Harry was excited about his first duelling practice and Lucius agreed to start a bit after their last classes of the afternoon but only going over with him the courtesies and basics of the start of a proper duel for it was nearly dinner time.

Lucius actually smiled when he saw Harry was disappointed to leave. He drew Harry close. "I promise we can come back here and do more after dinner."

Harry of course knew that the teachers would expect to see them at dinner. "I'd really like that Luc. Now that we got all of the formalities under the way."

Lucius nibbled on his ear. "Don't think I forgot my promise to test out these mats for more then one purpose. I just wish our apartments were attached."

Harry was giving into the teeth along his earlobe. "Then you might want to stop nibbling and let us go to dinner or I won't be in any shape to have a meal."

Lucius laughed and for a moment he did not let go and his hands went to Harry's trousers and ran down along Harry's shaft, making Harry wonder if he was seeing how aroused Harry was or trying to make him more aroused but he withdrew his hand.

"I guess we wouldn't want the other teachers to get suspicious. We have all night to train and play." Lucius finally relented but not before kissing him again.

Harry had to physically pull away. "I am walking out of here before I either pass out from hunger or you get me too aroused that I can not leave here."

Lucius looked all to tempted to let that happen but he let Harry slip from the room and headed down to the Great Hall for dinner. Harry was again glad for the distance from the DADA classroom to the Great Hall so he could even out his breathing and loose the color in his cheeks.

When he went into the hall he was going to head for Slytherin but Ginny cut him off. "Come on Harry, you need to sit at Gryffindor once and a while you know."

Harry tried to shake off her hold on his arm. "You know I am still a lion but I have a few things I want to talk to Draco about."

Ginny though wasn't about to let it go and started steering him physically towards Gryffindor table and he could see Ron smiling and he wondered if he had helped put his sister up to this though he knew she was still trying to get him to go out with her.

Harry tried to shake free from her grip without making some kind of a show in the Great Hall. "Ginny I said no. I am sitting with Draco at Slytherin tonight."

Ginny's smile only fell slightly at that. "Come on Harry, you live with his dad already. I know you can speak to him later. Your friends miss you at the table."

Draco and Hermione had both stood up from Slytherin as she had been sitting with Draco and talking as she always seemed to be, and he knew Lucius would be coming in behind him soon.

Ginny seemed oblivious to the attention. "You know I am not mad at you about costing me points in class today. Come and sit with us. Ron is fine as well."

Harry smirked. "You deserved to lose those points and your brother has no reason to be angry. And now let go of me before Lucius comes in and takes more."

Ginny laughed. "Come on Harry you know that we are more fun to sit with and then maybe tonight the two of us can take a nice walk out on the grounds."

Harry saw from the look on Draco's face that Lucius had made his entrance into the hall and while they had not drawn a lot of attention yet, Harry was growing fed up with Ginny and needed to get her to see sense and just let go of him finally.

"Ginny. It's not going to happen. You're not my type." Harry tried to say to her quietly so that no one would hear and she would not be embarrassed.

Ginny didn't seem to care about that. "Not your type? You know we are perfect together. You are practically family already and you everyone would be happy."

Harry didn't know why but he blurted out the one thing he could think to shut her up. "You're not my type Ginny because I am into guys. I am gay."

If the attention of almost everyone in the hall had not been on them already it was definitely on them now and Harry looked in shock as he realized he had come out not only to Ginny but the entire school. Neville and Luna and perhaps Hermione he always thought, knew but now the whole school? It worked and shut Ginny up but he had silenced the entire Great Hall.

Ginny looked at him in utter shock and looked over at Draco. "It's him isn't it? You're shagging Draco and that is why you're suddenly such a snake now a days."

Harry shook his head. "I am not shagging anyone Ginny and especially not Draco who is like a brother to me. I just know I am not interested in girls at all."

Ginny shocked everyone especially Harry when she slapped him hard across the face. "You sick little queer, leading me on. My brother was right about you."

Draco and Hermione stepped up to his defence and he could hear a number of other students but he turned and fled from the Great Hall. Of all the ways he had intended to come out of the closet officially this had not been the way. He missed Draco calling after him or the worried look in Lucius' face.

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Luna had watched in horror what had happened and after sharing a look with Neville she had raced from the room to go and find her brother. Neville, Hermione and Draco were all going to look for him and she had no doubt Lucius would as well but Luna seemed to know where he would be headed.

Luna came into the room of requirements and sure enough found him slumped over sobbing. "Harry?"

Harry looked up from where he was crying in a ball. "Luna. Did I just do that? Did I just come out of the closet to the entire school?"

Luna did not answer at first for she really had no idea what to say to him but she sunk down onto the floor next to him and collected him into her arms. Luna knew how upset Harry had been to reveal that and how much pain he was in now that he had.

"Yes Harry. And you know you're true friends and most of the school won't care Harry. We're not muggles. This is not rare."Luna gently reminded him.

Harry kept shaking. "I haven't even told Hermione or my closest friends. I mean only you and Nev knew and only because you guessed. And the twins as well."

Neville and Luna had guessed about his sexuality and the fact that the only people he had willingly come out too had been his dads and the twins he considered his brothers about it spoke a lot.

