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The First Great Fan- An Epilogue	By : wherdatcomfrom Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 9427 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter Nineteen: Dredging Up the Dead

“Snape?” Harry asked as Cho cuddled the baby, she jumped slightly at his tone and he felt guilty. “I’m sorry. How long had you and Snape . . . ?” he began but thought he might be treading on something too personal. He wouldn’t want someone barging into his and Draco’s love life like that.

“Harry, it wasn’t like that. Well, eventually it was. See, he saved me. He saved my life. He did it for you, too.” She said.

“Severus Snape had sex with you, for me? I find that hard to believe, Cho.” Harry snipped but Cho put a calming hand to his arm. “How was it for me?” he conceded.

“The snatchers caught us, me and Timothy Buss. He was a year older than me. They took us to Malfoy’s, but they weren’t home. He was there, You-Know-Who, and he wanted to kill us. He was playing with us, like we were toys, pets to torture before you sliced them up. Timothy took it worse, at first. He was just getting started on me, when Sever- Professor Snape showed up. He came in and walked past us, like he didn’t care, but it was an act. He spoke with the Dark Lord, kept him from torturing us as long as he could, and then You-know-who asked him to choose one of us. He gave him one as a gift, and Severus chose me. I asked him why, later. He said that I was special to you and he wouldn’t stand by and watch as anyone important to you died ever again.” Cho took a breath, and Draco stepped up to her.

“You must be hungry and the baby looks half starved. Come into the kitchen and I’ll get you something. You can tell the rest of your story there.” Cho looked so relieved that Harry felt another twinge of guilt. He should have offered her food first. She was his friend.

Draco managed to make a decent meal, nothing special, but to the girl it was a feast. She continued to talk while stuffing her face and feeding tidbits to the baby alternately. “He took me home, to his house in Spinner’s End, and let me stay there so that I would be safe. We’d go to the castle, when he needed to be there for the students, but mostly I just stayed at the cottage. It was safer, since the snatchers wouldn’t go there and the Carrows couldn’t. He’d come home at night, so tired and worried. I wanted to help him, but I didn’t know what to do.”

Harry watched her and finally reached out for the little girl. “Let me help with her. Come here, Sakura did you say?”

“Yes. Severus named her. He didn’t understand that it was a Japanese name, but I love her just the same. He told me that her name would be Sakura Lily and that is what I named her.”

“So, he knew about the baby?” Draco asked.

“Yes. He knew about them both.” Cho choked on a drink when she realized what she had said.

“Both? There’s another baby?” Harry picked up. “Tell me about the other baby, Cho?”

“They were twins. A boy, named Severus Harry and Sakura. I chose his name, but Severus didn’t mind. He said that maybe his son would have more luck with the name than he'd had.”

“So, how did you come to be so intimate with Professor Snape?” Draco asked and Harry glared at him.

“It’s okay, Harry. I wanted to tell you.” Cho pushed her plate away as Harry picked at the potatoes and fed them to the baby. “Just before Thanksgiving, the Dark Lord came to call. He was very angry about something and Severus was trying to explain it to him. He kept talking about a wand and Severus kept saying that they would find it. I tried to stay hidden, but the Dark Lord saw me and teased Severus about my virginity. He said that he could smell it on me and that Severus wasn’t a very obedient follower if he could waste a precious gift from his Lord like that. He insisted that Severus take me, right there, in the library, with him watching.”

Harry drew a deep breath and Draco closed his eyes. They didn’t want to imagine what came next, but neither could draw away. “Severus kept apologizing to me, whispering it even as he . . penetrated me. It hurt, but it could have been worse. I told you, he saved me, I would have given him anything for my life. After, he was so guilt ridden that he stayed away from me for days, and that’s when I realized that I had fallen in love with him. I approached him and begged him to be with me again. He fought me on it, but I was determined. When he finally gave in, it was so sweet and so precious. I’ll never forget it.”

