Hello my darlings, I'm sorry I haven't updated till now. There's a little love in the chapter but mostly just filler and lotsa detail. I hope you like it. I'm already working on the chapter after and I might give ya a little preview at the end for it :P I hope you enjoy!
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Harry chuckled as he slowly woke and found himself with an armful of Draco on one side, Zayden and Cyrus on the other. He slowly slid Cyrus and Zayden into Draco's arms then headed downstairs to make a great pot of oatmeal. After it was finished and flavored with honey and dried fruit he put it onto the table.
Draco woke about a half hour later and chuckled, slowly rousing the children after smelling food. "Come on sweet ones it's breakfast time." He murmured.
Cyrus slowly woke then smiled sleepily and gently hugged Zayden. "Come on it's breakfast time." He said softly.
Elijah helped Lyra jump down from the bed then took her hand and Cyrus's, leading the way downstairs. He was the one who woke best in the morning. He helped Lyra up into her seat then went and hugged his daddy. "Daddy, am I gonna have another daddy?" he asked softly.
Harry blushed at the question then gently lifted Elijah and set him in his own seat, serving all the children the oatmeal. "I don't know yet Elijah. We will have to wait and see okay?" he asked softly.
Elijah nodded and started to eat his breakfast. Cyrus turned and looked at Zayden. "Zayden do you like music?" he asked softly.
Zayden grinned fully. "My daddy is teaching me to play violin. He plays a bunch of different music." He said happily.
Elijah looked to Draco with a hopeful look in his eyes. "Draco? Could you teach me to play the piano?" he asked shyly, looking back to his oatmeal.
Draco smiled and gently kissed Elijah's forehead. "I would love to little one. Harry we need to talk about getting Lyra her own room or getting another room set up connected to one of ours for both of them." He said softly.
Harry nodded his head then smiled. "Well how are there rooms now? Extravagant enough for the princess and little king?" he asked softly.
Draco sighed and shook his head. "No I haven't had enough money to do as much as I wanted." He admitted sadly.
Harry smiled. "Then today I am expanding the house, it's not a hard spell and we will go shopping. Lyra will get her own room then we will pack their wardrobe and get them wands books and anything else they need as well as see if we can't find an art tutor who is willing to travel with us." He said softly.
Draco nodded and sighed. "I don't know anything about art. I want someone to teach Lyra to dance as well. Harry I can't ask you to pay for a room that extravagant, it's to much." He said softly.
Harry shook his head. "your repaying me by bringing the kids along and teaching my son music." He promised then smiled. "Kids we got you some presents at the fair, would you like to wear them out to go shopping today?" he asked.
Elijah nodded and grinned excitedly. "Yes please." He said at the same time as his brother, knowing his father was great at picking out gifts.
Zayden smiled shyly. "For me and Lyra too?" he asked.
Draco nodded and smiled. "You are our little king and princess." He teased. "We will even dress up to match you." He promised.
Lyra shook her head. "No. Daddy I want you to wear the funny bowtie!" she shouted excitedly.
Draco laughed. "Alright, I'll wear the funny bow tie. But will you be my little princess today?" he asked.
Lyra bit her lip then smiled and nodded. "Daddy are we really gonna travel with Cyrus and Elijah? Can we see the one with the funny voices country?" she asked.
Harry stared at Draco confused. "Yes Lyra, we are going to travel with them and I'm sure we can pass through Japan too." He promised with a laugh.
Harry chuckled then smiled as he cleaned her up. "We will go to Japan after Venice okay? I promised Cyrus we would go to an art museum there." He said softly.
Lyra nodded and smiled. "Is that why the map is out?" she asked.
Harry grinned. "That's right my smart little sweet heart. I want you guys to all take a marker and circle where you think Venice is." He said playfully.
Cyrus took a marker and circled the country of Italy, while Lyra colored in Africa and Zayden China. Elijah bit his lip then colored in Germany and looked to his daddy. "Are we right?" he asked.
Harry chuckled. "Cyrus was right it is in Italy. Do you want to know something cool about Venice?" he asked the kids with a smile, getting an excited nod from all of them. "Venice is built on water, they have live with channels throughout the city and travel everywhere by boat. So while we are in Venice, we will get to use the boat." He teased.
Cyrus grinned and quickly hugged his daddy. "Do we get to go fast and can we play in the water?" he asked.
Harry chuckled. "We will set course either tomorrow or the day after depending on if we finish Lyra and Zayden's rooms today or tomorrow. If your going to swim in Venice, I want you to swim with me or Draco present and with Mama in the water or with your basalisks with you. Oh and today we will be going to a pet shop and you are each going to pick out one small fish to take care of in your rooms then two for a big tank to take care of as a family okay?" he asked.
Lyra giggled and nodded her head. "I want a purple one!" she said loudly and excitedly as Draco lifted her to his hip then did the same with Zayden. "I'll take them upstairs and get them ready, can you get the twins?" he asked.
Harry nodded and took both the twins hands. "Come on boy's lets go. Oh Draco how many languages do you speak?" he asked.
