disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter

warning: mentions of mpreg

This chapter jumps ahead in time and I hope this is a great chapter. I'm rather proud of it. The main character that is introduced in this chapter is named Athene (there is no 'a' making it a variant of Athena, just to break any confusion)

Seven Years Later

"Athene Gemma Malfoy-Potter! If you're not down here in five minutes I am leaving you and imagine how silly I will be being the only father without his child!" Draco shouted up the stairs. After spending so much time with Harry, he had abandoned most of his 'pure-blood training', as Harry liked to call it. Malfoys do not shout, Malfoys are too busy for their children, Malfoys do not marry other men, Malfoys do not have girls. All of it was untrue. Harry and Draco's relationship in the beginning was awkward, but they fell fast for each other. Within a few months they were engaged while trying to make a living. It was not easy for the two wizards running to the muggle world, but they had each other and that was all that mattered. But then their daughter came. Their Little Jewel, as Draco liked to call her. They had to obliviate many doctors when they found out Harry was pregnant. Under polly-juice, Draco went into the wizarding alley located in France so he could find all of the books on male pregnancy and many healing books. Draco delivered his daughter on August 25, 1999.

Now, it was seven years later since they left on his daughter's sixth birthday and he was to take his daughter to the playground. As per her request, Harry was now making for her favorite meal along with a cake while they were to be out. Draco looked over to his husband and sighed. He had been gazing towards Harry's midsection, wondering how to approach Harry about this. He wanted another child. Draco loved seeing his husband with a round belly and he was beginning to miss it. He loved Athene, but he also hoped they could have a son.

"Almost done, Papa!" Athene called down. Draco turned back to Harry.

"Hey Harry?"

"Yes Draco," Harry responded, not turning around. He was trying to stay busy so he wouldn't turn around and see Draco's face right now. He had a surprise for both of them and he wanted to wait until Draco and Athene came back from the park.

"I know this might be inappropriate being Athene's birthday and all, but have you ever thought of having another child?" Draco asked nervously. He looked up through the fringe of hair in front of his face as Harry turned around.

"Would you want one?" Harry asked.

"Of course that's why I'm asking," Draco almost whined. He walked around the small table they had in the kitchen, leaning against it when he was in front of Harry before putting his arms around his husband and pulling him close. He gave a gentle chaste kiss in Harry's soft lips. "What do you say?"

"Then I say you're in luck," Harry smiled up at Draco. He would have told Draco sooner, but he had been nervous about how his husband might react to the news. Harry giggle as he watched Draco's face blank with mild confusion before looking down at his abdomen and comically looking back up to Harry's face.

"Really?"

"Yes," Harry replied, still giggling at Draco's reaction so far. He gasped when suddenly Draco lifted him up and spun him before setting Harry onto the table. Draco moved in between Harry's legs before snogging the life out of him. Harry moaned as he felt Draco's tongue move across every surface of his mouth as he buried a hand in Harry's hair while the other hand drifted down to hitch a leg higher up Draco so he could cup Harry's arse.

They broke apart as they heard thundering footsteps come down the stairs. Draco gave another chaste kiss to Harry's now bruised lips before letting Harry off the table. He quickly adjusted himself before his daughter walked into the kitchen. Draco looked up to see Harry staring at him hungrily and he gave Harry one of his trademark smirks. He swatted at Harry's asrse when he turned back to the counter to keep making Athene's dinner.

"Don't work too hard, please," Draco whispered in Harry's ear. Cooking all day in August would heat up the house, so he didn't want Harry to harm himself or the baby because of trying to get the food cooked in time. "And later we can have a private celebration," he smirked again when the heard the sharp intake of breath and watched as Harry's pupils expanded so large, the vibrant green was almost gone.

"I'm ready now Papa," Athene announced as she bounded into the kitchen like any six year old would do. Athene was the height of any six year old girl, but the features she gained from her parents were very unique. She had Harry's soft black hair that was long and curly, but she had Draco's eyes. Or at least a variation of Draco's eyes. They were not the striking blue-grey of her papa, but such a light grey it appeared as if she did not have any color in her eyes. Harry and Draco loved them however. When she had been born, each man would get lost staring into her eyes. Athene also had Draco's pale skin, the combination gave their daughter such a striking, almost unnerving to other people, look that to Harry she looked like an angel and her long black hair were her wings. While Draco called her his Little Jewel, she was Harry's Angel.

Her appearance was not the only unique thing about their daughter. Her magical abilities were unlike anything they knew. Athene was capable of very strong wandless/wordless magic, anything she tried to accomplish using magic she did. Her magical core was twice as strong as Harry's, which concerned him greatly because of the fear that sometimes had followed him due to his strong magic. She was also a natural telepath. Athene, with the help of her parents, had mastered how to block others from her mind and to control the temptation of entering another's mind, but once in awhile, she would slip in the mind of someone with ill-intentions. They had moved once because their neighbor had wanted to harm Athene and she was able to see what he wanted to do. She had come crying to Harry and told her about the bad man who would come soon for her. Thinking it must have been wizards, Harry had asked Athene to show her what she meant and he saw the thoughts that had run through their neighbors mind. Although it was not wizards, it still panicked Harry nonetheless.

