Draco woke up only an hour after falling asleep, because his chest ached with milk. He got up and put the thing back on, redressing while he was at it. And then, since he was up, he wanted to check on his boys. They should still be sound asleep for another hour, but he hated being away from them and suddenly felt anxious at the separation. Harry was asleep, so Draco wrote a note.

Draco flooed to the villa, going immediately to the nursery. His aunt was there sleeping on the guest bed, Teddy was sleeping in Sev's old basinet, and Sev and Scorp were sleeping in their cribs. He knew he shouldn't wake them, but for some reason he felt the uncontrollable urge to hold his boys. He also wanted to nurse, so he picked his sleeping little raven haired son up, taking the baby with him back to his bedroom.

Scorp rested his head on Draco's shoulder, keeping his eyes closed as he remained in a state of half-slumber. But when Draco placed his nipple at Scorp's lips, his son latched on and sucked. Draco suddenly felt relief that all was right in the world, because his son was waiting for him. He could go away and spend a few hours alone with Harry and Scorp was still here, just as he left the baby. He fell asleep with his arms wrapped around his baby.

Harry woke up in the morning and noticed that the bed was empty. At first he figured Draco was eating in the kitchen, but then he noticed the parchment on the dresser. He picked it up and realized that Draco had already gone home.

Draco had told Harry he was planning on going back home to nurse Scorpius, given the baby's newfound dislike for bottles, so Harry tried not to be too upset about it. He knew Scorpius needed to nurse and that Draco wouldn't be able to sleep worrying about the twins. Still, he did wish his husband was there with him and that they had woken up in each other's arms after their intimate night. And it would've been nice to get in another shag before going home, but at least his arse had that freshly buggered feel to it and his whole body still felt good.

Harry got dressed, grabbed the uneaten dessert, and apparated back to the villa, where everyone was already up for the morning. He found Draco watching all three boys by himself in the drawing room and set the tray of dessert on the desk.

"Morning, Harry," Draco called with Teddy in his arms. Then he noticed the strawberries and ice cream. "Is that for me?"

"It was for you last night, but I forgot about it in my post-coital bliss," Harry answered. "You wouldn't be up for it now would you? You probably just ate."

"If you haven't figured it out, I'm producing enough milk to burn off a shit-ton of calories, which means I can eat again."

It was a nice day, so they took it out to the patio. A house elf transported both of the baby swings, a bouncer, and the dessert tray, while Harry carried a twin on each hip and Draco took Teddy. Harry moved to set Sev back into the swing he had come out of, but Sev fussed and whined at that, so he moved to put Scorp in his swing, which also resulted in fussing and whining.

"Draco, they don't want to go back into the swings," Harry said as Draco sat down with Teddy at the patio table.

"Of course not; they saw the ice cream. Mipsy, bring the highchairs and two bowls of breast milk ice cream." Draco had Teddy on his shoulder to burp, having just fed the baby before Harry arrived.

Mipsy complied and switched the swings for highchairs and added two small bowls of ice cream to the tray of desserts.

"Breast milk ice cream?" Harry asked, putting Sev into the blue highchair and buckling the straps, before moving on to putting Scorp in the green highchair and buckling his other son in. He was quickly becoming adept at juggling babies.

"Yes, well, I happen to love ice cream. It's basically just breast milk and vanilla. It's great for a hot day like this and easy for the elves to make. Put the bowls on their trays and let them feed themselves with their hands."

Harry did as instructed and Sev and Scorp both happily dug in. "I didn't think you'd be the type to let them have sweets."

"Yes, well cold treats are good for sore gums. Once you experience the cutting of the first tooth certain fantasies are replaced with reality."

"And the elves just turned your breast milk into ice cream?"

"Yes. Your sons happen to think it's delicious."

"Obviously, with the way they're going at it. Do you normally hose them off afterwards?"

"Yeah, duh. Sev already has some in his hair."

"Sev, it goes in your mouth, not on your face," Harry teased his messy baby.

"Professor Snape says Sev takes after you. He said you were a messy baby."

"How would he know? I don't think he saw me until I was eleven."

"I don't know; that's just what he said. Maybe your mother wrote to him."

"Yeah, she must've."

Teddy burped, so Draco put the newborn into the bouncer, before getting a bowl of ice cream for himself and popping a strawberry into his mouth. Sev was making a mess of it, getting as much on him as in him, while Scorp was neater and more efficient. Scorp let out a squeal of delight and reached for another handful of the creamy treat, getting it mostly into his mouth. Harry too enjoyed his dessert and even fed Draco a few strawberries.

After the dessert, they took the twins upstairs for a bath, putting Teddy down for a nap in the process. Later Harry asked Andy and Narcissa if they'd watch the children so that he could take Draco to the Ministry to get his apparition license. The women agreed, so after the twins went down for their nap, they flooed to the Ministry.

The Ministry was crowded and Draco got nervous as he looked out at the sea of people. The last time he'd been here it was empty, while now it seemed like everyone was staring at him. Well him and Harry, because Harry was with him this time, holding his hand, and leading him towards the apparition licensing division. He heard the click of people taking their picture and knew this was going to wind up in the papers tomorrow.

They didn't have an appointment, but he was Harry Malfoy, Savior of the Wizarding World, Boy-Who-Lived-Again-And-Again-And-Again, and the Chosen One. His husband needed an apparition license and it was the least the Ministry could do to repay him for his part in the war to let them cut in line. As it turned out, the person who had been schedule for that particular time slot was dead, which was unfortunate for the departed, but worked out well for them. Thus Draco got in, apparated, got his license, and they were out of there again in record time.

