Well, hello again. I will hopefully be able to update a little bit faster because school isn't kicking my butt as usual. And thanks to Liz whose review I can't PM her about since it was a unsigned-in review. And I love reviews that ask me questions that make me think and help the story. To JaylaCaine who has agreed to be my Beta. And also giving me the reason why Harry was with Ginny in the first place.

I have done some math and basically, every 145 person that reads this story leaves a review. To the reviewer who asked about the link, well I try to keep the word count mostly for the story which is why I try to avoid long Authors notes.

The tension was unbearable and Harry was sure the babies were picking up on it because they kept whimpering and wiggling around. Draco sat looking forlorn as if someone had kicked his puppy and Severus looked like he had simultaneously aged ten years and gotten ten years younger. Severus Snape sat in Harry's living room alive. And he wasn't dead.

No matter how often Harry said it in his head, he couldn't believe it. He worried that it was a dream there to torment him for the overwhelming guilt he was feeling.

"So, the impending to the youngest Weasley is no longer inevitable." Severus asked.

"There wasn't a going to be a wedding." Replied Harry.

"You might believe that now, but if you didn't lose your godfather I am sure you would've married her."

"Sirius would've wanted me to be happy." countered Harry.

"Yes, he was also always trying to prove he was so different from his Black ancestors that he would've wanted you to marry someone from a light family and, besides Dumbledore, they are considered a beacon for the Light, I'm sure you would've been persuaded. In addition she knew you before you were the "Savior of the Wizarding World" and "The Future Minister of Magic". She knew more of your history than you would've told anyone new you met. The Golden Trio was to become the Golden Square and I knew it was only a matter of time before that wedding. But then, your godfather died."Severus explained.

"Okay, he might've tried to talk me into it but he would've wanted me happy." Harry said with an air of finality. To Harry it sound harsh but he knew it was true, had Severus been alive he would've been trying to persuade Harry that as relations to the Black, supporters of the now dead Dark Lord and them just being Malfoys Harry should keep away from them. And Hermione, she was so smitten with Ron at that time and no matter how smart she was some would've never considered her good enough to help continue the Potter line so he had tried to settled with Ginny. However, it didn't work. Whenever he tried to go any further than a kiss on the cheek he had to try and hide the shivers of disgust. The one time he tried to indulge in a fantasy with her he lost any excitement he had.

"I received a letter from you telling me that as the war was over you wanted no more reminders of your old life. Somehow she intercepted every letter I sent to you and so I figured you were asking her to respond for you. In my last letter I told her that I had made a promise to your mother to protect you and she said 'Harry has asked me to inform you that you are relieved of any promises" I may or may not have made and that I shouldn't contact you anymore."

"SHE DID WHAT!" Harry bellowed at Severus. Draco and Narcissa tried to comfort the two frightened children while Severus and Lucius worked to calm down an irate Harry.

"She had no right!" Draco said indignantly. "Why didn't you say something, Sev?" Draco wanted to know.

"My reason seems foolish now that I am here. I will explain at another time."

"She can't get away with this. She intercepted my mail, pretended to be me. In the Muggle world that's fraud and highly illegal." Harry said.

"It is here too, Potter." Severus said.

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"Why were you so hard on me? I find it hard to believe that it was only because I looked like my father. When I thought you died, I remembered all the times you were there for me: with the Whomping Willow, the Chamber of Secrets and even smaller things that I hated you for at the time. I understood after I saw you dying, or thought you were dying, that you did it all for me."

"The Headmaster wanted a spy but if I had thought spying would've helped him only I wouldn't have done it. However it helped the light and the light was the side you were fighting for and therefore I continued to spy. I won't allow maudlin sentiments to overtake what is suppose to be at least a semi-joyous occasion but I was on your side. The Headmaster played a deep game with his machinations and staying two steps ahead of two skilled mind readers and powerful wizard for a child that thought you were the scum of the world hurt at times. However, I remind myself that this is the image I portrayed to you. So, I suggest that we start fresh. What do you say?" Severus said shyly looking away at the end.

"I'd love that" Harry said.

"I don't want to be hurt. I just want to be me. I shouldn't have to thing who am I suppose to be. What gave you the right? Who gave that right? How could Hermione. You knew that I was distraught over him dying in front of me. I felt so numb."

