The Stars Above Us

The Promise

It was a month later and Maisie was now settled at home, and Draco was sitting at home on his laptop in bed as Harry came upstairs, opening the door, "Hey you." "Hey." Harry came over to him, leaning down and softly kissed his lips. Draco kissed him back, pulling away. Harry walked up to the blonde's wardrobe, getting a small white box out, and walked up to Draco, putting his laptop down, helping him stand up. Draco stood up in front of Harry "What?" "I know you've always wanted to talk about marriage and within the topic of marriage. Since we've got a beautiful daughter with us now." Draco nodded, sitting on the bed.

Harry helped him back up, holding his hand "Since you always tell me how much you love me, I think it's my turn. You hate if I wake up earlier before you because it means I'm going to try to kiss you with morning breath, but you also love it because it means I'm going to cook you breakfast for you to wake up to. I love how you come home from work and beg for me to massage your head. I love how you continuously tease me about my horrendous cooking but I see you sneaking leftovers to take to work for lunch so I know you like it. I love how you tease me about my terrible clothes but when I come home you're often in my sweats or leggings and a top or one of my jumpers, lying on the sofa. I love you for picking up the stray sock that's been under the drawers for three days. I love you for just being who you are." Harry told him as Draco looked up at him with tears in his eyes. Harry felt him squeeze his hand "I would have never made it without you and I want you by my side always. I can't imagine living without you." Harry lowered himself down onto one knee.

Draco looked at Harry as a tear slipped down his face "You, Draco Lucius Malfoy, are the person I want to spend the rest of my life with. The person I want to wake up next to every morning. The person I want to commit myself to, permanently. Will you do the honour of making me the happiest man in world and marry me?" Harry opened the white ring box and a beautiful ring, with silver, rose gold and emerald sitting side by side to each other. Diamonds were placed around them. On the inside Harry had got it engraved to say 'Always and Forever' Draco burst into tears and couldn't keep his eyes off of the ring "It's... it's beautiful, Harry. It's so perfect." "Is it a yes?" Harry asked "Of course it's a yes, don't be an idiot." Harry slid the ring onto his forth finger, standing up, and pulled him into a hug. Draco hugged him back, the ring shining in the light.

It was 20 minutes later, and Draco still couldn't keep his eyes off of his engagement ring. Narcissa walked upstairs after hearing the blonde's cries "Darling, is everything okay?" He nodded with a smile "What's happened? You're never this smiley?" "I'm not going to cry, but me and Harry have been in a partnership for 10 months now and we've got a daughter who's a month old, and he's literally the sweetest." "Alright. What's on your hand?" "What do you think?" Narcissa's mouth dropped open "Did he drop the question?" He nodded with a smile. "Congratulations." Draco got up as Narcissa got up, hugging her son. Draco hugged her back, and heard Maisie crying and heard Harry running upstairs. Draco laughed "I am so happy for you, baby." "Thank you, mum. I'm going to tell dad and Emma, can you tell Nan and Granddad for me?" "Of course honey, want me to tell Bellatrix about Maisie and the whole engagement?" "Yes please. I know she's going to come over and squeeze me tight." "I know she will, and then when Maisie's older she's probably going to nick her to go shopping." "Probably." Draco laughed, sitting on the bed as Harry came in the bedroom.

Harry sat on the bed with him, and cupped the blonde's face "I've just given Sirius and Remus a ring, and Sirius couldn't stop crying, he's so happy, he turned into his Animagus form and his tail wouldn't stop." "Aww, he's just Padfoot at the moment." "He is, they're actually on their way over with a dog in the car." "Okay." Draco got up after taking Harry's hands off of his face, and walked out of his bedroom and downstairs to the kitchen where Narcissa was speaking to Lucius "Oh hello honey." "Hi mum." Draco heard the doorbell, and Narcissa walked over to the door, and opened it where Bellatrix was. She hugged her sister, taking off her shoes, walking into the living room where Draco was. Draco walked over to his aunt as she hugged him, and he hugged back "Where's this daughter of yours?" Draco walked upstairs, and opened Maisie's nursery. 

