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Of Lions And Lambs - Part Three	By : Marblez Category: Harry Potter Crossovers > Slash - Male/Male Views: 5221 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Chapter Fifteen

"Jasper? Jasper, I need to talk with you!"

"You have got to be kidding me," Draco growled angrily as the back door to the house was opened loudly, Edwards loud voice calling up to them, successfully interrupting their passionate love-making.

"He's desperate…" Jasper breathed, mentally cursing Edward for his lousy timing. "And sorry…" he added when he felt a sharp stab of apology come from anxious brother downstairs.

"Not sorry enough," Draco growled, pulling away from Jasper and lying on his back, his hands covering his face. "Go on; go see what the idiot wants. I'll be down in a minute once I'm slightly more composed and less likely to hex him."

"I love you," Jasper said, leaning over to press a kiss to the warm skin of Draco's bare chest. "We can pick this up later on…"

"Is that a promise?" Draco asked, moving his hands away from his face so that his lover could see the hopeful look in his silver eyes.

"Oh, that's definitely a promise," Jasper answered softly, pressing his lips to Draco's in a sweet kiss to seal the deal between them. "Now I'd best go down and see what it is that he wants…"

"You might want to put some clothes on first," Draco suggested with a cheeky smile when his boyfriend made to leave the bedroom clad only in his skin.

"Ah," Jasper mumbled, looking down at himself as he paused in the middle of the room. "You're right; clothes might be a good idea. Wouldn't want Edward to get jealous when he sees what he's missing…"

"Ha!" Draco let out a loud bark of laughter before being reduced to very amused chuckles as he pictured what Bella's reaction would be if her boyfriend found himself attracted to another man…she would be so shocked! "Oh, that would be so funny…" he mumbled to himself before leaning up to accept the kiss from his now fully dressed boyfriend before Jasper left the room, growling to Edward that it had better be something important.

"It's about Bella."

"Of course it is," Draco muttered when he heard Edward's soft reply. After that the two vampires moved into the living room and Draco could no longer hear them. Sighing unhappily he rose from the bed and started to dress – the only way he was going to satisfy his curiosity and find out what was going on between Edward and Bella now was to join the two vampires downstairs.

There went his plans for a last pyjama day…

"…need to keep her safe," Edward was saying as he stepped into the living room. "This is the only way I can think of to keep her away from the fighting."

"But they will still be able to track her scent up into the mountains…"

"Mountains?" Draco asked in surprise as he joined Jasper on the sofa, "What mountains? Since when did the plan involve mountains?"

"Since Edward wants to take Bella camping in the mountains to keep her away from the fighting," Jasper answered him, resting his hand on Draco's thigh.

"Camping? In the mountains? Bella?" Draco asked in disbelief, his eyes snapping to Edward, "Don't you think that's just a tad extreme?"

"If she stays near the town the newborns will attack the humans. Taking her into the mountains will keep not only her safe but keep the people of the town safe," Edward explained his thinking to the wizard.

"But they'll still smell her trail from the journey up to wherever you're planning on camping," Jasper pointed out, his tone serious. "No matter how fast you run, Edward, there will still be enough of Bella's very distinctive scent to follow."

"Isn't there a way to mask her scent?" Edward asked, sounding more than a little desperate. Jasper winced from the chaotic mess of panic, fear and love that Edward was giving off as he answered apologetically,

"None that I can think of."

"Well I can think of one," Draco said calmly. Two sets of golden eyes snapped to him, watching as he leaned back against the sofa and withdrew his wand from the hidden pocket in his jackets sleeve, rather thankful that he'd been acting on auto-pilot when he dressed and had grabbed his wand without thinking about it.

"Magic…" Edward breath, his voice filled with relief.