"I was trying to help you Harry. Your decisions lately have me worried about you. And Malfoys surely aren't the people you should surround yourself with."

"Help Me. I was depressed Hermione. You told him I didn't care. That I released him from the vow he made to my mother. What if he had acted against the vows and died! You could've had him killed! You took away one of the last links to my mother. "

"He was a bastard to you Harry! Are you going to forgive him for all that he did while you won't forgive me for one little thing." Hermione asked.

"One thing, what you did would make any Slytherin proud. You lied to me. When have I ever lied to you. You were supposed to be my friend."

"You were supposed to turn to me!" Hermione screamed. "I stood off to the side watching you and Ginny while I settled for Ron. You weren't there for me when Ron hit me. You weren't there for me when I returned my parents memories only for them to tell me that they needed time away from me to think. You didn't even ask for my help when you took over Teddy's care. I hear everything second hand. And this shouting just proves you're unfit to take care of anyone. I hope Minerva follows through. As an honorary Aunt it is my right and responsibility."

"You conniving curmudgeon little *****. That's how McGonagall knew what was going on here. When has McGonagall ever care about me? You idiot! When has she ever cared about you? She gave you a time turner to take more classes! How was she looking out for your welfare? Tell McGonagall that she was the deputy headmistress for a school and failed to alert the board of governors that a troll was let into the school by a member of staff, which I informed her about another member of staff using illegal torture equipment and she allowed it. Tell her to remember the times she docked Slytherin house points on our word alone. And let's not forget using school funds to by my broom. The Muggle call that embezzlement. I don't think you were charged with assaulting Draco in third year. Let's also not forget she allowed the damn leader of the light to leave me on a doorstep in the cold winter night with nothing but a letter informing my last remaining family of their relative's death."

And what did she do when the Weasley's inform her of breaking me out of the Dursleys because the windows had bars on them? Nothing, McGonagall has only ever cared about me when other people are involved. Neither one of you thought about this more than a second apparently, do you know what happens to foster children in the Wizarding world? The lucky ones end up in orphanages. The not so lucky ones hope the families that take them in are decent people. I am famous for killing a maniac. His followers wouldn't hesitate to kill my children. Your actions almost endangered my children there is nothing you can say or do after that. I no longer have to save the world so she doesn't care about me one way or the other but if she tries to go after my children I will kill her and you Hermione."

"That wasn't what I was trying to do Harry," Hermione said with a gasp. The thought that the children wouldn't have been placed in her care was shocking.

"Get out Granger." Draco said from the door. It was clear to all who were standing in the doorways that Harry was one breath away from striking Hermione. If he did it in anger he would never forgive himself for it.

"Get out and if I ever see you near me or my children again I won't hesitate to kill you. As the heirs to two Ancient and Noble houses I'm sure I can convince the aurors it was self defense. One of the perks of being the Savior." Harry said snidely with an edge that made even Snape, who was in the basement brewing, wince.

Hermione stood still. Sure that eventually Harry would realize the grave Error he was making. When Harry saw that she wasn't moving he placed her in a body mind and levitated her out of the house and dropped her unceremoniously outside his wards. "Try to cross my wards again and I will fry you. I'm sure my children's godmother Luna will agree with me if you go there seeking anything. I don't think I can ever forgive you Hermione. Nor do I want to. The children will forget you eventually like they would any other unimportant people in their lives."

And with that Harry turned and walked inside. Hermione sat staring at Harry's retreating back. After a few minutes she felt the hair on her arms beginning to singe signifying that she was no longer keyed into the wards. Hermione had no one she could turn to. If she asked for refuge anywhere she would be denied once word got out what it was she tried to do. A small part of Hermione wept over the loss of her friendship with Harry but a larger part felt righteous indignation over Harry's treatment of her. How dare he deny her right to question the people her had surrounded himself with.

HOW DARE HE GET A SECOND CHANCE TO BUILD A FAMILY WHEN SHE HAD LOST HERS? How dare he not love her at all? How dare he turn his back on her once more when she needed him? It was a distraught Hermione that apparated to Hogwarts, knowing she could find shelter there.

