The first week of June was very hectic for the Malfoy family. Draco was busy taking his NEWT examination and putting in some last minute study time; he barely had time to eat, sleep, and breast feed Lilac with all of that school work. That meant Draco wasn't helping out at all with the babies, which was why Molly Weasley was over so much that week. Harry was useless due to his anti-depressant medication, but everyone else pitched in, including Lucius, Druella, and Cecelia, with Narcissa and Andy shouldering the brunt of the childcare.

Draco was extremely relieved when he finally finished his NEWTs. They were by far the hardest and most stressful set of tests he'd ever taken. They were bloody brutal and even Hermione was a wreck. He came home from Hogwarts and crashed for an entire day.

Draco wanted more time to recuperate, but he couldn't take it. Harry wasn't helping out, so Draco was needed in the nursery. Then there was Teddy's birthday party to plan and a dozen other things that had slipped through the cracks while he was busy. Scorp needed another visit to the healer. The baby books hadn't been updated in months; Lilac's hadn't even been started. They hardly had any pictures at all of Lilac for that matter. His and Harry's anniversary was coming up, not to mention that the day after he finished his NEWTs happened to be his nineteenth birthday. All of his friends had sent gifts and cards and asked when the party was going to be. Well Draco had news for them: there wasn't going to be a party, not for Draco anyway.

Draco dived head first into the most urgent thing on his list and that was Teddy's first birthday party. It was scheduled for the following weekend and he hadn't checked on the arrangements since January. He'd scheduled the date, ordered the elves to make up invitations, booked all of the same entertainment that he'd had for the twins' birthday party, and even talked to Hagrid about bringing a couple of unicorns, but all of that needed to be cheeked to ensure it was still on track and there were other things that still needed to be handled, such as decorations, security, and food.

On Monday of the second week in June Draco prepared a menu for the party and had just ordered a pair of house elves to see to it. Now he was in the library trying to coordinate some security measures for the big day, but was distracted by a loud crash upstairs. He put down his notes on security measures and went upstairs to the sitting room where he found Teddy zooming around the room on his toy broom, knocking things off of the shelves, and Harry just watching it all.

"Harry! What's going on in here? Why is Edward even out of the nursery?" Draco asked, grabbing a hold of the toddler's broom. He took the child out of the broomseat and deactivated the toy.

"Emergency with Lilac. Molly and Cissy took Lilac to St. Mungo's. They took Sev and Scorp with them and asked me to watch Teddy. Andy's supposed to be back any minute now," Harry answered in a monotone.

"What's wrong with Lilac?" Draco asked, hefting Teddy onto his hip and putting the broom away.

"Don't know."

"How can you not know? What did my mother say?"

"I wasn't paying attention."

"Why weren't you paying attention? This is our newborn we're talking about!"

"I don't care."

"How can you not care? These are our children!"

"I just don't."

"Stay here, I'll be right back and then we're talking about this," Draco said before taking Teddy into the nursery. He needed to talk to Harry, so he deposited Teddy on the play mat near the toy box and activated a toy. "Stay here. Father needs to talk to Daddy."

Teddy was distracted by the toy, so Draco went back out to the sitting room to face Harry. "Why did you even give him a broomstick in this room? You know that the broomsticks are for outside or the boy's nursery only," Draco said. Lilac had her own nursery, but they often brought her into the boys' nursery to keep an eye on her while they looked after the boys.

"I didn't give it to him; he just got it."

"Right, magic. But once he had it, you should've stopped him. You should've taken it away, spelled it to the lower setting, and taken him back into the nursery." Draco looked at Harry, waiting for a response, but when none came, he continued. "Look Harry, I know you're having a hard time right now. Being pregnant with Lilac was hard, I get that, trust me. I don't know what's it's like to have post-partum depression; I couldn't afford to be depressed when I had the twins. I was too busy dealing with muggles and taking care of two babies without a fraction of the help you've had. You've barely even touched Lilac."

Again Draco waited for Harry to respond, but Harry didn't. "Alright, so you're in a funk right now, but you're no good to us like this. Last night Sev and Scorp asked you to play with them and what did you do? You ignored them and stared at the wall! And today you let our daughter be taken to St. Mungo's and you don't even know what happened! And then you were asked to keep an eye on Edward and you couldn't even do that!" Draco exclaimed, before stopping to calm himself down.

