Draco stood aginst the door jam to his family library taking in the organized caos in front of him, books were stacked in piles that he knew without his wifes magic would fall down, every now and then he would see a head of frizzy blond hair poop out of the maze before dissipearing agin with a giggle. In front of the large white marble fire place a duplicate of himself at six lay sprawled on his stomach with a book, and behind him in one of the matching emerald green wing backed glinders his wife sat with a white shawl covering the head of his suckleing second son. His very own paridise he thought as he walked silently into the room. Suddenly out of a pile of books something collieded with the back of his knees almost kocking him to the ground. Regaining his balance and his footing he turned his steel gray eyes on his only daughter, the four year old had the decency to look ashamed as she stood staring at her black mary jane shoes, her amethest dress was torn along the hem and half her hair had come out of its pig tails. "Diana Batrice what have I told you about running in doors!" He demanded putting his hands on his hips. "Not to, but Daddy…" She raised those big brown eyes up at him and he had to steel himself before he continued, "No but little lady, you know the rules." Before the little girl knew what her father was about he reached out grabed her arm, turned her to the side and swatted her twice firmly on the rear. Diana yelped and snaked a hand back to rub the now sore spot. "No more running inside or youll be grounded too next time, am I understood?" He asked her getting down on one knee to look her directly in the eye. She nodded and studdered out, "Y, yes Daddy." "Good. Come here bunny." He softend instantly upon seeing her tear filled eyes, Diana in return threw herself at her daddy and burred her face in his shoulder. "there you go, alls forgiven little one." He murmed as he stood before going to join the rest of the family. "Hello love." He murmered as he leaned down to kiss his wifes brown currly hair. She in turn raised her eyes up to meet his, "Hello Draco." At this Draco frowed, "What is it? You look like you did right before you hit me second year." He asked setting his daughter on her feet, but staying down at Hermonies level. "It's just, been a long day." She said with a smile. "Oh? Hows that?" He asked his eyes full of concern. "The scrolls are on the table next to your chair." She said nodding her head tword the chair across from her. Every night the childrens tutor would write and leave scrolls for him to know how the children did in lessons that day. "And, what else?" Draco asked, he knew that there had to be something else to make Herminine look so defeted at the end of the day. "I'll explain after you read the scrolls, let me finish feeding Adien." Draco sighed but nodded and went to his chair. He noticed his son, a normaly fast reader, had not turned the page of his book sense he had entered the library. "Orion?" The boys head picked up his dark gray eyes full of concern, "Yes Father?" "Something you want to tell me son?" Orion gulped slightly but shook his head. "Hmm. I see." Dracos lips where now in a straight line he reached over and picked up the two scrolls on his table. "Papa will be stoping by for dinner tonight, he wanted to see the children." Draco murmered as he read though his daughters report. "That should prove interesting. He hasn't seen Adien for a month now and he's growing like a weed." Hermonie murmered, pourpously not mentioning the two older children currently figgiting between the two of them. "Yes. Diana, come here." Draco said as he finished the scroll. His daughter went to him quickly knowing that delaying would not be best. "Your tutor said that you refused to do your writing today, is that true?" Diana shook her head no. "I asked for more difficult lines he refused to provide them." Diana said with certinity in her voice. "Why is that? And how did you ask?" Draco asked patiently, of his children Diana was the only one he was certin would be a slitherin upon her 11th birthday, she would talk circles around an issue if allowed. Diana looked at her shoes for a moment chewing her lip. "Im waiting young lady." He murmered to the top of her bowed head. "Because there is no reason for a cat to sing on a fence. I threw the ink at him, I didn't mean to he just made me angry." The last part came out as a whine. "I see, and what did I say would happen if you threw something in anger agin?" Draco asked patiently. "No Daddy, please don't." Diana pleaded backing up from him her hands behind her back. Draco captured her back into the pen of his knees. "What did I say Diana?" She sniffled. "That, that you'd smack my hands and my bo, bottom." "that's right. Hermonie, do you have anything to add for Diana?" He asked raising his voice slightly. "No, she was good girl for me this afternoon, other than the running which you have already handled." Hermone responded adjusting her blouse before beinging to burp their youngest. Draco noted the cringe from his oldest when Hermonine said she. Draco turned back to Diana, "Alright little one lets get this over with." Draco flipped the child over his knee and after raising her peattycoats he smacked her bottom four times with one hard fith smack on her sit spots. Diana was crying