Andy spent her time over at the Burrow, helping Molly, working on the photo album for Teddy, or helping her sister.

Narcissa was still hard at work on Severus Snape's funeral, the date of which was growing ever closer.

Lucius still had his business dealings to see to. The first shipment of muggle jeans had come through and the elves were hard at work altering them. Draco, of course, asked for the first few pairs.

Harry began to fall into a routine with Draco and the three babies. Their lives were starting to calm down and those two things combined to give Draco a bit of free time every day that he used to read. He still wanted to get his NEWTs next year and that meant another history of magic term paper.

And so the week passed quickly and Saturday, the day of the baby shower, was soon upon them. They got dressed, had breakfast, and flooed over to the guesthouse. Harry had never been to the guesthouse before and it was an absolute mess when he stepped out of the floo carrying Teddy. There was a giant snake skin that had clearly been shed by Nagini over against the wall. There were scorch marks on the walls that could've been from misfired curses, or they could've been put there on purpose; anything was possible when dealing with Bellatrix. There was evidence of an exploded cauldron through the door to the small kitchen and combined dining area. There was a large snake turd by the door to one of the bedrooms and he could see murky grey peacock feathers sticking out of it. There was a large crack in the door. And that was just what was visible during his walk from the fireplace to the lawn outside.

Once Harry got outside, he could see a shattered window on the kitchen and dining area side of the building, but other than that, the outside looked well cared for with a lush green lawn. Draco came through the floo after Harry with Scorp and Sev in their stroller. By the time they made it outside, Andy, Narcissa, and Lucius had apparated over with the jumpers and the bouncer. They got the babies settled, while Lucius went to the road and let Molly, Ginny, Hermione, and Luna in; they had taken a portkey to that location. And then they all went to work setting up the chairs.

With everybody helping, it didn't take long. Then Lucius and Harry went to the road to let guests in. Guests who were already familiar with the Manor would apparate to this location, while everyone else would either arrive on a broom or by portkey. Since strangers weren't invited, Harry and Lucius acted as gate keepers, turning away the fans they didn't know and letting through people they did and giving them the passcode.

When it was time to start and the flow of guests arriving was trickling down, Harry left Lucius to wait by the road alone and he joined the party. Andy was showing Teddy off to guests, while Narcissa and Draco were doing the same with Sev and Scorp, respectively. This was the first time Sev and Scorp had been introduced to anyone outside of the Malfoy family, so there was just as big of a crowd gathered around each of them as around Teddy.

Hermione came up to Harry and asked, "Are you ready to start?"

"Yeah. How's it going so far? Scorp hasn't had any problems?" Harry asked concerned. Scorpius had always screamed before whenever he had met a new person and there were a lot of new people here.

"He's screeched at a few admirers, but every witch he screeches at gets sent over to Sev or Teddy. We put in the invitation that no one who had recently performed dangerous or offensive magic would be allowed to stay. It seems everyone pretty much abided by that stipulation," Hermione answered.

"That's great," Harry replied. "Guess they take their first chance to meet the Savior's kids very seriously."

"That and they're all friends of ours. Pretty much every witch from Hogwarts is here along with a few older witches that knew Tonks or Draco's families," Hermione replied.

"Yeah, so what do we do at this baby shower?" Harry asked, trying to remember back to what Molly had said about it.

"We play silly games, fawn over the babies, eat cake, and then open the presents," Hermione answered. "Let's go over and tell Molly it's time to start."

They walked over to Molly, who was fawning over Scorpius.

"He is just the cutest little thing, dear. I'm a dab hand with a baby and any time you need a sitter, don't hesitate to ask," Molly said.

"Thank you for the offer," Draco replied, trying not to be rude. He had no plans on ever taking her up on that offer and it wasn't just because of the red tinge to her mostly grey hair. Not only was she was Weasley's mother, but also Scorpius had cried at Ginny when she got too near him. That was why Ginny had been sent over to fawn over Sev.

"Sorry to interrupt, but we're ready to start," Hermione said.

