How Severus Spends His Summer Hols

Disclaimer: Harry and Severus belong to JKR, any character not from her work are mine. I am not receiving money for writing, it is done for pure enjoyment.

Non Serious AN: WOOHOO!!!!! DOES THE FAT WOMAN SHIMMIE... I CAN NOW UPDATE!!!! For anyone that is still reading the story here and not gone elsewhere to find it, there will be 6 chapters coming to you in the next week or so. Thank you all so much for everyone who is still reading and hadn\'t given up.
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Serious AN: This chapter deals with miscarriage, menopause, and male pregnancy. No punches were pulled in writing this chapter. We strongly suggest that if these things bother you that you do not read this chapter. If you proceed you will need a whole box of tissues. Bella the Dark beta’d this and many thanks to her.
I had a question about the change in Harry’s female equipment. Why he now has some external features when he’d been told he wouldn’t get them before. There are two answers. The first to fit in with the story; Fleymann’s does not have a large amount of concrete study behind papers that are written on it. Most men that develop the female characteristics shy away from researchers and nosy parkers, so there have been very few to study. Max only knows what he’s read and what he’s seen. He’s told Harry what he knows and he was wrong, Harry did develop further.
The second reason is purely my own; I figured if he had to pop out babies, he may as well get the full benefits of the new equipment, so I gave him a few more accessories… . NO he is not getting breasts…..laughs.

Chapter 98 : Mockingbird

Damon left the living room and sauntered into the bathroom as Grant was climbing from the shower. He held up a towel for his sub and smiled at the other man. \"Harry and Sev are on their way over to talk to you about the Fleymann\'s. Apparently something happened this morning but Harry and the babe are well.\" He added seeing Grant\'s look of apprehension.

Grant dried himself and took another towel for his hair before he spoke. \"Why haven\'t they gone to Max? He\'s Harry\'s healer.\" He wasn\'t fond of talking about the gene that made him so different from others. He walked into the bedroom and pulled on his under shorts before sitting down and handing Damon the comb for his hair. \"If you see a grey one, pull it.\"

Damon shook his head and sat behind Grant on the bed. He raised the long hair up and sectioned out a small swath at the base of Grant\'s neck. He leaned forward and kissed the slender column. \"Well, I seem to remember another young man asking someone else about the changes to their body and being upset when informed of the changes by someone who hadn\'t experienced it. I think Sev may have told Harry that you have the same condition. Maybe the boy is more comfortable with you than Max. Would you like to tell Max about the changes in your body only just having met the man? Bit trusts you, Pet.\" He began dragging the comb through the dark hair.

\"You\'re right, you usually are, you know,\" Grant sighed, \"I just don\'t like talking about it. Makes me feel like an exhibit in a side show.\" Other than required examinations by Max, he didn\'t talk about it to anyone, Damon didn\'t even know the things he was going through now and would have to start dealing with. \"I\'ll talk to him, I don\'t know if I can help though.\"

\"I understand, Pet and I want you to think about something for me. Remember back when you were new to all this and how confusing it was. Do you think it might help yourself as well to have someone to talk about these things with? Harry maybe old enough to be our grandchild but he is another angel that fell through the cracks. He needs someone besides Allie to talk with. That girl is scatterbrained to the ends of the earth and inherently female. He\'s going to need someone that has actually been through it.\"

Damon tipped the other man\'s head back and planted a soft kiss to his full mouth. \"I\'m not asking for you to become counselor to him now that I finally got you out of that damn practice. But would it help you as well to talk about it with someone that can sympathize with both the masculine and feminine reactions.\" He smiled. He knew Grant thought he didn\'t realize everything that was going on but Damon watched and he would wait for the other man to come to him when he was ready. He had learned that much about his temperamental husband over the years.

Grant thought for a moment and chose his words carefully. \"Damon, think about what I was like when we first got together. How many times did you tell me I was acting like a woman?\" he asked and then continued, \"I was raised knowing I was different, raised to take the female role. Harry was raised as a boy, he\'s got a totally different mindset and he is dealing with things from a man\'s point of view. I don\'t know how to relate to that.\" He held up a hand to keep Damon from protesting his words. He bit his lower lip and continued on. \"I know I\'m male, but all of my early childhood, everything I was taught was female and it\'s how I think even now.\"

Damon cleared his throat. \"I understand that, baby. But Harry sees you as male and honestly you don\'t act nearly like you did back then. You don\'t have to tell him how you were raised. Give him the information he needs, Grant. You still walked into it blindly, knowing it was coming but not about all the changes and I taught them to you from a man\'s point of view.\" He hugged the other man to him and played to the heart of the matter. \"You\'ll be helping out with our grandbaby, Pet. I felt her magic the other day at the Overlook and she\'s going to be a powerful little witch.\"

The smaller man just shook his head and sighed. \"You know I\'ll talk to him, you don\'t need to pull the baby into all of this, old man,\" he said and smacked Damon\'s leg lightly. \"Let me get up and get dressed, okay?\" He pushed up and off of the bed and pulled clothes out of the drawers, dressing before he sat down to braid his hair.

He could feel his husband\'s eyes on him and he turned to smile at him. \"What is it? Do I have egg on me, or something?\" he asked with a laugh as he sectioned his hair and began to weave the thick plait.

