Pairings: HP/DM SS/RL NL/BZ RW/HG PP/CW

Rating: R, drama, angst and sap. Post Hogwarts

Warnings: R, bad language. All flames will be made fun of! THIS IS SLASH! How many times will I have to say that for you homophobic guys understand that you shouldn't be reading these kind of fics I don't know… But you have been warned so I again tell you… All flames will be made fun of!

AN: This is not the first Harry Potter fic I've written, but the first I've ever published.

Disclaimer: I asked Dumbledore to magically give me the rights over Harry potter and crew, so nowhe has been arrested for plagiarism and fraud !

Getting you back.

By Black Komagoro

Epilogue.

Two years had passed already, Draco had finally forgiven Harry for his stupidity and they now lived together in Malfoy Manor. The blonde man would play pranks on his lover saying that his punishment was far from being over, but given the nature of Draco's pranks Harry knew it was more for fun than anything else.

"Pass me the unicorn tears"

Harry gave him the vial with the diamond like liquid and saw how the other man added five drops to the potion he was working on.

"I really don't think this is good for you Draco, those fumes can't be good for the baby"

The snake turned to look at his lover with a frown; Draco had been true to his word and accepted to carry their child, so now he was sporting a huge belly that clearly said he was close to birth. However, Draco would not stop working on this particular potion; even though he had stopped working on the others given he had already gone on pre-natal leave.

"How many times must I tell you that this particular potion is among those which won't harm the baby?"

Harry frowned, this was his son too and he had the right to worry, this had been an argument that appeared at least once a month for the last eight months, and he was very close to birth date, which was supposed to be next week.

"I don't care how many times; I still think is not good… Come one Draco, everything you breathe goes to the baby"

Draco didn't answer right away he had just added the last ingredient and needed to count the stirs carefully. They were twenty nine to the left and sixteen to the right, this was the final part of Snape's recovery potion, one that the man could only help in the first part but not the rest, since it needed to be checked by colour, the smell of the potion stayed constant after adding the first three ingredients.

Harry sighed and just waited, he knew how important this potion was for Draco, and to be honest for him too. Snape had helped him more than anyone else, because the man had made him see his mistakes and forced him to correct them without telling him anything.

"Done!"

Draco turned to face his lover and grinned happily, now they only needed the potion to cool, Snape would be able to see in just fifteen minutes, half an hour at most. Harry smiled back at him and embraced him the best he could given the now swollen stomach of his snake.

"Now, please go and get some rest, I'm sure Remus already prepared something for you"

And it was true, when they left Snape's potions lab there was a tray with some sandwiches and other snacks, the tea was hot and there were fluffy cushions over the sofa, waiting for Draco.

"Always so prepared, no wonder he can put up with Severus"

"I heard that!"

The voice came from the other room where they were sure Snape would be reading one of his books, the man had transformed all his books to Braille and since it was summer, he spent most of the time reading to keep himself busy and not bother Draco.

"Good!"

Harry shook his head and smiled, when he had first known about Snape's and Remu's relationship he had been shocked, but he had accepted it very quickly after Draco abused his ears with a thousand reasons of why they should be together.

"Insolent child!"

"Not a child anymore and I'm just telling the truth!"

Snape's voice was just a growl and the discussion ended there, as always did since Draco became pregnant. They noticed the door of the office opening to let Remus enter the room.

"Hi there boys, is everything ok? I heard yelling"

Draco dismissed it with a wave of his hand just as he gave one of the turkey sandwiches a good bite; lately turkey was the only thing that wouldn't upset his stomach.

"Just the same old thing Remus, nothing to worry about"

Remus nodded to Harry and entered the bedroom; Draco drank a bit of his tea and sighed happily.

"So, what did Charlie want?"

The red haired man had contacted Harry a while ago, Draco couldn't hear because he had the door closed so he could concentrate on what he was doing.

"To know if Grimmauld place was ready, he and Pansy wanted to come for the summer, since she's also about to give birth… The house has been completely restored and I finally managed to take that dreadful portrait off the wall"

Draco nodded and was about to say something when the cookie he had on his hand fell to the floor, he had felt something before but he just thought it was their son kicking him again. This time he knew it was not that, it was his son announcing he wanted out, as soon as possible if Draco would be so kind.

"Draco?"

Harry turned his head when he saw Draco's hand drop the treat and held his stomach with the other, the contraction was very hard and he only managed to whisper.

"I think it's time"

Harry paled, he was supposed to give birth next week, they weren't prepared and had only a few items with them.

"Draco!"

Remus' voice made them turn in the direction of the bedroom just to see a very worried werewolf and potion's master exit the room; they should have known that Remus' nose would notice the change first. Harry had already moved to Draco's side, helping him breath and starting to think what would be the best and most quick way to get his lover to St' Mungo's.

