Misplaced Trust

hey everyone here is the next chapter before i head off to school almost there and hopefully my coauthor will be home so we can continue with out next story

A/N

Babymomma2fo - there will be another child made in this story but im not telling who but i hope you enjoy this more

leValkyrie - i wasnt aware that my co author had made such a distrubed past for Sev so i was surprised but ya we had to give him a good ending

Jessie - thanks!

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Harry stared at the two tiny people in the crib, reaching out to touch little Dahlia's hand. She made a quiet sound, but didn't wake and he couldn't help but smile.

"You make beautiful children, Bella; I'll give you that." He said quietly to the woman lying in the bed. Bella looked over and smiled almost dreamily.

Riven slept peacefully.

"I think you helpped alot in making them so beautiful.” Harry grinned.

His son was going to grow up with his hair, he feared. Both of them had full, black heads of hair, but while Dahlia's was soft and curly, Riven's seemed to be growing in all directions at once. Everyone kept saying Dahlia looked like him, but he could only see Bella in her wide, dark eyes and tiny, pokable nose.

"I'll take your word for it." Riven's plump face began to scrunch up and let out a loud cry.

Bella smiled and looked at her lover.

"He must be hungry." Harry nodded and picked up his crying boy, cradling him to his chest.

As had become normal, his chest warmed and swelled with pride as he watched Riven's fists flail, his eyes squeezed shut. Harry brought him to his mother so he wouldn't wake Dahlia.

"I still can't quite believe it. I hope...I hope I'll be a good father..." Bella smiled and gently opened her dress top and bared her milk filled breast to her waiting son.

Riven instantly latched onto the nub and drank greedily. Harry watched intently, for once not driven wild by his lover's breasts. Well. Not *completly* wild anyway. He was enraptured by the bond Bella seemed to share with her babeies effortlessly and wished they would take to him the same way. He never tired of holding them, though they were far too young for playing just yet.

"Does...that hurt?" He asked quietly, curiously.

"Only if i dont let them feed for awhile. It gets too full." Bella gently Riven's soft head.

Dahlia begins to cry out kicking her feet hard.

"I think she needs her diaper changed." Harry nods and goes to his little girl.

He'd already seen what a hellion she would be, but he loved her all the same. He took her to the small curved table and removed the soiled diaper, chucking it into the small magical bin to the side. He'd been mystified when Sirius had given it to them. He'd said it would keep in nasty smells and hold the diapers until the house elves could get to them to clean. Once he'd given Dahlia a once-over with a wipe, he picked up the cloth he knew would somehow fold into a diaper. For several moments he stared at it, trying to figure it out as Dahlia cooed and wriggled on the table.

"Er..."

"You can do it Harry. Just fold it a couple of times." Bella encouraged from the bed.

Harry folded the diaper crosswise as he remembered Sirius teaching him, complaining about the many times he'd had to change *Harry's* diapers the whole while. He slid the cloth under Dahlia's rump and folded it as best he could remember. She looked like a baby Ghandi. He pinned it in place and held her up for Bella's inspection.

"Like this?" Bella smiles giggling softly.

"Close enough." Riven slowly lets go of her breast sighing contently.

Harry brought the little Ghandi baby to her mother, grinning.

"Trade?" Bella nods and gently sets Riven between her legs and holds her hand out for her precious daughter.

She fixed the diaper having changed Draco SEVERAL times she had become an expert. Harry watched carefully, not getting it at all, but assuming he could figure it out eventually. He had all the time in the world. He ran his fingers through Bella's hair.

"I love you so much." he said, sounding almost awed.

Bella looked up and smiled brightly.

"I love you just as much Harry. Thank you for giving me two precious gifts."

"I could say the same. You...you've given me everthing I wanted most..." Harry cleared his throat and looked away, momentarily at a loss.

Bella smiles and gently lets Dahlia drink.

"God she is a little piglet." Harry grinned.

"Like her dad. She'll grow up with your curves and I'll have to beat all those horny boys off with a stick." Bella giggles as Riven kicks happily between Bella's legs.