"It comes in handy sometimes," Draco said with a small smile on his face. "I can Apparate her out of the harms way and to the newborns it'll seem like her trail just disappeared into thin air," he explained to the two. "Of course, there is one slight hitch…I have to be able to see where I'm going in my mind and as I haven't the foggiest idea where it is you're planning on camping-"

"I can take you there. It won't take long," Edward said quickly.

"Now?" Draco asked, his voice a soft whine. Eventually he sighed deeply, giving in to Edwards pleading look and groaned loudly, "Ugh…fine! But can I just say that you owe me big time – we had plans for today."

"I know, I'm sorry and I promise I'll make it up to both of you once this is over and Bella is safe…" Edward said quickly, the look on his face telling the blond wizard that he was completely serious in his promise.

"Well then, it look's like we're going for a walk," Draco said to his boyfriend.

"So it does," Jasper agreed, rising from the sofa and standing in front of Draco with his back to him. "Climb on."

Grinning like a child Draco hurriedly climbed up onto the sofa and jumped onto his boyfriends back, wrapping his arms about his neck and his legs about his waist. Jaspers arms hooked under his knees, giving him more support as the two vampires rushed out the back door of the house (thankfully remembering to shut it behind them) and into the woods.

Draco couldn't help but enjoy himself as they ran through the forest at unbelievable speeds, everything around him a blue as they dodged trees at the last minute. He let out a scream of excitement when Jasper avoided a fallen tree by running up another and jumping through the air, flipping over completely before landing with ease and continuing to run after his brother.

"This is it," Edward announced a few moments later as he and Jasper came to a halt, gesturing to the only piece of flat grass Draco had seen since they'd started the ascent. Jasper made as if to put him down but he clung on tightly around the vampire's neck. Good thing he didn't need to breath.

"What's wrong?" Jasper asked, his voice filled with both confusion and worry.

"I haven't got any shoes on."

"Oh," Jasper mumbled as he looked down at his boyfriend's feet where they rested against the sides of his legs, his white socks standing out against the dark denim. "I'm sorry, I didn't realise…"

"It's ok. I didn't realise either until we were halfway here," Draco chuckled, leaning down and kissing the back of his boyfriends neck before his eyes moved to survey the potential campsite. "Well I'll give you one thing, Edward," he said as a gust of wind appeared out of nowhere and sent his hair flying into his face, "It' definitely out of the way…"

"How did young find this place, Edward?" Jasper asked.

"I used to come up here at night before I met Bella. I'd sit up here and watch the stars and contemplate our existence," Edward answered softly.

"Wow…morbid," Draco muttered, shivering as another gust of wind hit them. It was getting cold all of sudden but of course the other two were barely affected by the icy breeze, only the movement of their hair and their clothes showing that they had been touched by the wind at all. "You do know it's freezing up here, right?"

"Do you want to go back?" Jasper asked, immediately worried for his mate.

"No, I'm fine," Draco reassured him even though his feet were quickly turning into blocks of ice. No need to worry Jasper who would immediately rush him home, he could stand a little bit of time in the cold. "I was actually talking about Bella. She doesn't handle the cold well – you should know that by now, Edward."

"I do," Edward said seriously. "I've bought top of the range equipment for us to use – the tent is designed in such a way to keep the cold out and keep the heat in and the sleeping bag is the kind that people use when they go mountaineering properly. She should be fine."

"Ok. I was just saying because…because if she does get cold you won't be able to help her," Draco said awkwardly, hating the fact that he had to bring this up. This would hurt not only Edward but Jasper as well. "You know that…well, they say that when someone's suffering from the cold the best way to heat them up is…body heat. You don't have body heat – vampires are ice cold to the touch so…so you'll only make it worse for her…"

"I know," Edward whispered, his expression pained.

"I'm sorry but it had to be said," Draco apologised.

"I know you did," Edward smiled sadly at him, "I…I have taken that into account when planning this camping expedition."

"Cool," Draco muttered, wincing at his choice of words.

"Will you be able to bring Bella up here now?" Jasper asked, turning his head to the side to look back at his boyfriends face.

