Needed

Lucius hummed as he made his way to his and Severus’s quarters. Today was a good day in work. He got a lot of his paperwork done, he sat in on three meetings that couldn’t have gone better for the ministry and he met with the minister of magic to see how to accelerate the Little’s programme. Oh yes, he was in a very good mood.

“Family I’m home!” He called, walking into what he could only describe as absolute carnage. Their living room was a victim of what could only be a mini hurricane. The couch cushion was littered all around the floor, stuffing ripped out of them. The coffee table was turned upside down, Harry’s favourite snack, veggie sticks, were in crumbs on top of all of them, along with his bottle of half-full milk.

Odd. Harry loved his snacks and bottles. Why wouldn’t he finish them?

“Severus?” He called, half afraid because the house was so silent. A silent house with a baby and a toddler was something that didn’t happen.

He heard a muffled voice calling back to him and followed it down to their room. Looking in bewilderment as he saw Draco’s clothes sprinkled as a guide on the way to the room.

He opened the door slowly, half afraid that he would open it to more destruction. He walked into a scene that baffled him even more than the living room. Severus was sitting up on the bed with a little either side of him. Draco was dressed in a pull-up which was strange as he hated wearing them unless he was feeling extremely little or it was night time. It was only 17.30 though so it was way too early for either kid to be in bed. Draco looked to be asleep, his face cuddled into Severus’s chest. Lucius could see dried tear tracks on his face. Harry was plastered to his other side; the pacifier in his mouth was being worked furiously, one hand in his hair, worrying the curly locks. That was a sure sign of agitation, but he didn’t look to be asleep.

“Severus? Care to tell me what happened?”

Harry’s head popped up from where it was on his chest and tears filled his eyes. “P-Papa.” He cried, putting his arms up to be held. Lucius took him up instantly and held him close, letting Harry cuddle into him.

“You’re okay my darling.” He murmured, kissing his sweaty head. He looked over his head. “Severus?” He prompted.

Severus sighed, where did he even start? He supposed there was no better place than the beginning.

“All four boys were here and Draco asked about Harry going back to classes. I told them that we’d talk about it when you were home, just to try and ease them into it- Know the way Draco gets extremely jealous of Harry sometimes, and other times he’s extremely protective of him? Well, he went on the protective side today because the general population don’t know where Harry is. He didn’t like that he’d be open to all the scrutiny and let me know that he wasn’t happy with the decision we made.”

Lucius nodded slowly, not really seeing how Draco having a tantrum lead to them needing a whole new set of couches.

Severus glanced down at Draco who was clutching onto him desperately, even in his sleep, “How it escalated to what you see out there is some accidental magic by both of the boys. I sent Blaise and Theo home which upset Harry so I gave him some veggie snacks and his bottle. I set him up in his bouncer with them and tried to work on calming Draco down. One of his worst tantrums I have to say. He flipped the table in anger with his magic, sending Harry’s bottle flying. He started screaming and crying that it wasn’t fair and that why did he have to share his baby when he already had to share him with Blaise and Theo."

Lucius rubbed a hand down his face, tired already.

"Harry got upset that his bottle was dripping away and started crying as well. He kept crying about his bottle and Draco turned to him and told him to shut up which made him angry. In his anger, his accident magic sent the couch cushion flying at Draco, Draco, in turn, brought his hands up and ripped them to shreds as they tried to hit him. I’ll show you the pensive memory later. I have to say I was quite impressed with it. Once Harry was out of couch cushions he threw his veggie snacks. Draco smashed those too. That got Harry angrier and he the table started hovering so I decided to finally step in and stop it altogether. The minute I stopped them Draco broke down crying and put his arms up for me to hold him. He was so upset that I couldn’t ignore him. I gave Harry his pacifier and he calmed down straight away thankfully. I stripped Draco where he was and picked Harry up. Draco was holding his clothes for me while I picked up Harry and brought them down here. Draco decided to toss his clothes as he went. I put him in a pull-up and he pretty much passed out when his head hit my chest. Harry was just happy to cuddle in while we waited for you to get home.”

Lucius wasn’t sure what to say to that. Both his boys were powerful enough to do wandless magic. He knew Severus said that it was accidental but both boys were clearly able to take command of their magic when they wanted to. There had been some studies done to show that Little’s were more proficient at using wandless magic than others. This was just added proof to Lucius.

“Harry, were you being bold?” He asked finally, looking down at the little boy that was doing his best to burrow into his neck.

“No Papa. Dray.” He whined behind his pacifier.

“Yeah, that’s what I kept getting every time I tried to talk to him over it.” Severus sighed and shifted so Draco was more comfortably on his chest.

Lucius wanted so bad to reprimand Harry but he had to look at it from his point of view. Harry was just a baby and to him, losing his bottle was a devastating event and then his veggie snacks? No wonder the little boy was angry. He could also see Draco’s point of view. He was just a little boy with emotions that he didn’t know how to handle sometimes. He’d only gotten comfortable with Harry as his little brother and he was extremely overprotective of him. He couldn’t handle his current routine changing again and they’d have to be very careful how they went forward so that Draco wouldn’t get extremely upset like this again.

His eyes met Severus who nodded, “I see you’re thinking the same way as I am. I think Draco is down for the night. He’ll be up early tomorrow but we’ll just have to make do with lack of sleep. Let’s get Harry some supper and we’ll put him to bed before we clean the living room.”
Lucius sighed, and his day was going so well.