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A Chance at Happiness	By : Vampirezdarkgurl Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Voldemort Views: 128732 -:- Recommendations : 7 -:- Currently Reading : 7
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A Chance at Happiness

Summary: Harry finds out that not everything is as he believes it to be.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters associated with Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling does and I don't make any money on this. It is purely a work of fiction.

Pairing(s): Lord Voldemort/Harry, Severus/James/Lucius, Sirius/Draco, Remus/Fenrir

Rating: Nc-17

Warning(S): Slash, Mpreg, Dumbledore, Ron and Hermione bashing. VERY AU, abuse

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-Epilogue-

Eleven years later

Sitting up at the head table beside his mother, who became the new headmaster after Voldemort became the minister of magic, Harry looked out at the faces of the students that he now taught as the Defense teacher.

Nine years ago, Remus and Fenrir had decided that they wanted to start their family and Remus wanted to be at home with them. So, without any regret or remorse, Remus had asked Harry to take over the position of Defense teacher.

They were well on the way of beating the Weasley's with the most children. They had four cubs at home who ranged from two years old to eight years old, and Remus was currently pregnant again with a set of twins.

Sirius and Draco now lived in the Black's ancestral home of Grimmauld Place with their one child, a ten year old boy, Dominic Taylor Black. After the Weasley's were banished from the Wizarding world, the twins moved to Egypt with Bill and gave Sirius the joke shop and it was still a hit to Hogwarts students.

Dominic who looked just like Sirius, except for having Draco's eyes, was a handful. He took after Sirius and was always seen pulling pranks on his family and many of the Hogwarts students when he visited during the school year.

James, Severus, and Lucius, while they hadn't had any more children since they were reunited, hadn't given up and were often heard trying their hardest to have another. They had finally gotten married, one year after Harry and Voldemort, in 1999.

Severus and Lucius continued to teach at Hogwarts to stay close to their mate after he accepted the position of headmaster.

Charlemaigne, who could always be seen spoiling his mate, was at the side of Hagrid. Charlemaigne had discovered that he loved working with the children and all of the different creatures that Hagrid used to teach the students. Charlemaigne had been an apprentice under Hagrid for about eight years now.

Shaking his head to clear it of his thoughts, Harry looked down at the students who were all settling in for the sorting of all the new first years.

"Are you worried?" James asked looking at his son while Professor McGonagall led in all of the new nervous first years.

"No. I have no reason to be worried. Dante will go to the house he belongs in. Besides ever since the muggleborns and sympathizers were dealt with there hasn't been a lot of house feuds." Harry said smiling when he saw his son standing tall in the group of first years.

Stopping at the front of the room, McGonagall turned to James and said, "The first years are ready to be sorted headmaster."

"You may begin." James said nodding his head.

Nodding her head, McGonagall pulled out the scroll with all of the first years names and opened it up.

"Ashcroft, Andrew." She called out loudly.

A short blond haired boy with green eyes blushed then made his way up to the stool then sat down and allowed McGonagall to place the sorting hat on his head.

After a few minutes of sitting on the boys head, the sorting hat opened its brim and shouted out, "Hufflepuff!"

Almost blocking out the sorting, Harry kept his eyes on his son and watched as he chatted with one of the students he was standing beside.

Soon enough it was Dante's turn to approach the stool for his own sorting.

Sitting up a little straighter in his chair, Harry gave his son a thumbs up.

Smiling back, Dante brushed his hair out of his coral red eyes and sat down on the stool.

It took nearly fifteen minutes before the hat finally shouted out where Dante should go.

Opening it's brim the hat shouted out, "Slytherin!"

Smiling at him when Dante looked up, Harry discreetly wiped away the tears that pooled in his eyes.

"Well it was pretty much a given that he would go there mum. You and I were the only Gryffindor's in the family, and I pretty much belonged in Slytherin." Harry said.

Smiling at him, James reached over and rubbed Harry's hand with his own. "I'm sure that you'll eventually have a child that's in Gryffindor."

