Author's Note: I want to apologise for taking so long to upload this chapter but school kept me very busy. I also want to thank all those of you who reviewed and those who added my story to the 'Story Alert' and those who added it to their 'Favourites List'. Sorry I haven't mentioned you before. You have no idea how much it means to me!

Warning: I'm changing the rating of this story to M from this chapter onwards since this chapter contains quite a few mentions of sex and because of future chapters. I hope it's not of any inconvenience and please know that I'm not doing this to offend anyone.

Alia-karasu: You're right, there really are a lot of male characters in HP Fandom and I had a lot of trouble deciding which pairings to use. I will give a sort of hint as to who Ron's second mate is since you mentioned a very important point. It is definitely not Neville since he would've been at the feast. You'll have to wait a bit to find out who it is though. I was glad to hear you liked the last chapter!

Cthullu: I'm not sure whether you mean that in a good or in a bad way. I'd really like to know though so I hope I'll be hearing from you again. Hopefully, it was meant in a good way.

sm1982: Thank you for another wonderful review! Also, I was happy to dedicate the last chapter to you!

LivingInTheMalfoyManner: I'm glad you liked it. I have to admit that I never realy liked Cedric either. Hopefully this story will help me change my mind. Who knows, maybe it could change your mind too.

kyothefallenkit: I'm glad you're enjoying the story so far!

nequam-tenshi: Thank you for telling me your guesses. I really appreciate it. Hope you enjoyed Christmas and happy New Year!

Here are the guesses I got for the mates:

Ron: Oliver and Neville

Oliver and Victor

Oliver and Blaise

The ones in bold are the ones you already know. I only mentioned Ron since you've found out who Harry and Draco's mates are.

Before I continue I'd like to remind you all to tell me your guesses about who will be Ron's second mate.

I'd like to dedicate this chapter to Alia-karasu for the lovely review.

Now on with the chapter!

Last Chapter

Slowly, more people started to leave and soon only a few drunk men were left. Dejected, he walked towards Harry, who had been watching him ever since he realized what was happening. "Nothing", he told Harry. "Absolutely nothing. He wasn't even here in the first place. Well…at least I'm not alone, right mate?" Harry affirmed but Ron immediately noticed that Harry had been uncomfortable while doing so. He knew something was up with Harry but was too depressed to press it. "I'll ask about it later."

Together, the two friends made their way back to the Burrow, both lost in their thoughts about their mates.

Chapter 7

The night of the Hogwarts feast, Fred and George barely slept. They were to preoccupied about what Draco Malfoy had said to be able to sleep. At about three o'clock in the morning Fred spoke up. "I think we both know that we're not going to sleep tonight so let's just talk about it now. We're going to be too cranky to talk about it in the morning anyway." George whole heartedly agreed.

"What do you think we should do?" asked George. Red was quick to answer which proved to George that his twin brother had already decided. "Simple. I don't know why I even took the time to think aout it! We simply decline." George gaped at his brother. "Are you serious?" he asked him after a while. "I know you hate him. I don't like him either. But are you actually willing to see him die knowing you could've prevented it? I'm not saying that we should just accept that we're his mates and forget about all that he's done. I'm just saying that I don't want to have anyone's death on my conscience, not even Malfoy's."

Fred was quiet after this. "I guess you're right", he said after a while. "I don't like him but I don't want to see him die either, especially if I know I can prevent it. That doesn't mean I'm going to like being mated to him. As a matter of fact, just because we're going to mate with him doesn't mean anything's changed. I'll still hate him."

George had been quiet throughout his brother's little speech but as soon as he saw that it was over he decided to comment. "Wait… are you saying you'll mate with him? You'll agree to it? But five minutes ago you said you were going to let him die!" George saw Fred blush slightly. "That was my anger talking", explained Fred. "I would have never actually let him die. In simpler words, yes, I'm going to accept that I'm his mate and from what you said earlier I take it you're going to do the same." George nodded.

"We should go tell him what we've decided tomorrow. After we close the joke shop for the afternoon break, we'll go right there. And while we're there I think we should ask him to explain a bit more about veelas. It's true that we know more than others about them because of Ron and Harry but we don't know anything about being mates to a veela." Fred nodded.

Now that they had discussed what they were going to do about Draco Malfoy, they both let sleep overtake them and they only woke up again when their alarm clocks rang at eight o'clock in the morning to wake them up for work.

For the first time ever since he started working as an Auror, Harry arrived early at work. With him was Ron Weasley who was still very angry for being woken up a whole hour earlier than usual by Harry.

