History of Magic

Draco sat up in bed, looking down at his still sleeping mate. It was early, only 4am. Three days since Harry had come out of the coma and he had adapted to a mortal sleeping pattern. He got tired easily. Pomfrey said it was because of what ever had happened while he was still asleep. It had drained his energies totally so he would have the sleeping patterns of a normal person for a while, but he would wake up earlier and earlier and go to bed later and later until he could be up all night again. But it was still a long way to go until they were there.

The blonde looked down at his stomach as it seemed to ripple again. His son was kicking and he was kicking hard. To soothe his son, Draco took Harry's hand and placed it on his stomach where the foot, elbow or hand had been a few seconds earlier.

"It's okay. He's fine." Draco soothed both himself and their son.

He wished that Harry was awake so he could sing that ridiculous muggle song that always seemed to calm him down. He had tried to remember it but it was so long ago since Harry had sung it to him and he had fallen asleep in the middle of it. But when he sang the few lines that he remembered he calmed, and his baby calmed as well.

The hand on his stomach moved a little and Draco looked down at Harry again. He was awake. The blonde smiled at him.

"What do you think we should call him?" Draco suddenly asked, nodding down towards his stomach.

"At least one of his names will be Isak." Harry said firmly.

"Why Isak? Why not Alex?" Draco asked.

"Because Isak means 'may he laugh', and I want my son to be happy." the dark haired vampire shrugged and Draco smiled at him again.

"Okay, we'll name him Isak then?" he said cheerfully.

Harry nodded. He absently wondered when their son was going to make his appearance in the world. He was already late. How much more time did he need?

"We are going to class today, right?" Draco said, breaking through Harry's thoughts.

"I am. You're not." he corrected.

"That's not fair! I want to go to!" Draco protested loudly.

Harry pulled him down and kissed him.

"I know, dragon. But I can't take that chance. What if Isak wants to come out during Charms, huh?" he reminded the blonde gently.

"Then we'll deal with it then! I want to go! Please?" the very pregnant blonde pleaded with the puppy-dog-eyes-of-death that everyone with sense in their heads feard. And of course Harry caved immediately.

"Fine. But I'm not letting you out of my sight and if you feel so much as a twinge, you will tell me and we will come straight back here!" he said sternly to the now ecstatic blonde.

"Thank you, love!" Draco said and kissed him soundly on the lips.

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They met Ron, Hermione and Ginny outside the Transfiguration classroom. Ginny looked up at Draco suspiciously.

"Shouldn't you be in the Hospital wing?" she asked and tried to make her voice sound nonchalant.

"No, why?" Draco asked back.

Ginny and Hermione turned twin glares on Harry, making him gulp.

"He used the puppy-dog eyes!" he defended himself.

"Draco!" Hermione scolded mildly.

"What? I wanted to get out for a bit! It's not that horrible! We'll go back if I feel so much as a twinge!" he said calmly.

The girls glared at him for a while longer but soon let the whole thing go when professor McGonagall came.

"Alright class. Today we will be learning to turn furniture into animals." she said as everyone sat down at their seats.

Draco zoned out after about five minutes of the professors lecture. It really wasn't that interesting. Next class was History of Magic. He could take a quick nap then. But he wasn't far from asleep as it was. He leaned over and rested his head against Harry's shoulder. He felt his mate's arm go around his waist to support him. He sighed in contentment and nuzzled Harry's throat.

"Told you to stay in the infirmary." Harry said quietly but kissed the blonde's head comfortingly.

Unbelievable enough it seemed McGonagall had seen Draco's tired look and once the blonde was asleep against his mate, she told the class to be quite so they wouldn't wake him. The class, to scared to bring Harry's and McGonagall's wrath down on them, obeyed and stayed silent through the lesson. Harry, who had Draco in his arms and didn't dare to dislodge him in fear of waking him, had to do all the spells with only one hand. You should think that shouldn't be too much trouble since he usually only used one hand anyway, but Draco's weight on him made him off balance and made it harder.

The class ended, and Harry had to wake Draco up. The blonde whined and burrowed closer to him, seeking warmth and reassurance that there was nothing there that could harm him.

"Okay, I'm taking you back to Madam Pomfrey." Harry said and scooped his mate up in his arms.

"No." Draco whined pitifully. "I can sleep in History of Magic."

"Love, you can't come if you are like this. You need sleep, the undisturbed kind. I doubt that the lesson will get wild or anything but you would get disturbed there. Please, dragon, let me take you back to Poppy?"

"No, I'm not leaving you." Draco said.

He winded his arms tightly around Harry's neck and buried his face in his neck. Harry sighed and let the blonde be. He carried him a floor down to where they had History of Magic and sat in a desk with Draco in his lap, the blonde nuzzling into his throat once again.

Professor Binns floated in through the wall with the black board on it and started the lesson. Like always most of the students were asleep even before the ghost professor had been speaking for five minutes.

