"Your elf won't be able to enter the Manor." Cassiopeia Potter told Draco. Draco stared at her. She was a Malfoy through and through, pale skin, platinum blond hair and stormy grey eyes. He couldn't believe his Grandfather's great aunt was married to a Potter.

"Why not? Elf magic surpasses wizard magic and wards."

"That's true young Malfoy. But Harry is a lot smarter than that. He knows that elves can smuggle people in and out of anywhere. All Potter, Black, Weasley, Longbottom and several other properties have been warded off by the elves. The only way for a strange elf to enter this Manor would be with his/her master that too if the Master has been given the rights by the Lord of the Manor to apparate directly at his gates. Since you don't have the rights, the wards will not allow your elf to enter the Manor."

"So, I would have to go home to get my things?"

"I think so."

"Very well, can you please ask someone to keep an eye on Teddy till I come back?"

"Young Teddy is precious to all of us. Don't worry, I will tell one of the elves to look after him." She smiled warmly at him.

Draco nodded before swiftly going down the steps trying to remember his way to the room he had appeared into. His thoughts moved back to Cassiopeia Potter nee' Malfoy. She looked like a Malfoy but there was something different about her. She didn't look so proud and aloof as all Malfoys were supposed to look. This is the second time Draco had seen her smile warmly at him. He knew for a fact that all Malfoys were taught to keep a cool expressionless mask on at all times, he knew she had learnt it too, but then what changed her?

Draco finally arrived in the hall he checked a couple of rooms before finding the right room and stepped into the fireplace to go home.

"Darry doesn't like it when I call him daddy. He says Moony da is my dad. I know Moony da is my dad but Darry is my daddy. Grandma says he kept trying to stop me from calling him daddy and start calling him Harry or Uncle Harry so I started calling him Darry." Draco heard Teddy say as he entered the room with his trunk shrunken in his pocket.

"Uncle Drake, you are back!" Teddy yelled happily as he jumped up on his bed. Draco caught him before Teddy could jump down from his bed. "Easy there kid. You don't want another ouchie do you?" Teddy laughed but settled down on his bed. "I made a new friend today and she is much nicer than Victoire." Teddy told Draco.

"Really and who is she?"

"Aunt Ginny's friend. She told me I could call her "Tori". She is in the bathroom, she helped clean up the itchies and then sent me to bed."

"Hey Teddy, who are you talking to? You know Harry isn't supposed to be here." Astoria Greengrass froze as she saw Draco Malfoy sitting on the bed next to Teddy Lupin. "Malfoy?"

"Greengrass." Draco greeted her formally. He hadn't seen her after their final year at Hogwarts. For the longest time Draco nursed a soft corner for the youngest Greengrass and was heartbroken when she had started dating Boot. He wasn't ready for the mad fluttering of his heart when he saw her again. He kept his expressionless mask intact.

"What are you doing here?" She asked curiously.

Typical Ravenclaw. "My mother and Teddy's grandmother are sisters. So that makes me Teddy's uncle or cousin or something." He replied with a shrug. Inside his stomach was flipping violently. "What are you doing here?" He asked in an attempt to elevate the awkward silence.

"I am a healer. Ginny mostly comes to me when she needs a healer. She asked me to take a look at Harry and Teddy. So here I am."

"So, what is your verdict?" Draco asked playfully tickling Teddy who shrieked with laughter. "Does this little monster need mittens?" He grinned at her still struggling with Teddy who was trying to get away from him.

"He is surprisingly well behaved for a four year old. I have kept some mitten on his bedside table just in case. They have a temporary gluing charm on them. His Godfather however, needed mittens with a permanent gluing charm."

Draco nodded as Teddy who was able to finally wriggle out of his grasp, jumped down the bed and performed a victory dance before running off to Greengrass and hugging her legs. She laughed and Draco's heart beat faster. He watched as she grabbed Teddy and then helped him to his bed placed a couple of board games and colouring books in front of him and then ruffled his hair affectionately.

"I have stalked up the bathroom cabinet. He is an energetic child, but he needs his rest. Give him a sleeping potion in half an hour. He really needs to sleep it out." Draco nodded. "It was nice to see you again, Malfoy." She smiled and walked away. Draco watched her retreating form.

"You look like Darry." Teddy said going back to colouring his hippogriff in a violent shade of pink.

"Huh?" Draco asked not really understanding, how he could ever look like Potter.

"He looks like that when he watches Aunt Ginny." Teddy said seriously looking into his eyes.

"Huh!" Alarm bells rang in his head. Merlin! That kid was observant. "I want to listen to a story." Teddy demanded suddenly.

"What kind of story?"

