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Severus started laughing and looked down. Between laughs, he asked Hermione "Are you sure you want to keep this bet, I will let you out only now." Between her own laughter, she looked up at her father and with mischief in her eyes said "No way Potions Master, you're not getting out of owing me a favor."

"Petrificus Totalus."

"Finite Incantatem"

Draco and Harry were throwing curses and counter curses at each other right and left. It really was a sight to watch. They moved with a grace that only came with years of dueling experience. Back and forth they threw curse and counter curse. Not really hitting each other and not even meaning to. You could tell by the lazy way they flicked and swished their wands they were not trying to hurt one another. But yet, they still kept throwing curses. Harry ducked down to dodge a curse when he fell and almost knocked his head on a bedpost.

Severus had had enough. He walked in the middle of the duel. "Both of you knock this off at once! You were fine when we left an hour ago. What in the Gods' names happened?" Looking between the two boys, he knew neither of them was going to say anything about the fight.

"Fine, don't tell me. I just don't want to see that or hear about it again, understood?" Both looked at the floor and mumbled a "yes." under their breath. "Good. Now I am going to explain why you are here. Sit down please."

"Sir, do I have to stay for this?"

"Yes, Draconis, you have to stay for this. You wanted to know why you were forbidden to learn of Elves and learn of your father's history. Well, I am telling you now. This is just as much your history as it is Harry's and Hermione's. Now sit." This made Draco sit down right away. He had asked Severus about his heritage when he had first thought of leaving his home. All his Godfather had said is that he would be told when the time was right.

"Now, I hope everyone is comfortable. This is going to be a long story." Everyone took a minute to situate themselves. "Right then, I will start from the beginning.

"I had known Lucius since I was a baby. He was my best friend. He, himself, is an Elf. He is a year older than me, but we did everything together. We were the mischief makers around the Kingdom. My parents never liked it that I was his friend. His family is part of the Royal Army. They have been for generations. They are like the head of security for the Royal Family, but my parents still thought it was beneath me for me to befriend them. As the years went on, Lucius started to resent my parents.

"Not all the Elves have Wizarding Powers. So, when Lucius got his letter it was a big deal. I believe he was the first in his family to ever have received an acceptance letter from any Wizarding school. When I told my parents about it, they finally gave in and accepted that I was his friend. He told me all about Hogwarts in his owls, and how he wished I could be there."

"The next year we both got our wish. I was accepted into Hogwarts. The day I went to Diagon Alley I met James Potter. He was a nice kid, and we talked a bit in Florish and Blotts about everything. Wizards had long thought Elves were dead so I could not actually tell him what I was and I hardly knew anything about the Wizarding World. After all, the Snape name was well known. My parents did a lot of business in this world being the King and Queen, but Lucius had told me enough that I was able to keep up a conversation. We made plans to meet on the train.

"On September first, my parents as well as Lucius' saw us off. Lucius went with me and we met James. We talked for a while and we were soon joined by a few other first years, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Lily Evans. Before we got off the train we made a pact, no matter what house we were all sorted into we would remain friends.

"That was a little harder then we all thought it would be. Lucius' family was known in the Wizarding World as being Dark. They knew everything that was going on from in the Ministry to what was going on in Voldemort's Inner Circle. They had to, to protect my parents from anything that was going. You almost never saw a Malfoy as they were known in the Wizarding World with out a Snape, so everyone believed us Dark as well. When I was sorted into Slytherin many Death Eater children surrounded themselves around us thinking we were all Dark Lord supporters.

"They started getting a little suspicious of me and Lucius when we started hanging out with Gryffindors. We didn't want them to tell their parents and have them start digging things up about us. So, we talked it over with everyone and decided we would have to play the enemies everyone wanted us to be and be friends in secret. Lily thought it was a ridiculous idea. She always stood up for Lucius and me no matter how hard we tried to convince her otherwise.

"She got into a lot of fights with James over the stuff they did to me, even though she knew it was just for the sake of show. As time went on, James, Sirius, Lily, Remus, Lucius and I became the best of friends. No one ever suspected a thing. Not even Dumbledore. In fact, us six and Peter Pettigrew went to many meetings in his office, the meetings always being him trying to convince us to become friends."