"Yes, it shouldn't be a problem," Draco nodded, trying to stop himself from shivering. He really was starting to feel cold now. Soon he would have to ask to go home which would be…completely humiliating.

Jasper frowned.

He could feel the shivers his boyfriend was trying to hide and thanks to his special gift he could feel the pride that was stopping Draco from bringing up the fact that he was now quite cold. If he wasn't risking his health Jasper would find the action quite adorable. As it was he decided not to scupper Draco's pride by bringing up the subject of him needing to go home and simply directed his thoughts to his brother, knowing that the other vampire would hear every word.

"Draco is beginning to shiver from the cold. I need to get him home before he catches a chill. If there's anything else we need to discuss about this change to the original plan it will have to be said some other time."

"There's nothing more to say at the moment," Edward answered too softly for Draco to hear, his worried gaze falling on Draco who was trying most valiantly not to look cold. Worry began to pool in his stomach as he questioned his earlier confidence – would he really be able to keep Bella warm in such a cold environment. She might catch a chill and…no…no! He would not allow himself to think like that. She was going to be fine. He was doing this to keep her safe!

She was going to be fine.

He would make sure of it.

"Draco? Do you want to Apparate us back to yours so that we can get you warm?" Jasper asked softly.

"K-Kay," Draco mumbled, releasing his grip around Jaspers neck so that he could take out his wand. "Edward? Y-You'll need to take my h-hand," Draco said, reaching with his free hand to the other vampire.

"I'm going to go and see Bella," Edward said, stepping back from the couple instead of moving closer. "I'll be fine making my own way there."

"You sure?" Draco asked.

"I'm sure," Edward answered with a nod.

"Kay," Draco mumbled, winding his arms back around Jaspers neck once more, his wand clutched in his fist in front of the vampires face. "See you l-later, Edward," he called out to the other vampire who nodded his own farewell to the couple as Draco leaned his head on top of Jaspers, closed his eyes and Apparated them home with a soft 'pop'.

"Here," a voice startled both of them as they appeared in Draco's bedroom, Jasper trying not to stumble as he recovered from the magical form of travel – he still hadn't gotten used to it. "Put this round you. I've got a hot bath running for you so we'll have you warm in no time."

It was Alice of course and Draco was extremely thankful for the blanket she placed about him even as he clung to Jasper's back. And the hot bath she mentioned sounded absolutely heavenly…

"I thought you had plans to go shopping today, Alice," Jasper said as he gently lowered Draco down so that he was sitting on the edge of the bed – he was colder than he had originally thought and all of a sudden he felt so drowsy…

"Plans change," Alice answered with a shrug before disappearing into the bathroom to check on the height and temperature of the water. She didn't want it to be too hot for Draco, especially not in his current state. "Bath's nearly ready," she announced as she stepped back into the bedroom.

"Thank you, Alice," Jasper said as he knelt down in front of Draco and took off his socks. "Oh, Draco, you should have told me your feet were so cold…"

"They aren't," Draco answered which was kind of true – his feet were cold…they were completely numb. There was a difference.

"Your toes are purple," Alice said, leaning over her brother's shoulder so that she could peer down at the wizards normally pale feet. She was right; his toes were a worrying shade of deep purple. "And purple is not a good look for you."

"They are?" Draco asked in surprise. Both of the vampires before him nodded. "Oh…well that's not good."

"No, it isn't," Jasper agreed.

"I'll wait downstairs," Alice said as Jasper gently eased the blanket from about Draco's shoulders and started to unbutton his jacket. "Don't let him stay in the water too long or he'll get even colder."