Damon got a sappy look on his face and shook his head. \"We\'re finally getting an honest to goodness grandchild that\'s all ours, Grant. Sev\'s our boy and the Bump will be ours too along with Bit.\" He grinned mischievously. \"You are still beautiful, my Injun.\"

\"Oh, we have to call that child something besides Bump, she\'ll be born with a complex,\" he laughed ruefully and then gasped as Damon came up behind him and tipped his head to one side and began to bite at the smaller man\'s neck. \"Now you know where that is going to get you, sir.\" Grant set the comb down and raised one arm up to pull Damon closer.

Damon hummed and raised an eyebrow. \"We would have gotten up to something in the shower if I\'d of had my way about it. What\'s on your mind, Injun? It won\'t take the boys long to get here but we can plan something for later if you wish.\" He nibbled on Grant\'s skin more. \"I found out about the party if you still wish to participate.\"

\"Did you? When is it?\" Grant asked as one of Damon\'s hands slipped into his unbuttoned shirt front and toyed with a nipple. He bit his lower lip and hissed as the other man gave it a sharp twist.

Damon grinned when he heard the intake of breath from his partner. His hand slid lower and stroked the soft skin above Grant\'s navel. \"It\'s in a couple of weeks. Plus, I need to talk to Sev about the new court date. I got the letter about it yesterday.\" He slipped one hand down below the loose waist of Grant\'s undone jeans, petting the smooth skin of his groin.

\"We\'re going, right?\" he asked as he reached down and pulled Damon\'s hand out of his pants. \"None of that Mister Wolffe, the kids will be here soon and I know you don\'t want to explain what we\'re doing in the shower again.\" He laughed and kissed his husband once more before he fastened the end of his braid and then began to button up his shirt. \"When did they set the next date? I couldn\'t believe we got there and it was just to go over the fact that Sev asked for asylum, you\'d think they\'d have done more than that to waste our time.\"

On the ninth of September, they\'d all driven to Charleston to the federal building for Sev\'s hearing in front of the federal wizarding judge, only to find they\'d driven all that way to just have paper work they\'d already signed read to them and to be told they would be contacted when to come back. Grant had pitched a bitch the entire way home about bureaucracy, the price of gasoline, and morons that didn\'t know what they were doing.

Damon smiled. \"Kids need to be shocked every now and again. It\'s good for them.\" He pulled the towel from around his waist, chucked it to the bathroom and began to dress in the clothes Grant had set out for him. He paused half way in the process of pulling on his t-shirt. \"Hell, yes we\'ll be there. The next date is October thirty-first. Now how\'s that for ironic.\"

Grant snorted. \"All the witches and wizards will be out to play,\" he laughed as he turned to watch his man. \"I really hope they figure out what they are doing by then.\" He stood and kissed his husband\'s cheek before he left the bedroom for the kitchen, once in the kitchen he opened the metal canister he kept navy beans in and pulled out a small phial filled nearly to the top with a ruby red potion. He set it on the counter and took a glass from the cupboard before going to the refrigerator and filling his glass with grape juice. He picked up the small phial, looking at it with distaste before carefully adding three drops to his juice. He recapped the phial and was putting it back in it\'s hiding spot when he heard his husband clearing his throat behind him.

Damon stood with his arms crossed over his chest, frowning. \"You wanna tell me what that was, boy?\"

Grant froze for a moment and then set the lid back on the canister before lifting the glass to his lips, sipping at the juice and grimacing at the taste it couldn\'t hide. \"Not particularly sir,\" he said as he stared out the window.

Damon shook his head. His heart was beating a staccato beat against his rib cage. What was wrong with his husband that he had to hide something from him? \"Why? No fucking around, Grant. What was it?\"

Grant shook his head and drained the glass before rinsing it in the sink. \"I\'m just getting old Damon,\" he sighed as he put the glass in the dishwasher. \"It\'s something Max wants me to start taking.\" He moved past Damon to go to the living room to wait for the boys to arrive.

Damon blinked and turned. \"Bullshit, Grant. How would you like it if I was hiding something from you?” He crossed his arms again and swallowed. \"Now tell me or I will call Max myself. Fuck it, I\'ll go down there and raise hell until someone tells me.\" He strode for the door and grabbed his jacket off the coat tree.

\"Fine Damon... I\'ll tell you, it\'s just damned embarrassing for me,\" Grant said as he walked over and took the jacket from Damon\'s hands. He turned, and walked back into the kitchen to retrieve the small phial. He handed it to Damon and waited as he read the label. It was a hormone replacement, the same his mother took. \"It\'s official, I\'m all dried up.\" He went to his chair and waited to see if Damon recognized the name.

Damon stared at the bottle and then his husband. Trutinae-Estra. \"Oh. Oh Pet.\" He walked over to Grant and sank to his knees, wrapping his arms around Grant\'s waist holding tightly to the other man. \"Goddammit you scared the hell out of me.\"

\"I\'m sorry,\" he murmured as he rested his forehead on his husband\'s shoulder. \"I didn\'t want to tell you, I didn\'t mean to scare you.\" He could feel the tears starting and he was frustrated with himself for being so overly emotional. When he\'d seen Max after having the first of many hot flashes, the healer had explained what was happening to him and to expect mood swings, night sweats, irritability, hot flashes, changes in sex drive; all these awful, awful things to simply show him that his body was getting older. \"I guess it explains why I\'ve driven you nuts lately, doesn\'t it?\"

Damon looked up at his husband. He reached to the man\'s face and stroked the tears from his cheeks. \"My Injun, you have been driving me crazy for fifty-four years and it helps to know it was not entirely my fault this time. I\'ve been worried about you.\" He smiled at his sub. \"Thank you for telling me even if I had to force it out of you. You pay for that later. I\'ll make certain of it.\" He looked to the door as the sound of the motor of Sev\'s truck came up the gravel drive. \"You\'ve been saved by the boy, Pet.\"

The former Marine climbed up from the floor and pulled Grant into his lap, holding on to him tightly.

