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Posted: August 24, 2016

"speech"

'thought'

"parseltongue"

A/N: Sorry this took so long to get out to you. Not really an excuse but I forgot how to post the story and it took a little while to remember how. I'll just say this real life sucks. And now without further ado here is the next, and the newest, chapter of Drunken Lullabies. I hope you enjoy it as I have tried to make it longer to make up for the very long delay. All mistakes are mine. I was going to replace this chapter with the A/N's but decided not too because everyone that left a review with well wishes would not be able to review the actual chapter. I hope that you all like it as this is my own first chapter. So without further ado... here's the next chapter.

Chapter 7: The Homestretch

As soon as Harry and Tom got home they both went straight to bed so that Harry could rest. Tom lay spooned behind Harry with his arm held protectively across their children. "Good night, my love."

Harry didn't say anything because he was already asleep.

Tom kissed Harry's lips gently before settling back down before following his lover into sleep.

~HPTR~

The next two weeks Harry woke up with Tom beside him, except for the 15th morning after he came home. 'I guess that Tom's gone back to his planning already.' Ever since Harry came back home, after his kidnapping, he's been teaching Dobby how to talk properly. He also got Dobby to stop calling him master. Of course, it helped that Harry threatened that he would give Dobby back to the Malfoy's if he didn't stop. Harry would never do that, of course, but even just the thought of being sent back stopped that quickly enough.

"Is there anything that you need, sir?" Asked Dobby?

Harry sighed, thinking, 'I guess being called sir is better thatbeing called master or Harry Potter sir all the time.' Aloud he said "not that I can think of unless you'd be willing to see when Tom will be finished?"

"I'd rather not, sir."

"Why?"

"He scares me. He's all the time calling me, but not in a nice way. He reminds me of young Master Malfoy."

"Surly he's not that bad. But, would you please do me this little favor? Ask him for me or my unborn children? Please Dobby?" Harry gives Dobby the puppy dog look with a few tears in his eyes. "Please?"

Dobby gives a small sigh of his own. "Alright sir, I will be back soon. I hope."

Harry smiles, "thank you Dobby."

Dobby pops out and into the Throne Room where there is a Death Eater meeting going on. He appears behind the throne that Tom is sitting on. Dobby reverts back to his previous speech pattern. "Sir, Master Harry is wanting to see you when you is having time too, sir."

Tom reaches out and grabs Dobby and orders Crabbe and Goyle Senior to hold him still. Since they act like statues anyway they are very good at staying still.

"I have been waiting for a chance to punish you but you always seem to elude me. Until now that is." Voldemort laughs with glee. "Now you'll get what you deserve. Crucio."

Dobby twitches but its Harry that screams. Luckily Voldemort doesn't hold it for very long.

When Harry manages to catch his breath he discovers that he has a new ability. He can orb. This is like apparating but is much safer while being pregnant and uses little to no magic at all. Of course he doesn't know that yet. Harry soon discovers that he is now right outside the Throne Room. Just as Harry's about to enter the room Voldemort puts Dobby under the Crucius curse again for another short amount of time. Harry falls to his knees but doesn't cry out again.

When the curse is lifted Harry manages to regain his breath and feet. He then storms into the Throne Room looking like death warmed over. As he marches in, the entire crowd of Death Eaters part, like the Red Sea, so that Harry can march right up to the throne where Voldemort is sitting. He notices that Crabbe and Goyle Senior are holding Dobby between them looking just as stupid as ever.

Harry marches to the throne and stands in front of Tom and demands. "What the Hell is going on in here? Why in the nine levels of Hell were you torturing Dobby? Why? What were you even thinking? Actually scratch that, you weren't. Because, if you were then you would have remembered that we are connected through this accursed link." Harry points to his forehead. "Or did you forget that?"

As Harry was ranting this entire time Tom was paling drastically. Harry gave the Death Eaters a look that promised a lot of pain if they didn't leave and they all cleared out of the room as if the hounds of Hell were on their heels. All that remained in the room were Lucius Malfoy, Dobby, Harry and Tom. "Harry..." Tom began to interrupt but froze when he remembered about the link. "Oh shit. Harry, are you alright? Are the babies alright? Do you need to see Poppy?"

"What I need is for you to explain yourself." Harry said while glaring daggers at his lover.

Tom gulps, as he has never seen his young lover this angry before. "I was punishing Dobby for what he did to you."

