A/N: K, third chapter up now. One more and then the updates shall be random and slower since I'll be writing them. As a side note, as of June 7th, I'll be on a trip to Great Britain and Ireland, so no updates in June and most of July.

Thicker Than Blood

The Bear

For the next several years, the trio travelled a lot. They did not stay in one place longer than a few months and before five years had gone by they'd been to Dublin, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney and New York. They had learned about muggle subjects to allow them to survive in the high schools, learned French, Spanish, Latin, German, Italian, some Chinese and a bit of Japanese and changed their images several times. At one point Draco had dyed his hair blacker than Harry's, proceeded to pierce his ears twice, lip once and came two minutes from getting a tattoo, but by that time both Harry and Luna intervened and refrained him from the ink.

Harry allowed Luna to come at his head with almost every colour imaginable; it had been blue, red, green, purple, pink and he even let her bleach it, though they quickly agreed to leave the blonde to herself and Draco, though the blonde did look good with the black. He pierced his ear once, the left one and a mini snitch dangled from it, though no one knew what it was besides the three of them.

Luna, though, had gone the opposite way. One of her changes included shops like Hollister and Abercrombie in Fitch, her clothing not neon and clashing, but that particular phase didn't last long, the clothing was far too expensive and she felt like she was pretending in those clothes. She decided to go the boys' route and dyed her bangs blue, as well as striped it. She already had her radish earrings and felt no need to further pierce her body.

Then one day, Harry left. He had caught the scent of a particularly good smelling muggle in Tokyo and decided he couldn't stay away from the humans any longer. Both tried to talk Harry into staying, but the ex-Gryffindor was exceedingly stubborn and once his mind was made up, that was that. By that time Harry and Draco had formed a tentative friendship, the witty jabs never stopped, but they weren't done in a malicious manner, only teasingly. Both were glad of that fact, for surely if Harry and Draco fully got along the world would be coming to an end, immortal or not.

In Harry's absence, Draco and Luna got closer as a result. Now Luna was like a little sister to him, often playing just that part, usually his twin and Draco had become a protective older brother. She was endearing once the outer layer was broken through, the one set up so no one suspected her 'sight' because she often just glazed over in a vision. Draco had come to appreciate them, they had come in handy when someone was close to discovering something about them, she would get a vision and the two would bolt, leaving no evidence that they had existed there at all.

It had been a good ten years since they'd been back to England, and Teddy had just started Hogwarts the day previous, sending a letter home already that he'd been sorted Hufflepuff, and Draco had to hide from his mother for the rest of the day after his remark after hearing the news. Who knew an immortal vampire would be afraid of a little witch, but Narcissa Black was a force to be reckoned with, even as she aged, though hardly anyone could tell. She looked not a day older than forty at max, helped along with the fact her son looked only seventeen, though he should be almost thirty by all rights. That thought made her pour herself a glass of Firewhisky when she remembered she was almost fifty-five.

Narcissa also made quite the commotion when Draco had appeared with his black hair, nearly crying at the sight of it. When he assured her that it was only temporary, and not completely permanent did she subside her yelling and retreated into her room for the rest of the night, refusing to talk to any of them.

Needless to say, Draco dyed it back the next day.

With fond farewells, and promises of returning for at least Teddy's graduation, the two were off once more, this time for Berlin. They stayed only two days there, finding it was not what they needed and set off for Chicago. Luna had a deep dish pizza, Draco wincing when the cheese slid off one slice greasily, increasingly glad he did not need to eat the mass of artery clogging disgusting food, no matter how much Luna said it was delicious.

An hour run later, Luna was carried piggy back and the two watched Wicked on Broadway in New York, then discussed how close she was as a witch in comparison to how witches really were. Luna demanded on getting a hot dog and pretzel, she had heard from one of the passing muggles that they were good and she was pleased to discover they were. They saw Times Square at night to see the big deal of the lights and all that and both of them were dumb struck and wishing Harry was there to see it with them but they had no idea where he was, he hadn't made any form of contact since he left and neither one wanted to push it in case he decided to stay away indefinitely.

