A/N Thanks to the guest who reviewed, if you are reading this could you possibly PM me? Your review gave me a few ideas and I wanted to ask you a couple things! Thanks! :) Anyway, this chapter will be a bit of a filler to get the story started.
Hunter and Draco got on better than anyone could've ever hoped for; as soon as they set eyes on each other they became inseparable. The years flew by for The Malfoys and James Potter, who frequently visited his godsons at the manor and took them out to meet their uncle Remus every Sunday.
Hunter, who could already walk when he arrived at the manor, encouraged Draco to get up and take his first steps. And Draco, whose vocabulary was already expanding, taught Hunter how to say every word he knew.
By the time they were three they were already up to no good; making a mess in the immaculate manor every time their parent's backs were turned. Narcissa and Lucius took the titles of mother and father to Hunter but still told him all the time who his real parents were. James had once even tried to take him into a pensieve! It ended with a crying and cold Hunter and James nearly wetting his pants at the look Narcissa gave him. The boys godfather then decided that he would store memories for when he was only enough.
While the boys were still young the adults- if James and Remus could be classed as that- decided that the Malfoys should blood adopt Hunter and change his birthday to match Draco's. The blood adoption gave Hunter more of the Malfoy looks along with the Black and Evans. Hunters face grew to be more defined and his eyes changed to blue to match Narcissa's. He was renamed Hunter Orion Black Malfoy and could change it to just Potter, Black, Malfoy, Evans or Lupin if he so pleased when he grew up.
Draco and Hunter's accidental magic started when they were very young, and by the time their fourth birthday rolled around they were almost always able to control it.
Wards had been put up around the manor in addition to those already in place. None of the occupants, temporary or permanent, wanted the old Hogwarts Headmaster turning up any time soon. James knew that if Lily and Sirius had just left the country like he had suggested so many times and ignored Dumbledore's protests then their son would still have his parents.
When Hunter and his brother hit five they were presented with their very own practise wands. The wands would not actually produce the desired spell but would send out green smoke if they got the spell right and red if they made a mistake somewhere.
The twins had been raised to speak multiple different languages in case the family needed to leave on short notice. They had both been taught English, French, German and Bulgarian since they started to talk and were encouraged to use all four throughout each day. By the time they were seven they could each speak them all fluently and also knew important phrases in Gobbledegook –the Goblin language.
On the fourth of June 1986 both boys were waiting patiently by the fire for their Uncle Mooney to floo through and have dinner. The twins were excited for him to come round and spend the next two weeks with them for their birthday. They hadn't been able to go see him the just past Sunday as he was having a spot of bother with his 'Furry little problem' as Uncle Prongs called it. Although both boys knew that he was a werewolf, they'd heard mother and father talking about it about a year ago when he missed their seventh birthday. They'd then asked Dobby, the house elf, to fetch them some books on werewolves.
Just as the two were about to go find something else to do the fire flashed a brilliant green and Mooney stepped out but just after him a women also stepped out. Both boys looked at their Uncle with confused expressions, Draco's eyebrows drawn together and eyes squinting and Hunter's eyes wide and bottom lip jutted out.
"Boys, I want to introduce you to my friend Lafawnda Teller." Remus smiles.
Lafawnda rolls her eyes and nudges Mooney, "Its Fawn boys, not Lawfawnda." She says as she kneels to their height to shake their hands. Draco and Hunter, being raised to pure blood standards, each take a hand and bow down, kissing it lightly. They both bring their heads up at the same time. Hunter winks at Fawn then quickly looks at Remus to see if he was caught.
When he meet his Uncle Mooney's eye he takes off at a sprint and being taller he catches him in seconds. Draco and Fawn stood in the family room, laughing as they heard a 'Splash' and a shout from Hunter. But what they didn't expect to hear was Hunter shout, "Accio Remus." And a second splash sounded through the hall.
Sparing Fawn a look, Draco took towards the gardens just outside the patio doors, at the end of the hall. Fawn followed him with a cautious eye; an almost eight year old shouldn't be able to summon a fully grown man especially wandless.
They arrive to the small but deep pond and see a sheepish looking Hunter and a bewildered looking Remus. "Hunt… what did you do?" Narcissa says, having seen the whole thing from her bedroom window.
"What's going on?" Lucius demands as he walks out of the house followed by an extremely over hyper James Potter who is talking animatedly to him although he is not listening.
The group look at each other not really sure in what to say. Remus finally speaks up, "Hunter managed to 'Accio' me into the pool, wandlessly, after him."
The adults look at Hunter sceptically, Draco just looks down right impressed. "Am I in trouble?" Hunter asks confused, they always told him it was a good thing to be able to do wandless magic.
