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Let There Be No More Curse	By : lexiatel Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 61015 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 10
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He didn't expect it to be scary, super fast, or hard of hearing. It was just too much all at the same time!
Derbla had spoken like it was the greatest thing ever, but Scorpius immensely disagreed. It made his tummy flip unhappily, and he had felt very sick, like he was going to throw up.
Mina and Derbla were arguing, which made Scorpius cry more. It was his fault that they were fighting, but he hadn't been able to help himself. When the speed kept going faster and faster, Scorpius's fear increased more too.
And it had felt like he couldn't breathe!
You're fine now, baby…" Mina was talking softly to him. "We're on solid ground now."
He nuzzled his face into her chest, focusing on her voice. It would calm him down, he knew. Mina was there to protect him from anything bad happening. That's what mummies were for.
Yes, Mina won't let Scorpius get hurt… She saved him from that big, nasty shelving unit that probably would have killed him if she hadn't been there. He'll not climb that anymore, even if his toy did get stuck up there again. Mina had been hurt very badly when when that shelf fell on her! He'll never forget all the blood that had dripped from her head! It had been a traumatic experience, one he had learned from!
His cries quieted, and soon he was only sniffling his wet nose, wiping it on Mina's robes.
"Did the flying scare you, sweetheart?" she cooed, rubbing his back and occasionally planting a kiss to the back of his head. He sighed, relaxed. He loved Mina's voice and her tender kisses.
"Yes," he answered very quietly, somewhat upset with himself for getting worked up over the event (he could now speak short words clearly, everyday getting closer and closer to speaking like a real person. He said a few additional words such as 'mine' and 'no').
Derbla would be so disappointed that he didn't like the broom though…!
With that thought, Scorpius lifted his head to look at his father. Derbla was still seated on the broom, shifting his attention from Talli and them, worried about Scorpius, but also not wanting to upset the baby he was holding.
Talli wasn't scared, Scorpius noted. She was trying hard not to fall asleep, interested in what was going on. His little baby sister let out a muffled grunt. She was annoyed with herself and her lack of strength. Her eyelids fluttered closed.
Scorpius felt bad. Derbla would think he was a ninny now. Grandfather too. What natural born wizard didn't like flying? Especially one with Malfoy blood in them. Derbla had explained to him that all the Malfoy men had been terrific flyers and played Quidditch in school— some even professionally!
Scorpius wouldn't though. He couldn't! He never wanted to go on a broom again! Ever!
"Just stay here a few minutes," Mina told Derbla "I'll apparate him home, since he's okay with that. I'll see if Toogy will watch him for an hour."
"She will," Derbla assured her uneasily. He was a bit stand offish, because Mina had yelled at him.
"It's still better to ask," Mina said hotly as if he hadn't at all considered the house-elf's plans for the day.
"Ack!" Scorpius cried, telling them to stop fighting. "Oogah!"
He was fine now. He was no longer scared, and he wasn't going back on the broom, so there really was no reason for them to fight anymore.
Derbla nodded curtly. "Go on then, I'll wait."
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"You can't treat him like a ninny, Hermione, if you make a big deal out—"
"He was screaming, Draco!" Hermione hissed quietly, shifting her eyes to Talli's bassinet and then to the door. Both the babies were sleeping now, and neither she nor Draco wanted them to wake. "He was terrified!"
"Of course he was!" Draco tossed his hands up in the air and turned from her, shaking his head. "Every child's first real flight is frightening," he told her. "They get used to it though— only not when you act like a complete, over protective mother bear about it! You just made the situation worse for him!"
"If either of them wake, Draco Malfoy, you will be dealing with them!" she warned him when his voice had raised in his frustration.
Draco's lips pursed out. "He'll probably never get on another broom again, thanks to you!" he snarled under his breath.
"Me?" Hermione squeaked in complete shock that he was blaming her for this. She pointed her finger at him. "If you had not started out as if you had saw the ruddy golden Snitch—"
Draco scoffed at this, interrupting her, rolling his eyes. "Oh, that was nothing, you'd know if I had seen—" A pillow whopped him in the face, cutting him off. "Hey!"
"You're an arrogant, little wart!" she hissed, grabbing a few things from the bed.
"What are you doing?" Draco asked, all anger had washed away. Now he only voiced confusion.
"I'm too angry to sleep with you, I'll be sleeping in the next room!"
"Don't you think you're overreacting just a bit?"
"I'm not the one that values some ridiculous sport over the welfare of our son! Good night!" Hermione stalked out of the room with an armload of bedding.
