Summer Before Seventh Year
This summer, Albus heads to Malfoy Manor with Scorpius for the start of the holidays. He's never been there in this season before, and he's more than happy to visit all of Scorpius' favorite spots and listen to his memories, even if he's heard them before. He doesn't think he'll ever be tired of watching the light play on Scorpius' face and hair, or hearing him run out of breath in his excitement - or the little noise he makes when Albus kisses him unexpectedly, between a squeak and a purr.
Draco isn't quite surprised when Albus corners him one morning while Scorpius is still asleep, and asks to talk. They stroll in the garden, Draco patient while he waits to hear what's on Albus' mind. He IS surprised when what comes out is "I want to marry Scorpius." He'd expected the boys to want to move in together after Hogwarts, and he's half inclined to say they're far too young - but both his son and Albus are smart, they've been through a lot and grown together, and if he's honest they're far more their own men than he was at that age. And what wouldn't he give now, to have had a few extra, precious years with Astoria? So they talk, and Albus agrees to wait until Scorpius is of age, and they're calmly sipping tea and looking at flowers when Scorpius comes downstairs.
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They meet the Potters in Diagon Alley for shopping, and Albus returns home with his parents. Draco and Scorpius will come to the Weasley Back to School Bash at the end of the summer and they'll all go to King's Cross together. Molly has made it clear that Scorpius WILL be celebrated along with Albus and Rose as coming of age this year.
Albus finds it almost harder to tell his parents that he wants to marry Scorpius than it was to talk to Draco, but when he does work up the nerve they support him. Harry even says he's taking after him after all, finding the right one so young, and Ginny thinks it's a measure of how far they've come in the past few years that Albus laughs and hugs his dad.
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Draco soaks up this precious last few weeks with his son, wishing that Astoria could see the man Scorpius is becoming - and the one he's become, too. It's not fair that she only got to see the start of the journey, and they wouldn't be anywhere without her, either of them. He gives Scorpius his watch a little early, not quite ready to share it with the Weasley clan. He's had his watch and Astoria's taken apart and refashioned into one for Scorpius, with three familiar stars in a night sky.
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The Weasley Back to School Bash is everything Christmas is only louder and with more outdoor space, and Lily prevails on Albus, Scorpius, and Rose to make the most of celebrating the end of childhood (even if the actual dates have passed for two of them). They play silly games and sing even sillier songs and eat sweets, and Molly's outdone herself with an enormous cake in the shape of Hogwarts castle bearing two green and one red candle. Draco finds himself raising a glass with Harry and Ginny, Ron and Hermionie, toasting their children, and thinks of where the world was when they were turning 17, and he's so thankful for the world his son has before him - the world they ALL have before them.