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Chapter 2

Draco Malfoy and his girlfriend Pansy were the Slytherins chosen to take care of the girls the first day. Draco was given first choice for which girl he would look after and said he would take the little one.

He regretted his decision.

After breakfast Professor Dumbledore led the two girls to their keepers, both girls were wearing muggle clothing, Megan a pink and white striped dress with pink canvas shoes and white socks and Stephanie a pair of blue pants and a white shirt with matching trim and a zebra on it and the same white shoes with yellow ducks on top, much cleaner than they had been the day before. "Mr. Malfoy, Miss Parkinson I believe you are watching my little girls today. This is Megan," he gently pushed the older girl forward.

Megan giggled and spoke, "I'm six."

"Yes you are, Angel. And this is Stephanie," the smaller girl frowned at the two Slytherins.

Pansy knelt in front of Stephanie, "And how old are you?" she asked.

Stephanie looked her and Draco up and down and frowned harder as if she didn't like what she saw.

"Will you not tell Pansy and Draco how old you are?"

"I want to stay with you," she pouted.

"I know, Sweetheart. Now tell them how old you are," Dumbledore's tone was kind but stern and the girl looked up at him before holding up two fingers.

"This many," she said with a defiant undertone in her voice.

"Wonderful," Dumbledore smiled at them. "Now that we are all friends I will be off to my office and I will see my little angels later."

"I'm your angel, not Stephanie!" Megan announced.

"Yes, yes, we will deal with that latter, I must be off to my office and you do not have much time left to get to class." Dumbledore hugged the girls and walked away.

Megan had immediately started talking, telling Pansy all about her house, school, friends, favorite book, toys as they prepared for the first class of the day, Potions with Gryffindor.

Pansy indicated a stool for Megan to sit on and she quickly climbed up on it and pulled out a book and some muggle writing instruments and began coloring in it.

"Sit here," Draco commanded Stephanie.

"No."

"You have to, we're brewing a potion today and you must sit there out of the way."

"I don't want to."

"That is irrelevant. Sit down."

"I am Stephanie," her tone was the same as one would say, I am Merlin, or I am the Minister of Magic.

"So? I'm in charge of you today and I say sit." Draco lifted her up and set her on the chair.

"I AM STEPHANIE!"

"You are a brat," Draco muttered, pulling out his wand.

"I'm telling Grampy Albus you said that!"

"Be quiet Stephanie, you're supposed to be a good girl while we are visiting Grampy Albus."

"I am a good girl!"

"Will our guests please refrain from talking while class is in session," Professor Snape's glare told everyone exactly what the Potions Master thought about their presence.

Both girls glared at him. Megan started coloring again and Stephanie looked at Draco, "I want my coloring book and my crayons."

Snape was already beginning to give the instructions for the day's potions and Draco quickly pulled out the book and box of crayons, "Here. Now shut up," he hissed. Then he scowled, the Gryffindors seemed to be enjoying the whole spectacle too much. Well, he'd show them. The girls would leave Slytherin hating the other houses. The Gryffindors would have ten times the trouble with them that he did, then he would be the one snickering.

The first part of the class went well with Stephanie starting to fidget several minutes after her older sister did.

The first part of the potion was cooling while they prepared the second half. Megan was reading a book aloud to herself.

"Will Miss Pepperstrong please read to herself," Snape snapped.

"I'm just learning, I can't read all the words in my head yet," Megan scowled at him with defiance then tears began to form in her eyes when Snape did not appear to be apologetic.

"Save your tears for your grandfather. I am not moved by faked crying."

Megan glared and stuck her tongue out at him when he turned his back, causing some smirks and muffled giggles from the Gryffindors, and returned to her reading, mumbling the words in a lower voice.

"That will be ten points from Gryffindor for laughing. Do not encourage Miss Pepperstrong in her impertinence."

Draco snickered and made an insulting comment of the color of Neville Longbottom's potion. "Its supposed to be light purple not dark brownish- purple. Just wanted to make sure you didn't think you got it right for once."

"That was mean of you," Stephanie told him. "You need to be nice to people because if you are nice to people they will be your friends."

"So Longbottom's got a baby to take care of him now?"

"I am not a baby!" Stephanie tumbled off her stool and started hitting Draco with small fists. "I am Stephanie!"

"Stephanie, Mummy says you can't hit people. It isn't nice! Even if he isn't nice you can't hit him." Megan admonished her.

"He's not nice!"

"You still can't hit him!" Megan slipped off her stool and ran over to her sister. Draco started to shake the two-year-old off his leg and tripped over Megan. Stephanie was thrown off his leg and started crying when she fell into Neville who bumped into his potion and knocked it all over Stephanie's clothes, especially her shoes. She promptly started crying louder. "My duckies!"

"Twenty points from Gryffindor!" Snape yelled, "Get that mess cleaned up right now before I decide to take more off."

"Professor-"

"Be quiet Granger."

"It wasn't his fault it was Draco's!" Megan announced indignantly, pointing at the object of her displeasure.

"Be quiet, Miss Pepperstrong."

"He kicked my little sister, and made her fall into him." Megan pointed at Neville, "and he's nice!"

Stephanie continued to cry. "Get the baby out of here, Mr. Malfoy," Snape commanded.

"I'm not a baby!"

Draco grabbed the now red-faced toddler around her waist and hauled her out of the dungeon under his arm.

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"You have to put your shoes on," Draco told Stephanie after he got her clothes changed. He held a pair of white and purple sneakers that matched her new outfit out towards her.

"No," Stephanie told him, then folded her arms and glared at him.

"Yes," Draco grabbed an ankle and prepared to force a shoe on her foot, while wishing he knew some childcare spells.

"No!" the toddler started kicking her feet as her face turned red, "I want my ducky shoes!" She grabbed one of the sneakers and threw it at Draco, hitting him in the chest.

He couldn't believe how spoiled the little brat was, didn't she realize that he was her superior and knew better than she did. The ducky shoes were ruined beyond his ability to fix them - Draco had never paid much attention to housekeeping spells since they were servants' stuff.

"I hate you!"

"Fine," he told her, "I hate you too." This was getting ridiculous.

Stephanie stopped long enough to give him an evil look before she screamed louder, "You are mean and not nice! Your mummy shouldn't let you have desert ever again!"

"Not likely to happen."

"She should!"

"Listen brat, shut up and put your shoes on."

"I am Stephanie!"

Draco finally forced the shoes on her feet in time to grab her and run to Transfiguration; maybe old McGonagall would take care of the shoes.

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