𝐀 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐒𝐎 𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐒

Chapter 32

Chapter Number/Total: 32/44
Chapter Title: Nursery Stories

Harry and Draco had picked out a room for the boys – the spare bedroom right next to their own room. Harry had spent a while taking everything out of the room and had then needed to find a place to put all of it. He'd ended up stuffing the other spare bedrooms in the house. Then he had taken out the rug and painted the walls. It was easier with magic ... sort of. He'd been able to get the light blue paint on large sections of the walls all at once, but had to do the corners and around the windows manually. That had all been the previous weekend. This weekend, he and Draco were decorating the nursery – well, he was decorating the nursery. He'd sat Draco down in one of the rocking chairs that Narcissa had given them, and was taking direction from him.

"So, do you want it here?" he asked, standing at the head of one of the cots and prepared to push it – again – wherever Draco told him.

Draco frowned and shook his head. "I want them to be able to enjoy the light but we shouldn't have them right near the window either," he said.

Harry sighed – well, it was more of a huff really, and shook his head. "Then where do you want it, my love?"

"I wish I could tell where the morning light shines," Draco complained, since it was afternoon now.

"What does it matter?" Harry asked, his tone both incredulous and amused. "They're babies."

Draco rolled his eyes but smiled down at his own belly, caressing it with one hand as he rocked in the chair. "Maybe we should get someone in who can enlarge the window," he said. "It's too dark in this place. They should have sunshine."

"I will contact someone who can enlarge a window," Harry said, snorting. "As for now, we have one cot in the middle of the room, and one shoved into the corner, where I'm sure you don't want it."

"They will want to be near one another, so they can see each other," Draco said. "Maybe put them side by side against that wall."

Harry still smiled in amusement at Draco, moving to do as he was told. "You talk like they're already here," he said fondly.

"I can feel them," Draco said, voice full of pride as he did, petting the swell again. "So, next to each other but room on each side so we can reach them."

Harry nodded pushing one cot against the wall, and then taking the second out of the corner. He stood back with hands on his hips and turned his head to raise a questioning eyebrow at Draco.

"No, no, I mean with the heads of each bed against the wall, in the centre," Draco snapped, waving a hand to indicate where he was talking about.

Harry huffed again. "Merlin, you're pushy," he grumbled, spinning one cot around to push it up against the wall correctly. He pushed the other one as well and then stood back again.

"Pushy?" Draco asked, almost sounding offended, but he smirked. Then he considered the arrangement. "Then we put the chests of drawers against the wall by the door."

"Yes, sir," Harry said sarcastically, but smirked as well. He Lightened these pieces of furniture, so that he wouldn't scrape the floor up, and then pushed them over by the door.

Draco huffed at being called sir, thinking Harry should be on his knees – naked and calling him that, then blushed at his own thoughts. He was hardly in the position to act them out.

Harry smirked again at the huff and finished with the chests. "I think it'll look nice in here," he said. "Now we should get some broomsticks and hang them on the wall. I know the twins'll be Quidditch players."