Grant smiled and leaned against his husband, once more drawing strength from the older man. \"Promises promises,\" he laughed.

The door in the kitchen opened and Sev came in holding tightly to Harry\'s smaller hand in his own. \"I think they\'re in the living room, baby,\" he said as he led the smaller man behind him. \"Damon! Grant!\"

Damon chuckled. \"That was a threat, Injun and I make good on my threats.\" He turned to face the kitchen door. \"In here, Sev!\" He nuzzled his husband again inhaling the scent of Grant\'s shampoo and natural smell. It calmed him considerably and he kissed the tanned throat softly.

Severus led Harry into the living room, stopping to kiss Grant on the top of his head before he sat down on the sofa and pulled Harry onto his lap. \"How are you both this morning?\" he asked as he took in the sight of Grant\'s reddened eyes and wondered if they\'d come at a bad time.

Damon looked to Grant, silently asking the other man the unspoken question of whether or not to send the boy to the healer. He wouldn\'t force Grant to do this, not now knowing what he did. \"It\'s been eventful and you?\"

Severus kind of laughed and patted Harry\'s swollen tummy. \"It has been rather unique,\" he chuckled and looked at the way Grant gave Damon\'s hand a squeeze and nodded his head. \"Grant, we were hoping you might be able to talk to Harry a bit if you had the time.\"

Grant stood and bent down to kiss the top of his husband\'s head. \"I\'ll take Harry into the bedroom, honey,\" he said softly and then turned to Harry, holding his hand out to the young man. \"Come on Harry, let\'s go have a talk.\"

Damon grinned and nodded. \"Sev and I will be here if you need us.\"

Harry looked at his husband and then took Grant\'s proffered hand. \"Yes sir.\" he said softly and bit his lip looking for all the world like he was being lead away to his death.

Grant led Harry back to his bedroom and sat down on the edge of the bed, motioning Harry to sit in the chair he kept by his side of the bed. \"What\'s going on Harry? Are you alright?\" he asked as he got comfortable and took a good look at how well Harry was looking. The young man was glowing with health and pregnancy and Grant was happy to see that.

Colour flushed Harry\'s face. Grant had always been very nice to him but it was this man\'s adopted son they were about to have a discussion about. The younger man looked to the floor. \"I\'m fine, sir. I... um have some questions about...\" He looked up at Grant and then looked away. \"That place.\"

A small smile played over Grant\'s lips as he watched Harry blush. \"What place, Harry? Echo? Scotland? Cutty\'s?\" he asked and tried not to laugh at how much of a smart ass he was being, but he wanted to see the boy smile.

Harry closed his eyes and sighed. He tried not to laugh at the older man\'s joke but his mouth quirked up a little and he swallowed. \"Severus calls it my cozy place. But I know it\'s a pussy, isn\'t it? I\'m a girl now, aren\'t I? Severus said I shouldn\'t act like a debutante but he doesn\'t know what it\'s like and Max will laugh at me. It\'s all confusing and I don\'t know whether to cry, scream, or throw up.\" He said all this on one breath then met Grant\'s eyes and looked away. \"I\'m sorry for bothering you, sir.\" He made to stand.

Grant reached out and grabbed Harry\'s arm. \"Sit down Harry, I was only teasing you and you aren\'t bothering me,\" he said as he pulled the boy to sit back in the chair. \"What you have is a vagina, you can call it whatever you like, but that\'s what it is. Severus has no earthly clue what you are going through so he shouldn\'t tell you how to act or not act. As for Max, he is your Healer and he won\'t laugh at you, he\'s never laughed at me about it.\"

He put one hand under Harry\'s chin and tipped his face up to look at him. \"I would say confusion is more than normal when your body changes like this. If you have questions, I\'ll try to answer them as best I can, okay?\"

Harry blinked and nodded. First and foremost on his mind was the incident that had happened this morning but how to go about telling the older man what exactly had happened. Without thinking he blurted out. \"Are you a wet one too?\"

Grant\'s eyes widened and he sat back in confusion. \"Am I a what? I don\'t understand.\"

Harry chuckled and shook his head. \"I don’t know how to say this.\" He heaved out a breath and then looked at a portrait of Severus and Grant with their arms around each other and laughing. \"Well, Severus and I were... playing this morning and it was really, really going well, if you take my meaning.\" He blushed violently and continued. \"And I thought I had an accident. He was laughing and I wasn\'t.\" He looked back at Grant and then to the floor. \"Does that make sense?\"

Understanding dawned on Grant and he blushed as red as Harry when he answered. \"I understand what you mean now and the answer is yes. It\'s nothing to worry about, but it is shocking at first if you don\'t know it\'s possible.\" Silently he was thinking about strangling Severus if the boy had known what could happen and hadn\'t told Harry. Damon had done that to Grant on their fifteenth wedding anniversary and Grant had been mortified.

