerful as you two? Plus, you shouldn't be teaching your siblings magic anyways, leave that to your father and I." Harry said, picking the twins up.

"But daddy, they need to learn."

"I know, and they will eventually. Plus, the only reason you two want them to learn so fast is so that all five of you can go out and create mischief for the rest of the school, and your father and I."

"Not huh." Elizabeth said shaking her head. "We good."

"Only when you want to be." Harry said, hugging them both tightly. "I heard uncle Snape has a surprise for you, why don't you two go play with him for a while." Harry suggested. He knew for a fact that Snape didn't, but it would get the twins away from the triplets for a while.

"Otay daddy." Michael said, wiggling to be put down before rushing out of the door.

"Did you have to do that? Severus is going through enough." James asked, walking in after the little kids left.

"Of course, he'll have fun. He always does no matter what he says differently." Harry said, before hugging his dad.

"I'm still not use to getting hugs from my grown up son. It seems like just yesterday you were being born."

"Yeah, well it seems like just yesterday I started Hogwarts."

"You really don't know how much you mean to me Harry."

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"Congratulations Professor." A Ravenclaw bowed to Lucius as she passed him in the corridor.

"Erm, thanks?" Lucius asked, looking a bit lost. "Um..No need to bow?"

"Yes sir. Sorry sir." The girl said before running away.

"Remus Lupin why the hell have I had students bowing, curtesying, and opening doors for me?" Lucius asked, quicking his pace to catch up with Remus.

"I've been trying to find you all day. It seems that Xavier was found guilty of supporting Voldemort, the wizarding world has cast him out as their king, meaning that you are now the King of the Wizarding World. Haven't you picked up the Daily Prophet, the story's been on nearly every page."

"No, I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. How was he found guilty?"

"He had practically the whole of Riddle manor in his dungeons, not to mention a few prisoners of war! Can you imagine being stuck down there twenty something years after the war has ended? They've been admitted to St. Mungos to be evaluated."

"That's horrible, is there anything I can do for them?"

"At this time nothing I can think of." Remus said, shaking his head mournfully.

"Why don't you take 100 thousand Galleons out of the royal vault for each of them and their families, it's the least I can do." Lucius said, writing a note to Gringotts.

"Lucius there were ten prisoners of war still trapped, that's a lot of money."

"It's fine, I have more then enough trust me."

"Thank you, I'll be sure to get the money to them as quickly as possible."

"Uncle Luc, hide us!" The twins yelled, running behind Lucius' legs and under his cloak.

"Why?"

"Malfoy, have you seen those Potter brats?" Severus asked, walking up the corridor in Neville's grandmother's clothes. The twins had heard Neville speak of the boggart incident.

"You know I swear I've seen this once, but on a boggart. Who knew it would look a lot funnier on the real thing." Remus said, trying to not fall on the floor laughing.

"Lupin, shut up. Well Malfoy?"

"Severus, we're family I know what happened to Chastity and your child is my fault, don't you think I feel guilty enough without you calling me Malfoy, glaring at me, and avoiding me?"

"What in the world! Severus if you were into cross-dressing you might want to have picked a better outfit." James said, falling over the last step he was laughing so hard.

"Potter, where are your grandchildren!"

"I haven't seen them, the last time I saw them Harry had sent them to see you."

"You're going to get daddy in trouble with Uncle Snape!" Michael yelled, before clapping his hand over his mouth.

"Run Michael Run!" Elizabeth said, throwing Lucius' cloak behind her and running as fast as her little legs could take her. Michael tried running but Severus bent down and picked him up.

"Lizzy help! He's got me!" Michael said, trying to fit. Elizabeth came running back over, and started kicking and punching Snape's leg.

"Will one of you help me?" Severus asked, looking at the three adults.

"A little to the right and up higher Elizabeth." James said, encouraging Elizabeth to hit Severus in the balls.

"Here?" Elizabeth asked, lining up her little fists.

