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A/N: Howdie Doodie Folks. So so so so so so so so so so so sorry for taking 2 whole years to get out another chapter but real life must take president over the fictional one I'm afraid.

A/N 2: Thank you to all those that put reviews up for this story. It's those reviews that have inspired me enough to continue writing it now. I hope you all enjoy this next chapter and that the wait for it hasn't been enough to put you off reading it

A/N 3: The voting about keeping Ron in or kicking him out has gone well and I'm pleased to say that he has in fact been booted. He may make a few snarky comments here and there but never any major lines or scenes. Thanks to all that voted.

Chapter Warnings: Beware the sugariness of this chapter even my teeth fell out when I wrote it.

Chapter Eleven: The Morning After

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The morning after the first transformation was slow in its approach for all the people who knew about Elloisa's condition, and as soon as dawn broke the Malfoy's, Harry, Hermione, Professor Snape and the Headmaster all rushed to the allocated room in which the two werewolves transformed. After catching their breath and allowing their hearts to calm slightly they quietly opened the door to reveal the two occupants of the room. Remus Lupin was asleep under a quilted blanket in the middle of the room with his back to them all.

"Where's Ella?" Narcissa whispered, the slight hitch in her voice conveying her worry to the others.

However Narcissa wasn't quiet enough and a groggy Remus rolled over to peer at them through exhausted eyes. "Is it morning already?" he asked in a daze.

"Remus, where's Elloisa?" Hermione asked softly.

"She's right here," Remus said, pointing towards the floor in front of his lap. The anxious group edged further into the room and collectively sighed when they saw the mini-werewolf curled up in another bundle of blankets sleeping gently and sucking her thumb.

"She's OK? Please tell me everything went OK." Draco pleaded with Lupin.

"Yes Draco, she's fine. Last night couldn't have gone better, really. She's going to be tired for a while longer though. As it was her first transformation her body went through a lot more stress and pain than is she'd transformed before. It's a good thing in this respect that she won't remember the pain of it although she will still be feeling the effects for a few days."

Draco walked towards the pair a carefully picked his daughter up cradling her against his chest before speaking to the adult werewolf. "Thank you for being here with her. I can only imagine how much harder this would have been if you hadn't helped the way you did."

"Don't mention it, Draco. For Elloisa it was my pleasure to be able to help at all." Remus replied smiling warmly up at him.

Draco returned the smile briefly before walking back out of the door the group had entered and gingerly so as to not wake his child, made his way back to the Malfoy family suit. Once there he laid her down on her bed and gently tucked her in before turning and leaving the room. Harry at some point during all of this had made his own entrance to the suit and stood quietly by Ella's bedroom door. He offered Draco a warm smile and a thumbs up about the transformation going well, but instead of the gestures cheering Draco up, the opposite occurred. Draco's face physically crumpled and he fell forward as his legs gave out from under him.

With his well honed Seeker skills, Harry reacted quickly and caught Draco before the blonde boy hit the floor, and then gently manoeuvred him through Draco's bedroom door before kicking it shut to keep out any prying eyes and setting Draco down softly onto the sofa.

After sitting down himself, Harry pulled the distraught boy against his chest and held him in a gently embrace, while Draco rested his head on Harry's shoulder and allowed the tears of frustration and anger her felt about Ella's situation to finally flow freely.

After about half an hour Draco's tears had finally dried up and he only occasionally let out a small sob and that was when Harry pulled back to look Draco in the face and ask him what was wrong.

"I am" sob "happy that she's o-o" sob "ok, but it's just not fair. She is one of the best things" sob "that has ever happened to me and I" sob "can't help her." Draco replied slowly. "She's so small and innocent and this disease" sob "is going to ruin what could have been a great life for her." Sob.

"But Draco," Harry said soothingly, "it hasn't ruin her life. It might have if she wasn't as strong as she is, or if she hadn't been a lucky little girl and found such a great family to love and care for her. And as to having a life, she will. After all that is when we're all working towards, isn't it? Not only will she have a life, but the lives of other werewolves will be better in the future than they would have ever been and that is because one small but strong little girl put her faith in the one person I know who has the heart and the determination to do something about it. Oh by the way, that persons name is Draco Malfoy. You!"

Draco bowed his head with shame after realising just how truthful those words were. How could he honestly sit here and cry over the very thing he was trying to change. How could he allow Ella to have so much faith in him when he had so little faith in himself.

"You're right Harry. Thank you for making me see sense." Draco said looking back up and meeting the bright green eyes of the Boy-Who-Lived. Bright green eyes that were looking at him with confidence and a strength Draco didn't know the young man could posses. Green eyes that Draco felt he was falling into.

The two boys faces were getting closer but Draco, in his examination of Harry's eyes didn't notice, and Harry in his examination of Draco's stormy grey eyes didn't notice either. That was until their lips meet in a soft kiss. Harry gasped and Draco groaned and as one their eyes drooped to a close and their second kiss quickly became one of passion and need and desperation.

The build up to this moment had been immense and both boys lost themselves in the intensity of it, that was until a tentative knock came from the bedroom door.

Pulling away from Harry and feeling a little irked at the person who dared intrude on this moment, Draco growled out and sharp 'Enter!'.

"Daddy?" Elloisa said very quietly after poking her head round the door but not meeting Draco gaze.

Draco now felt like a prized idiot for speaking like that to Ella but ploughed on and pulled and warm smile onto his face. "Hey, Princess. How are you feeling?"

"I-I-I'm still you're pwincess?" Ella asked still looking at the floor but now stood just inside the doorway.

"Of course you are, Baby. I told you nothing would ever change that and I meant it." Draco said in what he hoped was a reassuring voice. Harry nudged him softly in the ribs to gain the blondes attention before jutting his chin out in the direction of Ella and mouthed the words 'reassurance' and 'monster' to him before rising out of his seat and leaving the room.

Draco pondered Harry's words for a moment before it clicked. Ella thought she really was a monster now that she had finally transformed into a werewolf and had slipped back into thinking that no one could possibly want her because of it.

Getting calmly to his feet and walking swiftly across the room, he dropped to his knees in front of the tiny five-year-old and lifted her chin so the girl would have no choice but to meet his eyes. "You are my little girl, Ella. And I love every single part of you because of that. I hate that you will have to go through what you went through last night again, but I swear to you Princess, that I am never going to stop loving you because of it." Draco said passionately looking Ella dead in the eyes, in the hopes that she would see the truth of his words.

A tidal wave of emotions seemed to girl through the girls eyes. Sadness, depression, anger, hurt, pain, disbelief, hope, trust and finally love. Squealing excitedly she launched herself into her daddy's arms and held onto him tight, like she never wanted to let go. Draco hugged his Princess back just as firmly, praying silently to himself that everything would go alright in the future and that this little girl would finally realise and understand just how loved and wanted she was to him, his family and all their friends.

From the doorway, Lucius, Narcissa, Hermione, Severus, Albus, Remus and of course Harry all stop watching the scene as it played out. Draco's parents beamed with pride over Draco's words, Hermione looked like she was going to cry, Severus looked on with determination in his eyes, Remus looked almost longingly at the evident look this parent had for his werewolf child and Albus sparkled as per usual.

Harry surveyed the group and then looked past them all to the adult and child on the floor by the door of Draco's room and smiled softly to himself.

As long as they all stuck together everything was going to turn out fine, of this Harry was absolutely sure.