"Mipsy!" Harry called and the elf appeared. "Can you get me a blue soother?" A blue soother appeared in Mipsy's hand. She passed it to him and he dismissed the elf. "So Hermione, are you up for an adventure in naptime?"

"Sure, what should I do?"

"Why don't you take Teddy and I'll get Scorp and Sev. I don't think Scorp likes new people, because it took him a day to warm up to me," Harry said, passing Teddy over to Hermione.

Hermione agreed, so Harry went and retrieved Sev from the jumper. Harry handed the baby the blue soother, which Sev gladly popped into his mouth. Then Harry went back to the green bouncer, where Scorpius was sleeping.

"Do you think I'll wake him if I pick him up, Hermione?"

"Probably, Harry. It might be best to leave him in the bouncer."

"Probably. I'll cast a monitoring charm on him so we can hear him while we're putting Sev to sleep." Harry cast the charm and then led Hermione upstairs to the nursery. "The blue things are Sev's and the green are Scorp's." Harry said, placing Sev into the blue crib. "Draco said a lot of Scorp's things are charmed specifically to work better for him, because of the leg; it's best not to mix them up."

"Alright. Where does Teddy sleep?"

"In the basinet, but he doesn't take naps at the same time as the twins. If he's awake, it's best to keep him up so that he'll sleep through the night." Sev turned over and started using the bars of the crib to pull himself into a kneeling position. "No Sev, lie down," Harry said, laying the baby back down. Sev cried and spit out the soother, so Harry picked it back up and put it back in Sev's mouth, but Sev continued to cry. "What should I do, Hermione?"

"Perhaps take him to the rocker for a bit," Hermione suggested. She was about to sit down in the rocker with Teddy, but if Harry needed it for Sev, she could stand. She was thinking about sitting on the bed, but she didn't know whose bed it was.

"Okay." Harry picked up Sev, taking him to the rocker. He noticed that Hermione didn't have anywhere to sit, so he said, "You can sit on the bed, Hermione; it's a guest bed that Andy's been using and I don't think she'll mind."

Hermione sat down on the bed and Harry rocked Sev, who continued to cry, making hissing sounds in between his wails. One of the sounds Sev kept making sounded like, "Sssoorr-ee-usssss."

"Hermione, do you think he's saying Scorpius?" Harry asked, after about the tenth time Severus said it.

"Oh, yeah, that could be it. Perhaps Mipsy might know; she seemed to understand Severus earlier."

"Mipsy!" Harry called and the elf appeared. "What is Sev saying?"

"Master Severus, sir, is saying, 'Brother,' sir, and Master Severus, sir, is saying, 'Sor-e-us,' sir.'

"Is Soreus, Scorpius, Mipsy?" Harry asked.

"Mipsy does not know, sir."

"Thank you, Mipsy," Harry said, before dismissing the elf.

"He must want Scorpius with him to go to sleep," Hermione concluded.

"Yeah, can you watch him while I go get Scorpius?" Harry asked, setting Sev back down in the blue crib. Sev was already rolling over and crawling towards the rail.

"Yes, of course," Hermione said, getting up and putting Teddy into the nearby basinet, which had the same blue sea turtle pattern as the crib.

Harry went downstairs to retrieve the sleeping Scorpius and Severus pulled himself up onto his knees, using the crib railing again, staring after Harry. Hermione went over to Severus and started to talk to him, telling him, "Daddy will be right back with Scorpius," but she didn't know if she should pick Severus up, or if that would make it worse.

"Sssoor-ee-ussss," Sev repeated.

"Yes, Scorpius. Daddy's getting him right now," Hermione agreed.

"Ssssoooor-ee-usssss," Sev said again, before letting out a wail.

Harry returned carefully carrying a sleeping Scorpius. "Shush, Sev, you're gonna wake Scorp," Harry whispered as he put Scorpius into the green crib. Scorpius stirred and sucked his soother, but didn't wake, so Harry went and picked up Sev. "See Sev, Scorp's right there."