Harry was clutching the baby to him as tears ran down his face and Draco was holding tightly to the back of Cho’s chair as if he needed it to remain standing. Cho continued to speak, telling them all the things that her lover had done for her, “He taught me occlumency, so that I wouldn’t be threatened by You-Know-Who penetrating my mind. He gave me a wand, this wand,” She said pulling one from her robes. “It’s not mine. He couldn’t get that, but it works well enough for me. I can feel that it wants her, the witch it belonged to first, but I think it knows that she won’t ever come for it. He was frightened when it was getting closer to the end of the school year, so he took me to the castle. I was pretty far along by then, and he wanted me close to him. I was there when you came, hiding behind a tapestry, and I wanted to tell you how wrong you were, but I was scared for my babies.”

Cho went silent, and Harry passed her back her little girl. “You were there. I saw you at the battle, fighting one of the Carrows.” Draco said and Cho turned and smiled wanly.

“Harry taught us how to fight, so when he was fighting, we had to join.” She admitted.

“But, you didn’t look . . .” Draco continued.

“Disallusionment charms are not difficult to keep up, even when you are in battle. I wanted to keep my babies safe, but I had to fight.” She said.

“So, where is the other baby? Where is Severus Harry?” Harry asked and Cho broke into tears.

“They took him from me. They said that he was special, thought he was You-Know-Who’s baby. I told them he wasn’t, but they took him and left me in the dark, with just Sakura and this wand. I’ve tried to find him, but I can’t and he’s calling me. I see him every night.”

Draco dropped into the chair next to Cho and grabbed her by the shoulders. “What do you mean? How does a baby call to you?” he challenged.

Cho sniffed back her tears and shifted the baby to the other side, pulling up her tattered sleeve and baring her arm for them. In the middle of her forearm, etched into her filthy skin, was a fading dark mark. “They made me take it, said that it was this or death. I didn’t want it but Severus said it would be alright. The baby knows this, he’s seen it, and he reaches out to it. He calls me!”

Harry and Draco exchanged knowing looks, and the blond whispered to her. “He calls to us, too.”

Before she could respond, Harry saw the elderly house elf standing just inside the doorway, looking frantic and agitated. He stood and touch Draco’s arm, indicating he’d return, then crossed to the door and slid out. Kreacher led him to the parlor and, as he wrung his hands, he muttered darkly. “Bad things. Bad omens. When the men of the Flint family unite with those of the Parkinson, then evil times be upon us.”

“The Parkinsons and Flints? That’s who was after her?” Harry asked and the little elf shied away. “It’s okay, Kreacher. I’m not angry with you. It’s them. I’m angry that they’ve done something to Cho and her babies. Can you find out where they are? If they have another baby and if they can be overwhelmed?”

Kreacher looked lost, his ears slumped and his eyes heavy with worry. He stood straighter and Harry tilted his head. “Kreacher can find them.”

“Don’t do anything dangerous. Take Winky if you need help, and make sure you come back to me. I’d hate it if anything happened to you, either of you. You’re my family, Old Boy.” Harry patted the elf on his pillowcase covered shoulder and Kreacher looked away, embarrassed at the show of affection.

“Kreacher would never let anything happen to Winky, and Kreacher must care for the house of Black and his families, both families.” He said before apparating away in haste. Harry looked after him, his eyes blossoming in understanding.

“You old sneak. You and Winky?” he said before rushing back into the kitchen where Draco had taken over the feeding of Sakura and Cho was chuckling at him with potatoes smeared all over his face and hair.

“So, you want to play, huh? Then you must not be very hungry anymore. I’ll just have to give you back to your mum, so she can get you into a bath. That will teach you.” The blond said as he passed the giggling little one to her mother. “I’ll bet Harry will want to put you in the master suite. He doesn’t use it, so it would be perfect. There’s an attached bathroom so you can have privacy.”

