" WHY DO YOU BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP, BABY JUST TO LET ME DOWN AND MESS ME AROUND, AND WORST OF ALL YOU NEVER CALL BABY, WHEN YOU SAY YOU WILL. I NEED YOU, I NEED YOU MORE THAN ANYONE DARLING, OOOOOOH"

Draco and Baby sang their hearts out dancing round the room, it was one of their favourites, the one they had been dancing to that morning. Baby threw her arms about and sang at the top of her voice, jumping from the sofa into her dad's arms. He had charmed a muggle CD player to work in Hogwarts and it blasted out the song at full volume. Baby was ecstatic at her new "house" she christened it " Hoggies". And she loved it. Draco had shown her one of the secret passages near their room and she had laughed hysterically when she had accidentally walked through one of the resident ghosts.

As the song changed Baby took the few seconds in between to catch her breath. Soon though familiar drum beats were heard and her father grabbed her and sat her down on the arm of their new sofa. Looking deeply into her violet eyes he put on a mock serious voice to say the first few words to her.

" Listen Baby,

Ain't no mountain high,

Ain't no valley low,

Ain't no river wide enough,

To keep me from getting to you baby."

By the time he had hit the chorus him and his daughter were singing as loud as they could jumping around the room. He took one of Baby's hands held it above her head and spun her round and round. Laughing madly.

15 Minutes before the beginning of term feast. Draco realised two things one, he needed a shower and two Baby needed to get dressed as well which usually took at least half hour. He cursed silently, having learnt long ago to control his language. Something Ron Weasley needed to learn how to do. His lip curled at the thought of the weasel and thanked God that he wasn't at school here still ,or he would have had to see him in 15 minutes. Glancing at his muggle watch Draco cursed at how now they only had 13 minutes.

" OK Baby." Draco called his daughter. " Ok Daddy's got something important for you to do, I want you to go into your room and on your bed is your lilac dress and some frilly lilac socks I want you to put them on, ok as fast as you can. Go on sweetie." Smiling at the sight of her retreating back, Draco uttered one hufflepuffish " they grow up so fast" before shaking it out of his system and making his way to the shower. Time to make myself beautiful, not that it will take long, Draco countered. He then smirked oh yes Draco Malfoy was back at Hogwarts and it was gonna be great. About to step into the shower there was a knock at the portrait, wrapping a towel round his waist he went to answer it. When the portrait opened he found himself face-to-face with.......Potter.

" Oh God, spoke to soon." Draco groaned.

15 minutes later, both Malfoy's were present and accounted for. Draco sat at the head table with Baby on his lap re-tying one of her plaits. It turned out, Draco thought as he mentally cursed, that Potter, Weasley, and Gra....Mrs Snape, all taught at Hogwarts too! Apparently they had just never left! How fucking sweet, Draco thought grinding his teeth together something which Skylar had always told him not to do. Students began to file in and many looked his way but he started a conversation with Severus who , apart from the slight softness in his voice when he talked about his wife and the hand which was gently entwined with her under the table, had changed very little. Baby was in her element though she sat on Draco's lap grinning from ear-to-ear, occasionally waving to people who always waved back, even a 4th year slytherin boy.

Suddenly Draco heard the hall go silent and noticed that Dumbledore had stood up and everyone was looking at him. It always amazed Draco had one man could have such power over a bunch of over-excited teenagers. He was also amazed at how little Dumbledore's speech had changed in the 7 years Draco had been absent from Hogwarts. He heard his name being called at noticed that Dumbledore had introduced him as the new defence against the dark arts teacher.

" And the little girl is Baby, Mr Malfoy's daughter."

At that moment Baby clambered out of Draco's lap and stood upon the staff table. " Allo" she announced. Whatever it was that got them, the dress, the matching socks, the newly plaited bunches or the sweet voice but whatever it was but at that moment every person at Hogwarts fell in love with Baby.

The next morning Draco got up the earliest he had in about 5 years. He woke Baby, had a shower, got Baby dressed in her yellow gingham dress and tied her hair up in a side ponytail. Then he walked back to his bedroom to choose what to wear, last night he had worn the only pair of robes he had and after a couple of hours in them he remembered how uncomfortable they were. Today he planned on wearing muggle clothes like he did normally. Slinging on his black Levi's which ages old and beginning to get torn at the knee, he opened his almost empty wardrobe and announced he had nothing to wear to no-one imparticular. Ok, hmmmmmm I'm going to go with black v-neck t-shirt and he grabbed the most expensive thing in his wardrobe his 3/4 length leather coat. It was draughty in the castle. Walking back out into the living room, designed in silver and green of course. Calling his daughter and taking her hand they walked down to the staff room together. A place Draco had been inside only a few times but knew had a coffee machine. Just before entering the room Draco heard raised voices inside. He recognized the first one immediately it hadn't changed in 7 years. Potter, the other which of course took him longer to recognize seeing as it had changed was Gra-Snape. God Draco mentally slapped himself I'm gonna have to start calling her Hermoine i can't get used to this Snape business. Just as he was about to enter he heard something that made him splutter.

