Prompt/Title: Stars
Character(s): Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Scorpius Malfoy, Cassiopeia Malfoy
Summary: Draco and family try to come up names for the newest additions.
Rating: T
Word count: 690 wordcounter . net
Author's notes: Part of Favorite Character Boot Camp Challenge for Midnight, Your Favorite House Boot Camp Challenge for Moonlit Kisses, Character Trait! Boot Camp Challenge for proud!Scorpius, OTP Boot Camp Challenge for Queasy and an entry for the Family Slice of The Chinese Moon Festival Competition. Happy early birthday thefireservant. Hope this is a decent birthday present.
Thank you to my beta's, slumber and MrsBates93, for getting this back to me so quickly!
All drabbles are part of the same timeline but not in order.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize, and maybe even some of the stuff you don't (I live on hp-lexicon).
Draco had always thought that his wife was crazy – she thought house elves wanted to be free for Merlin's sake – but this was taking crazy to a whole new level.
It was just after midnight, and she wanted to go for a stroll. The woman was bloody pregnant. Seven months pregnant! With twins! And she wanted to go on a stroll?! Draco knew he would lose his hair before he turned forty. He wouldn't be blessed with luxurious locks like his father. Oh no, he had to go and have four children. One thing Lucius did right in his life, and that was having only one child.
So now here he was, sitting on a bench in the back garden, trying to keep his wife happy by massaging her shoulders. She would sigh every now and then and just smile up at the moon. He must be doing something right.
When he was finally becoming alright with the idea of this "midnight stroll", they were interrupted by Bubbles, their free house elf.
"Master, Mistress, the little mistress has left her bed and is looking for you. The little master was chasing after her. I have brought them to you."
"Thank you Bubbles. Go back to sleep; I'm sorry that they woke you." Hermione, of course, the crazy woman, was upset that their house elf had been woken up, not that their children, their very young children, were out of bed roaming the Manor.
"What are you two doing out of bed?" Draco picked up his three-year-old daughter while pulling his four-year-old son back to sit on the bench.
"Cassie wasn't in bed and I couldn't let her just run around. What kind of older brother would I be if I did that?" Scorpius exclaimed excitedly, looking from his father to his mother, waiting for an answer.
Draco swore to nip these Gryffindor tendencies in the bud. He couldn't let it get any worse. Before he could say anything, however, his wife responded: "Not a very good one, dear. Thank you for watching your sister so vigilantly."
His son's chest puffed up with pride; he had a smug expression painted on his face, like a true Malfoy.
They were all walking back to the Manor, when all of a sudden, Hermione stopped. Her face was becoming green, and she started heaving.
"Mama?" Cassie asked. The children were suddenly afraid.
Hermione started taking deep breaths, trying to send the bile back down. When she felt that she had it under control, she transfigured a twig into a bench and sat down.
"Morning sickness should have been long gone by now. I swear these twins will be the death of me."
The kids gasped and Draco admonished her. "Don't you go saying stuff like that!"
Hermione guiltily apologized.
When Cassie started rubbing her hand on her mother's belly, Draco could not help but smile. He chuckled when Scorpius pulled her hand back slightly, saying, "Not too hard."
"Mama, what their names?" Cassie asked. Draco snickered, thinking how his house elf speaks better English than his daughter. Leave it to his wife to teach Bubbles the proper way to speak. It will only be a matter of time before both his children can name the twelve uses of dragon's blood.
"Like stars, Cassie, like you and me," Scorpius answered.
"Yes, you're right, like stars: Ara and Aries."
Cassie repeated the names, making sure she can say them; once she believed she wouldn't forget them, she proclaimed, "I like it."
Scorpius scoffed at his little sister. "Of course you like it! I picked them!"
Draco looked at his children, Cassie pouting and shoving her older brother, Scorpius waiting for his parents to look the other way before he retaliated – good Slytherin tendencies. Draco waited to see what he would do, which was noogie his sister.
With that Draco laughed out loud. "All right everyone, I say it's time for bed." He helped his wife get up from the bench, pecking her cheek, picked up Cassie, and held onto Scorpius.
Draco looked up to the moon and decided he wouldn't have his life any other way.
Ara is a southern constellation situated between Scorpius and Triangulum Australe. Its name is Latin for "altar"
Aries is one of the constellations of the zodiac, the groups of stars through which the apparent course of the sun passes during the year. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere between Pisces to the west and Taurus to the east.
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