The King and I

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Chapter 3: Royal Baby

It was very early on the Saturday morning that Sirius was expecting his royal lover to arrive, it was so early in fact, that it was still completely dark outside except for the dim light of the London street lamps. Sirius, though he was looking forward to seeing Lucius again, was wide-awake and very anxious. His anxiety wasn't due to his excitement over getting to see Lucius but because of something he had heard during his visit to Diagon Alley yesterday.

"You know, I hear the King is having an affair."

"His poor wife, have you heard who the slut is?"

"No, but I doubt it's the first time that wretched man has done this."

Sirius sighed and turned onto his side, he hugged his pillow and stared frowning at the wall. If people found out there would be a massive uproar, especially now that he and Lucius have had a child together. It was a complete and utter scandal; the royal Court would do something drastic to one or the both of them if they ever found out about the twelve-year affair. For one thing, the King's royal Court frowned upon homosexuals particularly ones that were very open or in the public eye, and the fact that their own King had a male lover would probably cause them to order an assassination or something of the same affect.

They could also force Lucius to abdicate his thrown if they really wanted too. Of course, the blond was not an easy man to persuade, he was also extremely stubborn, but there were definitely ways to overthrow his power if the Court and Ministry so chose too.

There was no way he could go back to sleep now so Sirius got out of bed, pulled on a pair of his baggiest slacks and a hooded sweatshirt before going to check on his son. He stood beside his little boy's crib for a few minutes, watching the baby sleep peacefully, a little thumb in his mouth and his fluffy blue rabbit (a present from his uncle Regulus) lying beside him. Perhaps after Lucius's visit today the little boy would actually have a name, instead of just being referred to vie pet names or by 'my son' or 'your son'. He smiled a little, it was quite obvious to himself as to who the baby's other father was, there was a tuft of white-blond hair on his head and Sirius felt certain that his son's face would take on the same shape as Lucius's as he got older.

Sirius leaned over the side of the crib and gently pressed a kiss to his son's forehead, he tucked the baby back in properly and quietly left the nursery. What was he going to do now? Lucius was arriving at nine this morning; as promised vie a quick floo chat, so Sirius had four and a half hours to spare. Of course, he could spend them sleeping as most normal people do but he couldn't sleep and his regular supplier of Sleeping Draughts would probably still be asleep as well. He fell down into his favourite plush armchair and flicked the television on with the sound down low in case it woke his son up.

Why is there never anything on TV when you want something to watch? He thought in boredom as he started flicking channels. "Crap…crap…more crap…ew, early morning porn… My god, television sucks…" He flicked the television off again and started looking for a book or magazine to read, of course, he managed to get bored enough he could probably go back to sleep.

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It was breakfast time in the Lupin-Black household and Remus and Regulus were both sitting at their kitchen table. Remus with his Daily Prophet in hand and a cup of tea in front of him and Regulus with his morning dose of strong black coffee and a rolled up copy of the newest The Quibbler in front of him.

"Hm, a new Minister for Magic will be appointed within the next week," said Remus in interest from behind his paper, though he received an uninterested grunt in return. "Drink some coffee, eat some sugar, liven up."

"I…" Regulus gave a huge yawn. "I am drinking coffee…and we're out of Frosties."

"You know what you can do about that then."

Regulus pulled a face at the werewolf, knowing full well that Remus couldn't see him, he then unrolled his copy of The Quibbler and upon seeing the front-page he choked on his coffee.

Remus lowered his paper and raised his eyebrows, "Are you all right?"

Regulus took another drink and nodded silently before holding up The Quibbler so that Remus could see what had shocked him so much.

A ROYAL AFFAIR!

The King's Passionate Romance Uncovered

"Oh no…" Remus chewed his bottom lip for a moment. "They could just be bluffing, I mean, it is The Quibbler after all. That rag is hardly a reliable news source."

Regulus raised an eyebrow, "And Rita Skeeter's bullshit ramblings are?"

"Well…"

Regulus took another gulp of his coffee as he scanned the front-page article in interest; he was far more awake now. "…Well, it doesn't mention who His Majesty is having the affair with, I mean it actually makes out that it's a women so…they can't have a reliable source anyway." Remus made an 'I told you so' noise. "But still, they don't start rumours like this for no reason, do they?"

"I guess not…"

…

"James…" Professor Severus Snape, the potions master at Hogwarts, was trying to wake his husband up, which was no easy task. James slept like a very dead log, but Severus actually managed to get a grunt out of him this time. "Come on, wake up. There's something you need to see."

James grumbled and tried to burrow further down under the covers, determined to stay asleep for as long as he could.

