After war

Wind, rain and self explained pain

Draco's PoV
As we entered McGonagall's office it seemed like I was twelve again. Hermione and I took a seat by her desk and waited patiently for the arrival of our kids. McGonagall entered a short while later followed by Reece and Paige Thomas and then Kaylum and Liza. Liza made her way towards her mother and enclosed her in a warm hug and Kaylum came over to me.
"How are you doing?" I ask as he hugs me.
"Okay, you and mum?" He replies.
"We're doing okay." I couldn't help but notice the distance in his eyes, the same distance he's carried since he found out about Scorpius.
"Dad!" I barely had time to register the blonde mane coming towards me as Liza clung onto me. I smiled as I felt the warmth she brought to the hug.
We stand as McGonagall explains how Noah and Josh are coping with their treatment and recovery.  I peer down and notice Liza and Reece's laced fingers, she has her mothers heart. Big enough to fit the entire world into it and still find the space to include more.liza and Reece untangle their fingers and walk up to McGonagall's desk to tell everyone what they heard and saw last night. As Liza tells us what happened I feel Hermione's breath hitch against me. I look down at her pulling her closer to me as I try to hold back my own tears. Yeah yeah Draco Malfoy crying. When you hear my name you might think of me as a heartless ex death eater. I never wanted to be that though. When Voldemort fell I escaped and haven't spoken to my deranged father since he was taken back to Azkaban, we still keep in close touch with my mother however. Something shook me, and it obviously dawned on Hermione and Liza too, Reece mentioned that the attacker had bright blonde hair. From what Liza said nobody in the school knew apart from their friendship group even Kaylum didn't know until the other day. How could one single other person know about everything, and have never been heard or seen before at school? Hermione's tear stained face looked up at mine worry plastered all over it.
I see the distinct features that scorpius once wore, the darker eyes, the perfectly sculpted cheek bones carrying that slight tinge of pink. The children leave so McGonagall can talk to us about what the school are doing to help and to find the person responsible. We are excused moments later and are allowed our first visit to the hospital wing. Gasps and terrified looks close in around me as I walk the halls of my old school.
We reach the doors to the hospital wing and everything comes flooding back to me, the war, people being hurt, people dying, friends enemies, who cares I was selfish. I didn't protect my fellow classmates even after Potter saved Crabbe and I from the fire.
"Draco?" Comes my wife's soothing and comforting tone.
I feel her small hand graze my shoulder urging me to go in. I push open the door and walk in to be greeted with the sight of my youngest, smiling and laughing playing wizards chess with his bestfriend.
"Liza! Oh my god stop it. No come on that's not fair!"
"HAHAHAHAHHAHA baby bro! Hand it over!" She sounds as though nothing ever happened.
I see Noah hand over a handful of golden coins and Liza curls her fist around it.
"Baby." Hermione whisper shouts running over to Noah and wrapping him in a hug, his glasses slightly crooked. Dean follows in and walks over to the bed next to us, curtains are drawn around it. Quiet sobs just audible from behind the curtains makes Noah's happy face turns to an awful grimace as he pushes his glasses back up his nose. Liza stands and grabs Reece's hand.
"Come on." She says cupping his face with her free hand. He leans down and kisses her forehead, and together they walk behind the curtain.

Liza's PoV

"Dean?" I say as Reece and I approach Josh's bedside. Josh's beaten sleeping body, pale and rough. We sat there for what felt like hours for what was probably minutes, Madam Pomfrey coming to check on and adjust things for Josh. He stirred a few times causing an alarm to go off. He would shake brutally every time this happened. One of the monitors by his bed read his sleeping patterns, it would tell us if he was dreaming, dosing, or in a deep sleep.
"Dad, we're gonna head back to the common room now, we have some homework to get done for Monday. You got to stay here or do you want to come along?" Reece asks timidly as Paige's head fell out of her hands and dropped forward heavily for the hundredth time. Then regaining its position.
"Um I'm gonna stay with Paige incase he wakes up soon, I'll come by later though."
"Okay, see you later then." Reece says clapping him on the shoulder as he wraps his hand around mine leading his way out. Noah had finally fallen asleep after about an hour of babbling to mum about his homework and how teachers have been thinking he's been really ill the last month and a half. When we exited the curtained section mum leaped out of her seat.
"Liza!" She said as though this was the first time she'd seen me all day.
"Yeah?" I say holding back laughter as my father pulls weird faces behind her, Kaylum joining him.
"Can we go to the common room? I've always wanted to see slytherin rooms." She sounded as though she was desperate.
"Yeah." I say smiling.
Me and Reece lead the way down to the dungeons. Dad knew where he was going but stayed with mum all the while.
When we reached the portrait hole I stopped dead in my tracks.
"Crap!"
"Liza!"
"Sorry."
I remembered Alex hadn't made the best example last time she stayed at ours and I was dreading her being face to face with my father again. That's when I remember, it's her birthday in two days!
"Um dad Alex is going to be in there, she's been a bit weird since she stayed last so take it easy on her. She's been through a lot of rubbish since then."
"Why do you always think I'm going to be horrible to your friends?" He questions me. I give a weak smile and a small giggle in apology.
"Mimbulus mimbletonia." I say clearly and slip through the portrait hole followed by Kaylum, Reece and my parents. I find Alex, lying by the fire with her potions book over her face.
"Yo!" I yell at the top of my voice knocking her out of any from the sleep she was trapped in.
"Slug..sorry..."
"Alex!" I say again this time fully awakening her.
"I hate Slughorn! He's given homework a massive essay due on Monday! My birthday of all days! I do not appreciate it the little..."
"Hemhem." My dad clears his voice before she finishes.
"Oh my god. Hi Sir,
Ma'am." She says graciously holding out her hand to greet them both.
"Alex what the hell are you doing?" I question pure shock on my face at her actions. Kaylum doesn't hesitate walking up to his room sulkily.
"Kay?" My mum calls after him. Out of nowhere the portrait hole swings open and in enters....