Hey Guys, sorry it's taken so long but studying for my Philosophy Prelim took up loads of my time and my mum 'borrowed' my laptop. Apparently I spend too much time on here. Again, so sorry about the wait.
Ron was pacing the length of his assigned chamber, fuming.
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Why the hell is she with Malfoy!? I'm her husband! And Snape and fucking Lucius Malfoy is there too, with MY kids!"
His internal rant was interrupted by a knock at the door. He stormed over to the portrait and flung it open with an irate expression on his face and snapped "WHAT!?" before he could actually register who it was. His eyes fell on the two figures standing outside, looking startled, McGonagall and his daughter.
"Oh! I'm sorry. Scarlet, hunny, what are you doing here?" the redhead asked softly, gazing down at his child with a caring expression.
Scarlet didn't answer but instead sniffed and threw herself at her father, sobbing whilst wrapping her little arms around his waist, standing on her tip toes to do so. Startled, Ron embraced his daughter's shaking frame, hushing soothingly. "Shhh, its ok, Daddy's here" he cooed reassuringly, steering Scarlet into his temporary chambers.
Once he had Scarlet settled on the couch, the male turned to see Minerva still standing in the doorway. "Thanks for bringing her here professor, do you know why she's upset?" queried Ron, walking back over to the elder woman.
Minerva looked at the male redhead before her, she knew he had a temper and was considering taking Scarlet back to Hermione but she had observed the interaction carefully and thought Scarlet was better here. Ron's question drew her from her reverie and she replied "Not a clue, she looked to have ran out of the dungeons." As she finished speaking she saw Ron's face turn bright red, with anger. "But I didn't see her leave there, so I implore you not to go down there," Minerva added, quickly seeing the redhead's reaction but it wasn't enough.
"Professor, look after Scarlet," Ron turned to look at his daughter, who was now asleep on the couch. His expression softened when he saw her curled up snoozing peacefully, but it soon vanished and he was even more angry, if that was even possible. Ron turned abruptly and stormed out, leaving an annoyed Minerva.
Everyone was staring at the door when a quiet, innocent voice said "I'm the favouwite, wight?" All eyes turned to Sebastian who was looking imploring at his mother, pouting while doing so. The three men chuckled at the young boy's question, while Hermione looked at Sebastian lovingly.
Lucius turned to Draco and said "I remember when you were that age, adorable but a menace" he smirked, garnering curious looks. Seemingly feeling indulgent by the questioning looks he continued; "You refused to be dressed and ran around the manor naked bar your socks." Draco's cheeks blushed a deep red and he looked at his father, silently pleading for him not to continue; but he did. "Your mother and I couldn't persuade you to get dressed, or we spent ages making you decent and then all we saw was your bare arse disappearing out the door" he smirked. "It was only when Severus bribed you with a vast amount of sweets that you finally co-operated."
"Father, why did you have to tell them that, it's really embarrassing!" moaned Draco, though it was muffled as he had his head in his hands.
Hermione, trying to suppress her obvious amusement, looked to Sebastian and said "Don't get any ideas, you or your sister do that and I won't let you play with Teddy for a week." She turned to Draco, ruffled his hair and teased him "Now, that sounds like one of the cutest things I've heard."
Severus laughed, Draco was so embarrassed that he finally said "Right well, I know for a fact that you did some really embarrassing things as a child."
Lucius and Severus looked at each other and then at Hermione whom, was giving Draco, what they liked to call 'The Snape Stare'. Lucius chuckled at the exchange and asked "Well Draco, are you going to share this story or not?"
Draco beamed like a Cheshire cat and said "Gladly, well our Hermione here was only six years old and she was attending her cousins wedding…" Draco was interrupted by Hermione who said rather frantically "Draco! Please shut up!" However he ignored her and continued "She needed the toilet and so her cousin Steph took her." Hermione groaned and put her head in her hands as her cheeks turned a shade of red that could rival a tomato, Draco smirked and continued on "Anyway, she went to the toilet and her cousin was wearing a thong and Hermione had only seen normal underwear, so she thought that part of her cousins underwear was missing. " Hermione groaned and shook her head. Draco was trying not to laugh as he told the last part, "So, she ran out of the toilets, straight upto her Aunt May and said rather loudly 'Auntie, half of Steph's pants are missing', during the wedding reception." Draco only just managed to finish before he burst out laughing, Severus and Lucius joined him, Sebastian just shrugged and went back to colouring in.
Both the Malfoys' had tears streaming down there face from laughing so much, Severus recovered, gained as much composure as possible, looked directly at an extremely embarrassed Hermione before saying "Well, lets end this little sharing session there because it's nearly three and none of us have had lunch." With that he motioned for Hermione to follow him to the kitchen. She did while Sebastian staring at his 'Uncle Dwaco' like he was insane.
Sebastian cleared away his colouring in book and pencils, then walking over to Lucius and jumping up onto his knee and asking "What's your name?"
Just at that precise moment the door was flung open by an extremely angry looking male redhead. His gaze darted around the room, anger filling his eyes. When his gaze landed on Sebastian nestled on Lucius' lap, all the other incidents looked tame. He stormed over to his son and pulled him from Lucius' lap so roughly that the poor boy crashed to the floor and let out a howl of pain. Draco, Severus and Hermione came running through. Lucius already had Ron up against the wall and spoke with venom oozing from each word "You so much as lay a finger on that boy again and I will make you wish you were never born!" He then grabbed Ron and flung him effortlessly towards the door.