"Also, even if we weren't connected to each other, Dobby and I share a partial bond that apparently allows us to feel each other's emotions but only the strong ones.

"In case you forgot Dumbledork is still a powerful wizard in his own right. After I freed Dobby from the Malfoy's he decided to stay at Hogwarts to keep me "protected". Dumbles decided to have him swear his allegiance to protect the students from all harm and that he himself would not harm anyone. What he didn't and doesn't know is that Dobby swore his allegiance to me first, so that way it was only a partial bond to Hogwarts."

While Harry is taking deep breaths to calm down Lucius kneels down before Harry and Tom. "Begging my Lords pardon … but, how is that possible?"

Tom is too out of it to notice anything. Harry looks at Lucius wondering why he is still there. Once Harry is calmed down he asks, "how is what possible and why are you still here?"

"I'm curious as to how a partial bond is possible and I wanted to know if I may be of some help. Maybe do a diagnostic scan to check the health of your child?"

"Very well and its children, I'm carrying twins."

Lucius was shocked. He did the scan. "Your children are just fine and congratulations."

"Thank you. I already said that Dobby bonded to me but I didn't finish the bond because I didn't want a servant or a slave. I'd rather have a personal assistant or a confidant."

"My Liege, I have heard of people bonding their house elves as a personal assistant and as a confidant. I've never done it myself so I don't know the exact ritual. But, my Liege I would be honored if you would allow me to look this up for you."

Harry seemed intrigued so he said, "very well Malfoy. I'll let you do this for me."

"Thank you my Liege and please call me Lucius."

"Very well Lucius. You may go now to start your research for me. Oh, and Lucius… not a word about the way The Dark Lord was acting, do you understand?"

"I didn't realize that he was acting any different than before. Although, I must admit that when I thought that Narcissa was going to have a miscarriage with Draco I acted the same way. So I think that it's perfectly normal for a new father to act a little out of sorts. But, I swear on my life as well as Draco's that I won't tell another soul."

As soon as the door closes behind Lucius, Harry walks up to Tom and starts to kiss him. Tom starts to kiss him back but then pulls away because he thinks that his followers are still in the room. "Harry what is the meaning of this?"

Harry raises an eyebrow. "What's the meaning of what? We're alone. I sent them out of the room before I started on my rant. Except Lucius stayed, he wanted to make sure that we were alright. Besides he said that it was normal for new fathers to act that way about the possibly of losing their first child. He also swore on not only his life but his son's life as well that this would not leave this room."

Harry waited a few minutes to let that sink in before telling him the rest of it.

~HPTR~

With it almost being the end of June Harry is eight months along in his pregnancy. He and Hermione are walking together towards Harry's room so that he can rest for a while. They had been walking for close to 30 minutes as it's important for expecting mothers to stay active. Hermione had been carrying her daughter, Valerie Nadine, so that she could see new things.

"So, Mione, do you still have a crush on…"

Hermione about dropped Valerie while trying to cover Harry's mouth. "Harry someone could hear you."

"Who? Everyone is in the Meeting Hall finishing up a meeting and no one is allowed in this part of the manor without mine or Tom's permission. Why, were you hoping that you would run into Lucius or something?" Harry asked after uncovering his mouth.

Although, what Harry didn't know was that Draco had followed them and was listening to their conversation.

Hermione was blushing hotly as she walked through the door. Harry started laughing as he walked into the room right behind her. Draco heard the first sentence before the door was shut. "You really did want to run into him, didn't you? I could arrange for him to be here, if you wanted."

"That's alright." Mione said her face flushed a dark red. "Are you sure that he won't mind me coming in here?" Mione asked to change the subject.

"Mione, you are with me and besides you're my sister whether you like it or not. As for Tom, if he doesn't like it then he'll be sleeping in the dog house."

Hermione laughed at that.

~HPTM~

'Tom? Why would that half-blood loser be calling the Dark Lord by such a commonly filthy muggle name? I think that I shall have to investigate some. I also need to make sure that that filthy mudblood stays away from my father. I think that he would date her at the least to spite my mother.' Draco whispered to himself as he carefully made his way back to the main part of the house.

~HPTM~

Harry is writing a note to Lucius for him to come to the Dark Lord's room and sent it off with Hedwig. On his way to sit down he grabs Valerie.

