Chapter Seven

Disclaimer: I own nothing of J.K Rowlings or her Harry Potter, but I do like to play in her world whenever possible!

" We're leaving."

" But I was going to go with James to his uncles joke shop."

Draco heard his son, but dared not glance away from the place Ginny Potter's hand had disappeared to under her cloak. He was sure if he did, Draco would end up on the end of a very well deserved hex brought on by the skilled witch.

Hermione's eyes never left the man now occupying the space before her. So this was what shock felt like. She couldn't even form the words or questions for the man she had assumed, as well as the rest of the wizarding world had assumed, was dead. But he wasn't dead. Draco Malfoy was very much alive and very much so ready to duel the two witches if it came down to that. At least, she thought he would, if it came to that.

" Not today Scorpius." Draco said through gritted teeth, once more, only hearing the displeasure his son was currently aiming at his father.

By this time, after a solid three minutes with not a word being passed between her husband and the two women who were looking less likely to faint, Nora had decided that along with what happened in the Leaky Cauldron, this little scenario was more proof that Draco's "six years is a long time to be gone" was more than bull shit. It was a heaping pile of never ending bull shit and Nora had had enough of it.

Draco hadn't expected what happened next. Of all the women in the little circle to attack him, actually physically, he hadn't thought it would have been his wife. Never the less, Nora still managed to surprise him daily, as well as managing to throw a unsuspecting solid slap to the back of his head.

" What the hell Nora?!"

" I could ask you the same thing Draco Malfoy!"

" Don't worry." Scorpius was already on the job of shrugging his parents embarassing little spat off to James who could only hold back a laugh as his friends mum served up another shot to his dad's defensless head. " They do this all the time. Mum usually has her reasons."

Both children erupted into laughter. Rose Weasley had dropped her book completely now and Lily was now clutching Ginny's hand that had fallen away from her wand once the physical attack on Draco Malfoy had begun.

" How the hell are you getting the kind of reactions you're getting?!" Nora planted herself directly in front of and between Hermoine and Ginny, who were as shocked as the stunned wizard was from his wifes sudden ambush. " And don't you dare tell me it's because of you're cursed good looks! Don't even think it! No one is this appealing! No one! Not even you!"

Draco watched as Hermione burst into a laughter she had been trying to hold off from the moment Nora had began to assault him.

" Or maybe I'll just start asking random people why you see to be of such interest around here! Maybe than I'll get a more patched together answer than what you've been passing me for the last three months!"

" What do you want me to say Nora?! I've told you practically everything." Oh the lies. Telling a lie was like telling the truth to him now. Draco did it so much, he had somehow convinced himself he was actually being truthful. " Almost everything."

" Thank you merlin for giving us this privalege." Ginny smiled brightly when Draco shot her a glare that could have buried her six feet under if it had the power behind it.

" Mummy I want ice cream!" Lily cried now, so bored with the antics before her. It wasn't like she hadn't seen it before. Her mum usually used her daddy's head the way that the lady was using the white haired mans head. Her mum didn't hear her though. Neither did her aunt Hermione. Anger seered through her little frame. She wanted ice cream and they had promised it. Her mum told her to never pull a temper tantrum just because she didn't get what she wanted. But right now, her mum was not listening to her. Lily decided that she would not listen to her mum than.

"I want ice cream now!!"

The adults stopped dead at the toe curling scream that sounded from the tiny seven year old. James, Scorpius and Rose had taken to protecting their ears, while Lily stepped up to Draco, her little hands fisted into tight balls, and her once tanned skin now crimson against a set of snapping green eyes.

" I dunno what you did to make that lady so mad mister, but I want ice cream and my mummy and aunt won't get me ice cream until you and her stop making them laugh!" She huffed loudly not even blinking as Draco met the little girls gaze head on noting the little finger now pointed firmly at him.

For the first time Draco actually realized who this little piece of offspring belonged to. Who the black haired boy standing next to his son belonged to and the little girl with the disaray of orange curls blocked on her head and Enchanted Encounters gripped in her hand, belonged to.

" And by the way mister, my mummy hits my daddy like that, and he takes it much better than you do!"

Both witches gasped in horror as both daughter and niece dropped her finger back to her side, but kept her chin held high toward Draco.

Scopius and James were falling over one another in new fits of laughter.

And Draco joined them.

" You really are your father's daughter."

" Of course I am!"

Draco laughed harder. He knew that Nora was ready to beat the truth out of him. He realized that Granger and the she-weasel could at any moment reveal him to his son and wife with one cursed word. He got that any second now the Daily Prophet could show up and begin to snap his picture and print a retraction concerning his supposive death. But it was hard to stop killing himself with laughter, when Harry Potter's little girl, his bloody clone, was berating him harder than what his wife had just pulled on him

" Of course you are."

