Thanks1 The next chapter will let you learn more about Sarai and who she is besides just Severus' teacher. 

I liked the mud fight too as it gave Sev a chance to let his hair down and just play with his boys. I think he needs that every now and again.

Harry wouldn't be Severus' son if he didn't dare to do that.

Happy reading!

It does, but remember, they've only been under punishment for around 2 weeks, and they did bring it upon themselves.  Severus is being somewhat lenient by allowing the boys to use their IOU's to mitigate their sentence.  Yes, they are learning how to get along, but then that is the whole purpose of this punishment. They are also learning useful life lessons, like consequences for actions, how to appreciate how easy magic makes things, like laundry ( I wish I had magic to clean my house after a hard day at work!), and how to use different ingredients in potions and brew more advanced drafs than on their syllabus at school, plus how to cook.  Trust me, Draco and Harry know exactly why they're being punished, Sev reminds them every day. As for letting them off, Sev can't do that, he has to be consistent.  Although there may come a time when he considers it due to someone's influence. I won't mention any more about it now, you'll see what I mean later.

Yeah, it's good not to have to wait, I agree.

My brother has studied several types of martial arts for years, including Jeet Kun Do, ninjitsu, and kung fu, as well as being a Golden Glove boxer.  He taught me several kinds of defense moves so that I could fight off an attacker if God forbid I ever had to, and one of the things he always stressed to me and his two sons was that martial arts was not something you should ever use to play around with or to harm unless it was a situation where someone was going to harm you.  He said that as a student of martial arts you had to respect the fact that this was a discipline that was dangerous and not to be taken lightly, that your hands and feet were like weapons and you should never draw a sword or knife unless you meant to use it. 

My mother was a great believer in a few smacks with a wooden spoon when we didn't listen for the third or fourth time and were beating the crap out of each other or had backtalked her one time too many.  I was the youngest and so rarely ever got smacked because I had learned from watching my older brother and sisters how far to push her.  But I do recall one time when my brother and older sister were teenagers, probably around Harry and Draco's age, and going at it like cats and dogs, screaming, punching and scratching. My brother nearly pushed my sister through a screen door, and neither of them stopped when mom told them to, so she whacked them with the spoon and THAT made them stop.  From shock, I think. It was quite embarrassing, as both were in high school at the time!

As for them sharing a room, that idea was given to me by a friend of mine whose mother did that with her and her younger sister, who was adopted. They were always fighting over which one was loved better by their parents, and it got so bad that her mother decided the only way to resolve the situation was to make them share a room and learn to get along that way.  It worked, and now they get along great. I figured that would work well for Harry and Draco too. Sometimes all it takes is time to sit down and listen to someone's side of the story to realize how much you have in common.

You'll learn more about the Fae world as this story goes on, and I go into more detail with the sequel to this one.  A lot of the fae world I've based off of my research into Celtic and Arthurian legends as well as some fairy tales.  My minor in college was mythology so I use a lot of that here and have fun doing so.  Believe me, I wish it were real too, I'd go live there myself!