"I thought that you'd snap out of it or get over it if I just left you alone, but I'm putting my foot down. I didn't want to do this, but I'm ordering you to do something. I don't care what, but you need to do something to get your head back on straight. Go have fun or visit your friends or go to the Ministry and harass Death Eaters for all I care! Just as long as you do something to make yourself happy and you come home in a state where you can be there for our kids. Don't you want that, Harry?" Draco asked.

"Yes," Harry answered. "Are you kicking me out?"

"I am kicking you out of this house for the moment, yes. You may come home tonight or any time before that if you are out of this funk or at least happy. Go do something."

"What?"

"I don't care what. If I were you, I'd try visiting my friends. Maybe even make an appointment at St. Mungo's."

"Fine, I'm going to the Burrow."

"Good and do something to make yourself happy while you're there."

"Fine, I will."

"See to it you do, yeah?"

Harry huffed and apparated away to the Burrow. The only problem with that plan was that nobody was there. Molly was at St. Mungo's with Narcissa, Ginny and Hermione were at Hogwarts, and everyone else was at work. Harry hadn't remembered that Ginny and Hermione were still at school, since Draco was already back home, and he didn't remember it now. Instead he wondered where they were and figured that they must've gone out. He didn't know when they'd be back or anyone else for that matter, but he didn't much mind, not caring about that just as fiercely as he didn't care about everything else these days. He sat in the sitting room and stared off into space, waiting for someone to come home.

Draco went to check on Teddy, who was pulling toys out of the toy box while a house elf went behind the toddler and put the toys back away. A few minutes later Andy apparated in and asked where everyone was. Draco told her and then got her to agree to watch Teddy, before apparating to St. Mungo's.

Draco found his family in the pediatric ward. A medi-witch led him to an exam room where Molly and Narcissa were waiting with Sev, Scorp, and Lilac. The twins were fine, sitting on the floor playing with baby books and toddler toys. Lilac was in one of the hospital's open basinet's, with a healer leaned over her.

"What happened? What's going on?" Draco asked.

"Fa-er!" Scorp exclaimed, throwing his arms up and looking like he might cry if Draco didn't comply with his request.

"Fasssssersss!" Sev exclaimed, also throwing his arms up and looking like he too was about to cry.

"Alright Scorp, Sev, Father's here," Draco said, picking Sev up with one arm and Scorp up with the other. He sat down with them on the examination table and settled Scorp onto his lap, holding Sev on his side with Sev standing up. "What happened, Mother?"

"Lilac did accidental magic and hurt Scorp and Sev. Healer Virji here already put them back to normal, but he's still looking at Lilac to see if there's a reason why she had such a strong outburst like that," Narcissa explained.

"There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with Lilac, Lord Malfoy. As far as I can tell, she's perfectly happy and healthy. From what I've been told, she was very upset when it happened and from what I can see, she's an extremely powerful little witch," Healer Virji said.

"That's good, right?" Draco asked.

"It's very good, but until she can channel her magic through a wand core, you can expect a great number of outbursts of magical energy like the one that happened today. I suggest putting her to sleep in a different room from your sons and using a monitoring charm to tell you when she wakes up. That way the boys won't wake her and you'll reduce her aggravation with them, which should decrease the likelihood of your boys suffering additional injuries," Healer Virji replied.

"But we have silencing charms up on everything she sleeps in. All of the cribs, cradles, and basinets in the house have silencing charms on them," Draco protested.

"Draco, it wasn't the noise that woke Lilac today. Scorp was going along in his walker in front of Lilac's cradle- you know how he likes to look at her- and Sev ran into him, knocking Scorp over into the cradle. They both fell on the cradle. Lilac wasn't hurt, but she was jostled around," Narcissa explained.

"Oh," Draco said, looking down at his boys.

"Yes, so if you could either put her down in her crib, which should be protected from this situation, or in another room, then hopefully everything will be fine," Healer Virji said.

"Her crib's already in another room. She has her own room; we just had her in the boys' room so that we could keep an eye on her," Narcissa replied.

"Alright, good. And I did notice the flames in the wall sconces flickering when she first came in and was so upset. I think it's best if you check all of your wall sconces and make sure none of the flames are anywhere near flammable material. If she goes off again, she could start a fire," Healer Virji said.

"Alright, we'll check when we get home. Thank you Healer," Narcissa said.

