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Chapter 34

The rest of June passed quietly. The interview for the Quibbler was done and published. People had read it, apparently letting the article be well-received. As with the article of Voldemort's return, the Daily Prophet published it when the Wizarding community appeared to accept what they said more than what was said by the prophet originally. Shortly after it had been published, Molly Weasley sent them all a howler, calling them disgraces upon the Wizarding world. She had also insulted their non-human nature. That insult had particularly angered Severus, who was proud of his vampiric nature. But the first two weeks of July came and both Harry and Ron were in their fourth month of pregnancy. Because Ron was having twins, he looked as big as Harry did, who only had two months left of his pregnancy. With all the issues that happened, their dominate mates were watching them carefully.

Harry was walking towards the library where Ron and Ginny were. Ginny had homework to do in preparation for her NEWT's that she would be taking that year. Ron was there, as he didn't know whether or not he was going to stay at home or try and do something, Lucius had told him it would be fine to stay at home, or he could work if he wanted to. Ron wasn't the type to stay at home and laze all day, he just didn't know what he wanted to do, he had gotten good grades and had a lot of options, he was thinking about being a healer mostly, he had felt helpless when Harry had gone into labour early and could do nothing to help, he was at the time afraid that something would happen.

Harry smiled at them when he arrived. Ron looked over him with a worried look and Harry only shrugged. "I'm fine Ron." He sat down in a chair across from his heart brother. He had one of his hands resting upon his stomach. He could feel his little girl kicking up a storm. "So, how's the studying going?" Ginny grimaced. She wasn't Luna when it came to such things, and Ron was still debating over what he wanted to do. Harry had figured out what he wanted, and they were all working towards figuring out how to make his idea of a daycare style service could work. Severus had even said he would contemplate quitting his job at Hogwarts, but both Harry and Draco had talked him out of that.

"Harry you know your day care idea, would it need someone like a medi-witch or something like that. If so, I could do that and we could work together, I think I might do the healer course at St Mungo's and then when I finish it work with you. What do you think Harry, good idea or a bad one? I just don't know I want to help people, but I'd like to work with kids. Maybe I can be a pediatrician a healer that deals with children," Ron said as he smiled over at Harry, though he had a little confused look on his face.

Harry gave Ron a smile. "That's a wonderful idea Ron. It would need a healer. Children are pretty good at getting themselves into trouble that would likely require more training than the basic stuff." He chuckled a slight bit and then stretched his arms over his head. He then decided a change of topic was needed. Everything that had been discussed could wait until later. Harry felt that it was time for some light hearted talk. "So, are you annoyed with the hovering, or is it just me?" He rubbed his stomach lovingly, letting the kicking feeling over take him. He hadn't been kidding when he told his mates a month earlier that she liked to kick him all the time.

Ron chuckled and noticed that Harry was alone for once, ever since the newspaper article and the Howler Severus and Draco were usually around the young, pregnant Fae. "I had a go at Lucius last night, and the night before, and the night before that. You see the pattern Harry. It's annoying, but I'm trying to get used to if for Lucius' sake, as he is non-stop worrying about me making sure I don't need anything every five minutes or seeing if I am comfortable, he even came in to the library yesterday and picked me up saying I should have a bloody nap," Ron said his voice showing his amusement. "I was about ready to blow, but I know he is only doing it because he is worried and he cares, how are Severus and Draco with you? As I noticed that they aren't in the shadows at the moment," he then asked a smile on his face.

Harry smiled at the mentions of them not being there. "Overbearing. They're acting as if I'm going to go through what I did with Aislin and Conner. I'm fine this time. I can understand Draco to some extent. The fact that I'm having a girl, and no girl has been born to the Malfoy family in such a long time, he wants to make sure she's okay." He rubbed his stomach and felt her turn over. This only caused Harry's smile to get bigger. "But it's annoying the hell out of me. Last night, I locked them both out of the rooms. And the problem is that neither of them can get around Fae magic." Ginny began laughing when Harry said that part. It amused her to think about Severus and Draco locked out of their room by the pregnant Harry. It proved to not mess with a pregnant person.