" Lily. Come here please." Before joing her dumbstruck mother, she stuck her finger out at Draco again and wagged it fiercly in his face. Draco took this as the littlest Potter's one final warning, before she tried her luck one more time at getting the ice cream she so desperatley wanted.

" Griffindor through and through." He rose from the stooped postion he had sunk to once Lily had taken her place in between her Aunt and mother.

" I would hope so." Ginny shot at Draco. " James, we're leaving!"

" But I wanna take Scorp to the joke shop Mum!"

"Scorp?" Draco was looking at his son now, standing almost shoulder to shoulder with another clone based Harry Potter. Minus the scar and the glasses, this kid was a shoe in if the wizarding world ever shot a movie based on the boy-who-lived. It was strange to see it. A Malfoy and a Potter grouped together, and not opposite one another, head to head, wand to wand. Prejudice already set like stone in one of them. The task to save the world from an evil wizard on the others shoulders.

" Yeh Dad! Can we please go?!"

There was no prejudice between the two little wizards. There wasn't any family bonds and morals building solid, unmovable barriers between them.

And his son was smiling. Pleading while smiling, but all the same, he was smiling. Draco wouldn't take that away from him, and it could be, very easily, because of what he continued to keep hidden from his family.

" If Mrs. Potter, Mrs. Weasley and your mum are okay with it, I'm okay with it."

Both boys hooted in delight.

Ginny had heard Malfoy wrong. She was sure of it " What?"

" You'd leave your child with us?" This was Hermione now, still unable to connect who she was seeing with what she had believed to be for six years. " Have you lost your mind Malfoy?!"

" Maybe." He sauntered a look toward his wife, who yes, was still seething with her husband. To him, Nora had never looked prettier. " A long time ago."

" Come on Mum!" James was already pulling Scorpius through the crowds, away from the adults still gaping at one another. Their son waved wildly at his mum and dad before disappearing from their view.

" Look, I know either of you would much rather see me covered in painful boils, than do me a favor..."

" Still quick as ever!" Ginny pushed past Draco with Lily in hand and nodded firmly toward Nora, before both red headed witches followed after James and Scorpius.

" Still a bloody menace!" Draco shouted over his shoulder just in time to see the infuriating woman handle his insult with a graceful but rude hand gesture. " Tell Potter I said congratulations!"

Fortunatley for Draco, his quick reflex was no match for Nora's keen sense of timing. Her hand was preventing the same gesture and gripping it painfully between her fingers, as Ginny Potter disappeared into the crowd mouthing obsenities as she did.

Hermione really did like this woman, even if she was a Malfoy.

" But..." Draco gritted his teeth and sucked in a breath when Nora's nails tucked a little deeper into his skin. " I'd really appreciate it if you could just watch him for a few minutes. Me and my darling wife have some things to discuss."

" Well, I have some things to discuss with my idiot husband actually." Nora finally released her hold on Draco. " But I don't expect either you or your friend to watch our son."

" I have a husband as well." Hermione smiled sweetley at Nora, ignoring the reapearence of Draco's traditional smirk at the mention of Ron. " And I can tell that this is a conversation I wouldn't want to have to put on hold much longer either."

" So you'll watch Scorpius?" Draco growled, his lips very stiff now under the saucy expression both women were directing at him.

" For your wife." The bushy haired witch held out her hand to Nora than. " I'm Hermione by the way."

" Nora."

" Wonderful." Merlin, this was fun. She was sure she had never seen Draco Malfoy squirm before. " I assume you used the Leaky Cauldron entrance, so I can meet you there with Scorpius in about a half an hour?"

" I wonder if half an hour is enough time for me to find a reasonable place to dump a body?" She spoke to Hermione, but of course Nora had directed her flippant question to her husband, the body in question.

" Loads I would think." Hermione's face hurt she was grinning so hard. When she turned to catch the last glimpse of Draco and Nora Malfoy already in the grips of what looked like more of a one sided conversation, she couldn't help herself from any kind of refrain.

" If you need and help let me know! No one would ever find him!!"

Oh my! This was so much fun to write!

So Draco comes clean next chapter! ( As much as I'll let him) I want to keep his distaste for muggles a secret a little longer because I already know how and when it will finally come out!

So the truth comes out. Scorpius is off to Hogwarts (DH epilogue compliant) without Draco's receading hairline. Harry and Ron are introduced!

Also, the end of chapter eight will have Gregory Goyle, Deidra Crabbe and Ebon Greyback meeting up with their old friend and his wife.