They stayed in New York for two months before deciding to go to Los Angeles to see the lives of the surfer guy and the valley girl in which both of them were sadly let down, the guys did not speak like they were high, the girls not nasally like the stereotypes. The two of them picked up how to play an instrument there, Draco learned to play the guitar and Luna the piano, both quick studies in their instrument.

It had finally decided to be winter in California and rain for a week straight, nearly flooding the place in the process. The lightning and thunder flashed and echoed loudly and there was a sudden knock at the door of their two bedroom flat above the laundromat. Luna peeked in the peephole she was certain was to spy on the neighbours with and gasped before unlocking the three locks and flinging the door open.

"Er, hi." Harry scratched the back of his neck, looking for all the world a drowned rat, his clothing wet beyond belief, his hair hanging in his eyes like a curtain. "You lot are bloody hard to find, I thought I saw you in Chicago but that must not have been you, since you're here." Luna flung herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him inside, Draco locking the door again after her.

"No that really was us, we were there." Luna smiled happily and nearly bounced that Harry had finally returned after almost five years of disappearing. She paused and peered at his topaz eyes before nodding once, then slapping him hard on the cheek. "Don't you ever do that to me again Harry James Potter!" Luna hugged him again and then he was forgiven for ditching them those years ago. By her at least, Draco on the other hand was another matter all on his own.

"Decided we're right have you?"

"Yeah, actually. I tried to ignore it and that didn't work, and then they kept screaming in their minds, I couldn't handle it. At least animals don't talk." Harry dropped himself onto the couch and sighed loudly, rubbing a pale hand over his green eyes. Wait a second.

"Harry how do you have green eyes?!" Draco stepped close to Harry and peeled one eyelid back and confirmed that his eyes were green before Harry yanked his head away from the other vampire.

"They're contacts. They only last about ten hours because of the venom, these ones are magical, the muggle ones barely lasted four. I've got all sorts of colours." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small box, then waved his wand over it and it enlarged to the size of his head. He opened the box and turned it so Draco could see the several pairs, organized by colour. He had blue, green, hazel, brown and silver like Draco's had been before. He took a set of those out and offered them to the blonde and he quickly popped them in, blinking to centre the contact before looking in the mirror.

"Bloody hell, my eyes look like they used to!"

"Yeah, that's the point. I couldn't very well go around with red eyes, now could I?" Luna rolled her eyes at their bickering but immensely happy that Harry was back again. She flopped down on the couch next to Harry and turned the television on and flicked through the channels, barely landing on one long enough to read the title before zooming to the next.

"Oh, we've got go move again now, we've only got two bedrooms and three people." Harry looked sheepish and motioned at the couch.

"I could just stay on the couch."

Nonsense, Potter. Even Gryffindor ruffians like yourself need beds. Or actually I suppose you don't need a bed, since there's no sleep. All right can we just move anyway, I'm tired of Los Angeles, they're a bunch of airheads here!" Luna tossed a cushion at Draco and it hit him squarely in the chest.

"They are not airheads! I'm sure there are smart people around here somewhere!"

"Yeah, us! We're the smartest people in America."

"Well it's good to know your arrogance didn't go away while I was gone." Luna snorted and Harry gave Draco a grin before clutching the back of his head when Draco smacked it. "What's today? I lost track of time when I was alone." Draco pulled out a cellphone and Harry laughed. "You have a cellphone?"

"Yes, I've got a cell phone!" Draco snapped and went to the calendar application. "It's May 26th. 2015 if you must know." Harry was still snickering that Draco Malfoy, the same which deemed everything muggle unworthy, had a cell phone before it died on his lips.

"Teddy graduates in two days!" He started cursing himself for forgetting his godson's graduation and how near he came to missing it.

"All right, then. We'll go back to England for the ceremony."

"Wait, can you handle being around humans without killing them, now? Or at least not attacking them like you did the Weasley twins?" Harry glared at Draco, and the blonde gave it right back before nodding once.

"Yes, the blood lust is gone. I found a spell that makes the human scent smell like nothing. Just disappear. I found it also masks my own. Plus I miss Luna." Harry grinned at the former Ravenclaw and she hugged him again and saying she missed him, too.

