Harry rolled his eyes as he listened to his mate's grumbling in the next room as he brushed his teeth in the bathroom. When he spat out the last of the toothpaste and rinsed his mouth and toothbrush he made his way to the doorway and leant against it watching Lucius pace up and down.
"Lucius, really, you need to calm down," Harry sighed.
"They are…" Lucius cut himself off, glaring at Harry before he started to pace again.
"I know. They're also mates and have been together for three weeks now. Sleeping together in a logical step, its not like they are bonding," Harry rolled his eyes again.
"Exactly they have only been together three weeks!" Lucius nodded as though Harry's hadn't said anything but that.
"We were together less time," Harry said pointedly.
"That's different!" Lucius spun around glaring again.
"How? I'm younger than Draco, our age gap is bigger and we have a hell of a lot more history between us," Harry raised his eyebrow challengingly.
"I…well…its just different!" Lucius snapped but he was pouting at the same time which made Harry shake his head as he made his way to what was now unofficially his side of the bed, and slipped under the covers.
"Lucius, they are mates, its going to happen whether you like it or not, and its better to at least have some vague idea of how their relationship is progressing than to have them running around behind our backs," Harry said as he settled down.
"I don't like it!" Lucius huffed.
"Well tough, Draco and Charlie are mates and its their relationship. Charlie isn't going to hurt Draco, they just want to take another step of progress in their relationship. Now shut up, I'm going to sleep," Harry huffed finally loosing his temper a little as he flipped onto his side so his back was facing Lucius and noxed all the lights.
He listened a little vindicitively as Lucius cursed after stubbed his toe off of the bedpost before he crawled in behind Harry.
"Harry?" Lucius said softly after a moment.
"What Lucius?" Harry sighed.
"I'm sorry," Lucius said quietly.
"Lucius you need to give it a break, you are driving Draco up the wall and if you don't stop he's going to stop telling us things. Not to mention you are annoying me!" Harry said trying to keep his tone even.
"I'm annoying you?" Lucius asked, hurt present enough in his voice that Harry rolled over onto his back.
"Lucius you have spent nearly the entire three weeks talking about Draco and Charlie, where are they, what are they doing, where were they last seen, what could they be doing, when was the last time someone had seen them. You've been driving me up the wall Lucius! You think that I don't care about them possibly rushing their relationship, or that Draco's not ready for this. You think I want more than a few weeks with Draco as my kit before he is mated and making his own life?" Harry rubbed his eyes.
"I'm sorry, I didn't think," Lucius muttered.
"Lucius, they're mates, there is nothing that we can do now except support them and help them through this period, not make things more difficult for them. Please, you have to give it a break," Harry begged.
