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XoXoX Harry's POV XoXoX

Harry's mind was spinning. Malfoy. Baby. Malfoy. Little Whinging. Baby. Malfoy. Baby. His trance was suddenly broken by lour banging on the door.

"Damn you, Potter! Open the bloody door!" Malfoy shouted from outside and Harry walked over and opened it. The sight that met him was once again too much and he was about to slam the door shut again, when Malfoy put his foot inside. "Oh, no you don't" sneered the blonde and pushed the door open with one hand.

That brought Harry back to his senses and he stopped him before he could enter completely. "Malfoy" he said slowly. "What in the name of Merlin are you doing here, outside my house, in Little Whinging, with a baby?"

"I thought I'd stop by for a cup of tea." Malfoy growled and rolled his eyes. "What do you think I'm doing here? It's not like I came willingly. That bloody Granger voice forced me."

"Hermione told you to come?" Harry asked incredulous.

"Of course not, it's just the voice in my… eh, never mind, just forget I ever mentioned her. I'm here because I saw you last year with that bloody weasel brat, and I thought maybe you knew something about babies."

"And why would you need to know anything about babies?"

Malfoy raised an eyebrow, and Harry looked down at the basket. Oh, right. Baby. He blushed slightly and mumbled something like never mind.

"Anyway" continued Malfoy. "Do you know anything about babies?"

"Well, yes, quite a lot really. When I was younger, before I came to Hogwarts, my aunt used to baby-sit the neighbours twins and then she'd let me watch them while she and uncle Vernon went out to dinner with my cousin Dudley."

"Wonderful!" Malfoy smirked and pushed himself past Harry and into the entrance hall. "You'll teach me everything you know right now, and then I'll be on my way."

"Malfoy, I can't just teach you how to take care of a baby in five minutes."

"Why not?"

"It's just not how it works!" Harry threw his hands up in a motion of despair, and sighed heavily. Then a thought hit him. "How did you get a baby anyway? Is it yours, or did you kidnap it?"

Malfoy snorted. "Of course I didn't kidnap it! I mean him. I found it… eh, him, on my door step, or rather, my house-elf found him on my doorstep, and now I'm stuck with him."

"Can't you just send him back?"

"I plan to, but he was screaming and screaming and I couldn't make him stop, so I figured I'd let you handle it."

"Well, he isn't screaming now, so you can leave again, the door is right behind you."

"Guess again, he is screaming, you just can't hear it"

Harry looked down at the baby and saw that his face was completely red, and he had his eyes screwed shut and his mouth wide open as if he was screaming at the top of his lungs. The only problem with this image was that he couldn't hear a single sound emerging from the baby. "Malfoy" said Harry dangerously calm. "Tell me you didn't put a silencing charm on the baby."

"Eh…" Malfoy's eyes darted from Harry to the baby and then back to Harry. "I didn't put a silencing charm on the baby" he said, not very convincingly.

"MALFOY!" Harry bellowed and grabbed the basket from the other boy. "YOU CAN'T PUT A BLOODY SILENCING CHARM ON A BLOODY BABY!" The blonde boy had the decency to look ashamed, and waved his wand to take away the spell. Suddenly the room was filled with the sound of a baby screaming, and Harry fought the urge to drop the basket and cover his ears.

"This is exactly why I silencioed him!" Malfoy yelled over the noise and covered his ears. "Do something about it!"

Harry quickly put the basket on the floor, and reached down to pick up the baby. He held him close and started rocking him back and forth in his arms. After a while the crying ceased into silent sobbing. Malfoy looked at him with eyes as big as saucers. "How in the name of Merlin did you do that?"

Harry fought the smirk threatening to creep up on his face, and said calmly. "Lesson number one, to calm a baby rock it back and forth. Here, you try" he held the baby over to Malfoy, who looked scared and stepped quickly backwards.

"Hell no!" said the blonde boy with a look of disgust on his face. "I am not touching that – that thing! It smells!"

Harry sniffed the air, and found that Malfoy was right. The baby did smell. "Lesson number two" he said. "When the baby smells, try changing its diapers."

Malfoy looked like someone had just suggested he eat a raw piece of dragon testicles then bathe in hippogriff excrement, and took another step backwards. "You are not serious!"

"Of course I am" grinned Harry.

"But – but that is just, I mean, that's like, you know, ewwww!"

Harry looked at Malfoy and raised an eyebrow. "You know, you're acting like five year old."

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not, you – you – you poophead!"

"I rest my case" Harry laughed and turned away from the mortified looking Malfoy. "Follow me" he said, and walked into the kitchen. He put the baby down on the kitchen table, and turned to face Malfoy again. The other boy had pulled himself together and looked once again like the Slytherin prince of ice. "What do you call him?" Harry asked.

"Draco junior" smirked the other boy, and looked very content with himself. Should have known, Harry thought and rolled his eyes. He turned back to the baby, and started undressing him.

"What are you doing?" asked Malfoy.

"I am changing his diapers."

Malfoy became very pale. "I'll just, eh, wait in the hall" he mumbled turned to bolt out the door.

Harry turned around with his famous seeker speed, and caught the other boy by his arm. "Oh no you're not" he said harshly and dragged Malfoy back to the table. "You're staying right here, you're watching, and you're learning how to do it. Is that clear?" he glared at the other boy.

"Crystal"

Harry turned back to the baby, and continued undressing him. He made Malfoy throw away the old diaper, and laughed inwardly at the other boy holding the diaper as far away from himself as possible with one hand and pinching his nose with the other. Then he got a rag from next to the sink, and was about to start washing the baby, when he noticed something. "Malfoy?" he said and looked at the other boy, coming back from throwing away the diaper.

"Yes?"

"What did you say you called the baby?"

"Draco junior"

"Eh, sorry to disappoint you, but this one is most definitely not a Draco."

"Of course it is! See the strong chin, the perfect nails and the gorgeous hair? Most certainly a Draco." Malfoy said smugly.

"Malfoy, it's a girl."

"Oh. Damn."

Harry rolled his eyes and felt very sorry for the little girl, stuck in the care of a Malfoy. She would probably be scarred forever. "Lesson number three, always check the gender of the baby before naming it" Malfoy blushed slightly, and Harry had big problems stifling the smirk that threatened to show on his face. "Now, you have to come up with a new name. Any good ideas?"

"Draca?"

"Male name"

"Damn. Hydra?"

"Malfoy, have some imagination, let the girl have her own name, not one that either sounds like yours or means the same."

"Ok, Medea then."

"Medea? Isn't that from Greek Mythology? The woman who killed her own children?" Harry furrowed his brow and looked questioningly at Malfoy.

"Yes, but it was also my grandmother"

"Was?"

"Yes, she died when I was seven"

For a fleeting moment Harry could see a mixed expression of love and grief on Malfoy's face, but it went away so quickly he almost thought he'd imagined it. But he knew he hadn't. It seemed Malfoy was indeed capable of loving, and not completely made of ice. And if Medea Malfoy had taught the blonde boy to love, something not even his parents had managed, she truly must have been a remarkable woman. "It is a good name" Harry said and smiled to Malfoy, and was surprised when he was rewarded a smile in return. It would seem the ice prince was slowly, but surely, melting.


Ooooooh, some Harry Draco interaction! Yeah! Well, do excuse the OOC-ness, but I can't have them killing each other, it just won't work for my story line.