"Perfect." James said, nodding his head. Severus pushed his knees together and looked down at Elizabeth.

"Hit me there and I'll bypass Potter and go straightto your father." Severus said, looking down at the girl who was almost in tears.

"NO! Pwease don't tell father, pwease!" Elizabeth threw herself onto the floor crying. Michael wiggled his way out of Severus' loose arms and tried to comfort Elizabeth.

"Lizzy, he not mean it, father not bad no more. That was not father it was bad guys Lizzy, the bad guys hurt Dragin, not father. You know that." All four guys had an understanding look on their face. James changed Severus' clothes back with a flick of his wand, while Severus knelt down next to the kids.

"Shh, it's okay. Come now, no more tears Lizzy." Severus said, scooping up the little girl into his arms and holding her tightly. "You know that you father would never hurt you or your siblings. It's not in his blood, he'd feel terrible about hurting any of you, even if he didn't know he had hurt you. When he learned what happened to your borhter, he was so sad that it took your daddy months to help him get over it and he is still sad. Even after Dragon forgave him, because Dragon knows it wasn't Draco's fault either. You two need to learn to stop pulling pranks on people, especially when you know they don't like them. You might end up in a dangerous position because of them. Isn't that right Remus, James?" Severus said, looking over at the last two Marauders.

"He's right you two, due to my carelessness I almost got Severus killed once, and had I not had a change of heart he probably wouldn't be here." James said, kneeling down next to Sev and picking up Michael.

"You almost hurt uncle Sev?" Elizabeth said, shocked.

"Yep, so did I." Remus said, kneeling down on Severus other side. "See, your Uncle Sev didn't get along with your Grandpa James, Uncle Sirius, and I. We were really mean to him, so one day your grandpa and Uncle Sirius thought it would be funny to send your Uncle Sev down to the shrieking shack during the full moon."

"Grandpa, you said that was angerous! No sneaking about when full moon is out! UncleMoony is fun when he's in the sun!" Michael yelled shaking his head.

"Your right, that is what your daddy and I taught you." James said smiling, the kids had actually remembered the poem. "Well, we all knew Remi was a werewolf and when we were Prongs and Snuffles, we knew that Remi wouldn't hurt us. So we made sure Severus could see us going to the Whomping Willow, watch us open it up and sneak down the stairs. We didn't know Remi had gotten lose in the tunnels, or that he didn't take his Wolfsbane potion. I realised that if he had gone down there, he would die without a chance to get out, so I flipped him onto my back and ran towards the castle with Moony following me. When we quickly got in, he was sent to the hospital wing."

"Uncle Remi! Grandpa, you two are bad bad boys." Elizabeth said shaking her head. "Your daddies need tounish you."

"We got into a lot of trouble for it, our parents punished us as well as the professors." Remus said, rubbing Elizabeth's back. "But it all started over stupid pranks we all pulled, so you see why we said that it's dangerous?" Elizabeth and Michael nodded their heads.

"We sorry Uncle Sev."

"I forgive you two, come on I was just on my way to see Exton, would you like to meet him?"

"Yeah!"

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"I swear Dragon, you're going to get us discovered! First Dumbledore, then Remus and now Blaise!" Mat complained, walking along the corridor.

"Your the one who called Draco my father, so of course we were going to get caught!"

"Oh so it's my fault you wouldn't let me obliviate his memory? What if Blaise stops your dad from dating Harry because you told him your last name was Sheppard?"

"I didn't tell him anything, he presumed my real name was Derek Sheppard."

"Go, I'll go back and sort this out."

"You can't just obliviate someone's memory."

"I wasn't! I'm making sure you exsist in the future, and that Harry and Draco stay together! However, you can go research on how to get back since it's obviously more important to you!" Mat said, running the other way. "Blaise, are you still here?" Mat called out in the bathroom.

"Oh, aren't you that home schooled student, George?" Draco asked, stepping out of the shower.