"Seriously Harry! I still don't understand why we had to get here so early today. I fell asleep at one in the bloody morning and got woken up by you at six! That's only five hours of sleep!" Ron hadn't stopped complaining from the moment he had gotten out of bed till now. "I already told you, Ron", started to explain Harry. "I saw Draco yesterday and he looked really sad and not to mention different. In appearance I mean. I think something's up. It's just not right that after more than a week of Draco being absent from work, he shows up at yesterday's feast after calling it a complete waste of time looking very different and let's not forget, depressed."

"Bloody hell, Harry!" yelled Ron. "So what you're telling me is that I woke up at six o'clock in the morning for Malfoy?" Harry smiled sheepishly at him and said, "Kind of." Before Ron could explode, Harry grabbed him by the arm and lead him to the office that was situated in between theirs. Draco Malfoy's office. Harry barged straight in without bothering to knock only to come face to face with Draco Malfoy himself who was about to open the door.

"Ever heard of knocking Potter?" Draco asked sarcastically. "Oh and you have Weasley with you! What a pleasureable surprise!" he continued, even more sarcastically then before. "Cut the act Malfoy", said Harry. "Ron and I would like to talk to you." Draco sighed but gestured to the two seats infront of his desk and after they had taken their assigned places, he sat down on his chair. "Look Potter, I have a major headache so please make it quick."

"Don't worry Malfoy", said Ron. "If you co-operate with us this won't take long at all." Draco raised an yebrow at this. Harry decided to get right to it. "I saw you at the Hogwarts feast yesterday while you were about to leave. I wasn't fast enough though and I wasn't able to talk to you. You didn't look too good. Everything ok?" Draco only glared at him in response. "Look Malfoy, you're different than a week ago. Your appearance… it's different. Also, how do you explain that you don't show up at work for a week and yesterday you attended the feast? I want to know Malfoy."

Ron, who up till then had been looking thoughtful, started talking to Draco. "You're a veela aren't you, Malfoy? That's why you haven't been to work for a week. You were going through your transformation. And yesterday you went to that feast to look for you mate or… mates. That's also the reason of why you look so different physically." Draco was now gaping at him.

Ron smirked at seeing how he had reduced him. "How did you realise?" asked Draco astonished. Ron looked over at Harry who nodded. "We're going to let you in on our little secret Malfoy", said Ron. "Harry and I are veelas too. That's why it was so easy for me to realise you were too. We were at the feast yesterday too so as to look for our mates. We're powerful enough to have two. What about you?"

Draco still looked a bit shocked but managed to answer anyway. "I'm powerful enough to have two mates too. Wait a second… you two!" he yelled, shocking both Ron and Harry. "You're the brother and best friend that turned veelas that Fred and George were talking about!" Draco slapped a hand over his mouth when he realised what he had said and his eyes opened wide. "Forget I said that", he said but Harry and Ron were having none of it. "What do Fred and George have to do with anything?" asked Harry. "Yeah!" agreed Ron. "You talked to them? But they hate you!" Draco winced at that. Ron and Harry obviously noticed that.

"Seriously Draco spit it out already!" yelled Harry. "Fine, I'll tell you but then you'll have to tell me too", Draco said. Ron and Harry were confused about what they had to say to Draco but they stayed quiet and only nodded. Draco took a deep breath, then started to talk. "Fred and George Weasley… are my two mates." He ignored the shocked looks on Ron and Harry's faces and kept explaining.

"They knew I was a veela before I even approaced them. Since they'd seen how you two changed, they realised my change in appearance meant I had gone through veela transformation too. Needless to say, since they don't like me they weren't very happy about them being my mates. I told them that if they denied me I will die and told them to think about it and when they have an answer they are to find me here and tell me. I have the chance of dying…. That's why I looked sad when I left the feast yesterday. Now you have to tell me who your mates are."

Ron and Harry started describing all that had happened to them at the feast till the very last detail. They shared their experiences as veelas and it was like that, that an unbreakable friendship was formed between Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy.

Harry, Ron and Draco spent the entire morning talking and would have continued if it wasn't for the fact that it was already lunch time. "I think it's better if we continue this conversation elsewhere. It's getting too private to have in an Auror's office and I have loads of paperwork I haven't even looked at. How about we meet up tonight?" said Harry while standing up. Both Ron and Dracco nodded. As Ron and Harry were about to leave Draco's office, Ron turned around. "Hey Draco, if Fred and George come today…come tell us afterwards." Draco smiled briefly and nodded. "Consider it done", he said. With that Ron and Harry left while closing the door behind them.

It wasn't even five minutes later when Draco heard a knock at the door. Since he was expecting Ron or Harry because maybe they forgot something , he was very surprised when he saw Fred and George Weasley at the door. "Have a seat", he said. As soon as they had sat down, Fred started to talk.

