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Unexpected - Chapter 14: Unexpected
Title: Unexpected
Authors: slashpervert and aveeno_baby.

Betas: brknhalo241, asm614, Mini Mouse, and Indie.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: ADULT!
Genre: Fluff, Smut, Hurt/Comfort
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Length: 94,000 words (40 Chapters)
Warnings (Mark to Read): Language, Explicit, M/M Sex, Masturbation, Oral, Rimming, Anal, Mpreg, and mental health issues such as anxiety attacks. (Characters in this fiction are over 18.)

Summary: Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy have lived together for four years in their country house surrounded by a magical menagerie of unwanted animals Harry rescues. Yet, Harry wants more. He dreams of a family that includes children.

Notes: Post-war, AU after HBP, not DH compliant. Sequel to Undesirable, though can be read separately. Whereas, Undesirable was very dark, this one is very fluffy with some angst. Thanks to corvusdea for help with Latin for spells. Icon adapted by slashpervert from Passion by dirty_darella.
Disclaimer: This is a non-commercial work of fan fiction intended for adult audiences only. No copyright infringement intended. (Full Disclaimer!)

Chapter Number/Total:14/40
Chapter Title: Unexpected
Words: 3021 Words



Harry hopped up onto the examination table in St Mungo’s, looking around nervously. "Not happy," he mumbled to Draco. "And a little hungry."

Draco thought that was the weirdest part of the symptoms. Harry seemed hungry all the time, despite the nausea. Draco didn't know what to make of that. He rested a hand on the small of Harry’s back, trying to reassure him.

A green-robed Healer came in a few minutes later. "Mr Potter," he began but seemed taken aback by the actual sight of The Boy Who Lived. Draco was amused. Very few people had seen what Harry looked like these days and most were unprepared for the long hair or the quiet demeanour.

"Hi," Harry said, glancing at the Healer once just to be polite, forcing himself not to shake his hair out in front of his face.

The man recovered and looked between them. "I am Healer Carson," he explained.

Draco introduced himself and explained the spells he had already used to try to figure out the problem. Carson nodded and turned back to Harry. "So, Mr Potter, how are you feeling at this moment?"

"Okay. Just a little hungry," Harry replied, shrugging slightly. He had thrown up twice that morning. Once in the morning when he first woke up and once more not long after that.

Carson began with the same spells Draco had used and got the same results. Then he tried some others. "Have there been any recent changes in your diet, activities or living environment?"

"Not really. Things have been the same. But I can't eat sausage anymore without getting sick," Harry told him.

"We also have a couple new pets," Draco added. "A cat and a horse."

"New pets? How many pets do you have?" Carson asked.

Harry had to count on his fingers. "Fourteen now, counting the horse and kitten," he said after a moment, nodding.

Carson gave Draco a look as if to confirm this strange fact and the blond nodded. "Well, there are some diseases carried by animals," Carson ventured.

"I check all the animals when we bring them home," Draco told him. Of course, that wouldn't necessarily protect against curses.

"It's not from the animals," Harry said, shaking his head. "I'm sure of that."

Carson sighed and cast even more spells, none of them providing any more information than the first ones.

"Oh, there you are," Hermione said from the doorway. A staffer was trying to keep her out but Hermione ignored the other woman, pushing past her into the room.

"Hey, Hermione," Harry said when he saw her, noticing that her baby girl wasn't with her. "Where's the baby?"

"Cathy is with Molly," Hermione assured him. "Now what have they found out?"

"Is she family?" Carson asked.

Draco laughed, "Yes." Legally, neither he nor Hermione were Harry’s family, but they were the people who loved and took care of him.

"She's my sister," Harry told him with a nod, smiling and reaching for her hand. "They can't find anything wrong with me."

Hermione made Carson and Draco go over everything they had discussed already and asked a slew of her own questions. She shook her head. "Well, if he was a woman, I’d suggest he was pregnant," Hermione said with a laugh.

Harry's eyebrows rose before he blushed, shaking his head. He knew that was impossible.

Draco was the only one not smiling. "It fits the symptoms, doesn’t it?' he asked.

