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Eli smiled at his brother. "She will be okay. We got better in a day with daddy's and papa's help." he promised.
Cyrus nodded and smiled at his brother, then gave him a hug and sipped his juice." I don't like that baby sister is sick." he said softly.
Eli smiled. "We don't either Cy. It will be over soon though." he promised.
Draco put a plate of food in front of all three of the boys then started on toast with a little jelly and a cup of honey tea and brought it up to the snoring baby girl. "Princess? you need to wake up a little and eat these." he said softly.
Lyra whimpered and sat up then looked to Daddy with big blue scared eyes. "I'm itchy all over." she said softly.
Draco frowned and gently slid the sleeve up of her jammies and frowned. "You have the chicken pox." he said softly.
Harry walked up and head the last part. "She has the chicken pox?" he asked worried.
Draco nodded. "would you go get the calamine lotion and flu a doctor?" he asked softly.
Harry nodded and summoned it then gave it to Draco. 'It will be okay baby girl." he promised as he changed her out of her clothes and dabbed the lotion all over her red dots.
Just after Harry gave him the lotion their door bell rang. Harry frowned and went to answer it then smiled weakly. "Good morning Amelia, I'm sorry I can't give you a proper greeting. I've got a little one with chicken pox." he said softly.
Amelia went wide eyed then smiled. 'I have a special lotion I make for rashes and such and it works for chicken pox as well." she promised.
Harry stared hopeful. "Do you have some made?" he asked hopeful.
Amelia shook her head. "I'll have to brew some. Call in this doctor too. He's the best pediatrician in all of Venice." she promised then headed for her room to put the resized bags in, then went immediately to the potions lab and got to work.
Harry went to the floo and put some powder in. "Doctor Desen?" he called hopeful that he wasn't in his shop."
The Doctor went to the fire place. "yes can I help you?" he asked with a smile.
Harry thanked the lords. "My daughter has the chicken pox and we don't know how to treat it." he said softly.
The doctor nodded and came through the floo. "Where's your little girl?" he asked with a kind smile.
Harry headed upstairs, leading the way to his room where Draco had covered her with dots of calamine lotion.
The doctor came in and put on a pair of gloves then pulled a thermometer from his bag and put a plastic stick on to it. He put it under Lyra's arm and waited for it to beep. "Your daughter has a fever of 101.3 degrees any other symptoms besides the dots?" he asked.
Lyra looked to the doctor and nodded her head. "I got a tummy ache." she said shyly.
The doctor smiled and gently moved her hair from her face. "I'll recommend that she stay in bed unless she infects the other children in your home. you can give oatmeal bathes to ease the itching and lower the fever. For now, use fever reducer and the potion Amelia is making." he said then smiled at Harry. "If she seems to get worse, call me immediately."
Harry nodded his head and thanked the doctor just as Amelia came up and offered the potion. "Apply it to her whole body." she said with a smile. "I made three batches."
The doctor floo'd away while Amelia got a hug from Harry. "Thank you so much." he said softly.
Amelia smiled and hugged him back. "Your more then welcome. I'll delay the day to start for a few days." she promised.
Harry nodded then headed into his room and started to apply the potion to Lyra's skin. "Daddy it smells like the mint from the garden." she said softly.
Draco smiled and nodded his head. "It does doesn't it. Do you feel a little better?" he asked.
Lyra nodded and smiled shyly. "Can I have something small to eat?" she asked softly.
Draco chuckled and offered her the toast and tea. He had had the chicken pox before and he was there when Zayden had had his.
Harry looked to Draco as he rubbed the potion into her legs then onto her butt and back. "have you done this before?" he asked.
Draco nodded. "Zayden has had them." he said softly.
Harry bit his lip. "The boys haven't had them. I should get them vaccinated." he said worried.
Draco nodded. "We can take them to the clinic tomorrow." he promised.
Harry nodded then smiled when Lyra finished her toast and half her tea before falling back asleep with the potion all over her. "She'll be okay right?" he asked hopeful. He didn't want his little girl sick. Wait his?" when had he started thinking of the kids like that?
Draco nodded and smiled then gently kissed Harry's cheek. "She will be fine." he promised. "Wash your hands then go get the boys into the pool with mama." he suggested.
Harry nodded and gently hugged Draco, kissed Lyra's forehead and went to wash his hands and lips so he could kiss the boys.
Once he was downstairs, the boys all looked at him worried. "Is Lyra okay?" he asked hopeful.
Harry nodded and smiled. 'she'll be just fine. But she's going to have to stay in bed for a while. She has what's called the chicken pox and tomorrow we are going to get you boys vaccinated from it." he said firmly. "Now who'd like to go swimming?" he asked.
All the boys hands shot up. "Plates in the sink and hands washed." he ordered and made the step higher so they could wash their hands together.
Once that was done, he got all of them in bathing suits and headed downstairs to the pool that had a glass bottom so they could see outside while they swam.
Cyrus was the first to jump in then went wide eyed through his goggles as he saw the underwater world beneath them. He swam up to the top and grinned. "It's beautiful down here Daddy, there's all sorts of fish on a little coral reef." he said excitedly. 'I think I even saw a shark." he said happily and laughed when Zay and Eli jumped in and went down to play with them.
