The Power Of Love | By : Marblez Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 5431 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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Shopping (Part 2).
The Goblins had caused quite a bit of excitement with the three younger children, especially Jamie who was almost hyper with excitement. Kai however had been a bit overwhelmed by the amount of noise from everyone in the bank and also the strange smells, he'd clutched his dad's hand tightly the whole time and that had helped to keep him calm.
Emerging from the bank the family found that the shopping alley had become a hell of a lot busier in the time it took them to get their money changed and now as they stood in a group people accidentally bumped into them all every now and then. This was not good for poor Kai who was now completely overwhelmed with noise and smells he was unfamiliar with. Reaching out he tried to find another member of his family but he couldn't.
"D-Dad?" he asked worriedly. Draco turned around to find his eldest son pale and frightened looking and right before his eyes someone bumped past him, almost sending him tumbling. "D-Dad?"
"It's ok Kai, I'm here," Draco moved swiftly and took hold of Kai's trembling shoulders, "I'm sorry Kai, I should have realised. It's very busy today, I'd hoped the alley would be calmer."
"I'm ok Dad, I just-I just couldn't…" Kai mumbled, trying to calm down, "Have you got my stick with you? It would make it more-more obvious to everyone else that I'm blind. Instead of just holding your hand like n-normal…"
"I do have it Kai," Draco let go briefly to bring the extendable white stick out of the long pocket that also held his long unused wand. Extending it easily he pressed it into Kai's open hand, "There you go. Alright? Do you want your glasses too?"
"No, I don't like wearing them," Kai said, feeling immediately better as he tapped at the floor with his stick with practised ease, "I'm-I'm ok now. Shall-Shall we get going?"
"Can we get something to eat? I'm hungry," Jamie asked from behind Draco.
"Hungry? We've only just had breakfast!" Draco laughed. Jamie pouted unhappily, "Maybe we can stop for a drink and a snack after we get Kai his robes. That'll be our first stop." He wasn't sure how to work this, he'd have preferred to have left the younger children with a neighbour but they would never have forgiven him for making them miss out on this. "Elly, hold Kai's hand and mine. Kian you take my other. Jamie, can I trust you not to wander off or do I need to make you hold Kian's hand as well?"
"I wont wander off," Jamie said quickly, he was not going to be seen holding hands like a baby. The family set off, Draco of course leading the way and ignoring the stares and pointing fingers of people he had once known or had known him.
"This is it, in we go," Draco herded them into the wizarding clothes shop, "Don't touch anything." His warning came just in time and Jamie dropped his hand to his side before touching on of the robes in the window.
"Hello there, Hogwarts?" Madam Malkin asked, still as squat and smiling as ever but with lines on her face and her hair was now completely grey.
"My eldest is starting this year," he told her, pulling Kai to his side while the boy folded up his stick, "Could we um, could we have only two shirts, one pairs of trousers, one jumper and a set of robes please?" Draco spoke quietly, looking around nervously. "Oh and a tie of course." Madam Malkin took in his thin frame and second hand clothes before looking at his children. Unlike him they were dressed in nice clothes and they looked well fed.
"Are you a single parent sir?" she asked calmly, watching as he nodded to her, "Then I can offer you our single parent saver. Four shirts for the price of two, two jumpers and trousers for the price of one and ten percent of the robes." It was actually a real saver offer but it was hardly used.
"That would…that would be wonderful," Draco said slowly and she smiled at him. "Thank you."
"Well lets get started, if you'll follow me young man," she turned to go but Draco stopped her with a hand on her arm, "Is there something else?"
"My son is blind."
"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realise," she smiled apologetically, "How about you take my arm dearie and we'll get on with business?" Kai nodded and took the woman's arm, allowing him to be taken into the next room. She even helped him up onto the stool. "There's two other boys already here so you've got someone to talk to while I work. If you could hold your arms up dearie." Kai obeyed and the robe was slipped onto him. "I'll be pinning it to the right size love so try not to move too much or I might stick you with a pin."
"Ok," Kai mumbled.
"Hello," a boys voice came from his right.
"Hello," Kai answered.
"I'm Jeremy and this is my cousin Fred," the boy said cheerfully as another boy said hello, his voice further away. What Kai couldn't see of course that the two boys were stood on stools like him and were being given the same treatment by Madame Malkin's assistants. Both boys were tall for their age and had red hair, one bright and slightly curly, one a darker red and straight. The second boy, Fred, also had darker skin than his pale cousin but both had freckles.
"I'm Kai." He jerked when a hand rested on his shoulder.
