thattimeofthemonth | Open RP Post

"We're only human, all of us. We judge and make our choices, it's part of the human experience." She sighed quietly, putting her chin against the top of Teddy's head. "But... right now, you have your own choices to make and you'll be held by them."

She sighed again, her eyes closing. From the circles under her eyes, she hadn't slept. "Remus will sleep probably for twelve hours or more, then he'll eat his weight in meat. Same thing every month. ...Sick of the Ministry saying he did such an effort in the war but they won't supply him the potion to stop this? It's ridiculous."

"Do you think if the werewolves had some place to stay it would be help? I don't think the ones that follow Greyback would take it but maybe others would?" Draco hesitantly questioned. He was unsure how Tonks would react considering how the Ministry wasn't helping Remus. He had an idea, but it would take some convincing. And he didn't want to voice it if it wouldn't help.

"That's a big question," she admitted, slowly stroking Teddy's fine hair that was currently brown since he had been upset. "You might need to ask Remus more about it. From what I know is that he's... unique. He might be the lone werewolf bitten as a child raised as a wizard. Almost all children die if they're attacked... in fact he might be the only one. But some are wizards that were bit. The problem is they end up registered and life for a registered werewolf is awful. Their wands get taken away - can you believe it? Then they have... virtually nothing. They end up with Greyback because they have little choice. Would someplace to go help? Maybe if it was no where, they could somehow keep the wolves from ranging too far. Maybe."

He gave a nod. "I will discuss more with him later. I just know my family is in debt with him and that this could possibly help repay it and give back to the community as well." For now he would use the time to put the idea together some more.

"Do you need me to help with Teddy today?" He questioned. He fugured if anything it would let her rest a bit, should she accept. He had no plans today. This morning had been exhausting for everyone.

Tonks looked to Draco with confusion in her expression, wondering what the young man was planning. His offer turned her expression into that of surprise, looking down at her son. It truly did mean trusting him, given that she was absolutely exhausted.

"I... could use the help, if you could manage him for an hour while I got some sleep." And check on her unconscious husband. Remus didn't even properly sleep after all of that. To her, it was just unconsciousness. He didn't even more.

What ever ideas were running through his head he kept an impassive face on them. He just knew he was going to have to talk with several people in order to even get the idea started and he didn't want to make any promises before hand.

"Sure, this will give me a chance to get to know Teddy some more," Draco replied. He only handled the baby a few times and had been lucky they went well. He wasn't sure how today's adventure would go, but if it would give Tonks some relief he believed he could handle it.

"What are the main things I need to worry about?"

Tonks' lips thinned, uncertain of what to say at first as she looked down at her son. "Right now, he just needs comfort. I know Remus hasn't noticed because he's always unconscious for it or a wolf, but I swear that Teddy is affected by it all. Not that he turns wolfish or anything, but he reacts keenly to his father's changes."

There was a pause, then she shook her head. "I'm woolgathering, I'm sorry."

"Don't apologize," Draco replied. Why should she? It wasn't something worth apologizing over. He didn't have much experience with babies, but he could understood what Tonks was trying to say and he knew how strong a mother's intuition could be. "I asked and you were explaining."

"He should be relatively fine for an hour. If he fusses, check his diaper. If that's clean, he'll probably be hungry so you'll need to heat up a bottle. ...Blimey you don't know how to use the microwave." She was looking anxious about this now. "You can run hot water, right?"

[ perhaps its time to meet his aunt he never met?]

He gave a confused look at the mention of the microwave. He was sure that probably didn't help ease her concern. He felt bad because he did want to help and it was clear he may not help. "I can run the hot water....I at least can make tea."

[Oh heck you mean Andromeda dropping by!? Love it!]

"Right. Sorry. I-" That had been rude. Sigh. "If he gets fussy, get a bottle from the fridge and put a nipple on it. Run hot water until it's not quite scalding and then put the bottle under the water. Test the bottle every thirty seconds or so on your wrist. It should be warm but not hot."

[ yeah draco means well but this would end in disaster. Although his aunt could teach him. ]

"No offense taken," Draco replied. "Maybe, I should write this down..." He looked unsure with the whole thing, but it was clear he did want to help.

[omg my tag didn't go through >.