Harry shook his head. \"Well I didn\'t know and Severus said Max and Damon had warned him it might happen. But no one thought to tell me.\" A look of anger crossed his face. \"Oh no not Harry Potter, tell him nothing. Dammit it\'s my body that\'s has gone wonky and no one will tell me anything.\" He gritted his teeth and then looked at Grant. \"I... I\'m sorry. I never know what\'s going to come out of my gob sometimes especially now.\"

Grant stood up and kissed the top of Harry\'s head. \"I\'ll be right back,\" he said as he left the bedroom and walked back into the living room. He stood in the doorway and watched his husband and boy laughing at something on the television, snorting, he walked up behind Sev and smacked him upside the back of his head. \"You should have told him that would happen.\"

Damon started to open his mouth and Grant just shook his finger at him. \"You did the same damn thing to me, do you men think we are frigging science projects? Poke us and see what happens?\" he snapped and put both hands on his hips, the look on his face daring his husband to say anything.

Damon stared at Grant then looked at Severus who was rubbing his head lightly. \"What did I do? When? How is it that I am in trouble for something he did?\"

Grant narrowed his eyes and glared at them both. \"Severus told Harry that you warned him that Harry might be... like me, and Severus didn\'t tell him what could happen,\" he ground out before he turned to go.

Severus looked at Damon and shrugged. \"I didn\'t think it was a big deal.\"

Damon looked at Severus. \"Oh man, your ass is grass.\" He got up and moved to his chair. He looked at the retreating back of his husband. \"I\'m sorry, Grant.\" He apologized for good measure.

Grant just shook his head as he walked back into the bedroom, he could hear his husband explaining to Sev about why you don\'t just let things happen to see what happens. He closed the door behind him and turned to Harry with a smile.

\"Okay, where were we?\" he asked as he settled himself back on the bed and looked at the young man. \"Harry, I\'ll answer anything I can okay? I know what it\'s like to go through this.\"

Harry stared wide eyed at the other man. He had heard the conversation and it had taken all he had not to laugh at the other two men as Grant\'s particular brand of retribution came down upon them. He started laughing in spite of himself, loudly and held on to his belly. \"I.. I\'m sorry. You should have seen him trying to make up for laughing.\" He choked out. \"I\'ll have to show you the look of horror on his face one day.\"

Grant joined in the laughter. \"I bet it was a lot like Damon. He did that to me as well, I could have cheerfully killed him,\" he said as he stopped laughing and smiled again at Harry. \"What happened is perfectly normal, it just means it was really, really good. Just remember to smack him if he starts acting too proud of himself when it happens.\"

Harry laughed even harder and then sobered after a bit. He sighed. Where to begin? \"What\'s going to happen to me, Grant? What\'s next... am I going to have monthlies? Hermione is a right bitch when she has hers. Ron still runs and hides. His mum and sister and Hermione are all together on it and it\'s a frightful thing. I know; I saw them once. Am I going to be like that too?\" He had so many questions but didn\'t know how to express them in such a way as to not sound like a complete idiot. He began to babble out his fears and questions in no such order. \"I feel like I\'m not really male sometimes. How did it happen and why? Max said something about when the... vagina shows up this early then it\'s permanent.\" He looked away from Grant and then back at him. \"Is yours?\" He asked softly

Grant held his hand up to stem the flow and thought for a moment before he began to answer the young man\'s questions. \"Okay, first of all, no, you won\'t have a period. Our bodies do run in cycles, but thank Merlin, we don\'t bleed. You might get mood swings, you might not. I do,\" he answered and then thought about how to answer the next fear. It was an issue that he himself had wrested with for most of his life, not feeling as though he belonged truly to either gender.

\"Harry, you are a male, you just happen to have some extra parts that let you have a child. You are not a woman, you don\'t think like one, nor do you see yourself as one,\" he said gently and hoped it got through to him. \"You and I carry the Fleymann\'s gene. It was first documented about 800 years ago in Europe.”

“It\'s a recessive trait that only certain familial lines carry and it only shows up every few generations. No one had seen someone like me in over a hundred years in my family. Why do you have the gene? Who knows, it\'s been studied for years and no one seems to know why it simply appears out of the blue in one generation out of twenty.\" He shifted uncomfortably and answered the rest. \"If the vagina appears early on in pregnancy, then yes it\'s normally permanent. I\'ve had mine since I was eighteen Harry.\" He looked down at the carpet and waited for the boy to speak.

Harry stared at Grant. \"That long and it\'s still embarrassing? Gods I\'ll never make Severus understand how I feel. Does it always appear when someone is pregnant first?\" He moved from the chair to sit beside the older man. He reached out for the other man and wrapped his arms around Grant. \"It\'s us against them. You have to help me.\"

Grant looked at Harry and gave him a smile. \"You and I were raised in very different ages Harry and in very different manners. I was taught to hide my body and that has stayed with me. From what I understand, pregnancy is the catalyst for the female organs to develop, I\'ve never read of a case that pregnancy was not involved,\" he hugged Harry gently and closed his eyes as he nodded, he\'d be there to help Harry as much as he could through the changes.

\"Don\'t think of it as us against them. Severus will learn, trust me. Damon has never been anything but supportive and I know Sev is a good man, so he\'ll take care of you, you just have to tell him what you are feeling.\" He considered laughing as he said that, he was notorious for keeping his feelings and emotions hidden so Damon wouldn\'t worry about him.

