Harry Potter:Blood

The order soon realised that magic was ineffective against the former boy wizards and Dumbledore was left with no option but to manipulate the water which held them. Remus conjured a small travelling tank and Dumbledore and Sirius lifted Draco and Harry from the large tank in bubbles of water lowering them gently into their new temporary home.

The second he was released Harry leant over the side of the small tank and pulled Ron and Hermione into a very wet hug.

"Oh Harry mate, what has he done to you?" Ron said slowly.

Harry just blinked at Ron and smiled.

"Are you okay Harry? Are you injured? Hungry? Are you in any pain?" Remus said desperately.

Harry turned his head to Remus and frowned, Hermione stared at her old friend for a moment before a light bulb seemed to flash inside her mind.

"Harry, can you understand what we are saying?" Harry's frown just deepened and he slipped down further into the water until just his head was unsubmerged.

"Draco I can't understand what they are saying" Harry said angrily.

"I know I noticed that I couldn't understand Voldemort's death eater meetings a few weeks before you arrived" Draco shrugged.

Harry sighed and turned back to his friends.

"Hermione I don't think we can talk to each other!"

Hermione gasped when Harry opened his mouth only to let out a series of high pitched whistles and clicks.

"They don't understand us because they no longer know human language!" Hermione cried.

Snape appeared from through the hole in the wall "Professor Dumbledore we must leave at once, the death eaters are beginning to amass once more!" He turned in a billow of black robes as if he hadn't just seen the order of the phoenix gathered around a small tank that contained the transformed appearances of his former student and his godson.

The order levitated the tank and headed for the apparition point outside riddle manor, Draco and Harry held each other tightly as they revelled in the fact that they would soon be home, back at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. Draco and Harry's tank was enlarged slightly to fill a large section of Dumbledore's office and Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, Remus and Sirius set up camp beside them. The two Merrows lay huddled together in the soft sand at the bottom of the tank.

"So what do we know about what happened to them?" Sirius asked the headmaster.

"From what I can gather my boy, they have been transformed into Merrow, a dominant and a submissive also known as a Suire. Snape informs me it was a potion based transformation and he is currently working on a cure, all we need to do is keep them comfortable in the meantime."

Dumbledore's eyes held a sadness Sirius had not seen in a long time.

"I have an idea!" Hermione suddenly said, startling the group out of their current melancholy. She walked resolutely up to the glass and tapped on it in order to get the Merrows attention.

She waved her hands at them then moved one finger and then made the gesture of opening a book, Harry's eyes lit up in recognition and he gave her the thumbs up.

"She wants us to play Charades!" Harry crowed to Draco.

"Why on earth would this be a good time for parlour games?" Said Draco raising one eyebrow.

"It's a way of communicating without language you clod!"

Harry shook his head and rolled his eyes before turning back to Hermione he thought hard for a moment before deciding the most urgent piece of information he had to get across, he held his arms out in front of him and rocked them back and forth as if he were holding a baby, he then pointed his hands to his stomach arching his palm as if to show a large stomach.

Hermione looked baffled for a moment as Harry repeated his actions two more times.

"He…he… oh my god Harry is PREGNANT!"

"Blimey" Ron said looking queasy.

Harry then turned and pointed frantically at the blonde Merrow behind him.

"And its Draco's" Hermione added.

"Bloody Hell" Ron cried.

After half an hour of Charades Hermione had managed to get most of Harry and Draco's story, what they needed to eat and how they slept, also the fact that they were very much in love and that their child would be born in 4 weeks.

"He obviously wanted a breeding pair; this changes everything I must speak to professor Snape." Dumbledore said, looking ready to cry. He turned and left the office, his colourful robes trailing in his wake.

Dumbledore found Snape in his laboratory working frantically at his potions.

"Professor I have some more information regarding Mr Potter and Mr Malfoy's conditions" The Headmaster said sadly.

Snape merely hummed and nodded as he mixed two potions vials, seemingly satisfied with the results he turned to the older wizard.

"What information professor?"

"Mr Potter is with child, I had considered the possibility what with young Harry being a submissive and alone in those conditions with a dominant Malfoy". Dumbledore sighed.

"Well it gives me slightly more time, I cannot administer any potion given Potter's…circumstances that is unless he wishes to abort the foetus" Snape murmured.

"Knowing Harry as I do I believe that is something he would never do? Fine then, we must wait until the child is born before we test anything on Harry….Draco however…"

"Very good Sir, I will create an appropriate elixir to change them back" Snape said firmly before turning back to his workstation.

"Thank you Severus….for everything"

Snape merely nodded and hummed once again and Dumbledore returned to his office.

That night Hermione and Ron lay in sleeping bags by the tank, keeping vigil as they snuggled on the plush red carpets.

"Do you think Harry is happy Hermione? I mean imagine having to spend the rest of your life with Malfoy!" Ron snorted.

Hermione gazed at the Merrows in the tank, Draco spooned Harry tenderly, their tails entwined, small bubbles rising from their soft exhales.

"I think being stuck in a tank for months on end mellowed Draco, perhaps the drudgery of wizardom becomes trivial when you find yourself transformed into a different species." Hermione smiled.

"Anyway Harry obviously adores him Ron….Ron? Hermione turned to find Ron snoring softly, his mouth open, drool running down his cheek.

"I wonder if Harry loves Draco as much as I love you." She said quietly to herself before spelling off the lights and falling asleep.