Packing

"Urgh!" Harry exclaimed letting himself drop onto the green couch, "I knew that Sundae was too much." he complained loudly as Draco settled by his feet.

"You should have just got normal ice - cream with a flake and wafer like I did. I warned you that a full stomach and apparition wasn't a good mix." The blonde said in a soft voice while pulling off Harry's foot wear and socks.

"Bloody baby." Harry murmured pressing a delicate hand to his stomach.

"I think you'll enjoy pregnancy Harry," Draco said calmly while still rubbing Harry's feet, and at a questioning eyebrow he shrugged and elaborated, "I know you'll enjoy it because I know that you'll take good care of yourself and our child and I know you'll love every stage of it."

"What do you mean stages?" the elf asked shifting his position so that Draco could reach his other foot.

"Like when the baby first kicks and when you first start to show, things like that." Harry smiled serenely.

"Yeah, I think I will enjoy those bits. When will I start to show?" Harry asked swapping places completely and resting his head on Draco's lap.

"On witches it's usually about three months but because you're male and rather skinny I reckon about two months."

"Are male pregnancies shorter then women's?"

"Only by about one and a half months." Harry hummed in response and smiled as the blonde lifted up his heavy hair and massaged his head.

"You're good at this." Harry commented with a yawn.

"Thank you. My Gran used to do it to me all the time before she dies a few years ago."

"She sounds like a nice woman."

"She was a wonderful woman. I think out of my whole family she would have been the only one who would approve of our relationship."

"Did she know about you being a Veela?" Harry asked turning his head so he could look up into his loves grey and silver eyes.

"I got my inheritance from her through my Father." Harry nodded in understanding.

The two of them were silent for a few minutes, with Harry enjoying the feeling of Draco's hands running through his hair, and with Draco staring into the hearth of the fire remising of his late Grandmother.

"What else do we need for the ceremony?" Harry asked in his soft voice.

"Nothing really. We're having the ceremony in the gardens aren't we? I think I heard you saying that yesterday."

"Yes that will be amazing."

"We just need robes then which we can find some in the Manor somewhere, there's no point buying some. Unless you want to?"

"No, I don't think there's any point in it either we're only wearing them for the day."

"Well there's no point in staying here all day, come on you we'd better get our trunks packed so we know if we need anything."

Harry stood up languidly and shivered as his feet touched the marble floor which the green rug didn't quite cover.

"Your feet are cold?" Draco stepped forward and swung his mate up into his arms much to the said mate's surprise.

"Hey, Dray! Put me down! You stupid Veela!" Harry cursed kicking his legs and struggling out of the strong arms.

"No, you're not going to catch a cold from these floors because of me." the Veela grinned as Harry stopped struggling and he just chuckled under his breath as he heard his mate cursing in a soft voice.

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Harry stood in the middle of the room glaring at his trunk. No matter what he tried he couldn't get it closed. With a happy sigh he decided to resort to the muggle alternative, he sat on top of his trunk and jumped up and down on it trying to get the damn thing to close, the lid wouldn't budge that extra inch.

"What on earth are you doing Hun?" Draco asked coming out from the bathroom with a toiletries bag in one hand and his bath robe in the other.

"It - won't-bloody-close!" Harry exclaimed, his sentence punctuated by multiple bounces on the trunk lid.

"Honestly, Harry." Draco placed his things on top of his own trunk and pulled Harry off his own, "What on earth have you got in here?" Draco asked when he had pulled open the lid.

"I dunno actually." Draco sighed and pulled out all of Harry's new things.

"Is there anything in here that you want?" Draco asked kneeling down.

"I don't think so..." Harry stood and thought for a second, "Oh wait, my Photograph Albums and my invisibility cloak." Draco nodded and accio-ed the three things from the mess in the trunk and then evanesco-ed the rest of it.

"There you go plenty of room," Harry dropped to his knees beside Draco and began folding up his clothes again.

"I really love you Draco." Harry murmured suddenly halfway through folding one of his Gryffindor robes.

"I love you too, Harry." Draco answered placing the robes from Harry's hands into the trunk and wrapping his arms tightly around the small Elf's waist.

"I just really wanted to tell you."

"It's okay Hun I understand perfectly." Harry was the first to break away from the hug so that he could continue with the folding and Draco reached over in order to help.

"Go and pack your own trunk Dray, I think I'm okay over here."