Sev reached out for his brother, but Harry was worried that Sev would wake Scorp, so he held Sev back, only letting him look in Scorp's crib. "Ssssooor-ee-usss," Sev said again and opened and closed his hands in the gesture that Harry had seen the twins use when they wanted Draco to pick them up.

"No Sev, you'll wake Scorp up," Harry said.

Hermione was amazed that Teddy wasn't fussing with all this noise, so she went back over to the basinet to check on the baby. Teddy was still awake and looking back up at her with eyes that were mostly blue and hair that was initially teal, but quickly flickered to aqua.

Sev said, "Ssssoor-ee-usssss," one more time, before screaming at the top of his lungs.

Hearing Severus' wail, Druella came hurrying in as quickly as her old legs could carry her, quickly taking him from Harry and asking, "What's wrong? What did you do to him, Harry?"

"Nothing. I was just trying to put him to bed and he was asking for Scorpius, but Scorpius was already asleep," Harry said.

"Sssooor-ee-ussss," Sev agreed, calming down a bit now that he was in his great grandmother's arms.

"Did you just say Scorpius?" Druella asked the baby in her arms, before looking down at the still sleeping Scorpius in the green crib. "Alright, but don't wake him." Druella slowly lowered Sev into the crib and Sev's crying turned immediately into quiet gasps for air as the baby calmed down.

"Um, here, he spit this out," Harry said, handing Druella the blue soother. Druella gave it to Sev, who stopped crying and lay down next to Scorpius, who was amazingly, still asleep. "How did Scorpius not wake up with Sev screaming like that?"

"Muffling charm on all the cribs, basinets, and cradles. I suspect Teddy and Scorpius didn't hear a thing," Druella replied, indicating Teddy, who was now happily changing his hair color between scarlet and aqua and every color in between.

"Brilliant," Harry replied and truly it was; otherwise, the twins would probably wake each other up all through the night.

"They don't usually insist on sleeping with each other, but sometimes when they're agitated they do. I suspect it's all the new people in the house; he probably didn't like when Draco left him with two strangers," Druella said.

"I'm not a stranger; I'm his dad," Harry protested.

"He just met you, Harry. You need to give him time," Druella said.

Harry agreed and Druella excused herself. Sev and Scorp were both sleeping peacefully, so he cast a monitoring charm on them. Then Harry and Hermione took Teddy back down to the drawing room.

"It's been quite the adventure already, hasn't it?" Hermione asked, sitting down on the sofa with Teddy.

"Yeah; I've never been left alone with them before. That's sort of why I wanted you to come over and help me while Draco's gone. I can't believe he watched all three of them all morning by himself," Harry replied, sitting next to her.

"When I first appeared in the floo, Draco looked completely fine with all three of them quiet, but then as soon as I stepped out, Scorpius was screaming and then Teddy was crying and then Severus was hissing at me with an elf and a snake. Why is there even a snake in the house?"

"Draco bought it for him Sunday. Of all the things Draco couldn't get in hiding, apparently the one thing he wanted most was a snake for the little parselmouth."

"I still can't believe that little boy was talking to a snake! And then he said Scorpius' name and the word elf too; he's very advanced."

"Scorpius is advanced too, just in different ways. They're both highly intelligent and magical."

"I'm sure. Does it matter which one of these chairs I set Teddy in? I assume they're originally for your twins and that Teddy doesn't have one of his own."

"The blue one. Sev doesn't use his anymore, so Draco gave it to Teddy. The cradles and the basinets were all Draco's too, but we've been using them for Teddy. Apparently Lucius carved the two cradles for the twins after they were born."

"Oh, I didn't think he was the sort. It's hard to picture Lucius doing something with his own two hands."

"Yeah, but he must've. I mean, have you seen the cradles?"

"No."

Harry summoned the cradle from the dining room and showed it to Hermione. It was made out of a dark cherry colored wood, just like everything else in the nursery and like all of Scorpius' things, it had a green and gold pattern on it, but with scorpions instead of sea turtles. The cradle was covered in intricate scorpion carvings and the head had Scorpius' name. "Severus' cradle is blue and silver with geckos. That one says, 'Hyperion,' because that was what they were calling him before Professor Snape died."

