Happy belated Birthday, tweeney! (original) (raw)

Title: Days By Your Side – The New Beginning
Author: Lire lire_casander
Beta: Lovely B. Any mistakes left are my own.
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Summary: You are the closer to a father I have ever known, and I want you to be happy
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own in any shape or form these characters, JK does. Only playing with them for my own amusement and yours.
Warning(s): Fluff.
Word Count: 900
Author's Notes: Written for tweeney's birthday. I hope you enjoy this, honey, and that you had a wonderful day!
Author's Note 2: This also fits prompt Dawn at hpfanfic10x10.

Teddy was up at dawn the day he was supposed to ride to Hogwarts for the first time. He was so excited that he had barely slept the whole night. His grandmother had allowed him to spend the night at Grimmauld Place, and had promised to meet him on Platform 9 ¾, where Teddy was going with his uncles.

The soft noises of a city awakening caught his attention. He turned towards the window of his room – Sirius' room – and had a look outside. There were few people on the streets, and he knew no one could notice the house trapped between two blocks of Muggle apartments in the middle of a forgotten square. As he watched a car riding through the street, he wondered briefly if Uncle Harry would drive them to King's Cross.

A sound at the other end of the corridor startled him. Teddy ran to the door and opened it just a tiny bit, enough to glimpse outside. He could see his Uncle Draco sneaking out of Uncle Harry's bedroom with a sheet wrapped around his lower body, stepping on his toes just not to make any betraying sound. Teddy stifled a chuckle. He knew his uncles did those things to each other, had actually known for several years, but they liked to keep a façade of decency in front of an underaged wizard, and just as they never allowed him to practice his bursting magic and changing looks, they never allowed themselves to be seen sharing nothing more than a chaste kiss on the cheek.

Teddy watched as his Uncle Draco closed the door of the spare room, and smiled. They would never change.

But he liked them the way they were.

*-*-*-*-*

After a disastrous breakfast when Teddy had been so nervous about Hogwarts he had not been able to control his magic and therefore the whole kitchen had ended up painted in blasting colors after one of his flare-ups, Uncle Harry had dismissed him from the table and had proceeded to clean everything with a flick of his wand while Teddy got Uncle Draco's help in retrieving the last shreds of personal things spread all over the house.

"I can't believe I'm going to Hogwarts," the young wizard commented every now and then, making his uncle chortle under his breath.

"Me neither, Teddy," he said. "It seems like yesterday when you were born, when I had you in my arms for the first time."

"That was after you came back to England from Australia, right?" Teddy could sense the excitement of a tale he already knew by heart.

"Yes, that's right." Draco smiled softly, the kind of secret smile he only had for Teddy, and closed the trunk. "I won't bore you with the story, though. Harry!" he called. "Are you ready?"

"I'm not ready to let him go," Uncle Harry retorted, exiting the kitchen. "But I'm ready for a trip to the station."

They walked together to the fireplace, Teddy's hopes of a car ride vanishing when he saw his Uncle Harry taking a handful of Floo powder. "You're travelling with your Uncle Draco," he explained. "You could get lost otherwise, King's Cross is too big. I will be right behind you."

Teddy nodded, tugging at Draco's sleeve before stepping into the hearth. "Ready, Uncle?"

Draco took another handful of ashes and clearly stated, "King's Cross!" Then everything became colorful and dazing, and in a split second they were standing in front of another fireplace, a witch with a welcoming badge waving at them.

"Where is Harry?" Draco asked, looking at the empty fireplace behind them impatiently. "He was supposed to step there right after us."

"Don't worry, Uncle," Teddy reassured him. "He will make it. Of that I'm sure."

"I am too, Teddy. But he knows how I hate that he insists in being left behind, and yet he keeps doing so. When he comes here I'm going to---"

"Snog him senseless?" Teddy supplied, a naughty smirk on his perfect face. "It would be about bloody time, Uncle."

"Not in front of you, Teddy, and where did you learn that language?" Uncle Draco seemed scandalized.

"Come on, Uncle, I've seen you." The kid shook his head. "You cannot keep on hiding whenever I'm around. I do know you two are a couple, and I do know what couples do."

"Teddy," Draco warned, but the child didn't stop.

"I just mean, it seems you two are afraid of me finding out what you really feel for each other," Teddy explained. "But you are the closest person to a father I have ever known, and I want you to be happy. I want you to be able to be free around me."

Draco gaped at the child, at a loss for words. At his back, the fireplace roared to life, and Harry walked out of it. "The bloody powder kept sliding out of my hand," he swore lightly, shaking his arms and straightening his robes. "Anything I've missed?"

"Only your godson being cheeky," Draco announced, and with a wink to Teddy he wrapped an arm around Harry's waist.

"Draco, you know we shouldn't---" Harry tried to protest, but Draco silenced him with a soft kiss on the lips.

Teddy smiled and headed to the platform, knowing that there would be no more leaving at dawn whenever he stayed at Grimmauld Place.

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And with this, the Days By Your Side arc is finished...