Draco frowned. "four why?" he asked.
Harry sighed. "I need to get a language teacher as well then, maybe a muggleborn teacher who can teach them muggle studies as well. I want them to be able to live in both worlds." He decided.
Draco nodded and smiled. "I trust you to pick out a good teacher and classes for our children." He promised.
Harry smiled then lead the boys upstairs, laughing when they chose the knight costumes over their jester outfits. Once they were both knights in shining armor with play swords on he gave them each a cape to keep them warm and keep a spell on them that kept them safe and went to find Lyra, Zayden, and Draco.
Zayden was in a simple kings outfit with the crest of the Malfoy family on his chest and on a purple cape down his back while Lyra was in a long flowing purple dress that was charmed so she couldn't step on it, tights and flats with a silver tiara clipped into her hair and her bangs braided back and tied off with a butterfly clip.
Draco had apparated down to his bedroom and changed into slacks with a white shirt and a black funny bowtie along with a pair of white convers.
Harry smiled when the twins took Zayden and Lyra to go play in their room so he could dress. "Want to come with me to dress? I haven't the faintest of what to wear." He said honestly.
Draco chuckled. "I'll dress you then." He teased and dragged Harry back to his room, frowning at his wardrobe but tossing a white button down and pair of simple slacks to him. "We are shopping for you today." He said firmly.
Harry laughed. "Alright. Oh I thought it might be fun to let the kids pick out there bedrooms. Just so they have something that's perfect for them and not what we think they would like. What do you think?" he asked.
Draco laughed. "Harry they will mismatch it and it will look odd." He warned.
Harry grinned. "That's half the fun and you might be surprised, I did the twins room the same way and they picked the river theme. Their beds are different types of boats and they have nice furniture that doesn't match but it still looks good." He said simply.
Draco bit his lip then sighed and nodded. "I can give a little suggestion. Lyra likes tree houses. She might ask for something like that and Zayden likes dinosaurs." He said simply.
Harry chuckled then smiled and finished tying his shoe. "Let's go get the kids and go shopping." He said happily and went to the twins room, laughing when he found Zayden and Elijah playing with Dino's and Cyrus fighting off a fake monster to protect the princess Lyra. "Draco our kids are good for each other." He murmured.
Draco nodded his head in agreement then grinned and walked over to Cyrus, pretending to play the monster till he had both the kids and was tickling them. Once they were done giggling, he checked their shoes then smiled to Cyrus. "How do you speak French down below?" he asked.
Elijah stood up and ran to the dresser, pulling down the gum and giving it to his papa and twin then put some in his own mouth. "Uncle Gred and Forge made them. They let us speak French." He said in flawless French.
Draco frowned. "Harry I will be teaching them the language later." He warned.
Harry nodded as he popped his own piece in. "Me as well please. This is just for now. Next time I'd like to spend about a month or two in each country we go to and learn the culture, the language and just have some fun." He said honestly.
Draco nodded his head then lifted Lyra and Cyrus up into his arms. "Shall we go to the warehouse?" he asked.
Harry smiled and lifted Zayden and Elijah. "What's the warehouse?" he asked.
Draco chuckled. "The best store in France for what you're looking for." He promised.
Harry nodded then smiled. "We will port down to your house and pack everything with the charms first then we will go." He said softly.
Draco nodded and ported down to the little white house he lived in then headed inside and packed up the kitchen, putting that in storage. Once that was done he packed his room and shipped it to the room he had been using then did the same for Lyra and Zayden's room, giving them each their plushies to hold on the shopping trip. "You can each have your own room or share now." He offered.
Lyra looked down. "I don't want my own room." She whispered.
Zayden looked to Draco. "If I leave Lyra's room who will protect her from the monsters?" he asked worried.
Harry chuckled. "We can put you in the same room then, Dino king." He promised and kissed Zay's forehead.
Zayden nodded but blushed and hugged his dinosaur close, looking to Elijah. "Daddy Zayden wants to know if they can have dinosaurs in their room?" he asked hopeful.
Harry chuckled. "I was thinking we could do something with Lyra in a castle or a tree house and dinosaurs all over the walls with other kinds of animals." He offered.
Zayden grinned. "C-can we make a t-rex bed with other types of dinosaurs as desks and chairs and closets?" he asked excitedly.
Harry grinned. "Maybe a wooly mammoth as a closet and a pterodactyl to hang your jackets and a backpack, maybe a triceratops to make a desk with a long neck as a book shelf?" he asked teasingly and gently kissed Zayden's head again.
Zayden looked up wide eyed and excited, starting to fidget a little now. "Yes please!" he exclaimed excitedly.
Lyra looked over at Harry. "Do I get tigers and elephants and giraffes and lions and cheetah and anlatope and monkeys in my walls and around my tree house?" she asked excitedly, bouncing on Draco's hip.
Harry grinned. "Oh my goodness yes, you can be our little safari princess. We will get you the hat and everything. Maybe with a monkey to go with that bedroom of yours, I was thinking we could hang cubbies for books and stuffed animals and put fake trees and stuffed animals all over the room to sit on and cuddle into to read." He said softly.