" Malfoy was naked !"

" No, and shhhhhhhhhh, no he wasn't naked, well he was." Potter continued hurriedly " but only from the waist up oh and he was wearing a pendant."

"Really what did it look like ?"

"Not tanned but not white, really impressive 6 pack and chest muscles to die for..." Potter was cut off by Hermoine.

" No, I meant the pendant. God Harry, its Malfoy !"

" What?! I'm gay, it's what we do!"

That was the moment Draco chose to walk in. He waited till Baby was on the other side of the room ,grabbing a cookie, off the table which she seemed to have a sixth sense for, before he spoke.

" Well , well, well, Harry Potter, the boy who lived, homosexual. Bet the press had a field day when they found out about that. Or do they not know?" Draco questioned with a raised eyebrow and a sexy smirk.

Potter's only response was a groan.

" Take that as a no then , hmmmm, oh the things i could do with a secret like this." Draco commented walking around the large staff table dragging a finger along it, enjoying the feeling of Harry's eyes on him, watching his every move. Draco turned to face him and looked him straight in the eye. A staring competition followed

"Oh i don't have time for this," Potter said finally and with Hermoine at his side stomped out from the room. Now that it was just him and Baby in the room Draco laughed. Walking over to the coffee machine and pouring out a cup of hot coffee he called over his daughter.

"Ok Baby, today just for today, your gonna come with me to my lesson ok?"

Baby nodded and Draco took her by the hand and led her up the emptiest staircase and to his assigned classroom. Checking his schedule he had been given the night before he found he had the 6th years gryffindor and Slytherin first. Great, first lesson and one of the hardest classes. They had finished their OWLs and so were usually quiet cocky but they hadn't bothered to settle down and study for their NEWTS yet. Settling Baby down behind his desk with some colouring books and feltip pens he had found in their rooms she promised to be quiet and pretend she wasn't there.

" Good girl." he praised. Now came the students they came straight into the classroom talking at the tops of their voices chucking balls of paper at each other and generally fooling around. Leaning against his desk he gave them a few minutes and eventually they all noticed him and sat down at their desks. Good first problem over. He noticed that the old house rivalry was still there, Slytherins on one side, Gryffindorks on the other. Except one Gryffindor girl who along with a slytherin boy sat right in the middle at the back. They were talking to each other in low voices and in his hand was a feltip like the one's Draco had given to Baby, he was using it to draw a love heart on her hand and then write something in it. She was looking at him with love in her eyes. Wow they're brave flaunting it like that, Draco thought, If someone had done that when he was at school there would have been ostracised. Then Draco realised they were being, no-one was looking at them or talking to them, the ball of paper never flew their way at all. Shaking his head slightly he began talking.

" Alright now, first of all I'm not a professor I'm qualified by experience not diploma, so it's Draco ok. First of all this year is your year for mucking about, I know that I went to school here, you have your OWLs and you don't go to worry about your NEWTS yet so you just don't care at the moment. That's fine, I don't care if you fail your exams but you should. So let's start with an easy lesson yeh? First of all who was your last teacher?"

A red haired gryffindor in the front row put her hand up. " Weasley?" he asked. She was half way through her answer when she stopped.

" Professor.... wait a minute how do you know my name ?" Draco simply smirked and reached over to her and pulled gently on her traditional red hair. He heard her breath catch in her throat when he touched her and when she looked back at him she had a blush on her face. Haha, Draco thought, I could have all these girls wound round my finger if i wanted.

" Oh, ok it was ummmmmm ." she seemed to have forgotten the question and a voice in the doorway answered instead.

" I was." Draco groaned as he realised who the voice belonged to. Potter.

" bugger." Draco said louder than he meant to and he heard a voice from behind the desk say "don't swear."

At that everyone in the class leaned forward to get a look at his daughter who stood up and came out from behind the desk. " Allo " A rippled "awwwww" went through the class at his sweet daughter. She came forward and clung to Draco's leg looking shyly up at everyone. Draco's gaze however was fixed on Potter who still lazing on the door frame was quite obviously eyeing him up.

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