Slithering, a sequel. Part 57
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dracoharry100Title: Slithering, a sequel - 57
Author: twisted_miracle
Team: death eaters
Word count: 100x2
Characters/pairings: Harry/Draco
Rating: Rated PG today, NC-17 overall
Challenge: temporary
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: I've included my last update, because wow, it's been a while!
Also! Comments are love!
Summary: Andromeda leaves the baby with Draco. He does just fine, even if he can't stop second-guessing himself.
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 55: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/244395.html#cutid1
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Draco had felt that urgency, to keep another from seeing one cry. So he stayed in the shabby brown room with Teddy and waited. It was easy, if rather dull. The baby liked throwing his toy, so Draco just… summoned it back.
Over and over they played this “game” with Teddy’s gummy, damp stuffed rabbit. Dozens of times Teddy chewed it, threw it, then giggled as Draco floated it back to him through the air.
Eventually, however, the baby began to whine. The floating rabbit was no longer sufficient.
Draco stared at the open door. Dare he disturb his aunt?
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Draco plucked Teddy up off his colorful blanket on the floor. He quickly found new ways to temporarily soothe him, first back pats, then jiggling. All as he paced, back and forth.
He hadn’t noted the time when his aunt had left the room, so he wasn’t sure how long she’d been gone, but his guess would be a full thirty minutes already, and that was surely enough time for having a good cry and cleaning your face after? So he very much wanted to hand the baby back, but would he make her angry if he sought her out?
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What if he found her still red-faced, or worse, still crying? What if he so embarrassed her, she tossed him out? Told him not to return? She’d seemed awfully accepting, earlier, he thought; and she loves muggles and her son-in-law was a werewolf and her grandson is an orphan she can’t possibly reject me, can she?
But logic could only hold out against insecurity for so long, and Draco found himself paralyzed, temporarily locked into a room by his fear of somehow accidentally destroying this new, valuable, familial connection.
He could not risk losing her.
Holding the baby, he paced.
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TBC: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/265059.html#cutid1
Author: twisted_miracle
Team: death eaters
Word count: 100x2
Characters/pairings: Harry/Draco
Rating: Rated PG today, NC-17 overall
Challenge: temporary
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: I've included my last update, because wow, it's been a while!
Also! Comments are love!
Summary: Andromeda leaves the baby with Draco. He does just fine, even if he can't stop second-guessing himself.
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 55: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/244395.html#cutid1
Draco had felt that urgency, to keep another from seeing one cry. So he stayed in the shabby brown room with Teddy and waited. It was easy, if rather dull. The baby liked throwing his toy, so Draco just… summoned it back.
Over and over they played this “game” with Teddy’s gummy, damp stuffed rabbit. Dozens of times Teddy chewed it, threw it, then giggled as Draco floated it back to him through the air.
Eventually, however, the baby began to whine. The floating rabbit was no longer sufficient.
Draco stared at the open door. Dare he disturb his aunt?
Draco plucked Teddy up off his colorful blanket on the floor. He quickly found new ways to temporarily soothe him, first back pats, then jiggling. All as he paced, back and forth.
He hadn’t noted the time when his aunt had left the room, so he wasn’t sure how long she’d been gone, but his guess would be a full thirty minutes already, and that was surely enough time for having a good cry and cleaning your face after? So he very much wanted to hand the baby back, but would he make her angry if he sought her out?
What if he found her still red-faced, or worse, still crying? What if he so embarrassed her, she tossed him out? Told him not to return? She’d seemed awfully accepting, earlier, he thought; and she loves muggles and her son-in-law was a werewolf and her grandson is an orphan she can’t possibly reject me, can she?
But logic could only hold out against insecurity for so long, and Draco found himself paralyzed, temporarily locked into a room by his fear of somehow accidentally destroying this new, valuable, familial connection.
He could not risk losing her.
Holding the baby, he paced.
TBC: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/265059.html#cutid1
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