Change the trousers

" So......" Draco started " What were you saying about wonder boy not teaching anymore?"

Sirius smiled remembering how Draco didn't like it when you left him out of a secret. " He .....well he ummmm he's not allowed to anymore." trying to avoid telling Draco the actual reason.

" And why would that be ?" he asked raising an eyebrow but keeping his voice neutral, knowing full well that if he showed an interest Sirius would go all out NOT to tell him, just to be awkward.

" He uhh.......ok" Sirius relented at the sexy look on Draco's face." He had a thing with one of his students and so now he's not allowed to teach for a while."

" A thing?" Draco questioned immediately turning on the sofa to face Sirius and crossing his legs under him. Sirius just made a non-committal "uh-huh" noise crossing his legs at the ankle and pretended to study his nails. A pillow hit him on the side of his face and messed up his dark brown hair.

" HEY!"

" So tell me," Draco said with a smirk " what kind of a thing?"

Sirius couldn't resist spilling the gossip. " Ok, it was last year, he was a 7th year, called Jay Martin, completely gorgeous, Australian had the accent and everything. Blonde hair, blue eyes, tanned, 6ft. Muscles to die for. Harry had to give him extra Defence against the Dark arts lessons, from what I can gather one thing led to another and they started sleeping together. 5 months later a student walked in on them and told Dumbledore. She had a memory charm cast on her and no-one is supposed to know. But Dumbledore has suspended him from teaching for a while."

Draco let out a low whistle and was suddenly glad that he didn't fancy any of his students. That Rachel Weasley was quite good looking though." So what were you saying about Ron and Snape's missus?"

It took Draco a quarter of an hour and a number of pillow fights and blackmail threats to get Sirius to spill the next piece of gossip. " OK ok ok ok," Sirius choked as Draco got ready to throw Sirius off the sofa AGAIN. " Ron is in love with Hermione, has been for years, he's never had the guts to tell her so she never knew. She married Snape and Ron had hated him even more since then. Whenever he gets drunk he goes to tell her but chickens out. Harry and I have come to the conclusion that if he doesn't have the courage to do it when he's smashed, he's never gonna do it and he's gonna die a sad and lonely bachelor."

" Wooohoo! " Draco whooped " Now that is gossip! In fact I think I'm gonna go and make his life hell " He stood up and made to go over to the door but Sirius jumped up and grabbed him swinging him over his shoulder in a fireman's carry. Even though he was rapidly approaching 45 he could still lift the younger man. Probably something to do with the fact Draco hadn't eaten a proper meal in weeks. There was a knock at the door he made his way over to it with Draco still over his shoulder laughing hysterically. He found Draco's daughter there along with ,to Draco's delight, Ron Weasley.

Baby bounded into the room looking up curiously at her father. " Daddy?" she asked. Draco managed to manoeuvre himself down Sirius back to kiss his daughter on the top of her head. She giggled and ran into her bedroom yelling something about getting into her PJ's. That left Sirius , Draco and Ron who was looking at them both with a look of disbelief on his face. Sirius put Draco down allowing the man to fall on his behind with a slight thump in front of Sirius's feet. Sirius bent down immediately and covered Draco's mouth with his hand to stop him saying anything to Ron.

" Hey Ron, thanks for bringing Baby back, Draco appreciates it, don't you Draco?" Sirius said kneeing Draco in the back at the last part until the blonde nodded slightly. His words seemed to knock Ron out of a daze and he blinked slightly before replying shakily " Right, ok, hmmmm," He took a step backwards and walked a few steps down the corridor. Sirius slowly took his hand away from Draco's mouth and took a hesitant step backwards. Draco stood up and went to close the portrait. He couldn't however resist yelling down the corridor " Say hi to Hermione for me."

The portrait slammed shut.

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The next few days passed in a blur of lessons and sleeping. He made up a schedule of people to look after Baby, everyone seemed to love the little girl and Draco couldn't help feeling sad that he couldn't spend as much time with his only daughter as he used to. He missed her being there to make him smile after a hard day but she was having fun and he knew that she would always need him. So he sat in the staffroom surrounded by books from the library and numerous pieces of paper. He was in his own world and not paying attention to anyone in the staffroom. So when he heard his own name being called he wasn't aware that the voice had actually been trying to get his attention for the last few minutes.