"Wow, he clearly put a lot of work into this," Hermione agreed. "He's still playing nice? He hasn't caused any problems?"

"Yeah, he's been fine, no problems. He even took me with him to the Ministry today. I got my apparition license and talked to the Aurors. Auror Robards was really nice and told me that you, Ron, and I've got jobs with him, we don't even need to put in an application; we just have to show up. He even said the Ministry is going to pay the three of us for the time we spent in hiding, taking down Voldemort. He said I'll get top Auror pay, but you and Ron will get the introductory Auror pay. That's a lot of money, and with three kids, I need it."

"So are you and Draco taking in Teddy then? I was surprised to see how good Draco was with him."

"Maybe; I've got to talk to Andy about it. Draco said he'd take him, but only if we're adopting him. He doesn't want to go halfway with it."

"That's good, if not unexpected."

"Yeah, I was surprised. Draco brought it up before I'd even considered it. But then Draco's the one producing milk for Teddy now and Teddy is adorable, so I can see how he's gotten attached so quickly."

"When are you going to speak with Andy about it?"

"I'm not sure. We already talked once, a few days ago, but we didn't come to a real conclusion; we both just sort of said we wanted the other in Teddy's life and agreed to share him, but Draco wants a real decision about whose house Teddy is gonna live at and whose house Teddy is gonna visit."

"Yeah, I can understand that.

After that Hermione talked about the Weasleys for a bit, but then she changed the subject by asking, "And what about you? How'd the contraceptive spell work? Did you talk to Draco?"

"I haven't used the spell yet; Draco doesn't feel comfortable doing it in a house full of people, but I did talk to him."

"And?"

"And you were right: he already took a permanent contraceptive potion, so if I took one too, we'd be infertile."

"Oh Harry! That means….you'll have too…or do you not want to do it at all?"

"Yeah, I've been thinking about it. It'll either have to be me or we'll just have the three boys and no girls. I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it, but Draco and I had a good talk and he was telling me that he felt the same way until he was actually pregnant and then everything changed. He thinks everything will change for me too… he got me thinking that maybe I could do it and I do want a little princess, Hermione, I do. Draco's been talking about having one for so long, I've gotten used to the idea. Not ever having one just seems wrong."

"Oh Harry, I'm sure you'll be fine having a baby. Just look how good you are with Teddy and the twins!"

"I'm not nearly as good with them as Draco is, but he said he'd help me out with our daughter and stuff…well he said he wants to have a career and work, but if I have the baby in the next few years, he'll stay home with the kids while I go to work for a few years."

"That's great!"

Harry and Hermione talked for a bit longer, before Draco returned; the twins still not up from their nap.

"How'd it go?" Harry asked as Draco took the seat next to him.

"Good; Professor Snape should be just a little bit closer to getting his Order of Merlin. Did you know that was the one thing he always said he wanted? An Order of Merlin for all his unsung good deeds?"

"No, I didn't know," Harry replied.

"I think I heard Dumbledore mention it once; us helping Sirius escape cost Professor Snape an Order of Merlin," Hermione said.

Then Draco asked them how it went with the boys. Harry told Draco all about Sev's little fit and saying Scorpius' name for the first time.

"He said Scorpius' name? Wow! What'd you do to him to make him have to say something so difficult?"

"Well Scorpius was already asleep, so we left him downstairs in the bouncer. Your grandmum said that Sev was probably upset because he barely knows me and I tried to put him down for a nap without his brother."

"Oh the little guy was probably worried about his baby brother. He's very protective of Scorpius, you know."

"No, I didn't know, but that's really great," Harry said thinking about how Sev would have to be protective of Scorp, what with Scorp's handicap.

Draco was hungry, so he excused himself to eat a snack. It was an hour and a half 'til dinner, but he was breast feeding for three these days and couldn't wait.