"That doesn't make sense," Harry mumbled, not even wanting to think about it. Thinking about it would get him too hopeful, which would lead to disappointment when it wasn't true and Harry didn't think he could handle that. Not after what happened with Elijah.

"No, it doesn't," Draco said, smiling. "But since when have the rules ever applied to you?" he teased. "Do the test. Use Gravitas," he told the Healer.

Carson looked at him like he was mental. Hermione laughed again but nodded. "If he says do it, you might as well," she warned Carson. "Where Harry is concerned, Draco never gives in.”

"Wait, are you serious?" Harry asked Draco, looking surprised. "And what's the test for?"

"Pregnancy," Draco answered, shrugging and gesturing to Carson.

"He's a man," Carson insisted.

Draco smirked. "I know that better than anyone," he answered smugly.

"Just do it," Harry told the Healer, wanting to get the test out of the way so that Draco would see that he wasn't pregnant. He was a man and, as far as he knew, that was not possible at all. But the way Draco was looking at him, it was like he knew something Harry didn't.

The Healer sighed and cast, "Aperi ullam vitam abditam intus." A white light bathing Harry for a moment and then coalescing on his belly, glowing blue.

Hermione made a kind of startled squeak and Carson stared. Draco grinned and then broke out laughing.

Harry was unbelievably confused. Draco's laughter wasn't making anything better. "What? What's so funny!" He looked down at his stomach, frowning at the blue color. "What does that mean!"

Draco stepped up and put an arm around his lover's shoulders. "Love, looks like you have been granted your wish," he whispered, kissing Harry's cheek and laying a hand on Harry's blue lighted midsection.

Harry's face paled, not exactly sure of what Draco meant by that. "What do you mean?" he asked very quietly, his heart beating faster as he waited for the answer. The uncertainty of not understanding what was happening was beginning to scare Harry.

Carson seemed to recover and ended the spell, then cast it again, getting the same result. He even cast it a third time, looking frantic when it didn’t change colour.

"Oh, Harry," Hermione exclaimed, looking like she was going to cry.

"The spell says you are pregnant, my love," Draco answered, looking adoringly at his lover's face.

Harry never in a million years had thought that he'd ever hear those words said to him. He felt a rush of emotions all at once, surprise, excitement, hope ... it was all so overwhelming. He looked up into Draco's eyes, feeling lightheaded all of a sudden. "What ….” Before he could finish his question, Harry fainted, his eyes rolling back as his body began to slip downward toward the table.

Draco caught Harry, holding him close. "Harry?" he asked worriedly.

Hermione came quickly to the other side and Carson ended the Gravitas Spell. Carson seemed in shock. "It's not possible."

Before Draco could do anything to check or revive Harry he heard a slight moan; his lover was blinking up at him again, looking confused.

Harry eventually focused on Draco, but he kept quiet, still feeling a little unstable, not sure of where he was. The environment felt familiar in a very bad way but Draco's presence was the one thing that reassured Harry that he was safe.

Draco stroked Harry's hair back from his face, cupping his cheek. "Are you all right?"

"Where are we?" he asked quietly, a very slight tremor running through his body.

Draco frowned, fear tightening in his chest. "I'm taking care of you love. We are in St Mungo's."

Carson scowled, apparently not happy with the way The Boy Who Lived was responding.

"So, it's real?" Harry whispered, his eyes widening. He thought it was a dream, to be honest, since it couldn't be possible. Harry had been the victim of very vivid dreams in the past that had wreaked havoc with his mind. He wasn't sure now if this wasn't one of those times.

Draco was a bit worried, supporting Harry with his arms. It was what Harry had asked for but maybe it was too much for him to handle. He'd always been fragile since what had happened to him in the war. "The spell indicates you are ... pregnant."

"It's not possible," Carson insisted.

"But how?" Harry asked softly, feeling a mixture of confusion, fear, and hope. He didn't even register the Healer's voice. "I can't ... Draco ...."

"You have a knack for the impossible love. Do you want this?" Draco asked, fingers tracing his lover's jaw.

