Home For the Holidays (H/D, PG)

[sesheta66]

Christmas Gift Drabble #8:

Author: sesheta_66
Giftee: winter_june
Prompt(s): Long relationship, memories

Title: Home For the Holidays
Rating: PG
Word Count: 158
Pairings/Characters: Harry/Draco
Other prompts: 100_prompts: 021 - Memory; slythindor100: 27 - traditions; GJ we_ship_hd_here prompt: home for the holidays.
Disclaimer: The author is not responsible for underage readers. Please observe the ratings, warnings, and age of legal consent for your country. The characters contained herein are not mine. They belong to JK Rowling and her publishers. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

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Harry waited in their house for Draco to return from King's Cross with their children for the Christmas holidays. It was their tradition that Harry would stay back while Draco took them shopping for Harry's gift.

Harry would always prepare some hot apple cider for their arrival. The children loved to arrive to the smell of Christmas, they had told Harry. It was cinnamon and cloves, he had pointed out to them countless times, but they insisted it was the smell of coming home for the holidays.

Harry always took them shopping the next day for Draco's gift. Harry chuckled as he wondered what Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes product would befall Draco this year. Each of the men cherished those few moments alone with their children, to talk about anything and everything and nothing, before the craziness of Christmas took hold.

Harry smiled as he prepared the cider, lost in memories and looking forward to making some new ones.

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Comments

[svgurl.livejournal.com]

That melted my heart. I love Harry & Draco with a family. I really like them each going shopping with the kids alone to get one another's present. Too cute for words!

My sister and I used to do that with our parents when we were younger so it's gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling. :)

Thanks so much for writing and sharing! :)

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[lijahlover.livejournal.com]

This was so sweet. I loved it.Thanks!

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Awww ... I'm so glad I could trigger some childhood memories for you with this. I thought it would be a nice tradition for them to have.

I totally imagine them being awesome dads, to ensure their own kids don't have to go through childhoods (or the lack of them) like they did.

Thanks ♥

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it. I do like writing about them with children of their own.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

That's adorable, and it reminds me of how my grandma used to save her change all year, then give it to us kids to buy Mom and Dad a Christmas gift. Of course, she would be the one to take us shopping for the gift.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Awww ... that's such a sweet memory. I'm glad I could trigger it for you.

[thrnbrooke.livejournal.com]

Oh how wonderful!

[winter-june.livejournal.com]

Oh, love, THANKSTHANKSTHANKS!!!
It's lovely, and tender and perfect! Like a lifetime story made of moments. Love their simple and 'just-for-family' traditions, because they are the ones you will remember forever, and the quiet sense of day by day happiness that transpires.

And, curiously, there's a 'smell of Christmas' for me too. Orange blossom water. Arriving my parents flat and smelling it (means dad making sweets) always makes my heart swell.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It was a rather sweet one. ♥

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You liked it!

I am really pleased that you not only liked it, but that there's a 'smell of Christmas' for you too! *grins*

Merry Christmas, sweetie!

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

[prettyhairs.livejournal.com]

That brightened my day of boring study! Thank you=)

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Glad I could give you a break. :)

[kaykayen.livejournal.com]

Oh this is lovely. There's so much history behind so few words.

[gurliemoviegeek.livejournal.com]

Oh, this makes me so very happy for both of our boys!

They're both getting the warm families they never had. So much joy and love!

*happy sigh*

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon. Glad you enjoyed.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Yay for the boys!

[lackofmendacity.livejournal.com]

*hums more Christmas carols*

Poor Draco though, he seems unable to escape the terrors of the Weasleys. :/

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's just 'cause the kids can get a rise out of Draco, which is much more fun that Harry's amused reaction when they pull one on him. More bang for their buck, so to speak.

[sassy-cissa.livejournal.com]

I just love when they spend time with their children.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Me too! (Psst ... there's at least one more with their children coming up). ;)