To Be A Malfoy
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Random, pointless filler in chapter. This is the calm before the storm!
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Chapter 15: Day Out
"What do you have to go into Knockturn Alley for?" asked James as he followed Lucius down the upstairs hallway of their home.
"Don't be so bloody nosy," replied Lucius, he was well aware of James following him so he stopped mid step and felt James walk straight into him. He turned around and faced his husband and put his hands on James's shoulders, "James, bane of my life, shut up and put some clothes on."
James, who was standing there with only a towel wrapped precariously low around his waist from his shower, blushed a little. "But why? That place is creepy."
Lucius raised an eyebrow; "Did I say you had to come with me?"
James frowned, "No…but I'm nosy, I want to."
Lucius sighed, This man is impossible. "Fine, whatever, but don't come complaining to me if you get scared."
James rolled his eyes, "Love you, too."
Lucius gave a sarcastic smile, "Shouldn't you be getting ready now?"
James shrugged, "Probably. Wake Draco up will you?"
"I will, in a minute," replied Lucius, before he slipped an arm right around James' waist and pressed his lips to James' already parted ones.
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"Standard Book of Spells, Grade One." Said Karliya answering her dad's question; they were in Flourish and Blotts. "Where do I find that?"
Draco rolled his eyes, "On the stand that says 'Standard Book of Spells', you idiot." After he had said that he felt Lucius' cane poke him hard in the back. "Ow!"
James rolled his eyes as he saw what his husband did from where he was looking at another display of books. Lucius was lethal with that cane when he wanted to be, he would use it to push the kids around at home and occasionally to whack James with when he moved around in bed too much or just for the hell of it.
James wandered up the stairs at Flourish and Blotts to look at the shelves of books up there, he found an interesting book on Animagi, 'The Idiots Guide to Becoming an Animagus'. He snorted, Who needs an idiots guide when three fifteen year olds managed it? As he opened the book, James felt a light hand at the base of his back; he turned his head to see Lucius. "You're a little close for being in public, aren't you?"
Lucius smirked slightly; "I suppose so. Anyway, I'm going up to Gringotts before I head into Knockturn Alley, if you still want to come I'll meet you there in twenty minutes."
"Okay." James watched as his husband swooped off down the stairs and out of the shop, managing to put the fear of god into anyone that was within a couple of feet of him. After about another ten minutes of looking at books James went back down the stairs and found the kids arguing once again. "Knock it off you two, we're in public now."
Karliya frowned, "Tell Draco to stop being an idiot then."
James sighed and put a hand one hand on each of his children's shoulders. "Look, I'm going into Knockturn Alley with your dad, so I want you two to stay together, all right?" Both of the young Malfoys nodded while they were still elbowing each other. James looked at his watch, "Okay, in about an hour go to the Leaky Cauldron and we'll meet you there."
"Okay."
"And Karliya, keep an eye on your brother," said James; he smirked at the dirty look Draco gave him, he handed Draco a small bag of money. "That is for your school things. Now be good."
With that, he left Flourish Blotts and headed off up the street to Gringotts where he saw Lucius just coming back out of the bank, he noticed his husband looked quite proud of himself. "What have you done?"
Lucius smirked and ran a hand through his hair; "Fudge is resigning."
James raised his eyebrows, "Really?"
"Mmhmm." Lucius pocketed the small bag of money he had gotten and then he poked James with the infamous silver snake headed cane. "Let's go."
"I'm going to snap that cane if you keep hitting me with it," grumbled James as he walked beside Lucius.
Lucius gave him an amused look; "You wouldn't take away a man's favourite toy, would you?"
James rolled his eyes, "I'll cut your hair then." He got a proper Malfoy reaction out of his husband this time.
Lucius narrowed his grey eyes at James; "I'll kill you if you do that."
James grinned, "You wouldn't know what to do without me."
"I would know what to do with the body though," replied Lucius as they entered Knockturn Alley. "Now stop teasing, you're meant to be scared of me."
"Stop teasing me," mimicked James in amusement. "You sound like Karly."
"Shut up."
James snickered as he followed Lucius down the street, he did enjoy teasing his husband, well, when Lucius was in one of his good moods, but if you do it when he's not in a very happy mood he'd probably hurt you.
