Later that night, when the children were all asleep, Lily being the last to settle into her cradle, Draco and I crawled into bed together. Immediately we entwined our arms around each other, eager to reconnect romantically. With three children, something as simple as hugging and holding each other through the night was vital to our feeling of closeness and togetherness.

He kissed me on the forehead and then shifted his long frame down so that we were face to face. I craned my neck up and made eye contact with him, looking into those sparkling grey eyes of his. In them, I saw the love he felt for me, but I also saw concern.

"Hmmm?" I asked.

He didn't need words to know what I was asking.

"Is something wrong?" he asked. "I saw your look of concern during dinner. Is it more than the trouble with Kim at school?"

I sighed. He knew me too well and had caught my moment of brooding. "The teacher mentioned…"

When I trailed off, he prodded, "What?"

"Magical transitioning," I blurted out, breaking eye contact as the thought overwhelmed me.

"What about it?" Draco asked.

"That Scorp might do it! What if she wants that? I don't even know how it's done! Is it even safe? Why would she even want that?" My tone was frantic now.

"Calm down. You are getting way ahead of yourself. That teacher too. Scorp is only three. It's far too soon to be talking transitioning. It's unethical to do any sort of genital modification before puberty, unless it is medically necessary. Even at puberty, it's only the extreme cases where a child is uncomfortable having the wrong parts, that they even consider it that early. This is a decision for Scorp to make, when she's old enough to make it. I'd prefer waiting until she comes of age, but even if she wants it when she hits puberty, we're still a decade out from that. Unless she asks for it or mentions discomfort with the way her body is, which she hasn't by the way, then we don't need to do anything."

"We don't have do anything? It's as simple as that?" I asked hopefully.

"Not unless she says something. We need to take our ques from her. It's her body. It's her decision and she's not old enough yet to make it. You are worrying about something that might happen years from now. It's just as likely that it won't happen at all."

"But is it really possible to just switch genders with magic?"

"Yes. I haven't looked into it much, but I know it can be done," he answered.

"It really works? Boys become girls? Completely? Girl organs too?"

"Yes, why wouldn't it be complete?" he asked.

"In the muggle world, they have surgeries and stuff that alter the appearance of the body, but not the fundamental organs within. Boys never get periods or have babies, even if they look like girls," I explained.

"I never thought about periods. Merlin; I'm not looking forward to that with Lily. It never occurred to me that we might be dealing with that with Scorp too," he replied.

"You never worried about it, because you just assumed she could take a potion and become male fertile, like you," I said. It doesn't make much of a difference if Scorp carries our grandchild as a witch would, or if she retained her male organs and had to take a potion to accomplish it.

"Yes, exactly," he replied nodding. "I don't know if the organs are changed too; I just assumed they were. That's not the sort of thing one talks about in polite conversation. With a newborn to care for all day, I haven't had time to research it. I didn't even realize we needed to until you brought it up just now."

"But is it safe?" I asked, more worried about this aspect of it than if the organs were changed. Scorp magically changing her bits was scary enough for me, without the added worry of her safety. After all, she was still my little baby. I'd cradled her in my arms on the day she was born and promised to protect her. I meant to stick by that promise, no matter what. She was precious to me; James and Lily were too.

"I think so…" Draco trailed off. Then he groaned and switched to a self-deprecating tone that he mostly saved for at home. "I've been so busy with Lily that I haven't been keeping up with what's going on with Scorp. I thought the new school and the new name would solve all her problems…And Mother thinks I'm not paying enough attention to James…"

I felt strangely relieved that for once he didn't know the answers and I wasn't the one way behind. I rubbed my hands down his back comfortingly and said, "It's okay. We can look into it together."

"Yes, we'll research it together, so we know what we can expect, but then it will be her choice. It's her body; it has to be her choice," he insisted.

This was one of the things I loved about him. His father had been so demanding, forcing him to be a certain way, even when it was against his nature. But from the beginning, Draco had said he didn't want to be that type of parent. His children would be free to be whoever they wanted to be and his job as a parent was only to ensure that freedom. That left me to be the strict parent, because I was all for letting our children be themselves, but I also thought they needed guidance.