"Hot water, stick bottle under it, test to make sure it won't burn him." Tonks gave Draco an exhausted look, but there was a mother dragon's protective gaze above the dark circles. "If you can't manage it, come wake me up. Don't worry about Remus; it won't wake him."

(wondered what happened!)

He gave a hesitant nod. He knew that look too well. His mother had that same look often when she felt her son was threatened.

"'ll test it before I give it to him. Anything else I need to know?" He didn't have much interaction with Teddy and was only shown how to feed him. He didn't know how to do anything else and really needed to learn how to do so.

"It's only an hour. Just... keep him happy for a little while and handle if he gets hungry or soiled." She stroked Teddy's hair gently before she stood, walking over to hand Draco her son, though there was some worry in her eyes. "You can wake me up for anything."

"Alright," Draco replied and took Teddy into his arms. He gave a small smile to Teddy, happy to have his cousin with him. He did his best to hide his own nervousness so that way Teddy didn't pick up on it. He only hoped nothing majorly went wrong in the hour.

Teddy peered up with those big eyes - currently a very normal color of brown - but as he looked up at Draco, they started to shift to grey. Tonks swallowed, then gave a small nod before she started to leave. In the doorway, she paused again, clearly still nervous about this, but after that hesitation she left Draco alone with her son. A huge sign of trust that Draco would probably only get one chance at.

Which left him alone with an infant who was watching him oh so curiously.

"Looks like, it's just you and me right now," Draco said. "I wonder what kind of trouble we can cause?" He gave a smile and raised an eyebrow. He noted quickly how fast Teddy's eyes were changing to his own.

He decided to walk around the living room and kitchen, holding Teddy. The walking helped ease his own nervousness about taking Teddy for the hour. He honestly hoped it would go smoothly, but he wasn't banking on it either.

Teddy gave a burble of a happy sound, as if agreeing with Draco that they could get into trouble. He was big enough he didn't need to have his head supported any more, and more so to get into trouble, he could crawl. Eyes the same color as Draco's looked up at him from a smiling face. He peered around, then reached with both hands towards his toys he could see in the living room.

"Let's go for the toys." Draco gave a smile when he spotted the toys. He carried Teddy into the living room and carefully placed him on the floor near the toys. He then brought the toys over to him. He never got to see Teddy on his own. He was either being carried or in the crib. He wondered how much of a handful this was going to be. He placed a few of them out to see if Teddy wanted either of them.

They were still simple toys, but things that crinkled and had little floating lights and played sounds. Wizarding toys, the lot of them, which was almost ironic given the state of the Muggle items in the house. Teddy almost immediately put one up to his mouth, chewing on the edge of it like babies do, fixated on the lights that sparkled above his eyes. Really, how bad could this be?

Answer would be about ten minutes later, when suddenly the happy look stopped and he gave a confused sound, then started to squirm a bit, sounding cranky.

Here, Draco thought they were going to be Muggle toys considering how much of the house resembled a Muggle's place. He was secretly relieved to see this.

Just when he thought things were going well, Draco glanced at Teddy trying to decipher what was wrong. Was he hungry or did he need his diaper changed? He decided to reach over and pick up Teddy just to check. If not he was going to go and make a bottle just in case. He was rather nervous about dealing with either issues, but knew he wasn't going to avoid those.

Oh Draco would know pretty much as soon as he picked Teddy up - a diaper change was certainly in order, and soon if Teddy's sniffling was anything to indicate. He grasped onto Draco's clothing and hiccuped, pretty obviously going to start crying.

"It'll be okay," Draco soothed. "We'll get rid of the stinky diaper..." He couldn't help but make a face at the smell.

He gave a wary sigh and found the diapers and wipes...well this was going to be certainly interesting. With some difficulty he took the clothes off of Teddy and studied the diaper briefly to see how it was put on before he began the process of changing the soiled one. He only hoped that Teddy would behave for him and now try to squirm or crawl away on him.

It seemed Teddy was relatively well behaved. He looked around and crooned since it seemed like Draco would make everything better. It was messy and probably took more wipes than necessary to handle but some quick wand work and deduction would make it less messy than Muggles had to deal with. Hopefully Draco would have some indication to use the baby powder though!

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