Jasper nodded and once his sister was gone he hurriedly stripped the clothes from his boyfriends shivering body and then took him in his arms, carrying him through to the bathroom. Somehow he managed to turn of the still running taps before he lowered his boyfriend into the water, wincing as Draco hissed. The water wasn't too warm but it felt like he was burning, especially his feet…

"Ow…" he groaned, closing his eyes and willing the burn to fade which it slowly began to…except around his feet. Jasper kneeled at the foot of the tub and picked up a washcloth left there by Alice. Then, being careful to keep the wash cloth between his icy cold hands and Draco's now slightly warm skin he began to massage the life and blood back into his boyfriend's numb feet.

"Is that any better?" Jasper asked softly. Draco nodded, resting his head back against the rim of the tub. "You should have told me you were getting cold."

"I didn't feel cold, not cold enough to complain anyway…well, not until that wind started to pick up," Draco explained apologetically as his cheeks began to turn pink from the heat of the water and the steam rising off of it. "I'm sorry…I didn't mean to worry you…"

"It's ok. Just don't make a habit of it," Jasper said with an understanding and forgiving smile, continuing to massage the feet in his hands. In no time at all the purple colour had gone from his feet and they were a healthy pink colour once more. "Are you ready to get out? I don't want you staying in until the water gets cold…"

"I know. I heard Alice's reminder," Draco chuckled, slowly pushing himself up with his arms until he was able to stand up in the tub. Jasper moved in a blur and within seconds of standing up Draco found himself wrapped up in a soft, fluffy towel and lifted down to stand on the bath matt. "Thanks," he said, smiling at his boyfriend as the vampire began to pat him dry with the towel.

Once he was sufficiently dry Draco found himself being picked up once again and carried bridal style into the bedroom, still wrapped in the fluffy towel that not felt ever so slightly damp. Alice had obviously popped back into the bedroom because the clothes that he had been wearing earlier, the clothes that Jasper had left all over the floor were gone and a new set of clothes were laid out neatly on what was fast becoming known as his side of the bed – even though he didn't sleep Jasper still preferred one side of the bed to the other.

As he placed Draco down onto his feet, keeping his arms around him and pressing him to his chest he caught sight of a note out of the corner of his eye. It was on his pillow and was definitely from Alice – her hand-writing was as unique as she was. He chuckled softly as he read what she had written fro them, earning a confused look from his boyfriend that encourage him to explain.

"Alice left us a note," he said, nodding to the note. "She says – Right you two, no time for dawdling, distractions, detours or whatever you want to call what you have in mind right now. Get dressed and meet me down in the living room!"

Draco chuckled at his boyfriends accidental impression of the female vampire. Somehow he doubted that Jasper even realised that he had been copying Alice's tone and accent.

"She knows us far too well," he said, looking up at his boyfriend as his hand clutched at the top of the towel, keeping it around him now that he was standing. "I was going to suggest a little 'detour'…just to make sure I was completely warmed up…" he purred slowly, stepping back from Jasper as he let the towel slowly slide down his body until it pooled around his feet.

"Oh…" Jasper groaned, his hands reaching out for his boyfriend.

"Don't make me come up there!"

Alice's shout succeeded in ruining the building moment, reducing the couple to guilty chuckles instead of the passionate kisses they had both been planning.

"I guess I should get dressed," Draco sighed, turning away from Jasper so that he could grab the first item of clothing he would need from the bed – his underwear. Next came the socks and then the skinny jeans, requiring a bit of help from Jasper. "Why did she have to pick the ridiculously tight ones?"

"Because she knows how much I love it when you wear them," Jasper growled in his ear as he reached round to grab hold of Draco's bum, pulling him forwards and grinding their hips together suggestively.

"Oh, really?" Draco asked, slipping his arms around his boyfriends neck, allowing his hips to do a little suggestive grinding of their own. "I think I'll have to remember that…for future reference…"

"Boys…" Alice's voice came from just outside his bedroom door.

"Whatever it is she wants us for better be bloody important," Draco growled, shooting a glare in the doors direction. Seriously, he thought angrily to himself, how many more times could they be interrupted in one day? Sighing he turned to grab the shirt from the bed only the pause with a confused frown, "Hey, this isn't mine."

