After breakfast on Friday, the morning of Harry's birthday, Draco led Harry over to their bedroom, saying, "I have something for you."
"Alright, but if we're gone for long Sev will complain," Harry replied, sitting on the bed. They'd left the boys securely in the nursery.
"We won't be long," Draco said, bringing the small black velvet covered box over to Harry. He sat down on Harry's lap and snogged Harry.
"Happy birthday," Draco said, in between kisses. When he pulled his lips away from Harry's, he slipped the package into Harry's hand.
"What is it?" Harry asked opening it. He found a silver colored metal bracelet inside, which looked to be a serpent eating its tail.
"It's an ouroboros bracelet that's been in my family for generations. It's goblin made and enhances natural beauty; not that you need it, but my ancestors were a bit vain you see and I wanted to give you one of my family heirlooms." Draco took the bracelet out of the box and slid it onto Harry's wrist. "It's also charmed not to fall off, so you won't lose it, which means if you want to take it off, you have to actively slide it off with your other hand."
"It's great, thank you," Harry replied smiling, before leaning in and kissing Draco again. He wasn't particularly fond of jewelry, but he liked this bracelet because it was Draco who had given it to him. It made him feel like he belonged to Draco and belonged to the Malfoy family.
"Oh and only a Malfoy can wear it or it'll give the wearer an electric shock, to prevent theft," Draco added, pulling away from Harry's lips just enough to speak. "So don't give it away or sell it, because it has to be passed to a Malfoy."
"Brilliant," Harry replied and gave Draco one more kiss, but then he heard the banging on the wards in the nursery, which meant Sev had noticed their absence. "Right, our children."
And so they walked back, to find both Sev and Scorp up on their knees, pounding on the wards. Scorp was up on only the right knee, with the left leg sprawled out at an awkward angle to the side. "Draco, didn't we leave Scorp in the jumper?" Harry asked, leaning down and picking up Scorp, while Draco did the same with Sev.
"Yeah and he can't crawl either," Draco replied, walking further into the nursery. At least Edward was where they left him.
"I've never seen him up on his one knee like that either."
"He must really have missed us."
"Yeah. Do you want to go back in your jumper, Sev?" Draco asked, putting Sev back into the jumper.
"What about you, Scorp? Do you want in your jumper?"
"No," Scorp answered, apparently still in his no phase.
"Alright, we can just sit in the rocker and watch," Harry said, sitting down with Scorp in his lap. Scorp caught sight of the shiny new toy around Harry's wrist and started spinning it around said wrist. "Do you like Daddy's new bracelet, Scorp? Father gave it to me."
"No," Scorp said and continued to play with the bracelet.
"Draco, why did you give it to me? I know you said it can only be worn by a Malfoy, but if it enhances beauty, why not give it to your mother?" Harry asked.
"Because we have three bracelets in the family that enhance beauty and that is the most masculine one; mother has the other two. It was my grandmother's, before she died and she told me to give it to my wife one day. Of course she didn't know I was queer at the time, but I think that if she'd met you, she would've wanted you to have it."
"Thanks. It's got a nice feel to it."
"And here I thought you weren't sensitive to magic."
"I'm not particularly. Why? Is there a type of magic that feels this way?"
"Yeah, that's the draw of the bloodline curse on it. It's a dark curse, by the way, because it hurts the wearer if the wearer isn't a Malfoy. After prolonged wearing, if someone were so stupid as to ignore the initial pain, it sears the skin and leaves behind the brand of thief in the shape of an ouroboros. It's not just a simple anataracus spell. But since you are married to a Malfoy, it won't harm you. And since you've parented two Malfoys, it recognizes you as bloodline Malfoy and gives off stronger magics of belonging. Do you still think all dark magic is bad?"
Giving Harry something questionable was part of his plan to get Harry to see that all dark magic wasn't bad. This bracelet wasn't even very dark; it was in the grey area that wizards often debated over whenever a new regime came into power. One decade the bracelet would be considered dark and banned and the next it would be acceptable again. Of course Harry Malfoy owning it would help push the new regime into accepting bloodline curses as acceptable, which was the other reason Draco had chosen to give Harry this piece.
"Um, I don't know, but I'm not really comfortable with this around the babies; what if they get burned?" Harry asked, pulling the bracelet away from Scorp, making the baby cry.
