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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 Sixteen

Draco's phone ringing loudly from the bedside cabinet woke him the following morning. Groaning in protest he rolled onto his back, rubbing sleepily at his eyes as Jasper answered the evil little device. Ugh…it was way too early…

"Hello, Bella. Yes, it's Jasper. No, he's here. He's just a little groggy at the moment. Well…he just woke up."

Draco snorted as he listened to the one sided conversation.

"Do you need to speak to him or will I do? I'll do. So what can I…oh…right. Yes. I agree. We need to talk about this. We'll meet you there shortly. Ok. Bye."

"Where are we going and why?" the wizard asked as his boyfriend hung up the phone and returned in to its home on the bedside cabinet.

"My house and because Bella has come up with a rather worrying theory about the origin of the newborns that we need to discuss," Jasper explained, laying back down beside Draco who groaned softly in annoyance. After their celebrations last night getting up was the last thing that he wanted to do. "Just think of it this way, it'll be a perfect opportunity to announce our engagement."

"Good point," conceded Draco with a happy smile, gazing down at the ring on his left hand. Whilst wearing the ring would take some getting used to he would never tire of seeing it. "But we'll have to call my parents sometime today and tell them too because if they found out we'd told everyone but them…well let's just say it wouldn't be pretty."

"Agreed."

"I guess we should get up then," Draco sighed, contradicting his words by snuggling up to Jaspers side, resting his head on the vampires shoulder. Jaspers strong arms held him close. "I don't know about you but I definitely need a shower before we head over to your parents house."

"Yes, I believe it would be best if we didn't arrive reeking of sex…"

"Vampires can smell that?" Draco asked in concerned surprise.

Jasper nodded.

"And werewolves."

"They aren't werewolves, they're shape-shifters…and they can?" Draco asked, cringing when Jasper nodded once more. "Well that explains a few of those awkward moments with the pack…"

"Have they said something to you?"

"Don't worry about it," Draco said reassuringly. "Trust me, if they'd meant harm with their comments they'd be recovering in a hospital right about now."

They chuckled together for a moment, cuddled around each other under the warm duvet and quite content to stay just where they were for a little bit longer…

Beep Beep! Beep Beep!

"Let me guess, Alice?" Draco asked as Jasper once again picked up the mobile phone and checked the text message that had just arrived.

"Alice – I will come over there and get you two out of bed if I have to," Jasper read aloud with a smile. "She would, you know, so we'd better get up."

"Ok," Draco sighed sadly before letting out a yelp of surprise as he found himself being carried bridal style across the room. Giggling happily he settled his arms around Jaspers neck and allowed his boyfriend to carry him into the en suite bathroom, all the while thinking that he could definitely get used to this.

"Can you get the shower?" Jasper asked, nodding to the pull chord hanging from the ceiling that served as the on/off switch for the showers power. As the water began to flow out of the showerhead, quickly heating up to a point where the water began to give off steam, Jasper carefully set Draco down on his feet.

What followed was a very long and very pleasurable shower during which they helped each other get clean…but then somehow they got dirty again…so that meant they had to get clean all over again.

Once they had dried each other off with the big fluffy white towels Draco liked to keep in his bathroom they began to get dressed. Jasper, who had begun to keep some clothes at Draco's so he wasn't always wearing the same thing whenever he stayed over, got dressed in a long sleeved dark blue top and reasonably tight jeans. Draco however seemed to spend forever deciding on what outfit would best show off his engagement ring, eventually settling on a pair of black skinny jeans and a black t-shirt with a Union Flag sprawled across his left shoulder as if it had been spray painted onto the fabric. Over the top of this he wore his favourite leather jacket and on his feet his favourite dragon hide boots.

Adjusting the way his hair hung about his face he nodded in approval, announcing happily, "Ok, I'm ready. Let's go talk about some battle strategies and then watch everyone's faces when we shock the living daylights out of them."

"Congratulations!" Alice greeted them at the door with a high pitched squeal and a bone crushing hug. "I'm so happy for you and your ring is gorgeous. I never really appreciated what good taste my brother has."

"Does that mean that I get to dress myself from now on?" Jasper asked, slipping an round Draco's neat waist as Alice commandeered his mates left hand so that she could have a closer look at the ring.