when he righted her and set her slightly away from him. Reaching over to a book on his side table Draco transgivered it into a ruler, "hold out your hands Diana." Crying the little girl did as told, wasteing no time Draco brought the ruler down on the palm of her hands twice leaving a slight red mark on them. Setting the ruler down he gathered the girl to him. "Now then, alls forgiven little one. Shhhh, its ok, no need to cry." He rocked her slightly until she calmed. "Now no more throwing things, got it?" Diana nodded into his shirt. Draco sat and watched Hermonie finish reswadling the now sleeping Adeien before calling Twixtly, the house elf to take the child to the nursry, now Draco frowed, the fact she had sent their youngest away usuly meant one of the older children was really in for it. Dianas punishment was over, so what had his son done for such a reaction? Just then the door to the library opened and out of the forest of books came Sev. "Why is my pricesess crying?" He asked as he joined the family. "Papa!" Diana exclaimed her tears forgotten. Severus Snape had become a grandfather to Draco's children, he had insisted on them calling him Papa from the moment Adien was born. Sev scooped the girl up in his arms and repeated his question. "Why are you crying bit?" Diana bit her lip a little. "Daddy hit me." She exclaimed as though tattleing new tears filling her eyes. Draco about feel off his chair, yep defiantly Slytherin. "Indeed?" Sev turnd to his Godson his eyebrow raised, looking very much like the Potions Professor he was dispite the small girl in his arms. "I spanked her." He explained back feeling like he was the one who was in trouble for a moment. "I see, well then Diana, what did Daddy spank you for and how did he hit you?" Sev asked using his slithern brain to out slitheren the girl. Draco sighed glad Sev's focas was once agin not on him, he glanced over to see his wife hide a small smirk. Diana chewed on her lip for a second. "He smacked my bottom with his hand and my hands with a ruler!" Sev nodded reconizing the punishment as one he himself had given Draco about Diana's age. "And what did you do to get that punishment?" Sev asked patiently. "I might have thrown an ink well at Mr. Marcus, but he deserved it cats don't sing on fences and I shouldn't have write about tem!" "Oh? I have a naboior whose cats sits on my fence and sings, well, what people call cats singing, they don't have pretty voices. So it is a true thing and if that's the case, Well it sounds to me that you deserved your punishment, don't you think?" Sev resonded with the girl and let her think for a moment before she nodded. "I guess. Can I go get washed up for supper now Papa? Daddy and Mama have to talk to Orion about the word he said earlier but I AM NOT going to repeat it, Mama said not to!" Diana said matter of factly all signs of her punishment gone in an instant. "Very well lass, Go get cleaned up." Sev kissed her blond curls before setting her down she walked off a house elf appearing to escort her to her room. Once she was out of sight Draco turned to Orion, "What word?" Orion gulped and went to stand before his father. "I didn't mean it Father. Honest!" Orion said. "What word Orion Lucius Malfoy!" Draco demanded "Im not gonna say. Your gonna punish me any way, why should I?" Orion said crossing his arms over his chest. Severus sat next to Hermone on the chair she conjoured for him. A pained look in her eye made him suspicious as to the nature of the word. "Hermonie? What word did Orion use today?" Sev asked quietly. "Draco, you should read the tutor's report first." Hermonie murmered cutting of the two blonds from their stareing contest. Draco picked up the scroll and began to read. Orion knew he had not been dismissed and stood stairing at the floor. "This says you swore at your teacher today, and then refused to obey any instructions, includeing ones about your safety. Is that correct?" Draco asked in low tones, his gray eyes darkening. "Y, yes Father." Orion murmered not looking up from the floor, they could all feel the mans anger. "Hermone, you seem to have something to add. What else has our son been up to today?" Draco's steel gray eyes didn't leave his son as he addressed his wife. Hermonie took a shuddering breath and started to tell Draco what had happened. "I came in to Orion yelling at his tutor when I told him to stop he turned on me." She said softly. Sev took her hand and asked "What do you mean turned on you?" She raised her head and locked her chin in place, every bit the stubborn Griffiendor he had taught years ago. "He called me a, a," She took a deep breath, "A mudblood whore. Said I shouldn't speak above my station and to get back to his fathers chambers and prepare myself to be mounted." She said all of this with a cold hard edge to her voice. Dracos breathing increased his eyes not leaving his son. Sev stood up just in case he had to get between his godson and oldest grandson before the boy murdered his son. "What did you do?" Draco asked his question so broad at first Sev wasn't sure who he was addressing. "I slaped him. To be honest I couldn't think of anything else to do right then. It seem to break him out of a trance and he fled to his room, stayed there until a few minutes before you came home." Hermonie dropping her eyes back to her