Year: only the flashback was at the battle of Hogwarts but the actual time was three years
after the war
House: any
This was requested by @simp4ddraco :) give her a follow and I also recommend checking out her Draco books! it's really nice :D
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~flashback~
"Draco," Lucius called through the broken courtyard.
Draco didn't move, looking down as his hand clasped tightly to his girlfriend's.
"Draco." his father said again.
He didn't move still.
But then Narcissa's voice echoed through the battle field.
"Draco, come."
Lilly looked at her boyfriend. His eyebrows were furrowed slightly, thinking of his decision.
His mother's soft voice rang through again. "Draco."
She felt his hand loosen slightly from both their grips.
"You can't be serious, Draco..." Lilly looked at him horrified.
"I have to, I'm sorry," he let go of her hand.
"I'm sorry..." he murmured one last time as he crossed the space toward the enemies.
Lilly's eyes welled up with tears but she quickly wiped them away. As she put down her hands she saw Draco being embraced awkwardly by Voldemort.
Little did Draco know, he left her. Along with his child...
~end~
-3 years later-
Since Draco and his family fled the scene that event, Lilly hasn't seen the Malfoys at all.
She was pregnant when her boyfriend left, and now had a three year-old son in her hands.
Lilly sighed as she remembered those memories, her string of thoughts broken by an excited voice.
"Mummy!"
She turned and her son came running energetically into the room with his little legs.
"Hey, my darling!" she smiled and scooped him up into her lap. "Are you ready to go?"
"Yeah! Diagon Alley!" he hopped off his mother and continued to cheer all the way to the fireplace, where a pot of Floo Powder was located.
Lilly followed, picked up her son and stepped into the unlit fireplace. She took a handful of the ash-like powder. "You wanna say it?" she asked her child.
"Yeah!"
"Okay, but remember to speak really clearly."
He nodded happily. "Diagon Alley!" he shouted as Lilly let go of the Floo Powder, creating a fiery green flame engulf the two and bring them to Diagon Alley.
They soon spun out of a fireplace in Flourish and Blotts. Lilly placed her son on the ground.
"Where do you want to go first?" she asked him as they went out to the cobbled road of Diagon Alley.
"Ooh! There!" he took her hand and pulled his mother across the road to a colorful store, the Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes.
The three year-old's eyes widened in awe as he looked at all the fun prank toys and candies.
"Wow!" he exclaimed. He let go of Lilly's hand and ran into the shop.
"Oh no wait!" Lilly cried, racing after him. Yet her son was three years old, and he would be hard to find within a very crowded shop full of onlookers and buyers. He immediately vanished in the sea of people, making it almost impossible for his mother to find him.
Her son excitedly looked around the store, seeing so many things that he would want to play with.
He passed a group of giggling girls who were huddled around a shelf of pink bottles.
He looked up and saw a puppet riding a unicycle on a tightrope, balancing two buckets of milk. He stared at it in amazement that he didn't check where he was going, suddenly bumping into someone.
"Oof!" he looked up and saw a man who sort of looked like him, with the blonde hair, pale skin, and silver eyes. No, not sort of. This man did look like him.
"Oh-- sorry, little guy," said the man.
"Sweetheart-- there you are!" Lilly finally found her child. "Don't run away from me like that!"
"Lilly..." the blonde man's mouth opened slightly.
"What?" Lilly looked up from her son. "I- Draco...?"
"Mummy, who is he?"
"Mummy?! "
"Let's all sit down, shall we?" Lilly beckoned them out of Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes and brought them to Florean Fortescue's ice cream parlor.
"Yay ice cream!" her son cheered after Lilly all ordered them a cone. He licked it happily while his parents talked.
"So uh, Draco, hi," Lilly cleared her throat. "How've you been?"
"Okay, I guess... my parents and I haven't been going out of the Manor lately, because, you know... how about you? You have a son now." he masked the sadness in his voice, thinking Lilly had married someone else after he had left her.
"Yes uhm..." Lilly thought if she should tell him. "I didn't tell you, but... I-I was pregnant. In the war. Before-- before you left."
"Wait, so he's...?"
"Yeah," Lilly breathed, "he's your child too."
"Well that explains why he looks very like me when I was young."
Lilly smiled.
"I'm sorry," Draco said softly as their little son finished his ice cream cone and stood to crouch beside a stray cat. "I'm sorry for leaving you, Lilly. And also for not writing."
"Well... we can't change anything now, can we?"
They looked at each other, and Lilly felt the butterflies in her stomach she always felt when she was around Draco. Clearing her throat again, she broke eye contact.
"Yeah... well, while we're here I should introduce you to your own son for Godric's sake."
Draco chuckled as Lilly called her son over.
"Honey," she said to him, "you've asked a lot of questions about who your father is, right?"
The small boy nodded curiously.
"Well," Lilly inhaled a breath, "Draco here is your dad."
Her son looked up at the man he got his own looks from. "Really?"
"Yes, dear..." she anticipated on what her son's reaction would be.
But him still being the age of three, he grinned brightly. "Cool! Dads are awesome! I love him already!" he jumped up and down ecstatically, making Draco smile too.
Lilly checked the time on her watch. "Oh, Merlin, we're really sorry, Draco, but we need to go. I've still got to clean the house, it's a mess!"
"Aww..." her son said sadly.
"It's okay, we can meet again soon," said Lilly and her son's lips curved up again. "If that's fine with you, Draco?"
"It was amazing seeing you again," said Draco. "We can meet up again soon."
"Brilliant," Lilly grinned as she took her son's small hand. "just owl us whenever you can."
And the two left, smiles still on both of their faces.