Harry did not look certain about that. "They are going to be so mad I never told them. I blurted it out to the Great Hall before I even told them. They will hate me."

Luna shook her head. "You don't give your friends enough credit Harry. They love you. They love you like the twins and your dads do. You know that Harry."

Harry still was not sure until the door opened behind him and it turned out to be the people he needed the most. Having remembered the DA and going crazy wanting to find him, Hermione, Neville, Draco and Katie all came piling into the room.

Hermione didn't speak but collected him in her arms. "You know I have guessed for months now. I don't know why you didn't just tell me an easier way."

Draco dragged him into a hug. "Little brother you definitely do things the hard way don't you? You know the school would have talked enough without that."

Katie was smiling and hugged him. "You know Oliver and the others would say the same thing. Heck you know by now Oliver is dating your brother."

Harry remembered the twins revealing to him when he told them he was gay before he revealed the erastes contract, that Charlie had been dating Oliver for some time and was considering proposing to his fiancé soon enough.

Harry sagged with relief. "I wanted to tell you guys and I should have known you guys would be great but I was still worried and then today Ginny was..."

"Not taking no for an answer and grating on your last nerve?" Draco finished for him. "It definitely made her shut up."

"You missed Lucius at work though. He gave her detention for two weeks and took 30 points from Gryffindor for slapping you." Neville added.

Harry went stock white for he had not even thought about Lucius when he had run out of there. He was supposed to have duelling practice with the man that evening and Lucius didn't even know where he was. He distantly remembered running past him out of the hall.

Draco seemed to read his mind. "I talked to dad. He said if we found you to let you know not to worry about your training or anything. Just to talk to you."

Luna held him. "You know he worries about your well being as your master Harry. He really looked worried when he saw you run out of the room like that."

Harry let the words sink in. The words of his friends reassuring him that they were still there and though a bit shocked by his out burst, Katie really seemed no more surprised then Hermione and Draco had no problem at all and was rambling off a list of guys he knew at school who were gay that he could set Harry up with.

Harry stood finally. "Thank you guys. It means a lot to me that you guys are here for me. I think I need to lay down for a bit."

All of his friends hugged Harry and assured him that they would stand by him if everyone gave him any trouble as they all knew deep down there would be trouble, from people like Ron who no one told Harry but who had taken the news as bad if not worse then Ginny had.

Draco led him back to his dad's rooms. "Talk to dad if you need to. You know he was really worried about you when you fled. Remember he is your master."

"My master. Right." Harry muttered but then he spoke to Draco. "Yeah, thanks Drake. And thanks for coming to find me tonight. It meant a lot to me."

Draco hugged him. "You know the Weasleys aren't the only ones who can be cool with their brother being gay. You know this doesn't change anything for me."

Harry knew this was the one secret that he was hiding from Draco that his friend might not have a problem with right now. He watched Draco leave and he hoped as he walked into the apartments he shared with Lucius, that his brother would still be there if he ever learned the whole truth.

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Lucius had no idea where else to look and he had given up on trying to find Harry and hoped his son was right and he would find Harry and convince him to come back home when he had calmed a bit. When he walked into the apartment he was shocked to find Harry there already, curled up in a ball in the sofa, head in his lap.

He sunk down next to him. "Harry, love. Please look at me. You worried me when you took off like that."

Harry looked up from his hands. "I'm sorry I worried you Luc. I was just so upset about what I did and I needed to get away. I'm sorry."

Luc reached out and brushed some stray tears from his cheeks and his heart ached for Harry as he watched him. Harry was calmer then he had been when he left the hall and he suspected Harry had spoken to his friends and Draco but it definitely had to be a shock for Harry to have done what he had just done.

He gently kissed Harry. "You know your friends were worried and most of the school was surprised but were not upset."

Harry nodded. "Draco and the others found me and told me what happened after I fled. I knew I should not let her get to me but I just lost it."

"Your friends and Draco will stand by you Harry and the gossip will die down soon enough." Lucius assured him.

He knew that Harry still had trouble with the fact that this was more common in the wizard world then it was for muggles. He remembered his shock when he found out that he could become pregnant at some point. A week or two, shorter if something else happened, and most people would stop talking. It would have been even less if Harry had not blurted it out as he did.

Lucius reminded him. "Even if it does not wear off soon, you're leaving next weekend for a few days with your dads for their wedding. Remember?"

Harry actually managed a small smile at that. "How could I forget the marriage of my dads? I have been looking forward to it since they had told me"

Lucius gently helped him to his feet. "I missed our duelling practice tonight but how about we call it an early night and just head for bed. You could use some sleep."

Harry nodded and allowed himself to be led from the room and was in little shape to put up any protest as Lucius helped him to undress Harry did not speak again until he had climbed into bed next to his lover and Harry came into his arms.

"I'm sorry about tonight. I knew you wanted to have some fun on the mats." Harry whispered.

Lucius tilted his head to kiss him. "The mats will be there another time. Right now my one concern is how you're doing. Now just get some sleep."

Harry did not speak again but snuggled deeper into his arms and he sighed as he felt his little lover fall asleep. Earlier in their relationship he would have been so disappointed not to have had their fun that night. Right now all he felt was this over whelming concern for how Harry was doing.