"Scary story?"

"You know you don't sleep well after that."

"No, I promise I won't be scared now. I am a big boy."

Draco snorted in response.

"Uncle Drake." Teddy whined, pouting so convincingly that Draco gave in.

"Okay, but one story." He warned. "And then you will have to take your potion and sleep. Promise?"

"Yes."

"Which scary story then?"

"The one where the man had a hairy heart."

Draco groaned. "Merlin kid! You know the story off by heart."

"But I want that story."

"Okay fine. Now you get under your sheets and get ready for bed. I will come back with your potion and then tell you the story."

"Okay." Teddy said jumping up and clearing his bed.

Draco smiled as he walked into the bathroom to the sleeping potion. Unlike popular belief, most pureblood wizards rarely used their wands or magic at home for simple day-to-day things. They liked keeping fit and moving around. As Draco opened the cabinet he heard a muffled thud from the room. "Teddy?" he called. "Teddy, are you alright?" He hastily picked up a vial and moved out of the bathroom.

"Hey, Teddy are you alright?" Draco asked as he entered the room. What he saw froze his blood. Teddy was lying on the floor unconscious and his nose was bleeding. "Teddy!" Draco ran up to Teddy, kneeling down before him. "Hey, wake up. Come on Teddy, wake up." He tried desperately to shake Teddy out of his state. "Teddy, come on. I need help. Help! HELP!" Several loud cracks echoed in the room at the same time.

"Mr. Malfoy what is it? Why is little master Teddy on the floor? Did he hurt himself?" an elf asked him.

"I don't know what's wrong with him. Someone please go get a healer and someone please go get Potter and aunt Meda and my mother." The elves disapparated with loud cracks as Draco picked Teddy up and put him on his bed and started rubbing his palms and feet. "Come on Teddy. Wake up. Please. Please, I will give anything you want. Tell you the scariest of stories. Please wake up Teddy." He muttered over and over again.

"What is- Teddy!" Potter exclaimed as he ran to the bed. "What's wrong with him? Why is he unconscious? Why is his nose bleeding? Did you call Astoria and Andromeda?"

"I don't know what happened to him. He was fine when I left him in his bed to go get his sleeping potion. I was gone for less than a minute and when I came back he was on the floor knocked out with a nosebleed. I have tried everything, his nosebleed isn't stopping. And his hands and legs are getting cold. I am just trying to keep him warm. Help me keep him warm, please."

"Draco?" Draco looked up as he heard his mother who was standing on the door with his aunt looking quite alarmed.

"Mum! I left for a minute to get his sleeping potion and he fainted and he is not waking up!" Draco told her as he frantically rubbed Teddy's hands. "He is getting so cold. Look. Its all my fault. I shouldn't have left him alone. I should have just summoned the potion to me. What have I done? He was right, he was right. I poison everything I touch." Draco sobbed with his head in his hands. Narcissa said nothing, just hugged her broken son.

"It's not your fault." Andromeda said looking like a ghost as she leant on the door frame. "Dragon pox is fatal for werewolves. I thought it won't affect him because he was recovering so well but I guess I was wrong." Andromeda looked close to losing her sanity.

"No." Potter said firmly. "Teddy will be fine. We will take him to St. Mungo's and they will heal him." He got up from the bed and walked up to Andromeda. "Do you hear me, Andromeda?" He asked her shaking her brittle frame. "Teddy will be fine. He has got to come back to us. Life cannot be this cruel to us. He will be fine. Let's take him to St. Mungo's."

"Harry your elf said something is wrong with Teddy. He was fine when I left ten minutes ago." Astoria said appearing next to him along with Happy.

"Thank goodness you are here Astoria. Teddy passed out quite suddenly and his body is getting colder plus his nosebleed won't stop. Andromeda thinks the dragon pox virus is not reacting very well with his werewolf genes."

"Oh!" Astoria said turning to look at Draco who was crying openly, as he frantically rubbed Teddy's tiny hands and feet. He looked so desperate it broke Astoria's heart. "Right, we need to stabilise him before running a few tests. Let's take him to St. Mungo's. Don't worry, we have a cure. It would be painful for him but there is a cure we just have to wait for him to wake up."

Several patronuses shot out of Harry's wand and soared out in different directions before the group moved to St. Mungo's. Harry refused to stay in another room and requested a bed next to Teddy. Draco paced the room as Harry sat on his bed worrying about Teddy who was in the examination room. One by one the Weasley's and Granger arrived. They were surprised to see Narcissa and Draco but did not comment. Granger and the Weasley girl even nodded in their direction before sitting down and waiting for the healers.

AN: You know what to do. Read and review. Lots of love.