A/N: I know, it's been FOREVER since I've updated Cassie, but I do have a great excuse for you. School, as painful as it is, comes first. Since I hated this class, it was harder than I thought it would be to do my assignments the last few weeks. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or just thankful for family and food, mine was okay. I got to go to Hollywood to WWoHP, which was a great reason to be thankful. Anyways. This is a short chapter and I haven't even read it all the way through, but I hope you love it as much as I do. Family time really is the best time don't you think? It has not been beta'd yet, as we all know, my waiting skills is the worst. But enjoy anyways :D

Peace, Love and Slyther,

Gimi aka Jess

After the feast to end all feasts, Draco led the Weasleys, Potters and Zabini family members into the sitting room where the children all piled in and sat on the floor. Blaise smirked as Draco looked on a bit puzzled. Shaking his head, Blaise motioned for his friend to sit down as Ron, Harry and Hermione all stood at the front of the audience. The adults all filtered in and sat in various spots around the room with knowing smiles as well. Evidently, this was a normal occurrence during family get togethers.

"Okay, what story do you want to hear first?" Ron asked his nieces and nephews. Hermione smiled as choruses of "Dragon!" "Chessboard!" "Devil's Snare!" "The man with two faces!" "Viktor Krum!" came ringing out in loud booms.

Blaise leaned over to Draco and whispered, "The kids all love hearing the misadventures of the Golden Trio from when we were at school." he chuckled, "Needless to say, we Slytherins don't always come out smelling like roses from the eyes of these lions, but it's more in fun these days."

"I wanna hear about third year!" Cassie yelled out. Blaise, Ron and Harry all laughed, knowing exactly what she wanted to hear about, "I want Buckbeak!"

Hermione chuckled as Draco groaned, having a feeling what story from third year Cassie was talking about. "I say we skip that one," he suggested to a round of Boo!

Hermione smirked at her love, "Sorry Draco, the crowd has spoken." Harry and Ron both sat on the floor, pulling the youngest children into their laps as Hermione walked over and pulled Draco to the front of the room.

"This isn't fair," Draco argued, "I don't have any good stories about school and you three. You're going to make me look bad."

"You do that on your own," Ron snickered, "You were a grade A prat in school Malfoy."

"I don't need my son to know that Weasley," Draco retorted with no real heat behind his words, the urge to stick his tongue out like a first year was almost overwhelming.

"Yes, well now you are here, you can defend your actions." Hermione reasoned, though she knew he really had no defense. "Now, third year. That was the year that Hagrid began to teach Care of Magical Creatures."

Draco and Blaise both scoffed, Hermione narrowed her eyes at her ex, Blaise shrugged, "I learned nothing from Hagrid except not to work with magical creatures."

"You Slytherins never gave him a chance," Harry shot at Blaise.

"Anyways," Hermione continued before Blaise could respond. "This was the year that Hagrid began to teach and while I love Hagrid, IagreewithBlaise," Hermione bit out that last part fast. Blaise started laughing and Harry threw Hermione a dirty look. She just smiled and shrugged her shoulders. "He brought in great creatures but he always misjudged the danger level. Must I remind you of Norbert."

Charlie began to laugh at that one, remembering the baby dragon his friends had to rescue from the eleven year olds. Harry looked like he wanted to continue to argue, but Ron lifted his pant leg to show the scar from the dragon bite and Harry shut his mouth.

Hermione smirked and continued, "Anyways. Hagrid brought in hippogriffs for us to study during our first lesson. They are truly beautiful creatures, but very proud and someone…" She didn't name names but it didn't stop the children from shouting out "Malfoy!" and giggling as the blond turned a shade of pink at the laughter. He remembered all too well that lesson. "Someone was not paying attention and was injured."

"Milked it for all it was worth too, slimy git!" George threw out there, the room laughed.

"That bloody chicken almost severed my arm," Draco shot back at George, "I wasn't milking it." The room laughed again, including Blaise who knew the truth, "Okay! I did milk it a bit, but Madame Pomfrey did say the bloody chicken did nick a major artery in my arm."

Hermione laughed, "Anyways, Buckbeak was to stand trial for being a violent offender, which he wasn't, if someone would have just been paying attention and not trying to show off for a girl, it would have never happened."

Draco smirked, "I wasn't showing off for a girl."

"Oh no," Hermione challenged, "So it wasn't you who was telling Pansy that evening that you were in incredible pain?"

"Aunt Pansy?!" Scorpius scrunched his nose, not realising that his father and his aunt were that close.

Blaise sniggered, "Yes Scor, your dad and Pansy were very close when-"

"Anyways," Draco interrupted while his son blanched at that thought, "Of course I did, Pansy was a bit gullible and she would wait on me while I was hurt."

"You also used it to get out of playing quidditch, you right git." Ron reminded him.

Draco smirked at the redhead, "Of course I did, why would I want to play during a rainstorm?" Harry put up two fingers, then yelped as Ginny sent a hex at him. Everyone laughed as he rubbed his arm.

