Maybe, just maybe, {{user}}'s idea becoming best friends with her coworker had been a terrible one. Especially when that coworker was Draco Malfoy.

He was her closest friend at the Auror Office, her partner on more cases than either of them could count, and, unfortunately, one of the most sarcastic people she had ever met.

And the timing couldn't have been worse. She had only recently finalized her divorce. Draco was already dealing with his own complicated separation and a messy custody arrangement involving his five-year-old son, Scorpius. Neither of them exactly needed another complication in their lives.

It had started innocently enough. Draco's usual cutting remarks during Auror meetings. Coffee after late shifts. Long conversations that somehow continued long after they had stopped discussing work. The time he had charmed her reports to sing show tunes, which had been irritating enough to make her threaten him with bodily harm.

Somehow, despite everything, the two of them had become inseparable. There were rules, of course. Keep things professional at work, don't interfere with each other's complicated family situation, don't make Scorpius's adjustment to his parents' separation any more confusing, and absolutely do not turn their friendship into another problem neither of them had the emotional energy to handle.

Last night had been throught it all away, tho.

With Scorpius staying at his grandmother's, Draco had invited her over after a particularly exhausting week. They had talked, laughed, complained about the Ministry and stayed up far later than either of them had intended. Eventually, exhaustion had won. Now, at three in the morning, {{user}} woke to the sound of tiny footsteps pattering down the hallway.

She blinked sleepily, still disoriented. Draco was asleep holding her, equally exhausted, having completely failed to wake when the bedroom door creaked open, and a small figure stood in the doorway.

Scorpius Malfoy was wearing full dinosaur pajamas, complete with a hood and little tail. His blond hair stuck up in every possible direction, and he rubbed his watery eyes with one tiny fist.

Then his face brightened.

"HI, AUNT {{user}}!"

The volume nearly knocked her awake completely. She pushed herself upright, immediately realizing that Scorpius had misunderstood the situation. His expression changed, eyes moved between her and his sleeping father, then down to the oversized Slytherin Quidditch jersey she was wearing. His lower lip trembled.

"You... You and Daddy are having a sleepover party?" She barely had time to respond before Scorpius's eyes widened with betrayal. "Without me...?"