Author's Note: I am using Christmas as the winter holiday because living in America as a white Anglo-Saxon bastard, it is the tradition I am most failure with. I am sorry if I offend anyone my not mentioning the Winter Solstice or Hanukkah or even Kwanzaa... I am sorry but I feel since they have Christmas in the books that is the holiday to use in this fan fiction as well. 

A Father's Love

By Tw1n 3v1l W00t

Chapter Seven: Interlude and Random Scenes that will be relevant later…

~~***~~Christmas Year One~~***~~

"Drey!!! Ron!!! COME ON!!" Harry yelled out at his friends they were having a Christmas breakfast of French toast and powdered sugar sure to leave all twenty-three remaining students in the school wired and then very sleepy afterwards. But Harry was not interested in the breakfast. His father and Uncle Remus, as he had become accustom to calling him, were having a special Christmas morning down in the room they shared in the dungeons. Harry had been so busy practicing being a seeker with Wood and the other team members he had had very little time to spend with his father.

"Harry it's barely eight o'clock mate. Can't we sleep in?" Ron mumbled from under the covers.

"NO!" Harry yelled yanking the blanket and sheet right off on Ron who was rather unpleased about his lack of warmth.

"Harry." Draco gave his friend 'the look'. "If Ron wants to look like he just woke up for the parents, he can. Aren't we expected to be there in an hour?" Draco sighed fixing his robes in front of a floor mirror framed with silver.

"Yes, at Nine." Harry said. "Don't." He spoke out as Draco reached for his hair oil to slick back his hair in the hairstyle he had worn since he had first gotten to the school.

"Don't what?" Draco looked completely in shock and had stopped mid movement.

"Your hair, it looks good like that. You don't need the oil." Harry said quietly an extra hint of red could be seen in his cold cheeks, he had forgotten to but on his socks and shoes after his trousers.

"Well I guess I could give my hair a days rest." Draco said quietly putting the oil down and going on with his chores of morning cleanliness.

"RON!!" Harry whined at the red head still in bed.

"Fine… fine I'm up I'm up… geez." Ron said swinging his legs over the edge of the bed and falling out on his face. Eyes still closed. "Ouch… that hurt." He said still not moving.

"Ohh you!! Would you get up??? We have…" Harry checked his watch. "fifty-two minutes to finish getting ready and have breakfast AND be down in the dungeons…"

"Go on without me I will catch up tomorrow." Ron said unmoved still face down on the cold rug.

"Ronald, I do believe that Harry's father has taken the liberty of getting all of our presents so he and Professor Lupin can watch us open them today. Isn't that right Harry?"

"Yeah. So you snooze you lose and you're making us late."

"Fine." Ron said getting up of the floor and rushing into the bathroom. He came back and stripped down to his knickers and putting on a fresh pair of muggle jeans and a red tee shirt knowing he had a sweater waiting for him from his mother. Draco ignored this practice, he personally preferred changing where no one could see him, but Ron made no qualms about changing in front of the other boys, even in the evening when he changed his knickers. "There I am ready. now how about breakfast?" he said as his stomach let out a terrible rumble.

"I am nearly done." Draco said looking at himself in the mirror. He shed the robe and looked at his black slacks and silver and crimson dress shirt Remus kept the temperature up in the rooms below and he feared no cold before they got back to the Gryfindor tower.

"Hnn..." Harry grunted as he was upside down tying his laces. He wore Jeans and an un-tucked shirt that matched Draco's. The shirts had been a gift from Severus and Remus after the two adoptions had been complete and Severus and Remus shared custody of the two boys. Harry stood up from his squatting position on the floor and watched as Draco took out a small vial on perfume and sprinkled a little on both wrist rubbing them together and then trying to fasten his sleeves. Harry chuckled at his friends apparent difficulty the sleeves were slightly tight on Draco and he could not easily button them. "Here, let me it'll be faster and Ron is hungry."

"Thanks Harry." Draco smiled at him. Draco had enjoyed the past four months with Harry and Ron more then he had ever enjoyed anything. He had friends and not snotty blond girls or blubbering idiots. Draco had real friends and he liked being with them more then anything. He even had a makeshift family who loved him. HE had Uncle Remus and Uncle Severus and then Harry, but he couldn't think of Harry as a brother or cousin. Draco was content to have Harry and Ron as friends.

The three ate breakfast quickly with Harry nearly choking down everything and giving himself a small stomachache in the process. To settle his stomach, he drank a glass of pumpkin juice slowly as his friends finished their meals. Harry began to whine that they were taking to long at twenty till the hour after noticing that Remus had not been at breakfast at all and that Severus had left ten minutes before after giving a warm smile to the boys and a small wave.

"Harry," Draco started "we have twenty minutes to go before we are expected. That is fifteen minutes before we need to leave. Calm down." Harry slumped he was too excited to calm down. Draco smirked and picked up a Danish from one of the center trays and pinched off a small piece and then went to chew it fifty times before taking another tiny bite. He heard Harry whine but continued to eat the Danish in this fashion until he gave in and ate the remaining Danish in seven bites.