After that they were free to go. Draco passed Sev to his mother, Molly picked up Lilac, and they all flooed back to the Manor, where Draco and Narcissa went about checking all of the sources of open flames.

While Draco was at St, Mungo's with the babies, Harry was at the Burrow. Arthur came home from a long day at the Ministry, followed shortly after by Ron.

"Oh good, Ron, you're home. I was just trying to find out from Harry here what's going on. It seems your mum's not here," Arthur said.

"She went with Cissy to take the babies to St. Mungo's," Harry said.

"What happened?" Arthur asked.

"Draco kicked me out," Harry answered.

"No way!" Ron exclaimed.

"I meant with the babies. Are they alright?" Arthur asked.

"I don't know. I assume Draco went there to find out after giving me the boot," Harry replied.

"Ron, why don't you talk to your friend and I'll go start supper. I don't suppose your mum has had the time," Arthur said.

Ron agreed and Arthur went into the kitchen, leaving Harry and Ron alone. Harry told Ron what Draco had said about leaving the house and ordering Harry to do something to pull himself out of this funk.

"I can't believe the slimy git kicked you out like that, mate! What an utter wanker! He's a tosspot, that one, mate. Don't worry; you can live here with me. Mum and dad won't mind," Ron said.

"He didn't kick me out like that; I'm allowed back tonight. And he's not a wanker or a tosspot. He's been really good about this and I didn't even bother finding out what's wrong with my baby. I'm the wanker," Harry replied forlornly.

"I'm sure that this's somehow his fault, mate. Don't try to take any of the blame for this; it's obviously all Draco's fault," Ron lied.

Actually, from what Harry said it sounded like it was at least a good part Harry's fault. There was no possible reality where Hermione would've done any different than Draco if it was her and Ron having the problem; even Ron wasn't dense even to miss that. But then Ron would never give birth and would never have post-partum depression, so he didn't have to worry about that. On the other hand, it was Draco who had made Harry get pregnant, so in a way, this really was Draco's fault. And well Ron hated Draco and was perfectly willing to take advantage of the situation. With any luck, he could finally convince Harry to leave Draco, although with the way things were going, it didn't sound like Harry would be getting custody of the kids.

"No, it's not. It's my fault. I should care, but it just feels like I'm trapped in a bubble and I can't see my way through to caring."

"Right, er, that didn't really make much sense mate," Ron admitted.

"Nothing I say anymore does."

"Hey, I know! Why don't you come into work with me tomorrow! We just captured Dax Flint; you could sit in on the interview! I'm sure that'd cheer you up," Ron said. He was hoping that they'd be able to reveal more of the connection between Dax Flint and Draco tomorrow, but today Dax had held pretty firm when he said he hadn't been at Bellatrix's funeral and wasn't on speaking terms with any of the Malfoys. It seemed Dax thought Draco had cost him his wife and three kids and the Malfoys didn't think very highly of Dax. But, if Ron could just ask Dax the right questions under veritaserum, he was sure he could come up with something to use on Draco to help him convince Harry to dump Draco.

"That sounds nice. I wish I was catching bad guys again," Harry admitted.

"Then do it! Your spot as an Auror is waiting for you. Robards said you're welcome whenever you show up, training or no training. You still have to go through the training, but he said that for you he'd make an exception and let you in the interrogation room before you'd finished your training. Bloody lucky that, because they just started another training session two months ago, so they won't be having another for a while yet. And let me tell you, paperwork is bloody awful."

"But I'm supposed to be taking a year off for paternity leave. I have two months left."

"That's a benefit, not a requirement, mate. Come back now and you can get paid double for two months or wait until you actually want the time off and use it then. I've sat through half a dozen workshops on understanding our rights and benefits, mate, so I know."

"Really? I don't have to take the time off?"

"Well there are overtime limits. If you've worked too much overtime in a month, you really do have to go home. And then there's a maximum amount of vacation time that you can accrue before you have to take a day off, but that's something like one vacation day a year and then the rest you can get converted to pay."

"Brilliant." Harry was almost getting excited about this too. He finally started to feel something. Maybe going to work and catching bad guys would be good for him.

Author's Note: So that's how Harry decided to go back to work so soon after having Lilac. I'm thinking of posting a second outtake; it'd be their delayed second anniversary when Harry is finally feeling better. What do you think?

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