Some things sorted out, other's not

"Can you fix it?" Harry asked for the third time.

Snape hadn't answered him and Harry was getting frustrated. He couldn't for the world of him understand why he wouldn't talk to him. Neither Ginny nor Draco were there. Harry could handle whatever Snape had to say. Either he could get the connection or he couldn't. It was an easy question!

"Yes or no!" Harry demanded while he was watching his professor pace back and forth in the room.

"Yes, I can do it! No, I can't do it without Dumbledore or Lucius noticing!" Snape finally roared at him.

"Why does it matter if Lucius knows? He's not a threat!" Harry said confused.

"Oh, honestly Harry! Do you think Dumbledore would tip Umbridge off and have the baby killed? No." Snape answered before Harry could. "Lucius on the other hand is still in denial about Draco's submissiveness. If he killed the baby he could be there and pick up the pieces when Draco fell apart. Of course, he intend on killing you as well." he continued matter-of-factly.

"That would kill Draco as well!" Harry protested.

"Yes well, he is in a worse denial then I have ever seen anybody in." the Potions Master stated before slumping down in a chair opposite Harry.

"Is he really in that much denial that he would kill his own son?" the younger vampire asked, mouth slightly open in shock.

"Yes, it would appear that he is." Snape said calmly. "And he has always been a wee bit crazy."

"A wee bit?" Harry asked trying to suppress his laughter.

"Yes, Potter have you not heard the expression before?" the professor asked annoyed.

"Of course I have!" Harry smirked. "Just never thought I would hear you say it."

"Well, I have said it before and will probably say it again so get use to it, brat!" Snape said with something that resembled affection.

"So what are we going to do?" Harry asked after a few minutes of silence.

"With what?" Snape responded dully.

"With Draco, Hermione and Ron! And Ginny! My guess is that you don't want her to be involved either?" Harry said angrily.

"No I do not." Snape agreed.

"What are we going to do? We can't send them to Godric's Hollow because you won't make the connection with the floo network! And we can't let them stay."

Snape growled angrily and started pacing again. He didn't know what they were going to do, did he? God, he hated it! Harry was right, they couldn't let them stay. They would get killed or arrested within seconds. Ginny, being human still, wouldn't suffer too much if Snape died. She would go into a severe depression that she most likely would never come out of but she wouldn't die. But Draco...

Draco was a mated vampire submissive. He would die writhing hours after Harry did. The same thing would happen if the baby were to die. If Draco died, Harry would survive maybe three days, in which he would not feed or sleep. Much like a human he would go into a depression, but unlike a human he would get aggressive. And then he would kill himself if he didn't get somebody else to do it first.

"I don't know what we are supposed to do!" Snape suddenly roared in frustration, startling Harry.

"Neither do I!" Harry roared back.

Snape paced a few times more and the stopped.

"You could do whatever it is you are planning sooner rather then later and then deny that you ever had anything to do with it." he suggested without any real enthusiasm.

"I plan to kill people, Snape, and I want people to know what will happen if you try to harm my family." Harry growled.

"Yes that's what I thought you would say." Snape grumbled.

Harry put his head in his hands and groaned. Suddenly he felt the effects of feeding Draco two times a day and once a night for nearly a month and not feeding properly himself.

"God, I'm so hungry I could suck an elephant dry!" he moaned miserably.

"I can imagine." Severus said and smiled slightly. "Kristiana drank a lot too. I almost couldn't feed myself."

"Who was Kristiana anyhow?" Harry asked. "You talk a lot about her but you never say who she was."

"She was my wife." Snape said bluntly.

"Your wife!" Harry almost roared in surprise. But Snape just nodded.

"Yes, she was. She was a vampire that my parent saw it fit to marry me to. I had yet to find Ginny so I did not object. I made it clear however that as soon as I found my mate I would leave the marriage without a second thought. Kristiana had found her mate. She was devastated when she was shipped over from France to London. She told me of her mate. A human man that worked in a jewelry shop she liked. I had him shipped over so they could be together." Snape broke off to gather the tears that were beginning to form in his throat. "I let them see each other, touch, kiss whatever they wanted. She was just my wife, not my mate. But to protect her mate, she made me impregnate her before he could. A month and a half in to the pregnancy she didn't want his blood anymore, only mine. Four months later she died in childbirth. She was to young." he said with a sad smile.