" DRACO !"

His head snapped up and looked into a pair of angry green eyes. Green eyes like fresh pickled toad. Draco thought back smirking at the memory of the valentines day card little Weasley had sent him in his second year.

" Yes?" Draco asked drawing out the word.

" Finally" Harry snarled " God are you deaf or something?"

Draco opened his mouth to make a sarcastic comment but was cut off by Potter. " I don't really care, Tonight, we are all going out and trust me I wouldn't be doing this unless I had to, but Sirius said he would only come if you did swell. so....."

Draco stared up at Potter with disbelief in his eyes. " ok" he answered before his common sense could kick in.

Later that evening Draco was going crazy. Baby sat on the couch with a cup of juice laughing as he came out of his bedroom time and again modelling a new outfit.

" Ok Babes, what do you think of this one?" he questioned. He strode into the room wearing a pair of black Levi's that were exactly the same style as he wore everyday and a shiny black shirt un-buttoned to his muscled chest. He had no idea where they were going that evening but he wanted to look cool anyway.

" Daddy!" she whined " Put some different trousers on !"

" But I like these!" he whined back sounding even more immature than the five year old.

" NO!" she shouted suddenly " change the trousers!"

" No " he shouted back and grabbed his daughter tickling her till she was screaming. But she still managed to get out a "change the trousers once" every few minutes. A knock on the door went un-noticed and Draco jumped back when he heard Sirius's voice.

" You ready ?"

Looking up at him from the floor where he had landed after his heart attack. Draco sighed, Sirius looked gorgeous as per normal. He groaned and lay on the floor his arms covering his eyes. " No" Draco sighed. The elder man gave him a once over and said the 3 words he didn't want to hear. " Change the trousers."

" I don't have any others."

" Crap." Sirius said walking into Draco's bedroom.

" Watch your language in front of Baby." Draco commented and followed Sirius.

Baby took a sip of her juice and rolled her eyes.

Draco strode along in step with his best friend. Hissing angrily out the side of his mouth " I can't believe you managed to talk me into this!"

Sirius grinned at him and stopped walking. He turned to face him and reached out and put up the collar of Draco's denim jacket. It was the one Sirius had been wearing earlier but he had fallen in love with Draco's 3/4 length leather coat and Draco had let him wear that. But it wasn't the jacket Draco was complaining about, oh no, he didn't mind the jacket. The problem was what he was wearing on the bottom half, his old leather trousers. Sirius had found them in the bottom of Draco's wardrobe. They still fitted they were actually a little loser than they used to be, he supposed he wasn't eating as well as he used to, not enough money and Baby took first priority. Sirius had said he looked " good enough to eat" which at the time had seemed like a compliment but now Draco realised it probably meant he looked gay. They started walking again and turned the corner to where they were meeting the dream team and Snape. They were all there, Hermione with her hand entwined with Snape's though she was talking to Harry and Ron staring moodily at the floor. They all looked pretty good all wearing muggle clothes. Snape predictably all in black and Weasel all in blue. But it was Potter who caught Draco's attention though he knew he really shouldn't have. He had on a emerald green shirt that was made of the same material as Draco's black one. Though Draco had got his from a charity shop and sewn on all the buttons himself and Potter had probably got his hand-made. He also wore a pair of light-blue rustic looking jeans that curved perfectly with his body.

Snape turned and looked at Draco, well at first it looked like he was staring at Draco but he quickly realised that actually he was looking through him and straight at Sirius. His eyes narrowed and he scowled darkly. Ron however looked relieved to see Sirius.

" Hey." he said " Shall we get going?" He looked like he needed a drink. Badly.

" Ok" Sirius agreed and took a watch out of his pocket." Portkey" he said to no-one in particular and they all placed a finger on it. Draco looked up and found himself face-to-face with Potter. He found himself lost in those emerald orbs no longer surrounded by glasses but brightened by contacts. Potter winked at him and Draco raised an eyebrow. Then they were flying through the air being catapulted to whatever place it was that Sirius had chosen for a night out.

Draco knew where they were before even opening his eyes, it was the smell. It's amazing how smells stay with you. This one was a cross between tobacco, men's cologne and fish and chips. Sure enough when Draco opened his eyes, his face broke into a grin.

" All right !" he said high-fiving Sirius.

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