"Come on Draco, in and out just the way the nurse told you"

Draco couldn't answer he just followed Harry's words and tried to even his breaths.

"Remus, please call St' Mungo's and tell them Draco's in labour, that we'll be arriving soon!"

Draco managed to calm himself long enough to look at Snape and smiled pleased.

"It's… ready"

Snape felt his chest tighten, this was what he had been waiting desperately for the last two years and now he would have to wait even more, and he felt guilty for thinking that way.

"That doesn't matter now Draco, we need to take you to the hospital as soon as possible"

Draco gave him what they all now called 'The Frown', the one they could never say no to, the one that could actually scare Snape and even Norbert, when the dragon had tried to use Draco's favourite robe as a toy.

"I will not have this child unless you're there to see him with your own eyes!"

His eyes never left Snape's and Harry just turned to his lover, knowing the older man had just lost this battle.

"Go and drink it Snape, we still have some time before the surgery"

It was not really a surgery though, since they wouldn't cut Draco to take the child out, it was more like a transference; from Draco's body into Harry's arms, like side apparition but not exactly the same.

"Please Severus; this is your grandchild after all"

Draco had decided that Snape had been more of father to him than his real father, so to him the man had, more than anyone else, the right to be the child's grandfather. Harry smiled and nodded, Snape ran into the lab mostly because he was about to cry, Draco suddenly grid his teeth and started the breathing once again.

"Done, they will have everything ready and will send two nurses to take you two to the hospital"

"Thanks Remus, now please go in there, Snape is about to drink the potion, Draco threatened him of not having the baby if he didn't take the potion"

Harry was calmer now; he would go for their things later and get Draco and the baby what they would need. He had to stifle and laugh as he saw his friend pale and run into the lab.

"And… They say… We're sappy"

Harry laughed out loud this time, with one hand taking Draco's and the other on his back. He looked at his lover and kissed him softly, his eyes revealing how happy he was.

"Everything is alright now, isn't it?"

"Yes Harry, everything is how it was supposed to be"

-.-.-

Snape paced the hall from side to side, he couldn't see yet, since his eyes needed to be closed and covered for an hour so the potion could work perfectly.

"Severus, please stop. You'll make a hole on the floor"

"Let me be Lupin… I'm nervous"

They heard steps and giggling coming from their right side and sighed knowing who that was.

"Must say it is interesting seeing the great and scary Severus Snape looking so nervous"

Snape would have given her the glare of death if he could only take the damned bandage of his eyes.

"Be glad you're not a student anymore Miss Parkinson"

"Well, losing a thousand points is a price fair enough for seeing something like this"

Charlie had the sense of not letting his laugh leave his mouth, Snape wouldn't be so soft on him, he was a Weasley after all.

"Hello Remus, how is everything going?"

Remus let Pansy take the chair and hugged Charlie in greeting.

"They should be about to finish, it has been forty five minutes since they entered"

Pansy smiled tiredly, they had just arrived from Rumania and she was already eight months.

"Well, he'll get a play mate very soon, that's good… I don't think Draco will want go through this a second time"

"You would be surprised"

Pansy had opened her eyes wide and was about to answer when Snape suddenly stopped walking back and forth.

"Severus?"

The man was clearly more nervous than before and Remus knew why, he checked his watch and confirmed his suspicions.

"I'm… Scared"

Pansy and Charlie were shocked, for the man to admit that out loud in front of them meant this was really big.

"Remus?"

The werewolf turned to look at the pair and smiled softly.

"The potion"

It was all they needed to understand and so they held their breaths as Remus approached Snape; the man raised his hands and reached for the bandage, but stopped. Remus took his hands in his and kissed them softly.

"Don't worry Severus… Everything will be ok"

Snape nodded, he would be able to see after four years and a few months. Remus undid the knot of the bandages and carefully took them off, now it was Snape's turn to finish the job.

"Come on, we both trust Draco… He's the only one with your level of knowledge for potions"

Snape took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes, at first his vision was blurred but after a few minutes it started to clear, just when he could finally focus completely, the door behind them opened.

"Hello everyone! Here's someone who wants to meet you all"

Charlie and Pansy didn't move, and Remus stayed where he was while pushing Snape forward. The man took a few steps towards Harry and stopped; the other man walked towards him and took the soft blue blanket out of the baby's face.

"Scorpius Arcturus, this is your grandfather, Severus"

He spoke softly to the small bundle in his arms.

"Here, you should hold him"

Before Snape could react he found himself with a black haired, grey eyed boy in his arms. The baby had opened his eyes and was now looking at him with wide and curious eyes, he made a face as if going to cry but then laughed softly, and it was what it took to disarm the man.

