I Am Draco Malfoy-Potter
Chapter Seventeen: Father Son Moment
"What do you mean by that? So he has trouble controlling his magic, he's only 11 years old, it isn't that odd." Draco stared in confusion at Harry sighed in exasperation.
"Not what I meant Draco. Think about it, he's our son. My magical core is larger than most people because of my mother and you've inherited old magic from past generations, we aren't exactly weak wizards." Harry snapped a bit too rudely and Draco scowled at him. The brunet sighed. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound like a jerk."
"Damn right you didn't! What are you so worried about anyways, do you think his magic is still unstable?"
Harry nodded a bit. "Did Severus ever mention this?"
The blond hair swayed as Draco shook his head. It was starting to get rather long, but Draco didn't want to cut it just yet. "He said he was surprised as Jamie's power, but he never seemed worried about it."
Harry nodded and stood. "Winky!"
The house elf popped into the room with a low bow. "How can I help you Mr Malfoy-Potter sir."
Harry was taken aback by the name he'd been called but shook it off. "Call for Severus. Tell him to come to the study as soon as he's able to." Harry requested and watched the house elf pop itself out again.
"You didn't say anything."
The Gryffindor looked up to a grinning Slytherin and he smiled a bit too. "We have children, we are basically living together right now, we sleep in the same room, I think I can handle being called 'Malfoy-Potter'."
This didn't stop Draco's wide infectious smile though.
Severus didn't take very long to appear and he looked both annoyed and confused. "Why would a house elf be summoned into my room at two in the morning?" He looked around and frowned even more. "And where are your shadows?"
Draco laughed but Harry scowled a bit, he still wasn't too comfortable around Severus, but this wasn't the same Severus as before, so Harry dealt with it. "Sev, now's not the time we need to talk. Have you ever noticed anything odd about James?"
Severus frowned at his godson's future-husband and shook his head. "There is nothing odd about young Jamie. Why do you ask Potter?"
"Malfoy-Potter."
Everyone turned as they heard Scorpius' voice from the door and after a soft curse, the boy opened the door and walked in. No use staying outside if they knew he was here.
Severus smirked. "Well, there is one. Where are the other three."
Harry ignored that as he looked at his eldest son. "Is there a problem Scorp?"
The blond shook his head and looked at the people in the room. "You're talking about Jamie. I know you are, his episode today really isn't like him. But what do you mean by 'odd' Papa?"
Harry sighed, really not seeing the point in hiding it.
"Have you ever felt your brother's magic?" Harry asked as he leaned his hip against the desk. Draco was sitting behind it with his feet on the desktop with his chair leaning back.
Scorpius tilted his head to the side in thought. Honestly, he never has. Any bonding him and his youngest brother ever got was in potions and that didn't require much magical energy. "No Papa, why do you ask? Is there something wrong with his magic?"
"That's just it, I'm not sure if there is. Today in our room, when he was crying and letting his emotions go, I felt something. Something stronger than even my own magic." Harry sighed and looked at Severus. "That's why I asked you here. I wanted to know if there was a way to physically see Jamie's magical core. If I'm right about this, the fact that he isn't good at magic isn't because he doesn't have much, it's because he has too much to control."
"And what are we to do if that is the case love?" Draco asked as he let his feet down, standing and going to Harry's side to wrap his arms around his emerald eyed beauty.
Harry laid his head on Draco's shoulder. "I'm not sure. If there is anything we can do to help him, it'd be sealing his magic, wouldn't it?"
Severus snorted. "When you seal magic Harry, you don't cut it into pieces and store them in boxes. Sealing someone's magic means that it will disappear until the wizard reaches the age of maturity."
The green eyes began to cloud as Harry thought about it. "There has to be a way to help Jamie control his magic."
"You can try linking it."
All eyes turned to Scorpius and he suddenly felt as if he really shouldn't be there, but he swallowed it down.
"What do you mean by that Scorp?" Harry asked.
"He means we can link someone elses magical core with Jamie's so that they balance each other. You and I did this when we were married, when you died all your magic came to my body for a place to stay. It took me a week to adjust to it." Draco answered as she shivered at the memory.
"But who are we going to link Jamie's magic to?" Severus asked.
Another voice came from the door.
"I'll do it."
Lilian pushed the door open and Draco groaned.
"This isn't an open conversation, why are there people eavesdropping?"
Severus smirked. "As nosy as their father, aren't they Harry." The jet black eyes laughed at Harry and the brunet scowled back.
"Shut it old man." Harry sighed. "Lilian, how long have you been listening?"
The little girl blushed. "Since Scorpius came in. I followed him out of our room."
Accusing eyes turned to Scorpius and the boy held his hands up in mock surrender. "I didn't notice. Don't curse me."