"It can't harm Scorp, Harry, he's a Malfoy. He likes it, because the bloodline curse calls to him as the next Lord Malfoy. With his sensitivity to magic, it's no wonder he's fussing at you for taking it away."
"Alright fine, but it better not hurt him. Hey, will it hurt Teddy?" Harry asked, lowering his hand back down to Scorp, allowing Scorp to play with the bracelet once again.
"No, because we officially adopted him, making all of our artifacts recognize his blood as Malfoy blood. His descendants will also be recognized as Malfoys; that's why I wanted him officially adopted."
"Yeah, alright, good," Harry replied.
"Well back to sorting through baby clothes," Draco said getting up and going to the closet, where he had left all of the piles of old clothes.
Harry spent a couple of hours taking care of their babies while Draco sorted the clothes, but at ten forty-five Draco started nursing Scorp, which was highly unusual for Draco. "Draco, why are you feeding Scorp now? Lunchtime isn't for another hour more," Harry said.
"I have a surprise for you; we're going somewhere for lunch. Why don't you make mother and Aunt Andy's job easier by taking Edward down and feeding him his cereal now?" Draco asked.
"Where are we going?"
"You surprised me on my birthday and for our anniversary; obviously you must like surprises, which is why you're getting one now."
"Which is?"
"I'm not telling."
"Alright, fine. Come on Teddy, let's go have some disgusting cereal mush," Harry said, picking Teddy up from the swing and taking the baby downstairs.
Harry fed Teddy until the bowl of mush was all over Teddy's bib and highchair tray. A small amount of it might have even made it into the baby's stomach. Teddy had gotten better at eating the mush, but not much better; mostly he had started using his little tongue to attempt to move the cereal further back into his mouth, but hadn't yet managed to coordinate that with swallowing. "Alright Teddy, bath time," Harry said, carefully pulling the bib off. He took the baby upstairs, but ran into Andy and Narcissa on the way.
"Oh, thank you Harry dear. I'll take Teddy from here. You can go get dressed; swimming trunks are required," Andy said, taking the baby from Harry.
"Yes and you better hurry," Narcissa added. "It's almost time."
"Time for what?" Harry asked, letting the women push him out of the nursery.
"For your big surprise, of course," Narcissa answered, pointing at Harry and Draco's bedroom door, which was closed.
Harry didn't normally keep their bedroom door closed. Finding it closed typically meant that Draco was doing something behind it. Harry let his curiosity get the best of him and went into his bedroom, where Draco was pulling a swim shirt over his head. Draco was already wearing his swim trunks.
"What's going on?" Harry asked, closing the door behind him.
"Get dressed; we're going swimming," Draco answered, indicating Harry's swim trunks which he had laid out on the bed.
"I thought we were having lunch?"
"We are, after we go swimming. Get dressed."
"Yeah, alright," Harry agreed and then changed. "Should I bring my dress robes or are we coming back here?"
"You won't need you're dress robes, come on. Apparate to the lawn outside Andy's house."
"What? There's no water there; shouldn't we go to the villa?"
"No, I'll be waiting for you on the lawn outside my aunt's house," Draco said, before apparating away.
"Wait!" Harry called out confused, but Draco was already gone, so he did as instructed and appeared outside Andy's house.
There was quite the gathering of young wizards and witches on Andy's lawn along with what appeared to be a swamp. And then the crowd erupted in shouts of, "Surprise!"
Draco took Harry into his arms and pressed a fierce kiss to Harry's lips. "Surprise," he said softly.
"You planned me a birthday party?" Harry asked surprised.
"Yeah, well you planned one for me."
"Your dad planned that; I just made a trip to the joke shop and invited Hermione."
"Yeah, well, it's too late to get you something else, so you're stuck with the party; you might as well have fun," Draco said, pulling away from Harry so that Harry could see all the guests who had come.
"Harry! It's good ta see yer," Hagrid said, taking a few giant steps forward and embracing Harry in a crushing hug.
"You too, Hagrid," Harry said. "Set me back down."
Hagrid set Harry down and the rest of the guests greeted him. All of Gryffindors and Slytherins from their year were there along with Alicia, Katie, Angelina, Luna, Ginny, and George.
"Thank you so much for testifying for me at my trial. I tried to tell Vince not to kill you," Gregory Goyle said when Harry got to him.
"I know Goyle, that's why I did it. Stay out of trouble and I'll consider us even," Harry replied, shaking the hulking Slytherin's hand.
"Deal, thanks Harry," Greg replied.