"I could've strangled her." Harry said with a sigh. "I saw red! I was so pissed that I wanted to hex her into oblivion. How dare she threaten me with my children?"

"Strangling her would've defeated the purpose of me brewing the potion. It's time to move on to more Joyous occasions and welcome you're first born son through law into your family tree by blood."

As the ceremony was about to start Harry saw the bitterness that Draco was trying to hide. He knew that Draco was happy for him and Teddy but he also knew that would be one more connection he would have with the children that Draco wouldn't. Harry stopped the incantation and whispered into Severus' ear "Is there enough for two adoptions?" Severus was always thinking of a contingency and assured Harry there was.

"Draco, since the beginning of this rollercoaster you have been there for me. You love my children as if they were your own. The ways you care for them when I am around and when you think I am not looking makes me know that you really aren't going to leave them or us. I know we agreed to take this slow but I want to share this with you. Will you blood adopt Teddy and James? They are as much as yours as they are mine." Harry told Draco.

"Do you mean it? Yes, Yes, I'll do it. You didn't even have to ask. I thought I was okay with just you doing it and a part of me is, but to have that connection to them. For them to be a part of me; to be my children. Thank you!"

Draco would've never treated the children any different. He loved them as if there were his own, but to make them his own was something that would go down as the best gift that Harry could every give him. His parents were there to witness it and so was Severus, he couldn't ask for anything more. Well, for him and Harry to make some progress would be even better.

After the children and parents had taken the potions the magic that encased them was almost blinding. The green and blues and silvers and blacks dancing around like ribbons around the children. Lucius Malfoy never thought he would have grandchildren and to have two grandson and his family happy was more than he would've thought himself worthy to even think of. Narcissa Malfoy now had a blood bond to the little boys that had wormed their way into her heart. She couldn't wait for them to start talking. She was so busy thinking of Grandmotherly titles that she missed the looks of bemusements she was getting.

That nights after the children were in bed and Draco had gotten his full of looking at his sons, Harry reached for his hands and walked with him to his bedroom.

"How does it feel to be a father?" Harry asked.

"The same way it felt this morning when I considered them my sons and now it just feels better…" Draco said with a sigh. "It changes everything and nothing."

Harry knew that all that they were waiting for that this was it. There would be arguments between them; it was a part of what made them work so well. Harry could only imagine the arguments but he knew the makeup would be epic.

"I'm not ready to go all the way yet," Harry said after stealing Draco's lips in a kiss. "But, I want to try something." And as he slinked down, Draco knew he wouldn't be sleeping back in his bedroom anymore. He was home.

Sometimes later as Harry and Draco lay exhausted and sated and happy, Harry thought about the day's events. His children had another parent. Even if they broke up that wouldn't change. He would have to speak to Luna about being the parents godmother but now as their father Draco would get a say too.

"I hope you know, my children won't be attending Hogwarts as long as she is the headmaster." Draco said.

Harry's only response was to laugh.

The next morning Harry marveled at how peaceful Draco looked while he slept. He realized that Draco had him hooked. He then realized that Draco was trying to cover a smile and he swept in for a kiss.

"I don't want us to leave this room and awkwardness to overtake us. I don't want to be unsure where we stand Harry." Draco informed the other man.

"I'm falling so hard in love with you that I can't be sure if I want you to catch me or let me hit the bottom. I think about our children calling you Papa and me Da. I think about my future and you're in it. I want this." Harry said earnestly.

And as Harry kissed him and tried to impart reassurance and love and like and trust Draco took just as greedily as Harry swept away his insecurities kiss by kiss.

And as they hear their children start to wake up, they got ready to face the world.

So some special shoutouts to my reviewers! You guys are awesome and I thank you for reducing my doubts of what crap this is. I am thinking of increasing the rating to T. I will use the link to post the explicit details of anything else that happens. For those of you who have me on Author alert you will see it. Hope you enjoy!

JaylaCaine PM'd me and said that Ginny and Harry was basically together because he knew her and Hermione. And so, since I used it gotta give the props! And Molly , you pointed out MacGonagall only cared when someone else was involved.

Hermione, while wrong and may never become Harry's best friend again will be back soon. And so will Molly,