Author's Note:

Author's Note:

My never ending thanks and praise to Sing-Your-Heart-Out (who has recently changed her name to "Paradoxxia" and didn't even tell me!) for betaing this for me! She's simply amazing! Oh, and if you haven't read any of her work, I highly recommend it! I believe that she is a hell of a lot better writer than I am!!

Disclaimer: I don't own these beautiful characters. J.K. is the lucky person that does, I receive no profit from this other than the joy that I get when I see that someone is reading what I write.

Warnings: slash (aka: yaoi, shonen-ai, malexmale, etc..etc…), male pregnancy, AU as of the 7th book,

The Sunday Prophet, 10 August 2003

Boy-Who-Lived To Be A Father

Draco Malfoy, 23, the current long-time boyfriend of our Mr. Harry Potter has recently been discovered as being pregnant with our Saviour's child. Malfoy, it has been revealed, is two-months pregnant, and was admitted to Saint Nicholas' Wizarding Hospital Thursday night due to obvious signs that he was having a miscarriage. At this point in time, Malfoy and child are said to be doing fine though Malfoy has been reported as having to stay a short period in the hospital only to be put on a temporary bed rest when he returns home, though it has not been confirmed how long either of those may be.

Another reliable source has also informed us that this is, indeed, not the first time that the Malfoy heir has fallen pregnant during his relationship with Potter. In fact, Malfoy became pregnant last year only to lose the baby one month into the pregnancy.

It is said that Malfoy did not inform Mr. Potter about this until recently and sources have divulged that one afternoon Potter was seen abruptly leaving the hospital only to return hours later. No one knows what Mr. Potter was doing during this mysterious and sudden withdrawal.

Due to Mr. Malfoy current admittance in Saint Nicholas' and the couple's own personal requests, an interview has not been made possible with either Mr. Potter or Mr. Malfoy at this time.

The Daily Prophet, Tuesday, 13 November 2003

Final Matrimony of Potter and Malfoy

Yesterday afternoon marked the union of the Wizarding Worlds most famous couple, that being Mr. Harry Potter and Mr. Draco Malfoy.

A small ceremony was held on Hogwart's Grounds near the Black Lake, in which only close friends and family were able to attend. It has been confirmed that Malfoy did opt against officially taking his new husband's surname, and the same can be said about Mr. Potter as well, though the reasoning behind this choice has not been disclosed.

In terms of a honeymoon for the two men, a close friend of the two has said that they have decided to put it off until an undetermined date.

See page 12 Potter-Malfoy Matrimony for further details on the event.

A roll of thunder sounded overhead, Draco jumping slightly in his surprise.

Jolted from his reverie, he could now hear the rain pounding on the roof and against the library windows.

Closing the scrapbook, Draco set it aside, shifting the pillows behind him in his armchair.

Over the years of their relationship Harry and Draco had appeared in the Prophet, and other Wizarding papers and even magazines, more times then they could count; from the report that detailed their first date and why of all people Harry Potter chose to be in a relationship with the son of a well-known Death Eater, to Harry's missions for the ministry, Harry's promotions at work and new improvements topotions that Draco discovered and wrote articles about. From their marriage, to social events that they had attended over the years, the house they had built that they'd moved into, the one time that Harry let Blaise borrow his Muggle car and he'd completely totaled it, and the brief article detailing when Harry was asked to become the next Minister of Magic, and quickly declined the offer.

Every article, every little column that had been published Harry kept in the scrapbook in their library.

Leaning back in his seat, Draco rubbed his pregnancy-swollen stomach. Sighed. He'd just reached his seventh month, and it seemed that tonight would be just another sleepness night in continuation of the trend.

Nights spent choosing the perfect colour for the nursery walls, rearranging the books in the library, running back and forth to the bathroom, cleaning and tidying up, reading up on what he should be expecting in the coming days, weeks, months, years with their child.

