Severus stood and watched as Harry sat on the floor playing with his now 2 month-old son. Lucas would kick his feet and giggle at his “mummy” as Harry played peek-a-boo with him on the floor. Lucius had been upset when Harry told him he wasn’t ready to move back into Malfoy Manor, but was a little relieved when Severus had told him Harry had already agreed to live in Snape Manor with him. He knew his friend felt guilty for how he had treated his son, but he couldn’t help but be angry with him when he would think about what it had cost Harry. Harry couldn’t do magic anymore, and it was all Lucius fault.

One of the things that surprised him most was that Harry had refused to even talk to Black or Lupin. This hurt the older two men greatly, but Harry didn’t have children with them he had to worry about. Severus wasn’t sure Harry would have given Lucius a second chance if it hadn’t been for Lucas. Draco had tried to talk to Harry, but Ron had been kind enough to fill Harry in on the things Draco had been saying about him while he was gone and Harry refused to let Draco come around much. He too was only allowed around from time to time to see his little brother.

Ron and Hermione as well as Ginny and Neville were around constantly visiting with Harry and the baby. They were always polite to Severus, and he found he didn’t mind having them around much. Harry, with permission from Lucius, had asked Ron and Hermione to be Lucas’ godparents, and the two doted on the little boy now using that as an excuse.

Severus almost had a heart attack the day Ron Weasley of all people brought over a little green and silver sleeper for the baby. He thought he would pass out when Ron told him he was getting the little boy ready to be a Slytherin, after all, more of his family had been Slytherins than Gryffindors. That was the day he found he didn’t mind Ron as much as he had thought.

He turned and left the room when the wards told him someone was at the door and knew it was Lucius. The man had a ministry function to go to tonight, and had asked Harry to accompany him, which Harry had agreed to. Though whether or not Harry would make it out the door was another story. The two were leaving the baby with him tonight, like they had tried the last couple times before, but Severus hoped Lucius would have better luck keeping Harry away from the house tonight than he did in the past, Harry had separation anxiety really bad when it came to his baby.

He greeted Lucius with a sneer when a house elf let the blond in.

“Is Harry ready for tonight?” Lucius asked as his friend led him to the sitting room. The sight he found warmed his heart, and he realized he wouldn’t mind it too much if he were to skip the function tonight and stay in with his family.

He saw that Harry was indeed dressed, and that the robes he would be wearing where hanging over a chair. He was dressed in black dress pants, and an emerald green silk shirt while his dress robes were Silver. All in all, Lucius defiantly approved of the look, and knew he would have to be fighting to keep people from staring at Harry too long tonight.

Harry felt another set of eyes on him, and knew Lucius must have arrived, so looked up from his spot on the floor and smiled at the man before picking up the baby. “Let’s go say hi to your daddy shall we?” He asked Lucas and the baby gurgled at him. He then placed the little boy in Lucius’ arms, and smiled when Lucius kissed the little head of blond hair.

“And how are you two doing?” He asked the baby, knowing Harry would answer. He really missed his son, even though he was there almost every day visiting. It just wasn’t the same as having the little boy living at the manor, and having Harry back in his life completely.

“We are both doing fine as you can see.” Harry said with a smile as he pulled his dress robes on. “Now we had better be going if we don’t want to be late.” Harry said as he walked over to Lucius. He had to laugh when the man began to walk out of the room. “Lucius, aren’t you forgetting something?” He asked.

“What?” Lucius asked looking bewildered.

“Are we taking Lucas with us tonight? If I had known we were I would have dressed him better.” Harry said, laughing when Lucius blushed and handed the baby over to Severus.

“I guess not.” Was all Lucius said, and watched as Severus smirked at him. He then kissed the baby goodnight, and watched as Harry did the same before kissing his father on the cheek and telling him not to wait up.

The thing Lucius liked most about apparating was that he got to hold onto Harry, and got to hold him close. Since Harry couldn’t apparate he had to go with Lucius when he did. This also caused him to feel a pang in his heart realizing it was his fault Harry couldn’t apparate himself.

“Stop it.” He heard Harry say next to him.

“Stop what?” He asked looking thoroughly confused.

“Stop blaming yourself for what happened to me.” Harry said as he put his hands on his hips.

“Why should I, it was my fault. You tried to tell me, but I refused to listen to you. You were almost raped, and I left you there with that thing all because I thought it was consensual.” Lucius said as he looked away from Harry. They two had talked about this a little, and though he knew Harry forgave him, he also knew Harry had the right to blame him.

“You didn’t know what was going on. For all you could see I was participating in it. you didn’t hear Seamus’ threats, or the times I struggled. You saw when I finally gave into him. You didn’t know about the baby.” Harry said trying to placate him.

“I could have listened to you when you begged me to.” Lucius said and knew he had Harry on this one.

“Your right you could have, but you were upset and not thinking clearly. I would have been the same had I walked in on you with someone.” Harry said.