"In my third year, we discovered Remus was a werewolf. We all became Animagus to run with him on the full moon. James and Sirius also taught Pettigrew, because he was, after all, a Marauder. We worked very hard and by the beginning of the next year we had accomplish it. Every full moon we would run together. Every Thursday and Saturday all six of us would meet in the Shrieking Shack to talk about our week so far and about anything else we could think of. No one ever thought anything of all of us going missing. No one really even noticed, not even Pettigrew."

"One day in my fourth year, I had asked Lily out. To my surprise she said yes. Life was good. Everyone was happy. Sirius and James started going out, and to our surprise Lucius and Remus started going out. We all passed notes during the days we didn't see each other and we all became like a family, brothers, sister and lovers.

"When I came back from the summer on my sixth year, things started to go sour. Lucius had had enough of my parents talking about how low he was beneath them. Although they accepted that I was his friend, they never liked it and always talked about him. He decided he was going to leave our world and live full time in the Wizarding World once school was over. He was not going to protect Elves who had made his life into a hell. He told everyone he would protect me with his life, but not the King and Queen. Because of this he was made into an outcast of this world, our world, to everyone but me and some of his family.

"Lucius tried to convince me to join him and leave our world. I told him no, but he kept trying to convince me. We started spending a lot more time together and Remus thought Lucius was cheating on him with me. One day about four months into the year, Remus broke up with him. Lucius was heart broken. He would only come out of his room for classes and his grades went down, he went into a deep state of depression. That is never a good thing for an Elf.

"Many Elves that have been as depressed as he was have died. I tried to cheer him up as best I could, but nothing I did helped. Remus was the only person he had ever loved in that kind of way. They had even had sex during the summer when Remus had come to visit him at Malfoy Manor. When an Elf gives themselves to someone it is usually for life, they usually die after their mate is taken from them in some way.

"Then we found out that Lucius was with child. It had never before happened in the Wizarding World but it is quite common in this world. He was so happy that he would always have a part of Remus that he slowly started to come out of his shell. He was worried about what he was going to do though. He was still in school, he was single and no man in the Wizarding World had ever had a child. I was the best potions student Hogwarts had seen in years, so, I offered to make him a potion that would stall the pregnancy for 2 years. It would not hurt the child, but it was considered a Dark Potion because of many of the ingredients.

"Fortunately we were in the dark house so we managed to get them fairly easily. They were expensive, but being a prince, and one of the world's riches men, does have its advantages. It took two months before he was able to take it. He was about three and a half months pregnant by then and people were starting to notice a change in him. Many Slytherins thought he was finally going to accept that he was a dark wizard and follow Voldemort. So, they started talking to him more, convincing him that the Dark Lord could give him more power then he ever dreamed of, that he would be accepted for who he was, and that he would be part of a family.

"He would not come to the Shack or talk with us anymore. He was becoming more distant, even to me. Apparently they were talking to him every time I was not around him, and he fell for everything they said. He started talking to me about joining Lord Voldemort. About how they could offer us anything we have ever wanted. I told him no. I said the only way I would ever join Voldemort was if Lily and I broke up He finally gave up, almost stopped talking to me all together because he believed that Lily and I were going to be together till the day she died. I didn't notice, because that's when I was having problems with Lily.

"When she came back from Christmas break she had been more distant. She never stood up to James for me in our fake fights, she didn't pass notes to me in the hallway and she only came to the Shack every couple of weeks. She started hanging out with a second and first year, Bill and Charlie Weasley. From what the boys said, she had started pushing them out of her life as well. I convinced myself that she just needed a little space and nothing was wrong with the two of us.

"During the summer, I wrote her many times and I never got a response back. I went to visit Lucius one day and I walked in on a Death Eater meeting. Lucius saved me from getting killed that day by telling the Dark Lord that I was a recruit in training under his eye. After everyone left, I told him what was going on and he convinced me that Lily was cheating on me with a Muggle friend in her neighborhood.

"I was so upset with what he said that I left and did not talk to him the rest of the summer. When I finally got back to school, I really started thinking about what he had said. Lily was even more distant. She tried to make us believe that everything was all right. She started coming back to the Shack regularly and she would always pass notes to me in the hallway. It seemed to everyone that she was back to normal, but I knew different. She had a hollow look in her eyes, and anytime she ever looked at Remus, James, Sirius, Lucius or myself, she looked like she was going to burst into tears.

