dracoharry100 | Slithering, a sequel. Part 54

Title: Slithering, a sequel - 54
Author: twisted_miracle
Team: death eaters
Word count: 100x3
Characters/pairings: Harry/Draco
Rating: Rated PG today, NC-17 overall
Challenge: wave
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, they belong to the clever Scottish lady. I just bend them and love them. Please don't smack me for playing. It isn't like I am going to earn any money from this!

Author's note: Comments are love!

Summary: Draco meets Teddy.

Author's 2nd Note: This is a sequel to "Slither In," which starts here: http://dracoharry100.livejournal.com/286839.html
and ends here: http://dracoharry100.livejournal.com/460335.html

Sequel "Slithering"
part 1: http://dracoharry100.livejournal.com/1207586.html
Part 53: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/239633.html#cutid1

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Draco soon forgot to worry about anything besides Teddy, as the baby woke while Aunt Andromeda was pouring tea. They went into the baby’s room, and Draco was shocked by the clench in his heart when the sleepy, tear-faced boy waved at him from where he stood in his crib.

“Would you like to hold him?” Draco’s aunt asked, and, slowly, uncertainly, Draco approached the child. Little Teddy looked up at Draco, smiling wetly around a bright blue dummy. Draco felt his heart melt, soften, and open. He pulled the child up into his arms and felt his heartrate slow.

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“He just learned how to do that,” Aunt Andromeda said proudly as Draco stood in Teddy’s nursery, sure in his hold on the baby, but unsure what else he was meant to do now.

“What, wave?” Draco asked.

“No, pull himself up to stand. He can do it when he has something to hold onto,” Aunt Andromeda explained. “He’s been waving for weeks now.”

“I don’t know much about babies,” Draco admitted as little Teddy started to pull on Draco’s right ear.

“I wouldn’t expect you to,” his aunt said, smiling kindly. “Only child. You don’t even have little cousins.”

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“No,” Draco said, grateful when Aunt Andromeda had him follow her back into the room with the squashy brown sofa. At her direction he put Teddy on the floor, and sat next to him.

“Dad was an only child,” Draco said.

“Malfoy tradition,” his aunt agreed.

“And on Mum’s side, well, I guess it was just me and…” Draco paused, unsure how to refer to his dead cousin in front of her mother.

“Dora,” she said, waving his fear away. “We can talk about her. I want to talk about her. Nothing’s quite so terrible as thinking she’s been forgotten.”

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Continued: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/244395.html#cutid1