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11/25/2019 05:01 PM
coloring will be fun - drabble to dead clumsy.
❝Coloring will be fun with me.❞
(AU where Tonks and Draco aren't separated by family and get to actually spend time together. Sixteen year old Tonks is left to babysit a nine year old bratty Draco Malfoy.)
Why did his parents have to go out tonight to some holiday party? And why couldn't he go with them? It wasn't fair. He didn't want to stay behind being baby sat. By Nymphadora, no less. She was always tormenting him in some way (although... maybe she was kind of fun... sometimes.) Why couldn't he just be left alone, really? He was nine. He didn't need anyone to babysit him. He was no baby. He could take very good care of himself. Nonetheless, that was clearly not an option, and eventually, his parents were walking out the door and that familiar head of bubblegum pink hair came walking in through the door. She waved his parents goodbye and turned to flash him a kind smile. Draco (who was currently standing on the staircase) glared at her and greeted her with a sneer. Tonks was used to this bratty behavior by now, and simply gave her eyes a small and playful roll, followed by a shake of her head. Baby sitting him was always a challenge, but Tonks always managed to find a way to entertain him, even when he was being too stubborn to let her do so. It wasn't easy, but she was Nymphadora Tonks, and she enjoyed the challenge.
"Nice seeing you too, baby cousin!" She said, as if completely ignoring his attitude. She approached him and ruffled his platinum blonde hair, which wasn't slicked back as it usually was whenever he'd be seen in public; on the contrary, it was allowed to be free and fall as it naturally did a little above his ears and some against his forehead. Draco sneered at her and slapped her hand away, running his fingers through his hair and pushing it back, only to have some of it fall forward again, to his frustration.
"I am not a baby." He snapped, "And I've told you not to do that!" He continued, pertaining to the fact that she had just ruffled his hair, despite him always complaining about it whenever she did so.
Again, Tonks simply rolled her eyes, a smirk playing upon her face. "You're adorable."
Draco blushed lightly, but his attitude never faltered. He was a stubborn little brat.
"Now, if you're done complaining... I've got something for you!" Tonks smiled, "C'mon!" She said, walking away from him and disappearing into the living room. Draco watched as she walked off. His brow raised in curiosity. She had something for him? What was it? Was she playing a trick on him because he was mean to her? He stood there on the stairs for a little while, before Tonks' head poked out from the living room. "Well, are you coming or not?" She asked, a huge grin upon her face. Again, she disappeared from his view.
Draco followed this time.
When he entered the living room, she was digging into her back pack and pulling out two books, followed by two small boxes of something that he couldn't really see from where he stood.
Tonks waved him over and Draco listened.
"Do you like coloring books?" She asked, once he was standing beside her. Draco looked down at the floor. Now he could see what she was up to. Two boxes of crayons and two coloring books were waiting for them upon the floor. Draco didn't answer her immediately, instead, he stared down at the books, before turning to her and raising a brow. "Is this it? Is this what you've gotten me?"
"Yes... now try to not be too excited, Draco." Tonks responded with sarcasm in her tone, before grabbing his hand and pulling him down to sit on the floor beside her.
Draco didn't hesitate or fight back, instead he followed and sat upon the floor, turning to look at the coloring books again. He had one of those once, he was sure he colored in it once in a while, but then he got better toys and much more interesting things to play with; he was almost sure that the coloring book probably ended up somewhere in the back of his closet - as everything else that he had abandoned and replaced with better things.
"I had one before. It got boring." He answered his cousin's previous question.
"Well! Coloring will be fun with me!" Tonks responded with a smile. She nudged him playfully and turned to lay on her tummy. "C'mon, let's start! Tell ya what, if you color better than me, I'll give you a chocolate frog."
"How about you no longer call me a baby and ruffle my hair?" Draco said.
Tonks rose her brows and smirked, nodding her head firmly. "Deal, baby cousin." She reached over to ruffle his hair once again and Draco shot her a glare. "Hey, I can still do it until you beat me." She said; a sly grin upon her face.
Draco gave her a side glance before he turned to lay on his stomach as well, reaching for his coloring book and flipping through the pages to find a picture that he'd want to colour. Tonks watched him for a second and smiled, before she reached for her book to do the same.
It seemed as if oddly enough, they had both settled on a picture having to do with elephants. They weren't the same, however; Tonks had three elephants in hers, they were playing in water, spraying it out of their trunks at each other. His only had one elephant, and it was balancing on a big striped ball and holding a balloon with its trunk. He wondered if she had copied him or it was by pure coincidence that they had both decided to choose elephants. Maybe the two were more alike than he thought.
Of course, Tonks hadn't copied him at all. It was, in fact, pure coincidence that that picture of the elephants in the water had called to her. She figured that maybe Draco was thinking she had done it on purpose, but she chuckled at the thought and didn't bother to tell him otherwise. Draco glanced over at her for a moment, perking a brow at her chuckling, before turning to look at his box of crayons and picking the first color he'd be using on his elephant.