"No," both Alice and Draco scoffed.

Jasper sighed melodramatically but smiled nonetheless.

"Congratulations," Charlie echoed his mates earlier statement, descending the main stairs at a much more sedate pace than his mate had arrived at. "She's been getting more and more excited all morning."

"You haven't told everyone have you?" Draco asked.

"Do I look like an amateur to you?" Alice demanded, thumping him on the arm for good measure. "Look, I only told Charlie because he was with me when I had the vision about your…E-N-G-A-G-E-M-E-N-T."

Draco couldn't stop the smile appearing on his face as the female vampire looked around nervously, as if expecting to see someone spying on them and spelled the rather long word out in a ridiculously childish manner. But at least she hadn't called it the 'you-know-what'…that would have brought far too many back memories for him of a person with a very similar nickname.

"I'm glad she told me, otherwise I would have had no idea why she was laughing like a lunatic all morning," Charlie defended his mate, mirroring Jaspers protective stance as he slipped his arm around her positively tiny waist. "However I have started to get the feeling that it is something that I will have to get used to."

Alice giggled happily.

"I'm guessing that Edward knows as well, what with his telepathy…"

"You'd be surprised," Alice cackled quite wickedly.

"What have you been thinking of this time?" Jasper asked with a chuckle.

"Huh?" Draco frowned in confusion.

"When Alice doesn't want Edward to read her mind she thinks of something really annoying to keep him from trying to pry," Jasper explained. "We've all tried to do the same thing but he usually still gets something from us. Alice is the Queen of keeping Edward out so, I ask again, what were you thinking of this time?"

"Well first of all I ran through the complete lyrics for the musical 'Rent'…in Japanese," Alice explained, giggling loudly. "It's weird but it kind of works…so long as you can ignore the fact that it's set in New York and that there's a whole song about living in America…at the end of the millennium…"

"The complete lyrics? As in the entire musical?" Draco asked in surprise, interrupting her singing. He vaguely remembered watching the movie with the female vampire a while ago and he distinctly remembered that there had been a lot of songs…and parts…and harmonies…"You know the entire musical?"

"Of course. Don't you?"

"No."

"Did you repeat it all day this time?" Jasper asked, remembering numerous times in the past when he'd had to use his gift to calm Edward down after she'd done just that, repeating the same song or phrase over and over again until their brother had understandably cracked…

"No," Alice giggled wickedly. "After I finished going through 'Rent' I went on to sing my way through 'The Phantom Of The Opera'…in Swedish and then I felt like a bit of 'Sound Of Music'…in German."

"And what about now?" Draco asked.

"Now? Well for the last hour or so I've been running through all the TV show tunes that I can think of in alphabetical order," Alice answered with an even brighter smile than before. "I'm on JAG at the moment."

"Poor Edward…" Draco mumbled softly in Jaspers ear, feeling unusually sympathetic towards the telepathic vampire. Jasper made a soft sound of agreement, nodding his head alongside his boyfriends – poor Edward indeed.

"You know, we should probably head in now," Charlie spoke quickly, giving his little mate a squeeze of support as her brow puckered up with a frown, causing of course by Draco and Jaspers sarcastic comments. "Everyone's waiting on us."

"Right, Bella's new theory," Draco said softly, "Any clues, Alice?"

"None," Alice sighed, her mildly angry frown melting into a very unhappy pout. "I've been trying to confirm this new theory of hers but I just keep seeing the same things that I saw before."

"What is her new theory, anyway?" Draco asked.

"I think it's best that we let Bella explain it for herself, don't you?" Charlie asked his girlfriend before the female vampire could explain the human girl's theory in great detail. Giggling a little guiltily Alice nodded, biting down on her lips as if to stop herself from blurting anything out without meaning to.

"Come on then, let's go see what this is all about," Draco commanded, slipping out of Jaspers comforting hold and heading up the stairs to the main part of the house. His boyfriend followed him quickly, appearing at his side in a blur and linking their fingers together as they stepped into the Cullens living room.