"Fine then, I don't want to sleep with you either!" he shouted, upset with her attitude.
The sound of a baby's cry started. His shouting had awakened Talli up.
"Nice going," Hermione grumbled sarcastically, reentering the room empty-handed. She crossed over to the baby, picking Talli up, speaking quietly to her. "It's okay, little girl, Daddy's just a grumpy, sour toad."
"I'll handle her, Hermione," Draco offered, stepping up to them with his hands held out to take Talli.
Hermione huffed, turning from him, hugging their daughter to her chest. "I think you've done enough for one day!"
"It's my fault she's awake—"
"At least you admit it," Hermione retorted, leaving the room once again. "I know, I know," she shooshed the crying baby. "Sometimes Daddy doesn't think!"
In the next room over, Hermione learned that Talli's nappy had been soiled. "This is good," she told her daughter who fussed throughout the entire cleanup process. "Healthy looking, frequent soiling is good."
Talli still was crying even after the changing, so Hermione took her down to the kitchen to prepare her a bottle, warming up the special milk she had gotten with her wand.
"We always check to see how the temperature is," Hermione explained to her crying daughter as she shook the bottle a little, spitting out a bit of the milk onto her wrist. "Perfect," Hermione announced, forcing herself to be cheery for Talli's benefit.
Talli's unhappy cries ceased immediately as soon as Hermione set the bottle's nipple into her wide-open mouth. All that could be heard was sucking now while Talli drained the bottle of milk.
"Hungry little baby, are you?" Hermione murmured sleepily. The sudden quietness was enough to make her realize how tired she was.
Hermione's eyes grew heavy. She stood up carefully when Talli was finished, placing the now empty bottle on the kitchen table, not even bothering to rinse it out. It could wait until the morning.
She went back upstairs into her and Draco's room, setting the sleeping baby back into her bassinet. She'd sleep alright for about an hour, until her nappy was wet.
"Mione?" Draco called from the bed as she finished tucking Talli in. She stiffened, hearing him stir at the bed, still annoyed with his previous lack of sensitivity.
In the small amount of light provided by the sliver of the moon, Hermione saw his body move toward her.
"I don't want you to sleep anywhere but next to me," he whispered when he was next to her. She felt his hand slip into hers. "I'm sorry for what I said— and for waking Talli."
Hermione sighed. She had real issues with staying upset with him for too long. Her lips formed a faint smile after Draco squeezed her hand; an encouragement to get her speak to him.
"I love you," he continued, still whispering. "I can't sleep without you. I tried… Please don't be mad and come to bed."
If he couldn't sleep without her, it would likely be the same for her. The bond seemed to do that to them.
She leaned into him, where he wrapped his arms around her, kissing her neck. "I love you too," she told him softly. "And I'm also sorry for yelling at you."
Draco's arms tightened around her, and he inhaled deeply. "I hate it when we fight."
"Me too."
"Let's never do it again!" He released her, pulling her toward the bed.
"Oh, Draco!" She laughed quietly. "We're always going to have a fight, it's pointless to expect any two people not to fight!"
"Well, fine then, let's perfect the art of make-up-sex!"
"Draco!" Hermione scolded, playfully smacking his shoulder. She giggled as he kissed her, pressing his lips firmly to hers, but she quickly pulled away. "We ought to wait," she advised reluctantly.
"Why?"
Hermione rolled her eyes. "We just had a baby! I just had a baby!"
"Alright, there's other things we can do then!"
She yawned, turning away from him. "Yes, dear, like sleep!"
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Sleep. It was something that was becoming scarce now that the family had returned back home with their new addition. The extra help that they had received during their stay at St. Mungo's was no longer there, and Talli didn't respond well to Toogy, who had offered to help while Draco and Hermione attempted to catch up on some much needed rest.
"Oh, Master!" the elf cried out when Draco stepped up to Toogy who was trying to calm down the crying baby. "Toogy is sorry, sir! Baby Miss is not acting so well! Toogy tries, she has, sir!"
Draco bent down slightly to take his daughter from Toogy who was holding her out for him. "I know, Toogs," he said affectionately, cradling the baby to his chest and gently swaying her in his arms. "This is how newborns are; she'll be alright once she gets used to her new living quarters. I'll take over—" He was cut off by a yawn.
Merlin, he was extremely deprived of sleep!
"But Master is so tired!" Toogy insisted. "Toogy wants to help, sir!"
"I know," he said softly, "it seems that Talli may just want her father— Scorpius was that way too, do you remember?"
The house elf nodded in understanding. "Alright, if that is what the Master wishes." She eyed the whimpering Talli, concerned about the new human. "Toogy's just worried, sir."
