SIMple Reflections of Life

Draco moved into his private chambers after a long day of classes. These rotten students seemed to getting on his every last damned nerve, and he\'d been feeling rather bad lately and taking potions to ease his nausea. He sighed and stretched, glancing about. "Harry?" he called.



"In here." Harry called back and Draco followed his voice to find him in the sitting room, sitting relaxed on the couch with his feet on the footrest and his computer on its little table on his lap.



Draco tried to hide how tired he felt as he moved over to join him. "Playing again?"



"Yeah, but just till you got home." Harry slipped his arm about his shoulders. "I\'m glad we\'ve had a few nights alone lately. I was getting tired of sharing you with Severus Snape all the time."



Draco chuckled softly, snuggling as close as he could without upsetting the computer. "Come on now; it\'s been two months since he was over all the time. Besides, it\'s no different than me having to share YOU with that little electrical Muggle contraption." he countered, looking at the screen.



"Sure there\'s a difference. My computer doesn\'t get snarky with you."



Draco laughed. "Point taken; so what\'s going on…?"



"I\'ve finished Hogwarts. In the game it\'s the college that they\'re going to attend. They don\'t have wizarding schools since it\'s a muggle game, and that\'s the closest I could do. It took me a week to finish designing it."



"I bet it looks fantastic… did you get the black lake and the forest and

everything?"



"I only have so much space, no… but it does have a lake, and it does have forest plots of land all around, and I did put it up in the mountains."



"That\'ll do, I suppose… so who\'s going?"



"The twins. I\'m about to send them off now. Little Aren is a child now, like nine or ten… and SimHarry is due to have another baby at any time…"



"It\'s MINE this time, right?" Draco asked in a possessive growl.



"Yes, Dray. This one is yours." Harry chuckled.



"So what do you do to send them off to college? We must ensure they have enough money to get by; they have to have clothes and furniture and…"



"They\'ll live in a dorm, Dray." Harry assured. "All that will be taken care of."



"You\'re sure? I won\'t have a child of the Malfoy name drudging about for money!"



"Absolutely sure." He said firmly, clicking on one of the twins. He told that twin to get ready to go to college, and when the game asked him if there was any friend she would want to invite Harry added two Weasley children as well as her twin brother. The scene changed to one in front of the house, the twins hugging and getting kisses from both their fathers, little green-skinned Aren jumping all around while both grownups began to weep.



Then the screen went dark.



"What the hell…?" Harry murmured, but waited a moment. The screen flashed, then a blue screen with the lovely words \'FATAL ERROR\' appeared on the monitor. "No!" he whispered, staring in disbelief.



"What happened, Harry?" Draco asked, looking confused.



"The computer… its memory… it just crashed on me."



"Well do a repair spell and get back to your game." Draco shrugged, not understanding the enormity of the situation.



"That won\'t work… I\'ve lost my family. The relationships, the family, the kids… they\'re gone…!" Harry began tapping keys rapidly but the screen refused to change. He powered it down, crossing his fingers mentally, hoping beyond hope that turning it off would reset the memory and help the computer to restart. The computer went through its boot-up then locked again. Nothing… blue screen of death. Harry tried several times, everything he knew; the computer continued to refuse to work or even boot up completely.



"No…! DAMN it all, I\'ve worked so hard on all of this…!" Harry whispered, tears glistening in his eyes.



"You can\'t get it back?" Draco asked softly.



"No… I\'ve lost it all; I\'ve lost my family." He said, staring at the screen. "I\'m going to have to start all over… It took weeks to get all that done… all the houses and castles, and…"



"Not quite." Draco said in response, deciding this was the time. Harry looked at him and Draco smiled softly, reaching up to touch Harry\'s cheek, brushing gently at his eye to remove the tears that were welling up there. Harry\'s hand touched his, and Draco took that hand in his. "Besides, lover; you won\'t have time to play that silly game anymore. You\'re going to be much too busy."



"Why?" Harry asked softly. "Busy doing what?"



Draco moved Harry\'s hand down to his own stomach, where Harry could feel that Draco\'s stomach was no longer smooth and flat. "I didn\'t see why, Harry Potter, those children in the game needed all your love and attention, when you could be giving it to ours." Draco said softly.



Harry stared at his hand, feeling Draco\'s stomach and the realization of what he was telling him sinking in. "A baby?"



"Oh yes, Harry…" Draco smiled at him. "And I am quite proud to say we outdid that silly game of yours… your SimDraco only had twins… the medi-wizard tells me that I am carrying three."



Harry stared at him in disbelief. "I never even knew… wizards COULD really get pregnant... How?" he whispered.



Draco chuckled, snuggling close to his husband. He and Severus Snape had been working on potions to make this happen for the two of them; perhaps he\'d tell Harry it had been Severus\' suggestion to look up the information some day. But not today. He preferred to simply relax in his arms and enjoy the moment. "I used a cheat, Harry." he said teasingly.