Later that day the foursome found themselves in Tom's room, it was apparently going to be their new meeting place. Harry and Severus were seated near each other but carefully not touching, flipping through different stacks of parchment. Lucius and Draco were doing much the same until the blonde pair couldn't take it any longer.

"We have asked before and we keep getting half answers. In order to move forward, we need to know everything." Lucius set aside his leaflet; it was mostly over the state of the Malfoy proceedings because at this moment in time it was the only thing he really understood.

"Besides if we are to be a mateship there should be no need for secrets," Draco smirked at his alpha, cocky little thing. Lucius gave his son a look but it was mostly ignored. Harry noticed though and wondered what it could mean but pushed forward anyway.

"Yes, I…" Harry had the sudden desire to go back to bed. "I wish I could say I will tell you everything but I just," he groaned to himself in frustration, he had already told them so much handled some of the harder situations of his life, he had seen the proof that these men hadn't exactly lived the optimum life either so his reluctance didn't make any sense to him. "I don't know if I can some things... I'll start with the current situation then. Our ability to fall off the radar rather fall out of Dumbledore's preview is due to Luna. If not for her I am sure we would still be in the castle with Dumbledore urging me to kill him." There was no need to clear up who the 'he' was. "When my parents were murdered Dumbledore arranged to be declared my magical guardian while he placed me with those muggles…. That's a story for another time." Tea appeared around the room for everyone, Harry took a moment to make himself a fortifying cup. "To get to the point of the issue Dumbledore cleaned me out; the Potters are worse off than the Weasleys these days. For some more than likely ultimately foolish decision there was no official will for either of them so Dumbledore made one up and took everything. Potter Manor was burned to the ground during Grindelwald's time, all other properties outside Godric's Hollow were sold to loyal members of his party, I actually believe the currently Weasley house once was a Potter property." Harry took a scalding sip of tea to distract himself from the rage he generally felt when he talked about what Dumbledore had done, to take someone's legacy was the worst thing a person could do while leaving them alive to see it go. "Money went fast and jewelry faster. I'm thankful he didn't have an inheritance test done or we would truly be in dire straits. For now, though we rely on Luna who is the Lady Ravenclaw by birthright. This castles ward system is very similar to Hogwarts in the nearly everyone who's visited been has to have been invited, they can't find it otherwise, making this the safest place for us."

"That explains why you chose this mess." Draco got out before his father could stop him.

"It's also why you haven't begun repairs." Severus followed up, stating a fact as far as he knew. Harry just watched Lucius wad himself up in a ball; the man was too tense at times… maybe that's why he… two weeks really wasn't enough time to get to know his bandmates properly. Harry couldn't even speculate the information he was missing regarding his mates, the things he was going to take the time to learn whether they wanted him to or not.

"Yes. I have some plans regarding investments and allocating funds for those eventually but for now, we do what we can. Now after Hermione and I had done our inheritance test we began to plan. Especially since Hermione turned out to Grindelwald's granddaughter. We arranged to be put in Gryffindor and set about trying to gather more information, which got harder to do with each passing day. Dumbledore assembled tests for us to accomplish if we wanted to be the Golden Trio. Nothing too serious since we over-studied, though we made sure to appear as if we struggled for that meddling old coot. No need to make our lives harder than they already were or to have him question what he thought to be true. Ron turned out to have this knack for the whole thing." He left out the fact that Ron tended to have a random assortment of information thanks to his brothers' eclectic tastes. Pair that with his uncanny sense of strategy and he was a well of plans when one fell through he could step up with a new one in seconds. Harry shrugged there was more to tell but now just didn't seem to be the time. That was beginning to be something he thought entirely too often, there just wasn't enough time.

"This is all well and good, we know Granger's plan is to take over for her grandfather and we know what Voldemort and in part what Dumbledore want but what is your goal." Draco threw himself bodily from his chair to lean over the table, anger settling across his face. Draco was always quick to rise before all this but the sudden freedom with his expressions left Harry a vague impression that Draco would be double as moody later in his pregnancy.