"Harry, why did you do that? He's going to think that I'm using you to get to his money or something like that." A completely freaked out Hermione said as she starts to pace.

"Mione… MIONE… Hermione! Calm down. I just have a few questions about the research that he's doing for me" said a very amused sounding Harry.

"Oh…. Then I think that I should leave then." She said feeling really embarrassed now.

"Please stay?" He asked.

"I don't think…." She started but was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Would you mind getting the door for me?"

"You did this on purpose. I know you did." She said on her way to open the door. "Hello, Mr. Malfoy. Harry's in the lounge."

Lucius nods his head to her. "Thank you, Miss Granger." He walks into the lounge but he hears her whisper. 'You can call me Hermione or Mione if you wanted or you could even make up your own nickname for me. Luc…' Lucius smiled because he's thinking that he would love for Hermione to call him Luc anytime she wanted.

Harry hears what Hermione says as well as seeing Lucius smile letting him know that Lucius heard her as well.

"Mione, are you coming back in here or do I get to tell a few of your secrets to Lu…." That's as far as Harry got before she flew into the room.

As Harry was saying this he was looking at Lucius asking with his eyes if he would hold Valerie.

Lucius quickly took her as he saw Hermione fly into the room to cover Harry's mouth.

Harry lowered her hand so that he could say. "Mione, if you don't watch out you're going to hurt someone."

Mione's eyes widened but she couldn't see anything as she was looking around to room. "Oh my God, Valerie…."

Harry looks at Lucius pointedly his eyes telling Lucius to show Mione her child.

Lucius rolled his eyes knowing first-hand how dangerous doing that was. He'd had to do the same thing with Narcissa. She thought that she had killed his heir meaning that she would have to become pregnant again to give him another heir. He had made the mistake of holding him while showing her that he was alright. She almost killed him by suffocation. He rolled his eyes a second time thinking that he knew what Harry was up to but not completely sure. He would have to talk to Harry later about why he was trying to set him up with his best friend. While he is thinking about his future conversation with Harry Lucius accio'ed a pillow to himself to place Valerie on. He put Valerie on the silver pillow followed by charms to keep her safe as he deals with her hysterical mother. He regally and gracefully sinks to his knees in front of Hermione.

"Miss Granger, Hermione, your daughter is safe. She's right here. You haven't hurt her." Lucius said softly so as not to startle her. Although, by the time he finished his hands were on her shoulders.

Hermione heard the words but not who had said them. She was so relieved that her daughter was unharmed that she threw her arms around a started Lucius. She thought he was Harry but was secretly hoping that it was Lucius.

Once she came back to her senses fifteen minutes later she started to notice some differences. For instance, the chest that she was leaning against is toned and chiseled. The waist that her arms are around is slim and firm. That was nothing like Harry's figure at the moment.

Mione slowly leans back to see who she was fitted perfectly against even in that odd embrace.

She quickly backs away mumbling 'sorry.' She turns to the side while blushing and looking at her lap.

Lucius has a great view of her silhouette. He thinks, 'she's pretty cute. She even managed to keep her figure after she gave birth. Hmm, I wonder how far that blush goes down….' He mentally slaps himself 'I don't need to be thinking about things like that. I mean she just had a baby and got divorced not too long ago.'

Harry who was watching the whole thing thought that it was funny. He looks a little closer at Lucius and notices that he's blushing lightly himself.

Lucius shakes himself out of his little daydream thinking 'there will be time for that later.' Aloud he said, "My Liege is there something you needed me for other than to embarrass your friend?"

"Yes Lucius there is. I was wondering how your research is going for me. Have you found out anything useful yet?"

Lucius turns around to pick up Valerie because she's getting a little fussy. "Not net My Liege. But,"

"Lucius," Harry interrupts, "call me Harry."

Lucius' eyes widen a little. "My Liege, that's not appropriate."

"We are in private so it won't matter. Which, If you argue the point I'll hex you."

Hermione finally snaps out of it to say, "Harry James Potter, you will do no such thing. Besides, Poppy said that if you use magic before she tells you it's alright too, then she was going to restrain you."

"Fine then I'll get Tom to do it for me."

Lucius lost all the color in his face.

"Harold James Potter if you do that then I'll find some way to get you over my knee and if I can't I'm sure that Poppy will. Plus, I will have her put you on bed rest until the twins are born. Nor will you have any visitors."