"No, it's not," Jasper agreed, taking the shirt from his boyfriend, "It's mine."

"I haven't seen you wear this one before," Draco said softly, admiring the shirt as Jasper helped him put it on. It was dark green and was made of a soft material that caused it to cling to him like a second skin even though it was slightly too big for him, as all of Jasper tops always were.

"That's because I haven't worn it since Emmett and Rosalie's last wedding," Jasper explained with a smile, stroking his hand down the pattern of ivy embroidered in silver thread down the left side of the button down shirt.

"It's nice," Draco said with a smile as he stepped away from Jasper and headed over to the mirror, picking up his hairbrush on the way. "It's quite Slytherin, actually – our house colours were green and silver."

"It suits you," Jasper said as Draco began to run the brush through his hair, working out all the knots being in the wind earlier had put in it. As Draco worked on his hair the bottom of the shirt rose up to reveal his bottom clad tightly in black denim and a strip of lily-white skin on his lower back…"Hell, is she trying to kill me?" Jasper growled to himself, clenching his hands at his sides to stop himself from going over and pressing kisses to that tantalising strip of skin...seriously, did Alice have to choose an outfit that was so…so…sexy without even trying to be?

"Hey, you ok?" Draco's worried voice snapped him out of his thoughts and he found, to his surprise, that Draco had moved and was waiting by the door for him.

"Yes, I'm fine. Just thinking," Jasper answered, moving across the room to follow his boyfriend downstairs, trying not to let his gaze to be drawn to Draco's bum as he walked.

"Whoa! I'm pretty sure these weren't there earlier on," Draco mumbled as he stepped into the living room, stopping just inside to stare at the bunch of brightly wrapped presents on the coffee table.

"That's because they weren't," Alice giggled happily.

"Ok…then why are they here now?" Draco asked her.

"Because," Alice over-stressed the word with an even bigger smile, "they're your Graduation presents from everyone! With everything that happened yesterday we totally forgot to do the presents!"

"Presents?" Draco repeated, his face betraying how unimpressed he currently was. Ok, so they'd forgotten to do presents and yeah, he had really put some thought into what he had bought for everyone but…"Um, Alice? Couldn't this have waited until…I don't know…later?"

"Nope!"

Draco glared at the giggling vampire as she pushed one of the brightly wrapped presents into his hands, her eyes watching him expectantly as she waited impatiently for him to rip open the paper and find out what was hidden underneath…and waited…and waited…

"Draco!" she eventually whined, going as far as to actually stamp her foot in a ridiculously childish manner as Draco just stared at her, eyebrows raised in a silent display of how unimpressed he was. Jasper hid a grin behind his hand.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Alice," the blond wizard said suddenly, "Are you waiting for me to open this? Well…I'm not really in the mood right now but if you want to come back a bit later on I might feeling like opening some presents…"

"Draco!"

"Right, I'm sorry, Alice. As you might have noticed I get a bit…bitchy when I'm having a bad day," Draco apologised with a deep sigh. "So…who is this one from?" he asked, looking down at the little box in his hands. It was no bigger than his palm and it was so light that Draco would have believed it to be an empty box were it not for the fact that it…jingled?

"It's from your parents…and Carlisle and Esme," Alice answered with a big smile. "Your parents knew what they wanted to get you but because it's a bit more muggle than they could handle on their own so I suggested the combined effort."

"Oh. Well…thanks," Draco mumbled before he slowly and carefully began to unwrap the gift – he was not going to do a Bella and give himself a paper cut! "Um…ok. Slightly confused…" he said as he opened the box that had been hidden within the wrapping paper. In it was a simple looking set of keys. "Why on Earth have they got me some…keys?"

"Some keys? Draco, sometimes you really are a complete and utter idiot," Alice laughed loudly. "They haven't just given you the keys! What are the keys for?"

