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Scorpius didn't have much experience with children. He didn't have any younger siblings, nor any neighbors with children or any cousins to interact with. He'd only every babysat Victoire and Teddy's six year old, Remus (or Remy as most called him). Not to mention that he didn't exactly have a model father to look up to. So naturally he'd been quite concerned about the whole fatherhood thing when Rose had gotten pregnant.

He'd spent the entire nine months pouring through parenting books and observing families in parks and restaurants. But all that research had gone to shit when Max had been born. Babies were much tougher than he'd originally thought and you couldn't write a neat little list breaking down how to take care of them.

All that being said, he thought he was doing relatively well with Max.

Currently Scorpius was sitting cross legged on the cool tiles of the kitchen floor dressed in a tuxedo. He held a gurgling little boy, clad in pale blue, dinosaur patterned pajamas, an arms length away.

"Say 'Daddy,' Max!" He pleaded. Max looked at his father with big brown eyes and smiled before blowing a raspberry, but he didn't say anything.

" 'Daddy!' C'mon, Max, it's not so hard!" He tried again but the blonde boy only smiled and reached out for his father with pudgy little hands.

"Mummy!" Max called suddenly holding his arms out to Rose who had just entered the kitchen, trailed by Hugo. She was putting in her earring and explaining to her younger brother where Max's favorite teddy bear was, but upon seeing sweet little Max she crouched down next to her husband. Scorpius reluctantly handed his son over to his wife.

"Say 'Daddy'!" He begged one more time, "Please, Max. 'Daddy'!"

Max, who'd buried his button nose in the crook of his mother's neck looked up at his father and smiled before exclaiming, "Mummy!" and hugging Rose tighter.

Rose cuddled him closer to her and grinned over the top of his head at Scorpius, "That's right, Maxy, say 'Mummy's my favorite.'"

Scorpius stuck his tongue out at her and winced as Max obeyed with a giggle, "Mummy's my pave-rit."

"Jesus Christ," Scorpius hopped to his feet, brushing off the seat of his black pants and turned to Hugo, "He's clearly having some trouble with names, so don't take it personally if he doesn't get yours."

Rose rolled her eyes and hoisted Max onto her hip, struggling to her feet. She placed him on the granite counter and moved over to press a kiss to Scorpius's jaw. "That's right, Scor. He is having trouble with names. Now let's go. We're already ten minutes late for this party."

Both Scorpius and Rose kissed Max on the head and handed him off to Hugo. Max immediately placed a hand on either side of Hugo's face and exclaimed, "Oo-go!"

Hugo grinned smugly and turned toward Scorpius, "Oh yes, Scorpius, he certainly is having trouble with names."

Scorpius narrowed his eyes and was about to retort something snarky, but Rose placed a gently kiss on his shoulder, slipped her hand into his and ushered him towards the door before he could.

Four hours later when Rose and Scorpius returned home, slightly tipsy and rather tired, they found Hugo sound asleep on the couch with a small blonde boy curled up on his chest. Rose tossed her shoes aside and dropped to her knees in front of her brother and Max. She turned her head up to Scorpius.

"Oh they're so cute!"

Scorpius didn't reply, but he did agree.

Rose gently lifted Max up and he stirred, his little arms winding around her neck, "Waddy?" He said so softly that Scorpius nearly missed it. Max pulled away from his mother and said with his lower lip pushed out, "Where's Waddy?"

Scorpius nearly shrieked.

Pretty please review. I wrote this rather quickly, so sorry if there's any grammatical or spelling errors. I'm also suffering from major writers' block right now so if you could leave me some ideas that you'd like in your review I would greatly appreciate it.

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