"Alright." Draco nodded and with a light kiss on the crown of Harry's head he stood up in order to finish packing for himself.

"Is that everything then?" the blonde asked as his mate added his Firebolt and invisibility cloak to the trunk. He was watching from the bed, where he was sprawled out with no trace of the usual Malfoy grace.

"Um...yeah." Harry shut the lid and locked it before going towards his lover and perching on the bed beside him, "You look like a common Gryffindor, lying out like that."

In response to Harry's observation the Slytherin dragged the brunet towards him and straddled his waist. Harry laughed as the blonde began to tickle his sides.

"Dr- aco...st-st-op" the Gryffindor managed to choke out through his laughs.

"As long as you tell me that I am the sneakiest Slytherin you have ever met and I am amazingly handsome."

"Ok-ay!" Draco's hands fell still and Harry took in a few long breaths before sitting up so quickly the blonde unbalanced. Harry took his chance and landed an open mouthed kiss to his fiancés lips.

"Hey! You're just trying to distract m-" he was cut off by Harry's tanned hands sliding up his shirt and Harry's soft mouth on his neck.

"Is it working?" the slightly Slytherin, Gryffindor asked, his lips brushing Draco's pale skin as he spoke.

"No, it's n-" he stopped in order to pull in a breath of air through his teeth. Harry's lips had found Draco's nipple through his shirt and had bit the pebbled tip, "That feels good." the blonde murmured in distraction.

"You are - he most sneaky - Slytherin - I've ever - met and - you are - angelically - handsome." Harry murmured pressing open mouthed kisses to Draco's skin.

"Tease." the Slytherin stated flipping them over and pressing his lips to Harry's who had straddled Draco's hips and moving his own rather suggestively. Draco ripped off Harry's shirt and threw it to one side in order to look at the beautiful body of his amazing mate.

"Master Draco, Master Harry Potter sirs. There be someone's at the floo sirs." Draco growled and rolled onto his side so that Harry fell off his lap and onto the bed.

"Hey babe," Harry called out across the room, "You have wet spots all over your shirt." Harry laughed as Draco pulled off his shirt and quickly pulled on a black tank from the closet and rushed from the room. Harry got off the bed and pulled on a white long sleeved t-shirt in order to follow his lover at a much more sedate pace.

"What's up?" He asked when he reached the doorway to Draco's study.

"Nothing just my witness confirming our ceremony." Harry nodded and moved into the room so that he could sit on the high wooden desk, directly in front of the chair which the Slytherin was currently occupying.

"Who is your witness anyway?" Harry asked reaching forward to smooth back a lock of blonde hair which had fallen in front of his loves eyes.

"You'll find out."

"I guess I will." Harry murmured while running his hands through his mate's soft blonde hair.

"Are you sure you want to marry me Harry?"

"Yes." The Elf answered without any hesitation.

"Why?"

"I love you of course. Not to mention I'm carrying your child and you're my mate and … I hope you love me too."

"I do."

"Enough to marry me?"

"Yes."

"Then why wouldn't I want to marry you?" Harry paused, "Do you want to marry me?"

Draco didn't say anything in response. He reached up and gently dragged his fiancé onto his lap so that Harry's legs were hanging off the side of the chair.

He didn't lean in for a kiss like he usually would, didn't make any move to smooth back mussed long hair and didn't adjust Harry's position in any way. Harry smiled softly and wound his fingers around Draco's. They sat there in silence, Harry sat comfortably on Draco's knee and the Slytherin sat in silence gazing down into those wide emerald green eyes.

He couldn't explain why he was just sat there staring at his elf. He wouldn't be able to explain even if he tried to. He was entranced by the beautiful person in his lap who had sworn his life to Draco's, through thick and thin. Draco couldn't help but think that at this moment in time Destiny was smiling down at the small family. The unmoving silence was broken as Draco gently slid his hand up his loves shirt to glide over the soft belly that now held his child.

"Anything I could ever possibly want or need is in my arms right now. If keeping you in my arms means marrying you then I would marry you a thousand times over."

"Good," Harry said breathlessly with a beautiful smile.

A/N - I'm sorry for the long wait but I'm in the middle of my GCSEs and Seminary so most of my time is taken up by Coursework deadlines and Exam revision/Prep and Seminary lessons which I am about a month behind on soo that sucks. Good news is that I only have 10 Exams left to do and I have a longer Summer Holiday so I'll be able to make up for it.

Anyways I hope you like

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