"She'll be fine," Draco assured her. "As with any day, Talli has a specialized Healer coming every morning to see her, who is an expert with babies like her. Malfoys always get the best, Talli has the best care she can get." He nuzzled his nose against his daughter's cheek, feeling sticky tears smear across it. "It's alright, princess," he whispered in an effort to soothe her cries. "I'm here. Daddy's here…"
Draco then took her to the nursery where he was going to put her into a fresh nappy to see if that would quiet her down. If not, he'd give her a bottle. A feeding and a nice gentle ride in the rocking chair usually eased her back to sleep.
In the first week of June, Draco and Hermione had decided it would be good for the children (and also for the two of them) to get some fresh air and sun. Draco was going around the home with Talli tucked away in the crook of an arm, doing a list of things Hermione insisted needed to be done or gathered for their day long outing.
"Derbla!" Scorpius screeched out happily upon seeing him at the foot of the stairs, stopping him in his tracks. The young boy sat at the top of the case of steps with Toogy right next to him, giving Draco a near-toothless grin.
"Hi there, chomper."
When he had gotten a response from Draco, Scorpius immediately rose up from where he sat to descend down the stairs, using Toogy to hold onto to stabilize him.
Scorpius was going through a phase of wanting to be escorted everywhere by the hand. Toogy had offered to assist him when Draco and Hermione were busy. Scorpius didn't seem to care who helped him, so it worked out well.
Draco made to meet him halfway up, petting back his son's growing hair when they had reached each other. He noted that Scorpius would need a haircut pretty soon, as it was past the back of his shoulders now, growing incredibly fast: a thing he must have inherited from Hermione. Though Draco was sure his father would disapprove of it if it were mentioned to him. Father thought Purebloods should always keep their hair long and tidy, but Draco didn't like having long hair, considering it to be more of a feminine thing to have.
"Having fun going up and down these stairs?"
Scorpius nodded and said, "Yes! Fun, dok!" He couldn't yet pronounce "walk", but Draco understood him well enough.
The boy wrapped his arms around a leg of Draco's, giggling. "I dok! I dok, Derbla!"
"Not quite, son, but you're getting it," Draco said encouragingly.
He felt Talli stir in his arms and brought his eyes up from Scorpius to her just in time to see her mouth open in a yawn. Draco braced himself for her to cry, since she did that practically every time she woke up from her sleep, but she just looked at him, stretching her neck out. Talli's arms then started moving from underneath the blanket she was swaddled in, and she grunted.
"Hold on just a moment, princess," he told her, almost pleadingly, not wanting her to break into a fit.
Toogy had taken off to do something, so now Draco had his arms full. One hand securing Scorpius at his leg to prevent an accident of him falling down the stairs, and an armload of baby with his other.
"Scorpius, come on upstairs," Draco said, finding a hand of his son's, peeling him from his leg. "Talli wants out of her swaddle."
"Baby!" Scorpius said happily.
Draco was able to speed the stair climbing a bit by playfully swinging Scorpius up every so step, but by the time it was safe to release Scorpius, Talli was a screeching fit.
Hermione hurried to help Draco, having paused her chore of packing for their outing.
"Oh, baby girl!" Hermione frowned as Draco handed Talli off to her. She began doing a series of noisy kisses to the baby's cheeks to soothe her cries.
"Meeton!" Scorpius said. He was sitting between the feet of his parent, looking up at his mother with a hand raised in the air. "Mina!"
"He wants kisses too." Draco smiled.
"Oh, do you?" Hermione giggled. She bent down low and gave Scorpius a bunch of rapid kisses on the top of his head, making him squeal in delight. "Mumma has to take care of Talli now, baby," she told Scorpius, standing back upright.
"Ookba," the toddler replied, understanding his sister's need.
"Oi! What about me?" Draco demanded when she turned from them, heading to the nursery.
"What about you, Draco?" she asked, not even stopping as she addressed him.
"What about my kisses?" He pouted, purposely trying to sound hurt.
Hermione scoffed. "Come in here then, you man child!" She disappeared into the room.
Draco snatched up Scorpius in a hurry and went to the nursery for his kiss. He hovered over Hermione, patiently waiting his turn as she dealt with Talli, removing her from the bundle.
"That's all better, isn't it?" she spoke to the baby, rubbing her tiny belly in affection. She then picked her up, setting her against one side of her chest, turning around and meeting Draco, who still expected his promised kiss.
She laughed as his eyebrows went up, wordlessly telling her that she was not going to get to leave the room until he got the kiss.