"I tried to get her to talk to me many different times. I asked her down to the Shack a few different times in hopes that she would at least tell me. Every time I tried to talk to her, though, she would just tell me how much she loved me and start kissing me. Elves are very disciplined and have a lot of restraint, but I was still a hormone raged seventeen year old kid, with the women he loved in his arms. I gave in to her every time.

"Near the end of the year we finally made love. It was once again when she was trying to keep me off her back. I didn't ask her for the rest of the year if anything was wrong. I figured if she was able to give herself to me so willingly then everything must be okay.

"About a week into summer break I received an owl from her. She wanted to break up and I didn't know what to do. I went and talked to Lucius, he remembered what I said about joining the Dark Lord and he was right. We had broken up and there was nothing for me to live for that was on the side of the Light. Yes, I had three of the Marauders, but it would not be the same. Lily was my world and I had just had my world taken from me, so I decided to start a new world. That day I received the Dark Mark.

"I graduated with top marks in Potions, so the Dark Lord set me up to study under a his Potions Master to get my Potions Master Degree. My life was moving on. I had moved in with Lucius, and I was going to be his best man in the marriage Voldemort had set up for him with Narcissa Black. I was on my way to being in the Inner Circle and the Dark Lord's best Death Eater only under Lucius and Voldemort himself.

"Then I got it. Lily owled me and told me she had something important to tell me right away. I was still in love with her, so I gave in and owled right back and told her to meet me in the front of the Malfoy Manor Gates at Midnight the next day. Sure enough she came. I brought her up to my room and put up a silencing charm.

"I looked back at her and saw she had tears running down her cheeks. I went up to her and wrapped my arms around her. We stood there for a moment and I just held her. I led her over to my bed and had her sit down. Grabbing a chair I sat right across from her. I asked her what she needed to talk to me about and she spilled everything.

"She told me she had found out that she was adopted the year before. She said her birth mother came and talked to her and that she was related to Sirius and the Weasleys. Then, she told me the big news. She was half Elf. Her mother was of the Sea bound Elves of Serana."

"At first I didn't know what to do. I was so relieved she had finally told me what was wrong. She was an Elf and maybe now we could finally be together! I felt like weeping for joy. I ended up doing the opposite though. I started laughing. I was laughing so hard I fell out of my chair. She couldn't believe me. She thought I was laughing at her. She hit me and told me it was the truth and if I didn't believe it then I could just go fuck myself. Such lovely language for a lady, don't you think...Anyway, I am getting side track. When I had finally calmed down, I told her that I was an Elf as well, along with Lucius. I lifted the charms I had to keep me from looking as you see me now.

"She couldn't believe it. She was so happy that I was not going to reject her for being some legendary creature. I asked her to lift her charms as well. She didn't have any. Her birth mother told her everything a day late to prevent her from taking up her heritage. That was fine with me. In blood she was still an Elf, so my parents would have to accept her, and she was beautiful as it was. I had no desire to see her any other way.

"I looked at her and noticed that again she had tears in her eyes. I asked what was wrong and she told me the best news I have ever received. She was with child. I was going to be a father. I was stunned. I didn't know what to do or say. She started telling that I didn't need to do anything, that she could take care of the baby all on her own and I didn't even need to see it if I didn't have the desire to.

"That broke me out of my daze. I hugged her and told her not to worry about anything. I was going to be there every step of the way. It was my child as well, and I was going to do everything I could to help. I was going to raise the child with her. She pulled back and smiled at me and that's when she saw the Dark Mark. She went hysterical. When I calmed her down I told her that I was going to switch sides and that I need to talk to Lucius to figure everything out. We lay on the bed talking about the things to come until she fell asleep.

"I got up and went to talk to Lucius. I explained everything to him. It took some convincing, but he finally decided to help. After all he said he would protect me with his life and I would definitely be unsafe if it was found out I was having a child with a so-called 'mudblood'. Lily and the baby would be killed, and I might be as well.

"We all talked about it for hours on end. We could not find a way for Lily and I to be together with out revealing the Elves or putting all of our lives in danger, because now that Lucius knew, he and his child were also at stake. We decided to talk to James, Sirius and Remus. We were going to tell them everything, about the babies, being Elves, Death Eaters... the works.

"We decided to tell Remus first, him being the Father of one of the children in the first place. When we told him everything, he sat there for a few minutes thinking. Then asked for a room and we didn't see him for three days. After we told Remus, we told Sirius and James. They took it as we expected. They threatened me and Lucius, threw a punch or two, and once they had calmed down, asked how they could help.