"Well, let's hear it then." Draco dropped down onto the chair and Harry pulled out his wand and pointed at himself and muttered a spell that wasn't in the normal language either of them recognized and suddenly Harry did not smell like a vampire anymore. He smelled vaguely like a human, but it smelled different seeing as there was no blood coursing through his system. More like a half-human, half-vampire but there were no such things, humans did not survive birthing half-vampires and the little vampire itself always died since the mother died. "Merlin, you completely hid your vampire self. No scent, no golden or crimson eyes. You're smarter than I thought, Potter." Harry mimicked Draco's words in a higher and mocking voice and received a pillow to the face for his troubles. Draco took his phone out again and punched in a number, holding it to his ear.

"What are you doing?"

"What does it look like? I'm calling for tickets to fly to England." Someone had picked up the phone because the tone of voice Draco used changed to deal with the woman on the phone. "Hello, I need three tickets to London. Yes we've got passports. No, we're not minors. As soon as possible. Ten? Perfect. Thank you, bye." Draco stuffed his phone back in his pocket and spoke at the same time. "We leave tonight at ten. Three hours from now."

"You know, technically we are still minors. Seventeen isn't legal in America."

"Yes well I'm supposed to be thirty-five. That's not a minor."

"I want to see you flash your ID around that says you were born in '80 when you look like you weren't born until maybe the new millennium." Harry grinned smugly and Draco sighed exasperatedly and dug around for his wallet and showed Harry that the fake ID showed that he was born on 1997, making him apparently eighteen. His supposed birthday was the day he came into his vampirism which technically was his birthday. He shrugged and gave it back, taking a blood pop from out of his coat pocket and sucking on it thoughtfully. Luna started collecting her and Draco's things together to prepare to leave and finished the task in less than thirty minutes. It looked like no one had even inhabited the flat after she'd finished and the three left for LAX without a backwards glance.

For someone who loved flying on a broom, flying in the metal death trap was not a favourite of Harry's. Draco and Luna had done everything short of stupefying the former Gryffindor so he would not go mad on the plane or have the plane fall from the sky with his magic somehow. He was currently so lethargic that he felt like he could actually go to sleep any second now, not even beginning to be aware that he was flying miles above ground any longer.

The plane finally landed at noon the next day and Luna revived Harry to his normal state and the three hurried off the plane, Harry nearly kissing the ground when the stepped off. Draco rolled his eyes at Harry and they hurried to an alley and apparated to Andromeda's house. They were slightly off aim and landed on the kitchen table, scattering bowls and plates and sending Andromeda and Narcissa to near heart attacks at their sudden appearance.

"Boys! The door would have been better! Dear Luna, how good it is to see you again." Andromeda helped Luna jump down from the table and picked up broken plates with the wave of her wand, repairing them easily. "I am almost sixty-five years old, you'll be the death of me one of these days!" Harry and Draco dropped down from the table and looked around the kitchen.

"Are you throwing a party for Teddy?" Andromeda and Narcissa beamed and nodded, explaining that after the ceremony the party would be here and a lot of people were invited, Weasleys included. They said that the guest list included Ron, Hermione who still couldn't see, Rose, Hugo, Bill who had been found two years after the three left in Egypt, Fleur, Victoire, Dominique, Louis, Fred, Angela, George and Katie. No one knew that Harry, Draco and Luna would be there, Narcissa and Andromeda wanted to keep it a secret.

"When we go to the ceremony, it would be best if you three used glamours. Being supposedly thirty-five or so and looking like you're graduating yourself will cause a bit of an uproar." Luna and Draco pulled their wands out and changed their appearance to match each other, obviously having done that before. Draco's hair darkened and shortened to dirty blonde and close on the sides but longer on top, it looked impeccably tamed, but yet wild enough to look good. His eyes darkened to a rich blue and his face shifted to match Luna's changes. In turn, Luna's hair lightened also going pin straight and layered. Her eyes were the exact same blue as Draco's and they both had the same ski slope nose and pronounced cheekbones, though Draco's were deeper and if Harry did not know any better he would have assumed they were twins.

