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Fire Keeper	By : slytherincailin Category: HP Canon Characters paired with Original Characters > Threesomes/Moresomes Views: 14003 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 10
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: Anything associated with Harry potter is not mine nor do I recieve payment for the production of this story. The known characters, places and familiar situations in this piece are a product of J K Rowling.

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Chapter Eight: Counting Down To Something Unexpected

Two weeks.

He had spent two wonderful weeks with his new family so far. Fourteen days filled with baking, cleaning, training, playing and getting to know those he would spend the rest of his life with. Thirteen nights spent sleeping against luxurious sheets, seven nights waking to find a restless Erin having snuck beneath his bedsheets with him.

He had received two owls from Hermione and Ron, both cheering for him and asking for updates. One owl from Mrs. Weasley and the family asking him to stay safe and one surprise visit from Charlie through Baro's gentle tweaking of their own floo network. Should he ever long for the Weasley family, they were now only one step away.

He ran fingers through his combed hair for the eighth time, watching the twenty-seventh rain drop fall from the wooden panelling to land against the outside pane of glass on one of the six sitting room windows. He had spent four hours here, perching himself upon the sill when Baro had left for work at half nine that morning. His Dragonette worked whenever he was called upon, though never if he thought it might inconvenience his mates, to settle battles between other Dragonettes or to help Destined who were unhappy. One call from the Centre Hall and the panel of Dragonettes who resided there each afternoon was all it took for Baro to be on his way. Harry doubted he would ever desire to be a victim of the punishments Baro saw fit to deal out to unfit Dragonettes.

"Harry, beautiful, as much as I enjoy watching you sitting on the window sills, wouldn't you rather do something more fun? We could bake?"

"We've made twenty seven cookies, twelve apple pastries and two chocolate cakes in the past seven days, Erin, there's only so many baked goods a family can handle before one of us explodes." The words were said in humour, Harry's tongue poking between his lips in jest when he turned to face the indignant blonde.

"I'll have you know, a family who bakes their own treats will never be fat, especially not on my recipes. And do stop it with that blasted counting, it's freaking me out…"

Harry snorted, heaving himself down from his perch with a sigh. "I can't help it, I never used to do it before but I can't seem to stop myself seeing everything in numbers… It's like… if I don't have the control to count it then something will go wrong."

"You need to get laid, that's what you need. You and your blasted numbers…"

"Erin!"

"Well it's true!" Erin let loose a peal of laughter when Harry struck his arm playfully, dropping himself heavily into the padded armchair that still smelled of Baro. He groaned and rubbed his ever expanding stomach slowly. "You need sex and I need to get this monster out of me… Get out! Get out, do you hear me!"

"Very effective, Erin," Harry drew Erin's pale hair away from his body, frowning at the sweat that had erupted on the taller submissive's neck. He braided it slowly as Erin puffed, his cheeks a bright pink as he clasped his stomach with gentle hands. "Erin… are you sure you're alright?"

Erin waved a careless hand, his smile swift, "I told you this morning not to fret didn't I? Myvi said pains like this are normal around the end of a pregnancy, false labour pains. Far too early to be the real thing, I'm not due for another three weeks and Perrioh's away on some mission in Germany. I'll be right as rain as soon as she and Theo get back from Diagon with the pain reliever potions. In fact… they left by floo almost twenty minutes ago, surely they should be back by now?"

"Perhaps they've spotted something for the baby and got caught up in the browsing?" Harry shrugged his shoulders helplessly as Erin grunted, pinning his mate's hair up to keep the weight off his heated back. "You know how awful Theo gets around shopping and Myvi's gotten oddly compliant with his obsession in the last few days. Perhaps they're buying you something together for the baby? Erin?"

Harry gripped the man's shoulders as Erin suddenly bent forward, his grunt of surprise swiftly becoming a pained cry of alarm as he clutched at his stomach with trembling hands and heaved in breath after gasping breath. "Erin!"

Frightened blue eyes met his seconds before Erin's pale hand reached out and grasped his own, dragging Harry down to his level. "This baby is coming now."

Green eyes blew wide, his startled stare going to the bump as though he would be able to see the baby through it. "They can't! It's too early, Erin, what do I do?" Gone was his abrupt fascination with control and counting, leaving Harry alone in the sudden flurry his mind had dived into.

Erin let loose another strangled cry, his head shaking wildly. "Early or not, this kid's comin'. Okay, Harry, I need your help… You need to get me upstairs to the Birthing room, the yellow one, remember? At the far end of the hall? It's the only room prepped in the house."

Harry nodded frantically, his heart hammering an unsteady rhythm in his chest as he hefted Erin's trembling form from the couch, grasping his mate's back and pulling Erin's left arm over his shoulder. He could do this, he was strong. Focus, a task, he could finish a task. All he had to do was get Erin to the birthing room and…

And what? He winced as Erin stopped halfway up the stairs to bend and clutch at his stomach once more, his usually pale face now red from the rapid pace of his breathing. What in Merlin's name would they do? Theo and Myvi were beyond reach and Harry had no idea what time they would return or whether they had been versed in the ways of birthing a child. Would they even be of any use to him? He needed Baro. He needed to find Baro and bring him home.