The vampires were gathered around the long sofa facing the blank TV screen, apparently keeping their distance from the group of wolves gathered by the floor to ceiling windows. Harry was stood at the edge of the wolves, apparently acting as an unofficial barrier between them and the vampires. Bella and Edward stood apart from everyone else, the Muggle girl holding her boyfriends arm tightly; her face clouded with nerves and…fear?

"Good, we're all here," Carlisle greeted them softly from where he sat with his arm placed reassuringly around his wife's shoulders. Alice skipped over to the sofa and dropped down into the small gap that had existed between Carlisle and Rosalie, causing her sister to glare at her sharply as she was forced to move out of the smaller vampire's way. Charlie followed his mate at a much more sedate pace, moving around to join Emmett where he stood behind the sofa.

Obviously the Weasley was getting on well with the Cullens, if their silent acceptance of his presence was anything to go by.

Jasper moved as if to join his family around the sofa but Draco pulled sharply on his hand, forcing his boyfriend to follow him over to where Harry was stood. A series of soft growls came from the shape-shifters as they stood at Harry's side but Draco ignored them, focusing his attention on Bella who had released Edwards arm and stepped forwards to stand alone before the eclectic group.

"I think I know who is behind the Newborn Army…" Bella began softly, her worried gaze moving around the room before finally landing on Jasper. That alone would have worried Draco, the fact that his boyfriend was being singled out, without her quiet statement.

Various voices from around the room asked, "Who?"

"Victoria."

"No. I would have seen it," Alice protested with a firm shake of her head. "I've been keeping an eye out for her but I've seen nothing. The person leading the newborns is a male vampire that I don't recognise."

"How did you come to this conclusion, Bella?" Carlisle asked softly.

"I…I had a dream…" Bella mumbled, her eyes still resting on Jasper's concerned face. "It was a dream about your past, Jasper…about the vampire who created you and the army she commanded."

"Maria…" Jasper murmured softly.

"Yes," Bella confirmed, "I've been thinking about your story a lot lately and I've been wondering…did Maria ever give the orders herself? To her army, I mean. Did she ever stand before them and tell them who they were going to attack?"

"No. She would tell me and then I would inform the others of the plan."

"So…even though it was her army she wasn't really the one controlling it," Bella continued softly, "You gave the orders but she had the power. You were in charge of the…troops but she had the control, right?" Jasper looked thoughtful for a moment before nodding his head in silent agreement. "Alice, if you'd been looking into Maria's movements back then what would you have seen?"

"I don't know…" Alice answered softly.

"I think you'd have seen an army being commanded by an unknown male vampire…sound familiar?" Bella asked, swallowing thickly as a soft gasp of understanding spread around the room. "I think Victoria is the one that is really in charge of this Newborn army but she is having this unknown vampire do all the dirty work for her…that she's leaving all the decisions to him so long as the overall goal is achieved…her revenge."

"I have to admit that this seems to be the most logical explanation of the recent events," Carlisle agreed sadly with a deep sigh. "We know that Victoria wants revenge for the death of her mate and this way, using someone else to command her army, not only clouds Alice's visions but gives her someone else to shunt the blame on to should the Volturi get involved."

"I'm surprised they haven't gotten involved already…"

"Alice?" Edward asked, drawing everyone's eyes away from Bella and causing them all to stare at the vampire whose eyes were clouded by a vision. "The newborns will attack in two days."

"They've got your red blouse," Alice gasped softly as she came out of the vision, her worried eyes seeking out Bella's. "They're passing it round…they're going to use your distinct scent to track us."

"Well that's ok," Draco said calmly, causing everyone to stare at him in confusion. "I mean, think about it…now we know when they are going to attack and with them tracking Bella's scent we'll be able to choose where we want to face them. We'll take them completely by surprise."

"You want to use Bella as bait?" Edward demanded angrily, growling threateningly at the blond wizard across the room.

"No!" Draco protested, his hand snapping down to grab Jaspers as his humiliating fear/phobia resurfaced for a split second. "Of course I don't mean that we use Bella as bait, do I look that stupid to you?"

"Do we have to answer that?"

"Seth!" Jacob growled, giving the youngest member of the pack a smack on the arm for his cheeky comment. Draco hid a smile, remembering that Harry had said (quite often in fact) that the Seth was definitely the cheekiest of the pack.