Lyra nodded excitedly and giggled up to her daddy. "I'm gonna be a safari princess!" she said excitedly.
Draco chuckled then smiled to Harry. "Your amazing." He mouthed, then moved over and took Harry's arm with both kids still in his and apparated them to the warehouse.
Inside was tons and tons of different bedroom sets, bedding, mattresses as well as a toy section and a paint and hardware section. "I was thinking we charm it to the roof but build two trees around for support with a ladder down. Make it bigger than just her bed, maybe her bed and a little more room for reading and coloring?" he asked.
Draco nodded. "What color should we do the walls? And will we get stickers and such for the animals?" he asked.
Harry shook his head. "Winky would kill us if we did that. She will want to paint and set up the room herself. She's already here picking out what she wants for it, just asked us to get the furniture. She said also that she wanted the bathroom to be kid sized so I need to get the fixtures for that." He said and got a cart with a care on the front big enough for the kids, buckling them in.
Draco copied him then smiled. "Alright, how about I take them for bedding, clothes and toys, instead of them picking out furniture, we will have them pick out books and pictures to put on the wall?" he asked.
Harry nodded and smiled. "I'll get the stuff to make the rooms, the twins need some new clothes to, do you mind?" he asked.
Draco shook his head then gently kissed Draco's lips. "I'll do the shopping for us all." He promised.
Harry nodded then grabbed a cart and headed for the hardware store, adding in planks to make sure the tree house was up an all four sides and stable but also to build the trees around it and pad them so the kids wouldn't get hurt. Once he was finished buying absolutely everything he needed to build the rooms, he went and paid, then shipped it all up.
Draco headed for the bedding and mattress section first, picking the mattresses out for the kids, getting a simple twin sized for both that could be expanded then got sheets and a blanket that looked like a giant tongue or the inside of a mouth and for Lyra got bedding with tigers and pandas playing all over it, knowing she loved it. Once done he went to the kids clothing section and let each of the children out of the cart, letting them pick out their own clothes, getting a few dresses and shorts from Lyra and just pants and shirts for the boys, while Zayden added in one pair of dino footy pajamas he found.
After about half an hour, the cart was filled with clothes and a few pairs of shoes as well as almost all the dinosaur plushies and toys they had and two to three of every plushie stuffed animal they had. One of the elephants was so big that it could sit on its but and still dwarf Lyra. Once everything was paid for, Draco and Harry sent everything up, it getting put away immediately then apparated home and sent the children to play in the twins room.
After four hours of building and charming, the tree house and t-rex was done. The T-Rex was facing the room and the inside of it's mouth was the bed. It had foam teeth that came down and would bend and endure getting in and out, it looked like it popped right out of the picture with different creatures doing the same on the walls, making it look like they had frozen real dinosaurs and turned them into furniture. The wall was charmed so the different dinosaurs on the wall would move and run like a herd, without the gruesome kills from the predators and would change time of day so the animals would sleep. The entire ceiling was the night sky at night and the sun with clouds during the day.
Lyra's tree house was supported by five trees, one going through the middle and the rest just holding it up just in case. It was charmed to move down so that the boys could fit in and put her to bed and had enough room inside for her bed, her giant elephant and a book shelf full of stories. Below wall was painted like a safari that would change time of day with the animals all around, charmed to come in and out of the wall.
After dinner, Draco took the kids up to see the room, with Harry following behind and chuckled when they all exclaimed in awe at how cool the room was and how they loved Lyra's tree house. The twins then turned and asked if they could do a sleep over that night, each would share with one of Draco's and they were changed into their pajamas, read the story of Ferdinand the bull, and put to bed.
Draco smiled at Harry once they were finally free of the last child and went to change for bed themselves. "That was a good thing you did for my children. I can never repay you for this." He said softly.
Harry smiled softly and kissed Draco's cheek. "You don't need to. Just keep being you and keep letting your kids play with mine." He said simply. "We will change course tomorrow okay? The kids are gonna see the Doge's Palace and we can have a date in the channels."
Draco smiled and helped turn down the bed then crawled in with Harry. "Sounds romantic." He murmured then kissed Harry and fell into a deep dream filled sleep, harry falling with him.
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Well I hope you liked it, and your little preview.
Harry smiled as he kissed Draco's temple, leaning back in the gondola to listen to the sweet Italian music coming from Draco's lips. It was their second date and the children where already in bed, up above them a million stares flared to life, showing different beautiful pictures.
Draco turned and smiled to Harry then bit his lip and gently kissed Harry's lips. "I have a confession for you." he said quietly and leaned against Harry's chest, listening to his heart. The past few days Draco hadn't been able to get the raven off his mind and he was so confused. He didn't know if he wanted to go further with the relationship or stop it where it was to continue their friendship.
"I think I might..."
~~muhahahahaha that's all you get. I hope this brings you back when I update next week. (no promises on that but it is the schedule for it)
~Snow.