Title: Family Favor
Author: smolder
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Angel the Series belongs to Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. Harry Potter belongs to J.K Rowling.
A/N: These drabbles won't always be in strict chronological order.
A/N 2: Some of these drabbles will be about people surrounding Winifred's life or who will come into her life at a later date.
Working for George Weasley was one thing, having the girl that your family held prisoner in its dungeon rush in and absentmindedly hand you her child while she tried to find something in her bag was another.
That was his abrupt re-introduction to Luna Lovegood and his first encounter with Winifred.
(He doesn't count the vase of flowers he had sent to the hospital. It was something he had to do. After what his family had done to her….and the situation was just such a Potter-centric, scandal filled train wreck that he couldn't look away anyway, even if he had tried.)
"Are you thinking of a girl, Draco?" his Mother asked interrupting his thoughts. If he had truly thought getting a job would keep him away from her matchmaking attempts, then he was more naive the he thought he was.
"As a matter of fact I was," he responded blandly.
"Really," she said, sitting up, pleased. "Do, I know her? Where did you meet?"
"At work," he answered honestly.
Narcissa's nose scrunched up in distaste, "Don't be so crass Draco. Malfoys' don't work, we have hobbies."
He ignored her comment and sighed in mock regret, "It won't last anyway Mother, she's much too young."
"There, there, Draco. I'm sure it will work out," Narcissa patted his knee maternally.
He glanced at her in the corner of his eye. "She just had her first birthday a few months ago, Mother," he let out a guffaw. "George watches over the Lovegood girl at the shop sometimes," he explained throughout his merriment.
Her eyes narrowed and she snatched her hand away. Draco was delighted though, he never got one over on her.
Angrily she picked up her tea but then her expression carefully smoothed, "Now I don't feel nearly as bad about the favor I was going to ask you." She gave him a significant look, "A family favor." She smiled deviously, "Perhaps you can even include your girlfriend."
He froze. Oh no.
That was how Draco found himself standing in front of his family's former captive's door with a rucksack full of "necessary items" he had been partially afraid to look at, holding the hand of a half-werewolf, half-metamorphmagus little boy.
With nothing left to do, he knocked.
Luna answered barefoot with Fred on her hip. When she saw who it was she stared and he did as well.
Teddy looked up at the adult and child and broke the uncomfortable moment (he was an orphan and he had Blacks, Tonks, and damn werewolf blood in him, he was probably used to uncomfortable moments already) by changing his hair wavy and dark brown. Fred pointed and cackled causing Teddy to grin back at her.
'Well', Draco thought, 'at least someone made a friend.'
Luna's face had softened as well, though, and when she looked away from the boy on her doorstep she smiled at Draco and said, "Why don't you come in for some tea while the little ones have a play date?"
And it was actually going relatively well. They were talking about the shop mostly and she had just got through telling a rather funny story about George (a feather, a cardboard box, and a bowl of something called "Jell-O").
Then Potter showed up.
When she saw him come through the Floo she looked almost as surprised as she had to see Teddy and him. Her eyes wide and her face startlingly blank for a moment.
She immediately stood up and smiled however, "Harry! I didn't know you were coming today. Fred will be so happy to see you! I'll go put on some more tea."
They both watched as she left the room and as soon as she was out of sight, the other man turned to face where he was seated.
"What are you doing here?" Harry demanded immediately.
"It's a play date, naturally," Draco responded as blandly as possible waving his hand around, channeling his mother a bit. Cool, bored, amused.
Harry did a double take when he looked at the other child playing on the floor, "Is that my godson?"
"And my nephew," he agreed (that wasn't exactly right but Potter had never been one that seemed overly concerned with family trees). "Auntie Andromeda and Mother wanted some time to reconnect and, well, how could I not take him for a few hours when they asked?"
Almost on cue Teddy changed his hair to white blonde, Fred clapped her hands in delight, and Draco had to bite the inside of his cheek to hold back a smirk.
"You know how important family is these days," he couldn't help but add as he picked up his tea.
Harry glared at him, but there really wasn't anything he could say to that.
His mother forcing him to take care of Teddy Lupin for his Aunt once a week might not be such a chore after all if he could set up "play dates" with Luna and her child.
If it pissed off Potter...all the better.