"When Remus came down we all sat down and tried to make a plan. When we had finished none of us liked it, but it was the best we could think of. Everyone thought Lily and James were going out because he and Sirius had not come out. So, Lily was to marry James so no one would question who the baby's father was. Lucius was to marry Narcissa Black and Lucius was to use his Elven magic to give Narcissa all the pain, sickness and everything to make her think she is pregnant. While covering his bulge with a concealment charm, he made her appear as if she was carrying a child.

"Sirius and Remus were going to say they had been together the entire time Sirius and James had been. I was to go to Dumbledore and turn spy. I was to tell him I also had another contact (Lucius) that was also turning spy, but was not going to be revealed till he agreed to be. It worked, and once again no one suspected anything.

"Draconis Courtan Malfoy, or Draconis Angelin Sirius Malerann, which is your Elven name, Draco, was born June 27 at Malfoy Manor to Remus Alec Lupin and Lucius Darries Ashen Malerann, which is his Elven name. That is what will show up in your Birth Record if you touch it. Only me, Narcissa, Remus, James, Sirius and Lily were there when Lucius gave birth. We obliviated Narcissa and made her believe she had given birth right before we left Malfoy Manor on the 30th."

"Harry James Potter and Carol Nessa Potter (deceased) were born July 31st in Godric Hollow to the Parents of Lily and James Potter. Unless one of your touch the Birth certificate then it will show what it really says on there, Lukeal Devlin Alec Solarean and Alura Rayanin Darries Solarean, born to Ashena Stellare Miselyn Potter and Dareson Severus Brocken Solarean.

"We all stayed at the house for a week after you two were born. Draco was even there. Your Aunt Petunia came by with Dudley. She had known us all for years and she was part of the gang during the summer. As well as Anne and Justin Granger, who had been friends with Lily for years. They adopted our 'dead' daughter and we were going to raise you all together so you would be like family no matter what.

"You three and Dudley were the best of friends. Every other weekend we would all meet at Godric's Hollow and spend the entire weekend together, even after Lily and James went into hiding. Lucius became a spy for the light, and he and Remus got back together. Sirius and James were still together and always going at it, and Lily and I got back together and were as happy as could be. Petunia, however, had a horrible marriage. Vernon always beat her and raped her. We all wanted to go hex him, but she swore she would take care of it and get a divorce and restraining order.

"The night Lily and James died, we were all heading over to the house, a place we all considered home. We were the first people there and we alerted the Order. Lucius returned to the manor with Draco, so he would not get caught and would not have to give his name as the spy yet. Then, Petunia drove up and she went hysterical. Once she calmed down a little, she and I dug up Lily's body while Sirius and Remus dug up James'.

"We sat there and cried for a good 10 minutes before we realized that the Order would be there any minute. We all looked for Harry and when we found him we put up several protection charms to keep him safe till the Order got there. Then, we all disapparated. I shrunk Petunia's car and popped her and Dudley home because I was sure they were going to bring Harry there, while Remus took Anne and Justin home with Hermione, in case the order dropped by there soon.

"We realize now where Sirius went. I wish I had never left him alone. Things would have been so different for everyone. After that, none of us ever saw Remus until he taught. He would get the occasional letter, and Lucius would always send him pictures of Draco and tell him how you were and how proud he would be of you. We quickly lost touch with Petunia. We'd send owls back and forth every little while to make sure you, her, and Dudley are all right and to make sure Vernon was still being good to her, not beating her or anything like he used to. Anne and Justin, Lucius and I still talk to, though we are not as close as we use to be. I think we only really still talk to make sure you, Hermione, are doing okay.

"You know, at least you do, Draco, that I am still close with Lucius. He drove you out of the house, Draco, because he knew you would come to me and that way he could say you ran away from home. The Dark Lord would not know where to find you because this place is a fairy tale to him. You would also be able to take up your heritage and learn everything he was afraid for you to learn at home, in case someone found out. He also wanted you, once again, to become friends with Harry and Hermione."

Severus looked up to see the three teenagers staring wide eyed at him. After a minute of uncomfortable silence the explosion came...

"I'm half werewolf!"

"Malfoy is a spy?!"

"I don't have a mum?!"

"What was the name of the potion you gave Malfoy?"

"Oh trust Granger to think of learning about potions right now!"

"Shut it Malfoy."

"Or what?"

"Or I'll-"