"Looks like he already likes you Snape"

It was just too much for him, Snape was unable to react and Remus noticed this, he also noticed that there was people coming this way and he decided to take Snape out of there.

"Harry, please take him from his arms and distract the others while I take him out, he needs to calm down. He just recovered his sight and now this; I don't want others to seem him this distraught"

Harry nodded, still smiling and took his son from Snape's arms and after showing him briefly to the other two he went back to Draco. Remus rapidly took his husband's arm and performed side apparition, just in time to miss Neville and Blaise and surely Charlie's family would soon follow.

"Hey Blaise!"

Charlie smiled happily to his friend and patted him on his back, as Pansy hugged Neville.

"Wow! You're huge Pans!"

"You would too if you were carrying something the size of a pumpkin inside your stomach! Idiot!"

Neville glared at his husband and took Pansy with him a few feet away from the other two. Charlie looked at Blaise and shook his head.

"Never, and I mean never, tell a woman she looks huge when she's pregnant, and just to be safe, also in any other case… You'll end gaining a curse for all your effort"

"But I didn't say it in a bad way!"

"Which demonstrate the fact that you're as gay as they come… You know nothing about women"

Blaise just shrugged and sat down next to Charlie.

"So, how is she? If I'm not mistaken she's due next month isn't she?"

"Yes, little Percy will be gracing us very soon… We decided to come now because Pansy can hardly do anything without tiring herself"

Blaise nodded and looked at his husband and his friend, Neville looked at her stomach with a hint of longing on his face and Blaise knew that the other man also dreamed with having his own family.

"What about you Blaise?"

He smiled softly.

"I want a son, maybe even two… But right now I want to spend as long as I can with him. I'm not regretting staying with Draco, but I want to spend another year or two just with him"

Charlie nodded but he could see that Neville seemed to feel different.

"Have you two talked about it already?"

"Not yet, the problem is that when the moment comes, I won't be able to tell him no… I've never been really able to deny him anything"

Charlie sighed and grabbed his friend shoulder firmly.

"A kid is not something you decided just because you can't deny your other half anything… Is something just way too important, and will change your life completely"

"I know…"

"No, you don't… Or you wouldn't be in this predicament… You should talk with Draco, if someone can tell you how it is, he's the right person"

"You think?"

Charlie nodded; Harry appeared again but without his son.

"I'm sure… Now, there's Harry again, surely we can see Draco now"

And just as he had said, Harry told them Draco had been moved to a room and that they all could go visit him now, just then the Weasleys appeared running, eager to meet Harry's son.

-.-.-

"He's beautiful! Such a cute little thing!"

Molly wouldn't let go of the baby, for her that was the first of her grandchildren, and neither Harry nor Draco minded a bit, for Harry she was like a mother and Draco knew how important that was for his lover.

"He reminds me of Sirius, with that hair and those eyes"

Draco raised and eyebrow but said nothing about Ron's comment, that had been already discussed with Harry, maybe if they had a second son that one would be called after Harry's god father, but they agreed that the first one wouldn't be called after any of their relatives, or so they thought.

"Well, if I'm not mistaken, Sirius' younger brother's second name was Arcturus"

They all turned to look at Arthur Weasley, Harry and Draco completely shocked.

"That, I didn't see coming…"

"I did"

They turned to look at the person who had just come through the door, Snape was smiling softly, clearly the name meant a lot to him.

"You may not be conscious about it Potter, but you knew that already… You spent a lot of time cleaning and checking things at Grimmauld place, I'm sure you saw it there"

Harry frowned trying to remember something about that time, suddenly his eyes lighted up and he raised his head smiling a little.

"Yeah, while cleaning one of the rooms I found a letter, it was from Regulus to Sirius, where he told his brother that he was sorry about all that had happened, and that he wished things could have been different… He loved his brother as much as Sirius loved him…"

So unconsciously Harry had chosen that name.

"He was a good boy; he just made a mistake…"

Remus knew the rest of the phrase; he also had been one of Snape's best friends, so this baby was even more important to him than ever.

"Do you want to hold him Severus?"

Snape shook his head but was pushed by Remus towards Molly, who reluctantly let the baby be taken from her arms.

"Here Severus, just hold him like this"

"I know how to hold a newborn, Lupin"

Remus just grinned and said nothing, Snape took the baby once again into his arms and again the baby opened his eyes, looked at him and smiled.

"Well, he definitely likes you Snape"

Harry laughed softly and just dismissed Snape's glare which only made the baby laugh more.

"He looks like Regulus and acts the part too; he never took my glares seriously"

"Neither do I Severus"

They all laughed at the two, Remus and Draco had said that at the same time. Harry just smiled pleased, everything was as it should be, finally they all were happy and a new generation was coming. Pansy and Charlie had gone back to Grimmauld place so she could rest a little, Ron and Hermione were now living in Hogsmeade and were just been told that she was pregnant. Fred and George had opened another store of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes in France and wanted to expand even more.

