A New Start

Chapter 3

Harry, Ron, and Ginny were sitting on a bench facing a few picnic tables along the shore of the lake. They had picked up a newspaper and were pretending to be reading, to not draw attention to themselves. They had been waiting for a few hours and people were just starting to show up. 

Pansy and Narcissa arrived first, bringing food and setting it up on the nearby tables. Lucius appeared soon after, with two kids around the age of 3, with straight brown hair and another younger girl with straight black hair. The twins ran to Narcissa, calling her grandma and giving her a hug. The younger girl ran to Pansy, who she called mummy, and Pansy immediately picked her up and spun her around before giving the other children hugs. 

The three kids started running around by the water while the adults continued to set up. Blaise, Theo and Luna arrived together with 3 kids of their own. Two boys looked to be about 5, one a spitting image of Draco and the other resembled Blaise. The younger boy looked about 3 with dirty blond hair and clutching the hand of Luna. The three kids quickly greeting the adults and then ran to join the other kids playing by the water. The trio watched as the twins tackled the Draco look-a-like and started tickling him. 

"What is Luna doing here?" Ron asked, irritation lining his voice. 

"You know she married Theo years ago." Ginny answered, shooting him an annoyed look. 

"I didn't know she lowered herself to associate with all the Slytherins. Nott was bad enough." Ron answered self righteously. Ginny just balled her hands into fist and ignored him. Harry put a calming hand on her knee. Just then Hermione arrived, waving the the group of adults and walking towards the three children running towards her. 

"Mummy!" They chorused before running into her out stretched arms. 

"Hello my angels. How was you day?" 

"Mummy! Grandpa read us a book that had princesses!" The girl said. 

"Yeah! And knights and Dragons! It was awesome!" The boy twin added, nodding excitedly as his sister continued talking about the book. 

"That sounds like a great book! Did you tell Grandpa thank you?" The twins exchanged a worried look before running in the direction of Lucius. Harry watched in surprise as Lucius' stoic expression instantly softened and a grin graced his face when the twins ran up to him and started excitedly talking again. 

"And what about you Scorp? How was school?" 

"It was so cool! We were doing arts and crafts with balloons and then I sneezed and all the balloons popped!" Scorpius started, continuing to excitedly explain every detail of the encounter to an equally amused and concerned looking Hermione. Ginny chuckled under her breath at her friends reaction to her son's showing of accidental magic. "Im going to go tell grandpa! Hi Dad!" Scorpius said, giving a quick hug to Draco before running in the same direction of the twins and Lucius. 

Hermione turned in his direction right as Draco grabbed her and spun her around. She threw her head back and laughed. 

"Draco!" She squealed as he spun her one more time and slid her down his body to give her a searing kiss before loosening his hold slightly. Ginny could see Ron stiffen in his seat, as if he finally started to recognize her voice. 

"That can't be..." He mumbled under his breath. 

"Hello Love. I missed you." 

Hermione grinned and rolled her eyes. "I saw you this morning." Draco just shrugged and grinned in response. 

"Daddy! Daddy! Can we play monster chase?" The girl twin asked Draco, jumping up and down.

"Please daddy!" Her twin added.