"James," said Severus warningly, but to no avail. He tugged the covers out of James's grip and smacked the sleeping man around the head. "Potter, wake up!"

James groaned, "Fuck off!" he wrenched the covers back out of Severus's hands and pulled them back over his head. "Too early…"

Severus rolled his eyes and got back to his feet, "Fine then, be that way. Just thought you would like to know that the little mutt's affair is out." He smirked as the covers practically flew off James who was by now, half sitting up.

"What? How? Who said…how the hell did you know?"

Severus raised his eyebrows slightly, "I know a lot of things that you have yet to tell me, and it is in the new edition of The Quibbler. Though it doesn't specify whether it's a male or female that the King is sleeping with, the article does have a fair bit of substantial evidence."

James blinked owlishly, "I wonder if Sirius knows yet…"

"Assuming he still reads the same crap as you do, then he probably does."

James frowned at his husband's back as the professor left their bedroom, "Excuse me, it appears that you, Severus, are the one that opened my Quibbler today!"

"Yes, well," started Severus loudly from somewhere outside the bedroom. "Being married to you seems to have killed quite a large number of my brain cells. But I won't argue about it right now, I have a staff meeting to attend."

"Oh…fuck you, Snape!"

"Man of many words, aren't you?"

James growled and pulled the bed covers back over his head again.

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It was now half past nine on Saturday morning and Sirius was fast asleep on his couch, after finding nothing to watch on television and trying to do a crossword puzzle in The Daily Prophet, he had finally fallen asleep.

"Sirius!"

Sirius jerked awake and immediately fell off the couch, upon having his name shouted so loudly. He sat up on the floor and tried to blow his hair out of his eyes as the source of the voice appeared behind the couch, "Could you not wake me nicely?"

"No."

Sirius glanced at the clock on the wall and back to the man behind his couch, "You're late."

Lucius raised an eyebrow, as he rested his cane against the back of the couch and then he took off his robes and placed them neatly over the back of couch as well. "A King is never late, Sirius, everyone else is simply too early."

Sirius frowned a little, "This is my place, I was already here, you daft blond." He hauled himself up off the floor and yawned.

Lucius raised both his eyebrows this time, "I could have you hanged for that insult, if I so chose too."

Sirius deliberately ignored that last sentence and headed into his kitchen, "How did you get in?"

"I Apparated."

"Oh…" Sirius went about preparing a bottle of milk for his son, who seemed yet to wake up which was a little worrying. "And what was with the panic, then?"

Lucius leaned against the kitchen doorframe, his arms folded, "Someone knows about us. It was in The Quibbler this morning."

Sirius looked over his shoulder to the blond King, his eyebrows drawn together in worry, "I-it was The Quibbler though…I mean, that's not exactly a reliable publication, is it?"

"Their articles always have some basis in fact, Sirius," replied Lucius seriously. As much as he enjoyed everything about being with Sirius, he really could not afford to let this relationship get out, and if he had to, he would call it off with his lover. Though he knew if he did that it would not end nicely, especially with Sirius's temper when he was upset. "Look-"

"Can we not discuss it right now, please?" said Sirius cutting his lover off, as he tested the temperature of the baby milk.

Lucius held up his hands in defeat, "Okay, we have discuss it sometime soon, though."

Sirius nodded, "I know, just not right now… I'm too tired for a serious discussion," Lucius opened his mouth to speak but Sirius continued on. "Anyway, you need to meet your son."

"Right now?"

Sirius smirked and walked past the King, was that a bit of fear he detected in that smooth voice? "You're not afraid, are you?"

"Why would I be afraid of a child?"

Sirius quirked his eyebrows and indicated for Lucius to follow him, "You're getting defensive now, so I must be right."

"Its not like I have had experience with child rearing."

Sirius entered the nursery, "What, and you think I did before this?" he smirked as he watched Lucius enter the nursery cautiously, his grey eyes focussed on the little human in the crib. "He won't bite, your majesty, he hasn't got any teeth yet."

"Still…this is unnerving for me," Lucius inched closer to Sirius and the crib and looked into it to see his child stirring from sleep. "I know I wasn't that cute when I was a baby."

Sirius snorted and tapped Lucius on the face, "You make up for that now though. Hold this," he handed the bottle of milk to Lucius before he carefully lifted their son out of the crib and held him carefully in the crook of one arm, making sure his little head was supported. "Thank you," he took the bottle back off Lucius and settled himself down in the nursery rocking chair to feed the little baby.

"He certainly eats like you do," commented Lucius, while he keenly watched the interaction between Sirius and their child. From watching this he was getting quite a warm, fuzzy feeling in his body and that wasn't something the King was entirely used too, especially considering he had been labelled a 'cold-hearted bastard' on countless occasions.

