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I'll Be There For You	By : Kalendral9 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 13474 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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IBTFY Three

Chapter Three: Meeting the Other Side of the Family

Three days went by and Draco came to know the other residents of #12 Grimmauld Place. Besides Ella, there were five other adults, all with kids waiting for their turn at a new home and a new start. Of those five he only knew one of them, a black haired girl from Slytherin that was two years ahead of him by the name of Ailey Croi. Ailey’s two children are Fabien and Riannon, five and three.

The only man, who was about ten years Draco’s senior, went by the name of Grant Garrow and Draco was certain that his accent deemed him from the America’s. His one son, Dominic, is eight.

The three other women were all from various pureblood houses, although none very prominent. Lizette Fairchild, Romilda McLeod and Faye Dovan, three women roughly in their thirties to forties, and between them had about seven children. (A/N: No, I’m not gonna give their names, sorry. Maybe along the story, if Draco meets them)

Draco was introduced to all of them over breakfast the morning after he arrived. The eight adults were all having tea while the children played. Harry was a gracious host and Draco was hard pressed to find fault with him. He sighed inwardly at his automatic thought process. He no longer needed to nitpick anything Harry did and he was having a hard time resisting his usual comeback retorts.

On the third day of is stay Harry approached him after lunch.

“Andy and her family will be here for dinner. I hope you don’t mind. Tonks wants to meet you and to introduce her son to yours.”

“That would be fine. Anything else I should know?”

Harry hesitated then gave shrug, “Tonks is married to my surrogate godfather Remus Lupin. If that puts you off at all let me know before they arrive.”

Draco gave a start. Remus Lupin, former DADA professor and werewolf. How did he feel about that? He didn’t know. But he still felt the need to see family. “It’s fine. I actually had fun in Professor Lupin’s class.”

Harry gave a huge grin, “Yeah, we all thought he was great. He now writes DADA books and Professor McGonagall uses his books as standard at Hogwarts. So they’ll be here around sixish, just in time for tea then dinner.”

Draco gave a nod, “That would be fine.”

***

Six o’clock arrived and with it the sound of the floo coming to life, spitting out five people. The first one through Draco recognized as Professor Lupin. The next two through the floo was a pink haired young woman about ten years older than himself (A/N: She’s actually eight). He recognized a few Black characteristic’s in her features and deduced that this must be his cousin. Clutching her hand was a five year old boy who greatly resembled Professor Lupin.

Two more people came through and Draco knew right away that the woman was his aunt. She look just like Aunt Bella, except not crazy. The man beside her was light haired and seemed to have a pleasant smile for everyone.

Draco hung back for a while waiting to see how the family interacted with each other.

The man, whom Draco assumed was his Uncle, was speaking to his cousin.

“It’s a good thing we came after you, Dora. The lamp by the floo tumbled to the floor and about set the rug afire. Andy luckily caught it just in time.” What was not said was the fact that Tonks was actually the one to bump the lamp.

Draco watched his cousin turn beat red in embarrassment.

“Sorry about that dad, you know how I am.”

Everyone laughed at that comment. Draco just frowned. What did they mean? The laughter died as Andromeda noticed Draco for the first time.

“Well I’ll be damned. You must be little Cissa’s boy.”

Draco flushed at the comment. He stepped forward, hand extended for a handshake, “I’m Draco, Draco Mal…”

He was cut off as Andromeda Black Tonks pulled him into a bone crushing hug. “Oh, the last time I saw you, you were two years old. Cissa snuck you away from the Manor to meet with me. How is your mother doing? Is she here?”

Draco swallowed the lump in his throat as he felt loving arms close over him. With his mother under house arrest and him living at the Zabini family manor, he’d not spoken with her in some time. That was one of the reasons as to why he was here and not a Malfoy Manor. It would have been the first place Blaise would check. And now he was reminded that his mother is sitting at home possibly worried sick as to where he’d disappeared.

“Mother is at the Manor, on house arrest.” He choked back a sob. Malfoy’s do NOT cry in front of strangers.

Andromeda felt the stiff shoulders and aloof manner. She gave Harry a quick glance and directed Draco to a chair pulling her nephew down next to her.

“Dray, baby, it’s OK to cry. It can be very refreshing to let out all that pent up energy and frustration.”

Draco broke down at her first word, his childhood nickname, one only he and his mother knew about. Obviously his aunt knew as well or just guessed. So he let it out, bawling into her shoulder like a child. He felt as if he was four again and his mother was cradling him after a tumble from his broom. All the while Andromeda kept caressing his hair and whispering nonsense in his ear.