"What I actually had in mind, Edward, is that once we decide on a suitably defendable location we can get Bella to spread her scent around before we whisk her off to the safety of the campsite," Draco explained calmly.

"That…might actually work…" Carlisle mumbled thoughtfully.

"It will work," Alice confirmed softly after her eyes clouded for a moment with a brief vision. "If we do as Draco says it will work. The Newborns will attack where we want them to. Bella will be safely hidden in the campsite before they arrive. And the humans in the town will be safe."

"Did you see where the battle was going to take place?" Jasper asked.

"It's a clearing in the woods that I…sort of recognise," Alice answered.

"Why don't you describe it to us?" Carlisle suggested, ever the logical one of the family, "One of us might know where it is."

"Well, it's a large circular clearing completely surrounded by trees with the remains of a fallen tree right in the centre. The ground is reasonably level in the actual clearing but I think I saw the beginnings of a slope past the tree line," Alice explained to the group.

Emmett surprised almost everyone by announcing, "I know that clearing."

"You do?"

"Yeah…it's where I go when I need some peace and quiet…where I go when I need to think," Emmett explained a little hesitantly, rubbing at the back of his neck as he showed everyone a rather different side to his personality.

"Is the clearing a defendable position?" Jasper asked, thinking like the military man he always would be as he stood rigidly with his hands clasped behind his back. Emmett nodded. "Good. We might also be able to use the obstruction in the middle of the clearing to our advantage as well…"

"I've just had a thought…" Draco gasped.

"Don't have too many of those, do you?" Seth asked cheekily.

"It was about you lot, actually," Draco snapped at him before turning to look at Alice once more. "Alice, do the Newborns know about the wolves?"

"…I don't know," Alice mumbled thoughtfully, "I haven't seen anything to suggest that they are preparing to go up against wolves…from what I've seen their leader has been preparing them to fight against other vampires and nothing else…"

"Why is that important, Draco?" Harry asked, "What are you thinking?"

"What's the one advantage that is always longed for in a battle?" Draco asked, looking around at the group – "Come on, Harry, you should know this. I would have thought that Mad-Eye would have drilled this into your head when you were training with im for the final battle…"

"Um…Constant Vigilance?" Harry asked with a confused frown.

Draco rolled his eyes as he explained, "The element of surprise."

"Of course," Jasper murmured as understanding dawned in his eyes. "The Newborns will be expecting a family of vampires protecting a human…they will not be expecting a pack of giant wolves…"

"Or Wizards," Charlie pointed out.

"Or Wizards," Jasper agreed, continuing confidently, "Our powers and numbers will take them completely by surprise and give us a much needed advantage over the newborns in the oncoming battle."

"So…the odds will be in our favour," Carlisle sighed with relief.

"Yes," Alice said with an equally big sigh of relief before suddenly giving everyone a bright beaming smile, clapping her hands together as she announced, "But was can do all the planning and stuff later on because right now Draco and Jasper have something that they want to tell all of us."

"Draco?" Bella asked softly as all eyes turned on the pair.

"Gee, thanks Alice," Draco muttered loudly, sounding remarkably American as he glared half-heartedly at the practically ecstatic female vampire. "So much for letting us be the ones to tell everyone…"

"You do get to tell everyone," she countered happily.

"Draco? What is it?" Harry asked, sounding slightly worried.

Sighing deeply the blond wizard shared a look with his boyfriend before lifting his left hand up and proudly displaying the glittering engagement ring to the people in the room, announcing with a happy smile,

"Jasper and I are engaged."

Alice was the first to reach them, squealing happily (and loudly) as she pulled them both into a bone crushing hug. Then Esme was there, pulling them into her arms and pressing motherly kisses of happiness to their cheeks. Carlisle shook their hands, congratulating them as Emmett bounded up to them and clapped them both on the back…hard. Rosalie offered them her quiet congratulations, controlling her emotions as she always did.

"Congratulations," Harry said softly but definitely genuinely, moving over to the couple and giving them each a gentle hug. Jacob, although staying over with the rest of the pack (who were all wearing expressions of shock mixed with surprise and, on a few of their faces, revulsion) nodded his own silent congratulations, his expression thankfully one of surprised happiness.

"I didn't think two guys could get married…" Seth mumbled loudly.

