Harry grew up with an odd family. Growing up things hadn’t been particularly easy for him but, he had all the love and support in the world but for some reason he was always lacking and needed to do more, prove he was worthy of that love. His whole family have always told Harry that he never would owe them anything that he had already done enough and saved them before many times, safe to say Harry never understood what they meant.
“Reggie get everyone round up, we’ve got a mission.” Harry heard this over the com in his ear. “Barty wrong comms,” he sighed. “I’ll let dad know and go round everyone up.” After that the line went dead, doing as he was told Harry went to go get everyone and inform them they were needed. “Dads, Hermione, we’ve got to go. Barty called a meeting!” Harry is fairly frustrated considering he just got off his last assignment but is now needed for a new one. Once his sister and parents are in sight and moving Harry continues to inform his mother, Remus and Sirius, and the two former Malfoy’s.
“Hey kiddo, I know you just got off a mission but this is important I swear.” His uncle Evan was always sympathetic towards Harry, for some unknown reason Evan and Pandora always knew what he was thinking before he was. “It’s fine uncle Ev.” He honestly just wanted to get this over with. As soon as everyone was filed into the room James began to speak. “Barty please tell me that all of us being doesn’t mean what I think it does…” Harry has never heard his dad sound so unsure of something ever he thinks. “Hey, do you know why we’re here?” Draco had easily made his way across the room to Harry’s side. “No, but dad sounds worried.” Harry was always grateful for Draco’s company weather he liked to admit it or not. Finally Barty spoke up. “I’m sorry but it’s time. They need to leave today” there was something almost frightening about the way his uncle had said that sentence. “Barty are you sure? Because we are not sending our child there if we don’t need to yet.” It was Regulus who was speaking now, followed by Lily and Narcissa “Barty we haven’t even told them yet” it was spoken in a perfect unison. Harry then looked at Draco but he seemed to be just as confused. Harry then took a look at his sister who seemed to understand but maybe not fully. “Hermione you know what’s going on don’t you” it was more of a statement than a question but she already knew that. “Harry it’s not my place to explain but it has something to do with you and Draco.” Hermione looked a bit upset by the whole thing. Harry found it quite unfair that his sister was given slightly more knowledge than he was, but really, he couldn’t be. Hermione knew more because she always put it together healed and simply asked for confirmation. “Ok, what the bloody hell is going on, your all talking about us but we are right here.” Draco spoke up he looked uncomfortable and a bit annoyed which was pretty much exactly how Harry was feeling. “Harry, Draco…” there a pause. “You two remember how we’ve always told you that you’ve done more than you know for this war.” Remus sighs. “Well you two are about to find out” he finally says. Harry feels uneasy by this statement. What could they possibly mean, well, whatever it is he’s about to find out. “You and Draco need to go to the past” what the actual fuck? Harry is severely confused, the past? With Draco? Why? “Er, what?” Regulus decides he’s the one to tell them. “You and Draco need to go to the past because if you don’t everything around us will cease to exist” how is he so calm about this? He continues “the day you were born was not the first time we met you. You two are meant to travel back in time to my our sixth slash seventh year. You two end up helping us kill majority of the horcruxes to kill Voldemort.”
“Why Draco and I? We aren’t exactly the best choice, why not send ‘Mione? She surely would know better” Harry can see the worry growing in Draco’s face. “I’m sorry but it has to be the two of you. Draco has leverage with the Slytherins and well you’re you.” He eyes who the voice belongs to. “Sirius that hardly makes and sense” Sirius simply shrugged his shoulders. “So wait, let me get this straight, your sending Harry and I into the past, your past and kill majority of the horcruxes?” The disbelief in Draco’s voice was obvious, he was not happy. “Draco I understand that this is shocking but it needs to be done” Narcissa was formal and cool as she delivered her next words “We would not allow this to happen if we were unaware of the outcome” this seemed to calm Draco a bit. Harry doesn’t know why but instinctively he reached out and squeezed Draco’s hand. Draco didn’t even flinch just held Harry’s hand squeezing it back in return. Harry and Draco had a really rocky start to their relationship but it’s gotten better. They’re friends now but Harry’s known his actual feeling for Draco for a while now. He kinda put it together after Hermione and Ron had told him we was obsessing over Draco and should actually think about why rather than what evil plots he thinks Draco is up too. “Ok, we’ll do it. But how are we supposed to get there?” To Harry’s relief Draco relaxed slightly . “We’re giving you a time turner. You can use it to get there and back.” Barty says this handing a necklace to Harry. “How long do we have before we need to go?” The room fell silent. Well that’s great he had no time to think about anything because he had to leave now. Harry huffs a sigh. “We’re leaving now aren’t we?” Draco had seemed to finally come around. “Ok, so we leave now is there any other instructions other than kill the horcruxes?” Everyone in the room shook their head. Harry was annoyed. His parents usually tell him everything that he’s involved in how could they not tell him. Most of all he felt betrayed because he had thought that out of his parents Regulus had trusted him the most with information. He looked at his dad. Regulus seemed to have been already looking in his direction with a look that was apologetic and ashamed. Harry knew he had his reasons and if his dad didn’t tell him something it was because he wasn’t supposed to know yet. Harry then glanced ad Lily who looked to be standing her ground, refusing to feel sorry for not telling him. She obviously didn’t want him to do this and was trying to avoid it. Lastly he looks to James, beside Regulus pressed firmly to his side hands intertwined with Regulus. He looks apologetic but excited about the situation. That totally did not confuse Harry at all.