"You're so silly!" she said with a giggle, leaning in and planting her lips to his cheek.
"That's not a kiss! Not one that should come from my fiancé anyway!" With his free hand, he gripped the back of her neck and pressed his mouth to hers, capturing a lip between his, tasting it with his tongue. She had recently brushed her teeth after having breakfast, so she tasted like spearmint. He closed his eyes, sucking on her sweet tasting flesh.
She moaned softly, opening her mouth, inviting him to deepen the kiss, each forgetting that their children were in between them until Talli let out a sound.
Their mouths parted instantly, but their faces were close enough to restart if they wanted. Talli's sound was a new one though. A babble of some sort— baby babble, but still something that she had never done before now.
The couple quickly forgot about their kiss, turning their attention to Talli, excited over her new 'ability'.
"Isn't she so cute?!" Hermione gasped, setting a hand to the back of Talli's head, threading her fingers through her hair.
"Just adorable!" Draco agreed, smiling. He gave his daughter his own kiss, feeling her fuzzy, soft, dark-shaded hair against his lips.
"Tayee!" Scorpius pointed to his sister, unable to properly pronounce the 'lee' sound just yet. Draco and Hermione both had been working with him on his speech, and he was doing quite well. Certain sounds were still too hard for him though.
"Yes, Talli, your baby sister!" Hermione told him, unnecessarily so. Scorpius was well aware of who Talli was.
"I ciss!" he said, leaning toward Talli from his spot in Draco's arms.
"Good boy, you give Talli a big, brotherly kiss." Draco helped Scorpius accomplish this, and both mother and father laughed, thinking how sweet he was to his baby sister.
Scorpius smiled from the positive reaction he got and tapped Talli's back gently, like he had seen his parents do.
"Tayee la!"
"Yes, we love Talli," Draco concurred. "And we love you too!" He hugged his son close to him, feeling tiny lips touch his cheek.
"La Derbla, la Mina, la Tayee!"
The small family then did a tight group hug, showing how much they loved each other.
Hermione had a load of Knight Bus tickets which she suggested they use for their travel to the park that they were going to spend their day at. It still wasn't safe enough for Talli to Floo, portkey, or be apparated, as all those methods could physically harm her with her condition.
Hermione didn't think it would be right to scare Scorpius with broom flying that day— though Draco had convinced her that it would be best to have him do it again when he was older. They had yet to agree on a date for that. Draco wanted it to be his first birthday, when he would buy him a broom ("It's tradition, Mione!" he had argued when she told him that it was too soon to think about brooms). She wanted to have Scorpius wait until school— obviously Draco thought that was insane.
Draco didn't much like the idea of using the Knight Bus. He had never rode in it before, but it was definitely not something a Malfoy should ever step foot in. But he had no choice but to accept it. Like Hermione, he wanted to get out for some fresh air, tired of being stuck at home all day. Talli's Healer said that it'd be best if she got out in the sun for a few hours a week, and so they were going to do what was best for the baby.
Hermione slipped a hat on each of the children. Talli didn't seem to mind her pink, frilly sun hat, that was nearly too big for her, even after a shrinking spell, but Scorpius immediately removed his blue boonie hat with an ugly scowl, whining when Hermione scolded him and replaced it.
"No! Not hat!" Scorpius wailed.
"Does he have to wear the bloody hat?" Draco asked, picking his son up, sympathizing the kid's hate for hats.
"Yes, he does— you'll be fine." She narrowed her eyes when their son's wails got louder.
"Not hat!" He tried removing it, screaming when he learned that Hermione had outsmarted him, securing it to his head with a spell.
"Stop it, Scorpius," Draco said firmly. "Your mother said you have to wear it."
Scorpius sniveled, puckering out his bottom lip. "Ha, hats!" he whined, sniffing
"I hate them too," Draco muttered. He conjured up one to match the one Scorpius wore. "We'll hate them together, alright? We Malfoy men can look ridiculous together."
"Bedder!" Scorpius appeared to forget about his own hat, stretching up to Draco's to grab at it.
"Okay, I think we're ready to go now," Hermione announced a few moments later after she returned to them, finishing her last minute packing. She had a shoulder bag slung over her shoulder and a wide awake Talli placed safely in a Muggle baby carrier against her chest. One hand held the tickets for the Knight Bus, the other had her wand.
Draco nodded. "Let's go then." He summoned his own bag, excited to thoroughly try out his idea (mostly he wanted show it off to whomever would be at the park they were going to). It had taken him a few weeks to get it to work correctly, but he was fairly certain that all the kinks had been sorted out.