"You're thinking like a muggle," Charlie answered with a grin, moving to stand in front of the newly engaged couple and holding his hand out to them. "I know our families haven't always got on, Draco, but I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say congratulations."

"Thanks, Charlie," Draco said, shaking the dragon-tamers scarred hand.

"Hope you know how lucky you are, mate," Charlie teased Jasper as he shook the vampire's hand, "There are going to be hundreds of men and women all over the Wizarding World completely distraught to learn that one of the Wizarding Worlds most eligible bachelors is now taken."

"I know…" Jasper confirmed softly. "Edward?"

"Congratulations," Edward murmured, his voice tense with…envy.

"What's wrong with Bella and Edward?" Draco asked in an almost silent whisper, causing Edward's head to snap round as he stared at them, waiting for his brother's answer. Bella seemed to be completely out of it, lost in her own thoughts as she had been since they'd made their announcement.

"Edward is jealous," Jasper answered softly, causing Edward to flinch ever so slightly, "Bella is confused…very confused…lots of different emotions all jumbled together…but she's happy for us…"

This analogy of her emotional state seemed to snap Bella out of whatever trance she had slipped into and quickly she hurried over to Draco, giving her one of her awkward half-hugs that the blond wizard happily returned.

"Congratulations…" she mumbled before transferring the hug to Jasper, squeezing him gently before returning to her boyfriend's side.

"So…" Alice said brightly, breaking the silence that had settled over the room, "…when are you going to settle on a date so that we can get planning?"

"Ew…" Draco grimaced as he watched his muggle friend wipe the bleeding cut she'd made in the tip of her finger on yet another tree trunk. For the last twenty minutes Bella had been making her way around the edge of the clearing, leaving her blood and therefore her scent on tree after tree. "That is so unhygienic…"

For the last two days Draco and Jasper had spent their time as any newly engaged couple about to go to war would have, alternating between practising for the oncoming battle and practising for their honeymoon…

"You know, I've been meaning to ask you something, Draco," Bella said softly as she joined the three young men in the centre of the clearing, her task finished. Draco grimaced yet again as she wiped the blood and dirt from her finger onto her jeans in another unhygienic move. "How did your parents take the news of your engagement?"

"Um…loudly."

Draco winced as he recalled his mother's extremely high pitched screams of excitement coming through the fireplace. It had been nearly ten minutes before she'd been able to speak properly, congratulating them again and again and already suggestion ideas for the ceremony. In comparison his father had taken the news surprisingly calmly, offering his quiet but obviously heartfelt congratulation before staring thoughtfully into the flames dancing between them for the remainder of the long conversation about locations and, of all things, flower arrangements.

"I'd steer clear of Yellow Carnations if I were you," Edward suggested seriously, naming one of the flowers that Narcissa had suggested for their wedding, "They symbolise distain and rejection. If I might suggest Xeranthemum, as a decoration, not a bouquet – they symbolise eternity and immortality."

"I never would have pegged you for someone who knows the meanings of flowers, Edward Cullen," Draco chuckled deeply. "But thanks for the suggestion; I'll mention it to my mother when we start planning everything."

"Have you picked a date yet?" Bella asked.

"Not yet…too much to worry about before we can even start thinking about choosing dates and such," Draco said sadly, "Speaking of which, shall we get on up to that campsite and get you two settled in before it gets too late? And by that I mean too dark, not too late in the sense that something terrible is going to happen."

"Yes, we should get going," Edward agreed softly, picking up the huge rucksack at his feet and slinging it up on his back as if it weighed nothing. Draco held out his hands to the other couple, smiling at them as they placed their hands in his own. Jasper stepped up behind his fiancé and slid his arms around his waist.

"Right, hold on everyone…"

*POP*

A/N YAY! ANOTHER CHAPTER! I'm so sorry this one took so long. I tried to get it done for Christmas but…that didn't happen. I tried to get it done for New Years but…that didn't quite make it. LOL! The only excuse that I can offer is that my real life has become ridiculously busy and is only just beginning to calm down again (…if you ignore the fact that I'll be moving in with my boyfriend in a couple of weeks.) Anyway, hope you enjoyed and please let me know what you think!
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