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Harry watches as Draco slides the holster on his thighs and and carefully puts the daggers in their rightful places. One on his right and two on his left. Draco’s thighs were amazing, Harry knows this because he trains with Draco. Draco had just enough muscle but was lean and flexible. Harry would be lying if he said he hadn’t dreamt about Draco’s thighs in his hands being able to touch him like that. Harry was quickly jerked out of his thoughts when he heard someone talking. “What are you looking at? Get ready we don’t have time for you to oggle me” Draco says his voice teasing and put together with a small little smirk set in his face. Harry could feel the heat rise in his face thankful that he had James darker complexion. ‘“I was not oggling you. I was simply curious with the daggers. I mean my dad prefers daggers and I know why, but why do you?” Draco let out a soft chuckle “I like close range fighting. It makes me feel as though I have more control over the situation” Draco just shrugs at him without any further explanation. “Now hurry up and get your stuff we need to go.” Draco leaves Harry to his own devices assumingly going to say his goodbyes. Finally gathering his thoughts Harry grabs his bracelet. Harry was gifted this bracelet by Sirius and Remus for his fourteenth birthday. Harry never left without it because not only was it a beautiful bracelet but it turned into a whip and it a staff. This was a practical grift for Harry because he enjoyed close to midrange fighting. Grabbing the rest of his thing Harry went to meet with the others.
After all the quick goodbyes and strict instructions Harry pulls the necklace from his pocket and wraps it around his and Draco’s necks quickly glancing around at the people there to see them off he begins to turn the turner. Suddenly the world around them becomes a blur and a bright flash hits. When Harry opens his eyes he’s met with four familiar faces.
“What the bloody fucking hell” Harry quickly turns to the Slytherin who seems just as surprised if not more. Then slowly taking the necklace off Draco Harry looks to the voice. “Uh, hi” Harry feels a bit odd at the moment “Really Potter, that’s all you could come up with.” Draco sneered at him rolling his eyes. “Potter? Prongs you never told us you had a cousin” Sirius says dramatically. Harry know that he’s Sirius one because of the combat boots and leather jacket that he still wears that are definitely not Hogwarts dress code. “That’s cause I don’t. Who are you?” It just hit Harry that they have no clue who he was at all. “Ok this is going to sound a bit bizzare but I promise you everything I’m about to say is true. But first I need to see McGonagle.” There was a shift as the boy in the back, Harry recognized as Remus, stepped forward. “We’ll take you to see Minnie, but first your names.” Remus always had some sort of priority and Harry could tell he was assessing the situation with the calculated look Remus was giving them. “I’m Harry Potter, and this is Draco Black Malfoy.” As Harry finished he watched as both Sirius and James looked at eachother confused. Remus simply nodded and looked to Peter who looked frazzled by the whole thing. “It’s ok Pete we got it from here” Peter quickly nodded and left on his own. Remus began to walk down the hall leading them to Minerva’s office.
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“So from what I’m understanding you have been sent here from the future to keep the balance so that you world stays the same.” Minerva states more than asks. Draco simply nods. He doesn’t particularly like what’s going on but his mother talked to him about why it was important and besides, he was here with Harry so he should be just fine. Draco trusted Harry to a fault. He didn’t fully understand why he was infatuated with the git, but he was. In Draco’s defence he was incredibly muscular, arms always filling out his shirts. Harry was buff but not so much so that it was weird. Draco found Harry extremely hot and honestly super charming as well, even when he was being a moody prick. “We were actually sent by the future version of the people in this room amongst a couple others.” Draco appreciates that his voice is smooth and not at all expressing how nervous he really is. He feels Harry’s hand grab his the same as it did earlier on and began to relax almost instantly. Knowing Harry was there for some odd reason always brought some sort of comfort to Draco. “I want to ask to see if Harry and I are able to stay in the dorms along with the rest of the student and attend classes normally.” Harry looks at him in protest obviously not wanting to continue his studies. Draco gives him a fond look and then speaks “some of us actually value our education Potter and do not wish to put it on hold simply because we are in a different timeline.” Harry slumped in his and the three behind them began to snicker and Draco simply smirked at this reaction. “Well I don’t see why not. Since you are aware of who is involved are there certain people you would like to room with?” Draco’s mum told him exactly who to room with and he honestly doesn’t actually have anything against it. He’s curious if he has to be honest. “Yes well if you couldn’t already tell I am a slytherin therefore I would like to be placed in the dungeons. I would also like to room with Barty, Evan, and Regulus.” He says simply and mater of factly. “Very well then. I shall get you situated for now tho you may all return to the gryffindor common room.” Draco knew Minerva had more questions but was glad she hadn’t asked.
