Draco pressed his lips to Rose's forehead and a few tears fell down his pale cheeks.

"Why are you crying, Daddy?" Rose asked him. She was confused; he didn't seem to be hurt or upset. She laid her head down on his shoulder; hoping it would comfort him, like he comforted her when she was sad.

"No reason…" Draco said and smiled. He did not want to worry her.

He stroked her soft tangled curls and tried to brush it out with his fingers. How could Harry and Ginny take care of a child without brushing their hair? Obviously, they did not even know how to watch their children, either; they had lost Rose somehow. Luckily, he was the one who found her; she was really scared.

Draco pulled the gold chain, from around her neck, out of the simple Muggle T-shirt she was wearing. The swirly M glittered brightly. Anyone who lived in the Wizarding world (and perhaps a few Muggles) knew that the fancy letter was the Malfoy symbol. He knew plenty of people were watching him; after all he was Draco Malfoy. Let them see he thought, she is mine and always will be.

The woman finally came out of the back room and handed Draco a bag filled with new first edition hard cover books. He took a handful of Galleons out of his pocket and set them on the counter. The woman counted the money then nodded. Still carrying Rose, he put the large bag of books into a small one that had an extension charm on it.

"Can we get some ice cream? Auntie Ginny was going to get us ice cream before I found you," Rose said sweetly, after Draco had taken care of all the books. She pouted and used puppy dog eyes.

"Sure, why not?" Draco said. She looked so adorable when she was trying to persuade him to buy her ice cream by making cute facial expressions. He was going to get her some anyways if she asked, before she got all sweet.

They left Flourish and Blott's and went across the street to Florean Fortescue's Icecream Parlour. Luckily, not many people were there and, the was not a wait to order.

"I want the chocolate peanut butter fudge ripple in a cone," Rose said to Draco.

Draco smiled, that was his favorite flavor, too. He went up to the register and said, "One large chocolate peanut butter fudge ripple in a waffle cone."

"No, Daddy, I can't have that. Mummy says I can only have the small one," Rose said and looked at Draco in horror for ordering her the biggest one.

"Is Mummy here right now?" Draco asked. Rose shook her head no. "See? Now you can get whatever size you want. If I get you the bigger one then you will get more ice cream. You want more ice cream don't you?"

"Yes I want more…" Rose said, feeling a little guilty that she was disobeying her mother. But, hey ice cream is ice cream… right?

Mr. Fortescue (the man at the register) chuckled lightly to himself, until he realized who was actually in front of him. He did not know Draco Malfoy had a child. Surely, he would know. The Malfoys were a very prominent family in the Wizarding World. He knew Draco was not married because, his break up with Astoria Greengrass had been all over the front cover of The Daily Prophet (not that he really cared). The little girl who called him 'Daddy' looked familiar to him. He just couldn't place a finger on it at that moment. One thing he knew for sure was she was definitely, without a doubt, a Malfoy. Only a Malfoy could wear the Malfoy family necklace, which shimmered extravagantly and was highly noticeable against her navy T-shirt. She also had the Malfoy whitish blonde hair and startling silver eyes.

Draco noticed Mr. Fortescue watching Rose closely. He immediately put eight silver Sickles on the counter. The man stopped paying attention to Rose and put the money in the cash register. He magically made the ice cream and handed it to Draco. "Have a nice day, Mr. Malfoy."

Draco nodded. He took Rose by the hand and led her out the door. He could tell Mr. Fortescue had his suspicions, already.

"Let's go home, now," he said as they stood in front of the shop.

"No, we can't go. Mummy and me always sits outside and eats our ice cream at the tables," Rose said and sat down on one of the metal chairs outside the ice cream place.

Draco looked around, "Alright, if we must. Just try to hurry up." Why did I have to get her the big one?

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"Where is Rose, James?" Ginny asked.

Ginny had been talking to George for a few hours before, Harry came into the joke shop. Finally, after an hour of begging from James, Albus, and Harry they were going to go get ice cream. Rose had not said anything during the whole time they had been there. Ginny noticed she was not even by James anymore.