Harry and Hermione stayed in the drawing room, but a few minutes later the monitoring charm went off, so they took Teddy with them upstairs and found the boys sitting up; Sev had his arms holding onto Scorp's shirt in a little baby hug.

"Oh how cute they look! Harry, you have to take a picture of this; do you know where their camera is?" Hermione asked.

Harry didn't know. He looked around and saw it sitting on a shelf, so he snapped a few pictures. Then he put the camera back and went to pick Severus up, but the baby's hands clung onto Scorpius' shirt. "Ssssor-ee-ussss," Sev insisted.

Scorpius reached his little hand out and patted Sev, saying, "Hi."

"Father's here now; he's just downstairs. Let me take you to him, Sev," Harry said.

"Harry, try to pick one up with each hand; you are going to carry them both anyway, right?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah," Harry replied, reaching in with both hands and trying to get them at the same time. It took a moment, but then he had them.

Harry and Hermione took the boys back downstairs to Draco, who was eating in the dining room. "Sev won't let Scorpius go and he's still saying Soreus," Harry explained, sitting down next to Draco.

Scorp patted Sev again and said, "Hi."

"Sssooor-eee-ussss," Sev replied.

"I'm impressed little man, keep it up and keep an eye on your baby brother like a good big brother. Family comes first with Malfoys, always remember that," Draco told Sev, giving him a kiss on the head and then taking the baby when Sev let go of Scorp and reached out for Draco.

"Well I have to be getting back to the Burrow. Owl me the next time I can come over; if you give me more notice, I could stay longer next time," Hermione suggested.

"You're welcome to stop by tomorrow at the same time; I have an interview with the Quibbler," Draco replied.

Hermione agreed and handed Teddy over to Draco, who had just finished his snack. Then she saw herself to the fireplace and left.

Then Harry and Draco took the boys out to the patio to enjoy the warm summer evening. Harry summoned the jumpers and inserted Scorp into the green one, while Draco lowered Sev single-handedly into the blue one, holding Teddy with his other hand.

Teddy woke up and started fussing when Sev let out a screech of delight. "He's probably hungry. Have you feed him?" Draco asked, knowing that it'd been three hours since he fed Teddy and that was a bit long for such a young baby.

"Um, no. He didn't cry. Should I have?" Harry asked worried.

"Maybe not, but never let him go more than four hours without a feed," Draco advised, before calling Jingly for a bottle.

Draco fed Teddy and was burping him when Narcissa and Andy came home and joined them on the patio. When Teddy burped, Draco handed the baby over to Andy. Then he wrapped Harry's arms around him, snuggling into Harry's side and turning his head for a quick snog.

They all stayed out on the patio and waited for Lucius to arrive for dinner, but when Draco got hungry, he asked, "Mother, can you check the Manor for father and see what's taking him so long? If he won't be home anytime soon, then I think we should eat without him."

Narcissa agreed and apparated off to the Manor. She came back fifteen minutes later and said, "He's fine, but he's been searching the Manor for all the Malfoy family heirlooms and can't find any. He said they were gone during the summer when he came home from Azkaban, but he'd just assumed they were up in the attic and they're not there. He's worried someone must've stolen them."

"I've got all the heirlooms, Mother. I have a bag with an undetectable extension charm full up with shrunken things; I didn't leave anything of value behind."

"Alright, I'll go tell him, but your father still needs to call the Aurors in to collect the Dark Lords things. He sent me back with this bag full of Bella's things to have a look through," Narcissa said, indicating another bag with an extension charm on it.

"Here, I'll put it away and you go tell him not to worry," Draco said, taking the bag.

Harry wondered what was in the bag, the twins were fine with Andy, and Teddy was asleep, so he followed Draco upstairs. Draco went into a room on the other side of the hallway that Harry had never been into before. It appeared to be another bedroom. "Draco, what's in the bag? If it's Bella's, it's probably dangerous," Harry said.