“So why do you want to room with by brother and his little friends anyways?” Sirius sounded shocked. “Well if you must know Evan and Barty are my uncles in the future and well, you and Regulus are my older second cousins.” With this information Sirius just nods his head in understanding. Once they arrived to the common room Sirius called for Regulus to come with the others. Reluctantly Draco sat himself in the bright gryffindor room. “So what’s our relationships like in the future?” James asks with excitement. Draco beats Harry to it. “Well you and Lily Evan’s are Harry’s parent but no you two are not together, from my understanding you two split up while Lily was still pregnant with Harry.” He looks to Harry for confirmation who just nods. Continuing Draco explains “Sirius and Remus are Harry’s closest uncles seeing as Sirius is Harry’s godfather. I have a decent relationship with the three of you but my relationship with Regulus, Evan, Barty, and Pandora is much stronger.” They all nod in understanding. “That’s really great but I was asking romantically” James says sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck as if hoping for a certain answer. Draco knew exactly what he wanted to hear. “Oh, well-“ before he could continue the slytherins along with the Ravenclaw girl walk in. “Oh it’s so good to finally meet you. Ev and I have been having visions of you two for a while now.” The girls says cheerily, who Draco automatically processes to be Pandora.
Right after her Evan pops his head out from behind her. “Hey kiddos how was the ride here?” Draco always appreciates how he understands him. “Not too bad, could have been worse.” Draco shrugs. “That’s good, so are you two here for what we think your here for?” He whispers. Draco and Harry nod in unison. “Hey, don’t stop the party because we’re here. Continue what you were talking about, I’m intrigued.” Barty says with a sly smile. All the new people take there seats somewhere and Draco continues much to his dismay. He looks at Harry who seems to be enjoying himself just chatting away with them. Draco clears his voice and continues “As I was saying, Evan and Barty, Pandora and Xenophelius, Lily and Mary, Dorcas and Marlene, Siriuis and Remus, Peter and Lockhart, and lastly Regulus and James.” Draco feels a little watched as many of them stare at him jaws on the floor and eyes wide. All of a sudden a burst of laughter comes from Harry and Draco hopes it never stops. “Bloody hell, you should see your faces!” He breathed through giggles “You lot were not expecting some of those were you” Harry fumbles through his words clutching his stomach. Draco can’t help but smirk at the reactions.
“JAMES POTTER YOU BLOODY FUCKING BROTHER FUCKER!” With that a full on cat and mouse chase begins. Harry is uncontrollably wheezing watching all this go down and Draco can’t help but laugh too. It takes about all of five seconds for Regulus and Remus to get annoyed and pull them apart. Remus swiftly grabs Sirius and drags him to the other side of the room proceeding to snog him to shut him up. Regulus on the other hand stands in front of James and begins to lecture him like a child for his behavior and James looks like a kicked puppy. It’s funny really because Regulus is a good head and a half shorter than him and yet James looks terrified. Thinking back Draco has seen a similar situation between them as adults. Usually tho James does end up getting a quick peck after because Regulus ultimately feels bad for upsetting James. He looks back at Remus and Sirius to see them returning to the group while James’ frown turns into a a beaming grin and next thing he know he watches James pull Regulus in for a quick sweet kiss and then dragging them back to the group. James plops himself on the couch pulling Regulus into his lap look almost practiced due to how natural it looked. Draco always admired their relationship, honestly he admired all of their relationships wishing to have one like them. “Well guess the cats out the bag!” James says with a cheeky grin kissing Regulus on the cheek. “James cut it out, we have some serious things to attend to.” James pouts but obeys anyways. Sirius grumble but seems to be alright after whatever Remus said to him.
After Harry explained everything they still got questions which was expected, what wasn’t expected was for Lily to ask how they could know for sure what they were saying was true. Draco honestly didn’t really know how to respond but began to talk anyways “Ok what do you suggest we provide you with for you to trust us?” Lily looked at him for a moment then “what’s the purpose of the nicknames these four have for each other and what are they?” She says raising a brow. To Draco’s relief Harry answers with ease. “They call themselves the marauders and dad goes by prong because his animagus is a stag, Sirius is padfoot because he’s a dog, Peter is wormtail because he’s a rat, and Remus is moony because of the wolf.”
Lily seems satisfied with that answer much to his relief. With that Harry and Draco continue to explain the circumstances to everyone.