Sunday morning Scorpius said, "Fa fa fa fa," as he stuck his fingers into Draco's mouth to wake his father up. Then to emphasize his point, he pulled his hand out of Draco's mouth and slapped the saliva coated appendage down onto Draco's cheek.
"Scorp?" Draco asked sleepily. "How did you get here?" He didn't remember falling asleep with Scorpius in his bed. In fact, he distinctly remembered nursing Scorp on the spare bed in the nursery last night, now that his aunt had moved to his grandmother's old room, so even if he had fallen asleep breast feeding his son, that wouldn't account for why they were both in Draco's bed with Harry.
"Fa! Aaaahhh! Da ah ah fa," Scorp said and proceeded to stick his little index finger up Draco's nose.
Draco choked and sputtered, removing Scorp's finger from his persons. "Alright, I'm up, what do you want, Scorp?" Draco asked looking down at his baby. That was when he noticed that Scorpius' other hand was on his robes above his right breast. Then Scorp made sucking noises and that confirmed it: the baby was hungry and wanted to nurse. "Just give me a second." He sat up in bed, removed the panel from his robes and the breast pump from the one side, before letting Scorpius latch on.
Harry was woken up by Draco's movement. He opened his eyes to see his husband breast feeding their son and he thought it was beautiful. He sat up next to Draco, pulling his husband into his lap and resting his chin on Draco's shoulder as he looked down at his suckling son. "What does it feel like?"
"Like magic, but it hurts too," Draco replied. It felt like magic to be giving life to such a wonderful child that was both his and Harry's and it was a relieving sensation for the milk to leave his full chest, but sometimes Scorpius bit down too hard and it hurt.
"Oh, I'm sorry it hurts."
"Don't be; I've gotten used to it and I barely notice anymore."
"Good."
"Do you know how Scorp got into bed with us?" Draco asked.
"No, I'd assumed you brought him; he wasn't here when I went to sleep."
"He was when I woke up, but I know I didn't bring him in here."
"Must be magic."
"Yeah, probably. Can you go get Sev and feed him a bottle?"
"Yeah," Harry replied, getting up. He retrieved Sev fand came back into Draco's bedroom to feed him.
Today they were to work on the Manor, so later than morning Harry gave the secret to the Manor to Draco, Narcissa, and Andy. Harry and Lucius apparated over to the Manor carrying baby supplies, while Draco, Narcissa, and Andy each flooed over with a baby. The second floor landing from the stairs let out onto an L-shaped sitting room where they set the babies up.
The Manor was repaired and warded and now they just needed to make it livable again. Draco's bag with an undetectable extension charm was there and full of shrunken furniture, which Lucius, Narcissa, and Andy were pulling out of the bag, unshrinking, and moving to the correct location inside the house.
Harry wasn't sure what to do, so he followed Draco into the middle bedroom, the one along the backside of the house. It was a good sized room with horrible old wallpaper on the walls. He looked around the empty room and asked, "What are we doing?"
"This is going to be the nursery. It's the largest room on this floor, which makes it the best choice. But it's still far too small for three boys, so I'm going to cast a long-lasting extension charm on it. I think double in size should about do it," Draco replied.
"Brilliant. How long will it last for?"
"Well typical extension charms only last a few years, but you get the endless space. The long-lasting type, on the other hand, provide no more than double the space, but can last for up to twenty years. We'll have to move all of the furniture out and cancel the spell when the boys go off to Hogwarts, just to be on the safe side, but we should be good for eleven years."
"What happens if the spell breaks while people are in the room?"
"Then the room goes back to this size and everything that was in the expanded room is shoved into a smaller space. The people could be crushed; that's why we don't like to use expansion charms around the house where people could get hurt."
"If it's dangerous, then we shouldn't try it. We can just take up another room for the boys; we'll find some way to make it all fit."
