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Eight years later.
The sun shone brightly over the beautiful lawn and the birds began chirping, twittering and chattering, flying over the trees .The colorful butterflies fluttering over the flowers, around the lawn surrounding the beautiful Malfoy Cottage.
Ginny hummed under her breath and started cooking breakfast of eggs pancakes, sausages , waffles. She ordered her house elf Dimple to clean the entire house, and decorated it with banners, balloons as Today is her boys's birthday.
As the clock strike 8, she told dimple to watch over the breakfast and load it on the table. While she went to wake up her rumbanticous sons.
As she entered her sons's rooms, she saw, her boys were still deep asleep, in their own separate beds.
The rooms looks like any normal boy's room, filled up with toys, clothes strewn on the floor, book shelves and two study desks between the boys beds. On the wall to Ginny's left was a photo of their father Draco,looking suave and handsome dancing with their beautiful mother during their wedding. The walls were painted in sky blue on all sides, snitches fluttering around the wall. The ceiling was painted like the real sky,it was painted magically in such a way,when it is day-time,it would look sky blue and when it is night time,it would change into dark with the tiny dots appearing in a twinkling manner ,morphing into the constellation Draco. Her boys's mini brooms were stashed against the wardrobes . Behind their study desks,was an openly wide window with Navy blue curtains draped across it.
Ginny walked towards the window and remove the curtain,thus allowing the sunlight to enter the room, then she went towards her eldest twin, sat on his bed, waking him up gently, pulling the comforter from him .
Her son groaned and shifted to either side and buried his head under his pillow, muffled sounding like '5 mins,mum.'
Shaking her head, she said loudly," Alright,you want 5 mins that means no cake tonight?"
Hearing this, her son got up quickly, eye wide awake. Remembering what was today? Their birthday!
"I am awake now." , he gasped, yawning wide awake.
Then he noticed that his brother was still asleep, he scowled at her, saying, " Why is he not awake? Why do you always wake me up first, mum?"
Ginny chuckled, at her son's whiny tone, "That's because, my dear, you are my eldest and it's natural to wake you up first." She knew that her eldest doesn't mind him being awake first. He love being eldest and sometimes he teases his brother that he can boss him after all he was older by two mins.
Ginny then went up to wake her other son too by whispering the same in his ear. He too got up wide awake just like his older twin.
She then wished her boys "Happy birthday, love" ,kissing on their forehead and told them to brush, shower and wear the clothes she will put on their bed. Her boys nodded. Being excited about today, they obeyed her and did their morning ritual.
As Ginny put her sons's clothes on bed and went down to check the breakfast being laid on the table. As she mentally check that everything is ready for today.
Sitting on the head side of the table,she started reminiscing her past, how she came to Boston eight years ago.
Once Severus and Lucius had agreed to help her, but they told that they couldn't come with her straight away. But they will go separately so as to avoid attracting anybody's attention.
Lucius had helped her get Muggle paperwork as well as her magical paperwork discreetly with the help of his staff attorneys. So if she choose to or can live both as a witch and muggle too.
Lucius suggested her to go and live on any one of the Malfoy properties around the world. She agreed and selected Boston, because in Boston, they have a Malfoy cottage with two storeys, a wide lawn, garden, mini pond, mini quidditch and was located in the wizarding county side of Boston. There were some of the Malfoy colleagues who also live nearby the cottage .Plus she opted to work there at Boston, in one of the branch of Malfoy International Ltd.
Lucius told her to take one house elf to take care of her, her babies and additional protection( bodyguard ) for them. Lucius told her that the wards around the cottage were strong and similar to the wards around Malfoy Manor. So she took her Malfoy family portkey and this was how she ended up in Boston.
Hearing her sons's footsteps coming down the stair case, Ginny came out of her thoughts.
"I am so hungry, Mum", said her younger twin, Derek.
"Wow, it smells lovely. Ooh, my favorite pancakes!", said her eldest twin, Lucas.
"Yeah, I made both of your favorite's dishes, now eat." , said Ginny. She helped her sons by filling up their plates. Watching her sons eat, she noticed that her boys are growing up so fast.