"We have made a decision Malfoy. We accept being your mates. This, however, does not mean that anything changed. We still hate you so don't expect us to be some lovey-dovey couple. That is never going to happen.

Draco nodded, showing that he agreed with what they had just said. "Thank you for accepting", he started. "Now that that's cleared up, I do have some conditions I'd like to discuss with you." Fred and George frowned at hearing this but nodded. Draco took this as sign to go on.

"First of all, I want an official bonding ceremony. You said it yourself that you don't like me and I don't want to die if you changed your minds about being my mates. Second, since my veela side requires me to be close to you for more than half a day I think it would be best if you move in with me." Draco saw that Fred was going to interrupt him so he quickly continued. "I knew you wouldn't like it but unfortunately that's the way it has to be. I live in a small mansion in Wiltshire, a couple of miles away from Malfoy Manor." Both Fred and George seemed a little relieved after hearing that he didn't live in Malfoy Manor anymore.

"My last but probably the most important condition is this. As you probably know, I have quite a large sum of money in my personal vault at Gringott's. I'd like to know that if I die I'd have someone to leave it to and someone that could keep the Malfoy name alive. That is why I require one of you to have a child."

Fred and George simply gaped at him after hearing this. "I know what you're thinking. That men cannot have children. It so happens though that veela males can mpregnate everyone. Even men. So you actually can have children and like I said before, I want one.

After looking at each other for quite a long time, Fred started talking. "I think you know that we don't like any of those conditions. However, we don't want you to die so we'll…agree. I do have a few questions though. For you to have an heir the baby has to be a boy, no? What if it happens to be a girl? Then what/"

Draco was quick to answer. "Simple. We just wait a bit then try again. But you shouldn't worry about that. It's been centuries since a girl was born in the Malfoy family. It's very rare for some unknown reason. Now how about you two decide who will be the one who carries the child?" The reaction was one Draco had expected. Fred and George looked at each other and at the same time said, "Not me!"

This pointless fight kept on going for quite a while until finally one of them, who happened to be Fred, matured a little and gave in. "Fine…I'll do it", he said. 2But I hope for your sake, George it won't be a girl because I'm not doing it twice." That's when a horrible thought came to Fred. "Wait…does this mean we're going to need to have sex with you?" yelled Fred, utterly disgusted. Draco smirked at hearing that. "That's usually how woman get pregnant", he answered.

Before Fred could start yelling and shouting at Draco, George spoke up. "Wait, wait, wait! Fred is the one who's going to have to sleep with you, Malfoy right? Since I'm not the one who's going to carry the baby I don't need to have sex!" he said in a relieved voice. Fred turned fire-filled eyes on his brother making George gulp.

"What did you just say, George?" he said in a low voice. "If you think I'm going to have sex with Malfoy while you sleep or worse go out, you are sorely mistaken! You'll have sex with him just like me! We'll put a contraceptive spell on you so you'll have no chance of getting pregnant but you're sleeping with him like ME! George meekly bnodded. He wasn't looking forward to sleeping with Malfoy, especially since it was for nothing but he wasn't about to argue with Fred since he looked more than ready to kill him.

"Now that everything has been cleared up", started Draco, "I believe it would be better if you went home and started packing up your belongings. You'll be moving in with me as soon as the bonding ceremony takes place." Both Fred and George winced after hearing Draco talk about the bonding ceremony. They still couldn't believe that they were actually going to go through with it. A bonding ceremont was something permanent. Usually, this type of ceremony was only done by couples who truly loved each other and not as a way to make sure your mates didn't leave you.

"Before we go back home to pak our stuff, I'd like to ask you a question about veelas Malfoy", said Fred. At Draco's nod Fred continued talking. "Last time, I heard Ron talking about some veela laws and he said something about veelas' mates having to follow them too. Do you know anything about them?"

Draco nodded. "Yes, I do. I read about them in a book about veelas. There's a veela council made up of old and experienced veelas. These veela members get to decide and choose the veela rules. For now only I have to follow them but once we bond you'll have to start following them since as the mates of a veela you'll start making part of the veela community. I don't know all of the rules by heart since there are quite a few but I'll tell you those that I do know.

"The most important rules is faithfulness. You have to be faithful to me and I have to be faithful to you. Any infidelity has to be punished by the individual's mate or mates. That means that if George for example is unfaithful to me I'll have to punish him whether I like it or not since I'll feel it in my instincts. I will, however, be permitted to choose the means of the punishment", at that Draco smirked. "So I suggest you don't try any funny business. I don't like you so I will be eagerly awaiting the chance to punish you." Fred glared at him at that. "Do you really think we'd let you punish us? What do you think we are? Door mats?"