"Dobby is so happy to be invited to the great Harry Potter, sir's, birthday party, sir! Dobby is honored, sir!" Dobby said, coming up to Harry and hugging Harry's leg.
"You're welcome, Dobby; it's great that you came," Harry replied.
"Dobby is helping with the barbeque," Dobby said, before going back to where the other elves were preparing the food, despite the fact that Dobby had been invited as a guest, not a servant.
"Alright, Weasley, Granger, did you two figure out how to do the slip-n-slide?" Draco asked.
"Yes, of course," Hermione answered.
"I was skeptical at first, but it's bloody brilliant," Ron answered.
"Then let's get this party started!" Draco proclaimed.
Ron and Hermione led Harry and the group of party goers over to the swamp and showed Harry how to run and slide on the cloths. It had taken a couple of modifying charms to get the swamp hard enough that the cloths didn't sink in, but Draco had optimized that all yesterday, so it was ready to go.
Harry followed Ron's lead, ran, slid, and had a blast as he went skidding along the downhill course of the artificial swamp. When he was done, he went back to the beginning and got in line behind George.
"George, this invention is brilliant! How come you didn't tell me about this swamp slip-n-slide?" Harry asked, thinking that he would've done this for Draco's birthday if he'd known.
"I didn't invent it. Your husband came into my store, looked around, and picked up a box of our standard portable swamp. He asked if I could modify it to not stink, have the downhill slope, and add the swimming pool on the side. I did and he did the rest. It's brilliant really. I think our families are in for a long and very profitable relationship if he'll agree to let me mass produce these things and sell them," George replied.
"Yeah, alright, I'm sure he will. He doesn't like doing the things himself, he just like coming up with the ideas and getting someone else to do the manufacturing."
"What else has he come up with?"
"Homing charms on soothers and charmed muggle jeans."
"Soothers?"
"Yeah, they're a little toy muggles give their babies to suck on."
"Oh, alright. Does he have any more baby inventions? If there are more things like that, we can open up a baby line."
"No, but Hermione and I just modified glass baby bottles so that the babies can hold them themselves."
"Brilliant. Well it's my turn, so we better get sliding," George said, before summoning the newly freed cloth and sliding down the swamp for the first time.
Harry went after George and then repeated the process, until he noticed that half of the people had migrated over to the swimming pool where they were eating hamburgers and crisps. Most of the girls only had their feet dangling in the pool, while they ate on the edge. Draco, Hagrid, and a few of the Slytherins were all the way in, but eating other the side of the pool.
"Get a plate and come over here, Harry," Draco called, pointing towards the table of food put out by the elves.
Harry followed Draco's finger to a plate, which Dobby promptly filled with a fresh cheeseburger, sliced fruit, and crisps. Then Harry took his food back over to Draco and the swimming pool. He sat down next to Draco and dipped his legs in, like the girls were doing. Draco encouraged him to get all the way in and he did, eating next to Draco.
The rest of the guests found their way over to the food and the pool as well. Ron had a plate with three hamburgers on it and no fruit. Hermione gave the plate a look of disgust, despite the fact that Hagrid had two plates and even more food.
"What?" Ron asked Hermione, pulling his first hamburger away from his face.
"They taste better if house elves cook them," Draco said, just because he thought it might get Hermione mad at Ron.
"Is that true?" Ron asked.
Harry just shrugged his shoulders and Draco said, "Yeah, of course. If it were anything else, we'd have it for servants; Malfoys have the best of everything."
"You have the best portable swamps; that's for sure," Blaise said, from Draco's side.
"Harry, how does little Teddy like the blan'et I sen' yer?" Hagrid asked.
"That was a blanket?" Harry asked, thinking back to the olive and pink colored hand crocheted something.
"O' course 'tis a blan'et. Wha'dig yer think it were?" Hagrid asked.
"I didn't know," Harry answered.
"Not to worry, Hagrid, Harry is a bit slow on the uptake when it comes to the baby things. It's been too hot to try the blanket out, but I'm sure Edward'll love it this winter," Draco lied smoothly.
"Wonterful. I oughta start workin' on blan'ets for yer other two little uns, Harry," Hagrid replied.
"No need; Madam Molly Weasley is already making them blankets," Draco said quickly, hoping to cut off any and all thoughts of Hagrid making another crocheted item for his babies. "Scorpius, however, is fascinated with unicorns. Do you think you could find a real unicorn hair that I could insert into his stuffed unicorn's tail?" It was always best to distract people by offering them more useful courses of action.