"Can we leave yet?" Harry asked for the second time and Ron and Draco looked at each other and because they were done with breakfast could no longer tell their friend no.

"Alright lets go." Ron said sighing, as he knew that they were going to be extremely early, according to Sev.

The three boys were at the door in five minutes. Harry gave the password and they entered, Remus and Severus had decorated the room elegantly and had a place for each boy. Harry's first order of business was to hug his father. However, the boys were alone in the main room of the apartment like rooms. Harry could hear the portrait of the snake in the other room hissing out 'welcome back sacred ones' as it had hissed every time Harry and Draco had returned to the rooms. Harry's mood began to dampen when he could not find his father.

"You're early." Came the gruff voice of Remus behind them making Harry jump. Ron snickered only because he to had jumped a little but Harry was almost scared by the voice. Draco however was un-affected by the man standing behind him and turned slowly.

"Yes, we are Harry was getting anxious." Draco said smoothly.

"Well then, I guess I can understand."

"Where is Sev?" Harry asked his voice quiet and almost shy. He still hated asking for his father, it seemed out of place like he should know where his father was even when he had no clue.

"Behind you." Remus said. Harry turned and Severus was walking in from the bedroom, carrying a few more gifts. He placed them where they belonged.

"Dad!" Harry said excitedly, running to him and grabbing him around the waist and squeezing as hard as he could.

"It's alright Harry, I'm right here." Sev said bending over slightly to return the boys hug. "Merry Christmas Harry." he said letting go.

And this year, Christmas was merry, he was safe, he had a father and an uncle type who knew his mother and both who loved him. He spent most of Christmas in the cozy room with four people who would no beat him, would not harm him, yell at him, or be anything but loving friends. Harry had what he wanted for Christmas: a family.

~~***~~ Three years later ~~***~~

Harry and Draco were trying to wake Ron again this Christmas morning while he protested that he needed more sleep.

"We could leave him here." Draco suggested.

"Na, we can just carry him down in his knickers and let him visit scary professor Snape and Lupin in nothing but his knickers."

"YOU WOULDN'T DARE!" Ron said sitting straight up in bed. Harry just smiled.

"Actually that might be entertaining. I say we do." Draco said in reply.

"Fine I'm up, but I will have you know that never have I been treated like this before in my entire life!" Ron hollered, storming into the bathroom before coming back out to strip and change into Christmas clothing.

"Apparently he doesn't remember last Christmas when we put plastic spiders in his bed on Christmas Eve." Draco said.

"Then it's best not to remind him." Harry suppressed a laugh.

"Har! Har! Har! Laugh it up I will get you two back one day for that." Ron stated sorely in mid-strip.

The boys continued their Christmas tradition of going down to the dungeons for Christmas day and returning the night tired and sick on sweets.

~~***~~ That Night~~***~~

Harry watched as his friends stored away their new acquisitions Ron was soon asleep but Draco who had taken to reading before bed sat up and stared down at his book. Harry sat up and crossed the room taking a chance a big chance… Harry climbed into the bed with Draco reading over his shoulder like he had done before on nights he couldn't sleep or when he wanted to be close to someone. Draco was very nice about this and began explaining the book up to the point he was at now.

"It's okay Drey I just wanted to be close to you." Harry said sleepily. "Remember when we used to sleep together back when we where ten?"

"Yeah, you would get so scared some nights. And I had nightmares, about my father. We were comfort for each other."

"Do you think Voldermort is coming back? I mean I can't really have killed him can I? I was only a little over a year old."

"I don't know Harry. My guess would be that if he were coming back he would have been back by now."

"Drey? Can I tell you something?"

"Unn. Yes no reason you couldn't."

"Drey, I don't like girls."

"Okay."

"What do you mean okay? Don't you have any more response then that?"

"Should I? I mean if I did it would be rather hypocritical of me. I don't like 'em either."

"Seriously or are you mocking me?" Harry looked at the eyes of his best friend and they were as sincere as he had ever seen them.

"Seriously." Draco said smiling. Harry felt relieved and sank down into the bed. "Aren't you going to bed?"

"Yes, and I still want to be close to you. I am sharing your bed with you." Harry said closing his eyes.

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Unn Hnn."

"Will you go on a date with me on the next Hogsmead weekend?"

"Unn Hnn but no funny business, I still have my wand with me."

"Wasn't gonna try anything but since you brought it up can I at least hold you while we sleep?"

"I would be insulted if you didn't." Harry said before taking off his glasses and putting them on the table next to Draco's bed and nodding off.

AN: Okay folks, that's it for now I will probably skip a couple of years in the next chapter and blah blah blah like I have been doing and I will try to get working on the other story too. BTW if you read chapter six but didn't read the end, you probably should. I am going to try to get more Harry and Sev bonding stuff in next chapter but I wanted to write the fluff chapter so I did. Happy drugs are a good thing and I am very very sleepy…. good night!