Harry glared at his son and then turned to his daughter. "I don't think you understand what-"
"Papa, I was born with Jamie." Lilian answered, interrupting her Papa's rejection of her offer. "I have been by his side since the very beginning. What you guys were talking about, how his magic is too strong for him to control, it's true. He used to be embarrassed of it and so he hid it. He tore it down like someone would a poster. He's surprising his magic so much that when he uses it, it feels like there is none there. And I've been there to watch him practice using just the right amount of magic again and again until he got it perfect." She looked up with shinning mismatched pleading eyes.
"I want to help him. He's my little brother."
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"So I just have to sit here?"
Jamie's eyes were so confused, but Harry really didn't want to explain anything to the boy. He would get ashamed and try to run, or deny it, or whatever kids do with things they want to hide. So Harry made it into a game.
"Yeah. First, your Papa's gonna go, then your Daddy, and then you go okay?" Harry smiled reassuringly at the kid and motioned for Severus to come closer. The man shook his head but came anyways. He wasn't believing any of this. He'd been there for the boy's birth and most of his life so there was no way he would miss this. Still, Harry was dead set on proving it to everyone, so Severus figured humoring he boy wouldn't hurt. Lilian's confession in the study had been a bit shocking though, but maybe Jamie really wasn't good at casting? There were many students that had trouble with it.
"Okay Sev, make it happen."
"Revelabunt Magica."
Severus swished his wand and a small orb appeared right in front of Harry.
"Touch the orb." Severus said and the second Harry's finger tip slid over the orb's surface, it seemed to explode around them.
It was about as bit as the library's main room and Harry was shocked at the reds and purples that surrounded him as he stood within his magical core.
"Wicked." He breathed and heard much the same thing from behind him. He turned to Jamie and smiled as the little boy grinned back at him. "Come on Draco! You're turn!"
Harry moved away from the center of the library and the magical core went back to being a small white orb. Draco swallowed and shook his head. He'd never seen Harry's power quite like that. It was amazing, his lover was so powerful. The normal would be if the core turned out the size of the witch or wizard, but Harry's had been a little more than seven times the expected size.
Knowing his would be smaller, Draco grazed his hand over the orb and all it once it blew up again. Draco had expected the normal, especially in this body, but his magic reached up about as wide as Harry's thought the color was different. Green and black with hints of purple and gold. He was amazed by it himself, but he smiled when he heard his son's reaction.
"Wow Dad..."
Draco smiled, walked away to where Harry was standing and kissed him full on the lips, hard and slow. He was so satisfied with himself he really couldn't help it. But now it was the moment of truth. Jamie's turn.
Jamie hopped off the seat and ran to the orb.
"Can I?" He turned to his parents and smiled so brightly that Harry almost wanted to take it back. If it ended up being small, then Jamie's smile would disappear wouldn't it. But Draco nodded his answer, grabbing Harry's hand as the boy touched the orb.
It didn't explode this time, but it began to grow slowly. Colors swirling around like they weren't sure where to go. They watched it, all of them, even Severus who had cased the spell. It kept growing and Harry was starting to fear it would stop. Draco expected it to reach the top of Jamie's head and stop, but when it had gotten to that point, it continued growing without stop.
Everyone's eyes started to widen as it didn't stop, it didn't slow and it didn't become a solid color.
When if finally stopped, Harry realized that it was bigger than his had been. Much bigger, by at least 2 inches in diameter.
Jamie looked proudly around himself at his magic, though he didn't know it was his magic and grinned at his parents. "Papa! Daddy! I made it go bigger!"
The one who had the biggest shock was Severus. He actually knew what the slow growth of the orb really meant. Control. This boy was 11 years old and his hold on his magic was like an iron grip. What the hell was this? How did something like this happen? How did he ever miss this?
"I told you!"
Lilian's voice startled everyone as they looked at the door to the library. The rest of their children were all there, even Leonis who hadn't been there for the conversation before hand.
"Told us what?" Jamie asked looking around.
Harry swallowed thickly. "Do you know what this giant circle is Jamie?"
The boy shook his head and Harry felt a bit guilty. Now he would know. "It's your magic Jamie. It's a person's magical core. Yours is this one."
Jamie's looked confused until something clicked in his mind. They'd tricked him.
"You told them!" Jamie shouted as he ran to stand in front of Harry. "You told them! I trusted you and you told them!"
"Told us what Jamie?" Leonis asked as he tried to approach the boy only to step back as a book attempted to fly itself into his innocent face.
"You told them!" Jamie was screaming now and the room once again created its own wind. Escalating quickly into a tornado that dragged books from their shelves. "You traitor!" Jamie's mismatched orbs were glowing, burning with rage and betrayal.
"Jamie!" Harry yelled as the boy began to rise in the air. "Calm down! You're losing control!"
"I don't lose control! I never lose control!" Jamie snapped.