"Yeah, have you seen Blaise?"

"Aww, is little O'Malley horny?"

"No, I let him copy my herbology homework because he didn't understand it, and I have that class first thing today."

"Oh, in the bedroom. He's probably getting changed."

"Thank you." Mat covered his eyes before opening the door.

"Wow, I guess you really aren't gay."

"Oh I am, I'm just not into Zabini." Mat said, turning around keeping his hands over his eyes.

"Right, like that isn't a lie, who isn't into Zabini." Draco then went back to his shower.

"Blaise, are you dressed?" Mat asked, shutting the door.

"Yeah, for the most part."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Blaise cast a silencing charm on the room, and made sure the doors were locked from the inside.

"It means that you'll see nothing that might affect the future. My pants are on, I just need to button my shirt."

"Oh, look I need you to promise me that you won't tell Draco about having a son."

"I promise, but whose this Sheppard chick? She pretty?"

"That's the other thing, it's an alias, Derek's last name ins't Sheppard nor is he Derek. His first name is Dragon, but that's all I can tell you and you mustn't mention this to anyone!"

"What do I get out of it?"

"Well for starters, you won't screw up your future or my friends. Dragon is future friends with your son."

"I have a son with who?"

"I don't know, I never asked. He's Dragon's friend, I think I've met him once. So, you promise?"

"Do I get a kiss?"

"Do you know how disturbing this is? I know future straight you."

"I thought you said you didn't know with whom."

"I know it's a girl."

"Now your just lieing through your teeth."

"No seriously, you name your son Daniel Zabini, oh and he has a step-sister Sarah."

"Well what happens to my wife?"

"I can't tell you that! I've already told you way too much."

"Please I have to know, who does Draco end up with?"

"I can't tell you!"

"How many kids does he have? I just want a number, you don't have to tell me he has so many girls, so many boy, or one child. I just want to know. Is he happy?"

"He's extremely happy, and him and his futurespouse have nine children as of yet. Dragon, twins which end up being a boy and a girl, a girl, Triplets which are two girls and a boy, a boy, and another girl."

"He's gay isn't he? You said future spouse, not future wife, which means Draco's gay. Now you really have to tell me who it is."

"I can't answer anything else I gave too much away already!" Mat said, pacing the floor.

"Blaise Zabini stop fucking the nice boy and open the door, I'm freezing! I need clothes! ZABINI! ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?" Draco called, pounding on the bathroom door.

"I told him you were giving me my herbology homework back, just give me a rolled up piece of parchment. Open the door first you idiot." Blaise sat down infront of his truck and pretended to search through it before undoing the locks and spells.

"Here you go, thanks again for letting me borrow this, you really saved my arse." Blaise said, handing Mat a blank piece of rolled up parchment.

"You're welcome, see you in class, by Draco." Mat said, leaving through the common room.

"So you really weren't fucking him?"

"Is that all you think about Draco?"

"Of course."

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"I took care of it, and Blaise still has all his memories." Mat said, sitting down away from Dragon.

"Are you mad at me?"

"Oh of course not, not the great Dragon Malfoy, knower of all things good and evil."

"What is going on with you?"

"Nothing, I'm going for a walk." Mat jumped out of his seat like it was on fire and quickly exited the library.

"George wait up." Dragon yelled, running after him.

"Derek, I'm storming off, it doesn't work if you come with me." Mat said, looking defeated.

"Talk to me babe, what's wrong?"

"I can't talk to you, at least not right now." Mat quickly turned back around and left.

"Trouble in paradise?" Blaise asked, walking into the library.

"Oh Merlin, not you again. You aren't going to hit on me also are you?"

"No, unlike Potter, I know better then to hit on people that come from being 'home schooled.'" Blaise said using his fingers in air quotations. "So, you really didn't like Potter hitting on you? How come, most people here would give their life to be in your place."