"I don't care what house any of my future kids go into. All that matters is that they're happy." Harry said giving Dante a big smile when he looked towards him again.

Leaning his head against his hand, Harry thought back to his wedding when Dante was only one.

Harry was sitting in his room in Malfoy Manor dressed in a white robe with golden trim waiting for his mother to come and accompany him to the garden where the bonding ceremony was being held.

Looking at his reflection in his transfigured floor length mirror, Harry muttered to himself, "There's nothing to be worried about Harry. He asked you to marry him. He wouldn't have asked if he didn't want you to marry him."

"Are you just now figuring that out Harry?" James asked from his position by the door.

"Mum! When did you get here?" Harry asked.

"I just came in. I knocked but you didn't answer." Moving over to Harry's side, James ran his fingers through Harry's hair and said, "You look wonderful."

"Thanks. Has Dante been good?"

"Wonderful. Just like he always is. He was just chattering away when I left him with Grandpa Lucius and Grandpa Severus."

"Yeah. Ever since he started talking, even though we can't understand most of what he says, he talks from the time he gets up until the time he lays down to go to bed." Harry said with a smile.

"Are those baby books helping at all?"

"Absolutely. Voldemort and I read to Dante every night before we put him to bed. He just adores "Baby Wizard and His Dragon."

"You liked that book when you were little too...well when I actually read to you."

"What do you mean?" Harry asked.

"After you were first born I used to tell Lily and Dumbledore that I was going to read to you before I put you to bed. They would let me do that alone, so instead of reading to you I would tell you what I remembered that day about your fathers. But don't get me wrong, I did read to you some times." James said realizing how that sounded.

"I know you would have. But enough about that. That's all in the past. Now all we need to do seize the day and live for the present. Carpe diem, as the muggles like to say."

Wrapping his arms around Harry's shoulders, James pressed a kiss onto the top of Harry's head.

"I'm so proud of you Harry. You've overcome so much to get to this point in your life. So many others would have given up and either taken their own lives of ran for the safety of another country."

"I'm not like that. I may feel weak and defeated at times, but I would never run or end my own life." Harry said shaking his head from side to side.

"I know." James said gently tugging Harry up from his chair. "Now how about we go and get you married."

"Are you that eager to get rid of me?" Harry teased as they stepped out into the hall and started down towards the garden.

"Of course not. Heck if I could get away with it I would throw your mate in a room and lock the door so I could have you all to myself."

Looking at his mother, Harry blinked a couple of times before a snort of laughter passed his lips.

"I don't know how long that would work for. He would probably break out within two minutes and then come and kidnap me."

"That's true...and then it would turn into an all out 'kidnap Harry' war." James teased as they stopped by the two open oak doors that led out into the gardens.

Outside in the gardens, Voldemort stood in front of their guests, the few that had been invited, waiting for Harry to make his way out to his side.

Voldemort stood underneath a garden arch that was made up of a variety of different colored roses and was held up by magic.

From the doorway all the way up to the arch there were flowers and fairy lights lining the pathway causing an ethereal effect.

On the left side of the garden by the arch were a semicircle of seats where the guests were already seated.

From the closest to the aisle it went Lucius, Severus, who was holding baby Dante, Draco, Sirius, Remus, and finally Fenrir.

"How is this ceremony supposed to work? I've never looked at bonding rituals before." Harry said nibbling at his bottom lip.

"It's different for every couple that does it. It all depends on who wants to bond you. I heard that once Merlin himself appeared to bond one of his descendants to their chosen mate."

"Is it always someone that you're related to?" Harry asked running his hands down and over his robes.

"No. Sometimes it's someone who you were close to, but doesn't share your blood. Like I said it's different for every person." James said holding out an arm for Harry to take.

Taking his arm, Harry asked, "Not that I mind, but isn't it supposed to be a father that walks me to my mate?"

"Normally it is, but I think your fathers are too worried that they'll cry if they walk you up there."

"Really? You think that they'd cry?" Harry asked tilting his head to the side. "I mean I know that they act differently when they're out in public, but not that much."