"How am I supposed to know what they're for?" Draco demanded light heartedly with a laugh, "I mean come on…I'm a wizard, not a psychic!"

"They look like car keys," Jasper said helpfully.

"Car keys?" Draco asked, lifting the keys up to his face to examine them more closely. "Hang on…does that mean that they…did they get me a car?"

"D'you know I think they did…if that shiny new car that just appeared on the driveway is anything to go by," Alice giggled loudly, pointing out the window.

"A car?" Draco gasped, rushing to the window. Alice was right of course – sitting on their drive was a very nice looking car…a very expensive looking car. It was all smooth and sleek, a sporty little number that Draco instantly fell in love with. And the colour…such a dark green that it could almost be mistaken for black…"I'll admit it's very me but…I don't know how to drive…"

"Here," Alice interrupted him with a giggle, pushing another one was most definitely a book – there was no way that the wrapping could disguise that. "This one is from Rosalie and Emmett."

"Ok," Draco mumbled as he opened this next present as carefully as the last after handing the car keys over to Jasper. "Learning To Drive: A Beginners Guide," he read the title of the book when it was uncovered. Flicking through the pages, simply to get a waft of that new book smell, he was startled when something fell out of the book. Before he could move to pick it up Jasper had dropped down to his knees, picking up the…well, whatever it was for him. "Thanks," Draco said as he took it from his boyfriend, bringing it closer to his face so that he could figure out what it was.

"It's a voucher," Alice said simply.

"What for?"

"How about you read it and find out," she answered with a cheeky grin. Draco glared at her before doing as she had suggested and reading the gold script embossed on the cream piece of card,

"This voucher entitles you to as many lessons as you want/need to help you pass your driving test with the super cool driving instructor Emmett McCarthy Cullen and his beautiful wife, a Goddess amongst mortals whose skills in the mechanical world go unmatched – Rosalie!" Looking up from the voucher he chuckled deeply, "I'm guessing that Emmett was the one who chose what to put on the voucher."

"How could you tell?" Alice giggled.

"So are they any good or is it all talk and no facts?" Draco asked.

"They're good," Jasper reassured him with a soft smile. "Emmett taught me to drive when I joined the family. Before then the only thing I'd ever driven was a horse and cart and I was never very good at that – I much preferred to be in the saddle," he explained, "He may not look it but Emmett has the patience of a saint when it comes to teaching someone to drive. I will warn you that he does have a tendency to show off…"

"Well he wouldn't be Emmett if he didn't show off a bit would he?" Draco asked with a grin. "But…that bit about Rosalie being a mechanical Goddess? I mean, it's a bit unbelievable. She doesn't exactly look like the type of person who would enjoy working on dirty car engines."

"That's where you're wrong," Alice said happily, "It's her favourite hobby. I know its kind weird but she's really good at it. Emmett got her started on it and she's been tinkering ever since – you should have seen some of the cars she's tinkered with over the years! There was this one back in 1978 that…"

"She's the reason that Edward's Volvo can reach a top speed of 200mpn," Jasper interrupted his sister before she could go off on a complete tangent about whichever car it was that she was thinking about.

"That's really fast isn't it?" Draco asked, just wanting to be sure – he was still a bit confused by how muggles measured speed. The Wizarding World didn't measure things in miles per hour because every mode of magical transport was faster than that, most of them taking only seconds!

"Especially for a Volvo," Jasper answered with a nod. "You'll pass your test in no time with those two helping you. I would have offered teach you myself but although I can drive a car I'm more of a bike guy," he explained with a rueful smile, "I have to admit I haven't actually driven a car in…twenty-six years."

"You haven't driven a car in twenty-six years?" Draco asked. Jasper nodded. "Well, actually I can understand that…you do very good in your bike leathers…" Draco murmured, dropping the book and voucher down onto the sofa so that he could trail his fingertips down Jasper's chest.

