Chapter 4

Draco walks out of his room, scratching at his rear, near his lower back. He walks into his fathers study. Lucius looks up, and smiles, "Oh, Draco," he chuckles, "it-it's started."

Draco looks up in confusion, "Wh-what's started?" he says with apparent alarm in his voice.

"Um, feel your ears." Lucius tries to say with a straight face.

Draco slowly reaches up his hand, feeling at his ears, he noticed they are smaller than usual. He opens his mouth to speak, but found no word. A look of intense fear shadows his face. Seeing this, Lucius looks at Draco and says, "Its ok, that's normal, it happened to me, it is your transformation. Here, watch..." Lucius trails off, pointing to his head. Slowly his ears shrink to nothing, and cat ears start to appear on his head. Draco looks at him in total shock, jaw nearly hitting the floor. "Close your mouth; you can do this soon too." Draco's eyes got big. Then a big grin creeps across his face. Lucius looks at him, confused. "What so funny?"

Draco just grins even more, "Do you have any idea how many guy- er- girls are going to think they are cute..." Draco trails off.

"Yes Draco, I do know how many guys will think they are cute. Come here, we need to talk." Draco's face goes beat red, but he makes his way to a couch that his father just walked over to and sat down. "There is something I need to tell you. Draco, I am gay. I always had been." Draco's jaw was now resting on his chest. Lucius reaches over and closes it, but if just falls open again. "DRACO!" Lucius bellows bring Draco back to reality.

"S-s-sorry, I must have miss understood you. I thought you just said you are gay?" Draco says, calmly.

"No Draco, you herd me right, I am gay."

"Then, what about mom? Why are you with her?"

"Well, the Dark Lord found out some how, and he told me he didn't care, but some of the other death eaters will. The only person we could trust was Narcissa, and we did. He set up a 'marriage' between us, so I wouldn't have to worry as much about people finding out." Lucius stops, letting Draco soak it all in.

"So, mom knows? Then, where do I come in?" Draco says solemnly, not knowing if he was actually a wanted child, of just a burden what just happened. It showed on his face and in his voice.

"Oh, Draco, its not like that. We both wanted a child, and both loved each other greatly, and realized that we didn't want any one raising a child but us. So we had a child, much to my discontent, not that I didn't want you, just," Lucius shudders, "how it had to happen..." Lucius trails off.

Draco shudders, and then looks up at his father. "Um... there is something I wanted to tell you too. I am gay. I have been fretting on how to tell you for the past 2 years. But I never felt that I could tell you, you seemed so happy with mom and all. I just didn't want you to disown me or something like that."

Lucius looks at Draco, "I would never disown you. You are my pride and joy. I love you so much."
He pulls his son close, and Draco feels a tickle on his neck. He swats at it and feels something furry. He jumps back and tries to pull it off of himself, but the he screams as a sharp pain erupted on his rear. He looked back and jumped.

"Wha... What is this?!?!?!? I have a tail?!?!," sounding scared but then another wild grin spreads itself across his face.

Draco opens his mouth to speak, but Lucius holds up his had and says, "Yes, I am fully aware of how many guys will think it is cute. I had so many fawning over me as a teen, that's how I found out I was gay."

Draco looks up, "I will be able to change back right. There aren't any more changes that will occur are there?"

"There are no more physical changes, well; your muscles will become bigger and more defined, tone. That's all the physical changes. But you will get stronger. You'll be able to jump higher, run faster, and be more balanced and other things. The only thing that might pose a problem for a while is you personality will become more cat like. When I became more cat like, I was distracted by the slightest movements. Scents would drive me wild. Oh dear Merlin, I could tell you every time anyone in the Slytherin tower would have sex, that was murder. You'll see soon enough, you'll be back at Hogwarts just in time to be in control of your changes, hopefully. You may need to stay ho..."

"NO!..." Draco bellows, "I mean.. Er, I want to get to school on time, these changes will be hard enough do deal with, let alone all the fawning. I just want to get it over with as soon as possible."

"Ok. Well, now that you have 'grown', I guess it is safe to give you your coat. We will do that tomorrow. But I must warn you, it will be dangerous, and you may get hurt. It wont kill you, but you will be testing out you new body and things are bou..."

Draco interrupted, "Er, n-n-new b-body?"

"Yes Draco, a new body, I will explain everything later tomorrow, but for now you need to sleep, you need your rest for tomorrow. Good night. And go to sleep, no staying up and reading or I will give you a sleep potion."

Draco glared at Lucius, "You wouldn't!"

"I would, now get to bed. You have a big day ahead of you tomorrow." he hugs his son, then watches him leave, Draco's tail waging as he left.

A/N: Thank you for subscribing to my story. I will try to update as soon a possible. I finally got a beta (does a happy dance). but i could use all the help i could get, so if if you have anything you wanna see in the story, i will try and work it in. ideas are always welcome. and so are reviews. on another note, my pen name is in Japanese, it means "I am a tiger". any way, REVIEW PLEASE. thank you.