Harry half-carried his groaning mate to the bed of the Birthing room, a bed dressed in clinical, sterile sheets with black-out curtains across the only window to ward away the weak winter daylight. He stripped Erin easily of his shirt, no time now to admire the body of his mate, a sight he had never seen before. He doused white towels in the sink by the bed, cold water that eased the pink in Erin's cheeks and brought some semblance of a smile to Erin's face. "I need to get Baro."

Erin's hand gripped his own when he made to move, pale blue eyes widening as he turned back. "Don't leave me alone…"

Harry couldn't help the small whimper of pity and sympathy that left his lips, his fingers carding through Erin's loose curls before he laid his palms flat against Erin's swollen bump. It trembled beneath his fingers. "I don't know what I'm doing, Erin… Nobody prepped me for this, nobody even told me how it happens… I don't even know if I have to cut or… Where the hell does it come out!"

Despite his pained pants, Erinn snorted a weak laugh, his nose wrinkling in humour. "Gods, remind me to give you a lesson in biology, beautiful, will you? It comes out the same place the daddy's part of it got in, Harry, is that clear enough for you?"

Green eyes darted to the white trousers Erin was wearing, his mouth parting in disbelief. For the first time he noticed those trousers were doused in clear liquid and Harry would put money on Baro's favourite seat now being ruined by Erin's broken water.

"Bloody hell!"

He tugged the button loose with swift fingers, offering a quick apology to Erin before he pulled the rest of his clothes off and discarded them in a pile on the floor. His mate lay spread across the bed, pale thighs parted to reveal all of him to the room and to Harry. Despite the situation and despite a logical voice in his head shouting that he should be checking to see how far along Erin was, Harry felt his head tilt to the side in dazed curiosity.

Erin glanced down at him from where he lay only to erupt into hearty chuckles, his head shaking in disbelief. "Now?" he panted through his gulping breaths and dry laughter, "now, you choose to show an interest. Merlin, you've got some timing."

Harry's cheeks blossomed pink, his lips drawing in a soft grimace as he moved to place a hand against Erin's stomach. The bump almost looked as though it had dropped and from the sudden cry of pain his mate let loose, Harry was sure the baby was only hours away. Did Dragonette labours go faster than normal labours? What was the normal waiting time for a human child and mother? He couldn't remember… He doubted if he ever even knew and cursed himself for not taking more of an interest in Erin's pregnancy. "Erin… I'm sorry…"

"Shhh…" Erin breathed deeply through his nose, his brow furrowed and his hand rising to twine his fingers with Harry's own. "You're here.. Just don't leave me and I'll be okay. It'll all be okay…"

"I won't leave, Erin… I'm right here." Harry placed a cooler towel against Erin's forehead and fixed a worried glance upon the clock fixed above the window. Someone… Anyone had better come home soon.

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Baro returned home earlier than expected, not yet six hours from the time he had left his manor. He entered the main hall with a smile, before his ear cocked in confusion. Always, his house was full with the sounds of his family and yet, now, it was silent. His mouth drew straight in wariness, his ears perked for any sound.

A shriek, loud and piercing and dissolved to inhuman tones.

Erin.

He raced towards the source of the cry with his wings partially unfolded from his spine, his teeth bared and his mind certain that his precious submissives were under attack.

What he dove in on was a bare Erin wailing in distress against the birthing bed as he pushed. Harry's small hand was grasped in his own, the smaller submissive blind to all but his mate's pain and his green eyes glossy with tears. He raised a petrified face in surprise when Baro moved past him, the Dragonette's large hand reaching down to cup Erin's pinched face gently.

Blue eyes fluttered open and the man offered the barest of smiles, before another shriek of pain was pulled from his mouth and he bore down one more, Harry's pale hand lowered between the blonde's legs and rigidly stiff, as though everything counted on him having a steady hand.

Baro could only watch as Erin let loose one last piercing wail before the white sheets were doused in something fluid and pink and Harry darted forward to catch the body of a tiny baby before it could fall into the mess. He raised it up with gentle arms with something akin to disbelief in his eyes, his green gaze wide and showing far too much white to be healthy. He held enough strength to pass the now shrieking infant to its mother before his legs gave out and he found himself on the floor.

Baro crooned softly, his face a bright smile as he moved to hoist his smallest mate into an armchair and kiss his forehead proudly before he turned back to Erin's panting form. The blonde was exhausted, his body slick with sweat but his face split with the largest smile as he clutched the screaming baby close and chirped softly until the child blinked blearily up at him. He cast wide eyes on Baro, his smile growing wider as his Dragonette laid a kiss to his cheek and stroked a pale finger down the flurry of tiny red scales that littered his newly born son's cheek and right temple.

"A Dragonette, which name do you suppose fits such a strong first son, my Erin?"

"That's the bloody easy part," Erin laughed, pulling gently on the scarlet wings of his infant to stretch the new muscle. "His name is James, for Harry."

Suddenly met with the thankful blue gaze that was Erin's and Baro's proud smile, Harry dropped his eyes to the boy he had helped deliver and dissolved into tears. It was to this hysterical scene that both Theo and Myvi walked in on, their mouths parted in shock and the cardboard box of a disassembled cot between them.
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