"This last one is from me," Alice said, handing another present from the table to the blond wizard, "And this one is for both of you. Now don't open it while I'm here, you'll be too embarrassed and don't forget to go round Bella's later on – your present will put Edwards mind at ease."

And then she was gone, the front door closing quietly behind her as she left the two of them alone. Draco rolled his eyes at her typically erratic and overly dramatic behaviour of the female vampire.

"What has she given us?" Jasper asked, frowning down at the rather large box his boyfriend was now holding.

"Let's find out," Draco said, dropping down onto the sofa and resting the gift on his thighs so that his hands were free to un-wrap it. What he found inside brought a deep red blush to his cheeks – Alice had bought them a…a…

"Is that what I think that is?" Jasper gasped in shock as he saw the gift.

"It's a…a sex kit," Draco snorted, "Alice…Alice got us a…a sex kit…"

"I'm going to kill her…" Jasper growled softly.

"You know I think…I think that some of this looks quite fun," Draco admitted.

"Draco!" Jasper gasped in surprise, confirming that of the two of them it was the vampire that was the most embarrassed by Alice's present.

"What? I like the idea of doing a little bit of experimenting," Draco mumbled his explanation as he put the box aside. "But we can talk about that later, right now I've got something to give you," he said, effectively changing the subject as he jumped up, heading for the spot where he'd hidden his boyfriends graduation present…only to notice it sitting on the table where the other presents had been. "Oh, there it is. I guess Alice saw where I hid it…"

"She found the one I got for you too," Jasper said with a smile, nodding to the much smaller present also resting on the table, only a fraction bigger than the one that had contained his car keys.

"Here," Draco said with a smile, pressing his gift into his boyfriend's hands. Jasper smiled at him as he ripped the paper off to reveal a simple wooden box, covered with intricate carvings so delicate they could only have been made by magic. "Um…the box isn't the present. I mean it's part of the present but…you need to open it to get the rest of it," Draco suggested after watching Jasper admiring the craftsmanship of the box for a few moments.

"Oh, I thought…never mind…" Jasper mumbled, flicking open the clasp and lifting the lid of the box. Inside he found a small stack of what seemed to be photographs, each one wrapped in a thin sheet of tissue paper.

"A while back I hired this Wizard, Philonius Cross, and he specialises in tracing difficult family trees and finding records of long lost members…and I asked him to see what he could find out…about you…" Draco explained softly as Jasper carefully un-wrapped the first photograph in the box. "He found these."

"Oh My Lord…" Jasper gasped as he found himself holding an extremely old and very delicate photograph of a young couple in their wedding clothes. Judging by the way the picture was crumbling around the edges it hadn't been very well cared for over the years but the (slightly expressionless) faces of the two in the picture were still clearly visible. "Mama…Papa…"

"I know you've got pictures of yourself and the Cullens but I noticed that you didn't have any from…before," Draco explained softly, "So when Mr Cross found these photographs in a lovely little old woman's attic I…well, I bought them for you."

"Are they all…" Jasper's voice became slightly choked as he re-wrapped the photograph, placing it carefully on the table before reaching for the next one.

"There are nine photographs of your family in total," Draco explained softly.

"Nine…" Jasper gasped. This was more than he had ever hoped for. He'd feared that all records of his human life had been lost or forgotten. But now…now his wonderful boyfriend had found nine precious photographs for him to treasure and take care of and…"Oh."

"I wasn't sure if that was you or your brother," Draco said as Jasper stared down at the photograph of his parents holding a little baby wrapped in a shawl. "He was younger that you, right?"

"By three years," Jasper mumbled in confirmation, his fingertips stroking the precious image captured in time. "But this is me…me and my parents a few months after I was born. Draco…I can't thank you enough."

"You just did," Draco said, pressing a kiss to Jaspers lips.

