A Malfoy Marriage

15: Ansty

* Draco *
Once we had walked through the floo, after going to Gringotts, Anastasia told me to replace my cloak with something "more muggle," and then she left the floo room to get a glass of water.

As I was pulling the other sleeve of my coat onto my arm Anastasia walked into the room looking slightly guilty.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Well, we'll still be going out, but we're going to have a guest join us. Andromeda is out of town, so Harry and Ginny are watching Teddy, but there's an emergency with Harry's aunt, and they have to go and no one else is available to watch Teddy, so I said yes. I'm so-" she was saying, but I cut her off.

"Don't Potter and his Aunt loathe one other, I mean I heard him say so to Weasley when we were in Hogwarts?" I asked.

"I mean yeah she wasn't the best guardian, frankly a bit abusive, but she's only the blood relation he has left and she did, albeit begrudgingly, raise him." She said running a hand through his hair, and then added "I'm really sorry Draco, I know you were excited," she then blushed up a little and looked down, before saying "well at least I was, I obviously shouldn't have assumed anything on you part."

I cupped her cheek and tilted her face up towards me and kissed the tip of her nose before saying "I was excited too, more than you will ever know, but it's ok we can go a date whenever we want. I mean we're married." I said teasingly.

She smiled before giving my lip a small suck. As I went to deepen the kiss, the female Potter and a little boy with blue hair popped out of the fireplace.

Anastasia quickly detached herself from me, before quickly catching the read head that flung herself into a hug.

Unwrapping her arms from around Anastasia she said "God, I could kiss you right now. Thank you so much for doing this on such short notice." Then, realizing I was there she added "You too Malfoy, not the kissing part though."

I just grumbled while Anastasia assured her it was no problem.

After the woman had left, the boy, who I presumed was Teddy, quickly walked towards Anastasia and buried his forehead into her stomach while he wrapped his arms as tightly around her hips as he could.

In his slightly broken, childish voice he said "I missed you Ansty, you didn't come visit last week."

Anastasia rubbed his hair down and said "I'm sorry Teddy, I was really busy, but I was going to make up for it and come visit you twice this week. Plus, you get to spend all day with me today."

"I suppose that will have to do." He replied haughtily and reached his arms up toward her.

After Anastasia picked him up and held him against her hip he turned towards me and gave me a look of curiosity.

After about ten seconds, the look of curiosity turned to as close to a look of anger as a five year old could manage and he said "Hey you're the man that kissed Ansty when she was wearing that white dress. You know, you can't just kiss other people's girlfriends, it's rude."

"Oh yeah, well "Ansty" doesn't have a boyfriend." I said in a tone that I hoped sounded teasing.

"She does too, Ansty is my girlfriend," and then he turned and smacked a sloppy kiss on Anastasia's cheek before saying "see!"

I was about to make another comment, but the look on Anastasia's face warned me to stop, so I said "Well, I suppose I'll have to let her go then. Though I must say, you're a lucky bloke Teddy."

He nodded and then reached out towards me and when I lifted him out of Anastasia's arms his hair changed to match mine and he said "You're a lot taller than Ansty, so it's more fun."

"Hmm, are you sure you don't just think he's more interesting?" Anastasia asked cheekily, and then added "I mean your hair even changed to match his."

Teddy stuck his nose up at her, scarily similar to how I did when I was younger, and said "His hair is just very pretty." He then asked "Can we get ice cream?"

"Well, I was going to take you to see a movie, but if you want to get ice cream instead, than I suppose we can do that." She said with an overly exaggerated sigh.

Teddy pushed his bottom lip out and made his eyes as wide as he could before saying "pretty please, could we do both?"

"Well how could I resist the eyes, I guess we'll just have to do both," She said while walking out the floo room.

This caused him to struggle in my arms until I let him down, and then he caught up to Anastasia and gripped her hand tightly as we left the house and walked out onto the street.

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When we walked into the "screening room" at the cinema we were met with beds upholstered in red velvet, instead of the type of chairs Blaise had described before.

Anastasia seemed unfazed with the odd seating arrangement, and when I questioned it she explained that it was the only theater in walking distance, and this was the set up they had chosen.

Teddy seemed to have to have no problem with the seats as he climbed onto the center of the bed and alternated between liking his ice cream and eating some popcorn.

After waiting for a couple of minutes, the screen started it up and displayed moving drawings with audio.

At the ticket booth Anastasia had explained that this was a cartoon movie meant for children, and that most movies have real people.

After about an hour and a half Teddy started shaking my arm, and once he got my attention he pointed toward Anastasia, who was curled into herself, fast asleep.

"Why is Ansty sleeping, it's not night?" He asked with innocence that only a child could possess.

"She went to bed late yesterday." I said a little awkwardly, knowing the reason why she was up late.

"Why'd she go to bed late?" He asked curiously.

"Well... she was up late reading." I said, trying hard not to show my discomfort.

"What was she reading about?" He asked.

He really wouldn't let it go, would he?

"A new type of dance." I said, with as much of a tone of finality as I could manage.

"Oh that's cool," he said and then turned back towards the screen to silently watch the rest of the movie.

Thank Merlin.

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