Harry lost all color in his face as he started to flashback to his horrible childhood. Harry starts rocking back and forth while whispering. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean it."

Hermione realized her error a little too late. "Oh Harry I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it either." She wraps her arms around him and rocks with him. "Of course, you would have visitors. I would come and Valerie would come with me of course. Besides, do you really think we could keep that crazy house elf, Dobby form seeing you? I'm pretty sure the father of your children would not stand for that anyway."

The words were slowly starting to sink in and Harry was calming down. "I'm sorry Mione. You know I would never do something like that."

"I know Harry and I'm sorry for what I said. But, it's not me that you need to apologize too."

Harry looks over at Lucius who is as white as a sheet. He is still holding Valerie while rocking back and forth slightly. "I'm sorry Lucius. I would never ask someone else to do something that I can't or won't do myself." Harry pauses for a moment to let that sink in before continuing. "I just hate using formalities when we are in private like this, alright?"

Lucius nods when his words sink in.

A calming session takes place for a while. Harry and Hermione talk quietly for a few minutes. While, they are talking Lucius starts to play with Valerie after a few minutes Hermione notices and smiles.

Harry looks over as well. He asks. "You're doing very well with Valerie Lucius. You also seem like a very loving, caring and affectionate man." Harry takes a deep breath. "I guess what I'm trying to say is how and why did Draco turn out to be such an evil little brat?"

Lucius looks up with a smile on his face and replies. "That would be because of my ex-wife Narcissa. She would spoil and coddle him whenever he got into any trouble. I was never allowed to punish him like he should have been." Halfway through his explanation his smile left his face for a sad expression

"That's awful," exclaimed Hermione. "Mr. Malfoy, I have a question if you wouldn't mind answering it."

"Please, call me Lucius. Since My Liege insists that we drop the formalities in private."

"If you don't stop with the 'My Liege' stuff I'm going to zap you."

"Don't even think about it Harold James Potter or I'll tie you to a bed and let Dobby tell you how great you are for a whole day."

Harry's eyes widen. "You wouldn't!"

"Try me." Hermione said before turning back to Lucius. "So will you be kind enough to answer my question Mr. Malfoy?"

"Only, if you will call me Lucius."

"Very well and you may call me Hermione or Mione." Mione stopped looking thoughtful. "Although, I think that I need to come up with a new nickname preferably one that doesn't remind me of one Ronald Weasley."

"Very well then Hermione."

Hermione makes a face at that.

Lucius rolls his eyes before saying. "If you wouldn't mind coming closer over here that would be greatly appreciated, as your charming daughter has fallen asleep and I don't want to wake her."

Mione nods and moves to sit in front of Lucius.

Harry comes to take Valerie. "I'll just take her so that she can have her nap. Be back shortly."

Lucius raises his eyebrow at Harry. This causes Harry to just smile at him.

"You know if you want a new nickname then why don't you just shorten Mione? You can use Mi (pronounced Me) or Mi (pronounced My). Now what is your question?"

Mione blushed. "I was just curious over why the 'pureblood' families only have one child?"

"Well sometimes it's the husband and sometimes it's the wife that only wants to have one child. This is because our marriages were all arranged. All of the old families are joined because it would mean having a powerful child to carry on the family name. Also, most families only want one child because they are not wealthy enough to be able to split the family fortune in half or more."

"Which category are you in, if you don't mind my asking?"

"It's fine. I wanted to have more children but Narcissa didn't. She was afraid it would ruin her figure. What about you? Are you planning on having more? I hope that's not too personal a question."

"That's a horrible reason for not having more children. I don't mind you asking. If I can find a guy that will treat me like I'm supposed to be then I would love to get married again and have as many babies as we can. Although, I would like to wait a few years between having each child, does that make sense?"

"Perfectly. That way your child would be Two or Three years old and walking while you carry the infant around. Although, it seems like you want to either rival or surpass the Weasley's in children."

"That's right. I was an only child growing up and I was very lonely. If you could have more children, how many would you have?"

"It would definitely surpass the Weasley's. I would want to fill my manor up with children."

"How big is that?"

"This is actually one of average sized ones that my family owns. Have you toured this place yet?" Hermione shakes her head no. "I'll show you around later if you'd like. But, the manor Draco grew up in is the biggest of them all and that's the one that I would want to fill up with children. I'll have to show you around that one sometime as well, if you'd like."