Sirius grinned, "He certainly looks like you do, poor kid."

"Hey…"

"Good boy," said Sirius quietly, as the baby finished off the entire bottle. "You were hungry, weren't you?" Now it was time to burp the child, as he did so though, he looked back to Lucius. "Thought of any names?"

As rare an occurrence for him as it was, Lucius gave a small, very genuine smile, "I have, actually."

"You never cease to amaze me, Luce, honestly," replied Sirius, as he got back to his feet so that he could change the baby's diaper. "Are you going to tell me, or do you want me to mind read? …Oh, don't cry, please don't cry…that's my good little dragon…"

"Draco was one name that I was thinking of, actually."

Sirius pointed to his own head and then to Lucius's, "Great minds think alike."

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After about half an hour of arguing over middle names for their son, Lucius and Sirius finally managed to agree on a full name – Draco Brendan Malfoy-Black.

"Brendan?"

Lucius smiled slightly, "Means Prince."

Sirius nodded slowly, "Ah…Prince Draco Brendan Malfoy-Black…that is quite a mouthful to shout if he misbehaves…"

"I'm sure we'd manage."

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After the two men had had lunch and Lucius had had a go at feeding baby Draco again, they were now on the couch together, Sirius using the blond as a pillow and his legs tucked underneath himself. Lucius had an arm draped around Sirius's shoulders and his head resting against the one using his shoulder as a pillow.

"If The Quibbler isn't bullshitting, then how do you think they found out?" asked Sirius quietly, it was now time for the serious part of their day back together and he was hoping that nothing too bad would become of it.

"I have a fair idea of how they found out…"

"Oh?" Sirius lifted his head so that he could gaze quizzically at the King.

Lucius nodded, "The owls we sent each other had been intercepted, and have been used against us."

Sirius frowned, "You said at the Ball, that they may have been intercepted, you knew then, didn't you?"

Lucius sighed and nodded, "I did know then, I've known for quite some time, in fact, I just didn't say anything last week because I didn't want us to have the conversation in a bathroom… Don't look at me like that, I am not telling you who it is until I have found some legal way of getting rid them."

Sirius narrowed his eyes slightly, "So I take it this person has been blackmailing you, then?" Lucius rubbed his forehead and nodded. "…I guess that would explain some of the more uncharacteristic things you have done recently, then…"

"It would."

"You still could have told me last week, even if we were in the loo."

Lucius smirked humourlessly, "Admit it, you would not have let it drop right away, though, would you? The shouting you actually did probably attracted too much attention to that bathroom anyway, I'm surprise a name for my 'mistress' hasn't been given yet."

Sirius pulled away from Lucius so that there was about a foot in space between them, "You can't blame all this on me."

"I am not blaming this all on you, Sirius," replied Lucius slowly and carefully so that it got into Sirius's head. "But really, you could have given it a little more thought before you started shouting at me last week."

"You should have silencing charms on your bathrooms," grumbled Sirius crossing his arms petulantly. "There was nothing stopping you from telling me to shut up."

"You probably would have cried."

"I would not!"

"Sirius, calm down," Lucius rested a hand on one of Sirius's knees. "I can tell you probably will soon if we continue arguing."

Sirius sniffed, "I've been pregnant, I have a reason to get a little emotional sometimes."

"I never said you didn't have a reason," continued Lucius, his long, piano playing fingers starting to trace patterns on one of Sirius's thighs. "Let me just look into it a little more, and I will let you know everything that I haven't told you."

Sirius shifted a little bit, he was rather enjoying those lovely hands sneaking further up his legs, though he was trying not to show it but failing miserably in hiding his delight. "When?"

"When I get back from Spain, in about a week's time," Lucius was now using his other hand to lightly trail up and down Sirius's right arm.

"Okay…" Sirius leaned his head into the hand that was now in his hair. "Mm…if you want to shag me, please…don't take all day about it…"

"Eager, are we?"

"I haven't had sex in nine months, of course I'm eager," grumbled Sirius, shifting back closer to the stunning blond father of his son. "I should hope you haven't either."

Lucius cupped the younger man's face and brought their mouths together briefly, "I may not be loyal to my wife, but I am to you."

"Oh…good…" Sirius closed the gap between their faces again in a deep kiss, which was only the start of what the two men did for the rest of their day together.

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A/N: I hope that was all right. That 'daft blond' thing, don't be offended if you are blond/blonde because I am as well.

Next Chapter: Oh god, um… I really don't know… There will be more Remus/Regulus and Severus/James interaction, anyway. You'll have to be surprised!