"Riven is going to be a heartthrob." Harry grins.

"I'm glad they got your looks. They'd be out of luck otherwise." Bella giggles and looks at Harry.

"Your very handsome Harry." Riven looks up at his daddy and holds out his hands reaching for him.

Harry's heart melts as he lifts his son into his arms and holds him in front of his face.

"You're gonna help out your mom while I'm out ridding the world of evil, huh?" Riven kicks his little feet blowing bubbles merrily.

Harry sighs and holds his son close.

"I hope we can end this long before these two are even old enough to talk..." Bella nods and holds Dahlia close then wipes her daughters mouth.

"Dumbledore isnt going to wait long now that they have been brought into this world." Harry's demeanor becomes darker and he kisses

Riven's forhead, his son reaching up and pattting at his father's chin curiously.

"No, he won't. I'm going to kill him, Bella. For everything he's done to the two of us and those we love, I'm going to kill him." Bella slowly stood up holding Dahlia.

She walked over to the nursery laying the little baby girl down.

"These two will be protected." Harry nodded, following and setting Riven near his sister.

"Bella..." he started, unsure how to finish.

Bella turned to him then gently cups his chin.

"Shhh." Harry closes his eyes and touches his forehead to Bella's.

"Bella...If I don't make it through this..." Bella latches onto him.

"Dont ever think that Harry. You will you will live through this." Harry clutches Bella's hands in his.

"I need you to listen to me. He knows me, Bella. He knows everthing there is to know about me. I mean, look how well he predicted my actions over the years! You have to look at this rationally!" Bella looks at him and pulls her hands away fast covering her eyes.

"No i dont want... to think about the fact... you may die." Tears begin to stream down her cheeks.

Harry kisses her forehead, pulling her close and hugging her fiercely.

"You have to. You have to think about what will happen to you and the babies. We need a plan, Bella." he sighs, realizing that this discussion should include his whole family. Likely the whole house. "We all do." Bella starts to silently sob into his shoulder.

She never wanted to think about Harry's imminant death. She didnt want her soon to be husband to die before she had a chance to have a life with him. Harry kissed Bella's temple.

"I'm not giving up, Bella. I plan to be here when the kids go off on their own, so we can be old together and make fun of each other's wrinkles, okay? I just think we need to be prepared in case that can't happen." Bella slowly nodded as he bit her lip.

"Come on lets go talk to everyone." Harry holds her for a moment more, kissing her cheeks.

"Your strength always amazes me, you know that?" Bella keeps her head down slightly as she walks past him her eyes not contacting his eyes.

Inside she was wanting to fall onto the bed and cry her eyes out. Her eyes would betray her cracking wall that she had built over her heart. Harry had somehow snuck through but it was still up. With the thought that Harry might die and their children may be taken from them she was cracking. Harry made quick work of gathering everyone in the house into the parlour. He looked around at his parents, Sirius, Remus, Ron, Hermione, Pansy, and even Draco and sighed.

"Is that everyone?" He looked to Draco, wondering if his parents should be here.

Surely they knew more about this than he did? Bella sits next to Lily as she keeps her head down. Hermione looks at Harry.

"Harry whats wrong?" Harry runs a hand over his face and looks around, his eyes stopping on Sirius, who looks grim.

His godfather nods to him, which Harry returns before speaking.

"It's time we made a contingency plan." Draco raises a brow and Ron frowns fiercely.

"What the hell do we need one of those for?! You're not going to lose!" Lily hushes him and speaks calmly.

"We are not solely reliant on my son. The prophecy states that Harry is the only one who can defeat the Dark Lord, not Dumbledore." Ron turns to her, stunned.

"But..." He looks to Harry, who nods. "It says 'neither can live while the other survives!" Draco sneers.

"Yes, weasel, but if both are *thriving* the entire thing is negated." Hermione wraps her arms around Draco's arm patting his hand.

"Thats my smart man." Pansy giggles and hugs Ron.

"I like my average one." Remus chuckles at them.