"Of course. But what has your mother been saying about James now?" I asked, just a tad exasperated. I swear, the witch had her good qualities, but not when it came to children. It was no wonder she'd allowed Lucius to mess up Draco's childhood.

"Oh, just that I don't pay enough attention to him. She says he behaves much better when she's alone with him."

"When was she alone with him?" I asked skeptically.

"She took him to the park while you were at work last week and she picked him up from school today," he answered.

I waved a hand in a dismissive gesture. "He's been behaving better since Lily was born; took her long enough to notice."

"No, Harry, I think she may be on to something. She showed me a memory of him and he was cuddling with her at the park. Our James, cuddling."

"That is strange…Are you sure it was unaltered?" I asked. As far as I knew, the both of them weren't cuddlers. That was the last thing I'd picture the two doing at the park.

"Yes, I'm sure. She said all our son wanted was some attention. You take him to football and have your one-on-one time with him. Maybe I need to find something to do with him too," he said.

I smiled, because I was all for pushing Draco and James to get closer. "That's a great idea! What do you have in mind?"

Draco sighed. "I would take him to the park after school during Lily's nap, if I wasn't always so tired."

"No, that's not going to work. You need to nap while Lily sleeps," I said sternly. I was not going to deal with the sleep-deprived banshee that he became when he didn't get his nap.

We'd had this argument before, when James was a newborn and Draco had wanted to use naptime to paint the beatific image of our sleeping baby. I'd won, which meant we had less oils of our children on our walls than he liked, and that we'd stayed married. It also meant he almost never had time to paint and hadn't sold a painting in ages. Every painting he did these days was of our family and that was off limits to the public. I was widely criticized for marrying Draco, because it meant my best painter refused to share his paintings of me. But that was fine by me, because I still hated to be painted.

"If we do something while Lily is awake, then she'll need a sitter," he replied.

"Molly or Andromeda. Take your pick," I said.

They were both good choices. If it was just James who needed watching, I favored Andromeda, because my godson Teddy lived with her and the boys played well together. But three children were too much for Andromeda, so when we needed Scorp and James watched, I went with Molly. Although now that we had Lily, I'd started dropping James with Andromeda and Lily and Scorp with Molly on date night. We had yet to leave Lily by herself with a sitter and although my gut said to go with Molly, Andromeda and Teddy had recently complained that they wanted to see more of Scorp and Lily.

"Aunt Andromeda. She's been complaining to Mother that she never gets to see Lily," he said.

I groaned, wondering why I'd ever thought getting his mother to talk to her sister again was a good idea. Now that the two Black sisters had ganged up, Narcissa had started copying Andromeda's nagging. It was especially noticeable when it came to the children, because Narcissa by herself hadn't had anything to say parenting-wise. Come to think of it, she probably got this needing to spend more time with James thing from her sister; it sounded like something Andromeda had said to me before. Andromeda always reported that James was well behaved and affectionate at her house and I always brushed it off, because he wasn't like that at home; not since he was very little.

"I don't know when I could leave Lily though…our schedule is very tight," Draco continued. He went on, thinking out loud, ruling out before school, because Andromeda would be busy getting Teddy ready, and after school, because that was naptime. Saturdays I took James to football and Draco didn't want to do the same day as me. Sundays were date night, so the mornings were usually full with chores to get ready for the week.

"How about after dinner on weeknights? You feed Lily, then you can drop her off with Andromeda and she can do bath time. I'll watch Scorp," I suggested.

There was more discussion, because Draco didn't want to make it an everyday thing and miss giving our daughter a bath and also because our routine was to make James do his homework after dinner and Draco didn't want their time together to be about homework. He eventually settled on Friday nights, because James wouldn't have homework and he could live with being away from Lily one night a week. With that settled, all that was needed was an activity for the two to do together.

"I'll ask him tomorrow what he wants to do. What do you think my chances are of getting him to go with me to the art museum?" he asked.