Momma came down and slid into the water with the boys, giving them rides on her back and tickles with her tongue. Zayden was a little nervous around her but smiled when she came over and nuzzled his cheek, then put him on her back and gave him a ride around the pool, getting a joyful laugh out of the young boy.
Harry chuckled and watched Cyrus and Zayden with Mama then realized Eli was on his own, speaking to his firmiliar instead of playing. He walked over to Eli and gently touched his shoulder. "What's wrong little one?" he hissed out in parseltongue.
Eli looked up then down again. "I didn't get her sick did I? I mean I got sick before she did and I slept in her bed." he mumbled.
Harry smiled softly. "No love you didn't get her sick, You may have been sick before her but this is a different kind of sick." he explained. "That's why tomorrow we're going to get you vaccinated."
Eli nodded then swam out to Mama and got on her back with the two other boys. "Mama I'm going to go help with Lyra, watch the boys?" he hissed to her.
Mama nodded. "Yes little one." she called playfully.
Harry headed upstairs to check on Lyra then smiled when he found her in an oatmeal bath for her itches. "Her temperture steady?" he asked softly.
Draco nodded. "It's not going up but it went down to just a hundred and one degrees." he said softly and gently washed Lyra all over. "Poor baby. How are you feeling Lyra?"He asked.
Lyra looked up sleepily. "I'm tired but I'm Itchy." she said softly.
Draco nodded and gave her another fever reducer then a rubbed her down with the potion and put her back to bed in airy pajamas that wouldn't make her itchier." alright little princess, lets get you to bed." he said then gently put her back into Harry's bed, she having refused Draco's bed. "Can I have Darwin?" she asked softly. Just as she asked, the little monkey came in with a toy for her to cuddle and nuzzled her cheek. "He's a good monkey. Daddy would you feed him for me today?" she asked.
Draco nodded with a smile. "When I bring up your soup I'll bring up some fruit for your monkey." he promised.
Lyra nodded then slowly fell back asleep with her stuffed animal in her arms and her monkey playing with her hair, but not pulling, just playing like her daddy would. "thank you Darwin." Draco said softly and headed out to the kitchen to thaw the soup and cut up some different fruits for the monkey.
Harry followed him, then smiled and kissed Draco's cheek. "Have I said I love you today?" he asked shyly.
Draco smiled softly and shook his head and kissed Harry's lips firmly. "You haven't but your more then welcome to." he teased.
Harry smiled and kissed Draco firmly. "I love you." he said softly.
Draco smiled and buried his face in Harry's chest. "I love you too." he mumbled then looked up in tears. "I hate that one of our babies is sick, it breaks my heart seeing her like that."
Harry nodded and shushed him while he held him close. "She will be okay, the doctor said it should get better soon with the potion we put on her skin. We just need to keep giving her oatmeal baths and fever reducer." he promised.
Draco nodded and kissed Harry's chest. "I'm going to go read to her, got anything with princesses in it?" he asked.
Harry grinned and summoned a book of fairy tales. "I used to read them to the boys." he said softly.
Draco took the book and headed upstairs to read to his sick daughter, hoping to get her better soon.
Harry walked down to the basement where the pool was and watched the boys with his feet in the heated water. "Have you been good for Mama?" he asked teasingly, knowing they had. "then who wants snack? I got ice cream bars." he said teasingly, only giving those on special occasions or when he wanted to get the kids cheered up.
Zayden raised his hand with Cy and Eli. "We do!" they all shouted and swam to the edge to get out. "Mama want to go out hunting in the water?" he asked in parseltongue.
Mama nodded and headed for the little portal they had made for Mama to come in and out.
Harry lead the boys to the kitchen and got them Ice cream bars and an orange each." you have to eat the orange first." he warned the boys.
Zayden smiled. 'We will papa." he promised.
Eli nodded and started to peel the orange for himself then his brothers, they each grinned at the taste of orange and wiggled in their seats for the ice cream that was charmed to stay cold.
Harry chuckled and had a pear himself, then nodded to the boys that they could eat their ice cream."
The boys grinned and attacked the bars with vigor, it being a rare treat for them all. "We can have pudding for dessert today too." he teased.
Eli and Cy looked up. "Tapioca?"
Harry nodded and smiled. 'But only after Dinner." he said firmly, "And you must eat all your veggies."
The boys nodded and finished their bars then headed upstairs to the playroom, having been dried from the seats they were on. It was a charm their daddy had made so they didn't have to clean up everything wet.
As the boys played, Harry went to Amelia and smiled. 'Thank you for the potion. Her body seems less itchy." he said honestly.
Amelia smiled softly. "I'm glad she's doing better, wouldn't want to lose my only dancer." she said playfully.
Harry chuckled. "I'll let you finish unpacking, its tamales with rice and beans for dinner tonight." he said happily.
Amelia nodded and got to work on her room, putting things here and there then went to the music room and put up posters of great dancers from time, then the art room to put away supplies she had brought with her and then the regular class room to put up pictures that encouraged learning.
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Well I hope you liked it, I'll try and get more updates done sooner. I'll try and update every week but i've been busy lately. so please be kind with your owls.
~snow