Ginny gave another chuckle. "I'm going to leave this to a little later and go and find Luna, she said she wanted to have a look around the grounds for one of her mystic creatures, she thinks there may be one here. I'll tell you if we find one," she said softly as she gave her brother Ron a hug and then turned to Harry and did the same. "You two keep those three on their toes okay, and I will see you both for lunch or dinner, I don't know how long the expedition over the Malfoy ground will last," she joked lightly as she then left the pair alone to talk.

Harry smiled slightly at her leaving. Ron looked over at Harry and tilted his head to the side. "You know Harry; it's quite amusing that all of this is happening. So, you have a name for your little girl?" Harry shook his head in response. Ron laughed and shifted as he felt a nice kick from one of his two little boys. The problem was their silence was soon interrupted by the arrival of one Draco Malfoy. His hair was all over the place, as he had yet to get a chance to brush it, Harry having kept him locked out of the rooms. His clothes were slightly rumpled. All in all, he didn't look ANYTHING like the Draco Malfoy people were use to seeing. This only caused both Ron and Harry to begin laughing at the veela.

Draco looked at them both laughing at him and snorted. "Do not laugh at me, Harry as this is you fault, are we now allowed into the bedroom to get changed and ready? I do not enjoy sleeping in the spare rooms and neither does Severus; it is most uncomfortable without you in between us," he said a little annoyed at being locked out of his own bedroom and away from his shower products and hair products.

Harry looked at Draco for a moment and crossed his arms; it only made his stomach look larger than it was. "Are you two going to let me have some alone time?" He watched Draco. The blonde haired veela walked over to Harry, his own arms crossed. He only shrugged. The shrug seemed to set Harry off. He stood up and stormed from the room, well somewhat. This left a confused Draco behind and Ron shaking his head. He sighed and looked at the blonde, knowing that he had just done something stupid in pissing off his pregnant mate.

"Draco, sit down for a while and let Harry cool off for a bit. You should not have done that. Harry is a little annoyed at you and Severus for your constant hovering, he knows you mean well, but everyone needs some time to themselves. Lucius is the same as well with me, but I have told him to leave me be today or for some of it anyway. He is just as worried as you are about Harry." Ron tried his best to explain about how Harry was feeling, he was getting some of it from the heart brother bond, the other part was from how he was feeling about being constantly followed and shadowed.

Draco sat down and sighed. He looked somewhat defeated. "I can't help it. It's a veela's nature to worry. I mean, I know Severus is worrying, but we just don't want anything to happen to Harry this time." He ran his fingers through his already tousled hair. He wanted to go after Harry, try and reason with him. This didn't look to work before. He shook his head and watched as Ron rubbed a specific side of his stomach. He mentally smiled over the fact that he was going to be a big brother. That made him quite happy. Draco looked towards the door of the library.

"Draco, I know you want to go after him, but it would be best to wait an hour and take him his favourite dessert to help and apologise for the way you were acting," Ron said as he smiled again as he felt a gently kick from one of his baby boys. He chuckled. "Your brothers are starting to kick a little stronger now, I just felt one of them by my hand," he told the veela.

Draco smiled at that. It made him happy to hear that. He wanted his siblings to be well. Over in another corridor, Harry was fuming. He was tired of being followed. It annoyed him. He knew that he was alone right now, mostly thanks to Ron. He knew that his heart brother had stopped Draco from following him. Slight problem was that Harry had stopped walking. One of his hands drifted down to his stomach. A slight pain coursed through his body. He winced as it did so again. The last time he had felt any pain like that had been with his twins. That had been caused by Hermione and had started early on. This was the first time he happened to have felt such pain in this pregnancy. Suddenly a pain ripped through Harry and he fell to his knees, luckily he was caught by Severus, who happened to have been walking down the hall when Harry stopped.

"Harry? What's wrong?" Severus asked worried as he caught Harry in his arms and swung him up, carrying him towards their bedroom. He laid the young Fae on the bed and called for one of the house elves. "Titch!" he called, the small house elf popped into the room "I need you to get Lucius here as soon as possible and to tell him to fire call a healer right away. Tell him something is wrong with Harry," he told Titch, the elf bowed and popped out of the room. Severus went back over to Harry, who had curled up around his stomach, which still hurt him.