"No Hunt, it is just that it takes a lot of power and control to be able to perform it. We're not mad sweetie, just shocked. Okay?" Narcissa explains, Hunter nods.
Draco, with the attention span of a gold fish breaks the tension by asking if it was time for dinner. When they are all in the kitchen and tucking into their meal the adults start asking if the boys are looking forward to tomorrow, their birthday. They nod enthusiastically, they had heard their parents talking about what they were going to get and they didn't know exactly what it was but they knew it was big.
When the meal had finished they bid goodnight to everyone, and said goodbye to Fawn, who promised to return within the next couple of days. The boys leg it upstairs and into their rooms, which are joined through a walk-in-closet. The twins share clothes for formal events but when in casual clothing their styles differ. Draco tends to go for polo shirts and capris, while Hunter, much to their Uncle Sev's disapproval, tends to dress a lot like his father in jeans, T-shirts and his leather jacket.
The boys dump their books they had had downstairs in their rooms and meet in their closet, Draco opens the door to their hidden nook behind their robes and they both clamber in. Through the little crawl space is a semi-large room with pillows scattered everywhere, books and all the practice wands they have ever owned displayed on a book case. Draco had put them in author order, being the perfectionist he is. He could always tell when Hunter had been too lazy to put one away properly and had just shoved it anywhere because the authors all seemed to have their books roughly the same height and when a ten inch book is next to a twenty inch then Hunter better run.
"Hey, Dragon? What'd you think Ma and Pa are getting us for our birthday? Do you think it will be separate things like when we got out brooms or a joint thing like that holiday to America?" Hunter asks, they hadn't got much of a tell-tale this year as they had years past.
Draco stares intently at Hunter for a moment, thinking what his parents could actually give them, they had everything they needed. "I'm not sure Hunt but remember what we heard them saying, its big and it could be dangerous."
Hunter remembers back to the conversation they over heard.
Narcissa and Lucius had not thought to check the door for eavesdroppers, it wasn't usually a problem… that they knew of.
"Luce, what is happening with the 'thing'?" They may not be cautious about eavesdroppers but she wasn't willing to call it what it was just yet.
Lucius took a deep breath and looked up to the ceiling, "I'm not sure Cissy, but its big and we will have to watch the boys carefully just in case."
Narcissa nods at that statement; she doesn't want the boys to get hurt, not her boys. By this point the twins had run off up back to their hidden nook. Rambling on about what they could be getting.
But what the boys ran off from was a totally different conversation, "Lucius, would they really target the twins? Would they really go that far as to hurt innocent children?"
"I am afraid so my dear, old Professor Dumbledore may believe our beloved Hunter dead but in a few years his name will come up on the Hogwarts letters, the searches will be out and eventually he will be found and I will be accused more, he would use Hunt to get to us. I could go to Azkaban and Hunter would be taken away. The accusations towards me are already building up, I overheard at the ministry that they are planning to put me on trial for the deeds I performed for the Dark Lord." He replies sadly.
The torn look on Narcissa's face was heart-breaking, "We must leave, at once; we shall break it to Draco and Hunter the day after their birthday. Although I must tell Andromeda, we have only recently got close; she may wish to move with us although Tonks is just into her third year at Hogwarts, which may sway her a bit to staying."
Lucius nodded and dropped the subject for the time being.
"PUP! DRAGON! Wake up!" James shouts, jumping on the bed he had moved the boys into last night after they had fallen asleep in their den.
Hunter was the first to fully realise that it was their birthday and hurried to wake Drake up and get dressed. They had a splendid breakfast made by the house elves, pancakes and waffles for Hunter and a full English breakfast for Draco, their favourites.
By the time all seven of them had finished eating (Severus had joined them, the tension between the marauders was long gone, for Hunters sake) the twins were practically bouncing in their seats. They dragged the adults through to the sitting room and just as they were about to get handed their first present the fire crackled and their big cousin Tonks stepped out, followed by their Aunt Andromeda and then Uncle Ted.
"TONKS!" The boys shouted in unison, they adored their cousin and absolutely loved it when she performed magic for them. They were also particularly surprised because she was supposed to still be at school. "What ya doing here Dora?" Hunter asked with a confused look on his face.
Tonks laughed, "An outbreak of lice throughout Hufflepuff, you'd think for being wizards we'd be able to avoid it but nope! So the whole school got sent home early." She exclaims and ruffles their hair while handing them a present each not noticing the adults send a look towards Severus, who is just as confused. Their presents though were snatched away by James. They went to ask but he just winked.