"Don't forget that your kid will be my student"

Draco rolled his eyes and laughed, he was about to answer him when they heard a knock, when the door opened they were greeted by Luna and her husband, and in her arms their one year old son, Theodore.

"Theo!"

The boy smiled happily and extended his arms towards Draco, the kid had taken to him more than any other, and Draco seemed to enjoy the presence of the kid much more than he let people know.

"Luna, Marcello is so good to see you!"

Harry smiled widely to them and embraced Luna tightly, he owed her just too much, her words had been the trigger to make him do the right thing. Marcello Mattia, Luna's lover and student from Italy's all Wizards School was more than happy to shake hands with his now good friend. The man had heard the couple's story from his wife and when he first met Harry the first thing the ex-Boy Who Lived met was the hard knock the other man could give.

"Same to you Potter, now let me see my boy's future friend…"

Harry just shook his head and let the two pass to meet Scorpius, the baby wouldn't pay attention for more than three seconds to anyone before looking at Severus once again. He just seemed awed with the deep black eyes of his grandfather and wouldn't stop smiling at him.

"He's beautiful"

Draco smiled proudly.

"Of course, he's my son"

Harry shook his head laughing and approached Snape.

"I can't deny that though, he took after your family more than mine… And to tell you the truth, I'm glad he did. Frankly, it was tiresome to be compared with my father all the time… 'Oh, you look so much like your father' Blah blah blah…"

They were laughing softly when little Scorpius let them know he was sleepy, Snape turned to the small crib and was about to put him down when the baby opened his eyes and grabbed his finger tightly, with a face about to cry.

"Time to sleep"

Snape's voice was a command but with certain soft ring to it, the baby calmed right away and let the man put him down, he yawned and closed his eyes, falling asleep right away.

"You're in for babysitting Severus"

The man calmly turned towards the parents and frowned seriously.

"Not in this life Draco, I'm here to spoil him till he enters school"

"Does that mean you'll be able to stop once he enters school?"

Snape nodded sharply and turned towards the crib again, Remus looked at him and then at Draco, making a gesture that clearly said that the other man wouldn't be able to do what he said.

"Well, I think it is time for all of us to leave, parents and child need to be alone now"

They all followed Molly out except for Blaise, he knew it would be difficult to talk to Draco again, Blaise had asked permission to leave for that day but he needed to be back at work the next day, since they were working on a big case about illegal potions.

"Draco, Harry… Could I talk to you for a minute please?"

They looked at each other and nodded, worried by their friend expression.

"What's wrong Blaise? Did something happen?"

"Um, well no really is just… I need your advice"

They nodded again letting Blaise know he could go on.

"You see, I'm sure Neville wants to have kids and I would like to have them too, but I want to spend another year or two alone. I know myself and the moment he tells me he wants a baby I will tell him ok"

Draco frowned and shook his head.

"You can't have a kid because you couldn't tell Neville no… Blaise, Harry and I have loved each other for a long time now, but we agreed that before bringing a child we needed some time for ourselves… I know you two have been together for along time, but you spent two of those years taking care of me, I'm sure Neville will understand your feelings… But you need to talk with him, don't wait till he asks you, you should be the one to bring the topic out"

Blaise sighed, not really convinced.

"Blaise, I know Neville maybe better than many others… He was the other option Voldemort had; he could have taken my place… So I know more or less how he thinks, we have had many talks, during school and after we met again. So go talk to him, he will understand and if I'm not wrong he'll feel extremely happy about it; because you want to be with him alone before having to share each other with your kids…"

Blaise stood there, eyes slightly wet and really happy to have followed Charlie's advice. Once they decide to have kids he knew they would have the most amazing and happy childhood a kid could ask for, with friends like the ones who would be waiting for them and a family as big as this was.

"Thank you guys, and once again congratulations… Scorpius is a beautiful kid"

They smiled and thanked him, Blaise finally walked to the door and left the room, leaving just Harry, Draco and their son inside. Harry look at his son and then at Draco, he looked tired and his hair all messy, but for him Draco looked more beautiful and fascinating than ever.

"I love you"

Draco turned his face towards his lover and let the other man kiss him softly.

"I love you too Harry"

They embraced and rested there calmly, looking at their son and smiling happily, thinking of all the good things the future had in store for them.

The End.

Finally, I'm happy to announce that this story has reached its end.

I'm really happy for all your support during all this time, for keeping your loyalty towards it even when I took too long to update sometimes.

A mega thank you to all of you and I hope to meet you again soon, I have many ideas I want to write down.