"I don't know…" James said and started to get worried. He hadn't seen her in a long time.

"What do you mean 'you don't know'? Weren't you playing with her?" Ginny said irritated.

"I… I haven't seen her since I asked you the first time if we could go get ice cream."

"Rose? Rose. Rose! ROSE!" Harry called. No one answered, but the people in the store looked at him as if he was crazy (until, they realized it was Harry Potter who was yelling out some girl's name. Then, the people went over to him trying to get his autograph. He ignored all of them, though).

"I'll look around for her in here," George said. "Lee Jordan, come run the register," he called out. Lee ran and took his place at the desk.

"Harry we need to call the Aurors… We don't know how long she's been gone… This is all my fault. I should have been paying better attention to the kids. Mione is going to kill me Harry! I just lost her daughter and, she doesn't even know that we took her out of our house," Ginny said and started to cry.

"Ginny, stop crying. I'll go look outside and look for her. If I can't find her in a half an hour, in one of the shops, we'll call the Aurors. I just have a feeling that she wandered off and is possibly still here in Diagon Alley. Normally, Wizards don't kidnap children anyways, Ginny. She could be at the Auror's office right now waiting for someone to call looking for her. In that case looking for her first would be the better option," Harry said trying to assure Ginny that Rose was probably safe.

"We'll come with you too," Ginny said, referring to her and the rest of the children. Harry nodded and they ran out of the joke shop.

Harry and James searched Quality Qudditch Supplies first, with no luck. Ginny took Albus and Lily to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions; they didn't see Rose anywhere. Eeylop's Owl Emporium was closed at this time of the day and there was no sign of her at Flourish and Blott's.

"We haven't looked at the Apothecary or the ice cream parlour," James said to Harry. "We should go to the ice cream place first. It is a lot smaller so, we can look quicker. Mum is at Potage's Cauldron shop."

"Sure, James…" Harry said meekly as they had just come out of Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment. Even he was starting to lose hope of finding her in Diagon Alley, after he assured Ginny he knew Rose was safe.

When they walked down the sidewalk the sight that Harry saw nearly made him faint. Rose was sitting at one of the tables in front of Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour with a half-eaten ice cream cone in her hand. She looked like she was laughing very hard. As little figures came out of the man's wand, who was sitting across from her. The man had the same whitish blonde hair Rose did. It was Draco Malfoy.

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Draco's eyes were transfixed on Rose while she was eating her ice cream. He watched every little lick and bite she took, as if he had never seen someone eat it before. He watched as some dribbled down her mouth and, he quickly wiped the chocolate away, afraid he would miss the chance to start acting like a father if he didn't wipe her mouth immediately. He stared into her sliver eyes and started drawing on a napkin. A few minutes later he showed her what he was drawing. The drawing looked exactly like her (even if it was just a contour drawing in pen on a napkin). Rose squealed in delight.

"Maybe you could see some of my drawings when we get home!" Rose shouted happily. Draco smiled.

"Why is there a snake on my shirt?" Rose asked curiously.

"Well, you are going to be in Slytherin when you go to Hogwarts someday and, I thought your shirt looks a bit plain today," Draco answered.

"Why will I be in Slytherin?"

"It is the best house. All Mal- the best people go there," he was careful not to say Malfoy in case she didn't know she actually was a Malfoy. He honestly didn't care how she figured out he was her father; all that mattered was that she knew.

"Mummy wasn't in Slytherin though…"

"Yes, you are right. She was in Gryffindor."

"I could be in Gryffindor then," Rose said. She licked her ice cream cone, again.

"I doubt it," Draco said nonchalantly.

"James said Gryffindor was the best house. Uncle Harry and Auntie Ginny and Mummy and all the Weasleys were in there. He said that Aunt Ginny said that all people in Slytherin were insufferable gits, which is why he thinks Albus is going to be in Slytherin. He also said you were in Slytherin so, that must mean you are a git, too. And apparently if you are in Slytherin you get to call people Mudbloods if you have a higher blood status then Muggle-borns. What's a blood status?"

