Living In Safety

Kids?

this is a sort of shitty chapter. idk what i'm gonna do with this book. we need a plot twist. comment ideas!

Harry

"Okay," Severus starts. "I'm not going to do the whole never have sex thing with you, and I'm pretty sure you know how to use these-" He holds up a box of condoms, "-so here are these. Use them every time unless you both get tested."

"Sev, if you aren't giving me 'the talk', then what am I doing here!?" I ask. "And me and Blaise aren't having sex."

Technically not a lie. Ha.

"I walked in to take you out shopping and the two of you were completely naked and the room reeked of sex," he explains, monotone voice like that's a perfectly reasonable reason he knows. "So you two are doing something, that's for sure.

"Anyway, I wanted... I wanted to make sure you know what you're doing," he says. "Are you actually ready for a... sexual relationship with him?"

I actually don't know. 

I know I'm ready for some things. Little things. But am I ready for that to be a normal thing we do? Am I ready to go further? To do something more... more?

"I think so..." I shift uncomfortably. I do not want to talk about this anymore. 

"Harry. I doubt this, but just to make sure, Blaise has never pressured-"

"No. Never. He wouldn't."

"Don't get upset, I said I doubted it. I really did just want to make sure." I shove the box into my bag, remembering about they're existence. I get that he has to be all responsible parent and talk to me about this shit, but he could just... not, until I'm eighty-seven. "I suggest making clear boundaries, if you haven't. If you're going a bit further than you did before." We are going further. "Talk about it, write it down, I don't care, but make sure you each understand each other's boundaries and rules. He needs to make boundaries, too, not just you, by the way."

"Okay."

"Good. Anyway, now that that's done," he starts, "I wanted to ask you what you thought about having siblings."

"What?"

"Siblings."

I've never thought about that before? So what am I s'posed to say to that?

I don't say that though, because that would be 'rude' or something. "I dunno. If you wanted kids or whatever, I'd be fine with it..." And then a thought hits me. "It's not because you don't want me, is it?"

"What!? Oh, bloody hell, of course not! Look, kid, you aren't getting rid of me that easily." I chuckle. "Reggie wants kids. It isn't a now thing, it's a maybe in the future thing, but he wanted me to ask if you hated the idea and would be angry at him the rest of his life before he got excited."

"Oh. Okay then." Of course it wasn't that. That was a stupid question. "I don't know. I wouldn't dislike it. Them. Whatever."

"That's... That's good," he says. "I'll talk to you more if we decide to go through with it. With the Ministry up my arse now, I'm not sure if we could do it this year, we might have to wait..."

"Which is fucked up."

"Harry-"

"What?! It is! You should be allowed to adopt a kid! Sirius was able to and he was in Azkaban in twelve years!!"

"Yes, believe me, I know that. But it'll work out, don't go getting worked up about this." The portrait behind him opens before he can say anything else. Regulus walks through.