"I would love for you to show me around both manors." Hermione smiles at Lucius.

Harry watches from the other room as Mione and Lucius stare into each other's eyes and move closer to each other. Their lips are a breath apart when suddenly the door leading to the hallway opens.

"Harry, where are you?" Tom calls out. "Lucius, Ms. Granger. Why are you here?"

"My Lord." "Sir." Lucius and Hermione said at the same time.

"My Lord, I'm doing some research for My Liege. He sent me a note asking if I could meet him here. I hope that was alright My Lord."

"I'm here because Harry invited me in after our walk. I hope that's alright. I should probably get going anyway. So I'll just go collect Valerie so that she can finish her nap in her room." Hermione blushes as she realizes that she's rambling.

Harry comes out of the bedroom "Tom do you mind if all of us drop the formalities in these rooms? I'm tired of being called My Liege all the time." Harry gives Tom his best puppy dog look.

Tom sighs and replies. "Very well, but only in private, as my followers do not know about my muggle heritage on my father's side, except for you Lucius."

Harry smiles as he runs to his lover, jumps into his arms and kisses him soundly on the mouth. Or at least that what he sees himself doing as he has a month left of his pregnancy, in reality he quickly walks over and drags Toms face down to his and kisses him soundly.

Hermione quickly goes to get Valerie so that they may leave. Lucius is slowly backing away towards the door so that he may leave as well. They are both getting ready to leave the room when both Harry and Tom moan into each other's mouths. They both leave the room quickly but shut the door quietly.

~HPTM~

Outside the room Lucius and Hermione stare at each other. Lucius speaks first. "May I escort you back to your room?"

Hermione smiles "that would be lovely. Thank you, Lucius."

They start walking side by side. Lucius decides to ask. "Would you mind if I carried Valerie the rest of the way?"

Hermione seems surprised. "No, I don't mind." Hermione hands over Valerie.

~HPTM~

A/N: Ok, I am going to end it here for this chapter. There are a few reviews that I would like to address.

First, I would like to thank Wolvenmistress13 for pointing out Poppy's involvement. All I can say is that I adopted this story from Marauder Heir and she had up to chapter 6 posted. I just revamped what she had and added somethings. She had Poppy in there and I didn't even think about how she got involved. I have an idea myself but, I'm asking that if anyone has any ideas for how Poppy became involved with the DE's I would love to hear them. Who knows I may use the best idea(s). Of course, the winner(s) will get the credit for it.

Second, Polbear your review saying that "Harry is not Gryffindors heir. He's related to Slytherin, so he's Slytherins heir. He could only pull the sword out of the hat because he was a 'true Gryffindor'. Get your facts right." That was a little on the mean and rude side. As we really don't know much about Slytherin, Gryffindor, Potter or the Peverell lines there's really no proof of who is related to whom. Which, I have googled the Peverell and Potter family trees. It showed that Harry is related to Ignotus Peverell there are many generations that are not accounted for so he could very well be related to the Gryffindor family though a female descendant. As for Tom Riddle (Lord Voldemort) it shows that he is related to Cadmus Peverell, again through many generations and also through many generations the Slytherin line marries into the Peverell line through Cadmus. So while Harry is related to Voldemort that does not make him Slytherin's Heir. There is no blood relation between Harry and Salazar Slytherin. Also, as this really isn't following canon and is Fan Fiction I can have Harry as a descendant of Gryffindor if I want too. I do value your review but I would appreciate it if you could back up your clam with facts on why you think that Harry is Slytherin's heir other than he's related to Slytherin, of which there is no proof.

Questions: I now have a few questions for everyone. As Harry will be giving birth in the next chapter I would like your input. Would you like to see the twins as both boys or girls or one of each? If 1 or 2 girls should I have Harry continue the tradition of naming them after flowers or not? If you would like you may also provide names and if possible also the meanings of the names. I have a few names that I like but if I see other good ones I might use them as well.

I hate to do this but it will be a while before I update again as I would like to get a couple of chapters typed before posting again. Plus I am waiting to see what replies I will get to my questions as they pertain to the next chapter anyways.

Sorry for the long A/N. Please review. 'Cause I can't tell how you like it if you don't review. And, please no flamers as they will be used to stare a fire with to keep warm in the winter time and to roast marshmallows to make s'mores with. Constructive criticism is alright as I would like to know what needs to be fixed.