That reply was easy enough. "I want a child," he said. "I just didn't think it would happen like this ...." He slowly started to sit up, reaching to slide his arms around Draco.

Draco helped Harry sit up, his own heart pounding. He didn't know how it was possible for Harry to be pregnant. He held his lover and wondered how it could have happened.

Hermione was watching Harry. Draco could see her trying to puzzle it out too.

"This is ridiculous," Carson declared.

"Do the spell again," Harry whispered, looking down at his stomach. "Please."

Draco drew his wand this time, ignoring Carson and casting the Gravitas Spell himself. "It glows because there is another life inside you," he explained.

Harry's eyes welled with tears, unable to tear his eyes away from the blue light. His heart was beating fast, really fast, feeling something like butterflies in his stomach. Or was that the …. "Baby," he whispered, his lips trembling. He wanted it to be true more than he had ever wanted anything before.

"Yes, a baby," Draco whispered, awed by the very idea of it now that it looked possible.

Harry started to sob now, reaching to gently touch his glowing stomach. "A baby," he whispered, not even bothering with wiping at the tears. He reached to grip Draco's hand, sniffling as he moved even closer to him. Now he felt happy, slowly beginning to grin even while the tears continued to trail down his cheeks. "I can't even tell," he said, his other hand on his stomach.

"Can't you do a test to see how far along he is?" Hermione asked Healer Carson.

"I'm still not convinced that it's not something else," Carson said irritably.

"Cast the Viewing Spell," Draco insisted.

Harry wanted to see as many tests as possible to see if this was really a pregnancy, and so that he could be as happy as he wanted to be. "Please do the test," he said to the Healer. "We need to see."

Carson grumbled, but turned his wand on Harry again. "Prode imaginem concepti," he cast and an image appeared in front of him like some kind of glowing lump. Carson looked like he would faint this time.

"Midwifery wasn't my area, but I think that looks a couple months along," Draco said.

Harry felt like he might pass out again, but he managed to stay upright, reaching out to touch the image, but of course his hand went right through it. "I really am … pregnant?" Harry asked, his eyes slowly filling with tears again.

Draco watched those green eyes water and spill over, catching the tears with his fingers. "It appears that way," he admitted, not sure how it could be true either.

"A couple of months," he repeated softly. "My baby is a couple of months along ...." It was going to be strange saying it; the words felt unfamiliar coming from his own mouth while part of him wanted to repeat the phrase over and over just to hear it. As long as this wasn't some cruel joke.

"It's amazing, Harry," Hermione told him, squeezing his arm.

"Wait here," Carson said. "I need to get my supervisor." The man hurried from the room.

Harry watched him go, and then realised what telling his supervisor would mean. He was already the Boy Who Lived, and if this were to get out in the open ..."I don't want to be prodded and poked at for this," he said, sitting up more straightly, fear beginning to settle over his features. "We have to keep this quiet."

Draco exchanged a look with Hermione. "I think Harry is right," he said. "We need to handle this more privately. I don't want him kept in here because they want to figure this out." He moved to help Harry up.

But Harry didn't move to get up, chaotic thoughts already racing through his mind about what Healers here would do with him. They could lock him up and study him and the baby and he'd never get to see Draco and his child would probably be taken away from him. He started to breathe faster, pulling his legs up to his chest to protect himself. Increasing terror caused Harry's body to begin shaking as he searched his mind for a safe place to slip away to. Harry only wanted a safe dark place to hide in.

Draco saw the panic attack taking over and shook his head. They didn't have much time before Carson got his supervisor. He put his hand on Harry's back, the other tipping up his lover's head to look into his eyes. "Trust me, Harry. Let's go home, where I can take care of you."

Harry stilled his movements, searching Draco's eyes for the measure of safety he needed before reaching to take his hand, pulling himself up once he got a good grip. "Let's go now," he insisted shakily, his free hand resting on his stomach still. He kind of wanted to just feel something, anything.