“But you would have listened to me if I had asked.” Lucius fired back

“Your right, I would have but I also blame that on my Gryffindor nobility.” Was Harry’s reply.

“I’ll give you that one.” Lucius said as he slipped his arm around Harry’s small waist. The man had had a baby 2 months ago, and it was like he was never pregnant at all.

“You better because if we spend anymore time arguing we won’t make it inside before I have to fight the urge to return home to Lucas.” Harry said as he allowed Lucius to lead him into the hall.

He wouldn’t deny that he was extremely nervous about tonight, but he didn’t want Lucius to skip another function for him. Lucius had refused to go to any of these functions if Harry wouldn’t go, and so far had missed the last three. Harry knew that the upper class members of the wizarding world were beginning to talk, so to save the other man’s reputation he agreed to go tonight.

He instantly regretted it when he walked in and found he was the youngest one there by at least a decade. He also noticed that everyone there seemed to stop and look at him and Lucius when they entered, and he was instantly uncomfortable with all the stares he was getting, though the fact that he caught a couple of guys checking him out made him even more uncomfortable. He could feel Lucius’ arm tighten around him, and knew the man had seen the other man check him out.

“If you want to leave all you have to do is say the word, and we will go at any point tonight.” Lucius leaned down and whispered in his ear.

He wanted to tell Lucius that he wanted to go now, if just to check on Lucas, but instead decided to wait it out and see if he wouldn’t end up having fun as the night went on. So instead he nodded and knew he might use that to leave.

Harry watched as his… well he didn’t know what to call Lucius, talked with some of the other pureblood men. He had long since become bored with the conversation, business, and had excused himself to go call his father to check on Lucas. He had a hard time containing his laughter when one of the men asked if Lucius actually allowed Harry to have a lover. He did start to lose it when Lucius asked the man what he meant.

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“Well, he just said he was going to check on Lucas, I thought you would be the one least likely to allow their lover to have another on the side.” The man had said.

Lucius couldn’t contain the snort of laughter when he decided to inform the man. “He doesn’t have a lover on the side, Lucas is our 2 month-old son. Harry left him home with someone tonight, and has been dieing to check up on him since we got here.” You could hear the fondness in his voice when he spoke of Harry and Lucas.

“Wait, you mean to tell us you had a baby and didn’t tell anyone.” One of the men said, shocked.

“Actually yes, Harry doesn’t like all the publicity and asked that we keep this quiet. Well after what happened I couldn’t really tell him no.” Lucius sneered at the men, but Harry could hear the guilt in his tone.

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They all then proceeded to talk about what had happened to Harry, and he walked out of hearing range to go fire call his father and check up on his son. As expected everything was going fine and Harry could tell his father was annoyed that he felt the need to check up on them, but he couldn’t help it.

He about jumped out of his skin when he felt someone’s arms close around his waist, and realized they were too short to be Lucius. “How about I take you somewhere we can be alone, and you can show me just how you keep Lord Malfoy coming back to you.” The man whispered in his ear.

“How about you just take your hands off me, and I forget you ever made that invitation.” Harry said as he tried to get the man’s hands off him. He almost let out a startled squeak when he was spun to face the man, and recognized him to be the fiancé of one of the more wealthy purebloods.

“Now why would I want to let a pretty thing like you go, what are you going to do? Curse me.” The man said with a sneer, obviously letting Harry know he wasn’t scared of him.

“Nope, I’ll do you one better.” Harry said as he brought his hand up and slammed it palm first into the man’s nose, satisfied when he heard it break and saw the blood start running from it, something his father had taught him. He was suddenly grateful his dad thought he should learn to protect himself physically.

The man’s scream at having his nose broken seemed to alert everyone to what was going on, and Lucius was at his side in an instant. “What happened?” Lucius asked him.

“That bastard tried to come on to me.” Harry spat as he grabbed onto Lucius’ arm ready to restrain the man. “Told me he would like to try some thing.” Harry said, trying to keep it clean, as there were ladies present.

“He did what?” Lucius practically yelled in outrage. “I hope you plan on doing something about this.” He said to the man’s fiancé.

“Wait a minute, how do you know the little brat isn’t lying?” The other man asked getting into Lucius face.

“Because we all know he is only marrying you for your money, where as Harry doesn’t need that from me.” Lucius said, stating what everyone thought about the man’s fiancé.

Harry could see things were quickly getting out of hand so tugged on Lucius arm trying to get the man’s attention. “Lucius, this isn’t worth it. Let’s just go. I want to go.” He said, hoping the man would remember his promise to leave whenever he wanted.

“Very well.” Lucius said in a cold tone, but Harry knew it wasn’t directed toward him. He then felt strong arms wrap around him, and lead him from the hall. On the way out he could hear people whispering their apologies to them, and breathed a sigh of relief when they made it outside. Finally he felt Lucius apparate them away from this place.