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Here is another chapter, I hope you all like it.
Chapter Six
It was two week before Graduation for the seventh years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Exams had come and gone and students were eagerly waiting the time where they would be able to be free from school, even for a few short months. Others were nervous, waiting for the exam results, which would not arrive until mid July for the N.E.W.T classes, and late July for O.W.L's.
Over the last five months, since their first meeting, Harry and Lucius had gone from strength to strength, the only thing hanging over their heads was something that Lucius was hiding, something that Harry knew involved Narcissa Black. Harry had confided in Severus numerous times, as the older brunette was worried about the stress that seamed to fall on Lucius' shoulder from what he was keeping to himself.
Harry and Lucius were once again alone in their dorm room, Severus was in the potion's lab and Narcissa was with some friends. The two were cuddled on Lucius' bed, as it had the best view since it was next to the fake window, which let the occupant look from any window in the castle, currently it was set to the one leading up to the astronomy tower, it over looked the lake.
Lucius placed his head on Harry's and sighed, he knew it was time to come clean to his Mate. "Harry, there is something very important that I need to talk to you about." He said, Harry could sense the nervousness within the smooth voice.
Harry turned around within Lucius embrace and smiled up at the blond, "tell me Lucius, I will hold nothing against you, I know something has been bothering and worrying you these past few months, and I know that it is not good for you."
Lucius smiled back, his nervousness easing slightly at those words of support from his Mate, "Thank you Harry, when I was seven my mother and father betrothed me to someone. I have known for a long time that I was to marry her, and I know I should have told you. They betrothed me after my wing had sprouted and were black, they did not want me alone, and I can not break the contract that they have written, I have been trying since the beginning of the year when I first sensed you."
"Whom have you been betrothed to?" he asked the Niveuspenna.
"Narcissa Black, though it could easily be her sisters Bellarix and Andromedia." He answered his Mates' question.
Harry thought for a moment and then said, "I think we should get Narcissa and Severus in here, maybe they can help come up with a solution. Oh and does Narcissa want to marry you?"
Lucius smiled, "No she doesn't, her sister Andromedia introduced her to a Muggle, they have fallen in love, this was before Andromedia left the family, she ran off with a Muggleborn Wizard. The Black family is not too happy with this, Bellarix is betrothed to one of the LeStrange brothers. There are three of them. Narcissa does not want to disappoint her family, though I know she will be unhappy with me, or with anyone her family chose for her, in the Muggle world she would be more than a trophy wife. Here she will have no choice, there she will have plenty."
"Right, well I'll go get Severus, and you will go and find Narcissa." Harry said as he got up and then pulled Lucius off the bed. "Move it you lazy bum." He said shacking his head as Lucius dragged his feet, following the brunette out the door.
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It was an hour later when Narcissa, Severus, Lucius and Harry were gathered in Harry and Lucius' dorm room. Lucius and Harry were once again cuddle on Lucius bed, while Severus and Narcissa shared Harry's.
"So what is this about?" Severus asked, annoyed at his friend from interrupting him while he was experimenting in the potions lab.
"Lucius has told me what has been bothering him, and we need help to figure something to sort this out." Harry started and then looked up at Lucius telling him in a silent way to carry on with the explanation.
"Narcissa and I are betrothed to be married, I have been trying to find a way out of the contract since I first sensed that Harry was my Mate. Narcissa is already in love with someone else, and I know she will be unhappy with me. Another thing is that I will be most unhappy without Harry in my life. But the contract is a blood contract." Lucius finished the explanation.
"A blood contract will be most difficult to get out of. May we see the contract to find out the clauses of it?" Severus asked from where he sat.
"Yes, of course," Lucius said getting up and going to his trunk and retrieving the contract that he looked at and puzzled over each and every single day since the start of the school year.
They sat in silence with only Severus talking as he read out the clauses in the contract. "Well, that's it, Lucius Malfoy has to marry a Black, but there is no one truly named."
"Does that mean that I can marry him as I am a Black?" Harry asked from his comfortable position within Lucius arms.
"No, my parents world not willingly allow him to get out of the marriage with me. The contract would be fulfilled with you Harry, but my parents would make life difficult because they wanted to align the London branch and not the Scottish branch, with the Malfoy family." Narcissa answered.
"The only way to get out of marry Narcissa would be to marry one of her sisters, Bellarix or Andromedia." Harry told them.