Severus took one of Harry's hands. Lucius came in two minutes later, telling Severus that the healer would be arriving. He looked worriedly at Harry. Severus nodded. Lucius walked out to inform Ron and Draco what was happening. Severus only held onto Harry's hand, watching as Harry moaned in pain. His body was ridged and it was obvious that he was in much pain. Draco came rushing in moments later, joining Severus by the bedside.

"Sev, what's wrong with him?" Draco asked, his voice shaking in fear. He sat on the bed and stroked Harry's back, trying to give some comfort to his young mate. He looked the young Fae over and noticed some blood pooling underneath Harry. "Sev! He is bleeding," he whispered in a panic to the older vampire. Severus quickly looked and then placed a hand on Draco's shoulder for comfort.

The healer came in moments later and got Severus to move out of the way. Using some skill, he got Harry onto his back. Draco and Severus were sitting on the other side of him. Harry whimpered. He didn't seem aware of the fact that the healer was there. Pulling out the wand, the healer began to cast many spells to see what was happening so he could stop it. "I need you to tell me what happened before now?" Severus began to recount him coming around the hall and Harry stopping. How he had noticed that Harry appeared to just be standing there and his subsequent collapse and Severus catching him. The healer only nodded and continued his spells. He frowned and began to do something else. Draco was mostly just clinging to Severus.

Half an hour later, the healer had finished and Harry was now sleeping peacefully. "Mr. Snape, Misters Malfoy, it seems as though the placenta was coming away from the womb wall, causing the pain and the bleeding. He will need rest and careful monitoring, I have stabilized the placenta and it has stopped moving away from the lining, if it starts again we may have to deliver the baby early as the child is in danger. Make sure he rests as too much exercise can cause it to start again, and he may miscarry, or the baby could be stillborn, we need to be careful," he told the worried people that were waiting for news on the black haired young Fae.

Draco got a look of worry on his face, but nodded in understanding. Lucius, who had shown up while Harry was being checked over, led the healer out, allowing Draco and Severus to be alone with their mate. Draco looked at Severus, the worried gaze on his other partner's face. "Sev…He almost lost the child. What could have caused this?" One thing he didn't know, and that Harry hadn't as well, was that children with Veela were generally more dependant on both parents being in physical contact with each other. Severus knew this, but hadn't thought that one night could have been that detrimental on the child. He felt horrible about that now. Looking at Draco, he had to think over how to explain the situation to the other people of his threesome.

Severus went over to the few armchairs in the bedroom and got Draco to sit down in one and sat down himself. "Draco, when a veela and his mate have a child together, and the child is still in the womb, the parents need to be together a lot more than normal. The child depends on you both being there; this may have come on because of last night when Harry slept alone. It may not have been cause by that alone, it could be a number of other things as well. But we need to make sure we don't upset him and are with him a lot, but to remember that he is someone who likes being alone on occasions as well as independent," he explained as best as he could to the young Veela.

Draco nodded in response to Severus. He sighed and slumped in his chair. He was glad that Harry hadn't miscarried. He started putting one and two together in his mind. He then looked Severus straight into his onyx eyes. "So, the reason he didn't completely miscarry could be because I saw him before you found him and also because I was there not long after you got him in here?" Severus nodded as a response. This left Draco's mind more at ease. He was glad that he had at least done something right to keep from losing his daughter. Besides Harry, Severus, Aislin and Conner, that little girl was the most important person in his life. Draco glanced over at the sleeping Harry, sighing softly.

Draco got up from the chair and went over to the bed and lay carefully beside Harry. "At least I did something right. Come lay down with us for a while," he said to the dark haired vampire. Severus smiled and nodded, getting up and going over to the bed lying down on Harry's other side. "He is not going to like staying in bed, but he will do it, for the baby," He added as they both lay with an arm over Harry's extended stomach. They both felt a small kick from the baby girl growing inside.

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