Chapter Ten – A Bit To The Left And Your There

"Well I guess you had better come in and sit down then." Draco said, as his grey eyes focused on simmering green ones. He fought back a smile and stepped inside the room. He didn't know why, but the colour of Harry's eyes made him happy. He passed if off as him loosing his mind and walked back inside, indicating for Harry to follow.

Draco lounged on a sofa and pointed to a chair opposite him. Harry took a seat and for a long while there was silence between them. Harry suddenly looked up. "Did you get the note I left you?" he asked. He was petrified of what Draco would say. The note had seemed like a good idea at the time, but as time had gone on he regretted it more and more.

"Would that be the seventeen post-its that were stuck to the back of my door confessing undying love? If so, then you should have signed it with your name, I've been pondering on who triple-question-mark is." Draco said, pointing out a pile of post-its on the floor.

"Um... no." Harry said. "Sorry, I'm not 'triple-question-mark'. I was actually talking about the note regarding the baby names I like. I left it on your bed side table."

Draco glanced over at the bedside table. There was that bloody owl again... and it was eating a piece of paper. "Stupid animal." Draco scowled and the bird flew off. He looked back over at Harry. "Well, we could be here a while so why don't you tell me them. Then I can... um... tell you mine..." It was an embarrassing thought that Draco Malfoy had actually had baby names planned for quite some time.

"Well... um... sure, why not. I like Lilly for a girl, like my mum, and I like Nicholas for a boy. I don't know why, it's just a nice name. What are yours?" Harry said quickly, hoping that Draco wasn't going to start a 'no way are you calling my kid that' style of conversation.

"Well, I like Sabrina, for a girl..." he paused as Harry giggled. "What? What's so funny?" he asked, a little upset, though he fought not to show it.

"Nothing, its just there is a muggle programme called 'Sabrina the teenage witch'. It really is a nice name, I wasn't laughing at it, go on. What would you call a boy?"

"Lucius, after my father. Or Adam, that's a nice name as well." He finished. He looked up at Harry again. "If you don't mind my asking... do you miss your mum and dad?" he didn't know why he had asked it, but Harry had looked really low when he had mentioned Lilly's name.

"Sort of. I didn't really know them so how could I miss them? It's not like I see a girl putting her hair up and say 'mum used to do that' or anything. I miss not having a mum of dad. But then again, who wouldn't. You haven't got anyone to go running to when things go wrong, and no one to look up to." He paused for a moment. "I guess you look up to your dad a lot."

"Not really. My father is always going on about stuff that doesn't interest me in the slightest. He's always talking about dark magic and how stupid my mother is. It's kinda infuriating at times, but there's nothing I can do about it. For another thing..." Draco lowered his voice and looked around; to make sure that no one might be listening. "... He loves muggle sweets more than Dumbledore! The house is full of them if you know where to look!"

The both laughed. The concept of Lucius Malfoy sucking on a lollypop or stealing lemon drops when Dumbledore wasn't looking was a rather amusing thought. They calmed down a little and Harry smiled at Draco. Draco wanted to melt, Harry's smile was really rather beautiful. "So do you talk to your mum much?"

"Not really. I get the distinct feeling that she never wanted children. She spends as much time as possible ignoring me. It gets kinda lonely sometimes..." Draco frowned. "I guess we're in the same boat there. Both lonely I mean."

"Yeah. Ironic really. Two lonely teens who hate each other, having each others kids."

"At least you have Ron and Hermione."

"Well you've got Crabbe and Goyle."

"No... I don't have friends. I have minions. They follow me around because my family is rich."

Harry thought for a moment, and then looked at Draco with a huge grin on his face. "You just called them Ron and Hermione! When did it stop being Granger and Weasel?"

"It never changed, I did not call them that!" Draco said defensively, sitting up. He was lying of course. He knew full well what he had just called them. "I would never call them that and you know it!"

"But you did though, I heard you! Face it, you like them!"

"I do not!"

"You do too! Come on, we'll go and see them, and you can tell them that you really want to be friends with them!" Harry said, running over and grabbing Draco's hand.

"You can't make me!"

"Oh yes I can!" Harry said mockingly and pulled Draco off the chair, dragging him across the room and out of the door. Several students pointed and started whispering as they saw Harry holding Draco's hand. Draco pulled back and Harry stopped. "Come on, it won't be that bad!"

"Wait a minute..." Draco said and pulled his hand free, looking round at the whispering students. "Do you have a problem with me holding his hand?" he shouted. The students shook their head and quickly dispersed. "Come on then, lets go and find our friends."

"Are you just going to sit on my lap all afternoon?" Severus said to a rather sleepy Lucius who had crashed out on his lap. What goes up, must come down, and this was one of Lucius' more serious sugar crashes. "Only I have a class to teach in less than an hour and my legs have gone numb."

"Well I am four months pregnant you know, it's not easy to stay feather light." Lucius protested, pulling himself up on the arm of the chair and standing. "No I'm not going to sit here all afternoon. I am going to find my son who appears to have abandoned poor little me. I have to congratulate him. Do the whole dad thing."

"Well good luck with that." Severus said and stood up. "And no more sugar while you're staying here, do you understand me? If I have to replace my mattress again, then I am going to make you pay for it."

"I only jumped on your bed a little bit..." Lucius said with an embarrassed grin.

"Lucius dear, I had to replace it twice in the space of three days. In total, I have had eleven new mattress' in the last two weeks."

"Really that many?" Lucius said with a look of surprise. "I was sure it was at least nineteen."

Severus smiled at Lucius. "I have work to do Lucius. Now just sit down and be quiet or else." He said with a playful glare. Lucius saw it as a new challenge.

"Or else what?"

"Don't make me do it Lucius, I will, I mean it."

"Lalala, you wouldn't!!" Lucius sang.

Severus stood up and moved toward Lucius, tapping his fingers in mid air. "I warned you, but you asked for it!" he said and so the chase began. He eventually cornered Lucius, picked him up (which was something of a hard task considering Lucius' condition) and put him on the sofa, tickling him until Lucius could barely breath from laughing.

"Okay, alright! You win! I submit! I'll be quiet!"

Severus smiled sweetly at the blonde. "I've missed times like this." He said softly. Lucius curled Severus' hair in his fingers and pulled him down into a soft kiss.

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[slasherbabe] Easy now hunny! People will start thinking your crazy (picks up phone to call the funnyfarm)

[Griffen] Yep! Sevvy is gonna be a daddy! Draco isn't going to lessons (he's in hiding at the moment) and Harry is still in lessons, but he's only two months pregnant so he isn't showing yet. House problems... now there's something that I can work with...

[fishnetfairy] I'm glad you liked it sweety!

[Sheree] Sorry, I didn't know what else to put! I hope this one is better.

[Shania Maxwell] I'm doing my best to put up at least a chapter a day, but I'm trying to make the chapters longer so it could take a while on some of them.