"Yes, but Bellarix is engaged to be wed to the oldest LeStrange brother and Andi has run off to be with Ted Tonks, they are getting married next week. My family is not the Head of the London Brach of the Black family, which belongs to my Uncle. His son Sirius Black is next in line, and if I know Sirius he will get rid of all contracts, my Uncle is not well and is close to dying, if he can last until Sirius become of age that the contract would be voided, but it has to be fulfilled before my ninetieth birthday." Narcissa tried to explain.
"If he can't?" Harry asked the young woman.
"Then my Aunt Walburga would take over until it is time, but then she would disinherit him before he had chance to do anything. Sirius will have to be in the Headship for more than four years before he can change anything though, that is the Black rule. If something happens to him, then it will go back to his mother or my Cousin Regulus. It is all rather complicated." She told them.
"I am the Head of the Malfoy family, I have the same clause, I can not break anything for another three years almost, but because I am the only Malfoy left, and it can not be given to anyone else not of Malfoy blood, I have taken over now." Lucius told them all.
"May I ask a question, why is it that Lucius and Sirius Black would have to wait four years before they can make any changes to the family, but Walburga Black can do so straight away?" Harry questioned them.
"Walburga Black, is the wife of the head, she knows everything about the family contracts already, so she can just go in and keep things running smoothly, when someone new takes over, like Sirius or myself, we have to have four years to learn the ins and outs of all businesses, family dealings, rules and things like that, we are not privy to such stuff until we take over the Headship of a Family, Walburga Black has been privy to such things when her husband became the Head of the Black Family." Lucius explained.
Harry nodded and then sat in silence as the other continued to talk about Headship clauses within the Malfoy and Black families. Harry jumped up off the bed, dislodging Lucius so much that he fell of the other side of the bed.
"I think I have an idea, but I need to check something." He said and then ran out of the room and towards his head of houses office.
"Professor, I need special permission to go to Gringotts, I need to do something rather urgently." He asked his head of house.
"Very well," he said startled a little by the sudden appearance, he quickly wrote a note and handed it to the young brunette. "Be back before dinner Mr Black."
"Yes sir." He said as he rushed out of the office and out of Hogwarts to the gates and Disapparate.
He reappeared in Diagon Ally and ran towards Gringotts, he really wanted to know whether his idea would work or not.
He presented the key for vault number 479 and was taken down to the vault. He walked in and over to the easel that supported the portrait of Narcissa Malfoy.
"Hello Harry, nice to see you again?" the painting greeted the young man
He smiled and spoke softly, "You already knew I would be back here, and I think you know exactly what I am going to ask of you as well."
Narcissa laughed, "Yes Harry, I did know, but you still may tell me and of course ask me."
Harry nodded and told her, "Well the contract between Narcissa and Lucius, and I am Lucius' Mate. I have a plan, and I think you know exactly what it is, so can you tell me, what am I suppose to do, do I tell them my plan and go through with it or do I let Narcissa and Lucius marry and be miserable for the rest of their lives. I don't think I can live without Lucius by my side day and night, I have come to love him so much, and I do not want to let him go, and I do not want to see him unhappy in a marriage that was made by his parents."
She smiled at him, "Harry, follow your heart, what is done has already come to pass." Her greenish blue eyes twinkling.
"Alright then Narcissa." Harry grinned as he winked. He nodded his head to the painted and turned to leave, he started to warders the exit of the vault and then paused, "I am right in thinking that you ar…" he trained off as he turned and found an empty easel, no portrait to be seen.
Harry shrugged his shoulders, a little saddened that the portrait had gone, he just hoped that she was right and that following his heart was the right thing.
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It was almost an hour and a half after he had gone running out of the room, when he finally got back. He went over to the bed were Lucius was glaring at him. He went over and gave the older blond a gentle and loving kiss.
"I'm sorry Lucius I just needed to make sure of something, but now I have an idea of how we can work things out." Harry smiled at them all.
"So what is you idea Harry?" Narcissa asked, bringing Harry's attention to the only witch in the room.
Harry looked at her and noted all the differences between the Narcissa he had just spoken to in the painting and the one that sat on his bed across the room. "Well, Narcissa, I will be needing you help. My idea is this…" he started to explain everything to the others in the room. The others smiling as he laid out the plan to them all.
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