"Damian and Alexandria Masen at your service!"

"Why that?"

"Well, obviously we can't be Draco Malfoy and Luna Lovegood. Luna didn't care about keeping her name or not, and I didn't want to stray too far, Damian Masen is relatively close to Draco Malfoy." Draco and Luna sat down at the table, looking expectantly up at Harry for his glamour.

"Alexandria is nothing like Luna."

"No, but Lexi is. That's what I go by, Alexandria is a mouthful." Luna smiled nicely up at Harry and pointed her wand at him when she decided he was taking far too long. His hair lengthened until it was brushing his ears, though no matter what, glamour or not his hair was still a curly mess, even after the vampire change that made it easier to handle. It still looked like he ran his fingers through it endlessly and refused to lay flat. It had lightened from black to a light brown and his eyes were hazel. He looked down at himself when Luna was finished, pressing his fingers to his face as if expecting another nose or a single eye. "Hmm, I think Hayden will work for you. Yes, Hayden Masen. Our brother!" Harry smiled, he'd never had a real family and now Luna was just constructing one for him. Yeah, the Weasleys were there for him, but they weren't family. At this point he didn't care that Draco was included in this self made family.

"When is the ceremony? I obviously didn't go to ours." Harry looked over at Andromeda and she thought for a second before remembering.

"It is at eleven in the morning tomorrow. Less than a day and my little Teddy-bear's all grown up!" She wiped a tear away and the three looked at each other and mouthed 'bear' silently before Narcissa walked in with biscuits and sweets. Luna gratefully took one and Harry and Draco obviously declined. Narcissa nibbled on one as well and sat at the table and sighed.

"My little dragon, you make me feel so...old every time I see you. Supposed to be, what now, thirty-five? Yet you still look like a teenager."

"To be fair, mother, I'll look like a teenager even when I'm two hundred. An eternal teenager, not old enough to do anything fun, and especially having to go to school for ever. I've got a Bachelor's in Arts, you know. Music major. I could lead a band if I wanted." Narcissa patted his arm and nodded, she'd heard him play and he was quite good at it, if he truly did feel like conducting anyone, he'd be able to do it. He was a Malfoy after all, and Malfoys got what they wanted.

The five sat around and talked for hours, the sun had gone down when Andromeda gave a loud yawn and immediately blushed when she realized what she'd done and both Harry and Draco flinched slightly which made her apologize further and decide to head to bed. Narcissa followed soon after, giving her son a kiss on the forehead and Luna settled down on the couch for a little nap. She might not need as much sleep as a normal person, but she did need some, at least five hours weekly preferably.

Harry and Draco busied themselves with playing Wizard's Chess, muttering quietly to not wake Luna when they called their pieces. When the sun rose several hours later, daylight saw five wins from Harry, six from Draco and four draws. Andromeda burst down the stairs promptly at seven, already dressed in her nicest black robes, a pretty buttercup yellow gown underneath. Narcissa rose a half an hour later, dressed in dark green robes and black knee length dress. They woke Luna with their talking to each other and the three prepared themselves for the ceremony in about three hours. Luna and Harry were ready within the hour but Draco primped for the entire three hours remaining and was still fixing his hair when they apparated to Hogsmeade to walk to the castle.

People were running around on the grounds, where the ceremony was taking place. It was nice outside so they decided on an outdoor ceremony instead of in the Great Hall like usual. It was easy to pick out the graduates, since they had pointed black hats on and wore black robes with a huge Hogwarts crest on them. The large clock rang the hour over Hogwarts and people got situated, graduates in the front rows, then the family of the graduates, then the rest of Hogwarts' pupils in the back. The five of them sat next to each other, Andromeda then Narcissa, Draco, Harry and Luna. No one else knew that Damian, Hayden and Lexi were Draco, Harry and Luna besides Andromeda and Narcissa. Even Teddy didn't know the three were going to be there.

The Headmaster, giving Harry a rather large shock seeing as it was Neville, walked up to the podium and everyone silenced immediately. He looked at the group of graduating seventh years with a fond smile and tears in his eyes before beginning his speech.