"It's just weird, in my time everyone here is in their thirties. Could you imagine going back to your father's time and having his school mates hitting on you?"

"True, that would be weird."

"Plus others of them are like fifty! Like Professor Snape, he's still there, married of course, with two sons."

"How old are his sons?"

"Well Capucius is about one and the other one isn't even born yet. I checked Chastity's medcial notes when she wasn't looking that's how I know the second one is a son also."

"Eww, how old's this Chastity?"

"The same age as Draco and the others, in her thirties."

"Eww, not only is it the greasy git, but he's an old greasy git." Dragon had to laugh at that.

"He's not greasy anymore." Blaise gave him the 'Yeah right, sure' look. "Seriously, you wouldn't even recongnize him, well you get my drift."

"Yeah, so what's your whole name?"

"Dragon Aidan Malfoy."

"No hyphan something or other?"

"Please you know how long Malfoy's names are, why are you asking?"

"Well see Mat said that in the future, that Draco and his futurespouse have nine children. He didn't say wife which leaves me to believe that Draco's gay because Mat said that I had a wife."

"Yes, Draco's gay but I can't tell you who my other dad is."

"So, why is it I don't remember seeing you and Mat in any other classes?"

"We just disappear and reappear in the next school year. Like we've been here now for almost a whole day, but yesterday we were in your fourth year for a few days. We don't know when we are going to pop."

"That explains showing up in your boxers in the Great Hall."

"Don't remind me." Dragon said, burying his face in his books.

"Can I help?"

"Sure, we're looking for a potion that makes people go back in time, but that's all we know."

"That's not good, come on we'll figure something out." Blaise said, opening the closest book.

"Thanks."

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"Harry, you hit on your son!" Blaise said, walking into the Potter-Malfoy rooms.

"I know! I know okay."

"I'm helping your son resea-never mind he popped away. My guess is he's heading towards your sixth year now. Him and Mat are having a falling out also. Oh and Draco."

"I know, you weren't having sex with Mat"

"WHAT!" Harry exclaimed.

"He didn't know who Mat was and thought he was just some guy I was sleeping with, when really it was Mat coming to tell me not to tell Draco about Dragon."

"Oh, okay."

"Potter, the next time you send your twins to play with me, mind putting a lock on their magic?" Severus said, walking into the rooms.

"Oh yeah, I came to warn you that Sev is pretty mad. Bye." Blaise ran from the room.

"Those two miscreants you call Michael and Elizabeth spelled me into what I was told was Neville's grandmother's clothes. When I went to confront them about it, they ran away. You can ask Lucius, Remus, and James, when I told them that I would surpass you Potter and tell Draco about their behavior, Elizabeth threw herself onto the floor crying her eyes out. She's petrified that if she gets into trouble that Draco is going to hurt her like he supposedly did to Dragon. We told them about the prank James and Remus played on me that almost got me killed, and we are hoping that works in claming them a bit, but we wanted to let you know."

"Thank you Severus." Both Draco and Severus looked shocked.

"You're welcome Harry." Severus said, composing himself. Once Severus left, Harry and Draco went in search of the twins.

"Daddy!" Elizabeth said, seeing Harry first. "We show this girl our picture." She held up a picture that she had drew in day care.

"Oh that's very pretty. I think we need to put that one up on the refrigerator." Harry picked up his little girl while Draco got Michael.

"Really?"

"Of course." Draco said, taking the picture and looking it over. He had no clue what it was about, but it definitely had variety of colors. "Elizabeth would you like to take a walk with me around the lake?"

"Can daddy come?"

"I'm going to be busy, and I was going to ask Michael to help me." Harry lied, running his hand through Michael's hair.

"Can grandpa come?"

"Lizzy why don't you want to go for a walk with your father?" Harry asked, looking at Elizabeth. Elizabeth leaned close to Harry's ear and cupped it with both hands before telling Harry what was wrong. After a while, tears started running down her face. Michael had wrapped his arms around Draco's neck, hugging him to make him feel better. He knew his father was feeling bad about reducing Elizabeth to tears and not knowing why.