I snorted, knowing James hated that type of formal place. "I think you might have more luck with the zoo. He's been wanting to see that new tiger exhibit."

"The muggle zoo?" Draco asked with distaste. I nodded. "Fine, but I'm casting deodorizing charms and I better not hear any complaints about doing magic in a muggle zone."

"I'll talk to John at the Ministry about looking the other way. He's normally on the evening shift," I conceded. Technically, it was slightly illegal, but only if the muggles noticed, which they usually didn't, because Draco was good at keeping it covert. I didn't like to use my influence as the Savior of the Wizarding World to get special perks, but if it meant Draco and James spending time together, then it was worth it.

"You are such a dear," he said smiling widely at me.

Then he kissed me. He was firm and demanding in bed and he could convey his hunger for me with just a press of the lips. I kissed him back, turning his passionate press into a more languid, yet still sensual snog. The kids were still on my mind and he was clearly tired, so we contented ourselves with the snog and the embrace, before falling asleep in each other's arms. Sex would have to wait for one of our regular date nights, when we had time to ourselves.

I'd been skeptical we could make this relationship work at first, but then it had. We'd just fallen into it so naturally once we'd given dating a try. It felt like we were two halves of a whole, the way fitting our lives together had been so fast and easy, despite that he'd gotten pregnant right away. Not that the pregnancy had come as a surprise, because we'd known he was fertile and we had also been going at it like rabbits. It would've been more of a surprise if he hadn't turned up pregnant.

When Draco was six months pregnant with James, I was so sure that we would be together for the rest of our lives, that I'd looked in his eyes and vowed to love him forever. He'd vowed the same and even though we'd said we weren't going to rush into marriage just because he was pregnant, we ended up walking down the aisle together just one month later. Practically overnight, Narcissa had put together the largest wedding I'd ever seen, with nothing but a knowing smirk as explanation; I got the distinct impression she'd been planning the wedding since before we even started dating.

Our marriage was easy. We only struggled when it came to parenting. Raising three kids was hard. Raising three Potter/Malfoy kids was that much harder. But we were in it together, whether it was James needing more attention, Lily and the difficulties of caring for an infant, or Scorp and her desire to be a girl. We would get through it all together and with any luck, we wouldn't mess our children up as much as we had been messed up. That was all we really wanted: well-adjusted children and a happy marriage.

Author's note: The end. I have a couple stories that I've been working on, but I haven't worked out the ending for any of them and I don't know which one I'll figure out first. I don't even have names for any of them. Here's a list:

1. It's sort of AU of the newest Harry Potter book, where Draco and Narcissa end up raising Delphini. Harry and Teddy run into Draco and Delphini soon after the war, leading Harry and Draco to start hanging out. I don't know where this one is going, but I'm thinking something along the lines of Harry fighting the prejudice against Draco and Delphini and ending up falling in love with Draco.

2. AU starting from 4th year, where Draco is a hermaphrodite and gets his period. Harry finds out and helps hide it. Then Harry asked Draco to the Yule Ball and they start dating. Draco gets pregnant right after Voldemort comes back, so Lucius takes his family into hiding, keeping Draco and the baby away from Harry. Draco thinks Harry has abandoned them. After the war, when the Malfoys come out of hiding, Harry sets out to get Draco and their child back.

3. AU from sixth year. Instead of becoming a Death Eater, Draco is suffering from some medical issues (eventually I think I will reveal that it's all self-inflicted, but I haven't gotten that far yet) and predicts his death at Harry's hands. Harry becomes convinced that Draco's psychic abilities are real and goes along with a ritual Draco thinks will stop Harry from killing Draco. Once the ritual is completed, Draco goes into hiding and Snape is left to inform Harry that it was a marriage ritual he performed with Draco. I figure Draco will be the one waiting for Harry after the war ends, but I don't quite know where I'm going with this one either.

If you are interested in one of them, please let me know which one, what you would call it, and where you would take it.

Thank you for reading!