Standards

CHAPTER 33

"How have you been Draco?" James asked with a teasing smirk. Draco turned to look at him and raised his eyebrows at him.

"Well you know having so many alpha mates. How's the sex?" James asked and then squealed, tilting of his chair as a fork went flying past him.

"Eww." Vella mumbled in disgust at the thought of his older brother and sex.

"Oh Vella, shut up. I know sex disgusts you and we are totally fine with it." Azriel said, rolling his eyes as he stabbed his chicken and frowned as he saw corn on his plate. He then continued to separate the corn.

"Delphini." Lily shouted and shoved the girls hand away from her food. Cassiopeia rolled her eyes at her older sisters antics as she poked around with her lighter.

"I am pregnant bitch. You can't just throw forks at me." James shouted in horror. Draco narrowed his eyes and then turned around to face Ziad who had his face almost on his plate that was filled with pasta. Ziad also had drool running down the side of his face.

Draco smirked and picked up his glass of water and poured it over the sleeping boy. Ziad gasped and almost fell of the chair.

"Ahh. Leave me alone. I did not do anything." Ziad screamed in a high pitched voice and everyone at the table burst into laughter. Ziad looked at Alayah who had her glass in midair after drinking the water, and it seemed like Ziad misunderstood because the next second Ziad was pulling Alayahs hair in anger and Alayah in the next second punched Ziad in the face.

"Hey. Sit down both of you or I will snitch." Cassiopeia growled and everyone sat back down and silently started to eat. Cassiopeia wouldn't usually snitch but when she did do so, it meant you were in big trouble. She only threw one of them under the bus when she wanted them to be in big trouble.

"Cedric and Hayden are so cute." Azriel said and all his siblings nodded in agreement and they all were deep into conversation about the king of Hufflepuff and his mate.

"When will father come back?" Ziad asked and Cassiopeia rolled her eyes.

"That man decided to leave right after war and left his mates to take care of everything. He is not fair." Cassiopeia hissed, her eyes turning vampire red. Her hand clenched onto the lighter and soon the table was on fire and all her siblings were pushing away from the table. Cassiopeia was rather angry at her father for leaving right after war. She was disappointed in her father for running and she will just grow more angry of her father in the future.

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Lucius sighed pushing away the paper work. He had been working for the past few days since Harry left. Everything was running smoothly but deep inside Lucius was slowly detaching himself of everything. He wanted to get the kingdoms work done as fast as he could and then he wanted to try and make a plan of how to make life easier for the Night Walkers and White Walkers.

But everytime when he finished the work for the day, it would be around midnight and he would only be able to stay awake for another hour before he couldn't stay awake.

Usually there wasn't so much work to do in the kingdom but because of the war, there was a lot to do. He just wasn't free to do as he wished because if he wasted any time then ghe kingdom could fall into shambles.

The kingdom of Gryffindor had taken the whole force of the war and now everything around the kingdoms land was either broken or burned. And there were many people who died during the war.

Severus and Tom were doing their own share of work. Severus was busy restocking his shop and making healing potions for those who were injured. Tom was busy with the animals and bringing them back on their feet.