"I want things to be better than they are now. Hogwarts, despite everything, was my first home and as a boarding school, I found it lacking. I've been teaching most of the school defense this past year alone." That wasn't his first goal or even his only one but maybe just the most obvious one, for now, Hogwarts had more issues than the Daily Prophet and it would take a lifetime to explain them all. Unsure what else to say, Harry had never really been asked what his goals were so he'd never put them in writing. His focus, for the most part, had always been survival whole making sure those that were 'his' had everything they could wish for.

Severus grew pinched. "Do you have any idea how dangerous that is?" the man didn't move from his seat choosing to whisper his outrage in a hissed voice.

Lucius shook his head. "We don't have time for this. My son and I have taken the liberty to contact some like-minded individuals in the Ministry and the ICW. Right now we need to decide our next move." The Lord passed over a file from the stack he was holding, with the information he just mentioned. "For now I have ensured our marriage contract, and my divorce papers have been misfiled so that no one will be able to find them immediately." The whole was ambiguous but understood. Silence filtered in and the four men shared a look. Harry was slightly surprised but pleased to see his mate move in their defense right off.

"Dumbledore is not going to appreciate our escape going so smoothly this winter break, or my exercise of power. He will move to counter it or have me declared unfit for my emancipation. Too bad for him it was cleared by the Goblins of Gringotts and the Council of Magic on my eleventh Birthday actually. For now, he will try to get to the four of you by any means necessary, to attempt to control the situation." Harry sighed feeling a migraine begin to take root.

"And the three of us will have to return to his domain." Draco stuttered a hand falling to his stomach. He hadn't been pregnant but two days and he was already protective, that was both reassuring and odd. Harry would have to ask about it later. That two of the three of them would be pregnant and in enemy territory didn't help matters.

"Then we need to move quickly as I will not have this family taking such risks. For now, I will pull some strings and point some fingers at the Ministry regarding Umbridge and what she was allowed to get away with then while they are dealing with that we can have perhaps Rita Skeeter looking Dumbledore's past." Lucius was calm and resolute.

"We do have proof that Dumbledore and Grindelwald were intimately involved." Harry nodded, as a file appeared on his desk it was passed over without preamble.

Lucius hummed while he peered over the new information, something caught his attention. "Including an eyewitness, it seems." Lucius passed the whole file to Severus, snapping his finger for a Malfoy House-elf to appear. "I require the Dumbledore file from my desk as well as the notepad and quill."

The elf nodded and vanished, the next second the requested items appeared. Lucius began to write thing out quickly.

"We will need to construct a plausible alibi for what transpired this winter. I think polyjuice and some carefully chosen people of the same height and build should work to hide who he and I are."

"As a matter of fact, I have three vats of that particular potion under stasis in my previous home. It would take a moment to retrieve them if only to forestall the purchase of subpar potions from dunderheaded masters who wouldn't know ripe ingredients from a hole in the ground." Severus added, speaking more in that instance that he had since the break began.

"Good, I have already begun researching possible donors mostly from the French Malfoy branch so there isn't too much of a disruption concerning my looks or my mannerisms." Another file was passed over with profiles drawn up. Harry was beginning to appreciate the efficiency of mates who thought ahead, perhaps he had been surrounded by the sheeple too long. "I have also added in possible options for Him though I am now unsure if he will need them once the ritual is completed."

Severus nodded, "It's best we wait on things for him because the results are unclear for now though it would be pertinent to leave us options to choose from should the situation take a turn."

"Alright, we need to solidify our plans concerning the imminent return to Hogwarts as we will need to arrange for a private healer for our mateship. Things are not going to be easy Dumbledore will attempt to use the four of you to control me and two of you will be pregnant." Severus and Draco shared a look that was part uneasy part resigned. There was so much to do and so little time.

AN/ Sorry I had to cut things short here but I fly out to China tomorrow and won't be able to work on it while I'm away. I'm also very sorry that it wasn't as much as I would have liked but coming home from the spring semester meant I had a lot of work to do rl smacked me with a bill I wasn't entirely prepared to pay.

Anywho thank you for reading, I will try to have something for you all in August but for now please tell me what you think and if you want something to specific for the future of these boys. Maybe start talking about baby names and genders? I was thinking of having them be normal singletons but if you can convince me of more I will totally go for it ^.^

AN/ Sorry about the technical difficulties it seems this website hates me... hopefully its fixed...