A/N: Short chapter next, but I guess it's better than nothing. Thanks for reading.
Chapter Seven
The next morning Harry was up early enough to get the boys breakfast and start the coffee for him and Draco. Harry didn't feel comfortable walking around in his usual sleep wear so he had gotten dressed. Draco came down thirty minutes after Harry had gotten up.
"Morning, Here have a coffee." Draco grunted and accepted the coffee, Harry smiled maybe Draco wasn't a morning person either, Harry just didn't see it yesterday.
Harry and Draco went over to the table and sat opposite the boys, "Boys Harry and I have some news for you."
Scorpius glanced up and looked worried for a split second, "Nothing to worry about son." Draco reassured him.
Harry looked at his son's, "Draco and I spoke last night, as you are aware I am helping Draco with some very important work and we have been spending a lot of time here. Well Draco and I figured until this work is complete, it will be better if me and you boys move in with Draco and Scorpius. If that is okay with you? You do have a say in the matter."
Al looked like Christmas had come early, "It's great dad." He happily chirped grinning at Scorpius.
James was quiet, Harry stood, walked over and crouched down by James, "You can say if you don't want to, I won't be mad?" Harry wouldn't force his boys into something they were unhappy about.
James looked into his dad's face, "I don't mind, you know me I don't deal with change that well, but being here with Draco has made you happy again and if this makes you happy, then I won't mind dad."
Harry was shocked that his son didn't think he was happy before and that he noticed a change in him since being around Draco.
"I'm sorry if I have been miserable before, I didn't realise I was working on autopilot." Harry felt awful.
James shook his head, "No dad, I know you were happy with us and that you love us, but since mum died you have been lonely and sad. Draco has helped you be you again."
Harry and Draco stared at James both speechless. "It might only be for a few months but it could be longer, but if you want to go home at any time, just say, you understand, you can talk to me James."
James smiled, "I understand dad, I think I will like it here. Draco's food is better and he shows me cool spells and stuff."
Harry fixed Draco with a stare.
"What? Just the basic spells, he's got a rare talent of getting into trouble without my help, guess he gets that from you." Draco joked.
Harry laughed and went back to his chair.
"Well I'm going back to our house today to pack up a few things, do you boys have anything you want to bring here?" \the boys rolled off a list of stuff and Harry made a note to pack it all.
The boys were talking excitedly to Draco about getting a room sorted. Once everyone was dressed and ready, Harry set up some craft things in the playroom and the boys were busy painting and making random things.
Harry found Draco on the second floor stood outside Astoria's rooms, "What's the matter Draco?"
Draco looked up, "Oh nothings the matter, just preparing myself for the mammoth task of sorting her rooms out. I'm turning them into a room each for James and Al."
Harry was startled, "Really, you don't have to do that?"
Draco shrugged, "I want to. I don't want her stuff here anymore. I'm going to shrink everything, furniture and all. Then pack it into a box and send it to her via owl. Once the rooms are bare we can get the boys to pick a theme and we can decorate for them, you can get their beds from yours, so they have the familiarity of their own beds."
Harry smiled, "The boys will like that, thanks Draco." Harry left Draco to the shrinking and went to hang out with the boys for a bit.
Harry went to the kitchen to get the boys a drink and a snack, Draco was there, writing a note and attaching a parcel to an owl's leg. "All done?"
Draco nodded, "Yep, every single thing in those rooms is in this box, it feels nice to be getting rid of it."
Harry approached him and placed his hand on the lower of Draco's back for a few seconds, "I bet it does." Draco had shivered under Harry's touch, but he saw Draco smile too, this was encouraging for Harry.
The owl left and Draco said, "let's go decorate some rooms".
They decided to leave Scorpius and Al playing, taking James up to the bigger of the two rooms, "James, Draco has cleaned out this room for you, you can pick any colour or theme you want, we will decorate it for you. What do you want?" Harry told him.
James walked into the room and smiled, "I like this room. It's better than my one at home, I have an en-suite and I can see the huge garden from my window."