The next three photographs were family portraits of him, his parents and his little brother, Daniel, each one taken a few years apart, showing the two boys as they grew up. Un-wrapping the next photograph the vampire found himself looking down at a very familiar photograph,

"I sent this home to my family a month before I ran into Maria," he explained, smiling grimly down at the picture of himself in his confederate uniform. "I had no idea whether they received it or not…"

"Obviously they did," Draco murmured. "The last two photo's are…well, they're of your brother's family."

"His family? I…I tried to find out what happened to my brother a few years ago but I couldn't trace him. He just sort of…disappears from history…" Jasper mumbled as he carefully un-wrapped the last two photographs.

"That's because he did disappear…kind of," Draco explained, leaning against his boyfriends side as they looked down at the two photographs of a handsome young man who looked so much like Jasper. "In 1868 he married a young woman called Georgina Harris," he continued, nodding to the beautiful young woman standing beside the young man in the photograph. "What he didn't know at the time was that she, like the rest of her family…had the gift of magic. She was a witch."

"A witch?" Jasper gasped in shock. "Are you sure?"

"100% sure," Draco confirmed with a happy smile, "But if you need confirmation just look at the last photograph."

Jasper did as he asked and for a moment he couldn't understand what Draco had wanted him to see…until the figures in the picture started to move. He gasped loudly, staring in shock as the image of his little brother smiled up at him, raising his hand in greeting. Beside him his wife smiled adoringly at her husband and…children?

"What were their names?" he asked, looking at the three children stood in front of their parents. The two girls had obviously taken after their mother in their looks but the boy, obviously the youngest of the three, was a miniature of his father.

"Marianne, Elizabeth…and Jasper."

"He named his son…after me?" Jasper asked softly, staring at the young face in the photograph. "He…he had a family…a beautiful family…"

"I've asked Mr Cross to continue his research, to find out what happened to your brothers children and maybe…hopefully…find out if there are any living descendents in the Wizarding World," Draco finished his explanation softly, his voice drawing his boyfriends attention away from the photograph.

"Draco…" Jaspers emotional eyes locked with his boyfriends and for a moment Draco thought they were filled with tears but obviously that was impossible. "Thank you…thank you for giving me back my family…"

Even though it felt completely inadequate there was nothing that Draco could think of to say other than, "You're welcome."

"But now it's your turn…" Jasper said softly, rubbing his hands across his face as if to wipe away his emotional state before picking up the last present from the table. "Now you must open your present from me."

Watching his boyfriend un-wrap the little box Jasper had to admit all of a sudden he was feeling more nervous than he had in years.

"Jasper?" Draco asked when he found himself holding a velvet jewellery box. Moving slowly Jasper took the jewellery box back from his boyfriend and dropped down on to one knee, adopting a very well known pose…"Oh Merlin…"

"When we were in England I read a book about Wizarding Laws and Customs," Jasper began his much practised speech. Ever since their return from England he'd been planning this, waiting for the right moment. And that moment was now. "Wizarding Civil Partnerships have been legal worldwide since the millennium and interspecies marriages have been completely legal, without any clauses or conditions, since 2009 thanks to the hard work of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger."

He took a deep breath (completely unnecessary of course) and opened the velvet box, revealing the masculine engagement ring held securely inside.

Draco gasped at the sight of it – it was beautiful.

"Draco Abraxas Malfoy…will you marry me?"

For a moment there was silence as the couple gazed at each other, one of them processing what had just happened, the other waiting anxiously for a response to the very important question that had just been asked…

"Draco?"

Jaspers nervous voice successfully broke the shocked trance that Draco had fallen into and brought tears to his eyes…tears of joy and of happiness…tears that spilled down onto his cheeks as he answered,

"Yes."

A/N Well…this wasn't at all how I intended for this chapter to turn out – talk about a tangent! Originally in my plan this was meant to take about half a page. Oh well. Hope you liked it anyway and more will be coming soon. Comments and Suggestions are always welcome!
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Of Lions And Lambs - Part Three