"It's true. They try their hardest to be strong in front of everyone, but sometimes they crack. When Dante was first born and we were back in our rooms the both of them cried a little bit."

"Really?"

"Yeah. It's family Harry. That's all that everyone sitting out there, and the two of us ever really wanted. And now we're all getting that." James said patting Harry's hand.

"Shall we go now? My mate looks like he's about to start pacing." Harry said smiling fondly.

Smiling, James nodded and started to walk forwards moving at a slow but steady pace towards the man his baby was about to marry.

When they got to Voldemort's side, James pressed a kiss against Harry's cheek then pressed Harry's hand into Voldemort's.

"Make him happy." James whispered to Voldemort. After he received a nod in answer James turned and made his way over to his empty seat in between Severus and Draco.

Smiling up at his mate, Harry allowed Voldemort to lead him up to the small golden table with a green chalice filled with a blue colored liquid in it and a silver box resting on top of it.

Turning towards the table, Voldemort produced a dagger from the box and nicked his finger. Then he wordlessly took Harry's hand, which was still resting in his, and gently cut Harry's finger.

Holding Harry's hand over the chalice, Voldemort squeezed the finger and dripped four drops of blood into the liquid then did the same with his cut.

Picking up the chalice, Voldemort swirled it around until the liquid became a dark purple, almost black, color. Then leaning forward, Voldemort poured the liquid out of the chalice onto the ground behind the table.

Clearing his throat, Voldemort then started the spell that would begin the ceremony.

"Spirits in eternal rest we summon you to aid us in our journey to become complete, to become one soul, one being, one love."

When he finished speaking a dull glow started where the liquid had hit the ground. As the glow grew brighter an outline of a figure became visible inside of the glow. The figure stood at about six feet five inches, but there was a slight hunch to the back making it hard to tell the real height.

It took a few minutes, but the light soon dimmed and an old man with a long gray beard and pale gray eyes stood in front of them dressed in a black robe and a gold locket around his neck with a serpentine 'S' engraved in it.

Taking a deep breath, Voldemort said, "You are Salazar Slytherin."

"It is good to see that my heir is able to identify me even after so many years." The spectral figure said crossing his arms over his chest. Looking over Harry, Salazar raised an eyebrow and said, "You realize that you are bonding with a Gryffindor heir."

"He may be an heir to the Gryffindor name, but he's more Slytherin." Voldemort said looking at Harry proudly.

"How can he be more Slytherin if he's related to that Gryffindor fool?" Slytherin asked raising an eyebrow.

"He speaks our tongue." Voldemort hissed out in parseltongue.

Giving him an annoyed look, Harry hissed out, "Yes I do, but it's not polite to talk in a language that others can't understand when they're here for us."

"Simply amazing. I've never heard of this happening outside of the Slytherin descendants." Salazar said looking almost awed.

"We believe that it happened because we're mates. That it allows us to have the same abilities as the other so it's easier to communicate with one another." Harry said.

Nodding, Salazar said, "Very well. Let's get on with it then." Clearing his throat, Salazar looked at the two and asked, "Then do you Thomas Marvolo Riddle, also known as lord Voldemort, of the Slytherin line fully to consent to marry Harry James Snape-Malfoy of the Gryffindor line?"

"Until the end of my life, and again in the afterlife."

"Very good. And you, Harry James Snape-Malfoy of the Gryffindor line. Do you consent to marry Thomas Marvolo Riddle, also known as lord Voldemort, of the Slytherin line?" He asked turning to face Harry.

"From now until the end of time." Harry said smiling.

"Good." Slytherin said nodding his head. Stepping up to the table Slytherin let his hand hover a couple of inches above the table and a soft glow started underneath his transparent hand.

It took a few minutes but when Salazar moved his hand away and the glow died down there were two gold rings resting on the table top. Pointing to the ring in front of Voldemort, Salazar said, "Take this ring and place it on your mates finger."

Slipping the ring on Harry's finger, Voldemort pressed a kiss against it and took a second to admire the ring.