"Hello everyone, and welcome to Hogwarts! We are here to celebrate the graduation of the class of 2015! Before we begin, I would like for everyone to sing the Hogwarts song." People shuffled around and cleared their throats, and Fred and George were testing their voices loudly with a 'lah' over and over, touching their hand to their throat. Katie and Angelina rolled their eyes but smiled at their husbands' antics anyway. With a wave of her wand, the entire crowd began the alma mater of Hogwarts and when it was finished almost everyone had tears in their eyes.

"All right, now for the graduates!" The list of graduates was very long and none of the three recognized names for two hours until it came to "Lunisop, Gregory." Teddy was next, his blue hair easily visible under his hat. "Lupin, Theodore!" Neville clapped with extra vigor and Fred, George, Katie, Angelina, Ron, Hermione, Rose, Hugo, Bill, Fleur, Victoire, Dominique, Louis, Draco, Harry, Luna, Andromeda and Narcissa shot up in their chairs to cheer and clap for Teddy who blushed darkly and took his diploma from Neville, looking out at the standing witches and wizards whooping and calling his name. Neville gave the standing family a look and they promptly sat as the ceremony went on until the final name, "Zunfry, William." was called. "I now present to you, the graduated class of 2015, congratulations guys!" Everyone clapped and the seventh years all tossed their hats into the air in a cliché manner only to fall into the owner's lap to not get lost. Teddy pushed his way through to Andromeda and paused when he noticed the three he didn't recognize.

"Oh congratulations my little Teddy – bear!"

"Grandmum! Just Teddy!" He smiled nonetheless and hugged her back, then hugged Narcissa but kept his eyes on the three. "Hello, who're you?"

"Damian, Alexandria and Hayden Masen. Or if you want to be technical, Draco Malfoy, Luna Lovegood and Harry Potter." Teddy's eyes widened comically and he hugged Harry specifically.

"I knew you'd come! My mates had bets going around that you would or wouldn't show. Why are you in glamours?" The three looked over at Andromeda and she shook her head, symbolizing he did not know of Harry's vampirism. Harry winced slightly and took an unneeded breath before stepping back and taking off his glamour, revealing himself to be in appearance the same age as Teddy and the former Hufflepuff stared in shock. "Harry, you look -"

"Seventeen, yeah I know. This isn't the best place for this conv-"

"HARRY!" Harry cursed under his breath and turned to see Ron leading Hermione and racing straight to him. "Harry, how are you? Why haven't you been in contact with us for almost twenty years, I should have your head for this!" The other Weasleys headed over and did a double take at Harry.

"Er, you didn't hear?" Harry turned to Fred and George and they motioned with their hands locking up their mouths and throwing away the key. Harry gave another sigh and turned back to Hermione. "I'll tell you at the party." Draco and Luna lowered their glamours and everyone was equally shocked to see the two as well. Everyone started filing out to the outside of the wards to go home and everyone apparated or side apparated back to Tonks cottage. Once everyone was inside they all turned to Harry as one and he smiled sheepishly.

"All right, I might as well make it blunt. The day of the final battle, I was bitten. By a vampire." Everyone who did not know was silent for a long moment before they all burst forward with questions, raised voices and teary realizations. Teddy was staring wide eyed and slack jawed, in complete shock that his godfather was a vampire.

"I need some Firewhiskey." Ron conjured it and took a big gulp of it, letting Bill take it from his hand who did the same. Then everyone took a sip to relax and they even let Teddy have a sip of it since he was of age and graduated on top of that.

After Harry told that he was a vampire, and no, he didn't feed from humans, everyone loosened up and had fun at the party. There was dancing and food and alcoholic beverages for the adults and before long someone had conjured muggle Twister and the adults, who were quite drunk at this point, took right to it. Bill, Fred, George, Katie, Angelina and Ron all played in the first game and not five spins in did Ron lose his balance and bring Angelina down with him, the others laughing so hard their muscles couldn't keep them up and collapsed into a heap of arms and legs. Harry had to laugh when everyone's thoughts started to get addled with alcohol, Fred was considering the properties of a soap on a rope, George was finding the spot on the wall exceedingly interesting, Katie and Angelina were out like lights, Bill had taken Fleur, Victoire, Dominique and Louis back to Shell Cottage, Ron and Hermione were making out on the couch like teenagers, Rose and Hugo were upstairs sleeping, Luna was idly twirling the spinner for Twister and Draco was reading. Teddy was still quite sober since no one let him have more than a sip and he sat down on the floor next to Harry.