Draco was relieved to see that Harry was still able to listen to him. "Yes, my love," he agreed. As quickly as they could without drawing too much attention, they moved down the hall and toward the Floo. "Wait," someone behind them yelled.

"Get him out of here," Draco told Hermione, pushing them both toward the Floo and going to delay the people coming to intercept them.

Harry wanted to stay with Draco, but he knew that wasn't a good idea. He managed to Floo back home with Hermione, stumbling through the fireplace behind the woman.

The dogs came running and barking, Severus behind them. "Fucking hell," the Jarvey said by way of greeting. Hermione gave it that same disapproving look she always did as she helped Harry to the sofa. Even without being ... pregnant ... Harry never liked Floo travel.

"Could you go back and see if Draco's okay?" Harry asked nervously, wanting the man to come through the fire soon, worried about Draco.

"He'd be furious if I left you and you know it," Hermione huffed. "You know he can handle himself. He'll be along in a minute."

Harry sighed, knowing Hermione was probably right. He settled back on the couch and pushed the hair out of his face before reaching to pull his shirt up once again. It scared him a little to know that a new life was nestled inside of him needing his protection. Harry hoped he would be strong enough.

She smiled affectionately at him. "I found it hard to believe when it was me, even as a woman and even though it wasn't an accident," she said.

"It's just ... it's weird, but ... I'm so happy and yet, kind of scared," Harry whispered, stroking the skin of his stomach as he spoke.

The Floo flared then and Draco emerged from it. "Bloody idiots," he complained.

"What happened?" Harry asked the moment he saw him. "Do they all know now?"

"Well, they know what Carson told them but that doesn't mean they actually believe him," Draco smirked and sat down on the other side of Harry on the sofa.

"How are we going to do this then?" Harry asked, curling up next to Draco. "If no other Healers know ...."

"You need a private Healer, one not affiliated with St Mungo’s," Hermione said and Draco nodded in agreement.

"I like that idea." Harry nodded, rubbing his stomach gently. "I want to see the baby again," he whispered.

Draco laid his hand atop of Harry's and leant in to kiss him.

Harry kissed him back, not sure of how else to show his happiness. He felt like laughing and crying all at the same time.

Draco had just pulled back to smile at Harry again when the Floo activated and he drew his wand. Ron stumbled out of it, eyes widening when he saw the wand pointed at him. He held his hands up. "What's up?"

"We just got back from St. Mungo’s," Harry told him with a big grin, finally starting to relax.

Draco huffed and lowered his wand. Ron gave him a confused look. "So what happened? Are you okay?" Ron asked Harry.

"I'm all right. Better than all right," Harry answered, still grinning.

Hermione looked amused. Draco was still caressing Harry's naked belly which drew a strange look from Ron.

"You're gonna be an uncle, Ron," Harry said, knowing that it would take a lot of convincing in order for him to get it.

Ron frowned. "I already am an uncle, five times over," he said.

"Well, add one more," Harry said, laughing.

"You can't expect him to guess this one," Hermione teased, laughing. "Tell him, Harry."

"Now I know this will take you a while to understand, so ... well. I'm pregnant," Harry said to Ron, still finding it exciting to actually say it.

Ron waited, looking like a man who was waiting for the punch-line to a joke and Draco found that funny in itself.

"I'm pregnant, Ron," Harry said again, looking down at his stomach. "Maybe if he could see ... Draco, do you know the spell the Healer used?"

"You just want to see it again," Draco teased. He knew the spell but hadn't done it in years. He cast and the little bright image appeared again. Ron clearly recognised it. Which figured given that he had probably seen the same thing when Hermione was pregnant. The man's eyes grew wide and his mouth dropped open.

"Weird, I know," Harry whispered, staring at the image, his own eyes wide.

"That looks like ..." Ron trailed off. Ron looked like he might faint too.

"Knew you'd catch up eventually," Draco drawled and rolled his eyes. Hermione gave him a smack on the arm.

"Little baby," Harry whispered, unable to look away from the glowing lump. He couldn't wait until the baby started to get bigger – so he could start to see fingers, toes, and everything else.

[Be careful what you wish for!]

Chapter 15

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