"The larger the room becomes, the more dangerous it is. But I'm going to stick to no more than twice as large, which means the room will be safe for about twenty years and there's virtually no risk of the charm failing before the eleven-year mark. If you haven't noticed, I've a lot of practice casting extension charms, seeing as almost all of the furniture for this house is in that little bag in the sitting room."
"Alright, if you're sure it's safe, but let's not make it any bigger than it has to be."
"Yeah, okay. Maybe I can make everything fit if I add a few feet to the length and width. Will you go back out into the sitting room while I cast?"
Harry stepped back into the sitting area and looked around. He had been here once before with Dobby; well not here here, but here in the room of requirement. The room didn't have any windows, because it was the central room on the second floor. It had a total of five doors off of it, as well as the landing for the staircase. There were two sets of stairs, one leading up to the third floor and one leading down to the first floor.
Andy was in the sitting room, trying to figure out the best way to arrange the sofa and the loveseat in the L-shaped room. She had the loveseat to the right of the stairs, up against the wall that joined with the stairs and the sofa on the wall opposite, but there was barely a walkway in that configuration and definitely not enough room to put a coffee table in between.
"Hey Harry, can you ask Draco if there's a coffee table for this sitting room?" Andy asked, wishing she knew what the Manor had looked like before Draco had packed it all up and shoved it into a bag.
Harry agreed and waited for Draco to finish expanding the nursery before asking. There was not in fact a coffee table, just two end tables to go on either side of the sofa and a third next to the love seat. Harry relayed the message to Andy, before going back into the new nursery and watching Draco work. The room did seem to be about fifty percent wider and several feet longer, but it wasn't anywhere close to double in size, which meant it was safer. Draco was making hologram copies of the nursery furniture they had back at the villa and was placing the holograms around the room.
Draco spent half an hour making the holograms and then another half an hour trying to figure out how to make it all fit. Finally, he settled on putting the spare bed in the back along the wall on the right side of the room, the side where the room butted up against the sitting room. The three dressers, changing table, laundry hamper, nappy pail, and rocking chair were all against the left wall, which had the windows that overlooked the rear lawn and the forests beyond. There was a second rocking chair, which he was planning on asking his mother to order, up against the rear wall. In the corner between the two rocking chairs was an end table to put bottles and things on during feedings. Then in the middle of the rear wall was a bookshelf and a toy box which jutted out into the middle of the room. Up against the toy box were the three cribs, in a clump in the middle of the room. Two cribs were pushed against each other and the third crib ran long ways at the foot of the other two. The rest of the things such as the bouncers, swings, jumpers, stationary entertainers and the like, he was trying to arrange along the free wall space on the right of the room, before the spare bed. The fourth wall had the doors for the walk-in closet and the bathroom.
"Harry, will you work on the walls? I don't want to keep my parent's ratty old wall paper," Draco said. This room had been his parents' room since as long as he could remember, because it was the largest room in the house.
Harry stripped off the wall paper with a spell, but he didn't know a spell to redecorate the walls, so he left it at that. Then he saw Draco working the copies of the carseats into the closet and remembered that he had wanted to get Teddy a carseat the day before while at Fred's funeral. "Draco, I was wondering if we could stop by a store today and pick up a carseat for Teddy," Harry said.
"Teddy can have Sev's infant carseat; Sev will be too big for it soon and we've already got the larger size ones in the storeroom at the villa," Draco answered, levitating the hologram stroller into the closet as well.
"Yeah, but have you noticed that everything Teddy has is passed onto him from the twins? Shouldn't we buy him some of his own things?"
"Yeah, he'll have some of his own things. We already got the third dresser for him and the third crib is waiting in the storeroom for when the bedding we ordered arrives. It's taking longer, because they have to make the Indigo fabric with the red and bronze colored sea turtles that I'm requesting. We could've set it up already if we'd just gone with red, but I wanted it to match the twins' cribs. Besides, all of the stuff Teddy is getting from the twins is still in good condition. Sev only used his infant carseat once."