As they headed down the main street of Knockturn Alley, James couldn't help but notice several people watching them or more specifically himself and it was beginning to freak him out a little. He moved closer to Lucius hoping his association with the Malfoy would deter them from coming near him.
"I didn't say you had to come," said Lucius not having to look at James to know his husband was freaking out.
"I know. I'm fine." James's voice was slightly higher than usual as he clutched the back of Lucius's robes with one hand and kept his other hand tightly around his wand. He wasn't usually such a wimp but being around all these Dark wizards did kind of scare him.
They headed into Borgin and Burkes, Lucius was as confident as ever with his head held high while James was glancing around warily and trying to keep close to his husband.
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"Daddy said that money's for our school stuff though," whined Karliya as she followed Draco to Florean Fortesques.
Draco smirked, "What he doesn't know won't hurt him. Anyway, I know you want ice cream, you'd do anything for ice cream." He went up to the counter of the ice cream parlour knowing he was right about his little sister.
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"Ah Mr. Malfoy, a pleasure," said Mr. Borgin of Borgin and Burkes as the two men entered the shop. "And Mr. Potter as well, delighted."
James rolled his eyes; there was a definite sarcastic tone in the shop owner's voice when he addressed him, but no one would ever be that rude when they were addressing Lucius. As Lucius went up to the counter James started looking curiously around the shop, he went over to a display case that held several big jars full of shrunken heads.
"We have new stock in today Mr. Malfoy, and very reasonably priced-"
"Has my order come in Borgin?" questioned Lucius cutting the shopkeeper off, his voice was cold and harsh, like it usually was in public.
"Oh, yes sir, it has."
James glanced out the corners of his eyes at the shop keeper who seemed a little less confident now.
"Make it quick Borgin, I haven't got all day," said Lucius in slight annoyance.
James backed away in shock from the display case he was looking at when one of the shrunken heads winked at him. "Ew…" He moved away from the display case and went over to a shelf that held more weird and slightly disturbing Dark Art objects.
Lucius leaned on his cane while he waited for Borgin to get his order from out the back of the shop. He was not a man that liked to be kept waiting especially when the thing he needed from this shop was going to help him with his plan to take down Voldemort.
The Hand of Glory… Read James from a small sign in his mind. That's disgusting…I can't believe Draco wanted this. He glanced back to the counter and saw Borgin had reappeared with a small package, which he handed to Lucius.
Lucius took a couple of gold coins out of his pocket and gave them to Borgin, of course, in true Malfoy nature, he was ripping the man off but no one had the guts to point that out to the evil Lucius Malfoy. Lucius pocketed his package and turned on his heel, "James."
James looked over his shoulder again and saw Lucius heading towards the door, he put down the odd item he had been examining and followed his husband out of the shop like an obedient puppy.
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"I'll be taking that out of your allowance."
Draco scowled at his dad; "It was Karliya as well!"
"It was your idea," replied James, "I trusted you with that money."
"Well maybe you shouldn't have," grumbled Draco, he was going to get Karliya back for ratting him out.
"Mm, that was obviously a bad idea." James started up the grand staircase of Malfoy Manor. "Use your common sense next time, Draco." He continued on up the stairs after giving his son a disapproving look and went straight into his and Lucius's bedroom where he fell down onto the bed and closed his eyes.
"So, what exactly was it that our son did?"
James kept his eyes closed, he didn't realise Lucius was in the room with him. "He took the money I gave them for their school books and gambled it away." He felt the bed move as Lucius sat down on it.
"Oh?"
James sighed, "Not that you seem to care but it was ten galleons and he's fourteen." He felt one of Lucius's hands rest on his stomach.
"I do care, I just have more interesting things I could be thinking about right now," replied Lucius before he lowered his head and kissed James on the lips.
"Mm…" James slipped his arms around Lucius's neck as his husband explored his mouth. He figured this would take his mind off his son's disobedience for a while.
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A/N: Okay, don't ask me what the hell that was all about, but I couldn't think of anything better. Just think of this chapter as a fill in before Chapter 16.
Next Chapter: Lucius's plan goes into action with a horrible consequence. Draco and Karliya are back at Hogwarts, which is being guarded by Dementors.