Harry looked up at Grant and nodded. He wasn\'t certain he could tell Severus about what he was feeling and not have the man laugh at him again. \"So what happens next? I\'m five months along and I am scared to death, Grant. I can feel her moving around in there and it\'s strange. Yet I am proud that I can do this for Sev. I always wanted children, a family of my own and now I am getting it and it has me terrified.\"

Grant smiled sadly, he wished he could tell Harry what to expect, but he\'d never made it past six months. \"You\'re going to get bigger and she is going to become more active. I\'m sorry Harry, but I can\'t tell you anymore than that. Max will be able to explain more of the changes to you as you get further along,\" he said as he ran his fingers through Harry\'s hair. \"We wanted a family as well, I know how wonderful it feels when you feel your baby moving around inside of you. Don\'t be afraid Harry, we are all going to be right here for you.\"

Harry leaned into the caressing hand and snuggled next to Grant. He was feeling tired after their morning and the emotional roller coaster. He paled at the mention of the big healer. \"Why can\'t you tell me about it? It\'s bad isn\'t it? What happened to you, Grant? Where are your babies?\"

Grant put one arm around Harry and let him rest against him as he tried to find the words to explain to the young man about Joshua, Amelia and the two that never had names. \"Joshua is buried not far from here in the Wolffe family plot, he was our first. He was born too early,\" he swallowed and wiped at his eyes. It had been so long since he\'d uttered the names of their children aloud, but he thought of them daily. \"Two others were lost while in the third month, we didn\'t name them. I wish now we had of.\"

The Lakhota could feel the tears as they ran down his cheeks, his throat was working hard to swallow as he tried to stay calm. Wiping his eyes, he began to whisper. \"Amelia is buried in Japan. Damon was stationed there at the time. I made it to nearly the end of six months with her.

We thought...\" He stopped and turned his face away from Harry for a moment as he fought for his composure. \"We thought I was going to be able to manage it that time, but...\" His voice trailed off and he bit his lip as his shoulders began to shake. \"I\'m sorry Harry, I don\'t think I can do this right now.\"

Harry stared horrified at the other man as tears welled up in his eyes. \"Oh, oh no Grant.\" He wrapped his arms around the other man and held him. \"I\'m sorry.\"


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Damon and Severus looked up at the laughter from the bed room and Damon held his hand out to Severus. They snuck over to the door and Severus silently cast an eavesdropping spell on the door. They listened to the history that Grant gave and when Harry asked about the children Damon laid his head against the door and whispered the children\'s names. His blue eyes closed and he shook his head and petted the door. \"My Injun, I am so sorry.\"

Severus stared at his \'father\' with wide eyes as Grant\'s voice wavered and he could hear Harry\'s voice then begin to sob along with the other man.

Severus reached out a tentative hand and laid it on Damon\'s shoulder. \"I\'ll take Harry home Da, I never meant to upset Grant like this. I didn\'t know,\" he said quietly and gently as he pulled the older man back from the door and turned the knob to go in and collect his husband.

Grant was rocking Harry in his arms and stroking his back as he looked up at the sound of the door opening. \"It\'s okay baby, don\'t cry. You are going to be just fine,\" he whispered over and over again as Harry wept on his shoulder. He looked up and saw Damon standing in the doorway, shaken and pale, just looking at him.

Damon swallowed. \"Grant.\" He whispered softly and pushed past Severus into their room. After climbing up on the bed, he wrapped his arms around both men and rocked them. \"I am so sorry, My Injun. I didn\'t realize it was still so fresh for you as well.\"

Harry clung to Grant, still sobbing, repeating Damon’s apologies as he was held by the two men. \"I\'m sorry, Grant. I didn\'t know.\"

Severus moved into the room and carefully untangled Harry from the older couple, pulling his young husband up into his arms as he kissed the top of Grant\'s head gently. \"I didn\'t know Grant. I\'m so sorry, I never should have asked to have you talk to him,\" he murmured as Grant was enfolded in Damon\'s arms.

Standing back up, he carried Harry into the living room, summoning tissues from the bathroom as he did so. \"Oh Harry, I\'m so sorry, I didn\'t know about their children,\" he said trying to comfort the younger man. He could feel the fear rolling off of him in waves. \"Shhh… Max says everything is going well and things are so much better now. You are going to be okay, our baby girl is going to be alright.\" He was scared as well after hearing what Grant had said, he had no idea how the older couple had survived the losses and remained strong.

Harry clung to Severus and sobbed even harder. He laid his head against Severus\' chest and tried to calm down as he listened to the steady beat of his husband\'s heart. He crumbled the tissues his Dom had given him in one hand and wrapped the other arm around his belly. \"Why? Why couldn’t they have their babies? They are good people; they didn\'t do anything like I have and their children were taken away. What about ours, Severus?\"


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Damon pulled Grant into his lap and wrapped his legs around his waist so they could cling to each other. He lowered Grant\'s head to his chest and kissed the top of his head. \"Oh baby, I am so sorry. If I had known I wouldn\'t have let them come.\" He rocked his husband and tried to keep the tears from his own eyes. \"Let it out baby. Go on, I\'m right here for you.\"

\"I\'m so sorry Damon, I\'m so sorry....\" Grant sobbed, his hands full of his husband\'s shirt, his tears soaking Damon\'s chest until he cried himself out and stayed hiccoughing in the other man\'s arms. He looked up to find tears on his husband\'s face as well. He placed one hand on his cheek gently, wiping Damon\'s tears as they fell. \"I\'ve scared Harry,\" he whispered softly.


