& narissa’s wing, luius’s walk slowed aalk to the bundle radled in his arms.
“i waited five years and fifteen hours for you, my son.”
&hrough the maowards the wing that would be drao’s own.
“your mother wanted a girl. she told me that over and over. she wanted a daughter to make just like herself. but the fates instead smiled upon my wishes, drao luius malfoy, though i doubt you’ll ever use the middle il yrown and i am no longer here.”
the baby ooed at him as luius stopped at the doorway t.
“this is where you will grow up, my son. the house elves just fierday while your mother was sreaming.”
baby drao giggled as luius swuhe door and walked inside.
drao’s rooms hadhe years. ms had been added as drao had obtained more possessions, but the skeleton of what drao would live in now was there, even down to the same olor sheets on the bed.
“your rib is in my rooms at the moment, but when you grow out of it this is where you will sleep.”
luius walked around the room ahe loo-floor window that looked out over the nd surrounding malfoy manor.
“and this, my son, will someday belong to you astao be deemed worthy of your life partner. i’m sure narissa will press for another hild, a daughter most likely, but you an be assured, my son, that whehere will be and against your im to what you are entitled. you are my heir and my joy.”
&hat was not holding the baby moved to touh the baby drao’s heek. baby drao giggled loudly and grabbed luius’s rih hale hands found the malf a off luius’s fi immediately went into baby drao’s mouth a down as hard as he ould with his toothless gums.
luius hukled at drao as he took bak the ring. “that too, will be yours.”
the memory shifted to luius sitting alone in his study writi looked like a letter. but before either of the boys ould see what it was the door to the study swung open and a five-year-old drao walked ih a loud, “father!”
luius looked up at drao. “what is it drao?”
“mother says i have to wait uo learn to fly on a broom like everyone else!”
luius raised an eyebrow.
“and i want to learn now!”
“and you shall.” the elder malfoy ped his quill down on the desk ao where drao stood with ai smile on his fae. “i will teah you.”
“yay!” drao let out a happy ry aher bef him out of the room.
again the memory shifted, jumping forward six more years, by the look of drao. the eleven year old who harry had met in diagon ally was seated iing. luius and narissa stood in the doorway.
“i don’t know what to do with the boy,” narissa spoke, ann ioo go to sleep as if he thinks that if he doesn’t sleep he woo shool tomorrow!”
a wry smile pyed about luius’s lips as he losed the door with a “go to bed yourself, narissa. you look like you ould use the sleep,” and approahed the bed.
“niving your mother a hard time, drao?” luius asked in a mok-angry voie.
“i don’t want to go to shool,” drao stated.
luius motioned for drao to move over on the bed and he slid in to drao. “shool is a we all have th, son.”
“but i don’t want to. why an’t i go where you wao go? it souhan this pe,”
“i ould not agree more, but your mother insisted.”
“i doher insisted.”
“drao you should not say suh things of your mother.”
“i’m sorry, father.”
“it is quite alright, drao. now you should get to sleep.”
drao pouted but it was a look of one who khe i. luius got out of the bed as drao snuggled down into the overs. luius turhe light of the room with a wave of his hand ahe door as if to leave.
“father?”
&opped ahe boy in the bed. “yes drao?”
“the house elves said that whele you would sing to me when i was rying and i would stop. i do song you sang.”
“that doesn’t surprise me. i stopped o sing to you whetle.”
“would you sing now?”