“That’s exactly what I had planned. Go get cleaned up, and I’ll get you some things from the chest that Hermione left here. She thinks we are a storage bin for her overflow. There’s bound to be some things that you can wear and Draco and I will pop over to Wrongnat’s Little Wizards and get some necessities for Sakura.” He led the girl up the stairs and left her in the middle of the rooms that had once been Sirius’ mother and father’s.

Draco was cleaned up, not a speck of potato in sight, when he returned to the kitchen and together they headed out to do some shopping. While in Diagon Alley, Draco took a side trip into the apothecaries and Harry stopped in at the Weasley’s shop.

When they returned home, George and Angelina were along, and they had enough baby things to raise several small ones.

Cho was sleeping, but Sakura was awake, sitting with her on the bed, pulling the pillows out of their cases. Harry scooped her up and tip-toed out of the room. He left a charm on the mirror that would tell Cho where they were when she woke. It wouldn’t do to have her think that her remaining baby had been snatched away while she dreamt of the boy she had lost before.

Harry settled Sakura into her new bed, in the attached room of the Master bedroom suite, and handed her a toy hippogryph. She cuddled it close and drifted off to sleep. He slipped out of the room, stopping at the door where Draco and George stood peeking inside. “She’ll sleep now, all fed and cleaned up. She’s so tiny and weak.” Harry said.

Angelina was a few feet down the hall, and behind her stood Molly and Arthur Weasley and Kingsley Shakelbolt. “Come on, you men. Let the baby sleep. I’m going to check on Cho, see if she needs anything, and you all are going to decide how to save her son.” Angelina pushed the lot of them back away from the rooms, her rounded stomach making her less agile than she had been as a chaser. The group trudged obediently down the stairs and into the kitchen where Molly served some coffee and biscuits.

Kreacher and Winky stood to the side, the littler elf looking more timid than ever. Harry sat down near her and put a hand lightly to her back. “You could move in here, you know. I’d love to have you around.” He told her and she beamed up at him.

“Winky and Kreacher will soon have family of our own. It would be good to have a home to keep. It would be good to have a family to serve again.” She said and Harry smiled brightly.

“I would love to have you as part of my family.” He said.

“Harry.” Draco said from across the table. “There is a ritual that is needed to unite a house-elf to a family. I doubt that Granger would appreciate you being involved in it. There is blood involved, as well.”

“It’s an ancient ritual, not covered by the Ministry’s stipulates against blood-magic. It isn’t performed very often, for there are so few unattached house-elves left. But, I could perform it for you, if you like.” Kingsley said and Harry nodded to him.

“As for Hermoine, she should be quite busy with little Timmy, for some time. I’d bet she’d like to have a house-elf of her own by now.” Molly chuckled and sat next to Arthur. “Now, about this little boy of Severus’. Where are they keeping him, Kreacher?”

“The Flint estate is well warded and there are many dangers if one does not know how to avoid them. I have checked the routes and they are not safe for wizards or witches to pass. It is not possible for you to reach the little boy.” Kreacher was very grave as he spoke and Harry’s heart fell. His disappointment was evident and Draco touched his hand.

“It’s not possible for us, but you didn’t say it was impossible. Tell us more, old boy.” The blond said and the elf smirked in a very Malfoy like way. Harry presumed it was from their shared connection to the Black family. “Give out, Kreacher. How can the baby be saved?”

“Wizards and witches are too big and gainly to enter the way that Kreacher has found. Only small and agile beings can go through the holes in the wards and avoid the traps that are laid out for you. An army could make it, but only a small army. An army of elves.” The old servant said.

“How many do you need?” Draco said enthusiastically.

“Seven or eight, if wizards could make the distraction. With that many, a child as big as me could be taken away from this place.”

“Seven, that’s a lot. We have you two, if Winky can participate. There’s my Roldo and my parents have Lottie and Beau. That’s five. Where can we get two or three more?” Draco asked, then snapped his fingers. “Zabini!”

AN: Hello again. I'm back. I've put this off for too long and I'll try to get it going again.

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