"You're leaving again, aren't you?" This caught Luna and Draco's attentions, though they did not move from their seats. Harry nodded silently and Teddy sighed. "Take me with you."

"Absolutely not!"

"Oh come on Harry! I graduated from Hogwarts, I'm not smart enough for an Auror and I'm not that brilliant at Quidditch so I can't join a team. I've got nothing to look forward to anymore! Take me where you go!" Harry made to argue back, but Andromeda poked her head into the living room at that moment.

"Harry, I can not look after Teddy – bear anymore. He's seventeen and needs more than being stuck in this dreary house all day!"

"Andromeda, he's just a kid!"

"Harry James Potter! He is older than you when you were bitten! You will take him with you!"

"Come on Harry! Please, I'll be nearly invisible. You won't know I'm there I swear!" Teddy had clasped his hands in front of his chest, pleading and Luna spaced off for a second before blinking several times.

"You might as well, Harry. He's the bear." Harry and Draco whipped their heads at Luna at the same time Teddy asked what bear was. "Four of legends. Moon," She pointed to herself, "Dragon," Draco. "Raven," Harry, "and Bear, you! Oh this is great now we're all together!" Luna smiled happily and Draco grinned to his sister, for in the almost twenty years they'd been in each others company, she was just short of blood related. They technically were related, Draco's great aunt twice removed Ralistaria Black married Carmathion Lovegood, Luna's great uncle's brother – in – law. Harry and Draco were technically related somewhere along the line as well, a Potter married into the Black line, making them something like third cousins four times removed or maybe it was fourth cousins three times removed.

Harry sighed and let his head fall back on the couch. "All right, collect your things. We're leaving in the morning" Teddy hugged Harry and ran up the stairs eagerly, coming back down an hour later with some clothes, a picture of his parents and some other trinkets in a shrunken trunk in his pocket. "If you cause trouble, so much as a peep, you're on the first plane back to England, understand?"

"Yes sir!" Teddy gave a salute and went up to bed, eager for the next day. Ron and Hermione broke apart and went to collect Rose and Hugo before bidding everyone goodbye. Fred and Angelina left next, then George and Katie and finally everyone was gone.

"Wonderful party, Andromeda." Luna hugged her and then Narcissa before conjuring up a small twin bed and curling up in it, exhausted. Andromeda and Narcissa went to bed soon after and Harry ran a hand through his black hair, letting out a puff of air.

"Who decides the places you go to?" Draco looked up from his book and shut it with a soft snap before moving over to the couch Harry was on so he wouldn't wake Luna by shouting across the room to him.

"I do, Luna doesn't care where as long as there's a bed and we're together. I'm thinking America again, though."

"You like America because they think you're a British God!" Harry laughed and Draco grinned.

"Possibly. Am I not, then?" Harry rolled his eyes with a grin and scratched the back of his neck.

"Where in America?"

"Well we've done all the big cities. L.A., New York, that stuff. I'm thinking probably a small town." Draco waved his wand at the air and a United States map appeared in the air, little blue dots glowing in Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Chicago, Las Vegas, Denver, Boise and Seattle. "The dots are magical communities. The brighter the dot, the bigger the community. The ones for L.A, New York and Las Vegas were glowing the brightest, followed by Chicago, Denver, and Orlando, then Boise and Seattle was the faintest.

"I vote for around Seattle. I don't want to be around a big community, but I don't want to be stranded either." Draco nodded in agreement and the two leaned forward, squinting at the map until Harry snorted and burst into laughter, quieting when Luna shifted in sleep.

"What is it, Potter?" Harry pointed at Washington and calmed himself before speaking.

"There's a town in Washington. It's called Forks!"