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This story is SLASH and MPREG, if you don't like neither of them then this story is not for you. If you are a flamer, come here so I can put ya fire out, you are annoying as you roll around on the floor. When you have been doubted dust yourself off and exit stage left. Preferably down a hole somewhere.

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Sorry it has taken a while to get another chapter done, my muse went away and since it has come back I have been writing like made, as you can tell by the two new fics. Lol. Well read and review.

Miracle

Chapter four: In the Bright Light of Hope

Told in Severus' point of view.

I hear crying in the background. Someone warm was in front of me, my wife Lucy, a muggle born witch from Ireland. I kiss her light brown hair and say to her as she wakes a little from the crying, "I'll see to her, go back to sleep." I get out of bed and walk into the other bedroom where our two-year-old daughter Erica is standing in her cot throwing a wobbly to get out. "Elkie (1) bab, shush, let mommy sleep for a while long honey." I say to her as I pick her up and sit her on my hip.

"Da da da da" she babbled as she once again took a fascination with my hair. A part of me once again wished I had cut it when she was born, though nothing is more relaxing than when Lucy combs through it with her fingers. I wince a little as Elkie pulls a little too hard on my hair as we walk to the kitchen so I can do her some breakfast. I put her in her high chair as I detangle her hand from my hair, which has grown to the middle of my back. I set about doing her breakfast.

I had my back to her I as I did her Weetabix the muggle way. I took the milk out of the fridge and poor a cup and warmed it up testing it to make sure it was not too hot. We used mainly muggle things as we lived in a muggle area. I was just about to put the milk away when it flew out of reach, I heard a giggle from Elkie. Elkie had once again shown me that she was a witch. Last month was her first bit of magic, she had change my hair colour to a bright garish red, even worse that the one the represented the house of Gryffindor. I think she will end up in Gryffindor, I just know it.

"Elkie sweetheart, you know you shouldn't do that. It could have spilled on the floor." I say, though I know she won't understand me that well. I went over and got the milk, putting it in the fridge before she could try and summon the carton again. I finished off her breakfast and took it over to her and let her feed her self. She didn't like it Lucy or I tried to feed her she would always refuse.

I went back to the counter and started making some coffee for Lucy and me. I finished and walked over to the table and watched over Elkie as she made a mess with her breakfast. Lucy walked in when Elkie had finished and went straight for the coffee pot. I smile as she walked around blindly as she did so.

"What are you doing today Sev?" she asked, Lucy was going to her mothers later today and taking Elkie with her. Her mother lives in Waterford, a forty-minute drive from where live in the harbour town of Dungarvan. It's only a small town, but very nice, with a park on the peninsula, jutting out into the sea. I love it here, it is so relaxing after the time I had with Voldemort, and being a spy.

I was found out, I was lucky that managed to escape with my life. I was constantly being tortured through the Dark Mark, it was driving me crazy. I finally had enough and sent a message to Voldemort. I offered him a potion that I had brewed for him, something that would help with stabilizing his magic as he had trouble with it since he was reborn. In exchange I asked him to get rid of the Dark Mark.

I opened a secure vault at Gringotts and oblivated what I had done and left a note for myself so I would remember. I had the potion put in there and met with Voldemort; I told him that the potion was secured some place and I told him that someone could come with me to retrieve it after the Mark was removed.

He tried to break into my mind, but as I had oblivated myself, he couldn't find out what I had done with the potion. He of course cured me a few times, but he did remove my Mark, I then took Lucius Malfoy to the vault after I retrieved the note from one of the goblins a Gringotts. He took the potion and left, leaving me alone. I took care of a few things and went to Ireland.

I had been going from place to place, not finding anywhere to settle down, which was until I met Lucy in Irelands equivalent of Diagon Alley. I had bumped into her and knocked her down, so I apologised and brought her a drink. We got talking, and I decided to stay around there for a while. A few months later we were seeing each other, she found out she was pregnant and we got married. I've never been so happy.

The only thing I wish was that I knew where Draco had gone. He had disappeared as soon as he had graduated, I knew that he had not taken the Dark Mark and had gone to escape his father and Voldemort. I knew he was in a relationship with someone, though I have never found out who it was, but I thank them for it, as they were the one that turned him from the dark and Voldemort.

I come back to the present as the Daily Prophet owl soared in through the open kitchen window. I took the paper and paid the owl the few Knuts and began to read the front page. Finally the truth is known, I have always know that Harry Potter was not guilty of what he was convicted of. He was to… good for the want of a better word. He would never hurt anyone, be they enemy or friend. He cared so much for everyone.