"Excellent. Give Daddy a kiss and we'll head out," Draco said as he grabbed the keys from the hook by the door and waited for his daughter. Harry had taught him how to drive, claiming how much they would need a car because they were living with muggles and now Draco could not imagine not having their small, but reliable car. Once Athene gave Harry a kiss, she went running out the door and got herself into the car and buckled. He said bye to his husband before driving to the park. When they arrived, Draco waved his daughter to go play while he gathered the food and some toys he had packed.

Athene was running over to the swings when she got a whisper of a thought through her fort. Daddy and Papa had taught her how to keep thoughts out of her head by creating a place to hide herself in her head. This place was a fort, almost like a castle. It was big and tall and when she sat in her fort, all the thoughts stayed on the ground away from her, but this one was able to come up into her fort. Athene stopped moving and looked around for the person who had the thought. She saw her Papa still at the car and other kids were busy playing. Spinning in a circle, there was a man hiding by some bushes. He was dressed in all black and looked scary.

She's powerful, she can bring back the Dark Lord. Even if she is from that disgusting Half-blood

Athene knew he was thinking about her. Daddy and Papa were always saying how powerful she was. This man scared her and was thinking about hurting her. She knew Daddy had protected her before and so she went to him.

Draco heard a soft cracking and was instantly on edge. He looked up from the car and looked around for his daughter. Not seeing her right away, he shut the doors and ran further into the park trying to find Athene. The park wasn't very big which only made Draco start to panic when he couldn't find his daughter. Trying to stay calm, he pulled out his magical watch. Harry had gotten it for him shortly after Athene was born. It was like magical clocks parents had that showed if their child were home or possibly hurt. His had only three people on it, Harry, Athene, and his Aunt Andromeda. Draco had gotten one for Harry as well that had himself, Athene, Andromeda and Teddy. He looked at his watch and saw that Athene was now at home with Harry. Somewhat relieved, knowing she was safe, Draco got into the car and drove home as quickly as he could. He never noticed that someone was watching him.

"DADDY!" Harry heard the scream and jumped into the air. Quickly composing himself, he ran into the direction he heard Athene's voice come from.

"Athene? What's wrong?" he found his daughter in the sitting room curled into a ball in the floor crying. Magic licked at his skin, testing to see if Harry was a threat. When it noticed he wasn't, Harry was allowed to approach his daughter. "Athene, what happened? Where's Papa?"

"I don't know. There was a scary man who didn't like me Daddy!" Athene cried before jumping into Harry's arms. Harry sat on the floor rocking his daughter in his arms while trying to calm her down. The time with their old neighbor, Athene had acted similar, but she was not this distraught over it, which only added to his panic. And she had never referred to anybody as scary. It was always that man or that woman, but never scary.

"Harry?!" Harry looked up when he heard his name.

"In here Draco," he called and gave a weak smile when he saw his husband come running into the room. "What happened?"

"I don't know. I was getting the things out of the car when I heard a quiet apparition sound and went looking for her in the park. When I looked at my watch it said she was here so I hurried back home," Draco explained as he crouched behind Harry and wrapped his arms around his family, protecting them from whatever had scared his Little Jewel.

"Athene, can you show me the scary man?" Harry asked.

"Yeah," Athene sniffled. She lifted her head from Harry's shoulder and looked Harry in the eyes. Harry was then sucked into the memory of what Athene saw and the thoughts that came through. As he looked closer in the memory, he gasped when he realized who had scared his daughter. He broke off the connection with Athene before turning scared eyes onto the Draco.

"What? What did you see?" Draco asked, voice getting slightly higher as his panic continued to rise.

"Lucius," Harry whispered, as if saying his name aloud would bring the man here.

"What? No, it can't be."

"That's what I saw."

"And his thoughts?"

"Using Angel to bring back the Dark Lord."

"Go pack, everything we need. Then we're going to Andromeda's and finding another place. Maybe even going to Hogwarts, Severus is working there still. He might be able to help us," Draco said as he stood up. Harry carried Athene to her room to began packing while he went into their room and began packing. This was not how Athene's birthday should have gone, but her safety was worth more than a celebration. They needed to move. It was obvious Lucius had found them outside the wards, but they still had a window of opportunity before he would even find those. Draco could not believe Lucius was out of prison. Andromeda had assured him that the man had gone to prison. As he waited for Harry to finish gathering anything else they needed, Draco moved the loose brick in the mantel and pulled out the old pocket watch that would take them back.

A/N: I hope you were able to follow along with this. As Always R&R