About ten minutes into the class, Draco moved uncomfortably in Harry's lap and whined softly. Harry cooed softly in the blonde's ear to try and make him settle again. It only took a few seconds for Draco to once again be asleep as he had barely waked up in the first place.

But not fifteen minutes later, Draco felt the tightening in his abdomen that had made him whine earlier. He bit his lip to try and keep the new whine in. The tightening continued for half the lesson, getting worse for every time. He had promised Harry to tell him if he felt any pain but he wanted to stay like this only for a little while longer. He needed the contact with Harry.

When there was only three minutes left of the lesson, Draco couldn't take it anymore. He bit into Harry's shoulder and made a keening sound in the back of his throat.

Harry's attention quickly shifted from half asleep to full awareness when Draco's teeth sank into his shoulder and he keened. Hermione, who sat beside them, heard him and her attention quickly snapped over to them.

"He's in labor." she said quietly and was rewarded with a growl from Harry for her efforts.

"I kind of figured that one out, 'Mione!" he snapped at her.

"Then go!" Hermione growled back, not the least afraid of her vampire friend.

Harry growled again and then scooped his mate up again. However, he didn't get very far away from his desk before Draco gripped his shoulders when another contraction hit.

"Don't you dare move another inch, Potter!" he ground out between clenched teeth.

Harry stopped in his tracks and didn't dare to move until Draco relaxed in his arms again. He then placed his burden on the nearest desk and looked around for Hermione and Ron. He found them frozen in their desks.

"Go find Snape and Pomfrey!" he yelled at them.

They ran out of the room to do as he said, Harry could only wish they would hurry. Harry looked down at his mate that hade once again been seized by a contraction and was clawing at the wooden desk for something to hold on to. Harry reached out and took the blonde's hand. He didn't even flinch as Draco squeezed his hand hard enough for human bones to break.

"Easy does it, love." he murmured in his ear.

"Easy for you to say!" Draco panted a few seconds later. "You're not the one in pain!"

Harry almost smiled at that. No, he wasn't the one in pain, but he could feel a fraction of the pain that now raced through his love's body. He kissed Draco's forehead to calm him and Draco growled at him.

"Now, love, you don't mean that." Harry mumbled softly.

"Oh, yes I do!" Draco growled.

By now, all the students were looking at them with huge eyes. The Gryffindor whose desk Draco was lying on was leaning back as far as he could get from the angry vampire sub. The rest of the students were looking at them like it was the most fascinating thing they had ever seen. Professor Binns, the poor ghost, was trying to calm some of the girls that had broken down in tears.

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Severus was in bed with Ginny when someone began to bang on the door. He growled angrily and tried to get up but Gin held him down with the arms around his neck and whined needfully. He sighed and kissed her deeply, running his hands over her body and she moaned in appreciation.

But the banging didn't stop.

Severus growled again and tried to get up again. Ginny whined again. She was so close, so very close! Severus growled again. He couldn't leave his mate like this. He just couldn't!

"I'll be right there!" he shouted in the direction of the door.

Ginny whined, the person on the other side of the door banged harder.

Severus tore away from Ginny with one last kiss and practically ran to the door. He tore it open and glared at the now obviously pregnant red head in front of him.

"What do you want!" he snapped at his mate's brother.

"Harry... and Draco's..." he stammered, trying to tell the over grown bat what had happened.

"What about them?" Snape said, now worried for his two charges.

"Draco... the baby...labor..." the red head kept stammering.

Severus shut the door in Ron's face. He knew what he had been talking about. Draco was in labor, probably somewhere in the school that wasn't the Hospital wing and Harry didn't know what to do. He went back to the bedroom where Ginny was still tossing on the bed.

It seemed that when he left she saw it fit to pleasure herself. One of her hands was running all over her body and two of the other hands' fingers where buried in her body. He drew in a sharp breath when he saw her.

No, he couldn't get distracted now. He had to get to Harry and Draco.

"Ginny, love." he said softly, she only moaned in response to his voice.

He sat down on the bed just as Ginny climaxed with a choked scream and her body shook.

"Love?" he said again.

She managed to look up at him with heavy eyes and smiled lazily. He smiled back, gave in to the urge and bent down to kiss her.

"We have to go, love." he whispered against her lips.

"Why?" she wondered sleepily.

"Draco's in labor and your brother is freaking out." he answered.

This got Ginny up and going. She rushed around gathering up her clothes and then dragged her mate with her to the door where Ron still stood outside trying to get out what he had been sent there to say.

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Harry was trying to soothe Draco during his latest contraction when the door to the classroom burst open and Snape swept into the room with Ron and Ginny in tow. Ron still babbling something unintelligent about Draco, Harry and babies. Harry smiled at them, grateful that he wasn't alone anymore.

Ginny pushed him aside and took Draco's hand in her's.

"Breathe, Dray. Breathe." she urged him gently.

"I want drugs, damn it! Drugs!" the blonde shouted while straining upwards on the desk, pushing his feet against the wooden surface for leverage.

"No! Draco, you can't push yet!" Snape shouted as he made his way over to them as well.

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