"Liz, your father wouldn't hurt you. I know that what happened is scary, and that you would rather have Dragon here telling you that he forgives father and that there is nothing to worry about. I promise when Dragon gets back I'll talk to him and have him talk to you about it, but look how much it's hurting your dad to see you crying. He's been holding Michael this whole time, and nothing bad has happened to your brother. He's been alone with your other siblings and nothing has happened to them, and he's a teacher, do you think uncle Severus would let him teach if he knew that your father hurt kids?"

"No, but he hurt Dragon sometimes."

"That was because he was being controlled by bad people who would have hurt all of us. So father had no choice but to hurt Dragon or the bad people would hurt all of us very badly. Your father is still very sad over it, he knows he shouldn't have given into the bad people and the curse they put on him."

"They curse him?"

"Yeah, they made him do all that bad stuff." Harry tried to explain as best he could.

"Why he not fight back?"

"He tried, but the there were two of them, and he couldn't."

"Dad." Elizabeth called, wiggling out of Harry's arms and wrapping her arms around Draco's legs.

"Yes Lizzy?" Draco asked, trying to look like he wasn't crying.

"I sworry, I love you."

"Oh Lizzy, I love you too." Draco said, picking upElizabeth in one arm while still holding Michael in the other.

"Now this would make a perfect picture." Harry said, walking up to all three of them and hugging them all.

"So you still want to pass up that walk?"

"Let go!" She said, pointing towards the door. Draco handed Michael over to Harry kissing him, before heading towards the door.

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"You're with Derek right?" Draco asked, walking up to Mat.

"Merlin what is it about him that makes him so fucking popular?"

"Wow, it was just a question." Draco backed up a bit.

"Sorry, yes I'm with Derek. Why?"

"I was just wondering what was going on between him and Ginny Weasley."

"Oh, nothing she was upset because Derek rejected Harry."

"Is he an idiot?" Draco asked, shocked.

"Well he can be, but he's with me that's why he rejected Harry. Why, do you like him?"

"Who Scarhead? Of course not, but from how I hear all the girls go on about him, you'd think he was some sort of diety or something."

"You know, you can tell me whatever's on your mind, I won't tell I swear. Here, I'll trust you first, I have a son."

"You do, with Derek?"

"Yeah, he's currently staying with his grandparents while we're in school. His name is Tiger O'Malley-Sheppard."

"That's cool, does anyone here know?"

"You, Derek and myself." Draco looked shocked.

"Not many people would trust me with a secret like that. You know being a Death Eater's son and all."

"Yeah, well sometimes you have to have faith in the person, not in their background. You are not your father, just like your father is not Grandfather, and your son, if you have one, will not be like you."

"Yeah, but you don't understand, it's either become a Death Eater or well, die."

"I think you'd be surprised. There are so many people, especially here at school that could and would help you. Will it be to hide you until the war is over, to help you keep it a secret. You should follow your heart, not the wants of other people."

"You're very smart."

"Thanks, I've had a lot of time to think everything over. You know, the what if's before he came back, then the reality of him being back, and the thoughts of an upcoming war."

"I know what you mean, so you and Derek, you two serious?"

"Yeah, we're engaged, just having doubts. Trouble just seems to follow him, and having a son, I just don't want anything to happen to Tiger."

"I know what you mean, the person, um, oh screw it, the guy I like he has a thing about trouble following him too."

"Well, Harry is one in a million. I can see where you would be concerned."

"I never said it was Potter."

"Trouble always following him? The comment about how Derek was an idiot because Harry's a deity. I'm a Ravenclaw, I can add one and one together and get two."

"Really? Cause I thought one and one made seven. I'm kidding, Yes okay I love Harry Potter."

"Oh so now you love him, just a second ago you liked him."