Soon Draco and Harry were sitting side by side in a pair of chairs and holding Scorpius and Teddy while Sev was sitting at their feet pulling up the grass. Their guests took seats in a very large circle, since there were over fifty witches present, and they played games. There was a baby crossword puzzle to solve, baby word bingo, baby word boggle, and a game where people guessed how fat Draco was when he was pregnant with the twins; whoever was closest to the actual maximum width of Draco's belly won a prize, with Narcissa as the judge. There was a prize given out with each game and it seemed Hermione picked the prizes, because they were all books.

After the games they ate cake. It was a white cake with a picture of a stork carrying three babies in a bundle drawn in icing. It had, "Congratulations Harry and Draco!" written on it. It was a very nice cake and Draco hated to cut into it and ruin it, but then he also wanted to eat it and taste the cream cheese frosting. It was a very tasty cake.

Then Harry passed Teddy over to Andy and Draco passed Scorp over to Hermione, so that they could open the presents. Most of the presents were clothes or toys. There weren't any size newborn clothes, because they had asked people to only get larger things, but there was every other size and plenty of them.

One thing that surprised them was that a lot of the outfits and gifts came in sets of three, with one for each baby. For example, there was a cute set of sweaters from Molly; one sweater was size twelve months and was blue, the next was green and size nine months, and the last one was red and size six months. Ginny, Luna, Hermione, and Neville all gave them gifts for three as well.

They hadn't asked for it, but there was a stationary jumper from the shop keepers in Hogsmeade. There was a swing that was brought by Pansy Parkinson, Millicent Bulstrode, and Daphne Greengrass, but they said it was also from Blaise, Theo, and all of their families; it was different from the standard ocean themed one the twins had, because this one looked futuristic and promised to rock the baby in five different natural motions and offered a range of reclining positions.

There were many larger gifts that were from groups or whole families, such as the stroller they had asked for which was from the Auror department. They received a highchair from Fleur, Bill, and the Delacour family. There was a bath seat from Madam Pince and Madam Pomfrey. There was a red crib set from Susan Bones and the Bones family. There was even a box full of soothers from Ted Tonks' muggle family, which was brought by Ted's muggle sister Windy. Cho Chang, Hannah Abbott, Padma Patil, and Parvati Patil were there with a rocking horse from the surviving members of Dumbledore's Army. Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet, and Katie Bell had a box of clothes and blankets.

Oddly enough, several of Draco's relatives came and gave gifts specifically for Scorp and Sev, without having anything for Teddy. The best gift of this lot was from the Craggy and Vanity families, who combined to give a pair of blankets made by elves out of wool spun from the coat of a unicorn. Harry thought it sounded wrong to shear a unicorn in order to make a blanket, but Scorp absolutely loved his and wouldn't be separated from it. They were soft, white, and sparkly and it wasn't as if the unicorn had died in the process.

Mrs. Lestrange was the only one of Draco's relatives who deviated from the rule of ignoring Teddy. She brought a bag full of typical every day baby clothes, with an equal number of outfits for Teddy as there were for the twins. Harry was so shocked that he actually thanked the white haired old lady who must've given birth to the Death Eaters Rodolphus and Rabastan. When he was thanking her, he suddenly remembered that Draco had said that Rodolphus' mother hated Bellatrix. He smiled at the old woman, thinking that she couldn't be all bad if she'd given him gifts for the great nephew Bellatrix had never acknowledged and had hated Bellatrix.

"This is great, thank you," Draco said to Professors McGonagall, Trelawney, and Babbling, who had just given him a large gift bag, which they said was from all of the Hogwarts professors; it was full of clothes with three stuffed teddy bears on top.

"Thank you, Professors," Harry said, while Draco looked through the bag.

Then Ginny came up to Draco holding Teddy, having gotten him off of Andy five minutes before and asked, "Can I get a nappy and wipes for Teddy, Draco? I'm certain he's pooping."

"Ask an elf; I haven't got any on me," Draco replied. Sure he always packed a nappy bag when they left the house, but they were just over at the Manor, within the territory of the Manor house elves, so he hadn't bothered.

"Sure you do; you've got that nappy bag right there," Ginny said reaching over and opening the flap on the black bag Draco had been carrying with him all day.

"That's not a nappy bag and I'd thank you to stay away from me," Draco said, closing the bag back up.