"Alright, if the carseat was only used once, then I'm sure it's okay; I just don't want Teddy to feel like he's getting short-changed."
"Harry, the twins have to get new stuff, because they're the oldest. What do you think's gonna happen when our daughter is born? Are we gonna buy her all new stuff or use the perfectly good stuff we already have?"
"I'd assume we'd buy new stuff with flowers on it instead of sea turtles."
"Well I don't see the point, when girls can use things with sea turtles on them just as well as boys. Even a lot of the clothes she'll wear will be hand-me-downs, especially in the beginning when they grow so quickly that none of the clothes have a chance to really get worn before they're too small. And in a few years, Teddy will be the same size as the twins, so he won't be able to fit the twin's hand-me-downs and he'll have to have new clothes, same as the twins. Then it'll be our daughter wearing hand-me-downs from all three boys."
"Yeah, alright, just as long as Teddy gets some new things along with the hand-me-downs."
"Why don't you have a baby shower for Teddy? Get all of your fans to throw you a party and give you things to celebrate his adoption?"
"Yeah, that's a great idea! I bet Ginny, Luna, and Hermione would have a blast with that." He wasn't going to invite his fans, but he could invite his friends.
"Great, now let's get to work painting these walls. I want tropical paradise, not old people number two," Draco said, summoning a book on painting spells.
Draco taught Harry how to paint the walls. Harry would paint a wall blue and dry it and then Draco would add in the details, like the sea creatures and the white crests of the waves.
They had to stop to feed the babies and they took a break to go downstairs for lunch, but after lunch they were back upstairs and painting the next wall. There was another break to feed the babies again and then the painting was finished. After that they flooed back to the Villa to put the boys down for their nap. Draco too fell asleep, but Harry apparated back to the Manor and helped Andy, who was putting knickknacks on the shelves of the sitting room. They were mostly awards, medals, and diplomas various Malfoy ancestors had received. Then there was another shelf which they filled full of photos in old silver frames.
Once the shelves were filled, Andy asked, "Do you know which of the bedrooms gets which set of furniture?"
Harry did know that Draco's old bedroom set belonged to the bedroom to the left of the nursery, and he and Andy were about to start putting those pieces of furniture in that room, when Narcissa came down from the third floor and directed them to put Draco's old set of furniture into the third bedroom, to the right of the nursery. This room was similar to Draco's old room, but just a bit smaller, so they set it up near to the way it had been in the room of requirement.
There was a second bedroom set, which Narcissa directed them to put into Draco's old bedroom, to the left of the nursery. While they were working on that, Lucius and Narcissa started on returning the desks and shelves of books and filing cabinets full of parchment scrolls to the study, which was on the second floor in the front of the house and the very left-most door from the stairs.
The house still wasn't finished when they left for dinner, but they had made good progress. It would take at least another day and the holograms in the nursery would need to be replaced with the real thing, but it was a start.
What surprised Harry most about Malfoy Manor was that it wasn't actually as big as he'd thought; sure it was old, ornate, and grandiose, but the majority of the ground floor was taken up by the drawing room. There was an entryway, a stairwell, and a study on the ground floor as well as a connected side house with the kitchen, dining room, and house elf quarters, but there were not endless expanses of space nor a surplus of rooms. The second floor had three good-sized bedrooms, each with an en suite bathroom. There was a study, a fourth bathroom, and the central sitting room surrounding the staircase, but that was it for the second floor. The third floor had less living space than the lower two floors and contained a master bedroom on one side, a study on the other side, and a long, but somewhat thin landing that linked the two and contained the stairs. There were attics above that and a guesthouse, but it was not a mansion and there were not wings or suites of rooms. Thus it didn't take endless amounts of time to unshrink and levitate the furniture into place.
Author's Note: What do you think of having a baby shower for Teddy idea? Please Review!