He took the blanket off of her "Let's greet you to Auntie Bella." He picked her up, and rested her on his hip, and walked in his bedroom, laying her down, as Harry came in, and ran a hand along his back "You alright?" "Yeah. My Aunt Bellatrix is here and I've got a migraine." "Okay, do you think you might puke?" "Might do." "Okay." Narcissa walked upstairs "You look so pale, my love." "I've got a migraine, mum." "Alright honey." Draco ran into the bathroom, sitting on the floor. Harry came into the bathroom where Draco was sitting on the floor in front of the toilet "Are you alright?" "No." Harry sat by Draco on his knees and pulled him into his arms. Harry stroked his hair and Narcissa walked in the bathroom as he let out a harsh retch. Harry moved him over to the toilet before he was sick, and pulled his hair back and tied it in a bun.

Harry placed one hand on his back, and rubbed his back in circles as he threw up into the toilet. "It's okay. I'm here." Draco finished, leaning back into Harry's chest. Harry kissed his hand, and pulled him back into his arms. Draco laid his head on Harry's chest "Anymore?" He shook his head "Need darkness." "Let's get you in your room then, and I can close your curtains." "Okay." Draco got up, flushing the toilet, putting the lid down, walking into his bedroom, getting under his covers. Harry closed the curtains and walked over to Draco, sitting on the bed and began stroking his hair as Draco kept looking up at Harry "You're very quiet, are you okay?" "I'm tired." "Go to sleep, I'll keep an eye on Maisie." "Okay, but can you lay with me till I fall asleep?" "Of course." Harry got into bed with him.

Draco curled up to him, and Harry wrapped an arm around him, and kissed his forehead softly, and Draco buried his face in his chest "Can we go on holiday in the Summer?" "Of course, where do you want to go?" "Either the Maldives or Spain." "I'll look for the Summer time as Matt emailed me saying for you to go back when Maisie is fully alert." "Okay." Draco curled up to Harry, and closed his eyes, relaxing into a silent abyss.

It was hours later and Draco was now awake and he was sitting on the sofa with Maisie in his lap, as Harry came in the living room and smiled at the two "Do you want anything for lunch?" "Can you make me a tuna and sweetcorn sandwich please?" "Of course, anything else?" "Can you put some cucumber on the side too please?" "Of course I can." "I'm hungry this afternoon." "I can tell, baby." Bellatrix walked in the living room and ruffled her nephew's hair before walking upstairs to the spare room. When she came back down, Draco was sitting up properly, having his sandwich. Harry walked inside, sitting next to him with his sandwich which had Chicken, bacon, melted mozzarella and guacamole. Draco looked at him and back at the plate, putting his plate on the table and rushed upstairs to the bathroom. Lucius followed Draco to the bathroom where he had his head dipped over the toilet "What happened?" "I don't know, either I'm pregnant again or something's wrong with my system." Draco said, weakly, standing up after flushing the toilet, opening the cupboard, getting the other pregnancy test.

He ushered Lucius out of the bathroom, and took the test. He waited three minutes and looked at it, but it was negative. He walked out of the bathroom, "Positive?" "Negative. I think I'm probably coming down with something." "Probably as it is now Autumn, you've probably got a cold, maybe. I think it's best for you to take another test, but a different one." "Dad, what do you mean? I've just taken one." "No, a lateral flow test." "Okay, if I have it, Harry's going to need to take Maisie home." "I know, you're going to be stuck in your room for a whole week." "Great. Basically trapped." Draco walked into his bedroom. As he shut the door, he sneezed and realised he was getting sick, but he didn't know what type of sickness it was, until he took the other test and realised he had to isolate in his bedroom for Seven Days with no physical contact from Harry, from his parents, from his family or from his own daughter who he couldn't even play with or feed until he got better.