Everyone tried to find a desk to hide behind when the books started being aimed at them. Harry grabbed Draco's arm and dragged him under the nearest desk. "Why is he so angry?" Harry asked stunned by his son's action.
"I don't know! It's the first time he's done something like this! Do you think he'd told you this before and you promised not to tell anyone else?" Draco asked back.
"That maybe it. I'll try to calm him down!" Before Draco could protest, Harry was already on his way to his son. "Jamie! James! James stop!" the child didn't seem to hear him as the wind roared louder.
Harry didn't see it until it hit him in the back of the head, a small wooden desk chair they'd used for the children. He was hit so hard that as the ground came rushing towards him, he was knocked out before even feeling the landing.
"Harry!"
"Papa!"
No one noticed Draco rushing at Jamie until the winds had stopped.
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Anger and fear blinded Draco completely. He was unaware he was even moving at all, right up until his open hand came down on Jamie's small round cheek. Instantly, the wind stopped, just like Draco's breathing.
He hadn't just...oh god.
Jamie had crumbled to his knees, holding his cheek with wide eyes that suddenly started to sting with the coming tears. Everyone around them started to come out from hiding and they all stared as the father and son stood in the middle of the library, unmoving.
The tears were coming in fast, but the thing that snapped everyone out of their muted and still surprise was a sob.
Jamie sobbed harshly and shook his head violently, his hand on his cheek holding off the stinging.
"I'm scared...I-I don't want this power, I don't like it! I-I'm so scared."
Draco fell to his knees as well, wrapping arms around the little boy.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. We'll find a way to fix this, you'll be okay, everything will be okay." Draco whispered as he rocked himself and Jamie back and forth. He needed this as much as the child did it seemed, because he was holding back his own set of tears.
"Severus!" Draco's voice cracked but no one noticed. "Take Harry to Mother!"
The old wizard wasted no time in picking up the fallen brunet and rushing out of the room in search of Narcissa who was most likely in the kitchen. She was better at diagnostic spells than even Severus. She'd often been the one to heal him and Lucius after Voldemort meetings.
While Draco watched his godfather carry away the person he loved, he prayed nothing would be wrong with Harry. Draco was dying to rush to the side of his lover, but there was something more important in his hands. Jamie's magic did have the potential to go out of control, and apparently, it didn't take too much emotion to make that happen.
"James. Listen to me. We have a way to stop this, we have a way to make it so that your magic is controllable, will you listen to it? Do you want to be in control of your magic?"
Draco was afraid his son didn't hear him as he waited for a sign among the sobbing, but it didn't stop, instead Jamie nodded into Draco's chest.
"Daddy's not angry anymore. It isn't your fault. Everything will be okay James." Draco tried to sooth, but he would never be as good at this as Harry was. That showed when Jamie finally calmed down enough to speak.
"Pa-Papa?"
Draco sighed and held on tighter. "A stay chair hit him in the back of the head, he's with Grandma now."
Jamie's head bolted up his eyes wide and scared, red and tear stained that it somewhat broke Draco's heart. "I-I hurt him? I hurt Papa?"
Draco knew that he answer was in his eyes, so he pulled Jamie's head back into his chest. "No child, no, your Papa will be okay." It tore him to know that he actually may be lying right to his child's face, but he hoped to the gods that Harry would be okay.
The other three children had come closer now, looking at their Daddy in confusion and fear. The event had lasted all of five minutes and so much had happened that no one could quite understand. And that brought another topic to Draco's mind. Pulling the boy from his chest, he looked him straight in the eyes.
"Why did you get so mad James? What did your Papa do wrong?"
Jamie looked away, almost ashamed of himself.
"I didn't want anyone to know. I don't-" He paused in another sniffle. "I didn't want to be weak. I didn't want to have trouble controlling my magic. I wanted to make you proud..."
Draco was taken aback. "Me?"
Jamie nodded. "You always praise me when I get spells right, but you don't know how hard I have to try, how much I have to practice. I...I didn't want you to know, I wanted to be like Scorpius I-" He looked down. "I wanted to be closer to you..."
"Jamie..." Draco breathed and pulled the boy into a hug again.
"I just wanted to-to make you proud of me."
A/N: I want to thank XTeionx for volunteering as a Beta! I finally got one. This chapter wasn't reviewed yet though, I posted it because I can't seem to be able to send XTeionx emails as of yet, but when we have that bug fixed, all the other chapters will be as well :) Thank you for reading this story, I am enjoying it quite a bit myself...It's getting my mind off the fact that me and my boyfriend are fighting quite a bit...same for my best friend and HER boyfriend. Life just freakin sucks sometimes you know, but at least we'll always have some good fanfiction out there. :) Please REVIEW! I am ALMOST to 100 Reviews! :)