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Three feet taller than a giraffe	By : bluesunshine24 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Draco/Lucius Views: 6044 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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"Please, please, please."

Lucius rubbed the bridge of his nose. Sixteen 'pleases' in less than ten minutes. His head throbbed again and he was tempted beyond belief to stun his son into silence. He looked up sharply, his grey eyes meeting Draco's wide ones. "No, and this will be the last time I tell you. Out."

A funny combination of emotions rolled over the boy's features; he seemed to be willing submission from his father, but slowly he turned and stomped from the room.

Draco refused to have dinner that night or breakfast the following morning. Lucius would have been beat for skipping a meal and beat again for the simple rudeness of the action. At lunch he knocked gently on his son's door. He hadn't expected an answer. He expected Draco to pout and be insolent as he would have done as a child. He remembered wanting, just as Draco did now, a brother or a sister. His father had refused and offered no alternative companionship.

The little boy was curled into a corner of his room, between the wall and his dresser. He was bent awkwardly and Lucius felt sympathy pains for the crick the child would have in his neck when he stood. "Draco," he said softly.

His head shot up quickly, his blonde hair falling into his eyes. It was matted, his clothes rumpled and his black pants dust covered. "I'm sorry I slammed your door," he murmured.

The man's lips curved just slightly. He really was a polite little whelp. "Thank you." He reached out and brushed the hair from his son's eyes. They looked wider, far more innocent than he had ever seen them. Lucius dropped down to his son's level, resting his back against the adjacent wall.

"Why not?" Draco finally said; he didn't meet his father's eyes.

"I think one little brat is quite enough."

"Father," Draco had missed his father's sarcasm.

"Many children would give anything to be as fortunate as you are."

"Many children have siblings!" Draco scuttled from his corner, leaning into his father's side. "Just one, and even if it's a girl I won't complain. I promise, pretty please, father."

Lucius looked down at his son; his eyes weren't quite so colorless as his own, his hair much more straight like Narcissa's. Draco made it sound as if any child would do. Briefly he had a flash of his son walking through a nursery, critically searching for his new brother. The boy made a noise at his side. Lucius had been silent too long.

"Children do not come instantly. Don't you think, perhaps, you would grow bored waiting?"

"I don't know," he shrugged. "I don't have any friends. It's not fair, father."

Lucius rested his cheek against the top of his son's head. How easily children can break their parent's heart. It seemed devastating that a seven year old could know such acute loneliness. I'm sorry.

And, so Lucius took Draco to a menagerie. A huge glass building in the center of Diagon Alley that seemed to radiate happiness and wonder. Draco clung to his hand as he led him around. Many of the animals were larger and fiercer than he could have imagined. A tiger growled and he jumped a foot in the air. He was suddenly a toddler again wanting to be held by his father and burying his face within Lucius' neck, too afraid to even look at the potential pets.

Lucius stepped into a subdued room, enormous and bright. He turned so Draco's hidden face was facing the room. A foot landed hard against his stomach as Draco excitedly scrambled away from him to move closer to the baby animals. He touched a lion and a penguin, his small hands tentatively reaching out. He brought his face very close to a small lynx, whose fur was paler than Draco's skin.

It would be endearing to watch Draco grow with his familiar. He stepped to the side circling the room lazily. He was careful and just barely missed trampling a puff of black at his feet. The little ball had no discernable features; yet it let out a strangled "quack" as he lifted it. The creature took up only half of his palm and stayed firmly curled within itself, two little webbed feet quivering.

Draco walked forward sheepishly, a very unsteady giraffe wobbling behind. It was nearly three feet taller than his son but looked shy in its attempt to follow him. Lucius was sorely tempted to say no, but he had brought Draco here to find a companion. He would have to add an addition to the Manor to accommodate this particular one though.

"Can I keep-"

"Quack," Draco looked wildly around. "Quack."

"What's that?"

"It would seem I have found a duckling." Lucius opened his hands revealing the puff. It chose that moment to open its obsidian eyes and gaze directly into far paler ones.

The boy stoked a finger along the duckling's back. "It's soft," he said quietly. He moved closer and the black puff bent towards him and gently snapped at Draco's nose. He smiled and pushed his face closer to the duck again. The puff extended and awkwardly stood in Lucius' palm.

"I'm going to call him Midnight."

Thank Merlin he picked something small. Lucius cast an apologetic glance at the doe eyed giraffe before ushering his son from the animal nursery.

A/N: Currently, Christmas is quickly approaching and all I want is a duckling. It would be cute and darling and I have no other wish in the world. The breed I describe within this story is called an Indian Runner duck; I've fallen in love with the black ones. Anyway, this is semi-serious because I don't do comedy very well but it is not at all as angst-y as my typical stuff. Enjoy and please review.
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