Like Harry's engagement ring this one was shaped like a snake. The ring featured an oval cut ruby set atop the head with a round brilliant cut ruby and diamond encrusted body. The ruby's and diamonds were set in a white rhodium which gave the ring a stunning two toned golden look.

"Harry, please do the same with the ring in front of you." Salazar said looking at the ring in front of Harry.

"Of course." Harry said picking the ring up.

Smiling up at his mate, Harry slipped the ring onto Voldemort's ring finger then took a few seconds to look at it.

Voldemort's ring was a nine karat gold, Victorian style snake ring with ruby set eyes, and a diamond set forehead.

Turning to face Salazar they watched as he slowly started to fade away.

Before he fully disappeared, Salazar said, "Like the snake that circles your fingers, this bonding is eternal."

With a flash of light Salazar faded away back to where ever he had been when he was summoned for the bonding. When he was gone there was a small puff of smoke that almost instantly cleared and revealed their marriage certificate.

Giving Harry a wolfish grin, Voldemort wrapped an arm around his waist and pulled Harry against him.

Pressing their lips together in a kiss they blocked out everyone there until Dante interrupted them with a cheer or, "Yay mama, yay dada!"

Pulling away with a laugh, Harry looked over at his family with a smile spread across his face. Moving over to his fathers side, Harry scooped Dante up and cuddled him close.

"Dante, mama and dada will be back in a few days. You'll be good for your grandma and your two grandpas right?" Harry asked.

"Uh huh. Dante be a good boy." Dante said firmly nodding his head.

Giving Dante one last hug, Harry then handed Dante to Voldemort so he could hug him as well.

Accepting hugs from his family, Harry stepped back to Voldemort's side after he gave Dante to James.

Wrapping an arm around Harry's waist, Voldemort pulled out the portkey that would drop them off on a wizarding beach in Hawaii and activated it.

Shaking his head to clear away the memory, Harry looked around the room and smiled when he saw Dante talking with a brown haired Slytherin.

"You drifted off there for a while Harry." James said.

"Yeah. I was just thinking about my bonding. Dante's growing up so quickly." Harry said giving a sigh.

"You can always have another." James said.

"I know. Maybe we will before Dante gets much older. It would feel weird to have such a bigger age gap then there already is."

"So were you really confused when Dante went into the Slytherin house?"

"No. I figured he would be in Slytherin or in Ravenclaw since he's always been a bookworm. But Slytherin dominates this family, so he'll just be a smart Slytherin." Harry said shrugging his shoulders.

"Well the prefects are leading the students up to the dorms. You can head down to your rooms to meet with your mate." James said after looking up towards the doors.

Standing up, Harry smiled at his family before he made his way out of the teachers entrance.

Making his way down into the chamber of secrets through his fathers office, Harry smiled when he entered the living room and spotted his mate reclining on the couch with his eyes closed.

Moving over to the couch, Harry dropped onto his mates lap and nuzzled into his neck.

Chuckling, Voldemort wrapped his hands around Harry's waist and asked, "Well what house did our son get into?"

"You were right. He went into Slytherin. But in defense, the hat sat on his head for nearly fifteen minutes before it made the decision."

"But he still went into Slytherin." Voldemort said sounding smug.

"Well it's like I told my mum, this family is full of Slytherin's. So it was almost decided since he was born about what house he would be in. But that doesn't matter, what matters is that he already seems to be making friends with his house mates." Harry said giving a sad sigh.

"What's wrong?" Voldemort asked tipping his head up so he could look into Harry's eyes.

"It's nothing about the sorting. Do you ever want to have more kids?" Harry asked hesitantly.

"Of course...don't you?"

Wordlessly nodding, Harry nibbled on his bottom lip.

"How about we go and try to see if we can make another?" Voldemort asked giving him a wicked grin.

Jumping up from his mates lap, Harry grinned back at him then started to back towards the bedroom. Unbuttoning his robe, Harry let it drop to the ground.

"Well lets go. It takes two to make a baby." Harry said.

Jumping up from his seat, Voldemort raced after Harry leaving a trail of clothes behind him.

***THE END***
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