A/N: Sorry sorry sorry! I didn't mean to leave it this long to update...I'm overloaded at the moment, but that will go away in three weeks ish? I'll keep updating as much as I can in this time period, but after that updates will pick up...hopefully...
Still don't own HP, but then, if I did i wouldn't be writing this...surely?
Christmas had arrived, and Carina had finished packing her trunk, ready to go home for the holidays. Emily and Matilda were staying, as well as Trevor and Aidan. Cari was checking around her bed for anything she could have forgotten when-
"There's a toad here!" Cari squealed. Carefully, she picked it up, and took him down to the common room.
"Fergus! You found him!" Trevor was delighted. He scooped up Fergus from Cari's hands and rushed upstairs with him to put him back in his tank.
"Lucky you found him, Cari. Imagine if we'd stepped on him!" Matilda shivered at the prospect. "Owl me over the holidays will you?"
"Don't worry, I will."
Hugging her friends, Carina began dragging her trunk, with her cat following, out of the room.
"Daddy!"
"Hello love. How was your first term?" Draco smiled as his daughter climbed into the back of the car, and began concentrating on the road as Carina began chattering away about the friends she's made, and the classes she had enjoyed until finally-
"What about Grandfather Lucius?"
"Don't worry sweetie, we've talked him round for now."
Cari gulped. 'For now' didn't sound very good.
"But we've invited lots of your relatives over for Christmas; your uncles and aunts and cousins on your mum's side, and all your grandparents, so it should be fun this year. Excited?" Draco seemed oblivious to his daughter's worries.
"Definitely. When are they coming?"
"On…Sunday I believe. But you better ask your Mum about it, she'll know better than I do."
Finally, they arrived. Their home was a small house in the country, not too far away from London, but far enough away from Malfoy Manor that it was difficult for long journeys without apparating, as Lucius was too old to apparate successfully and Carina and Scorpius didn't like the feeling.
"Cari!" Scorpius came running out of the house. He was nine, and was very close to his older sister. "Did you miss me?"
"Definitely. What have you been up to?"
Scorpius proceeded to tell the tale of what had happened when they had gone to visit Diagon Alley, to get their mum some new dress robes, and how they had started talking to one of her friends, and before they knew it, Scorpius had wandered off to Florean Fortescues. He was found, after a frantic search, half an hour later asleep with his face covered in ice cream, and a rather large, empty sundae glass in front of him, due to the fact that he had had several galleons in his pocket during the trip, and went slightly crazy in the ice cream parlour. Carina smiled at her brother's tale. She was glad to be home.
A/N: Ta for reading. Reviews are accepted, now anonymously as well!