"Oh my Merlin, I just said that didn't I? I just admitted that."

"Yeah you did." Mat smiled.

"You should do that more, smile I mean, your whole face lights up when you do."

"Anyways, why haven't you told Harry how you feel?"

"Are you kidding? He's a Gryffindor, I'm a Slytherin, he's the fucking Boy-Who-Lived, and I'm just the son of a Death Eater. Harry deserves someone whose father isn't after him. Someone who deserves him."

"You don't think you deserve him? Draco do you think Harry would make you extremely happy?"

"Yeah, he does. I start fights with him just to get his attention."

"Do you think you could make him extremely happy."

"I don't know, I would do anything for him. It's just he would never like me."

"Why do you say that?" Mat asked, turning towards Draco.

"Oh come on, you've been in this school for a while now, you know how I've acted towards him and his friends."

"Well, why don't you take the rest of this year to think everything over. Make sure that you really want to be in a relationship with Harry. Then over the summer if you do decide you want to be with him, start to change, get in touch with people who can save you from your father and the Death Eaters. When you start the school year for your sixth year start to change things a bit, be nice to Hermione, you know ask her for help in something. Then start being nice to Harry, you know open doors for him, take the blame for something, I'm sure you can think of something. Just don't give up, no matter what happens, if he gets mad, yells, ectera. I mean yeah sometimes you're going to yell back and it's natural, and it'll feel like you're back at square one, but you shouldn't give up if you love him as much as you say you do."

"What did you do, write the book on gay dating?"

"No, I just had a few great professors."

"So what's going to happen to Derek and yourself?"

"I don't know, he hasn't been himself lately, you know with O.W.Ls around the corner he's constantly wanting me to be in the library studying. After a while it gets tiring, and when I tell him I want to take a break, he follows me. I had to storm out of the library to get away from here to come here and he tried to follow me. It's like he's-"

"Controlling?"

"Yeah."

"Maybe you two should just take a break from each other, that way you can collectyour thoughts for a while, and he can see how bad it is without you."

"I'll think about it." Mat said, laying down on the grass, soaking up the sun.

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A/n: Okay Bit and Orlin, where are you guys? I'm sorry it's takena while for me to update, but on Friday when I was going to update my uncle got into a serious motorcycle accident and I took up the post in helping my cousin's wife inform the family, and keep those that aren't in Florida updated on his status. Just in case you were wondering he has 5 broken ribs, internal bleeding from them, a collapsed lung, and his kidney's are starting to fail because of the pain medicationthey put him on. Luckily for you, while I was bored on the phone or waiting for phone calls, I got up to Chapter 19 wrote. However, I'm running out of ideas very quickly, and hopefully when I start betaing these chapters I'll find something that I need to elaborate on in later chapters. Anyways, James wanted to say something.

James: (Does a dance) Ha ha I almost got my revenge on Lucius for the Kill James' posters! I almost had Elizabeth hit him where it hurts! Okay I'm doing the reviews since I'm not really in this story as much as Dragon is and hopefully will get more reviews then he does.

SarahAmanda: We all hope you feel better, and I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter.

Heather: Hmmm, I'd vote with be equally sad for both. What about Marcus? If Harry has a boy, why should I name him Nick? Hmm? What's the importance behind Nick? Glad you enjoyed the chapter though.

Adrianna: It's okay, people don't review all the time. Look at Orlin for example. Glad you enjoyed it though. Harry: Yes Yes I get it, I hit on my son, in my defense I didn't KNOW he was my son...Plus, Draco's there like hitting on Mat! (mocks) you should do that more, smile I mean, it makes your face light up.. What the hell is that shit!Yes I'm going to be a mummy and Draco's going to be a daddy...Hey wait!Am I the only one that's noticed the fact that I've been theone stuck having most of these kids?Dragon: I'm glad you enjoyed the proper "Pride and Prejudice" like talk. Glad you enjoyed the last chapter.