He has been in Azkaban for three and a half years. I wonder how the dementor has affected him in there, I remember how they did when they were at Hogwarts. The made him relive his parents death. I wonder what they made him relive now. After all the things he has been put through because of Dumbledore and Voldemort.

"Lucy?" I ask, she has woken up a little more now that she has had some coffee in her.

She looked over at me and answered, "What do you want this time?" she always knows when I want something. I have never figured how she has come to know me so well.

"Do you remember me telling you about Harry Potter and how he ended up in Azkaban?" I asked softly. She nodded and I continued, "well he has been proven innocent and is being taken out of Azkaban, he will need a place to stay. I know that he will not be able to be around Dumbledore and the order so I was wondering if it would be all right for him to come here until he finds his feet."

Lucy lent her head to one side as she thought about what I asked. Within a minute se spoke. "Yes, we have a spare room and I don't mind, he will need a loving touch for a while as he recovers. Maybe it will help for him to be away from the war, as Voldemort has not made a move over here yet." She answered.

I smiled at her, "thank you, I will go a bit later, as I know it will take time for him to get to Hogwarts, they will try and take as long as possible to get to the castle so they can talk to him about rejoining them." I said as she nodded to me.

"I'll start getting ready, why don't you get the spare room ready for when he gets here, that is if he wants to come." She said as she drank the rest of her coffee and went over to the high chair and a messy Elkie. "Well my little girl you seam to have gotten you breakfast all over yourself again. Lets get you cleaned up for grandma."

She took Elkie out of the room to get ready to visit my mother-in-law. I got up and went down to the basement; this was my domain, my potions lab. I set about brewing some potions that Harry would need after his long stay in Azkaban. Nutrient potions, strengthening potions, and tings like that. I knew that I needed them after only a few weeks in Azkaban during the first fall of Voldemort, when I had turned spy.

"Sev, me and Elkie are going now!" Lucy called from outside of the lab.

I went and opened the door looking at her with little Elkie in her arms. I gave them both a kiss and said smiling. "Okay then, I wont be here when you get home, I'll be at Hogwarts trying to get Harry to come with me. Hopefully he will come with me. Give mother my love Luce, and take care of yourselves."

"I will Sev. Love you." She said as she gave me a kiss and made Elkie wave bye to me and they walked out of the hall, I heard the front door slam shut and the car start as I went back inside the lab and began to work on my potions again.

I fell into the soothing motions of making potions, this was what I had missed since I left Hogwarts. Not that I don't regret doing so, as I would not have Lucy if I had stayed there. Dumbledore was running me ragged in trying to find out what was going on in Voldemort's camp. Trying to avoid getting myself killed. Not that anyone cared at that point.

The only person that actually cared what happened to me was Draco and he had disappeared by that point. He ad been moping around Hogwarts for some time. He missed someone, it had started when Harry had been sent to Azkaban.

That's who it is. Harry, Harry was the one to get him to turn from Voldemort. They were in love. I hope Draco has found out about Harry being freed. Harry may not come home with me, he will go with Draco. If Draco hasn't moved on. No I don't think he will, he loves Harry. I know that because I could see how much Harry's absence had affected him. He went from being happy to sad.

I cannot believe I missed it. They were together, their insults, the fights, they had no meaning they were careful with anything they said and did to each other, but they still made it look as though they hated each others guts. It started around their third year, the insults dimmed down, there was barley any to be honest. It picked up again in fourth year especially at the end when Harry got back from the graveyard.

It was part way through their sixth year, when Draco refused the Dark Mark that everything stopped. The whole school found out that he had refused when Parkinson shouted for all to hear that Draco had refused and that he will pay with his life. The silly twit was expelled and found to be carrying the Dark Mark and sent to Azkaban.

I am thankful that Voldemort was not able to get the dementors on his side, as he would have been able to free the prisoners from Azkaban. Though maybe it would have been a good thing that they weren't there, for Harry's sake. I know he had some memories that he wanted to stay buried. I saw a few during the Omoculency lesson we had together.

Draco left me a letter when he disappeared. It was only short. Telling me that he loved me like a father and hoped that I would find a way out of Voldemort's service. He also said that he was going somewhere where he would be safe and not to worry about him. He told me that he had lost the love of his life and could not stay and longer. He had left before the graduation ceremony could even take place. The letter he had written arrived the next day just before I got up for the day.