Suddenly he heard a wail, not his own, and a blond blur came at him burrowing into his lap. Draco gave a start as his son clung to him.

“Aiden, what’s the matter?” Draco tried to pull his son up but the little boy would not budge. Muffled against his robes he heard, “Papa, don’t cry, please don’t cry papa.”

And suddenly everything over the past few weeks caught up with him and together father and son cried for all that they have suffered. Draco, for all the abuse at the hands of his spouse and Aiden, for the disruption of his young life. Draco dreaded the inevitable question of where his daddy was or are they going home. He did not know what to tell his three your old when the time came.

When the tears dried up from father and son Draco pulled back to look in his Aunts eyes. It was uncanny how she looked just like Bellatrix and had to suppress a shudder at the memory. The only thing that was missing was the crazy light that had seemed to be a constant in his Aunt Bella’s eyes. Andromeda’s face was soft and inviting and she seemed much more approachable then Bella.

He glanced around the room at the other occupants. Andromeda’s husband was cradling a glass and lounging near the fireplace. Lupin and his cousin sat on the other couch with their own son between them. He sat up straighter and cleared his throat.

“I’m sorry for all that.”

Andromeda smiled, “Not at all, Dray. It looked like you needed a good cry. And if I know my brother-in-law, you had precious little time to do so.”

“Father was not one to show emotion.” Draco stated. “Thank you for this, Aunt Andromeda.”

“Andy, please Dray. Only my mother called me Andromeda. So, Dray this is my husband Ted Tonks.” Ted stepped up and shook Draco’s hand.

“It is a pleasure to meet you, sir.”

“Oh, don’t bother with formality young man.”

His aunt gestured to his cousin, “And this is my Nympadora.”

Tonks bristled at her mother, “Mum, please don’t call me that.”

Andy leaned in to whisper in Draco’s ear, “She prefers to be called Tonks or Dora.”

“Whatever possessed you to call me by that dreadful name I have no idea. Draco, cousin, call me Dora. And I’m sure you know my husband Remus. And this young man is our son Teddy.”

Teddy Lupin came over shyly and smiled at him. Draco gave a smile back.

“Hello Teddy, this is my son Aiden.” The two boys smiled at one another. “Why don’t you two go find the other children and see what they are doing?”

The two boys took off at a run leaving the adults to talk.

Andy turned to her nephew with a smile. “You’ve done good by that boy, Dray.”

Draco lowered his eyes almost in shame, “No, I haven’t. He deserves so much more than a broken family. I have kept so much from him, his father’s abuse and drunkenness. How am I supposed to tell him that he’ll never see his other father again?”

Andy pulled Draco back into her arms for another hug, “You are away from that man now and you have no more worries. One day Aiden will understand. And don’t you worry about anything else except raising that boy. Harry and Hermione have everything else in hand.”

Draco gave a dry chuckle. In the hands of his old rival, would wonders never cease?

***

Dinner was served in the kitchen at the large table and Draco found himself sandwiched between his Aunt and cousin at the kitchen table. His son was seated with the rest of the children chattering away about their day’s activities. Talk around the table consisted of mundane things like quidditch and chess. Getting to know the rest of his family seemed like a dream. When he was trapped in his marriage to Blaise he thought that he would never see any real family again. Now here he sat with an aunt and uncle, a cousin and second cousin calmly enjoying a FAMILY dinner. His only wish was to have his parents with him.

***

Nine o’clock rolled around and the children were all sent off to bed. Draco said his goodbyes to his aunt and uncle, Tonks, Remus and Teddy as they readied to go.

“When Harry get’s you all settled you make sure you give us a heads-up. I don’t know how much longer Cissa’s house arrest lasts but you get her to firecall me when you can. I really do miss her.”

“Thank you, Aunt Andy. I’ll do that.” They all hugged one last time and they were gone. Draco gave a huge sigh and turned to leave. He stopped when he heard a voice.

“You smiled more often in the last three hours than I’ve seen you smile all throughout our school days. Not a smirk, but an actual smile. You actually have a rather nice smile.”

Draco blushed, Harry likes my smile? “I’ve had precious little to smile about over the years, Po… Harry. I… I want to thank you for inviting them over and letting me meet my aunt.”

“It was fine. I’d been meaning to have them over anyways. It actually killed two birds with one stone really as I needed to see Remus.”

Draco looked at him with a frown, “Killed two birds…? What?”

Harry laughed, “Sorry, muggle expression. It means getting two things done at the same time. Obviously I didn’t kill any birds.”

Draco shook his head at the oddness of muggles. “I’ll take your word for it. Good Night, Harry.”

“Good Night, Draco.”

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