"Yeah, o' course! I reckon I could do yer un better though an' capture a unicorn fer yer little un ta pet," Hagrid replied.
"Excellent," Draco replied. "I'm sure the boys will love that."
Harry and Draco finished eating and then a house elf vanished all of their empty plates.
"Come and slide with me?" Harry asked.
"No, you go though. I'm fine here," Draco replied.
"You didn't slide earlier. Why don't you want to go? You created it."
Draco leaned in and whispered into Harry's ear, so that no one else would hear. "The breast pumps are on."
"Well take them off and come in with me."
"I already tried it yesterday. It's not comfortable for me to slide on my chest, even without the pumps."
"Then how'd you test it?"
"I took the pumps off and slid the first few times, but when it started hurting, I got Greg and a house elf to come over and test it. I figured everyone was between Greg and an elf in size. You go have fun though."
"Yeah, okay. I love you," Harry replied, leaning in for a quick kiss. "Speaking of elves, did you invite Dobby here to serve me?" Harry loved that the elf was here, but it irked him to see the free elf waiting on everyone.
"No, I invited him as a guest. He put himself to serving you," Draco answered. "I think he's more comfortable with the other elves."
"Dobby!"
"Yes, Harry Malfoy, sir?" Dobby asked, coming right over.
"Draco said that the slide is fit for an elf. You're a guest at this party and I want you to have some fun, not spend all your time serving people. Now come and slide with me," Harry said.
"Whatever Harry Malfoy, sir, wishes," Dobby replied.
"Great," Harry said, before taking Dobby over to the slide with him.
Everyone was waiting for George as he increased the height of the initial slide, taking it from a fun slide, to a truly epic slide. Harry pushed Dobby to the front of the line and the elf was the first to go down the new and improved slide. With the new height and Dobby's decreased size, the elf picked up speed and flew off the end of the slide, landing in the pool with a splash. Hermione threw Dobby a life raft. The elf climbed onto it, floating around the pool very pleased with himself for having served Harry Malfoy and had fun.
Harry went down next and although he had to climb up the new stairs, the added height increased the speed and consequently, the fun of the ride.
It was an hour more of pure sliding joy and excitement before Harry got hit with a water balloon. He was shocked at first. Looking around he saw Draco and Hermione with a large stack of the water balloons from the muggle store. Hermione must have thrown the first balloon, because she was just sending another one spinning, while Draco was directing one that was further along. Harry watched as Draco's balloon came at him and hit him right in the chest.
Draco and Hermione were giggling as Harry came off of the swamp-n-slide. "Is that the thanks I get for buying you muggle things?" Harry asked, approaching Draco and taking Draco into his arms.
"Yeah, I thought you would like it," Draco replied.
"Oh, I do," Harry said, giving Draco a quick kiss, before stealing an armful of balloons and running a good distance away. He then proceeded to fling them at Draco and Hermione.
There was a water balloon fight then that was a lot of fun and lasted until Harry was out of balloons. Harry went back to sliding and Draco and Hermione duplicated the remaining balloons until they had a pile again. Then they began to hit the other guests with balloons until they got tired of duplicating and throwing them.
Next, Draco, Dobby, and Hagrid set up the cake with candles and called Harry and the other guests over. Draco lit the candles, Hagrid led the singing, and Harry blew out the candles. Dobby and the other elves cut and served the yellow cake with strawberry ice cream and a strawberry filling. The cake was moist, sweet, and delicious and then it was time for presents.
From their friends there were muggle dress shirts, a set of Quidditch balls, chocolate frogs, a wizarding wireless and a set of records, a wizarding chest set, and a new pair of shoes. Then Isobel and Sally-Anne, the two Gryffindor's Harry knew the least, gave him a gift bag full of silk boxers. The girls were giggling hysterically.
"Draco, why are they even here? Do you like them?" Harry whispered, wondering what Izzy and Sally-Anne expected him to do with the weird underwear and why they were giggling so.
"No, but they're Gryffindors. I didn't know you had a problem with some of the Gryffindors," Draco replied, also in a whisper.
"I don't really, we just never got to know those two," Harry replied.
Next Neville gave Harry a potted plant with a few purplish pink flowers. "It's a lilac shrub. Hermione said you liked them," Neville said, handing over the pot.
