SIMple Reflections of Life

Harry woke early to find his bed empty and sighed, irritated. This potions work that Draco was so blasted focused on for the past month was about to drive him to distraction. He was never in bed when Harry went to sleep, and usually was gone before he woke; his nose in books and tomes or closeted away in his private potions lab. Harry really had no idea what he was working on; Draco refused to discuss it and Severus only gave him smug looks and walked away when he had the nerve to ask.



He slipped out of bed and had a solitary breakfast, moving back to their private library to sit by the window and turn on his computer once more. Maybe he would see Draco sometime today… but until then, he may as well work on his families… his twins would be grown soon; they were already having aspirations of college. He needed to design where they would go a bit more; he intended to recreate a bit of Hogwarts to send them to as a college.



"What\'s going on now?" Draco asked, moving in to the library where he knew Harry had been playing since he got up this morning.



"These teenagers are rotten!" Harry grinned, watching the screen.



"What are they doing?" he moved over to stand behind Harry again to watch.



"It\'s bound to happen again. I bet you they do…" he grinned, relaxing to watch. The house seemed quiet, everyone asleep. Then the twins popped out of their beds, changing into their day clothes as they tiptoed out of the house.



"Where the bloody hell do they think they\'re going?" Draco scowled



"Out to party, probably; look here\'s their friends to pick them up." Harry said as a rather fancy car pulled up quietly in front of the house. The kids ran and jumped into the vehicle.



"Stop the little sneaks!" Draco demanded as the car sped away.



"By the time we get up they\'ll be long gone."



"They\'ve done this before?!"



"Two, maybe three times. They\'re sneaking out with Ron and Hermione\'s kids."



"They\'re grounded for a month! Ground them, Harry!"



"I can\'t ground them!" he laughed.



"You\'d better or I won\'t speak to you for a week!" Draco threatened. "No child of mine is going to be sneaking out at all hours of the night!"



"Why not? You did it." Harry reminded.



"I did not! I… oh. Yeah. I guess I did… but I was sixteen!"



"They\'re teenagers too, Dray." Harry chuckled softly.



"Well that doesn\'t mean we have to condone it, does it?" Draco frowned,

watching the screen as the time sped by at double speed. One of the twins snuck across the yard and slipped into the house. "One of the little cretins made it back before dawn." Draco drawled.



"He always beats the others back. She seems to come back the same way each time." Harry observed.



"How\'s that?" he asked. A car pulled up outside the building, red and blue lights flashing. "That\'s a muggle police vehicle, isn\'t it?" he asked, wide-eyed.



"Yes… oh Merlin! They\'ve brought back our daughter Lillian again." Harry

laughed.



"AGAIN…?!" Draco watched as SimDraco came out of the house and talked first to the police, then began to yell at the teenage girl Sim, who was standing and sulking, her arms folded.



"She seems to get caught, every time…" Harry mused with a grin.



"She can\'t even sneak out properly? She can\'t be a Slytherin, then, and she can\'t be my daughter!" Draco said.



"You saw your Sim give birth to her!"



"Then she\'s a changeling! Do the Sidhe steal babies in your game?"



"No, there aren\'t Sidhe in this game." Harry chuckled.



"They must have! Look; she has red hair!"



"It\'s not red, Dray. Her hair is black like mine but tinted with red on the tips. It\'s a style a lot of muggle teens like…"



"Well she needs to wash it out! Wonky hair makes her look like she\'s trying to be a Weasley…"



"She IS dating the oldest of the Weasley children." He smirked.



"I won\'t allow it!" Draco objected.



"She\'s not asking, and your Sim likes their boy quite a bit. I think they shared their first kiss already…"



"Hmph. Weasleys as in-laws. Merlin. Please don\'t tell me that this means that we have to have those insane twins over for family dinners...?"



Harry laughed. "No, Dray. This is just a game, but I might have the twins over for dinner anyway." he teased, watching as the girl ran off leaving her father talking with the police officer. She strolled up to her twin in the living room and immediately began talking animatedly. By the images appearing above her head, she was bragging not only about sneaking out, but was bragging about being brought caught and brought home by the police.



"Merlin\'s balls… she\'s bragging!" Draco murmured, more irritated now than ever.



"She gets caught every bloody time she goes out. I think she enjoys getting a ride home from the police…" Harry chuckled.