"I spent most of that year helping Hagrid prepare for that case, Lucius Malfoy was asking for that beautiful creature to be killed." At this everyone booed and Draco chuckled, looking at his mother with amusement. He had remembered that Narcissa Malfoy loved magical creatures, she was absolutely appalled that Lucius was looking to kill the animal. She was the reason Draco even took the subject, he wanted to make her proud. "In the end, Lucius had almost succeeded in getting Buckbeak killed." The children all murmured, "Aww"

"Harry, Ron and I all went to go to sit with Hagrid before the last trial and right before we were to go down the trail to his home, we ran into…" Once again the children chorused, "Malfoy and his goons." Draco raised an eyebrow at the hissing that was coming from the kids as the adults all chuckled. Smiling Hermione continued, "Well, Malfoy was being an insufferable prat trying to watch Buckbeak be executed."

Draco winced at the boos that came out of the audience, "I know! I'm a prat, geeze, I might as well be Voldy in this story."

Cassie chuckled lightly, "You deserved it!"

Draco looked down at his daughter, "I've been told," Cassie began to laugh again.

"Well, I was so upset," Hermione went on, "I had done all this work to save this creature and here Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle were, laughing that he was going to have his head cut off."

"I wasn't laughing at that," Draco tried to defend and Hermione scoffed.

"You said you were going to have his head mounted in the common room," Hermione argued. "You were gloating and laughing so I slapped you."

"Yes, you slapped me hard too," Draco bit back.

"You slapped him really hard," Blaise agreed with an evil grin, "He had a black eye from that one slap."

The kids all laughed and cheered, Draco grumbled, "Okay, okay. I was a royal tosser, is that what you all want to hear?" More cheers and Hermione laughed, "Is this story over? How many of these do I have to live through where I'm the evil git?"

"A LOT," The children chimed in together with a giggle. Draco put up his hands and waved off the kids good naturedly and sat down next to his friend. Still laughing, Hermione continued the story, with the help of Ron, Harry and the children; all whom seem to know it very well.

Draco continued to be amazed as he heard the rest of the tale. About the Grimm, the whomping willow, the werewolf, the convict and the time turner. He had known that the trio had gotten the hippogriff to safety, but he had never known about this story.

After the story was over and the family began to get ready to leave. Draco pulled his beautiful girlfriend (for lack of a better term) aside and snogged her senseless. The whole of the Weasley clan began to wretch and giggle as the two adults went at it like teenagers. Ron, Harry and Blaise each took turns throwing bits of cookies at the kissing couple.

"Seriously, how did we go from hating Malfoy, to that?" George motioned towards the pair. Harry, Ron and Blaise all chuckled as the gagging noises got louder and Hermione put out a hand to push James head further away from them.

Harry shrugged, "I blame Ron," Ron looked affronted as Blaise and George both began to laugh.

"What did I do?"

"You fell in love with Lav," Harry snickered, "That left Hermione bereft at school that year and that led to Malfoy." Ron punched Harry in the arm as George laughed a little harder, "That also led to Blaise and Hermione moving away for years and just getting our family back, so it's all your fault."

"Hey, she told me to follow my heart," Ron argued, "She wanted us all to be happy, and besides," Ron said looking over at his little blonde haired niece, "I wouldn't trade Cassie for any other child in the world, and as much as we deny it. She is exactly like her father." Looking over at Blaise, Ron smirked, "Both of the snakey tossers."

Blaise smirked, "You are such a sappy Gryff, Weasley."

George and Harry both laughed as Cassie finally successfully pulled her mother away from her father with an embarrassed huff. Hermione just smiled at her daughter and moved over to give her parents a hug. They were on their way home, Charlie and Bill volunteering to apparate them home.

Blaise watched as Draco hugged Cassie who was mock chastising him for inappropriate affection in front of children and saw the smile on his daughter's beautiful face. Harry, who was still standing near his friend looked over too, "I don't know how you do it mate." Blaise glanced over at him, Harry nodded over at the father and daughter, "How do you let him in? For years, we all thought he was a giant prat who used Hermione and you were the only one who could see this coming. You encourage it, you encourage Hermione and him together. How do you do it?"

Blaise continued to watch the two Malfoys as they walked over to Graham and Jean and he just shrugged, "I've known Draco my entire life. I've always known what kind of man he was, underneath his outer prattish. I remember him, during their time together in school." He looked over at Harry and Ron, both listening to him intently, "He was a changed boy, still battling with the prejudice he was ingrained with, but he was changed because of her. I knew there had to be a reason why he would hurt her so much. After they broke up, even without me being around him as much, I saw how much he had changed. He wasn't the same prat, he was before. It was like he was lost, I can see that now."

"Do you think he will hurt her," Ron asked seriously.

Blaise looked at his two unlikely friends and shook his head, "No, I think he would die before that happens." He glanced over as Jean gave Draco a hug, which he returned a bit stiff and Blaise laughed, "No, I think he has been in love with my wife for thirteen years in one form or another, he is incapable of hurting her on purpose. He will never hurt his family, not after everything he's been through, everything we've all been through. He loves her and Cassie. I saw it in his eyes almost the first time he saw her."

Ron looked over at Draco shaking hands with Graham, "Well, if he ever forgets about that love, I know where to bury the body."

Harry, Blaise and George all chuckled again and began to get ready to leave.