Grey; elephants were always grey.
Tonks, on the other hand, believed otherwise, and the first color she had chosen from her box of crayons was purple. She brought it down upon the paper and began to give the elephant to the left purple colored spots. Draco stopped coloring his elephant and stared down at her drawing. She seemed too concentrated in what she was doing, to even notice that he had been watching. Tonks put down her purple crayon and grabbed a bright green one next, coloring the purple-spotted elephant green.
She was doing a horrible job at it too; coming out of all of the lines.
Draco furrowed his brows. "You're not even trying to win."
"What are you talking about?" Tonks ceased coloring and turned to look at him. "You don't think my elephant looks better than yours?" She smiled down at the picture, proudly.
"No. You're not even coloring inside of the lines! And last time I checked, elephants aren't green and purple-spotted." He responded, matter-of-factly.
"Are you sure?" She asked with a perked brow.
And then a purple-spotted green trunk appeared where her nose used to be upon her face. "Really? 'Cause this says otherwise." Tonks pointed at her new nose. She made an elephant sound in attempts to make her little cousin laugh, but he sat there, straight faced and staring at her as if she were dumb.
"Because you've made it that way. It doesn't count." He responded.
Tonks rolled her eyes, "Jeez, you're no fun. You're a kid, you should really learn to laugh at nonsense sometime." She responded, her nose going back to normal. She was going to make her baby cousin laugh by the end of this. Or at least giggle. She was determined. Tonks knew that he was raised differently than how she was raised, but there was no need for a nine year old to be as serious as he was.
"I can be fun. I'm just pointing out that you've clearly lost the deal. Mine is so much better." Draco answered with a c*cky smirk upon his face.
Tonks rose a brow. "Hmm. Is that so? Well, you haven't even finished coloring it, so that barely counts yet." She mocked his little c*cky drawl with a teasing smirk upon her face.
Draco looked at her in annoyance and sneered. "Fine then. Let's finish. Even though I'm pretty sure I'm still going to win."
Tonks didn't answer him then, and just watched him go back to coloring his elephant. "Not likely..." She mumbled under her breath and smiled mischievously to herself, uttering a few words and pointing her wand at him. If he was going to be mean about her coloring skills, then she might as well mess up his. It was only fair, right? Of course it was! At least, she thought so.
"Ah! I went outside of the lines!" Draco complained - every time he put the grey crayon down onto the paper, his hand went wild and gave him the coloring skills of a three year old. He couldn't go back to drawing neatly no matter how hard he tried. "What did you do to me?!" He yelled at Tonks and she simply giggled, then shrugged her shoulders. "I've no idea what you're talking about, baby cousin." She played innocent, but Draco wasn't stupid. "You're cheating! That's not fair!"
With that said, he was reaching over for a red crayon and taking it to Tonks' coloring book. If she was going to ruin his picture and cheat, then he was going to mess hers up too.
Tonks gasped. "Draco! My picture! You little prat!" She yelled back, grabbing a dark blue crayon and further ruining his picture.
Next thing they knew, the two were grabbing at random crayons and attacking each others coloring books. Tonks attempted to keep hers away from him and Draco attempted to rip his away from hers several times, but neither of them did a very good job at saving the coloring books from the crayon assault.
Soon magic was involved and the two coloring books took flight, along with the crayons that continued to assault them; until there was coloring book pages flying all over the place and crayons broken in two laying all over the floor.
Tonks laughed...
And so did Draco.
He hadn't even noticed that he had began to do so. He was having fun.
They were having fun.
"Fine! Fine. You win then!" Tonks exclaimed after battling him for so long. She waved her wand, causing the crayons and the coloring books to come falling to the floor. She was winded, and so was Draco. Their faces flushed red from laughing so hard.
She smiled at Draco, who flashed her a smug grin.
"Only because your parents would kill us if they came back to a mess." It was true, but Tonks was mostly lying. She didn't really care about any sort of deal or anything of the sort. She felt accomplished enough that she managed to make Draco laugh and have fun; like the kid that he was.
"So, I guess I can no longer call you baby cousin and ruffle your hair." Tonks pouted a bit.
Draco thought about it for a few seconds, frowning. He thought about what he was about to say first, and made sure that he actually meant what was about to come out of his mouth. He sighed, once he had made up his mind. "I guess.... you can still call me baby cousin... but you are not allowed to touch my hair."
Tonks smiled wide. "Really?! Okay, okay. I promise. I wont touch the hair. Cross my heart." She wrapped an arm around his shoulder and pulled him close to her side, placing her free hand against her hip. She smiled down at him and he looked up at her with furrowed brows. He was no longer laughing now, and that familiar sneer of his was painted upon his face again. "Still adorable." Tonks chuckled. Draco scrunched his nose up at her.
"Told ya coloring would be fun with me." She said, waving her wand and picking up the mess that they had created.