They were just about to apparate home when Draco remembered that they needed soothers for Teddy, so he asked Harry to take him to a muggle store. They apparated to the streets of London just outside the Ministry and then walked to the nearest muggle store, which was a Debenhams Plus.

Harry led Draco inside and quickly navigated their way through the huge store to the baby section. They had to look through a few aisles of baby stuff before they spotted the soothers. Draco went through all of the packages of soothers, looking for red ones, since Scorp and Sev already had soothers of the other colors and he didn't want to get the soothers mixed up. There were only two packages, so he grabbed both.

Harry was leading Draco back towards the front of the store, when Draco asked, "Harry, can I have a muggle-stick-quill?"

"What?" Harry asked, taken by surprise.

"A stick-quill; I saw one at the muggle-hospital and the muggles were writing with them without any ink."

"You mean a pen? Yeah, sure, they should be over this way," Harry said, heading in the direction of stationary. Pens were cheap, so he grabbed a package of a dozen and added it to the cart. "What did you want them for?"

"I want to figure out what kinda magic muggles use to make them work," Draco explained, following Harry once more towards the front of the store.

"It's not magic. There's ink in a tube on the inside and it come out when writing."

"With lightening energy?" Draco asked, remembering what Professor Snape had taught him about muggles.

"No, without energy. I'll take one apart and show you when we get home," Harry said, navigating them to the checkout counter. The line wasn't long, but it was the only one open and the person in front of them had a price check, which took a long time.

While they were standing in line, Draco looked around at the products surrounding the registers. One side was lined with muggle candies and mints and the other side had crisps. On the ground, there was an out of place box that he picked up to examine more closely. It showed a grass lawn covered in a shiny blue mat with small streams of water squirting on it. There was a child on his belly on the mat who looked to be having fun.

"What's a slip-n-slide?" Draco asked, reading the box.

"A water toy for playing outside during the summer. It's a bit early in the season for one, but basically the kids slide on the plastic tarp when it's wet with water. It's a cheap way to cool off in the heat if you don't have a pool," Harry answered quietly, hoping that none of the muggles nearby would hear. Dressed in wizarding robes as they were, they were getting plenty of strange looks and he wanted to rush them out of the store before anything happened. If only the line would move already.

"And how do they get the water to come out in small streams like that?"

Harry explained the concept of a pressurized water hose and the lady in front of them took her receipt and finally left.

Draco put the toy back where he found it and Harry paid the muggle. They apparated back to the villa, safe and sound.

Sev and Scorp were still asleep and Andy and Narcissa were surprised to see Harry and Draco returned so quickly. Draco handed the bag of soothers to Narcissa. Teddy was sleeping and not causing any trouble where he was, so Harry and Draco went up to their bedroom where Draco pulled out the pens and Harry showed him how to open them up. Harry tried to explain how the technology worked, but soon found himself wishing for Hermione, because he didn't understand it as well as he thought he did. Harry said it was gravity and whatever else that made quills work and instead of admitting his ignorance on such a simple everyday implement, he distracted Draco with a kiss. They made out on their bed for an hour or so until Sev and Scorp woke up.

They took the twins down to the drawing room and collected Teddy from the study and once again set about caring for the three babies. After half an hour, Lucius apparated in and asked Harry about wards for the Manor. Lucius had finished cleaning up and repairing the Manor and now he was concerned with making the place safe enough for the Malfoy family to live in. Having Harry with them imposed a whole new security risk the Malfoys had never had to deal with before. Thus, Lucius wanted Harry's advice on just what wards should be put up.

While Harry was in the other room talking to Lucius, Draco fed Sev a bottle and nursed Scorp. When Sev finished, Draco set him free on the carpet to crawl around while he finished nursing. Then when Scorp was done, he put both boys into their jumpers to play. Teddy started crying for a bottle a few minutes later, so Draco acquired another from Jingly and was just starting to feed Teddy when his aunt came in.

"Oh, you've got him. I heard Teddy crying and I thought you were alone, so I decided to check and make sure you're alright. But I guess I needn't have worried; you're so good with all of them. I never would've thought you'd be able to handle three babies, but you seem to have it covered," Andy said.

"Thank you," Draco replied.

"You know it'd be easier if you just nursed him, dear. Nursing is best and fortifies the parent and baby bond. I know you're not his birth parent, Draco, but you're playing an important role in Teddy's life now and I know nursing will help you bond."

"What?" Draco asked, taken aback.

"Harry told you what we talked about the other day, didn't he? That I want Teddy to live with you?"

"Yes, he did."

"And well you're providing the breast milk anyway, so it'll be easier if Teddy stays with you and you nurse him. That way you don't have to keep pumping the milk for him."

"Aunt Andy, did Harry talk to you about us adopting Teddy yet?"

"No, dear, he didn't say anything. I hadn't thought of it."

"Well would you consider letting us adopt him?"

"You are great young men, but I'd have to give it some consideration. I know I'm not going to be around forever and I'm getting older... It'll be good to know that Teddy has the two of you to raise him if something was to happen to me, but adoption is a big step and I'll have to think about it."

"Bonding with a baby that I don't know if you'll let me keep is a big step. I won't nurse him until the adoption papers are signed. I have to pump anyway, for Sev, so it's no additional work," Draco said handing Teddy over to Andy and standing up. "If you'll excuse me, I'm just gonna go feed the twins some green beans." He picked up his twins and went into the dining room and did just that.

Author's Note: Draco and Andy's talk wasn't long, but it was overdue. Up next Harry will be going to the Burrow to plan the raid on Bellatrix' funeral.