Harry smiled, "You're the only one out of you boys to have an en-suite. Scorpius and Al will share the bathroom down the hall."
James' smile grew, "I'm like a grown up, like you and Draco with my own bathroom."
Harry patted his shoulder, "Yep, buddy. Like a grown-up."
After thinking for a while James settled on plain black and white walls, with white furniture, a grown up design. With plenty of storage and cool features, he had a special stand on his wall to hold his broom stick, so it was on display, he had the silhouette of a person flying on a broom painted on the black wall in white and the quidditch hoops painted in black on the white wall. He had bean bags, a desk and chair and a bookshelf with all his books and toys from home. He was very pleased with it and spent the remainder of the day there after eating lunch.
After lunch they took Scorpius and Al up to Al's room, it was smaller than James' room but it was still large. "Right Al, what do you want? This will be your room whilst you are here, go to town." Draco said as he smiled down at him.
In contrast to James, Al had picked bright colours for the walls, with cartoon rockets and planets as art painted onto the walls. One section of a wall was painted like a black board and Al had chalk he could use to draw on the wall. He had a small children's size table and chairs, a bookcase and a wardrobe, all in brightly coloured wood. He had all his toys from home and Harry suspected Draco would be adding to them.
They ate dinner and the boys returned to their rooms, the excitement hadn't worn off yet. After Dinner Harry and Draco reluctantly started going over the case and checking for possible loopholes they could exploit.
"I received an owl from Stuart..." noticing the confused look on Harry's face he explained, "Stuart is the first name of my solicitor/lawyer."
Harry nodded, "Oh ok, go on."
Draco continued, "The letter said that Astoria will be citing 'Unreasonable behaviour' as the grounds for divorce. She has also claimed this is why she doesn't want Scorpius with me as she feels it is unsafe." Draco sounded dethatched, as if he was trying to state the facts and not get emotional.
Harry frowned, "Unreasonable behaviour, how so?"
Draco began gesturing with his hands as he explained, "She can claim anything from physical violence, verbal abuse, insults or threats, drunkenness or drug-taking. I won't know what crap she will come up with, but it all falls under unreasonable behaviour."
"Well that means it will be her word against yours, how can you prove you weren't verbally abusing her?" Harry thought it was unfair.
"I just tell the truth. I'm sure if it gets messy I can request veritaserum to be used, they only use it if nothing is settled and no one will admit they are lying."
He frowned, adding, "I think she thinks she can lie and get away with it. That no one will believe me over her, no one would request veritaserum. However I'm hoping to cause enough doubts about her that they use it."
Harry looked at Draco and smiled, "That's great right, as soon as they question her under veritaserum her whole story falls apart. Then you can say how she never raised Scorpius and how she was and they will side with you." Harry was hopeful.
"I only hope I can cast enough doubt that they request the veritaserum. I'm sure a lot of people will ignore the obvious out of hate for me an ex-death eater." He sounded morose.
Harry reached for Draco's hand, "We will do whatever it takes to make them see you are speaking the truth." Smiling he let go of his hand.
"It really is crazy that they don't use veritaserum straight away, it would save a lot of hassle." Harry stated.
Draco agreed with Harry, "I think most trials/cases are resolved fairly quickly and are very straight forward, it's not necessary to waste veritaserum, but some cases, like mine are unique and will eventually require it."
"I know you said you haven't slept with anyone else since Astoria, but do you think she remained faithful? Once her lies are exposed, if you then tell the truth and give evidence of adultery then I'm sure the divorce will go in your favour." Harry thought out loud.
Draco stood quickly, Harry stood also, maybe Draco was going to require his help with something, however what Draco did shocked Harry, he threw his arms around Harry and gave him a very quick, very brief, closed mouth kiss.
"You're fucking brilliant!" With that he mumbled something about contacting an investigator and left for the study. Harry remained rooted to the spot, lips tingling from Draco's short kiss, light headed and grinning like a fool.
He made himself a cold drink, just for something to do, he leaned back against the island kitchen counter. Draco returned said he spoke to a private investigator who was going to follow Astoria and see if he can dig up any dirt on her.