"If it's Bella's, my grandmother has a right to it. I'll let my father sort through it and he'll make the determination of whether or not it's safe enough to give my grandmother. If not, he'll turn it over to the Aurors; he's calling the Aurors to come and get the Dark Lord's things after all."

"What if he's not? What if there are some of Voldemort's things in that bag that your father wanted? There could be dangerous dark artifacts!"

"If any of the artifacts are dark or dangerous, they will be properly stored out of little baby hands. And judging by the fact that you don't seem to be comfortable handling them, we'll keep them out of Savior hands too."

"I can't believe you just said that!"

"I can't believe you're surprised. Haven't you known all along that my family has a history of dark magic, performing dark spells, and of having dark artifacts? Just because something is dark or dangerous, doesn't make it uniformly bad. Some things are dangerous when used one way, but could save a life when used another."

"Your family still has dark artifacts then? That's what your dad was so freaked out about, searching for in the Manor, because he thought someone had stolen them, but you've had them all along?"

"I'm not going to answer that and you shouldn't ask me it."

"Draco! We're married! I'm the bloody Savior, how did you think I'd react?"

"I thought you'd be mature enough to accept my family for who we are. If you have a problem with any artifact we show you or spell we perform in front of you, then ask. There are reasons that we have our artifacts and use our spells. If we're doing so in front of you or the children, we'll be happy to explain why we're using it and how to use it safely. But what I'm not going to do is hand over our antiques to the Aurors to destroy or turn my father in for practicing dark spells. I'm also not going to show you forthright everything we have. It's not necessary and at this point, you couldn't understand it all."

"Draco! How could you even say that? I just got done killing Voldemort, the greatest dark wizard of all time, and you're gonna let your family fall right back into the dark arts?"

"If I remember correctly, you've used a dark spell or two in your day. I know you used one on me; am I to understand that it's the only one you've ever used? My Aunt Bella said you hit her with a cruciatus, was she lying? Did you really make it through the entire war without casting cruciatus, imperius, or avada kedavra?"

"I did hit you with a dark curse and I'm sorry about it. And I did try to hit your aunt with the cruciatus curse and I hit one of the Carrows with it. I even imperiused a goblin at Gringotts. But I did those things to defeat Voldemort. I never used the killing curse and I never used Sectumsempra after I saw what it did to you."

"See, two examples where using the cruciatus curse turned out to be positive. What if the only way to kill the Dark Lord was to cast a killing curse? Would you do it then?"

"Yes, I would, but only then and never again."

"And it'd be justified and right to do so. And that is the very worst of the dark curses; the stuff my family has is mild in comparison."

"Well what does your family have?"

"If I show you something, will you promise not to go blabbing to the Aurors? Swear on our wedding vows?"

"I can't do that; what if it's really dangerous?"

"It's not. It could be put to dangerous purposes, but what we use it for isn't dangerous and doesn't hurt anyone."

"If that's true, then I promise."

"Fine. Go downstairs and I'll retrieve something to show you; I don't want you to know where they are kept. Knowing you, you'll go snooping around and get yourself hurt."

"Fine, alright, I'll go," Harry said and went downstairs.

Draco hid the bag his father had sent in his father's wardrobe, cast a locking spell on it that only a Malfoy would know, and went to his grandmother's room. He pulled down the hatch to the attic, climbed up the stairs, found his chest, removed several protective charms and locking spells, retrieved his bag of Malfoy family artifacts and left behind his other bag of dark Malfoy family artifacts. Instead of getting something actually dark to show Harry, he got a box with a powered potion ingredient out of his potions kit and put it in his pocket. This powder wasn't dark, but it looked just like another powder he owned that was dark and Harry wouldn't know the difference. The dark powder would remain safely locked away in the attic.

Draco went down to his parents' room and placed the bag of Malfoy family artifacts on the bed for his father, before going to the stairs.

"Harry, you can come up now!" Draco called.

Harry was all too eagerly awaiting Draco's call, so he was running up the steps moments later. He followed Draco into Draco's room, where Draco sat on the bed with a small box. It was a plain cardboard box the size someone might put jewelry in. "What's that?" Harry asked, pointing at the box.