"What is it?" Ginny wondered. Sure there hadn't been any nappies inside, but she also didn't recognize the machine Draco had or know why he was carrying the machine around.

"If you must know, Weasley, it's a breast pump. Now either ask a house elf for a nappy and change Teddy's or hand him over to Harry and he'll do it," Draco said.

"Alright, sorry. What's a house elf's name?" Ginny asked.

"Loppy," Draco answered.

And so Ginny called Loppy and asked for a nappy and wipes.

Draco turned back to the gift from his old teachers and pulled out a hideously ugly and severely lopsided hand crocheted olive green blanket, with a light pink trim. He held it up and then handed it to Harry, whispering, "See what happens when you're friends with half-breeds? Now he's gonna want a picture of Teddy with this monstrosity."

"What is it?" Harry asked. "I hope it's not a nappy."

"I thought you'd know what it was; figured it was some muggle thing for you," Draco lied, inwardly sighing in relief that Harry didn't know it was a blanket. Teddy would be safe from the awful blanket as long as Harry didn't know what it was. He was just lucky his husband was slow on the uptake with baby things.

"Not that I know of," Harry replied, starting to think it was a hat…. A really ugly and far too large hat… Hagrid probably miscalculated the size of a human baby's head.

"We may have gotten too much stuff," Draco said, looking at the huge pile of opened gifts.

"Maybe we should stop buying the babies stuff. We'll just announce what we need in the papers and see if anyone gets it for us."

"Yeah, that'll work as long as you tell Hagrid we don't need another…whatever this is. Let's do that for the twins' birthday in December. We'll make a list of everything we'll need for the year and see how much of it we get," Draco replied.

Harry agreed and watched as Narcissa and Lucius arranged for house elves to apparate gifts back to the villa. They would have to go through it all, but for now the elves just put it in the drawing room.

Andy and Hermione stayed at the party with Sev and fed him a bottle, but Draco flooed Scorpius and Teddy over to the villa so that he could nurse both of them in private. And as always, he was hungry, so he had the house elves bring him a plate of lunch in the nursery.

While Draco was gone, Neville came up to Harry and asked, "Where did the other babies go? Isn't this Teddy's party and he's not here." Neville was one of very few males present. There were Lucius, Harry, Draco, Teddy, Scorp, Sev, and Neville, but everyone else was a witch.

"Draco's feeding Scorp and Teddy," Harry replied.

"Can't he feed them here like Hermione's doing with the blond one?" Neville asked.

"No, he's breast feeding Scorp and Teddy," Harry answered.

"He's breast feeding Teddy too?" Neville was shocked and slightly appalled.

"Teddy has to be fed something and breast feeding is best."

"Oh, I guess…"

"Thanks for the play gyms by the way; I haven't seen any at the house, so I don't think the babies had any."

"You're welcome. Gran picked them out; I don't even know if babies like that sort of thing."

"I think Scorp will like them; they're low to the ground so that he can reach them. Sev will probably just crawl away, but Scorp can't crawl."

"I saw Draco holding Scorpius earlier; his one leg is really tiny, isn't it?"

"Yeah. We had it straightened, but strengthening it is gonna take time and a lot of work." They had been exercising Scorp's leg every day since their trip to St. Mungo's. It was slow going and they were barely up to ten repetitions without Scorp crying.

"I still can't believe Ron hit Draco like that."

"Yeah, of all the stupid things he's done," Harry started to say, but lost his train of thought when Firenze the centaur stepped out of the forest and approached him.

"It is a great day in human centaur relations when two of our half-breeds bring forth a child and a greater day when they bring forth two. I brought this orb as a gift from myself, but you can consider it from all centaurs," Firenze said, holding out a solid black orb to Harry. It was about the size Neville's remembrall had been, only it looked more like polished stone than glass and it was a slightly lopsided oval, not a perfect sphere.

"Thank you Firenze," Harry replied taking the orb. "What do I do with it?"

"Place it in the nursery and every evening it will project the image of the night sky, that particular night's sky, onto the ceiling," Firenze answered. "We use them in our caves with our fowls until they are strong enough to leave the birthing cave."