"First of all, I am not an insufferable git and those aren't nice words to be calling someone. Second, if you say the word Mudblood again you are going to get a time out and I'm not going to buy you anything anymore. Third, blood status isn't important and you don't need to know about it." Draco said furious at James for telling her these things about blood status and purity.

"Why can't I know about blood status? James said Mummy is classified as a Mudblood and you are classified as a Pureblood so, I can say that word because, Mummy is a Mudblood," Rose said innocently not knowing why Draco was so upset.

"Don't you ever say Mudblood again, it's a bad word!" Draco nearly shouted. "Blood status is a fancy way of saying how much wizard you are."

"I… I'm sorry… I was calling Mummy a bad word…" Rose said and started to cry.

"It's ok, Rose. You didn't know. Mummy will forgive you, just don't say it ever again," Draco said soothingly.

Rose continued to cry and, no amount of saying 'it's ok' made the situation any better. Draco made little animal figurines come out of his wand and made them dance. His mother used to do the same thing for him when he was upset. He thought it was one of the greatest things in the world when he was a child.

Rose stopped crying immediately when she saw the little animals come out of Draco's wand. She loved magic in every way (except when magic hurt people). She started laughing uncontrollably as the little figures started to dance and play around. She giggled as she tried to touch one but, Draco made it so any time her fingers would almost touch one of them the animal would move back an inch, teasing her.

Draco was smiling until someone grabbed his shoulder and Rose was pulled out of her chair.

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"How dare you!" Harry shouted at Draco when he grabbed Draco and pulled him into a standing position. "I should have left you to die when I had a chance to. You always ruin everything! Do you know how much pain you've caused everyone? Ginny hasn't been the same since, we found out. Mione… Who knows what's going on with her?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Draco said and smirked.

"You… Malfoy, you stupid insufferable git!" Harry screamed and tackled him onto the ground. Harry started hitting and punching Draco who was only trying to push Harry off of him. Rose was screaming and flailing her body in Ginny's arms.

"This is low even for you Potter," Draco said blood dripping from his lip. "If you haven't noticed you are upsetting my daughter." Draco smirked at the look on Harry's face- pure horror.

Harry started punching him again. People on the street were starting to stare. Harry Potter the Savior beating up Draco Malfoy the extremely rich winner of Witch Weekly's Hottest Wizard competition- who wouldn't watch?

A few Aurors came and broke up the crowd. They pulled Harry off of Draco and warned Harry if he did anything like this again his Auror license would be suspended for three months.

Rose wriggled out of Ginny's grip and ran to Draco. She hugged one of his legs glaring at Harry and Ginny.

"Let's go home Rose," Ginny said and motioned for her to follow. Rose shook her head and held on to Draco tighter than before. "Rose we have to go home. Mummy needs to know you are safe. I'm not playing any games with you. James, tell Rose she needs to come home with us."

"Please Rose?" James asked but, he thought she was better off with her father. Rose shook her head no again.

"Mum, I think she wants to stay with Mr. Malfoy," James said. Ginny rolled her eyes, and got mad at her son.

"That's enough James. She is coming home with us," Harry said and tried to grab Rose but, she swatted his hand away.

"You are a mean, insufferable git, Uncle Harry! I hate you… you stupid Mudblood!" Rose shouted.

"Ginny, we are leaving. Take the kids home right now. I need a word with Malfoy here," Harry said.

He waited until Ginny and the kids left to approach Draco, "Congratulations, you really taught her well. I will make sure Hermione hears about this."

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Well here you go :) I was originally going to post this over the weekend. You all better say thanks to one of my best friends who insisted that I needed to update today. Please review, it means the world to me!

P.S. Do you think there should be minimal Dramione action in the next chapter (and I only mean a little)? Please tell me in a review by Saturday night. Thanks!