He sighed again. For a moment he was nostalgic of the earlier days of his pregnancy when he slept all night, and then half the day as well.

Now he spent most nights roaming the hallways, weaving in and out of different rooms, sometimes staying up till the wee hours in the morning: late enough to see sun rise the next morning, late enough to see Harry to return home from raids and missions for the Ministry.

Damn his insomnia.

But when he did sleep, he truly slept like a baby; only catching a couple of hours sleep at a time. Sleep claiming him for a short time, only to be disturbed by his having to use the bathroom, or feeling his child's kicks and movements within him.

He sighed again. Fulfilling the urge to be in his new favorite room of the house, he worked his way out of his armchair and exited the library.

Walking through the empty hallways, Draco was once again reminded of how happy he was that he insisted that Harry and himself have the orders put in to have their own home built, so that they could raise their coming child in a much more cheerful home than the old Black family mansion.

Their child may have been conceived in the rooms of Grimmauld Place, but Draco had no intentions of walking down those dank halls at 2 A.M. to soothe a crying baby. Luckily, getting Harry to agree to the idea of moving hadn't been that hard, and he loved their new home.

The elaborate nursery across the hall from their room they'd barely paid a Knut for; as news of Draco's pregnancy, and the previous miscarriage, spread like wildfire after he was admitted to St. Nicholas', Draco, being who he was, milked the fact that he was carrying "The Great Harry Potter's" child for all it was worth;

When Draco told Harry about what he'd done he laughed harder than he had in a long time. Draco smiled at the memory.

Padding across the carpet, Draco entered the nursery. He flipped on the Muggle light switch as he closed the door behind him and took in the room for the umpteenth time; from the light green walls, to the sky painted ceiling, the antique-white furniture that he'd spent weeks choosing, the padded rocking chair in front of the large windows.

Draco smoothed his hand over the cool wood of the white cot trying to wrap his head around that in a few short weeks he and Harry would be putting this room to use; lost himself in that thought.

Arms slipped around his waist, hands resting over his heavily swollen abdomen, before one retreated back to rub and massage the small of Draco's back.

The blonde sighed leaning back into what could only be Harry's touch.

"It's really happening this time isn't it?" Draco asked. "We're going to be parents," Draco breathed. He could feel Harry's smile against his scalp.

"I'm glad," he murmured, with a smile of his own.

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The Daily Prophet, Tuesday, 5 February 2004

Arrival of the Malfoy-Potter Heir

Early yesterday morning Misters Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, ages 23, became the proud parents to a baby boy whom they named Orion Harry Emrys Potter.

It has been confirmed that instead of the expected Harry Potter accompanying Malfoy to Saint Nicholas' for the unexpected delivery, it was instead Malfoy's good friend Blaise Zabini.

This has been reasoned that since Malfoy gave birth four weeks earlier than his intended due date, Potter was not present at the birth of his first child as he was away on Ministry business.

Witnesses say that when Potter did arrive the next morning he came looking like the embodiments of both magic and excitement in the exact same instant as he Apparated into the reception area and then raced out of the lobby, taking the stairs as opposed to the lifts.

The birth, via a Caesarean Section, went without any large hiccups and the child is healthy, though he is quite small as expected of all children born prematurely. Malfoy and Baby Orion, though both are said to be doing just fine, will remain in the hospital for the rest of the week before returning to the home that Malfoy and Potter recently had constructed for their small family. The name of their new residence has not yet been confirmed so no further contact can be made with the couple in the future.

A/N: Yep. So that's it. I hope you liked it. Thanks again for all the feedback that I've received! To tell the truth, I really wasn't sure about this fic when I posted it...but ...yeah. Please tell me if you liked the epilogue. It took 30 pages of different drafts and ideas on Microsoft word to figure out these four pages, so I hope my effort was worth it. Tell me if you see any typos. I tend to make a few. But sadly, this is the end. TT.TT Not sure if or when I will post on here again. See you around. –RD