The Rise of the Drackens: The Scaled Bits

23rd December 2020

Nasta – 60 Years

Max – 54 Years

Blaise – 41 Years

Draco – 40 Years

Harry – 40 Years

Braiden – 23 Years

Quints – 22 Years

Eva and Ave – 21 Years

Taren – 20 Years

Lai – 20 Years

Xabiere – 18 Years

Mace and Evie – 18 Years

Mollie – 17 Years

Ceri, Jason, Ethan, and Saeth – 16 Years

Seren and Senan – 14 Years

Lian – 13 Years

Phoebe, Neave, and Lucine – 12 Years

Loren – 11 Years

Cyneric and Kallan – 10 Years

Gage – 8 Years

Rosalia, Nia, and Vanora – 7 Years

Sextuplets – 6 Years

Lyran – 2 Years

Caronwen – 19 Months

Nicholas – 5 Years

Festive Film Fest

Harry settled himself down on the settee with several kids around him and taking up the space on his lap.

The kids were getting more and more excited now that it was just two ‘sleeps’ until Christmas day. He and his mates still had a lot of wrapping to do, but they had been strong-armed into having a movie night with the kids instead.

“Daddy Max, you’re sure that Frozen and Frozen two were in the box?” Rosalia asked yet again.

“Yes, sweetheart, all of the films that you kids picked out were in the box.” Max lied.

Harry tried to hide his grin as he reached forward to pick up his cup of tea, taking a deep drink. There was no way that Max had put Frozen, or its dreaded sequel, into that box.

When the film was put on, Harry didn’t pay much attention to it. It was a children’s film, and he was distracted by his babies all around him. He preferred to watch them, and their enjoyment.

Leolin and Calix were home for Christmas, and they were sat with their own laps full of babies. Leolin had Nicholas on his lap and Cyneric and Kallan to either side of him, and Calix was swarmed by the older triplets.

Harry himself was swarmed by the excited, wound up sextuplets. They liked being together, and that meant that Harry had as many of them pressed against him as possible. It was not comfortable by any stretch, but he loved it anyway.

Nasta had gotten off lightly, as he held their little Caronwen on his lap. She would inevitably get distracted by something halfway through the film, and that would give Nasta the perfect excuse to escape to the smaller living room to play with her, and escape movie night.

It wasn’t so bad really. The film was good, and it kept the kids captivated, they had treats like bowls of popcorn, and the teapot on the table was still warm, so Harry could keep his cup continuously filled. He had a bar of fudge chocolate, his favourite, and despite that he had to share it with the sextuplets, who all wanted a bite, he still got to eat half a bar by himself.

They still had a lot to do, it was Christmas Eve tomorrow, and that was going to be their busiest day before the actual big day. Max would spend most of it in the kitchen, he would have to spend most of it wrapping the last of the presents, the kids would be so excited there would be tears, tantrums, and a bigger need for distractions throughout the day, and it was going to be a long day too. They wouldn’t be getting to bed much before two in the morning, only to be woken up at five in the morning by the overexcited kids. Some years it was as early as four in the morning.

Christmas Day was going to be very long too, and they would be exhausted by the end of it. Harry wasn’t looking forward to that, but with several of their older children at home for Christmas, they could have a little bit of a lie in on Boxing Day.

Harry was planning on getting an early night anyway. If he could sleep earlier, he could get up earlier, and then they might not have to ask their older children to be impromptu babysitters.

Things would work out though, they’d had Christmases with twice as many kids as they had now. Now that had been chaos! But on the other hand they were now also older than they’d been back then, it was more difficult for them to run around after so many children, but they still did.

Harry grinned as he looked out at his mates, all with laps full of kids. Draco surrounded by their younger triplets, Blaise with Gage and Lyran in his lap, and Max with Loren snuggled on his lap, with Lian on one side of him and Draco’s twins, Seren and Senan, to the other side.

Harry wrapped his arms around all of the sextuplets and pulled them in closer, jostling Emerus and Ellette on his lap, but wanting the other four closer to him, Eiren and Eurei on his left, and Eris and Errai on his right.

He inhaled and smiled. Fuck his massive wrapping pile, and the to-do list as long as his arm, he wouldn’t want to be anywhere else at the moment.

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A/N: Day nine, and all the guys have been roped in to movie night (actually afternoon), and of course Max did not include Frozen, or its sequel, he sneakily took them out of the box while the kids were distracted making popcorn.

StarLight Massacre. X