"To young?" Harry asked in confusion.

"She was merely twenty-two. It's uncommon for a vampire under a hundred and fifty to have a child. That is one of the reasons why Dumbledore wanted to give you a potion to make sure Draco got pregnant." Snape said calmly but he could sense Harry's worry for his mate. "Don't worry. Draco will be fine. He has you, hasn't he?"

"Yes, but his seventeen. Kristiana was twenty-two!" Harry exclaimed.

"She was, she was also weak." Snape informed him in his usual calm voice.

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The young woman was standing in front of her master once again. The room was nearly empty this time. Only Voldemort, Wormtail and herself there. She was standing with her head bowed and her eyes on the floor. Wormtail was sitting on the floor beside his lord, like a pet dog.

"Ssso my sweet, what doesss your loversss tell you of our Golden Boy?" the Dark Lord asked calmly while petting Wormtail's head.

"They say he is spending a lot of time with Snape, my lord. There is a rumor that Ginevra Weasley is romantically involved with Snape as well, sire." she said not looking up from the floor once.

"Well, well. Sssemsss we have to have a talk with Ssseverusss, after all." Voldemort muttered more to himself then to the young woman or Wormtail.

"My lord, did you know that Potter and young Malfoy's child almost got aborted just a few short hours ago?" she asked slowly.

"WHAT!" he roared, bolting up from his seat and knocking Wormtail over as he went.

"There were Aurors sire, and Umbridge." she said quickly to make him understand that she could have done nothing to prevent it.

She had fallen to the floor and was curling up into a ball preparing to be Crucio-ed. The curse never came however. She looked up and saw her master in front of the big fireplace, pacing. She had never seen him do that before.

"It wasn't the old fool. He wants the child as much as I do. So who could have tip of Umbridge?" he muttered to himself.

Suddenly he stopped and snapped his fingers. Immediately Lucius Malfoy appeared in the room with them.

"Did you or did you not, Lucius, tip Umbridge off and almossst get your grandchild killed?" Voldemort all but roared.

"No, Potter is the one who is pregnant. My son is not a submissive!" Lucius stubbornly said.

"Face it Luciusss! Your ssson happensss to be a sssubmisssive. AND he happensss to be carrying Harry Potter'sss child!" Voldemort informed him, his voice dripping of venom and loathing.

"Yes, my lord." Lucius said submissively. He knew better than to anger his lord more.

"Now, you will ssstop thisss ssstupid vendetta of yoursss and get your ssson here!" Voldemort hissed before he Crucio-ed the other man.

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Hermione was looking at Draco as he was reading a book in the library. Well, not really looking, more like studying him. Draco was getting sick of it. He glanced over at her before returning to his book again. She kept looking at him, following his every movement with her eyes.

"Will you stop it?" he yelled when his last nerve snapped.

Madam Pince hushed at him but he only glared back at her.

"Why are you like this?" she asked curiously.

"What?" he asked dumbfounded at her blunt question but also confused as to why she would ask that.

"Why are you acting like you are?" she said making her question clearer to him.

"I don't understand." Draco frowned.

"You act like you are dependent on Harry for everything, not just blood." she said seriously.

"That's the life of a pregnant vampire." Draco sighed and tried to turn back to his book but Hermione wouldn't let it go.

"You see, that it. That's the thing I don't get. Pregnant vampires aren't like you are. They are defensive against everyone and everything, well not their mates obviously. Harry shouldn't be able to defend you like he does. You shouldn't let him." she said frowning.

"What? Are you saying I'm not pregnant?" Draco asked horrified.

"No, I'm not saying that." Hermione said quickly. "But you're too clingy. You shouldn't be that clingy. You act like you think he's going to leave you for somebody else."

Draco felt his throat constrict at the very thought of Harry leaving him.

/Harry/ he said quietly through the bond.

Yeah, baby, I'm here. his mate said as soon as he had stopped talking.

Draco let out a sigh of relief and turned his attention back to the bushy haired girl in front of him.

"What exactly are you saying?" he asked slowly.

"Draco, you act like Harry hasn't bitten you for a long time. He hasn't, has he?"

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