I finish a batch of nutrient potions and began a batch of strengthening potions. I can feel the quietness of the house around me. It is unusual, Lucy and I usually go to her mothers together. But this time she asked to go alone. I never believe in true love until I met her. I remember when she had found out she was pregnant with Elkie, we had just gotten engaged and she had burst through the front door to our new home yelling something I could not even make out.

I told her to calm down and to tell me slowly. She took a deep breath and said do you want to be a dad. I told her yes, I always wanted children. She just smiled and said, well get preparing as we have five months. My mouth just dropped, I know it did. I was going to be a father, something I never thought would happen.

Five months later in a muggle hospital my daughter was born. Weighing 7 pounds and 4 ounces, healthy and whole. I think I cried when I first held her in my arms, Lucy was asleep as the birth took a bit out of her. She was so tiny, little toes, and fingers that griped my own larger finger. She was beautiful. The next day we took her home.

It was hectic, up all night for feedings and nappy changes. I was so scared of dropping her, or hurting her in someway, not being gentle enough when burping her. Not long after she was born me and Lucy got married. It was a muggle wedding, I had no one there for me. I even sent out an owl to try and find Draco so he could come, the owl came back with my letter still attached to his leg.

I was a little down that I could share this time with Draco, I have known him since he was born. I am his godfather. It was still a wonderful day, I have some picture, Wizarding and muggle types. Most of Lucy's family is muggle, she has four cousins that are witches and wizards, and an aunt that's a witch two. Not all of her family know about the Wizarding world.

I finished the batch of strengthening potion and bottled it up. I took a few of the nutrient and strengthening potion and began to clear the lab up. When I finished I went up out of the basement and got ready to go to Hogwarts. I know that Dumbledore will want to know where I have been. I wonder if Draco will be there. I hope he is, if not then I will have to have someone search for him while Harry recovers.

I have enough room here, and I don't think Lucy would mind me bring them both back here so they can recuperate in peace. I know if they stay in England they will easily be found, and I don't think Harry will need Dumbledore telling him it is his duty to save the Wizarding world. Try and manipulate him to do what he wants him to do.

I may have hated his father with a passion and have to be mean and horrible to him while he attended school, but I have to say that I am proud to know him. He is loyal, kind and has a heart that can forgive anyone. I just hope that includes me. Dumbledore may have ordered me to be a royal ass to him, but that does not mean a thing.

If Draco is with him I will invite them both to stay with us. I can finally tell him that he is Elkie's godfather. I think he would make a great godfather, and I told that to Lucy, she wasn't too sure about it, but I told he that he is nothing like his father, that he is kind and helpful. She agreed after a while, but she still wants to meet him.

I apperate to the floo connection and take the floo to Hogsmeade. I don't' see anyone outside so they must already be inside, and the place to go would be the hospital wing. I visited Harry while in the cell waiting to be sent to Azkaban. I told him I knew he was innocent and I would try and prove it. When I was found out as a spy it made it difficult for me to do anything in England, as I was hunted by the Death Eaters and shunned by the light side, and everyone in-between. I could see fear and helplessness in his eyes when I saw him, and I hated seeing that there, he did not deserve to be in that rotten and disgusting place.

I walked through the halls of Hogwarts and made my way to the Hospital Wing. I bang opened the doors as I heard Dumbledore finish talking. I walked in. Dumbledore turned around and faced me. "Severus?" he asked me, he looked shocked at my absence after almost three years of being away.

"Yes it is I," I smiled as I walked in the room a little more.

"Where have you been?" he asked.

"Well, I went to Ireland and met a Leprechaun, because I helped him he gave me three wishes, one to get rid of the Dark Mark, two to destroy Voldemort and three to see Potter die," I said happily, though I was truly joking with him. "That's why I am here to make sure the wish comes true." I smirked.

Dumbledore's mouth dropped, I truly wanted to laugh, but it would have spoilt my joke. "Severus you… erm… you can't mean that?" he asked shocked at what I was saying.

I rolled my eyes and shook my head. "Dear Merlin in Avalon, do you not know how to take a joke. I've been in Ireland having the time of my life, by getting one and not having to listen to you and Voldemort fight it out over who wants to rule the bloody world. It has been so peaceful." I sighed as I finished my short rant.

(1) Elkie is the nickname of one of my friends, she used my nickname in her fic I do the same, lol. Ha ha LJ.

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