It's been about two weeks since the last update on this story but here is the next chapter. I rather like this so I hope you all enjoy :)
No Bath
As Harry walked down the stairs leading to the dungeons he wondered how well Hermione would be with the three children. The incident in the hall caused him to sigh; Draco was beginning to show true colours in public. When they were alone with him he acted well behaved but in a group of people he became the spoilt brat they knew him as. It was then when the letter that Lucius wrote installed itself back into his brain 'Draco is a Malfoy so don't expect him to be easy to look after'. He now understood what the elder Malfoy meant and for the first time since they had taken the three toddlers Harry worried about how the events would turn. When he looked up he realised that he was stood outside Professor Snape's door, sighing he knocked on the door waiting to be called in.
Hearing the voice from the other side he opened the door and walked to the desk where Professor Snape was sat.
"Potter,"
"Professor Snape."
"You wanted to see me about the potion you best make this quick boy; I do not have all night,"
Harry chose to keep the snarky reply to him. "Professor this afternoon when I was changing Blaise I noticed three bruises across his collarbone."
"Potter children get bruises that is nothing special,"
"I know that but the bruises Blaise knew nothing of, it was when I was talking to Hermione that I remembered the Quidditch game; Ravenclaw verse Slytherin, in the game Zabini took a Bludger to the shoulder and fell off his broom. It's the exact same shoulder the bruisers are from. We both believe that the bruises are formed from the Bludger." Harry explained he waited for Snape to allow him to continue. "What we've worked out is that the potion has shrunk them down to their toddler age but any problems that they had as teenagers have transferred with them to their younger body."
"Interesting, this is in fact a key piece of information, but I do not yet know how to change them back. But I will look closer into this discovery Potter. But I also have a feeling that if they have problems from being a teenager to a toddler, then I am sure that any problems accidents or situations will be transferred from their toddler age back to teenagers." Professor Snape explained. "You best be going to the hospital wing Potter."
"Yes sir." Nodding his head to Snape he turned and left the classroom before a voice stopped him.
"Potter what you did in the hall this evening isn't something many people will take lightly but as a guardian sometimes you have to teach a child the hard way. What you did does not make you in the wrong." Harry turned his head to look at the Professor but his head was down marking assignments.
"Thank you sir" and he left the room slowly closing the door behind him. He raced up the stairs to meet Hermione at the hospital wing.
Five minutes later he stood at the door with an unimpressed Madam Pomfrey and a shocked Hermione looking at Draco who was playing happily with Blaise. Smirking to himself he mumbled something under his breath about children holding no grudge as he head towards Hermione.
"So…"
"Draco has chlamydia!"
"What?" Harry said confused.
"Madam Pomfrey has given all of them a health scan and when she checked Draco the results came back that he has gotten chlamydia. The other two are clean. She is fuming about the situation and keeps saying she is going to report it to Professor Snape, because you know the rules on sex, it's strictly forbidden and we both know that he hasn't had a girlfriend for a while. This will then lead to his parents been told. Harry why are you laughing!"
"Oh Mione don't you see after all this time ferret was boasting about how many notches he has on his bed post, he had caught an infection that he never knew about. This is karma Mione. Think about it."
"I understand where you are coming from but Harry this is serious. He could have fallen drastically ill. He may not be able to have children in the future. And you don't know how many people he has slept with since he caught the disease they will have all attracted it if they have only used the Wizarding way of protection."
"Well if you ask me, anyone daft enough to sleep with him and not think about the consequences other than pregnancy is there selves to blame."
"I see, Madam Pomfrey says that Draco has had it for about three months now. He will have to take medication to get rid of it. This means that we'll have to give him the medicine. Harry we're looking after a two you old with chlamydia!"
"That sounds bad but we will manage. Has she told you anything about the Blaise and Pansy?"
"Pansy is perfectly fine but Blaise is still recovering from a sprained ankle, which was caused when he fell off his broom when he was playing Quidditch. He was advised to keep it wrapped for a few weeks after the incident, but he obviously hasn't she has wrapped it but wants us to keep an eye on it. It's not causing him any pain but she doesn't want him to fall and get injured again." Harry nodded his head.
"She's just getting a duplicate of their medical records for us then we can take them back but I'm thinking once we get back it'll be bath, story and bed, because I don't know about them but I could do with some sleep." Harry nodded in agreement and watched the kids playing. They so far hadn't noticed him but he knew as soon as Pansy did then she would be stuck with him for the night."
"Mr Potter thank you for joining us, now here is each of the three children's records the medication for Mr Malfoy and the bandages for Mr Zabini. I have given Mr Malfoy the medication for this evening, he should not need any till tomorrow morning. Make sure he has one in the morning and one in the afternoon." Hermione and Harry thanked her while taking the paperwork out of her hands. They gathered up the children and escorted them back to the temporary home.
Once back Harry went to fill up the bath as Hermione read through their medical records. As he walked back out she addressed him. "Did you know that Pansy is allergic to Peanuts nuts? Blaise to corn and Draco to shellfish."
"Well at least they're common unlike Blaise I don't think I've heard of anyone with an allergy to corn but I guess someone has to anyway who we bathing first?"
"Start with Pansy she might be the easiest."
"Alright but you're taking her and I'll stay and keep the boys occupied."
"If you say so," walking over to Pansy she bent down. "You ready for your bath little lady?"
"Now?"
"Yep now, let's go get you clean and ready for bed." Pansy nodded her head and held out her hand for Hermione to hold. They walked up the stairs quietly and into the bathroom where she stripped the toddler out of her clothes and placed her into the bath.