He stood next to Harry but facing him, Harry could smell his aftershave again and see the fine stubble he had along his jaw. Harry wanted to feel the stubble, wanted to taste his lips again and he really wanted to touch him. Draco continued to talk and Harry couldn't tare his eyes away from his pink lips.
"He's expensive but if he can find proof of adultery it will be fantastic for my case." Draco glanced at Harry, "Harry, are you listening to me? Harry!"
Harry shook his head and focused, "Hmm what, sorry I was a million miles away." He pushed away from the counter, "Um I think I'm going to say goodnight to the boys and have a shower." He hurried out of the kitchen and away from temptation.
Draco thought that Harry was acting strange, he hadn't returned after his shower. He decided to go looking for him. He walked to his room and knocked, waiting for an answer.
When no answer came he pushed open the door and saw Harry wasn't in there, he heard the shower running, he knew he should leave but he had an urge to take a peek at Harry in the shower, just a quick peak.
Walking carefully and quietly he approached the half opened door and peaked around it. Harry had his back to him, body slightly turned to the side. Draco thought he had a sexy bum, his hair was wet and was falling into his face, and then Draco froze. Harry was masturbating in the shower, his hand loosely wrapped around his cock, pulling back his foreskin as he slowly pumped up and down.
Draco could only see part of Harry's cock, from the slight side position Harry was stood in. Draco was torn a part of him said leave before you get caught, this is wrong, it's private. But another part of him wanted to see more, his own cock had grown hard from watching Harry.
Harry sped up the pumping, he leaned forwards slightly, other hand resting against the tiled wall, he started moaning and Draco made a quick retreat, he knew he would alert Harry to his presence if he continued to watch. Hearing Harry moaning, watching his hands work his shaft, Draco had grown unbelievably hard and if he stayed to watch he would be letting out his own moans.
He went straight to his own room, as soon as the door was closed he climbed onto his bed, shoved his hand down his trousers and began wanking hard and fast, wanking to the sight of Harry naked, wet and pleasuring himself. It didn't take long before he was climaxing, coming hard and all over. He smiled at the thought that just down the corridor Harry was also climaxing.
Draco cleaned himself up and changed into his pyjama/jogging bottoms and then picked up a book to read for a bit. Now he had dealt with his arousal he felt ashamed, he spied on Harry and watched him. He didn't think he could face Harry tonight, embarrassed as he wanked as he thought of him.
Harry went straight to his room, undressed and headed for the shower, after washing his hair he decided to deal with his erection problem. Just thinking of Draco had sent all the blood rushing to his penis. He took hold of himself loosely and began wanking, pulling his foreskin back and up. Soon the pleasure began to build and he increased the pressure and sped, feeling the new sensations this caused, he steadied himself by putting his other hand on the tiled wall in front of him. He could feel the pleasure building, almost ready to explode, he started moaning softly as he thought about what Draco's penis would look like. He soon shuddered as his climax took over, coming all over the tiles in front of him.
He cleaned himself up, dried off, got dressed into jogging bottoms and a t-shirt and decided to go apologise to Draco for his strange behaviour. He couldn't find him in the rest of the house and assumed he'd be in his room, he approached the door and knocked.
Then he heard Draco's voice through the door, "Yes, come in."
Harry pushed opened the door and noticed that Draco was topless, just in his low riding bottoms, he sat up against his headboard, legs crossed, with a book resting in his lap. He thought he could see Draco blush but he could have imagined it.
"Hey, I just wanted to say sorry about my weird behaviour earlier, I was …um….distracted. Sorry." Harry mumbled his apology.
Draco smiled at him, "That's ok, we all get funny moments."
Harry nodded in agreement, "Ok, guess I'd say night then. See you tomorrow."
Harry turned way, "Harry..." Draco called out.
He turned back to face Draco, "Yeah?"
Draco's eyes looked Harry up and down, "Thank you for moving in, you won't regret it. Night."
Harry made eye contact with Draco, "Thank you for having us." With that he left, closing the door behind him.