Lucas ,the older Malfoy twin, look handsome, short platinum blond hair falling over his forehead, silver-grey eyes, pale skin, slight freckles on his nose, though its nearly invisible. He looks exactly like Draco except he got freckles from the Weasley genes. While Derek look the same as his brother except he got his mother's brown eyes and freckles too.
Today was Saturday; they decided to fly around the pitch. Yes, they love flying as they got both of their parents flying ability. They are quite natural at flying. Ginny would watch over, to make sure that her sons don't get hurt.
Then her sons want to go for skating. Ginny had taken her boys to the Muggle world around their 5th birthday, wanted her sons to learn to get familiar with both worlds and get the best of both.
Her boys love it and had joined the skating club, made muggle friends too. She had them wear woolen hats, jumpers, woolen trousers, Scarfs and woolen gloves and she did the same for herself. As it was early January, it was still cold outside. Ginny had gotten used to the American winters and she really loves snowfalls.
As Ginny reached the club with her sons ,she was surprised to see someone there.
It seems that her sons had planned to go with their best friend too and forgot to mention this tiny detail to their mother .Their best friend Jason was a son of Ginny's American best friends/Colleagues.
They waved at Ginny while her sons ran towards Jason and proceeded towards the club. They were eager to enjoy skating. Her sons had learned ice skating, roller skating, soccer, swimming with Jason at the Muggle sports club ,they also love Quidditch,magical games too.
"Hey Ginny, looking at your face's expression tells me that you were surprised to see us here too. It looks like our boys had sprung a surprise on us. I think that our children are getting sneakier and managed to trick us to coming here while they get to enjoy their play time together.",said Ginny's best friend/colleague, Mary.
Ginny chuckled.
"Yeah, Jason had to wake me up early as he told me that he wants to go for skating and that we had promised him for an outing one day and he chose today. I was not ready to get up out of my bed after all it is a weekend day." , said Mary's husband ,Paul moaned, Ginny's other best friend/colleague.
Both Husband and wife also work at Malfoy International Ltd, but in different department. Paul works in the creative department, where they improvise ideas like converting Muggle technology in to a magical version for the wizarding world. And Mary works in the real estates department, where they buy,sell lands,building different types of houses .Yes, Malfoy International Ltd had expanded in many fields both in Muggle and Wizarding world since Ginny joined and Ginny was proud of her and father achievements . She had started calling Lucius, Father as Lucius told her to.
Ginny smiled and reminisced how she had met them.
By a tremendous stroke of luck, that day, when she first started working at her company, around evening time , she was strolling around the wizarding public park near her place and sat on one of the bench ; She noticed the couple sitting on the other bench adjacent to her. Simply she smiled at them and looked on them in a wistful manner, thinking of her Draco.
The couple noticed her staring and they immediately recognized her as Lady Malfoy, their boss, Ginevra Malfoy.
Ginny was surprised to learn that they were her colleagues. Everybody who work at Malfoy International Ltd, were sworn in secrecy not to reveal the identity of Lady Malfoy, wife of the late Draco Malfoy.
The couples noticed Ginny's sad gaze, understood her after all they knew about Draco Malfoy's death. The couple was trying to cheer her up and she didn't know why she felt comfortable around them, told them about her story. The couple empathized with her; Ginny learned that Mary was also pregnant too. She felt happy, knowing there was someone to share her news too. They ended up bonding over morning sickness and common cravings. From there onwards, they became best friends.
She heard her sons call out to her and urged her to join them in skating.
"Come on, Mom, Please. It's our birthday. You said that you will listen to us, anything we want, you will do it.", said her clever son, Lucas.
"Urgh, I knew that my words would come back and bite me. Next time I should be careful of what I should say to the boys. They are becoming cleverer and would find any loophole in whatever I say to them."
Paul laughed,"They are definitely Draco's sons. Let's go and join our rambunctious boys."
Mary and Ginny got up and joined them. They played the entire time. Finally, Ginny called the boys, telling them, it's time to go home, to be ready for their party. Everybody went on their way to their home.
Ginny checked up on the two cakes which were still in the oven.
She loved her cottage, especially her living room. It had lots of wood trim that gave it character, huge windows that let in the sunlight during the day, and a decorative fireplace that she had filled with candles and gave the room a cheery glow in the evenings. Lots of balloons scattered across the living room, the dinner were being prepared by Dimple, the elf.
