Secrets revealed

November quietly rolled in. Too quietly. There had been no attacks from Voldemort and nobody knew why. It was making Harry nervous. Draco brushed it off. He said that old Snake face was just planning some new lame plan that they sooner or later would see or figure out. There wasn't a lot for them to do about it. Why couldn't he just kick back and enjoy the silence? Have a little fun with him? Go flying!

Draco had been out in the cold air more and more, but never on his broom since he fell off it. Harry had seen the blonde's wings for the first time. They were white, like Harry had guessed. Professor Hooper had made him give up a few feathers for her collection. Harry had almost ripped her throat out when he saw how much it hurt Draco to give up the feathers. Draco had stopped him, however, before he had done something stupid.

It was after one of these flying sessions that Harry found the blonde vampire on the Astronomy Tower's roof. He didn't know why he had decided to sit up on the roof when it was so cold outside. Even Harry shivered when the wind blew over his bare chest. As soon as he landed on the roof he closed Draco in his arms and held him tight, feeling his shiver. He saw the blonde retract his wings again and enfolded them both in the darkness and warmth of his own wings.

"You shouldn't be out here, love." Harry murmured in the blonde's ear as he snuggled closer.

"Why not?" Draco asked before moving his tongue over his mate's neck, searching for a good vein to bite into.

That was another thing that was concerning Harry. Draco was drinking more and more blood, and not just from him. Harry had found him and one of his old donors in an abandoned classroom with Draco sucking enthusiastically on the girl's neck. It had been Pansy Parkinson and Harry really didn't have any problem with getting rid of the girl, but if he hadn't stopped the blonde he would have killed her. He had slowly eased his mate away from the dark haired girl and Draco had immediately latched onto his neck without warning. Harry hadn't really cared. He'd rather Draco suck blood from him than from pug-face Parkinson.

"What's wrong Dragon?" Harry asked as the blonde bit his neck for the second time that day.

Draco didn't answer. He sucked slowly, savoring the taste of his mate's blood in his mouth like he hadn't tasted it in days. Harry knew something was very wrong with his mate and he wanted to know what it was. He had a feeling Draco already knew but didn't want him to know yet. It was damn frustrating!

He let out a growl from deep in his chest. This drew Draco's attention away from his neck and to his face.

"What's wrong, Dray?" he asked his gaze firmly locked on his mate's.

"What do you mean?" Draco asked innocently.

"What do I mean! You have been feeding more then you should! If you don't stop it, you'll get sick!" Harry said angrily.

"I have not been feeding more then I should! I feed when I'm hungry! And it's not always blood I want! I want sweet thing! Why do you think I've been eating sugar drenched bread?" Draco almost screamed at him while tears began to form in his eyes.

"Okay, that's it! I'm taking you to see Madam Pomfrey! There is something very wrong with you and I intend to find out what!" Harry snapped.

"Why? So Dumbledore won't lose one of the pawns in his game!" Draco sobbed out in anger.

"No! I don't fucking care about Dumbledore! I care about you! I don't want to lose you!" Harry said through clenched teeth so he would not yell at the blonde. He didn't want to yell.

Draco surprised him by throwing his arms around Harry's neck and kissing him deeply. Harry quickly gave up on his anger and lifted the blonde of off the roof and into his arms. When he lifted the smaller boy Harry noticed that he had gained weight but didn't say anything about it. Vampires were light by nature; it made it easier for them to fly. But with all the flying Draco had done the past few weeks Harry was surprised he had not lost weight. This just made it clearer to Harry that something was wrong.

"I can feed 'til I'm not hungry anymore and then you can take me..." He was cut of by Harry lips on his own. "... wherever and whenever..." Harry kissed him again. "... you want." he finished.

"Deal." Harry said, tilting his head to the side to give Draco free access.

Draco bit down on the same spot as earlier. He had not healed it and the blood easily came back to the surface.

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Harry had insisted on carrying Draco to the Hospital Wing, refusing to let him down on anything but a bed. As the doors opened Madam Pomfrey came out of her office with a look of horror on her face when she saw Draco in Harry's arms. Draco lifted his face from the spot on Harry's neck that still wasn't fully healed and smelled so delicious.

"I'm fine, Madam Pomfrey." he assured when he saw her face. "He's just being a big baby."

Harry sat the blonde down on a bed and told the old woman to check Draco over. He then sat in a chair next to the bed and waited.

"Well, em... Draco... I think I need to talk to you alone." the nurse said after about twenty minutes.

"Why? What's wrong?"

Harry was immediately at his mate's side when he heard the anxious tone in his voice. He kissed the side of his face and gently caressed his sides to calm the distressed blonde. Draco turned in his arms and clung to him.

"I don't think anything is wrong, dear." the nurse explained slowly. "It depends on how you look at it."

"What are you babbling about?" Harry asked in irritation as Draco grew more nervous.

"Well, it seems that Draco is pregnant." Madam Pomfrey said.

Draco froze in his mate's arms. He had suspected it, but it was a whole different thing when it was true! He felt himself start to tremble and then Harry's voice and lips were there to sooth him again. Draco gently probed at Harry's mind with his own and the raven haired vampire let him in, letting him feel all his feelings. He wasn't upset about the baby, all he cared about was that Draco was not ill, not in danger.