Draco smirked again. "If you go against the rules your inner veela submissive instincts will be telling you to submit to your punishment so there would be little you two could do to stop me." At that, George decided it was time he spoke his mind too. "For your information we're not submissives! Just because we're the mates doesn't mean we're submissives!"

"Actually that's exactly what it means", answered Draco in a smug voice. "You see, I'm a dominant veela. That means that any mates I have are submissives and they happen to be…you two." If looks could kill, Draco would have died a very painful death. "Now, let me mention some other veela rules I happen to know about. If ones mates are hurt or his family is in danger, you are permitted to kill the one doing so. Harsh, I know, but family is very important to veelas. Kill for no reason though, and you'll be facing execution."

Draco paused so that what he said could fully sink in. He looked up to see Fred and George gaping at him. "Why in the world would we ever kill someone?" yelled Fred. "We didn't even kill during the war against Voldemort why would we do it now?" Draco looked more serious than they had ever seen him before as he answered Fred.

"I know what I said might sound ridiculous to you now…you know, killing someone, but if I was ever hurt by someone you wouldn't say the same thing. Your inner veela instincts would take over. All you'd be able to think about would be your mate being hurt and you wanting to avenge him and that's why, most of the times, we end up kiling."

Fred and George were looking at him with a horrified expression. "But it's not possible!" argued George. "You're always talking about our inner veela instincts but we're not veelas so we don't have these instincts." Draco sighed. "Like I said before, once you bond with me and become officially my mates you'll start making part of the veela community and you'll get veela instincts even though you don't have veela blood. You won't change physically like I did when I went through my veela transformation but you will obtain certain characteristics veelas have.

A simple example is that you'll start going through what veelas call inferno, like normal submissive veelas. Inferno, is italian for hell. All submissive veelas go through it. Every month you'll start craving fruit and vegetables. This is a sign that your inferno is near. After about a week of you craving fruits and vegetables you'll start feeling unbearably hot and your temperatures will start rising drastically. That's why it's called inferno. Because you'll be feeling as if you're burning in hell." Here Draco was interrupted by Fred.

"I don't understand. Why do we have to go through this? There must be a reason." Draco glared. "Have you ever heard that patience is a virtue, Weasley?" sneered Draco. "I was getting to that but since you want to know now. While you're during your infernos is when us veelas try for children. The inferno is when submissive veelas are fertile. The inferno goes on for approximately a week and basically, it's a week of non-ending sex. Before you start complaining and shouting!

During your infernos you won't be yourselves. You''l start begging me to fuck you. If I don't the heat will take over your bodies and you'll be in unbearable pain. You won't be the only one acting differently though. I'll be lusting after both of you."At this point Draco was wearing a disgusted look on his face that matched Fred and George's "That's why it keeps going on for seven days. We'll only get seven days in a month chance. More importantly, I'll only get seven days in a month chance of getting you, Fred, pregnant with my heir.

"Once you get pregnant you'll stop getting your inferno until two months after you give birth. Unfortunately for you, George, you'll still get the inferno even though you won't get pregnant because of the contraceptive spell so we'll still need to have sex. After the baby will be born and you start getting your infernos again, we'll make sure to put the contraceptive spell on Fred too so there won't be any chances of having another baby but we'll still have to have sex." Draco finally stopped to breath.

Fred and George were not happy about what they had learnt but they weren't going to back out of their deal with Malfoy. Fred was the one who broke the silence. "Thanks Malfoy for explaining things out to us. We'll start packing today so we'd really appreciate it if you would tell us the date of the bonding ceremony as soon as possible. By owl will be just fine."

Draco shook his head. "That won't be needed. I already have a date picked out." Fred raised his eyebrows at this. "How do you feel about doing it eight days from now, on Tuesday?" asked Draco. Fred was about to start arguing about it being too last second but after thinking it through he actually started to agree with Malfoy. The ssoner they did it the better. He just wanted to get it over with. "Eight days from now it is Malfoy", he said after sharing a nod with George. Now the difficult part was ging to be telling their mum they were bonding and with Draco Malfoy nonetheless.

A similar thought was going through Draco's head that very second. "How am I going to tell my parents that I found my mates, they're Weasleys and I'm bonding with them? We're still not talking because of what happened after my veela transformation!" Draco was already dreading going home in the evening.

Author's Note: What did you think? This is the longest chapter I've written so far. Hope it makes up for the long time I took to post it. This is my late Christmas present to all of my readers. I'd like to say something about this chapter. I know it was A LOT of information and all at once so I totally understand if you don't understand something. Please feel free to review me any questions you might have and I promise to answer them all. I also promise to upload Chapter 8 sooner then I did this one. I'm going to wish you a Happy New Year in case I don't post it till next Sunday and don't forget to review! xxx