Lucius wasn't the only one to completely lose his temper, Severus stalked angrily over to the livid redhead and snarled "Get the hell out of my chambers but before you go let me make myself perfectly clear; you hurt either one of those children or Hermione and you will wish that the dark lord had killed you!" Severus grabbed Ron by his shirt and hauled him to the open door and threw him onto the floor of the desolate hallway. He gave him one last glare daring him to say something before slamming the door and warding it. They heard a muffled yet loud Ron yell "I will get my children and Hermione and then I'll expose all of you for the foul gits that you are!" Both Lucius and Severus stood routed to the spot, fighting the urge to go out and seriously hurt the redhead.
Lucius and Severus finally turned round to see Sebastian sitting on Hermione's knee crying while holding his left arm. Hermione was attempting to console Sebastian, while Draco was gently looking at his arm. Draco finally spoke "Fortunately, Sebastian's arm isn't broken. However, his wrist is." He stood and walked over to the fireplace and added "I'm going to get Poppy then I'm going to stop off to see McGonagall." He turned his head to look directly at Lucius and Severus, "So, can you two not do anything to the Weasel." Draco threw the floo powder, called out "Hospital Wing", stepped into the fireplace and was engulfed by green flames.
About fifteen minutes after Draco left, Poppy all but leapt from the floo. She rushed over to Sebastian like he was dying. She started muttering and waving her wand so fast that no-one could understand a word. Lucius and Severus watched on from their arm chairs. Poppy finally finished her incessant muttering and stayed her wand. She then sat next to Hermione and said softly "Sebastian's wrist is broken. However what I don't understand is, how this happened." Poppy noticed Hermione still had a red mark on her cheek and scolded her "Hermione, that mark hasn't gone away! Why didn't you come and get some salve? Honestly, Herm-
Lucius interrupted her and explained "Hermione has a red mark because Mr. Weasley felt obliged to hit her earlier and she only just woke up about an hour and a half ago." Disdain was evident in his tone.
The Medi-witch's expression darkened before asking "So Ronald hit you again?" Turning her attention back to Hermione and a still slightly scared Sebastian. Getting a nod she pushed on and asked "Did Ronald do this to Sebastian?" Getting a second nod, Poppy scowled and in doing so made Hermione stifle a giggle.
The floo activated and Draco stepped through with Minerva and Scarlet in tow. Minerva saw Poppy sitting next to Hermione, her eyes were drawn to Sebastian as he was cradling his wrist, she could see tear tracks on his cheeks. Sebastian was nestled in Hermione's lap. "Poppy what are you doing here?" asked the woman with her Scottish brogue echoing off the walls, her voice was a tad shrill. This in turn made everyone in the room wince slightly.
Severus stood and walked over to Scarlet, crouched down and asked "Scarlet, could you come and help me get everyone something to drink?" His tone was soft and as he reached out to steer the young girl into the kitchen. Scarlet was hesitant and looked to her mum for reassurance, when she got it, Scarlet followed Severus through to the kitchen.
"Will someone answer my question now please?" Minerva really hated repeating herself, almost as much as being ignored.
"Poppy is here because Ronald barged in here and yanked Sebastian off Lucius' knee. Sebastian was sent crashing to the floor and broke his wrist. Severus and Lucius threatened him, before Severus threw him out," Hermione said this a-matter-of-factly, while wrapping her arms around her son. She looked up and saw Minerva, looking as if she was out for blood. Draco saw this also and lead Minerva over to an armchair, which Lucius had just vacated.
At the Burrow, Molly was restless. Arthur and the twins watched Molly fuss with things, while waiting for Hermione to arrive. Molly stopped at the fireplace and then said "Where could she be, she said she'd come over this morning and it's half past one?" She looked over to Arthur, concern etched on her face.
"Why don't you go and see her. Maybe she's just got caught up in something," Arthur suggested, hoping that this would calm Molly.
"Yeah mum Mione-" Fred trailed away and George picked up were he left off.
"Will just have been-"
"Caught up in something." finished the twins in unison.
Molly made a non-committal sound and began pacing the rug. She did this for ten minutes before losing her patience and announcing, "She's taking too long, I'm going to get her." Molly disappeared into the fireplace leaving.
Severus was making tea for the adults while Scarlet got some pumpkin juice for her and 'Bastian. "Scarlet, may I ask you a question?"
"Yeah."
"Why do never what to apologize to people?"
"Daddy says that people should only apologize when they've done something wrong and I've not done anything wrong."
"Scarlet, you should always apologize, even when you didn't mean to do anything. It shows that you're a nice person." Severus lifted Scarlet onto the bunker in front of him and finished speaking to the female redhead, "You are a very nice girl but if you don't apologize then you won't have lots of friends, do you understand, it's not about us being right."
"Ok, I want to have lots of friends but daddy says that sometimes friends aren't worth the effort."
"Then your daddy is wrong, friends are always worth it, I learned that the hard way." Severus put Scarlet back on the floor, put all the drinks on a tray and motioned for Scarlet to go through.
Scarlet ran straight over to Draco and said "I'm sorry I was mean to you Uncle Draco." Scarlet flung her arms around Draco's legs and hugged him.
"It's ok squirt, now earlier you said you found the bathroom by colouring in, what exactly did you mean by that?" Draco was still having trouble figuring out what she meant.
"I colour in with my left hand, silly!" Scarlet giggled, saw her Aunt Minnie and bolted straight over to her "Aunt Minnie!"
Everyone sat and talked, with the exception of Scarlet and Sebastian, they fell asleep and were put through in Severus' bedroom. Poppy had left but vowed to come back with the appropriate things fro Hermione and Sebastian. They talked for quite a while before the floo burst to life and an irate Molly Weasley stepped through, surveyed the room, placed her hand on her hips and spat out "What's going on?!"
Sorry about the wait. I've had a really bad cold and was banned off the laptop, or as you know my mum 'borrowed' it for a while.
Again a big thanks to my Wonderfully Awesome Beta: Silverlynxcat!!
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