As Ginny was checking over dinner , the elf dotes on her mistress said, " Don't worry, Mistress Ginny, Dinner will be ready in 15 minutes. "
"Okay, if you say so, Dimple. I just want the party to go well. Now everybody must be coming now at any moment."
The bell rung and then she heard her sons scrambling down the stairs hurriedly, wanting to open the door, curious to know who has come.
She heard her sons exclaimed loudly, "Grandfather, you came." "Yes, of course,I came . I missed my grandsons and I would never miss your special day too."
Just as Ginny approached near, she saw Lucius bending down and hugging his grandsons together. He straightens himself back, looked at her and Ginny hugged him too. She took his cloak and put it on the hook of the cloak stand near the door.
"When is Uncle Severus coming?" , asked Derek.
" He will be coming a bit late as he had some urgent work." The boys nodded. Lucius gave them their gifts and Lucas put it on the gifts table. But he was trying to open it sneakily. Ginny saw this and warned him not to open any presents until the party is over. Lucas pouts in a cute manner.
Then they heard a floo alert indicating that someone is about to floo. Ginny knows who would be flooing as she had her floo in secrecy mode, so that no one else can floo except those people whose name she had put on her floo list.
Blaise and Luna Zabini arrived, Luna was holding their little son, Carlo in her arms, one after another. Little Carlo look like Blaise ,tan skin but he has Luna's blond hair and blue eyes.
Yes, Luna and Blaise got married four years ago. Ginny was at their wedding since it was a private wedding with close friends and family while her boys were being as ring carrier. Little Carlo is two years old now. Derek and Lucas love him; they dote on him as their little brother.
Seeing little Carlo when he was born, her sons ask her when will they have a little brother or sister. They even asked her about their father and why he was not here with them. Hearing this broke Ginny's heart. Ginny cried on behalf of her sons and she spends most of her time ,looking at the constellation Draco when it appears in the sky during July every year.
She once again heard the bell ring and Dimple opened the door and allowed the guest to enter the cottage. She turned to see who has come.
It was her Uncle Severus. He still looked the same except he had cut his hair short, shiny, not greasy at all. He looks smart and snarky as always. He was wearing his Muggle suit clothing.
Lucas and Derek too saw him and they both jumped up with joy to see their old Uncle Severus.
The boys ran into him at full speed, Severus expected this, prepared himself to catch them and lifted them together ,one in his left arm and the other in his right arm and move around in a circle, making her sons squealed in laughter. He put the boys down and went to sit down beside Lucius on the couch.
Severus and Lucius are close like real brothers. Its so uncanny ,how similar they are ,parallel to the relationship ,James Potter and Sirius Black share.
By then the last guests arrived. Mary, Paul and Jason had joined them.
In the beginning, during the twins's first birthday party, they were shocked and surprised to see Lucius (the owner of Malfoy International ) here sitting causal, laughing and playing with the children(Derek, Lucas and their son Jason).
Because to them, they have always thought that Lucius Malfoy was a ruthless, business tycoon, smart, cunning, sly and intelligent person. He always seems so cold to anybody. But here they saw him as a gentle, kind, loving, caring grandfather, celebrating his grandsons's first birthday.
He had approached them and thanked them for being good friends to his daughter in law .They were awed by his gentle gratitude. From then onwards, they were comfortable around him. Their son Jason ( Same age as the twins ,he was older by one month ) was taken by Lucius and he too called him grandfather. Lucius was amused too.
Soon, the party went on, it was time for cutting cake. She bought the cakes out on the table. Her sons surrounded the table with little Carlo tagging them along. Jason stood beside them. Ginny stood between them, kneeling down and guiding her sons to cut the cakes. Before blowing out the candles, she told them to close their eyes and wish something they want in their life.
Ginny wondered what her sons wished for,but she would not pry as its their private thoughts.
They did and blew out the candles, while everybody clapped and singing the Happy birthday song. Ginny guided them to cut the cake into pieces and she fed the first piece into Derek's mouth and did the same to Lucas. Her sons took the second piece and fed it to their mother. Then she shooed them and told them to go play with their new toys. The children did as they were told.