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Severus had no answers for Harry. He knew now why the older couple had made such a thing of letting him know he was their son. He bowed his dark head and wept silently for Grant and Damon. \"I know it will be okay Harry, I know it will be,\" he whispered over and over again, as much to reassure himself as the young man on his lap.

Harry\'s breath hitched. \"How can you say that? Look what I did, Severus. I killed and then I groveled for a monster and... and... let him do things to me...\" He trailed off as his voice moved into a wail again. \"Max said I\'m underweight... I\'m not doing this right. They\'ll take our baby from us.\" He hadn\'t told Severus he\'d had some dreams about a shadowy person standing over him with a squalling child as he was held back by an unseen force. He just knew it was his baby they were taking.


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Damon pulled his damp shirt off his body and cleaned Grant\'s face with it. \"Harry\'s with Severus right now, baby. He\'ll take care of him. I need to make certain you are all right.\" He pulled the other man close again feeling the warm breath against his chest and sighed as he rubbed Grant\'s back.

Grant laid his cheek on the furry chest of his husband and whimpered in his pain, they\'d not spoken of their children for so long. \"I should be more in control of my emotions Damon, I\'m sorry,\" he whispered as he was comforted by the strong hands on his back. \"I\'m alright.\"


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Severus gasped as he listened to his little husband, he had no idea that this was what he was thinking. \"Harry, Harry listen to me. Listen to me,\" he said slowly and firmly, his fingers grasping the trembling chin of his mate and forcing him to look at him. \"YOU didn\'t let anyone do that to you. Harry, you were a victim, not only of Taylor\'s, but of the Wizarding world as well. They forced you to do things beyond what anyone should ever expect of a child, beyond what they should expect of anyone.\" He shook his husband\'s face in his hand to get through to him.

\"Harry, no one is going to take our baby, do you hear me? NO ONE. I will destroy anyone that tries to harm you or our child, do you understand me?\" He said firmly. \"Max says you are doing well, that our baby is doing well. He would tell us if something was wrong Harry, he would tell us and we would fix it. It\'s not like it was forty years ago when Grant had to hide and rely on antiquated healing practices. Do you understand me, Harry?\"

The tears continued to run down Harry\'s face. \"Yes sir. I... I can\'t help it, Sev. I\'m broken still and I can\'t help the way I feel. The fear is still there, Husband.\" He bit his lip and felt sick to his stomach. A low keening sound came from him and he pressed against Severus\' chest trying to calm himself once again. \"I\'m sorry this thing isn\'t well for you, Sir.\" His eyes, already wet with tears, began to lose focus and he rubbed his face against Severus\' strong chest as the tears flowed faster once again.


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Damon picked up Grant\'s face and looked his husband in the eyes. \"Grant, you have every right to those emotions. You are going through hell with your hormones right now. You want to cry your eyes out, you go ahead. I remember mom doing it and dad was there for her. We\'ll make it past this as well. No more hiding now, baby.\" He hugged the other man close. \"You want to bring Amelia home? I\'ll move heaven and earth to bring her and Joshua together if that is what you desire. I still have contacts over there.\"

A broken sob tore from Grant\'s lips at his husband\'s words. \"Bring my baby home,\" he sobbed. \"I don\'t want her to be alone anymore.\" He let his husband rock him as he sobbed for their children that never grew up.

Damon nodded. \"Immediately.\" He laid his head on Grant\'s and thought about the channels to go through to get his little girl home where she belonged. He rocked them, the motion soothing him as well as Grant, hoping Severus and Harry could wait just a little while longer. He should have known better than to let this continue after Grant had told him about the hormones this morning. \"I\'m so sorry, my Grant.\"


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Severus rocked his husband on his lap and tried to comfort him through this. \"I know you are afraid, Harry, but I promise you with every fibre of my being, no one is going to harm you or take our child,\" he said gently. The hairs on the back of his neck stood up as Harry began his eerie keening, he pulled his young love closer still and stroked his hair. \"You\'re getting better my Harry, you\'re getting so much stronger. I promise you that you are.\" He murmured over and over as he held the shaking man.

Harry\'s breathing hitched. Severus\' words and the rhythm of his heart were helping but he could still feel himself sinking back into his safe place and he tried to fight to keep his sanity as he pressed harder against the lean frame of his husband. Suddenly a sharp pain to his bladder, had him crying out. It jolted him back to himself. He grabbed his stomach and looked up at Severus. \"Did you feel that?\"

Severus held Harry away from him, staring down at his husband\'s swollen belly. \"What was that?\" he asked warily as Harry\'s tee shirt, stretched taut over the Bump, moved. He looked at Harry and raised an eyebrow. \"She takes after you, already rebelling against authority.\" He pulled Harry close to him again and tenderly kissed his forehead, only to be rewarded with another tiny foot kicking at him.


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Grant slowly quieted in Damon\'s arms, his nerves soothed by the rocking and the steady beat of his husband\'s heart. \"I love you, Damon,\" he whispered so softly he was barely heard, drained as he was from his breakdown. \"We need to go check the boys.\"

Damon nodded and kissed the top of Grant\'s head. \"I love you too, My Injun.\" He manoeuvred them to the edge of the bed and was standing with the smaller man in his arms when Harry\'s distraught cry came to them through the open door. Tucking Grant closer to him, Damon hurried towards the living room. \"What happened?\"

Severus looked behind him as he heard Damon\'s voice. He grinned and hugged Harry closer to him before he answered. \"I felt her move, you can see it too,\" he laughed as he splayed one long fingered hand over his husband\'s belly, grinning as he felt the roll of movement under his palm.