Once everyone was settled again they went to open their presents from their parents. Hunter opened his smallest one first. He recognised the Ollivanders logo on the top and his eyes widened, is it what he thinks it is? How had they got it though? Hunter had only met the man twice in his life, once about a year ago when he went with Prongs to get his wand checked. And then again roughly about three months ago but then again the man did seem to be studying him. Could he have managed to pick a wand for him by that?
Hunter turned to Draco to see him holding the exact same packaging, he moved to sit next to him and they both opened them together. The boxes get opened and the wands picked up. The change in the air is extraordinary, two wands connecting with both eight year olds magic. Both wands looked identical and were specifically made for both boys, they would grow with them and the wands would only let them perform spells their magic was ready for.
They boys got up and hugged their parents, they were so grateful, they'd wanted their own real wands all their lives!
"Alright, this is cute but your Uncles and Aunt want to give you presents too!" Prongs exclaims, gesturing to the rest of the family. The elder Malfoys rolled their eyes at him but let go of the boys.
The next gift they opened was Uncle Sevs, he had gotten the both a brand new set of scales, new potion ingredients and a book of potions that did awesome things like turn your hair different colours. Both of the twins excelled at potions, much to Severus's delight.
Next was Moony, he gave them both a leash. They looked from each other, to the leashes then finally Moony who was smirking. He handed them both another parcel that contained two different books, one on Magical Creatures and Half-breeds, the other an absolutely huge one on transfiguration. There was a note on top of the transfiguration one saying 'Page 6977 will suit you both well, just don't tell your parents!'.
Next was Tonks and her parents, they had gotten Hunter a new broom cleaning supplies and a shiny gold snitch to practise with. They had gotten Draco the same broom supplies but instead of a snitch he got a quaffle. "Your parents got some hoops to put up for you guys to practise in and said that I could come round whenever for some games!" Tonks explains excitedly. Both sets of parents rolled their eyes; Quidditch fanatics!
Their final gifts were from Prongs, he lead them to two huge cardboard boxes at the side of the room, one with 'Hunter' across it and the other with 'Draco'. Cautiously they both opened the lids. Inside of Hunters was a small, black and brown, blue eyed puppy sleeping in a small mound of pillows. "He's a gerberian shepsky, a cross between a Siberian Huskey and a German Shephard."
Hunter looks in Draco's box he has, as far as Hunter can tell with his brief knowledge of dogs, a black and tan Doberman puppy.
"I take it this was why we got a leash?" Laughs Draco. The family nod and laugh. Both boys carefully try to lift the pups out of the boxes but need Prongs and Moony to help them. They sit down on the floor of the room with the puppies on their knees.
After a while of messing around with their puppies, wands partially forgotten, they turn their attention back to the people in the room. "Got a name for them, pups?" Prongs asks.
Hunter lifts his fluffy buddle up to eye level and looks him in the eyes, "Yep, he is called Rocco."
"Jack, he is so a Jack." Draco states.
"Agreed, Rocco meet Jack, Jack meet Rocco!" Hunter giggles, the eight year old having wanted to say that since he heard someone say it in a movie once. He pats Rocco's head while thinking, he then remembers, he has a wand!
Draco seemed to remember too as they had both placed their pups on pillows and opened the boxes again. Hunter inspects his, looking at it from all angles and listening to it. "Hawthorn, Veela hair, eleven inches?" Hunter guessed, he had asked Narcissa a year earlier if he could study wands.
"Ten and a half but you're getting good Hunt." His mother says with a smirk, the boy was a true Malfoy.
Hunter looked to his brother and nodded, they aimed at opposite walls. "Colovaria!" They said at the same time. The walls all changed to a brilliant shade of green, much different to the usual mustard yellow.
"You boys always did hate that colour." Lucius mused. Smirking at the thought of the boys being Slytherin, but his smirk dropped as he remembered what they had to tell the boys. Tomorrow. At breakfast.
The boys spent the rest of the day practising simple spells and charms and playing with their puppies. Exhausted they made their way up to their rooms, Prongs carrying Rocco and Uncle Sev carrying Jack.
"Night Dragon! Goodnight Uncle Sev!" Hunter says and James ruffles Draco's hair.
Severus bids him goodnight and goes into Draco's room to put the dog in. "Good night Prongs, night Hunt!" Draco says before disappearing behind their second godfather.
When the boys woke up the next morning they bounded down the stairs, their now fully awake pups following them. But the atmosphere when they made it to the dining room though was very tense.
"Dragon, Pup, sit down we have something to tell you." James says, he is never this upset.
Draco and Hunter exchange a glace, what could upset Prongs this much?
"Boys… We're leaving." Narcissa says, "We have to leave tonight."