In Another Life: Fandom Drabbles

Winter Wonderland (Harrymort, Nuna & Bartreg)

A/N: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate in the Winter months, but my present to y'all is a fluffy oneshot that takes place in the same AU as my story "Together, Or Not at All" and this takes place between the two final chapters.

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Narrator's POV

Alistair Riddle and his boyfriend, Regulus Black, sat on a wooden bench in the garden of Riddle Manor, their fingers laced together as they cuddled up together as the snow lightly fell.

"Seriously, Reg, I love my family to hell and back, but I swear that they are insane." Alistair laughed

"You've met my brother, Al, and his husband and my best friend." Regulus countered, "Then add my parents to the mix, and you have textbook insanity. And you can't forget my cousins either, Bella and her family scare the crap out of me every time I see them."

Alistair chuckled, "My father is scary as hell, like, he was so okay with it when I told him that we were dating, but when Ellie said she wanted to date Neville, he lost his mind over it. He literally told Neville 'break her heart and I break your spine and rip out your still-beating heart without magic'."

"No dad believes there's anyone good enough for their daughter." Regulus commented

Before Alistair could continue speaking, a snowball hit him in the face, the two males' heads spun around to see the ten year old Willow, eight year old Ambrose, six year old Zenith and four year old twins, Colette and Odette, looking guilty.

Regulus snorted lightly trying and failing to suppress his amusement while the eldest of the seven Riddle children just looked upon his five youngest siblings in annoyance.

"Seriously?" Alistair inquired dryly

"You looked cons-tah-pay-ted," One of the twins answered innocently while Alistair glared slightly with his eye twitching in annoyance.

Regulus let out a chuckle, "Did he now?"

The kids all nodded, some suppressing grins, others not so subtly showing them.

Alistair wiped the snow off of his face, "Where's mum pa and papa?"

"Day wid Ellie in papa off ice wid Nevy." Zenith said, jumping around like he's on a super rush, "I dink papa is scaring Nevy agin."

"It's Yule." Alistair muttered, wishing his father would cut Anaelle's boyfriend some slack, but looked back at his siblings, "Why aren't you guys playing with your presents?"

"Cuz it snowing out here." Ambrose replied,

Then Willow threw another snowball at her big brother, hitting him in the chest this time.

Alistair chuckled, "Oh now you've done it."

Willow shrieked as her big brother chased her with a snowball, Zenith and Ambrose rushing in to help protect their big sister from their big brother with snowballs of their own.

Meanwhile, Regulus scooped up the tiny twins and made a snowman with them to avoid any harm coming to the smallest children.

Alistair this time ran away from the three children as accidental magic assisted in making a ton of snowballs that followed the trio, but he was pummeled by the snowballs anyways.

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Inside the large home, Tom, Harry, and Anaelle Riddle sat in the first's office with Neville LeStrange, the boy looking like he was near tears and Harry looked furious with his husband.

"Tom, stop it, it's Yule." Harry said over their mental link

"I don't care, I just want to remind him of his place." Tom replied

"Anaelle, honey, go to the kitchen and tell the house-elves to get some refreshments ready." Harry said, "Your father and I are going to have a chat really quickly."

Anaelle did as told, taking Neville's hand in the process, as left the office.

Once the door was closed behind the young couple, Harry stood up, "Tom, what the HELL! He comes over to spend a happy holiday with his girlfriend, our daughter, instead of with his family and showing his DEDICATION to her and you almost make him CRY?"

"He'll be fine." Tom shrugged, "He's a Death Eater, he can handle it."

"Maybe so, but that doesn't make him an object. He's a sweet and gentle boy, why did you think she chose him?" Harry replied

"I know, darling, but I want the best for my angel." Tom answered, kissing Harry's hand apologetically

"I know you have her best interests at heart, but you have to let her make her own choices too." Harry said, sitting on Tom's lap, "So you better think about what you did because I'm not above kicking you out of bed and making you sleep in here. And you know Nagini will help me."

"Yes, she will, you've turned my familiar against me." Tom muttered, holding his love

"Now, you go check up on Anaelle and Neville while I go get our babies." Harry said, getting up, slipping on a thick outer-robe and doing so

Tom chuckled as his husband left, the saying was correct, hell had no fury like a mother scorned, but did as to,d anyways.

***

Harry opened the back door carefully, bracing himself for the cold wind, and shivered, quickly spotting the blobs of color among the snow that were his babies.

He smiled at the sight of his littlest babies making a bunch of snowmen with Regulus near the door, walking near them, one of the twins that Harry knew was Odette —because a good mother could always tell their babies apart— ran towards him screaming, "MUMA!" with her twin following.

Harry happily scooped the two little girls in his arms and pressed kisses to their cold cheeks, "Merlin you two are cold, you two should go inside with Reggie and your papa should have some hit cocoa ready and some cookies."

The two girls then jumped out of the embrace and went inside followed by Regulus.

Harry then moved on to get his last four children, and quickly found what looked like a snowman but was actually, upon further exception, Alistair.

Harry rushed to brush some of the snow off of him and said, "You really need to go inside, baby, you'll catch pneumonia if you're out here any longer."

Alistair nodded, remembering the day he met his parents and went inside to warm up as his mother collected the evil trio of children and went inside and enjoyed cups of hot cocoa and gingerbread men.