Damon slowed and moved around the couch to stand next to them, worry etched on his face. \"Really?\" He looked at Grant then to the younger couple. \"You are certain? Do you want me to call Max? Do we need to take him to the hospital?\" He stared at them. \"Well answer me, don\'t just look at me as if someone hit you with a stupid stick.\"

\"Put me down Damon,\" Grant said quietly, a hand on his husband\'s arm. \"Harry doesn\'t look like he\'s in pain, but I\'ll go call Max. You stay here with the boys.\" As Damon set his feet on the floor, Grant bent down and gently touched Harry\'s shoulder. \"Are you in any pain? Any cramping?\"

Harry looked up at the older man and shook his head. \"It kinda hurt at first but I think it was because I wasn\'t expecting it. I mean I felt her before but never this active.\" He wiped his face again, bit his lip. \"Want to feel?\" He asked the older man softly and looked away from him, unsure if he had said the right thing or not. \"It\'s alright. I\'m okay. She really moves when Severus touches my stomach.\"

Severus winced as he heard the question leave Harry\'s lips, he had had no idea what had happened to the Wolffes and the children they had lost. He watched Grant apprehensively as the older man stared dumbly down at Harry\'s swollen belly. Severus moved his hand to give Grant room to touch if he wanted to.

Grant swallowed as he looked down and saw a slow wave of motion against the taut skin, how well he could remember seeing and feeling the same thing during his final pregnancy. Remember how Damon would lie next to him in bed at night with his hands pressed over his belly and they\'d laugh as their daughter made her presence known. Blinking, he held his hand out as if to touch, only to pull it back again and glance up to Damon.

\"I-I\'ll go call Max and fix some lunch for everyone,\" he stammered, backing away from Harry and the others until he could turn and hurry to the kitchen. He needed to get ahold of his emotions and stop letting runaway hormones rule his actions.

Severus shook his head and hugged Harry tight. \"It\'s alright love, he just needs time,\" he murmured and looked up to Damon for reassurance that he was indeed right.

Damon looked to the kitchen doors and nodded his head. \"He\'s had a rough morning so far. Max has him on a new potion.\" He didn\'t mention the type but knew once Severus opened his shop the secret would be out. \"I don\'t know what else to do except listen to him and let him escape when he wants to. Would you like me to go and check on him again and let the two of you be alone?\"

The blue eyes tracked the movement along Harry\'s belly as it rolled under the t-shirt in a wave like a flag in the wind. He snorted and grinned. \"Active little thing, isn\'t she?\"

Grant stood in the kitchen, phone in his hand as he stared out the back door and into nothing, he\'d not meant to upset the boy, he really hadn\'t. It would be best if he just stayed in here for a little while, he didn\'t want to break down again in front of the others. He pushed the button to dial Max\'s office and quickly told the burly Healer that Harry had been upset and that he was now feeling a good bit of movement. The old submissive listened for a moment and then answered quietly. \"I feel like I\'m going crazy Max, this has got to get better soon. I can\'t keep on like this, it isn\'t fair to Damon.\" A few moments later he hung the phone up and began to mix up tuna for their lunch.

In the living room Severus looked at the kitchen door and then at Damon. \"Just stay with us, alright? Unless you think he needs you. Would you like to feel her?\" he asked as he watched Harry\'s reactions closely.

Harry looked up at Severus then Damon. \"I upset him again, didn\'t I? I\'m sorry.\" He leaned against Severus then looked up at Damon once again. \"You can feel if you like, Sir.\"

Damon swallowed and stuck his hand out to ruffle Harry\'s hair. \"He\'ll be alright eventually. I think I would get something thrown at me if I went in there just now. Harry, you did nothing wrong by being curious. It\'s a natural and wondrous thing. This subject is difficult on Grant and I shouldn\'t have pushed him to help you. We both need to work on this. There\'s things that I have to do to make it easier on Grant and I am hoping they will help.\"

The Marine knelt next to the couple and looked up at them. \"It\'s been forty-one years for us to be this close to something so special as a child coming into the world especially since Severus is our son and this makes you and Bump ours as well.\"

Damon took a deep breath and reached out to touch the taut stomach of his son-in-law. The t-shirt moved as he laid his hand on top then stopped. He waited for a moment and nothing happened. \"Hmm, must have talked too much and put her to sleep.\" He rubbed Harry’s stomach gently.

Grant peered out into the living room from a crack between the door and the frame, made when the door hadn\'t shut completely behind him. He found himself smiling as he watched his husband carefully lay his hand on Harry\'s tummy, then nearly laughed at the pronouncement she\'d gone to sleep. He turned from the door and began to mince up the sweet pickles to put in the tuna.

Severus raised one brow and placed his hand over his husband\'s belly, smiling as he was promptly awarded with a kick. \"Damon, she\'s awake, she just moved,\" he laughed, pulling his hand away so the small movement was visible to the naked eye. Severus kissed the back of Harry\'s neck and hugged him about the shoulders as he felt the younger man shift his weight on his lap.