Mary, Luna helped Ginny in the kitchen while the elf offered wine to the men in the living room. Soon then they had dinner, and had desserts too.
Then, it was late, as seeing the children yawned. Mary, Paul took Jason home. Ginny then told her sons to go to bed. But her boys protested, wanting to spend more time with their grandfather and Uncle Severus and Uncle Blaise, Aunt Luna. Ginny told them that they will stay here,then her boys quieted down and went to bed.
After Luna and Ginny put their sons to sleep. They went to join the men in the living room. She was tired after whole day's work.
Lucius was relaxing in the long arm chair, drinking a glass of wine. Severus was reading the American newspaper. Blaise was lying down on the couch, his head on Luna's lap .Ginny pushed his legs down and sat in the empty space on the couch. But as soon as Ginny sat on it, Blaise instantly put his legs on her lap. He looked at her cheekily.
Ginny felt so grateful for having wonderful family, wonderful friends too. They helped her a lot in the beginning. They all stayed with her during her hard times, happy times, but they never made her feel lonely too.
Her boys are seven years old. Wow, Eight years passed. She felt as if yesterday she was holding her babies in her arms.
She remembered, when she left England ,she was one month, then after some couple months She was almost four months pregnant with twins, she had an unexpected visit from her best friends who came to join her here, to help her in every way.
She heard from them that they learnt about her disappearance from Lucius and they wanted to be with her. Blaise, Luna helped her throughout her pregnancy, her craving foods days, helping her decorate the twins rooms.
By then it was almost around near her delivery date, Lucius, luckily contacted and arranged the Malfoy family healer, who was sworn into secrecy, to her home ,helped in her labor, she was holding Blaise's hand on one side and Lucius was holding her other hand on the other side. Luna was helping the healer, followed her instructions, Severus providing the necessary potions and thus she went through painful contractions, crying for Draco, crying that Draco would have love to see his sons being born, finally gave birth to beautiful healthy sons . Her sons were born on 18th of January . Ginny has named Blaise and Luna as her sons's god parents. After all Blaise is like her brother.
Time flew quickly, her sons grew up, crawling everywhere, making Ginny to run and catch them, and singing lullabies when they cried at night. Lucius,Severus,Blaise,Luna were there during with her and had seen every mile stone of her boys life, their first teeth, their first step, their first word, Ma ,Their first broom ,Their first friend, their first day at preschool for wizards and witches in her locality and so on.
Ginny looked around, "So are anybody going to tell me the news or should I stay awake whole night for you all to be ready?"
"I'm glad to see that you still have the same sharp tongue you always had," Severus said with a laugh. "Somehow that just doesn't come out in your letters... Ginny chuckled.
Lucius spoke quietly, "I think it's time for the twins to know our family history, who they are, about Malfoy's being ex-spies,Voldemort,about England, the real reason how their father died, Harry Potter, your family too."
Ginny was shocked at first and opened her mouth to retort, but then she realized that he was probably right and hung her head.
Her twins Lucas and Derek only know the story about how she and their father met and fell in love, the fabricated version of how he died. They knew nothing else.
Her sons doesn't know just how famous their parents were, or this case, their father was one of the heroes in England or their grandfather and their mother, being as big business tycoon, or their Uncle Severus being Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, they only knew that their Uncle Severus was a great Potion master and sometimes works for Malfoy International (Potion Dept.) whenever Lucius needs his help or their Aunt Luna ,an owner of the Daily Prophet and the Quibbler,Yes,Blaise had bought out the Daily Prophet for Luna as a wedding present.("How Cliche !" Ginny thought), their Uncle Blaise, one of the famous lawyers in England. He is Ginny s personal Lawyer (Unofficial and Official).
"Yes, Ginny, What Lucius said is right, it's time for them to know everything. You know Time moves fast, and then soon the boys will be at Hogwarts ,around strangers, pointing fingers at them about their father's ,everybody is already aware that Draco had married before he died, but they don't know your identity, once the press come to know that it was you, they will be hounding after you and the boys." Blaise said gently.
He continue on, " Did you know how hard it was for Draco to make friends; everybody was already judging him by his last name. But now, luckily, the Malfoy name is well known now and everybody look on with great respect. (Ginny knew why).So what we are trying to say, once the press know that there are two Malfoy heirs and these boys will be almost famous as Harry Potter."