"This box contains a potion ingredient needed to make the potion that assures that only girls are produced. That's what I plan on using this ingredient for and that potion is harmless, unless you're a boy sperm; then it's deadly."

"Is that all it can be used for?"

"No. There are a great many uses this ingredient can be put too, all of them more deadly than that. For example, it could make a potion that would be fatal to all male wizards, not just the single-celled variety. That potion is illegal. My potion is legal, but extremely expensive to the point where we wouldn't be able to afford it unless I make it, in which case it's practically free, because I have the only regulated ingredient. So Harry, you need to decide: can I keep this, or is it something too dangerous to be in the hands of a known Death Eater?" Draco asked, pulling up his shirt sleeve and casting a finite on the glamour that was always covering his mark.

"What is that? I thought you said it faded when not called?"

"It did fade, just not completely. It's been like this since He died; it was quite dark and inflamed all through my pregnancy, when He kept calling me to him. I don't like to look at it, so I use a glamour."

"Alright. Um, I wished you'd told me."

"And I wish you'd tell me right now whether or not I can be trusted with this ingredient? I could make a poison and kill the Minister of Magic…."

"But you won't, right?"

"Right."

"Does your dad have access to this ingredient?"

"He did when he was Lord Malfoy; now he doesn't."

"Then fine, you can keep it, but I'm not saying you can keep the other things. This is the only ingredient we need for that potion and I doubt the other things all have benign uses."

"They do."

"Then tell me a few of them."

"There is an ingredient used in making invisibility cloaks; it helps the cloaking charm hold longer without degrading for years. Do you want to know why my family has so much more money than the Weasley family?"

"Why?"

"Besides not having more kids than we could afford, we make a lot of things for ourselves and sell expensive things to others. My Grandfather Abraxas had a knack for making invisibility cloaks and this ingredient is left over from that work. A great number of the instruments for making the cloaks can be put towards other more nefarious uses and would be taken away from my father if the Aurors knew he had them. But I have them now and he doesn't have access to them; maybe someday one of our children will want to make invisibility cloaks and I'll pass these things on."

"Alright, fine, you win: it seems your items aren't all bad."

"Good, now go back downstairs so I can put this away; I don't want the babies or my father having a chance to get into it."

"Yeah, okay, but don't you need to make that potion?"

"I already did, before you came; this is extra for the next time it's needed in the Malfoy family."

"Great."

"I'll be down in a minute," Draco said and waited for Harry to go downstairs before calling a house elf to take the potion ingredient to the potions laboratory. All of the Malfoy family's dark artifacts and ingredients didn't have such legitimate uses as the examples he had told Harry about, but Harry didn't need to know that; Harry would be happier not knowing.

By the time Draco got to the dining room, Narcissa was already back from her second trip to the Manor.

"I talked to your father. He was relieved to know you had everything and he's going to stay and wait for the Aurors to go through the house. We can eat without him; I had Leeky take him a plate," Narcissa said.

"I left a bag of benign things from the Manor on your bed."

"Alright, we'll look through it at a later date; I'm sure your father wants to make sure it's all there."

They sat down to dinner and ate without Lucius that night. Draco even went to sleep before Lucius came home. Narcissa waited up for her husband and was relieved when Lucius finally returned home unaccompanied by Aurors.

Lucius had a very long evening with Aurors. Of course the Aurors wouldn't simply accept his good Samaritan actions of turning over the Dark Lords non-valuable possessions for what it was; they questioned him, accusing him of everything from taking items, to these being his items. But Lucius had had his lawyer with him the entire time, who acted as his witness and vouched for him that Lucius had done nothing wrong and lied for him concerning the items he took. But then what did the Aurors need with the Gaunt family candlesticks or the Slytherin family napkin rings? And why waste perfectly good heirlooms, when he had grandchildren who needed an inheritance? Severus was sure to like them, since they were snake themed.