Hermione 'hailed' the Knight Bus once they stepped foot outside and cast quite a few spells to keep them from being tossed around during the rough ride. She also cast a spell to protect them from the objects that were going to fly in the air.
It was an interesting ride. Draco wasn't sure if he'd be willing to ride on the Knight Bus without the protective Charms, but since neither of his children broke out into cries or screams, he would be willing to use this method of transportation again— at least until the harmful risks of the other ones were no longer a threat to Talli. He still preferred traveling by broom or Floo.
Once at the park, Hermione went to the swings, stating that they had been a childhood favourite of hers.
Draco followed, though slowly, since Scorpius insisted that he wanted to walk there.
Hermione was swinging at a low, gentle height as to not scare Talli. She laughed, calling Draco over. "Look at her!"
Draco couldn't help but to smile. Talli's mouth was open, her tongue was stuck out, and her eyes were closed. She looked happy.
"She likes it," he said, picking up Scorpius and sitting into a swing right next to Hermione, curious if Scorpius would like it too.
"Yes, she does!" Hermione cooed excitedly when Talli let out a long slur of hums. The tiny mouth flapped open and close, as if gesturing for something to eat. "It's the air," Draco somewhat guessed her reasoning for it when Hermione brought to his attention, interested by it.
Draco backed up in the swing as far as he could with his feet still touching the ground. "This will be fun," he assured Scorpius. "Don't worry about falling, chomper, I got you." He then brought his feet up and out, leaning back as the swing swung forward, matching Hermione's movement so that they swung side by side in unison.
Scorpius's eyes shut tightly. His hands clenched Draco's clothing for his dear life, but he didn't fuss, or scream, or cry. Draco spoke a few words to him, and it wasn't long before the toddler was gigging, having the time of his life.
"High!" Scorpius instructed his father, wanting Draco to swing higher.
And so Draco did. Maybe this would help Scorpius get over his fear of broom flying.
Hermione took Scorpius over to the seesaws a bit later, leaving Draco with Talli to take a turn in swinging her, as she was enjoying the swinging so much, that neither parent wanted to stop her from her fun.
"Look at you having fun," Draco whispered to his daughter who's tongue wiggled with each sway of the swing.
"Acka!" she babbled, meeting his eyes.
Draco smiled, bopping her mouth gently, making her babbling sound different. She immediately started sucking on his finger, and then Talli began crying, realizing that his finger wasn't food. The volume of her wails heightened as Draco struggled with stopping the swing to get up from it. He ended up jumping out of it and accio'ed the bag Hermione had packed which was full of necessities for both their babies.
"I know you're hungry, Tallistar. I'm trying!" He frantically warmed a bottle of milk and inserted the nipple of it into her mouth, sighing in immense relief at how suddenly quiet she had become.
He returned to the swing, talking to her, telling her how cute, and beautiful, and little she was. She watched him the entire time, making adorable little gulping sounds as she drank.
"I love you," he whispered to her, petting the back of her hand with a finger.
"You adapt easily, don't you?"
Draco straightened up, slightly embarrassed, seeing Blaise. "What are you doing here?!' he demanded indignantly.
"Same reason you are here, I suppose."
Cara came skipping up. "Hi, Dracko!" she said warmly, stopping at his side, standing up on her tiptoes, seemingly trying to get a glimpse of Talli. "She looks nothing like Scorpius!" Cara noted and then took a swing, struggling with getting into it, due to its height. Blaise helped her into it before she begged him to push her.
Draco seen that the other two girls were by Hermione, who was talking with Tracy Davis.
Draco nudged his head toward them. "What's going on with you and Davis?"
Blaise grinned some. His teeth sank into his lower lip as his eyes shifted over to the mentioned woman. "She and the girls get along well," he informed.
Draco raised an eyebrow. "Is that why you're sporting that ridiculous, foolish look on your face? Are you sure that it's not just because of the girls?"
"What look?" Blaise asked nonchalantly.
"It might be because Miss Tracy kissed him," Cara said innocently. "Cinzia says that Miss Tracy loves Papa now. And Papa loves Miss Tracy, don't you, Papa? Can Miss Tracy be our new Mama, Papa? I like her a lot!"
Blaise chuckled avoiding Draco's eyes. He stared off at Davis, his grin widening.
"It's definitely from the kiss," Draco said with a roll of his eyes. He approved though. Davis was nothing like Marietta. Davis was capable of loving, and she had reasonable standards that Blaise obviously had met.
She'd be excellent for Blaise.
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