Some more fluffy daily stuff
Chapter Nine
Of Tents, Trees and Beater's bats.
"Mum Jamie won't get out of my room!" Teddy yelled.
"Mummy, Teddy and Vic won't play wif me." James cried.
"Auntie Ginny Dom won't leave us be!" Victoire called a few minutes later.
"I just want to play with them!" Ginny heard the little feet stomp.
She sighed heavily and looked over at Louis who was drawing on a blank roll of parchment.
"You are the only sane one in the bunch aren't you Louis." She said to the five year old.
"They always fight." He said wisely, nodding his head.
"Mum!"
Mummy!"
Aunt Ginny!"
"AUNNTIIEE"
"STOP!"
She glanced at Lily who was in a playpen staring at the mobile overhead, she would be alright for a minute. "Can you keep an eye on Lily for me for just a bit?" she asked her mildly tempered nephew. He nodded solemnly as she walked out of the room and towards Teddy's domain. "I swear to Merlin if I hear one more shout from this room before Harry gets home." She said as she walked in on the kids. "What is the issue?"
"They won't leave." Teddy said stubbornly, glaring at James and Dominique.
"I just want to play with them." Dominique pouted.
"We were fine until they came in and started bugging us." Victoire stated.
"I want to play wif dem too." James whined, his arms crossed in front of him.
She huffed, "Can you not just let them play?"
"No!" Teddy and Victoire said in unison.
"Jamie, come play with your brother, speaking of where is your brother?" she mused, realizing that she was a child short of the seven she should have. All four of the children shrugged in response. "Damn it." She said as she turned from the room, nerves settling in her belly, Albus wasn't as high strung as James but he was craftier, and he was very sneaky. She heard James as she left the room.
"Don't say that damit word, soap is yucky."
Ginny bit her lip in laughter as she walked off to find her youngest son. "Al! Albus!" she called out, poking her head into each room as she did. Thinking quickly she pulled her wand and flicked it, silently casting a locator charm, she saw the bright light and followed it into her and Harry's room. It swooped under their bed. Crouching down she found Albus with his enchanted safari animals laying on his tummy.
"What are you doing in here?" she asked, surprised at his good behavior. Up until now he had seemed to be taking lessons from James lately on how to misbehave, especially since his third birthday.
"Pwayin. In a tent." He said with a nod.
"You know what, you have at it baby boy. Play under here as long as you like." She said, after all, he was being quiet, more than could be said of the others who had gone back to fighting.
"Bye mummy, I pway in da tent." He said.
"Alright son." She said before standing and heading back to the storm that was Teddy's room.
0o0o0o
"So I talked to dad, and he said he'd take me to the zoo before we go back to the academy in a week, and he said that you could come too."
"Uncle Harry told me once that he let a snake out of its tank at the zoo." Victoire said with a grin, "You think we can do that?"
"I think that if we did it on purpose my dad would spank us both." Teddy said honestly, though he hadn't gotten a spanking in years.
"It's alright, I am scared of snakes if they get too close." She shrugged.
He laughed "I know, let's hope when you go to Hogwarts you don't end up in Slytherin."
She frowned. "That is not even a little bit funny." She said, letting her feet dangle over the side of the tree branch.
"You know you are the only girl I have ever seen climb a tree, in a skirt at that." He said with a grin as they watched the little kids run around on the quidditch pitch.
"How many girls can you honestly say you have tried to climb a tree with?" she said.
"Lots, I am the only boy in the family until Louis after all." He said with a shrug.
"You make a good point." She giggled. "Who is going to climb trees with you at Hogwarts?"
"You I would guess." Teddy said, not really thinking about it.
"I won't be there when you go next year." She said a bit too quietly.
"Oh…Oh yeah, I forgot…Ollie I guess, that is saying they let us climb trees in Hogwarts." He answered.
"I will miss you when you go. They will make me play with the little kids." She grumbled.
"They really aren't that bad. Not if you don't mind doing silly stuff with them. I play with Jamie all the time, and Al now that he can do some more stuff."
"I just, it won't be fun anymore."
"Well that is a forever away. We have lots of time before then." He said with a shrug. "C'mon, let's see how high we can go, we can put our names all the way up."
"Alright. But let me carve it, my writing looks better." She said as she stood and held onto the tree.
"I can't even argue with that." He said, shaking his head as she laughed.
0o0o0o0o
Harry's smile crept onto his face as he watched Teddy with Lily. He had left them in the sitting room together and upon coming back he found Lily sitting on the floor, supported by Teddy, while he talked to her.
"And then when you learn to walk one day we will have to get an extra beater's bat because all those baby boys are going to love you. I might have to get them for you. Can't have you leaving me for a baby in a blue diaper now can I? We have to save you from them."
"I want to save peoples too." James said, coming to sit beside of Teddy, wiggling close to his side.
"Good, I will need your help after I start Hogwarts, I won't be here all of the time to keep her safe."
"Who am I gotta keep safe?"
"Our little sister silly boy!" he said, rolling his eyes at his brother. "As a big brother it is your job to take care of the littler brother and sister."
"I am the little brother." James said, confused.