Ron stares at Pansy for a moment, trying to figure out if he should feel insulted or not while Draco smirks and drops a kiss onto Hermione's head. Harry shakes his head with a small smile before regaining his composure.

"You." he says, pointing to Sirius. "You have the most experience that I know of with sneaking around." Sirius shrugs and looks apologetic.

"I'm an animagus. No real skill involved." Harry pauses, his eyes going distant.

"An animagus..." Hermione looks at him.

"Harry?" Harry snaps out of it and his eyes zero in on Sirius again.

"How long did it take you to become one?" Sirius thinks for a moment before Remus replies for him.

"About a year for all of them. Peter was the last at around 14 months." Harry nods and looks around.

Lily has a small smile on her face and he looks at her questioningly. Without speaking, she transforms into a large chesnut hare. Harry stares at her.

"A bunny? Mom, really?" She transforms back with a huff.

"I am *not* a *bunny*! My form is a hare, thank you very much, and likely faster than most other animagi combined." she crosses her arms and James grins wides.

"Way to go Harry." Hermione and Pansy snicker slightly as Pansy turns to Bella who had stayed quiet.

"Aunt Bella what do you turn into?" Bella didnt answer as James smirked.

"Bella failed to turn into anything. Yet she said it was because she didnt NEED to turn herself into an animal to prove she was strong." Bella turned the hand under her chin into a fist as she listened to James.

Harry glared at his father and stepped a bit in front of Bella.

"She'll need to stay human to care for the twins, regardless." He turned to Draco.

"What about you? Did you get the training?" Draco looked away and set his jaw.

"I did." Harry stared at him expectantly for several moments, and when Draco said nothing, he sighed.

"Well? What are you." Draco refused to look anywhere near anyone's eyes.

"Never you mind. Suffice it to say I can get whatever task assigned to me done. That is all you need to know." Ron rolled his eyes and grumbled.

"I bet he's a bloody ferret." Draco snarled at Ron, but said nothing else.

Hermione blinked rapidly and looked at Draco.

"Are you a feret love?" Hermione was a little scared for Draco since her form was a hawk and they normalloy ate ferets.

A red blush rose in Draco's cheeks and he closed his eyes slowly before responding in almost inaudible voice.

"I might be." Hermione slowly moves away.

"Cause im uh... a hawk well an eagle if you want to be specific." Draco raised an eyebrow.

"Are you going to eat me?"

"No i just wanted to warn you." Pansy giggles.

"Well i know that im a beautiful swan." Ron scratches the back of his head.

"I er." Harry grins.

"Go on." He said, making a shooing motion to Ron. "Tell her." Ron makes a face at Harry before turning back to Pansy.

"I'm a dog...a hound, actually." Harry smirks.

"Horn-dog, more likely." Sirius breaks out into raucous laughter and Remus smiles.

Pansy sighs deeply.

"That explains everything." Bella stands up silently slowly walking out of the room.

Mostly no one other than Lily noticed her leaving. Harry grinned at his embarrassed friend.

"Well, I'm a bull s-" Harry was forced to stop with his father broke out into loud guffaws. "What?" He asked with a raised brow.

Lily giggles as Remus slaps his knee.

"No wonder you and Bella are like rabbits Bulls are very promiscuous." Harry opens his mouth to speak, then shuts it, looking in amused surprise at his mother who shrugs.

James grins.

"Come here, bun." He says wrapping an arm around a willing Lily.

Harry rolls his eyes.

"Alright. So, does everyone understand the behavior of their respective forms? Can you survive in that skin for an extended period of time?" Draco nods, as does Sirius and Ron.

Hermione and Pansy both nod as Lily nods with them. James grins, but nods as well. Harry smiles.

"Then that's what we'll do. Bella will take a disguise, Ron will stay with us and provide additional protection. The rest of you will move into your respective habitats. Find somewhere dominated by muggle population to reduce the chance of recognition. Are any of you registered?" Remus is the only one who raises his hand as Pansy looks at him.

"Your a werewolf that dont count." Harry frowns.

"That could become a problem. With the need for wolfsbane, you're traceable, if only by the ingredients..." Sirius growls warningly and Harry waves him away.

