Ours {Drarry}

- quatre -

"Remind me," said Nick, sitting on the floor of Scorpius' lounge surrounded by pieces of broken porcelain. "Why we're the ones who have to put your grandad's china back together."

"Because he's still on punishment and dads have to put the twins to sleep," Teddy answered while waving his wand.

"I didn't think we were supposed to even use magic out of school," Nat said clutching at the plate Teddy had just fixed and staring at Nick angrily. They had been happy to see each other when they had first gotten to the manor, but they've been acting like strangers ever since.

"Malfoy Manor is full of old family magic," said the only blood-bound Malfoy in the room. "There aren't many rules it can't overrule. Within manor grounds, there's no trace so underage magic isn't outlawed. Pa would prefer we didn't use magic all the time, but it's a wizarding home. By definition, it basically is magic. Just living here would count as underage use of magic."

"We didn't ask for a History of Magical Homes and Theories class, Scorp, but thank you," said Teddy noticing the tension in the room and laying back into the carpet while stretching his arms out.

"Cool," said Ava staring at the rest of them as they all still waved and swished their wands at the seemingly endless amounts of porcelain surrounding them. Each fixing one plate at a time. "Will I learn how to do that?"

"Yeah, it's basic transfiguration and alchemy. Equivalent exchange and stuff, ya know?" Teddy said from his place on the floor before shrugging.

"I have no idea what half of those words even mean," she responded with a roll of her eyes as though he should have known that (and Scorpius thought he should've). "Never lived in a magical home or whatever, remember?"

Teddy sat up and gave her a self depreciating grin.

"My bad," he said through a laugh before laying back again.

"So..." Scorpius said directed at the twins, in an attempt to change the subject. "W-what exactly hap-happened at your house?"

Nat freezes and Nick drops the plate he was holding, forcing Teddy to fix it again. The blue haired boy shoves his brother before responding and waving his wand in an attempt to fix the rest of the plates.

"Learn tact, genius." Teddy rolled his eyes and knocked his brother against the head again as he spoke.

"Sorry," Scorpius mumbled. "I d-didn't mean to pry."

"We know," Nick and Nat said at the same time, but they didn't look happy to be in unison. And slid a few feet apart without looking at each other. The blonde boy bit down on his lip, because he wanted to ask about that too. As the tension grew, Ava stood up abruptly and walked towards the door.

"Not to be rude, but I don't know any of you, and you're getting super weird." She thumbed towards the door. "Can someone show me where I can sleep or are we all bunking here?"

Teddy stood up and brushed the bits of plate chalk from his pants, then ruffled Scorpius' hair before throwing an arm over Ava's shoulder.

"I think it's getting kinda weird in here too, Ava," he said looking back at the three anxious looking ravenclaws and pulling her out into the corridor before leading her to where she was supposed to sleep. After a moment Natalie spoke.

"You didn't do anything wrong, Scorp, promise. We're just...adjusting, ya know? We'll tell you what's going on, just not right now, alright?"

He nodded, but he was still not looking at them. Without asking, they helped him levitate the plates back to the curio downstairs where they belonged then he led them to their own rooms. He was still a bit hurt that Nick probably hated him, but they were still friends, at least he thought they were, and friends were there for each other. When he led Nick to the bedroom closest to his, he told himself it was because he was trying to be a better friend and didn't question himself further.

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Harry had just finished casting a protecting charm around his daughters when two pale arms wrapped around his waist and a pointed chin was gingerly placed onto his shoulder. Harry leaned back into his husband's embrace with a content sigh.

"So," said the blonde after a beat of silence. "Are you going to tell me what happened at the Stevenson house?"

"From what I could gather?"

"No," Draco started sarcastically. "From what you got after interviewing them. Of course from what you could gather."

"Their dad has been beating on them and their mom. Apparently before he came for help, Nick used a spell to pin Natalie to the wall so their dad couldn't reach her. When I got there he was trying to beat her down with a broom."

"There's going to be a letter from the ministry here tomorrow, calling for a hearing to expel him, you know that don't you?" the blonde said, putting his forehead on Harry's shoulder wearily. "He still has the trace on him."

The ravenette placed his hands over his husband's soft ones and squeezed.

"We've been through worse."

"Your sheer optimism is astonishing," Draco said lifting his head and placing a kiss on Harry's cheek.

"It's a gift, I think."

"It's bloody annoying, is what it is."

"You're bloody annoying."

"But you love me anyway," Draco said without missing a beat.

"Yeah, I do," said Harry, turning around in Draco's arms, placing a soft kiss to his nose and smiling when it scrunched up.

"You know, your cousin isn't so bad."

Harry tried to push away images of being pushed and shoved and punched and kicked and- He shrugged.

"He grew up."

"Happens to the best of us, so I hear." Draco knew Harry's childhood was rough. He knew, just like Dudley that it was partially his fault, but he also knew that Harry acted like he was practically made for forgiveness. He'd seen too much death to take anyone for granted.

"C'mon," Harry said finally placing a chaste kiss to his husband's lips, "long day tomorrow. Let's get to bed."

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