She washed her hair first holding on to her hand as she lowered her into the water. She washed out the suds before raising her back up.
"Draco and Blaise having bath too?"
"Yes they're going in straight after your out."
"Draco don't like baths."
"I know, but we're not going to tell him he's having a bath, till he is in the bathroom."
"We get story before bed?"
"Yes you'll get one story before bed." Another five minutes passed and Pansy was removed from the bath. Quickly drying her and placed her into a pair of pyjamas that she owned. Pansy was much happier with these pyjamas then what she had to wear throughout the day.
"Hermione, why you own bunny pyjamas but not stuff like this is clothes?"
"Because people don't see your pyjamas so I wear these, I do have more mature ones but I like to keep my pyjamas to myself and the clothes I wear through the day people can see, and I don't want to be walking around school wearing clothes with bunnies on."
"Pansy sees,"
"Good now let's get you down stairs and get the boys in the bath."
Once down stairs Pansy ran to Harry and Hermione was quick enough to scoop both Draco and Blaise into her arms.
"Ermione down. Draco wanna play," cried Draco wiggling.
"Well Draco you have to do something before you can play. It's nearly bedtime and then you can sleep in your big boy bed."
"Don't wanna bath." Hermione cursed herself inside of course the words big boy bed would bring that back up.
"Well tough you're having one."
"No! Draco won't! No! No! Noo!" The blonde screamed as he was heaved up the staircase. She had nearly dropped him a few times with his constant wiggling. To keep a good grip she had to place Blaise on the floor in front of her, and made him walk the rest of the way up the stairs. When she finally made it to the bathroom she locked the door and placed him on to the floor. The blonde ran straight for the door but was a few inches too small to reach the handle.
"Draco out now!" he gave her his most powerful glare but Hermione rolled her eyes and removed Blaise's clothes placing him in the bath. She then looked towards Draco whose eyes widened as he saw her head towards him. He shook his head and reached for the door one more time before he was swooped into her arms and undressed. It was much more difficult to undress the blonde as he wanted nothing to do with the bath. After a long struggle Hermione was victorious and he was placed in the bath beside Blaise who was happily placing the bubbles on to his face pretending to have a beard. Draco seeing this copied the older boy. Hermione sat on the floor completely drained Draco had tired her out and she couldn't believe after all the struggles she had getting him into the bath that he was now happily playing in it. She didn't even need toys to keep them occupied they were happy with just the multi-coloured bubbles.
Grabbing the shampoo from the side she leant over to Draco and lathered his hair up with the suds.
"Off, Draco play no wash." He said as he tried to move away from her.
"Draco stop it now! You are in the bath to be washed not to play. The quicker you get clean the quicker I can move on to Blaise and you can play. The more difficult you are the slower it will take for you to play."
Grumpily Draco sat scowling as he watched Blaise play. As soon as his hair was covered he was leant back into the water where he quickly began to panic.
"No," he whimpered.
"Calm down, I won't let you go just stay still and it'll be all over soon." His hand held tighter on to Hermione's as he was laid in to the bath water. He continued to whimper and wouldn't remove his hand from Hermione's. From the other side of the bath Blaise watched terrified.
Hermione raised Draco back up and quickly washed his body. She looked at Blaise who was still looking at her terrified.
"Blaise what's a matter."
"Don't wanna go back in water."
"Blaise, I won't let you go. Only your hair goes in so I can wash away the shampoo and then you come back up." He inched closer to Hermione still looking terrified and her heart went out to the young Italian. She could see he was truely petrified and wished there was another way to rid the shampoo. She lathered up his hair and then taking hold of his hand she lowered the now crying toddler into the bath. Draco had now stopped playing to watch his crying friend.
"Shhh it okay Blaise it don't hurt promise." He slide over to Blaise and took his other hand smiling at the boy. Hermione watched the scene as she washed away the suds in his hair. As soon as she was sure that there was no shampoo in his hair she quickly lifted him back up. She washed him down like she had done with Draco before picking him up out of the bath and wrapping him in a towel.
"Shh, no need to cry now you're out." She heard him sniffle as she leant to get Draco out of the bath. "Let's get you both dried and into your pyjamas." As she dried the two boys and dressed them she asked Blaise why he got so scared of leaning back.
"Once fell in bath and head went under water and got scared and couldn't breathe. Mummy got me out and she was crying." Hermione then understood why he was worried about leaning back; his childhood experience of nearly drowning terrified him.
"I go in bath as long as head doesn't go in water." Hermione nodded her head and would think of another way to wash Blaise's hair.
She heard Harry heading up the stairs with Pansy she kept going on about a story. Chuckling she waited for the bathroom door to open.
"Mione what we gonna put them in because they wet the bed?"
"Just use the same spell; we'll get some nappies tomorrow."
"Okay, well I'm taking her to bed now. Are you taking them two to bed?"
"Yeah I will do. Good night Pansy."
"Night Mione, Night Blaise, Night Draco." The two boys bid her farewell as they were picked up and taken to their own room.
"Do you want a story?" she was surprised when both boys said no. "Okay, well goodnight boys," she leant and kissed the half sleep Draco on the forehead who sleepily smiled up at her before snuggling in with Dragon. She repeated the same action to Blaise who smiled at her giving her a kiss back, before taking hold of his teddy and closing his eyes. Hermione left the room smiling, the day had been stressful but also rewarding but she was glad that it was over.
Please tell me what you all think of this chapter. It's a little more extreme then the last so please be nice :)