"Great! Is there an incantation I need to activate it?"

"No, it will activate itself after the sun sets."

"Brilliant. I heard you were injured in the battle; are you okay?"

"Yes, it was merely a flesh wound. I have healed sufficiently, although I have this scar to testify to my heroism now." Firenze indicated a long scar that ran down his naked torso. It looked like it had been quite the wound. "I must leave now; I have not been given the password and am not welcome here."

"Sure you're welcome and I can give you the passcode. But how did you get in without the passcode?"

"The wards are active against humans only. As a centaur, I walked right through. I cannot stay though; I am a long way away from my herd and I must get back. Farewell and take care Harry Malfoy," Firenze said before galloping away back into the forest.

Neville had walked away while Harry was talking to Firenze and now Professor McGonagall came up to congratulate him on adopting Teddy, getting married, and having the twins. By the time she finished, half a dozen other witches were in line to congratulate Harry and that started a trend as each witch came up to him and congratulated him before leaving the party.

Guests trickled out and Harry took Sev home. Draco was already hard at work putting together the new baby items, starting with the new swing. There was a slight snag when Teddy vomited from the swing going too fast, but that was solved with a bath.

After his usual afternoon nap, Draco came downstairs with a newly awoken Teddy to find Harry tying a thank you to the leg of an owl. "Teddy doesn't seem to want to nurse; I think he's getting sick after all," Draco said. His mother and aunt had both deemed the baby find after the earlier vomiting incident. Babies did that sort of thing all of the time and the swing was on the highest setting, which was too fast for his age.

"No, I fed him a bottle while you were asleep. Do you want to try the swing again?" Harry tapped the swing with his wand, doubling the child seat to make room for Teddy, because Sev had fallen asleep in it earlier and was still napping.

"Yeah, alright. Whoa, how'd you do that?"

"Your mum showed me. She said it even holds three babies in the upright position."

"That's awesome. And here I was thinking my friends were being cheap by only getting us the one gift when it's really a gift for all three babies." Draco put Teddy into the swing.

"Yeah, this thing is pretty cool. How come we didn't order one like this for the twins?"

"Because this was differently not in the catalogue we had." Draco looked down, noticing a pile of thank you cards Harry had written while Draco was sleeping. He was pleasantly surprised by Harry's thoughtfulness. "You made out all of the cards already? Thanks."

"You're welcome," Harry replied, pulling Draco in for a kiss.

When they broke apart, it took Draco a few seconds to catch his breath. Then he looked down at the desk again and noticed a black orb. "What's this?"

"Oh, um Firenze gave that to me after you left. He said it will display an image of the stars or something on the ceiling."

"Firenze?"

"Yeah, he's that centaur who saved me from Voldemort first year when we were on that detention out in the forest with Hagrid."

"What centaur? What are you talking about?"

"First year we had detention with Hagrid in the forest and we saw that thing drinking the unicorn blood, remember?"

"Yeah, that was the Dark Lord?"

"Yep and after you ran Firenze came and saved me."

"You mean after I saved myself by running away and you stupidly stayed put?"

"Yes."

"Only you would be stupid enough to not run in a situation like that. If our boys ever ask you what they should do in that type of situation, you better tell them to run."

"Alright, maybe I should've run. I would've, but right after you left my scar felt like it burst into flames and I couldn't."

"You were fine when I left. If you would've run when I ran, your scar never would've hurt."

"Yeah, you're probably right."

"There isn't any probably about it."

"Yeah, I know, because you're a Malfoy and Malfoys are always right, right?"

"Oh, you're catching on; must be my last name rubbing off on you, yeah?" Draco leaned in for another quick kiss. "Anyway, we can put the orb in the nursery and see what it does tonight."

It wasn't until Draco woke up to give the boys their midnight feeding that he saw the orb in action. The projection it made onto the ceiling was beautiful and reminded him of the ceiling of the Great Hall at Hogwarts. The stars shone brightly on the ceiling, but there was a dark cloud covering half of the sky that night and the cloud was projected onto the ceiling of the nursery, just as it was outside.

Author's Note: Draco's birthday is coming up, which means a shopping trip for Harry! What to get the wizard who has everything?

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