"Really? Thanks Neville," Harry replied, happy to have a bit of Draco's favorite flower. If he could get it to grow, then eventually they could have a whole garden full of lilacs and he could have lilacs anytime he wanted. He missed the Room of Requirement with its lilac forest. Lilacs were a pleasant reminder of the early days of their love. He sniffed the few flowers blossoming on the plant and the sweet aroma brought back feelings of happiness.
Finally, George and Angelina gave Harry the last gift, which was a mini twister and a large box of whiz-bangs. George let loose the mini twister in the swamp and confined it to just the right location to make the water turbulent. It sent splashes of water flying, but didn't otherwise disturb the course. That action sent the guests running back towards the swamp-n-slide and Harry stayed to help Draco gather up the gifts.
The party was winding down and Draco was tired, so he went to take a nap, leaving Harry to finish up and say goodbye to his friends. Harry went back to sliding and having fun with the other guests. They ended it by setting off the whiz-bangs and calling it a night.
Draco was asleep, but woke up when Harry apparated into the room. "Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to wake you," Harry said.
"No matter; I need to get up and feed Scorp anyway," Draco said groggily, sitting up.
They gathered in the dining room to have a quiet family supper, Scorp sitting on Draco's lap to nurse. After supper, the Malfoy family gave Harry their gifts.
"Harry, I know you don't have many heirlooms from the Potters, so I wanted to find you some. I went to Borgin and Burkes and asked Mister Borgin if he might be able to get me anything that was ever owned by the Potter family. This is what he could find," Narcissa lied, handing over the large box. "It's from Lucius and me, as well as Madam Lestrange; she helped Borgin track them down."
Narcissa didn't want Harry to know that these things had been in her sister Bella's possession before the final battle. Bella had left them in the Lestrange family vault. She'd stolen them seventeen years ago from the Potter home in Godric's Hollow, when she and her fellow Death Eaters had searched for clues to their fallen master's location. Narcissa had merely asked Rodolphus' mother if she could have them from the vault. Madam Lestrange had wanted nothing to do with anything of Bella's and agreed to let her take anything she wanted.
But of course none of that needed to be mentioned during Harry's birthday, because the truth would spoil the happy occasion. The important thing was that the items were finally being returned to their proper owner. And she had gone through quite a bit of work searching through the Lestrange vault for the correct items, because that vault was so full of swag that.
Harry unwrapped the box to reveal a crystal vase and matching candlestick holders, along with several boxes of scented candlesticks. The candlesticks were the only part of the gift Narcissa had bought.
"Thanks, this is really great!" Harry exclaimed. He could use them to decorate his room at Grimmauld Place, to make it more romantic for his and Draco's weekly visits.
"Harry, the boys helped me make this," Andy said, handing over a large, but very flat, rectangular package.
Harry opened up Andy's gift to find a canvas with three sets of hand and foot prints. The name Severus was below the largest set on the left and Edward was below the littlest set on the right. In the middle was a mismatched set, with a larger right foot than left foot; underneath it was the name Scorpius. "Thanks, this is really great too," Harry said.
After that, Andy and Narcissa took the three boys up to the nursery. Draco helped Harry hang the frame with the hand and foot prints in the sitting room on the second floor. Then they kissed their three boys goodnight and apparated over to Grimmauld Place. Draco set out the candles in the Potter candlesticks and Harry asked Cotton the elf for flowers from the garden for the vase.
Once the candles were lit and the flowers arranged, Draco pulled out another set of vials of the Girl Only potion that would ensure they only conceive girls. He drank one himself and gave the other to Harry, who swallowed it eagerly. Then Draco pushed Harry back onto the bed, pulling up Harry's robes and caressing his body lovingly and lavishing kisses on him. The usual preparation ensued, but now Draco sucked Harry's dick while fingering him.
Harry only had one request that night, "Fuck me?"
"I always do," Draco replied cockily.
"No, really fuck me, like with you on top."
"I'll try," Draco promised.
There were a few more kisses in between removing articles of Draco's clothing. Then Harry lay back on the bed, with his legs open and beckoned Draco closer.
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Author's Note: This is a big transition in the story, going from the summer after the war, to returning to the grinds of daily life in the coming chapters. I considered ending the story here and making a Peverell's Children III, but there won't be that much action left. Basically things are going to start to even out for our happy family and although there are still some bumps on the road, it'll be a rather fluffy road. Up next Harry will find out about Bellatrix's funeral. Please Review!