"Sorry, I need to sort out your sleeve. I didn't mean to startle you," Madame Malkin apologised. "I'll give you warning next time."
"Why?" Fred asked loudly.
"I'm blind," Kai answered calmly, "So I'm afraid I have no idea what you look like. To be honest I don't even know what I look like." All three boys laughed cheerfully. "I know I look like my father but that's the best description I can give."
"Want us to describe ourselves?" Jeremy offered.
"Go on then."
"Well we've both got red hair but mines really bright whilst Fred's is a little brown like his mum's. I've got green eyes, Fred's are brown and he's got darker skin like his mum. It's like an immediate tan the cheater. The rest of us will have to work on it," Jeremy said easily and Fred laughed.
"You an only child Kai?" Fred asked.
"No, I've got two younger brothers and a younger sister," Kai answered, feeling Madame Malkin lean in close to his back. "What about you two?"
"Not a chance! Jeremy comes from the record holding family within our tribe, four brothers and three sisters and I've got two brothers and a sister," Fred laughed.
"Tribe?" Kai asked.
"Yeah, the Weasley Tribe. We're a huge family," Jeremy joined in the laughter. "My dad had five brothers and a sister but one brother died ages ago. And of course they all had kids so the families huge!"
"My dad was an only child so there's just us," Kai said with a small smile, "But considering how bad my younger brother can be that's probably a good thing." The three boys laughed together and chatted happily as they were fitted with their robes and the women smiled at each other as they worked, enjoying the happy atmosphere.
"Mr Weasley, yours are done. If you'll step down and take them off I'll set the spell going to do the stitching while we sort out the rest of your things," the witch seeing to Fred said cheerfully and he obeyed.
"See you later Jeremy. Nice to meet you Kai," he said to the two boys before going back into the main room of the shop with the assistant. Madame Malkin pulled on the back of his robes to check something and wobbled precariously.
"Oh sorry dear, I forgot again," she apologised.
"It's ok."
"What house do you want to be in?" Jeremy asked.
"I don't know. My dad was a Slytherin but my other dad was a Gryffindor," Kai answered, not realising that Jeremy was now staring at him in shock, "I could end up in either I guess."
"What's your surname?" Jeremy demanded.
"Malfoy-Smith. Why?"
"You're Kai Malfoy?" Jeremy asked shocked. "Your dads Draco Malfoy?"
"Yes. What's that got to do with anything?" Jeremy asked confused.
"Your dad hated my parents when they were at school that's what! And then he married my honorary uncle and broke his heart by leaving him and taking one of their sons! Your dads an unfeeling git!" Jeremy all but shouted at the shocked Kai, "He pretended to be good and then ran away!"
"I-I…" Kai mumbled pathetically.
"Mr Weasley, your robes are done," the other assistant said softly, both the women affected by the sudden change in atmosphere.
"Good, I don't want to stay here with him," Jeremy all but tumbled off the stool, threw his robes off and left into the main room. Kai sighed sadly, so confused. What had all that been about? And if all that had been true…what had he meant by 'one of his sons'?
Draco knew that the two boys were Weasley's as soon as he saw them, red hair and freckles was a dead give away but the glares sent his way all but confirmed it. Undoubtedly the Weasley family would greatly resent him for what had happened between him and Harry. At first it was just the second boy that glared at him but once he'd whispered to the other the glares doubled. He sighed to himself and looked down at Kian sitting on his lap, watching Elly and Jamie look through the kids catalogue.
"Daddy, can I have this dress? It's pretty," Elly asked, carrying the book to him so that he could see the picture. Draco looked at the summer dress she was pointing too, a light blue one with white flowers around the hem of the skirt. It really would look lovely on his daughter but the price caught his eye immediately.
"I'm sorry Elly, that's a little out of my price range," Draco said softly.
"Oh, alright daddy," the little girl nodded, "If I find one I like that isn't too much can I get it? Only it's Madeline's birthday party next week and everyone's getting new dresses for it…"
"If you find one for under three sickles, they're the silver ones remember? Under three sickles and you can have it but that'll be your only treat for the day," Draco compromised causing his daughter to grin widely and take the catalogue back to Jamie and began looking once more at the clothes. The bell above the door sounded as Kian began fussing so Draco's attention was on his rather than on the people entering the shop…
A/N I promise the next chapter will A)have Harry and Jason in it and B) explain a bit more about Draco's children's parentage. Oh and the double-barrelled surname will be explained eventually whoever it was that asked about that. R&R if you want to.
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