"You are my little brother, but you are Albie and Lily's big brother. You have to be big and strong and brave and keep Lily and Albus safe. But only Al is a boy so I am sure he can handle himself when he gets big, but you have to keep Lilikins safe, forever." Teddy said seriously.
"Oh." Said James, as if he had just received the news of a lifetime. "I can be big and strong."
"I know, you are going to be the biggest and strongest boy when I go away, so you have to keep her safe."
"From Dwagons? And big dogs? And thunderw?" James asked, wildly thrashing his arms.
Teddy broke into peals of laughter, as did Harry from the door. "Sure Jamie, after all she needs protected from that stuff too." He said, lifting the baby close into his arms and standing up. "Come on, let's go get some ice cream, short stuff. We will collect Albie and dad on the way. Pout out that lip, you know it works on daddy everytime." He said with a smile.
0o0o0o
"Ablahaelahhbhabh ahadhdhdadadad" Lily jabbered happily, smiling up at Ginny. The pair were out at diagon alley, getting a start on Christmas shopping while Teddy was at school and the boys were at her mum's.
"Is that so? You know, it nearly sounded like you said dada right then." Ginny said, kissing the baby's temple and picking up the new box set of dragons for James.
"Adhaha dadadadada." Lily jabbered before giggling happily.
"You did! Lily you said dada!" she said happily. "We have to go tell him!" she said excitedly. She quickly paid for the purchases she had already gathered from the toy shop and left, deciding she could just go through muggle London into the ministry. "We can surprise him for lunch, who wouldn't want two lunch dates? Especially when one is a famous princess."
Ginny sat the baby back in the pram, covering her with a blanket to shield her from the chilly October air and headed for the Leaky cauldron. She was proud to say that she only had to stop and pose for two photos on the way.
As the lift came up she looked around the atrium, she was glad to say that most people wouldn't even recognize the improved ministry. The far wall of the room was now made of colored marble and water ran down it. Pooling into a flowing stream at the bottom. Ginny followed the path to the lifts to head up the Magical Law Enforcement offices. She smiled down at the badges that adorned herself and Lily her's ready, Harry Potter's surprise lunch date, and Lily's read my daddy's princess here for love.
"Hi Mrs. Potter." The wand guard said, "How are you and Little Miss today?"
"We are brilliant, we are here for a lunch date."
"I see that." He laughed nodding at their badges. "Did you come to see your daddy?" he said to Lily who had been cooing happily.
"dadadada." Lily jabbered on cue.
Ginny smiled brilliantly. "And that is why we are here."
"Ahhh, first words?"
"Precisely." Ginny said with a grin as she went past and to the lifts.
She hadn't factored in that this was Lily's first ever trip to her daddy's work, and making her way to Harry's office took quite some time. As she rounded the corner with Ron, whom she had run into along the way, she came face to face with the very man she came to see, and one that she had not ever prepared herself to see again.
"Gin! What are you doing here?" Harry said happily, walking around the pram and kissing her. She held out her badge in response and then pointed to Lily's. Harry laughed and picked up the baby. "Well you couldn't have had better timing. We just finished up, didn't we Draco?" Harry said, nodding to the blonde man beside him.
Draco nodded in response, "Come on kiddo. We are all done." He called behind him. Ginny angled her head to look to see whom he was talking to only to see an adorable blonde headed little boy following.
"Is he yours?" Ginny asked with a smile, bending down so she was at the child's level.
"Well I didn't steal him off the street." Draco remarked. Harry and Ginny both rolled their eyes at his sarcasm, Ron scowled. "This is Scorpius. And as you so observantly put it, he is mine." He said.
"He will start Hogwarts with Al." Harry supplied. The little boy looked up at Harry and smiled.
"Baby! Baby daddy baby!" he pointed excitedly.
"That's Lily." Ginny said pointing up to the baby as well.
"Baby!" Scorpius chanted.
"Draco this goes against every year of Hogwarts I ever had but I have to say, you made an exceptionally cute little boy." Ginny said with a smile as she stood up.
"Well, consider us even, I just finished telling Harry, after seeing the picture on his desk, that your kids are all adorable. Even the one that looks just like Harry. I suppose Harry grew out of the cute toddler phase when I met him." He said.
"Did he just make a joke?" Ron asked Ginny, looking stunned.
They all laughed.
"Funny, Weasley. Let's go Scorpius, your mum is waiting at home." He said holding out his hand.
"No, baby, mine baby, pretty baby. Corps pretty baby!" he insisted.
"Well he acts just like you Draco." Ginny said with a smile.
"Yeah, so I have noticed." Draco said with a frown as he picked the struggling toddler up. "Bye Potter, if I come up with anything else I will let you know first thing."
"Thanks." Harry called over the wails of Scorpius. He looked down at Lily and smiled, "Well Princess, it looks like Teddy was right, we are going to need a beaters bat after all." He sighed.
Lily placed her hand on Harry's cheek and patted it softly. "Dadadad dadadada ahahah dadadad." She said.
"Did she just? Lily you said dada!" he yelped, lifting her into the air.
'And that, is why we are here." Ginny said, nudging Ron and smiling.