Harry laughed, getting into the spirit. He turned and kissed Severus\' mouth. \"Try it again. She kicks out at Severus whenever he speaks and touches me.\" He grabbed Severus\' hand and ran them both over the Bump and smiled as she followed the movement. \"Here, let me lift my shirt,\" He looked down at the older man and grinned devilishly. \"Maybe she knows you have cold hands.\" He moved the red shirt back and leaned back against Severus.

Damon grinned. \"Cheeky brats, the both of you.\" He rubbed his hands together for a moment then laid the warmed palm against Harry\'s tummy. \"Come on baby move for me.\" The Bump lay still at his touch and he scowled. \"Just like a woman to ignore anything a man says.\" He muttered, smiling up at Harry and Severus once more and he removed his hand.

Once more, Grant was watching his family, a smile on his face as he watched Damon try to feel the baby move. He watched Harry\'s face, saw the happiness and contentment, saw it as well on Severus\' and he felt good. There would be life again in their family. Yes, the others around them had had children; Max and Allie, Jake and Chris, his own sister, but this was different, this one would be theirs, a little Wolffe cub.

He set the covered dish of tuna salad in the refrigerator and quietly opened the kitchen door to stand and watch as Damon gave Harry\'s tummy a stern Marine talking to, catching Severus\' eye and holding a finger to his lips to not alert the others that he was in the room. Severus smiled in return and nodded minutely, turning his attention back to Damon.

Damon looked at Harry\'s tummy and traced little patterns on the tanned skin. If the dressing down wasn\'t going to work he\'d try a different tactic. \"Listen here, sweet pea. I can feel your magic in there so I know you can pack some punch.\" He leaned forward and whispered across Harry\'s tummy. \"Move for your Pop-pop, please, little princess.\"

Severus laughed as he watched Damon go from ordering the baby to move to begging. \"I don\'t think she\'s going to move for you, Da,\" he said as he caught the movement of Grant coming closer out of the corner of his eye.

Grant tapped Damon\'s shoulder and nudged him out of the way. \"May I Harry?\" he asked as he sat down on the edge of the coffee table and held his hand out halfway to the younger man\'s tummy.

Damon grunted and moved over, turning his body to still see Harry\'s stomach and to eye Grant. \"Pushy Indian.\" He muttered, then turned to Harry\'s tummy. \"Stubborn Bump.\" He crossed his arms over his chest and waited to see what would happen. He wondered how long the other man had been watching and knew he couldn\'t resist the lure of the pregnant belly. It was a curse; people had to touch, they had done so to Grant while he was Gracie and he now saw that it was contagious.

Harry nodded slowly and smiled at Grant. He moved his shirt even further up the incline of his stomach and waited. A ripple went across his tummy and he grinned even wider. \"Go ahead.\"

Concentrating on the unborn child, Grant moved his hand closer to the tanned belly. \"Hello precious, it\'s Nonnie, would you like to say hello?\" He murmured softly as Harry\'s tummy rippled more the closer his hand got. He laid his hand above Harry\'s navel and smiled as he felt the pressure the babe within was pushing against him. \"That\'s right, hello in there little one. You grow big and strong and soon you\'ll be here to spoil,\" he murmured softly in his native tongue, past paying attention to anyone else in the room as he felt her roll and kick under his hand.

Severus looked on and smiled as he heard what the other man was saying to his child, whispering in Harry\'s ear, he translated the words. \"Do you think we should tell them we\'ve decided on a name?\" he asked as he rubbed Harry\'s arms.

Harry grinned. \"Nonnie and Pop-pop?\" He chuckled and turned his head to Severus. \"Should we or can we make them wait a little longer?\" He turned back to find Damon staring at them.

\"Little monster. Moved for the Injun, did ya?\" The Marine quirked an eyebrow at the couple. “You want to share something aloud, boys? And what\'s it to you about Nonnie and Pop-pop?\" Damon\'s mouth curled into a smirk. \"Can you see Grant answering to...\" He grabbed the Indian and pulled him into his arms, \"Me-maw or Grannie?\" He nuzzled the smaller man and held him close.

Grant shuddered at the proposed names and wrinkled his nose. \"I\'ve been a Nonnie now for about five years, it suits me, I think,\" he said with a smile as he turned his head so Damon could kiss his cheek. \"You\'ve decided on a name? What is it? Is it pronounceable?\" He looked at them both through narrowed eyes. Chris and Jake had named their first child something that sounded like you were gargling with rocks and he didn\'t even begin to attempt spelling it.

Severus laughed and nodded. \"Yes Grant, we\'ve decided on a name and yes it is pronounceable,\" he said with a wink to Damon, he remembered how Grant had fussed over a child being named EurolwVn Buddug, even though he knew the Rhys\' were proud of their Welsh ancestry. He felt sorry for their oldest daughter for when she had to learn to spell her name and correct others in the pronunciation. So far they just called the little black haired toddler, Eddy. What they\'d named their second daughter was nearly as bad. Cambree Gwaeddan, at least they could call her Cammie for short. He\'d decided long ago if he were to ever have children, he\'d not saddle them with a monstrosity.

\"Well, spill it then.\" Damon snapped. \"I\'m hungry and I wanted to feel the baby but no, some little Bump had to be stubborn. I suppose I can settle for the name until I can hold her.\"

Grant patted his husband\'s arm. \"Stop pouting old man, you probably scared her with your drill sergeant routine.\" He looked expectantly at the young couple. \"Well, what is it?\"

Severus took Harry\'s hands in his own and gave them a squeeze. \"We\'ve decided on Reganne Siobhan Snape.\"