hands in her lap. Draco nodded and took a breath before addressing his son. "You will return to your room when I am though with you and you will not leave that room until I say so. Is that undersood?" Orion murmured, "yes sir." "For now go to my study and find a corner. If you are not there when I come to you, you will be sorriest little boy in all of the England, if not the world, is that clear?" Draco continued. Orion gulped, the children were only ever punished in Draco's study when the offence warnted the strap, a thick leather strap his father kept in the bottom drawer of his desk, something Orion had only earned once before. "Y, yes sir." Orion muttered agin his eyes full of tears. "Go now." Draco ordered his voice not raising above the cultured tones he used in polite converstation. "Stop, Orion I have one question before you go." Hermonie said from her chair. The boy froze but did not turn. "Face your Mother when she is talking to you." Sev ordered. Orion quickly turned to face her, "yes ma'am?" he asked softly. "Where did you learn that word?" Hermonie asked softly, tears threating in her eyes. Sev knew her fear was that Draco had taught him that word. "From James, Uncle Harry wasn't happy about the word either said, said we shouldn't use it. He's he's not gonna be happy I said it either, said that, he'd, he'd spank me too after father was done with me if he heard I'd said it." Orion said all of this is a quick rush of breath and gulping sobs, the tears breaking free at the thought of just how much trouble he was in. Hermonie nodded, Harry had married a preety Ravenclaw girl named Margret two years younger than them after takeing her side when Draco and she had married. The Weasley clan wanted nothing to do with them other than the twins who were never quite in the fold to begin with, their son James Sirus was the same age as Orion and had a younger son named Severus Harrision as well, Margret was pregnate agin, they were hopeing for girl this time, Margret often joked that she was beginning to feel out numberedby the men in her home. "Go on then. Do as your Father said." Hermone said letting the boy go. As soon as the library doors shut Draco ran to his wife and gathered her in his arms. "Don't worry love he wont ever use that word agin, I swear it. Shhh I am so sorry love shhh." Hermonie broke down the instant her husband touched her. "He repeated Ron's words word for word Drake, I, I didn't think any of the children knew that you, that I am your, oh my." "They don't" Sev murmered. "I have asked them and scaned their minds when they are with me, none of the children know Draco is a Vella yet Hermonie, eventuly one of them is bound to start showing symptoms, and then you will explain that you are your husbands mate. Its nothing to be ashamed of. If anything be proud of it! You two are mates you are parterns in life up to and includeing death. Two halfs of the same soul!" He let the two hold one another for a moment or two in silence before he spoke agin. "When do you want to tell Harry about this? And what do you plan to do with your son Draco? You cannot kill him, even as a vella, its not the same as a new mate protecting his unbounded mate." Draco chuckled at the veilded refrence to the red haired punching bag known as Ronald Weasly, when he had marked Hermonie as his intended their last year at Hogwarts Ron had flipped and tried to rape her in a dark hallway, Draco had felt her pain and gone to her, almost killing the other boy by the end of it, only Hermonies pleas and her need for medical attention had stopped him when Ron had lost consciousness. "I plan on straping him tonight and then spanking him every night for a week with my hand. He will not leave that room for two weeks, minimum, the slightest toe out of line and I am making it a month!" Draco declared. "and Harry?" Sev asked. "I will call him tomarrow, I will need to anyway, James and little Sev are supposed to come for a play date, but that wont be happening, at least not with Orion. I may still have the boys over to give Marget a break." Hermonie said not lifting her head from where Draco had settled it on his shoulder running his fingers though her curlly hair reassureing himself she was unharmed and would be ok. Sev nodded. "I suggest Draco you tell your son what the word did to me and Lily as well." He suggested. Draco nodded. "I will go play with Diana while you hadel this, and besides, I haven't seen my favoitie grandson yet." He smiled and walked off leaving the two lovers alone to find his granddaughter. Once he was gone Draco tipped his wifes face up to meet his eyes once more. "Hermonine, you are ok, correct?" Hermonine nodded. "Yes, I just, cant belive he said those things, my own son. Why did he say that, where did he learn it, the mounting part?" Draco shook his head, "I don't know, but I will. Go on, go play with the baby, when I am done I will come get you and the children for dinner. Tell Twitxly to put together a tray for Orion, he wont be joining us at the table tonight." Hermonine nodded before standing. Draco didn't let her go though he kept her standing between his legs looking up at her, "I am so sorry I ever said that word to you." He murmered softly. Hermonine smiled softly and wraped her arms around his shoulders. "I forgive you, agin and agin my beloved."