"I'm not suggesting we leave him behind, Sirius, don't get defensive." Sirius' growls die down and he settles closer to his mate.

Harry thinks hard for a moment. Draco sighs.

"Put him with Fenrir." Harry, Ron, and Sirius gasp, Remus taking up a low feral sound like a growl only worse.

Hermione puts her palm to her forehead.

"Draco please shut up." Draco's eyes widen in surprise.

"What? They keep themselves safe and never need wolfsbane! Dumbledore even leaves them alone!" Hermione kisses him hard thrusting her tongue into his mouth shutting him up right away.

Pansy looks at them.

"Damn go Hermy." Draco shuts up immediately, pulling Hermione to him and holding her tight.

Harry clears his throat.

"Well. Right. So. Any other ideas?" Remus swallows before responding.

"I can live as a muggle and...cage myself when need be." Sirius hugs Remus fiercely.

"No. I won't allow you to be caged again."

"He's right, Sirius." Harry said quietly.

"I won't let it happen either." Hermione sighs as a voice behind him appeared.

"There will be no need for anyone to be caged or hiding." Tom stood there making both Pansy and Hermione blink and blush at how hot the Dark Lord was in his youth.

Even Lily and Remus had a flushness to their faces.

"Dumbledore knows who transforms into what when they step foot into that castle." Harry jumps at the sound of the voice, turning and staring for several seconds, all his long-forgotten attractions to the younger Tom Riddle abruptly surfacing.

"Er... H-h-hello.... T-er... Vol-...um." Harry snaps his mouth closed, unsure what to call him now.

Tom chuckles and walks over pushing Harry's jaw shut.

"Sorry Harry im a one woman man. And my name is Tom." Harry shakes his head, coming out of his stupor and blushing heavily.

"I didn't...I mean...er." Harry grins a bit, scratching the back of his head. "Hi Tom." he says finally, to the sound of snickering from his friends.

Tom chuckles as he turns to everyone.

"Dumbledore is going to anticipate any kind of plan we think of. Except the obvious."

"Obvious?" Harry asks, echoed by Ron.

Draco rolls his eyes and shares a smile with Hermione at their friends' obliviousness.

"Dumbledore prides himself on his vast knowledge but the problem with really smart people they rarely use their common sense." Tom said as Hermione smiles.

"He wouldnt suspect something that would seem almost common to happen." Pansy giggles.

"Maybe a little panic from the new father. Running to his headmaster." Harry's eyes widen.

"Y-you expect me to..." Harry's heart sank and he felt his hands shake.

Not, he knew, in fear, but anger. He wasn't entirely sure he could be in Dumbledore's presence without trying to kill him. He'd hurt his Bella.... Tom looks to Harry.

"You wont be alone. Your dear understanding friends will go with you. Their lovers refuse to help you with being a new father so you leave them." Harry swallows.

"I..." Ron speaks up.

"You really think Harry can be around that bastard without trying to kill him? I don't know..."

"He has to if he wants this to work. Ron do you still have the vial Dumbledore gave you." Everyone but Hermione looked at Ron with an odd look.

Ron blushed, but nodded.

"We want you to bring that with you. You will put a drop of it on his precious lemon drops. This will begin a chain reaction. We will be there to help out." Tom looks at Harry.

Harry swallows. If it means safety for his family and friends, Harry is determined to see it through. He nods silently, earning a proud look from his parents and Sirius.

"Alright you will leave tomorrow night. Go and do what you need to do to be ready." Tom turned and walked out as everyone were starting to leave.

Hermione stood up and whispered into Draco's ear.

"We need to talk in private." Draco nodded and followed Hermione out as Harry glanced around in confusion for Bella.

Ron shrugged when pinned with a questioning glance, as did Sirius.

"Where the hell did she go?" He said quietly to himself.

Lily steps over.

"She left after your father... insulted her." Lily stressed father and not my husband.

Harry glared at his father, who smiled apologetically. He sighed and hugged his mother.

"I'm going to go find her."

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