Luna carried on from her husband, " Exactly! Their father was one of the greatest heroes the wizarding world has known since Harry and everybody noticed about Draco's death. He had noticed your disappearance soon after you left .He and your family searched everywhere. Lucius was with you at that time. So they had no reason to doubt Lucius and didn't think of questioning him. Luckily we didn't know about your location at that time and they had asked us too. "
Severus spoke out, " I feel it is wise to let everybody know the truth now. Since Harry started his Potter business with Lucius two years ago. Yes, Harry had a changed a lot, he kept saying to Lucius that he regretted his mistake about his not accepting Draco instantly even though Draco had helped them a lot. He was one of the reasons, that the public believes that the Malfoy's being true to the light and responsible for him to defeat Voldemort."
Luna and Blaise had been telling her since long time back that Harry had changed a lot but she doesn't believe it, not a single word about him. She was convinced that he doesn't care about Draco and just was using Lucius for help in his Potter estates.
Blaise, Luna look at each other, knowing what Ginny was thinking about Harry. They knew why she doesn't believe it because of the way how Harry, Ron, Hermione didn't care about Draco's interests except they were cordial to him for the mutual interest to defeat Voldemort.
Lucius said quietly to her, "Whether you like it or not, Derek and Lucas need help, to be prepared and alert, just like how Draco was, considering that they are Malfoys."
"But I want them to be normal, not worry about their actions, just for the public sake! They shouldn't have to spend their childhood dodging the press and public scrutiny of them being as Malfoys! , protested Ginny. She stood up, pacing up.
"I know. I have always planned to send them there, but it isn't time yet. They are only seven years old! They have four more years until we have to cross that bridge."
Being exasperated at Ginny, Severus said," But the longer you wait, the less time they has to prepare. To absorb the idea that they will be celebrity just for being born as Malfoys. And if you wait, you will deprive them of something else that they deserve."
"And what might that be?"
"Their family. The Weasley family,"
"They have me, you, father, Blaise, Luna, Carlo."Ginny said loudly. "No, they don t need to know about them."
Severus looked at Lucius, pleading him to convince her. My god, I knew that she is stubborn but not so damn stubborn and in denial too.
Lucius looked at her intensely, " Look at me, Ginny" , He spoke sternly.
Hearing his tone, his nearly strict tone, Ginny look at him, "Think about it, Ginny. You were always surrounded by a huge, loving family who supported you in everything. How would you have managed in your first year and afterwards without them? At least you knew that they always had your back and protect you when you get hurt even though they at times were ignorant of you. But they were always there in your life, no matter what."
"Well..."
"They could have all of that extra support too. And you know how Draco's childhood was. He was lonely, no sibling in that huge Malfoy Manor, "
Seeing Ginny about to interrupt.
He continues," Yes, you know that Bill's oldest is the same age as the twins, don't you? If the twins know their cousins before going to Hogwarts, they will have friends from the start. They won't have trouble in making friends, like what their father, Draco had."
"And they need to know their other grandparents too. They had always wondered that why they had only one grandparent."
Ginny knew what Lucius was trying to say. Her boys had asked many curious questions and she didn't want to answer it ,so she told them she would answer them one day .
Ginny was just staring at the fireplace. She was silent for a few minutes, and then finally looked up at everybody, "I suppose you all are right. But it has been eight years. What will my family say?"
"Ginny, you know them better than I do, but I think that they will eventually forgive you for running away without telling them the real reason and welcome both of you with open arms. They are now on friendly terms with me, you know it too." , replied Luna.
"Eventually?"
Luna said," Yeah of course they are angry, and with good reason too. You didn't tell them you were going to leave and then refused to tell them where you were for eight years. You have twin sons and never told them. No letters. Your mother will probably be incensed over being denied meeting her grandchildren for so long. It won't be easy. But they are your family and they love you even though they had ignored you a bit in the past for taking care of Harry, Hermione more than you."
"Will you help me tell Derek and Lucas ,everything and their family?"
Everybody looked at her as if she gone mad. Of course they would help her , she hit herself mentally.
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By Ice Queen Malfoy.