Hermione warned me, love. Harry's voice whispered in his mind, then he was kissed by his love.

"How far along?" Harry asked out loud. He knew it must be about a month. Vampires could only get pregnant during the mating season which was in October, and it was now November. A month, right?

"Again, it depends on how you see it. In a vampiric pregnancy he's about a month, but in a normal pregnancy he is two months along." she said in her best nurse-voice.

Harry's jaw dropped. Two months! His mind quickly made the calculations that were needed. Draco's pregnancy was twice as fast as a normal one. Draco would only be pregnant around 4-6 months. It was to fast! They were still in school! Voldemort was still out there! Harry's breathe quickened as he felt the panic begin to rise. Then Draco made his presence known once again. He caressed Harry's cheeks, kissed his lips and neck to calm him.

"Let's go back to the Tower, okay?" Draco whispered in his ear before he gently bit the earlobe.

"Yeah." Harry agreed. He picked up the blonde again and left of the ward.

Draco had been sleeping in the Tower together with Harry since they mated, much to the other Gryffindors anger. Officially, Draco still lived in the Slytherin dorms but no-one really said anything to prevent Draco from sleeping with Harry. Pansy had fussed a little, Blaise had exploded but Harry had growled warningly at him and he had left it alone. Crabbe and Goyle were too dumb to understand much of what happened around them. And those were the ones that Draco cared about, though Harry could not understand why. It didn't matter what the other Slytherins said or did. Draco simply didn't care.

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Hermione and Ron were sitting at one of the tables doing their homework when Harry and Draco came back. Hermione smiled and Ron made a grimace. He had suffered from morning sickness and it made him grumpy. Draco just made a sympathetic face in return. Harry hadn't gotten why yet but now he understood. Draco must have felt ill as well. But he had never seen him throw up. He was two months gone and Harry had never seen him throw up. Ron, on the other hand, was only a month along and was throwing up like crazy at all times of the day.

Why haven't you thrown up? Harry asked in their minds so his two friends could not hear him.

(It's the blood, baby. As long as I feed when I'm hungry I won't get sick. The blood stabilizes my stomach.) Draco explained and smiled at him.

"Oh." Harry said out loud and sat down in a chair by his friends table.

"Oh, what?" Hermione asked suspiciously.

Can I tell her? Draco nodded.

"Dray is pregnant." he said smiling up at his mate who had settled comfortably in his lap.

"Oh no!" Hermione exclaimed and put her hand over her mouth in shock.

"What?" the vampires said at the same time.

They didn't answer. Hermione got up from her chair. She the walked over to their chair and took a firm grip on the blonde's arm and dragged him in the direction of the boy's dorm.

"Ron, bring Harry!" Hermione said over her shoulder.

But she didn't need to say it. Harry knew Hermione would never harm his mate, but he was pregnant and Harry didn't want anything to happen to the child. His instincts told him to be more protective of Draco than before so nothing would happen. He wouldn't let it. So he and Ron followed Hermione like two faithful puppies up to the dorm.

There were no portraits in this room, only the beds. Hermione locked the door and put up several silencing and privacy charms when they were all in the room. Draco looked anxious and went back to Harry as soon as the girl let go of his arm. He felt safe in Harry's arms, like nothing could harm him as long as his mate was there.

"Harry, you have to take Draco out of here!" Hermione said the grief evident in her voice.

"What? Why?" Harry asked and unconsciously held Draco tighter to him.

"When we were down at Snape's to ask about my pregnancy, we got a little side tracked." Ron said from were he sat on his bed.

"Just tell us already! I have had enough of people evading a subject that I want the answer to!" Harry growled at Hermione. She gulped.

"You see Harry..." she began but was cut of by Ron.

"Dumbledore wants to take your child away, Harry. He's going to say that it was still born and then ship it of the West Midlands." he said bluntly.

Harry's jaw dropped for the second time that hour. He just stared at his two friends before he realized that they were not joking. They seriously thought Dumbledore would take their child away. He felt Draco begin to tremble against his still bare torso and hugged him close. He wanted to shelter him from the outside world. He made his wings appear from his back again and closed them around himself and his mate.

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Hermione understood Harry's unwillingness to believe that Dumbledore would do something like this. She had not wanted to believe it at first either. But after a month of digesting it, it didn't seem so unbelievable. He was a manipulative fool after all.

As Hermione went over to Ron, who held out his arms to her, she could hear her raven haired friend cooing in his mate's ear to calm him. She could understand that Harry didn't want to believe that Dumbledore would do it, she really did, but they had to make him understand so he would take Draco away from Hogwarts. In order to keep Draco safe, he had to hide him. Neither Ron nor Hermione wanted to see the suffering this would bring to Harry, but loosing a child would be worse. Loosing a child was hard on anybody, but for a vampire...

They would never survive it.

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"Come on, love. Calm down. I won't let anything happen to you. Or the child." Harry murmured in an effort to calm his distressed mate.

"He'll take it away! I'll never see it again!" Draco cried softly into his shoulder.

"No, love! I won't let that happen!" Harry reassured him but Draco wouldn't calm down.

"I can't breathe Harry! I can't breath!" gasped Draco.

And Harry panicked.

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